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(III) Thomas. Wellington, son of Joseph Wellington (2), was born in Watertown, No- vember 10, 1686. He married Rebecca Whit- temore, who died November 6, 1734, aged fifty-three. He married (second) Chary : widow married (second) Captain James Lane, of Bedford, Massachusetts, Aug- ust 7, 1763. Wellington was of Cambridge when his will was made, January 6, 1759, and it was proved December 24, 1759. He men- tioned his brother-in-law, Samuel Whitte- more. Children : I. Rebecca, born November 3, 1709. 2. Joseph, November 21, 17II. 3. Thomas, Jr., August 6, 1714, mentioned be- low. 4. Susanna, married - Hill. 5. Elizabeth.
(IV) Thomas Wellington, son of Thomas Wellington (3) was born in Cambridge, Aug- ust 6, 1714, and died November 4, 1783. He married, March 13, 1734-35, Margaret Stone, who died at Lexington, September 7, 1800, aged eighty-two years, at the home of her daughter Rebecca. He was an innholder. Children : I. Thomas, born December 12, 1735, married, at Lexington, April 19, 1759, Eliza- beth Dix. 2. Elizabeth, baptized March 14, 1735-36, married Jedediah White. 3. John, born October 24, 1737, soldier at Lake George in 1758; married, April 10, 1760, Susanna Brown. 4. Susanna, baptized September, 1738. 5. Jonathan, born July 27, 1740, died November II, 1758, on the passage from Que- bec. 6. Samuel, born November 6, 1742. 7. Josiah, born April 4, 1745, married, March 26, 1765, Susanna Stearns. 8. William, born July 28, 1746. 9. George, born October 21,
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1749, soldier in Revolution ; married, Decem- ber 24, 1772, Lucy Peirce ; removed to Jaffrey, New Hampshire. 10. Rebecca, born Novem- ber 6, 1752, married John Munroe. II. Su- sanna, born May 29, 1755, married, October 5, 1778, Edward Harrington, Jr. 12. Thad- deus, born April 5, 1758, soldier in the Revo- lution ; married Ruhaman Brown. 13. Sarah, born April 10, 1760, married, December 6, 1781, Nathan Barnard. 14. Joel, born April 21, 1763, married, May 22, 1785, Lydia Mixer and removed to Lexington, Kentucky.
(V) Samuel Wellington, son of Thomas Wellington (4), was born in Cambridge or Lexington, November 6, 1742. He lived at Waltham and Watertown and was proprietor of the Wellington Tavern. He died at Wal- tham, June, 1821, aged seventy-eight years, seven months. He married (first) May 3, 1768, Abigail Sanderson, who died at Water- town, February, 1802, aged fifty-four. He married (second), March 27, 1803, Elizabeth Lamson, widow of Colonel Samuel Lamson and sister of his first wife. Children: I. Eu- nice, born 1768, baptized December II, mar- ried, at Watertown, August 16, 1788, Colonel Thomas Hunt. 2. Samuel, born at Water- town, unmarried. 3. Lydia, baptized January I, 1775. 4. Abner, baptized September 7, 1777, married, May 3, 1801, Ruth Fiske. 5. Abigail, born August 3, 1779, married, De- cember 16, 1807, Samuel Townsend. 6. Sally, baptized August 5, 1781, married Levi Wil- lard. 7. Patty (Martha), baptized March 23, 1785, married William Parker. 8. Daniel Sanderson, born October 2, 1785, died young. 9. Lydia, baptized December 10, 1787, mar- ried Isaac Smith, of Chelsea, Massachusetts. IO. Catherine, baptized December 10, 1787, married, January 30, 1811, John Hews, of Weston and Cambridgeport, Massachusetts. See Hewes or Hews sketch.)
George M. Rogers, deceased, for many years a successful ROGERS business man of Cambridge, Massachusetts, where he was an active fac- tor in commercial circles, contributing largely to its growth and prosperity, was a lineal de- scendant of John Rogers, born 1505, the well- known English Protestant, the first of the "Marian Martyrs," who preached a sermon at St. Paul's Cross, August 3, 1543, which led to his arrest, his condemnation by Gardiner, and his burning at the stake, February 4, 1555. Another ancestor of George M. Rog- ers, Nathaniel Rogers, was born in Haver-
hill, England, about 1595, from whence he came to Boston, Massachusetts Bay Colony, 1632, and was pastor of a church in Spencer, Massachusetts. The parents of George M. Rogers were John and Judith (Rogers) Rog- ers, who were natives of Gloucester, Massa- chusetts.
George M. Rogers was born in Newbury- port, Essex county, Massachusetts, Novem- ber 23, 1819, died in Cambridge, Massachu- setts, June 9, 1889. He was reared in his native town, educated in its public schools, and later went to Boston, Massachusetts, where he was employed by his uncle. In the course of time he changed his place of resi- dence to Cambridge, Massachusetts. He en- gaged in mercantile pursuits, in which he achieved a large degree of success, and subse- quently engaged in the real estate business. He was a member of the Congregational church, and a staunch supporter of the prin- ciples of the Republican party. George M. Rogers married (first), July 19, 1855, in Bos- ton, Massachusetts, Lucy Maria, daughter of Eben and Emeline Stebbins. She died Janu- ary 13, 1862, leaving two children: George Bliss, and Frederick W., of whom later. He married (second), September 27, 1868, Mary Ann Hartwell, who bore him one child, Edward Hartwell, of whom later.
Frederick W. Rogers, son of George M. and Lucy Maria (Stebbins) Rogers, was born in Boston, Massachusetts, March 15, 1859. He is a lawyer and trustee of real estate, with offices in Cambridgeport. He resides in Watertown. He married Edith Soren, of Dorchester, Massachusetts, who bore him four children: Edith and Ethel, twins, and Lucy and Winifred, twins, all of whom are living at the present time (1907). The mother of these children died, and Mr. Rogers subse- quently married again.
Edward Hartwell Rogers, son of George M. and Mary Ann (Hartwell) Rogers, was born in Lexington, Massachusetts, May 19, 1870. He is a lawyer by profession. He re- sides at 113 Norfolk street, Cambridge, Massachusetts, and has a summer home at Lincoln. He married Carrie Elizabeth, daughter of David and Sarah (Peet) Heizer, of Iowa. Three children were the issue of this marriage: John, born January 3, 1901; George Edward, February 24, 1903: Edgar Heizer, September 10. 1905, died March 24, 1907.
Mary Ann (Hartwell) Rogers, widow of George M. Rogers, is a descendant of an old and honored family. In the chapter of
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Domesday Book assigned to a description of military tenures of lands allotted in North- amptonshire, England, by William of Nor- mandy to his followers, appears the designa- tion of an allotment bearing the name of "Hertewelle." Similar records are found in the descriptions of lands in Bucks and Wilts. Several branches of these early families, in- cluding three or four baronies and with the name transmuted amid the multifarious changes of orthography incident to the changes and growth of the English language to plain Hartwell, have spread over England, more than one offshoot having found their way to those counties of Ireland within the pale, notably about the time of the wholesale transplanting of colonists to that island by Cromwell.
From some one of these English families came William Hartwell, who appears among the early settlers of Concord. It cannot be positively stated whether or not William Hartwell was of the party of settlers under the lead of Major Simon Willard, who led the way in cutting loose from a neighborhood of their friends to penetrate the wilderness in search of homes, and which "made their pitch" within the limits of the historic town of Cambridge, September 12, 1635, O. S., but enough is known to make it extremely probable that he must have arrived in the settlement in the following year, 1636. A tract of land, containing nine acres, "more or less," was allotted to him on which to erect a dwelling, situated, as near as can be judged, nearly a mile eastward of the Public Square, along the Lexington or old "Bay" road, very nearly at the eastern bound of the property occupied, in 1887 by E. W. Bull, Nathaniel Ball and Joshua Wheeler. If, as is assumed, Mr. Hartwell arrived in Concord in 1636, he was twenty-three years old at that time. He was made a freeman of the colony in 1642, appears as one of the petitioners for a grant of the town of Chelmsford, adjoining Con- cord on the north, in 1653, was one of a committee of nine citizens to frame rules for the guidance of the selectmen of the town in 1672, was a corporal in 1671, and in 1673 was appointed quarter-master, vice Henry Woodis, app. cornet in the Second Troop of Horse of Middlesex county. He appears as one of the large landholders, with two hun- dred and forty-seven acres of land, in nine- teen separately described tracts. He died March 12, 1690, "in ye 77th year of his age," having made his will a short time previous, in which he mentions his daughters Sarah
and Mary, and his sons John and Samuel. The youngest child of which anything is known, Martha, appears to have died before him. His wife Jazan died August 5, 1695. The resting place of their remains is not known, but was doubtless in the old grave- yard on the hill south of the Public Square in Concord village, where several of his de- scendants are buried.
Samuel Hartwell, son of William and Jazan Hartwell, born January 26, 1645, died July 26, 1725. He served in the war against the Indians under the leadership of Philip of Pohanoket, his name appearing in the list of those to whom, or their descendants, lands were granted in 1735, the share allotted for his services passing to his grandson, Eph- raim. It seems likely he was one of those who made the "hungry march" against the stronghold of Philip, and to whom a land gratuity was specially promised, as the name of John, known to have been out in that year, does not appear among the grantees of land in 1735. He undoubtedly settled near his father at marriage, lived nearer him at death than John, but nothing yet appears to indicate with certainty whether it was he or his son Samuel who settled on the lands in the present bounds of Lincoln, now held by his descendants. He married October 26, 1665, Ruth, born February 23, 1641-42, died December 9, 1713, daughter of George and Catherine Wheeler, of Concord. He mar- ried (second) Rebecca who died
January 23, 1721-22. He married (third), February 6, 1724, Elizabeth Fletcher, of Chelmsford, born June 10, 1698, died October 4, 1732.
Samuel Hartwell, son of Samuel and Ruth (Wheeler) Hartwell, born October 6, 1666, died November 27, 1744. In 1694 he pur- chased of Richard Rice a part of the present Hartwell farm in Lincoln, and was living in that part of Concord in 1696. He married, November 29, 1692, Abigail Stearns, of Cam- bridge, who died May II, 1709. He married (second) Rebecca -, who died April 19, 1714. He married (third) Margaret Tomp- kins, a widow, who died April 5, 1723. He married (fourth) Experience Tarbox, a. widow, who survived him.
Ephaim Hartwell, son of Samuel and Abi- gail (Stearns) Hartwell, was born January 14, 1706-07, died May 7, 1793. He received in 1735 the share in the Narragansett lands al- lotted as compensation for his grandfather's services in King Philip's war. He lived on the homestead of his father, which fell just
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over the line in Lincoln when that town was set off from Concord, and kept a tavern on the detour formerly made by the Bay road to the left of its present course, a little to the eastward of the "Brooks tavern." In his will, made in 1786, he bequeaths a slave, Violet, to his widow. This bequest, how- ever, in nowise contravened the spirit of the law or of the courts, as it was, in point of fact, a fitting provision for an old and faith- ful family servant. He married, 1732, Eliza- beth Heywood, of Concord, born June 3, 1714, died January 30, 1808.
Samuel Hartwell, son of Ephraim and Elizabeth (Heywood) Hartwell, born June 25, 1742, died August 12, 1829. He was a clock- maker by trade. He built a house on part of the homestead. He served as quarter- master during the Revolutionary war, and participated in the battle at White Plains. He married Mary Flint, of Lincoln, born April 2, 1748, died 1846.
Samuel Hartwell, son of Samuel and Mary (Flint) Hartwell, born March 28, 1789, died August 4, 1837. He followed agricultural pursuits, residing on and cultivating the homestead formerly belonging to his fa- ther and grandfather in Lincoln. He mar- ried, July 2, 1818, Polly Hagar, born April I, 1789, died December 14, 1865, daughter of Nathan and Annie (Bigelow) Hagar, of Weston, Massachusetts. They were the parents of the following named children: I. George, born May 31, 1819, married (first), March 3, 1875, Margaret Redman, of Blue Hill, Maine, three children: John Redman, died April 15, 1906; George, deceased; Sam- uel, deceased. George Hartwell married (second) Lucy B. Fiske, a native of Lincoln. 2. Jonas, born June 30, 1821, died August 5, 1906. 3. Rev. Charles, born December 19, 1825, died January 30, 1905; he was a mis- sionary in Foochow, China, over fifty years; he married Lucy E. Stearns, of New Ipswich, New Hampshire, who bore him six children, three of whom are now living, namely: Charles S., married Carrie Lee, of Wayland ; Emily S., missionary in China; Carrie A., married Edward Tupper, of Minneapolis, Minnesota. 4. Rev. John, born December 20, 1827, died December 18, 1878; he mar- ried Sarah D. Southmayd, of Middletown, Connecticut, who bore him three children, only one of whom is living at the present time, Mary A. Hartwell, a resident of Wash- ington, D. C. 5. Mary Ann, born at Lincoln, Massachusetts, August 30, 1830, educated in public school and Mount Holyoke Seminary,
Hadley, Massachusetts, now the widow of George M. Rogers. She is the mother of one son, Edward Hartwell Rogers, born in Lexington, May 19, 1870. 6. Samuel, born January 4, 1834, died February 23, 1906; he married Julia Weston, of Lincoln, Massa- chusetts, who bore him three children, all of whom died in early life.
GUILD The surname, Guild, Guld, Gulde or Guile, is of Scotch origin, the records showing the surname as early as 1449 when one Alexander Gulde owned property at Sterling. In the sixteenth century we find the family in Dundee and in the seventeenth in Forfarshire and Perth. The Scotch family may have descended from the Guille family of the Isle of Guernsey, the original seat of which was on the bay called Saint, in the parish of St. Martin. According to tradition they were there before or at the time of the Conquest. At the dedication of the St. Pierre du Bois Church in 1167 John Guile is mentioned as one of the honorable gentlemen present. The surname is said to be Norman, probably the Norman form of the Latin Aegidius, or Giles in English. The Scotch coat-of-arms closely resembles the arms of the Guernsey family.
The American families of Guild and Guile are descended from two brothers, John Guild, mentioned below, and Samuel Guild, who with their sister Ann arrived in Massachusetts about 1636 and settled in Dedham. They were probably quite young when they came and it is conjectured that Ann was the oldest, being about twenty, John about eighteen and Sam- tel sixteen years of age. Ann married, March 16, 1638, James Allen, and in 1649 settled in Medfield, Massachusetts, a new town adjoin- ing Dedham. Samuel Guild went in 1640 to Newbury, Massachusetts, and soon afterward joined the settlement at Haverhill, Massachu- setts.
(I) John Guild, the immigrant ancestor, is supposed to have been born in England about 1616, and came to America in 1636 with his brother Samuel and sister Ann. He was ad- mitted to the church at Dedham, July 17, 1640, and bought twelve acres of upland the same year. He built on this land a house which was occupied by himself and descend- ants for more than two hundred years. He was admitted a freeman May 10, 1643, and as one of the original grantees had assigned to him three roods and twelve rods of land, to which he added by further grants and pur-
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chase much real estate in Dedham, Wren- tham, Medfield and Natick. He was thor- oughly honest in all his dealings, industrious and frugal, modest in his deportment, and retiring in his habits. He never held any office, and the town records show his attend- ance at town meeting but once for several years and then on an occasion of considerable excitement in relation to making alterations and additions to the meeting-house. He mar- ried, June 24, 1645, Elizabeth Crooke, of Rox- bury, who was dismissed from Roxbury to Dedham church, July 4, 1649. She died Aug- ust 31, 1669. He died October 4, 1682. His will is dated October 3, 1682, and was proved November 3, 1682. Children: I. John, born August 22, 1646, died young. 2. Samuel, born November 7, 1647, mentioned below. 3. John, born November 29, 1649, married Sarah Fisher. 4. Eliezur, born November 30, 1653, died June 30, 1655. 5. Ebenezer, born De- cember 21, 1657, died April 21, 1661. 6. Elizabeth, born January 18, 1660. 7. Benja- min, born May 25, 1664, died young.
(II) Samuel Guild, son of John Guild (I), was born in Dedham, Massachusetts, Novem- ber 7, 1647. Married, November 29, 1676, Mary Woodcock, daughter of Samuel and Ann (Herring) Woodcock, of Dedham. She was born March 9, 1631-32. He was a sol- dier in King Philip's war in 1675, a private in Captain Moseley's company. He was ad- mitted a freeman at Salem, May, 1678. In 1703 he was one of a committee to invest and manage the school funds, selectman of Ded- ham from 1693 to 1713, and a deputy to the general court in 1719. He died in Dedham, January 1, 1730. Children : I. Samuel, born October 12, 1677, married Sarah Hartshorn. 2. Nathaniel, born January 12, 1678, married Mehitable Farrington or Hartshorn. 3. Mary, born May 9, 1681, died May 27, 1768; mar- ried, May, 1714, John Fuller, of Dedham. 4. John, born June 18, 1683, died October 29, 1684. 5. Deborah, born September 16, 1685. 6. John, born October 2, 1687, mar- ried Abigail Robinson. 7. Israel, born June II, 1690, mentioned below. 8. Ebenezer, born July 23, 1694, married Abigail Fisher, Hannah Curtis and Beulah Peck. 9. Eliza- beth, born April 14, 1697.
(III) Israel Guild, son of Samuel Guild (2), was born in Dedham, June II, 1690; married Sarah He settled in Leba- non, Connecticut, where he made his will March 1I, 1766, proved December 18, 1766. Children : I. Deborah, born June 26, 1715, married, September 6, 1739, John House. 2.
Hannah, born February 14, 1717, married John Hall. 3. Keziah, born May 26, 1719, married Timothy Washburn. 4. Jacob, born August I, 1722, mentioned below. 5. Israel, born November 25, 1729. 6. Sarah, born Decem- ber 5, 1732, married, June 23, 1760, William Frazier, of Norwich, Connecticut.
(IV) Jacob Guild, son of Israel Guild (3), was born August 1, 1722. Married, May 26, 1757, Hannah Larabee, widow, of Coventry, Connecticut. He settled at Lebanon, Connec- ticut; removed thence to Hatfield before the Revolution and settled on the Connecticut river in the neighborhood called West Farms. Children : I. Lavinia, born March II, 1758, married, September 7, 1780, Solomon Snow, of Whately, Massachusetts. 2. Joseph, born July 23, 1760, an officer in the Revolution from Hatfield ; died there without issue ; mar- ried Martha Smith, who was born March 24, 1774. 3. Hannah, died in 1856; married, October 21, 1782, Benjamin Parker, son of Abraham and Lois (Blood) Parker: 4. Jesse, born April II, 1765, mentioned below. 5. Israel, born September II, 1767, married Rhoda Graves. 6. Nathaniel, born and bap- tized 1769; married Mehitable Gaines. 7. Silas, born about 1770, married Laura Brown.
(V) Jesse Guild, son of Jacob Guild (4), was born in Hatfield, Massachusetts, April II, 1765. Married Zilpah Smith, who was born January 4, 1764, and died April 17, 1841. He joined the Continental army in the . Revolution at the age of sixteen, serving part of his three years as an orderly sergeant. He removed to Halifax, Vermont, after the war, and cleared a farm. He was a blacksmith by trade and besides farming followed that trade. He was deacon of the Congregational church at Halifax. He died June 5, 1848. Children : I. Chester, born 1788, died in Halifax, Ver- mont, February 1, 1836; married Anna Brown, who died October, 1877; daughter Hannah Elizabeth married Jesse Guild, of Leona, Pennsylvania. 2. Calvin, born Octo- ber 14, 1789, mentioned below. 3. Israel, born May, 1791, married Rachel Kellogg. 4. Joel, born August 14, 1793, married Marga- ret Kennedy. 5. Asa, born about 1795, en- listed in War of 1812 and never returned. 6. Hannah, born 1800, died unmarried Decem- ber 1, 1838. 7. Elizabeth, died at Halifax, February 15, 1862, unmarried.
(VI) Calvin Guild, son of Jesse Guild (5), was born in West Halifax, Vermont, October 14, 1789. Married, February 15, 1816, Sally Kellogg, who was born in Brook- field, Vermont, August 9, 1793, died at Galva,
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Illinois, August 12, 1875. He was a farmer at West Halifax, and died there July 27, 1869. Children, born at West Halifax: I. William, born October 26, 1816, married, May 16, 1844, Joanna B. Hawkes; was a farmer, and deacon of the Congregational church at West Halifax ; died at Lowell, April 27, 1863 ; child, Orlando Hawkes. 2. Asa, born October 27, 1818, mentioned below. 3. Spencer, born June 23, 1820, married, October 10, 1850, Abby Temple Carleton, born January 29, 1829, daughter of John and Fanny (Lewis) Carleton, of Mount Vernon, New Hampshire ; he was a merchant, member of school commit- tee and Congregational church; died 1885; children : i. Fanny Carleton, born September 17, 1855, graduated at Mt. Holyoke Seminary, 1876; principal of Commonwealth avenue school, Boston; ii. William Albert, born March 19, 1862, married Kate Louise Wheeler ; is general secretary of Young Men's Christian Association, Bath, Maine; iii. Frank Spencer, born April 12, 1865, married, Sep- tember 13, 1886, May B. Rogers, of Lynn, Massachusetts ; is art editor of Ladies' Homc Journal, Philadelphia. 4. Julia, born Septem- ber 13, 1822, married, July 4, 1855, Luke Kingsbury; children: Irving Small and Frank W. Kingsbury. 5. Sarah Jemima, born September 6, 1824, died 1880; married Al- bert Guild. 6. Dr. Phineas Kellogg, born March 9, 1827, married at Boston, October 8. 1868, Susan Caroline Lincoln, daughter of Charles and Susan C, (Patterson) Lincoln, born at Charlestown, Massachusetts, Novem- ber 13, 1841 ; he graduated at the University Medical College in New York in 1853; sur- geon of the Fifty-second Illinois Regiment in 1861-62; surgeon of the One Hundred and Twentieth Illinois in 1862, but resigned on account of ill health; began medical practice in 1864 at Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts, later removed to Santa Barbara, California, died 1891 : children : i. Bertha, born September 5, 1869; ii. Mabel Kellogg, born January 24, 1871 ; iii. Emeline Ticknor, born May 7, 1872; iv. Phineas Kellogg, born at Shirley, Massachusetts, July 3, 1874; v. Almira Hall, born at Santa Barbara, November 2, 1877. 7. Thomas Ward, born May 23, 1829, head tailor for a clothing manufacturing firm in Boston, later in mercantile business, died at Chicago, February 17, 1879. 8. Rev. Rufus Barnard, born July 25, 1831, married at Gales- burg, Illinois, June 27, 1861, Susan A. Ber- gen. daughter of Abram S. and Fidelia (El- dridge) Bergen ; she was born in Ottawa, Illi- nois, August 17, 1838; graduate of Knox
College, Galesburg, and of the Chicago Theo- logical Seminary; pastor of the Congrega- tional church at Sterling, Kansas; died De- cember 31, 1888; children : i. George Albert, born at Galesburg, September 28, 1863, presi- dent of National Bank of Sabetha, Kansas ; ii. Harry Lyman, born at Galva, Illinois, August 19, 1865; iii. Fanny Fidelia, born April 30, 1867, married, May 3, 1887, Melvin L. Laybourn, of Lyndon, Kansas; iv. Will- iam Rufus, born February II, 1869, bank cashier; v. Roy Bergen, born December I, 1871, secretary of Illinois Home Missionary Society ; vi. Susie May, born May 23, 1876; vii. Jessie Swift, born at Seneca, Kansas, April 27, 1880. 9. Harriet Maria, born No- vember 8, 1834, died April 13, 1836.
(VII) Asa Guild, son of Calvin Guild (6), was born at West Halifax, Vermont, October 27, 1818. He was educated in the common schools, and became a merchant. They re- sided at Heath, Massachusetts, and Milford, New Hampshire. He was a Whig in politics ; a Congregationalist in religion. He married (first), June 12, 1850, Harriet E. Fuller ; mar- ried (second), September 29, 1852, Catherine Amelia Smith, who was born December 9, 1828, died January II, 1898. He died at Mil- ford, New Hampshire, January 29, 1858. His wife was a descendant of Lieutenant Samuel Smith, of Hadley, Massachusetts, who com- manded troops in King Philip's war, and great-granddaughter of Lieutenant Benjamin Maxwell, born in Bedford, Massachusetts, who took part in the battle of Bunker Hill. Her parents were Aaron and Azubah (Miller) Smith, of Heath, Massachusetts. The only child of Asa and Catherine Amelia Guild was : Edward Payson, born March 14, 1857, men- tioned below.
(VIII) Edward Payson Guild, son of Asa Guild (7), was born at Milford, New Hamp- shire, March 14, 1857. He attended the pub- lic schools and graduated in 1877 from the scientific department of Williston Seminary, Easthampton, Massachusetts. He taught in the public schools for three years, was a news- paper reporter and correspondent, then en- gaged in the publishing and advertising busi- ness in Boston. For several years he was business manager of the Atlantic Monthly, and at present is secretary of The Living Age Company and conducts a special advertising agency in Boston. In literary work Mr. Guild has been a contributor to various magazines and papers. In 1885 he edited the "Centennial History of Heath, Massachusetts." In 1902 he was elected first president of the Heath
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