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Major William5 Stackpole, son of William and Ann Stackpole, b. December 31, 1779, graduated at Harvard in the class of 1798. He m. Mrs. Nancy (Lewis) Hodgdon, daughter of Joseph Lewis, of Dedham, and widow of Alex- ander Hodgdon, Esq., of Boston. Their chil- dren were as follows: William Ames, who d.
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in early manhood; Grace H. G., who m. George Atkinson, of London, England; Jo- seph Lewis, b. December 28, 1808; Roxana, who m. Frederick Dabney; and John Ward Gurley.
Joseph Lewis6 Stackpole, who is next in line of descent, being father of the present bearer of that name, graduated at Harvard in 1824 with the degree of Bachelor of Arts, and subsequently, in 1828, at the Harvard Law School with the degree of Bachelor of Laws. He d. in 1847, being killed in a railroad acci- dent on July 20. He was the "nearest and dearest friend " of John Lothrop Motley, the historian. His wife, Susan Margaret, whom he m. March 2, 1837, was a daughter of Park Benjamin, a Connecticut merchant. She sur- vived her husband many years, dying April 24, 1896. They had three sons - Joseph Lewis, William, and Henry.
J. Lewis Stackpole received his earlier edu- cation in private schools, first at Dedham, Mass., and later in that of Thomas G. Brad- ford, Boston. After a four years' course at Harvard, he graduated in 1857, receiving a prize for Latin verse during his senior year. While at Harvard he was a member of the Psi Upsilon Fraternity, of the Institute of 1770, and of the Hasty Pudding Club; and he had parts in two exhibitions and delivered a disser- tation at Commencement. From September, 1857, to March, 1858, he studied law in the office of Francis C. Loring, of Boston. Then he entered the Harvard Law School, from which he received the degree of Bachelor of Laws in July, 1859. After this he continued his legal studies with the late Hon. Josiah G. Abbott until September, 1860, when he was admitted to the Suffolk Bar.
Mr. Stackpole had hardly entered upon the practice of his profession in Boston when he volunteered for service in the Civil War. On September 2, 1861, he was commissioned Cap- tain in the Twenty-fourth Massachusetts Vol- unteers, and served first in General Burnside's expedition in North Carolina. On August 30, 1862, President Lincoln appointed him com. missary of subsistence of volunteers, and in that capacity he was stationed at Beaufort, N. C., for three months. Then in the capacity
of chief commissary of subsistence of the army in North Carolina, he served in the Goldsboro Expedition during the month of December on the staff of Major-General John G. Foster. In January, 1863, General Foster appointed him Judge Advocate of the Eighteenth Corps and of the Department of North Carolina, and on July 10, 1863, President Lincoln commis- sioned him Major and Judge Advocate of the army in that State. In August of the same year he was designated Judge Advocate of the Department of Virginia and North Carolina, after which he removed to Fortress Monroe, and in the following month he received the further appointment of Provost Judge of Nor- folk, Va. He accompanied the Army of the James to Bermuda Hundred, and became its Judge Advocate before Richmond on the staffs of Major-Generals Benjamin F. Butler and Edward O. C. Ord. He entered Richmond with the army, and resigned his commission on April 20, 1865. On March 13, 1865, he was brevetted Lieutenant-Colonel "for merito- rious services in conducting the prosecutions of the department with skill, faithfulness, and integrity."
On returning to civil life Mr. Stackpole resumed the practice of his profession in Bos- ton. Since then his ability and industry have won for him a leading position at the Suffolk Bar, thereby proving him a worthy member of Harvard's class of 1857, which includes such men as John D. Long, Solomon Lincoln, Rob- ert M. Morse, John C. Ropes, the latter Rob- ert D. Smith, Samuel Wells, Francis Bartlett, the Rev. Joseph May, the late James J. Stor- row, and Franklin Haven. One of the cases that have helped to establish his legal reputa- tion was that of the Commonwealth of Massa- chusetts v. Snell, in which he secured thè acquittal of the defendant, and which presents the first instance in the annals of Massachu- setts of a prisoner charged with a capital crime being allowed to testify in her own behalf.
In October, 1870, Mr. Stackpole was ap- pointed first assistant to the City Solicitor, which position he had held for six years, re- signing in October, 1876. Afterward for sev- eral years he was special counsel for the city before the Legislature. He was travelling in
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Norway in August,' 1890, when the President appointed him on the board of United States General Appraisers under the new customs administration bill. This office he resigned in the following December, because its duties obliged him to remove to New York. He is a director of the New England Trust Company, of the Cabot Manufacturing Company, of the Amoskeag Manufacturing Company, and of the Lawrence Gas Company. He is a member of the military order of the Loyal Legion of the United States, of the executive committee of the Military Historical Society, of Boston, and of the Somerset and Country Clubs. Besides having written the article on "Military Law" in the North American Review for October, 1865, he is the author of the following papers published in the American Law Review : "Rogers v. the Attorney-General," October, 1866; "Law in Romance," April, 1867; "A Book About Lawyers," October, 1867; "Lord Plunkett," April, 1868; "Campbell's Lives of Lyndhurst and Brougham," January, 1870; "The Howland Will Case," July, 1870; and "The Early Days of Charles Sumner," April, 1879. His religious belief is the Unitarian. In politics he is a Republican.
On March 3, 1863, Mr. Stackpole was mar- ried to Martha Watson Parsons, a daughter of the late William and Sabra (Watson) Parsons, and grand-daughter of Theophilus Parsons, Chief Justice of the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts. Her father was a prominent Boston merchant. Their children are : Eliza- beth Virginia, born at Fortress Monroe, Va., January 14, 1865, who married January 24, 1899, George Howland, of New York; Alice, born June 6, 1866, in Boston; Joseph Lewis, who died young; and Joseph Lewis, Jr., born November 16, 1874. Joseph Lewis Stackpole, Jr., having received his preliminary education in John P. Hopkinson's private school in Bos- ton, graduated from Harvard University with the degree of Bachelor of Arts in 1895. While at Harvard he became a member of Phi Delta Phi, of the Alpha Delta Phi, and of the Hasty Pudding Club; and he was one of the Sophomore boat crew. Subsequently he en- tered the Harvard Law School, and duly grad- uated Bachelor of Laws cum laude in 1898,
having been one of the editors of the Harvard Law Review during his course. He was ad- mitted to the Suffolk Bar in the same year, and he has since been connected with the firm Fish, Richardson, Storrow & Herrick. He is also Lecturer on Patent Law in the Harvard Law School. In 1899 he was married to Kath- erine Brown, daughter of F. C. Brown, of Highland Park, Ill.
APTAIN JAMES WILLIAM PIERCE, of Cambridge, the treas- urer of the Boston Can Company, was born in Boston, January 26, 1844. Son of James W. and Sarah E. D. B. (Wilson) Pierce, he belongs to the ninth gen- eration of the family, founded by Thomas and Elizabeth Pierce, who came from England in 1633 or 1634, and settled in Charlestown.
Thomas Pierce was b. in 1583-4; and his wife Elizabeth was b. in 1595-6. She was admitted to the church in Charlestown on Jan- uary 10, and he on February 21, 1634-5. On May 6, 1635, he was made a freeman; and on September 27, 1642, he was appointed one of the twenty-one commissioners designated by the Great and General Court "to see that salt- petre heapes were made by all the farmers of the Colony." He d. October 7, 1666.
Samuel2 Pierce, son of Thomas,1 after resid- ing for a while in Malden, removed to Charles- town some time between the years 1666 and 1669. He joined the church in Charlestown on December 5, 1669, and his wife Mary on March 27, 1670. Mary Pierce, who was b. in 1631, d. of smallpox on July 17, 1705. He d. September, 1678. They had twelve children, the sixth child being Jonathan, 3 who was b. in 1661. On December 4, 1683, Jonathan3 Pierce m. Mary Lobdell, who was b. in 1663. Jona- than and his family were residents of Charles- town when he d. July 4, 1722. His wife d. December 18, 1744, and was buried in the Copp's Hill Burying-ground, Boston. Of their fourteen children, Isaac,4 b. June 27, 1702, was the eleventh. Hem. Agnes Kent on June 21, 1722. Following the callings of fisherman and ropemaker, he lived with his family on Deer Island, Boston Harbor. In 1746, the
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bans of marriage between his widow and Rob- ert Stone were published.
Isaac5 Pierce, son of Isaac and Agnes Pierce, b. April 3, 1723, d. January 7, 1792. On August 8, 1746, he m. Miriam James, by whom he had fifteen children. Miriam was a daugh- ter of Demetrius James, a Scotchman, who established a fishery at Nantasket, and who was killed by Indians with all his family, ex- cept his wife and her daughter Miriam, then aged eight years, who both escaped in a boat to Boston. . Joseph,6 b. February 29, 1756, sixth child of Isaac5 and his wife Miriam, m. Sally Pease, who was b. in June, 1761. She d. June 24, 1826, having been the mother of eight children. James7 Pierce, her fourth child, who was b. in Boston, December 28, 1790, contracted his first marriage on August 7, 1813, with Abigail Waite. Born December 30, 1790, she d. January 16, 1822, having been the mother of six children. Her sister Nancy, who was b. June 17, 1793, became the second wife of James7 Pierce on December I, 1822. She had eight children and d. July 8, 1874. James7 Pierce d. March 24, 1863.
James8 W. Pierce, the fifth child of James and Abigail (Waite) Pierce, was b. July 8, 1820. His wife Sarah, whom he m. Septem- ber 14, 1840, was b. May 23, 1822. He d. June 15, 1854. They were the parents of four children, namely : Sarah Abigail, b. January 12, 1842; James William, the subject of this sketch; Charles Emery, b. October 31, 1846; and Anna Elizabeth, b. October 7, 1853. Sarah m. George A. Leonard, and has one child - George T., who m. Martha Scales. Charles m. Harriet E. Thurston, and has two children, namely : James Wilson, who m. Alice Howe; and Florence Talbot. Anna is the wife of Charles L. Abbott, of Cambridge, and has one child.
Mr. Pierce, the subject of this sketch, re- ceived his general education in Boston. After leaving school he was employed in the law office of Park & Russ for two years. In 1862 he obtained a position in the tin can factory in Boston of Charles E. Russ, a brother of Augus- tus Russ, of Park & Russ. Four years later the business was placed in the possession of a corporation entitled the Boston Can Company,
and two years after the event Mr. Pierce be- came the treasurer of the corporation, which office he has since filled.
On March 13, 1867, Mr. Pierce married Anna Maria Billings, who was born in Boston, May 25, 1847, daughter of William H. and Martha (Dunton) Billings. His children are : Charles Frederick, born January 28, 1869; William Faxon, born July 20, 1870; and Martha Elizabeth, born November 4, 1873. Charles Frederick, who married Florence Maria Hastings, of Cambridge, has two children : Frederick Hastings, born March 19, 1895 ; and Marguerite, born November 3, 1899. William Faxon, having married Etta Frances Hilton, of Cambridge, is the father of Carl Hilton, born March 6, 1896, and Ralph Wil- son, born August 29, 1900. Martha E. is the wife of Howard Bruce Dakin, of Somerville, and is the mother of Lawrence Pierce Dakin, born May 31, 1900.
In politics Mr. Pierce is a Republican. He is a member of Amicable Lodge, F. & A. M. ; of Friendship Lodge, I. O. O. F., of Cam- bridge; and of the Newtowne Club. In the course of time, after joining the First Boston Battalion of Rifles in 1861, he became quite prominent in the military affairs of the State. Ten years later he entered the National Lan- cers, of which he was treasurer eighteen years. In 1887 he was made First Lieutenant and Paymaster in the First Battalion of Cavalry. He has been on the retired list since 1897, when he withdrew from the battalion with the rank of Captain. A period of nearly thirty- eight years is covered by his residence in Cam- bridge, where his family attend the Third Universalist Church.
OHN SARGENT, in former days a well- known and enterprising citizen of Mal- den, was born in that town July 20, 1787, son of Amos and Alice (Buck- nam) Sargent. He was a direct descendant of William' Sargent, a native of England, who came to America in 1638, accompanied by his third wife and two children, and who was one of the first settlers of Malden. William Sar- gent purchased a tract of land which extended
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on both sides of what is now Broadway. He was admitted to the church in March, 1638-9, and was a lay preacher from 1648 to 1650.
His son John, 2 b. 1639, m. March 19, 1662, Deborah Hillier, a native of Yarmouth, Mass., b. October 30, 1643, daughter of Hugh Hill- ier. She d. in 1669, having been the mother of four children. After her death her husband m. twice, and reared a large family.
Joseph3 Sargent, son of John2 and Deborah (Hillier) Sargent, was b. April 18, 1663, and d. November 27, 1717. He m. in 1685 Mary Green (b. 1668, d. 1759), daughter of John Green. Their son Jabez4 (b. 1692) m. August 21, 1716, Mary Lynde, who was b. August 25, 1692, a daughter of Joseph Lynde. She d. May 26, 1749, and he m., second, Rachel Waite. All his children were the fruit of his first marriage.
Silas5 Sargent (b. October 7, 1722, d. May 1, 1796) m. February 14, 1745-6, Mary Wins- low, who was b. April 8, 1721, a daughter of John Winslow. She d. January 17, 1810. Their son Amos,6 b. November 23, 1758, m. November 28, 1782, Alice Bucknam, b. Feb- ruary 14, 1759, daughter of Aaron Bucknam. In the Revolutionary records Silas Sargent (a son of Silas5) appears as a private in Captain Benjamin Blaney's company, Colonel Gardner's regiment, which responded to the Lexington alarm, and as private in Captain Hatch's company, Thirty-seventh regiment. Amos Sargent's name appears as that of a private in the same company, and also as a seaman at- tached to the brigantine "Hazard," a privateer. Amos Sargent was a carpenter by trade, and a lifelong resident of Malden.
John7 Sargent learned the trade of brick- layer, at which he became an expert workman. He also studied surveying, and, after the com- pletion of the railroad, when the town began to grow, he found plenty of employment in that occupation, in course of time his sons becom- ing associated with him. The business thus established by him is now carried on by his grandson, Albert F. Sargent, Jr. Always enterprising, he purchased property on Main Street in the vicinity of Upper Central Square, and for a while in early manhood was engaged in mercantile business as a dealer in East and
West India goods. For some years he was a teacher in the public schools of South Malden (now Everett), and later had a private school, which was patronized by the first families of Malden. He was Town Clerk for several years. He also held the office of Post-master, being the first one in that part of Malden, the town then including what are now the cities of Everett and Melrose. After an active, useful, and successful career, he passed away Decem- ber 7, 1858.
John7 Sargent was married May 19, 1817, to Dorcas Nichols, a native of Malden, born July 23, 1793, daughter of Captain Nathan and Dorcas (Smith) Nichols. She was a grand- daughter of Captain Isaac Smith, a shipmaster in the merchant marine service, who, it is said, was the first to fly the Stars and Stripes in Russian waters. Nathan Nichols, also, father of Mrs. Sargent, was. a sea captain in the merchant service. He owned a farm in Ever- ett, which has since been laid out in building lots and largely built upon. Mrs. Dorcas Nichols Sargent died November 16, 1845, thirteen years before the death of her husband. They were the parents of six children, namely : Dorcas Nichols, born December 12, 1818; Sophia Nichols, March 28, 1821; John Hurd, June 20, 1825; Nathan Nichols, November 17, 1827; Albert Francis, February 2, 1832; and Sophia Williams, May 9, 1835. Dorcas Nich- ols died at the age of twenty-eight years, Au- gust 21, 1847. Sophia Nichols died in child- hood, at the age of four years. John Hurd died unmarried, May 3, 1883.
Nathan N. Sargent died June 23, 1889. He had one daughter - Lillian Ashley, born March 3, 1887. He was associated with his brother, Albert F., in the business of civil engineering and surveying, with John Hurd as assistant. He also was an Assessor of Malden for several years.
Albert F. Sargent carried on an extensive business as a civil engineer, and also in set- tling estates, his services being much sought. He became prominent in public affairs of Mal- den, serving as Town Clerk twenty-four years, on the School Board, and as City Engineer; also as Assessor, and for some years treasurer of the town and city, and secretary and treas-
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urer of the Sinking Fund. He was also Road Commissioner for the town for a number of years. He was a director of the First National Bank of Malden, and one of the trustees of the Savings Bank. He died April 29, 1898. He married March 25, 1867, Sarah F. Moody, born in Boston, daughter of Loring Moody. They had three children : Emma Alice, born Novem- ber 6, 1869; Albert Francis, born December 31, 1871; and Edith Loring, born February 22, 1874.
Albert F. Sargent, Jr., is a graduate of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Bos- ton. He has succeeded to the business of his father and grandfather, and is a worthy repre- sentative of the line of surveyors in the family. He married September 6, 1899, Clara L. West. He has one son, Albert L., born October 30, I900.
Sophia Williams Sargent, who is the only one of the children of John and Dorcas Nich- ols Sargent now living, owns and occupies the old homestead, her birthplace, on Malden Square, in which she has resided for sixty-four years. Miss Sargent has many friends among the townspeople, and is highly respected by all who know her.
PU ENRY FRANCIS JOHNSON, a re- tired business man residing in Win- chester, was born in South Woburn, village of Woburn, Mass., January 16, 1850. (South Woburn Village was incor- porated into the town of Winchester by an act of the Legislature of Massachusetts approved April 30, 1850. ) He is the son of Francis. Henry and Maria Louisa (Hutchinson) John- son, and has one sister, Mrs. Louisa Maria (Johnson) Knox. He is a descendant in the eighth generation of Captain Edward' Johnson, the line of descent being : Edward,' William, 2 Josiah, 3 Francis, 4-5 Seth,6 Francis Henry,7 Henry Francis8.
Captain Edward Johnson was b. in England in 1599, a subject of Queen Elizabeth, and was a land owner in the parish of Herne Hill, Kent County, England. He came to this country in 1630, and was made "freeman " the same year. In 1636 he returned to England. He held the
rank of Captain in England as a Kentish sol- dier. Coming back to America in 1637, he brought his son, Major William Johnson, with him. He was one of the foremost men in church, State, and town affairs. In his private life he was without reproach, and in his public life a tower of strength in times of perplexity and peril. He was esteemed wise in questions which embarrassed governors and magistrates, and was faithful to every trust: He was, all in all, one of the most useful among the sup- porters and guides of our infant Commonwealth. His book, "The Wonderful Working Provi- dence of Zion's Savior in New England," is an excellent history of his time and place. He d. in Woburn, April 23, 1672.
Major William2 Johnson, b. in England, 1629, d. in Woburn, May 22, 1704. Josiah3 Johnson, b. in Woburn, January 15, 1669, d. in Woburn, December 16, 1739. Francis4 Johnson was b. in Woburn, February 13, 1712. Francis5 Johnson was b. in Woburn, April 2, 1746, and d. in Woburn, September 18, 1805. Hem. Abigail Brooks. Seth6 Johnson, grandfather of the subject of this article, b. in Billerica, Mass., January 1, 1783, m. Lydia Eames, September 23, 1810, d. in Stone- ham, Mass., April 16, 1862, and was buried in Winchester. Francis Henry7 Johnson, father of Henry Francis, was b. in Billerica, Mass., October 31, 1819. When quite young he moved to the village of South Woburn, afterward incorporated into the town of Win- chester. He was engaged at first in the sash and blind business, subsequently kept a livery stable, and later was the station agent of the Boston & Lowell Railroad at Winchester. At the time of his death, and previous thereto, he was Superintendent of Streets of Winchester. He d. May 24, 1875. He m. September 29, 1846, Maria Louisa Hutchinson. Two chil- dren were b. to them - Henry Francis Johnson and Louisa Maria (who is now Mrs. Knox).
Henry Francis Johnson is also well con- nected on his mother's side, as shown in the following sketch of one Hutchinson line of de- scent, he by this line being of the ninth gen- eration in this country. Thomas' Hutchinson and his son, George2 Hutchinson, came to this country from Louth, not far from Boston, Lin-
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colnshire, England, and were among the first comers to the Massachusetts Bay Colony. They were among the original signers to the covenant of the First Church of Boston, organ- ized August 27, 1630. Thomas' Hutchinson was one of the "assistants" or directors of the company in England before the emigration ; and there occurs, in a letter from the London com- pany to Governor Endicott at Salem, in April, 1629, remarks relating to sending out a "chi- rurgeon," in which it is suggested that "he teach his art to some younger men, of whom Mr. Hugesson's son George is thought fittest, because he hath been bred to learning." George2 and his wife Margaret were dismissed from the Boston church October 14, 1632, and on November 2, 1632, they, with thirty-three others, organized the First Church of Charles- town. He was one of the subscribers to the order of the inhabitants of Charlestown, Feb- ruary 10, 1634, by which they agreed to be governed by Selectmen, which was the begin- ning of our New England form of town gov- ernment. He d. December 11, 1660, leaving one son; and his estate was inventoried two hundred and eighty-one pounds, five farthings, he having property in Charlestown and forty acres in Waterfield (the early name for what is now Winchester).
Nathaniel3 Hutchinson, b. in 1632, d. Octo- ber 1, 1693, and was buried in the old burying- ground, Phipps Street, Charlestown, his grave- stone being marked "Huchenson." His prop- erty was inventoried six hundred and thirty-two pounds. He and his wife had seven children. Samuel+ Hutchinson, b. September 19, 1672, m. Sarah Fassett, and d. in 1743. They had eight children. Thomas5 Hutchinson, b. May 18, 1702, m. Mary Ireland, and d. August 18, 1794. They had six children. John6 Hutchin- son was b. January 6, 1747. He was m. three times : first, to Sarah Frost; second, to Mary Fox; and third, to Martha Hastings. He d. June 28, 1819. He had eight children. Thomas7 Hutchinson (grandfather of the sub- ject of this article) was b. July 25, 1784. He was a farmer, and lived on the place inherited from his father. He m. on April 13, 1813, Betsey Homer, of West Cambridge. She d. May 23, 1858, aged seventy-two years. He
d. March 20, 1863. They were buried on their own land on the west side hills of Winchester, as was his father, John Hutchinson, but were subsequently disinterred, and reinterred in Wildwood Cemetery in Winchester. They had six children.
Maria Louisa8 Hutchinson (mother of the subject of this article), the youngest of six children, was b. December 21, 1823, and is still living. She was m. September 29, 1846, as previously stated, to Francis Henry John- son. Of strong domestic tastes, she has never sought public notice, having devoted her life to her family. She joined the First Congre- gational Church May 1, 1842. She has one son, Henry Francis (the subject of this article) ; and one daughter, Louisa Maria, who was b. April 29, 1855. The latter m. Warren Lord Knox November 27, 1879, and has one son - Chester Wight Knox, b. March 9, 1882, who is a student at Harvard University, class of I904.
Henry Francis Johnson, having completed his studies in the public schools of Winches- ter, accepted a position in the treasurer's office of the Boston & Lowell Railroad, where he remained for more than twenty years. He is widely known both as an estimable private citizen and for his honorable connection with local public affairs. He served as Town Audi- tor three years, and as Selectman in 1897, 1898, and 1899. He was Cemetery Commis- sioner for twenty years, and has been particu- larly interested in the laying out and improve- ment of highways. He attends the Episcopal church. Mr. Johnson is unmarried. He has travelled extensively in this country, and in 1892 he visited England, Ireland, Scotland, and continental Europe. He is a student of history and of political affairs, local, State, and national.
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