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of John Browne, an early settler of Ipswich, Massachusetts. Her mother, Lydia Waters (Richardson) Brown, was born in Danvers, Massachusetts, August 18, 1800, daughter of Seth and Hannah (Waters) Richardson. Seth Richardson was also a soldier in the Revolu- tion. Children of Captain Henry A. and Lydia S. Ballard : I. Harry Parker, born May 13, 1856; mentioned below. 2. Minna Waters, born at Yokohama, Japan, December 1, 1865; married John F. Parker, of Malden, son of John H. Parker, October 24, 1888; daughter, Marjorie Gilmore, born November 15, 1889. John F. Parker died June 5, 1890.
(XV) Major Harry Parker Ballard, son of Captain Henry Archer Ballard (14), was born in Salem, May 13, 1856. When he was a young child the family moved to Japan, and he spent the years of his early childhood and youth in that country and China, receiving his first instruction from private teachers. In No- vember, 1867, his father returned to this coun- try and made his home at Malden, Massachu- setts, and the son attended the public schools in that town. In 1871 he left school and be- gan his business career as office boy in the em- ploy of the Boston Rubber Shoe Company at Malden. He won promotion to positions of responsibility in this concern, and is at present assistant treasurer of the corporation, a posi- tion requiring extensive knowledge of busi- ness and financial affairs, sound judgment and absolute integrity. The same capacity and force of character that advanced him in busi- ness has won Major Ballard distinction in military life. He enlisted in the Second Corps of Cadets of Salem in 1873. He was elected captain of Company L, Fifth Regiment Massa- chusetts Volunteer Militia, located at Malden, in 1883, serving in that capacity until 1886. He was adjutant of his regiment from 1888 to 1897 ; major from 1897 to 1901, when he was appointed inspector of the Second Brigade of Massachusetts Militia with the rank of major, retiring finally from the militia in 1904. He is well and favorably known by the officers and men of the state militia of the commonwealth as an active, alert, and efficient officer. Major Ballard is a Republican in politics, and a man of influence in his party, but has never sought public office. He is past master of Converse Lodge of Free Masons; member of Taber- nacle Chapter, Royal Arch Masons, of Mel- rose ; of the Council, Royal and Select Mas- ters; of Beauseant Commandery, Knights Templar, and has held office in the command- ery. He has been district deputy grand mas- ter of the Seventh Masonic District of Massa-
chusetts. He is also a member of the Kern- wood Club of Malden. In religion he is a Baptist.
He married first, Lila Parker, born Novem- ber 6, 1857, died May 14, 1895, daughter of Charles F. Parker, and niece of John H. Parker (see sketch in this work). Major Ballard married second, May II, 1898, Mabel E. Thorpe, of West Newton, Massachusetts, born June 25, 1872, daughter of Joseph H. and Mary (White) Thorpe. Her father was born in Digby, Nova Scotia, and came to the United States about 1860. His mother was Rebecca (Eaton) Thorpe, of a leading Nova. Scotia family. The Thorpe family came from England to New England among the first set- tlers, and a branch of the family located later in Nova Scotia. Joseph H. Thorpe was a dry goods merchant at Westerly, Rhode Island, and in Naugatuck, Connecticut, and died June 16, 1895, at Westerly. His wife, who died at Malden, Massachusetts, November 12, 1906, was a daughter of Keith White, born April 9, 1810, died July 20, 1873, a prosperous farmer of Brattleborough, Vermont; he married first, April 27, 1831, Laura J. Robbins, who died in 1835 ; second, December 23, 1836, Mary Howe Goodall, who died in 1840; third, in 1843, Elizabeth Rice Goodall, born November 4, 1816, died December 4, 1883.
Children of Major Harry P. and Lila Bal- lard : I. Edith Parker, born in Malden, Decem- ber 30, 1887. 2. Albert Parker, born in Mal- den, April 4, 1894. Child of Major Harry P. and Mabel E. Ballard : 3. Joseph Thorpe, born in Malden, January 10, 1902.
Thomas Battell (I), immi- BATTLES grant ancestor of James Mon- roe Battles, superintendent of St. Mary's House for Sailors, of the Episco- pal City Mission, East Boston, was of French ancestry, and was born in England, about 1620. He was the progenitor of a numerous posterity, some of whom changed the family name to Battles. He was in Dedham, Massa- chusetts, in 1642, was admitted a townsman 1648, to the church January 22, 1653-4, and as freeman May 3, 1654. In 1664 he was in Sud- bury, but returned to Dedham in 1674. He married, September 5, 1648, Mary, daughter of Joshua Fisher, of Dedham, granddaughter of Anthony Fisher, of Syleham, Essex coun- ty, England. She died August 6, 1691; he died February 8, 1705-6. Children: I. Mary, born May 6, 1650, married John Bryant. 2 John, born July 1, 1653, see forward. 3.
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Sarah, born August 8, 1654, married Silas Titus. 4. Jonathan, born July 24, 1658, mar- ried, April 15, 1690, Mary Onion. 5. Martha, born August 19, 1660, died aged fourteen.
(II) John Battles, son of Thomas Battell {I), was born in Dedham, July I, 1653, died September 30, 1713. He married, November 18, 1678, Hannah Holbrook, at Dedham. He settled in his native town. Children, born in Dedham : I. Hannah, July 26, 1680. 2. Mary, March 12, 1684. 3. John, April 17, 1689. 4. Ebenezer, January 2, 1692.
(III) John Battles, son of John Battles (2), was born in Dedham, April 17, 1689. He set- tled in Plymouth, Massachusetts. He married Mary Children : I. Jonathan, born 1718. 2. Martha, born 1720. 3. John, born 1721. 4. Edward, born 1723. 5. Mary, born 1726. 6. Bathsheba, born 1728. 7. Timothy, born 1730. 8. Rebecca, born 1732. 9. Samuel, born 1734. 10. Joshua.
(IV) John Battles, son of John Battles (3), was born in Plymouth, 1721. He married in Stoughton, September 22, 1749, Hannah, daughter of Edward Curtis. He removed from Plymouth to the North Parish of Bridgewater (now East Stoughton) near the original home of the family. He was a mason by trade. He served on the school committee of Stoughton, where he was a prominent resident. He con- structed the first iron furnace in Plymouth, and erected at Stoughton Corner, for his own occupancy, the first brick house in Norfolk county. This house was destroyed by fire in 1892, but the walls are still standing, and attest the workmanlike manner in which they were built. Children, born in Bridgewater : I. John, died young. 2. Jonathan, born 1755, see for- ward. 3. Samuel, married Dorothy Ayer (in- tentions dated March 17, 1776). 4. Asa, born about 17 -; married, April 17, 1788, Mary Pratt ; resided in Bridgewater. 5. Uriah. 6. Edward, removed to Vermont; married, Au- gust 29, 1793, Polly Goldthwait. 7. Curtis, re- moved to Vermont; married Susanna Bates (intentions dated March 16, 1790). 8. Han- nah, married Benjamin Jordan, January 24, 1771. 9. Rebecca, married Daniel Billings (intentions dated January 15, 1777). IO. Susannah, married Benjamin Washburn.
(V) Jonathan Battles, son of John Battles (4), was born in Stoughton or Bridgewater, 1755, died 1830. He was a soldier in the Rev- olution, private in Captain Peter Talbot's com- pany, Colonel Lemuel Robinson's regiment, April 19, 1775; also in Captain Simeon Leach's company, Colonel Benjamin Gill's regiment, and helped fortify Dorchester
Heights in March, 1776; served as sergeant in Captain Job Cushing's company, Lieutenant Colonel Samuel Pierce's regiment, 1779, at Tiverton, Rhode Island; also sergeant in Cap- tain Luke Howell's company, Colonel Nathan Tyler's regiment, 1779-80, in the Rhode Island campaign. He was a lifelong resident of Stoughton, where he carried on farming, and was also engaged in trade. He was specially interested in the schools, and was very active in the church. He married (intentions dated May 31, 1783), Hannah Porter, born 1757, died 1827, a woman of unusual personal at- tractiveness, beauty and charm, as well as of great piety and industry. Children : I. Jona- than, born July 17, 1786; married, April 4, 18II, Maria Dickerman. 2. Hannah, born May 17, 1788. 3-4. Joseph and Benjamin, twins, born July 27, 1790. 5. Betsey, born July II, 1792, died October 1, 1795. 6. Frank, born May 14, 1794; died at Milledgeville, Georgia, July 12, 1819. 7. Cyrus, born August 20, 1796, died April 12, 1872; married Eliza Morton, who died January 2, 1873. 8. Eliza- beth, born August 20, 1799, married, Novem- ber 20, 1820, Lemuel Drake, of Stoughton.
(VI) Benjamin Battles, son of Jonathan Battles (5), was born and reared upon the home farm. In early life he taught school in company with Captain Jesse Pierce, father of Henry L. and Edward L. Pierce, the former of whom was at one time mayor of Boston. While still a young man, in company with his twin-brother Joseph, he was engaged in the manufacture of cotton goods at Canton, Mas- sachusetts, but the factory was soon after closed owing to the business depression result- ing after the war of 1812. Going to Dorches- ter, he was for six years in the employ of the Dorchester Cotton and Iron Company. In 1827 he became connected with the Newmar- ket (New Hampshire) Manufacturing Com- pany, but later moved to a farm in Derry, New Hampshire, upon which he resided for one year. From Derry he removed to a farm in Chelmsford, Massachusetts, and there remain- ed for the rest of his life, which closed in 1858. His wife, Charlotte Smith, born in 1794, a daughter of William Smith, of Stoughton, died in 1883, at the age of nearly ninety years. She was the mother of eight children, of whom those now living are : Mary Elizabeth, widow of Sewall Parkhurst, late of Chelmsford ; John Quincy ; James Monroe, the immediate subject of this sketch ; and Emma A., wife of Bertram Harrison, of Lowell, Massachusetts. The parents in their later years attended the Methodist church.
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(VII) James Monroe Battles, son of Benja- min and Charlotte (Smith) Battles, was born in Newmarket, New Hampshire, March 2, 1830. He received his education in his native town and in Derry, New Hampshire. In 1846 he entered the business office of a large woolen mill in Lowell. He was subsequently advanced from the position of accountant to that of pay- master, and still later to the post of superin- tendent, remaining with the associate com- panies in various capacities for a period of thirty years. Having become interested in re- ligious work, he decided to enter actively into the Episcopal missionary field in Boston, and was selected to superintend the special mission- ary enterprise which has resulted in the estab- lishment of St. Mary's House for Sailors. Of this institution and the excellent work it is accomplishing among seafaring men, the souvenir edition of the Argus-Advocate con- tains the following interesting description :
"This House for Sailors is a part of the Episcopal City Mission, and its attractive ex- terior induces many a seaman to spend his time ashore within its hospitable walls, away from evil influences. The building now occu- pied for this commendable charity is a hand- some brick structure, built in 1893, through the donations of benevolent people, and archi- tecturally an ornament to East Boston, al- though its location near the docks makes it scarcely. familiar to many. This institution, the scope of whose work is far reaching, owes its inception to Mr. and Mrs. James Monroe Battles, who first held services for sailors in a tenement house in Haynes street, in 1889, and who for many years superintended the good work in the new house. The increasing attendance called for larger accommodations, and in 1890 the location was changed to the corner of Webster and Cottage streets, where the work was continued until the present building was completed.
"The House is a congenial resort for sailors and immigrants, who are visited on shipboard and made to feel at home while under the hos- pitable roof of the mission. Small sums are charged to those who can afford to pay for the various accommodations of the place, but none are turned away, and all are treated well, no matter what their nationality, creed or color may be. The management of the institution is exceedingly liberal, and the popularity of the place has been significantly shown by its rapid growth and extension of the scope of its work. The House contains a reading room supplied with a fine library and illustrated papers and magazines, with facilities for cor-
respondence at the writing tables. The game room is generally crowded evenings with hearty sailors, intent on bagatelle, chess or checkers, at the same time drawing comfort from their pipes. There are bath rooms, dormitories for a dozen men, and a class room. The House contains a hall known as Trinity Hall, with a seating capacity of one hundred and fifty, in which Sunday evening services are held, being appropriate to and much ap- preciated by the sailors after having partaken of a lunch and hot coffee in a room below. A gospel service is carried on with hearty sing- ing, a shortened form of prayer, and earnest addresses. Tuesday evenings a temperance meeting is held, and Thursdays a sailors' con- cert. The House has numerous floating libraries, books, magazines and illustrated papers being furnished sailors to take away to sea. The floating library scheme is remark -. ably popular. They are strong boxes with brass handles, lock and key, and contain from fifteen to thirty volumes each. Every library is numbered, and is kept track of in this way : A library is put on board a ship, in charge of some officer or sailor who is responsible for its safe return. The loyalty of the sailor patron of this House in returning books and making remittances for favors and entertainments here, goes far to show the result of the good influences spread among them. That the in- stitution comprises one of Boston's most worthy charities, is easily seen from the vast amount of work accomplished by it. The superintendent, James Monroe Battles, with his excellent helpmeet, has devoted many years of his life to the spiritual and bodily welfare of the common sailor. Largely through his efforts the present thriving institution was founded, and the temporary wants and urgent necessities of thousands of sailors have been alleviated."
He died at his post, June 8, 1901. The good work still goes on. After the death of Mr. Battles, Mrs. Battles took charge for one year, then came to Lowell, and founded the Battles Home for Aged Men, established October 28, 1901. It is located at 15 Belmont street, and is organized under the Massachusetts laws.
In 1866 Mr. Battles married Miss Mary Caroline Eaton, daughter of Richard and Lydia A. (Wheeler) Eaton, of West Cam- bridge, Massachusetts. An uncle of Mrs. Bat- tles stated some years since, he being then an aged man, that their branch of the family formerly lived "down here in Newbury Old Town." The printed records show that Ben- jamin Eaton was admitted to the church in
Christopher Dyer.
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Roxbury in 1709. From Benjamin (3) born in 1683, son of John (2), and grandson of Jonas (I) Eaton, who came from England, was in Watertown in 1643, and settled at Reading in 1647, it is said are descended many Eatons of Boston, Roxbury and Marblehead.
Benjamin Porter Battles, born in 1872, only child of Mr. and Mrs. Battles, died in infancy. Mr. Battles was a member of the Masonic fra- ternity ; also a member of the New England Historic-Genealogical Society. In politics he was a Republican, and served on important committees, but was disinclined to special activity in political affairs.
DYER Deacon Thomas Dyer was born in England, where the record of the Dyer family is to be found as early as I436. The Dyer coat-of- arms was a plain shield surmounted by a wolf's head. Thomas Dyer came from England in 1632 and settled soon after- ward at Weymouth, Massachusetts. He was admitted a freeman there May 29, 1644. He was a cloth worker by trade. He also was an inn-keeper in Weymouth, and was one of the leading citizens of his day. He was a deputy to the general court in 1646 and four years afterward. He was deacon of the Weymouth church. He held various town offices. He died November 16, 1676. His will was dated No- vember 3. 1676, and proved November 13, 1676. He bequeathed to his wife fifty pounds and the estate of her former husband at Med- field. He bequeathed to his children named below, to his grandchildren, to his pastor, Mr. Samuel Torrey, and to the Weymouth church. His estate was valued at two thousand one hundred and three pounds. The widow Eliz- abeth in her will dated November 20, 1678, proved January 31, 1678-79, bequeathed to her sons Abraham and John Harding, daughter Elizabeth Adams, daughter Prudence, son Joseph Dyer and grandchildren. He married Agnes Reed, who died December 4, 1667. He married (second) Elizabeth Frary, widow successively of Abraham Harding, of Med- field, and of John Frary, Jr. She died 1679. Children : 1. Mary, born July 3, 1641, married Samuel White. 2. John, July 10, 1643. 3. Thomas, 1645, died young. 4. Abigail, 1647, died March 13, 1717-8; married Jacob Nash. 5. Sarah, 1649, married John Roggles. 6. Thomas, May 5, 1651. 7. Joseph, November 6, 1653 (twin), married Hannah Frary. 8. Benjamin (twin), November 6, 1653. 9. Wil- liam, born about 1658, mentioned below. IO. Elinor, born about 1660.
(II) William Dyer, son of Deacon Thomas Dyer (I), was born about 1658, at Weymouth. He married Joanna Chard, born August 17, 1667. Children : I. William, born March 23, 1693, died 1750. 2. Christopher, 1701, men- tioned below. 3. Joseph, married Jane Stephens. Probably others.
(III) Christopher Dyer, son of William Dyer (2), was born at Weymouth, Massachu- setts, in 1701. He settled in Abington, an ad- jacent town. He married Hannah Nash, daughter of Ensign James Nash, November 27, 1725. She died 1760. He died August II, 1786. Children : I. Mary, born 1726. 2. Hannah. 3. Christopher, lieutenant, resided at Abington. 4. Sarah. 5. Jacob. 6. Betty. 7. James, mentioned below. The preceding were born between 1726 and 1743.
(IV) James Dyer, son of Christopher Dyer (3), was born at Weymouth, or in the vicinity in 1743, and died October 1, 1843, one hun- dred years old. He married Mercy Small, born August 5, 1755, died December 5, 1817. They lived at . Abington, Massachusetts. He was a soldier in the Revolution, a private in Captain Nathan Snow's company, in which Christopher Dyer, his brother, was second lieutenant, in 1776. He served at Bristol, Rhode Island. He was also in Captain Benja- min Bates's company, Major Cary's regiment, in 1780. He was then of Abington, Massa- chusetts, but later removed to Maine. He re- ceived a grant of land in what became the town of New Sharon, Maine, and as his sons became of age he gave each a farm of one hundred acres. Children of James and Mercy Dyer: I. Captain Reuben, born in Truro or Abington, Massachusetts, March 18, 1778, died in Maine, August 9, 1862 ; married Mary Knowles, born March 18, 1778, died August 30, 1854; settled in New Sharon, Maine. 2. Hannah S., June 5, 1780, died October 7, 1869. 3. Christopher, August 29, 1782, men- tioned below. 4. Mercy, December 8, 1784, married James Small, lived and died at Truro, Cape Cod, Massachusetts. 5. James, Jr., May 29, 1787, settled at Abington, Massachusetts, and died there June 13, 1867. 6. Lucy, May 28, 1789, died May 28, 1790. 7. Gideon B., July 17, 1791, died October 28, 1783. 8. John S., November 25. 1793, died February 7, 1844. 9. Nathaniel S., October 31, 1798, died June IO, 1847. IO. Henry, born August 8, 1801, clied March 12, 1881.
(V) Christopher Dyer, son of James Dyer (4), was born in Abington, or Truro, Massa- chusetts, August 29. 1782, died at New Shar- on, Maine, May 5, 1879, aged ninety-six years,
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eight months. He went with his father to New Sharon, Maine, and settled there on a farm given him by his father when he came of age. He enlisted in the War of 1812, and late in life received a pension from the gov- ernment for his service. He was representa- tive to the general court of Massachusetts, and when the state of Maine was set off from that state, he was a delegate of both sessions to the constitutional convention. He married, Sep- tember 9, 1809, Susan Gordon, born June 2, 1792, died October 19, 1844.
Children : 1. John W., born September 15, 1810, died November 19, 1866, aged fifty- seven years ; married, November 29, 1842, Roxanna W. Bean, born in New Sharon, Maine, October 10, 1820, died February 25, 1895, daughter of Ivory and Philena ( Savage) Bean, the former of whom was born in Lewis- ton, Maine, May 7, 1791, the latter in Read- field, Maine, October 12, 1796; Mr. and Mrs. Bean were married December 29, 1814. Chil- dren of John W. and Roxanna W. (Bean) Dyer : i. Susan M., born February 17, 1845, married, May 15, 1872, L. G. M. Fletcher ; ii. Ivory B., born July 16, 1846, died June 12, 1849; iii. Ivory B., born April 1, 1850; iv. Hiram T., born February 24, 1853; v. Rosie M., born January 7, 1857. 2. Mercy, born December 26, 1811, died June 10, 1905 ; mar- ried Alonzo Walker; children : Christopher, died January, 1907; Ann, deceased ; Priscilla, Mrs. Edgar, of Rochester, Minnesota ; Henry, of Livermore Falls, Maine, proprietor of a shoe store. 3. Mary A., born February 19, 1814, died August 21, 1880, unmarried. 4. Lucy, born December 27, 1815, died 1890; married a Mr. Mooers, of Farmington ; one son, Jabez, resident of New Sharon, Maine ; mar- ried twice and was the father of three chil- dren : Flora, Susan, John. 5. Henry E., born September 18, 1818, died 1878, aged sixty years ; married Laura Cram, daughter of Gen- eral Cram; one son, Henry E., living in Maine. 6. Perwilla B., born April 30, 1821, married Eastman Page. 7. Christopher W., see forward. 8. Susan M., born October 14, 1825, died August 31, 1844, unmarried. 9. Charles H., born December II, 1827, died 1876; married Nellie, daughter of Major Goodridge, of New Sharon, Maine, and (second) Miss War, daughter of Judge War. IO. Frances A., born June 9, 1830, living ; married George Wingate Chase, of Haverhill, Massachusetts, the historian. They had four children : Charles, Abbie, deceased; Sarah ; George, died 1905. Mrs. Chase and daughter Sarah and son Charles reside in Dorchester,
Massachusetts, at the present time. II. Pris- cilla S., born November 7, 1834, died October 15, 1843.
(VI) Christopher Willshire Dyer, third son and seventh child of Christopher Dyer (5), was born in New Sharon, Maine, September 7, 1823, and died in Malden, Massachusetts, February 26, 1890. He was educated in his native town, and was a teacher and was princi- pal of a high school before he was twenty-one years old, teaching from seventeen to twenty- one. He engaged in the business of a ship chandler and ship brokerage in Augusta, Maine, when a young man and was a success- ful foreign merchant there. In 1856 he came to Boston and engaged in the millinery busi -. ness there. He made his home that same year in Malden and resided there for the remainder of his life. He was a Whig and Republican in politics, a faithful worker with the party, but always declined public office. In religion he was a Congregationalist, as were his fathers before him for many generations. He was a member for many years of Mount Vernon Lodge of Free Masons, but of no other organ- izations. He was a man of strong character and sterling integrity, commanding the respect of his associates in business and of all his townsmen.
He married, February 27, 1849, Harriet Elizabeth Soule, born July 14, 1826, at New Sharon, Maine, died at Malden, June 10, 1907, daughter of Phineas and Betsey (Noyes) Soule, of New Sharon. Her father is de- scended from a "Mayflower" ancestor, George Soule, the first ancestor to come to this coun- try. Children: I. Horace Edwin, born De- cember 14, 1849, mentioned below: 2. Hattie Priscilla, born in Augusta, Maine, February 8, 1852, educated in Malden public grammar and high schools, is a milliner with a parlor in Temple Place, Boston, enjoying an exclusive and extensive patronage; she resides in the old home in Malden and is well-known in church and society there.
(VII) Horace Edwin Dyer, son of Christo- pher W. Dyer (6), was born in Augusta, Maine, December 14, 1849. He was educated in the public schools of Malden, whither his parents removed when he was a young boy. He is at present the assistant cashier of the Boston Belting Company. He resides in Andover, Massachusetts, though his business is in Boston, and has a large farm which he carries on. He is a Republican in politics. He divides his time between his home on the farm and his business in the city, and belongs to no clubs or organizations.
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He married (first) Mary L. Sleeper, born May 27, 1855, died December 8, 1894, daugh- ter .of Nancy J. Vinton. He married (second), July 26, 1896, Hattie Pringle Jeffrey, of Read- ing, Massachusetts, born July 26, 1875, daugh- ter of May P. Deadman. Children of Horace Edwin and Mary L. Dyer: Grace Elizabeth, born November 26, 1877, married Edward Webb, of Reading, Massachusetts; she died June 4, 1907 ; children : Edwin Dyer Webb, born at Hartford, Connecticut, September 26, 1901. Raymond Barnes Webb, born January 1, 1905. 2. Leon Orrin, born February 9, 1880, in Malden. 3. Lottie May, born April, 1882, died June, 1883. 4. Edith May, born October 12, 1884, died April 3, 1886. 5. Ed- win Christopher, born April 18, 1888, died April 16, 1889. 6. Henry Albert, born August 15, 1891, in Reading, Massachusetts, educated in the Reading public schools and at Andover. Child of Horace E. and Hattie Pringle Dyer : 7. Christopher W., born in Andover, Massa- chusetts, October 27, 1902.
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