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Thomas4 Waite, b. in 1707, son of Thomas and Deborah, m. Mary Sprague. Their son, Thomas 5 Waite, Jr., m. Lydia Hutchins, and was father of Phebe6 Waite, who m. as her second husband, in 1816, Thomas Pratt, of Medford, grandfather of Mrs. Mills.
Dr. and Mrs. Mills reside at 60 Salem Street, Medford, Mass. They are the parents of five children, briefly recorded as follows : Helen Saville, born February 13, 1882, was graduated from the Medford High School with the class of 1900; Laura Westgate, born July 4, 1883; Hermon Franklin, born June 30, 1886, died June 5, 1899; Sarah Chase, born February 5, 1891, died April 4, 1893 ; Edith Waitt, born November 16, 1894.
APTAIN JOHN SNOW SAWYER, for over thirty years a prominent real estate broker and insurance agent of Cambridge, of which city he is still a resident, was born in Fitchburg, Mass., Sep- tember 6, 1831, son of Manasseh and Dolly (Lincoln) Sawyer. On both his father's and mother's side Mr. Sawyer comes of old and substantial Colonial stock. Having himself spent some time in tracing the family geneal- ogy, he has discovered some interesting facts
in regard both to its early and recent history, a few of which will be here given. Early records, he finds, mention remote ancestors as having come from Normandy to England in the eleventh century in the train of William the Conqueror. Nearly six hundred years later, in 1636, there arrived here the first American immigrants of the family in the persons of William, Edward, and Thomas Sawyer, said to have been sons of John. William Sawyer was granted land in Salem in 1642, and in 1645 he removed to Newbury, where he d. in 1678. Edward settled at Row- ley in 1643, and later removed to York, Me.
Thomas Sawyer, b. 1615, from whom the subject of this sketch is descended, first settled in Rowley and later at Charlestown, where he purchased property. In 1647 he was one of six to settle the town of Lancaster, Mass., of which he was subsequently one of the most prominent and influential citizens. He m. in 1648, in Lancaster, Mary Prescott, a native of England (baptized 1630), and a daughter of John' Prescott, ancestor of Colonel Prescott of Revolutionary fame. She bore him eleven children. He d. September 12, 1706. The line of descent from this immigrant progenitor of the family, to and including Captain John S. Sawyer, is: Thomas,' Caleb,2 Jonathan, 3 Manasseh, 4 Jabez,5 Manasseh,6 Captain John Snow7.
A number of Mr. Sawyer's ancestral con- nections were soldiers of the Revolution, freely hazarding their all in defence of home and country. Ephraim Sawyer, who had fought in the French and Indian War under General Armstrong, was a Major in Colonel Asa Whit- comb's regiment at the time of the battle of Bunker Hill; and later he held the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel, while his son Ephraim, Jr., was successively a Lieutenant and Captain. Another Sawyer was at Monmouth and Brandy- wine with Washington, another was one of Morgan's Rangers, and a third, a great-uncle of Mr. Sawyer of Cambridge, was with Gen- eral Putnam and "Mad Anthony Wayne" at the storming of Stony Point, and served throughout the war. Thomas, a far-off an- cestor, it is said, narrowly escaped burning at the stake. Hence it would appear that there
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is a deep strain of moral as well as physical courage in the family.
Caleb2 Sawyer, b. at Lancaster (now Har- vard) in 1656, d. there in 1735. He m. Sarah Houghton, of Lancaster, and had five children. Jonathan3 Sawyer, b. at Lancaster in 1690, d. September 30, 1746. He m. Elizabeth Wheelock, and had seven children. Manas- seh+ Sawyer, b. at Harvard, April 10, 1729, m. February 18, 1756, Lydia Fairbanks, of Harvard, who was b. August 16, 1731. They had eight children. Jabezs Sawyer, b. at Harvard, December 24, 1759, d. December 21, 1841. His wife, Hannah Brooks, of West- minster, Mass., daughter of John and Eunice (Darby) Brooks, d. December 15, 1846. They had eight children, of whom the last survivor d. in 1899, at the age of ninety-two years. Manasseh6 Sawyer, son of Jabez and father of Captain John S. Sawyer, was b. at Fitchburg, Mass., December 26, 1796. After some years of industrial experience, he engaged in the boot and shoe business, and became a successful merchant and one of the leading men of Fitchburg. Taking a lively interest in the welfare and development of the town, he was called upon to serve his fellow citizens in various official capacities, among others in that of Selectman for a number of years. He was a warm friend of the Rev. Calvin Lincoln, for many years minister of the first parish at Fitchburg, later settled at Hingham. His wife Dolly was b. at Leominster, being a daughter of Thomas and Abigail (Gibbs) Lin- coln. Of the three children b. to Manasseh and Dolly (Lincoln) Sawyer, one d. in in- fancy; and one, Thomas Lincoln, at the age of twenty-one years, John Snow being the only one now living.
John Snow Sawyer was educated in the pub- lic schools of Fitchburg (being one of the original members of the first class of the Fitch- burg High School), and at Lawrence Academy, Groton, Mass. After leaving school he worked for three or four years as clerk in a store in Fitchburg. He then went to Boston, where for one year he was with John Gove, clothier, of Merchant Row, and afterward was succes- sively in the employ of N. F. Cunningham & Co. on India Wharf, and of the American
Powder Company. He then went to Syracuse, N. Y., where he opened a store and conducted it one year. At the end of that period he returned to Massachusetts, and, purchasing in company with another man a patent right for roofing, he settled in Cambridge and began to manufacture the material, which was called "Mastic Roofing." In 1870 Mr. Sawyer commenced his real estate and insurance busi- ness, which he has continued with much suc- cess up to the present time, a period of over thirty years. Besides this he was for some time interested in the Companion Sewing Ma- chine Company, and held in the company the office of treasurer. He has also been a director in the Union Hall Association, and is a direc- tor in the Middlesex Fire Insurance Company.
In 1862 he raised a company in Cambridge for service in the Civil War. This company was known afterward as Company F of the Sixth Regiment; and he was commissioned Captain by Governor Andrew on September 6, 1862. The regiment served in Virginia with the army of the James; and he was with his command at Suffolk, Norfolk, and at the siege of Suffolk, Va. At the battle of Deserted House, where General Roger A. Pryor was defeated, five men around Captain Sawyer were shot, but he was uninjured. He is Past Com- mander of John A. Logan Post, No. 186, G. A. R., and takes a deep interest in all the meetings and reunions of the veterans. He also belongs to Mizpah Lodge, F. & A. M., of which he is a Past Master.
Captain Sawyer married December 29, 1857, Sarah, daughter of Captain Levi and Emily (Fuller) Pratt, of Fitchburg, Mass. Captain and Mrs. Sawyer are the parents of four chil- dren - Ralph Hovey, Emma M., Harriet Lin- coln, and Anna Gertrude. Ralph Hovey, who was killed by a fall from a horse, was a young man of high capacity and with seemingly a bright future before him, having been admitted, shortly before his death, as a partner in the banking firm of Richardson, Hill & Co., of Boston. Emma is the wife of George Mc- Questin, of Brookline, Mass. Harriet L., wife of Windall F. Brown, of Brookline, has one child - Ralph. Anna G., wife of Atherton Loring, has one child - Atherton, Jr.
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LEXANDER MCKENZIE, D.D., of Cambridge, Mass., a preacher, lect- urer, and writer of national reputa- tion, was born at New Bedford, Mass., December 14, 1830. He is a son of Daniel and Phœbe Mayhew (Smith) Mckenzie, and grandson of Martin and Hepzibah (Water- man) Mckenzie. His father was a sea cap- tain.
Martin McKenzey (or Mckenzie) came by vessel from Kingston, Jamaica, it is believed, in 1793, to Nantucket, where he was m. Au- gust 26, 1794, by Peleg Coffin, Jr., J. P. to Hepzibah Waterman. He d. before 1804, leav- ing an only child, Daniel, b. May, 1795. Hepzibah6 Waterman, wife of Martin Mckenzie, was the daughter of Thaddeus5 and Hepzibah (Coffin) Waterman (m. February 22, 1769), and was descended from Robert1 Waterman through John,2 John, 3 Perez, 4 Thaddeus5. She was b. March 20, 1774, and d. April 20, 1854. After Martin's death she m. October 30, 1804 (by the Rev. James Gurney), Captain Richard Bunker, son of Jonathan and Jerusha - no chil- dren. Captain Richard Bunker d. at Edgar- town, Martha's Vineyard, August 27, 1834.
Tradition says that the Waterman family removed from Wales about the time of the Norman invasion of England, and subsequently settled at Norwich, England. In 1635 Thomas Waterman, the representative head of the fam- ily, having been an officer of some note in the British navy, was granted a coat-of-arms. Robert, son of Thomas of England, arrived in Plymouth, Mass., with his brother Thomas about 1631 or 1632 - the Plymouth Records say 1635. Robert is believed to have been in Salem and in Duxbury in 1636, after which he "settled next north of his brother-in-law, Josias Winslow, Sr., on Marshfield Neck." In the Plymouth Colonial Records, I, 119, it is stated that on March 12, 1638, Robert Waterman, of Plymouth, acknowledged that he owed the king twenty pounds; and in the same, I., 107, his marriage to Elizabeth, daughter of Thomas and Elizabeth Bourne, is recorded. The date of Robert's death is un- certain, but most authorities give it as 1652.
John, 2 son of Robert' and Elizabeth (Bourne) Waterman, was b. at Marshfield in 1642. He
m. Anna, daughter of Samuel and Ann Sturte- vant, d. at Plympton, September 14, 1718. John3 Waterman, son of John2 and his wife Anna, was b. September 23, 1685, m. Lydia, daughter of Eleazer and Elizabeth (Coombs) Cushman. Perez, 4 son of John3 and Lydia, was b. October 8, 1713. He m. first Abigail Bryant; second, the widow of Metulah Nye, of Sandwich, Mass. Thaddeus5 Waterman, son of Perez4 and Abigail, was b. May 5, 1745, and d. January 22, 1824. He m. Hepzibah, daughter of Jonathan, 4 Jr., and Priscilla (Coffin) Coffin, and was father of Hepzibah6 Waterman, who m. Martin Mckenzie. Her maternal grandfather, Jonathan, + Coffin, Jr., was a de- scendant of Tristram' Coffin, the immigrant, through James2 and Jonathan3.
Tristram1 Coffin, b. in England, son of Peter Coffin and his wife Joan, and grandson of Nicholas, m. Dionis, daughter .of Robert Stevens. James, 2 son of Tristram and Dionis (Stevens), was b. in England, August 12, 1640. He m. Mary, daughter of John and Abigail (Kimball) Severance, and d. in Nan- tucket, July 28, 1720. Jonathan3 Coffin, son of James2 and Mary, was b. August 28, 1692. He m. Hepzibah, daughter of Ebenezer and Patience (Folger) Harker, and d. February 5, 1733. Jonathan, 4 Jr., son of Jonathan3 Coffin and his wife Hepzibah, was b. March 24, 1723. He m. Priscilla, daughter of Josiah and Elizabeth (Coffin) Coffin, and d. March 14, 1789. Hepzibah Waterman Mckenzie's grandmother, Priscilla Coffin, was also de- scended from Tristram' Coffin through two lines; namely, on the paternal side through Peter,2 Jethro, 3 Josiah, 4 on the maternal side through James,2 James, 3 Jr., Elizabeth4.
Peter2 Coffin, son of Tristram' and Dionis, was b. in England in 1631, m. Abigail, daugh- ter of Edward and Katherine (Reynolds) Star- buck, d. March 21, 1721. Jethro, 3 son of Peter2 and Abigail, was b. September 16, 1663, d. in 1726. He m. Mary, daughter of John and Priscilla (Grafton) Gardner, and sis- ter of Ruth, who m. James Coffin, Jr. Josiah, + b. July 28, 1698, son of Jethro and Mary, m. Elizabeth, daughter of James, Jr., and Ruth (Gardner) Coffin, and d. January 15, 1780. James, 2 b. August 12, 1640, son of Tristram'
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Coffin and Dionis Stevens, m. Mary, daughter of John and Abigail (Kimball) Severance, and d. July 28, 1720. James, 3 Jr., son of James2 and Mary, m. Ruth, daughter of John and Pris- cilla (Grafton) Gardner, and d. October 2, 1741. Elizabeth, 4 daughter of James3 Coffin, Jr., and his wife Ruth, m. Major Josiah+ Coffin.
Dr. Mckenzie's mother, whose maiden name was Phobe Mayhew Smith, was a daughter of Benjamin and Grace (Sprague) Smith. On the maternal side she was a descendant of William Sprague through Anthony,2 Jere- miah, 3 John, + John, 5 Jr., and Grace6.
William' Sprague, with his elder brothers, Ralph and Richard, came from England in 1628 or 1629 to Salem, Mass. He m. in 1635 Milicent Eames, and in 1636 settled at Hingham. Anthony,2 son of William' and Milicent (Eames) Sprague, b. September 2, 1635, m. Elizabeth, daughter of Robert and Mary (Warren) Bartlett, of Plymouth, and grand-daughter of Richard Warren, who came in the "Mayflower " in 1620. Jeremiah, 3 son of Anthony2 and Elizabeth, b. July 24, 1682, m. Priscilla Knight, and d. March 7, 1757. John, 4 son of Jeremiah3 and Priscilla, b. March I, 1720, m. Margaret Webb: Their son John, 5 Jr., m. Mary Mayhew, of Martha's Vineyard. Grace,6 daughter of John,5 Jr., and his wife Mary, m. Benjamin Smith.
Daniel Mckenzie and his wife, Phoebe Mayhew Smith, had five children, of whom two are now living, namely : Mary Gibbs, widow of William S. Daland; and Alexander, the subject of this sketch. Mrs. Daland has two daughters - Eliza Howard and Mary McKen- zie Daland.
Alexander McKenzie received his prepara- tory education in the public schools of New Bedford. He then entered commercial life as clerk in a store at New Bedford, and later on he was for four years with Lawrence Stone & Co., manufacturers and commission merchants, Milk Street, Boston. Leaving his commercial pursuits he fitted for college at Phillips (An- dover) Academy, and entered Harvard Univer- sity, where he graduated in 1859. He pursued his theological course at Andover Seminary, entering in 1859 and graduating in 1861. He
was ordained in Augusta, Me., August 28, 1861, and was at the same time installed as pastor of the South Church in that city. Leav- ing Augusta to respond to a call from the First Church of Cambridge, Mass., he entered on the duties of his present pastorate January 24, 1867. He received the degree of Doctor of Divinity from Amherst College in 1879, and from Har- vard College in 1901.
He was lecturer at Andover Theological Seminary in 1881-82, at Harvard Divinity School in 1882, preacher to Harvard College in 1886-89 (one of the first preachers of the board), and was lecturer on New Testament theology and pastoral theology at Andover. He delivered the oration on the occasion of the dedication of the Soldiers' Monument at Cam- bridge in 1870, and made an address at the fiftieth anniversary of the city charter in 1896. He was a trustee of Bowdoin in 1866-68; overseer of Harvard in 1872-84; was appointed secretary of the overseers of Harvard in 1875; a trustee of Phillips (Andover) Academy in 1876; trustee of Hampton Institute, Hampton, Va., 1885; trustee of Wellesley College in 1883, and later was president of the trustees of Wellesley. He was on the Cambridge School Committee from 1868 to 1874, and was elected a trustee of the Cambridge Hospital in 1876. He is a member of the Colonial Club; was elected president of the Congregational Club, Boston, in 1880, was and is president of the Boston Seamen's Friend Society, president of the Boston Port and Seamen's Aid Society in 1886; and he is a member of the Ministers' Club.
Among the published works of Dr. McKen- zie are: "History of the First Church in Cam- bridge," "Cambridge Sermons" and "Some Things Abroad," "Addresses at the Dedication of the Soldiers' Monuments in Cambridge " (1870), "Oration at the Centennial of Phillips Academy " (1878), "Sermon before the Legis- lature of Massachusetts" (1879), "Oration at the Commencement of Smith College " (1881), "Sermon at the Two Hundred and Fiftieth Anniversary of the First Church in Charles- town " (1882), "Sermon at the Two Hundred and Fiftieth Anniversary of Cambridge" (1886), "Sermon on the Twentieth Anniver-
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sary of his Installation as Pastor of the First Church at Cambridge" (1887), and a "Ser- mon in Memory of Professor Asa Gray" (1888) in pamphlet form. He is the author of the "Ecclesiastical History of Middlesex County." In 1891 he published "Christ Him- self," in 1898 "A Door Opened," and Lowell Institute Lectures, 1898.
He was married at Fitchburg, Mass., Janu- ary 25, 1865, to Miss Ellen Holman Eveleth, daughter of John Henry and Martha (Holman) Eveleth, and has two children: Kenneth, b. July 24, 1870; and Margaret, b. February 18, I873. Kenneth Mckenzie was graduated at Harvard University in 1891, and received the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in 1895. In the latter year he travelled with his father through Sweden, Russia, and other parts of Europe, visiting Warsaw and other remote places of historic interest. He was instructor of philology at Union College, and in 1900 was appointed instructor in "Romance Languages " at Yale University.
"A" LBION HARRIS BICKNELL, A. M., artist, was born at Turner, Androscog- gin County, Me., March 18, 1837. Son of Nehemiah8 Bosson and Lou- ise (Drew) Bicknell. He is lineally descended from Zachary Bicknell, who, with his wife Agnes, their son John, aged eleven years, and servant, John Kitchin, came to America in 1635 from Weymouth, England, and settled at Weymouth on the south shore of Massachu- setts Bay. The ancestral line is: Zachary, ' John, 2-3-4 Nathaniel, 5 Luke,6 William,7 Nche- miah,8 Albion Harris being of the ninth gen- eration of the family in New England.
Zachary Bicknell built a house on a lot of land granted to him at Weymouth, and d. the year following his arrival. There is a tradi- tion in the family that he was a retired Captain in the British Navy. He is described in the Colonial records as "Zachary Bicknel, gentle- man." John2 Bicknell, who was twelve years old at the time of his father's death, served the town of Weymouth many years as Select- man, and in 1677-78 as Deputy to the General Court. He d. about 1679. By his first wife,
Mary, he had a son John3 and two daughters, and by his second wife, another Mary, daugh- ter of Richard Porter, he had eight children. John3 Bicknell d. in 1737, aged eighty-three years. John, 4 son of John3 and his wife Sarah, was b. in 1688. His son Nathaniel, 5 b. 1725, d. at Abington at the age of seventy-nine in 1804. He m. Elizabeth Lincoln. Luke6 was b. at Abington in 1749. His honorable record as a soldier of the American Revo- lution begins April 19, 1775, when he marched from Abington as a private in Captain Will- iam Reed's company, Colonel John Bailey's regiment, and was in the service eight days. Re-enlisting on April 27 he served as Corpo- ral three months, one week, five days; also five days in March, 1776; also as Sergeant, Cap- tain Nathan Snow's company, Colonel Mitch- ell's regiment, which marched to Bristol, R.I., December 9, 1776, and served sixteen days; as Sergeant - Major, Captain James Allen's company, Major Eliphalet Cary, twenty-three days, in Rhode Island. Pay roll, April 19, 1777.
Luke Bicknell (town not named), Adjutant, Colonel John Robinson's regiment, muster roll, July 1, 1777, to December 18, dated North Kingston; commissioned June 27; also Colonel Thomas Carpenter's regiment; en- listed August 11, 1778; discharged September II, 1778; service, one month, one day, on expedition to Rhode Island; also list of officers of Plymouth Company detached to reinforce Continental army for three months; commis- sioned July 27, 1780; also Colonel John Jacob's regiment, appointed July 10, 1780, discharged October 31, 1780; regiment raised to reinforce Continental army ; roll dated Scit- uate.
Luke Bicknell, Captain, Lieutenant-Colonel Enoch Putnam's (Plymouth County) regiment ; enlisted August 1, 1781 ; discharged Decem- ber 8; service, four months, twenty days; regi- ment raised to join General Washington at West Point; reported served as Brigade Major, October 11, 1781, to December 8, 1781, one month, twenty-eight days.
After the close of the war Captain Luke Bicknell was a Colonel in the State militia, and a very efficient one. He was Town Clerk
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and Treasurer of Abington for thirty-one years, holding the offices at the time of his death, August 22, 1814. He m. Olive Gurney. William7 was also b. at Abington in 1781. Removing early in life to Turner, Me., he was largely instrumental in building up the town, and became one of the most prominent citizens. He m. Martha Bosson. Nehemiah8 Bosson Bicknell, b. at Mansfield, Mass., Feb- ruary, 1809, m. December 25, 1832, Louisa, daughter of Stephen and Ann (Bisbee) Drew, of Turner, Me. He had two children : Otis, b. in 1835, who d. in 1862; and Albion Harris, whose personal history is given below. Through her mother, Ann Bisbee, Mrs. Bick- nell was descended from Thomas Besbedge (or Bisbee), who came to America early in 1634, and landed at Scituate. In 1638 he removed to Duxbury, afterward to Marshfield, and event- ually to Sudbury.
Albion Harris Bicknell at an early age came to Boston with his father, and applied himself to the study of art at the Lowell Institute and in the Athenaeum. In 1860 he went to Paris, and entered the atelier of the renowned artist, Thomas Couture, and at the same time became a student at the École des Beaux Arts, where he remained two years, after which he visited the great art centres of the European cities, remaining for some time a resident of Venice.
In 1864 he returned to his native land, and opened a studio in Boston. The pictures from his brush soon attracted the notice of connois- seurs and art lovers, and won for him a reputa- tion that brought with it generous pecuniary recompense. His career has since been one of continued progress toward the highest ideals of his exacting profession. The versa- tility of his genius is shown in the fact that his work includes portraits, genre, landscapes, and cattle pictures, marines and still life, beside several historical compositions. As a land- scape painter he takes high rank, his interpre- tations of nature being true and sympathetic. His annual exhibitions at his studio in Malden have called forth from art-lovers and critics appreciations like the following: "In his 'Landscape with Cattle' (1895), a noble com- position with three cows in the foreground, and a thunder-shower passing on to the distant
hills, the cattle are painted in a masterly man- ner, accurately and finely drawn, naturally posed, and evidently thoroughly understood, and the landscape worthy such a fine group. 'A Cape Ann Pasture' (1897) is a beautifully and deeply-colored work, luminous and splen- did, with a superb cow in the foreground, worthy of Troyon, and a remarkably fine dis- tance and sky. There is a depth of color, of atmosphere, and of sentiment in his late work (1900) which places these canvases ahead of his previous landscapes. His New England pastures have the local color in the completed sense . . . they are soundly based on nature study, but inspired by a broad and poetic ap- prehension and sympathy for the grandeur and beauty of the outside world. They are lifted above literalness and commonplace, and glori- fied by the subjective character of their origin and source." His most famous historical painting is "Lincoln at Gettysburg," which contains twenty-two life-sized portraits of the statesmen and generals of the time. Through the generosity of the Hon. E. S. Converse this fine picture now adorns the wall of the art gal- lery of the Malden Public Library. Among the portraits he has painted are those of Daniel Webster (owned by J. H. Millett, Esq.), Rufus Choate, Horace Mann (engraved for the Horace Mann statue committee), Dr. Baron Stow, Anson Burlingame, Henry Wilson, Edward Everett, Charles Sumner, William Pitt Fessenden, Judge Isaac S. Redfield (for the State of Vermont), General B. F. Butler, Governor Andrew, Salmon P. Chase, Lot M. Morrill (for the Treasury Department at Wash- ington), Abraham Lincoln (for the State of Maine), the Rev. R. H. Neale, Gardiner Colby and Governor Coburn for Colby Univer- sity, and Abraham Lincoln for the Dexter (Maine) Public Library. Mr. Bicknell is also well known as an etcher and as an artist in black and white, and in 1887 he published a volume of his etchings. He also illustrated "Arcadian Days" by William Howe Downes (Boston, 1891). In his early days in Boston, when Mr. Bicknell was industriously climbing the ladder of fame, he was fortunate in having for his companions and intimate associates such men as William Morris Hunt, Elihu
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Vedder, Foxcroft Cole, Thomas Robinson, and Joseph Ames; and he was one of the foremost among this little coterie in laboring strenu- ously for the advancement of art. The honor- ary degree of Master of Arts was conferred upon him by Colby University in 1884.
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