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(VI) Henry (2), son of Rev. Henry (I) Lincoln, was born June 13, 1798. He was a prominent Boston merchant. He married Charlotte Ann Lewis French. Children: I.
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William Henry, mentioned below. 2. Frances Mitchell, married Henry L. Richardson and resides on Beacon street, Boston ; children : William King Richardson, lawyer, 84 State street ; Grace Richardson, married Leverett S. Tuckerman ; Fanny Richardson, married Louis Curtis. 3. Richard Mitchell, born February 17, 1843. 4. Charlotte Lewis. 5. Roland Crocker.
(VII) William Henry, son of Henry (2) Lincoln, was born at Boston, June 13, 1835. He was educated there in the English high school and Chauncey Hall School. He began his business career as clerk in his father's shipping office, in 1853. He was admitted to partnership in 1856. From 1865 to 1882 the firm name was Thayer & Lincoln. In ad- dition to his large interests in the shipping busi- ness, Mr. Lincoln was president of the Brook- line Savings Bank from 1877 to 1904, and is still a trustee of that institution. He was a di- rector of the National City Bank for many years, was a director of the Mercantile Trust Company for several years, and has been a director of the Boston Insurance Company since 1881. He has been keenly interested in public education and other political prob- lems. He was a member of the Brookline school committee from 1873 to 1895, and was chairman for the greater part of the time. He was a member of the Massachusetts State Nautical Training School Commission from 1892 to 1896, and was its chairman for two years. Since 1895 he has been a member of the corporation of the Massachusetts Insti- tute of Technology, and trustee of the Episco- pal Theological School of Cambridge since 1895, and of Wellesley College since 1899. He was for many years a director of the Epis- copal City Mission, and for many years a di- rector of the Bostonian Society. He has been president of the Economic Club since 1904. He was president of the Boston Commercial Club from 1885 to 1888, and of the Boston Chamber of Commerce from 1900 to 1904. He was president of the Ship-Owners Asso- ciation. lle was a member of the Young Men's Christian Association of Boston in its early days and was secretary from 1857 to 1861. and vice-president in 1860. His home is in Brookline, Massachusetts. He married Cecelia F. Smith. Children: 1. Henry, born February 25, 1864. 2. Helen Frances, April 8, 1866; married, January 6, 1904, Burdett L. Arms, bacteriologist, Bolyston street, Boston. 3. Alexander, October 31, 1873, mentioned
below. 4. Elsie, July 18, 1875; married, April 18, 1899, Samuel Cushing Payson.
(VIII) Alexander, son of William Henry Lincoln, was born in Brookline, October 31, 1873. He graduated from Harvard College in the class of 1895 with the degree of A. B., studied two years in the graduate school of Harvard University and received the degree of Master of Arts at Commencement, 1896. He studied for a time at the University of Göttingen, Germany. Upon his return he en- tered Harvard Law School and after three years of study graduated with the degree of LL. B. in 1902. He was admitted to the bar and began immediately to practice in Boston. He is a member of the law firm of Whipple. Sears & Ogden, Tremont Building, Boston. He is a member of the Boston Bar Association. Ile married, June 22, 1909, Eleanor Ames, daughter of Oliver Ames, of St. Paul, Minne- sota. Their home is at 265 Beacon street, Boston.
(For ancestry see Edward Spalding 1).
(VI) Jesse, son of Ben- SPAULDING jamin Spaulding, was born at Jaffry, New Hampshire, September 20, 1772, died May 22, 1858. He married, May 31. 1798, Winifred Swift, of Boston, born January 21, 1781, died Septem- ber 18, 1868. Children : 1. Betsey, born May 13. 1799; married Ephraim Paine, of Chester, Vermont. 2. Nancy, November 30, 1800; married Otis Leland. 3. Jesse, December 15. 1802. 4. Horace, July 22, 1805. 5. Addison, November 20, 1807 ; mentioned below. 6. Lu- ther, January 9, 1810. 7. Roxanna, January 14, 1812 ; died October 31, 1831. 8. Benjamin, January 16, 1815. 9. Otis, December 20, 1817. 10. Elzena, May 20, 1820; married Marcellus Hall Brewer.
(VII ) Addison, son of Jesse Spaulding. was born at Cavendish, Vermont, November 20, 1807, died at Lowell, Massachusetts, March 17, 1875. He was an expert ship carpenter and followed this trade until an accident pre- vented. A heavy ship timber fell upon his leg and necessitated amputation. Mr. Spaul- ding used his inventive genius to good ad- vantage and made an artificial leg which proved so successful that it was placed upon the market, one of the first devices of the kind ever used. He married Nancy Thomp- son, born at Alstead, New Hampshire, died February 2, 1876. Children: 1. Henry Addi- son, born 1830; married, 1867, Alice Megorn ;
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forty-niner and in civil war. 2. William Sid- ney, July 28, 1832; married, March 7, 1859. Mary Esther Renfro. 3. Helen A., 1838; married, 1860, Charles Belcher. She died May 29, 1878. 4. Edwin Sumner, October 15, 1841 ; mentioned below. 5. Oscar, August 18, 1842; killed at the battle of Cedar Mountain, August 9, 1862.
(VIII) Edwin Sumner, son of Addison Spaulding, was born at Dracut, Massachusetts, October 15, 1841. At the age of six he went to visit Charles Harrington, of Lexington. an old friend of his father's. He remained in Lexington the remainder of his life. He was brought up in the family of Mr. Harrington, attending the district school and working on the farm. During Mr. Harrington's declin- ing years, Mr. Spaulding took the entire charge of the farm. Mr. Harrington was a well-to- do farmer, and after the death of his widow the property, including the homestead, came to Mr. Spaulding. The farm at first com- prised between sixty and seventy acres near Maple street, East Lexington. It was ad- mirably suited for raising all kinds of produce, as well as milk. Mr. Spaulding leased the Peltier place of fifty acres, and also owned later a place of ten acres on Middle street, where he raised garden vegetables, including large crops of potatoes for the Boston market. In 1890 his public duties became so pressing that he gave up active farm work on the farm to devote all his energies to his official duties. In 1878 he was elected engineer of the fire de- partment and served a number of years. In 1880 he was elected town treasurer, serving seven years, and for five years was tax col- lector. From 1890 until his death he was a member of the board of selectmen, and served as chairman of the board for the last five years. He was also a member of the sewer commission and trustee of the Gilmore Fund and the Cary Library Fund, besides other trusts. For fourteen consecutive years he was elected overseer of the poor and surveyor of highways, holding these offices at the time of his death. He was not a public speaker, and was of a retiring nature, but his popular- ity was shown by the spontaneous expression of the people at the polls whenever his name appeared upon a ballot. Their confidence was not misplaced, as he gave the best that was in him to the performance of the duties of a pub- lic officer. He was conscientious in the ex- treme, often spending an entire day with the men at work upon the public highways. He never confined himself to certain hours and
rules, but did his work as it should be done, no matter how great the trouble. Mr. Spauld- ing was generous to a fault, and no one ever came to him for help in vain. While he was town treasurer he used often to advance the pay of the poor man who needed the money before pay-day. When he had resigned this office, he continued the custom, trusting to be repaid by the authorities. Very often he was not reimbursed, and in such cases would re- mark: "Well, never mind; I'm only so much out." He always looked upon the bright side of life, and made the best of things. Mr. Spaulding was a trustee of the Lexington Sav- ings Bank, and on the board of investment. He was a director in the First National Bank at Arlington, and also on the investment board. He was a member of Simon W. Robinson Lodge, Free Masons, at Lexington, and a member of Bethel Lodge, Independent Order of Odd Fellows, at Arlington, for over forty years. In politics he was an independent Democrat. He was a member of Follen Uni- tarian Church and active in church work, serv . ing on the parish committee. In 1896, after twenty-six years of wedded life, Mrs. Spaul- ding died, mourned by all who knew her. At her funeral the services were conducted by Rev. Mr. Thompson, and Mr. Spaulding was often heard to remark afterwards that there was no man he would rather have speak at his funeral, than Mr. Thompson. He had his wish, and at his funeral the following touch- ing eulogy was delivered by Mr. Thompson :
"Edwin S. Spaulding was the most modest man I ever knew. He had absolutely no con- ceit as to his own worth and abilities. His worth is conceded by all, needing no further evidence for it than his life, which, thank God, in his frail body shone in our midst as long as it did. But he had abilities of a high practical order. There are gilt-edged abili- ties in contrast with which, perhaps, he did not shine ; but in the pressing realities of life which rub off the gilding, he disclosed that sterling metal that will stand rubbing until it is rubbed clear through, as enduring as his enduring worth. And so we went to him, old and young, for advice, council, information, help, often upon matters we knew he knew nothing about-went to him with our troubles and grievances past, present and to come, and went out of his yard possibly knowing no more, but almost always not quite so foolish, having been touched, annointed, by that calm- ness of spirit and simplicity of sympathy which were some part of the puzzling charm of this
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common every-day, great man's make-up. If
you were asked why you liked him, your best answer would be that of the little child, 'be- cause I did.' He was a man of strong con- victions but he never expressed them offen- sively. He had a regard for everyone's feel- ings and everyone's rights. Outwardly he was unemotional. He would be grave, serious, upon moving occasions, but always outwardly calm. Yet underneath there was that pa- tience with folly, that tenderness with human weakness, that unobtrusive consideration of the needs of others, that made him a helper of men. This consideration for all was marked, especially as regards those who at- tended him in his last illness. To one who was with him to the end, he said, 'I can never re- pay you for your care and kindness,' and the young man answered, brokenly, 'I am paid.' Paid he was indeed as were all who served him or were served by him with that wealth that serves the spirit and is never tarnished. He was deficient in one faculty-he did not know how to make enemies. Most of us do, most of us have enemies. But where are his? No, as he lies here to-day his friends are all present and all absent, Lexington's whole pop- ulation, and many beyond its limits. In a way it was easy seemingly, to impose upon him, but he usually knew very well when such was the case, and felt a pitying contempt for the meanness displayed when others would feel flaming anger. He didn't know how to hate anyone. Hatred was foreign to his nature. He lived all his years at peace with all man- kind, almost if not quite as ready to help the undeserving as the deserving, and the man who went to his back door after dark to bor- row five dollars of him, whether he was likely to pay it or not, often went away with twice as much. To more than a few he often said, 'Go ahead and when you can do no more, let me know.' And yet he was not a rich man in a worldly way, but in another way the richest man in Lexington was Edwin S. Spaulding. A simple unobtrusive man who could call forth the best in everyone he must have been rich in God's grace even though he knew it not. He was always the same, an unassuming true gentleman. If he had had millions they would not have made him any different. He did not see any difference be- tween the governor and the man with the wheelbarrow or the humblest digger of drains or ditches. He saw the man, whether in broadcloth or overalls. He was the best bal- anced man I ever knew. No prejudice
clouded his judgment, no selfishness or ani- mosity ruled his decisions. In his public life it is very likely he was at times in error, but whether you approved his work or not, he did your work without prejudice or favor. The laboring man especially found him a friend, and all his acts speak for him and challenge you to find a worthy successor. As an Odd Fellow and Mason, he lived the principles of the order, even before he became a member. As a husband and father, he was kind and con- siderate. In these later years from time to time he has told me that he missed his wife even more than at first. I shall not attempt to say how dear he was to his only son, his grandchildren, and their mother. We know he was what a father should be, and they knew his love and unfailing care." Mr. Spaulding died October 13, 1904. He mar- ried, June 14, 1870, Clara Alice Norton, of Friendship, New York, where she was born July 19, 1850, daughter of Joseph and Pru- dence Amanda (Hall) Norton. She died at Lexington, July 22, 1896. Children : I. Charles Harrington, born January 7, 1874; mentioned below. 2. Edwin Norton, August 22, 1880; died November 21, 1880.
(IX) Charles Harrington, son of Edwin Sumner Spaulding, was born in Lexington, January 7, 1874. He attended the public schools of his native town, and the high school two years. He then entered the State Agri- cultural College at Amherst, graduating in 1894. Subsequently he purchased a fruit farm of fifty-three acres at Harvard, Massa- chusetts, of Mary McGurn, known as the old Willard place. The farm produced five to six hundred barrels of apples a year, and in addition he raised milk for the Boston market. In 1901 he sold the place to George Tooker and . returned to Lexington, where he engaged in contract painting until June, 1903. At this time he entered the employ of the United States government in the engineering depart- ment as dredge inspector, a civil service office which he still holds. He served four years in the militia company at Amherst College, under officers of the regular army of the United States, and is a member of the Phi Sigma Kappa of that college. He is a member of the finance committee of Lexington. He is a member of the Finance Club, a company which erects houses for investment, and is business manager, vice-president and treasurer of the club. In politics he is a Republican. He is past noble grand of Bethel Lodge, No. 12, Independent Order of Odd Fellows, of
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Arlington. He joined the Simon J. Robinson Lodge, Free and Accepted Masons, at Lexing- ton, June 13, 1902 : was exalted in Menotomy Chapter. Royal Arch Masons, at Arlington, in June, 1907. He is a member of Follen Uni- tarian Church, and is the parish clerk and as- sessor. He married, April 8, 1895, Martha Eliza Childs, born November 30, 1872, daugh- ter of Augustus and Mary (Cunningham) Childs, of East Lexington. Her father was a merchant and postmaster in that village. Children : Edward Harrington and Alice Mae, both born in Harvard, Massachusetts.
GATES The Gates family is of English origin, and the author of the fam- ily history traces the lineage of the American immigrant back to 1327. The coat-of-arms is: Per pale, gules and azure three lions rampant, gardant, or. Crest: A demi-lion rampant, gardant, or. The family seats were in Essex and Yorkshire.
(I) Thomas Gates resided in 1327 in High- easter and some time also at Thursteubie, county Essex, England. He had a son William.
(II) William, son of Thomas Gates, had sons Ralph, Christopher, and Sir Geoffrey, mentioned below.
(III) Sir Geoffrey, son of William Gates, married Agnes Baldington, of Aldersbury, Ox- fordshire. England. Child, William, men- tioned below.
(IV) William (2), son of Sir Geoffrey Gates, married Mabel, daughter and heiress of Thomas Capdow, of Higheaster, Essex, and his wife Ann, daughter and heiress of Thomas Fleming, of Essex, England. Children: I. Sir Geoffrey, mentioned below. 2. Anne, married Thomas Darcy, uncle to Thomas, Lord Darcy of Chicke.
(V) Sir Geoffrey (2), son of William (2) Gates, married Elizabeth, daughter of Sir Will- iam Clapton, Knight, of Kentwell, Sussex. England. Children: 1. Sir John, married Mary Denny, daughter of Sir Edward Denny ; was Gentleman of Bedchamber of the King; Master of the Horse to King Edward VI; Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster and of the Privy Council; lost his head for. high treason in the matter of Lady Jane Grey. 2. Geoffrey, mentioned below. 3. Henry, was of Semer, Yorkshire ; ancestor of the Gates fam- ily of that county. 4. William. 5. Dorothy, married Sir Thomas Josselyn, of Josselyn Hall.
(VI) Geoffrey (3), son of Sir Geoffrey (2) Gates, of Higheaster, county Essex, England, married Piscall, of Essex. Children : I. Geoffrey, mentioned below. 2. IIenry. 3. John, ancestor of General Horatio Gates, of revolutionary fame.
(VII) Geoffrey (4), son of Geoffrey (3) Gates, married Joan Wentworth. Child, Peter, mentioned below.
(VIII) Peter, son of Geoffrey (4) Gates, resided in London, England, and married Mary Josselyn. Child, Thomas, mentioned below.
(IX) Thomas (2), son of Peter Gates, was of Norwich, county Norfolk, England. He had a son Stephen, mentioned below, who was the immigrant.
(X) Stephen, son of Thomas (2) Gates, came from Hingham, England, to Hingham, Massachusetts, in the ship "Diligent" of Ips- wich, England, in 1638. He settled first in Hingham and removed to Lancaster about 1656, and subsequently to Cambridge, where he died in 1662. In his will, dated June 9, 1662, proved October 7 following, he be- queathed to Stephen, his eldest son, the house and lot at Lancaster. His wife and son Simon received the place at Cambridge, and his son Thomas was to remain with them at his pleasure. He married in England, Ann Hill (According to Chute Genealogy), and they brought two children with them when they came over. There was a controversy between the Gates and Whitcomb families at Lancaster that probably influenced Gates to remove to Cambridge. His widow Ann married Rich- ard Woodward, of Watertown, in 1663, but after the death of her second husband, Febru- ary 16, 1665, she resumed the name of her first husband. She died at Stow, February 5, 1682-83. Children : I. Elizabeth, born in Eng- land; died August 3, 1704, in Hingham ; mar- ried, November 29, 1647, John Lasalle. 2. Mary, born in England; married, April 5, 1658, John Maynard, of Sudbury, who died December 22, 1711. 3. Stephen, born about 1640; mentioned below. 4. Thomas, born 1642: married, July 6, 1670, Elizabeth Free- man. 5. Simon, born 1645; died April 21. 1693, at (now) Brockton. 6. Isaac, baptized May 3. 1646; died September 3, 1651. 7. Re- becca, baptized May 3, 1646; died January, 1650.
(XI) Stephen (2), son of Stephen (I) Gates, was born about 1640, died at Acton, Massachusetts, in 1706. He married Sarah
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Woodward, daughter of George and Eliza- beth ( Hammond) Woodward, of Watertown. They resided at Stow, and he was an early pro- prietor of Preston, Connecticut, where some of his descendants are still found. His will was made at Stow, September 5, 1701, and proved in 1707. Children: 1. Stephen, born July 17, 1665. 2. Simon, June 5, 1666. 3. Thomas, December 31, 1669; mentioned below. 4. Isaac, 1673 ; died November 22, 1748, at Stow. 5. Nathaniel, 1675. 6. Sarah, April 27, 1679, at Marlborough. 7. Rebecca, July 23, 1682. 8. Daniel, April 23, 1685.
(XII) Thomas (3), son of Stephen (2) Gates, was born December 31, 1669, died in 1740, at Preston, Connecticut. He married, in December 1695, Margaret Geer, of Preston. Children, born at Preston: I. Robert, 1696 : mentioned below. 2. Zebediah, 1699. 3. Prudence, 1703; married Phillips, of Norwich. 4. Captain Daniel, 1707; married Mercy 5. Thomas, 1709. 6. Mar- garet. 1715.
(XIII) Robert, son of Thomas (3) Gates, was born in 1696 in Preston, Connecticut, and married, in 1726, Mary Clark. Children: I. Simeon, born 1728; mentioned below. 2. Margaret. 3. Mary, married Babcock. 4. Abigail. 5. Azuba. 6. Priscilla.
(XIV) Simeon, son of Robert Gates, was born in Preston in 1728, died in 1758. He made his will May 29. 1758, just before he entered the service in the French war. It be- gins, "Called upon by Providence to go forth against the common enemy, etc." The will was proved the following January, showing that he never returned from the campaign. He married Olive Children: I. Robert, mentioned below. 2. Olive. 3. Jemima. 4. Zilone.
(XV) Robert (2). son of Simeon Gates, was born in Preston. He married, in 1774. Rosamond Cady. He resided in Preston, but at the close of the revolution removed to Roy- alton. Windsor county, Vermont .. He died before 1700 when his widow Rosamond was living at Royalton, having then in her family one son under sixteen and five females. The Cady family settled in Reading, Vermont, a town near Royalton. Evidently a child, per- haps more, were born after leaving Preston. Children, born in Preston: 1. Simeon, 1774. 2. Mary. 1778. 3. Eunice, 1780. 4. Olive, 1782. Born in Vermont probably : 5. Robert, mentioned below. (See p. 121, Gates Gen .. p. 63. census of Vermont. 1790.)
(XVI) Robert (3), son of Robert (2) Gates, was born about 1785, probably at Roy- alton. He settled in Barnard, a town ad- joining Royalton.
(XVII) Colonel James Foster, nephew of Robert (3) Gates, was born in Royalton or Barnard, Windsor county, Vermont. He married Betsey McCormick. He was colonel of a Vermont militia regiment. Among their children was Daniel McCormick, mentioned below.
(XVIII) Daniel McCormick, son of Col- onel James Foster Gates, was born at Barn- ard. Vermont, 1824, died at Ware, Massa- chusetts, 1888. He was brought up on his father's farm, and obtained his education in the district schools of his native town. His homestead was located on the suggestive "Mount Hunger." He came to Ware and worked in the mills during the remainder of his active life, becoming an overseer. He be- longed to the Methodist Episcopal church, was active in the Sunday school and a singer in the choir for many years. He married (first) Nash; (second) Sarah Bullen, born 1832, at Waldo, Maine. Child of first wife : Abbie E., born in Ware; married John Wins- low ; lives at Worcester. Children of second wife: I. Foster S., born in Ware; married Emma Allen ; lives at Springfield, Massachu- setts. 2. Edith L., born in Ware; married Alphenus Talbot ; lives at Berlin, Vermont. 3. Frank Hervey Nash, born July 26, 1858, men- tioned below. 4. Ida Belle, born in Ware, died aged nineteen. 5. Bessie, born in Ware, died in infancy.
(XIX) Frank Hervey Nash, son of Daniel McCormick Gates, was born July 26, 1858, at Ware. IIe received his education in the pub- lic schools. He learned his trade in the mill in the department of which his father was then overseer and of which he himself has been overseer for a number of years. He learned the business thoroughly, and enjoys the con- fidence of employers and workmen alike. He has invested to advantage in real estate in Ware, and takes a keen interest in the welfare and growth of the town. In politics he is a Republican. He is a member of Eden Lodge, Free and Accepted Masons, and of Ware Lodge. Independent Order of Odd Fellows. In Religion he is a Methodist. He married, May 22. 1880, Grace E., born April 25, 1860, at Natick, Massachusetts, daughter of Irvin Thomas Lamson, of Randolph (see Lamson, \'III). They have no children.
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(The Lamson Line).
The English surname Lamson is identical with Lambson, Lampson and Lambton, and the family is thought to be of Danish origin. Robert de Lambton, feudal lord of Lambton Castle in the county of Durham, England, died in 1350, and the estate he owned is still in the possession of his descendants.
(I) William Lamson, immigrant ancestor, is believed to have come from Durham and to have been a descendant of this ancient family of that county. He came to Ipswich, Massa- chusetts, as early as 1637, and followed hus- bandry as a calling. He was admitted a free- man. May 17. 1637. He was granted permis- sion to fell trees in the adjoining town of Che- bacco on the other side of the river, not within any town limits, by the general court of Massachusetts. September 7, 1641. He was a commoner of Ipswich in 1641 and one of Major Denison's subscribers in 1648. He sold land to William Knowlton in 1643. John Lamson, of Ipswich, was probably a brother. He died February 1, 1658, at Ipswich. The inventory of his estate was dated February 14, 1658, and letters of administration granted March 29, 1650. His brothers, John Ayres and William Fellows, are mentioned. The widow being about to marry Thomas Hartshorn, of Reading. the latter gave security December II, 1659. for the payment of the Lamson chil- dren's portions. Children, born at Ipswich : I. John, 1642; married Martha Perkins. 2. Sarah. 1644: married Cornelius Brown. 3. Phebe. 1646; married John Towne. 4. Sam- uel. 1648: mentioned below. 5. Mary, 1648; probably married Thomas Payne. 6. Hannah, 1654; married Henry Collins. 7. Nathaniel, November. 1656. 8. Joseph, October, 1658; married (first) Elizabeth ; (second) Hannah Welch, widow ; (third ) Dorothy Mou- sall : lived in Charlestown, Massachusetts ; only surviving son in 1720; cordwainer and stone cutter.
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