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He married, March 15, 1821, at Wilming- ton, North Carolina, Harriet Savage, born Oc- tober 13, 1802, died at Newton Center, May 2, 1834. She was of strong faith and excep- tional strength and purity of character. Though she died when her children were quite young she had an influence on their hearts and minds that lasted as long as they lived. Children : I. Harriet, born January 15, 1822, at Wash- ington, died January 21, 1822. 2. William Stoughton, born at Washington, December 12,
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1822, died June 21, 1881 ; married Rosalie Foster. 3. Henry Savage, born June 17, 1825, mentioned below. 4. Irah, born at Newton, May 26, 1827, died June 10, 1877; married (first) Martha Houghton; (second) Ellen Josephine Leverett. 5. Heman Lincoln, born at Newton, September 22, 1829, died February II, 1884; married Susan Wood Raymond. 6. Thomas Sewell, born in Newton, April 5, 1831. died July 19, 1868: married Sarah Pit- man. 7. Harriet Emma, born in Newton, April 26, 1834, died May, 1835.
(XIV) Henry Savage, son of Professor Irah Chase, was born in the city of Washing- ton, June 17, 1825. He attended the public schools in his youth and at the age of twelve began to work in a Boston store as errand boy. He saved his wages and paid for his tuition at Phillips Academy, Andover, Massachusetts. There he came under the strong and inspiring influence of Dr. Samuel Taylor, who was called the Dr. Arnold of America. He gradu- ated in 1844 and then set about the task of working his way through Harvard College. He had to cut short his college course in his junior year to assume the responsibility of providing a home for his father's family. Shortly afterward, about 1850, he began the manufacture of bags for flour and similar uses. His experience in mercantile life now helped him materially in finding a useful busi- ness and making it successful. He afterwards admitted his brother, Heman Lincoln Chase, to partnership and the business henceforth was conducted under the firm name of H. & H. L. Chase. When he left college he did not aban- don his hope of a degree and at every oppor- tunity he continued his studies at home. In 185I he received his degree of A. B., as of the class of 1848, and in 1851 received the Mas- ter's degree from Harvard. His classmates appreciated his pluck and energy in winning a degree under this handicap, and he was elected class secretary. an office he held the remain- der of his life. In business he hewed his way in untried paths. and his energy, enterprise, sound judgment and absolute integrity kept him firm in the front rank in his line of busi- ness. In religion he was an Episcopalian, church warden and superintendent of the Sun- day school at St. Paul's, Brookline. He was a member of Commercial Club, Somerset Club, Thursday Club, in Brookline, and Bunker Hill Monument Association. In politics he was an Independent.
He married, December 25, 1852, at North Grafton. Sarah Gano Leverett, born at Rox-
bury, February 13, 1828, died April 29, 1883, daughter of Rev. William and Mary Ann (Brown) (Jackson) (Cole) Leverett. Her father graduated from Brown University in the class of 1824.
Mr. Chase died February 19, 1885. He was beloved and trusted beyond the common lot and his death called forth a singularly united tribute to hls life and character. He was generous, kindly and sympathetic, especially fond and de- voted to his family. He won many friends in business, church and social life.
A newspaper account of Mr. Chase's career follows: "Another application of the factory system may be found in the bag manufacture established in Boston by Henry S. Chase about 1850. The woven, seamless bag for grain had then but lately come into use, when the appli- cation of the sewing machine called attention to the possibility of meeting the demand for bags for other uses, the scope of which was hardly dreamed of by the projectors of the enterprise. This was in the early days of the sewing machine and before the reputation of the standard makers had been made. The plan was conceived of building sewing ma- chines especially adapted for this work and this was accomplished by Mr. John E. Bachelder -a partner with Mr. Chase-whose inven- tions, made during its progress, were adopted by the leading makers of other sewing ma- chines and constituted an important element in their final success. The next necessity was for a printing press which should both print the labels upon the cloth and cut it at the same time into lengths and shapes suited to each special purpose. This also was accomplished. The work done in Boston is still large, but as the demand for bags is chiefly in the west the original firm has established large factories . at St. Louis, Chicago and other places."
Children of Henry Savage Chase : 1. William Leverett, born December 4, 1853, mentioned below. 2. Henry Savage, July 28, 1858, died September 3. 1858. 3. Ellen, March 26, 1863 : life member of the Pocumtuck Valley Memo- rial Association ; member and first regent ( 1896-99) of Hannah Goddard Chapter. Daughters of the American Revolution ; mem- ber of the New England Historic Genealogi- cal Society, Boston ; of the Brookline Histor- ical Society ; the Massachusetts Civic League of Boston ; the Massachusetts Society Colonial Dames of America and the Society of May- flower Descendants. 4. Sarah, April 17, 1866; married, December 14, 1892, at Brookline, Massachusetts. Lincoln Clifford Cummings,
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born August 23, 1857, son of Enoch Lincoln Cummings (graduate of Harvard College, 1848) and Nancy Clifford; children : i. Rosa- mond, born December 15, 1893; ii. Lincoln Clifford, born .June 18, 1895; iii. Margaret Atherton, born October 19, 1896, died August 8, 1897; iv. Henry Savage Chase, born June 22, 1898; v. William Leverett, born January 26, 1900. 5. Mary Leverett, July 30, 1868, died September 16, 1868.
(XV) Colonel William Leverett, son of Henry Savage Chase, was born at Grafton, Massachusetts, December 4, 1853. He fitted for college in the public schools of Brookline and entered Harvard College in 1872 as a freshman. His active temperament and social nature made him well known; he took high rank in scholarship, and when he graduated in 1876 he was elected secretary of his class, as his father had been before him of the class of 1848. No member of the class was more popular or beloved. He was editor of The Magenta, now the Daily Crimson, and he never lost his interest in literary affairs: After graduation he became associated with his father in the bag manufacturing business, and in a few years was left by the death of the senior partners to conduct this business alone. Few men in Boston have had so extensive and complicated a business to conduct at so early an age. But he was equal to the task and under his management the concern continued to grow and prosper. He demonstrated un- usual business ability from the outset. Not- withstanding the great cares and responsibili- ties of business, he entered the state militia in which he achieved distinction. He became a private in the First Corps of Cadets, April 15, 1886, and made a study of ordnance, tactics . and Marksmanship. He wrote a treatise on marksmanship that attracted wide attention. He qualified as a sharpshooter and served on the Massachusetts Creedmoor team in 1887- 89. He wrote another treatise on Out-post Duty. He was appointed inspector general of rifle practice on the governor's staff with the rank of colonel and served through several ad- ministrations. Probably no officer of the Massachusetts militia accomplished more and did more actual service than he. It was his custom to make frequent trips to England to witness military maneuvers and he had many friends in the British army. His expert knowledge was recognized in his own country and appreciated not only in the militia but in the regular army. flis military promotion was rapid. He became engineer of the First
Brigade on the staff of Brigadier Benerak Na- thaniel Wales, May 29, 1887; captain and aide- de-camp on the staff of Brigadier General B. F. Peach Jr., February 19, 1889. In 1889 he was inspector general of rifle practice on the staff of Governor Brackett and was re- appointed by the famous Democratic governor, William E. Russell. He served in this office until January 3, 1894, when he was succeeded by Colonel Hall.
Soon after he left the military service he ac- cepted an appointment to the Massachusetts Metropolitan Park commission and the rapid and successful prosecution of that unequalled state work which we are now only beginning to appreciate was due in large measure to his energy and foresight. About the same time, while the governor of the state was consider- ing his appointment as a director of the Fitch- burg railroad to represent the interests of the commonwealth in that corporation, he was elected a director by the stockholders. His character, temperament and financial ability were widely recognized and he was sought as director by many corporations of importance. At the time of his death he was president of the Victoria Mills Corporation of Newbury- port ; vice-president of the State Street Safe Deposit and Trust Company of Boston; di- rector of the Boston Wharf Company ; state director of the Fitchburg railroad and of the Third National Bank of Boston; trustee of the Home for Orphan and Destitute Children and of the Society for the Relief of Widows and Orphans of Deceased Clergymen of the Protestant Episcopal Church. He was promi- nent in social life and was president of the Papyrus Club of Boston, Commercial Club, and first president of the Massachusetts Society of the Sons of the Revolution and a member of the Somerset Club of Boston. In politics he was a Republican, but supported Cleveland for the presidency.
The later years of his life were spent in the house that his father built in 1860 near St. Paul's Episcopal Church in Brookline. Of this church he was junior warden; his father had been senior warden before him. His faithful and devoted work for the church was recognized at his death by St. Paul's parish which erected a tablet to his memory, en- scribed : "Bear ye one another's burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ." He died Octo- ber 7, 1895, at Brookline, Massachusetts. His will contained many public bequests. He left his valuable collection of war medals to the Independent Corps of Cadets ; a valuable and
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interesting library to the Papyrus Club and established a scholarship in Harvard College. Under certain contingencies the college be- comes residuary legatee to a very large sum. The scholarship is known as the Charles B. Porter Scholarship and is awarded to some deserving medical student.
"If one were to name the dominent notes of his character, they would be energy and kindliness, that kindliness which rises not only to generosity with money, but to intimate and active interest in all men who were known to him and seemed worthy and to self-sacrificing labor for all high causes or works of public
weal." *
* * "The fine sense of honor which governed him in all his actions was not laid aside at the door of his counting room any more than the lofty Christian spirit which in- spired his whole being. He had not one rule for private and another for public or business life. He was more than honest, he was strictly honorable in all his dealings and it is to the credit of our common humanity that in an age when false standards are held up to admiration, he was able to win the material rewards of life without ever adopting the arti- fices of the cunning ones of trade and that he leaves to his children the priceless legacy of an honest name. The old-time honor of Bos- ton merchants was revived in his youth, fresh from college and naturally inclined to far dif- ferent pursuits. Colonel Chase was a American of the best and truest type, a man whose broad mind knew no distinction of class, creed or country."
He married, September 26, 1876, at Syra- cuse, New York, Mary Frances Elizabeth Greenough, daughter of John James and Mary Frances (Cushing) Greenough. Children, born at Brookline: I. Mary Greenough, July 15. 1877, died April 26, 1886. 2. Helen Lev- erett, November 20, 1878; married, November IO. 1906. at Brookline, Lawrence Bertram Flint, born August II, 1874, son of Horatio Putnam Flint and Anna Frances (Carnes) Flint ; children : Frances Carnes, born Decem- ber 17, 1907 : Lawrence Bertram, born July 31, 1909. 3. William Henry, December 17, 1881 ; graduate of Harvard College in 1904. 4. Pa- tience, born and died October 9, 1886. 5. Sarah Gilroy, born July 9, 1888. 6. Lilian, born June II, 1889.
The Boyd family is one of the BOYD most distinguished in the history of Scotland, tracing its descent from a younger son of the illustrious Lord
High Steward of Scotland. Robert, son of Simon and grandson of Alan, the second Lord High Steward, was of very light complexion and was nicknamed Boyt, of Boyd, meaning fair or light, in Gaelic. From this came the surname of the family. This Robert Boyd died in 1240, and from him it is said all the Boyds of Ireland as well as Scotland are de- scended, though some genealogists think the original spelling of the name was Boit. Sir Robert de Boyd, son of the first Robert, died in 1270, and his son Sir Robert was one of the barons of Scotland who were forced to swear fealty to King Edward of England in 1296. This third Robert was associated with the im- mortal Sir William Wallace for a time. His son Robert was one of the most gallant sup- porters of Robert Bruce, and was made Lord of Kilmarnock by that king. His descendants survived in the elder male line to about 1800. The family formerly possessed the earldoms of Arran and Kilmarnock (forfeited). Ayr- shire was the original home of the Boyds. When James III., a mere boy, succeeded to the throne of Scotland, Lord Boyd seized him and assumed supreme control of the kingdom. In 1467 his eldest son was created Earl of Arran and married the king's sister. But the rule of the Boyds was of short duration. They were tried for treason in 1469 and convicted. The head of the family fled to England, where he soon afterward died. His brother, Alex- ander Boyd, was executed at Edinburgh. The Earl of Arran was forced to flee and was soon stripped of his royal wife by divorce, and she afterward married the head of the Hamilton family. Most of the American Boyds are de- scended from the branch of the Scotch family in the province of Ulster, Ireland. Sir Thomas Boyd, knight, was one of the settlers soon after 1610 in the precinct of Strabane, county Tyrone, and had a wife and family there in 16II. He came from Bedlay, or Bonehawe, Renfrewshire, Scotland. Before 1620 he transferred a grant of fifteen hundred acres at Strabane to James Hamilton. Boyd was a son of Lord Kilmarnock (pp. 500-7, "Scotch- Irish in America," Hanna). In 1653 there was a Thomas Boyd of prominence in county Antrim. At the present time there are thous- ands of this surname still living in counties Antrim, Down and Londonderry.
Eight heads of Boyd families signed the memorial to Governor Shute March 26, 1718, asking encouragement to obtain land in "that very excellent and renowned Plantation" call- ed New England. Captain William Boyd
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came to this country fourteen times bringing Scotch pioneers from the north of Ireland, and finally located at Londonderry. There is reason to believe that many of the Scotch Boyds who came between the years 1718 and 1750 from Ulster were his near relatives. A number of them located at Bristol, Maine.
(I) Captain John Boyd of the Boyds of Scotch-Irish origin who settled in Massachusetts Bay and New Hampshire before the revolution, was born about 1740. He settled in Wrent- ham or North Franklin, Massachusetts. In 1790 the first federal census shows that in his family were three males over sixteen and two females. He was a captain in the revolution, on the Lexington alarm, April 19, 1775, in Colonel Greaton's regiment, and again next month at Roxbury, in Colonel William Heath's regiment ; again in 1788 in Colonel John Dag- gett's regiment. He was captain of the Ninth company of North Franklin, Fourth Suffolk county regiment, commissioned June 16, 1779.
(II) Willard, son of Captain John Boyd, was born about 1775, and married Betsey Whiting. Children, born at Franklin : I. Bet- sey Willard, August 2, 1797. 2. Martha, 1799. 3. William B., September 25, 1800. 4. Oliver Dean, June 8, 1802. 5. Amos Hawes, March 18. 1804, at Franklin. 6. Juliana, March 28, 1806. 7. Abigail Fisher, May 27, 1808. 8. Georgine, 1812.
(III) William Bradbury, son of Willard Boyd, was born at Franklin, September 25, 1880, died July 27, 1883. He settled in Med- way, Massachusetts, and married there, April 15, 1827, Emeline Cornelia Ackley, born in Auburn, New York, died February 8, 1868. He was a successful manufacturer of thread and cotton batting at East Medway. Children, born at East Medway: I. Elizabeth, June 2, 1828; died October 2, 1828. 2. Cornelia, Au- gust 22, 1830; died May 14, 1837. 3. Ellen S., April 21, 1833 : married Charles Augustus Fiske, December 2, 1857 (see Fiske). 4. Sarah J., December 22, 1834 ; married Erastus Tyler, and Benjamin Glidden. 5. William B., September 30, 1839. 6. Child, September, 1840; died April 7, 1842. 7. Isabella Walker, November 12, 1843 ; married William Roberts ; children : Joseph A., born 1873 ; George, 1875, died 1894; Ellen, born 1878. 8. Child, born October 28, 1848; died September, 1849.
( For ancestry see p. 359, et seq.).
FISKE ( X) Lieutenant Nathan ( 2)
Fiske, son of Nathan (1) Fiske, was born in Watertown, October
17. 1642 ; married Elizabeth Fry. He bought
of Thomas and Magdalen Underwood lands allotted to or purchased by his uncle and aunt, Martin and Martha (Fiske) Underwood, and inherited by Thomas Underwood, two hundred and twenty acres. He was selectman of Watertown in 1684-89-91. He died October II, 1694, and his estate was divided by the court November 23, 1696. Children, born at Watertown: I. Nathan, February 9, 1665. 2. Elizabeth, January 19, 1667. 3. Martha, Janu- ary 12, 1670. 4. Nathan, January 3, 1672; mentioned below. 5. Susanna, April 7, 1674. 6. Abigail, February 18, 1675. 7. William, December 5, 1677. 8. William, November IO, 1678. 9. Anna, died July 13, 1683.
(XI) Nathan (3), son of Lieutenant Na- than (2) Fiske, was born in Watertown, Janu- ary 3, 1672-3. He was made deacon of the church at Watertown before 1717 ; was repre- sentative to the general court 1727-28-29-32; selectman ten years between 1711 and 1727; town treasurer 1720-22-23; town clerk 1724- 28-39, and held other places of trust and honor. He died January 26, 1741. He mar- ried (first) Sarah Coolidge, born 1678, died 1723, daughter of Ensign John Coolidge : (second) May 22, 1729, Hannah, daughter of Simon Coolidge, and widow of Daniel Smith Jr. Children : I. Sarah, born 1697. 2. Elizabeth, died aged seven years. 3. Nathan, born February 25, 1701, mentioned below. 4. Jo- siah, October 10, 1704. 5. Henry, January 24. 1706. 6. Daniel, August 19, 1709. 7. Sam- uel, February 16, 1711. 8. Grace G., May 9, 1714. 9. Hannah P., May 19, 1719.
(XII) Nathan (4). son of Nathan (3) Fiske, was born at Watertown, February 25, 1701 ; married, December 9, 1730, Anne War- ren. born February, 1711, daughter of Deacon John, of Weston, died October 1, 1736; mar- ried ( second) February 21, 1738, Mary Fiske, baptized June 30, 1712, daughter of Deacon Jonathan Fiske, of Lexington and Sudbury. The widow met her death by fall- ing from a horse while on a visit to Sudbury. His will is dated October 13, 1765, and proved June 27, 1769. He died January 4, 1769. Children : 1. Anne, born Decmber 8, 1731. 2. Nathan. September 9, 1733. 3. Sarah, July 26, 1736. 1. Jonathan, December 15. 1739: mentioned below. 5. Ezra, December 25. 1740. 6. Samuel, July 9. 1742. 7. Thaddeus, February 19, 1743. 8. Mary, April 22, 1747. 0. Oliver, September 14. 1748. 10. Mary. January 21, 1750. 11. Hepzibah, August 10, 1754.
(XIII) Captain Jonathan, son of Nathan
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(4) Fiske, was born at Weston, December 15, 1739 ; married, April 30, 1760, Abigail, daugh- ter of Thomas and Mary ( Pierce) Fiske, of Waltham. Captain Jonathan was in command of the Weston company in February, 1776, in the revolution, in the regiment of Colonel Eleazer Brooks, of Lincoln. He resided at Weston and Medfield, Massachusetts. Chil- dren : I. Nathan, born September 7, 1760. 2. Thaddeus, June 22, 1762. 3. Micah, August 12, 1764. 4. Ebenezer, December 3, 1766. 5. Abigail, April 4, 1769 ; married Isaac Lamson. 6. Jonathan, December 28, 1771 ; died January 12, 1772. 7. Jonathan, January 19, 1774; mentioned below. 8. Abijah, July 28, 1776. 9. Isaac, December 4, 1778.
(XIV) Major Jonathan (2), son of Captain Jonathan (I) Fiske, was born in Weston, January 19, 1774; married there, April 7, 1799. Sally Flagg, born July 8, 1772, daughter of Isaac, died at Medfield, March 18, 1865. He was a tanner and farmer, and lived at Weston and Medfield. He held various town offices, was deacon of the church, and major in the militia. He died June 19, 1864. Children : 1. Sally, born January 13, 1800; married, December 24, 1818, Francis D. Ellis. 2. Clarissa, November 4, 1801 ; married, Sep- tember 2, 1828. Phineas Allen. 3. George, April 20, 1803. 4. Abigail Lamson, February 3. 1803. 5. Amos Flagg. August 1, 1805. 6. Isaac, November 6, 1813. 7. Charles A., men- tioned below.
(XV) Charles Augustus, son of Jonathan (2) Fiske, was born March 7, 1816, at Med- field. He came to Cambridge when a young man. after completing his education in the pub- lic schools of Medfield and later went to work for his brother-in-law, Francis D. Ellis, who had a general store at Marlow, New Hamp- shire. Later he returned to Boston, where he was a clerk for the firm of F. D. Ellis & Com- pany, dry goods commission merchants. After the civil war Mr. Ellis retired from the firm. and Mr. Fiske and Richard Smith continued the business in partnership for a number of years. Mr. Fiske finally retired in 1875, and Mr. Smith continued the business as long as he lived. Mr. Fiske lived at No. 9 Clinton street, in Cambridge, and was a member of the common council and representative from his district to the general court. He was a promi- nent member of the Prospect Street Congrega- tional Church of Cambridge for many years. He died May 1, 1879. He married, April 3, 1845. Abbie Waldron, born 1820, died Janu- ary 14. 1856; (second) December 2, 1857.
Ellen S., daughter of William Bradbury and Eveline (Cornelia Ackley) Boyd, of Medway, Massachusetts (see Boyd). Children of first wife: I. Anna Louisa, born August 7, 1846; married, November 9, 1871, Edwin Russell Hoag, and lived at 38 John street, Chelsea, Massachusetts ; children : Charles Russell, Ed- win Fiske and Abbie Waldron Hoag. 2. Charles Augustus, born October 28, 1850; married Laura J. Ellis, of Medway, born Au- gust, 1859; residing at Marlborough ; children : i. Walter Ellis, born February 16, 1880; ii. Winnie, April 27, 1887; iii. Harvey Ellis, March 6, 1890. Children of second wife: 3. William Boyd, born November 17, 1858; died unmarried, May 8, 1892 ; graduate of Harvard College and Medical School. 4. Cornelia Boyd, November 1, 1861 ; resides at 45 Lang- don street, Cambridge, with her mother.
BURNHAM All attempts to trace the an- cestry of the old New Eng- land family have met with the most discouraging obstacles, and while there is room for the belief that the earliest known ancestor was closely related to Francis Burnham, who went from Ipswich, Massachu- setts, about the close of the revolution, and kept public house at Cape Porpoise, Maine, the truth of the fact cannot be demonstrated with genealogical accuracy. It appears too that this Francis Burnham was drowned, with his only son, that his widow subsequently mar- ried Ebenezer Huff, and that the only daugh- ter of Francis Burnham married James Huff (3d). There is ground also for the opinion that the Burnham ancestor whose parentage is so difficult to establish was in some manner related to the family of James Burnham, who married Grace Dalzell, 1737. removed to Arun- del, Maine, about 1739, and had sons James, Samuel, Isaac, Forest, Moses, Jacob and Seth, and daughters Elizabeth, Anna and Sarah.
(I) Moses Burnham, earliest known ances- tor of the family here under consideration of whom there appears any definite information, lived at Cape Elizabeth, Maine (now South Portland), and had children by wife Hannah.
(II) Samuel, son of Moses and Hannah Burnham, was born at Cape Elizabeth in 1804. and married Priscilla, daughter of James and Priscilla (Huff ) Blunt. Priscilla Huff was a daughter of Thomas Huff, and granddaugh- ter of Ferdinando Huff, the former of whom lived on Great Island and removed from thence to Kennebunkport, Maine, in 1700. He was constable in 1719. and in 1745 was im-
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pressed to service for the next several years as pilot on board one of the King's ships.
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