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(VI) Jonathan Stickney, son of Samuel Stickney (5), was born in Bradford; Massa- chusetts, January 19, 1707; married in Box- ford, June 21, 1734-35, Alice Symonds, proba- bly daughter of Nathaniel of Middletown, Massachusetts. Richard Kimball was appoint- ed guardian of Jonathan, March 2, 1723, when he was eighteen years old. He was admitted
to the Second Church of Bradford, Massachu- setts, May 26, 1728. He was a soldier in the Crown Point expedition under Captain Nehe- mniah Lovewell from April 27 to October 31, 1758, in the French and Indian war. He re- sided in Boxford and Tewksbury, Massachu- setts, and Pelham, New Hampshire, where he died. His son Asa was appointed administra- tor December 14, 1796. His widow died January 26, 1803, aged eighty-six years. Chil- dren: I. Asa, born February I, 1736; died at Boxford, September I, 1736. 2. Daniel, born August 9, 1737; married Susanna Head. 3. Alice, born October 12, 1739; married Rich- ard Woodman. 4. Asa, born December 10, 1742; mentioned below. 5. Abigail, born 1745; married December 16, 1768, Nathaniel Head. 6. Jacob, born June 14, 1748; died November 5, 1749, at Tewksbury. 7. Phebe, born 1750; married Thomas Runnels. 8. Jacob, born December 17, 1753; died Febru- ary 6, 1758, at Pelham. 9. Dorothy, born 1754; married May 5, 1774, Ebenezer Perry. IO. Sarah, born July 25, 1756; married Abner Wheeler and Richard Currier.
(VII) Asa Stickney, son of Jonathan Stickney (6), was born December 10, 1742; married at Pelham, New Hampshire (pub- lished February 8), 1768, Molly Richardson, who was born August 1742, and died March 31, 1821. He enlisted at the age of eighteen from Tewksbury, April 7, 1760, in Captain Benjamin Byam's company in the Canada expedition, and was at Crown Point in 1761. He was also in the servce in 1762 from March 26 to November 18. He was a member of the train band in 1777, and served in Captain Joseph Bradley Varnum's company, Colonel Simeon Spaulding's regiment, on guard duty at Cambridge, etc. He was a cordwainer by trade. He died at Pelham, January 18, 1826. Children: I. Lydia, born 1769; married Na- thaniel Woodman. 2. Jonathan, born August 2, 1771 ; married Alice Webster and Elizabeth Hall. 3. Daniel, born 1773. 4. Abiah, born August, 1775; married Josiah Gage, Jr. 6. Asa, born August 20, 1785 ; mentioned below.
(VIII) Asa Stickney, son of Asa Stickney (7), was born in Pelham, New Hampshire, August 20, 1785 ; married November 26, 1807, Alice Gage, born November 15, 1788, daugh- ter of David and Elizabeth (Atwood) Gage. Children, born in Pelham: I. David Gage, born April 2, 1809; mentioned below. 2. Daniel, born January 18, 1811; died February 27, 1814. 3. Darius, born March 1, 1813, married S. Spofford. 4. Daniel, born Octo- ber II, 1814; married December, 1844, Betsey
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Emery. 5. Stephen B., born April 6, 1817; died August 5, 1853. 6. Mary, born August 15, 1820; married December 23, 1840, Fred A. Spofford. 7. Asa, born June 4, 1822 ; mar- ried Susan A. Spofford, in 1844. 8. William Hardy, born June 15, 1824; died May 9, 1827. 9. Elizabeth Gage, born April 10, 1827; lived at Lowell, Massachusetts.
(IX) David Gage Stickney, son of Asa Stickney (8), was born April 2, 1809, at Pel- ham, New Hampshire, died May 23, 1881. He married April 7, 1835, Mary Jane Wood- ward, born June 3, 1811; died October 2, 1870, daughter of Joseph and Mary (Dole) Woodward, of Sutton, New Hampshire. He resided in Pelham until after the birth of their children, then removed to West Concord, Ver- mont. From 1856 to the time of his death, however, he was a farmer at Dracut, Massa- chusetts. Children, born at Pelham, New Hampshire: William Hardy, born November 27, 1836; died September 22, 1903. 2. Charles Hazen, born April 18, 1839; men- tioned below. 3. Caroline Gage, born Sep- tember 9, 1842; died June, 1895. 4. Rhoda Jane, born December 15, 1847; died Novem- ber 17, 1874.
(X) Charles Hazen Stickney, son of David Gage Stickney (9), was born in Londonderry, New Hampshire, April 18, 1839. He lived in Pelham in early youth and attended the dis- trict school there. At the age of twelve he removed with his parents to West Concord, Vermont, and completed his education there in the public schools. After four years and a half the family removed to Dracut, Massa- chusetts, where his father leased a farm for twenty-five years, and he remained at home working for his father on the farm until he left to enlist in the Civil war. He entered the service November 22, 1861, and was for twenty-three months in General Butler's divi- sion at New Orleans. He was given a com- mission as first lieutenant in a regiment of colored troops, and remained in the service until March, 1866. He was at Port Hudson for fourteen months. After he left the army he worked in a grocery store in Lowell for two years and a half. He gave up his busi- ness to take possession of the farm at Dracut, bequeathed to him by the Misses Eliza and Hannah Cheever, daughters of Ezekiel Cheever. This farm had been in the Cheever family since about 1700. Mr. Stickney has greatly improved the old farm and made it one of the finest in his section. He has a herd of fifty cattle and four horses. He has been active and prominent in public affairs ; select-
man for two years, 1875-76; town clerk for thirteen years; overseer of the poor; town treasurer two years; on the school committee nine years ; and was a member of the board of registration. He is a member of Lowell Lodge No. 95, Independent Order of Odd Fel- lows; of Dracut Grange, Patrons of Hus- bandry ; and of James A. Garfield Post, No. 120, Grand Army of the Republic, of which he is past commander. He married January 23, 1867, Sarah Jane Burnham, born May 30, 1839, at Pelham, daughter of Jesse Smith and Esther Pearl (Spofford) Burnham (see Spof- ford Family). Children: I. Edwin L., born
November 10, 1867; married Grace L. Flint and has two children: i. Esther Louise, born February 23, 1893. ii. Edwin Flint, born June 22, 1897. 2. Asa, born October 7, 1875 ; married Elizabeth M. Collins, of Dracut ; child, Asa Collins Stickney, born March 2, 1907.
GRAHAM
Graham is a distinguished name in Scotland, and also in England and Ireland there are
to be found distinguished persons of this an- cient name. The clan of Graham has acted a chivalrous and important part in the annals of Scottish history. Their traditional origin is of the highest antiquity, the ducal family of Montrose tracing its descent to the fifth cen- tury. From its gallantry in the different wars the clan was called the "gallant Graemes." It is not our purpose here to give a long history of the clan or a list of its many distinguished members. The family of Graham of which this article treats, trace their ancestry to the Irish, and the works of heraldry state that the Graham family of Ireland have for their shield the following blazon: Ar. an escallop sa .; on a chief of the last three escallops of the first. Crest,-a hand, in fesse, couped ppr., holding a fleur-de-lis or.
(I) Edward Graham was born at Drim- last, county Donegal, province of Ulster, Ire- land. The name of his wife is unknown. He was a farmer, and raised many cattle and sheep. He was a man of very quiet manners. Children : I. Frank. 2. Richard. 3. Herry. 4. George. 5. Edward, see forward. 6. Isaac. 7. Nathan.
(II) Edward Graham, son of Edward Graham (1), was born at Drimlast, county Donegal, Ireland. He died about 1850. His wife, Margaret Graham, was a daughter of Edward and Christine (Johnson) Graham. Mr. Graham received the education common
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to the country boy of that time. He and his brothers were early introduced into the art and mysteries of farming. He remained on his father's farm until he was of age, when he came into possession of a farm of some twenty acres by inheritance from his father, when he started farming on his own account, and was very successful, raising large quanti- ties of flax, etc. In religious belief he was an Episcopalian. Children : I. William, born July 22, 1845, see forward.
(III) William Graham, son of Edward Graham (2), born at Drimlast, county Done- gal, Ireland, July 22, 1845. He married (first), at Woburn, Massachusetts, June, 1871, Annie Foster, daughter of Richard and Margaret M. Foster, who died December 6, 1875, and married (second), February 15, 1876, Rebecca Hanlon, of Somerville, daugh- ter of John and Jane (Boyd) Hanlon, of Gilbertstown, Ireland. She died April 23, 1893, and he married (third), September 6, 1893. Annie Graham, born June 22, 1856, daughter of Richard and Isabel (Graham) Graham.
Mr. Graham was educated in the schools at Tullynought, and was brought up a farmer. He came to this country, arriving here May 15, 1869, and entered the employment of John Cummings at his tannery at Cummingsville, Woburn, where he remained for one year, subsequently working on Mr. Cumming's farm for sixteen years, the last seven years having general charge of all the work. In 1886 he bought of Mr. Cummings the farm known as the Locke place, in the southerly part of Burlington, containing forty-four acres, which he has greatly improved, erecting new buildings to accommodate his ever in- creasing business. He makes a specialty of lettuce, celery and cucumbers, and raises gen- eral crops besides. He disposes of his pro- duce in the Boston market, among the whole- salers and commission dealers, his eldest son, William J. Graham, having charge of the Bos- ton end. He has a large herd of Holstein and Ayrshire cows, disposing of the milk among the retailers in Woburn and vicinity. Mr. Graham is an Episcopalian in religious belief, but at present attends the Burlington Congre- gational church, and is a member of the parish committee. He is a Republican in politics, and has served many years as selectman, as- sessor, and overseer of the poor of the town of Burlington. He is a member and at the pres- ent time treasurer of True Blue Lodge, No. 119, Royal Orange Institution, at Woburn.
Mr. Graham is a man of quiet manner, very hospitable, and is a respected and influential citizen.
Children, all by his second wife: I. William John, born February 26, 1877. 2. Major Henry, born May 15, 1878, married Minnie Patten of Burlington, and have: Ethel May. 3. Chester Herman, born July 24, 1880. 4. Fred Garfield, born January 14, 188 -. 5. Ethel Lena, born July 14, 1885, died March 22, 1888. 6. Selwyn Harrison, born February II, 1889.
BARBER John Barber, a native of Mack- elfield, Cheshire, England, and a silk weaver at Waball, Eng- land, had a son William, born in the town of his.own nativity, who was brought up to the occupation of his father. William Barber came to New England with other young men attracted by the offers of profitable employ- ment in the cotton and woolen mills of Lowell, and found employment in the Thorndike Mill, where he was a skillful operator and received rapid advancement. He was married, Novem- ber 27, 1872, to Mary Ashworth, daughter of Luke and Elizabeth (Socroft) Ashworth, of Lancaster, England. Mary Ashworth was born in Lancaster, England, one of eight chil- dren, named in the order of their birth: Will- iam, John, Mary, Robert, Sarah, Martha, James, Hampson. The children of William and Mary (Ashworth) Barber, were: Martha Barber, born June 28, 1873; died April 27, 1874 ; Maud Ella, born April 5, 1875 ; Thomas William Barber, born June 15, 1882, died September 14, 1882. William Barber, left the Thorndike Mills to engage in the manufacture of tape, a business which he had learned and followed successfully in Waball, England. He became a member of the Republican party on becoming a citizen of the United States, and a voter in the commonwealth of Massachu- setts, but never held political office. He was a regular attendant at St. Anne's Protestant Episcopal Church, Lowell, Massachusetts, and established his residence at 71 South Whipple street in that city. Both Mr. and Mrs. Barber and their daughter were prominent workers in the charitable societies and guilds associated with the parish of St. Anne's, but did not con- fine their benefactions to the church, as they sought out the needy who had no church home, and ministered to the comfort of the afflicted irrespective of creed or denomina- tional faith.
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James Russell Lowell, one of
LOWELL America's most distinguished authors, and who has left an enduring mark upon American literature and thought, was born in Cambridge, Massachu- setts, February 22, 1819, and came of an ex- cellent ancestry.
He was descended from Percival Lowell, who came from Bristol, England, in 1639, and settled in Newbury. His father, Rev. Charles Lowell, was born in Boston, August 15, 1782, son of Judge John and Rebecca (Russell) Tyng Lowell, and grandson of Rev. John and Sarah (Champney) Lowell and of Judge James and Katherine (Graves) Russell, these generations numbering among their members named, distinguished clergymen and lawyers and jurists.
Charles Lowell was graduated from Har- vard College A. B. 1800, A. M. 1803 ; studied theology in Edinburgh, Scotland, 1802-04; was made a fellow of Harvard, 1818; and re- ceived from the same institution the degree of S. T. D. in 1823. After completing his theological course in Edinburgh he traveled for a year in Europe. He was installed pas- tor of the West Congregational Church, Bos- ton, January 1, 1806, and served in that ca- pacity fifty-five years. His health failing, in 1837, Dr. Cyrus A. Bartol became his associ- ate, and Dr. Lowell traveled for three years in Europe and the Holy Land. He was sec- retary of the Massachusetts Historical So- ciety ; a corresponding member of the Archaeological Society of Athens; and a founder and member of the Society of North- ern Antiquarians of Copenhagen. His pub- lished works included: "Sermons," 1855; "Practical Sermons," 1855; "Meditations for the Afflicted, Sick and Dying;" "Devotional Exercises for Communicants." He was inar- ried, October 2, 1806, to Harriet Bracket, daughter of Keith and Mary (Traill) Spence, of Portsmouth, New Hampshire, and sister of Captain Robert Traill Spence, U. S. N. The Rev. Dr. Charles Lowell died in Cambridge, January 20, 1861.
James Russell Lowell prepared for college at the boarding school of William Wells, Cambridge, and graduated from Harvard College A. B. 1838; LL. B. 1840; and A. M. 1841. He received the following honorary degrees : from Oxford University, D. C. L. 1873; from the University of Cambridge, LL. D., 1874 ; and the latter degree also from St. Andrews, Edinburgh, and Harvard, 1884; and Bologna, 1888. On January 2, 1884, he was elected Lord Rector of the University of
St, Andrews, Scotland. He was an overseer of Harvard, 1887-91; a fellow of the Ameri- can Academy of Arts and Sciences ; a mem- ber of the Massachusetts Historical Society, the American Philosophical Society, and the Royal Academy of Spain ; and a fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh and the Royal Society of Literature of London. In all these bodies he enjoyed a unique distinction, and in Europe his talents commanded the highest ad- miration.
Mr. Lowell was devoted to letters from the first. While in college he edited Harvardiana. After his graduation he opened a law office in Boston, but had no inclination for the pro- fession, and gave his time to literature, writ- ing numerous pieces of verse which were published in magazines, and were put into book form in 1841, his first published volume. In 1842 he brought out the Pioneer maga- zine, which was shortlived. A pronounced Abolitionist, he was a regular contributor to the Liberty Bell and he afterward became corresponding editor of the Anti-Slavery Standard. In 1846 his famous "Bigelow Pa- pers" appeared in the Boston Courier and be- became famous from the outset, and exerted a powerful influence upon the political thought of the day. These were satirical poems in the Yankee dialect and were eagerly read, not only for their peculiarity of expression, but for their underlying philosophy. He was now a somewhat prolific writer, principally upon po- litical topics, and through the columns of the Dial, the Democratic Review and the Massa- chusetts Quarterly. He spent about a year in Europe in 1851-52. In 1855 he succeeded Henry W. Longfellow as Smith professor of French and Spanish languages, literature and belles lettres at Harvard, serving until 1886, and was university lecturer 1863-64. He was also editor of the Atlantic Monthly, 1857-62, and joint editor with Charles Eliot Norton of the North American Review, 1863-72. He was active in the organization of the Republi- can party in 1856. In 1876 he was a presiden- tial elector from Massachusetts. In 1877 he was appointed minister to Spain by President Hayes, and in 1880 was made minister to the court of St. James, England, serving as such until 1885. During his residence in England he was highly honored, delivering many ad- dresses, and being the orator on the occasion of the unveiling of the bust of Coleridge in Westminster Abbey, in May, 1885. In these various efforts he displayed a breadth of scholarship, originality of thought, elegance of expression and depth of feeling, which proved
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a revelation to Old World litterateurs. He was a devoted student during all his absences from this country, and in 1887 delivered before the Lowell Institute, Boston, a course of lec- tures on the English dramatists. On his re- turn home he retired to his country seat, “Elm- wood," on the Charles river, Cambridge, and devoted himself to study and literature, con- tinuing his lectures at Harvard. He edited the poetical works of Marvell, Donne, Keats, Wordsworth and Shelly for the "Collection of British Poets," by Professor Francis J. Childs, of Harvard. His published works include : "Class Poem," 1838; "A Year's Life," 1841 ; "A Legend of Brittany, and Other Miscel- laneous Poems and Sonnets," 1844; "Vision of Sir Launfal," 1845; "Conversations on Some of the Old Poets," 1845; "Poems," 1848; "The Bigelow Papers," 1848, and a second series, 1867; "A Fable for Critics," 1848; "Poems," two volumes, 1849, and two volumes under same title, 1854; "Poetical Works," two volumes, 1858; "Mason and Slidell, a Yankee Idyl," 1862; "Fireside Trav- els," 1864; "The President's Policy," 1864; "Under the Willows, and Other Poems," 1869; "Among My Books," 1870; "My Study Windows," 1871; "The Courtin'," 1874; "Three Memorial Poems," 1876; "Democ- racy, and Other Addresses," 1887; his
"American Ideas for English Readers," "Latest Literary Essays and Addresses," and "Old English Dramatists," were published posthumously in 1892. At the time of his death he was engaged on a "Life of Haw- thorne." His last published poem, "My Book," appeared in the New York Ledger, in December, 1890. He died in Cambridge, August 12, 1891. He was married, in 1844, to Maria White, of Watertown, Massachu- setts, who died in 1853. In 1857 he was mar- ried to Frances Dunlap, a niece of Governor Robert P. Dunlap, of Maine. His life work is commemorated in "James Russell Lowell : a Biography," by Horace E. Scudder, two volumes, 1901. In 1898 a part of his estate- Elmwood-was purchased by the Lowell Me- morial Park Fund, nearly forty thousand dol- lars of the purchase price being obtained by popular subscription.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, splen- HOLMES didly equipped as a medical practitioner and instructor, is best known and most highly esteemed for his literary accomplishments. As "The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table," and "The Professor,"
he is more enjoyed than he was a half-century ago. He was born in Cambridge, Massachu- setts, August 29, 1809, son of Rev. Abiel and Sarah (Wendell) Holmes. He was a de- scendant of John Holmes, who settled at Woodstock, Connecticut, in 1686, and of Evert Jansen Wendell, who emigrated from Emden, East Friesland, Holland, and settled at Albany, New York, about 1640. His pater- nal grandfather, Dr. David Holmes, was a captain in the colonial army in the French and Indian war, and subsequently served as surgeon in the revolutionary army.
Rev. Abiel Holmes, father of Oliver Wen- dell Holmes, born in Woodstock, Connecti- cut, December 24, 1763, was graduated from Yale College in 1783 ; was a tutor there, 1786- 87, while pursuing theological studies ; he re- ceived the honorary degrees of A. M. from Harvard, 1792; D. D. from Edinburgh Uni- versity, 1805; and LL. D. from Allegheny (Pennsylvania) College, 1822. He was pastor of the Congregational church at Midway, Georgia, 1787-91, and of the First Parish, Cambridge, 1792-1832. He was a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and a member of the Massachusetts Histori- cal Society and the American Philosophical Society. He wrote various works: "Stephen Pannenius ;" "The Mohegan Indians ;" "John Lathrop: a Biography;" "Life of President Stiles ;" "Annals of America," two volumes; a volume of poems, and various contributions to the "Collections of the Massachusetts His- torical Society." He died at Cambridge, Massachusetts, June 4, 1837. He married, in 1790, Mary Stiles, daughter of President Ezra Stiles, of Yale College; and (second), March 26, 1801, Sarah, daughter of Hon. Oliver Wendell, of Boston. Their son,
Oliver Wendell Holmes, began his educa- tion in private schools, and in his fifteenth year had as classmates Richard Henry Dana, Margaret Fuller, and Alfred Lee, who was afterward Bishop of Delaware. He was sent to Phillips Academy, in the hope that he would incline to a ministerial life, but the reverse was the case, and he cherished de- cided Unitarian sentiments-a marked con- trast to the stern Calvinism of his father. While a student in the Academy he gave the first evidence of his literary temperament, producing a translation of Virgil's "Aeneid." Entering Harvard College, he was graduated therefrom in 1829, in the same class with William H. Channing, Professor Benjamin Pierce, James Freeman Clarke, the Rev. S.
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F. Smith, and Benjamin R. Curtis; and hav- ing as fellow students, though not in the same class, Wendell Phillips, Charles Sumner and John Lothrop Motley. He was a fre- quent contributor to college publications, wrote and delivered the commencement poem, and was one among sixteen of his class whose scholarship admitted them to the Phi Beta Kappa fraternity. For one year he at- tended the Dane Law School, and during this poem wrote the famous apostrophe to "Old Ironsides"-the frigate "Constitution," then threatened with breaking-up by the navy de- partment, and which his stirring verse saved from an ignominious end.
Disinclined to law, after one year's study he began preparation for a medical career, in Dr. James Jackson's private medical school, and in 1833 visited England and France, ob- serving hospital practice. Returning to Cambridge in 1835, he received his degree from the Harvard Medical School the next year, and at once entered upon practice, hav- ing received three of the Boylston prizes for medical dissertations. He was professor of anatomy and physiology at Dartmouth Col- lege, 1838-40, and the following year located in Boston. In 1843 he published his essay on "The Contagiousness of Puerpural Fever" -the announcement of his own original and valuable discovery, which, while now ac- cepted by the entire profession, then aroused bitter controversy. In 1847 he became Park- man professor of anatomy and physiology at Harvard Medical School, besides occasionally giving instruction in microscopy, psychology and kindred subjects; and in the year indi- cated he retired from practice and became dean of the medical school, which position he occupied until 1853. As a class room lecturer he was a great favorite, and was able to hold the close attention of his auditors even after they were well nigh exhausted by - previous study and attendance upon lectures. He re- signed his professorship in 1882, and was retired as professor emeritus-a unique dis- tinction from Harvard. He gave to his pro- fession several works of permanent value; "Lectures on Homeopathy and its Kindred Delusions," 1842; "Report on Medical Liter- ature," 1848; "Currents and Countercurrents in Medical Science," 1861; "Borderland in Some Provinces of Medical Science," 1862; and with Dr. Jacob Bigelow he prepared Marshall Hall's "Theory and Practice of Medicine," 1839.
Ranking high as a medical practitioner and teacher, Dr. Holmes' great fame and his
strong hold upon the American heart, down to the present time, rests upon his work as an essayist and poet. In the first year of his medical career he gave out his first volume, comprising forty-five miscellaneous poems. In 1852 he delivered in several cities a course of lectures on "The English Poets of the Nineteenth Century." In 1857 he became one of the founders of The Atlantic Monthly, he giving it that name, and begin- ning in it his delightful conversational papers, "The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table," and in which were embodied some of his best poems. This was so favorably received that it was followed by "The Professor at the Break- fast Table," 1859; and in 1872 by "The Poet at the Breakfast Table." He contributed
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