Genealogy and history of representative citizens of the commonwealth of Massachusetts, Part 85

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

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Philip Leach m. Elizabeth Frye, of Salem, Mass., and his children were : Elizabeth, Lydia Wellman, and Mary Frye. Stephen Osborne m. Elizabeth McIntyre, of Peabody, and had one child, a son. Esther m. Joseph G. Shedd, of Peabody, and had Matilda, Helen, and Emma. Lydia m. Henry A. Potter, of Marblehead, and had children as follows : Lydia Anna, Augusta, Morris, Mary Esther, Edward Porter, Emeline, Jonathan Osborne, George Henry, Stephen Franklin, William Bailey, Philip, a son unnamed who died young, and Caroline Elizabeth. Mary Elizabeth (second) m. Allen Blaney Breed,

and her children were: Elizabeth Frances, Mary Abbie, Lydia Maria, and Evelyn Au- gusta. Emeline m. Henry Wilson, of Peabody, and had Ettie and Emma Wilson. Nancy m. George Cook Buxton, and had eight children - George, Hannah, George (second), Eliza D., Philip, Jonathan, Philip (second), and John. Jonathan Edwards Osborne m. Caroline Matilda Robinson, and had Allen Breed and Caroline.

Allen B. and Mary E. (Osborne) Breed had four children, namely: Elizabeth Frances; Mary Abbie (died young) ; Lydia Maria (died young) ; and Evelyn Augusta. Elizabeth Frances, the eldest of these, born in 1850, married Charles Emery Robinson, of Lynn, and has two children : Mary Evelyn, who graduated from - the Children's Hospital, Boston, as a trained nurse, September, 1900; and Martha Florence, a graduate of the Lynn High School. Evelyn Augusta, the youngest child, married Fred. W. Putney, resides in Lynn, and has one son - Luther Roy Putney, born June 10, 1890.

B ENJAMIN FRANKLIN SPINNEY, senior member of the firm of B. F. Spinney & Co., shoe manufacturers, of Boston, Mass., and Norway, Me., and president of the National Security Bank of Lynn, is a native of Taunton, Bristol County, this State. He was born September I, 1832, son of Benjamin, Jr., and Mary B. (Seaver) Spinney. His paternal grandparents were Benjamin, Sr., and Martha (Newhall) Spinney, the former a native of Marblehead, the latter of Lynn. The elder Benjamin was a son of John Spinney, of Marblehead, and his wife Grace, of whom nothing more is known by the present writer. Probably the earliest of this surname on record in New England was Thomas Spinney, mentioned in Savage's Genealogical Dictionary as at Kittery, Me., in 1652, Constable in 1656, d. in 1701.

The records of Kittery show that Samuel Spinney (probably son of Thomas) and Eliza- beth Knight were m. September 26, 1687, and that eight sons were b. to them; namely, Samuel, Jr., John, Thomas, James, Nathan, Jeremiah, David, and Jonathan. Other births

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recorded at Kittery are of Nicholas, son of James and Mary, 1719; Reuben, son of An- drew, 1727-8; and among the marriage inten- tions recorded in 1731 are : Samuel Spinney and Mary Rice, both of Kittery; Thomas Spin- ney and Tamson Ham; and David Spinney and Jerusha Cole. In the absence of evidence to the contrary, we infer that Benjamin Spin- ney, Sr., above named, and others of this sur- name long on record in Essex County - for example, Rebecca, of Marblehead, who m. Samuel Upton, and removed to New Brunswick about 1763, and Robert, whose marriage to Jane Newhall took place, as recorded at Lynn- field, February 26, 1797, and his death at the age of forty-three, in 1811 - were descendants of the early Spinneys of Kittery, Me. The Newhall family, to which Martha, wife of Benjamin Spinney, Sr., belonged, is one of the oldest in Lynn. Its founders were Thomas and Anthony Newhall, brothers, who probably settled at Lynn about the year 1630. Benja- min and Martha N. Spinney had a large fam- ily of children. Two sons, William and John, who were engaged in the sale of boots and shoes at Taunton, removed to Lynn early in the forties of last century, and became shoe manufacturers.

Benjamin Spinney, son of Benjamin, Sr., and Martha, was b. in Lynn in 1805, and he d. there October 23, 1888. The greater part of his active life, however, was spent in Taun- ton, where he was brought up and was educated in the public schools, his parents having re- moved to that town when he was a boy. He learned the trade of shoemaking after leaving school, but instead of continuing to work at the bench he established himself in business in Taunton as a manufacturer and dealer in shoes. He continued thus engaged for many years, having a good retail trade. Returned to Lynn, and lived with his son, Benjamin F., the subject of this sketch. He was a promi- nent member of the Universalist Church in Taunton, and he held for some time the town office of Assessor. His wife, Mary B. Seaver, of Taunton, d. in 1882. She was a daughter of Nathan6 and Rebecca (Leonard) Seaver. Her father, Nathan Seaver, was a descendant in the sixth generation of Robert Seaver, of

Roxbury, the line being: Robert, Joshua, 2 Joshua, 3 William, 4 Ebenezer, 5 Nathan6. Rob- ert Seaver came to New England in 1634, and m. at Roxbury Elizabeth Ballard. In Decem- ber, 1635, he was chosen Selectman of Rox- bury. He reared five children. One of these, a son Nathaniel, was killed by the Indians at Sudbury in April, 1686. Joshua2 Seaver, b. in 1641, m. Mary, widow of Joseph Pepper, and had ten children. Joshua, 3 b. in 1678, m. Mercy Cooke. William, 4 b. in Dorchester in 1721, m. Patience Trescott. Ebenezer, 5 b. in February, 1744-5, settled at Taunton. His first wife was Ruth Field, of Milton ; his sec- ond "a Beebe " from Newport. He had six children, Nathan being the latest b. Nathan and Rebecca (Leonard) Seaver had seven chil- dren : Rebecca d. unmarried; Ebenezer, b. in 1801; Mary m. Benjamin Spinney; Caroline m. a Smith; Nathaniel Leonard m. a Carver ; Angeline m. Samuel D. Godfrey; Nathan B. m. Caroline Williams.

Rebecca Leonard was a daughter of Colonel Nathaniel Leonard, a Revolutionary soldier, who was b. in Taunton in 1728, and d. there February 10, 1795. Benjamin and Mary B. (Seaver) Spinney had three children, of whom the first and third d. in infancy.

After completing his studies at the Taunton High School, Benjamin F. Spinney was with his father until 1859, when he came to Lynn and engaged (with his cousin, Gustavus N. Spinney) in the manufacture of ladies' shoes, the firm being B. F. & G. N. Spinney. This coparnership continued six years. The firm was then succeeded by B. F. Spinney, and later by B. F. Spinney & Co., whose factory is at Norway, Me. Mr. Spinney has been connected with various financial institutions, and is now president of the National Security Bank. In politics he is independent, but has never taken a prominent part in political cam- paigns. He is a member of the First Univer- salist Church, of Lynn.

He was married November 2, 1858, to Sarah Stetson Caswell, daughter of Samuel and Nancy (Leonard) Caswell, of Taunton. Two children have been born of this union. Frank Caswell, the surviving child, born December 14, 1864, is now engaged in the shoe business

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at Lynn, being one of the firm of Faunce & Spinney. He married Josephine L. Cady, of Cleveland, Ohio.

The Caswell family of Taunton, to which Mrs. Spinney's father probably belonged, was founded by Thomas' Caswell, whose son Ste- phen was b. there in 1649.

OLONEL OLIVER HUTCHINS MARSTON, of Stoneham, is a vet- eran of the Civil War, in which he did valiant service. A native of New Hampshire, he was born in Sandwich, De- cember 17, 1837, a son of the late Caleb Morse and Betsey Hubbard (Ambrose) Mars- ton, and a direct descendant in the eighth generation from William Marston, the pro- genitor of this branch of the family, the line of descent being thus traced : William, 1 Thomas,2 John, 3 Jonathan, 4 Elisha, 5 John, 6 Caleb M.,7 Oliver H. 8

William1 Marston was b. in England, proba- bly in Yorkshire, about 1592. Emigrating to Salem, Mass., with his family in 1634, he resided there three years, then located at New- bury, Mass., where he lived until October, 1638. Then, in company with fifty-five other householders, he settled in Winnecumet, N. H., afterward called Hampton, where he received a grant of land, on which he lived until his death, June 30, 1672. His first wife d. in Hampton in 1660, and he m., second, in 1662, Sabina Page. Thomas2 Marston, the eldest son of his parents, was b. in England in 1617. Coming to America with his parents, he lived with them in Salem, then in New- bury, finally settling in Hampton, N. H., in 1638. In 1647 he m. Mary Estow, daughter of William Estow, Esq. He d. September 28, 1690. John3 Marston, b. at Hampton in October, 1650, d. there in 1698-9. In De- cember, 1677, he m. Mary Ann Wall, daughter of James and Mary Wall. Jonathan4 Marston, a lifelong resident of Hampton, was b. August 27, 1678, and d. in 1769. His marriage with Abigail Smith was contracted about the year 1714. Elisha5 Marston, b. in Hampton, N. H., October 29, 1721, was engaged in agricultural pursuits during his active life, living there

until his death, June 1, 1762. He m. in 1744 Mary Drake, daughter of Abraham Drake. John6 Marston was b. at Hampton, January 17, 1757. He was a farmer and miller by occupa- tion, and served in a New Hampshire regiment in the Revolutionary War. He subsequently settled at Moultonboro, and in 1811 removed to Sandwich, N. H., where his death occurred November 9, 1846. He m. Nancy A. Moul- ton, April 24, 1784, who was b. in 1763, a daughter of General Jonathan Moulton. Thir- teen children were b. of their union; namely, Abigail, John, Jonathan, Nancy, Jacob, Mary, Josiah, George Fifield, Mary, Elisha, Caleb M., Moulton H., and Lucy Hubbard.

Caleb Morse7 Marston, b. at Moultonboro, N. H., July 3, 1803, d. September 9, 1897. He learned the trade of a tanner and currier in his early life. Afterward he was engaged in farming at Sandwich, N. H. Active in public affairs, he represented his town at the General Court for two years. He was a member of the Free Will Baptist church. He m. Betsey Hubbard Ambrose, a daughter of Samuel and Lucy (Lee) Ambrose. She was b. in 1805, and d. in 1876, leaving three children, namely : Lucy Ann; John Ambrose; and Oliver Hutch- ins, the special subject of this sketch. Lucy Ann Marston was b. September 27, 1827, and d. in 1899. She m., first, Abijah W. Bryant, of Stoneham, who d. in 1854. Her second marriage was with Moses L. Morse, by whom she had one child - Warren Morse, b. July 9, 1860. John A. Marston, b. in 1829, is a prosperous farmer of Sandwich, N. H., where he is also engaged in the manufacture of plant baskets. He is a Deacon in the Free Will Baptist church. He m., first, Ellen Leathe, of Reading, Mass., who d., leaving one son - James Leathe, b. November 9, 1861. He m., second, Livonia O. Cotton, and after her death m. for his third wife Celestia M. Marston.

Colonel Oliver H.8 Marston obtained his early education in the common schools of Sand- wich. . Afterwards he attended the high school at Stoneham, which he entered in 1855. He subsequently worked for a year and a half in the Stoneham shoe factories, then returned to Sandwich, where he was engaged in the manu- facture of pails for three years. At the break-

O. H. MARSTON.

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ing out of the war, in 1861, he raised the larger part of a company of volunteers in Sand- wich, and was commissioned Captain of the company which was assigned to the Fourteenth New Hampshire Volunteer Infantry. He was first sent to Poolsville, Md., thence to Wash- ington, D.C. At the end of nine months he was ordered to New Orleans, then up the river to Morganza, intending to join General Banks, but failed on account of delay. He was taken sick, and his regiment went to the Shenandoah Valley to join General Sheridan. Captain Marston recovered sufficiently to rejoin his men in September, and actively participated in the memorable battle at Cedar Creek, when Sheri- dan made his famous ride. Twenty minutes after the commencement of that fierce contest, Captain A. T. Ripley, the officer in command of the regiment, was captured, and it fell upon Captain Marston to take charge of the men. He was wounded in the left arm early in the morning, but retained command of the regi- ment throughout the battle, his wound not being dressed for twelve hours after he was shot. At the end of three months, while they were at Savannah, Ga., he was relieved of his command by Major Tolman. . Very soon after he was commissioned Lieutenant-Colonel, and again placed in command. The force to which he now belonged marched from Savannah to Augusta, Ga., where upon the morning of their arrival the regiment commanded by Colonel Marston was detailed to escort Jefferson Davis (who had just been brought into the city after his capture) from the railway station to the steamboat, by which he and several of his cabinet officers, including Alexander H. Stevens, was taken to Savannah. Colonel Marston's regiment soon marched to Savannah, where a boat was taken to Hilton Head, thence to Boston, and from there to Concord, N. H., where the men were mustered out of ser- vice in July, 1865.

From 1865 until 1869 Colonel Marston was the proprietor of a general store in Sandwich. Coming then to Stoneham, he engaged in business as a sewing-machine agent and a dealer in picture frames, continuing the latter industry until 1896. He was first located on the second floor of the Whittier Building,

afterward occupying a part of the hardware store of his father-in-law, Hazen Whitcher, re- moving with him in 1876 to the Dow Building. In 1888 Mr. Whitcher retired from business, and Colonel Marston conducted the hardware business in connection with his own until re- tiring in 1896. He is the inventor and sole owner of a machine for folding papers to be used for powders, largely used in laboratories and by druggists and physicians, and also a companion machine for measuring medicinal or other powders. The Colonel has been quite prominent in local affairs, serving as a member of the School Committee for three years, as Chief of Police for two years, and as Parish Assessor for twenty-five years. He is actively identified with various fraternal organizations, being a charter member and the first W. M. of King Cyrus Lodge, F. & A. M., of Stoneham ; is Past Dictator of Stoneham Lodge, K. of H. ; is a member and Past Commander of Stoneham A. L. of H. ; and a member of the J. P. Gould Post, No. 75, G. A. R.

Colonel Marston was married July 1, 1862, in Reading, Mass., to Sarah Richardson Whitcher, daughter of Hazen and Sally (Tyler) Whitcher, of Stoneham. The Colonel and Mrs. Marston have one child -- Mary Will- iamine, born 1863, who married Arthur L. Souther, a druggist in Boston. Mr. and Mrs. Souther have two children: Oliver, born in 1890; and Harold, born in 1893, each of whom are attending the public school of Stone- ham. In religion Colonel Marston is a Con- gregationalist, and in politics he is a Re- publican.

ON. FREDERICK OCTAVIUS PRINCE, who died in Boston, June 6, 1899, was four years Mayor of the city, eleven years president of the Board of Trustees of the Public Library of Boston, and for nearly forty years a leader of the Democratic party, conspicuously active and influential in national conventions. He was born in Boston, January 18, 1818, son of Thomas Ivers and Caroline (Prince) Prince. His father was a son of Captain Thomas and

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Rebecca (Cutler) Prince, and his mother was the daughter of James and Agnes (Gordon) Prince. His grandfathers, James Prince and Captain Thomas Prince, were brothers, sons of Captain Job4 and Elizabeth (Allen) Prince. Captain Job+ was a descendant in the fourth generation of Elder John' Prince, of Hull, the line being: John,' Thomas,2 Job, 3 Job, 4 and continuing through Thomas5 to Thomas I.,6 father of Frederick O.,7 and through James5 to his mother, Caroline6.

The pedigree published in connection with "Some Memoirs of the Rev. Thomas Prince" in the New England Historical and Genealogi- cal Register, volume v., shows that this branch of the Prince family in New England is de- scended from John Prince, Sr., rector of East Shefford, Berkshire, England, who m. Eliza- beth, daughter of the Rev. Dr. Tolderbury. The immigrant was John,1 b. in 1610, the rector's eldest son, a young gentleman of lib- eral education, having studied for two or three years at Oxford, who first settled at Watertown, Mass., as early as 1633, and there m. in 1637 Alice Honor. At Hull, where he shortly became a resident, he was first Ruling Elder of the church. He had nine children. His fourth son, Samuel, was the father of the Rev. Thomas Prince of the Old South Church, Bos- ton, author of the "New England Chronology." Captain Thomas,2 b. in 1658, youngest son of Elder John Prince, d. at Barbadoes in 1704. His wife was Ruth, daughter of John and Mary (Brewster) Turner, of Scituate. Her mother was a daughter of Jonathan Brewster, and grand-daughter of Elder William' Brews- ter, of the Plymouth Colony. Job3 Prince, b. in 1695, m. Abigail, daughter of Captain Christopher3 Kimball and his wife Sarah Jolls. Their son Job, 4 b. in 1723, was a wealthy ship- master of Boston. He m. December 26, 1748, Elizabeth Allen, a great-grand-daughter of the Rev. James Allen, one of the early pastors of the First Church of Boston.

Captain Thomas5 Prince, mariner, b. Sep- tember 27, 1754, son of Job4 and Elizabeth (Allen) Prince, d. in 1790. His wife, Re- becca, who survived him, was appointed ad- ministratrix of his estate, "Samuel Parker, D. D., her brother-in-law, and her younger

brother, James Cutler, merchant," being bondsmen. Mrs. Rebecca Cutler Prince was a daughter of John3 and Mary (Clark) Cutler, of Boston, and one of a family of ten children.

Her elder brother, Benjamin Clark Cutler, was the maternal grandfather of Mrs. Julia Ward Howe; and her sister Mary the wife of Thomas Ivers, treasurer of Massachusetts, 1783-87. John3 Cutler was a grandson of Dr. John1 Cutler, of Hingham and Boston, origi- nally Johannes De Mesmaker, who came to this country from Holland, and adopted, about 1680, the English translation of his name. Thomas Ivers6 Prince, who m. his cousin Caro- line, d. in 1819. James5 Prince, son of Job4 and father of Caroline,6 was b. in Boston in 1758; was one of the leading merchants of Boston in his day; was appointed by President Jefferson naval officer of the port of Boston, and later he was United States Marshal for the district of Massachusetts. He m. Agnes, daughter of William and Temperance (Grant) Gordon. Dying in 1821, he was survived by his wife Agnes and two children - William Gordon, and Caroline, then the widow of Thomas Ivers Prince.

The early home of Frederick O. Prince was on Chambers Street, Boston. He was edu- cated at the Boston Latin School and at Har- vard College, where he received his Bachelor's degree in 1836, at the age of eighteen. So- cially a great favorite as well as a man of parts, he was chosen class poet and secretary. He began the study of law in the office of Frank- lin Dexter and William H. Gardiner, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1840. Becom- ing a resident of Winchester after his mar- riage, he was elected Representative from that town to the General Court, and served three years - 1852, 1853, and 1854. Joining the Democratic ranks after the breaking up of the Whig party in 1860, he was sent as a delegate to the Democratic National Convention at Charleston, S.C., and was unanimously chosen secretary of the convention. As secretary, by successive re-elections, he organized every Democratic National Convention held from that time till and including 1888, when he resigned and received a vote of thanks for his "unflagging zeal and distinguished ability."

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Needless to say, he exerted a strong influence in the counsels of the party.

The period of his Mayoralty of Boston wit- nessed the inauguration of the public park sys- tem, of which he has justly been styled the father, the development of the improved sewerage system, and the erection of the High and Latin School Building. A liberal helper of the cause of education, a generous advocate of the advancement of learning, as a trustee of the Public Library and for a long period presi- dent of the board, he did much to forward the movement that resulted in giving to the city its beautiful library building in Copley Square, a building which is "at once a monument to the liberality and taste of the city of Boston and to the intelligence and public spirit of those who had immediate charge of its erec- tion." In 1885 Mr. Prince received the full Democratic vote of the State for Governor, failing, however, of election. In 1896 he accepted the nomination for the same office of the gold Democrats, having identified himself with that party after the nomination of Mr. Bryan at Chicago. Mr. Prince was a pleasing public speaker. His addresses at the unveil- ing of the statute of Lincoln in Park Square, at the dedication of the Soldiers' Monument on the Common, at the laying of the corner- stone of the new Public Library Building - not to mention others scarcely less notable - were such as befitted the several occasions and were highly commended by the press and the general public.

The death of Mr. Prince, at the age of eighty-one years, about a month after he re- signed his office of president of the Board of Trustees of the Public Library, called forth many public and private expressions of appre- ciation of his character and personal worth. Mayor Quincy, in announcing the event in a message to the City Council, said of him : "The public career of Mr. Prince, his identifi- cation with our civic affairs, and his keen interest as a citizen in everthing that affected the welfare and development of the city of his birth is well known to all. His services to the Public Library, with which the later years of his life were so closely identified, will long be gratefully remembered. By his death Bos-

ton has lost one of its most distinguished and public-spirited citizens, and I am sure that the City Council will desire to pay every mark of respect to his memory." The resolutions of regret which followed were not more formal than heartfelt.

Mr. Prince was married in 1848 to Miss Helen Henry, of Philadelphia, daughter of Mr. Bernard Henry, some time United States Con- sul at Gibraltar. She died in 1885, and in 1889 Mr. Prince married Mrs. Blanc, widow of Samuel P. Blanc, of New Orleans. The children of Mr. Prince are: Gordon, who is a business man of Boston; Charles Albert, who was graduated at Harvard College in the class of 1873; Morton, who is now a practising phy- sician in Boston; Helen S., who d. in 1880; and Frederick Henry, a banker of Boston.

ILLIAM FRANCIS HUMPHREY, of Boston, was born in Dorchester July 28, 1839, son of Captain Micah and Celia (Marsh) Humphrey. His father was b. in Cohasset in 1791, being the third of the eleven children of Jonathan6 and Rebecca (Vinal) Humphrey, of Hingham. He is thought to have been of the seventh generation of his family in New England, thus : John, 1 Thomas,2 George, 3 Thomas,4 Micah, 5 Jona- than,6 Micah7. The History of Hingham, volume ii., Genealogical, states that Thomas2 Humphrey ("probably son of John' and Susan, who came over in 1634") is believed to have been the person of that name, an adult, bap- tized in Hingham by the Rev. Peter Hobart July 19, 1660. He m. in Hingham in 1665 Hannah, daughter of George2 Lane (William1). It is supposed that he was the Thomas Hum- phrey who later resided at Pemaquid. George3 Humphrey, son of Thomas,2 d. at Hingham in 1732 in his sixty-eighth year, survived by his wife Elizabeth, four sons (one of whom was Thomas4), and two daughters. Thomas, 4 by his second wife, Anna Lambert, was the father of Micah,5 baptized 1741, who m. Elizabeth Davis. Their only son was Jonathan,6 above mentioned, b. Hingham 1764, who m. Re- becca Vinal, and resided at North Cohasset.

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father of William Francis, was a shipmaster, sailing out of Boston. He m. at Hingham, April 20, 1820, Celia French Marsh, daughter of Lot6 Marsh (John, 5 Thomas, 4-3-2 George1), and his second wife, Lydia French, all of Hingham. Some years after marriage Captain Micah7 Humphrey removed with his wife, and the children b. to them in Hingham, to Dor- chester. He d. in 1858. George™ Marsh, founder of the Hingham, Mass., family of this name, came from Norfolk County, England, and settled with the Rev. Peter Hobart and others at Hingham, Mass., 1635. His son Thomas,2 next in the ancestral line of Lot6 Marsh, m. Sarah Beal, daughter of John' Beal and his first wife, Nazareth Hobart, daughter of Edmund Hobart and sister of the Rev. Peter Hobart. (For other ancestors see His- tory of Hingham, 1893.)

William F. Humphrey was educated in the Dorchester public schools. His preparation for college was terminated by the financial crisis of 1857, when he entered business life in the employment of the Boston and Sandwich Glass Company. After six months, his health failing, he made a winter voyage on one of his father's ships to the West Indies; and, return- ing the following spring, he entered the office of A. A. Fraser & Co. on State Street. A few months later a return of ill health necessitated another voyage to the West Indies. Thriving at sea, he determined to follow it as an occupa- tion. Rising rapidly in rank he became cap- tain of the ship "Dolphin" in 1861. One of his earliest voyages was to Christinestadt, in Northern Russia, with the first cargo of cotton that ever entered that port. After making several voyages to Europe and South America, Captain Humphrey purchased in 1865, in con- nection with James Sturgis and James O. Curtis, the builder, an interest in the ship "Horatio Harris" (then building in Medford) ; and on her completion he took command, sail- ing first to San Francisco, and thence to Bo- livia for a cargo of guano, which he discharged in Edinburgh. From the latter port he came home with restored health, and retired from the seas. His next venture was in manufact- uring in Lewiston, Me., in which he continued for about two years. In 1872 he returned to

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Genealogy and history of representative citizens of the commonwealth of Massachusetts, Part 85

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