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scended from the old settlers of that name in Rowley, Mass. She survived him, dying Oc- tober 7, 1886. Of their seven children, two d. in infancy, and, as already stated, Ellen M. became the wife of Rufus Augustus& Johnson.
Benjamin Newhall9 Johnson was educated in the public schools of Saugus, at Chauncy Hall School, Boston, at the Phillips Exeter Acad- emy, at Harvard University, from which he was graduated with the class of 1878, and at the Boston Law School. On being admitted to the bar in 1880, he began the practice of his profession in Boston, where he is a well-known member of the legal fraternity. He has served as a member of the Lynn School Board three years; and, as president of the Lynn Historical Society, he delivered the address at the fiftieth anniversary of the incorporation of the city.
On June 15, 1881, Mr. Johnson married Ida Moore Oliver, of Saugus, daughter of Henry Newhall and Sarah (Lewis) Oliver. She died May 27, 1894, leaving two children, namely : Romilly, born May 6, 1883; and Marian, born May 22, 1886. On June 18, 1896, Mr. John- son married Virginia Vernon Newhall, of Lynn, a daughter of Timothy Alley and Sarah (Stacey) Newhall. Mr. and Mrs. Johnson have had one child - Virginia, born August 2, 1897, who died March 12, 1898.
APTAIN THOMAS AUGUSTUS ROWE, railway builder and contractor for public works, of Boston, and a resident of Newton Centre, Mass., was born at Palermo, Me., January 13, 1842, son of Rufus and Sally (Marden) Rowe. His grandparents were Levi and Lucy (Nelson) Rowe; and he is in all probability a descend- ant of John Rowe, an early settler in Glouces- ter, 1651, although a diligent search of all available records has failed to trace an unbroken line of descent. It seems to be sufficiently attested, however, by documentary and other evidence, that his great-grandfather on the pa- ternal side was James Rowe, of Ipswich, Mass., Raymond, N. H., and Pownalborough, Me.
On April 22, 1783, James Rowe, formerly of Ipswich, Mass., but then of Raymond, N. H., bought of Benjamin Page one hundred
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and forty acres of land in the eastern part of Ballston (now Jefferson), Lincoln County, Me., paying one hundred and twenty-five pounds lawful money. This land he sold in 1785; and on April 3, that year, he bought of Isaac Prince for two hundred pounds land in the North Parish of Pownalborough (now Alna), where he settled. Both deeds recorded August 28, 1792. The following intentions of marriage, evidently of his children, are also on record: John Rowe, published to Rebecca Preble, October 9, 1785; Elizabeth Rowe to Levi Leighton, October 15, 1785; Levi Rowe to Lucy Nelson, July 4, 1789; Sarah Rowe to Samuel Nelson, November 18, 1796. On July 11, 1793, James Rowe was published to Mary Nelson, probably his second wife; and on the thirtieth of the same month and year he conveyed to Levi Rowe, in consid- eration of eighty pounds, forty acres of land, being the north-eastern half of the farm on which he then lived, reserving to himself the barn and one acre around the barn.
Levi Rowe was b. in Ipswich, Mass., Au- gust 1, 1765. He was m. by the Rev. Jona- than Ward, of Pownalborough, to Lucy Nel- son, who was b. in Ipswich, Mass., September 7, 1766. Her father, John Nelson, Sr., of Ipswich, settled in Pownalborough in 1768. He was a lineal descendant of Thomas Nelson from Yorkshire, England, who was one of the earliest settlers of Rowley, Essex County, Mass , freeman May 23, 1639, and Deputy to General Court 1640 and 1641. Two sons of Thomas Nelson by his first wife, both b. in England, settled at Rowley. They were : Captain Philip2 (Harvard College 1654), m., first, Sarah Jewett, and, second, Elizabeth Lowell; and Thomas,2 who m. Ann Lambert. Joseph3 Nelson, b. 1682, son of Captain Philip by his second wife, m. Hannah Brocklebank. David, 4 b. 1717, son of Joseph3 and Hannah, lived in Ipswich, and by his wife Hannah had a son John, b. August 15, 1742, possibly the father of Lucy, as at the time of her marriage he might have had a son John, Jr.
In 1801 the name of Levi Rowe appeared with others on the petition for the incorpora- tion of the town of Palermo, Me., he having removed thither from Alna, where six of his
seven children were b. A miller by trade, he cleared a farm and built a grist-mill (probably a saw-mill first) in the north-eastern part of Palermo. The property was afterward trans- ferred to a Mr. Chism (Chisholm), and thence- forth known as "Chism's mills." Levi Rowe spent his declining years on the farm where his grandson, Rufus Rowe, now lives. His children were: Jeremiah, b. August 17, 1789, d. aged four months; James, b. February 20, 1791; Levi, Jr. ; Rufus, b. May 15, 1796; Annie; Jeremiah, second, b. June 25, 1799; and Mary E., b. September 29, 1806.
Rufus Rowe lived at Alna till he had at- tained to manhood. When but a youth he served in the War of 1812. He m., first, Lydia Noyes, of Jefferson, Me., and after her death m. for his second wife a widow, Mrs. Sally Cunningham. She was a daughter of James Marden, and descended through Ebene- zer, George, and James, from James Marden, b. in Newcastle, N. H., who m. October 23, 1695, Abigail Webster, of Haverhill, Mass., daughter of Stephen2 Webster (John,1 of Ip- swich) and his first wife, Hannah Ayer. (Hoyt's Salisbury and Amesbury.) John1 Webster, the father of Stephen, was b. in Ipswich, England, about the year 1600; m. Mary Shatswell, and, coming to America, settled at Ipswich, Mass., in 1635. He d. in 1646. Stephen2 Webster, second child of John and Mary, b. at Ipswich, Mass., in 1637, set- tled in Haverhill in 1660; m. Hannah Ayer, March 24, 1663; d. at Haverhill, August 10, 1694.
Ebenezer2 Marden, b. in Newcastle, m. Eliz- abeth Berry ; and a son of this marriage, George3 Marden, b. at Rye, N. H., January 29, 1741, m. Sarah Webster. He d. February 22, 1826, and she d. September 27, 1835. She was a descendant in the fourth generation of Thomas' Webster, b. in Ormsby, England, November 20, 1631, who came to America with his mother in 1635. He was a son of Thomas and Margery Webster, of Ormsby, the former of whom, b. about 1600, d. in Ormsby, April 30, 1634. Thomas Webster, the immigrant above mentioned, m. Sarah Brewer, and set- tled in Hampton, N. H. He d. January 5,
1715.
He was followed in the line of descent
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under present consideration by John,2 his seventh child, who was b. in Hampton, Febru- ary 16, 1674, and who m. Abiah Shaw, and settled in Rye, N. H. Josiah3 Webster, third child of John2 and Abiah, was b. at Rye in April, 1706. He m. Martha Goss, and d. in March, 1764. Sarah4 Webster, fourth child of her parents, b. April 12, 1745, m. George Marden, of Rye, as already stated.
James4 Marden, b. at Chester, N. H., 1769, settled in Palermo, Me. He m. Sarah Bur- bank, July 14, 1791. He d. October 23, 1850, and his wife on April 11, 1860. Their daugh- ter Sally5 m., first, a Mr. Cunningham, and, second, Rufus Rowe. The children of Rufus and Sally (Marden) Rowe were as follows : George M., b. April 4, 1831, who d. May 18, 1901; Rufus, b. April 15, 1833; Sarah F., b. March 3, 1835, who d. June 28, 1835; Amanda P., b. Sept. 24, 1836, who d. April 3, 1851; Eliza F., b. January 10, 1839; and Thomas A., born January 13, 1842.
Thomas A. Rowe, son of Rufus and Sally (Marden) Rowe, was educated in the public schools of Palermo, Me. In early manhood he adopted a seafaring life and made voyages to European ports. He was in the port of New Orleans at the time the first gun was fired upon Fort Sumter. After making one more voyage to Liverpool, he enlisted, on his return, in the Twenty-sixth Maine Infantry, in which he served until his regiment was discharged. On the termination of his military service he again went to sea and continued as a mariner for some years, advancing through the different grades of the merchant service until he had reached that of master. In 1871 he located in Boston, and engaged in the work of railroad construction, in which pursuit he has been notably successful. Mr. Rowe is a thirty- second degree Mason, belonging to Central Lodge, A. F. & A. M., of China, Me .; Dunlap Chapter, R. A. M., of China, Me. ; Gethsemane Commandery, K. T., of Newtonville, Mass. ; the Massachusetts Consistory; to Aleppo Temple, M. S. ; and Charles Ward Post, No. 62, G. A. R., of Newtonville.
Mr. Rowe's first wife, Lydia Arnold, died in 1874, leaving a daughter, six years old, named Grace Louise, who died November 16,
1888, at the age of twenty years. Mr. Rowe married, second, Alice, daughter of Hinchman and Mary (Alexander) Sylvester, and a descend- ant of Richard' Sylvester, the immigrant. They have two children - Isaac S., born No- vember 28, 1886; and Harold F., born July 20, 1889.
The surname Sylvester occurs early in Eng- lish records. Thus in the Hundred Rolls are found "Robert fil Silvestre, Co. Camb, 1273; and 1642, baptism of John, son of Walter Sil- vester, St. James, Clerkenwell, I., 151.'' (Bardsley's "Dictionary of English and Welsh Surnames.") Richard' Sylvester was in Wey- mouth in 1633, and in Scituate in 1642. He m. Naomi Torrey about 1632, and d. in Scitu- ate in 1663. Joseph,2 b. at Scituate in 1638, the third son of Richard Sylvester, was a Captain in Colonel Benjamin Church's regi- ment of famous Indian fighters, and partici- pated in the Eastern expedition in 1689; and was Captain of a company of sixteen men in Phipps's expedition to Canada in 1690. He d. while in active service, and his verbal will was proved in the courts by three of his soldiers. The General Court granted to him and his com- pany a tract of land intended to be in Maine ; but when the boundary line was run, it was found to lie in New Hampshire, and a tract located in Maine was accordingly granted in 1765. By his wife Mary he had seven chil- dren, the eldest b. 1664, the youngest, Amos, 3 b. November 15, 1685. Amos3 Sylvester lived in Hanover. He m. Elizabeth Hinchman, November 20, 1706. Their son William, 4 b. February 22, 1709, at Hanover, Mass., re- moved to Harpswell, Me., with his wife and four children when he was fifty-three years of age. In his diary is the following entry : "May 25, 1762, then we left Hanover and came to Hingham. That day shipped our goods on board the 'Grayhound,' Courtney Babbidge, commander, and we sailed that night about 10 o'clock. 30 we came to anchor in Casco Bay and landed our cattle. 31 we landed our goods and took possession of our house in Harpswell, Me., the last of May." This farm was afterward owned by the Rev. Elijah Kellogg. William+ Sylvester m. Mary Barstow, b. at Hanover, May 20, 1717. She
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was a daughter of Captain Joseph3 Barstow (Joseph,2 William1) and his wife Mary. Her father built the Barstow forge at Hanover. He was a son of Joseph2 and Susanna (Lincoln) Barstow, his mother daughter of Thomas' Lin- coln, the husbandman, of Hingham. Four children, the youngest of eleven - Marlboro, Huldah, Barstow, and Stephen - accompanied their parents, William and Mary Sylvester, to Harpswell, Me. Marlboro, the eldest of the four, b. in 1753, d. in 1829. Muster and Pay Rolls at the State House give a record of his services in the War of the Revolution. Thus : Marlborough Sylvester, Sergeant, in Captain Nehemiah Curtis's company, Colonel Jonathan Mitchell's regiment; enlisted July 7, 1779; discharged September 25, 1779. Roll dated Harpswell, on expedition to the Penobscot ; also Marlboro Sylvester, master mate on ship "Mars," Captain James Nivens, commander ; enlisted March 23, 1781; discharged June 12, 1781 ; also master mate sloop "Defence," Cap- tain James Nivens, July 1, 1781, to September 26, 1781.
Marlboro Sylvester m., first, Marcia Hall, by whom he had seven children; he had also a son by his second wife, who was a widow, Mrs. Smith. Captain Hinchman Sylvester (sixth son of Marlboro and Marcia), b. in Harpswell, Me., March 31, 1800, m. September 30, 1830, Mary Alexander, who was b. March 21, 1808, d. September 28, 1883, daughter of Isaac and Mary (Pennell) Alexander. They moved to Brunswick, Me., 1834. He followed the sea many years, and d. February 22, 1877, leaving seven children, namely : Hinchman Sylvester, Jr., b. March 21, 1832, d. June 21, 1877, un- married; Isaac A., b. March 15, 1834, d. June, 1887, m. in Palermo, Me., February 29, 1860, Eliza F. Rowe, daughter of Rufus and Sallie (Marden) Rowe; Mary, b. in Brunswick, April 13, 1839, m. George E. Springer, of Brunswick ; James, b. July 10, 1838, m. Julia A. Raymond, of Brunswick; Charles, b. June 6, 1844, d. March, 1886, m. Selena Maxwell, of Brook- lyn, N. Y. ; Robert G. H., b. October 28, 1847, m. Julia Ellen Scofield, of Stonington, Conn. ; and Alice Reed, b. May 25, 1850.
, David' Alexander, the pioneer, was of Scotch- Irish descent, coming to Thopsam, Me., from
Ulster, Ireland, in 1719. He was killed by an Indian, about 1722, while rescuing his son William. William2, b. in Ireland, 1706, came with his father from Ulster in 1719, m. Jennet Wilson and lived in Harpswell, Me. They had six children. David3, eldest son of William, b. in Harpswell in 1737, d. 1792, m. Anna Ewing, who was b. in 1736 and d. 1809 ; nine children. Isaac, 4 sixth child of David3, b. in Harpswell, October 10, 1774, m. Mary Pen- nell, daughter of Thomas and Rachel (Riggs) Pennell; they had ten children. Thomas Pen- nell, ancestor of Mary (Pennell) Alexander, came to Scituate, Mass., from the Isle of Jersey in 1740. They are supposed to have de- scended from a Huguenot family, who fled from France on account of religious persecution. He moved to Brunswick, Me., in 1760. He m. Rachel Riggs, and d. November 12, 1812.
OSEPH WILLIS ATTWILL, now serving his sixth year as City Clerk of Lynn, was born in that place January 18, 1864, the eldest son of Isaac Mead and Harriet E. (Sanger) Attwill.
Isaac Mead Attwill for many years has been identified with the business interests of Lynn, where he is engaged in the manufacture of shoes. In 1860 he m. Harriet Elizabeth, daughter of Joseph and Mary (Stow) Sanger, of Watertown.
Joseph Sanger, Mrs. Attwill's father, was a descendant in the seventh generation of Rich- ard Sanger, immigrant, who had lands granted to him at Hingham, Mass., in 1636 or 1637. The line of descent was: Richard, 1-2 John, 3 David, 4 Samuel, 5 Daniel,6 Joseph7. Richard2 settled first at Sudbury, whence he "removed his habitation to Watertown, 8th 9th m., anno 1649.' By his wife Mary, whose maiden name, it is said by Morse, was Rannals, he had eight children, all b. in Watertown. He d. in 1691. John, 3 his second son, b. September 6, 1657, m. 1685 Rebecca Park. His widow, with her brother, Jonathan Park, of Newton; was appointed administratrix of his estate Jan- uary, 1705. David,4 his fourth child (b. March 21, 1697, d. December 20, 1761), a blacksmith by occupation, was one of the early
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proprietors (not grantees) of Narragansett No. 2 (incorporated as the town of Westminster, Mass., 1759) ; but he retained his home at Watertown. He m. March 24, 1720, Patience Benjamin, by whom he had nine children - Patience (d. infancy), Lydia, John, David, William (d. infancy), William (second), Na- thaniel, Samuel, and Solomon.
Samuel, 5 of Watertown, b. June 1, 1736, m. Grace Harrington August 24, 1758, and had six children : Lydia and Samuel, who d. young ; Grace; Anna; Elizabeth; and Daniel,6 the youngest, b. March 12, 1773. Daniel6 San- ger m., first, 1790, Sally Jones; second, a widow Fuller; third, Emma Carter. His children were: Joseph (d. young), David (or Daniel), Sarah, Samuel, Joseph (second), Lucy, Charles D., George, Edward H., and Nathaniel. Joseph,7 b. October 30, 1803, at Watertown, m., first, Mary Stone, and, second, Mary Stow.
Rebecca, wife of John3 Sanger, was a daugh- ter of Thomas2 and Abigail (Dix) Park, and grand-daughter of Richard' Park, a proprietor of Cambridge, 1636, and about 1647 a settler at Newton, then Cambridge Village. He owned six hundred acres of land bounded north by Charles River. His wife was a daughter of Edward' Dix, freeman May 4, 1635, who was one of the earliest proprietors of Water- town. Patience Benjamin, wife of David4 Sanger, was a daughter of Daniel3 Benjamin (John, Jr.,2 John'), of Watertown. Grace Harrington, wife of Samuels Sanger, was a daughter of Edward and Anna (Bullard) Har- rington, of Watertown. Of the union of Isaac Mead Attwill and Harriet E. Sanger six chil- dren were b .; namely, Helen L., Annie L., Joseph Willis, Mary C., Jesse L., and Henry C. The three younger are unmarried. Helen L. Attwill, b. April 10, 1861, m. William S. Boyce, of Lynn, by whom she has two chil- dren - Harriet S. and Mary K. Annie L. Attwill, born September, 1862, is the wife of Frederick H. Nichols, of Lynn, and the mother of two children - Marian and Thomas. Mary C. Attwill, b. January 20, 1866, is a book-keeper in Lynn. Jesse L. Attwill, b. June 18, 1868, resides in Lynn. Henry C. Attwill, b. March 1I, 1872, is a lawyer by profession and a young man of brilliant prom-
ise. Elected at the age of twenty-three years to the State Legislature, he served in the House in 1896, 1897, and 1898, and for the past three years - 1899, 1900, and 1901 - he has been State Senator.
Joseph Willis Attwill, after receiving his education in the public schools of Lynn, as- sisted his father in the shoe manufacturing business, remaining with him until 1897. In that year he was elected City Clerk, a position that he continues to fill till the present time.
On October 30, 1889, Mr. Attwill married Effie Stella Bascom, then of Lynn, but a native of Portland, Me. She is a daughter of Isaac Kirk Bascom, who married Ellen Green, a daughter of Levi and Sophia W. (Holton) Green, and a descendant of the Green family of Charlestown, Mass. Mr. and Mrs. Attwill have two children, namely: Dorothy, born May 3, 1895; and Joseph Sanger, born June 26, 1900.
HARLES BUFFUM, a native resident of Lynn, was born June 18, 1824, son of Jonathan Buffum, Jr., and his wife Hannah Breed. Through both father and mother he is descended from early settlers of Essex County, Massachusetts.
The immigrant progenitor of the Buffum family of New England was Robert Buffum, who came from England in 1638 and settled in Salem, where his death occurred in 1669. He is buried in Harmony Grove Cemetery. He m. a widow, Mrs. Tamson Thompson. They had seven children, of whom the follow- ing is a record : Joshua m. Damarius Pope, daughter of Joseph and Gertrude Pope. Deb- orab, who was a Quaker, in a spirit of religious frenzy and fanaticism, wishing to testify against the intolerance of the Puritans, ap- peared on the streets in her night dress only, as "a testimony against the persecutions and nakedness of the Land," in their persecutions of the Quakers and so-called witches. She was arrested and, in a spirit of equal bigotry and intolerance, condemned to walk through the streets of Salem, at the tail of a cart, stripped to the waist. Her mother and sister walked with her out of sympathy. She m.
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Robert Wilson. Lydia m., first, John Hill, and, second, George Locker. Margaret m. John Smith. Sarah m. William Beane. Mary m. Jeremiah Neale. Caleb m., in 1672, Hannah Pope, daughter of Joseph Pope. They reared four sons - Caleb, Robert, Jonathan, and Benjamin. Robert Buffum's wife and children became Quakers "by convincement," he remaining independent in religious matters. His descendants were very prominent in the Society of Friends for a number of generations, many of them suffering from religious perse- cution.
Jonathan Buffum, Sr., a lifelong resident of Salem, father of Jonathan, Jr., above named, was a yeoman, and cultivated lands in North Fields. He also engaged in a tailoring busi- ness to some extent. Jonathan Buffum, Jr., b. in 1793, learned the carriage-painter's trade when a young man, and after his removal to Lynn he engaged in house painting also for a few years. The first copal varnish ever used in this country was made by him. In 1830 he embarked in the shoe business, and in 1837 was one of the largest shoe manufacturers in that section of Essex County. During the memorable panic of that year a number of the large business firms failed, but he, with the assistance of his brother-in-law, pulled through, being one of the six business men of the city that withstood the pressure. Retiring from shoe manufacturing in 1844 he returned to his trade, which he carried on successfully until 1868, when he gave up active work, thence- forward attending to his private interests until his death, a few months later. He was very prominent in organizing the anti-Masonic party.
He m. May 15, 1816, Hannah Breed, who was b. in 1797, a daughter of James and Han- nah (Alley) Breed, descendant in the seventh generation from Allen Breed, the founder of the Lynn family of this name. The following is a brief ancestral record : Allen1 Breed, b. in 1601, came from England to America in 1630, and settled in Lynn, Mass., where in 1638 he was granted two hundred acres of land. Allen2 Breed, b. in 1626, was but four years old when he accompanied his parents to America. £ Samuel3 Breed, b. in 1669, m.
Ann Hood. Jabez4 Breed, b. in 1696, m. Desire Bassett. Nathan5 Breed, b. 1726, m. in 1754 Keziah Buxton. James6 Breed, father of Hannah, was b. in 1759. His wife, Han- nah Alley, was a daughter of John and Sarah Alley, of Lynn.
Charles Buffum attended the public schools of Lynn until reaching the age of fifteen years. He then began to learn the trade of shoemak- ing, at which he worked for the next ten years, being employed for much of the time at the cutting bench. Embarking in business for himself as a shoe manufacturer at the age of twenty-four, he continued thus engaged till 1889, when he retired, being then the Nestor among the Lynn shoe manufacturers. For several years past Mr. Buffum has resided in Boston.
On November 20, 1858, he married Mary Elizabeth Nutting, daughter of William and Caroline (Newhall) Nutting. Mrs. Buffum died in September, 1892. She was the mother of one child - Walter Nutting Buffum, who is now a successful lawyer of Boston. In 1894 Walter N. Buffum married Sarah Brayton Lovejoy.
EORGE JACQUES COLLINS, a prominent hardware dealer of Lynn, was born in that city October 22, 1869, son of Alexander and Helen A. (Baker) Collins. His ancestry has been traced back for eight generations to Henry Collins, a starch-maker of London, England, b. in 1606, who sailed from that port for America on the ship "Abigail," June 13, 1635, accompanied by his wife and several children. Soon after
his arrival here, Henry Collins became active in public affairs, serving as a member of the Salem Court in 1639. His wife Ann, whom he m. in England, and whose maiden name is not known, was b. in 1605. They had a large family of children, some of them b. in Eng- land, and the others after the arrival of the family in America. Henry' Collins was buried February 20, 1687. The line of de- scent is : Henry,1 John, 2-3 Zacheus, 4 Samuel, 5 Zacheus, 6 Stephen Zacheus,7 Alexander Mitchell,8 and George Jaques9.
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John2 Collins, b. in England in 1632, d. 1679, being lost at sea. By his wife Abigail Johnson, daughter of Richard Johnson, he was the father of twelve children, eleven daughters and one son. His wife survived him, and administered his estate. John3 Collins, only son and youngest child of John2 and Abigail (Johnson) Collins, was b. June 28, 1679. The name of his wife has not been ascertained. His son Zacheus+ Collins, b. in 1700, m. January 1, 1722, Elizabeth Sawyer, of Newburyport, daughter of Stephen Sawyer. They had twelve children. Samuels Collins, b. August 17, 1742, in Lynn, d. August 20, 1812. He m. Judith Dosi, and had four chil- dren. Zacheus6 Collins, b. in Lynn, May 23, 1768, d. January 21, 1821. He m. Theodate Farrington, March 20, 1793, and had four children.
Stephen Zacheus7 Collins was b. June 30, 1800. While yet a young man he went to Darien, Ga., and engaged in the commission business, in which he remained for several years, when he retired. He m. Sarah McCoy, a native of Georgia. They had five children - Alexander Mitchell, William Zacheus, Mary Jane, Robert McCoy, and Stephen Mckenzie. In order that the children might receive their education in the North, the family moved soon after the birth of the youngest to Lynn, Mass.
Alexander Mitchell® Collins, eldest son of Stephen Zacheus and Sarah (McCoy) Collins, was b. in Darien, Ga., June 7, 1839. Coming North with his parents, he subsequently at- tended the Lynn public schools and the Chauncy Hall School, Boston. Then he be- came associated with Mr. Lewis in the leather business in Boston, and later was engaged in the manufacture of shoes in partnership with Zachariah Graves.
He m. July 7, 1864, Helen A. Baker, who was b. in Lynn, February 27, 1843, daughter of Daniel C. and Augusta (Chase) Baker. Mrs. Collins's father, Daniel C. Baker, was b. at Lynn, Mass., in 1816, and d. at New Orleans in 1863. He was one of five children of Elisha, b. at Swansea, and Ruth (Collins) Baker, b. at Lynn, who were Quakers, and residents of Lynn. He was a shoe manufact-
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