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prominently identified with the interests of her adopted creed. During the civil war she was a member of the Ladies' Aid Association of Medford, and it was through her efforts that many comforts were obtained for the Union soldiers. Children: 1. Abby, born January 12, 1844: married, October 13, 1874, Jacob William, born March 2, 1830, died December 13, 1883, son of Jacob and Rowena (Keith) Sax, of Plattsburg, New York; children: i Horner Eaton, born January 17, died January 18, 1876; ii. Katherine Drew, January 19, 1882, assistant editor of the Shoe and Leather Re- porter, in Boston; iii. Alfred Keith, July 22, 1883. 2. Charles Rawlins, Jr., see forward. 3. Julia Frances, October 9, 1852; married October 15. 1879, Frederick Allen Fifield, of Medford ; children: i. Bessie Lewis, born Au- gust 2, 1881 : married, September 22, 1908, Henry Stearns Kimball, of Roxbury, Massa- chusetts ; ii. Marjorie Frances, June 15, 1891. 4. Amasa Elwood, see forward. 5. Albert Bailey. September 17. 1858; manager and director of Home Market Corporation, of Winchester, Massachusetts. 6. Mabel Harlan, June 24. 1866 : married, April 30, 1894. George Abner Crowdis, of Braddock, Nova Scotia, son of William and Ann Crowdis; child : George Norman, born May 6. 1898.
(VIII ) Charles Rawlins (2), eldest son and second child of Charles Rawlins ( I) and Abby Goodrich (Lewis) Drew, was born on the Drew estate in Medford. Massachusetts, Janu- ary 31. 1846. He attended the common and grammar schools of his native town until he was fifteen years of age, then served as clerk in various grocery stores in Medford ; removed to Lynn in 1868 and held similar positions with several firms, returned to Medford, but soon removed to Groveland, Massachusetts, where after one year's employment in the grocery store of Frank Savory, he established himself in the provision business, subsequently engag- ing in the ice business in addition to this. He sold the provision business in August, 1882, and later the ice business, and again removed to Medford, where late in the fall he estab- lished himself in the provision trade, finally removing to his present location at Nos. 30 and 32 Main street. He has a large retail and wholesale trade and does the largest business of the kind in the town. He resides in No. 17 Thatcher street, since 1892, in a fine, mod- ern residence. He and his family attend the Methodist church, and his political allegiance is given to the Republican party, which he has served as selectman and overseer of the poor in
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Groveland. He is or has been connected at various times with the following organizations : Megantic Fish and Game Club ; Medford Club ; Lawrence Rifles, Company F ; Mount Herman Lodge, Free and Accepted Masons of Med- ford; Mystic Chapter, Royal Arch Masons; Medford Council, Royal and Select Masters; Protection Lodge, No. 147, Independent Order of Odd Fellows. He married, December 31, 1867, Annette Woodman, born in New Hamp- ton, New Hampshire, June 6, 1844, daughter of Benjamin Brackett and Polly Hackett (Ward) Dorr, of New Hampton. Children : 1. Herbert Wilbur, born at Lynn, July 10, 1869 ; married, June 19, 1894, May Josephine Baker, of Medford, and has: Wilbur Lawrence, born May 24, 1895. 2. Luella Dorr, June 26, 1873, at Groveland ; married, June 26, 1907, Ernest Samuel, born at Milton, Vermont, November 3, 1876, son of Frank Samuel and Clara ( Douglass) Rogers.
(VIII) Amasa Elwood, second son and fourth child of Charles Rawlins ( I) and Abby Goodrich (Lewis) Drew, was born in Med- ford, November 5, 1856. His education was acquired in his native town, where he was graduated from the Everett grammar school at the age of sixteen years, having employed his leisure time in working in the grocery store of Henry Jaquith. He held clerkships for some time with various firms in Medford, and then accepted a position as clerk in Haverhill, Massa- chusetts, in the provision store of George Davis. At the end of one year he commenced working for several shoe manufacturers, but returned to his occupation in the provision business for two years. He and John Buttrick then bought out a restaurant in Groveland, conducting it under the firm name of Buttrick & Drew, and after a short time Mr. Drew purchased the interest of Mr. Buttrick and continued the busi- ness alone successfully until 1887, when it was destroyed by fire. He returned to Medford, where for a short time he worked for his brother, Charles Rawlins, in the provision mar- ket, but soon removed to Boston where he bought out a provision market, continuing in this line about six years. His next step was to buy a bakery at Cambridgeport in associa- tion with Fred A. Fifield, conducting it under the style of Drew & Fifield, but at the end of one year this partnership was dissolved, and Mr. Drew returned to Groveland and engaged in the business of shipping fruit. In July, 1894, he went to Malden and opened his pres- ent business with his cousin, Horace M. Drew,
under the firm name of A. E. & H. M. Drew, their place being known as the Summer Street Market, and doing a large local trade in fruits and provisions. Mr. Drew resides in Grove- land, and he and his family attend the Meth- odist church. In politics he entertains inde- pendent views and has never held public office. He married, March 4, 1881, Isabelle, born in Groveland, September 28, 1859, daughter of George and Susan ( Page) Mitchell, of Grove- land. Children : I. Elwood Mitchell, born September 3, 1882. 2. Susan Pearl, May 25, 1884; married, May 23, 1908, Horace Win- throp George, of South Groveland, Massachu- setts. 3. Charles Albert, April 27, 1887. 4. Russell Page, August 10, 1896.
(For preceding generations see Edward Drew 1).
(VII) Martin Van Buren, sixth
DREW son and seventh child of Lazarus and Bathsheba Shurtleff ( Bart- lett ) Drew, was born in Medford, Massachu- setts, December 31, 1831, died January 19, 1872. He attended the public schools during the win- ter months, assisting his father at other times, and soon went to Boston, where he found em- ployment in one of the large leather concerns of that city and resided in the family of his employer. At the age of nineteen years he took a course of bookkeeping in a private school in Medford, returning to his former employer. After twenty-seven years spent in office labors, he entered the employ of Isaac M. Leonard, a prosperous restaurant keeper, remaining with him until 1870, and during this time having entire charge of the books, the buying and the finances of the establishment. He then commenced canvassing with a large amount of success, and it was while thus en- gaged that he was killed by an express train at Wilmington Junction, Massachusetts. He was a liberal patron of the fine arts and re- garded as an excellent critic. While not active in political matters he always gave his support to the Republican party, and he and his family attended the Orthodox church. He married, at Medford, November 29, 1854, Hannah Jane Brooks, born in Medford, April 23, 1835. (See Brooks sketch). Children: I. Cora Jane, born September 18, 1855: married, February 21, 1877, at Boston, Frank Deming Cleveland, of that city, and has: Harry Eugene, born Feb- ruary 1, 1879. 2. Horace Martin, see forward.
(\'I11) Horace Martin, only son of Martin Van Buren and Hannah Jane ( Brooks) Drew, was born in Boston, July 24, 1859. At the
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age of five years his parents removed to Chel- sea, and his education was acquired in that town, Boston and Somerville, completing his education in the old Phillips School in Boston. His first business position was with the whole- sale house of Lewis Coleman, remaining there two years, then after a number of other clerk- ships he became a clerk with his cousin, Charles R. Drew. in Medford. In July, 1894, he be- came associated in the provision business with Amasa E. Drew, in the Summer Street Mar- ket. doing a large and lucrative business. Mr. Drew is a Republican in his political views, a member of the Kearnwood Club of Malden and an enthusiastic automobilist. He married, July 16, 1902, Emily Susan, born in Medford, March 10, 1861, daughter of George Wilson and Susan Sanderson ( Brooks) Atwood, of Melrose, the former a doctor.
(The Brooks Line).
Jacob Brooks, son of Susannah, and grand- son of Samuel and Susannah Watts, was born in Woburn, Massachusetts, August 7, 1795. died in Medford, Massachusetts, November 10, 1875. At the age of four years he removed with his mother to Medford, where he was sent to school until he was seven years old. He was then sent to Lexington, where he work- ed on a farm for one year, but on account of the ill treatment he received he left this place and found employment with Eli Simonds, for whom he farmed during the summer months and assisted in the tavern during the winter. After a time he continued his farm work dur- ing the summers, but worked with different shoemakers during the winters until he had mastered this trade. He was but twenty-one years old when he married, and at that time was given entire charge of the farm of Mr. Simonds, remaining on it until 1821. when he removed with his family to Medford and enter- ed the employ of Paul Curtis, a ship builder, During the dull months of several winters he returned to his old trade of shoe making and was also employed in the building of the Flat- iron block in Medford. He worked in various ship yards until 1831, when having suffered a . sunstroke he returned to lighter work, and took private contracts for gardening on the estates of several wealthy residents. In the early fifties he became the town undertaker, having his offices in his home in High street. and conducted this business until the sixties. While engaged in farming he had leased a three-acre lot of George Porter and lived on
this for a period of forty years, finally remov- ing to Cross street, where he died. He had a small herd of cattle and sold the products of his dairy. During the war of 1812 he served as ensign in the defence of Boston Harbor and also on one of the war vessels. Later he became captain in the Medford militia. His political views were at first those of the Den- ocratic party, but he later affiliated with the Republicans, and although offered various public offices he consistently refused to accept any. although his purse and time were always at the service of the town in case of need. He was a devout Christian and an earnest member of the Unitarian church, of which he was sexton for many years. In disposition he was amiable and social and was noted for the true charity he displayed. At one time he was a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows. During the Centennial celebration at Lexington, April 19, 1875, which he attended, he contracted a severe cold which resulted in his death.
He married, at Lexington, Massachusetts, Thankful, born in Weston, September 6, 1795, died in Medford, May 23, 1877, daughter of Abraham, Jr .. and Hannah ( Pierce ) Sander- son, of Weston, Massachusetts. Children: I. Sarah, died young. 2. Maria, died young. 3. Sarah Ann, baptized April 2, 1826; married. April 26. 1838, Seth Wyman Vining, of Wo- burn, Massachusetts ; children: i. Sarah Eliz- abeth, married Emery Ramsdell, of Medford, and had: Eugene: ii. Alice Brooks, married. July, 1863, Joseph Blake, of Boston ; iii. Charles Brooks, married Martha Munroe, of Woburn ; iv. Seth C., born November 18, 1844; v. Jacob Winslow, born December 25, 1849; married (first) August 28, 1872, Cecilia Gilman, of Medford, and had: David Miller, born June 8, 1875: (second) September 12. 1895, Flor- ence Brooks Ryder, of Medford, and has: Winifred Cecelia, born November 9, 1896, and Philip Brooks, July 6. 1901. 4. John Good- win, born August 16, 1821, baptized April 2. 1826, died June 23, 1906; married, November 30, 1843, Charlotte Maria Wheeler, of Med- ford, and had: i. John Austin, born in 1844; ii. Florence Ardella, July 11, 1846; married. May 20, 1866, Andrew Jackson Ryder, of Wakefield, Massachusetts; children a. Willie Stanley, born January 7, 1867, died January 28. 1883 ; b. Fred Austin, born November 22, 1868; married, April 15, 1892, Minnie Cooley, of Stoneham, and has: Raymond Parker, born December 10, 1892; Claude Morehouse, May
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10, 1897; Irene June, February 22, 1899; c. Florence Ardella Brooks, born September 10, 1870: married, September 12, 1895, Jacob Winslow Vining, of Medford, and has: Wini- fred Cecilia, born November 9, 1896, and Phillips Brooks, July 6, 1901 ; d. Percy Brooks, born October 15, 1872, died February 7, 1874 ; e. John Milton, born December 19, 1888. 5. Charles White, born in 1824, baptized April 2, 1826, died July 12, 1882 ; married, April 20, 1848, Susan, born in Medford in 1826, dangh- ter of Joseph and Elizabeth Richardson ; chil- dren : i. Alice Gertrude: ii. Alger, married Alice Currier, of Medford, and has: Alice Brooks. 6. Augustus Brown, born August 9, 1826, died in Henniker, New Hampshire ; mar- ried, August 26, 1854. Fannie S. Gordon, who died in Henniker, October 11, 1892. 7. Alice Simonds, born October II, 1828; married, April 25. 1880, Frederick Dudley Hall Thomas, of Medford, and has: Alice. 8. Lucy Au- gusta, born February 1, 1831 ; married, Janu- ary 4. 1849, James Loring, son of James W. and Rebecca (Wade) Brooks, of Medford; children : i. Frank Randall, born July 12, 1850; married, August 10, 1873. Emma Cook, of Hartford, Connecticut, and has: Lucy, born October 24. 1874: Lillian, July 6, 1876; and Edna, June, 1895 : ii. Ella May, born Decem- ber 27, 1851, died August 20, 1905 : married, February 25. 1877. John Alfred Baxter, of Medford, and has: Isabelle Florence, born April 8, 1879: married. November 25, 1903. Charles Henry Studley, Jr., of Wakefield, and has : John Francis, born January 7, 1905 ; iii. Percy Mason, born June 23, 1855, died Marchi 23. 1900; married, May 25. 1883, Jane Eliza Jenzardi. 9. Susan Sanderson, born Novem- ber 8, 1832, baptized November 14, 1848: mar- ried ( first) April 18, 1850, Charles E. Merrill, of Medford and has: i. Charles E., Jr., who married and has: Charles : (second) Dr. George Wilson Atwood: children: ii. Emily Susan, born March 10, 1861 : married Horace Martin Drew (see Drew, VIII) : iii. George ; iv. Lillian : v. Bessie, married Walter Churchill. to. Hannah Jane, born April 23. 1835, baptized November 14, 1848: married Martin Van Buren Drew (see Drew. VII). IT. Charlotte, born July 15, 1837, baptized November 14, 1848: married Cyrus Goodwin, of Shapleigh. Maine, and has: John Frederick, born August 12, 1864; Tilly, February 22, 1868; Harry Brooks, January 2, 1873; Erla T .. September 12, 1876. 12. Emma Frances, born September 14, 1839 : married, June 15. 1869, J. Adding- ton Sale. of Chelsea, Massachusetts.
(For early generations see Richard Kimball I, and Caleb Kimball II).
(IV) Caleb (3) Kimball, eld-
KIMBALL est son of Caleb (2) and Lucy (Edwards) Kimball, was born in Ipswich, August 18, 1686, and died in Ips- wich in 1715. He was a weaver, and resided in Ipswich. His will was made March 1, 1717. He married Mary, widow of William Manning and daughter of Joseph Smith, of Ipswich. She married (third) Joseph Pillsbury, of West Newbury. Two children were born to Caleb and Mary: Caleb and James.
(V) Caleb (4), elder of the two sons of Caleb (3) and Mary Smith ( Manning) Kim- ball, was born in Ipswich, January 2, 1708, and died in West Newbury, January 1, 1795, aged eighty-seven. He married, April 17, 1735, Sarah Huse, born January 30, 1709 ; died April 16, 1793. She was a noted housekeeper, but was blind in her old age from the effects of an attack of small-pox. This disease she is said to have taken from a tramp, whom she had taken in and fed just as he was recovering from an attack of the malady. Mr. Kimball resided in West Newbury, and his children were all baptized in the west parish church. Children : Sarah, Judith, Lucy, Caleb and Anna.
(VI) Captain Caleb (5), only son of Caleb (4) and Sarah ( Huse) Kimball, was born in Newbury, October 10, 1744, and died in 1830, aged eighty-six. On April 19, 1775. he was reported detained as a post rider. December. 1776, he was first lieutenant in Moody's com- pany. Pickering's regiment ; November, 1777, was a captain in Gerrish's regiment, at Winter Hill, guarding Burgoyne's troops. He served
there four months. He resided at West New- bury, four miles from Newburyport. He mar- ried. August 24, 1766, Hannah Noyes, born in 1743: died December 2, 1820, aged seventy- seven. Children : Molly, John, Thomas, Abel (died young ), Joseph, Caleb. Sarah, Hannah, Betsey, Judith and Abel, next mentioned.
(VII) Abel, youngest child of Caleb (5) and Hannah ( Noyes) Kimball, was born in West Newbury, in 1788. He went to Sanborn- ton, New Hampshire. about 1803, with his brothers. He lived in Sanbornton, where lie was a trader and store keeper, Rochester, New Hampshire, and died 1860, in Dover, New Hampshire. He married, February 16, 1813, Dolly HI. Spofford, of Andover. Massachusetts ( see Spofford history), who was born in All- dover, Massachusetts, September 29, 1793, and died as the result of a fall on December 11,
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1880, aged eighty-seven, at the residence of her daughter, Mrs. Asa P. Hanson, at Newton,' Iowa, where she had made it her home for ten vears. She was a true and affectionate mother in every sense of the word, and her influence and strength of character gave her children those priceless qualities which they ever cher- ished. Four children survived her: Mrs. Asa P. Hanson, the only daughter, and three sons : Abel. Moody Spofford and George Caleb Kim- ball, all of whom accompanied the remains of their mother in a special car to Dover, New Hampshire, where she was buried by the side of her husband. They had children :
I. Luther, hotel keeper, resided in Dover, New Hampshire, and died there.
2. Charles, died August 10, 1820.
3. Walter, born 1812, died December 29, 1815.
4. Rooxbe Spofford, taught school until mar- ried to Asa P. Hanson, of Rochester, New Hampshire : later they removed to Davenport. Iowa. and still later to Newton, Iowa, where he was in the lumber and grain business. She died at Newton, Iowa, December, 1901, and had resided in Newton for over forty years.
5. Charles Walter, born January 9, 1819, at Dover. New Hampshire: died December 19. 1867, at Springfield, Massachusetts, and buried there ; married Maria G. Bradford (see Brad- ford history) ; receiving a good schooling, he became a machinist and later a locomotive engineer on the Western railroad, at Spring- field, Massachusetts. He was a member of the firm of Blanchard & Kimball, who built the Springfield locomotive, and also the first Knowles steam pumps. The locomotive works had the reputation of having the smartest and best locomotive of that period, and had a grow- ing business, having built forty locomotives during three years of existence, when they suspended manufacture during the panic of 1857. and the machinery was sold to the Han- nibal & St. Joseph railroad. The shops were located on Lyman and Taylor streets, in what is now the business centre of Springfield. He soon resumed business, under the firm name of C. W. Kimball & Company, consisting of him- self, his brother George C., and William Hill. of North Berwick, Maine. They carried on busi- ness as manufacturers, agents and machinists, as well as brass founders and coppersmiths. until in 1866 they sold out to Emory & Pres- cott, which later became P. P. Emory & Com- pany. He had responsible manufacturing duties at the Springfield Armory, as foreman at the water shops, during the civil war.
6. Abel, born in Sanbornton, New Hamp- shire, December 15, 1822 ; died at his summer home at South Lyndeboro, New Hampshire, June, 1909. He married, February 7. 1853, Anna Cofran, born in Concord, New Hamp- shire, February 3. 1829, died in Davenport, lowa, December 26, 1860, and buried at Spring- field, Massachusetts; married (second), April 7. 1860, Emma Prettyman, born in Davenport, lowa, October 9, 1844; died there March 23, 1891. Upon leaving school at Dover, New Hampshire, he was employed in machine shops at Lowell, Newburyport and Newmarket, and later became a locomotive engineer on the Western railroad at Springfield, Massachusetts. He was master mechanic of the Connecticut River railroad at Northampton, Massachu- setts, until appointed master mechanic and superintendent of the Cocheco railroad at Dover, New Hampshire. He left this com- pany in 1856 to accept a position with the Rock Island railroad as master mechanic at Daven- port, Iowa. He was soon promoted to superin- tendent, and as the road increased in size his duties became those of general superintendent of the C., R. 1. & P. railway, which position he held for many years, and until his appoint- ment as assistant to the president, which posi- tion he held up to his retirement from active duties, but was associated with the Rock Island system up to his death. After his retirement from active railroad service he spent several of his summers at Wilton and South Lynde- boro, New Hampshire, enjoying his hard earned rest amid nature's surroundings, which he loved so well. By his familiarity with rail- road service, and consideration and fairness to others, he won and always retained the respect of all classes of his employees as well as of officials of connecting lines, with whom he came into contact. Of a modest and unassum- ing nature, his integrity, fearlessness and direct- ness of purpose were never questioned by his superiors, employees or the public.
7. Moody Spofford, born in Sanbornton, New Hampshire, August 13, 1825 ; died April, 1891, at Mitchellville, Iowa. After leaving school he had a varied career in choosing his occupation. He served his apprenticeship as a watchmaker, and finally after having been a machinist, became a locomotive engineer on the C. H. & D. R. R. at Cincinnati for a num- ber of years. He gave up railroad work and moved to Mitchellville, Iowa, where he was engaged in the lumber and grain business up to the time of his death. During his residence at Mitchellville he had become much interested
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in Black Hills mining, and devoted much time to active mining in the Black Hills for Iowa interests, and was quite successful.
8. George Caleb, see forward.
(VII) George Caleb, youngest child of Abel and Dolly Spofford Kimball ( see Spofford his- tory), was born in Dover, New Hampshire, February 10, 1829, and died in Grand Rapids, Michigan, December 21, 1901. He married, May 31, 1855, Azubah Sargent Fairbrother, at Dover, New Hampshire. She was born Feb- ruary 10, 1828, at Westminster, Vermont, a descendant of Captain Lemuel Sargent and Pelatiah Sargent (see history of town of Rock- ingham, Vermont). Mr. Kimball received his early education under Enoch S. Sherman, at the Landing School, of Dover. Leaving school he became a machinist, under his brother Abel at Newmarket, Newburyport and Northamp- ton, Massachusetts, and later a locomotive engineer on the Connecticut River railroad, between Springfield, Massachusetts, and Bel- lows, Vermont. He next was associated with Blanchard & Kimball, of the Springfield loco- motive works, under his brother Charles. Hav- ing been a machinist and a locomotive engineer, he was well qualified for his duties of making deliveries of locomotives to Western, as well as Canadian railroads, and putting them into serv . ice. He remained in this service for Blanchard & Kimball until they suspended operation dur- ing the panic of 1857, when he succeeded his brother Abel as master mechanic and superin- tendent of the Cocheco railroad at Dover, New Hampshire. He remained with the Cocheco railroad as master mechanic and superintend- ent until it was purchased by the Boston & Maine railroad, when he became assistant superintendent of the combined system at Dover, New Hampshire. His success with the Cocheco railroad brought him before New Bedford people, who were interested in the Flint & Holly railroad, and in September, 1865, he was appointed superintendent of this com- pany, and removed to Flint, Michigan. This line was soon merged with a line from Flint to East Saginaw, and became the Flint & Pere Marquette railroad, and he became superin- tendent and removed to East Saginaw in June, 1869. During his service with the company he was active in its operation and construction. It was extended west to Reed City, north to Bay City, and south to Monroe, Michigan. He was also interested in industries at Flint and Bay City, Michigan, and a director of the Massa- chusetts Mutual Life Insurance Company, of Springfield, Massachusetts. He retired from
the Flint & Pere Marquette railroad in 1874 with the intention of giving up active railroad operation, and removed to Springfield, Massa- chusetts, to become more actively engaged with his associates in the P. P. Emory & Company, with whom he had been interested since 1866. His retirement from railroad service proved to be of short duration, as Boston people soon en- gaged him to examine the Chicago & Michigan Lake Shore railroad, which was on the verge of bankruptcy, and seemed to be a hopeless case, having no business, equipment or money. His report as to the condition of this property was such that he was elected vice-president and manager, with offices at St. Joseph, Michigan, The road became bankrupt soon after . his arrival, and he was appointed by the United States court as receiver. Upon its reorganiza-
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