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sketch is : John, 1 Peter, 2-3 James, 4-5 John, 6 John Fulford,7 Albert Alonzo8.
Peter2 Folsom, baptized in 1649, m. Susanna Coffin, of Wells, Me. Peter, 3 b. 1682, m. Catherine Gilman, daughter of John and grand- daughter of Edward Gilman. James, 4 b. 171I, m. Elizabeth, daughter of Captain Jonathan Thing. He d. in 1748. James, 5 b. 1737, m. Elizabeth, daughter of Thomas Webster. John,6 b. 1777, m. Hannah Swasey, daughter of Edward and Elizabeth Swasey, of Exeter, N. H. John Fulford,7 b. at Exeter in 1805, m. in 1833 Caroline Rogers, daughter of John Moulton and Mary (Rogers) Shaw, and grand- daughter of the Rev. Jeremiah Shaw, of New Hampshire, and of Captain Benjamin Rogers, of Newburyport, who was a privateer, and was at one time a prisoner of war to the British at New York, but was finally . ex- changed.
Albert Alonzo Folsom accompanied his family to Boston in 1842, being then eight years of age. After acquiring his education in the public schools of that city, he entered the office of the Boston Daily Bee, where he shared in the general work of a printing and newspaper office, both reporting and perform- ing clerical service in the counting-room. Five years in this position enlarged his experi- ence and developed his business capacity so that in 1854 he was enabled to accept a better position, becoming general ticket agent in Boston for the Boston & Providence Railroad. In 1860 he removed to Providence, R.I., to fill the office of superintendent of transporta- tion for the same corporation ; in March, 1864, he was advanced to the position of assistant superintendent of the road at Boston; and in March, 1867, he became general superintend- ent, which position he held until the Boston & Providence Railroad was leased to the Old Colony Railroad in 1888. To Mr. Folsom's efficiency as superintendent, the Boston & Providence road owed much of its prosperity. During his years of service he introduced many valuable devices for the increased comfort and safety of the travelling public, thereby adding to the efficiency and popularity of the road. In 1869 he adopted and introduced the Miller platform buffer and hook, the Boston & Provi-
dence Railroad being the first to put that device to full practical use. He was also one of the earliest to recognize the utility of the Westinghouse air-brake, which he introduced on the Boston & Providence Railroad in the same year. He was one of the founders, in 1867, of the Eastern Railroad Association; a member of its executive committee in 1877; and its treasurer in 1879, which position he has held continuously up to the present time.
In politics a Republican, he was an alder- man for the city of Boston in 1889-90. Mr. Folsom is a prominent member of several mil- itary organizations. In 1851 he was elected clerk of the American Rifles, David K. Ward- well, Captain. In 1852 he joined the National Guard, of which he was elected a Lieutenant in 1854. He, however, resigned the rank, preferring to serve as a private, and he finally retired from the company on his removal to Providence in 1860. He was also a "fine" member of the "Tigers," or Boston Light In- fantry. During his residence in Providence he belonged to the Providence Light Infantry, and he is now a member of the Veteran Asso- ciation, First Light Infantry, of Providence. In 1867 Mr. Folsom joined the Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company, of which he became Sergeant in 1868, First Lieutenant in 1870, and commander in 1876. Always a prominent and active member of the company, he has served for many years on its Library and Museum Committee, which directed the publication of the history of the company, issued in four large volumes in 1901. He was also a member of the committee having in charge the entertainment of the Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company, of London, on their visit to Boston in 1888; and he accom- panied the Ancient and Honorables of Boston on the occasion of their visit to London in 1896, in the capacity of treasurer. Possibly his most valued services to the company have been his endeavors to perpetuate the memories of its past. It was he who discovered the picture of Captain Keayne's house (1639), which forms the frontispiece of the third vol- ume of the history of the company; and to further enrich that work he obtained nearly fifty portraits of past commanders of the com-
DAVID HILL COOLIDGE.
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pany, the oldest of which dates back to 1651 - a service which involved a great expenditure of time and much persistent effort. A Free Mason, Mr. Folsom was Worshipful Master of Columbian Lodge in 1876, 1877, and 1878. He is a member of Boston Commandery, K. T., and in 1897 was elected a member of the board of directors of the Grand Lodge, A. F. & A. M., of Massachusetts, being fur- ther honored by re-election to the same office in 1899, and in 1900 he was appointed Deputy Grand Master of Massachusetts. He is also a member of the Society of Colonial Wars, and of the Sons of the American Revolution.
He married April 11, 1861, Julia Elizabeth, daughter of Francis Berry and Mary (Cock- ayne) Winter, of Boston. Their children are : Francis Berry Winter, born in Providence, R.I. ; Chandler Ransom, born at Boston ; Mary Winter, born at Dedham, Mass. ; and Julia Elizabeth. Mr. Folsom resides at Gordon Terrace, Brookline, Mass.
AVID HILL COOLIDGE, A. M., attorney-at-law, Boston, belongs to a family whose history in New Eng- land extends back to the early days of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, its founder, John' Coolidge, having been one of the earliest proprietors of Watertown, 1636-37.
According to the pedigree furnished to Bond's History of Watertown, John' Coolidge, the date of whose baptism at Cottenham, Eng- land, was September 16, 1604, was a son of William Coolidge and grandson of Simeon, also of Cottenham, whose will was proved in November, 1590. Simeon Coolidge is said to have been fifth in lineal descent from Thomas Colynge (as the name was then spelled), of Arrington, England, whose will was proved in 1495.
John' Coolidge was admitted freeman in May, 1636. He served a number of years as Selectman of Watertown, was Representative to General Court in 1658, and was often em- ployed in taking inventories and settling es- tates. From Johnr the Coolidge line extends through his son Nathaniel,2 who m. in 1657 Mary Bright, daughter of Deacon Henry and
Anne (Goldstone) Bright; Thomas,3 b. in 1670, who m. in 1699 Sarah Eddy (daughter of Samuel Eddy and grand-daughter of John Eddy, who came to Plymouth in 1630, and later settled in Watertown) ; David,4 b. in 1705, who m. Mary Mixor, daughter of Dea- con Joseph Mixor; Thomas,5 b. March 5, 1749, who m. Lucy Wyeth, b. February 7, 1754, daughter of Jonas and Hepzibah (Tidd) Wyeth; Jonas,6 b. February 14, 1774, who m. Sally Rouse; Charles,7 b. in Boston, August 29, 1801, who m. Elizabeth Hill; to their son, David Hill& Coolidge, the subject of this sketch, who was born in Boston, February 7, 1833.
Mr. Coolidge's mother was a daughter of David and Elizabeth (Rouse) Hill, of Boston. Her father, Davids Hill, b. in March, 1761, at Billerica, Mass., was the youngest son of Peter+ and Rachel (Crosby) Hill, of that town, and grandson of Jonathan3 and Mary (Brackett) Hill, Jonathan3 being the son of Jonathan2 and Mary (Hartwell) Hill and grandson of Ralph' Hill, one of the early settlers of Billerica.
David Hill, maternal grandfather of Mr. Coolidge, was a Revolutionary soldier, his name being on the Continental army pay ac- counts for service from July 11, 1777, to De- cember 31, 1779; also in descriptive list of men raised in Middlesex County, agreeable to resolve of December 2, 1780 -age twenty years, stature five feet seven inches, eyes blue, occupation farmer; engaged for town of Bil- lerica; engaged March 21 (also 22), 1781; joined Captain Thorp's company, Lieutenant Colonel John Brooks's (Seventh) regiment, term three years; discharged June 10, 1783, by General Washington, having procured a man to serve in his stead. He received a pen- sion until his death in Billerica on May 30, 1850. (For further record see "Massachusetts Soldiers and Sailors of the Revolutionary War," vol. vii.) Jeremiah Hill (an elder brother of David) was one of the minute-men who marched on the Lexington alarm, April 19, 1775. In the latter years of the war he held the rank of Lieutenant: He was a member of the Massachusetts Society of the Cincinnati. Corporal Samuel Hill, another
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'brother of David Hill, was killed at the battle of Bunker Hill.
Having fitted for college at the Boston Latin School, Mr. Coolidge pursued his academic course and part of his professional course of study at Harvard University, where he received the degree of Bachelor of Arts in 1854, and studied in the law school for one year. The next three years he read law in the office of the Hon. Peleg W. Chandler. In 1857 he was admitted to the Suffolk bar, and has since been engaged in the practice of his profession in Boston. Politically, Mr. Coolidge is a Re- publican. For fifteen years he was one of the Commissioners of Insolvency, and for many years one of the masters in chancery for Suffolk County. In 1863 and 1864 he was a member of the Common Council from Ward Six, and in 1865 he represented the Sixth Suf- folk District in the General Court.
He was one of the trustees of the City Hos- pital in 1863, 1864, 1867, 1869, 1870, 1871, and was clerk of the board in 1863 and 1864. Mr. Coolidge was for many years a director and clerk of the Boston and Sandwich Glass Company, and for thirty-nine years has been director and clerk of the Home for Aged Men.
Through his great-uncle, Lieutenant Jere- miah Hill, he is a member of the Massachu- setts Society of the Cincinnati. He is also a member of the Massachusetts Sons of the American Revolution, of which society he was a director for three years, and a member of the Bunker Hill Monument Association.
Mr. Coolidge was married January 6, 1858, to Miss Isabella Shurtleff, daughter of Dr. Samuel A. and Eliza (Carleton) Shurtleff and a native of Boston. Their children are : Charles A., Bachelor of Arts, Harvard, 1881 ; David H., Jr., born September 2, 1863, Bach- elor of Arts, Harvard, 1886; Isabella, born March 20, 1861; and Frederick Shurtleff, M. D., born December 19, 1865. Charles A. Coolidge, born November 30, 1858, married Julia Shepley, of St. Louis, Mo., and has four children : Mary, born June 15, 1892; Isabel, born September 2, 1893; Charles A., Jr., born October 13, 1894; and Julia, born Janu- ary 30, 1896. David H. Coolidge, Jr., land-
scape architect, married Harriet Crownin- shield, and has one child, Constance, born January 4, 1892. Isabella is the wife of Pro- fessor William T. Councilman of Harvard College, and has three children : Isabella, born December 17, 1895, Christiana Drummond, born October 6, 1897; and Elizabeth, born August 25, 1899. Frederick Shurtleff (Bach- elor of Arts, Harvard, 1887, and Doctor of Medicine, 1891), now of Chicago University, married Elizabeth Penn Sprague, daughter of Albert A. and Nancy (Atwood) Sprague, of Chicago, and has one child, Albert Sprague Coolidge, born January 23, 1894.
T HE KING FAMILY, of Salem, of which Mr. Daniel Webster King is a representative of the eighth generation, was founded by William King, who came from England at forty years of age, in 1635, with his wife Dorothy and four children - Mary, Katherine, William, Jr., and Hannah. Other children were b. to William1 and Dorothy King in Salem, among them being John2 and Samuel2. . Samuel2 King settled at Southold, L. I., and left descendants there. William King, Jr., m. Katherine Shaflin, and d. leav- ing no children. John2 King m. in 1660 Elizabeth2 Goldthwaite, daughter of Thomas' Goldthwaite, of Salem, founder of the family of this name in New England.
Samuel3 King, b. in 1664, son of John and Elizabeth, m., first, in 1696, Elizabeth Marsh. She was a daughter of Zachary2 and Mary (Silsbee) Marsh, and grand-daughter of John' Marsh, the immigrant, and his wife Susanna, daughter of the Rev. Samuel' Skelton, of Im. Mary Silsbee was a daughter of Hary' Silsbee, of Lynn and Salem. Samuel3 king's second wife was Elizabeth Barton. (See Goldthwaite Genealogy.)
Zachariah+ King, son of Samuel,3 m. Sep- tember 28, 1737, Hannah (or Anna) South- wick, daughter of John and Mary (Trask) Southwick, and a descendant of Lawrence' and Cassandra Southwick (Southwick Genealogy, page 95). Zachariah King, Jr.,5 b. January 25, 1744, m. Desire, daughter of Daniel and Sarah (Dudley) Jacobs. Her father was
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a descendant of George Jacobs, Sr., of Salem.
Daniel6 King, b. 1769, m. for his first wife Rebecca, daughter of Putnam and Abigail (Jacobs) Cleaves. She d. in 1796, and he m. in 1798 Phebe, daughter of Ezra+ and Mehit- able (Goodell) Upton. Ezra+ Upton, b. in 1738, was son of Paul3 Upton (William, 2 John1) and his wife Phebe, b. in 1710, who was the daughter of Samuel3 Goodell. Robert1 Goodell, grandfather of Samuel, 3 came to New England in 1634, and settled in West Peabody, Mass., then a part of Salem.
Daniel Putnam King, son of Daniel and Phebe (Upton) King, was b. in Peabody, Jan- uary 1, 1801. He was educated at Phillips Academy, Andover, and Harvard College, re- ceiving his Bachelor's degree in 1823, after the usual four years' course. As a student he applied himself faithfully; he was modest and friendly, and gained the good will and esteem of instructors and classmates. After leaving college he read law, but did not qualify him- self for the profession. For seven years he was one of the Representatives for Danvers in the State Legislature- in 1835 and 1836, and Senator the next four years, in 1840 being president of the Senate, and in 1843 again serving as a member of the House, filling the chair of Speaker. The Governor, Marcus Morton, and his Council and the majority of the Legislature of 1843, be it noted, were Democrats, while he was a Whig, their politi- cal opponent. Prompt, capable, impartial and uniformly courteous, he gained the confidence and commendation of all' parties. In Decem- ber, 1843, he took his seat as a member of the National® House of Representatives in the Twenty-eighth Congress. At every succeed- ing Congressional election till his death he was re-elected to the position. For some years he served officially as a member of the Com- mittee of Revolutionary Claims and as chair-
man of the Committee on Accounts; in the Thirtieth Congress he was chairman of both these committees, and in the Thirty-first, chairman of the Committee on Accounts.
Charles W. Upham, in his memoir of Mr. King, published in the "Essex Institute His- torical Collections," volume iv., speaks of
him as a persistent and uncompromising oppo- nent of the Mexican War. He voted against it in every shape, and from beginning to end. While not much given to speech-making, when occasion called he expressed himself in lan- guage at once bold and elegant, especially when arguing or protesting, as he did on May 21, 1850, against the extension of slavery. "I have," he said, "a most charitable, confid- ing, and generous constituency, who burden me with no instructions and vex me with no remonstrances. They know that I mean faith- fully to watch their interests and fearlessly and honestly to make my record. They expect from me a straightforward, consistent course."
Nor were they disappointed in this well- grounded expectation. The only sorrow was that his course was so soon ended. Leaving Washing- ton on the tenth of July, for a season of rest in the Danvers home after the exhausting labors of a long session, he was shortly attacked by an illness that in a few days proved fatal.
Mr. King's religious connections were like his poitical views, honest and earnest. From early manhood he was a member of the Unita- rian church in that part of Danvers (now Peabody) ; and he was ever an intelligent, devoted and constant worshipper of that form of faith. He owned a valuable estate in Peabody, which he said was "patrimonially and matrimonially acquired," and he prided himself on being a good farmer. As a Legis- lator he was always alive to the interests of agriculture, believing in the scientific cultiva- tion of the soil. He was secretary of the Essex Agricultural Society from 1842 to 1844, and afterward vice-president and trustee, and a member and trustee of the Massachusetts Society for the promotion of agriculture. He was also a member of the Essex Historical Society and the Essex Natural History So- ciety, and a life member of the New England Historic-Genealogical Society. He was m. February 8, 1824, to Sarah Page Flint, daugh- ter of Captain Hezekiah and Sally (Putnam) Flint. . Her father, Captain Hezekiah Flint, who was a master mariner, was a son of Captain Samuel+ Flint (Captain Samuel, 3 Cap- tain Thomas,2 and Thomas') and his wife, Ede Upton; and her mother, Sally Putuam,
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was a daughter of Tarrant5 Putnam (Samuel, 4 Ebenezer,3 John,2 and John1), whose wife was Sally Page.
The children of Daniel Putnam and Sarah Page (Flint) King were: Ellen Maria, b. Jan- uary 16, 1825, d. March 4, 1849; Caroline Watts, b. January 21, 1826, d. March 12, 1889; Sarah Page, b. April 14, 1828, d. June 28, 1863; Benjamin Flint, b. October 12, 1830, d. January 24, 1868; Daniel Webster, b. March 1, 1833; Edward Everett, b. August I, 1836; Rebecca Cleaves, b. November 18, 1837, d. February 15, 1867. Mrs. Sarah P. King d. January 22, 1875.
Daniel Webster King for many years has been engaged in mercantile business in Boston. In 1861 he was Representative from South Danvers to the General Court. On January 25, 1888, he was appointed by Governor Ames a member of the State Board of Lunacy and Charity: He was married April 27, 1857, to Mary Robinson, daughter of Harrison and Mary (Robinson) Harwood, of Barre, Mass. She died March 2, 1859, leaving no issue. He was again married April 24, 1864, to Jane Walker Purinton, daughter of Woodbury Bryant and Elizabeth Jane (Walker) Purinton, of Topsham, Me. The children of this union are: Elizabeth W. King, born February 11, 1867; Tarrant P. King, born March 18, 1869 (Harvard Uni- versity, 1891) ; Caroline W. King, born January 19, 1871; Anne P. King, July 9, 1873; and Grace W. King, April 24, 1878.
G EORGE HOWLAND COX, president of the Park Commissioners of the city of Cambridge, is a native of Fairhaven, Bristol County, Mass. Son of Captain James Valentine and Mercy Nye (Howland) Cox, born October 9, 1854, he numbers among his remote ancestors in Amer- ica, early settlers of Duxbury, Dartmouth (in- cluding New Bedford), Watertown, Nantucket, Lynn, Hampton (N. H.), and other New Eng- land towns. On the paternal side he traces his ancestry back to James and Hannah (Flagg) Cox, who were m. in Boston, November 2, 1727. The name was formerly spelled Cocks. From James, of Boston, above named, known
also as Captain James, the line descended through his son James and his grandson Gershom Flagg to Captain James Valentine, father of George Howland. Captain James Cox was probably a native of Boston. The first person of this name in New England, so far as known, was William Cox, of Pema- quid, Me., 1625.
Hannah Flagg, wife of Captain James Cox, of Boston, was a daughter of. John and Abiah (Kornic) Flagg. John Flagg was the son of Lieutenant Gershom and Hannah (Lepingwell) Flagg, of Woburn, and grandson of Thomas' Flagg (or Flegg), who came over from Nor- folk County, England, in 1637, when about twenty-two years of age, and in 1641 settled at Watertown. Lieutenant Gershom Flagg was killed, with others, by the Indians at Wheel- wright's Pond, Lee, N. H., in 1690. John Flagg removed about 1699 from Woburn to Bos- ton. Here he owned and occupied an estate on Hanover Street, where the American House now stands. (For English ancestors, see chart in Bond's History of Watertown, Mass. )
Captain James Cox,2 b. in Boston, Septem- ber 18, 1733, m. Ann, daughter of Benjamin Babbage, of Boston, and grand-daughter of James Babbage. In April, 1762, with his wife and two children, he migrated to the dis- trict of Maine, and settled on the east bank of the Kennebec River. He became one of the leading citizens of Hallowell, serving a num- ber of years as moderator of town meetings and as Selectman, and was one of the committee of five appointed to attend the Revolutionary con- vention at Falmouth (now Portland). His commission as Captain of the First Company, Second Regiment, Massachusetts Mifitia, was dated August, 1776.
Gershom Flagg Cox, b. at Hallowell, Me., in 1766, went to sea in his early manhood, but later in life settled on a farm adjoining his father's in the locality now called Chelsea, Me. He was a man of strong will, but kind- hearted and much respected; was an active member of the Methodist Church. He m. Sally Hussey, daughter of Obed and Mary (Calif) Hussey. Her father was a son of Syl- vanus and Abial (Brown) Hussey, and Sylva- nus was son of Stephen Hussey and grandson
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of Captain Christopher1. Hussey and his wife Theodate, daughter of the Rev. Stephen Bach- ilor, the founder of Hampton, N. H. Stephen Hussey, it is said, was the second white child b. in Lynn, about 1630. He settled at Nan- tucket, and m. in 1676 Martha, daughter of George and Jane (Godfrey) Bunker. Mary Calif, wife of Obed Hussey, and mother of Sally (maternal grandmother of Mr. Cox), was b. in 1728, daughter of Ebenezer and Elizabeth (Fitch) Calif, of Nantucket. Her mother was a daughter of Jedidiah and Abigail (Coffin) Fitch. Abigail Coffin's father, Peter3 Coffin, b. in 1660, was son of Peter,2 b. in 1631, and grandson of Tristram1 Coffin, Sr., of Nan- tucket, founder of the family in New England. Prior to 1770, Obed Hussey removed with his family from Nantucket to Hallowell, Me., and there engaged in business.
Captain James Valentine Cox, above named, son of Captain Gershom Flagg and Sally (Hus- sey) Cox, was b. July 1, 1813, at Hallowell, Me. His early years were passed on his father's farm. At the age of fifteen he came to Boston on a coasting vessel, and, going hence to New Bedford, shipped on whaling vessel, the "Condor," Edward Merrill, mas- ter, and went on an eleven months' voyage to the Brazil Banks, the ship returning with two hundred barrels of sperm oil and two thousand barrels of whale oil. In his third voyage of thirteen months, on the barque "Pioneer," he was boat steerer; in his fourth, of three years, he was first mate of the ship "Abigail," Cap- tain William Reynard, the voyage being very successful. Sailing for the Pacific as master of the "Abigail " in April, 1839, when near the equator the ship was found to be in need of repairs, and he was obliged to return to New Bedford. Sailing again in August he had a hard and trying voyage, lasting till April, 1843. In October of that year he bought one- quarter of the barque "Draco," and on De- cember 14 sailed as her master for the Indian Ocean. He made one later voyage on the "Draco," and on his return, November 30, 1850, retired from the sea.
After that he superintended the work of fit- ting Jonathan Bourne's vessels for sea, and in 1860 to arrange some business matters for
Mr. Bourne, he went to the Sandwich Islands, whence he returned January 30, 1861. In May, 1861, under Lawrence Grinnell, col- lector, and again in 1870, John A. P. Allen being collector, he was appointed Inspector of Customs for the port of New Bedford. Cap- tain Cox was superintendent of the New Bed- ford and Fairhaven Bridge corporation from 1860 to 1870. He was a director of the National Bank of Fairhaven, of the New Bed- ford and Fairhaven Street Railway, and of the American Tack Company, and one of the trus- tees of the Fairhaven Savings Bank. As a Mason he was a member of the Star of the East Lodge, of New Bedford, and Sutton Com- mandery, K. T., of Boston, and an honorary member of Concordia Lodge, of Fairhaven. A man of sterling honesty, with a strong sense of justice, firm and decided in his views, he was of a cordial, friendly disposition, and regarded by his neighbors and fellow-towns- men as the personal friend of each. In poli- tics he was a Republican. The date of his death was November 23, 1884.
His wife, Mercy Nye Howland, whom he m. in November, 1838, was b. in 1817. She d. . in 1868. She was the daughter of Captain John and Mercy (Nye) Howland. Captain John Howland, her father, was of the seventh generation in descent from Henry Howland, the immigrant progenitor of one branch of the Howland family, who came to Plymouth with- in five years after the arrival of the "May- flower," was made a freeman of the colony in 1633, and became one of the earliest settlers of Duxbury. It is thought that he joined the Quakers or Friends about 1657 .: Zoeth2 How- land, son of Henry,1 settled at Dartmouth. He was killed by the Indians at Pocasset. Nathaniel3 Howland, son of Zoeth, was an approved and gifted minister of. the Society of Friends and one of the foremost citizens of Dartmouth, serving as moderator, as Select- man, and tithingman, and as minister of the town. He m. Rose Allen, daughter of Joseph Allen. James4 Howland, b. 1669, son of Na- thaniel, was successively Surveyor of High- ways (17II), Fence Viewer, Town Clerk (1725), moderator, Selectman (1729-33), Assessor, Constable (1737), and grand juror
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