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The eldest son, John3 Hannum, who was b. in 1676 and d. in 1757, was one of the first settlers at Easthampton. He m. first, in 1698, Elizabeth Clesson, daughter of Matthew and Mary (Phelps) Clesson, of Northampton. She d. in 1709; and he m., secondly, in 1715, Elizabeth Stebbins, widow of John Stebbins. His children, four daughters and one son, were all by the first wife. Eleazer,4 b. in 1707,
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like his ancestors, sought new fields, and be- came one of the pioneers of Southampton. He was first m. in 1729 to Martha Root, who d. in 1740. For his second wife he m. in 1743 Dorothy Danks. Of this latter union there were five sons and five daughters. Joel, 5 b. 1745, eldest son of Eleazer, 4 d. in 1813.
The military service of Eleazer Hannum and his son Joel in the struggle for American in dependence is thus recorded in volume seven of "Massachusetts Soldiers and Sailors of the Revolutionary War " : "Eleazer Hannum, Ser- geant, Captain Elijah Clapp's company, Colonel John Dickenson's regiment. Engaged August 17, 1777; discharged August 22, 1777; served five days; moved toward Bennington as far as New Providence on an alarm. Roll dated Southampton." "Joel Hannum, Northamp- ton, private, Captain Samuel Fairfield's com- pany, Colonel Nathan Sparhawk's regiment. Enlisted September 24, 1778. Service, two months, twenty-three days. Company served at Dorchester, and was discharged December 12, 1778."
Joels Hannum m. in 1773 Esther Coleman, who was b. in 1743, and d. in 1817, at the age of seventy-four years. They had six daughters and six sons. The second son, Paul,6 b. 1785, d. 1861, m. Sally Miller, b. 1784, d. in 1850. They had four daughters and six sons. Alex- ander Chessman,7 b. April 3, 1811, d. in 1875. He m. in 1834 Laura Ann Moody. They reared two daughters and one son, Leander Moody, now of Cambridge.
Leander Moody Hannum was born in North- ampton, Mass., December 22, 1837. He was educated in the public schools of his native town and at Williston Seminary, Easthampton. In 1854, at the age of sixteen, he went to Cal- ifornia, making the journey via the Isthmus of Panama. After remaining there two years he returned to Massachusetts and began business life as a clerk in a wholesale grocery house in Springfield. He afterward acted for several years as cashier and correspondent in New York for Mr. Howe of the Howe sewing ma- chines. In 1864 he came to Cambridge to engage in the grocery business, in which, how- ever, he continued but for a short time, giving it up in order to enter into his present occupa-
tion - that of a dealer in real estate and mort- gages. The result has justified his choice, as he has achieved a gratifying measure of success and has been recognized for many years as one of the leading business men of the city. He is not only an extensive dealer in, but also a considerable owner of, Cambridge real estate; and he is qualified to perform the duties of a justice and notary public. In 1873 Mr. Han- num was elected to the Common Council, and in 1874 to the Board of Aldermen, to which he was re-elected in 1875. He served as Repre- sentative to the State Legislature in 1876 and 1877 and as Senator in 1881 and 1882. While a member of the lower house he served as chairman of the Committee on Public Build- ings and of the Committee on Street Railways, and while in the Senate he was chairman of the Committee on Prisons, and also of the Committee on the State House, and a member of the Committee on Insurance. He was chair- man of the Republican City Committee for seven years; special commissioner for Middle- sex County several years; and for ten years was a member of the Board of Water Com- missioners, resigning that position in 1894. He is Past Master of Amicable Lodge, F. & A. M., of Cambridge; has served as Deputy Grand Master; and is a member of Cambridge R. A. Chapter and Boston Commandery, K. T. He is a member of the Third Congregational Church, which he has served fifteen years as chairman of the Standing Committee; is an officer in the Young Women's Christian Asso- ciation, being auditor and chairman of the advisory board. He is also a charter member of the Cambridge and Colonial Clubs, and many other clubs and military organizations and Grand Army posts. Mr. Hannum married December 15, 1869, Anne H. Demain, of Cambridge. They have had two children, both now deceased.
ARSHALL MARTIN TIDD, a lifelong resident of Woburn, widely known as a civil engineer, was born August 1, 1827, son of Marshall and Sarah Ann (Martin) Tidd. He was a descendant of John' Tidd, one of the first
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settlers of Woburn, the line of descent being as follows : -
John,2 b. February 26, 1655 ; Ebenezer, 3 b. August 31, 1693; Samuel, 4 b. August 20, 1716, who m. Phebe Sawyer, September 14, 1738; Samuel,5 b. November 18, 1765, who m. December 28, 1786, Susanna Richardson ; Marshall,6 b. March 14, 1804; and Marshall Martin. 7
Samuels Tidd, grandfather of Marshall M., was a shoemaker by trade, and a lifelong resi- dent of Woburn. His wife Susanna was also a native of Woburn, b. January 1, 1763, a daughter of Bartholomew and Sarah (Converse) Richardson. She d. in 1852, having reared five children - Samuel, Luke, Susan, John, and Marshall.
Marshall6 Tidd in his youth learned the trade of shoemaker, which he followed for the greater part of his life. He was a man of æsthetic tastes, and a great lover of flowers, delighting to cultivate them for the sake of their beauty and fragrance, in which respect he set the first example in Woburn. That he was not unprogressive in the more practical things of life is shown in the fact that his family was the first in the town to make use of coal as fuel in the cooking-stove. He d. April 22, 1851. His wife, Sarah Ann Mar- tin, whom he m. September 23, 1826, was b. in Gloucester, Mass., July 5, 1 808, and sur- vived her husband many years, dying February 21, 1896. She was a daughter of Captain William Dagget Martin, a native of the Shen- andoah Valley, b. in Lancaster County, Vir- ginia. Left an orphan at an early age, Will- iam Daggett was brought up by an aunt, who, when he was but eight years old, bound him as apprentice to a sea-captain. Not being well treated he ran away a year later, and, taking service on board another vessel, continued to follow a seafaring life. He was shipwrecked at the age of eighteen near Lisbon, and the American Consul there secured passage for him in a vessel bound to Gloucester, Mass. Subsequently he again went to sea, and gradu- ally rose in the service from the position of cabin boy to that of master mariner, sailing from Boston for a number of years. In 1823, having acquired a competency, he gave up his
profession, and, coming to Woburn, bought a farm which he carried on for several years. He finally sold it, however, and purchased an estate, where he resided for several years, and a part of which is now occupied by the public library. He d. at the home of his daughter in the house known as the "Ober House," Ar- lington Road, December 23, 1849, at the age of sixty-six years. He m. Alice Challis, who was b. in Gloucester, Mass., a daughter of Gideon and Lucy Challis. She d. August 12, 1846, at the age of sixty-two years. Mr. and Mrs. Marshall Tidd reared three children - Marshall Martin, Sarah Ann, and John Edgell. Sarah Ann, b. April 29, 1829, m. George C. Nichols, who d. in 1886, and a sketch of whose brother John appears else- where in this volume. She survives her hus- band, and has one child - Tracy Warren, b. December 21, 1852, who is now engaged in business as a currier at Ballston Spa, N. Y. John Edgell Tidd is a resident of Woburn. He m. Ann Bulfinch, daughter of Amos and Hannah Bulfinch. She was b. May 2, 1833, and d. December 13, 1900.
Marshall Martin Tidd obtained his element- ary education in the public schools of Woburn. He then pursued more advanced studies in the Warren Academy, and subsequently spent one year at Bryant & Stratton's Business College in Boston. Having cultivated a natural talent for drawing, he went to Lawrence at the age of nineteen to assist in draughting plans for the first dam across the Merrimac River at that place. He improved every opportunity for self-advancement, and by observation, study, and practice became in course of time a civil engineer of wide repute. He assisted in re- building the docks in East Boston, and later built docks at the Erie Basin, Brooklyn, N. Y. Actively engaged in the practice of his pro- fession for a number of years, he practised it in later life as consulting engineer. In 1864 he settled on the estate extending from Main Street to Warren Avenue, Woburn, where he spent the remainder of his life. The location of this property is an ideal one, the house, which Mr. Tidd rebuilt and enlarged, being situated on the side of a hill commanding an extensive view,
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The grounds were also improved and beau- tified by him.
He married October 9, 1853, Abby Snow Cole, of Orleans, Mass., daughter of Cap- tain Isaiah and Sarah (Mayo) Cole, her parents being of early American ancestry. Mr. Tidd died August 20, 1895, his wife having passed away two years previously, July 22, 1893. They reared one child, a daughter, Alice Stanwood, born April 16, 1855, who was educated in the private schools of Woburn, and who still occupies the homestead. Mr. Tidd was a member of the Massachusetts Hor- ticultural Society, of the American Society of Civil Engineers, and of the Boston Society of Civil Engineers. Before he was two years old, he lost the use of his right arm by paralysis, and, in spite of this, he became an expert penman and a celebrated daughtsman. Of domestic tastes, devoted to his home, he was beloved by his family and respected by all who knew him.
OSES RICKER, of Watertown, was born in Acton, Me., December 20, 1843. Son of the late Ebenezer Ricker, he is a lineal descendant in the seventh generation from Maturin Ricker, an early settler of Dover, N. H. The line is : Mattırin, Maturin,2 Jr., Moses, 3 Eb- enezer, 4 Moses, 5 Ebenezer,6 Moses7. The fam- ily name is supposed by some to be derived from the French name "Richart," and by others from the German "Riccord."
Maturin' Ricker and his older brother George emigrated from England to Dover, N. H., where George paid taxes in 1672. On June 4, 1706, they were both killed by the Indians. Maturin's' son Noah, who was captured at that time, was carried to Canada, there educated, became a Catholic priest, and never returned to his home. Maturin2 Ricker, Jr., son of Maturin, ' m. Lucy Wallingford. Their son, Moses3 Ricker, settled at North Berwick, Me., where he served as Selectman in 1772. His will was proved June 26, 1797. He m., first, Dorcas Ricker, a daughter of his father's cousin, Maturin, who was a son of the emi- grant George' Ricker. Ebenezer4 Ricker m.
Mary Butler. Moses5 Ricker, b. at Berwick, Me., m. Keziah Hodgdon, and settled in Lebanon, Me. Ebenezer6 Ricker was b. in Lebanon, Me., September 6, 1819, and d. in Acton, Me., June 29, 1887. On March I, 1843, he m. Lovisa L. Grant, who was b. in Acton, May 1, 1816. She was a daughter of Jonathan Grant, who settled in Acton in 1800, m. Mary Clark November 27, 1800, and d. there February 12, 1840. Her mother d. Feb- ruary 2, 1852.
Moses Ricker spent his boyhood in Acton, attending the district school, and working on the home farm during the long vacations. Coming to Boston in 1863, he soon entered upon a business career which proved success- ful, being for many years a member and the general manager of the Boston Fresh Tripe Company, of which Henry C. Derby was the treasurer. Since 1868 he has been a resident of Watertown. In October, 1868, Mr. Ricker married Harriet Thompson Wentworth, who was born in Letete, N. B., April 10, 1849, daughter of John and Mary (Kelley) Went- worth. Mr. and Mrs. Ricker have five chil- dren, namely : Annie May and Ida A., both living at home; Carrie M., a teacher in the public schools of Reading; Mabel, who is em- ployed by her father as a book-keeper; and Ethel, who was graduated from the Water- town High School in the class of 1900, and is now taking a post-graduate course there.
Mrs. Ricker is also of Colonial ancestry, being a descendant in the ninth generation of William Wentworth, who was one of the first settlers at Exeter, N. H., and later an inhabi- tant of Dover, where he was a Ruling Elder of the church and a preacher. Elder William Wentworth d. in 1697. One of his wives was Elizabeth Kenny. Ezekiel2 Wentworth, b. as early as 1651, son of William,' d. probably in 1687, his will being proved. September 16, 1687. John3 Wentworth, a farmer and lumber dealer, son of Ezekiel2 and his wife Elizabeth, was a man of considerable prominence in the community, being Selectman of Dover in 1702, Assessor in 1705, and Representative to the General Assembly in 1711. On December 24, 1703, he m. Martha Miller. Their son, Thomas4 Wentworth, settled in Somersworth,
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N. H., where his estate was inventoried in 1758. He m. Mary Knox (then Nock). Moses5 Wentworth, b. November 8, 1740, d. March 27, 1812. He was a soldier in the French and Indian wars, and in after life he used to speak of seeing Colonel Washington. He was in the battle of Ticonderoga, and he served also in various Revolutionary campaigns. In 1772 he took up four hundred and fifty acres of wild land in Orrington, Me., and built a grist-mill and a saw-mill, the first in that vicinity. His first wife was Judith Grant, and after her death he m. in February, 1783, Eliz- abeth, daughter of Captain Swett, of Wellfleet, Mass., and widow of Simeon Smith, of Or- rington. William6 Wentworth, b. May 19, 1763, son of Moses, 5 d. May 10, 1845. He m. Martha Calef. Thomas7 Wentworth, b. in Frankfort, Me., July 25, 1792, m. Martha Matthews, and lived at Letete, N. B. John8 Wentworth, b. April 11, 1816, d. October 23, 1852. In December, 1840, he m. Mary Kelley, daughter of David Kelley, of Letete, N.B. Among the children b. of their union was Harriet Thompson Wentworth, who m. Moses Ricker.
ILLIAM AUGUSTUS BOWD- LEAR, for fifty years and more a member of the firm of S. G. Bowd- lear & Co., State Street, Boston, and for forty years Deacon of the Dudley Street Baptist Church, was a native of this city. He was born September 1I, 1818, at the home of his parents, Samuel and Hannah M. (Bell) Bowd- lear, on Sea Street, now Federal Street. His father's birthplace was a house that stood on the corner of Washington and Roxbury Streets. On the paternal side he had not a long line of American ancestors, as his grandfather Bowd- lear belonged to the English family of this surname. His mother is known to have been a descendant of Richard Warren, who came over in the "Mayflower " and landed on Plym- outh Rock.
The education of William A. Bowdlear was received at the Adams and Boylston Schools, his school days ending when, at the age of fourteen, he entered the counting-room of
Richard D. Tucker & Son on India Wharf and began business life. At a little later period he was successively employed at the ship chandlery of James Andem and Seth Crosby, Jr., and in the office of Griggs & Weld until some time in 1837, the year of the financial panic. He next became book-keeper and con- fidential clerk for the firm of Wood & Cook, with whom he remained in that capacity about seven years, leaving his position to go into business on his own account as one of the firm of S. G. Bowdlear & Co., at what is now 192 and 194 State Street.
The first Sunday-school attended by Deacon Bowdlear in his boyhood was a mission school established near his home by the Union Con- gregational Church. Afterward he removed to another part of the city and became a mem- ber of the Sunday-school connected with the Charles Street Baptist Church, David R. Griggs being the superintendent thereof, and James Andem one of his teachers. As above noted, he was subsequently in the employ of each of these gentlemen. In the Charles Street church he was baptized by the Rev. Daniel Sharp, D.D., June 6, 1835. In March of that year he became a teacher in the Sunday-school, and during the next fifty-five years he served at different times in that school and the Dudley Street Sunday-school as teacher, librarian, treasurer, secretary, and superintendent. Removing to Roxbury in 1847 he joined the Dudley Street Church in May, 1849, and in that year was elected clerk of church and also of the society .. He contin- ued as clerk of the church until he was chosen Deacon in November, 1855, and clerk of the society until chosen treasurer in April, 1857 - long periods of faithful and efficient service. For some time he was treasurer of the Evangel- ical Baptist Benevolent and Missionary Soci- ety and of the Massachusetts Baptist Chari- table Society. In his later years he was chairman of the trustees of the Gratuity Fund of the Boston Chamber of Commerce, and treasurer of the Newton Theological Institu- tion. He died January 23, 1900.
Deacon Bowdlear was married June 4, 1846, to Hannah Hazeltine Hadley, who was born in Boston in 1823. Her father, Moses Hadley,
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was for more than fifty years tollman of West Boston Bridge. He was a descendant of An- thony Hadley, a native of England, b. in 1694, who was pressed into the English navy and brought to this country in his boyhood. Es- caping at night from the ship in Boston Har- bor, he swam ashore and walked to Stoneham. Hailing a man who was out early in the morn- ing feeding his cattle, he agreed to work for him some time for his board and clothes. An- thony Hadley m. and settled in Stoneham. His sons were: John, b. in 1715, who m. in 1745 Sarah Williams; Anthony,2 who m. in 1744 Abigail Green; Thomas, who m. Sarah Cox; and Samuel, who m. in 1738 Abigail Richardson. Moses Hadley, Sr., b. in 1756, m. Mary Peirce (or Price), and had seven children - Elizabeth, Moses, Samuel Pierce, Aaron, Elijah, Isaac, and Mary. Moses, Jr., known as Deacon Moses, b. March 19, 1780, was twice m. By his first wife, Rebecca de Carteret, he had two daughters - Mary, wife of the late Otis Clapp, of Boston, and Rebecca, who m. John Purkitt; and by his second wife, Susan Hazeltine, he had six daughters, namely : Elizabeth Frances, who m. Edward Wyman, a teacher of St. Louis, Mo .; Susan, who was never m. ; Hannah Hazeltine (Mrs. Bowdlear) ; Martha, who m. Moses Cook; Sarah Matilda, who is still living; and Ellen. Moses Hadley was a Deacon of the Charles Street Baptist Church, and was a member of the Masonic order. He d. in February, 1872, surviving his second wife, who d. in 1871. Deacon Bowd- lear is survived by Mrs. Bowdlear and three of their four children, namely: William Henry, born July 16, 1847; Harriet Eliza- beth, born July 14, 1852; and Ellen Hadley, born January 29, 1857.
Their second child, Wattson Hadley, born May 2, 1850, died July 13, 1853. Ellen Hadley Bowdlear was married April 16, 1877, to George M. Read, M. D., now deceased, for- merly of Dorchester. Mrs. Read has one child - Katharine Bell, born February 4, 1878.
William Henry Bowdlear received his ele- mentary education in the public schools of Jamaica Plain and the Washington School, Roxbury, and afterward attended the Roxbury
Latin School and a private school at Jamaica Plain kept by D. S. Smalley, completing his preparations for the activities of life by taking a commercial course of study. On leaving school he embarked in his present business, dealing in beeswax. Meeting with success, he gradually increased his operations, and is now the largest importer and exporter in his line of trade in the country He is a member of the Roslindale Baptist Church, and one of the executive committee, having served as chair- man of the board ten years. Politically, he is a Republican. He is a charter member of Prospect Lodge, A. F. & A. M. Mr. Bowd- lear takes great interest in the public schools, and was a member of the Boston School Com- mittee for three years. He was married in 1870 to Miss Harriet Carter Knight, a native of North Bridgewater, daughter of William H. and Nancy P. (Carter) Knight. They have two children : Harriet Gertrude, born in Rox- bury, August 6, 1871 ; and Marion Elizabeth, born there April 22, 1875. On October 25, 1900, Harriet Gertrude was married to John Albert Briggs, of Roslindale.
ON. JOHN LEWIS BATES, Lieu- tenant-Governor of the Common- wealth of Massachusetts, is a native of North Easton, Bristol County. Born September 18, 1859, son of the Rev. Lewis Benton and Louisa D. (Field) Bates, he is a representative of the ninth generation of the family founded by Clement Bates, who, with his wife and five children, came over from England in the spring of 1635, and in September of that year received a grant of land at Hingham in the Massachusetts Bay Colony, where he made his home and has been suc- ceeded by a numerous posterity.
From Clement' the line descends through his son Joseph,2 b. in England about 1630, who m. Esther Hilliard; Joshua, 3 who m. Rachel Tower; Joshua, 4 who m. Abigail Joy, and lived in the second precinct of Hingham, now Cohasset; Joshua, 5 who m. Grace Lincoln; Levi,6 who in March, 1794, removed to Spring- field, Vt., making the journey with his family on an ox sled; Lewis,7 b. in Cohasset in 1780,
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who was one of the founders of the first Meth- odist society at Springfield, Vt., was ordained by Bishop Asbury in 1806, and for many years was a noted preacher and revivalist; the Rev. Lewis Benton,8 the father above named, now a resident of East Boston.
The ancestral link connecting Lieutenant- Governor Bates with that branch of the Lin- coln family early settled in Massachusetts, which gave to the United States one of its most illustrious presidents, is not to be over- looked by the student of genealogy. A word of mention may be here in place. Grace Lin- coln, wife of the third Joshua Bates and mother of Levi, grandfather of the Rev. Lewis B. Bates, was a daughter of Elisha and Sarah (Lewis) Lincoln. Her father was son of Samuel, Jr., and grandson of Samuel' Lincoln, the weaver, Hingham, 1637, who was the immigrant progenitor of Abraham Lincoln, the descent of the latter being through Samuel Lincoln's son Mordecai,2 brother of Samuel, Jr., and uncle of Elisha.
At the time of the Revolution Levi Bates, then living in Cohasset, held the rank of Lieu- tenant in the State Militia. He was called out with Captain Beal's company in March, April, and June, 1776, and with Captain Peter Cushing's company in December.
The Rev. Lewis B. Bates began his life work at the age of seventeen as a religious exhorter, entered the Providence Conference in 1850, and was transferred some twenty years later to the New England Conference, the scene of his subsequent labors. He has re- cently closed a highly successful pastorate at the Bromfield Street Methodist Episcopal Church, Boston. He holds important official positions in connection with the activities of the denomination.
John Lewis Bates received his elementary education in the public schools of Taunton and Chelsea. He was fitted for college at the Boston Latin School, was graduated at Boston University as Bachelor of Arts in 1882, and as Bachelor of Laws in 1885, in the meantime having had a year's experience in school teach- ing in Western New York. A member of the Suffolk Bar, active in his profession, he had become known as one of Boston's able and
successful lawyers before entering upon his political career, which he did as a member of the City's Common Council in 1891 and 1892. He served as Representative in the Legisla- ture, from East Boston, 1894 to 1899, in- clusive, in the last three terms being Speaker. His attainment of that position, for which his personal qualities admirably fitted him, was first secured for him in 1897 by a unanimous nomination in the Republican caucus and a unanimous election in the House. He had previously served as chairman of important committees.
In November, 1899, he was elected Lieu- tenant-Governor on the ticket with Winthrop Murray Crane, Governor, and was re-elected in 1900 and in 1901. Mr. Bates is a trustee of Boston University, and a director of the United States Trust Company, the Columbia Trust Company, and a trustee of the Wildey Savings Bank. He is also a Thirty-third De- gree Mason.
He was married in July, 1887, to Clara Elizabeth, daughter of Samuel C. Smith, of Jamestown, N. Y. Three children have been born of this union, and two are now living - John Harold and Dorothy.
LBERT ALONZO FOLSOM, of Brook- line, Mass., railroad superintendent, was born in Exeter, N. H., Septem- ber 13, 1834, son of John Fulford? and Caroline Rogers (Shaw) Folsom. He is a descendant of John' Folsom, who was baptized in 1615 at Hingham, England, by the Rev. Peter Hobart, afterward minister of the church at Hingham, Mass. John1 m. October 4, 1636, Mary, daughter of Edward and Mary (Clarke) Gilman. : Accompanied by his wife, her father and mother and two other relatives, he sailed for America in the ship "Diligent," of Ipswich, landing at Boston August 10, 1638. After residing in Hingham, Mass., for twelve or fifteen years, he followed his father- in-law, Edward Gilman, to Exeter, N. H., the first mention of him in that town being found in the town records of 1655. He was a Select- man of Exeter in 1659, and a juryman in 1662. The line of descent to the subject of this
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