Genealogy and history of representative citizens of the commonwealth of Massachusetts, Part 23

Author: Hurd, Charles Edwin, 1833-1910
Publication date: 1902
Publisher: Boston, New England historical publishing company
Number of Pages: 850

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Mr. Champney is one of the original mem- bers, and was the second president, of the Bos- ton Art Club, which was founded in 1855. His book of "Memories," with its interesting autobiographic detail and valuable notes on American and foreign art and artists, bears the stamp of sincerity and of high-minded patriotism. It is attractively illustrated with portraits and landscapes. Mr. Champney is a resident of Woburn, but has his winter studio in Boston on Bromfield Street.

He was married July 6, 1853, to Miss Mary Caroline Brooks, a distant kinswoman, who was born at Mount Pleasant, Ind., and was a daughter of Daniel and Miriam Brooks. Mrs. Mary Brooks Champney died in 1876. She was the mother of four children, namely : Kensett, born December 15, 1854; Grace, born in 1856, who died at the age of six and a half years; Edith, born in 1859, and died in 1861 ; and Alice, born December 14, 1869. June 26, 1879, Mr. Champney married Mrs. Marga- ret Stevenson, a native of Scotland. She died in November, 1895. Kensett, Mr. Champ- ney's only son, is a coffee planter in Guate- mala, Central America. Alice Champney was married in 1896 to Arthur C. Wyer, of Woburn. Mr. and Mrs. Wyer make their home with Mr. Champney in Woburn, pass- ing the summer season at North Conway. They have one child, Alice Brooks, born July 27, 1898.

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SCAR CLOUGH LOUGEE, a resi- dent of Cambridge, was born Febru- ary 27, 1850, son of Parker Morgan and Mercy Elizabeth (Clough) Lou- gee. He is a descendant in the sixth genera- tion of John1 Lougee, a native of the Isle of Jersey, by trade a knitter, who came to New England during Queen Anne's War, he being then eighteen years old. He settled at Exeter, N. H. In 1710 he was captured by Indians and taken to Canada and thence, as stated in the History of Exeter, to England. Five or six years later he returned to Exeter. "At a town meeting held April 12, 1725, it was voted that John Lougee be granted 30 acres of land, but to wait 10 years." He d. in Exe- ter at the age of seventy-seven years. He m., about 1720, Mary, daughter of Colonel Moses Gilman, of New Market, N. H. Their chil- dren were: John, Joseph, Moses, Edmund, Gilman, Shuah, Anna, and Joanna.

Toward the close of the eighteenth century the following named members of the Lougee family of New Hampshire - Josiah, Jona- than, William, Hannah, Josiah, Jr., Dolly, Betsey, Lydia or Cynthia, Betty, and Mercy - joined the Shaker community at East Canter- bury.

From John1 Lougee the line of descent to Oscar C. Lougee is through Edmund,2 Jona- than, 3-4 and Parker Morgan5. Edmund2 Lou- gee (b. in 1731, d. June 3, 1807) m. Hannah Fletcher, who was b. in 1735, and d. in 1790. Of their children the only record at hand is that of Jonathan, 3 b. May 23, 1757, d. July 19, 1817. Jonathan3 Lougee m. Elizabeth Fletcher (b. September 16, 1759, d. April 10, 1805), and their children were: Jonathan, + David, John, Joseph, Betsey, and Nancy, the eldest b. in 1782 and the youngest in 1805.

Jonathan4 Lougee (b. April 29, 1782, d. March 19, 1863) was twice m., his first wife being Hannah Barnard (b. December 15, 1786, d. August 11, 1816). Their children were: John M., b. July 25, 1810, d. March 19, 1859 ; and Asa, b. May 9, 1813, d. December 5, 1835. For his second wife he m. Mrs. Betsey Morgan Hewitt (b. January 18, 1789, d. Sep- tember 26, 1877), daughter of Parker4 and Betsey (Sanborn) Morgan and widow of Gil-

bert Hewitt. She was probably a descendant of an early settler of Exeter, bearing the name Morgan, who, it is thought, came over about the year 1670.

"Dixon on Surnames " (Boston, 1857) thus translates Morgan : "(Welsh) By Sea, or By the Sea," and in supplement (1858) adds that "Big Head is the better interpretation." Others attribute its origin to the Anglo-Saxon word Morgen or Morgan, meaning morning. Morgan, a monk of Bangor, Wales, whose name was Latinized as Pelagius, was the author of the Pelagian heresy, about A. D. 360. There were princes and petty kings of the name in Wales several centuries prior to the Norman Conquest, and to one of these kings, Morgan of Glamorgan, is accredited the invention, or at least the adoption, in about the year 725, of trials by jury, which he called the Apostolic Law.

In the Registry of Deeds at Exeter, N. H., may be found the record of a conveyance of one hundred acres of land from Richard Morgan to Peter Coffin, dated May, 1690, said land con- taining a mill known as the Morgan mill. It is reasonable, therefore, to suppose that the Richard Morgan above mentioned was the emi- grant, and that he settled permanently in that part of Exeter now known as Brentwood. "Jan. 31, 1681, Richard Morgan was granted 60 acres of land in the town of Exeter." "Feb. 21, 1698, Richard Morgan, Sr., was granted 100 acres, and Richard Morgan, Jr., 50 acres." "Aug. 3 to 31, 1696, Richard Morgan, Jr., with 9 others, served in the garri- son at Oyster River, and Richard, Sr., from Oct. 26 to Nov. 9."

John2 Morgan, of Brentwood, probably a son of Richard,' m. a Powell, and had three sons, of whom two, John3 and Simeon, grew to man- hood. John3 Morgan was a lifelong resident of Brentwood. £ But two weeks intervened be- tween his death (in 1786) and that of his brother Simeon. He was a prosperous farmer, and acquired considerable local distinction for agricultural proficiency and the superior neat- ness of his premises. He m. Abigail Gove, of Salisbury, Mass. Their children were : Joanna, b. in 1752, d. in 1839, m. John Bryer; David, b. in 1755, settled in Hallo-

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well, Me., m., and reared a family ; Parker, a Revolutionary soldier, further mentioned below; Judith, b. in 1761, m. Barzillai Beedy, and lived in Vermont; Elizabeth, b. in 1764, m. Benjamin Smith, and lived in Bridgewater, N. H. ; and Abigail, who m., and also lived in Bridgewater. Mrs. Abigail Gove Morgan d. at the home of her daughter Abigail in 1822.

Parker4 Morgan was b. in Brentwood, De- cember 12, 1757. In his youth he served an apprenticeship to the twofold trade of car- penter and cabinet-maker with Ebenezer Clif- ford in Kensington, N.H. In 1776 he en- listed at Winter Hill, Mass., as a private in Captain Winborn Adams's company, Colonel Enoch Poor's regiment, New Hampshire Vol- unteers, for one year's service in the Revolu- tionary War, in which he proved himself a brave soldier, and participated in the cam- paign under General Gates, which resulted in the surrender of General Burgoyne. While his regiment was occupying an exposed position in the field at Stillwater on October 7, 1777, he was struck in the chin by a grapeshot from one of the enemy's field-pieces. Although the wound bled profusely, he persisted in remain- ing at his post until his twenty-four rounds of ammunition were exhausted; and, when the order was given for his regiment to charge, he pressed forward with his comrades, capturing the gun which had so nearly caused his death, and at the point of the bayonet compelling the enemy to surrender after they had been driven into their fort. After his discharge from the army he shipped on board the American pri- vateer "General Mifflin," commanded by Cap- tain McMae; and during a cruise, which ex- tended east to the Bay of Biscay and north to the coast of Greenland, they captured thirteen British prizes, including a man-of-war. Aban- doning the sea, he followed his trade in Ken- sington, Exeter, Portsmouth, and other places. From 1783 to 1800 he owned and occupied a homestead in Kensington, whence he removed to Gilmanton, where for the next twenty-four years he divided his time between the pursuit of his trade and the cultivation of a farm. In 1824 he leased his property and took up his residence at Meredith Bridge, N.H. His death at the last-named place, October 24,

1824, was caused by pulmonary disease of long standing. He was temperate in all his habits and highly respected as an upright, conscientious, and religious man, being a mem- ber of the Congregational church.

The following communication will prove in- teresting to the descendants of Parker Morgan, as it substantiates his war record beyond all question : -

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR, BUREAU OF PENSIONS, WASHINGTON, D.C., JANUARY 28, 1899.

" Sir, - In response to your recent commu- nication you are advised that Parker Morgan made an application for pension on April 23, 1818, at which time he was fifty-nine years of age and residing at Gilmanton, N. H. ; and his pension was allowed for one year's actual ser- vice as a private in the New Hampshire troops, Revolutionary War. He enlisted at Winter Hill, Mass., and served under Captain Win- born Adams and Colonel Poor.

"His widow, Betsey, made application and received a pension for the service of her hus- band as above set forth.

"Very respectfully, "H. CLAY EVANS, "Commissioner."

On June 7, 1781, Parker Morgan m. Betsey Sanborn (b. February 28, 1763, d. September 30, 1838), daughter of Richard and Elizabeth Sanborn, of Kensington. She was a descend- ant in the fifth generation of John' Sanborn, who is said to have come to New England with his maternal grandfather, the Rev. Stephen Bachiler, and his brothers, William and Ste- phen, in 1632. They were sons of "an Eng- lish Samborne," then deceased ("probably William of Brimpton," says the family gene- alogist, others naming him as "John Sam- borne "), and his wife, Ann Bachiler.

Lieutenant John' Sanborn, who was b. in England in 1620, settled at Hampton, N. H., where he owned a house lot as early as 1644. He was a Lieutenant in the militia. His first wife, Mary, daughter of Robert Tuck, of Hamp- ton, d. in 1668. In 1671 he m. widow Mar- garet Moulton, daughter of Robert Page, of

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Hampton. Nathaniel2 Sanborn, who was b. in Hampton, N. H., January 27, 1666, m. Re- becca Prescott for his first wife and Sarah Nason for his second. Richard3 Sanborn, b. in Kensington, February 27, 1693, d. Septem- ber 14, 1773, m. January 21, 1713, Elizabeth Batchelder, who d. January 20, 1753; m., second, July 13, 1753, Judith, daughter of Eben- ezer Gove, of Hampton, and widow of Captain Jonathan Prescott. His son, Richard4 Sanborn, b. in Kensington, February 23, 1737, d. May 5, 1817. On June 24, 1762, he m. Mrs. Eliza- beth Tilton Prescott, widow of John Prescott. She was b. November 20, 1735, daughter of Sherburn and Anna (Hilliard) Tilton. She d. January 10, 1805. The children of Richard4 and Elizabeth Sanborn were: Betsey, who m. Parker Morgan, as previously mentioned; Hil- liard (b. March 15, 1765, d. in Kensington, May 20, 1836), m. March 14, 1791, Sarah Tilton, of Hampton Falls; Anne (b. January 22, 1768, d. March 15, 1852), m. first Thomas Cook and second John Potter, both of Ken- sington ; and Jeremiah (b. April 29, 1772, d. June 3, 1854), m. Tabitha Tuck, of Kensing- ton, September 16, 1796.

Parker and Betsey Morgan were the parents of eight children (b. 1782-1805) ; namely, John, Jeremiah, Elizabeth, Tappan, Nancy, Charles, Fanny, and John Tappan. Elizabeth m. for her second husband Jonathan Lougee, as before mentioned. Mrs. Betsey Morgan, the mother of these children, spent her declining years at the home of her son Charles, and her death occurred in Moultonboro, N. H. She was one of those noble, self-sacrificing women who suffered patiently the hardships made necessary by the national struggle for independence, and was especially distinguished among her neigh- bors for her benevolence and piety.

Elizabeth Morgan m. for her first husband Gilbert Hewitt (b. June 4, 1783, d. Septem- ber 26, 1811), by whom she had two children, namely : Alfred G., b. December 12, 1808, d. March 26, 1823; and Elizabeth A., b. Oc- tober 7, 1810, d. September 10, 1846. Of her union with Jonathan4 Lougee, which took place in November, 1816, there were three children, namely : Charles T., b. June 15, 1819, d. February 26, 1872; Parker Morgan

Lougee, b. January 18, 1824; and Nancy M., b. January 10, 1826.

Parker Morgan5 Lougee, Oscar C. Lougee's father, resides in Newburyport. On March 5, 1849, he m. Mercy Elizabeth Clough, who was b. in Gilmanton, October 3, 1827, and d. Au- gust 9, 1899. She was a daughter of Stephen Sanborn and Betsey Marston (Heath) Clough, the latter a native of Malone, N. Y.

Mercy Elizabeth Clough was a descendant in the eighth generation of John1 Clough (Thomas, 2 Samuel, 3-4-5 Stephen,6 Stephen San- born,7 and Mercy E.8). John' Clough, house carpenter, who was b. in England about the year 1613, probably came over in the "Eliza- beth " in 1635. Settling in Salisbury, Mass., he shared in the first distribution of land (1638-39), and also received another grant in 1640. He d. July 26, 1691. His first wife, Jane, d. January 16, 1680; and on January 15, 1686, he m. for his second wife Martha Cilley (or Sibley). She was living in 1692. His children, all by his first wife, were: Elizabeth, b. 1642, who m. a Mr. Horne; Mary, who d. young; Sarah, m. Daniel Merrill; John, who m. Mercy Page; Thomas,2 the next in line of descent ; Martha, who m. Cornelius Page; and Samuel, b. February, 1656-7, who m. Eliza- beth Brown. Thomas2 Clough (b. May 29, 1651) m. for his first wife, March 10, 1680, Hannah Gile, who d. January 22, 1683, leav- ing two sons - Samuel and Thomas. In 1687 he m. for his second wife Ruth Connor, and their children were: Jeremiah, Ebenezer (d. young), Ebenezer (second), Zaccheus, Isaac, Rebecca, Hannah, Judith, Martha, Jethro, and Tabitha, the youngest b. in 1707.

Samuel3 Clough, b. December 5, 1680, d. before 1728. He was survived by his wife, Sarah, and eight children; namely, Theophi- lus (b. 1703), Anna, Abigail, Samuel, Daniel, Sarah, Mehitable, and Miriam. A son Elipha- let d. 1706. Samuel+ Clough, b. April 15, 1714, m. Sarah ,and was the father of eleven children, b. 1735-58; namely, Sam- uel, Mehitable, Samuel (second), Miriam, Abner, Sarah, Jonathan, Isaiah, Daniel, Anna, and Abel. Samuels Clough (b. March 10, 1740) went from Salisbury to Gilmanton, N. H., in 1768, and was subsequently followed

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by his brothers, Daniel, Isaiah, and Abner. All were pioneers in that section, and their farms adjoined.

Samuel5 m. Mehitable Dudley, who was b. in Exeter in 1752, daughter of Stephens and Hannah (Sanborn) Dudley. She was a de- scendant in the sixth generation of Thomas' Dudley, who came to Massachusetts in 1630 as Deputy Governor, was made Governor in 1634, 1640, 1645, and 1650, and d. in 1652. He is said to have been b. in Northampton, England, about 1576, son of Captain Roger Dudley.

The Rev. Samuel2 Dudley, son of Governor Thomas, settled in Exeter, N. H., in 1650, and d. there in 1683, aged seventy-seven years. By his first wife, Mary, daughter of Governor Winthrop, he had five children ; by his second wife, Mary Byley, five; and by his third wife, Elizabeth, he had eight, one of them being Stephen, 3 who was b. at Exeter, N. H. . Ste- phen3 Dudley m. December 24, 1684, Sarah, daughter of the Hon. John Gilman. Of this union there were eleven children - Samuel, Stephen, James, John, Nicholas, Joanna, True- worthy, Joseph, Abigail, Sarah, and Elizabeth. Stephen4 Dudley m. Sarah Davison, and their children were: Samuel, Stephen, Davidson, Margaret, Sarah, Joanna, and Abigail. Dea- con Stephen5 Dudley, b. October 14, 1724, re- moved to Gilmanton in 1764. He m. in 1745 Hannah Sanborn, daughter of John Sanborn, of North Hampton, N. H. Of this union there were eight children; namely, Nicholas, John, Samuel, Mehitable, Daniel, Stephen, Sarah, and Peter.

The children of Samuels and Mehitable (Dudley) Clough were b. in Gilmanton. Their son, Stephen6 Clough, m. Mercy San- born, a daughter of Richard Sanborn, and had five children, namely : Sarah and Mehitable, who d. in infancy; Samuel, who d. aged twenty-one years; Stephen Sanborn; and Abi- gail. Stephen Sanborn7 Clough m. Betsey Marston Heath, and their children were: Mercy Elizabeth, 8 who m. Parker M. Lougee, as stated above; and Martha Grace, who m. Sylvester L. Brown, of Seabrook, N. H.

Parker M. and Mercy E. Lougee were the parents of three children : Oscar Clough, who will be again referred to; Thesta Grace, who

was b. March 13, 1852, and d. July 12, 1854; and Cora Belle, who was b. March 4, 1860.

Oscar Clough6 Lougee married for his first wife, March 16, 1872, Martha A. Howe, daughter of John B. Howe, of Rochester, N. H. His second wife, whom he married January 12, 1881, was Helen M. Creasey, daughter of Enoch and Eliza Creasey, of New- buryport, Mass. She died January 30, 1890. Of this union there is one son - Chester Ar- thur Lougee, born November 16, 1881. His present wife, in maidenhood Carrie E. Leach, whom he married October 24, 1893, is a native of Lawrence, Mass., and a daughter of William H. and Annie Leach. She is the mother of one son - William Parker Lougee, born May 10, 1896.

Mr. O. C. Lougee was a member of the City Council of Newburyport in 1887. A Free Mason, he belongs to St. Mark's Lodge, F. & A. M., of Newburyport; King Cyrus Chapter, R. A. M. ; and Newburyport Commandery, K. T. He is also a prominent member of the I. O. O. F., being District Deputy Grand Master of District Four of Massachusetts and of Crusader Commandery, Knights of Malta, of Cambridge. A Republican in politics, Mr. Lougee served thirteen years in the Massa- chusetts Volunteer Militia, during which time he was twice commissioned Captain. He was honorably discharged, March, 1886.

ATHANIEL JOHNSON RUST, who occupies a place in the front rank of Boston's representative business men, is a native of the Pine Tree State, having been born in Gorham, Cumber- land County, November 28, 1833, a son of Meshach and Martha (Frost) Rust. He is of pure New England ancestry, dating back seven generations to Henry' Rust, the immigrant progenitor of the family, who, about 1633 or 1635, came from Hingham, Norfolkshire, Eng- land, and settled at Hingham, Mass. Of this early ancestor of Mr. Rust's but little is known. His son Nathaniel,2 who was bap- tized in Hingham, Mass., February 2, 1639- 40, removed in early life to Ipswich, where he engaged in the manufacture of gloves, and

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was known as "Nathaniel, the Glover." He d. December 23, 1713. His wife, Mary Wardell, who was b. in 1644 in Boston, and who was a daughter of William Wardell, sur- vived him six years or more, her death occur- ring in 1720.

Their son, Lieutenant Nathaniel3 Rust, next in line of descent, was b. March 16, 1667, and d. September 9, 1711. He m. February 22, 1684, Joanna, daughter of Quartermaster Rob- ert Kinsman, her father being a son of Robert and Mary (Boreman) Kinsman. She was b. April 25, 1665, and d. January 28, 1733. Their son, the Rev. Henry4 Rust, was b. in Ipswich, Mass., in 1686, was graduated at Harvard College in the class of 1707, and in April, 1718, was settled as the first minister at Stratham, N. H., where he remained for thirty-seven years. His wife, Anna, whom he m. about 1719, was a daughter of Colonel Richard and Eleanor (Vaughan) Waldron. She was b. August 27, 1698, and d. May 20, 1733. His death took place March 20, 1749. Colonel Henry5 Rust, son of the Rev. Henry, was b. in Stratham, N. H., January 22, 1726. He was the only one among the original pro- prietors of Wolfboro, N. H., to make a perma- nent home in that place. In 1773 he was appointed Judge of Probate under the Crown. His death occurred March 17, 1807. His wife, Ann Harvey, who was from Portsmouth, N. H., followed him to the grave within a few weeks, dying June II of the same year.

They were the parents of William,6 b. at Portsmouth, N. H., August 7, 1765, who was grandfather of the subject of this sketch. William6 Rust, by occupation a farmer, was thrice m. : first, on December 3, 1787, to Han- nah Marble, who was b. January 15, 1760, a daughter of Samuel Marble, of Stratham, N. H., and d. at Wolfboro, August 4, 1802; second, to Susannah Rollins Melvin, a widow, who was b. December 25, 1768, and d. October 8, 1815; and third, on March 3, 1819, to Mrs. Nancy Wedgewood, daughter of Joshua Haley and widow of Lot Wedgewood, of Parsonfield, Me. She was b. September 2, 1780, and d. August 4, 1845. William Rust's children were: William, Jr., b. June 1, 1788; Nathaniel, b. September 9, 1790; Sarah, b.

December 15, 1793; Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, triplets, b. August 20, 1796; and Hannah, b. February 28, 1801. Shadrach Rust d. February 2, 1797. The father of these children d. September 5, 1851, and William, Jr., d. September 25, 1848. Abednego Rust m. Hannah Meyhew.

Meshach Rust, the date of whose nativity has been given above, was a tailor. He m. for his first wife November 25, 1821, Martha Frost, of Gorham, Me. She was b. February 12, 1803, a daughter of Nathaniel and Content (Hamblin) Frost. She bore her husband five children, namely : William Appleton, b. June 22, 1823, now a resident of Boston; Martha Ann, b. November 3, 1825, who d. August 5, 1832; Sarah Jane, b. January 21, 1828; Susan Maria, b. March 15, 1830, who d. September 15, 1832; and Nathaniel Johnson, the subject of this sketch. Mrs. Martha Frost Rust d. March 25, 1835. Mr. Rust m. for his second wife, July 27, 1836, Sally Waterhouse. The children of this marriage were: Charles Oli- ver, b. April 21, 1837, who d. January 19, 1843; and George Waterhouse, b. February 17, 1842. Meshach Rust, the father, d. at Gorham, Me., in 1874.

At the age of sixteen Nathaniel J. Rust, equipped with a practical education acquired in the public schools and academy of his native town, began business life as assistant in an apothecary store at South Paris, Me., where he remained for about two years. Com- ing to Boston in 1851, he devoted his energies to the same line of industry. In 1853 he en- tered the employ of Weeks & Potter, the well- known Boston firm of wholesale druggists, with whom he continued till 1860. In 1859 failing health caused him to make a trip to Europe. In 1860 he went to New York City, where he became connected with the drug house of Demas Barnes & Co. During the spring of 1861 he was in Charleston, S. C., and was a spectator of the bombardment and surrender of Fort Sumter, the opening event of the great Civil War. Returning to Boston in 1862, he engaged in business for himself as a member of the wholesale drug house of Car- ter, Rust & Co., which, after four successful years of business life, was reorganized under

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the title of Rust Brothers & Bird. Under this latter style it was continued till June, 1890, when the Rust & Richardson Drug Company was established, in which Mr. Rust is a di- rector.

Mr. Rust's marked business ability, together with his unimpeachable integrity, has led nat- urally to his connection with other business enterprises and financial institutions. Fo three years he served as president of the North End Savings Bank. This position he resigned in 1885 to accept the presidency of the Lincoln National Bank, of which institution he was one of the original founders. He resigned this latter presidency in 1894, in order to make an extended tour in Europe wtih his fam- ily. He is now a director in the Boston Safe Deposit and Trust Company, the New England Mutual Life Insurance Company, the Boston Five Cents Savings Bank, and is president of the Manchester Mills, Manchester, N. H., the Garner Cotton Gin Company, Bridgewater, and of the Boston Storage Warehouse Com- pany, and was formerly director in the Boston Gas Light Company, was president of the Dor- chester Gas Light Company, was director in the Wakefield Rattan Company, the Mercan- tile Loan and Trust Company, and the Atlas Mutual Fire Insurance Company, with vari- ous other companies. For many years also he was a director in the street railways of Boston.

The qualities that have led to Mr. Rust's success in business life have operated to draw him into politics, though without any particu- lar desire on his part. An earnest member of the Republican party since its formation, he has been called to fill several important polit- ical positions. In 1874 he was elected by a district of the city of Boston to the Massachu- setts Legislature, and in 1875 and 1876 was re-elected. During the two succeeding years he was president of the Republican City Com- mittee. He served as a member of the Boston City Council in 1878-79, as a member of the Board of Aldermen in 1891-92, and since then as a member of the Board of Sinking Fund Commissioners. He has ever been a stanch supporter of good government and the de- clared enemy of everything in the form of political dishonesty, and has never permitted

his political action to be influenced by consid- erations of religion, race, color, or political affiliations when an act of justice was to be done or the cause of good government to be served. Perhaps no qualities have so endeared him to his associates, both in the business and political world, and enhanced his popularity, as his ready accessibility, uniform urbanity, and regardfulness of the rights of others. In these things success has made no difference in him, except, perhaps, to accentuate them. Many through sheer compulsion bear them- selves well under adversity; but he who can worthily bear wealth and honors, and yet keep the citadel of his heart from false pride, arro- gance, and supercilious disregard for the rights of others, is one whose manhood needs no spur, and such is Mr. Rust. To the education of which he laid the foundation in his boyhood days he has added much by reading and by extensive travel in Europe and on the North American continent. He believes in timely recreation, and is a member of various social organizations and several of the prominent clubs of Boston.

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Genealogy and history of representative citizens of the commonwealth of Massachusetts, Part 23

Author: Hurd, Charles Edwin, 1833-1910 Publication date: 1902 Publisher: Boston, New England historical publishing company Number of Pages: 850

Author: Hurd, Charles Edwin, 1833-1910
Publication date: 1902
Publisher: Boston, New England historical publishing company
Number of Pages: 850