Genealogical and personal memoirs relating to the families of the state of Massachusetts, Volume IV, Part 35

Author: Cutter, William Richard, 1847-1918, ed; Adams, William Frederick, 1848-
Publication date: 1910
Publisher: New York, Lewis historical publishing company
Number of Pages: 886

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He married (first) Marriette Linsley, of Branford, and they had one child, a daughter. He married (second) Eugenia, daughter of William and Mary Jane Bradley, also of Branford, and a granddaughter of Captain John and Deborah Bradley, of New Haven, who was a prominent railroad man of that city.

(For preceding generations, see John Russell 1). (V) Ellis Russell, son o RUSSELL Ebenezer Russell, was born about 1752. He settled in Windsor, Connecticut, and married there November 14, 1751, Jane Catherine Wolcott, born February 22, 1733, daughter of Thomas and Catherine (Loomis) Wolcott. Catherine Loomis was born December 19, 1702, daugh- ter of Moses Loomis. Thomas Wolcott, born April 1, 1702, was son of Henry and Jane (Al- ley) Wolcott. His parents were married April 1, 1696; his mother was born July 22, 1670, died April 1I, 1702, daughter of Thom- as Alley. Henry Wolcott, born May 20, 1670, son of Simon Wolcott (2), grandson of Henry Wolcott (I), brother of Governor Roger Wolcott. Ellis Russell removed to Hadley, Massachusetts, thence to Spring- field. Children of Ellis Russell, born at Wind- sor : I. Stephen, November 9, 1752. 2. Mary, November 20, 1754. 3. Miriam, Feb- ruary I, 1757. 4. Abner, March 22, 1759. 5. Roxa, April 27, 1762. 6. Wolcott, 1766, men- tioned below.

(VI) Wolcott, son of Ellis Russell, was born in Windsor and baptized there August 17, 1766. He removed to Hadley, Massachu- setts, and thence to Springfield, with his fath- er. He married Lucy Smith. Children: I. Charles. 2. Daniel. 3. Austin, mentioned below. 4. Sophia. 5. Delany.

(VII) Austin, son of Wolcott Russell, was born in Springfield in 1803. He was edu- cated in the public schools, and learned the trade of machinist. For a period of thirty years he was employed in the United States armory at Springfield and there he was acci- dentally killed in the autumn of 1848. He was an armorer and general mechanic of much skill and a useful citizen. He married Sophia Bruce, daughter of John Bruce, an old resi- dent of Springfield, also employed in the armory at his trade as blacksmith. Children of Austin Russell: I. John Wolcott, born September 1, 1824, mentioned below. 2. Eunice Emeline, August 14, 1826, married William W. Day, a resident of Agawam and

for twenty years or more partner of John W. Russell in the firm of Russell & Day, machin- ists. 3. Mary A., September 1, 1828, mar- ried Marcus Hollaway. 4. Elmira, Septem- ber 30, 1830, died aged fourteen. 5. Charles Henry, born March, 1832. 6. George Frost, March, 1834. 7. Rufus, 1836. 8. William O.,

1838. 9. Fanny, 1840, married Dickson Parmalee (deceased). 10. Alonzo, deceased.

(VIII) John Wolcott, son of Austin Rus- sell, was born in Springfield, September I, 1824. He attended the public schools of Springfield and of Millbury, where his par- ents lived for two years, completing his stud- ies at the Springfield high school. At the age of fifteen he was apprenticed to Zelotus Lom- bard in his machine shop, and worked for him as a journeyman a short time after com- pleting his apprenticeship. He was subse- quently employed by the Ames Manufactur- ing Company at Chicopee, going from there to Windsor Locks, Connecticut, where he worked three years as superintendent of shops for Slate & Brown. In 1849 he was one of a party of one hundred and twenty- three who contributed three hundred dollars each to buy and equip a ship to go to Cali- fornia. They went by way of Cape Horn, the voyage taking two hundred and four days. His first employment after reaching the Pacific slope was with Professor Shepard who was engaged in Sacramento in introduc- ing a primitive kind of a water system, which consisted in storing the river water in vessels, allowing it to settle over night, and dispens- ing it the next day at twenty-five cents a pail. For this work he received sixteen dollars a day, but the gold fever possessed him and he went north to Weaverville to enter the dig- gings. Here he was taken sick and after a four weeks' illness, he returned to Sacramen- to and took a position as clerk in a store. There was but one frame building in Sacra- mento when he first visited that place. The next year he started again for the diggings, staying at Placerville until the following spring. He next went to Georgetown, send- ing men to make reports regarding the pros- pects of gold in that region. He decided to try in the diggings at Georgetown and for a time did very well, taking out one afternoon three hundred and forty-three dollars worth of gold. But his expenses were high, amount- ing to two hundred dollars a week and in July he returned to Placerville. He built a house where there was a large amount of aurifer- ous earth which had been washed once, and

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proceeded to give it a second washing. The experiment was satisfactory, the poorest earth yielding ten hundred and sixty dollars worth of pure gold dust per ton. On account of the dry season of the winter of 1851, he was obliged to cease operations. He was of- fered seventy-five hundred dollars for his claim, but refused to sell. Later, finding that he could not hold it longer, he was obliged to sell for two thousand dollars. He then took a position on a steamer running be- tween Sacramento and San Francisco at a salary of two hundred and fifty dollars a month and board, which was no small item in those times of high prices. In the spring he returned to Placerville and tried the mer- curial process which was then but little used. In this he was quite successful, working two weeks, on the last day of which he ob- tained ninety-seven' dollars worth from a space two by three feet. But he was tired of the rough life and decided to return east, and on May 4, 1851, he sold his outfit and taking with him a quantity of fine gold dust started home by way of the isthmus, arriving in Springfield after thirty-seven days journey, one week of which was spent in crossing the isthmus. After a visit to Elgin, Illinois, he established a gun and model shop on the same street in Springfield on which he is now located, commencing on a small scale with but two or three assistants. He started in business about January 1, 1852, and secured a contract for a large number of revolving pistols which kept him busy until the spring of 1855. He then went to Quincy, Wiscon- sin, and bought a farm, where he lived until 1861. Returning to Springfield, he obtained a position in the United States armory, where he worked twenty-one months during the Civil war. On May 1, 1863, he made a trip to Wisconsin to sell his farm, and since then he has lived in Springfield. He was superintend- ent for two years for the Bemis & Call Com- pany and then re-established himself in busi- ness on Hampden street as a general ma- chinist. In 1866 he bought the business of Williams Brothers and with his brother-in- law, William W. Day, engaged in business under the name of Russell & Day, continuing for about twenty years. He then bought out his partner and continued alone. He re- moved later to his present location at Nos. 47 and 49 Taylor street, where he employs about twenty experienced workmen. He owns the block which is built substantially of brick, five stories high, part of which he

rents. He carries on an extensive jobbing business, manufacturing to order many pat- ent devices, among them the chainless bicycle and a great amount of envelope machinery, and also making a specialty of cutting gear of every description. Mr. Russell married June 1, 1853, Maria L. Smith, born Novem- ber 1, 1834, daughter of Philip and Ruth (Pease) Smith. Children : I. William J., born April 1, 1854, died young. 2. John W., April 1, 1854, a twin of William J., died aged nine. 3. Charles P., November 25, 1855, died aged six years. 4. Frank W., January 20, 1863, died in 1886. 5. William, August II, 1866, foreman for his father; he married (first) June 1, 1893, Harriet C. Cook, who died No- vember 20, 1895 ; he married (second) May B. Mayer, October 1, 1896; children: Clara M., born July 17, 1897; John V., September 16, 1899 ; Chester B., June 21, 1901 ; Viola A., December 7, 1905. 6. Horace B., January I, 1869, died at the age of thirty-eight years. 7. Charles P., December 31, 1872, associated in business with his father and brother ; mar- ried Nellie Nichols, March 22, 1897.

(For preceding generations, see Robert Morse 1). (IV) Joseph, third son of Sam-

MORSE uel and Elizabeth Morse, was born about 1615, in England, and died in 1654, in Medfield, where he was at the time engaged in building a house for his family, which was then residing in Dor- chester. He lived first in Watertown; re- moved to Dedham in 1637 and thence to Med- field. The growing corn upon his newly cleared land, and unfinished log house were left for his widow and children to care for. In 1638 he married Hannah Phillips, and in 1658 she married (second) Thomas Boyden. She died in Boston in 1676, at the home of her eldest daughter. He subscribed to the free- man's oath in Watertown in 1635, and was early a member of the church there. At the first recorded meeting of the proprietors, Au- gust 15, 1636, he was among the first allotted land. He was one of the proprietors of the Dedham land beyond the river first called Meadfield, later Medfield. The settlers of this region were of such high character that the usual restrictions regarding the settlement of a minister and provision of the church and school was omitted from the grant. The inventory of Joseph Morse's estate, made 4 mo., 1654, amounted to one hundred eighty- three pounds. His sons settled in Medfield. From him were descended Rev. Jasper Adams,

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president of Geneva College, New York; Rev. Dr. Eliphas, president of Waterville College, Maine ; Rev. Dr. Aaron Kneeland, president of a theological seminary in South Carolina; and Hon. Abbot Lawrence, ambassador from the United States to Great Britain. Their chil- dren were: Hannah, married James Flood, of Boston; Sarah, married Nathaniel Law- rence, of Groton: Dorcas, married Benjamin Clark; Elizabeth, married Peleg Lawrence, of Groton; Joseph; Jeremiah; and another child who died young.

(V) Samuel, son of Joseph Morse, was born in Dedham, Massachusetts, in 1639. He inherited part of his father's and grandfath- er's estate. His house, built in 1663 on the knoll east of Main and Pound street junction, was burned by the Indians in 1676 and was not rebuilt on that site, where the old cellar hole was at last accounts still visible. He built his second house near that lately of John Ord Jr., and the old well is still in use. In 1705 he was lieutenant of militia, and teacher of the school of Medfield. In 1706 he ob- tained permission to flow the land "near the cowpens" for a fulling mill, which was built on the site of the stone mill lately owned by Crehore. He was selectman six years, and deputy to the general court in 1707. He mar- ried, February 16, 1664, Elizabeth Wood, died June 26, 1682 ; (second) April 29, 1684, Sarah Thurston, born 1662, died April 29, 1686, daughter of Thomas and Sarah (Thaxter) Thurston. He died February 28, 1717-18. Children of first wife: I. Samuel, born Feb- ruary 8. 1665-66; married Abigail, daughter of Robert Barbour. 2. Elizabeth, born March 21, 1667-68; married John Darling. 3. Han- nah, born August 31, 1669, died young. 4. Hannah, born November 8, 1670, died young. 5. Ruth, born March 21, 1672, died July 4, 1716. 6. Joseph, born January 16, 1674, died young. 7. Joshua, born April 2, 1677, men- tioned below. 8. Eleazer, born August 10, 1680. 9. Benoni, born June 19, 1682, died 1704; married, September 28, 1702, Rachel Bullard. Children of second wife: 10. Solo- mon, born January 5, 1684-85, died November 28, 1704. II. Sarah, born July II, 1686, mar- ried Isaac Bullard, of Sherborn.

(VI) Hon. Joshua Morse, son of Samuel Morse, was born on the homestead at Med- field, April 2, 1677, and died April 26, 1749. He inherited part of the farm of his father, and bought much land on his own account. He was an inn holder, and owned a grist mill and saw mill. He built the house now or

lately on the Jeremiah Johnston place. He married (first) November 8, 1699, Elizabeth Penniman, born November 15, 1679, died 1705, daughter of Samuel Penniman, of Braintree; (second) Mary Page, widow, of Braintree, born October 27, 1680, died March, 1746-47. He was largely interested in the set- tlement of Sturbridge, and the first meetings were held at his tavern to organize the pro- prietors. He was deputy to the general court six years. Children of first wife, born in Braintree: I. Elizabeth, October 20, 1700; married February 4, 1724, Thomas Ellis. 2. Zipporah, April 20, 1702; married, May 30, 1722, Samuel Smith, of Needham. 3. Sam- uel, May 4, 1703 ; settled in Uxbridge. Chil- dren of second wife. 4. Mary, born Septem- ber 14, 1707; settled in Worcester; married Lovell. 5. Jemima, March 16, 1709; married, August 15, 1726, Henry Adams. 6. Joshua, December 28, 1710; married Mary Partridge. 7. Ruth, October 6, 1716; mar- ried, May 13, 1735, Simon Plympton. 8. Ebenezer, March 2, 1717-18, mentioned be- low. 9. Lydia, October 17, 1719. 10. Elia- kim, November 22, 1721. II. Joseph, No- vember 30, 1723; married Olive Mason; set- . tled in Nova Scotia.

(VII) Rev. Ebenezer Morse, son of Hon. Joshua Morse, was born in Medfield, March 2, 1717-18. He graduated at Harvard College in 1737, and was settled as minister at Shrews- bury, North District, now Boylston, Massachu- setts, December 26, 1743. His relations with his parish were pleasant until just before the revolution, when political feeling was intense. He was summarily dismissed in June, 1775, and excluded from the pulpit for toryism, confined to the town, and later redismissed by advise of the ecclesiastical council. He prac- tised medicine during the remainder of his ac- tive days. He died January 3, 1802, aged eighty-four years. He married, November 27, 1745, Persis Bush, born May 28, 1727, died May 6, 1788, daughter of John and Mar- tha Bush; (second) Rebecca Symmes, wid- ow

of Thomas Symmes, who died in the revolution. Children, all by first wife : I. Dr. John, born July 15, 1746; mar- ried, May II, 1769, Elizabeth Andrews. 2. Mary, December 24, 1747; married December 26, 1765, Rev. Asaph Rice, who was first a doctor and then minister of Westminster ; she died November, 1766. 3. Eliakim, March 8, 1750, died 1758. 4. Joshua, March 8, 1752; married Levina Holland. 5. Ebenezer, June II, 1754, died July 28, same year. 6. Ebene-

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zer, July 10, 1755. 7. Joseph, January, 1757; married Sophia Bigelow. 8. Dr. Eliakim, February 14, 1759; sse forward. 9. Amherst, November II, 1760. 10. Annis, May 19, 1764; married, October 5, 1800, Samuel Andrews. II. Mary, August 12, 1767; married, April 2, 1797, Jason Abbott.

(VIII) Dr. Eliakim Morse, son of Rev. Ebenezer Morse, was born in Shrewsbury, February 14, 1759, and died January 9, 1858. He read medicine with his father, and com- menced practice in Woodstock, Connecticut, whence he removed to Boston, Massachusetts. Here he engaged in the London trade, and ac- cumulated an ample estate. Later he settled in Watertown, Massachusetts, where he re- sumed practise and became a leading and most successful physician. His business in Boston was conducted under the style of Eliachim Morse & Son, on Elm street. In his ninety- first year he was accustomed to ride into Bos- ton on horseback, and possessed a vigor of mind and body common at the age of seven- ty years. He married, in Watertown, Septem- ber 22, 1780, Mary Eddy, born July 22, '1766, daughter of Captain Benjamin and Martha (Bronsdon) Eddy. She was one of the most beautiful women of her day in Boston, where they resided. She died April 25, 1800. Dr. Morse married (second) Mary Hunt, born January 9, 1778, daughter of William and Mary (Collidge ) Hunt. Children of first wife: I. Benjamin Eddy, born September II, 1787, died May 22, 1814. 2. Jolin, see for- ward. 3. Ebenezer, born July II, 1790, died May 3, 1791.

(IX) John, son of Dr. Eliakim Morse, was born in Boston, February 12, 1789, died May 7, 1817. He was educated in private schools and at Harvard College, from which he was graduated A. B. in 1808. He was by occupa- tion a supercargo, but died at the age of twenty-eight, just as his career was well opened out and with brilliant prospects. He married, June 9, 1812, Frances Hicks Tor- rey, born January 26, 1793, died May 9, 1865, daughter of Samuel Torrey, niece of Gover- nor Gore. Children : John Torrey, Benja- min Eddy, Samuel Torrey, all mentioned below. The mother of these children married (second) Eben Rollins ; children : Eben Wil- liam, Francis, and Charles Mertens Rollins.

(X) John Torrey, son of John Morse, was born March 27, 1813, and died September 20, 1906. He attended at Northampton, the Round Hill School, conducted by Dr. J. G. Gogswell, and graduated from Harvard Col-

lege with the class of 1832. He was a mem- ber of the Bostonian Society from 1886. He married, in 1839, Lucy Cabot Jackson, born March 4, 1815, daughter of Judge Charles Jackson, of the Massachusetts supreme court. Children : I. John Torrey, born Jan- uary 9, 1840, see forward. 2. Charles Jack- son, November 5, 1843. 3. Eben Rollins, October 21, 1845.

(X) Benjamin Eddy, second son of John and Frances H. (Torrey) Morse, was born February 22, 1814. in Boston, and died Jan- uary 24, 1894. The following tribute of a contemporary is from the Boston Transcript, of February 3, 1894.

"A group of relatives, a number of old East India captains and merchants, a larger number of fellow club men, possibly in the crowd one or two Round Hillers, were drawn to King's Chapel last week by their affection for an old comrade or kinsman. He who had passed away was not a public character : there were no delegations, social, financial or polit- ical ; it was an affectionate meeting and part- ing of friends. As I sat waiting for the fun- eral procession, I involuntarily glanced up at the gallery, where for over sixty years we had sat side by side in adjoining pews ; and my memory conjured up a stalwart, hand- some boy, playing in Otis Place; and then the going and coming of a supercargo. I saw him first welcomed home, embrowned by his voyage and cordially greeting his many friends, or proudly escorting his mother on the mall, for we all lived in Boston, summer and winter. From those young days till now -as boy, as youth, as man-Ben Morse was the same-an obedient and devoted son, a guardian brother, a loyal friend, a Good Sa- maritan to those who had fallen among thieves, an honest man. Resolute in pursu- ing his own straightforward course, he turned aside to interfere with no man's affairs, and would suffer no man to interfere with his. Following the advice of the apostle, he stud- ied to be quiet and to do his own business. Retiring and unobtrusive, he invaded no man's province, encroached upon no man's rights, detracted from no man's character ; his heart was tender, and over his friendly deeds, as over the escapades of others, he threw a veil of secrecy, letting not his left hand know what his right hand was doing. While his life was emphatically a life of duty, daily, wearing duty, faithfully performed, he had such a cheery way with him that one would infer that he was having a jolly time ;

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and the fact that nobody in speaking of or to him ever got further than the first syllable of his name, indicates his kindly, unassuming relations with all, young and old. And they all gathered together to signify by their pres- ence how much they valued that kindness, and how conscious they were of their loss."

(X) Samuel Torrey, third son of John and Frances H. (Torrey) Morse, was born May 16, 1816, in Boston, and died November 6, 1890, in that city. He was educated at the Round Hill School, Northampton, Massachu- setts ; at Mr. Ingraham's private school, in Boston; and at Mr. Hubbard's school, in Brookline. At the time when he and his brother Benjamin should have entered Har- vard College, their mother, left a widow for the second time, needed their assistance, and both went to work, Samuel entering the counting house of Messrs. Atkinson & Rollins.

In March, 1836, he went on a voyage to Russia, and between that date and October, 1841, when he arrived home from India, he made five long voyages, four of them to In- dia, and on three of them acting as supercar- go. Although he had missed, for his moth- er's sake, the college education which he would have valued much, he profited largely by his travels and the experience of a super- cargo, which often leads to unexpected re- sponsibilities. His interest in the countries he visited, their people, their commerce, their government, was deep and lifelong. For about twenty years he was engaged in the East India trade as partner in the firm of Gray & Morse, at 40 Central Wharf, Boston. He was a member of the Union Club from the time of its organization during the civil war ; of the Somerset Club ; and of the Bos- tonian Society ; and he was also a life member of the Boston Port and Seaman's Aid Socie- ty. It might be said as truly of him as of his brother Ben, that "he invaded no man's prov- ince, encroached upon no man's rights, de- tracted from no man's character," and that he was tender of heart, and deeply loving and faithful in all family relations. He married December 6, 1848, Harriet Jackson Lee, born April 16, 1826, daughter of Henry and Mary (Jackson) Lee. Children: I. Frances Rol- lins, born in Boston, January 21, 1850. 2. Henry Lee, born in Boston, November 18, 1852 ; graduate of Harvard College, 1874; of Harvard Medical School, 1878; married, at Montreal, Canada, Jessie F. Scott ; one child, Jessie Gwendolen, born October 21, 1886. 3. Mary Lee, born in Brookline, October 28,

1855 ; married John Wheelock Elliot; one child, John Morse Elliott, born November 5, I891.

(XI) John Torrey, son of John Morse and Lucy Cabot (Jackson) Morse, was born Jan- uary 9, 1840. In early life he attended the school then kept in the basement of the Park Street Church, by Thomas Russell Sullivan ; afterwards attended the school of Epes Sar- gent Dixwell ; and graduated from Harvard College in 1860, with the degree of A. B. He immediately entered the law office of Hon. . John Lowell, Boston, later judge of the United States district and circuit courts. Af- ter two years of study he was admitted to the bar, at the age of twenty-two. While in the practice of his profession his tastes led hin to contribute more or less to newspapers, magazines and reviews, and he was author of two valuable professional works: "The Law of Banks and Banking," and "The Law of Arbitration and Award." He wrote for the American Law Review many articles on nota- ble criminal trials, many of which were after- ward collected and published in a volume by Little, Brown & Company; and he wrote the "Life of Alexander Hamilton", two volumes, published by the same house. He was for several years a constant contributor of lead- ing articles to the Boston Daily Advertiser, when edited by Professor Dunbar, and after- wards by Mr. Goddard; and was also a con- tributor to the Saturday Review, North American Review, Atlantic Monthly, Nation, and Fraser's Magasine (English). In the win- ter of 1879-80 he retired from the practice of law, and has since been mostly engaged in literary labors. For four years, in association with Henry Cabot Lodge, he edited the In- ternational Review; and he also edited the "Lives of American Statesmen," for Hough- ton, Mifflin & Company, his own contribu- tions to this series comprising biographies of John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, John Quin- cy Adams, Benjamin Franklin, and Abraham . Lincoln; "Life and Letters of Oliver Wen- dell Holmes," two volumes ; and "Memoirs of Colonel Henry Lee." Mr. Morse was a member of the House of Representatives in 1875. He was one of the overseers of Har- vard University for two terms, and a trustee of the Boston Athenaeum, and is now a mem- ber of the Massachusetts Historical Socie- ty. Mr. Morse married, 1865, Fanny Pope Hovey, born May 27, 1840, daughter of George Otis and Mary Ann Levely (Cotton) Hovey. Children: I. Cabot Jackson, born

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May 21, 1868 ; married Alice Burns ; has son, Cabot Jackson Jr. 2. John Torrey, born February 4, 1873, unmarried.

(For preceding generations, see John French 1).

(III) Josiah French, son of

FRENCH Samuel French, was born March 20, 1700. He died at Braintree, November 15, 1760. He married Mary, daughter of John and Mary French. She died March 5, 1770. Children, born in Braintree: I. Josiah, January 22, 1736; died (VIII) Samuel Strong Bates French, son young. 2. Nathaniel, October 13, 1737 ; men- . of Samuel Strong French, was born March tioned below. 3. Mary, August 26, 1742. 4. Anaz, October 31, 1746. 5. Josiah, July 8, 1750. 2, 1848, at Braintree. He was educated in the public schools and Hunt's Academy at North Bridgewater. He worked for his father un- (IV) Nathaniel, son of Josiah French, was born at Braintree, October 13, 1737. He mar- ried Silence, daughter of Peter and Dorothy Dyer, 1762. Children, born at Braintree or Weymouth : I. Ahaz, December 12, 1762; married Judith French. 2. Samuel, January 9, 1765 ; mentioned below. 3. Nathaniel, Jan- uary 12, 1767; married, 1790, Eunice Spear. 4. James, April 6, 1769; married Lydia Hol- lis. 5. Silence, November 3, 1771. 6. Mary, married, 1795, Barzilla Penniman. 7. Josiah, married, 1801, Rachel Penniman. til he came of age, and then engaged for him - self in the dairy and provision business for several years, then sold out and retired. He attends the First Congregational Church. He belongs to no clubs or secret societies. In politics he is a Republican. He married, De- cember 5, 1870, Chloe Jane Cobb, born July, 1849, at West Bridgewater, Massachusetts, daughter of Otis and Lydia Lorane (Pack- ard) Cobb. Her father was born in Carver, Massachusetts, March 7, 1827, and is living at Campello ; he is a successful builder and con- (V) Samuel French, son of Nathaniel French, was born January 9, 1765; married, June 14, 1789, Susanna Penniman. Children : John and Samuel. tractor ; a member of the order of Odd Fel- lows, popular and highly respected in the com- munity, a member of the Congregational church. Her mother was born February 16, 1827, at West Bridgewater and lives at Cam- pello; children: i. Chloe Jane Cobb, born July, 1849, mentioned above; ii. Sarah Raw- son Cobb, born at Campello, married Frank P. Brown; iii. Norman Otis Cobb, born at Campello, married Fannie Hayden, of Wey- mouth. Children of Samuel Strong Bates and Chloe Jane (Cobb) French: I. Edward W., married Lena Stoddard; children: Caroline and Mildred. 2. Arthur B., married Edith Holbrook ; child, Beatrice. 3. Otis H., at home.

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Genealogical and personal memoirs relating to the families of the state of Massachusetts, Volume IV, Part 35

Author: Cutter, William Richard, 1847-1918, ed; Adams, William Frederick, 1848- Publication date: 1910 Publisher: New York, Lewis historical publishing company Number of Pages: 886

Author: Cutter, William Richard, 1847-1918, ed; Adams, William Frederick, 1848-
Publication date: 1910
Publisher: New York, Lewis historical publishing company
Number of Pages: 886