Genealogy and history of representative citizens of the commonwealth of Massachusetts, Part 8

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

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Mr. Ellison was one of the incorporators of the Newton Hospital, and has been one of the trustees of the hospital since its incorporation ; also vice-president for a number of years, or since 1892. He is one of the managers of the Boston Port and Seamen's Aid Society, having been on the board since 1876, and vice-presi- dent since 1886. He is a trustee of the New- ton Savings Bank and a director in the New- ton and Watertown Gas Light Company. A Republican in politics, Mr. Ellison has been a stanch friend of the party, and his record as Mayor was that of an efficient and trustworthy official.

On April 23, 1862, Mr. Ellison married Mary Elizabeth Richardson, who was born in Boston, August 6, 1839. Mr. and Mrs. Elli- son have four children. A brief record fol- lows: Mary Almeda, who married Frank Ash- ley Day, of the firm of R. L. Day & Co., Boston, has two children - Frank Ashley, Jr., and Ellison Goddard. Eben Howes married Grace M. Jones, by whom he has two children - Eben Howes, Jr., and Harriet Rice. Will- iam, unmarried, is a shoe manufacturer in Brockton. Carlton Lincoln was graduated

Harvard University with the degree of Bache- lor of Arts in the class of 1901.

ILLIAM JAMES ROLFE, A. M., LITT. D., teacher and author, has been a resident of Cambridge since

I 862. He is a native of Newburyport, Mass., that city and the old town of Newbury having been the home of almost if not all of his ances- tors in New England. Born December 10, 1827, son of John and Lydia Davis (Moulton) Rolfe, he is a direct descendant in the male line, ninth generation, of Henry Rolfe, one of the early settlers of Newbury, Massachusetts Bay Colony. His lineage is: Henry,' John, 2 Benjamin, 3 Samuel, 4 Samuel, 5 Jacob,6 Samuel,7 John, 8 William James9.

Henry Rolfe came from England with his wife, Honour, and their only son, John. Whether or not he was a near kinsman of John Rolfe, of Virginia, who m. the Indian prin- cess Pocahontas, is a question which some future genealogist by diligent research in Eng- land may be able to solve. Benjamin3 Rolfe, of Newbury, b. in 1640, son of John,2 by occupation a weaver, m. in 1659 Apphia Hale. She was b. in 1642, daughter of Thomas Hale, who, with his wife Thomasine and son Thomas, Jr., had settled in Newbury in 1635. Samuel+ Rolfe, b. in January, 1672-3, third son of Benjamin and Apphia, m. Sarah Jepson, and had three children - Martha, Samuel, 5 and Dorothy.

Samuel, 5 b. August 16, 1703, m. in 1726 Judith Toppan, daughter of John and Judith (Moody) Toppan. John Toppan was the third son of Lieutenant Jacob and Hannah (Sewall) Toppan and grandson of Abraham Toppan, who came to New England in 1637, and was the founder of the Toppan (or Tappan) family of Newbury. Hannah Sewall, wife of Jacob Toppan and mother of John, was the daughter of Henry and Jane (Dummer) Sewall and sis- ter of Samuel Sewall, the renowned Chief Jus- tice of early Colonial days, known as Judge Sewall, the diarist. Judith Moody, wife of John Toppan and mother of Judith Toppan (Mrs. Samuels Rolfe), was probably the Judith b. August 6, 1699, daughter of Thomas and

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Judith (Hale) Moody, of Newbury. Thomas Moody was a son of Caleb2 and Judith (Brad- bury) Moody and grandson of William' Moody, saddler, an early settler of Newbury. Judith Hale, b. at Newbury in 1670, was the daughter of John2 and Sarah (Somerby) Hale and grand-daughter of Thomas Hale above mentioned. Sarah Somerby was the daughter of Henry1 and . Judith (Greenleaf) Somerby, of Newbury, and grand-daughter of Captain Ed- mund Greenleaf.

Jacob6 Rolfe was b. between the years 1731 and 1740. He m. Mary Noyes, who also was of an old Newbury family. Samuel7 Rolfe, b. in 1765, their eldest son, was twice m., his first wife being Sarah Davis, his second Mary Tucker, whom he wedded May 6, 1795.

John8 Rolfe, b. May 12, 1807, son of Samuel7 and Mary, d. February 10, 1849. He m. Lydia Davis, daughter of William and Jane Moulton. She was b. June 10, 1806, and d. October 13, 1887. Her father, William Moulton, was a seaman on the sloop of war "Wasp" in the War of 1812. The children of John and Lydia D. (Moulton) Rolfe were: William James, the special subject of this sketch; Samuel, b. Au- gust 17, 1830, who d. January 10, 1860, one of the victims of the fall of the Pemberton Mills, Lawrence; and John Henry, b. August 20, 1836, d. May 4, 1854.

William James Rolfe pursued his prepara- tory studies at the Lowell High School and his academic course at Amherst College, in the class of 1849, among his classmates being two who subsequently became members of the fac- ulty of Amherst; namely, the late president, Julius H. Seelye, and Professor Edward Hitchcock. Leaving college in 1848, after some months spent in teaching in Kirkwood Academy, Maryland, Mr. Rolfe became prin- cipal of Day's Academy at Wrentham, Mass., where he remained till December, 1852. From that date till the summer of 1857 he was master of the Dorchester High School. The

next four years he was at the head of the high school in Lawrence, whence in 1861 he went to Salem. As already mentioned, he took up his residence in Cambridge in 1862, when he became master of the high school. That posi- tion he resigned in 1868.

Since that time he has devoted himself to editorial and literary work. From 1869 to 1893 he was one of the editors of the Popular Science News (formerly the Boston Journal of Chemistry), and for fifteen years past has had charge of the department of "Shakespeariana " in The Literary World and The Critic, besides contributing to the North American Review, Arena, Poet-Lore, and other literary and scien- tific periodicals.

In 1865 he published, in conjunction with J. H. Hanson, A. M., of Waterville, Me., a "Handbook of Latin Poetry." In 1867 he published an edition of Craik's "English of Shakespeare." Between 1867 and 1869, in connection with J. A. Gillet, he brought out the "Cambridge Course of Physics" in six volumes. In 1870 he prepared a school edi- tion of Shakespeare's "Merchant of Venice," following it up with editions of "The Tem- pest," "Julius Cæsar," and "Henry VIII." Other of the plays were called for, both by students and the general reading public, and the edition was completed in forty volumes.

Dr. Rolfe has also edited a volume of selec- tions from Gray's poems, and others from Goldsmith's and Wordsworth's; also the minor poems of Milton, Scott's "Lady of the Lake," "Marmion," and "Lay of the Last Minstrel "; the complete poems of Scott; Tennyson's "Princess," "In Memoriam," "Idylls of the King"; also three volumes of selections from that poet ; an édition de luxe of Tennyson's works in twelve volumes, and another (the "Cambridge " edition) in one volume; Byron's "Childe Harold "; two volumes of selections from Browning; and Mrs. Browning's "Son- nets from the Portuguese." He is also the author of "Shakespeare the Boy" (with sketches of the home and school life, the games and sports, the manners, customs, and folk-lore of the time) ; the "Satchel Guide to Europe " (published anonymously for twenty- seven years) ; and a small book on "The Ele- mentary Study of English." With his son, John C. Rolfe, Ph. D., professor of Latin in the Michigan State University, he has edited Macaulay's "Lays of Ancient Rome." More recently he has begun a series of elementary "English Classics," six volumes of which have

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already (1899) appeared. He is joint author with Professor Edward Hitchcock of a history of the class of 1849, Amherst College, with which he was enrolled, although he did not complete his fourth year at Amherst. He re- ceived the degree of Master of Arts from Har- vard in 1859 and from Amherst in 1865, and the degree of Doctor of Letters from Amherst in 1887. He was president of the Martha's Vineyard Summer Institute from 1882 to 1888. At present (1901) he is assisting in the pro- duction of the "Twentieth Century Shaks- pere," an édition de luxe in twenty-four vol- umes, to which he contributes an introduction and a Life of Shakspere (Vol. XXII.), besides editing five other volumes and portions of the rest.

Dr. Rolfe was married, July 30, 1856, to Eliza Jane Carew, daughter of Joseph Carew, the well-known sculptor of Boston. Their children are: John Carew, born October 15, 1859; George William, born February 10, 1864; and Charles Joseph, born June 22, 1867 - all graduates of Harvard College. John Carew Rolfe, Ph. D., professor of Latin at Michigan State University, Ann Arbor, mar- ried first, January 3, 1883, Nina Seavey. He married secondly, August 29, 1900, Alice Griffith Bailey. George William married, February 28, 1888, Mabel Parker, daughter of Colonel Francis W. Parker, and has one daugh- ter, Dorothy Stuart, born February 26, 1898. Charles Joseph was married June 29, 1896, to Josephine Jefferson, daughter of Charles B. Jefferson and grand-daughter of Joseph Jeffer- son, the actor, and has one daughter, Josephine Jefferson Rolfe, born December 10, 1898.

POLOMON LINCOLN, A.M., presi- dent of the trustees of the Public Library of the city of Boston, worthily bears an honored patronymic, a name second only to that of Washington in our coun- try's history. A native of Hingham, Mass., born August 14, 1838, son of the Hon. Sol- omon and Mehitable (Lincoln) Lincoln, he comes from that vigorous, early-rooted colonial stock, a scion of which, several times trans- planted, produced a Leader - the nation's " Mar-

tyr Chief "- to save the Union. To be more explicit, he is a descendant in the seventh gen- eration of Samuel Lincoln, ' Hingham, 1637, the immigrant progenitor of the most distinguished branch of the Lincoln family in America, the line being continued through Samuel,2 who mar- ried Deborah Hersey ; Jedidiah,3 whose first wife was Bertha Whiton; William, 4 who m. Mary Otis; Solomon,5 who m. Lydia Bates; . and Solomon,6 the father above named, who m. Mehitable Lincoln. His descent on the ma- ternal side from Sergeant Daniel Lincoln,' Hingham, 1644-45, is through Daniel,2 who m. first Sarah Nichols; Moses,3 who m. for his second wife Mehitable Townsend; Wel- come,4 who m. Sarah Gill; Welcome, Jr.,5 who m. Susanna Gill, and was the father of Mehit- able,6 the wife of Solomon Lincoln.6

The subject of this sketch numbers also among his remote ancestors other early planters of Hingham and its vicinity, of whom may here be named: Stephen Lincoln, who came from England on the " Diligent " in 1638, and settled at Hingham ; Thomas Lincoln, the husbandman, who came to Hingham from Wymondham, Nor- folk County, England, in 1638 ; Richard Warren, who came to Plymouth in the " Mayflower " in 1620; Robert Bartlett and Nathaniel Morton, who both came in the "Ann " in 1623; Will- iam Hersey, Clement Bates, and John Otis, who all came to Hingham in 1635; James Whiton, a native of England, who was at Hing- ham in 1647; John Beal, 1638; Thomas Barnes ; George Lewis, who immigrated about 1633; Thomas Chubbuck, Hingham, 1634; Thomas Allyn, a pioneer settler of Barnstable ; Matthew Hawke, who came in the "Diligent " in 1638, and settled at Hingham ; and Thomas Gill. The line of descent from Richard' Warren is through his daughter Mary, who m. Robert Bartlett ; their daughter Elizabeth Bartlett, who m. An- thony Sprague ; Sarah Sprague, who m. Caleb Bates ; their son Caleb, Jr., who m. Lydia Hobart ; Jesse Bates, who m. Abigail Barnes, and was the father of Lydia, the wife of Solomon Lincoln, first, and grandmother of Solomon Lincoln, third.

The line from Stephen Lincoln' is through Stephen,2 who m. Elizabeth Hawke (daughter of Matthew Hawke') ; their daughter, Mary

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Lincoln,3 who m. Enoch Whiton,' and was the mother of Bethia Whiton, the wife of Jedidiah Lincoln above mentioned. Enoch Whiton,2 father of Bethia, was a son of James' and Mary (Beal) Whiton and grandson of John Beal1. The line from Thomas Lincoln,' the husband- man, is : Thomas1 ; Thomas,2 who m. Sarah Lewis (daughter of James and Sarah (Lane) Lewis, and grand-daughter of George and Sarah (Jenkins) Lewis; Ebenezer,3 who m. Hannah Allyn, daughter of Thomas and Elizabeth (Otis) Allyn ; Elizabeth O. Lincoln,4 who m. Cornelius Barnes ; Abigail Barnes,5 who m. Jesse Bates, as noted above. The line of descent from William Hersey1 is traced through his son Will- iam,2 who m. Rebecca Chubbuck (daughter of Thomas Chubbuck), and Deborah Hersey,3 who m. Samuel Lincoln, and was the mother of Jedidiah Lincoln.

From Clement Bates' the line is through his son Joseph,2 who m. Esther Hilliard ; Caleb,3 who m. Sarah Sprague (mentioned above) ; Caleb,4 who m. Lydia Hobart ; Jesse,5 who m. Abigail Barnes, and was father of Lydia and the wife of Solomon Lincoln5. The line from Thomas Barnes' is through his son Peter,2 who m. Anna Canterbury ; John,3 who m. Elizabeth Vinton; Cornelius,4 who m. Elizabeth Otis Lincoln ; and Abigail,5 who m. Jesse Bates. From Thomas Chubbuck the line is through his daughter Rebecca, who m. William Hersey ; from John Otis™ is through his daughter Han- nah,2 who m. Thomas Gill; from Thomas Allyn,' through Hannah,2 who m. Ebenezer3 Lincoln, grandson of Thomas'. Descent from Thomas Gill is traced also through his son Thomas,2 who m. Susanna Wilson' ; Nathaniel,2 who m. Abigail Jacob ; Thomas,4 who m. Sarah Hawke; Sarah,5 who, m. Welcome Lincoln, Sr., great-grandson of Sergeant Daniel Lincoln'. Sarah Hawke, it may be added, was a daughter of James3 and Mary (Gill) Hawke, and grand- daughter of James2 (Matthew1) and Sarah (Jacob) Hawke. The line from Edmund Hobart' and his wife Margaret Dewey is through Edmund2 and his wife Elizabeth ; Samuel,3 who m. Han- nah Gold ; James,4 who m. Hannah Leavitt, and was the father of Lydia Hobart, wife of Caleb Bates, Jr., whose grand-daughter, Lydia Bates, m. Solomon Lincoln, first. Three ancestors of

Mr. Lincoln - Jesse Bates, Welcome Lincoln, and Nathaniel Gill (father of Susanna) - were soldiers of the Revolution.

President Lincoln, it may be mentioned, was a descendant in the seventh generation of Sam- uel Lincoln, of Hingham, the line being : Samuel,' Mordecai,2 Mordecai, 3 John, 4 Abra- ham, 5 Thomas, 6 Abraham7. The Hon. Levi Lincoln, Lieutenant Governor, and his son Levi, Governor of Massachusetts, were de- scendants of Samuel' through his son Samuel, 2 Jedediah, 3 and Enoch, 4 father of Levis. (See History of Hingham, Vol. II., Genealogical, published 1893.)

The Hon. Solomon Lincoln,6 b. in 1804, was graduated at Brown University in 1822. A lawyer by profession, he was master in chan- cery, 1842-43; bank commissioner, 1849; cash- ier of the Webster National Bank, Boston, 1853-69, and president of the same, 1869-76. He served as Representative from Hingham to the General Court in 1829 and 1841 ; State Senator, 1830-31 ; United States Marshal, 1841-44. He was a member of the Massa- chusetts Historical Society and of the New England Historic-Genealogical Society ; presi- dent of the Hingham Agricultural and Horti- cultural Society, and of the Hingham Cemetery Corporation. He wrote a History of Hingham, which was published in 1827. His wife, Me- hitable Lincoln, was b. in 1808, and d. in 1873. They had three sons : Solomon,2 whose personal history is outlined below; Arthur, born in 1842 (Harvard College, 1863), a lawyer, who is married and living in Boston; and Francis Henry, a real estate broker, born in 1846 (Harvard College, 1867), who is married and resides on Main Street, Hingham.

Solomon Lincoln, third of the name in direct line and special subject of this sketch, was fitted for college at Derby Academy, Hingham, and in the Park Latin School, Boston, under Profes- sor E. W. Gurney. Entering the Sophomore Class at Harvard in 1854, he excelled as a stu- dent in the classics and mathematics, and was graduated as valedictorian in 1857. In 1858 he became tutor at Harvard of Greek and Latin, and later tutor of mathematics. While thus engaged in teaching, he also studied law. In 1863 he visited Europe. He received his

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degree of Bachelor of Laws from Harvard Law School in 1864. In the autumn of that year he was admitted to the bar, and, becoming law partner of Stephen B. Ives, of Salem, continued in practice with him till 1881, the firm being at first Ives & Lincoln, and afterwards Ives, Lin- coln & Huntress, with an office in Boston. Since 1896 Mr. Lincoln has had associated with him Walter I. Badger, the firm being Lincoln & Badger. Mr. Lincoln has long been recognized as one of the leading lawyers of this city. For two years he was president of the Boston Bar Association. Clear-headed, well balanced, and well equipped in the lore of his profession, a wise counsellor and convincing advocate, he ex- cels particularly in his mastery of law as relat- ing to railroads and other corporations and trust companies. He has served as counsel for the Boston & Maine and other railroads, and since 1888 as solicitor of the Boston Safe Deposit and Trust Company, of which he is one of the directors. Public-spirited and progressive, Mr. Lincoln is a Republican in politics, but has never held or sought political office. In 1874 and 1879 he was a member of the Governor's staff. He is now, 1900, serving his second year as president of the trustees of the Boston Public Library. Since 1882 he has been one of the overseers of Harvard University, and since 1890 president of the Board. He is president of the Union and St. Botolph Clubs of Boston, and is a member of the Massachusetts Historical Society, the New England Historic- Genealogical Society, the American Antiquarian Society, the Bostonian Society, and the Bunker Hill Monument Association. He is a member of the South Congregational Church, and counts it a privilege to have sat for many years under the pulpit teachings of the Rev. Dr. Edward Everett Hale, author of "The Man without a Country," and of the Wadsworth mottoes, whose spirit he so well exemplifies : -

" Look up, not down ; Look forward, not back ; Look out, not in, and Lend a hand."

Mr. Lincoln was married February 15, 1865, to Miss Ellen Brown Hayden, daughter of Joel and Isabella (Weir) Hayden, of Haydenville.

Her father was Lieutenant Governor of Massa- chusetts from 1863-65. Mrs. Lincoln died March 18, 1897, leaving one daughter, Bessie, who has since married Professor Murray A. Potter.

ETH CARLO CHANDLER, astron- omer, of Cambridge, was born in Boston, Mass., September 16, 1846, son of Seth Carlo and Mary Jane (Cheever) Chandler. He is a descendant in the eighth generation of William' Chandler, who, with his wife Annis and four children, came from England and settled in Roxbury, Mass., in 1637. The maiden surname of Mrs. Annis Chandler is not now known; but it is supposed that she was a sister of Deacon George Alcock, of Roxbury. William™ Chandler was a very religious man, strong in faith, and with an exalted idea of God's mer- cies. Although poor, he never suffered want, being succored when in need by his neighbors of like belief, who held him in high esteem. At his death, which took place in 1641, he left, it was said, "a sweet memory and savor behind him." He was a member, as was also his wife, of the Eliot Church in Roxbury. They were the parents of five children.

Deacon John2 Chandler, the succeeding an- cestor in this line, moved from Roxbury, Mass., to New Roxbury (Woodstock, Conn. ), in 1686. In 1693-94 he was first Selectman ; and he was one of the Deacons of the church in Woodstock, Conn., under the pastoral care of the Rev. Josiah Dwight. His death occurred April 15, 1703. He was m. February 16, 1658, to Elizabeth Douglas, daughter of Will- iam and Anna (Mattle) Douglas. She d. at New London, Conn., July 23, 1705. They had eight children - John, Elizabeth, John, Joseph, Hannah, Mehitable, Sarah, and Joseph.

Captain Joseph3 Chandler, b. Juue 4, 1683, was admitted to the church in Pomfret, Conn., April 20, 1719. He was Collector of Taxes in 1716. He d. in Pomfret, January 5, 1749- 50. His wife, in maidenhood Susannah Per- rin, of Roxbury, d. January 22, 1755, in the sixty-eighth year of her age. They were the parents of twelve children.

S. C. CHANDLER.

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Joseph4 Chandler, son of Captain Joseph Chandler, was b. in Pomfret, June 16, 1710. He was a saddler by trade, but had a large farm in. Pomfret, where he resided. He was Tax Collector in 1754. His death took place July 4, 1780, when he was seventy years old. He m. December 24, 1734, Elizabeth Sumner, daughter of General Sumner. She survived her husband nearly seventeen years, dying Jan- uary 29, 1797. They had five children.

Captain Seth5 Chandler, son of Joseph and Elizabeth (Sumner) Chandler, was b. May 8, 1738. He m. June 5, 1760, Eunice Durkee, who was b. May 21, 1741, and baptized in Woodstock July 12 of that year. She was a daughter of Andrew Durkee by his wife Mary. After their marriage they settled on a farm on the Sharp hills in the north-east part of Muddy Brook. He was Collector of Taxes in 1770, a Lister and Surveyor of Highways in 1774 in North Woodstock, Selectman in 1789-91, and Moderator of town meeting the same year. He was First Sergeant in the Eleventh Regiment, Sixth Company, numbering twenty-two men, under Lieutenant Stephen Tucker, who received the pay for the company September 13, 1776. He d. March 3, 1818, in Woodstock, when in his eightieth year. His wife d. Decem- ber II, 1824. They had a family of eleven children.

Cyril Chandler,6 b. July 16, 1776, was by trade a tanner, and worked many years in Pomfret, Conn., as a journeyman. He subse- quently settled in that part of Strafford, Vt., called "The City," He married at Hanover, in the year 1800, Abigail Carpenter of that place, who was b. August 15, 1781, daughter of Nathaniel and Alfreda (Dresser) Carpenter. She d. April 16, 1849. After his wife's death, Cyril Chandler lived with his sons Seth C. and John G. in Boston till his death, which occurred November 9, 1862. He had ten chil- dren.

Seth Carlo Chandler, Sr., father of the pres- ent bearer of the name, was b. at Strafford, Vt., July 26, 1807. He d. April 24, 1888. Coming to Boston, he engaged in mercantile business in this city, being a member of the firm of Roby & Co., Causeway Street, dealers in hay, coal, etc. He m. first, September

29, 1837, Mary Jane Cheever, of Derry, N. H., who was b. February 8, 1816, a daugh- ter of Osgood Cheever, of Marblehead, and d. July 11, 1862, having borne her husband six children. He m. for his second wife, Febru- ary 7, 1867, Caroline Safford Edwards, who was b. January 3, 1823, daughter of Joseph and Abigail (Dodge) Edwards, of Newbury- port, Mass. Of this union there were no chil- dren.

Seth Carlo Chandler, son of the above named, was educated in the Boston High School, and in early manhood became an assist- ant to Dr. Benjamin A. Gould, the founder of the Astronomical Journal, with whom he re- mained from 1863 to 1866. In the year last named he was appointed to a position on the coast survey, and was thus employed for about three years, during the latter part of which period he also did astronomical work on his own account. In 1869 he went to New York, and was actuary of the Continental Life Insur- ance Company from that time until 1876. He then came to Boston, and resumed astronomical work, being connected with Harvard Univer- sity in the capacity of astronomer from 1880 to 1885. He has since continued his scientific pursuits independently, and has achieved a high reputation in his difficult and exacting profession, having paid much attention to the study of variable stars and comets and the de- velopment of the laws of the motion of the earth's pole. He is editor of the Astronomical Journal of Boston, which he has carried on since the death of Dr. Gould. In 1894 Mr. Chandler received the Watson medal from the National Academy of Sciences, and in 1896 a gold medal from the Royal Astronomical So- ciety of London, both being bestowed for high services in the field of astronomical research. He is a member of the Colonial Society of Bos- ton ; since 1880 has been a member of the Amer- ican Academy of Arts and Sciences; since 1888 of the National Academy of Sciences; and since 1889 a foreign associate of the Royal Astro- nomical Society of London.

He was married October 20, 1870, to Car- rie Margaret Herman, who was born June 2, 1850, daughter of Leopold and Margaret D. (Edwards) Herman. She is a niece of his

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step-mother, Caroline Safford Edwards. Mr. and Mrs. Chandler have resided in Cambridge since 1881. They are the parents of seven children : Margaret Herman, born August 27, 1871 ; Caroline Herman, born November 4, 1873; Elizabeth, born March 25, 1880; Abbie, born July 16, 1883; Eunice, born December 30, 1888; and Helen Osgood, born April 13, 1893. Mary Cheever, born September 7, 1876, died February, 1883.

UFUS ROBBINS WADE, Chief of the Massachusetts District Police, was born July 10, 1828, in the town of Brain- tree, about ten miles from Boston. His parents, Abraham and Johanna (Robbins) Wade, both came of old Plymouth Colony stock, and he numbers among his ancestors in different lines several of the Mayflower Pilgrims. Judg- ing from statements made in Deane's History of Scituate and Mitchell's Bridgewater con- cerning the early generations of the family in New England, the male line of descent, begin- ning with Nicholas Wade, of Scituate, .is : Nicholas,' Nicholas,2 Nicholas,3 Amasa,4 Lot,5 Abraham,6 Rufus R.7

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Genealogy and history of representative citizens of the commonwealth of Massachusetts, Part 8

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