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Joshua Jones, mentioned above, was a soldier from Woburn, in Captain Walker's company, Colonel David Greene's regiment, and was in the service at the time of the Lex- ington alarm, April 19, 1775; and in the same
company as Samuel Beard, whose daughter married Aaron, the son of Joshua Jones. Jones was a descendant of Hugh Jones, who came from Wincanton, Somersetshire, Eng- land, and settled in Salem.
The children of Ira Allen and Emily Thompson (Jones) Worth: Ella, born July 25, 1851, mentioned below. Charles Freder- ick, born September 5, 1858, died Septem- ber 17, 1859.
(IX) Ella Worth, daughter of Ira Allen Worth (8), was born in Boston, July 25, 1851. The family removed to Charlestown when she was a year old, and she received her early education in the public schools of that town, graduating with: honors from the high school in 1868. Immediately after her graduation she entered upon the active duties of life as teacher of the Bunker Hill Primary School (No. 6), where she demonstrated her ability and established a high reputation. She received a flattering call to teach in Toledo, Ohio, but declined the offer, and in 1873 she resigned to become the wife of George Henry Pendergast, a well known and highly re- spected citizen of Charlestown. They now live at Somerville, Massachusetts, in their new house at the corner of Broadway and Sycamore street.
Mrs. Pendergast was actively identified with the First Universalist Church of Charlestown from early childhood, and was before her marriage one of a party of young . amateurs who aided the church treasury by giving theatrical entertainments, in which she filled the role of leading lady with con- siderable merit and much success. The Norumbega Women's Club of Charlestown welcomed her as a member soon after its organization. She accepted an election as its first vice-president, but twice declined the honor of becoming president. Although continuing her interest and membership in the club, other duties prevented her from ac- cepting its leadership. Mrs. Pendergast is a life member of the Hunt Asylum for Desti- tute Children; is interested in the Winchester Home for Aged Women; has been an. early and continuous friend of the Boston Float- ing Hospital; and is a member of the Hep- torean Club, the Somerville Woman's Club, of which she was vice-president one year, re- elected for a second term, but obliged to re- sign from the office on account of home cares ; associate member of the old "Powder House Club;" and is a trustee and director of the Somerville Home for the Aged.
In February, 1898, Mrs. Pendergast and
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others organzed the Jonathan Thompson So- ciey of the Children of the American Revo- lution, and she conducted it successfully for more than two years, holding most of the meetings in her own home. In April, 1900, she gave up its presidency, continuing as a contributing member, and assumed the duties of regent of Bunker Hill Chapter, Daughters of the American Revolution, of which she is a charter member, and was for three years vice-regent before accepting the office of re- gent. The chapter prospered under her guidance. Her progressive ideas, executive ability and efficient management met the ap- proval of the members. Her term of office as regent expired in April, 1902. Later she was requested to become the state regent of the Massachusetts Daughters of the Ameri- can Revolution, an honor that she declined on account of home cares and duties. For the same reason also she declined the posi- tion of state director for the Massachusetts Children of the American Revolution. She is a woman of literary ability, and author of several poems. The ode sung at the reunion of the Charlestown High School Alumni As- sociation in 1884 was written by her for that occasion. Her spacious home contains many relics, books and antiques of historical value, among them being the sword brought home by Samuel Thompson from the French and Indian war, and the drumsticks used by Jonathan Thompson during the Revolution. Upon the wall hang the Pendergast and Worth coat-of-arms, painted in colors.
ENTWISTLE Ralph Entwistle and his wife Katherine were na- tives of Lancashire, Eng- land. They settled in Utica, New York, where both died. They were Quakers in religion. Child : Ralph, Jr., mentioned below.
(II) Ralph Entwistle, son of Ralph Ent- wistle (I), was born in Lancashire, England, and died there before his father came to America. Both he and his father were mill managers. He married Ellen Chadwick, who was born in England, and died there. Chil- dren : Thomas C., Ellen R., Ralph, Jr.
(III) Thomas C. Entwistle, son of Ralph Entwistle (2), was educated in the schools of his native place, supplemented later by study in the evening schools. At the early age of seven years he began to work in the mill of which later his father became the agent, spending half his time at work and half at school until he was fourteen, when he was
regularly apprenticed to a machinist and served seven years in England and Wales. He followed his trade in England until 1869, when he came to America to assist in setting up one of the first slashers ever used in Man- chester, New Hampshire. He decided to re- main in this country and obtained employment with the Lewiston Machine Company of Lew- iston, Maine. While with this company he constructed the first machine ever made in America for making expansion combs for warpers and other machines. He also made the first expansion combs used here and he patented an entirely new warping machine, the first of its kind in this country. In 1870 he returned to England and sold there the rights to manufacture the slasher warper. He then returned to Lewiston, Maine, and took out other patents on warpers. In 1875 he left Lewiston and entered the employ of the Hopedale Machine Company, Hopedale, Mas- sachusetts, where he was located until 1880, then coming to Lowell to organize the Phenix Machine Company, of which he became the agent. After a time he acepted a similar pos- ition with the Woodraff Iron Works of Hart- ford, Connecticut, but in 1887 returned to Lowell and engaged on his own account in the manufacture of his own inventions and other ยท specialties, consisting of patent warping, bal- ing and beaming machines, all kinds of com- mon expansion combs for warpers, beamers and slashers, and traverse wheel card grinders for American or English cards. He has built up a large and profitable business. His inventions have proved of great value in the textile in- dustries, and he has not only won for himself a high position in the world of business but taken high rank among the inventors of his generation. He was gifted with business sa- gacity as well as inventive genius. He. died January 7, 1903, in the midst of a promising and prosperous career.
In politics Mr. Entwistle was a Republican. He was a member of the First Universalist Church of Lowell, of the Franklin Literary Association and of the Lowell Board of Trade. He was well known in Masonic circles, a member of Montgomery Lodge, of Milford, Massachusetts Commandery, Knights Temp- lar, and of the Order of the Mystic Shrine; he was a member of the Club of Lowell, the Country-Vesper, Yorick and Highland Clubs, the Martin Luthers, and of the Algonquin Club of Boston. He was also a member of the famous Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company of Boston. He was fond of travel and crossed the Atlantic many times. He was
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open-handed and generous always to the ex- tent of his means, and took pleasure in helping those who appealed to his charity or friend- ship.
He married (first) Louise Lovett; (sec- ond) Phoebe Burnham and (third), June 5, 1894, Amanda A. Stevens, daughter of Mat- thew J. and Mary J. (Fowler) Stevens, of Maine. She survives him and occupies the family homestead in Lowell. He left no children.
SANBORN Lieutenant John Sanborne, the immigrant ancestor of the Sanborn family of Som- erville, Massachusetts, was born in England in 1620, and settled in Hampton, now in New Hampshire, as early as 1640, when he was granted a house, lot and tract of land there in that year. In 1643 he signed a petition with other Hampton men, and after that the records contain numerous references to him. His house in Hampton was next to that of Stephen Bachiler across the road from the meeting house green and nearly opposite the old meeting house. John Sanborne and his brothers William and Stephen were sons of an English Sanborne (probably William of Brimpton), Berkshire, and Anna, daughter of , Rev. Stephen Bachiler. Their father died about 1630. The three brothers are said to have come to America in 1632 with their grandfather Bachiler. In 1647 Bachiler deeded his property at Hampton to his four grandchildren, the three brothers named and Nathaniel Bachiler, "all now or lately of Hampton." They were the ancestors of Daniel Webster.
February 2, 1657, John Sanborne was chosen a selectman, but exempted; March 30, 1657, he was appointed on a committee to see to the building of a house for the minis- ter, Rev. Mr. Cotton. His familiarity with the town records and boundaries led to his being chosen on all committees to examine old grants or establish boundary lines. Thus in 1651 and again in 1658 he was chosen a committee to join with the town clerk to ex- amine all the grants and appointments of lands, highways, and the like; and to perfect the same in the town book. In 1661 San- borne was again a selectman and also on the committee to hire the school teachers. In 1664 he was chosen ensign of the Hampton military company. He was a selectman also in 1665-68-71-74-75-78-79; commissioner to end small causes in 1666-67-69 for the town
of Hampton; foreman of the grand jury 1676. He was admitted a freeman May, 1666; commissioned lieutenant of Hampton forces October 15, 1669. In the contest with the Masonian proprietors he refused to yield to the demands of Mason and was imprisoned, October 21, 1684. He was elected to the general assembly, 1685.
He married (first) Mary Tuck, daughter of Robert Tuck, of Gorlston, Suffolk, England, and Hampton, New Hampshire. She died December 30, 1668. He married (second) Margaret (Page) Moulton, widow of William Moulton, and daughter of Robert Page, of Ormsby, Norfolk, England, and Hampton, New Hampshire. Children: I. John, men- tioned below. 2. Mary, born 1651, died 1654. 3. Abigail, born February 23, 1653, married Ephraim Marston; died January 3, 1743. 4. Richard, born January 4, 1655. 5. Mary, born 1657, died 1660. 6. Joseph, born March 13, 1659. 7. Stephen, born 1661, died 1662. 8. Ann, born November 20, 1662, married Stephen Palmer. 9. Dinah, married James Marston. IO. Nathaniel, born Janu- ary 27, 1666. II. Benjamin, born December 20, 1668. 12. Captain Jonathan, born May 25, 1672.
(II) John Sanborne, son of Lieutenant John Sanborne (1), was born in Hampton, about 1649; was admitted a freeman April 25, 1678. He married, November 19, 1674. Judith Coffin, daughter of Tristram Coffin, of Newbury. She was born December 4, 1653, and died May 17, 1724. John died Septem- ber 23, 1727. Children: I. Judith, born August 8, 1675, married Ebenezer Gove. 2. Mary, born July 2, 1677, married Ebenezer Stevens. 3. Sarah, born May 8, 1679. 4. Deborah, born 1681, married Samuel Fel- lows and (second) Benjamin Shaw. 5. John, born 1683. 6. Tristram, born 1684-85. 7. Enoch, born 1685, mentioned below. Lydia, born February 24, 1687. 9. Peter, 8. born 1689. 10. Abner, born April 27, 1694.
(III) Enoch Sanborn, son of John San- borne (2), was born in Hampton, 1685, lived in Hampton Falls, where he owned a small farm, and a mill, in 1750. In 1707 he went with Captain Chesley's Expedition to Port Royal. He married, March, 1709, Elizabeth Dennett, daughter of Alexander Dennett, of Portsmouth; (second), April 1, 1736, Mehit- able Blake Godfrey, daughter of John Blake, of Hampton, and widow of Jonathan God- frey. Enoch was a saddler by trade. He deeded his land in Halestown to his son John in 1760. Children: I. Elizabeth, baptized
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1712, died young. 2. Ebenezer, born July 25, 1712. 3. Judith, born December 8, 1715, married John Philbrick. 4. Moses, baptized March, 1717, mentioned below. 5. John, baptized July 19, 1719. 6. Elizabeth, baptized June 18, 1721, married Alexander Salter and (second) John Damrell. 7. Enoch, baptized June 28, 1724. 8. Sarah, baptized May 7, 1727. 9. Isaac, baptised November 18, 1737.
(IV) Moses Sanborn, son of Enoch San- born (3), was born in Hampton Falls, bap- tized there March, 1717; lived there and in the neighboring town of Kensington, New Hampshire. He married, January 7, 1742, Elizabeth Mitchell. He died June 8, 1802. Children : 1. Dorothy, born February 25, 1744, married Paine Blake. 2. Henry, born March I, 1746, mentioned below. 3. James, born December 6, 1748. 4. Moses, born October 25, 1758, died unmarried 1777. 5. Jesse, born December 10, 1764.
(V) Henry Sanborn, son of Moses Sanborn (4), was born in Kensington, New Hamp- shire, March I, 1746; lived and died in Ken- sington ; signed the association test there. He married, November 22, 1769, Anne Blake, daughter of Jedediah Blake, of Hampton Falls. He died May 3, 1798. Children: I. Dorothy, born in Kensington, January 9, 1772, married Samuel Dow, of Northwood, New Hampshire. 2. Ebenezer, born June 14, 1773. 3. Henry, born June 14, 1775. 4. Moses, born April 25, 1777, mentioned below. 5. Newell, born July 15, 1779. 6. Polly, born October 29, 1781, married Ebenezer Sinclair, of Mon- mouth, Maine. 7. Betsey, born June 16, 1784, married William Graves, of Hartland, Maine. 8. Ann, born April 28, 1786, married, June 23, 1813, Moses Dow, of Epping. 9. James, born June II, 1790. 10. John, born September 14, 1792.
(VI) Moses Sanborn, son of Henry San- born (5), was born in Epping, New Hamp- shire, April 25, 1777 ; moved to Wales, Maine. He was a farmer all his active life. He mar- ried, March 18, 1801, Nancy Fogg, daughter of Major Josiah Fogg, of Raymond, New Hampshire. She was born July II, 1770, and died February 23, 1838. He died April 12, 1852. Children: I. Clarissa, born July 18, 1802, married Parker Dow, of St. Albans, Maine. 2. Sarah, born June 9, 1804. 3. Henry, born February 18, 1808, mentioned below. 4. Dudley F., born December 5, 1820.
(VII) Henry Sanborn, son of Moses San- born (6), was born in Epping, New Hamp- shire, February 18, 1808. He went to Maine with his father's family and followed farming
at Wales and Greene, Maine. He married, January 22, 1834, Ann Crossman Daly, who was born in Wales, Maine, April 9, 1812. She died in Lewiston, Maine. He died July 14, 1864. Their only child : James Solomon, men- tioned below.
(VIII) James Solomon Sanborn, son of Henry Sanborn (7), was born in Wales, Maine, March 29, 1835. His youth was spent in Wales and Monmouth, Maine, and in Nashua, New Hampshire, and he received the education of the district schools of that time. He began his business career as traveling sales- man for the seed house of A. H. Dunlap, of Nashua, New Hampshire, and for a number of years he proved his ability as a commercial traveler to the satisfaction of his employers and to his own advantage. His first venture on his own account was in Lewiston, Maine, where he went into the coffee and spice busi- ness. In 1868 he became connected with the firm of Dwinell, Hayward & Company, of Bos- ton, dealers in coffee and spices. The firm of Chase & Sanborn was formed in 1878 and the greatest success has attended the firm from the outset. The coffees and teas prepared for the market by this concern have a world wide reputation. At the World's Fair in 1893, the firm supplied the coffee for all the restaurants upon the grounds.
Mr. Sanborn made his home in Somerville, Massachusetts, in 1872, and except for the period of five years from 1884 to 1889 in Bos- ton, lived the remainder of his life in Somer- ville, and in Poland, Maine, where he had a summer home. His stables at Elmwood were famous. He paid special attention to breeding French coach horses. In 1897 he became part owner and manager of the Maine Farmer, a weekly newspaper that has been well known in New England for half a century. Mr. San- born loved nature and traveled extensively in America and Europe. He visited the coun- tries that produced coffee and spices, the West Indies, Mexico, and Central America. He was a splendid type of the American business man whose success was won by his own native abil- ity, resourcefulness and endeavor. He was energetic and persevering, of high character and broad mind. He died May 10, 1903.
At the time of his death the Somerville Jour- nal said: "The firm of Chase & Sanborn was formed in 1878 and the successful history of that firm is too well known to require any comment. A partnership is a phase of active life, which not only tests the business ability of men, but also their temperaments, and no man was ever happier in his relations with
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those associated with him than was the late Mr. Sanborn. He was a great, big-hearted, big-brained man, and not only believed that honesty was the best policy, but made it a cardinal principle of his life, because he be- lieved that it was right. Any suggestion of fraud or deceit in business in a direct or indi- rect manner was always promptly condemned. He would succeed only along honest and legiti- mate lines, and never by precept or example did he ever depart from this rule. He never envied the success of others, and only desired to secure success such as his brains and his industry and his honesty entitled him. His temperament was one of those happy combina- tions of good cheer and sunshine which made association with him always a pleasure, and gave those who came in contact with him in his daily life that comfort and encourage- ment which makes men better fitted to cope with their daily trials.
"He was a helpful, kindly nature, and he seemed to realize always that the best deeds of a man's life, and those which give him the most satisfaction are those occasions where he has helped those that are poorer and weaker than he is. His whole career was lightened and brightened all the way along by constant deeds of kindness, with substantial aid wher- ever it was required. Those who knew him intimately were always inspired by his exam- ple, and found joy and comfort in following his lead. *
"For thirty years he had been a resident of Somerville, and among the pleasant associa- tions of his later years, none were dearer to him than his friendships. formed in his early acquaintance in Somerville. In his leisure moments he was found at the fireside and in the library. * *
"With a deep love for the New England farm and the scenes of his early boyhood, Mr. Sanborn purchased several years ago an old homestead and estate in Poland, Maine, which had been converted into a fine stock farm, not to be duplicated in America. His reputa- tion for growing high-class road horses, French coaches, has attracted many visitors to Elmwood through the summer seasons. Here Mr. Sanborn has enjoyed recreation from business duties, which leisure time he had rich- ly earned. Meanwhile the active duties of his department in the firm were transferred to his two sons, Charles E. and Oren C., who have been carefully trained and are thoroughly con- versant with the business."
In his funeral address, Rev. Charles L. Noyes, pastor of the Winter-hill Congrega-
tional church which Mr. Sanborn attended in life, said, in part : "Without any endowment but his native strength, he rose out of the ob- scurity of the humble circumstances and the little town where he was born, to enter the great movements and encounter the eager competition of our times. By his natural mag- netism and ascendency he gathered about him a notable array of persons with those talents he was able to combine his own. In an age when a splendid material prosperity has been the glory of our country, he took conspicuous share in the commercial enterprise which has contributed to the wealth and power and com- fort of the times in which we live. Emerson has said: "It is the privilege or any human work which is well done to invest the doer with a certain haughtiness." It is his way of saying that a man's work raises him into a true aristocracy. There is such an aristocracy of honorable and useful workers growing up in our democratic land, and if there are ranks in it of higher and lower, he must stand among the foremost, whose work has been done on sound and wholesome principles, and with results of national importance and extent. Strength, that tribute cannot be denied to him of whom we speak. But it has been said,
"Oh, it is excellent
To have a giant's strength ; but it is tyrannous: To use it like a giant."
We have seen men who have controlled great affairs, have built up great enterprises, but have done it by overriding other personal- ities, crushing other interests, making all things bow to their will and minister to their emolument. Now, those who have had any relations with Mr. Sanborn, even the most superficial, most of all those who have had to do with him intimately, must be well aware of the fine, friendly spirit with which he dealt with other men-his respect for others' per- sonalities, his sense of their rights and capaci- ties. The spirit of co-operation was strong in him. He recognized that truth of nature set forth in the Scriptures in the figure of the. body and its members. He knew that his in- dividual success lay in union with all the other members, in business, or political or social' body, and his greatest joy was in a success in: which others contributed and shared, each ac- cording to his merit and aptitude. This it is: which has enabled him, together with other social traits of heart and mind, to live and work so many years in partnership with his equals, only with increasing mutual respect
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and affection. Those who have been his juniors and subordinates had found him all the time more desirous to bring out their pow- ers, push them forward to success, make them share in the prosperity and power of the con- cern, than to profit himself by their labors. His pride in his business, if I may judge by his way of speaking of it in conversation, was rather in the men and their character and abil- ity, than in the profits and fame it had brought him. What was true in the matter of his business was true in every other activity of his, as neighbor, as patriot of his state and country. Everywhere he was like a great current of force pouring in its full charge into any channel open for him, finding most satisfaction and joy when thus he was able to help on others, better mankind, bring new life and pleasure to anyone.
"Yes, the first impression, ever deepened by larger acquaintance, was of the rugged strength and splendid force of his personality. But there is something greater than that, on which we all agree : it is our sense of respect for his moral character. From all sides I hear this unanimous acclaim, that it was the strong, steadfast purpose of this man to do things honestly, truthfully, justly, honorably, square- ly. He had a large magnanimous, open spirit. 'He was honest,' one has recently said, 'not because he believed honesty was the best pol- icy, though he did believe that and proved it, but it was his nature, his satisfaction to be honest.' He loved things honest, just, pure, of good report, as he hated the small, mean, low, underhanded, hypocritical wherever he met it. His morality was not merely that negative kind which avoids evil, but a great positive passion for good, which he wanted to see prevail in all things. 'He was always working to make things better.' This was as true of his recreation as of his work. He had large unselfish interests and ambitions. In his business he had an ideal that it should be as honorable as it was successful, that it should raise the credit and tone of all business. He meant his native state should be better that he was born in it and raised stock in it. He meant this city of ours should profit by his residence here. His presence and support was never wanting in any movement that he be- lieved for the advantage of the city. If he gave liberally, as he always did to any object that proved itself worthy to his mind, it was in no careless or vain spirit, but he wished that church and association and charity, and the people through them, might be the better,
stronger, more useful, for his contribution of money. ** * *
"There is love in our hearts for one whose heart was large, generous, tender, compassion- ate. This gentle side of his nature was not always expending itself in words, but it was always ready to the call of need or friendship. We should have to read the secrets of many lives to know of all the persons, who, in their hour of misfortune, or even failure or fault, had been set back on their feet, or steadied and braced, by some encouraging work, faith- ful help, or substantial gift from Mr. Sanborn. No one could ever go to him in behalf of a good cause, or another person in need, that he did not respond to such an appeal with gener- osity and eagerness as if it were a favor to be informed how to put his means to good use. With the swiftness which the light flows from the sun to things that grow by its power, his help would run to the places and persons proved worthy of his aid. And all his gener- osity, of which there is no full earthly record, grew out of his natural kindness, together with that feature of his character of which I have spoken, a desire, as far as he could 'to make things better,' to put an end to distress and pain and discomfort, to equalize comfort and happiness in our human lot, to help the distressed and unfortunate, and make the world a place where all might share more evenly in the common bounty of wealthy Na- ture.
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