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In old England when family WRIGHT names first began to be assumed hie who wrought metals was called Smith and he who wrought in wood was called Wright, hence both are classed with our English patronymics which are derived from
occupations. It cannot be claimed that the Wrights either of the mother country or of America are descended from a common ances- tor, however remote may have been his origin ; but it may be assumed that wherever the sur- name Wright is found the ancestor of him who bears it was in the remotest generations an arti- ficer or worker in wood. In New England there are several distinct families of the surname Wright who date from the early colonial period, but they are not supposed to be of one kin. The particular family to be treated in this place traces back to an ancestor who came over in 1630, in one of the ships of Winthrop's fleet, whose father was John Wright, of Wright's Bridge, Essex, England, about forty miles from London, and whose brother, Nathaniel Wright, was a merchant of London and had an interest in the venture entrusted to the management of Winthrop.
(I) Samuel Wright, son of John Wright, of Wright's Bridge, Essex, England, and brother of Nathaniel Wright, of London, mer- chant, was born in England, married there, and came to New England with his wife and chil- dren in 1630. Where he first sat down is not known, and while it is said that he was with Pynchon's planters in Agawam and Spring- field in 1636 his name does not appear in that connection and it is probable that he settled there in 1641, as is stated by Judd and other writers of contemporary history. He was made freeman in 1648, became deacon of the church in Northampton, having removed there in 1655, and in 1656 and 1657, after the retire- ment of Rev. Mr. Moxon, he was appointed "to dispense the word of God for the present." His home in Northampton was between what now is King and Market streets, and his house- lot contained four and one half acres of land. Ile died October 17, 1665, his wife Margaret surviving, and she died July 24, 1681. They had three sons, Samuel, James, Judah (born December 3, 1642), and four daughters, Mary, Margaret (married Thomas Bancroft, 1653), Hester (married Samuel Marshfield, 1652), Lydia, (married, 1654, Lawrence Bliss, 1678, John Norton, 1688, John Lamb, 1692, George Cotton).
(II) Samuel (2), son of Deacon Samuel (I) and Margaret Wright, was born in England and was killed by Indians at Northfield, Mass- achusetts, September 12, 1675, during King Philip's war. He married, November 24, 1653, at Springfield, Elizabeth Burt, who survived him and married for her second husband, Sep- tember 16, 1684, Nathaniel Dickinson, of Hat-
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field. Children of Samuel and Elizabeth (Burt) Wright: I. Samuel, born Springfield, October 3, 1654. 2. Joseph, Northampton, June 2, 1657. 3. Benjamin, July 3, 1660. 4. Ebenezer, March 20, 1662-63, married, Sep- tember 6, 1684, Elizabeth Strong. 5. Elizabeth, July 31, 1664, married, September 16, 1684, Thomas Stebbins. 6. Eleazer, October 20, 1668. 7. Hannah, February 27, 1671, married, November 18, 1686, Samuel Billings, of Hat- field. 8. Benoni, baptized September 12, 1675, died 1702 ; married Rebecca Barrett.
(II) James, son of Samuel (I) and Mar- garet Wright, was born probably in England and died in Northampton in 1723. He mar- ried, January 18, 1665, Abigail Jesse, who died May 24, 1707. Their children: I. Abigail, born December 26, 1665, died young. 2. Helped, July 2, 1668, died January, 1745; never married. 3. James, November 9, 1670, died May 16, 1689. 4. Lydia, March 29, 1673, died young. 5. Samuel, May 16, 1675, settled in Easthampton. 6. Preserved, January 6, 1679. 7. Jonathan, December 19, 1681, died in 1743, on the old homestead. 8. Hester, August 20, 1684, married, 1706, Noah Curtis. (Judd says Nathaniel Curtis). 9. Hannah, 1688, died September 1, 1691.
(III) Preserved, son of James and Abigail (Jesse) Wright, was born January 6, 1679, died December 6, 1740. He married, May 5, 1709, Sarah Hannum, who died October, 1750. Their children : I. Moses, born May 29, 1710, died September 25, 1748, unmarried. 2. Eph- raim, October 25, 1712. 3. Preserved, Septem- ber 9, 1715, died July 13, 1718. 4. Sarah, 1722, married Asahel Clapp. 5. Preserved, November 28, 1724, died September 19, 1745.
(IV) Ephraim, son of Preserved and Sarah (Hannum) Wright, was born in Northampton, October 25, 1712, died there January 25, 1794. On the death of his father he came into pos- session of the homestead and lands, and when his own brothers died he inherited their lands; and he also bought of the heirs of Jonathan Wright their interests in the old home farm. Ephraim Wright was a prominent man in the town and church, and his influence and example always were for good. About 1745 he married Miriam Wright, who bore him seven children : I. Ephraim Jr., January I, 1747. 2. Esther, December 19, 1748. 3. Moses, November 19, 1751. 4. Seth, August 24, 1754. 5. Miriam, May 12, 1757. 6. Eunice, July II, 1759. 7. Tabitha, August 22, 1762.
(V) Ephraim (2), son of Ephraim (1) and Miriam (Wright) Wright, was born in
Northampton, January 1, 1747, removed to Westhampton in 1773 and died there March 13, 1814. He married, July 4, 1772, Abigail Lyman, born March IO, 1750, daughter of Zadock and Sarah (Clark) Lyman. They had ten children: I. Levi, born August 19, 1773, died January 9, 1825 ; married, 1799, Caroline Wilber. 2. Preserved, July 2, 1775, died Sep- tember 8, 1839; married Nancy Wheeler. 3. Luther, April 10, 1777, died May 9, 1846; mar- ried, July 28, 1803, Martha Lyman. 4. Char- lotte, May 22, 1779, died February 10, 1814; married, April 22, 1803, Elnathan Wright. 5. Medad, June 9, 1781, died April 18, 1864; married, May 26, 1805, Lucinda Hicks. 6. Abigail, June 13, 1783, died December 2, 1851 ; married, December 4, 1806, Elijah King. 7. Zenas, September 10, 1785, died November II, 1861 ; married, 1811, Patty Clapp. 8. Zadock Lyman, January 4, 1788, died December 10, 1864; married, January 29, 1810, Rebecca King. 9. Mariam, October 31, 1790, died July IO, 1864; married, 1817, Elihu Pomeroy. 10. Martin, February 1, 1793 (mention of Martin and descendants appears in this article ).
(VI) Zenas, fifth son of Ephraim (2) and Abigail (Lyman) Wright, was born in West- hampton, September 10, 1785, and died in Northampton, November 1I, 1861. He mar- ried, in 1811, Patty Clapp, of Northampton, who died March 28, 1848, daughter of Oliver Clapp. They had five children: I. Ozro C., born February 3, 1812. 2. Ephraim Monroe, July 14, 1813, died May 16, 1878; married, May 29, 1841, Martha G. Graves, of Williams- burg, Massachusetts, who died at Terryville, Connecticut, February, 1870. 3. Martin, Au- gust 5, 1815, died June 26, 1880; married (first) June 1, 1840, Charlotte Barnes, of Lee Center, Illinois, who died July 10, 1860; mar- ried (second) April 16, 1862, Eliza Clapp, of Huntsburg, Ohio. One child: Helen, married Curtis Hale. 4. Charles C., October 1, 1819, died November 30, 1887 ; married, August 13, 1846, Jannette L. Taylor, of Feeding Hills, Massachusetts, who died January 20, 1893. Children: Austin T., born July 7, 1847, died December 8, 1853; Edwin M., October 28, 1848, died May 26, 1849; Henry M., April 26, 1850, married, September 4, 1879, Mary E. Pomeroy ; Charles A., February 23, 1852, mar- ried, November 27, 1870, Lillian Roberts; David T., December 13, 1854, married, May 5, 1880, Millie Draper ; Jennie E., October 3, 1857; Mary L., September 11, 1859, married, December 7, 1881, R. M. Taylor ; Edward M., July 30, 1865. 5. Mary Asenath, May 5, 1828,
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married Charles Frank Lynn, of Lee Center, Illinois, and had Harriet Louisa, Charles Wright and Harry Jewell Lynn.
(VII) Ozro C., son of Zenas and Patty (Clapp) Wright, was born in Northampton, February 3, 1812, and received his education and spent the early part of his life in that town. In 1849 he was one of the pioneers of the gold fields of California, a "49er" of consider- able prominence, one of the leading spirits of the Holyoke Mining Company, which was com- prised of Northampton men and organized for the development of mineral resources of the far west. In the following year he returned to his home in Northampton, settled on the old farm near his father and there spent the remaining years of his life, engaged in farm- ing pursuits. Mr. Wright was a man highly esteemed in the town and a consistent member of the First Congregational Church. He mar- ried, November II, 1841, Emeline Clark, of Easthampton, died June 29, 1877, daughter of Luther Clark, of Easthampton. They had three children, all born in Northampton : I. Silas Monroe, August 9, 1842, married, September 20, 1881, Fanny J. Munyan, of Northampton. Children: Mary Eliza, born July 12, 1883; Silas Martin, December 5, 1884 ; Ozro Luther, May 13, 1891 : Fanny Munyan, July 14, 1893. 2. Luther Clark, April 21, 1844. 3. Harriet Ellen, September 6, 1848, married, October I, 1872, John E. Bates. Children: Clinton Mon- roe, born July 25, 1874 ; Edith Wright, January 28. 1876: Sarah Emeline, October 11, 1880; Harriet Isadore, July 18, 1882 ; Lucy Asenath, August 9, 1886.
(VIII) Luther Clark, son of Ozro C. and Emeline (Clark) Wright, was born in North- ampton, April 21, 1844, and received his edu- cation in the public and high schools of that city and at Williston Seminary, Easthampton. He was brought up on his father's farm, and after lcaving school engaged in farming pursuits for several years. In 1884 he was elected collector of taxes of Northampton and served in that capacity for five years. Later for a time he was employed in the water works department of city government, and in 1891 became super- intendent of the water works of the city, which office he still holds. He also is an active and carnest attendant of the First Congregational Church of Northampton and for a number of years has been an officer of the church socicty. Mr. Wright married, May 23, 1895, Mrs. Mar- garet R. Kingsley, of Northampton, whose family name was Dalcy. They have no chil- (Iren.
(VI) Martin, son of Ephraim (2) and Abi- gail (Lyman) Wright, was born in Westhamp- ton, February 1, 1793, died October 21, 1852. He married, June 18, 1818, Sarah Parsons, of Northampton, born November 25, 1795, died July 26, 1880, daughter of Josiah and Sarah (Strong) Parsons. Martin and Sarah ( Parsons ) Wright had eight children: I. Martin, born September 19, 1820, died September 20, 1820. 2. Isaac Lewis, January 26, 1822, died Sep- tember 8, 1888: married, November 1, 1860, Lydia Cobb, of Abington, Massachusetts. Chil- dren: Herbert Martin, born June 26, 1863; Edward Austin, July 19, 1867 ; Lydia A., died September 28, 1891. 3. Martin, October 2, 1823, died October 3, 1823. 4. Henry Martin, May 16, 1825, drowned June 3, 1834. 5. George Lyman, October 12, 1827. 6. Sarah Louisa, September 2, 1829, died June 14, 1855 ; married, September 6, 1854, Henry Miller, of Williamsburg. 7. Mary E., twin with Eliza- beth, August 19, 1833, died December, 1906; married, April 28, 1858, Othniel M. Clark. Chil- dren : Wilbur G., born October 8, 1863 ; Carrie A., November 5, 1865, died June 30, 1882 ; Sarah L., February 5, 1871. 6. Elizabeth, twin with Mary E., August 19, 1833, died same day.
(VII) George Lyman, son of Martin and Sarah ( Parsons) Wright, was born in West- hampton, October 12, 1827, died November 8, 1908. He was educated in the public schools of that town and the academy at Easthampton. In 1856 he moved to Northampton and was a successful farmer owning a considerable tract of valuable land in that city. He was not only a thrifty farmer, but as well a liberal and public spirited citizen, taking a commendable interest in town affairs, although not in the sense of being active in politics. He served several terms as member of the city council and also as member of the school committee, and for the last more than thirty-two years has been a (lcacon of the First Congregational Church, Northampton. On May 21, 1856, Mr. Wright married Elizabeth A., of Abington, daughter of Austin Cobb, of Abington, who was born in 1803 and died January 31, 1882. Children of George Lyman and Elizabeth A. (Cobb) Wright: I. Sarah Louisa, born December 8, 1857, married, October 5. 1881, Silas Coolcy, who died November 13, 1901. Children : Clara Louisa, born June IT, 1883: Arthur Rose, May 4, 1888; died July 7, 1904: Alice Wright, September 2, 1800. 2. Henry Austin, Septem- ber 20, 1859, removed to Florida in January, 1884 ; dicd October 27, 1908 ; married, January
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10, 1883, Harriet M. Clark. Children : George WV. Clark, born February 19, 1889, died April 9. 1890; Marion C., October 26, 1895. 3. Charles Martin, August 31, 1862, married, March 20, 1889, Electa Stryker, of Brooklyn, New York. Children: Caroline Place, born July 1, 1890 ; Elizabeth Cobb, August 10, 1892 ; Helen, September 27, 1899, died March 2, 1900; Agnes L., September 17, 1903. 4. Eliz- abeth Alice, October 12. 1865, died January 18, 1907
(For ancestry see preceding sketch).
(II) Judah, son of Samuel ( I)
WRIGHT. Wright, born December 3,
1642, died November 26, 1725. He married (first) January 7, 1667, Mercy Burt ; married (second) July 11, 1706, Sarah Burk, widow of Richard Burk. Children: I. Samuel, born November 6, 1667, died Febru- ary 18, 1668. 2. Mercy, March 14, 1669, mar- ried Samuel Allen, 1692. 3. Hester, August 18, 1671, died March 25, 1673. 4. Judah, No- vember 14, 1673, died November 16, 1673. 5. Judah, May, 1677. 6. Ebenezer, September, 1679. 7. Thomas, April 8, 1682. 8. Patience, April 18, 1684, married John Stebbins, of Springfield, November, 1700. 9. Nathaniel, May 5, 1688, died November, 171I, at Deer- field.
(III) Joseph, son of Samuel (2) Wright, was born June 2, 1657, died February 16, 1697. He married, November 6, 1679, Ruth Sheldon. Children : 1. Joseph, see forward. 2. Samuel, born August 13, 1683, died May 26, 1690. 3. Ruth, February 14, 1685, died March 14, 1685. 4. Ruth, April 26, 1687, married, May 5, 1708, Lare Noble. 5. James December 5, 1689, died young. 6. Mary, January, 1691, died young. 7. Samuel, August 13, 1693. 8. Benoni, Octo- ber 4, 1697.
(IV) Joseph (2), son of Joseph (1) Wright, was born June 23, 1681, died June 5, 1758. He married (first) January 27, 1704, Ruth Hannum ; she died February 23, 1750. Mar- ried (second) October
22, 1750, Sarah Edwards, widow of Samuel Edwards. She died March 26, 1751. Children : I. Joseph, born October 24, 1705. 2. Abigail, August 25, 1707, married, 1730, Noah Pixley. 3. Asa, October 8, 1710. 4. Reuben, January 28, 1713. 5. Aaron, see forward. 6. Titus, August 10, 1717. 7. Timothy, May 14, 1720. 8. Naomi, July 16, 1722.
(V) Aaron, son of Joseph (2) Wright, was born May 7, 1715, died March 25, 1791. He married Miriam Edwards, who died March 14,
1797, aged seventy-nine. Children: I. Aaron, born June 13, 1744, died August 2, 1744. 2. Aaron, June 5, 1745. 3. Oliver, January 24, 1747. 4. Miriam, June 16, 1749, died April, 1750. 5. Justus, January 5, 1752. 6. Daniel, see forward. 7. Miriam, October 29, 1757: married Jonathan Dwight. 8. Asenath, March 19, 1764, married Elias Mann.
(VI) Daniel, son of Aaron Wright, was born November 18, 1755, died in Northampton. He married (first) January 6, 1784, Roxanna Hunt. Married (second), November 4, 1791, Chloe Lyman; she died January 10, 1854. Children : 1. Ferdinand Hunt, see forward. 2. Mary, born April 23, 1787, died April 12, I790. 3. Fanny, January 20, 1794. 4. Rox- anna, February 29, 1796. 5. Elizabeth, April 23, 1798.
(VII) Ferdinand Hunt, son of Daniel and Roxanna ( Hunt) Wright, was born January 15, 1785, died in 1860. He married Olive Ames, daughter of Ambrose Ames, of Green- field; she lived to be ninety-six years old, dying in 1889. Children: 1. Anna, now living in Northampton. 2. Mary, deceased ; married Theodore Bliss, of Philadelphia. 3. Elizabeth, deceased. Fredinand H. Wright was for many years cashier of the Northampton National Bank, and afterwards postmaster of Northamp- ton.
SHORES Derbyshire and Yorkshire, Eng- land, appear to have been the homes of the Shores at an early period of English history. In 1440 a charter was made by which John Shores, of Bornsley, grants to William Shores all his lands and tene- ments in Sheffield. The name appears in the earliest pages of the parish register of Shef- field, and from some of those of the name there entered it is probable the present family in America is descended. John Shores descended from the Shores of Darley Dale, a place made famous by Wordsworth, who wrote some lines on a tree said to have been planted on a hill in Darley Dale in memory of the parting for life of two brothers, one, the elder, the ancestor of the Shores, Baron Feignmouth.
John Shores was born about 1650, resided in Sheffield, where he made his will March 2, 1682, and died soon after. By his wife, Sarah (Sims) Shores, he had three sons: Samuel, his heir; Sylvanus, whose family settled in Ireland; Isaac. Samuel, born May 17. 1676, married, November 7, 1700, Jane, daughter of George Sykes, of Norton, Staffordshire, and his heir Samuel was born August 21, 1707,
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and married Margaret, daughter of Robert Diggles, of Liverpool. Besides his heir Samuel, born February 5, 1738, he had John, 1744; Joshua, 1749; William, October 13, 1752, a banker in Sheffield residing at Topton, who married Mary, daughter of George and Annie (Nightingale) Evans, of Cromford Derby- shire, and their eldest son, William Edward, born February 15, 1794, took the surname Nightingale in conformity with the will of his good uncle, Peter Nightingale, Esquire, by royal signed manual dated October 21, 1815. He owned the state of Embley, Hants county, and was high sheriff of the county in 1828. He married, June 1, 1818, Frances, daughter of William South, Esquire, of Parndon, Essex county, for many years member of parliament for Norwich. Their second child, Florence Nightingale, undertook the management of the war hospitals at Scutari, and in the Crimea from 1854 to 1856, which made her world famous and her work the initiative of her sister women all over the world in all subsequent wars, and in hospital work generally. In America the name of Shores first appears in Boston in the person of Sampson Shores (q. v.).
(I) Sampson Shores, the immigrant tailor, who came from England with his wife Abigail and son James, settled in Boston in 1641. He joined the First Church in Boston, January 29, 1642, and was made a freeman, May 18, 1642. They had other children born in Boston as follows: Jonathan, Sampson, Abigail, Eliz- beth, Susannah, Ann. The family of the next generation disappears from the records of the church in Boston, and as Sampson appears before the general court several times charged with non-conformity with the Puritanical laws that existed in Boston, he evidently sought a more congenial atmosphere among the Pil- grims of Plymouth. This gives us three male representatives of the family to perpetuate the name and be mustered in the second genera- tion in America.
(II) James, Jonathan or Sampson, sons of Sampson and Abigail Shores, were born between 1640 and 1645 and evidently settled in Plymouth Colony.
(III) A son of James, Jonathan or Samp- son Shores was born probably between 1665 and 1675 and we find a Nathaniel (q. v. ) with no record of parentage.
(1V) Nathaniel, probable grandson of James, Jonathan or Sampson Shores, was born in Plymouth Colony about 1675 and had a son Benjamin (q. v.).
(V) Benjamin, son of Nathaniel Shores, was born in Plymouth Colony about 1700, and had four children as follows: Mary, Benja- min (q. v.), Abigail, Zephaniah.
(VI) Benjamin (2), eldest son and second child of Benjamin (1) Shores, was born in Plymouth Colony in 1731, and had several children, as follows: Jonathan, Abigail, Ben- jamin ( 1765-1842), Sally, Silas, who had a son Silas, a preacher in Falmouth and Taun- ton, whose son David was born in Falmouth about 1843 and removed to Amherst and whose descendants removed to Springfield, Massa- chusetts. There was probably another son Joseph (q. v.).
(VII) Joseph, son of Benjamin (2) Shores, of Falmouth, was born June 28, 1762, and removed to the district of Maine probably with his father during the great exodus of families from Plymouth Colony under the incentive of grants of wild lands to soldiers, in return for services in the colonial wars. We find him in Parsonsfield, York county, Maine, where he married, June 15, 1786, Dorcas Ricker. Par- sonsfield was named for Colonel Thomas Par- sons, an original proprietor and settler of a portion of the large tract of wild land in York county, purchased by Francis Small and Nich- olas Shapleigh from Captain Sunday, the Indian Sagamore, and was incorporated as a township March 9, 1785, and, as at that time Joseph Shores was twenty-three years of age, he was a settler of the place, contemporary with Colonel Parsons. His wife, Dorcas (Ricker ) Shores, was born November 25, 1767, died in Parsonsfield, Maine, August 5. 1804. The children of Joseph and Dorcas (Ricker) Shores were four in number and were born in Parsonsfield, York county, Mainc, in the order as follows: I. Agnes, September 27, 1788. 2. Polly, November 14, 1791. 3. Clarissa, June 13, 1794. 4. Stephen (q. v.). Joseph Shores died in Parsonsfield, Maine, No- vember 10, 1799, and after his death Stephen, his only son, then less than two years, his daughter Clarissa, a little over five years old, his daughter Polly, eight years old, and his daughter Agnes, eleven years old, were taken by their widowed mother to her father's home in Parsonsfield and they were brought up under his care and supervision, their mother dying when Stephen was seven years old.
(VIII) Stephen, only son and youngest of the four children of Joseph and Dorcas ( Ricker) Shores, was born in Parsonsfield, York county, Maine, June 18, 1797. He was left fatherless when one and a half years old
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and an orphan when seven years old. He lived with his Grandfather Ricker in Parsons- field and remained on the Ricker homestead until he married, in 1822, Sarah Knapp, of Parsonsfield, Maine, and he removed to Shap- leigh. named for Nicholas Shapleigh, of Kit- tery, and first known as Hubbardstown. His farm was located in that part of the town of Shapleigh set off and incorporated as the town of Acton, March 6, 1830. Stephen and Sarah ( Knapp) Shores had a son, Joseph Augustus (q. v.), and other children who died young.
(IX) Joseph Augustus, son of Stephen and Sarah (Knapp) Shores, was born in Shapleigh, York county, Maine, November 23, 1827. He was graduated at Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, A. B. 1851, A. M., 1854, and A. M., Brown (honorary), 1875. He was a teacher in Haverhill, Massachusetts, and prin- cipal of the Haverhill high school for eighteen consecutive years, 1854-72 ; principal of Con- necticut Literary Institution in Suffield, Con- necticut, from 1872 to 1880, eight years ; farmer in West Bridgewater, Massachusetts, 1880-96. He won the reputation of being one of the best teachers in New England, and while a resident of West Bridgewater, he was active in the affairs of the Baptist church. He served the town as an overseer of the poor, as a member of the board of health, as a select- man and as chairman of selectmen. He mar- ried, in 1852, Clara Melissa Towle, born in 1827, who survived him and was living in Haverhill, Massachusetts, in 1909. They had three children as follows: I. Irwin I., born in 1854, graduated at Brown University, A. B., 1876, at Bellevue Medical College, M. D., 1880. He was assistant surgeon at the Soldier's Home, Hampton. Virginia, 1883-98; surgeon in the United States volunteer army in the Spanish-American war, 1898 to 1902; medical practitioner in Schenectady, New York, 1902 to the time of his death, May 5, 1906. He married, September 8, 1891, Nettie Metzler, who survived her husband and was residing in Mansfield, Ohio, in 1909. They had no children. 2. Sarah E., 1859, who died unmar- ried. 3. Harvey Towle (q. v.). Joseph Au- gustus Shores died in West Bridgewater, Massachusetts, July 14, 1896, and was buried in the cemetery at Exeter, New Hampshire, where also repose the bodies of his father, Stephen Shores, his son, Dr. Irwin I. Shores, and his daughter, Sarah Shores.
(X) Harvey Towle, youngest child of Joseph Augustus and Clara Melissa (Towle) Shores, was born in Haverhill, Massachusetts.
February 28, 1869. He was graduated at the Bridgewater high school in 1887; at the Mass- achusetts Agricultural College, Amherst, S. B., 1891 : at Boston University, S. B., 1891; and at Harvard University, M. D., 1894. He was interne in the Army Hospital at the Soldier's Home, Hampton, Virginia, in 1894, and took post-graduate hospital course in New York, 1895-96. He removed to Northampton, Mass- achusetts, in 1896, and began regular practice of medicine. He was made a member of the Eastern Hampden Medical Society and of the Massachusetts Medical Society. He was appointed by Governor Guild, July 26, 1907, inspector of health of district No 13, which includes Hampshire and Franklin counties. His fraternal affiliations was the Masonic order and he passed through all the degrees to and including the Mystic Shrine. Also a member of the Gamma Delta Chapter at Amherst of the Kappa Sigma fraternity. He married, June 10, 1896, Mabel, daughter of J. Howe and Emma W. ( Browne ) Demond, of Springfield, Massachusetts. Her parents were married in Bernardstown, Franklin county, Massachusetts, March 6, 1866, her father hav- ing been born in Rutland, Massachusetts, Octo- ber 5, 1825, and was the son of a farmer. She was educated in Northampton, Massachusetts, and their son, Paul Demond Shores, born in Northampton, May 12, 1901, represents the eleventh generation from Sampson Shores, the immigrant to Boston in 1641.
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