Genealogical and personal memoirs relating to the families of the state of Massachusetts, Volume III, Part 8

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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(For preceding generations see Philip Towle I).

(IV) Levi, second son of Jona-

TOWLE than and Anna ( Norton) Towle, was born September 22, 1731, and lived in Rye, New Hampshire, until after 1766, when he removed to Parsonsfield, Maine, and built the second frame house in that town. His elder brother Jonathan was also a pioneer settler in that township, which was incorpor- ated in 1775. Levi Towle married, October II, 1753, in Rye, Ruth Marden, of that town, and their first child, Jonathan, was baptized in Rye. He was a soldier of the revolution, being with Washington at Valley Forge, and at the capture of Trenton. After the revolu- tion, he settled in Eaton, New Hampshire. The following are on record as having been baptized in Hampton : 1. Sarah, February 15, 1756. 2. Jeremiah, August 27, 1758. 3. Joseph, February I, 1761. 4. Betty, July 17, 1763. 5. Anna, September 21, 1766. In addi- tion to these, the history of Parsonsfield, Maine, mentions as his children, Steven, James M.,

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Polly and Simeon. These were probably born after his settlement in Parsonsfield. James Marden was a sailor in the service of the United States in the war of 1812 and was killed on board a ship in Portland, Maine harbor.

(V) Simeon, son of Levi and Ruth ( Mar- den) Towle, was born June 19, 1772, in Par- sonsfield and died in that town, July 14. 1845. He was farmer and occupied the same farm and house which had previously been the prop- erty of his father. He married. in 1796, Betsy Moore, of Stratham, New Hampshire, who died March 12. 1854, in Parsonsfield. Chil- dren: 1. Betsy, born 1797, married Job Col- cord. 2. Abigail, 1799, married Charles Col- cord. 3. Harvey Moore, mentioned in the next paragraph. 4. Ruth, 1805, married John Doe. 5. Mary, 1809, married Joseph Titcomb. 6. Levi, died at the age of twenty-one. 7. Sallie, 1813, married Daniel Littlefield. 8.

Priscilla. 1815, married William E. Moulton.

(VI) Harvey Moore, eldest son of Simeon and Betsy ( Moore ) Towle, was born Septem- ber 20, 1801, in Parsonsfield, and died Decem- ber, 1877, in Bradford, Massachusetts. He was a teacher of much ability and served his native town as school committeeman, select- man and representative. He was a man of well settled principles and of a strong and sympathetic nature and was ever ready to give his time and efforts for the general wel- fare. He removed to Bradford, Massachu- setts, in 1833, and was for many years treas- urer of that town. Harvey Moore Towle married ( first ) in 1826, Clarissa Knapp, daugh- ter of Samuel and Mary ( Mcade) Knapp, of Salisbury, Massachusetts. She died in 1829. Children: I. Clara M., born 1827, married, in 1852, Joseph A. Shores (see Shores). 2. Samuel Knapp, born 1829, was a distinguished physician and surgeon, and during the civil war was attached as surgeon to the Four- teenth Heavy Artillery and subsequently to the Thirtieth Massachusetts Regiment ; after the war he was surgeon at the soldier's homes in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Dayton, Ohio, and llampton, Virginia, and died in 1895. Mr. Towle married ( second) in 1831, Chastina S. Morse, of Haverhill, Massachusetts, who sur- vived him. Children: 1. Melville Cox, born September 14, 1835, a physician, and died soon after the opening of a brilliant career, Decent- ber 20, 1875, at Haverhill, Massachusetts. 2. Ellen M., died in 1855. 3. Levi, died aged fourteen years.

This family is of ancient English AMES origin, and the branch which lived at Bristol bore this coat-of-arms: Argent on a bent cotised sable, three roses of the field. Crest : a white rose. Motto, Fama candida rosa dulcior.

(I) John Ames was buried at Bruton, Eng- land, in 1560.

(II) John (2), son of John ( 1) Ames, died in 1583. He married Margery Crome. Chil- dren : I. John, mentioned below. 2. Launce- lot. 3. William.

. (III) John (3), son of John (2) Ames, was born in 1560 and died in 1629. He mar- ried Cyprian Browne. Children: 1. William, mentioned below. 2. John, went to New Eng- land and settled first at Duxbury, where he was on a list of those able to bear arms in 1643: removed to Bridgewater and married, October 20, 1645, Elizabeth Heyward; died and left his estate to his brother's heirs.

(IV) William, son of John (3) Ames, was born in 1605 and died January 1, 1653-54. He came to New England and settled in Brain- tree as early as 1641. He was admitted a freeman, May 26, 1647. He married Hannah , who married (second) April 6, 1660, John Heiden ( Hayden). Children: I. Han- nah, born May 12, 1641. 2. Rebecca, October, 1642. 3. Lydia, 1645. 4. John, May 24, 1647, mentioned below. 5. Sarah, March 1, 1650. 6. Deliverance (daughter ), February 6, 1653.

(V) John (4), son of William Ames, was born May 24, 1647, died about 1723, when his estate was settled. He settled in West Bridgewater as early as 1672, and married Sarah Willis, daughter of John Willis He served in King Philip's war. Children: I. John, born 1672. 2. William, 1673. 3. Nathaniel, 1677. 4. Elizabeth, 1680, married, 1697, Cap- tain John Field. 5. Thomas, 1682, mentioned below. 6. Sarah, 1685, married, 1706, Daniel Field. 7. David, 1688. 8. Hannah, married, 1712, David Packard.

(VI) Thomas, son of John (4) Ames, was born at West Bridgewater in 1682. He mar- ried, in 1706, Mary Hayward, daughter of Joseph Hayward. Children: 1. Thomas, born 1707. 2. Solomon, 1709. 3. Joseph, 171I, mentioned below. 4. Ebenezer, 1715. 5. Mary, 1717, married, 1735, Sethi Howard. 6. Sus- anna, 1720, married, 1741, Thomas Willis. 7. Nathan, 1722. 8. Sarah, 1724, married, 1747, Captain Josiah Packard. 9. Betty, 1727, mar- ried. 1748, James Ames.

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born in 1711. He married (first) Susanna Littlefield, daughter of Nathaniel Littlefield, of Braintree. He married (second) in 1754, Ruth (Field) Packard, widow of Israel Pack- ard and daughter of Richard Field. He married (third) in 1768, Abigail, widow of Jonathan Bosworth and Israel Alger Jr. and daughter of Samuel Lathrop. Children of first wife: I. Phebe, born 1737, married, 1756, Captain Jonathan Howard. 2. Ebenezer, 1739, mentioned below. 3. Nathaniel, 1741, married, 1783, Mary Hill. 4. Elijah, 1743, married, 1760, Betty Johnson and removed to Pennsyl- vania. 5. Susannah, 1744, married, 1764, Daniel Copeland. 6. Joseph, 1747. 7. Sarah, married, 1778, Josiah Williams. 8. William, 1752, re- moved to Connecticut. 9. Bethia, married, 1769, Ephraim Fobes. Children of second wife: IO. Zephaniah, born 1755. Children of third wife: II. Olive, 1769, married, 1785, Joseph Alger. 12. James, 1771, married, 1794, Jenny Fenno, of Boston. 13. Fiske, 1773.

(VIII) Ebenezer, son of Joseph Ames, was born in 1739. He was ensign in Captain Elisha Mitchell's company, Colonel Cary's regiment February 21, 1776, also in Captain Joseph Keith's company, Colonel Edward Mitchell's regiment in 1776. He married, 1763, Jane Howard, daughter of Dr. Abiel Howard. Children: I. Ambrose M., born 1765, mentioned below. 2. Charles, 1767, mar- ried, 1789, Rhoda Snell, daughter of Deacon Elijah Snell. 3. Walter, 1773, married, 1796, Me- hitable Packard. 4. William, 1777. 5. Ebenezer.

(IX) Captain Ambrose M., son of Ebene- zer Ames, was born in Bridgewater, January 28, 1765, died August 29, 1858. He removed to Greenfield, where he settled, about 1785, and became a leading citizen of that town. He was a representative to the general court for several terms, and captain of the first troop of cavalry ever recruited in the town. He engaged in the manufacture of plows and linseed oil and was very successful in business. He invested extensively in real estate in Greenfield and vicinity. He was a member of Republican Lodge of Free Masons. In politics he was a Democrat, one of the leaders of this section and for a period of thirty-five years was post- master. In religion he was a Unitarian. He married. December 9, 1791, Hannah Allen, born October II, 1769, died April 8, 1860. Children : I. Hannah, born September 29, 1792, died May 25, 1875. 2. Olive, February 23, 1793, died in 1889. 3. Caroline, January 6, 1795, died January 28. 1875. 4. Isabella, October 17, 1796, died September 14, 1872.

5. Jane, July 25, 1798, died May 24, 1874. 6. Thomas, May 27, 1801, died in infancy. 7. Thomas J., July 23, 1804, died September 5, 1841. 8. James Madison, November 2, 1806, mentioned below. 9. Frances A., November 18, 1809.

(X) James Madison, son of Captain Am- brose M. Ames, was born in Greenfield, No- vember 2, 1806, died there January 8, 1893. He was educated in the public schools and followed farming for a calling. He was for many years assistant postmaster, when his father was postmaster. He also was a civil engineer and surveyor and worked at this profession in railroad construction and land surveying from time to time. He was a mem- ber of the Unitarian church of Greenfield. In politics he was a Democrat. He married, Jan- uary 31, 1844, Eunice Hunt, born 1807, died May 9, 1894, daughter of Joel and Eunice (Alvord) Hunt. Children, born at Greenfield : I. Frances Barrett, born 1845, married, De- cember 17, 1868, -; she died August 9, 1871. 2. William Ambrose, July 24, 1847, mentioned below.

(XI) William Ambrose, son of James Madison Ames, was born in Greenfield, July 24, 1847. He attended the public schools of his native town and Powers Institute, Ber- nardston. He learned the profession of sur- veying and civil engineering, and worked for a time in railroad construction in New York state. He has devoted his attention mainly to farming, however, and has been quite suc- cessful in raising fine tobacco. He has been active and prominent in public life. From 1872 to 1877 he was foreman of the fire com- pany, and one of the engineers of the fire de- partment. He was a member of the Greenfield militia company with the rank of sergeant. In 1888 he was elected highway surveyor. He served on the board of directors of the Green- field Rural Club, an organization for village improvement, which planted hundreds of shade trees in the town and built new roads on Rocky Mountain. In 1902 he was elected on the board of selectmen and was re-elected from year to year to the present time. He is also the tree warden of the town. In politics he is a Democrat. He is a member of Republican Lodge of Free Masons; of Franklin Chapter, Royal Arch Masons ; of Titus Strong Council. Royal and Select Masters. He attends the Congregational church. He married, October 12, 1876, Elizabeth Margaret Severance, born May 13. 1845, died January 2, 1902, daughter of P. P. Severance. They have no children.

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HASTINGS The name Hastings is older than the Norman Conquest in England. It was spelled Hastang also. The castle and seaport of Hast- ing were owned by the family that adopted the surname as early as 911, before the Normans were in Gaul. There was a Danish pirate, not of this family perhaps, who was a formidable foe of the Saxons occupying a part of Sussex. In nearly every county of England the family has established itself. Branches bearing coats- of-arms are found at Agmondisham, Buck- shire; in Dorsetshire and Leicestershire; in Cambridgeshire ; in Gloucester shire and Derby- shire ; in Ireland ; at Billesby, Lincolnshire; at Hinton, Northamptonshire; in Nottingham- shire and Northumberland ; in Staffordshire. Yorkshire, Oxfordshire and in Scotland. Of the numerous coats-of-arms of Hastings, the American branch claims the following : A maunch sable. Crest : A buffalo's head erased sable, crowned and gorged with a ducal coronet and armed or. Supporters: Two man-tigers affrontee or, their visages resembling the human face proper. Motto: In virtute victoria. Also: Honorantes me honorabo. A plate on which this armorial was engraved was brought to this country by the pioneer and descended (not a direct line) through Thomas (2) : Dr. Waitstill (3): Hopestil (4): Dr. Seth (5); whose brother lost it about 1835 in the pursuit of one of those elusive, if not imaginary, Eng- lish estates. On one side were the arms given above and an antique ship with two flags; on the obverse the arms of England, viz: Three lions passant, guardant in pale on the reverse of the seal St. Michael slaying the dragon.

(1) Deacon Thomas Hastings, immigrant ancestor, was born in England in 1605. Thomas, aged twenty-nine, and his wife Susanna. aged thirty-four, embarked at Ipswich, England, April 10, 1634, in the ship, "Elizabeth," Will- iam Andrews, master, for New England. He settled at Watertown, Massachusetts, where he was admitted a freeman May 6, 1635. He owned land in Dedham, but never lived there. Hle was selectman from 1638 to 1643 and from 1650 to 1671 ; town clerk in 1671-77-80 ; deputy to the general court in 1673, and long held the office of deacon. His wife Susanna died February 2, 1650, and he married (second) in April, 1651, Margaret Cheney, daughter of William and Martha Cheney, of Roxbury. He died in 1685, aged eighty. His will was dated March 12, 1682-83, and proved September 7, 1685. The inventory of his estate amounted to four hundred and twenty-one pounds. He

resided on the west side of School street, then called Hill street. He bequeathed the home- stead to his son Samuel; to his son Thomas he gave only five pounds, saying, "I have been at great expense to bring him up a scholar, and I have given him above three score pounds to begin the world with." Children: I. Thomas, born July 1. 1652, died July 23, 1712. 2. John, March 1, 1654, died March 28, 1717-18; mar- ried, June 18, 1679, Abigail Hammond. 3 William, August 8, 1655, drowned August, 1669. 4. Joseph, September 1I, 1657, died October 7, 1695. 5. Benjamin, August 9, 1659, died December 18, 1711. 6. Nathaniel, Sep- tember 25, 1661, died December 25, 1694. 7. Hepzibah, January 31, 1663. 8. Samuel, men- tioned below.

(II) Samuel, son of Deacon Thomas Hast- ings, was born March 12, 1665, died July 24, 1723. His father died when he was a minor and John Nevinson was his guardian. Hast- ings was licensed to keep a tavern in Water- town in March, 1695, in the same house used for that purpose by his father-in-law before him. A few years later, however, he returned to the Hastings homestead, which was after- ward sold to the town for a ministerial resi- dence by his son, Daniel, and Joseph Coolidge, guardian of his son Nathaniel, and was later occupied by Rev. Seth Storer. Samuel Hast- ings married (first) January 1, 1687, at Water- town Mills, Lydia Church, born at Dedham, July 4. 1661, daughter of Caleb and Joanna (Sprague) Church, of Watertown. She died in January, 1691, and he married ( second) April 24, 1694, Elizabeth Nevinson, born Octo- ber 22, 1675, daughter of John and Elizabetlı Nevinson. His second wife died in 1700 and

he married (third) July 10, 1701, Sarah Coolidge, daughter of Simon and Hannalı ( Barron) Coolidge. The third wife died Jan- uary, 1724. Child of first wife: I. Lydia, born January 2, 1691, died the following month. Children of second wife: 2. Eliza-

beth, baptized November 29, 1697. 3. Samuel, born October 30, 1698, married, October 13, 1724, Mary Eaton. 4. Benjamin, baptized No- vember 17, 1700, died young. 5. Daniel, born July 19, 1702, married, August 5, 1724, Saralı Ball, daughter of James and Elizabeth ( Fiske) Ball. 6. Nathaniel, mentioned below. 7. Ursula, died unmarried 1792, aged ninety-two years.

(III) Nathaniel, son of Samuel Hastings, was born at Watertown, about 1708-10. His uncle, Joseph Coolidge, was his guardian as late as 1728. He married, April 16, 1734,

Albert Tr Hastings.

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Esther Perry, born November 25, 1713, daugh- ter of Samuel and Margaret ( Iraine) Perry, of Watertown. He settled in Shrewsbury in that part set off as Boylston, Worcester county, Massachusetts, and was a farmer there the remainder of his life. Children, born at Boylston, then Shrewsbury: I. Samuel, 1735, married. October 26, 1757, Anna Bigelow, daughter of Captain Joseph Bigelow ; lived in Princeton. 2. Nathaniel Jr., 1738, married Elizabeth Goodnow and lived at Bolton, after- ward Berlin ; was a soldier in the French and Indian war, died 1820; had eleven children. 3. Jonathan, baptized October 28, 1744, lived at Boylston ; married Mary Fay, of North- borough : gave a farm to each of his children. 4. Eunice, 1742-45, married, May 6, 1761, Jonathan Goodnow. 5. Silas, 1746, mentioned below.

( I\') Silas, son of Nathaniel Hastings, was born in Shrewsbury, now Boylston, in 1746. He was a soldier in the revolution from Boylston, a private in Captain Silas Gates's company, Colonel Ward's regiment in 1776. He married, April 23, 1777, Hannah Reed. Children: I. Thomas, lived at Boylston. 2. Silas Jr., born 1780, married, 1800, Mary Andrews, daughter of Deacon Daniel and Dinah ( Bigelow) Andrews, of Shrewsbury ; lived in Boylston ; children : George, died aged nine months ; Mary Martha, born February I, 1808. 3. Ezra, mentioned below. 4. Eunice, married - Howe, of Holden. 5. Mary, married Luther Hastings and had four chil- dren. 6. Betsey, married Stephen Pollard, of Berlin ; children : Sarah Pollard, married Erastus Wheeler : Abigail Pollard ; Ezra Pol- lard. 7. Hannah, married Luther Ames and lived at West Boylston; children: Harriet Ames, married Charles White; Mary Ames; George Ames. 8. Martha, married Joseph Flagg and lived in Berlin. 9. Sally, married Silas Howe; lived in Sterling. 10. Ephraim, born February 4, 1785. married Achsah Sawyer : (second) Almira Puffer, daughter of Rev. Reuben Puffer, of Berlin; they settled in Boylston.

(V) Ezra, son of Silas Hastings, was born in Boylston or vicinity, November 20, 1790, died in Boston, April 25, 1832. He chose his elder brother Silas as guardian April 4, 1809. He removed from Boylston to Boston. In his later years he drove a stage between Boston and Worcester. He was fond of horses and spent most of his life in Boston in the livery stable business in one capacity or another. Ezra Hastings married, April 3, 1822, in Bos-

ton, Margaret Parsons, born in Gloucester, Massachusetts, died June 2, 1889, daughter of Ezekiel and Fannie Parsons, both natives of Gloucester. Children of Mr. and Mrs. Parsons, all of whom grew to maturity and married : i. Ezekiel Jr., born May 14, 1790, a mariner, lost at sea, January 4, 1807 ; ii. Nicholas, born May 31, 1792; iii. Fannie, born March 8, 1795 ; iv. John, born November 2, 1799 ; v. Margaret, born March 21, 1802, married Ezra Hastings, mentioned above; vi. Hannah Tucker, born February 2, 1808. All the sons were sea faring men. Children of Ezra and Margaret ( Par- sons ) Hastings: 1. Julia Ann, born May 12, 1823, died August 23, 1830. 2. Albert W., mentioned below. Margaret ( Parsons) Hast- ings married (second) December 26, 1834, John Boles, of Massachusetts, and had chil- dren: i. Gaylord, died September 30, 1843; ii. John William ; iii. Maria Elizabeth, married S. A. Carlton, a prominent capitalist of Boston for many years, president of the Security Bank of Boston, died in 1903.

(VI) Albert W., son of Ezra Hastings, was born in Boston, February 21, 1827. He attend- ed the public schools in that city and spent his youth there. When he was fifteen he left home, like his mother's brothers and ancestors, followed the sea. He made the voyage to South America in 1842, visiting the ports of Buenos Ayres and of Montevideo, returning in 1843, and sailing soon on an East Indian voyage to Manila, in the Philippines. He went again in. 1845 and on this voyage the vessel touched also at Hong Kong and Canton, China, returning with a large cargo of tea. The vessel encountered a typhoon on the return voyage, was dismasted and almost wrecked. A second storm threw her on the beam ends and all the crew had a narrow escape from death. The experiences of that voyage ended his love for a seafaring life. During the next three or four years he was bookkeeper for a West Indian trading com- pany on Lewis wharf, Boston, filling this posi- tion with ability. He resigned in 1857 to estab- lish an enterprise of his own. He began the manufacture of sash and blinds and other building supplies in a factory at 142 Friend street, Boston, and succeeded from the outset. He continued in business there until 1898, when he retired, leasing his business to his son, Albert B., who had been in business with his father for sometime before. He made his home in West Roxbury, now part of Boston, in 1850, buying several acres of land at the corner of Poplar and Dale streets. The small

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house then standing on the property he enlarged and remodeled for a residence and has since occupied. He is one of the best known and most influential citizens of this section, and has always co-operated in movements calcu- lated to advance the welfare and enhance the attractiveness of the community in which he lives. In religion he is a Unitarian. He and his sons are Republicans in politics. He mar- ried (first) in Boston, July 12, 1850, May Little Hall Bouvé, born in Boston, June 29, 1828, died December 15, 1861. He married (second) May 26, 1864, Mary Burley Moses, born in New Hampshire, December 24, 1828, died at her home in West Roxbury, September

23. 1905. In both marriages Rev. Chandler Robins was the officiating clergyman. Chil- dren of first wife: I. Albert Boles, born December 12, 1851, was associated with his father in business and succeeded him at the time of his retirement; married Lilian Masury ; children : Albert Augustus and Sam- uel B. 2. Frank Tracy, November 4, 1855, resides with his father; unmarried. 3. Mar- garet B., June 26, 1859, married Frank B. Skelton, a prominent newspaper man, reporter for the Boston Herald, now on the staff of the Boston Globe; child, Margaret Hastings Skel- ton. 4. Mary E., December 4, 1861, lives at home and is devoted to her father in his old age. Children of second wife : 5. John William, March 19, 1865, died August 2, 1888, unmar- ried. 6. Annie Burley, May 4, 1870, died July 26, 1870.

LEFEVRE Back in the fourteenth cen- tury the Lefevre family was prominent in France. They joined with the Huguenots and took up arms against their prosecutors in 1561. After a delusive edict of toleration, many were massa- cred at Vassy, March 1, 1562, at which time the civil war began which lasted for thirty years, with some intermissions, until the Edict of Nantes in 1598. After the revocation of this edict in 1685, the Lefevres, with many others faithful to the cause, fled from France into Germany, and settled in the province of Pommerm, Prussia. Possessed of a hardy, substantial physical makeup, and strong mental attainments, the Lefevres, like many others persecuted on account of their chris- tian religion, beeame devoted to the Lutheran faith. The Lefevres were industrious, and many of them continued to reside in the town of Passewalk, Prussia.

(1) Daniel Lefevre was born in the latter

part of the eighteenth century, and spent an active life as an acreburger, which means he was a farmer but lived in the city; he had a well-improved German farm in the vicinity of Passewalk, where he was known as one of the substantial characters of that community. He was devoted to his family and to the wel- fare of the town. He was an earnest worker in the Lutheran church, and beloved by all who knew him. He died at the age of eighty- two years. He married Johanna Smythe, born in Premeleo. She came of a fine class of Ger- man people, and was a woman of brillant mind, well informed on the current events of the day during her life. She died at the age of seventy-eight, two years before her hus- band. She was an active member of the Lutheran church. They had ten children, among whom are: I. Henry J., born in Passewalk, June 25, 1830, mentioned below. 2. Wilhelmina, married (second), Ans Engel, a baker by trade, and resides in Germany, where they have a large family. 3. Daniel, a successful grocer in his native town;

unmarried. 4. Bertha, married -- Fraley, a German soldier still in the army.

(II) Henry J., son of Daniel Lefevre, was born in Passcwalk, Prussia, June 25, 1830. Although his opportunities for an education were limited, his courage and determination enabled him to acquire a good amount of knowledge. At the age of fourteen he entered the trade school of his native town, and received his certificate and passports when eighteen years of age, as a successful baker, and worked as a journeyman baker for some time. In 1850 he went to Copenhagen, Den- mark, where he remained two and a half years and then returned to Germany where he became a soldier in Stedtin, Prussia, in the Second Regiment called the Kings Regiment, in the Fusilcer Battalion, Tenth Company. After an honorable discharge from the army he returned to Copenhagen, Denmark, again and remained two and a half years more. From 1852 to 1857 he worked hard and saved his money that he might come to America, where he had heard there were so many chances for young men to make a fortune. At last he returned to his native state, and.on June 15, 1857, went to Hamburg and took a sailing vessel bound for New York City. The voyage lasted fifty-two days, and when he landed in New York he found it hard to get work. He decided to go west, and went as far as Cleveland, Ohio, which at that time was considered the far west. Here he worked

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Genealogical and personal memoirs relating to the families of the state of Massachusetts, Volume III, Part 8

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