Genealogy and history of representative citizens of the commonwealth of Massachusetts, Part 62

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

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Among other ancestral worthies from whom Mr. James S. Newhall traces his descent may be named Governor John Endicott, Lieutenant John' Pickering, the Rev. Samuel Skelton, and Henry' Herrick, all of Salem; Tristram Coffin, Edmund Greenleaf, of Newbury ; John' Bancroft, of Lynn; and John Tarbell, who m. Mary Nourse, daughter of Francis and Rebecca Towne Nourse. It was Rebecca, mother of Mary (Mrs. Tarbell), that was hanged as a witch at Salem in 1692.

Three of the five children b. to Thomas B. and Susan Silver Newhall d. in infancy or or early childhood, namely - Susan Agnes, Thomas Bancroft, Jr., and Thomas Little. The two now living are: James Silver, further mentioned below; and Caroline Putnam, b. January 27, 1860, who m. John A. Heath, a stock broker of Boston. Mr. and Mrs. Heath have two children : Caroline Newhall, b. Oc- tober 17, 1888; and John Andrew, b. Decem- ber 2, 1890.

After obtaining his education in the public schools of Lynn, James Silver Newhall en- gaged in the leather business in Salem with his grandfather Jacob and his uncle George F.

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Putnam. Later he engaged in coal business in Lynn, in which he is still interested. He is a director of the Central Bank and of the Security Safe Deposit and Trust Company, both of Lynn; a trustee of the Five Cents Savings Bank of Lynn, of the Lynn Mutual Fire Insurance Company, and of the Home for Aged Women. He has been treasurer for twenty years of the Unitarian church (Second Congregational) of Lynn. He is a member of the Masonic fraternity, of Society of Colo- nial Wars, of the Sons of the Revolution, and Lynn Historical Society.

He was married October 26, 1871, to Mar- ion Wentworth Clarke. She was born at Syd- ney, New South Wales, Australia, March 7, 1853, daughter of Frederick William and Ellen Augusta (Brimblecom) Clarke. Mr. and Mrs. Newhall have two daughters. Ellen Augusta, born in Salem, August 24, 1872, is a graduate of the Lynn High School. She was married November 22, 1900, to Larkin E. Ben- nett, and resides in Lowell. Susan Putnam, born in Salem, January 10, 1874, married October 7, 1901, William Gerry Keene, of Lynn. Frederick W. Clarke, father of Mrs. Newhall, was b. at Northwood, N. H., Sep- tember 23, 1818. He d. at Netherwood, N. Y., February 19, 1892. He was American Consul to Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, ap- pointed by President Pierce, and held the office eight years. He was a son of Jonathan Clarke, Jr., of Northwood, N. H., who was son of Jon- athan, Sr., the latter a son of Joseph and grand- son of John Clarke. Ellen Augusta, wife of Frederick W. Clarke and mother of Mrs. New- hall, was b. in Lynn, May 16, 1818. She was the daughter of Colonel Samuel Brimblecom by his second wife, Eleanor, daughter of Jona- than and Mary (Perry) Newhall.

Jonathan Clarke, Sr., grandfather of Freder- ick William, m. in 1773 Susanna Lane, b. in Stratham, N. H., in 1750, a daughter of Dea- con Samuel4 and Mary (James) Lane. Deacon Samuel, who was a member of the Fourth Pro- vincial Congress, held in Exeter, N. H., May 17, 1775, was the eldest son of Deacon Joshua3 Lane, of Hampton, N. H., and his wife, Bath- sheba Robie. Deacon Joshua3 was a son of William2 and Sarah (Webster) Lane, of Bos-

ton, and Hampton, N. H., and grandson of William' Lane, who was in Boston as early as 1650.

The wife of Jonathan Clarke, Jr., and the paternal grandmother of Mrs. Newhall, was Charlotte Johnston, daughter of Nathaniel Johnston, who served in the Revolutionary War. Nathaniel was a descendant of Ensign Stephen Johnston, an early proprietor and householder of Andover, Mass., the line being : Stephen, Francis,2 Zebediah, 3-4 Nathaniel5. Stephen Johnston m. in 1661 Elizabeth Dane. Their daughter Elizabeth was imprisoned six months for supposed witchcraft, being then reprieved and released. Sarah Hawkes, wife of Francis Johnston, was'tried, but acquitted. Sarah Webster, wife of the second William Lane, was a daughter of Thomas' Webster, immigrant ancestor of Daniel Webster.

Mrs. Newhall is also ninth in descent from the first Thomas Newhall, of Lynn, and ninth in descent from John' Bancroft, of Lynn.

ENRY CLAY DERBY, of Water- town, was born in Canton, Mass., August 27, 1833, son of Henry and Mary (White) Derby.

The Derby family (name variously spelled as Daby, Darbie, Darby, Derby) has been repre- sented in New England upward of two hundred years. Roger' Derby, who came from Top- sham, Devonshire, England, in 1671, lived about ten years at Ipswich, Mass., and in 1681 removed with his family to Salem, was the first American ancestor of Richard Derby and his son, Elias Hasket Derby, prominent and wealthy Salem merchants of the eighteenth century.

John1 Darby, supposed to have come from England, was at Marblehead as early as 1671. To him and his wife Alice was b. in 1681 a son, John2. It is said that he had four other children. John2 Darby m. Deborah Conant, and lived successively at Beverly, Ipswich, and Concord. Among his children was Andrew, 3 b. at Beverly in January, 1706-7, who settled at Westminster, Mass.

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Watertown, is descended, we are unable at present to determine. His earliest ancestor of whom there is record now at hand is Joseph Darby, Jr., son of a Joseph, Sr., of unknown parentage.

Joseph Darby (or Derby), Jr., b. in 1745, d. September 13, 1825. He m. April 22, 1766, in Leominster, Mass., Abigail, daugh- ter of Nathan and Abigail Bennett; b. March 30, 1748, she d. May 18, 1824. Their chil- dren were: Nathan, b. August 4, 1766, m. Susan Thompson September 9, 1790; Betty, b. May 4, 1769, m. Elias Daniels May 20, 1798; Joseph, b. March 31, 1771; Abigail, b. June 14, 1775, m. William Buckley March 26, 1803; Joshua, b. March 9, 1777; John, b. 1781; Simon m. Betsy Whitcomb June 18, 1795; Mary m. John Pitts, of New York; Damaris m. Abraham Darby, of Athol, May 30, 1804.

Joshua Derby, third son of Joseph, Jr., d. December 4, 1845. He m. July 30, 1799, Olive Haws or Hawes, who was b. April 29, 1780. The following is a brief record of their children, who were all b. in Leominster : Henry, b. July 22, 1799, d. April 14, 1876; Elbridge, b. December 27, 1801, d. August 28, 1828; Eli, b. February 4, 1805, d. next day; Mary R., b. June 30, 1806, d. unmarried June 8, 1892; Olive M., b. November 29, 1808, m. H. K. W. Pond, and d. February 13, 1865; Sarah, b. August 30, 1811, d. October 30, 1814; Amos Leland, b. June 2, 1815, d. March 9, 1888; and Edmund, b. September 28, 1817, d. July 9, 1820.

Henry Derby, who was the eldest of the eight children of his father's family, grew to manhood in his native town, Leominster, Worcester County, Mass., and there m. Mary White, daughter of Andrew White, of Water- town. He subsequently became a resident of Watertown, and for many years was well known as a mill owner, farmer, and trades- man. He lived to the age of seventy-seven years. His wife bore him eleven children, of whom six grew to maturity, namely : Sarah Elizabeth, Mary Melissa, Lucy Ann, William Henry, Henry Clay, and Herbert. Sarah m. George Robbins, Jr., of Watertown, by whom she had four children : George H., now de-

ceased; Elbridge, also deceased; Frederick ; and Mary. Mary Melissa Derby m. George Loud, and d. September 29, 1869. She left one daughter - Mabel Derby Loud, who m. Walter H. Sanford, and now lives in New York City. Lucy Ann Derby is the wife of James P. Robertson, of New York City. William Henry Derby d. May 22, 1856; and his wife, whose maiden name was Sarah Lyman, d. in the same year, leaving no chil- dren. Herbert, who d. in 1892, m. in 1877 Louisa Schuchmann, who d. in 1893, leaving no children.

Henry Clay Derby received a practical edu- cation in the public schools of Watertown, where his parents located when he was a boy. At the age of fifteen years he began working with his father, who had established a market for selling fresh tripe. Subsequently he be- came the proprietor of the whole business. Under his excellent management the trade in this commodity was largely increased, and branches of the business were established in New York and Chicago. Since 1885 his con- cern and several others have been merged in the Boston Fresh Tripe Company, Mr. Derby being the treasurer.

On October 9, 1867, Mr. Derby was married to Sarah Elizabeth Burlingame, daughter of Albert S. and Elizabeth (Haslitt) Burlingame, of Brighton, Mass. She died August 10, 1877, leaving no children. Mr. Derby is a member of the Masonic fraternity, affiliating with Pe- quossette Lodge, of Watertown, where he was initiated in September, 1856. In religious belief he is a Universalist.

ORACE WILLIAMS FULLER, for many years a prominent lawyer of Boston, was a native of Augusta, Me. Born June 15, 1844, son of Benjamin Apthorp Gould and Harriet Selden (Williams) Fuller, he was a descendant in the ninth generation of Edward Fuller, a "May- flower " pilgrim, and in the eighth from Rich- ard' Williams, one of the earliest settlers of Taunton (1637). Edward' Fuller and his wife Ann both d. the first winter after landing. He was survived at Plymouth by his son Sam-

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uel2 and his brother, Dr. Samuel Fuller. An elder son, Dr. Matthew,2 came over about 1640 with his wife and three children. He was a Captain and Surgeon-general of the militia. He had two wives - Frances and Hannah. His daughter Anna, b. at Plymouth, m. her cousin Samuel Fuller, son of Samuel2 and his wife Jane, daughter of the Rev. John Lothrop, of Barnstable. (See "Mayflower" Fuller Ge- nealogy, leaflet by F. A. Fuller, printed in 1896. )

Matthew, 4 b. about 1664, son of Samuel3 and Anna3 (Fuller) Fuller, m. in 1692 Patience Young, presumably daughter of George Young, of Scituate. He removed with his family about 1713 to Colchester, Conn., and in 1744 to Sharon, that State. His son, Young, 5 next in this line, b. in 1708, m. Jerusha Beebe, and was the father of the Rev. Caleb,6 baptized at Colchester in August, 1735, who was gradu- ated at Yale College in 1758, and d. at Han- over, N. H., in 1815. Caleb6 Fuller was licensed to preach in 1760. He became a member of the church at East Windsor in 1770, and of the church at Middletown, by letter, in 1777. About the year 1790 or 1791, he removed to Hanover, N. H., where in 1796 he was chosen Deacon of the Presbyterian church. Later he was one of the founders of the Congregational church connected with Dartmouth College. He is spoken of as a man of earnest piety, benevolent and kindly, and zealous in good works. He m. in 1762 Hannah, 5 daughter of the Rev. Habijah+ Weld, of Attleboro, and his wife Mary, daughter of the Rev. John Fox, of Woburn.

Habijah4 Weld, b. in 1702 (Harvard College, 1723) was son of Thomas, 3 b. in 1653, and grandson of Thomas,2 b. in England in 1626. Thomas2 was a son of the Rev. Thomas Welde, a graduate of Trinity College, Cambridge Uni- versity, 1613, who came to Boston in June, 1632, and was ordained in July as pastor of the First Church of Roxbury, John Eliot being settled soon after as teacher. Thomas2 Weld m. in 1650 Dorothy, daughter of the Rev. Samuel1 Whiting, of Lynn, by his first wife. Thomas, 3 b. in 1653 (Harvard College, 1671), was ordained and settled in 1685 as first min- ister of Dunstable, Mass. He m., first, in

1681, Elizabeth, daughter of the Rev. John Wilson, of Medfield, Mass. She d. in 1687, and he m. Mary, daughter of Habijah2 and Hannah (Tyng) Savage. Her father was son of Thomas' and Faith (Hutchinson) Savage, and grandson of William and Anne (Marbury) Hutchinson, of Boston. This ancestral line therefore shows that Mr. Horace Williams Ful- ler was a descendant in the ninth generation of Mrs. Anne Hutchinson, the most intellectual, most spiritual-minded, and most eloquent woman of Boston in her day. The Rev. Habijah and Mary (Fox) Weld had fifteen children, Hannah being the seventh daughter.

Henry `Weld7 Fuller, b. in Middletown, Conn., in. 1784, son of the Rev. Caleb6 and Hannah (Weld) Fuller, was graduated at Dart- mouth College in 1801 in the class with Daniel Webster, who was his intimate friend. In 1803 he settled in Augusta, Me. He served three years as Representative in the Legisla- ture. From 1828 till his death in January, 1841, he was Judge of Probate of Kennebec County. He m. January 7, 1806, Esther, daughter of Captain Benjamin5 and Grizzell Apthorp (Flagg) Gould. Her father was a Revolutionary patriot, serving as sergeant in Captain John Baker's company, Colonel Moses Little's regiment at Lexington (where he was wounded) and Bunker Hill; as First Lieuten- ant, Captain Dodge's company, August, 1777, at Bennington ; and at Stillwater in October, commanding his company after the death of Captain Flint. At the time of Arnold's trea- son and the capture of Major André in Septem- ber, 1780, he was Captain of the main guard at West Point, and he watched over, or sat up, with Major André the night before his execu- tion, October 2.

The home of Captain Benjamin5 Gould, from the time of his marriage in 1781 till 1805, was in Lancaster, Mass. In 1808 he settled in Newburyport. The family to which he be- longed was founded by Zaccheus Gould, b. in England in 1589, who came to the Massachu- setts Bay Colony in 1638, and not long after settled at Topsfield. A record bearing date of November 13, 1668, speaks of him as de- ceased. From Zaccheus' to Benjamins the line was continued through John,2 who was Captain

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of militia and three times Deputy from Tops- field to the General Court, and whose wife was Sarah, daughter of John' Baker; Zaccheus, 3 who m. Elizabeth, daughter of John Curtice; and John, 4 b. in January, 1709-10, who d. in 1778, while attending as delegate the Provin- cial Congress at Watertown. The wife of John4 Gould, and mother of Benjamin, 5 was Esther, daughter of John Giles, of Salem, and widow of Richard Bixby, and previously widow of James Taylor, Jr.

Grizzell Apthorp Flagg, wife of Captain Benjamin5 Gould, was b. in 1753, daughter of Gershom4 and Hannah (Pitson) Flagg. Ger- shom4 Flagg, her father, was son of John3 (Gershom,2 Thomas1). Thomas' Flagg, the immigrant progenitor (1637), b. at Whinberg, England, in 1615, settled at Watertown, Mass., in 1644. Gershom,2 b. in 1641, m. Hannah Leppingwell. John3 m. Abiah Kornic, a na- tive of England, and about 1699 removed from Woburn to Boston. Among the children of Captain Benjamin Gould and his wife Grizzell were, beside Esther, Hannah Flagg Gould, of Newburyport, a well-known writer in the early part of the nineteenth century (deceased in 1865); and Benjamin Apthorp Gould, Sr., 6 master of the Boston Latin School, 1814 to 1828, and father of the late Benjamin Apthorp Gould, LL. D., Cambridge, astronomer, and author of "The Family of Zaccheus Gould of Topsfield."

Henry Weld6 and Esther (Gould) Fuller were the parents of seven children, namely : Frederick Augustus,7 who m., first, Catherine M., daughter of the Hon. Nathan Weston, of Augusta, Me., and was the father of the Hon. Melville Weston Fuller, now Chief Justice of the United States; Louisa S.,7 who m. Gov- ernor Samuel E. Smith, of Wiscasset, Me. ; Henry Weld, Jr.,7 who m. Mary S. Goddard ; Martha E.,7 who m. Joseph G. Moody; Caro- line Weld,7 who m. Isaac Farrar; Benjamin Apthorp Gould,7 b. May 23, 1818, who m. April 27, 1843, Harriet S. Williams, of Au- gusta, Me., and d. January 24, 1885; and Lu- cretia Goddard, who m. Joseph R. Clark, of Wiscasset.

Benjamin Apthorp Gould? Fuller was gradu- ated at Bowdoin College in 1839. He studied

law with his father, and at the Cambridge Law School. Admitted to the bar in 1840, he practised in Augusta, was Judge of the Munic- ipal Court from 1850 to 1854, and a Repre- sentative in the Legislature in 1856. It was in his law office in Augusta that Melville W. Fuller, the present Chief of the United States Supreme Court, began the study of law. In 1864 he removed to Cambridge. Of his five children, b. to him and his wife Harriet, three of them grew to adult age, namely : Horace Williams, the only son; May S., b. November 9, 1845; and Eliza Williams, b. July 25, 1851.

Harriet Selden7 Williams, wife of Benjamin A. G. Fuller, was b. August 2, 1819, daughter of Daniel6 and Mary (Sawtelle) Williams. Her father, Daniel6 Williams, was a descend- ant in the sixth generation of Richard, of Taunton, above mentioned. The line was : Richard,1 b. 1606; Benjamin2; Josiah, 3 b. 1692; Seth, 4 b. 1722; Seth, 5 b. 1756; Dan- iel,6 b. November 12, 1795. As shown by parish registers in England, Richard Williams of the parish of St. Johns in Gloucester and Frances Dighton of the parish of St. Nicholas, Gloucester, were m. at Whitcombe Maguna, February 1I, 1632, o.s. Frances Dighton was sister to Katherine, wife of Governor Thomas Dudley, and daughter of John Dighton, an eminent surgeon of the city of Gloucester, England, whose wife Jane was daughter of Edward Basset, of Utley, a descendant of the Berkeleys of Gloucestershire. Frances was baptized in the church of St. Nicholas, Gloucester, March 1, 1611, o.s. "She sur- vived her husband, and all but two of her nine children, dying in 1706, at the great age of ninety-five years. The town of Dighton, in- corporated in 1712, was named in her honor." (See "Quarter Millennial Celebration of Taun- ton," address by the Hon. Josiah H. Drum- mond, who is preparing a genealogy of the Williams family, of Taunton. )

Benjamin2 Williams, of Taunton, m. in 1690 Rebecca Macey, by whom he had seven chil- dren. Josiah3 m. in 1714 Martha, daughter of Ephraim2 and Mary (Keith) Howard, and set- tled in West Bridgewater. Ephraim2 was son of John Howard, one of the original settlers

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of Bridgewater; and Mary Keith, wife of Ephraim, was the daughter of the Rev. James Keith, the first settled minister of Bridge- water. Seth+ Williams m. Susanna Fobes in 1750, and removed to Easton. Seth5 m. in 1781 Zilpha, daughter of Jonathan Ingraham, of Augusta, Me. (then Hallowell). The Hon. Daniel6 Williams, b. in 1795, was Selectman of Augusta five years, Mayor of the city in 1868, Representative in 1831, State Treasurer, 1837 to 1840, and Judge of Probate of Kenne- bec County, 1848 to 1855. His first wife, Mary Sawtelle, of Norridgewock, was the mother of Harriet Selden (Mrs. Fuller).

Horace W. Fuller received his education at the Augusta High School, the Abbott Family School, Farmington, Me., and Phillips An- dover Academy, Mass. After a few years of business experience in Boston, he studied law at the Boston Law School and in the office of the Hon. Henry W. Paine. Admitted to the bar of Kennebec County, Maine, in August, 1876, and to the Suffolk Bar in February, 1877, he practised law in Boston until 1889, when he assumed the editorship of The Green Bag, a legal journal published in Boston, which he conducted until January, 1901. Mr. Fuller died October 26, 1901. He married November 28, 1877, Emily Gorham Carter, of Roxbury, Mass., daughter of Henry and Eunice Gorham (Hall) Carter. He had two children : Apthorp Gould, born March 9, 1879, a gradu- ate of Harvard, class of 1900; and Robert Gorham, born August 28, 1882, now a Harvard student, class of 1904.

UGUSTUS FLAGG, of Boston, former member of the well-known and highly- reputed book publishing firm of Little, Brown & Co., now living retired from active business pursuits, is a native of the city of Worcester, Mass. Son of Elisha and Sarah (Chamberlain) Flagg, born January 17, 1818, he is a descendant in the seventh generation of Thomas Flagg, who was living at Watertown, Massachusetts Bay Colony, as early as 1643. His lineage, be- ginning with the immigrant, is: Thomas, ' John, 2-3 Adonijah, 4 Isaac, 5 Elisha, 6 Augustus7.

Most of his other American ancestors are also to be found among Middlesex County Colonial families.

Thomas' Flagg was a citizen of influence at Watertown in his day, serving the town five years as Selectman. He d. in February, 1697-8. Eleven children were b. to him and his wife Mary. John,2 the eldest of these, m. in 1670 Mary Gale, daughter of Richard Gale, an early settler of Watertown. John2 Flagg served as Constable and Tax Collector in 1685. John, 3 the only son of his parents, John2 and Mary Flagg, was twice m., and had eleven children. His second wife, Sarah Hagar, was the mother of Adonijah4, b. in 1713, who m. Mary Corey, daughter of Samuel Corey, of Lexington and Weston. Adonijah Flagg, dying in 1755, left a widow and two children : Isaac, b. in 1749; and Hannah. Isaac5 Flagg, grandfather of the subject of this sketch, m. April 15, 1770, Sarah Parkhurst, daughter of Josiah5 and Sarah (Carter) Parkhurst, grand- daughter of Deacon John+ and Abigail (Morse) Parkhurst, and great-grand-daughter of John3 and Abigail (Garfield) Parkhurst. John Park- hurst, Sr., was the son of George, Jr.,2 and grandson of George' Parkhurst, Sr., of Water- town and Boston, founder of the family in New England. Sarah Hagar, wife of John3 Flagg, was a daughter of William, Jr., and Sarah (Benjamin) Hagar, and grand-daughter of William, Sr.,' and Mary (Bemis) Hagar. Elisha6 Flagg, b. April 15, 1780, son of Isaac and Sarah (Parkhurst) Flagg, and one of a family of eight children, was brought up on his father's farm at Weston. He m. Sarah Chamberlain, daughter of William and Sarah (Curtis) Chamberlain, and settled in Worces- ter. He d. in 1853, at seventy-three years of age. His wife, surviving him, lived to the age of ninety-two years.

Augustus Flagg received an education in the public schools of Worcester that fitted him for college. Choosing, however, a business life rather than a professional career, he at nineteen years of age entered the bookstore of Clarendon Harris, of Worcester, as clerk. In the latter part of the year 1838, after an initia- tory experience of a few months, he came to Boston and took a similar position with Little

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& Brown, booksellers and publishers of stand- ard and popular works in general literature, whose specialty was at that time and is still the publication of law books. In Boston, the then recognized centre of the book-trade in America, Mr. Flagg found an opportunity for usefulness in a business field well suited to his abilities, and his adaptability for the work was so manifestly pronounced as to cause his admission to partnership in August, 1846.

For more than seventy years the publishing establishment of Little, Brown & Co. has flourished at 254 Washington Street, the pres- ent building being the second one erected upon that ground. Indeed, this site is the very centre of a literary atmosphere in which were originally disseminated the traditions and somewhat unique characteristics of the Boston book-trade. On or near this site stood, early in the last century, the quaint little "pam- phlet shop " of Nat Coverly, who graduated from a composing case to the dignity of a pub- lisher of literature with paper covers, and some of whose publications bear the date of 1774. The firm of Little & Brown was organized in 1837, and succeeded to a business which was practically established some time during the latter part of the eighteenth century. Charles C. Little entered the book business as a clerk in the employ of Carter, Hilliard & Co., and James Brown was a member of the firm of Hilliard & Brown, proprietors of the Harvard University Bookstore at Cambridge. Little & Brown continued the publication of law books begun by their immediate predecessors, and greatly enlarged that branch of the busi- ness. Shortly after the admission of Mr. Flagg to partnership, the firm name was changed to Little, Brown & Co., by which it has been known for over fifty years. Mr. Brown died in 1855, and the death of Mr. Little occurred in 1869. From 1855 to 1869 Mr. Flagg acted as foreign purchaser for the house, and from 1869 until his retirement from business in 1884 he was managing partner. While director of its affairs he had as associ- ates at different periods James P. Brown, son of James; Benjamin S. Heywood; William J. Parsons; Henry T. Miles; John Bartlett, of "Familiar Quotations" fame; Thomas W.

Deland; and his brother, George Flagg. The firm of Little, Brown & Co. have long been the leading publishers of law books in America. It has also given to the reading public the works of many noted American writers, includ- ing the histories of Francis Parkman and the writings of Captain A. T. Mahan, United States Navy. Its choicely printed editions of Bulwer, Marryat, Victor Hugo, and the elder Dumas are always in demand, and its edition of Dumas' works is accepted as the highest standard in England as well as in the United States.

For half a century Mr. Flagg has been a regular attendant at King's Chapel, under the successive pastorates of Ephraim Peabody, D. D., the Rev. Henry Wilder Foote, and the Rev. Howard N. Brown. He is a member of the Somerset Club, and was formerly a mem- ber of the Union and St. Botolph Clubs. Mr. Flagg was married October 2, 1850, to Miss Lucy Anna Hobbs, daughter of Ebenezer and Mary (Derby) Hobbs, of Waltham. Four children were born to Mr. and Mrs. Flagg, and two - Lucy Hobbs and Mary Derby - are now living. Sarah Chamberlain and Augustus George died in childhood. Lucy Hobbs is the wife of George H. Doty, formerly of New York City, and now residing in Waltham, Mass., a son of Captain George W. Doty, United States Navy. Mary Derby married H. N. Richards, of Brookline, Mass.

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Genealogy and history of representative citizens of the commonwealth of Massachusetts, Part 62

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

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