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grounded mathematician this very brevity becomes an efficient source of perspicuity. No fog is more bewildering than verbosity, which never approached Peirce's writings. His mind moved with great rapidity, and it was with difficulty that he brought himself to write out even the briefest record of its excursions. In a mathematical society, over which he presided for some years, the contrast between him and the secretary, Professor Winlock, was as note- worthy as the remarkable talent of both. The society comprised half a dozen other men of some reputation in Cambridge and Boston, who met to discuss purely mathematical topics. Each member would bring forth something novel in his own particular branch of inquiry ; and in the discussion which followed it would almost invariably appear that Peirce had, while the paper was being read, pushed out the au- thor's methods to far wider results than the author had dreamed. The same power of ex- tending rapidly in his own mind novel mathe- matical researches, which ordinary men could have done only by days of labor with paper and pencil, was exhibited at the sessions of every scientific body and every chance meeting of a scientific character at which he was pres- ent. What was quite as admirable was the way in which he did it, giving the credit of the thought always to the author of the essay under discussion. His pupils thus frequently received credit for what was in reality far beyond their attainment. He robbed himself of fame in two ways: by giving the credit of his discoveries to those who had merely sug- gested the line of thought, and by neglecting to write out and publish what he had himself thought out.
"Professor Peirce's activity of mind was by no means confined to the special topics of physics and mathematics. He was among the first to read any new and noteworthy poem or tale, to hear a new opera or oratorio; and his judgment and criticism upon such matters was keen and original. His interest in religious themes was deep, but it was in the fundamental doctrines rather than in the debates of secta- rians. He was a devout believer in Christian- ity, but held to no established creed. The quickness of his observation of external things
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was as decided as was his power of abstraction. The plants and insects by the roadside he observed as a naturalist observes them. To his paper, read in 1849 before the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the botanists and zoologists are indebted for what will, we think, in the future progress of biology prove to be a great intellectual step in physics. He showed in the vegetable world the demonstrable presence of an intellectual plan ; that what had been called "phyllotaxis" involved an algebraic idea. Mr. Chauncey Wright afterward showed that this algebraic idea was the solution of a physical problem. There the matter dropped, but it will not lie neglected forever; and in future discussions the value of this and of sundry other of Peirce's contributions to organic morphology must be acknowledged."- Nation, New York.
For seventeen years, 1850-67, he was con- sulting astronomer to the American Ephemeris and Nautical Almanac, and during the same period he was director of the longitudinal de- terminations of the United States Coast Sur- vey. He was then appointed Superintendent of the Survey to succeed Professor Alexander Dallas Bache, and held that position till March, 1874, when he resigned and was ap- pointed consulting geometer to the Survey. He contributed numerous and valuable papers, such as his memoirs on the discovery of the planet Neptune, and his study of Saturn's rings, to scientific periodicals and the publica- tions of various societies; and was the author of a number of books, among them "Elementary Treatise on Plane and Spherical Trigonometry "
. (1835) ; "Elementary Treatise on Sound" (1836) ; "Elementary Treatise on Plane and Solid Geometry " (1837), also printed for the blind in 1840; "Analytic Mechanics " (1855) ; "Linear Associative Algebra " (1870) ; and "Ideality in the Physical Sciences " (1881), edited by his son, Professor James M. Peirce. The degree of Doctor of Laws he received from the University of North Carolina in 1847, and from Harvard in 1867. He was an Honorary Fellow of the University of St. Vladimir, Kiev, a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the American Philosophical Society, the American Association for the
Advancement of Science (president, 1853), foreign member of the Royal Societies of Lon- don, Edinburgh, and Gottingen, and of the Royal Astronomical Society. He m. July 23, 1833, Sarah Hunt Mills, daughter of Elijah Hunt and Harriet (Blake) Mills. Born in Northampton, Mass., September 14, 1808, she d. at Cambridge, October 10, 1887. She was the mother of five children: James Mills, his father's successor at Harvard, who is further spoken of below; Charles Sanders, b. in 1839 (Harvard College, 1859), a well-known writer on scientific, philosophical, and literary topics ; Benjamin Mills, b. in 1844 (Harvard College, 1865), who d. unmarried, April 22, 1870; Helen Huntington, b. at Cambridge, Novem- ber 30, 1845, who m. William Rogers Ellis, son of the Rev. Rufus Ellis, and has six chil- dren now living; and Herbert Henry Davis, b. April 11, 1849, first secretary of the United States Embassy at St. Petersburg (1893-1901), now Third Assistant Secretary of State, who m. June 2, 1881, Helen Nelson Jose, daughter of Horatio Nelson Jose, of Portland, Me., and has two sons - Herbert Benjamin and Horatio Nelson.
Elijah Hunt Mills, of Northampton, the maternal grandfather above mentioned, was a prominent lawyer and politician in the early part of the last century. While serving as speaker of the House in the State Legislature, having previously been a Representative to Congress, he was elected United States Senator for Massachusetts, to fill out an unexpired term; also elected for a full term, which he completed with credit, and was re-elected for another term, but on account of failing health resigned his seat. He d. in 1829. He was the eldest son of the Rev. Benjamin and Mary (Hunt) Mills. His father, who was the first minister of Chesterfield, Mass., resigned his charge and engaged in political affairs, taking an active interest in the American Revolution. The Rev. Benjamin was the son of Josiah Mills, who removed from Needham, Mass., to Killingly, Conn., and grandson of Benjamin Mills, of Needham, Mass. Harriette Blake, wife of Elijah H. Mills, was the twelfth and youngest child of 'Joseph Blake of Boston and Deborah, his wife, and was born in
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Hingham in December, 1780. She belonged to a vigorous and gifted race, of which the celebrated Admiral Blake, of the time of the "Commonwealth," was a member, and which is still conspicuous for talent and native force. She had four sons and three daughters. She d. at Cambridge in February, 1871, after more than forty years of widowhood.
A memoir of Professor Benjamin Peirce in Essex Institute Historical Collections, vol. xviii., is followed by a genealogical summary, showing that "he had no less than twenty-five ancestors, heads of families, known to have been settled in New England before 1663, at least twenty of them before 1640." The list is: John Peirce, of . Watertown, weaver; George Bowers, of Scituate, 1637; John Hurd, of Boston, 1639; Peter Tufts, Charlestown ; prior to 1638; Thomas Lynde, Malden, ad- mitted to church 1634-5; Thomas Nichols, of Salisbury, 1663; Edward Gaskill (or Gas- coigne), of Salem, lands 1635-6; Lawrence Southwick, came first 1625, returned to Salem, 1630; Thomas Gardner, Cape Ann, 1624, Salem, 1626; George Ropes, Salem, 1637; Thomas Wells, physician, Ipswich, 1637; Francis Lawes, weaver, Boston, 1637; John Neale, Salem, 1642; William Warner, Ipswich, 1642; Richard Croade, Salem, 1656; William Hersey, Hingham, 1635; John Hardy, Salem, 1636; Joseph Grafton, Salem, 1636; John Pickering, Salem, 1633; William Flint, Salem, 1645; George Burrill, Lynn, about 1630; Thomas Ivory, Lynn, about 1638.
James Mills Peirce was fitted for college at the Hopkins Classical School, Cambridge, E. B. Whitman, principal, and received his Bachelor's degree at Harvard in 1853. Among his classmates at college were: Charles W. Eliot, now President Eliot; Adams S. Hill, now Professor of Rhetoric; and the late Justin Winsor, librarian. From 1854 to 1858 he was tutor in mathematics at Harvard; and in 1858 to 1861 a proctor, occasionally serving as tutor. He attended the Dane Law School, Harvard University, 1853-54, and the Harvard Divinity School 1856-59. In 1861 he was made Assistant Professor of Mathematics, in 1869 University Professor of Mathematics, and in 1885 Perkins Professor of Astronomy and
Mathematics. He is a member of the Ameri- can Academy of Arts and Sciences, of the Association for the Advancement of Science, and other scientific bodies. His published works are, besides various articles and papers : "A Text Book of Analytic Geometry " (1857), "Three and Four Place Tables of Logarithmic and Trigonometric Functions " (1871), "The Elements of Logarithms" (1873), "Mathemat- ical Tables Chiefly to Four Figures," first series (1879).
AVID TAGGART DICKINSON, the present Mayor of Cambridge (1901), was born in that city Au- gust 23, 1867, son of Alexander and Elizabeth (Taggart) Dickinson. His immigrant progenitor was Nathaniel' Dickin- son, who was b. at Ely, county of Cambridge, England, in the year 1600, son of William and Sarah (Stacey) Dickinson, and who in 1637 was at Wethersfield, Conn., of which place he was Town Clerk and also Representa- tive in the General Court. In 1659 he became one of the first settlers of Hadley, and served that town as Recorder. Crossing the river he took up his residence in Hatfield, where he remained a few years, and in 1662 was at Northampton. He d. in Hadley, June 16, 1676. He was m. at East Bergholat, Suffolk, England, to Mrs. Ann Gull, a widow, whose maiden name is not now known. They were the parents of eleven children. (See History of Deerfield, by George Sheldon; History of Northfield, by Temple and Sheldon; also "De- scendants of Thomas Dickinson," by Freder- ick Dickinson, Chicago, Ill.) The line of de- scent from Nathaniel Dickinson to the subject of this sketch was as follows : -
Nathaniel2 Dickinson, the second of the name, was b. at Deerfield, Mass., 1641. After residing for a number of years in his native town, he removed to Hatfield, where he d. October 1I, 1710. He was thrice m. His first wife, whose given name was Hannah, d. February 23, 1679; and he m. for his second, December 16, 1680, Elizabeth, daughter of John Hawkes, and widow of Joseph Gillette. She d. before April, 1682, and he took for his
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third wife, September 26, 1684, Elizabeth, daughter of Henry Burt, and widow of Samuel Wright. Of this third union there were seven children.
Nathaniel3 Dickinson, third, eldest child of the seven, b. at Deerfield, Mass., 1663, settled in Hatfield. . He m., first, Hepzibah Gibbs, of Windham. She d. in 1713, at the age of fifty- eight years; and he m. for his second wife Lydia, daughter of Samuel Marshall, and widow of Samuel Wright, of Northampton, Mass. They had nine children. On July 15, 1698, an attack was made by Indians upon a party in Hatfield Meadows. Nathaniel3 Dickin- son had his horse shot under him, his eldest son, Nathaniel, Jr., a lad of thirteen, was killed, his second son, Samuel, being captured, but rescued later.
Nathaniel4 (second), sixth child of Nathaniel and Hepzibah Dickinson (b. in Deerfield, Mass., November 27, 1698), settled in North- field. He was killed by the Indians April 15, 1747. A monument commemorating the event was erected on Pachogus Hill, and dedicated by the P. V. M. Association, September 12, 1872. His wife Martha, daughter of Eleazer Wright, d. a widow at the age of eighty-nine years, March 28, 1793. They were the par- ents of ten children.
Nathaniel5 Dickinson, the fifth of the name in direct line, was b. in Northfield, April 24, 1735 (History of Northfield) and d. in Swan- zey, N. H., March 25, 1814. He m. May 15, 1770, Caroline Cummings. Eight children - one daughter and seven sons- were b. to them, and they had also an adopted daughter, Rachel Hale.
Aaron6 Dickinson, sixth child of Nathaniels and grandfather of David T. Dickinson, was b. at Swanzey, N. H., February 17, 1783, and d. in October, 1837. He m. February 16, 1808, Polly Whitcomb, b. September 4, 1787, daugh- ter of Jonathan Whitcomb. She d. October 2, 1873. Their children were: Nathaniel, who d. March 8, 1813; Alexander, d. September 5, 18II; Mary, b. October 6, 1812, d. October 17, 1837; Martha, b. August 4, 1814; Alex- ander, second, of whom see separate notice in the following paragraph; Aaron, b. November 29, 1821, who was killed while on picket duty
as a soldier of the Union army in the Civil War; Sarah, b. December 30, 1823; and Laura, b. August 9, 1827, who m. Wellington Kingsley, of Williamsburg, Mass. Of these children, Martha (Mrs. Martha Dickinson Palmer, of Swanzey, N. H.) and Laura (Mrs. Kingsley) are the only ones now living.
Alexander7 Dickinson was b. at Swanzey, N. H., March 5, 1817. After receiving his education he was engaged in industrial life for some years, working for others, but finally entered into business for himself in Cambridge, Mass., as a member of the well-known firm of Curtis Davis & Co., soap manufacturers, and was very successful. Previous to the outbreak of the Civil War he retired from the firm and engaged in real estate operations in Cambridge. He also carried on a considerable business as a horticulturist, residing in Cambridge from 1833 until his death, August 11, 1885. He was twice m. : first to Hopee Kemp, daughter of Nehemiah and Betty (Snow) Kemp, of Cam- bridge, of which union there were four chil- dren - Martha G. (Mrs. Whittemore, of Cam- bridgeport), Mary E., Emma D., and Charles A., of Natick. He m. for his second wife, in 1866, Elizabeth Taggart, daughter of David Morrill Taggart. Her father was b. in Hook- set, N. H., November 30, 1815, d. June, 1888. Mrs. Elizabeth T. Dickinson survives her hus- band, and is now residing in Cambridge. She is the mother of two children; namely, David T. and Alexander Dickinson, the latter b. March 29, 1871.
David T. Dickinson, after acquiring his preparatory education in Cambridge, pursued his classical course at Harvard College, and received the degree of Bachelor of Arts as a member of the class of 1888. He then. en- gaged in the study of law at the Harvard Law School, was graduated in 1891, and, being admitted to the bar the same year, at . once began the practice of his profession, which he has since followed successfully. For some years he has taken a prominent part in public affairs. A Republican politically, he was elected to the House of Representatives for the years 1895, 1896, and 1897, in 1895 serving as a member of the Committee on Railroads, in the following year as chairman of the House
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Committee on Manufactures, and in 1897 as chairman of Committee on Bills in Third Reading, and as a member of the Committee on Election Laws. He was elected Mayor of Cambridge in 1900 for the year 1901. Mr. Dickinson is a member of the Trade Associa- tion of Cambridge, and of the Colonial and Newtowne Clubs. He belongs also to Ami- cable Lodge, F. & A. M., of Cambridge, and to Dunster Lodge, I. O. O. F., of that city.
He was married December 8, 1892, to Carrie Melvin Story, daughter of Abraham and Mary (Melvin) Story, of Manchester, N. H. Mr. and Mrs. Dickinson have four children, all born in Cambridge: David T., Jr., born August 30, 1894; Melvin Story, born November 11, 1895; Elbra, born June 10, 1897; and Elisabeth, born November II, 1901.
ENRY WARREN, of Newton, Mass., senior member of the firm of Warren & Blanchard, woollens, Boston, was born in Westminster, Worcester County, this State, June 8, 1832, son of Jedu- than, Jr., and Lydia K. (Osborne) Warren. He is a representative of the eighth generation of the family founded by Arthur Warren, who was an inhabitant of Weymouth, Mass., before 1638. From Arthur' the line of descent was continued through Jacob2, Deacon Joseph, 3 Joseph,4 Captain Joseph,5 of Chelmsford, Jed- uthan, 6 Jeduthan,7 Jr., to Henry8 Warren.
Arthur Warren was a landowner in Wey- mouth in 1651. He and his wife Mary had five children, namely : Arthur, Jr., b. 1639; Abigail, 1640; Jacob, October 26, 1642; Joseph ; and Fearnot, b. 1655, the first three, it is said, b. in Boston. In 1663 his widow had a lot at Weymouth. The children settled in Chelmsford. In 1668 they sold land in Weymouth to Samuel Pratt. Jacob,2 the third son, removed to Chelmsford in 1666, was made freeman in 1674. He m. in 1667 Mary Hildreth, by whom he had three children : Jo- seph, b. 1670; Elizabeth, 1674; and Ephraim, 1680. By a second wife, Sarah, he had a daughter Sarah. Jacob Warren d. at Plain- field, Conn., in 1727. Joseph, 3 his eldest
son, m. March 1I, 1696, Ruth Wheeler, and had seven children - Elizabeth, Joseph, Jacob, Thomas, Ephraim, Ruth, John - the eldest b. December, 1696, the youngest July, 1714. Joseph, 4 b. at Chelmsford, April 5, 1699, d. September 30, 1769. He m. at Chelmsford, July 18, 1721-2, Tabitha Parker, daughter of Benjamin and Sarah (Howard) Parker.
Captain Joseph5 Warren, b. at Chelmsford, August 24, 1729, d. at Chelmsford, March 17, I.792. He m., first, at Chelmsford, April 15, 1752, Joanna Fletcher, daughter of Josiah and Joanna (Spaulding) Fletcher; second, February 23, 1769, Sarah Osgood, daughter of Joseph and Sarah Osgood, of Billerica.
Jeduthan6 Warren, b. November 24, 1756, was a soldier in the Revolutionary War. The records at the State House show that he was at Ticonderoga as one of Captain John Ford's company in October, 1776, and in the service again in 1777; engaged September 30; dis- charged November 8, 1777, Captain John Ford's company, Colonel Jonathan Reed's regiment, which marched to reinforce the Northern army. About 1778 he m. Joanna Moors, of Chelmsford, and shortly afterwards settled in Westminster, Mass., on lands bought by his father in 1765. Here he carried on farming and blacksmithing for many years. He d. October 28, 1841, aged eighty-four years. Joanna Moors was a grand-daughter of Lieutenant Joseph Moors, of Chelmsford, and a descendant of John Thorndike, son of Francis Thorndike, of the Manor of Little Carleton, Lincolnshire, England, who emigrated to America with Winthrop, was one of the found- ers of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, and who d. in London in 1668 and was buried in the cloister of Westminster Abbey. Jeduthan7 Warren, Jr., b. March 5, 1788, d. May 7, 1860. Following in the footsteps of his father, he lived at the homestead and worked as a farmer and blacksmith during his active life. He m. April 22, 1819, Lydia Kimball Osborne, who was b. in Fitchburg, Mass., February 19, 1790, daughter of John Osborne and his wife Hepzibeth Thurston, and d. No- vember 17, 1833. They had five children - Joseph, Leander, Adeline, Micaiah, and Henry.
Henry8 Warren acquired his elementary edu-
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cation in the district schools of Westminster, afterwards attending the academies at Bakers- field, Saxton's River, and Barre, in Vermont. After leaving school he spent ten years in Ashburnham, Mass., with C. & C. G. Win- chester, general merchants and chair manu- facturers. Coming to Boston in 1859, he began his business life in this city as sales- man for Burrage Brothers & Co., with whom he was subsequently in partnership from 1865 until 1871. In the latter year he became a member of the firm of Smith, Stebbins & Co., which in 1877 became Stebbins, Grout & Co., and in 1879, through change of membership, became Grout, Warren & Blanchard. In 1888, after the death of Mr. Grout, the firm assumed its present name of Warren & Blanchard.
Mr. Warren married May 27, 1869, Ade- laide Louise Ellis, daughter of Rowland and Eliza Ann (Coburn) Ellis. Her father was a merchant in Boston. Mr. and Mrs. Warren have had two children : Henry Ellis Warren, born May 21, 1872, who was graduated from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology with the class of 1894, and is now an electrical engineer in Saginaw, Mich .; and Louise Osborne, born January 10, 1874, who died Janu- ary 11, 1884. Mr. Warren is a member of the Newton Centre Unitarian Church, and has been one of its trustees. Politically a stanch Republican, he cast his first Presidential ballot for Abraham Lincoln.
A LLEN BLANEY BREED, late of Lynn, baker and liveryman, was born at Lynn, June 8, 1823. He was a son of Andrews Blaney and Abigail Ann (Allen) Breed, and a descendant through Andrews B.,7 Nehemiah,6 Allen, 5 Allen, 4 Joseph, 3 and Allen2 of Allen Bread or Breed, who is mentioned in Lewis's History as one of the persons who "appear to have arrived " at Lynn in 1630, having come from England in one of the vessels of Winthrop's fleet.
Born in England in 1601, Allen Breed came to America with his wife Mary and two sons - Allen2 and Timothy. In 1638 he received a grant of two hundred acres of land in the part of Lynn now known as "Breed's End." The
name of Breed is diversely spelled in the rec- ords of Lynn; thus we find Bread, Breade, and Bred, while in the record of a grant of land to the immigrant in 1640 it is "Breed." In 1640 about forty families, Allen Breed being one of the company, left Lynn in the vessel of Captain Daniel Howe, and on arriv- ing at the western part of Long Island bought land of the agent of Lord Sterling, but, having disputes with the Dutch governor, they with- drew to the eastern part of the island, and there established a town and named it South- ampton. Later, Allen Breed returned to Lynn, where in 1656 he took for his second wife Eliza- beth, daughter of William Knight, who had settled in Lynn in 1630. Allen2 and his wife Mary had six children - Joseph, 3 Allen, John, Mary, Elizabeth, and Samuel. Joseph, 3 b. in Lynn, February 12, 1658, eldest son of Allen, 2 d. November 25, 1713. He m. September 27, 1683, Sarah Farrington. Their eleventh and youngest child was Allen, 4 b. March 16, 1707. He m. Hulda Newhall, their intentions being published June 2, 1728. This Allen was a carpenter by trade. Allen5 was b. April 19, 1744, the seventh of nine children. He was m. March 4, 1766, to Abigail Lindsay. Ne- hemiah,6 b. March 24, 1767, d. February 24, 1853, at the age of eighty-six. He was m. June 13, 1793, to Abigail Blaney, thought to have been a daughter of Benjamin Blaney, of Lynn. Her father, it is said, we know not on what authority, was son of John3 and Abigail (Phipps) Blaney, who were m. in Boston by the Rev. William Welsted, April 22, 1742. (Twenty-eighth Report of Record Commis- sioners, page 236.) John3 was son of John2 and Katherine (Phipps) Blaney, and grandson of John' and Sarah (Powell) Blaney. (Wy- man's "Charlestown," vol. I.) Andrews Blaney7 Breed, son of Nehemiah6 and Abigail (Blaney) Breed, was b. July 27, 1799, d. in 1883. He was m. October 3, 1821, to Abi- gail Allen, of Marblehead.
Allen Blaney8 Breed, son of Andrews Blaney7 and Abigail Ann (Allen) Breed, was educated in the Lynn public schools, and at the age of seventeen entered the service of William Hadley, a baker of that town, by whom he was first employed as a driver. Active, industri-
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ous, and ambitious, he gained a good knowl- edge of the business, finally becoming the owner thereof, carrying it on successfully for about a quarter of a century. During a part of that time he was associated with William L. Sellman in conducting a livery stable. In 1870 he built a large stable on Warren Street, and thenceforward devoted his attention almost exclusively to the livery business up to the time of his death, in 1883. Thoroughly up- right in his commercial transactions, and in private life noted for his affability and benevo- lence, Mr. Breed was deservedly popular with all classes of his fellow-citizens. He was an honorary member of the Young Men's Chris- tian Association and a member of the Bay State Lodge, I. O. O. F., of Lynn.
On June 8, 1849, Mr. Breed was married to Mary Elizabeth, daughter of Jonathan and Lydia (Wellman) Osborne, of Peabody (then South Danvers). Jonathan Osborne was b. at Epping, N. H., May 22, 1777, the home of his parents being in Peabody. He was a farmer, and resided on the farm owned by his father, John Osborne, and his grandfather Osborne, who was a member of the Society of Friends at Salem. He m. Lydia Wellman, and had thir- teen children, nine of whom were m. and lived to be over seventy-five years of age. They were: Ezekiel Wellman, Philip Leach, Nancy Reed, Esther, Stephen, Jonathan Edwards, Lydia, Mary Elizabeth, Emaline, Esther (sec- ond), Lydia (second), Mary Elizabeth (second), and Philip Leach (second). Ezekiel Wellman m. Abigail Buxton, of Weare, N. H. His children were: Frank, Alice Buxton, Wallace, and Wellman.
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