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(II) Henry (2), son of Henry (1) and Elizabeth (Gallup) Stephens, was born at Stonington, Connecticut, November 20, 1681, and was baptized in the Congregational church February 18, 1693. He settled in Plainfield, Connecticut, but later returned to Stonington and was living there in 1715. He, with other inhabitants of the North Society of Stoning- ton, obtained February 5, 1721-22, permission from the governor and council of Connecticut to build their meetinghouse at the Gravel Hole. He was living January 16, 1749-50, when he gave a deed of land to his daughter, Elizabeth Stewart. He married, March 2, 1708-09, Eliz- abeth Fellows, born at Ipswich, Massachu- setts, September 14, 1685, daughter of Eph- raim and Anna Fellows; she was admitted to the North Stonington church, June 16, 1741. Children : 1. Henry, born at Plainfield, Con- necticut, December 18, 1709; married, Novem- ber 10, 1731, Sarah Babcock. 2. Simeon, mar- ried, November 3, 1737, Mercy Cotts (Coates).
3. Mary, married, August 25, 1736, John Meeks. 4. Jedediah, see forward. 5. Lucy, born in 1717; married, January 3, 1744, Eph- raim Smith. 6. Elizabeth, married (first) De- cember 4, 1740, William Stewart, Jr .; (sec- ond) Joseph Palmer. 7. Thankful, born Janu- ary 15, 1725; married (first) December 24, 1744, James Partridge: (second) October 13, 1773, Zebulon Stevens.
Elizabeth (Fellows) Stephens traces her an- cestry to William Fellows, born at London, England ; he was a planter, and dwelt in Ips- wich, Massachusetts, where he purchased land March 26, 1639, and where he died November 29, 1676. His will was probated March 27, 1677, and mentions wife, who was a sister of John Ayres, and children, namely: Isaac, Ephraim, see forward, Samuel, Joseph, Eliza- beth, Abigail, Sarah and Mary.
Ephraim Fellows, son of William Fellows, immigrant, was born at Ipswich, Massachu- setts, in 1639. He resided in Ipswich. He married (first) Mary ---- , who died Febru- ary 23, 1671, and (second) Anna (probably Anna Cross, daughter of Robert Cross, of Ipswich). Children: John, Ephraim, Mary, Elizabeth, aforementioned as the wife of Henry Stephens, Amye and William.
(III) Jedediah, son of Henry (2) and Eliz- abeth (Fellows) Stephens, was baptized in the Congregational church at Stonington, Con- necticut, August 12, 1716. He married, April 4, 1743, Mary Rathbone. They lived at Ston- ington until 1751-52, when they removed to Canaan, Connecticut, where he was living June 19, 1773. He joined the Connecticut Colony and removed to the Wyoming Valley, Penn- sylvania. Children: 1. Joshua, born January 13, 1745 ; married, October 27, 1767, Chris- tian Dutcher. 2. Mary, born September 25, 1746. 3. Thankful, born November 1, 1748. 4. Martha, born September 22, 1750; married, November 22, 1770, Elijah Rood. 5. Anne, born March 17, 1753 ; married, March 4, 1773, Jeremiah Baker. 6. Eunice, born June 12, 1755. 7. Jedediah, see forward. 8. Ira, born July 18, 1759; married Sybil Ransom. 9. Rufus, born May 2, 1762, died July 3, 1778, killed and scalped by the Indians in the Wyom- ing Valley battle. 10. Sylvia, born June 14, 1764. II. Nathan, born August 24, 1766. 12. Cynthia, born September 26, 1768; married Francis Saturlee.
(IV) Jedediah (2), son of Jedediah (1) and Mary (Rathbone) Stephens, was born at Canaan, Connecticut, May II, 1757, died at Canisteo, New York, January 26, 1830. He
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was in the revolution at the battle of Wyom- ing, Pennsylvania, July 3, 1778, where his brother Rufus was killed. The Pennsylvania court decided against the title of the Connecti- cut settlers and he with many others left Penn- sylvania and settled on a large farm in what is now Canisteo, New York. About 1800 he united with the Methodist church and became a local preacher. A license was given him dated May 27, 1815, and renewed June 6, 1818. The following is taken from the original: "To all whom it may concern, greeting: Receive the bearer hereof, Jedediah Stephens, as a local elder in the M. E. Church, and in good standing. His piety, Christian deportment and his services in the Church of Christ entitle him to the confidence and affection of his brethren. July 9, 1828. A. Abell, P. E. Gene- see Dis." He married, January 1, 1778, at Goshen, Abigail Corey. Children: I. Abigail, married Elijah Stephens. 2. Silas, married Elizabeth Cleaveland. 3. Nathan, born De- cember 8, 1783; married Rachel Gilbert. 4. Sylvia, married David Haskins. 5. Cynthia. married (first) Thomas A. Dolson; (second) James Osburn. 6. Olive, born November 10, 1790; married Jeremiah Colgrove; moved to Greenup county, Kentucky. 7. Joshua, born December 21, 1793; married Rhoda Stevens, December 29, 1811. 8. Hila, born April 13, 1796; married (first) Phineas Stephens, Jr .; (second) Jeremiah Baker (see Baker, III). 9. Pamelia, born July 4, 1802; married Samuel H. Smiley.
FRENCH The surname French is one of the most ancient and honorable in England. It is derived from the personal name Francis in English ( Fran- cois in France and Frank in Germany), and has been used as a surname in England since II00. It was Anglicized to Frensh, Frenscho, Frensshe, etc., as early as 1300. Various branches of the English family of French bear coats-of-arms and a book has been published on the English family in various counties, with the armorial bearings.
(I) John French, immigrant ancestor, was born in England in 1612. He had land granted him at Wollaston ( Braintree), Massachusetts, for five heads, February 24, 1639-40. He was admitted to the church in the adjoining town of Dorchester, January 27, 1642, and the births of his first two children are recorded in Dorchester. He was admitted a freeman, May 29, 1639. His first wife, Grace, whom he married in England, died, according to her iv-54
gravestone, February 28, 1681, aged fifty-nine years. He married (second) July 8, 1683, Elinor Thompson, daughter of Rev. William Thompson and widow of William Veazey. She was born in 1626 and died April 23, 1711. He was prominent among the early settlers and active in town affairs. He died August 6, 1692. Division of the estate was made to his eldest son John, to Dependence, Thomas, Sam- uel, William (son of William, deceased ), Tem- perance, wife of John Bowditch; to Elizabeth Wheelock, of Mendon; and the children of Mary Lamb, deceased. Children: I. John. born February 28, 1641. 2. Thomas, July 10, 1643, died October 28, 1656. The following all born at Braintree: 3. Dependence (son), March 7, 1648-49. 4. Temperance, March 30, 1651, married John Bowditch; died August 12, 1720. 5. William, March 31, 1653. 6 Elizabeth, September 29, 1656; married Wheelock, of Mendon. 7. Thomas, March 10, 1657-58, died September 22. 1717; married Elizabeth 8. Samuel, February 22, 1659-60: mentioned below.
(II) John (2) French, son of John (I) French (q. v.), was born February 28, 1641, at Dorchester, Massachusetts. He married Ex- perience Thayer, died September 29, 1719, in her sixty-first year. Children: 1. John, born September 20, 1686, died young. 2. Anna, born January 15, 1688. 3. Thomas, June 23, 1690; mentioned below. 4. Grace, February 27, 1692. 5. Deborah, August 2, 1694. 6. William, January 16, 1696. 7. John, April 16, 1699.
(III) Thomas, son of John (2) French, was born at Braintree, June 23, 1690 ; married, August 18, 1714, Mary Allen. Children : I. Joseph, born July 21, 1716. 2. David, May I, 1718. 3. Micah, November 3, 1720; died March 27, 1722. 4. Thomas, mentioned below. 5. Samuel, born October 23, 1724. 6. Micah September 9, 1726.
(IV) Thomas (2), son of Thomas (I) French, was baptized in 1723, in Braintree. He married Silence Wild, of Braintree. Chil- dren: I. Silence, born August 22, 1750. 2. Thomas, March 28, 1751. 3. Joseph, October 2, 1752. 4. Sarah, February 20. 1755. 5. Timothy, February 9, 1757 ; mentioned below. 6. Susannah, August 30. 1758. 7. Jotham September 23, 1760. 8. Luther, March 21. 1762. 9. Polly, married Silas Alden. 10. Cal- vin, died young. II. William, January 28, 1770.
(V) Timothy, son of Thomas (2) French, was born at Braintree, February 9, 1757, and
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died at Needham, November 9, 1824. He served all through the revolution. He was a member of Captain Seth Turner's company, Colonel Benjamin Lincoln's regiment, and marched on the Lexington alarm, April 19, 1775. He enlisted in the same company May 8, 1775, and served eight months and thirteen days ; also in Captain Eliphalet Sawyer's com- pany, Colonel Joseph Palmer's regiment, March, 1776; in same company, Colonel Will- iam McIntosh's regiment, with guards at Rox- bury, March 25, 1778; also in Captain Isaac Morton's company, commanded by Lieutenant Zaccheus Thayer, Colonel Thomas Poor's regi- ment, serving eight months and fifteen days, 1778, on duty at Peekskill; also in Captain James Berry's company, same regiment, a part of that time ; in Lieutenant William Burbeck's company sixteen months from February I, 1780, on duty at Castle and Governor's Islands ; also in company raised for the same purpose by Hon. Thomas Cushing in 1782. He was a cordwainer by trade, and was appointed, sealer of leather in 1789 in Braintree. About 1791 he removed to Needham, and March 14, 1796, was chosen surveyor of highways in Needham. He married, at Needham, November 20, 1783, Mary Swan, of Dedham, born May 20, 1767, daughter of Joseph and Mary (Hunting) Swan. Children, first four born in Braintree, the others in Needham: 1. Polly Hunting, March 24, 1784 ; married January 10, 1803, Benjamin Cheeney. 2. Sally, May 20, 1786; married. January 20, 1811, Peter Clark Tisdale, of Walpole. 3. Theday ( Phebe ), August 17, 1788. 4. Timothy, August 12, 1791 ; married, Febru- ary 14, 1813, Amy White. 5. Joseph Shaw, August 16, 1794. 6. John, September 15, 1796: married Jane -. 7. Ann, September 15. 1798. 8. Calvin, mentioned below.
(VI) Calvin, son of Timothy French, was born at Needham, September 26, 1802, and baptized in the Unitarian church there Novem- ber 14 following. He received his education in the public schools and taught school several winters in Dedham. In 1824-5 he taught the Mill school, and in 1828-29-30-31, the Second Middle school, and was considered an excellent master. He afterwards became a successful farmer. His farm was situated on the road to Dover, in what is now Charles River village. in Needham. ITis house was of the large New England type of farmhouse. He was for many years a deacon in the First church, but late in life became an Adventist, or "Millerite" and preached this doctrine. He died August 29. 1844. of consumption, and was buried in the
old Needham cemetery. He married (first) March 19, 1826, Fannie Colburn, of Dedham, born July 3, 1803, daughter of Eliphalet, Jr., and Cynthia Colburn : (second) January 17, 1836, Mary Fales, of Dedham, born 1814, died October 12, 1836, daughter of N. Fales; (third) (intentions dated June 10, 1837), Mary Clark, of Framingham. Children of first wife: I. Enoch, settled in St. Louis. 2. Willard, settled in Foxborough. 3. Calvin, born June 27, 1833 ; died January 8, 1864 ; mar- ried, October 4, 1855, Catharine Bird Turner, of Foxborough. 4. Joseph, born March 25, 1835 ; mentioned below. Child of second wife : 5. Mary, born October 6, 1836. Children of third wife: 6. Fanny Colburn, born June 4. 1838; married Augustus Knight, of St. Louis, and had Newell C., Harry and Eugene Knight. 7. Mary Ellen, born November 2, 1844.
(VII) Joseph, son of Calvin French, was born in Needham, March 25, 1835, and died at Hartford. Connecticut, January 21, 1896. He attended the district school of his native town until he was twelve years of age, when his mother died. He then went to live with his uncle, Joseph Swan French, in Hartford, Con- necticut, and continued his schooling there. He became bookkeeper at Wilbraham Acad- emy, holding the position a number of years. He resigned to enter the grocery business in Wilbraham, which he carried on until 1877, when his store and house were burned. He then removed to East Hartford, Connecticut, and became bookkeeper for a Hartford firm. In politics he was a Republican. He and his wife were faithful and active workers in the Baptist church at Hartford. He was an honor- able and useful citizen. He married, at Hart- ford, March 24. 1859, Sarah Jane White, born at Stonington, Connecticut, October 8, 1834. died April 7, 1881, at East Hartford, daughter of Oliver and Eliza ( Miner) White. Children : 1. Charles Colburn, born October 16, 1861 : married, July 3, 1883. Elizabeth Thomas ; chil- dren: i. Fannie Mabel, born April 1, 1884. married June 22, 1904, John Britney, and had John Richard Britney, born October 1, 1906; ii. Lillie, born January 5, 1886, died same day : iii. Charles Thomas, born February 8, 1888 : iv. Nellie Anna, August 10, 1889 ; v. Augustus James, July 2, 1891 ; vi. Bertha Elizabeth, February 9, 1896; vii. Ernest, June 14, 1902. 2. Fannie Eliza, born December 10, 1867 ; mar- ried, June 15, 1892, Andrew Julius Brown ; children : i. Lois Mary Brown, born February 14, 1808; ii. Bessie Araline Brown, March 6, 1900 ; iii. Francis Andrew James Brown. No-
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vember 10, 1902: iv. Elsie Marguerite Brown, August 14. 1905. 3. Joseph Swan, mentioned below.
(VIII) Joseph Swan, son of Joseph French, was born at Wilbraham, Massachusetts, Octo- ber 28, 1871. He attended the public schools of Wilbraham and East Hartford, whither his parents moved when he was a small boy. When he was nine years old his mother died and he went to New Britain, Connecticut, to live in the Evans family for a time. He earned his first money while here, selling papers and lighting street lamps. He was apprenticed to Edward Gillard, of Burlington, Connecticut, and remained on his farm until fifteen years of age, when he went to New Hartford. He worked for Frank J. Lyman for a year, then going to Forestville to work in the creamery of G. A. Root & Son. At the age of nine- teen he returned to Hartford to learn the plumber's trade, working nine months with Cope Brothers. A year later he went to Med- ford, Massachusetts, and entered the employ of E. S. Randall in his grocery store, remain- ing in his employ four and a half years. He then went into partnership with his employer. and in the spring of 1885 purchased three and a half acres of land of Lucy E. Parker, situated at 15 Franklin avenue. The business was car- ried on under the name of the Medford Dairy Company. A large and commodious barn was soon built, 44 by 80 feet, also a small milk room. About five years later Mr. French bought his partner's interest and began to enlarge the plant. A dairy room and silo of sixty-five tons capacity was built, and the milk house was remodelled, making the plant one of the most spacious in the vicinity. In 1894 he built his dwelling house. The Medford Dairy is a model dairy. Particular attention is given to selecting the cows, and only the best specimens of Guernseys, Jerseys, Ayrshires and Durhams comprise the herd, selected on account of the quality rather than the quantity of their milk. Special attentions is paid to the clothing of the milkers and the washing and care of the cows, to secure milking under aseptic conditions. The cows are under the constant observation of a veterinary surgeon, and only milk from healthy cows is used. The dairy house is entirely separate from the barn and is constructed after the most approved plans. It is divided into four rooms-cold storage room, dairy, wash and loading rooms. The floors are graded to drain into bell traps. The walls and ceilings are white enamel. The dairy room is kept exclusively for cooling and
bottling milk. The aerator, bottle filler, bottle washing outfit with turbine bottle washer, and all other dairy apparatus, including Babcock tester and high-pressure boiler, are the best to be obtained in this or any other country. All dairy utensils, strainers, pails, cooler, bottles, and everything with which the milk comes in contact, is first rinsed in cold water, then washed in hot water and soap powder, rinsed again, and placed in the sterilizer, where it is treated with live steam for forty-five minutes. The dairy and wash rooms are washed down daily with the hose and are at all times free from dirt and bad odors. Mr. French is a Repub- lican in politics and he and his family attend the Baptist church, his wife having joined by ietter from Tremont Temple, Boston, in 1905.
Mr. French married, December 1, 1898, Emily Salina Luscomb, born March 22, 1869, daughter of Robert and Emily (Tripp) Lus- comb, of Medford. Child: I. Albert Joseph, born June 8, 1900.
The families of Drew and Stetson DREW were ship builders and at a very early date vessels were built on the Jones river ; this was prior to 1714 and for a number of generations they were engaged also as ship carpenters. From 1726 to about 1786, when Kinston was set off from Plymouth, vessels were launched from the stocks of the Drews.
(I) Edward Drew was knighted by Queen Elizabeth in 1589.
(II) William, son of Edward Drew, was of the last generation of this family who remain- ed in England.
(III) John, son of William Drew, and the immigrant ancestry of the family, was born in Devonshire, Wales, in 1642, died in Plym- outh, Massachusetts Bay Colony, July 29, 1721. He came to Plymouth in 1660, his house being at Hobbs Hole, and he also lived in Duxbury. Children : I. Elizabeth, born February 5, 1673. 2. John, August 29, 1676. 3. Samuel. February 21, 1678. 4. Thomas, May 1, 1681. 5. Nicholas, October 10, 1684. 6. Lemuel. August 4. 1687. 7. Cornelius, see forward. 8. Perez, born 1704, died November 12, 1774. 9. Zebulon. 10. Samuel, born 1713, died in 1800. II. Ebenezer. 12. Lydia. 13. Nahum. 14. Hannah. 15. Abijah. 16. Rebecca. 17. Ruth.
(IV) Cornelius, sixth son and seventh child of John Drew, was born in Duxbury, Massa- chusetts, in 1702, died in Kingston, Massachu- setts, December 16, 1762. He lived in the
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lower part of the house at Kingston Landing, near the shipyard of Deacon Bartlett, and there all of his children were born. This house was taken down December 6, 1866, being situ- ated partly in the highway. His shipyard was in the valley near the line of the almshouse lot, now filled in, and on this lot he and his sons built the brig "Independence," sixteen guns, in 1776, and the ship "Mars," twenty guns, in 1778. He married, February 27, 1728-29, Sarah Bartlett, born December 24. 1710, died in January, 1775, a member of an old Kingston family. Children: 1. Abijah, see forward. 2. Ichabod, twin of Abijah, born September 10, 1730, died October 23, 1730. 3. William, September 13, 1731, died May 10, 1795. 4. James, September 23, 1733, died Feb- ruary 4, 1807. 5. Lenas, October 14, 1735, (lied September 21, 1822. 6. Lurana, May 22, 1738, died September 20, 1788. 7. Sarah, April 23, 1740, died January 3, 1822. 8. Cor- nelius, May 12, 1742, died November 24, 1814; was a soldier in the revolution. 9. Seth, June 12, 1747, died May 18, 1824.
(V) Abijah, eldest child of Cornelius and Sarah ( Bartlett ) Drew, was born in Plymouth (now Kingston), Massachusetts, September 10, 1730, died there, September 21, 1818. He was a ship builder and purchased the home- stead of his brother William, who had bought it of Cornelius Sampson : when Abijah bought it it fronted the street, but he had it turned and added another story. He married (first) May 19, 1776, Betsey Stetson, born January 31, 1757, died August 9, 1808, and is buried in the ancient burial ground in Kingston. Chil- dren : I. Deborah, born August 26, 1777, died December 26, 1802. 2. Nancy, October 18, 1779, died January 28, 1862. 3. Harriet, No- vember 8, 1781, died June 25, 1862. 4. Na- thaniel, May 25, 1784, died March 20, 1871. 5. Lazarus, see forward. 6. John, May 30, 1789, died May II, 1877. 7. Lucretia, Octo- ber I, 1791, died April 25, 1855. 8. Betsey, May 24, 1794, died October 6, 1813. 9. James Harvey, August 24, 1796, died June 23, 1873. 10. Mary, January, 1798, died November 29, 1813. II. Abijah, February 6, 1893. He mar- ried (second) March 31. 1814, Sylvia Wash- burn, who died August 26, 1830.
(VI) Lazarus, second son and fifth child of Abijah and Betsey (Stetson) Drew, was born in Kingston, January 6, 1787, died in Medford, April 4, 1854. His education was the usual one of the time, and lie was early apprenticed to learn the trade of ship's joiner. About 1820 lie removed with his family to
Medford, where ship building was then at its height, and worked as a journeyman for Thatcher Magoon, Samuel Lapham, Haven & Cudworth, and others, and was himself a con- tractor for building ships and windlasses, and the other individual parts. He built his own home in Cross street, and it was considered one of the finest of the time, but has since been altered and now serves as a tenement house. He was possessed of a fine voice and for many years sang in the choir of the Orthodox church. where he and his family attended divine ser- vice. He was a man of determination but con- sidered rather eccentric, and is said to have had a most peculiar manner of tying his hair over his head. In political adherence he was at first a Whig and later became associated with the Democratic party. He married at Kings- ton, May 28, 1812, Bathsheba Shurtleff, born in Kingston, 1794, died in Medford, July 3, 1871, daughter of John and Bathsheba (Shurt- leff ) Bartlett, granddaughter of Ichabod Bart- lett, and great-granddaughter of Benjamin and (Brewster) Bartlett, the latter a daughter of Love Brewster, a son of Elder William Brewster, who came to this country in the "Mayflower." Benjamin, son of Benja- min Bartlett, was a grandson of Richard War- ren, another of the "Mayflower" passengers. Children: I. George Bartlett, born June 2, 1813, died March 3, 1863; married, May 26, 1838. Margaret G. Sullivan, and had: Mar- garet Augusta, married Bisbee, and Lucretia Bartlett, married Dr. Alonzo Green, of Boston, and had: Frank. 2. Joseph Shurt- leff, April 1, 1814, died July 1, 1884 ; married, April, 1842, Lucy White Prouty, of Scituate, Massachusetts, and had: i. Theodore Clem- ent, born May 14, 1844, married, June 1, 1890. Emma Isadora Brown; ii. Reuben Young Jen- kins, April 26, 1846, died August 29, 1847. 3. Charles Rawlins, see forward. 4. James Hor- ace, March 29, 1823, died May 26, 1869. 5. William Henry, March 29, 1823, died August 3. 1877; married, November 15, 1845, Eliza- beth Ann Cummings, of Poland, Maine ; chil- dren: i. A son, born December 28, 1847, died young ; ii. William Horace, January 8, 1849 ; iii. Edward Rutledge. 6. Ann Caroline, Au- gust 25, 1828, died October 26, 1906; married, October 27, 1853. Charles W. Joquith, of Med- ford, who died December 5, 1904. 7. Martin Van Buren. 8. Frances Adelaide, July 5. 1838; married (first) September 15. 1859, Thomas Henry Belt, of South Boston; children: i. Robert Maurice, born July 11, 1860; married, May 30. 1888, Mary Pond Oakes, and had :
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Ada Louise, born November 6, 1890; Robert Wilbur, March 23, 1896; Eugene Bradford, May 6, 1898; ii. George Wilbur, married Jo- sephine Clark, of Waldsboro, Maine, and had : Mary Adelaide, born November 24, 1891, and Marguerite, March 3, 1895; Frances Adelaide married (second ) James Fred Williams, of Charlestown.
(VII) Charles Rawlins, third son and child of Lazarus and Bathsheba Shurtleff ( Bartlett ) Drew, was born in Kingston, December 17. 1818, died in Medford, Massachusetts, Decem- ber 13, 1885. He was four years of age when his parents took up their residence in Medford, and it was in that town that he received his education in the district school. At a suitable age he learned the trade of ship building, and later made a number of voyages to the south and to France as ship's carpenter, in some of the ships he had helped to fit out. Subsequently he resumed work in the ship yards, and was employed by firms of prominence. In the early seventies, when the ship building industry was declining, he took up what was called "old work," which consisted of refitting and re- pairing vessels which returned from long voy- ages. Later he worked in this capacity for James Delano until within a year of his death, this last year being employed in house carpen- tering. He was a member of the organization known as the "1818 Association," formed of men born in that year. He was a member of the Democratic party, and during the existence of the "Know Nothing" party, was associated with that. From early boyhood all through his life he was a member of the fire depart- ment, acting as one of its engineers and render- ing valuable services in other ways. His first religious affiliation was with the orthodox Congregational church, but when his children were old enough to attend Sunday school he became a member of the Methodist church, and assisted that denomination to the extent of his means and time. He kept in touch with the affairs of the nation and the world at large by means of close and attentive reading, and enter- tained broad and decided views on all matters of public interest. He married, November 20. 1842, Abbie Goodrich. born in New Boston, New Hampshire, March 22, 1821, died in Medford. Massachusetts, December 22, 1907, daughter of Amasa and Polly (Dane) Lewis, the former a prosperous farmer of New Boston. Mrs. Drew was noted for her charity, kindly disposi- tion and force of character. She was a member of the Methodist church later in life, although raised in the Congregational faith, and became
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