Genealogy and history of representative citizens of the commonwealth of Massachusetts, Part 83

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

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until February 2, 1866, when he was mustered out of service at City Point, Va. Coming North, he was with his father until 1875, when he was appointed on the Lynn police force, continuing until 1879. Going then to the territory of Dakota, he was employed in the government surveying service on the Great Sioux Reservation until September, 1881, when he returned to Lynn. Being reappointed to the Lynn police force, he served a short time, then resigned to become manager and agent of the G. A. Coliseum, a position that he retained until 1887. He was subsequently clerk in a store until 1891, when he was appointed to the probation office of the Lynn police court, an office that he still holds, hav- ing been since 1894 both probation officer and court officer. Mr. Frazier is a member of Gen- eral Lander Post, No. 5, G. A. R., and of the West Lynn Lodge, No. 65, I. O. O. F.

Mr. Frazier married, first, February 8, 1871, Rebecca O. Newhall, daughter of Charles A. and Mary Newhall. She d. died November 9, 1875, leaving one child - Alfred Francis Fra- zier, who was born October 4, 1873, and is now a commission agent, carrying on business in Lynn. He married Elizabeth Post. They have three children - Alfred Newhall, Olive Rebecca, and Herbert Francis.

Mr. Frazier married, second, June 12, 1883, Mrs. Cordelia Crowell, of Lynn. She is a daughter of John and Sarah (Frye) Palmer. Her father is of Quaker descent. Her mother was born in Switzerland.

Mr. Frazier has an adopted daughter Con- stance Vivian born in Boston, January 17, 1 894.

EORGE HENRY ALLEN, veteri- nary surgeon of Stoneham, Mass., 2 was born at Bristol Mills, N. H., June 26, 1846, son of Charles Gilman and Mary Crockett (Copp) Allen. Charles Gil- man Allen, son of Levi, was b. at Gilmanton, Belknap County, N. H., December 8, 1820. Levi Allen and his brother, John Allen, went to Gilmanton from Epping, Rockingham County, N.H. They were sons of Reuben Allen. Joel and Dudley Allen, of Gilmanton,

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were cousins of Charles G. Allen. Levi Allen m. Lydia Tuttle, of Barnstead, Belknap County, N. H.

Charles Gilman Allen was educated in the public schools of his native place, and later was employed as a sawyer in the mills at Bristol, Gilford, and Ashland, N. H., during a period extending over twenty-five years. Sub- sequently he worked in a paper mill at-Ash- land for fifteen years, and since the termina- tion of his connection with that establishment he has been living with his son at Stoneham, being now retired from active employment. He m. in 1844 Mary Crockett Copp. She was b. in New Hampton, N. H., in 1826, and d. in May, 1894. They had four children; namely, George Henry, Sarah Frances, Mary Jane, and Lucy Ida. Sarah F., b. September 12, 1849, d. in Lowell, Mass., in 1887. She was m. to George Robinson, of Laconia, N. H., and left one son -- Charles Lester Robinson. Mary Jane, b. at Gilford, N. H., m. John Warren Campbell. They reside at North Adams, Mass., and have three children - Her- bert Allen, Florence Ethel, and Blanche Elea- nor. Lucy I., b. at Gilford, N. H., m. Oliver R. Woodman. Their home is at Meredith, N. H. They have three children - Harry S., Dena May, and Harley.

Mrs. Mary C. Allen was a daughter of Thomas, Jr., and Dorothy (Rowen) Copp. Her father was b. in 1790, son of Thomas Copp, Sr., a Revolutionary soldier, who m. Alice Kimball, of Meredith, N. H., and had a large family of children. Solomon Copp, father of Thomas, Sr., removed to New Hamp- shire from Amesbury, Mass., and settled at Sanbornton, Belknap County, in 1764, his being the second family in the place. He had previously lived for three years in the fort at Canterbury, N. H. His wife, Elizabeth Davis, of Amesbury, d. October 21, 1822, aged one hundred years less thirteen days. They had ten children. Dorothy, wife of Thomas Copp, Jr., was the daughter of John Rowen, a Revo- lutionary soldier, who m. Sarah Hancock, of Northfield, and removed to Meredith. John was a son of Andrew Rowen, who m. Phebe Dow, and removed from Amesbury to Sanborn- ton, N. H.

George Henry Allen was educated in the public schools of the town of Gilford, N. H. After leaving school he acquired the trade of shoemaking, and worked at it until his removal to Stoneham in 1868. He then found employ- ment as a machinist, putting up and repairing machinery. In 1882 he went to Grand Rapids, Mich., where he worked as a machinist until 1885. He then became a student at the On- tario Veterinary College in Toronto, Canada, and took his degree as Doctor of Veterinary Surgery in 1886. Since his return to Stone- ham he has practised his profession success- fully in that town and vicinity. Dr. Allen has taken a prominent part in town affairs. In 1899 he was elected to the Board of Select- men, was subsequently re-elected, and is now (1902) Clerk of the board. He was also ap- pointed town inspector of animals. Politically he is a Republican. He is a member and Past Grand of Columbian Lodge, No. 29, I. O. O. F., of Stoneham; and a member of King Cyrus Lodge, F. & A. M., of Stoneham. He was

first married September 12, 1868, to Mary Homan, daughter of Elias and Louisa (Crosby) Avery, of Campton, N. H. Dr. Allen married October 16, 1888, for his second wife, Lillian Abby, daughter of Edward and Mary Angeline (Barnes) Hart, of Stoneham.

HOMAS FREDERICK BANCROFT in the second and third quarters of the nineteenth century was a well-known and esteemed resident of Lynn, being head of the firm of Bancroft & Purinton, shoe manu- facturers, and at the time of his death in Aug- ust, 1871, as for some years previous, a Dea- con of the First Congregational Church. Born in Salem, Mass., in 1816, son of Thomas and Clarissa (Aborn) Bancroft, he was a lineal de- scendant of Thomas Bancroft, the immigrant progenitor of the family to which belonged the eminent historian, George Bancroft, and through his mother was descended from Sam- uel Aborn and other settlers of Salem Village - among them Captain Thomas Flint, John Upton, and John Putnam - whose posterity in- cludes many names of distinction.

From the printed Dedham Records, Eaton's

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History of Reading, Wellman's History of Lynnfield, and the Essex Institute Historical Collections, vol. xxxiv., we gather the follow- ing account of the Bancroft ancestry : Thomas, 1 b. in England, d. August 19, 1691, and was buried at Reading, now Wakefield, Mass. He m. at Dedham in 1647 Alice Bacon. She d. early in 1648, and he m., some months later, Elizabeth, daughter of Michael Metcalf, of Dedham. He afterwards lived for a short period at Reading and later in Lynnfield, where he built a house near Beaver Dam. His son, Deacon Thomas,2 b. in 1649, was an officer in King Philip's War. He m. Sarah, daughter of Jonathan and Judith Poole, of Reading, and lived in that town. Thomas, 3 b. in 1673, son of Thomas,2 m. Mary Webster, and was father of Ensign Thomas, 4 b. in 1696. Lieutenant Joseph,5 b. in 1735, son of Thomas, 4 and his wife, Lydia Dean, m. Eliza- beth, daughter of Lieutenant John and Rebecca (Parker) Temple, of Reading. Thomas,6 Ban- croft, b. in 1766, son of Lieutenant Joseph and Elizabeth, settled in Lynnfield. He m. No- vember 25, 1790, Lydia, daughter of James and Lydia (Nichols) Brown. She d. in 1813, and he m. in 1815 Ruth Wellman, of Lynn- field. He reared a large family, one of his children being Thomas,7 above mentioned as the father of Thomas Frederick, the subject of this sketch.

Thomas7 Bancroft, b. in Reading in 1792, d. at Salem, September 4, 1860. He was a hardware merchant in Salem. He m. June 1, 1815, Clarissa Aborn, daughter of Samuel and Polly (Flint) Aborn. She was baptized in the First Church of Lynnfield, March 29, 1795. Her father was the son of Dr. John and Rebecca (Bancroft) Aborn, was baptized January 29, 1764, and was made Deacon of the church in 1804. Dr. John Aborn, who was baptized at Lynnfield in 1727, was a son of Ebenezer3 Aborn, of Lynn, and grandson of Moses,2 b. at Salem Village in 1645-6, whose parents were Samuel' and Catherine (Smith) Aborn. The name in early records was some- times Eborne, spelled also in other ways. Moses Aborn was twice m. His second wife, mother of Ebenezer, was Abigail Gilbert. Polly Flint, wife of Deacon Samuel Aborn, m.

in 1788, was b. in 1770, daughter of Captain Samuel4 and Ede (Upton) Flint, of South Danvers (now Peabody). Her father com- manded a company in the Revolutionary War, and was killed at the battle of Stillwater, October 7, 1777. He was son of Captain Samuel3 and Ruth (Putnam) Flint, grandson of Captain Thomas2 Flint (Thomas') who served in King Philip's War. Ruth Putnam, wife of Captain Samuel, 3 was a daughter of John3 Putnam (John,2 John'). Ede Upton, wife of Captain Samuel4 and mother of Polly Flint, was a daughter of Joseph3 Upton, of North Reading (Joseph, 2 John').

Deacon Thomas Frederick Bancroft, son of Thomas Bancroft and his wife Clarissa, re- sided in Mall Street, Lynn. He died, one of the victims of the accident on the Eastern Railroad at Revere, August 26, 1871. Deacon Bancroft was married August 19, 1845, to Abbie A. Rhodes, who was born in Lynn, June 11, 1823, daughter of William and Hannah (Breed) Rhodes. They had seven children; namely, Abbie Maria, William Henry (died in infancy), William Henry, Edward F., Frederick Thomas, Helen Rhodes, and Susan Breed. Abbie Maria, the eldest of these, born July 3, 1846, died at the age of nineteen. William Henry, second, born No- vember 26, 1848, married Lizzie Lovejoy, daughter of Elbridge Lovejoy, of Lynn. He died in August, 1884. Edward F., born September 26, 1852, died in February, 1878. Frederick T., born May 31, 1857, died at the age of nine years. Helen Rhodes, born De- cember 25, 1860, is married to Arthur Scudder Moore, resides in Lynn, and has four children - William Bancroft, Arthur Scudder, Jr., Ethel Louise, and Helen Catherine. Susan Breed, the youngest child, born May 2, 1868, married William E. Brickett, of Lynn, and has one daughter, Helen, and a son.

William Rhodes, father of Mrs. Bancroft, was b. in Lynn. He was doubtless a lineal descendant of Henry Rhodes, who was b. in 1608, settled at Lynn in 1640, and was father of three sons - Jonathan, Henry, and Josiah. William Rhodes m. in 1817 Hannah7 Breed, of Lynn, b. in 1796. She was a daughter of Thomas Andrews6 Breed, who m. Hannah,

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daughter of Daniel and Sarah (Batchelor) New- hall. Thomas Andrews6 Breed, b. in 1768, was descended from Allen' Breed, who settled at Lynn in 1630, and was the founder of the family of this surname. The line was : Allen1; Allen,2 b. in 1626 in England; Jo- seph, 3 b. in 1658, who m. Sarah Farrington ; Allen, 4 b. in 1707, m. Huldah Newhall; Allen,5 b. in 1744, m. Abigail Lindsey --- the last-named couple being the parents of Thomas Andrews Breed and grandparents of Hannah Breed, wife of William . Rhodes. Huldah Newhall, wife of Allen4 Breed, was a daughter of Samuel3 Newhall (Thomas, 2 Thomas'), of Lynn, whose wife's name was Abigail Lindsey.

ONATHAN WOODWARD GOOD- ELL, M.D., one of the oldest prac- tising physicians in the city of Lynn, Mass., where he has been actively en- gaged in the duties of his profession over thirty-five years, or since February, 1866, was born August 2, 1830, in the town of Orange, Franklin County, in the north-west part of the State. Son of Zina and Polly (Woodward) Goodell, he comes of old Colonial stock of Essex and Middlesex Counties. From Robert Goodell, who came from England in 1634, and settled within the limits of the present town of Peabody, Mass., then a part of Salem, he is a descendant in the eighth generation, the line being, Robert, 1 Zachariah,2 Joseph, 3-4-5 Zina, 6-7 and Jonathan Woodward8.

Robert Goodell brought with him his wife Katherine and three children - Mary, Abra- ham, and Isaac. His son Zachariah2 (proba- bly the child of Robert Goodell baptized in Salem in 1640) m. Elizabeth, daughter of Ed- ward Beauchamp, lived in Danvers (then Salem Village), and was the father of nine children. Joseph,3 b. in 1672, had eight chil- dren by his wife Mary. Joseph,4 b. in 171I, m. his cousin Elizabeth, daughter of John3 Goodell. Joseph5 was a farmer in Warwick, Mass. He m. Mary Blanchard, of Hopkinton, and had a large family of children. Zina,6 b. in 1765, d. at Orange in 1814. He m. in 1786 Joanna Cheney, daughter of Ebenezer5

and Abigail (Thompson) Cheney. Ebenezer Cheney, her father, b. in Mendon, was a son of William4 and Joanna (Thayer) Cheney, the line from William1 Cheney, who was a land- holder and resident at Roxbury before 1640, being William1-2-3-4. . Joanna, wife of the fourth William Cheney, was a daughter of Nathaniel+ Thayer, of Braintree (Nathaniel, 3 Richard2-1).

Zina6 and Joanna (Cheney) Goodell had thir- teen children; namely, Joanna, Zina (d. in infancy), Zina,7 Abigail, Joseph H., Hannah, Divine, Orena, Calista, Abner Cheney, El- bridge G., Diana (d. young), and Jonathan. Abner Cheney Goodell, b. in 1805, was the father of Abner Cheney Goodell, Jr., a former president of the New England Historic Genea- logical Society.

Zina,7 b. July 6, 1790, was a farmer by oc- cupation, and was a prominent man in the town of Orange, serving as Justice of the Peace, Surveyor, Selectman, and in other local offices. He d. in 1863. His wife Polly was b. November 27, 1795, daughter of Amos Woodward and his wife Mary Goddard Wood- ward. Amos, b. at Newton in 1755, son of Jonathan, Jr., 5 and Mary (Brown) Woodward, was of the sixth generation of the New England family founded by Richard Woodward, who came from England with his wife Rosa and sons George and John, and settled at Water- town. The line of descent was continued through his son George,2 of Watertown, free- man in 1646; John, 3 who m. Rebecca, daugh- ter of Richard Robbins, of Cambridge; Jona- than, Sr., 4 b. in 1685, m. a Damon in 1712; Jonathan, Jr., 5 of Watertown and Newton, to Amos6.

Zina Goodell and his wife Polly were the parents of eight children - Diana, Moses, Zina, Mary, Joseph G., Jonathan Woodward, Elvira Bliss, and Catharine Joanna. Diana m. Sewell Taft, and d. in Winchester. Moses m. Harriet Hill, of Boston. He was engaged in various kinds of business, which took him to all parts of the country, and he d. at Hot Springs, Ark. Zina m., first, Priscilla Hutchins, and, second, her sister, Charlotte Hutchins. He resides in Wisconsin. Mary m. Joseph Pierce, of Orange. She is now a

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widow residing at Athol, Mass. Joseph d. at the age of fourteen. Elvira Bliss m. the Rev. Levi Ballou, is now a widow, and resides at Orange.

Jonathan Woodward, the sixth child and fourth son, received his elementary education in the Orange public schools, continued his studies in the seminary at West Brattleboro, Vt., and the academy at Saxton's River, and then taught school for seven years at different places in Massachusetts, Vermont, and New Hampshire. He studied medicine with Dr. Edward Barton, of Orange, as his instructor, and attended lectures at Berkshire Medical College (then the medical department of Will- iams' College), Pittsfield, where he was grad- uated Doctor of Medicine in 1856. Beginning practice at Greenwich, Hampshire County, he remained there about ten years, and then came to Lynn, as noted above. He is numbered among the most successful medical practition- ers of that city, and is a valued citizen. He is especially interested in botany and garden- ing, and for nine years he was president of the Horticultural Society of Lynn. He is a mem- ber of the State, local, and national medical

societies. He was made a Mason at Enfield, Mass., while a resident at Greenwich. From the Enfield Lodge he took a demit to Golden Fleece Lodge, of Lynn, and is now a member.

Dr. Goodell was married November, 1856, to Martha J. Abbot, daughter of Jason and Cynthia (Howe) Abbot, of Enfield. She d. March 8, 1897. Dr. Goodell has one child, a daughter, Addie B., his homekeeper, born Feb- ruary 3, 1872. She was educated in the Lynn schools.

Mrs. Goodell's father, Jason6 Abbot, b. in 1787, was a son of Abijah5 and Rachel (Jen- nings) Abbot, of Paxton, Mass. Abijah was a son of Samuel4 and Abigail (Myrick) Abbot, of Sudbury, and grandson of Samuel,3 b. in 1678 at Andover, who m. Joyce Rice, and settled at Sudbury. Samuel3 was a son of George2 and Sarah (Farnum) Abbot, of An- dover, and grandson of George' Abbot, an early settler of Rowley, Mass.

Mrs. Goodell's mother, Mrs. Cynthia Howe Abbot, was b. at Spencer, Mass., in 1789, daughter of Frederick and Sarah (White)

Howe. Her father was a son of Elijah, Sr., and Deborah (Smith) Howe. Elias Howe, the inventor, a native of Spencer, Mass., was a grandson of Elijah Howe, Jr., brother of Fred- erick Howe. Sarah White was a daughter of John White, of Framingham and Spencer.

AMES MILLS PEIRCE, A.M., Per- kins Professor of Astronomy and Math- ematics at Harvard University, is the eldest son of the late Benjamin Peirce, LL. D., F. R. S., the eminent mathematician, who for thirty-eight years held the same chair. He belongs to the family bearing this name founded by John Pers, weaver, who came from Norwich, England, in 1637, and settled at Watertown in the Massachusetts Bay Colony, where he d. in 1661. The Professor's line of descent is : John,' Robert,2 Benjamin, 3 Jerath- mael,4 Jerathmael,5 Benjamin,6 Benjamin,7 James M.,8 the name, in every generation suc- ceeding the first, of the line descended through Robert2 being spelled Peirce; although the spelling Pierce has obtained currency in recent generations in some other branches of the descendants of John.' (See "Record of the Posterity of John Pers," by F. C. Peirce.) It has been plausibly conjectured that the remote ancestors of this family were among the popu- lation of weavers who were induced by Ed- ward III. to remove from Flanders into the eastern counties of England. The name Peers (pronounced Pairse) still exists in Western Belgium. The name of the New England family is pronounced Perse.

The immigrant had three sons - Anthony, Robert, and John, Jr. Among the descend- ants of Anthony2 Peirce may be named John Albion Andrew, the great war governor, whose mother was the daughter of John Peirce of the seventh generation; Edward L. Pierce, biog- rapher of Charles Sumner; the Rev. Cyrus Peirce, principal, in 1839, of the first normal school in this country; and George Frisbie Hoar, United States Senator, whose mother was the daughter of Colonel Abijah6 Peirce, of Lincoln, Mass.

Robert2 Peirce settled in Woburn, and m. Mary, daughter of John Knight, Sr., of

JAMES MILLS PEIRCE.

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Charlestown. Benjamin3 Peirce m. in 1693 Hannah, daughter of Jerahmeel (or Jerath- mael) Bowers, of Chelmsford, and in 1701 removed to Charlestown. Jerathmael4 Peirce, b. in 1708, m. in 1733 Rebecca Hurd. He d. in 1751, leaving two sons and three daughters; and his widow d. in 1757. Je- rathmael,5 b. January 22, 1747, removed in 1763 to Salem, with his elder brother, Benja- min, b. 1738, who was killed near Cambridge, in the first engagement of the Revolution, April 19, 1775. Professor Benjamin Osgood Peirce is a great-grandson of the latter.

Jerathmael5 m. February 6, 1772, Sarah, daughter of Benjamin and Ruth (Hardy) Ropes, who d. August 17, 1796. He became a very prominent and highly respected mer- chant, being one of the first from Salem to engage in the India trade. He built a large house in Federal Street, Salem, which is still standing. He d. August 20, 1827, having had nine children, of whom two sons and two daugh- ters survived him. His elder son, Benjamin6 Peirce, b. in Salem, September 30, 1778, was the first in this line to enjoy the advantages of a liberal education, being a Harvard grad- uate of the class of 1801, in which he held the highest honors. His tastes were scholarly; but for a quarter of a century, or during the continuance of the mercantile firm of Peirce & Waite, of Salem, of which his father was the head, he devoted his attention to commercial affairs, in the meantime serving in the Legis- lature as Senator for Essex County in 1811, and afterward for several years as Representa- tive of Salem. He was a man of excellent judgment and of high moral principles. His skill in book lore -for he was extremely well- read in classic English and Latin literature - led to his appointment in 1826 as librarian of Harvard College. He was an intimate friend of the eminent scholar, John Pickering, presi- dent of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. His labors for the concluding years of his life were in fields of study, and bore lasting fruit in the catalogue of the library, the fourth and last volume of which was issued shortly before his death (July 26, 1831), and in a manuscript, "History of Harvard Univer- sity from its Foundation to the Period of the

American Revolution " - which appeared in 1833 under the editorship of Dr. John Picker- ing. This was the first history of the Uni- versity ever published. Based on the careful and laborious examination of original records, it still remains an important authority, even since the appearance of President Quincy's history.

The Hon. Benjamin6 Peirce m. December II, 1803, Lydia R. Nichols, his cousin, daughter of Ichabod and Lydia (Ropes) Nichols, of Salem, b. January 3, 1781. She d. in Cam- bridge, November, 1867. Two sons survived their father : Benjamin,7 b. April 4, 1809; Charles Henry,7 b. January 28, 1814 (Harvard College 1833; M.D. 1836), who d. June 16, 1855, in Cambridge. He studied chemistry at the Lawrence Scientific School soon after its foundation, and published some books on chemistry. A daughter, Charlotte Elizabeth, b. in Salem, November 9, 1804, d. in Cam- bridge, February 4, 1888.

The Nicholses were a sturdy race of mar- iners, and came of Quaker ancestry. They were descended from Lawrence and Cassandra Southwick, who were banished in old age and in winter from Massachusetts, and soon after d. under the hospitable roof of Nathaniel Syl- vester, on Shelter Island, in Long Island Sound, and from Provided Southwick, their daughter, who was condemned while a young girl to be sold into slavery in the Barbadoes, but escaped the execution of the cruel sentence because no ship's captain could be found who would consent to carry it out, and who later m. Samuel Gaskell, also a Quaker, and lived to join him in protesting against the witchcraft persecution. (See Bishop's "New England Judged" ; Whittier's "Cassandra Southwick," the name being transferred to the daughter by a poetic license; Essex Institute Historical Collections, vol. ii., p. 198; "Salem Witch- craft," pp. 124, 125.) David Nichols, the father of Ichabod, m. Hannah Gaskell. Icha- bod abandoned Quakerism on his marriage. He was a sea captain, of noted enterprise and ability. He took his ship on several voyages to China, and was in close relations of mutual regard and esteem with some of the eminent Chinese merchants of his day. He was b.

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April 20, 1749, and d. July 2, 1839. One of his sons was the distinguished Portland divine, the Rev. Ichabod Nichols. Another, Benjamin Ropes Nichols, was a prominent merchant in Boston.

Benjamin7 Peirce, entering Harvard in his seventeenth year, devoted himself with enthu- siasm and diligence to the higher mathematics, going far beyond the usual college course, his bent in this direction being encouraged by Dr. Bowditch, whom he aided in reading and thor- oughly revising the proof-sheets of the "Mé- canique Céleste," translated by Dr. Bowditch, with an important commentary. He was a member of the celebrated class of 1829. In 1829-32 he was mathematical teacher at the famous Round Hill School at Northampton ; in 1831-33 tutor in mathematics at Harvard; in 1833 he became Professor of Mathematics and Natural Philosophy ; and in 1842 was ap- pointed Perkins Professor of Astronomy and Mathematics. This chair, of which he was the first incumbent, he held till his death, October 6, 1880. A warm advocate of the elective system, he was devoted to his spe- cialty, modernizing and improving the teaching of mathematics, "making," it is said, "inno- vations which are now commonplaces."

"The teaching at Harvard is based upon his methods and notation, and these methods are models of perspicuity and elegance. In physi- cal astronomy perhaps his greatest works were in connection with the planetary theory, his analysis of the Saturnian system, his researches regarding the lunar theory, and the profound criticism of the discovery of Neptune following the investigations of Adams and of Leverrier. As a mathematician, his work on analytical mechanics, his treatise on curves, functions, and forces, and his memoir on Linear Associa- tive Algebra, all evince extraordinary origi- nality and genius." -- American Journal of Science.

"His published works are remarkable for the novelty or originality, both of their lines of thought and of their methods. He was singularly direct and clear : the only obscurity which is ever found in his writings is that which arises from the omission of the simpler links in the chain of reasoning. But to a well-

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Genealogy and history of representative citizens of the commonwealth of Massachusetts, Part 83

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