Genealogy and history of representative citizens of the commonwealth of Massachusetts, Part 81

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

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On December 24, 1866, Thomas B. Doo- little married Mary Louise, daughter of Wil- lett and Harriet (Hotchkiss) Bradley, of An- sonia, Conn., and five children came to this union : Charles Benjamin, born October 4,

1868; Harry Willet, born August 13, 1870; Ruth Elnor, born October 21, 1874; Edith Young, born November 26, 1876; and Mary Alice, born October 16, 1880, who died Febru- ary 18, 1886. Charles B. Doolittle is an officer of the Southern New England Tele- phone Company. He married Laura Leggett Seymour, of Washington, D.C., daughter of Henry .A. and Mary L. Seymour, and they have one son - Mortimer Leggett, born Octo- ber 4, 1900.

' Harry W. Doolittle was educated at Rock- land College, Nyack, N. Y. Subsequently he attended Yale Law School, and later the Boston University Law School. He then entered the newspaper field, and was a special correspond- ent in Boston, Mass., until 1897, when he be- came associated with Attorney Talcott H. Russell, of New Haven, having been admitted to the New Haven bar. He enlisted in the navy during the Spanish-American War, and served until its close. He is now judge of the Branford Town Court, and is the youngest judge in the State.

Thomas Benjamin Doolittle has been a resi- dent of Pine Orchard, in the town of Branford, since 1893, owning there a handsome property known as "Thimble Farm," which commands a delightful view of Long Island Sound. He and his wife are members of Trinity Episcopal Church, Branford, while he is affiliated with the F. & A. M., St. John's Lodge, No. 4, of Hartford. He is a member of the Franklin Institute of Philadelphia, and the American Institute. of Electrical Engineers, New York City, and of several clubs, including the Players, of New York City, the St. Botolph and the Papyrus Clubs, both of Boston. In his political preferences he is a Democrat.

AMES ALDEN STOCKWELL, law- yer, of Boston, is a resident of Stone- ham, Middlesex County, Mass., his native town. His father, Albert Sam- uel Stockwell, and his paternal grandfather, John Stockwell, were b. in Lancaster, Coos County, N. H., where his great-grandfather, Emmons Stockwell, of Petersham, Mass., was one of the earliest settlers. The charter for

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the town of Lancaster, N. H., was granted in 1763. In the summer of that year Emmons Stockwell as guide (he having previously been in the Coos region in military expeditions) and David Page, Jr., both sent by David Page, Sr., who was the leading spirit among the founders of the new town, blazed a track through the woods from Haverhill, N. H., and, select- ing land at Lancaster, camped out there through the ensuing winter, making a clearing. April, 1764, is said to be the date of the actual settlement on what is known as the "Stockwell place."

Ruth Page, sister of David, Jr., arrived in August, 1764, and in 1765 became the wife of Emmons Stockwell. Daughter of David and Priscilla (Boynton) Page, she was b. at Lunen- burg, Mass., October 26, 1747, the ninth in a family of ten children. David Page, Sr., her father, was of the fourth generation of the family founded by John' Page, who settled at Watertown, Massachusetts Bay Colony, in 1630, and whose wife was Phebe Paine. The line of descent was through John Page, Jr., 2 who m. in 1664 Faith Dunster, and resided in Groton, Mass. ; and Samuel, 3 b. in 1672, who was the first white settler of the town of Lunenburg, and widely known in his day as "Old Governor Page." Samuel3 Page and his wife Martha had several children b. in Groton. Their son David,4 b. probably at Lunenburg, m. in January, 1734-5, Priscilla Boynton, daughter of Hilkiah3 and Priscilla (Jewett) Boynton. Her father was the first Selectman of Lunenburg, whither he removed from Row- ley about 1726. He was son of Captain Joseph2 and Sarah (Swan) Boynton, and grand- son of John1 Boynton, who settled at Rowley in 1638.

Emmons Stockwell, usually designated "Lieutenant" from his rank in the militia, and sometimes as "Captain," served many years as Selectman of Lancaster, and also held other important offices. It is thought that as a young man he was one of "Rogers's Rang- ers." He may have been the private from Petersham, whose name as "Emerson Stock- well," with reference to "David Sanderson," was on the muster roll dated February 16, 1761, of the company of Captain William

Paige. (Massachusetts Archives, vol. xcviii, page 319.) Emmons Stockwell appears as pri- vate on the muster and pay roll (Massachu- setts Archives) dated Petersham, of Captain Peter Woodbury's company, Colonel Job Cush- ing's regiment; enlisted July 28, 1777; dis- charged August 29, 1777; marched to Ben- nington July 28 to reinforce General Stark. It seems likely that this was the Lancaster pioneer who returned for a season to Petersham, his former home. The Lancaster settlement was much disturbed by fears of Indians and other foes in the Revolutionary period, and was about deserted at times, it is said. Of the ancestry of Emmons Stockwell no clue is given in the history of Lancaster or of Peters- ham. He d. at Lancaster in November, 1819, in the seventy-eighth year of his age. His wife, Ruth, d. in 1828, in her eighty-second year. She was a very capable and energetic woman, an excellent pioneer, a "respectable scholar for those days, could read the Psalter, write, and cipher," and was the first teacher at Lancaster. She became the mother of fifteen children, the eldest, Polly, b. in December, 1765, and the youngest, Mary, b. in 1792. The others, in order of birth, were: Sally, David, Charlotte, Dolly, Ephraim, Liberty, Ruth, Emmons, Phebe, Betsy, Samuel, Will- iam, and John. We are told there was no death in the family till the youngest child was twenty years of age. John Stockwell, the fourteenth child of Lieutenant Emmons and Ruth, was b. December 25, 1790, in Lancaster, N. H., but spent most of his life in Lunenburg, Vt. He m. Tryphena Wetherbee, and had three children - Albert Samuel, Al- den, and Lucretia. Albert Samuel Stockwell, b. at Lancaster, N. H., 1832, m. in 1854 Fanny Elizabeth Burditt, daughter of James and Betsy (Bryant) Burditt, of Stoneham, Mass. James Burditt was a son of James, Sr., and Fanny (Emerson) Burditt, of Reading, and on the paternal side a descendant of Joseph Burditt of Malden. His mother was b. in Reading, May 5, 1776, daughter of Jacob5 Emerson, who m. in 1775 Mrs. Margaret Swain, widow of Dr. Oliver Swain, and daughter of Captain John and Mary (Williams) Walton, of Reading. Captain Walton, father of Margaret, is said to have

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been a descendant of the Rev. William Wal- ton, of Marblehead. Jacob7 Emerson, father of Fanny (Mrs. Burditt), was a descendant in the fifth generation of Thomas' Emerson, of Bishop's-Stortford, England, and Ipswich, Mass., the line being : Thomas,' the Rev. Jo- seph,2 Peter, 3 Brown, 4 Jacob5. The Rev. Jo- seph2 Emerson, b. in England in 1620, son of Thomas' and his wife Elizabeth, resided at York, Me., Milton and Mendon, Mass., d. in Concord, 1680. He m., second, December 7, 1665, Elizabeth, daughter of the Rev. Edward Bulkeley, and grand-daughter of the Rev. Peter Bulkeley, first minister of Concord, Mass. Peter3 Emerson, b. in 1673, m. in 1696 Anna, daughter of Captain John and Anna (Fiske) Brown, of Reading. Brown4 Emerson (b. Reading, South Parish, now Wakefield, in 1704) m. in 1725 Sarah Towne- send, and was father of Jacob5 Emerson, above mentioned. (It is interesting to note that Edward, 3 b. 1670, son of the Rev. Joseph2 Emerson, and elder brother of Peter, 3 m. Re- becca Waldo; their son, the Rev. Joseph, 4 m. Mary Moody; and their son, the Rev. Will- iam, 5 b. 1743, m. Phebe Bliss, and was father of the Rev. William, 5 who m. in 1796 Ruth Haskins, and was father of Ralph Waldo Em- erson. )

James Burditt, son of James, Sr., m. in 1830 Betsy Bryant, daughter of Ebenezer and Sarah Green Bryant, who were m. June 12, 1788. Ebenezer Bryant, father of Betsy and grandfather of Elizabeth Burditt, was a de- scendant in the fourth generation of Abraham' Bryant, who became an inhabitant of the south part of Reading (now Wakefield), Mass., about 1664, and m. in that year Mary Kendall, who was b. in 1747, daughter of Deacon Thomas' Kendall and his wife Rebecca. Abraham Bry- ant and his wife Mary (who d. in 1688) had nine children : Mary, Rebecca, Abraham, Jr., Thomas, Anna, William, Kendall, Abigail, and Tabitha, the eldest b. in 1666, the young- est, 1685.

The lineal ancestors of William Cullen Bry- ant for three generations - namely : Stephen, ' the immigrant, who came over as early as 1632, his son Ichabod,2 and grandson Philip3 - lived in Plymouth County, Massachusetts.

What relationship, if any, existed between them and Abraham' Bryant, of Reading, is not known. They were probably of the same stock in England. William, b. in 1678, the sixth child of Abraham1 Bryant, d. in 1756. He m. in 1701 Rebecca, daughter of William2 and Elizabeth Arnold, and by this union had five children - William, Joseph, John (d. in infancy), John, and Timothy. Joseph, 3 b. in South Reading in 1704, known as Lieutenant Joseph Bryant, removed about the year 1729 to Stoneham, where he became a member of the church, and was prominent in town affairs, being Constable many years. His first wife was Sarah Gould, daughter of Daniel3 Gould, of Stoneham; and their children were: Colo- nel Joseph, b. 1730; Lieutenant Daniel, 1732 ; Sarah, 1735; and Hannah, 1739.

Lieutenant Joseph3 Bryant m., second, Sep- tember 28, 1753, Mrs. Elizabeth Cowell, widow of Pearn Cowell, and daughter of Elias4 and Elizabeth Parkman, of Boston. She was b. August 4, 1723. Her father, Elias+ Parkman, was b. in Boston in 1688, son of William3 and Deborah Parkman. William3 was a son of Elias2 and grandson of Elias' Parkman, the immigrant progenitor of the family. Elias, 2 who was b. in Dorchester in 1635, m. Sarah Trask. William3 Parkman was b. in Salem in 1658. He resided in Boston, and had ten or twelve children, among them being: Elias, 4 of Boston, above named; and the Rev. Eben- ezer4 Parkman, b. in 1703, who was the first minister of Westboro, Mass. Samuels Park- man, son of Ebenezer, 4 was father of the Rev. Francis6 Parkman, b. 1788, and grandfather of Francis7 Parkman, the historian, who was b. in 1823.

Ebenezer+ Bryant, b. in Stoneham, Septem- ber 7, 1758, son of Lieutenant Joseph3 and his wife Elizabeth, m. June 12, 1788, Sarah, daughter of William Green. Their children were: Sarah Wait, b. 1789; Eben, b. 1791 ; John, 1796; Betsy, 1798; Abigail, 1800; and Oliver, 1804. Betsy, the fourth child, m., first, in 1817, James Matthews, and had two children. She m., second, in 1830, James Burditt. Three children were b. of this union -James, Fanny Elizabeth (b. April 11, 1835), and Martha Matilda, Fanny Elizabeth m.

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March 24, 1854, Albert S. Stockwell, and be- came the mother of four children, namely : Caroline, b. at Lunenburg, Vt., in 1856; Ellen Tryphena, b. at Calais, Vt., in 1858; James Alden, b. at Stoneham, September 16, 1860; and Albert Wilfred, b. Calais, Vt., in 1862.

Albert Samuel Stockwell enlisted for nine months' service in the Civil War in August, 1862, in Company C, Thirteenth Regiment, Vermont Volunteers, mustered October 10, 1862; mustered out July 21, 1863; in bat- tle of Fairfax Court House, Va., December 28, 1862; and at Gettysburg, Pa., July 1, 2, 3, 1863. Re-enlisted, Company A, Eleventh Vermont Regiment (First Heavy Artillery) ; mustered December 12, 1863; taken prisoner June 23, 1864, at engagement at Weldon Railroad, Va. ; and d. at Andersonville Prison, Ga., September II, 1864.

Mrs. Stockwell m. in 1872 George W. Wells, by whom she had three children - Olive Sophronia, Harry Bryant Wells, and one that d. in infancy.

James Alden Stockwell received his early education in the Stoneham public schools and the Academy at Wilbraham, Mass. In 1882 he entered Wesleyan University, Middletown, Conn. In 1884 he entered Boston University College of Liberal Arts, and in 1886 the Bos- ton University School of Law, where he was graduated with the degree of Bachelor of Laws in 1888. Admitted to the bar in July of the same year, he has since successfully practised his profession in Boston and Stoneham and vicinity.

ELD .- The name Weld has been identified with the town of Roxbury almost from the time of its settle- ment, which occurred in 1630, records show- ing that the Rev. Thomas Weld arrived in Boston on June 5, 1632.

Thomas Weld, the first Weld represented in America, was b. in England and educated at Trinity College, Cambridge, where he received the degree of Bachelor of Arts in 1613 and of Master of Arts in 1618.

Shortly after his arrival in Boston he was

appointed as first minister of the church in Roxbury. Later in the same year John Eliot was settled as his colleague. In 1637 he ap- peared as one of the principal opposers to the famous Mrs. Anne Hutchinson, and later wrote a book exposing the errors and extrava- gances which she had introduced. Weld made himself conspicuous in many ways, a man whose judgment was often sought on matters other than pertaining to the church.

Notwithstanding the fact that Mr. Weld was minister of the town, a man of much promi- nence and director of affairs, also author of many books, withal he found time to superin- tend and manage some six hundred acres, this number being originally owned by the Weld estate.

In 1641 Thomas Weld and Hugh Peters were sent to England as agents of the colony. At the expiration of their commission, rather than return to America, both preferred to re- main in England, Weld taking up his profes- sion, and following it until his death in Lon- don, March 23, 1661.

Mr. Weld had three sons - Edward, John, and Thomas, university men, all three choos- ing the profession of their father. The young- est son, Thomas, was the only one to remain in this country, the other two settling as min- isters abroad.

The Rev. Thomas Weld, Jr., wrote several books, which had considerable influence, some of them running into second editions. He also wrote, in collaboration with others, various works of a religious character.

Several generations after the death of the Rev. Thomas Weld, we find quite prominent among the citizens of Roxbury Samuel Weld. Samuel Weld was, as were his ancestors, highly respected by all who knew him, and was also a man of considerable property.

Mr. Weld m. Elizabeth Williams, daughter of Samuel Williams, a man most influential and esteemed in Roxbury. Samuel Weld and his wife, Elizabeth, each d. at the age of sev- enty-two; and of their union the only child to reach maturity was Samuel Williams Weld.

Roxbury during the life of Samuel W. Weld was transformed from an agricultural town to a thriving municipality. Like his ancestors,

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the greater part of his life was devoted to the management of the homestead farm and other property remotely connected. On May 27, 1817, Mr. S. W. Weld m. Miss Nancy Sum- ner, daughter of Samuel Sumner and niece of Governor Increase Sumner. Samuel Sumner was a cousin of General Warren. To Nancy Sumner and Samuel W. Weld were b. : Samuel in 1818, Elizabeth Williams in 1820, and George in 1823. Samuel W. Weld, the father of these children, d. August 16, 1829. The mother, Nancy Sumner, d. May 21, 1874.

Samuel Weld, elder son of Samuel Will- iams and Nancy (Sumner) Weld, pursued his preparatory studies at the private school of Stephen Weld in Jamaica Plain, and was grad- uated at Harvard College at the age of twenty years: Though he subsequently made a study of theology, he was prevented by deafness from entering into pastoral duties, and his life was therefore principally devoted to charitable work. He also held a number of important trusts. His death took place January 8, 1890, at his residence, 68 Moreland Street, which is still the home of his sister Elizabeth, Mrs. Sargent.

Elizabeth Williams Weld was m. May 10, 1848, to Epes Sargent, who was b. in 1813 at Gloucester, Mass., son of Epes, Sr., and Han- nah D. (Coffin) Sargent. Mr. Sargent was a widely known littérateur, who was for some years editor of the Boston Transcript .. During his long period of service in the field of letters Mr. Sargent prepared for publication numerous volumes by standard authors. He was also a voluminous and successful writer in prose and verse. Mr. Sargent d. December 31, 1880, a man whose death was keenly felt.

George Weld, the younger son of Samuel Williams Weld, attended Stephen Weld's school in Jamaica Plain and afterward the famous Chauncy Hall School in Boston. He, like many of his ancestors, preferring a country life to a commercial one, purchased at North- boro, Mass., a farm, where, shortly after his marriage to Miss Mary Elizabeth Read, of Roxbury, in 1848, he moved. Mr. Weld re- sided at his home in Northboro to the time of his death. He had four sons, only one of whom, Clifford Read, lived to maturity.

Clifford Read Weld was born August 16, 1854. He married September 6, 1898, Cla- rissa Lyon, a native of Bedford, Westchester County, N. Y., and one of the eleven children of Solomon and Hannah (Phillips) Lyon. Mr. and Mrs. Weld have two children : Elizabeth, born July 25, 1899; and Katharine, born Jan- uary 30, 1901. Mrs. Weld is a descendant of Thomas Lyon, a Quaker, who settled at Fair- field, Conn., in 1647, and who m. for his first wife Martha Johanna Winthrop, daughter of Henry Winthrop, the second son of Governor John Winthrop of Massachusetts. In the line of descent from Thomas Lyon have been many men prominent in the war of the American Revolution, of patriotic devotion, of rare excel- lence. It was to Squire Peter Lyon, for more than thirty years Justice of the Peace of North Castle and chief member of the Council of Safety for Westchester County, New York, that Paulding, Van Wart, and Williams brought their important capture, the spy, Major André, and were directed by him to take their prisoner to the nearest military post within the American lines, thence to be sent with his incriminating papers to General Washington. Israel Lyon also was prominent in Revolutionary days, and held a number of important appointments in the county of West- chester. He was one of the most intelligent and inflexible of American patriots. His house was burned by the British, and a bounty offered for his head. Immediately after the close of the war he rebuilt his dwelling upon

the original foundations; and, after sheltering six generations of the family, it still stands, with its huge timbers and oaken floors, owned and occupied to-day by a descendant of Thomas Lyon. This was the birthplace and childhood home of Mrs. Clarissa Lyon Weld and of her brother, Irving Whithall Lyon, formerly of Hartford, now deceased, author of "Colonial Furniture of New England."

On her mother's side Clarissa Lyon Weld is a descendant of the Rev. George Phillips (son of Christopher Phillips, of England), who emigrated to America with John Winthrop in the ship "Arabella " in 1630, and settled at Watertown, Mass. "A godly man, specially gifted," so Governor Winthrop wrote in 1644.

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His son, the Rev. Samuel (Harvard graduate, 1650), m. Sarah Appleton, daughter of Samuel Appleton, who came to America in 1635, set- tling at Ipswich, Mass.

AMES WILLIAM RUSSELL, of Win- chester, was born in Somerville, Mass., October 18, 1844, a son of William Adams and Harriet (Hill) Russell. He comes from good old Massachusetts stock, being descended from early settlers of Middle- sex County.

WilliamI Russell, the founder of this branch of the Russell family of New England, d. in Cambridge, February 14, 1661. By his wife Martha he had ten children. Joseph2 Russell was b. in England in 1636, and came with his parents to America about the middle of the seventeenth century. He m. in 1662 Mary Belcher, daughter of Jeremiah Belcher, of Ips- wich. Walter3 Russell, their sixth child, was b. in 1676 and d. in 1748. His first wife was Mary, daughter of Nathaniel Patten; his sec- ond, whom he m. in 1706, Elizabeth Winship. Joseph4 Russell, b. in 1703, son of Walter, removed in 1730 to what is now Somerville, and d. there in 1776. He m. in 1724 Mary Robbins. Their son Walter5 Russell, b. about 1737, d. in 1782. His first wife, Mary Wy- man, d. in 1759-60. He m. December 17, 1761, Hannah Adams, by whom he had seven children. James6 Russell, son of Walter5 and his wife Hannah, was b. in 1763; d. in 1846 at Arlington, formerly called "Menotomy." He m. Rebecca Adams. Their fourth child, William Adams7 Russell, b. May 14, 1790, d. in 1856. On June 16, 1810, he m. Kezia Teel, of Charlestown.

William Adams& Russell, the father of James W. Russell, was b. May 2, 1811, in Somerville. He lived for many years in Med- ford, where he was engaged in agricultural pur- suits, paying especial attention to market gar- dening. He d. June 22, 1892. He m. June 24, 1838, Harriet Hill, who was b. at West Cambridge, now Arlington, June II, 1807, a daughter of David and Betsey (Adams) Hill. Her father was a lineal descendant in the sixth generation of Abraham Hill, an early settler of

Charlestown. Abraham' Hill came from Eng- land to Massachusetts in 1636, and located in that part of Charlestown that is now Malden, residing there until his death in February, 1669-70. His son, Abraham2 Hill, b. in 1643, m. in 1666 Hannah Stone, and settled in Malden. Abraham3 Hill, b. in 1670, son of Abraham,2 m. Sarah Long. Their son, Zech- ariah4 Hill (b. in 1708, d. March II, 1768), m. in February, 1731-2, Rebecca Cutter, daughter of John and Lydia (Harrington) Cut- ter, grand-daughter of William and Rebecca (Rolfe) Cutter, great-grand-daughter of Rich- ard' Cutter, who probably came to New Eng- land with his mother, Elizabeth Cutter, a widow. John5 Hill, b. in January, 1738-9, son of Zechariah4, m. in 1765 Dorcas Bowes, and resided in Menotomy until his death, by acci- dent, in 1798. David6 Hill, who was baptized August 22, 1773, m. September 13, 1797, Bet- sey Adams, daughter of John5 and Elizabeth (Gardner) Adams. Her father was a descend- ant in the fifth generation of John Adams, who settled at Cambridge about 1650. The line was: John,1 Joseph, 2-3 William, 4 John, 5. John Adams was a wheelwright in Menotomy prior to 1678. Joseph2 Adams, son of John by his wife Ann, m. February 21, 1687-8, Margaret Eames, b. in Sudbury, July 8, 1666, a daughter of Thomas Eames. Her father's house at Framingham was destroyed by In- dians February 1, 1675-6, his wife and some of his children killed, and Margaret, then a child, was taken captive and carried to Canada. Joseph3 Adams was a man of prominence in Cambridge, serving as Selectman in 1729, 1731, 1732, 1737, and 1738. He d. October 18, 1774, at the age of eighty-six years. His first wife, Rebecca Cutter, d. in 1718. His second wife, Rachel, survived him. William4 Adams, b. about 1725, d. September 10, 1787. He was Ensign of a train-band in 1771, and Captain of a company in Colonel Thatcher's regiment, which, at the request of General Washington, marched to Dorchester Heights on March 4, 1776. In 1779 he was Selectman of Cambridge. On June 14, 1750, he m. Sarah Hill, a daughter of Zechariah Hill. John5 Adams m. November 18, 1777, in Charlestown, Elizabeth Gardner. They were

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the parents of Betsey6 Adams, above men- tioned. The children of William Adams8 and Harriet Hill Russell were six in number, as follows: Harriet Jane, b. March 30, 1839; Mary Elizabeth, b. April 25, 1840; George Hill, b. October 1, 1843; James W., the sub- ject of this sketch; Edward, b. April 10, 1848; and David. The eldest three children reside Ed- on the ancestral homestead in Medford. ward m., first, Mary E. Hodge, who d. August 17, 1892, and second, April 28, 1897, Minnie Louisa Mulligan, who was b. in Winchester, March 30, 1871. His children by his first wife are: Harriet Hill, b. March 25, 1879; Betsey Adams, b. January 5, 1881 (Tufts, '02); Clara Rebecca, b. August 4, 1882 (Tufts, '04); Gracie May, b. June 29, 1885, who d. October 21, 1886; and Ethel Jane, b. September 21, 1888. Edward's children by his second wife are: Martha Louise, b. March 30, 1898; and Esther, b. June 17, 1901. David Russell m. Mrs. Agnes Congdon, of Meredith, N. H.

James W.9 Russell obtained a practical edu- cation in the public schools of Winchester and Medford. Since attaining manhood he has carried on market gardening on an extensive scale in Winchester, where he owns twenty- five acres of the old Russell homestead. He has met with encouraging success in his chosen calling. He has built a fine residence in Win- chester. He is a man of good financial ability, and one of the directors of the Winchester National Bank. He is an attendant of the Unitarian church, and in politics a Republi- can.

On November 5, 1874, Mr. Russell married Ella Lephe Symmes, daughter of Marshall and Abbie (Stowell) Symmes, of Winchester. Mr. and Mrs. Russell have four children, namely : Alice Symmes, born September 15, 1875, was graduated from Smith College with the class of 1899; Fred Adams, born March 16, 1877, fitted for college in Winchester, was graduated from Harvard in 1899, and is now in business in Boston; James W., Jr., born September 19, 1878, who was graduated at Amherst College in 1899, and is now in busi- ness with his father; Bertha Louise, the youngest child, born February 7, 1884, is a

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Genealogy and history of representative citizens of the commonwealth of Massachusetts, Part 81

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