Genealogical and personal memoirs relating to the families of the state of Massachusetts, Volume IV, Part 93

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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the possession of Mrs. George Melville Whid- den Porter, of Brookline, Massachusetts. He married (first) in 1800, Elizabeth Dow, who died in 1829. He married ( second) January 3, 1830, Anna Partridge Foss, daughter of John and Sarah (Tucker ) Foss, of Rye. Chil- dren of first wife: 1. Thomas J., died young. 2. Enoch Coffin, born May 18, 1808; died Sep- tember, 1809. 3. Enoch Coffin, May, 1810; mentioned below. 4. John Wentworth, Sep- tember, 1812, mentioned below. 5. Oliver. 6. Thomas J., June 17, 1817; mentioned below. 7. Elizabeth Haines, October, 1819; died 1887. 8. Andrew Gilman, June 4, 1822; mentioned below. 9. Stephen Huse, October, 1825 ; part- ner of his brother Andrew G. and president of the First Ward National Bank of Boston ; president of the Marine Railway and the East Boston Gas Company ; married Lucy Elling- wood ; children: i. Stephen, died young; ii. Anne Louise, married Charles Choate Pond, son of Judge Pond, and had three children ; iii. Elizabeth Dow, married Ward Bent.

(\'I) Enoch Coffin, son of Thomas J. Whid- den, born in May, 1810, died in 1862, at Bangor, Maine. He married, in 1832, Eliza- beth - -. Children: 1. Clarinda, lives at

Brunswick, Maine. 2. Harriet, born 1840; died at Portsmouth in 1902; married George Green, son of Hon. Thomas Green, once mayor of Portsmouth ; had one son and two daugh- ters: Edward ; Alice, married Fiske ; Ethel, married - Ayres, of Haverhill.

(VI) John Wentworth, son of Thomas J. Whidden, was born in September, 1812, and was drowned at New Orleans, and in an effort to rescue him his brother Oliver was also drowned. He married Elizabeth Rundlett. Children: 1. Andrew, born 1846, died in Libby prison during the civil war. 2. Adelaide, died 1864, aged twenty. unmarried. 3. Sam- uel, born 1850; lives in Portsmouth ; married twice and has several children.

(\'1) Thomas J. (2), son of Thomas J. (I) Whidden, was born June 17, 1817, at Ports- mouth, New Hampshire. He was educated in the public schools of his native place. He came to Boston when a young man and be- came a mason and builder. From a modest beginning he became one of the leading con- tractors of the city. He built the reservoir for the city on Temple street, now part of the State House property, and part of the Chest- nut Hill reservoir; he was one of the com- missioners who built the courthouse, and he built many other public buildings and business structures. He was president of the Massa-

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chusetts Charitable Mechanics Society of Bos- ton. He served the city as alderman and held other positions of private and public trust. He was highly respected for his great ability in his own line of business, his sound judgment and public spirit. In politics he was a Demo- crat ; in religion a Universalist; was trustee of Copley Square Church. He was a promi- nent member of the Masons. He married, October 3, 1844, Ann C. Marvin, of New Castle, New Hampshire. Children : I. Thomas, died young. 2. Thomas Marvin, married Annie Avery ; children : Thomas, Margaret and Rob- ert. 3. Lucy A., married Howard Jackson ; children : Annie, Bessie and Howard Jack- son. 4. Lillian, died aged sixteen. 5. William Marcy, married Alice Wyngate, of Portland, Oregon ; has three pairs of twins: May, mar- ried a Mr. Taylor, of New York, and Ray, student at Harvard Medical School; Austin. a student at Harvard College, and Thomas, a student at the academy at Quincy, Massachu- setts ; the other two children, twins of Austin and Thomas, died young. 5. Mary Elizabeth. died aged sixteen. 6. Bradlee (twin), mar- ried Florence Cobb and has no children. 7. Renton (twin), married Mabel Locke and has a daughter Eleanor. 8. Stephen Hampden. lives at West Newton : married Annie Willard ; children : Rachel, William, Thomas and others.

(VI) Andrew Gilman, son of Thomas J. Whidden, was born at Portsmouth, New Hampshire, June 4, 1822. He was educated there in the public schools. He left home at the age of nine years and was apprenticed to three different masters. He learned the trade of shipwright. also ship-calking and ship-build- ing. He came to Boston at the age of twenty- one and worked at ship-calking and ship-build- ing. When he was twenty-three he embarked in business as a ship-builder on his own account and developed Whidden's Point, which took his name, though it was actually owned by Mr. Weeks. For a time he was in partnership with Charles Turner, afterward with his brother Stephen H. The business flourished and the firm finally had the largest shipwright and caulking plant in New England; two to three hundred men were employed. Mr. Whid- len became one of the best known and most successful men in his line and was often called in later years as an expert in maritime affairs and admiralty litigation in all parts of the coun- try. He retired from the shipping business in 1882. He built and owned in many East India merchantmen in his day. He hekl many positions of trust and very often acted as trus-

tee for sea captains' families and widows, mak- ing a rule in such cases to give his time and services free. In 1882 he became private sur- veyor of the Boston Marine Insurance Com- pany, now the Boston Insurance Company. He was also a director of the East Boston Gas Company and marine surveyor of the India Mutual Insurance Company, the Insurance Company of North America and the Shoe and Leather Insurance Company. He was inter- ested in many charitable institutions to which he gave freely but unostentatiously. Nobody could estimate the extent of his charity and he probably would not have known himself. He was affiliated with the Methodist church. In politics he was a Republican. He belonged to Mount Tabor Lodge, Free Masons, of East Boston. He married Elizabeth Merfie Good- win, daughter of William and Rose Merfie ( Goodwin) Goodwin. Children, born in Bos- ton : 1. Florence, died aged twenty-three years. 2. Stephen, died aged three years. 3. Miriam, died young. 4. Marion, died young. 5. Georgia Merfie, married, in 1903, George Melville Por- ter (see Porter, VIII). 6. Eugene Lawrence, mentioned below.

(VII) Eugene Lawrence, son of Andrew Gilman and Elizabeth Merfie (Goodwin) Whidden, was born November II, 1855, at Boston. He was educated in public schools, grammar and high, graduated 1873; he was in business with his father as bookkeeper one year, then as supercargo to Japan and China, South America, Australia, etc ; then as silver- smith in New York three years. He died June 21, 1884. He married Effie Cooper, daughter of Moses and Mercy ( Knox) Cooper, of Dover. New Hampshire.

(VIII) Ernest Cooper, son of Eugene Law- rence and Effie (Cooper) Whidden, was born at Dover, New Hampshire, July 22, 1878. He graduated from public and high schools, 1894, then attended New Hampshire State College at Durham, New Hampshire, two or three years ; then associated with the "Kidder Press" of Dover, New Hampshire, two years; then for two years at Portsmouth navy yard in engineering department. In 1906 he became president of the Porter-Whidden Company at East Boston.

Robert Elwell, immigrant ances- ELWELL tor, was a resident of Dorches- ter, Massachusetts, in 1634. where he had a grant of land formerly granted to Jolin Rocket, and later other grants. He was admitted a freeman, May 13, 1640, and

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soon afterward removed to Salem. He owned land in Gloucester in April, 1642, and in 1651 had a grant at Rock Neck. About 1649 he removed his home to Gloucester, and in that year was selectman there. He was commissioned to end small causes in 1651, and on the committee to build the new meeting- house in 1664. His will was dated May 15. 1683, he being then "Upon my bed of sickness & weaknesse," and proved June 30, 1691, show- ing that he died between those two dates. He

married (first) Joane , who died March 31, 1675. He married (second) May 29, 1676, Alice Leach, widow of Leach. She survived him and died April 10, 1691. He died May 18. 1683. Children : I. Samuel, born in Dorchester, about 1636. 2. "Second child." baptized at Salem, August 28, 1639; died aged six months. 3. John, baptized at Salem, January 23, 1639-40. 4. Isaac, baptized February 27. 1641-42: mentioned below. 5. Josiah. 6. Joseph. 7. Sara, born and died 1651. 8. Sarah, born May 12, 1652; died Au- gust 26, 1655. 9. Thomas, born November 12, 1654. IO. Jacob, born June 10. 1657. II. Richard, baptized April 11, 1658. 12. Mary.

(II) Isaac, son of Robert Elwell, was bap- tized at Salem. February 27, 1641-42, died October 14, 1715. He was a sea captain and resided at Gloucester, on what is now High street. He married (first) Mehitable Millett, born at Dorchester, March 14, 1641 ; died in Gloucester, September 28, 1699, daughter of Thomas and Mary (Greenaway) Millett. He married ( second) December 16, 1702, Mrs. Mary ( Prince) Rowe, daughter of Thomas Prince and widow of Hugh Rowe. She died March 3, 1723. aged about sixty-five years. Children : 1. Isaac, born January 15, 1666-67. 2. Jane, November 21, 1668. 3. Jonathan, October 21, 1670. 4. Eleazer, July 16, 1673. 5. Abigail. April 13, 1676. 6. David, March IO. 1678-79. 7. Bethiah, April 5, 1682. 8. Hannah. February 4. 1687 (twin). 9. Joshua (twin ). mentioned below. 10. Jemima.

(III) Joshua, son of Isaac Elwell, was born February 4, 1687. He was a mariner in Glou- cester. He married there (first) 1709-10, Alice Low, died January 8, 1717. He married (second), November 25, 1717, Abigail Riggs. They had eleven children. Their sons : I. Isaac, mentioned below. 2. Thomas. 3. Mark.

(IV) Isaac (2), son of Joshua Elwell, was born in Gloucester, October 31, 1714. He mar- ried, November 15, 1738, Susanna Stanwood. They had eleven children. Their sons: Isaac

(mentioned below), Joshua, David, Solomon and Elias.

(V) Captain Isaac (3), son of Isaac (2) Elwell, was born at Gloucester, in 1743, died there January 22, 1832. He was a master mari- ner sailing to the West Indies and other foreign ports. He sailed November 25, 1779, from the West Indies to Salem. About January 1, 1780. the vessel lost her rudder and drifted until August 2, 1780, when the crew was rescued by Captain Henry Neal. For six months and seventeen days the crew of the American had no bread or meat, living on parched cocoa, fish and rum burnt down. He was postmaster from 1804 to 1820: selectman of Gloucester 1794 to 1818. Elizabeth Stuart Phelps wrote a book about the life of Captain Elwell. He married (first), November 17. 1767, Martha Brown ; ( second ), March 13, 1791, Mrs. Tammy Davison, who died March, 1883, aged ninety-two. (Essex Inst. 42, P. 374). His son Isaac, administrator, conveyed the homestead, Middle and Angle streets, to David, mariner. of Charlestown, September 5. 1833. Sons: 1. Isaac, sea captain and merchant of Gloucester. 2. Elias. 3. David, mentioned below.

(VI) Captain David, son of Isaac (3) El- well, was born in Gloucester in 1788, died in Florida, April 27, 1870. He followed the sea from his youth and became a master mariner when a young man. He commanded a priva- teer, the schooner "Cadet" of Salem, during the war of 1812. On Christmas day, 1814, he captured the brig "Mary" off the coast of Maine. Captain Elwell's account of the cap- ture is in part as follows: "I, David Elwell, of Salem, master of the armed private schooner "Cadet," depose and say that on the twenty-fifth day of December. 1814. at eight o'clock in the morning. while laying at Tibbetts Island, I discovered from the top of a mountain. a brig which I afterward found was "Pelter." brig-of- war. At ten o'clock I got the "Cadet" under way and gave chase, wore round and stood to the eastward about one hour, and discovered a sloop ; made all sail towards her and fired. I stood off and she gave chase, firing another gun, but finding the "Cadet" outsailed her, gave over the chase. The "Cadet," about half-past one in the afternoon discovered a fleet of five sail. Finding her not in perfect sailing trim. we hauled our wind for Tibbetts Harbor and took in more ballast. While on shore, I exam- ined the fleet from the hills and found it con- sisted of a brig, three schooners and a sloop. At five got under way in pursuit of the fleet

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and came up with them at half-past eight in the evening about one league to the westward of Titmanan. Dogged them under reefed sail until two the next morning, then, observing one of the fleet fall a little astern of the rest, I ran alongside and took possession of him, and directly bore away with the prize in com- pany under the lee of Duck Islands." Such is Captain Elwell's modest version of a sea- fight which involved nine vessels and embroiled the Maine coast for leagues. He gives but the first capture; two others, the second capture of the "Mary" by another American privateer and a hot engagement of the two fleets follow. The British brigs "Rifleman" and "Pelter" were coming down the Maine coast with three merchantmen, one of which was the "Mary" that Captain Elwell took. placing a prize master and a crew of six to take her to the nearest harbor, and removing part of the cargo to his own vessel. On her way to Thomaston, Maine, the "Mary" was overtaken by another American privateer, "Paul Jones," Captain Hilton. This eagerness of the privateers to seize prizes already taken by their own country- men savored of piracy. The prize master had to abandon the "Mary" leaving only the British captain and his twelve-year old son on the ship. Hilton took out the rest of the cargo and sent the vessel to Thomaston under a prize master. The British vessels met some American priva- teers in an engagement lasting an hour, when the British were reinforced by another brig and the Yankees took to their heels and anchor- ed later at Thomaston. Elwell and Hilton both claimed the prize and the case was tried in the admiralty court. Elwell won the case. During the war with Tripoli Captain Elwell was captured by pirates and held for ransom. He sailed the first American vessel through the Straits of Magellan and made many notable voyages to all parts of the world. He sailed vessels from Salem, but lived there but a short time if at all.

He was known while in Gloucester as David, Jr., to distinguish him from another David Elwell, who died there in 1835, intestate. widow Martha, administratrix. He removed to Charlestown, Massachusetts, in 1821. A deed dated September 15. 1821. of property on the road to Sqam from David to Elias El- well states his residence as Charlestown, while another deed in which he is called David El- well, Jr., of Gloucester, dated five days later, from Simcon Horton, of Hinsdale, New Hamp- shire, conveying part of a house and land on Pleasant street. calls him of Charlestown.

Again he was called David, Jr., "of Glou- cester," October 4, of the same year, when he bought land and house on Middle street, Glou- cester, of Nathaniel Smith, of Londonderry, New Hampshire. He and his wife Mary, then of Charlestown, deeded away the Pleasant street property, November 19, 1830. He bought and sold much real estate in Gloucester and Danvers after this, but resided at Boston or Charlestown. In 1840 he and his wife Mary joined with other heirs of Samuel Calder. of Gloucester, in disposing of various parcels of real estate. He married Mary E. Calder, daughter of Samuel Calder, of Gloucester, and a descendant of William Ellery, a signer of the Declaration of Independence. She had a brother, Samuel Calder, of Charlestown, and George and William Calder, of Philadelphia. Pennsylvania. Dr. Samuel Calder, their father. owned what was called the Merin Company's purchase at Eastern Point. Elwell is called of Boston in 1840, and Gloucester in 1851, of Boston in 1853. He bought mortgages and real estate in Danvers. He lived in Boston after about 1840. His will was dated March 8, 1856, with a codicil dated July 27, 1867; proved June 6, 1870. His wife Mary E. was executrix. He bequeathed to a sister, Susan Saunders, and children: 1. Rebecca F. Max- well. of Tallahassee or Belair, Florida, with whom he was living at the time of his death. 2. David Augustus. 3. Francis Flagg, men- tioned below. 4. Mary L. (deceased).

(VII) Francis Flagg, son of Captain David Elwell, married Kate Babson. Children : I. William Davison, mentioned below. 2. Frank Cunningham, born October 29, 1880. 3. David, July 29. 1883; married Mildred Kellock; re- sides at New Rochelle, New York ; no issue.

(VIII) William Davison, son of Francis Flagg Elwell, was born March 12, 1879, at Amoy. China. He was educated in the public schools of Arlington. At the age of sixteen he began his career in business as clerk in the brokerage firm of Leland, Towle & Company. Boston. He was with this house seven years. then with Theodore P. Harding for a year and a half. In 1903 he embarked in business at 53 State street in the firm of Wiggin & Elwell, brokers and bankers. The firm has been very successful. Mr. Elwell resides at Arlington, Massachusetts, and is a member of Hiram Lodge of Free Masons of that town. In politics he is Republican, in religion an Episcopalian. He married, October 31, 1906, Lilian Newell Peck, daughter of William Gay- lord and Anna Maria ( Newell) Peck, of Ar-

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lington. ( See Peck, VIII). They have no children.

(The Peck Line).

Deacon Paul Peck, immigrant ancestor, born in county Essex, England, 1608, came to Bos- ton in 1635 in the ship "Defense." In 1636 he went with Rev. Thomas Hooker and party to Hartford, and became one of the founders of that city and the state of Connecticut. He was a proprietor of Hartford in 1639 and became a leading citizen. His home was on what is now Washington street, not far from Trinity College site, and the locality is still known among the old citizens by the name of the first settler. He was deacon of the church from 1681 until his death, December 23, 1695. Chil- dren : 1. Paul, born 1639. 2. Martha, 1641. 3. Elizabeth, 1643. 4. John, December 22, 1645. 5. Samuel, 1647; mentioned below. 6. Joseph, baptized December 22, 1650. 7. Sarah, born 1653. 8. Hannah, 1656. 9. Mary, 1662.

(II) Samuel, son of Deacon Paul Peck, was born in Hartford, Connecticut, in 1647. He settled in West Hartford and lived there until his death, January 10, 1696. He married Eliz- abeth

(III) Samuel (2), son of Samuel (1) Peck, was born in West Hartford in 1672. He set- tled in Middletown, now Berlin, Connecticut. Married, 1701, Abigail Collier, died December 9. 1765, daughter of Joseph Collier. He died December 9. 1765. Children, born at Kensing- ton: 1. Samuel, January 6, 1701. 2. Moses, April, 1703. 3. Isaac, at Scarborough, Novem- ber 2, 1706. 4. Abijah, December 28, 1707. 5. Zebulon, September 1, 1712 ; mentioned below. 6. Amos, at Kensington, March 5, 1715. 8. Elisha, March II, 1720. 9. Elijah, born at Lynn, July 23, 1723.

(IV) Zebulon, son of Samuel (2) Peck, was born in Middletown, Connecticut, Septem- ber 1, 1712, died at Bristol, Connecticut, Janu- ary 13. 1795. He married, July 10, 1735, Mary Edwards. died May 23, 1790, daughter of Josiah Edwards, of Easthampton. Long Island. Children : I. Abigail, born May 20, 1736. 2. Justus, November 14, 1737. 3. Elizabeth, Sep- tember 30, 1739; died November 16, 1741. 4. Mary, August 12. 1741. 5. Zebulon, born at Meriden, April 15, 1743. 6. Abel, at Meriden, 1745; mentioned below. 7. David, at Bristol, May 13. 1749. 8. Lament, May 8, 1751, at Farmington, now Bristol. 9. Elizabeth, born at Bristol. 10. Josiah, January 19, 1755.

(V) Corporal Abel, son of Zebulon Peck was born at Meriden in 1745. He was a soldier in the revolution. a corporal in the Sixth Com-

pany, Captain Noadiah Hooker, from May to December, 1775, in the Second Connecticut Regiment, under General Spence, and served during the siege of Boston at Roxbury. He was also a soldier in the Eighth Connecticut Line in the continental army, and died on his way home from Valley Forge from disease contracted in the service, January 26, 1778. He married, February 11, 1768, Abigail Gay- lord, of Bristol. She married ( second) Dea- con James Wells, of Newington, September 4, 1785. Children : 1. Samuel, born January 5, 1769; mentioned below. 2. Candace, January 16, 1771. 3. Abel, January 12, 1774. 4. Abi- gail, May 13, 1776.

(VI) Samuel (3), son of Corporal Abel Peck, was born in Bristol, Connecticut, Janu- ary 5, 1769, died there April 1, 1826. He was a farmer in his native town. He married there June 6, 1791, Hannah Manross, who died May 5, 1855. Children, born at Bristol: I. Sylves- ter, August 12, 1794. 2. Emily, April 21, 1797. 3. Angeline, May 28, 1799. 4. Samuel, May 3. 1803. 5. Emily, March 9, 1805. 6. Abel Gaylord, mentioned below. 7. William W.

(VII) Abel Gaylord, son of Samuel (3) Peck, was born at Bristol, January 8, 1807, (lied at Arlington, Massachusetts, November 12, 1870. After a common school education, he started early in life in Boston, selling dry goods from a cart in the surrounding towns. He gradually increased his stock until he had thirty teams on the road. About 1854 he dis- continued this method and opened a store on Milk street, Boston, corner of Theatre alley. in partnership with Samuel R. Payson, and his brother, William W. Peck, who later died. The firm name was A. G. Peck & Company. They dealt in dry goods, doing a wholesale business until 1858, when they sold out to Rawson. Brigham & Pratt. Mr. Peck later entered the brokerage business, dealing in com- mercial paper, having an office with Alderman Gore on Kilby street. In 1864 his son, William G., entered his employ and in 1869 was ad- mitted as a partner under the firm name of A. G. Peck & Son, which continued up to the decease of the senior member in 1870, since which time William G. Peck has conducted it. Mr. Peck owned one of the most beautiful residences of Arlington, now standing at 74 Pleasant street. On August 15, 1850, he bought the large tract of land on which this large man- sion was built. The old mansion house on the land was formerly occupied by the Old First Parish Church, built in 1734, and removed to that spot in 1804. This building Mr. Peck

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sold, the purchaser sawing it into equal sec- tions so that it could be taken to its present location on Pleasant street. Mr. Peck was a man of quiet habits, greatly devoted to his family. He was a man of sound judgment and quick decision. He was a member of Dr. Rogers's church, Winter street, Boston, and later of the Arlington Congregational Church, where he served on the standing committee and as treasurer of the socity. He was a Whig, later a Republican, serving on various town com- mittees. He was director of the Atlantic Na- tional Bank of Boston, the Chelsea Gaslight Company, and vice-president of the Arlington Five Gents Savings Bank, and one of its incor- porators and trustees. He married (first) at Stoughton, Massachusetts, November 26, 1834. Lydia H. Reed, who died at Boston, November 27, 1835, aged twenty. He married (second) January 18. 1838, Eliza Ann Boles, born Octo- ber 28, 1814, at Methuen, died June 2, 1904, at Arlington, daughter of John and Persis Ann (Woodbury ) Boles. Child of first wife : I. Lydia Morgiana, born November 17, 1835. By second wife : 2. Persis Ann, October 17, 1838. drowned while skating on Spy pond, Arling- ton, December 20, 1853. 3. William Gaylord. mentioned below. 4. Angeline Moore, Octo- ber 18, 1848. 5. John Clifford, 1851, died young.

(VIII) William Gaylord, son of Abel Gay- lord Peck, was born at Boston, November 12, 1841. He entered the primary department of Chauncey Hall school, attending until he was ten years old, when he removed with his par- ents to Arlington, attending the public schools there until he was about fourteen years of age. In 1856 he entered Phillips Andover Academy, graduating in 1860, and graduated from Yale in 1864 with the degree of A. B., later receiv- ing the degree of A. M. Soon after leaving college he entered his father's employ, being taken into partnership with him in the broker- age business in 1868. Since his father's deatlı he has conducted the business himself. After the great Boston fire in 1872 he was forced to secure new quarters at Post Office square, remaining there until 1898, then removing to 85 Water street, where he conducts a broker- age business chiefly in mortgage loans and fire insurance. Mr. Peck has, as one of the heirs. recently opened up the property of his father into a new residential section known as Lom- bard road. The estate has been divided into building lots and is valuable property in the best section of Arlington. In 1872 he was elected trustee of the Arlington Five Cents

Savings Bank ; 1873 member of the investment committee ; 1883 president ; to all above offices he has been annually elected to this date ; 1872 director of Chelsea Gaslight Company, and later president ; director of the North Amer- ican Insurance Company and Boston Ice Com- pany; 1894 elected director of Atlantic Na- tional Bank, Boston, holding that office at the present time. Mr. Peck is a Republican ; had served as delegate to the various conventions and on the Republican state committee ; was a member of the house of representatives in 1877 and 1880; 1877 was clerk of the com- inittee on education and in 1880 chairman of that committee. He was selectman of Arlington from 1874 to 1877 inclusive ; on the water board in 1880-81-82. He is chairman of the sinking fund commission; trustee of the Pratt fund for town purposes; of the Elbridge farmer fund. an endowment for the Robbins Library. He served on the committee of the soldiers monument, and was treasurer of that fund. He was formerly a trustee of the cemetery and on the cemetery committee. He was a member of the Sigma Epsilon and Alpha Sigma Phi clubs, and of the D. K. E. of Yalc College ; also editor of the Yale Literary Mag- azine in 1863; formerly a member of the Ex - change Club. He is an honorary member of the Arlington Boat Club, and was trustee of the old boat club. He is a life member of the Massachusetts Horticultural Society of Bos- ton. He belongs to the Congregational churchi, serving often as moderator. He married, No- vember 22, 1878, Anna Maria Newell, born at Arlington, May 1, 1854, died September. 1884, daughter of Charles Henry and Maria Davidson (Gage) Newell. Her father was an ice merchant at Boston and New Orleans. Chi !- dren: I. Chester Gaylord, born November 22, 1879. 2. Lilian Newell, August 24, 1882 ; married, at Arlington, October 31, 1906, Will- iam Davison Elwell (see Elwell, VIII).

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Genealogical and personal memoirs relating to the families of the state of Massachusetts, Volume IV, Part 93

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