Genealogical and personal memoirs relating to the families of the state of Massachusetts, Volume III, Part 70

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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1825. 5. Aurora Deborah, Jay, July 31, 1827. 6. Flavinus Vespatian, Livermore, April 25, 1829. 7. Samuel Cordis, Dixfield, November I, 1831 ; see forward. 8. Submarinus Girard, Dixfield, January 21, 1834. 9. Edward Jent, Dixfield, June 16, 1837.

Samuel Cordis Norcross, the fourth son and seventh child of Leonard and Deborah (Nel- son ) Norcross, was born in Dixfield, Novem- ber I, 1831. He spent his early years on the farm, attending school during the winter months. He was a bright, apt scholar, and made rapid advancement in all that he under- took, but was inclined to devote more time to manual labor than to study. He engaged with his father in millwright work in various places. He built a large saw mill and turning lathe on the Newton brook, which has since been called Wells' mill. Here he was very dangerously injured by a cart hub which he was turning. It flew from the lathe, and strik- ing him broke the bridge of his nose and slightly fractured the skull over one eye. He resided in Canton, Woodfords, Somerville and Cambridge, residing in the latter place until his death, which occurred November 28, 1901. He was extensively engaged in building and repairing mills, and his labors were rewarded with a large degree of success. Mr. Norcross married, January 30, 1859, Zilpha H. Leonard, of Canton. One child, Eva H., now a resident of Cambridge.

HILLS The Hills family of England has been known in the mother country several centuries, and in New Eng- land for nearly three centuries. Mr. Thomas Ilills, of South Boston, president of the Hills Family Association, says in the third annual report of the directors of the Hills Family Gen- ealogical and Historical Association :

"Some ten years since, the investigations of your president led him to the conclusion that our name originated in Kent county, southeastern England, the birthplace of his father, in 1765. * Edward Hasted, one of the historians of Kent, whose large and valuable work was pub- lished in 1778, gives an origin of the name which accounts for its being localized in the mid- dle ages and furnishes a reason for the fact that it is still common in this country, when it is rarely found in other parts of England. I quote his exact language : 'About a mile southeasterly from Darent Church, is the hamlet of 1Ielles Saint Margaret, commonly called Saint Mar- garet Hills. * *

* The manor afterwards came into the possession of a family named

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Hells, who had much land at Danford and Ash, near Sandwich, and from them this place acquired the additional name of Hells, or more vulgarly, Hills.' There is much more going on to say that Henry de Helles was one of the Knights of Kent during the reign of Edward III. He retained the name of Helles ; others used it as Hells. It settled into the form in which it is now used as early as 1490. In the peculiar orthography of the old times, the name was variously spelled, the records dis- closing no less than twenty-three various spell- ings, only two of which were without the final s. In our day the name only appears as Hills or Hillis." It is in no way connected with the name of Hill, except in a few cases where it has been found that the "s" was dropped through carelessness.

(I) Joseph Hills, the immigrant, was born in the parish of Great Burstead, Essex county, England. and was baptized there in March, 1602. His father was son of George Hills. who married Mary Simonds, of Billericay, Essex, England, widow of William Simonds, of Billericay, tanner. Their marriage license bears date October 13, 1596, at which time George Hills did not use the final "s" in his surname. It first appears as Hills in the rec- ords in February. 1608, and perhaps was so written by some new vicar who had charge of the parish books.

Joseph Hills married Rose Clark, at Great Burstead, July 22, 1624. They removed with several children to Maldon, Essex, where John, Steven and Sarah were born. In 1638 he be- came a stockholder or "undertaker" in the ship "Susan and Ellen," in which he sailed with his family for Boston, arriving there July 17, 1638. He settled at Charlestown, Massachusetts, and in 1644 he was made a selectman there, in 1646 was in the general court and in the next year was elected speaker. He lived on the Mystic side of Charlestown, in the part that became Malden, which was named from Mr. Hills' old home in England. He served as captain of the trainband, represented Malden first in the general court, and served continu- ously in that position until 1664, when he re- moved to Newbury. It is of interest to note that John Waite, who succeeded him, was representative for nineteen years and that he was his son-in-law. In 1645 he was of a com- mittee to set out lots to the settlers of the Nashaway plantation. In 1650 he was on the committee headed by the governor to draw up instructions for the Massachusetts delegates to a gathering where commissioners of all the

colonies were to meet. In 1654, with Captains Hawthorne and Johnson and the treasurer of the colony, he served on a committee to frame a reply to the home government which had de- manded an explanation for certain acts. He was an auditor of treasury accounts in 1650, 1653 and 1661. One of his most important public services was on the committee to codify the laws of the colony in 1648 and later. He made this first code in his own handwriting and supervised the printing. In part payment for this work he received a grant of five hun- dred acres of land on the Nashua river in New Hampshire and remission of taxes in his old age.

His wife Rose, whom he married in England before he came to America, died in Malden March 24, 1650. He married second, June 24. 1651, Hannah Smith, widow of Edward Mel- lows, and who died about 1655. His third marriage, in January, 1656, to Helen ( Ellina or Eleanor ) Atkinson, daughter of Hugh At- kinson, of Kendall, Westmoreland, England, was attended with some unusual circumstances. In those days clergymen were not allowed to solemnize marriages, the ceremony always being performed by magistrates. In 1641 Gov- ernor Bellingham raised a storm of contro- versy in the colony by acting as magistrate at his own marriage. He married himself to pretty Penelope Pelham. Public opinion was divided. Some sided with the governor in his curious interpretation of the law, but more did not. When the governor was called upon to come down from the bench and plead to a com- plaint against him for what his opponents charged as an illegal act, he refused, and it was left for Joseph Hills some years later to put the law to a real test. He married himself to Miss Atkinson, acting both as magistrate and bridegroom, and was called to account by the authorities. He "was admonished for marry- ing himself contrary to the law of this colony. page 38 in the old Booke," and, in the language of the general court, "he freely acknowledged his offence therein and his misunderstanding the grounds whereon he went which he now confesseth to be unwarrantable-and was ad- monished by the Court." His third wife died January 6, 1663, and he married, March 8. 1665, at Newbury, Massachusetts, Anne Lunt, widow of Henry Lunt, and lived at her house in Newbury during the remainder of his life. She was born about 1621, probably in England. His note book containing business memoranda from 1627 to nearly the end of his life, is in the possession of the New England Historic-

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Genealogic Society. He became totally blind in 1678. He died at Newbury, February 5, 1688, aged about eighty-six years. He was the father of fifteen children: I. Mary, baptized at Great Burstead, England, November 13, 1625 ; died in Malden, Massachusetts, Novem- ber 25, 1674. 2. Elizabeth, baptized at Great Burstead, October 21, 1627. 3. Joseph, bap- tized at Great Burstead, August 2, 1629; died young. 4. James, baptized at Great Burstead, March 6, 1631 ; died young. 5. John, baptized Great Burstead, March 21, 1632 ; died in Mal- den, July 28, 1652. 6. Rebecca, baptized at Maldon, England, April 20, 1634; died at Mal- den, Massachusetts, June 16, 1674. 7. Steven, baptized, Maldon, May 1, 1636; died there be- fore 1638. 8. Sarah, baptized at Maldon, Au- gust 14, 1637; died there same day. 9. Ger- shom, born at Charlestown, Massachusetts, July 27, 1639; died at Malden between 1710 and 1720. 10. Mehitable, born at Malden, Jan- uary 1, 1641 ; died there in July, 1652. II. Samuel, born at Malden, July, 1652. 12. Na- thaniel, born Malden, December 19, 1653 ; died there 1664. 13. Hannah, born at Malden. 14. Deborah, born Malden, March, 1657; died there October 1, 1662. 15. Abigail, born Mal- den, October 6, 1658; died there October 9, 1662.

(II) Samuel Hills, son of Joseph Hills, the immigrant, was born in Malden, Massachu- setts, in July, 1652, and died at Newbury, Massachusetts, August 18, 1732. He was a sergeant in the Indian wars, and was in the battles at Bloody Brook, September 18, 1675, and Narragansett, December 19, 1675. He married, at Newbury, Massachusetts, Abigail, daughter of David and Sarah (Wise ) Wheeler, of Newbury. David was a son of John Wheel- er, who was born in Salisbury, Wiltshire, Eng- land, in 1625, and came to New England in the "Confidence" in 1638. He married Sarah Wise, May 11, 1650. Abigail Hills died April 13, 1742. Children of Samuel and Abigail ( Wheeler ) Hills: 1. Samuel, born February 16, 1680, died at Rehoboth, Massachusetts, July 27, 1732. 2. Joseph, born July 21, 1681 ; died at Newbury, Massachusetts, November 6, 1745. 3. Nathaniel, born February 9, 1683; died at Hudson, New Hampshire, April 12, 1748. 4. Benjamin, born October 16, 1684; died at Chester, New Hampshire, November 3, 1762. 5. Abigail, born September 2, 1686; died at Newbury, August 11, 1688. 6. Henry, born April 23, 1688; died at Hudson, New Hampshire, August 20, 1757. 7. William, born October 8. 1680; died at Newbury, before

January 20, 1724. 8. Josiah, born July 27, 1691, died at Newbury, April 26, 1726. 9. John, born September 20, 1693; died after 1734. 10. Abigail, born June 27, 1695. II. James, twin, born February 26, 1697. 12. Hannah, twin, with James, born February 26, 1697. 13. Daniel, born December 8, 1700, removed from Nottingham West to Halifax, Nova Scotia, about 1754. 14. Smith.

(III) Smith Hills, youngest child of Sam- uel and Abigail (Wheeler) Hills, was born at Newbury, Massachusetts, April 10, 1706, and died at Leominster, Massachusetts, August 23, 1786. He married first, at Newbury, October 14, 1730, Mary, daughter of Samuel and Abi- gail (Goodrich) Sawyer. Samuel Sawyer was son of Samuel Sawyer and Mary Emery, his wife, and grandson of William Sawyer, who came from England. Mary Sawyer, wife of Smith Hills, was born at Newbury, Massachu- setts, October 3, 1712, and died there July 24, 1744. Smith Hills married second (published January 12. 1745), in Newbury, Rachel Lowe, daughter of Nathaniel and Abigail (Riggs) Lowe, of Ipswich, Massachusetts. She was born November 29, 1725, and died at Leomins- ter, Massachusetts, June 1, 1819. He had twenty children, seven by the first wife and thirteen by the second, of whom all but the four youngest were born at Newbury; they were born at Leominster, where Smith Hills was one of the early settlers. Children of Smith Hills : 1. Abigail, born October 27, 1731. 2. Judith, born June 4, 1733; married Isaac Foster. 3. Mary, or Molly, born July 31, 1735, died December 26, 1805. 4. Hannah, born October 31. 1737 ; married - Bartlett. 5. Samuel, born October 1, 1739. 6. An infant. 7. Martha born May 19, 1743. 8. Nathaniel. born June 4. 1745, died in West Newbury, Sep- tember 29, 1832. 9. Ruth, born September 13, 1747, died August 26, 1803. 10. Rebecca, born October 25, 1749. died young. 11. Obadiah, born Newbury, August 23, 1751, died at Row- ley, June 22, 1825. 12. Rachel, born Novem- ber 10. 1753. 13. John, born May 2, 1756. 14. Rebecca, twin, born July 14, 1758. 15. Silas, twin with Rebecca, born July 14. 1758. prob- ably died young. 16. Silas, born September 4. 1760, died January 8, 1855. 17. Smith, born Leominster. September 30, 1763, died at Leo- minster. September 20, 1816. 18. Huldah, born February 1. 1766, died at Leominster, Au- gust 30, 1851. 19. Judith, born 1768, died at Leominster, March 15, 1851. 20. Betsey, died May 31, 1799.

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and Rachel Lowe, his second wife, was born in Newbury, Massachusetts, August 23, 1751, and died in Rowley, Massachusetts, June 22, 1825. He married first, at Newbury, January 13, 1774, Sarah Merrill, and married second, November 31, 1814, Lois Foss, of Rowley. He was the pioneer of the comb industry at Leominster, Massachusetts. He had eleven children, all born of his first marriage: I. Sarah, March 20, 1776, died September 5, 1786. 2. Francis, 1778. 3. Hannah, born March 12, 1780, died November 3, 1797. 4. Azubah, born March 23. 1782; married Moses Currier. 5. Dorothy, born October 24, 1784; married John Pearson. 6. Obadiah, born Oc- tober 13, 1786, died Rowley, February 7, 1830. 7. Sophia, born 1789; married Aaron Rogers. 8. Betsey. 9. John, born 1793, died George- town, Massachusetts, 1848. 10. Abel, born Rowley. II. Charles, born Rowley.

(V) Francis Hills, son of Obadiah and Sarah ( Merrill) Hills, was born in Leominster, Massachusetts, 1778, and died in Rowley, Mass- achusetts, where most of his life was spent. He married, in Rowley, October 24, 1803, Han- nah, daughter of Captain Moses Tenney (Oliver 4, William 3, Daniel 2, Thomas I). She was born in Rowley, May 1, 1784. Children of Francis and Hannah ( Tenney ) Hills: Gor- ham Tenney, Albert Smith, William F., Fran- ces, Mary, Hannah.

(VI) Albert Smith Hills, son of Francis Hills, was born in Rowley, Massachusetts, in November, 1818, and died in Ipswich, Massa- chusetts. in January, 1894. He went to live in Ipswich in 1842, and carried on business there as a grocer. During the early part of his busi- ness life, while living in Rowley, he was a shoe- maker. In 1861 he enlisted in Company I, Twenty-third Regiment, Massachusetts Volun- teer Infantry, and served three years. In 1864 he was mustered out at the end of the term of his enlistment, returned to Ipswich, and again engaged in mercantile business, in which he continued until succeeded by his son. He was affiliated with John T. Heard Lodge, F. and A. MI. Several years before his death he was made an honorary member of John T. Heard Lodge, and was also a member of Agawam Lodge, I. O. O. F., of Ipswich. He married Eunice Ann Hardin Perkins. Children : Har- riet A., born 1842, died 1889; Albert Perkins, of whom further.

(VII) Albert Perkins Hills, only son of Albert Smith and Eunice Ann Hardin ( Per- kins) Hills, was born in Ipswich, May 3, 1846. He received his education in the public schools

of his native town, leaving school to enter the army. After his return home in 1864 he be- came clerk in his father's store, and in 1866 learned the barber's trade, at which he worked for six years. In 1888 he purchased his father's business, and has been the sole proprietor to the present time. During his ownership he has enlarged the store building three different times in order to provide for his increasing business, and now has a floor space of fifty feet front and forty-five feet in depth. Mr. Hills is affiliated with John T. Heard Lodge, A. F. and A. M., of Ipswich, of which he was junior warden one year, and steward three years; Amity Charter, R. A. M., of Beverly ; and Winslow Lewis Commandery, K. T., of Salem. He is a Republican in politics, but has never aspired to official positions. He and his family are attendants of the Methodist church. He married, June 13, 1870, Mary E., daughter of Alfred P. and Mary A. (Dale) Clark. Mr. and Mrs. Hills have one child, Ethel Dale, born September 30, 1877; graduate of Man- ning high school, class of 1894, holding the highest rank during her entire high school class, and being valedictorian of her class ; public-reader and teacher of elocution; she married, October 3, 1896, Walter F. Poole, and resides in Ipswich.

Albert Smith Hills and his son, Albert Per- kins Hills, afford a notable illustration of the patriotic devotion and unflinching courage of the men of their day. In 1861, the first year of the civil war, the son, then just beginning his fifteenth year, enlisted as a drummer in Company I, Twenty-third Regiment Massachu- setts Volunteer Infantry, Captain John Hobbs. His parents were much opposed to this step, on account of his youth, but he was not to be dissuaded. The elder Hills at once enlisted in the same company and regiment, and father and son completed a three years' term of ser- vice side by side-comrades in battle, and partakers of the weary march and the long night watches-the mother meantime conduct- ing the business which her husband had laid aside. With their regiment the two, father and son, bore a soldierly part in all the opera- tions of General Burnside's army in North Carolina, including the battle and capture of Roanoke Island, February 8, 1862; and the battles of Newberne, March 14, 1862. Kins- ton. Whitehall and Goldsboro. Albert P. Hills participated in the following battles : Roanoke Island, February 8, 1862 ; Newberne, March 14. 1862; Rawle's Mills, Novem- ber 2. 1862; Kinston, December 14, 1862;

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Whitehall, December 15, 1862 ; Goldsboro, De- cember 16, 1862 ; Wilcox Bridge, July 6, 1863; Wren's Mills, April 14, 1864; Heckman's Farm, May 6, 1864; Walthall Junction, May 7, 1864; Arrowfield Church, May 9, 1864; Drury's Bluff, May 12. 1864; Cold Harbor, June 2 and 3, 1864; Petersburg (siege) June 20 to August 25, 1864. At the end of their three years' term of service the two Hills. father and son, were honorably discharged. After the war they were comrades in General James Appleton Post, No. 128, Grand Army of the Republic, Department of Massachusetts, in which the elder Hills held membership until his death, and of which the son is yet a member.

CAREY Patrick Carey came of an old and respected family of county Cavan, Ireland. He and his an- cestors were farmers for generations. Patrick removed to British Hill in county Meath, where he died. He married, in county Cavan, Eliza- beth Henry, whose mother was of the Fox family of county Cavan. Children : I. Ed- ward, mentioned below. 2. Molly, came to America, married Rielley, died at West Quincy, Massachusetts. 3. Thomas, died at West Quincy. 4. James, came to America and located at West Quincy, Massachusetts, where he died. 5. John, went to California and was never heard from afterward. 6. Nicholas, lived and died on the homestead on British Hill.

(II) Edward, son of Patrick Carey, was born in Ireland. Like all the family he was a pious Roman Catholic, and in politics an earn- est supporter of every movement in his day to relieve his country from oppression and to promote its welfare. He was a member of the Land League. He married Margaret Dur- ham, daughter of Michael and Katherine (Flynn) Durham, of Scotch ancestry. After his marriage he lived at the native place of his wife, Rochestown, county Meath, and there he died August 2, 1872. His wife died in 1868. Children : Elizabeth, Michael, Maria and Katherine, all of whom are mentioned below. These children, through the kindness of Mrs. A. D. McNulty, sister of Mrs. Carey, were brought to the United States, coming in the ship "Germanic," sailing from Liverpool, March 25, 1880, and arriving in New York City, April 5, 1880. Mrs. McNulty lived in Jersey City, New Jersey, where she died in 1906, leaving two children: Katherine Mc- Nulty, a teacher in the normal school in Jersey City, and Joseph M. McNulty, president of

the American Tobacco Trust Company, a resi- dent of Jersey City Heights, having an office in New York City. Patrick, John and Thomas Durham, brothers of Mrs. McNulty, located also in Jersey City and died there.

(III) Elizabeth, daughter of Edward Carey, was born at Rochestown, county Meath, Ire- land, and was educated there in the national schools. She went to live with her cousin in Quincy, Massachusetts, after coming to this country. She married, November 26, 1886, Patrick H. Sheehan, of Stafford Springs, Con- necticut, born in that town, August 8, 1854, son of John and Ellen ( Horgan) Sheehan. He was appointed to the police force of Boston in 1881 and was a capable and efficient officer. He died September 8, 1901. Captain Walker and the patrolmen of Station 12, Boston, escorted the body to the grave. Children, born at South Boston : I. Margaret E., July 18, 1888, graduate of the South Boston high school, now a stenographer. 2. John D., Janu- ary 14, 1890, a machinist by trade. 3. Mary Elizabeth, September 2, 1891, employed by a novelty manufacturer, South Boston. 4. Alice, September 21, 1896. 5. Edward Carey, Octo- ber 15, 1897. 6. William J., April 8, 1902.

(III) Michael, son of Edward Carey, was born in Rochestown, Ireland. He was edu- cated in the national schools, and upon coming to America went to live in West Quincy, Mass- achusetts, where he learned his trade as a granite cutter in the works of his cousin, Carey Brothers. He became a skillful craftsman and is at present working as a journeyman in a quarry in Pennsylvania.

(III) Maria, daughter of Edward Carey, was born in Rochestown, and after coming to this country lived for a year with her aunt in Jersey City, removing later to South Boston. At the age of seventeen she married, December 22, 1881, Alfred Willey, a native of Lowell, Massachusetts. He was employed formerly in the railroad business, now in the Lamson Com- pany factory, manufacturers of patented cash carriers. They reside in Roxbury, Boston. Mrs. Willey is a member of the Women's Aux- iliary of the Ancient Order of Hibernians and of the Knights and Ladies of Tara, Roxbury. Their daughter. Mabel Willey, born May 30, 1884. is a telephone operator in the Roxbury Exchange.

(111) Katherine, daughter of Edward Carey, was born in Rochestown, November 1I, 1866, and was eighteen years old when she came to this country. She spent two years with her aunt in Jersey City, then came to Boston,

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where she has since lived. She was educated in her native parish in the national schools and is intelligent and well-informed. She is a charter member of the Knights and Ladies of Tara, and is interested in every patriotic move- ment for the welfare of her native land, proud of the fact that the home of her girlhood was but a few miles from Dowth Castle in which the late John Boyle O'Reilly was born in the royal province of Meath. She is one of those who keenly appreciates the reforms instituted by the government of the United Kingdom in Ireland and is a firm believer in the ultimate success of the Home Rule movement. She has been an industrious and faithful worker all her life and has saved a modest competence. In 1901 Miss Carey visited her native home, also making an extensive tour of the country, including a visit to Cook, Killarney, Dublin, the ancient hill of Tara, Blarney Castle, also the hill of Slane.

BRANN George Brann settled in West Gardiner, Maine, where he be- came an extensive owner of land and a prosperous lumberman. He married Earl. Children: I. George H., men- tioned below. 2. John. 3. Rhoda, married Mr. McCausland. 4. Hannah, married Job Sampson.

(II) George H., son of George Brann, was born January 30, 1808. He married Abbie C. Brann, no relation. He lived at West Gardiner, Maine. He was an industrious farmer, and early in life was engaged in the shoe and leather business. Children, born at Gardiner : I. Sylvanus. 2. Henry. 3. John. 4. Solon. 5. Arrington. 6. Lawson. 7. Abbie C., born December 5, 1847; married (first) George W. Davis; one child, Alice M. Davis, married, March 8, 1891, Sewall Collins, of Gardiner, Maine, and has one child, Eugene Sewall Collins, born August 28, 1893; married ( second) May 28, 1879, George M. Blanchard, born Decem- ber 5, 1849. 8. Eugene H., mentioned below.

(III) Eugene H., son of George H. Brann, was born May 18, 1856, at Gardiner, Maine. He attended the public schools of his native town and was graduated from the Gardiner high school in the class of 1874. He started life in the furniture and cabinet-making busi- ness in his native town, working there eight years, then for a time in Lynn, Massachusetts, and two years in Saugus, Massachusetts. In 1892 he engaged in the hotel business as pro- prietor of the Relay House in Nahant, Massa- chusetts, then merely a "fish house," a restau-

rant without rooms and but two hundred and fifty feet of floor space. He prospered from the first, enlarging his quarters and accommo- dations rapidly. His establishment is now a model of its kind. The dining hall alone has twelve hundred square feet of floor space, with a cafe of six hundred square feet, both attractively furnished; the hotel has forty bed-rooms and in the season requires a force of one hundred and ten employees. The perma- nent force numbers seventy-five. The hotel is a handsome four-story structure, beautifully situated. The Dutch room is especially attrac- tive. It is decorated and furnished strictly in Dutch style, the prevailing color being red. The furniture is massive Dutch oak and there are fifty tables for guests in this room. The establishment boasts of a splendid dancing pavilion, eighty by one hundred and thirty feet, shooting galleries, bowling alleys and a theatre. The Relay House wharf is seven hun- dred and forty-seven feet in length. The Relay House stables have a reputation for style and variety of equipage, and for first- class horses. In the summer the average num- ber of guests is three thousand five hundred a week, most of them, of course, being day-guests only. The Relay House attracts a high class of patrons from all parts of the country and many foreign visitors are guests. Mr. Brann takes a just pride in the old registers of the hotel, not only affording evidence of the con- tinual growth of his business, but containing the autographs of hundreds of prominent men and women. Mr. Brann has recently added to his property ten cottages bought of the Nathan Moore estate to be rented in connection with the hotel, and other land in the vicinity with an eye to the future growth of business. He established the Lynn & Nahant Steamboat Company in 1894 and there are three boats in commission during the season: the "Sylvan Shore," "Canostota" and "Winthrop," besides the "Rice" which was the first boat in the ser- vice. He is a director of the Boston, Nahant & Pines Steamboat Company and a stock- holder in the Nahant & Lynn Railroad Com- pany. He has co-operated in every enterprise and movement tending to benefit the town. He is a life member of Lynn Lodge, No. 117, Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks; of Saugus Lodge, No. 97, Knights of Pythias ; of the Fish and Game Association of Massa- chusetts; of the National Lancers and of the various boating and yacht clubs of the vicinity. He was quartermaster sergeant of First Bat- talion Light Artillery, Massachusetts Volun-

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Genealogical and personal memoirs relating to the families of the state of Massachusetts, Volume III, Part 70

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