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In 1785 Winthrop had become too thickly settled for his business of hunting and trap- ping, and he struck out into the wilderness to make a new home, at what is now Leeds, Maine. On the Stinchfield Cape on the north side of the Dead river between its bends nearly opposite the carrying place some stones and a few bricks which he used for his fireplace still remain to show where his hunt- ing camp was located. The spot is called "Old Foster's Camp" to this day. There he built a log house and moved his wife and two sons, Stephen and John. The house was lo- cated on the south shore of Foster's brook, a few rods east of where the road crosses it at the extreme southeast border of Androscog- gin Lake. His farm was redeemed from the wilderness and has ever since remained in the family. It is now or was lately occupied by his granddaughter, Mrs. Orrie (Foster) Davis. But farming was an incident in his life, the main vocation of which was hunting in the seasons. He was very expert with his traps and his gun, and was widely known. He was a member of the Society of Friends and con- formed to their dress and habits. His death was caused by poisoning from eating what he declared not to be dogwood, but which proved to be fatally poisonous. At the time he was on his way to Augusta, whither he walked to get his pension. He met Zadoc Bishop, who
asked him as an expert in woodcraft to tell him the name of a suspicious looking shrub. He was positive that the bush was not poison- ous, but, soon after eating some of the leaves, he fell violently ill and died at the house of a relative, being unable to get home. He was buried in the Fairbanks cemetery in Win- throp, Maine, and not long ago a suitable headstone was erected to mark the spot, in- scribed with the simple declarations: "He was a Soldier of the Revolution;" "The First Christian Child born in this Plantation."
He married Sally Streeter. Children: I. Stephen, Jr., born 1784-85, at Winthrop, Maine, married Adeline Drake; residence, West Leeds and LaGrange, Maine. 2. John, born 1786, at Winthrop, married, 1801, Pris- cilla Gilbert; residence at Leeds; he died Oc- tober 16, 1853; she died February 6, 1861. 3. Timothy, born December 3, 1787, married, 1806, Nancy Morse; resided in the Foster homestead; died July 27, 1867; widow died October 2, 1871. 4. Sally, born at Leeds, in 1790, married, June, 1809, Ebenezer Libby : settled at Leeds. 5. Abigail, born 1800, mar- ried Lewis Jennings (See sketch of Jennings family). 6. Hannah, born at Leeds, January 8, 1804, married Daniel Irish; she died Sep- tember 27, 1888. 7. Ann, born August 28, 1807, married, December 22, 1822, Robert Crummett, of Leeds, inn-keeper.
Walter Piper, progenitor of the
PIPER Piper family of this lineage, was born about 1720. He married
Miriam and among their children was Walter, born May 5, 1745, mentioned below. (II) Walter Piper, son of Walter Piper (I), was born May 5, 1745, married, April 16, 1769, Sarah Everden. He was a ship- rigger by trade ; lived in Newburyport, Mas- sachusetts, and came to Boston in 1798 to help rig the famous Constitution, "Old Ironsides." He died April 13, 1806, before the ship won its greatest triumphs, but not before it became famous in the war with Tripoli in 1803. His wife Sarah died September 27, 1798. Among the children of Walter and Sarah Piper was William, mentioned below.
(III) William Piper, son of Walter Piper (2), was born in Newburyport, Massachu- setts, probably about 1775. He resided in Newburyport and married, December 23, 1798, Mary Randall, who died August 4, 1817. Among their children was George Car- leton Piper, mentioned below.
(IV) George Carleton Piper, son of Will-
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iam Piper (3), was born in Newburyport, Massachusetts, March II, 1812, died June 21, 1874. Married, January 22, 1835, Susan Stuart, who was born March 19, 1816, died May 28, 1905. They resided in Boston, Mas- sachusetts. His occupation was merchant. Among his children was Henry Augustus, born December 29, 1836, mentioned below.
(V) Henry Augustus Piper, son of George Carleton Piper (4), was born in Marlborough, Massachusetts, where his mother was visiting her father, December 29, 1836. He was edu- cated in the public schools of Boston. He began his business career in September, 1852, as a clerk for the firm of Dutton, Richardson & Company, jobbers of dry goods, Boston. Except for the time he was absent on a west- ern trip he remained with this firm until 1859, when he entered the employ of Jewett, Ten- netts & Company in the same line of trade. He was with this house until January 1, 1873, when he was employed by the firm of Sargent Brothers & Company in the same line. In 1878 he became an expert accountant and auditor of accounts in business for himself with offices in Boston. His business has prospered and he numbers among his clients many large corporations. His office at present is at 953 Old South Building, Boston. Mr. Piper's home is in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where he has lived fifty years. He attends the Uni- tarian church.
He married (first), March 14, 1860, Mary Gould Roby, of Cambridge, who died Febru- ary 15, 1884, daughter of William and Mary Gould (Terrell) Roby. He married (sec- ond), December 3, 1885, Lillian Maria Clark, of Cambridge, born April 29, 1851, daughter of Chester Nelson and Mary E. (Glover) Clark. Children of Henry A. and Mary G. Piper : I. Henry Carleton, born October 5, 1862, married Jennie Olive Sawin (see sketch of Sawin family in this work for her ances- try) ; he is of the firm of Henry W. Peabody & Co., of Boston and New York City, resid- ing in Australia; children: i. Margaret, born May 25, 1892; ii. Warrene, born February 8, 1898. 2. Mary Stuart, born December 23, 1867, married Charles W. Barnes, of New Rochelle, New York; no children. 3. War- rene Roby, born June 23, 1876, married Bryan Scott Palmer; no children. Children of Henry A. and Lillian Maria Piper : 4. Eleanor, born May 9, 1887, student in Welles- ley College. 5. Madelene, born May 17, 1888, student in Wellesley College.
Casper Berry was born Novem- BERRY ber 29, 1846, in Switzerland, and was educated in the schools of his native place. He came to the United States in 1870, and found employment first in Newark, New Jersey. In 1878 he removed to Somerville, Massachusetts, and engaged in business on his own account in bottling beer. After a year or two he removed his place of business to the adjoining city of Cambridge, and later, to 84 Leverett street, Boston. He prospered in business from the outset and in a few years his Boston quarters were inade- quate for his business. He built a large five- story brick building adjoining his establish- ment on Leverett street, and still further en- larged his plant. His business has grown until it is now the most extensive in his line in Boston. His success has been gained chiefly by hard work and close attention to. business, while practicing fair dealing with all men and giving goods of the very best quality. Mr. Berry carries a fine line of liquors, ales and beer, his brand of ale and beer being deemed a standard for others to copy and strive to imitate. Incidentally Mr. Berry's business success has made him a man of large property interests. He resides in a very handsome house at 24 Highland avenue, Cambridge, Massachusetts. He is well known and popu- lar in Masonic circles. A member of Ger- mania Lodge, Free Masons of Boston ; of Sig- net Chapter, Royal Arch Masons; of Coeur de Leon Commandery, Knights Templar; of the Order of the Mystic Shrine, Aleppo Tem- ple, Boston. He belongs to various German social organizations. He is the father of four children : John G., educated in the public and high schools of Cambridge, now asso- ciated in business with his father. Elizabeth. May. Anna, married A. Beatty, who is en- gaged in the phosphate mining business of Florida.
John Hopewell, merchant .
HOPEWELL and manufacturer, was born at Greenfield, Frank- lin county, Massachusetts, February 2, 1845, eldest son of John and Catherine (Mahoney) Hopewell. His father was a native of Lon- don, England, who came to the United States at fourteen years of age, and settled in Phila- delphia, where he learned the cutler's trade, and later moved to Greenfield, Massachusetts: He was said to be a good mechanic, a great
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lover of books, and a well-read man. The son attended the public schools until he was four- teen years of age, at which time he took up the trade of his father, entering the employ of Messrs. Lamson & Goodnow, manufacturers of table cutlery in Shelburne Falls, Massachu- setts, where he remained three years, mean- while continuing his studies when opportunity afforded by attending night school. In 1860 he removed to Springfield, Massachusetts, where for a while he was with the Wason Manufacturing Company, and when the Civil war began he secured a position in the United States armory, and the information he gained from study and reading done outside of work- ing hours enlarged his ideals and stimulated his ambition. Becoming convinced that there were other and higher objects in life than the receiving of a daily wage with contentment, he determined to fit himself for a larger ca- reer, and carrying out this determination he resigned his position, and entered a business college in Springfield. His first experience in a mercantile business was as agent for a publishing house in Albany, New York, but his employers met with misfortune, and he re- turned to Springfield, where he secured a position with Josiah Cummings, a manufac- turer of saddlery. Preferring to work di- rectly for the manufacturers, he made an ar- rangement with L. C. Chase & Company, of Boston, to be their travelling representative. This business was organized in 1847 by Lucius C. Chase and Henry F. Chase for the manufacture of saddlery and horse clothing, and in 1847 they joined with Thomas Goodall, of Sanford, Maine, and built Sanford Mills for the manufacture of plush carriage robes and furniture plush, becoming the pioneer manufacturers of this material in America. L. C. Chase & Company became the selling agents, and the business grew rapidly, Mr. Hopewell being an important factor in its growth, and in 1875 he was made a partner in the firm of L. C. Chase & Company, and in 1885 bought out the business and became the head of the firm and treasurer of Sanford Mills, whose plant covered acres of ground. The mills which L. C. Chase & Company rep- resent at the present time are Sanford Mills, Sanford, Maine; Troy Blanket Mills, Troy, New Hampshire; Reading Rubber Manufac- turing Company, Reading, Massachusetts ; Holyoke Plush Company, Holyoke, Massa- chusetts, and L. C. Chase & Company, Cam- bridge. L. C. Chase & Company have branch offices in New York, Chicago, Cincinnati, St. Louis, San Francisco and London. Upon ob-
taining control, the old firm name was re- tained, Mr. Hopewell having associated in the business with him his brother Frank, and Mr. O. F. Kendall. In 1905 the following part- ners were added: Frank B. Hopewell, John E. Nelson, William H. Mertz and William P. Underhill.
Mr. Hopewell is a typical example of the self-made man. Without influence of friends, he has worked his way up from the bottom round of the ladder by painstaking, persistent hard work until he has achieved a reputation as one of the leading manufacturers and busi- ness men of a country whose captains of in- dustry lead the world. Mr. Hopewell has also been identified with other interests outside of his own business, and has held many positions of responsibility and trust. He is president of the Reading Rubber Manufacturing Com- pany, manufacturers of all kinds of rubber ducks and drills; president of the Electric Goods Manufacturing Company, a large elec- trical manufacturing business of Boston and Canton, Massachusetts; director of the First National Bank of Boston. Always interested in political subjects, especially those connected with the manufacturing interests of New England, he was one of the organizers of the Home Market Club of Boston, and has served as a member of its executive committee or a director ever since its organization. He rep- resented his district in the general court of Massachusetts in 1892, and was offered the candidacy for the Republican nomination as congressman, but declined the honor. He was also a delegate to the Republican National Convention at St. Louis in 1896, which nomi- nated William McKinley. He is a member of the Cambridge Club, the Citizen's Trade As- sociation, and the Cambridge Republican Club, all of which he has served as president ; the Algonquin Club of Boston, the Boston Art Club, the Boston Athletic Association, and the Colonial Club of Cambridge.
Mr. Hopewell married, October 20, 1870, Sarah W., daughter of Charles Blake, of Springfield, Massachusetts, and had five chil- dren : Charles Frederick, Frank Blake, Mabel Gertrude, Nellie Harriet and Henry Chase. While he has been an unusually busy man, he has spent considerable time in travel through- out the United States, Europe and the Medi- terranean. In addition to a beautiful resi- dence in Newton, he has a country estate at Natick, Massachusetts, where he gratifies his taste for agriculture and the breeding of Guernsey cattle.
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Louis Breeden, father of
BREEDEN George Breeden, real estate dealer in Newtonville, Mas- sachusetts, and son of Abner Breeden, was born in Reading, Middlesex county, Massachusetts, and married Mary Baird, of Billerica. Louis Breeden was a boot and shoe dealer in Charles- town, a Unitarian in religious affiliation and independent in politics.
George Breeden, son of Louis and Mary (Baird) Breeden, was born in Charlestown, Massachusetts, December 29, 1846. He was graduated at the high school in Winchester, Massachusetts, and engaged in the manufac- ture of novelties in wood in company with J. J. Micyutt, on Wareham street, Boston, and subsequently in the lumber business with Skillings, Whitney Brothers & Barnes, with offices at No. 7 Kilby street, on the land now occupied by the Exchange Building. On re- moving to Newtonville he engaged in the real estate business, and was an officer in the second ward of the city of Newton for many years. He was a Mason of high degree, being past commander of Gethsemene Commandery, Knights Templar, and of Union Commandery, Knights Templar, of Rhode Island ; a member of the Massachusetts Consistory, Boston Coun- cil, Amiable Blue Lodge, Cambridge, and Newton Royal Arch Chapter. He never mar- ried, and made his home in Newton with his brother Louis Breeden, at 75 Walker street, Newtonville. His sister, Helen Morton Breeden, married F. J. Seidenstecker, and re- sided in 1907 at 178 Thornton street, Roxbury, and another sister, Mary R. Breeden, married Thomas Emerson, and resided in 1907 at 60 Brookside avenue, Newtonville.
John Sherburne was born SHERBURNE at Oldham, in Hamp- shire, England, and bap- tized there as son of Joseph Sherburne, August 13, 1615, and died at Portsmouth, New Hampshire, in the autumn of 1693. He was the first of the Sherburnes in New England. He early appears on the town records of Portsmouth ("Strawberry Banke") as a grantee of a house lot next to his brother Henry in 1646. He was assessor in 1653, also then and subsequently, selectman. He was a man of attainments, held many town offices, was on numerous important committees, and was a useful citizen of Portsmouth for fifty years. He was a large land holder and ac- cumulated in Portsmouth, Greenland and elsewhere, by purchase and by grants, an
estate of several hundred acres, and left his sons considerable estates. In 1675 he was sergeant of the militia. He was executor, in 1664, of the estate of his wife's father, Robert Tucke, "chirurgeon," of Hampton. His will was dated November 12, 1691, and proved November 27, 1693. He mentions wife Elizabeth, sons John and Henry, daughters Elizabeth and Mary, and his "cozen" (i. e. nephew) Samuel Sherburne, of Hampton, de- ceased, and his father-in-law, Robert Tucke. He married, about 1645-46, Elizabeth Tucke, daughter of Robert Tucke, of Hampton. He died probably in October, 1693, his wife sur- viving him. Children: I. Elizabeth, born about 1646-47, perhaps married Thomas Sleeper, of Hampton. 2. John, born 1650, mentioned below. 3. Mary. 4. Henry, born 1666, of "the plains," Portsmouth.
(II) Captain John Sherburne, son of John Sherburne (1), was born in 1650. He was of "the plains," Portsmouth, and appears as a taxpayer July 17, 1671. He held various minor offices and was selectman in 1694, and several years after. He was lieutenant of the militia in 1704, and so styled until 1715, when he was called Captain, by which title he con- tinued to be known. He was a large land- holder in Portsmouth, Greenland, and the new towns of Barrington and Loudon. He and his wife Mary covenanted to form the old North Church in 1671, and he was after- wards a deacon there. His will was dated December 17, 1723, and proved at Exeter, February 16, 1731. He married (first), about 1671, Mary Jackson, who died before 1720, daughter of Thomas and Hannah (Johnson) Jackson, of Portsmouth. He married (sec- ond) (probably), October 20, 1720, Mary Moses, widow of Aaron Moses. He died in 1730, aged about eighty years. Children, all by the first wife: I. Priscilla, born 1673. 2. Elizabeth, born 1676, married John Cate. 3. Hannah, born 1680, married Abraham Jones, of Portsmouth. 4. John, born 1686. 5. James, born 1688, mentioned below. 6. Thomas, born 1689. 7. Ruth, born 1695, married, August 13, 1713. Thomas Ayres, of Green- land. 8. Samuel, born August 10, 1698. 9. Ephraim, born 1702, died 1781 at Lee, New Hampshire. 10. Mary, born 1704, married Peter Matthews.
(III) Deacon James Sherburne, son of Captain John Sherburne (2), was born in 1688. He was a surveyor many years, a planter, and a considerable landholder in new towns and Portsmouth. He sealed his deeds with the arms of the Sherburnes of Stonyhurst. He
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was in covenant with the church at Green- land, New Hampshire, in 1712, and deacon of the South Church, Portsmouth, 1715 to 1732. He married, June 23, 1709, Margaret Roe or Rowe, probably daughter of William Rowe. She was a member of the North Church in 1707. He died November 7, 1760, and in his will, proved November 26, 1760, he gave his entire estate to his "dear wife Margaret," with reversion to his son George, except five hun- dred pounds to his son Thomas, and mentions all his other children except Isaac and Abi- gail. Children: I. Sarah, born 1710, baptized August 6, 1710, in North Church; died before 1760; married, September 7, 1732, Jeremiah Holmes, of Portsmouth. 2. Hannah, baptized April 17, 1712, married Lieutenant Enoch Gove, of Hampton Falls; died 1759. 3. A daughter, baptized April 25, 1714, died young. 4. James, born January 6, 1714, baptized March 13, 1716, mentioned below. 5. Mar- garet, baptized in South Church, November 17, 1717; married Captain Samuel Johnson, of Greenland. 6. George, baptized August 9, 1719, married Abigail Remick, of Kittery, Maine. 7. Jethro, born 1719, lived in Bar- rington, New Hampshire; died 1763. 8. Mary, baptized August 27, 1721, married John Sav- age, of Portsmouth. 9. Isaac, baptized Sep- tember 15, 1723, probably died young. 10. Thomas, baptized August 8, 1725, married, February 15, 1749, Sarah Johnson, of Green- land. II. Abigail, baptized July 4, 1727, probably died young.
(IV) Deacon James Sherburne, son of Deacon James Sherburne (3), was born in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, January 6, 1714, and baptized March 13, 1716, in the South Church of Portsmouth. He settled in Pelham, New Hampshire, and was a planter and chairmaker there. Like his father he was a great speculator in land in Portsmouth and in new town sites, and he built up a hand- some fortune. He was deacon of the South Church of Portsmouth in 1755, but removed from town that year or the next, locating in Pelham, where he owned much land. He also had land in Nottingham West, New Hamp- shire, Dunstable and Tyngsborough, Massa- chusetts. He was associated at one time with Ebenezer Odiorne in the manufacture of gigs or riding chairs at Portsmouth. He married, August 31, 1731, Sarah Gray, daughter of Deacon and Captain John Gray, of Bidde- ford, Maine. She died at Pelham, New Hampshire, December 9, 1760, aged forty- eight years. He married (second). January 7, 1762, Anna Hamblet, daughter of Joseph
Hamblet, of Pelham. He had nine children by his first wife, but of his five sons only the two given below lived to maturity. He had no issue by the second marriage. He died June I, 1798, aged eighty-four years. Children: I. Benjamin, born August 13, 1732, died 1808; resided in Pelham, New Hampshire, and Gloucester, Massachusetts; was a soldier in the Revolution, at the battle of Saratoga in 1777 in Captain Amos Gage's company, Colonel Daniel Moore's regiment; married, April 22, 1766, Mary Cavendish, daughter of Captain Thomas Cavendish, of Marblehead; son James Sherburne (6), of Tyngsborough, Massachusetts, was grandfather of Edward Raymond Sherburne, of Boston, who com- piled much of the data here given. 2. Lieu- tenant William, born 1755, mentioned below. (V) Lieutenant William Sherburne, son of Deacon James Sherburne (4), was born in Pelham, New Hampshire, in 1755. He mar- ried, in 1776, Sarah Butterfield, born January 17, 1759, died October 23, 1833, daughter of Reuben Butterfield (4), born at Tyngs- borough, October 1, 1727, and his wife Mary (Richardson) Butterfield, born April 18, 1728. Reuben was captain of a company in the Revolution and served in most of the import- ant battles; died on his farm at Tyngs- borough, February 22, 1816. Lieutenant Joseph Butterfield, father of Captain Reuben (4), was born at Chelmsford, June 6, 1680; married Sarah Fletcher, daughter of Ezekiel Fletcher, November 2, 1711; bought the Scar- lett farm in company with his neighbor, Jo- seph Perham. This farm contained a thous- and acres adjoining Dracut, now in Tyngs- borough, and Butterfield erected a house with a stockade there in 1757, and there six gener- ations of his descendants have lived, the farm being still owned by descendants. Joseph Butterfield (2), father of Lieutenant Joseph (3), was born in Woburn, August 15, 1649; removed to Chelmsford; married, February 12, 1674, Lydia Ballard, daughter of Joseph. The immigrant ancestor, father of Joseph Butterfield (2), was Benjamin Butterfield (I), born in England, came to Charlestown in 1638, was admitted freeman in 1643; taxed in 1645 in Woburn, occupied with others at Wamesit a tract six miles square, incorpor- ated as Chelmsford in 1655, now part of ward four of the city of Lowell, Massachusetts; bought with others the Governor Dudley farm at Billerica; wife died 1661 and he mar- ried (second), June 3, 1663, Hannah Whit- more, of Cambridge. Children of Lieutenant William and Sarah Sherburne: I. William,
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mentioned below. 2. John, father of William Sherburne, Esq., of Charlestown, Massachu- setts, one of the compilers of the Sherburne records here given. 3. Reuben B., father of the Boston millionaires, Reuben and Warren Sherburne.
(VI) William Sherburne, son of Lieutenant William Sherburne (5), was born April 6, 1785, in Pelham, New Hampshire. He served in the War of 1812 on guard duty. He mar- ried, March, 1815, Betsey Parham. Children: I. William Parham, born November 17, 1815, died 1817. 2. Warren, February 6, 1817, mentioned below. 3. Betsey, December, 1818. 4. Sarah, September 26, 1820. 5. William October 1, 1822. 6. Ruth, September 13, 1824. 7. James, May 28, 1826. 8. Harriet Matilda, January 14, 1828.
(VII) Warren Sherburne, son of William Sherburne (6), was born in Pelham, New Hampshire, February 6, 1817. He was a farmer all his life, at first on the old home- stead near Long Pond. His son, William G. Sherburne, bought the homestead and is now conducting it. He married May 14, 1846, Mehitable Ames, born in Dracut, daughter of Josiah Ames. Children of War- ren and Mehitable (Ames) Sherburne, born at Dracut: I. Elizabeth, born August 4, 1847, died August 24, 1849. 2. Warren Alvah, born March 4, 1850, mentioned below. 3. William Gardner, born July 22, 1852, farmer on the old homestead, Dracut. 4. Abbie Ames, born October 18, 1855, died May 1, 1876. 5. Sarah Blanche, born February 17, 1865.
(VIII) Warren Alvah Sherburne, son of Warren Sherburne (7), was born in Pelham, New Hampshire, March 4, 1850. He was educated in the district schools, and during his youth worked with his father on the farm. At the age of twenty-one he began to work at trade of carpenter. He also followed the trade of painter, and worked at these two trades for some fourteen years. He then bought the farm on which he has since lived, known as the Butterfield Place, Tyngs- borough, Massachusetts. During the Civil war there was a woolen mill, also a shoddy mill and a stocking mill on the place. He has now a well-equipped saw mill, a cider mill and a large carpenter shop, and in connection with his saw mill and business as a builder he con- ducts an extensive lumber business. His lumber yard is near the mill. He is a promi- nent citizen. He has been on the board of selectmen for the past twenty years, also served on the school committee and been an overseer of the poor. He is a Democrat in
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