Genealogy and history of representative citizens of the commonwealth of Massachusetts, Part 55

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


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sioned Colonel of the Tenth Massachusetts Volunteers, August 15, 1862. His regiment served with the Army of the Potomac in the Maryland campaign from September to Novem- ber, 1862, being engaged at Williamsport, guarding the upper Potomac fords, and in the march to Falmouth, Va .; also in the Rappa- hannock campaign from December, 1862, to June, 1863, being engaged in operations at the battle of Fredericksburg, the storming of Mary's Height, and the battle of Salem ; also the passage of the Rappahannock in the Pennsylvania campaign, June and July, 1863, being engaged, after a forced march of thirty- five miles, in the battle of Gettysburg and in the pursuit of the enemy to Warrenton, Va. Colonel Eustis was appointed Brigadier Gen- eral September 12, 1864, and as such took part in the operations in Central Virginia from No- vember, 1863, to March, 1864, being engaged in the combat at Rappahannock Station, Mile Run, and in the march toward Charlottesville and back; also in the Richmond campaign, taking part in the battle of the Wilderness and the battles around Spottsylvania and Cold Harbor, under Grant.


General Eustis resigned his command June 27, 1864, and resumed his duties in the scien- tific school with the academic year 1864-65. At this post he remained till his death, there being but six in the active service of the Uni- versity whose names, arranged in order of col- legiate seniority preceded his in the roll of the officers of instruction and government. He d. at his residence in Cambridge on Sunday morning, January 11, 1885, having known for some time that his end was near at hand. He had continued his duties as long as possible, unwilling to relinquish his classes, and when unable to ride the short distance to school had his pupils come to him. He was greatly lamented by all who knew him. As an in- structor he had few equals. Perhaps we can close this brief sketch of his career in no better way than by quoting the words of a friend and associate, W. P. P. Longfellow. "In spite of the magnetism of circumstances which drew him back again and again into the circle of army life, the military life itself was never attractive to him. The attraction which


took him to West Point as a cadet was not the military character of the school, but his bent for the study of engineering. It is not likely that he would have gone there if he had not counted on graduating into the engineer corps. The homelessness of his boyhood and early manhood, instead of leading to Bohemianism, seems to have engendered an intense desire for a settled life and the tranquillity of a home. Frontier life, in which so many of our officers have passed a large part of their service, would have been intolerable to him. One of the early letters, written during his cadetship, shows him looking forward rather gloomily to a long and eventless service in the army, and contrasting it with the studious charm of a professor's career." "And with the qualities of the successful student, Professor Eustis had all the natural gifts of the teacher, quickened by his long and thorough training. All his knowledge lay in order in his mind, and was ready for instant use. Not only the matter of the lesson before him, but the whole of the related subject was present to him, for com- parison, illustration, enforcement. So his teaching had never the hand-to-mouth frag- mentary character which is common to much instruction in scientific matters, to the undoing of the student's sense of breadth. What he said at one time did not need to be modified or readjusted at another to suit new connections. His power of clear, compact, logically cohe- rent statement was a revelation to the pupil who came to him from sitting under an average instructor. No one knew better what to insist on and what to keep subordinate. With the same keenness with which he saw into his sub- ject, he saw into his pupil's mind, and estab- lished with him an intellectual sympathy, which was half the secret of his power as a teacher. Once sure of his pupil's intelli- gent attention and effort, there was no end to the patience and fulness of explanation with which he followed him through his task. The student found the cobwebs swept from his brain with surprising thoroughness. If he did not end by liking and understanding his lesson, it was because he was exceptionally dull or indifferent or perverse."


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of disposition and heart were as notable as his intelligence. Uncompromising uprightness and a soldierly straightforwardness of manner won the respect of those who met him on the footing of ordinary acquaintance. Although a tinge of reserve kept him from forming many close intimacies, he had in social intercourse a. bonhommie that was very attractive. He was exceptionally fond of music, and this fond- ness opened to him the hearts of many of the students who did not officially come under his notice. He used to say that no music was pleasanter to him than that of a good quartette of male voices, and the students' glee clubs knew that at Professor Eustis's door at least their songs were always welcome. So it hap- pened that, while he stimulated the intellects of his students, he won their affections. Few teachers leave behind among their pupils so keen a sense of debt for intellectual benefits. Fewer still, perhaps, leave so much personal affection or so much feeling of personal loss at their death. Professor Eustis was a member of the American Academy and of the Ameri- can Association for the Advancement of Science. He delivered occasionally public lectures on scientific subjects, and wrote some short trea- tises, among them a pamphlet on the compo- sition and use of mortars in engineering con- struction, and a paper on a hurricane or tornado which passed over the neighborhood of Boston, August 27, 1851.


Professor Eustis was first m. May 2, 1844, to Sarah Augusta, daughter of Thomas J. and Julia Ann (Jeffries) Eckley.' She d. January 10, 1853, aged thirty years. He m. second July 10, 1856, Caroline Bartlett, daughter of Joseph and Maria (Bartlett) Hall. His chil- dren by the first marriage were as follows : Henry Sprague, b. March 13, 1845, in Boston, d. at Newport, R.I., June 3, 1896, as the result of injuries received about three weeks previously at Jamestown; Julian Jeffries, b. May 16, 1846, at Newport, R.I., who d. in Boston, April 11, 1895; Frank Izard, b. Octo- ber 3, 1847, at West Point, N. Y. ; and Sarah Eckley, b. in Cambridge, Mass., January 3, 1853. Of Professor Eustis's second union there were two children, both b. in Cambridge : Herbert Hall, on October 17, 1857; and


George Dexter, on October 24, 1866, whose name begins this article.


Frank Izard Eustis, b. October 3, 1847; m. December 28, 1874, in Cambridge, Mass., Cora, daughter of Israel Munson Spelman and his wife, Martha Hubbard Choate. Children, all born at Cambridge, Mass. : Martha Spelman, b. October 28, 1875 ; Lawrence Eckley, b. May 5, 1877; Francis Fairfield, b. December 21, 1872, d. April 12, 1885; Richard Spelman, b. Au- gust 3, 1886; and Helen Choate, b. October 10, 1890.


Herbert Hall Eustis, b. October 17, 1857; m. November 24, 1891, at King's Chapel, Bos- ton, Mass., Orient, daughter of Frederic Spel- man Nichols and his wife, Elizabeth Louisa Humphrey.


LBERT STANLEY EUSTIS, of the firm of Eustis, Aldrich & Co., 63 Kilby Street, Boston, is a worthy scion of the old Massachusetts fam- ily sketched in the preceding article. His line of descent is: William,1 William, 2 Thomas, 3 Chamberlain, + Joseph, 5 John Mason, 6 Albert Stanley7.


The account of the first three ancestors, al- ready given, it is not needful here to repeat. To begin, then, with the fourth: Chamberlain4 Eustis was b. January 9, 1743-4. With his brother Thomas he removed to Rutland, where he followed his trade of carpenter. "He bought and spent the remainder of his days on a part of the Judge Sewell farm," subsequently occupied by his widow. He m. September 3, 1767, Sarah, daughter of the Rev. Joseph Buckminster. She was b. June 26, 1748. They had seven children (b. 1768-89), namely : Joseph, Benjamin, William, Thomas, Lyman, John Chamberlain, and Elizabeth.


Joseph5 Eustis was b. October 23, 1768; d. December 20, 1847. In February, 1803, he removed to Mexico, Me., then a plantation, leaving his two elder children at Portsmouth, N. H., with Mr. Amos Tappan, who m. his mother's sister Isabel. Joseph Eustis m. No- vember 19, 1793, Sarah Mason, of Princeton, who was b. May 23, 1767, and d. May II, 1845. Their children, b. between October,


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1794, and July, 1806, were : William Tappan, Isabel Buckminster, Lucy Williams, John Mason, Charles Lyman, and Elizabeth Mason. (For a fuller account, see Genealogy of the Eustis Family, by Henry Lawrence Eustis, A. M., Boston, 1878, or New England His- torical and Genealogical Register for April, 1878.)


John Mason6 Eustis was b. May 30, 1800, and d. January 16, 1881. He resided for a number of years in Dixfield, Me., served as Justice of the Peace and member of the State Legislature, and held several appointments under the State and United States govern- ments. He m. August 31, 1823, Anna, daughter of Major Amos and Lucy (Parke) Trask; b. October 18, 1805, she d. April 2, 1880. Their children were: Susan M., b. June 21, 1824, d. December 17, 1826; Isabel B., b. February 2, 1826, d. September 12, 1828; Joseph Mason, b. December 15, 1827, d. October 31, 1898, in Minneapolis; Charles Wallace, b. June 23, 1829; George E., b. No- vember 7, 1830, d. October 2, 1853, unmar- ried; Albert Stanley, whose name begins this sketch; Sarah Mason, b. October 19, 1834, m. January 15, 1859, W. W. Mitchell; William Tappan, b. August 19, 1837, m. Elizabeth Stowell; Humphrey Eaton, b. September 10, 1840; Mary S., b. February 22, 1844, m. De- cember 1, 1868, Charles W. Greenleaf, and has one child - Eustice.


Albert Stanley7 Eustis, was born December 10, 1832. He was educated in the public schools of Dixfield, Me. He resided in Cole- brook, N.H., from 1859 to 1878. Coming to Boston in that year, he organized the firm of Eustis, Aldrich & Co., wholesale deal- ers in starch, and has been continuously en- gaged in the business. While living in Cole- brook, he became a member of Evening Star Lodge of Masons. Twice he represented the town in the Legislature of New Hampshire. He is a director in the Fourth National Bank of Boston. He was m. at Canton, Me., May 24, 1859, to Eveline Knight, a native of Westbrook, Me., and daughter of Isaiah and Mary (Libby) Knight. He has had three children : Carrie, born November 2, 1860, died December 8, 1861; Grace, born January


II, 1863, married James W. Eustis, and has one child - Eleanor, born December 25, 1895 ; Nellie, born June 19, 1870, died February 23, 1871. Mr. Eustis and his family reside in Cambridge.


ILLIAM ELLERY CHANNING EUSTIS, owner and manager of mines and smelting works, office at 60 State Street, Boston, is -a descendant of William' Eustis through William, 2 Benjamin, 3 Benjamin,+ Abraham,5 Abraham,6 and Freder- ick Augustus,7 he being a representative of the eighth generation. His ancestors from the first William Eustis down to and including Gen- eral Abraham Eustis, of the sixth generation, have already received mention in the sketch of this branch of the Eustis family headed with the name of George Dexter Eustis. The fol- lowing paragraphs, therefore, serve to com- plete a brief survey of the line of descent indicated above, bringing it down to present date.


Frederick Augustus7 Eustis, son of General Abraham6 Eustis and father of Mr. Eustis, whose name begins this separate article, was b. June 12, 1816, at Newport, R.I. He was graduated at Harvard College in 1835, and at the Harvard Divinity School in 1839. After his ordination he preached for some time in Philadelphia, where also he kept a private school. Subsequently removing to Milton, Mass., he kept there a private and boarding school. During the Civil War he bought a plantation at Lady's Island, South Carolina, belonging to the estate of his deceased step- mother, Mrs. Patience Izard Eustis. Here he caught the Southern fever, and d. at Beau- fort, June 19, 1871. He was m. June 1, 1843, to Mary, daughter of the Rev. Dr. William Ellery Channing. They had four children, namely: Mary Rebecca, b. October 5, 1844; Ella Channing, b. October 1, 1846; William Ellery Channing, b. November 24, 1849; and Emily Augusta, b. June 21, 1858. Mary m. March 4, 1868, William Rotch Wister, of Philadelphia. Emily Augusta m. September 26, 1889, John Amory Jeffries. Mrs. Mary Channing Eustis d. December 29, 1891.


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William Ellery Channing Eustis was edu- cated at Harvard University, taking the degree of Bachelor of Arts in 1871 and that of Bache- lor of Science in 1873. He married Novem- ber 9, 1876, Edith, daughter of Augustus Hemenway, of Boston, Mass. Their children are as follows : Frederic Augustus and Augus- tus Hemenway, twin sons, born October 7, 1877; and Mary Channing, born August 27, 1885.


ILLIAM TRACY EUSTIS, a Bos- ton business man residing in Brook- line just two hundred and fifty feet beyond the Boston line, is a native of Boston, and heir to the blood and traditions - of six generations of Bostonians, his ancestral tree having begun to spread its branches in the old Puritan town upwards of one hundred and sixty years before he was born. The date of his birth, September 29, 1822, shows him to be seven months and seven days younger than the city charter. Son of Joseph and Eleanor St. Barbe (Tracy) Eustis, he is a descendant in the seventh generation of William Eustis, whose name first appears in the Boston records as father of John, b. December 8, 1659. The line is: William,' William, Jr.,2 Joseph, 3 Joseph, Jr., 4 William Beers, 5 Joseph,6 Will- iam Tracy7.


William' Eustis d. in Boston in 1694. His widow d. in 1713. They had ten children. William, Jr.,2 b. in February, 1660-I, m. October 29, 1688, Sarah, daughter of Thomas Cutler. He d. February 10, 1736-7. She d. June 28, 1748 (gravestones at North Chelsea, now Revere). Joseph, 3 b. in 1700, was the seventh in a family of ten children. He m. in 1729 Mary Scott, and d. in April, 1730, five months before the birth of his son Joseph4. His wife d. in 1769. Joseph, 4 b. September 10, 1730, m. in 1753 Ann Beers. He lived in a house that he built on Sheafe Street, Bos- ton, at the North End, and here he and his wife d. in 1796 within a fortnight of each other. Their children were: Joseph; Anna; and William Beers, 5 b. in 1764. William Beers Eustis m. Deborah Bennett October 28,


1790. He d. in August, 1806, and she in May, 181I.


Their only child was Joseph,6 b. in Boston, June 13, 1794, a Franklin medal scholar, 1807, as a pupil of the North School. Joseph6 Eustis carried on a profitable millinery busi- ness in Boston for many years. He resided on Prince Street. In politics he was a stanch Whig. He m. at Newburyport, October 2, 1820, Eleanor St. Barbe Tracy. She was b. June 13, 1799, daughter of Nicholas and Lydia (St. Barbe) Tracy. She d. June 13, 1889; and he d. September 6, 1872, at Win- chester, Mass. Their children were: William Tracy,7 subject of this sketch; Charles Mus- sey; Henrietta Louisa Tracy; and George Homer. Charles Mussey, b. December II, 1823, m. Henrietta Nazro, and d. in London, England, January 18, 1871, leaving no chil- dren. He was educated in the Boston public schools, winning two Franklin medals, one at the Franklin School in 1836, and the other at the English High School in 1839. Henrietta Louisa Tracy, b. September 25, 1825, m. June II, 1845, J. Wesley Wolcott, who d. June 4, 1885. Mrs. Wolcott has been for many years a prominent member of the New England Women's Club and of the Association for the Advancement of Women. Her daughter, Grace Wolcott, M. D., is a practising physi- cian of Boston. George Homer Eustis, b. February 14, 1846, m. Clara Ann Ellis, of Woburn. They have six children: Ernest Rhodes; Marion, who m. Francis A. Gray ; Russell Ellis, who d. in 1876; Harriet Sigour- ney; Helen St. Barbe; and Wyatt St. Barbe.


The early years of William Tracy Eustis were passed in the city of Portland, Me., and he received his education in the Portland Academy. At the age of eighteen he entered into business. In 1862, the second year of the Civil War, he was engaged in military service at Fort Warren, Boston Harbor, being a member of the Boston Cadets, commanded by Colonel C. C. Holmes. Mr. Eustis's busi- ness office for some years was on Broad Street, and is now on Pearl Street. He is a resident member of the New England Historic Genea- logical Society, which he joined in 1886, and of the Bostonian Society, which was founded in


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1881. He was married October 3, 1849, to Martha Gilbert Dutton, of Boston, daughter of Henry Worthington Dutton, of the Boston Evening Transcript. Their children were : Eleanor Tracy, born March 22, 1851, married F. H. Pattee; Henry Dutton, born February 22, 1853; Annie Dutton, born October 31, 1855, died January 18, 1856; Elizabeth Mus- sey, born March I, 1858; Martha, born March 15, 1860; Joseph Tracy, born November 21, 1864; and Mary St. Barbe, born December 14, 1870. Martha married Walter B. Stephenson, October 10, 1883, and is the mother of three children - Martha, Helen Lincoln, and George Eustis.


HARLES HOMER LOOMIS, of Medford, Mass., is actively engaged in business in Boston, being a mem- ber of the firm of Joel Goldthwait & Co. He was born in New Haven, Conn., Oc- tober 18, 1850, son of Daniel and Asenath (Doolittle) Loomis. The family name has long been known in New England, as the first immigrant, Joseph, came over in 1638. This Joseph' Loomis, probably b. about 1590, was a woolen draper in Braintree, Essex County, England. On April 11, 1638, accompanied by his wife, five sons, and three daughters, he sailed from London in the ship "Susan and Ellen," arriving in Boston July 17. . In 1639 he removed to Windsor, Conn., where his wife d. August 23, 1652; and he d. November 25, 1658.


John2 Loomis, b. in England in 1622, son of Joseph,' was admitted to the church in Windsor, Conn., October 11, 1640. From 1652 until 1660 he resided in Farmington, Conn., then returned to Windsor. He was a Representative to the General Court in 1666, 1667, 1675, and 1677, and for many years he was Deacon of the church. He m. February 3, 1649, Elizabeth, daughter of Thomas Scott, of Hartford, and they had thirteen children. He d. September 1, 1688. Thomas3 Loomis, b. in Windsor, December 3, 1653, son of Dea- con John,2 d. August 12, 1688. Hem. March 31, 1680, Sarah White, by whom he had two children. John4 Loomis, b. at Hatfield,


Mass., January 1, 1681, settled in Lebanon, Conn. He m. October 30, 1706, Martha Osborn, and second, on September 30, 1725, Ann Lyman. By the two marriages he had seven children. Israels Loomis, b. September 29, 1715, son of John4 and his wife Martha, d. October 2, 1801. He had ten children. His first wife, Esther Hunt, whom he m. Decem- ber 15, 1737, d. February 16, 1743. He m. in September following Mrs. Mary Holbrook, who d. in April, 1745. His third wife, Mary Marsh, m. April 8, 1747, d. October 18, 1795. Daniel6 Loomis, son of Israel and his wife Esther, was b. December 31, 1739. On June 19, 1762, he m. Mary Sprague, of Coventry, who bore him twelve children. Daniel7 Loomis, son of Daniel6 and Mary, was b. March 29, 1765, and d. July 3, 1835. His wife, whose maiden name was Polly Hibbard, d. March 16, 1823. He was the father of seven children, one being Daniel,8 the grand- father of Charles Homer Loomis.


Daniel8 Loomis, b. in Connecticut, Septem- ber 18, 1789, d. June 10, 1844. In January, 1815, he m. Jerusha Richardson, by whom he had four children, as follows: Daniel,9 the father of Charles Homer; Julia, b. in 1820, m. Alonzo Blodgett, of New Haven, Conn. ; Mary, b. in 1822, m. Mark Hill, of Port Chester, N. Y .; and Edwin, b. in 1829, who d. in 1899 in Boston.


Daniel9 Loomis, b. in Hartford, Conn., February 8, 1816, d. May 10, 1854. A car- riage maker by trade, he was for many years in the employ of the Newhall Manufacturing Company at New Haven, Conn. His wife, Asenath Doolittle, d. March 2, 1854, leaving six children. Of these the following is a brief record : Edward Daniel, b. September 21, 1840, resides in New Haven, Conn. Henry Roswell, b. October 15, 1842, m. October 28, 1868, in New Haven, Rosalie N. Hill. Le- onie Mary, b. August 21, 1844, is the wife of Timothy Bradley, of New Haven. Franklin Hibbard, b. March 21, 1847, is m., and now living in Meriden, Conn. Charles Homer, of Medford, is further mentioned below. Will- iam Edwin, b. December 22, 1852, was adopted by the Rev. Willard M. Harding; he m. in 1876 Ada Pitman Gould.


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Charles Homer1ยบ Loomis having been left an orphan when but three years old, made his home for several years with the Rev. William S. Coggin, of Boxford, Mass., and was edu- cated in the public schools of Newburyport. Entering the carpet store of Joel Goldthwait & Co., of Boston, in his youth, he worked his way up through various positions, and in Janu- ary, 1899, was made a member of the firm. In June, 1879, he took up his residence in Medford. He was elected to the first City Council, in which he served two years. He is a stockholder and director of the Co-operative Bank, a member of the Medford Savings Bank Corporation, and vice-president of the Medford Historical Society. Fraternally he is a mem- ber of Boston Lodge, No. 25, I. O. O. F., and Medford Council, Royal Arcanum. He is a Republican in politics, and a member of the Mystic Congregational Church.


On June 6, 1876, Mr. Loomis married Mary Bella Wing, daughter of Thomas Ralph and Elizabeth (Seltzer) Wing, and grand-daughter of William Wing. Her great-grandfather, Moses Wing, a resident of Windsor, Conn., is on record as a private (April 6, 1777, to May 23, 1777) in Captain Edward Griswold's Company, Colonel Thomas Belden's regiment, which was sent at the request of Washington to Peekskill, N. Y., for six weeks. Born April 25, 1760, he m. April 9, 1793, Huldah Denslow, who was b. April 3, 1771. Her father, Martin Denslow, was a soldier of the Revolution, responding to the Lexington alarm, and served continuously, and with credit, from 1775 to 1782, when he was re- tired. He was Sergeant in the First Company of Windsor, Conn., and was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant. He was a member of the Society of the Cincinnati.


William Wing, b. at Windsor Locks, Conn., July 1, 1799, d. February 13, 1878. He m. in September, 1822, Electa Spellman, who was b. in Granville, Mass., May 1, 1799, and d. September 25, 1882. She was a daughter of Timothy and Hannah (Hayes) Spellman, and a grand-daughter of Thomas and Sarah (Hickox) Spellman.


Thomas Ralph Wing, the father of Mrs. Loomis, was b. May 6, 1829, at Baltimore,


Ohio, and d. April 25, 1894, in Medford, Mass. In the railway service during his active life, he was connected first with the Central Ohio Railroad, then with the Balti- more & Ohio, later with the Panhandle, and afterward with the Union Pacific. On No- vember 12, 1852, he m. Elizabeth Seltzer, who was b. in Lebanon, Pa., May 12, 1829, and d. February 9, 1867. She was of German ancestry, her great-grandfather, Christian Selt- zer, having been b. in Heidelberg. Her grandfather, George Seltzer, m. Elizabeth Zim- merman, and their son Samuel was father of Elizabeth Seltzer. Samuel Seltzer was b. August 31, 1801, and d. August 5, 1852. His wife, Mary Fasnaught, b. October 26, 1802, d. in 1881. Thomas Ralph Wing m. for his second wife Fannie M. Nichols, now living in Indianapolis. By his first wife, Elizabeth Seltzer, he had three children. The record is: William Seltzer, b. November 9, 1853, m. Jennie Hall, of Middle Granville, N. Y., and now resides in Denver, Col. Mary Bella, b. July 26, 1855, is the wife of Mr. Loomis. Evelyn Bliss was b. April 16, 1857.


Mr. and Mrs. Loomis have three children, namely: Arthur Thomas, born March 18, 1877, who is a travelling salesman in the employ of the American Rubber Company ; Grace Elizabeth, born November 3, 1880; and Harold Goldthwait, born July 9, 1885, now (1901) attending the High School at Medford.


REDERIC HAINES CURTISS was born at Yonkers, N. Y., August 14, 1869, son of Abijah and Mary (Haines) Curtiss.


His immigrant ancestor was John Curtiss, of London, England, who on May 9, 1632 (eighth year of King Charles I.), had con- firmed to him this coat of arms: "Azure a fesse dancette between three ducal coronets or." The crest was: "Lion in his proper colors issuing forth of his colors, or and azure, supporting in his right paw a shield azure, and thereon a fesse dancette or, mantled gules and doubled argent." This John' Curtiss was a son of William Curtiss, of Halton, Warwick County, England; William, son of Eustis, of




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