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died July II, 1904; married, February 18, 1895, Annie D. Bratten. ii. Mary Frances, born October 2, 1864. iii. Edward Alonzo, born August 22, 1867; married, February 23, 1898, Laura E. Sayward. iv. Jesse Stickney, born at Lowell, September 19, 1874. 10. Malvina Melissa, born April 6, 1832, in Cam- bridge, Massachusetts, died April 12, 1906; married as second wife, Augustus Emerson, November 1, 1877; resided in Dracut, Massa- chusetts. II. Eveline Bancroft, born May 27, 1835; married as first wife, Augustus Emer- son; died July 2, 1876; children: i. Abbie G., died young. ii. Arthur, born January 17, 1860, died August 6, 1879. iii. Monroe C., born April 28, 1863; married, October 8, 1895, Adaline Shepard. iv. Cora M., born December 5, 1865; married, August 28, 1889, Alfred E. Lyford. v. Inez, born July 15, 1869; married, October 24, 1894, Thomas W. Adams. vi. Effa F., died young.
(IV) Jesse Simpson, son of Jesse Simpson (3), was born in Windham, October 1, 1810. He settled in Somerville, where he died, Sep- tember II, 1877. He married, April 15, 1840, Paulina Avery (Grover) Carroll, born Janu- ary 28, 1805, died November 3, 1887, daugh- ter of John and Patience (Babb) Grover. The parents of Patience Babb were William and Elizabeth Babb, and their children were: I. Patience, born February 2, 1775, died August 6, 1843; married John Grover. 2. Dorcas, born January 20, 1777; married Charles Joy. Children of John and Patience Grover: I. William, born 1797, died 1839; married Mar- garet Folson; children: Sarah A., born Feb- ruary 15, 1819, died January 24, 1903; Wil- liam A., born May 19, 1822, died April 19, 1843; John B., born October 17, 1824; Eliza- beth E., born September 11, 1826; Rebecca, born 1828, died 1829; Hiram, born 1829; Levi L., born 1830; Rebecca E., born June 9, 1832, died August 8, 1863. 2. Eliza. 3. Mary, born September 23, 1800, died January 5, 1882; married Joseph H. Center, of Roxbury ; children: Mary A., born June 30, 1822, died March 24, 1873; Joseph H., Jr., born April 8. 1824, died March 1I, 1903; Eliza, born March 3, 1827, died April 24, 1843; Emily, born De- cember IO, 1829, died February, 1853: George W., born September 10, 1831, died May 12, 1883; Emeline and Elmira, twins, born December 15, 1833; Emeline died Janu- ary, 1860: Elmira died July, 1838. 4. So- phia, married James Wyman, died November 13, 1863; children: i. Joseph, born May 26, 1830: married Mildred Pierce: second, Grace McKinley; third, Julia Hutchins. ii. George
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W., born April 2, 1835; married Susan Little- field. 5. Paulina A., born January 28, 1805 ; married Jesse Simpson, above named. 6. Ly- dia C., born March 23, 1808; married, Sep- ember 29, 1833, Ivory Hutchins, died August 8, 1890; children: i. Charles I., born June 29, 1834; married Martha M. Witham, Feb- uary 22, 1857; ii-iii. Julia and George, born July 6, 1840; Julia married Joseph Wyman, October 2, 1887; iv. Lydia F., born Septem- ber 2, 1842; v. Sarah E., born November 12, 1843, died September 24, 1860; vi. James W., born June 29, 1846, married Mary Perley, January 15, 1873, and (second) Sarah E. Keyes, February 25, 1880; children: Guy W., born October 27, 1873; Sarah C., born March 10, 1882; Maud M., born November 21, 1884, died young; Lillian H., born December 15, 1887.
Children of Jesse Simpson (4): I. Margar- ret A., born in Somerville, Massachusetts, September 27, 1843. 2. Abby P., born De- cember 19, 1846, lives at No. 10 Paulina street, Somerville. 3. Charles J., see for- ward.
(IV) Alonzo Simpson, son of Jesse Simp- son, (3), was born in Windham, May 22, 1817, and died February 8, 1870. He married Su- san M. Frost, of Cambridge. (See Frost). . They resided in Belmont, Massachusetts. Children: I. Sarah Emeline, died May 14, 1860. 2. Anna M., born February 9, 1856; married Charles J. Simpson, mentioned be- low. 3. Carrie R., born January 13, 1858, died August 16, 1883; married Charles, J. Simpson, mentioned below. 4. John A., born April 19, 1861; married, November 24, 1886, Fannie R. Gilman; resides in Lowell; chil- dren: Arthur G., born January 4, 1891, died August 10, 1892; Marion, born June 6, 1893; Roger H., born August 8, 1895. 5-6. Susie and Hattie S., twins, born January 10, 1863; Susie died August 9, same year; Hattie S., died October 30, 1898, married, September 12, 1894, Hubert H. Logan, children: Ruth S., born March 16, 1896; Elsie, born October IO, 1898.
(V) Charles J. Simpson, son of Jesse Simp- son, (4), was born May 26, 1851. He married (first), March 31, 1880, Carrie R. Simpson, born January 13, 1858, died August. 16, 1883, daughter of Alonzo and Susan (Frost) Simp- son, mentioned above. He married (second) May 13, 1891, Anna M. Simpson, born Feb- ruary 9, 1856, sister of his first wife. Of the first marriage was born a son, Harry R. Simpson, at Somerville, August 13, 1883; he resides in Somerville.
(I) Edmund Frost, immigrant FROST ancestor, was born in England about 1600. He came to Ameri- ca in the ship "Defence," in 1635, and set- tled in Cambridge, Massachusetts. About 1639 he bought an estate on the westerly side of Dunster street, between Harvard Square and Mt. Auburn street, which he soon after- ward sold to Widow Catherine Haddon. He then bought a house on the westerly side of Garden street, near Mason, and occupied it in 1642, selling it to Richard Eccles in 1646. His subsequent residence is not known with certainty, but circumstances indicate that he occupied the estate on the northerly side of Kirkland street, extending from Divinity Hall avenue to and beyond Francis avenue, this estate remaining in the possession of his posterity until a recent date. Paige says: "He was reputed to be rich in faith, and man- ifestly enjoyed the confidence of Shepard and his church. Yet he had trial of earthly pov- erty; and while his associate, Elder Champ- ney, added acre to acre, and became one of the largest landowners in towns, Elder Frost possessed little besides his homestead, and his pressing wants were relieved by the church." He was admitted a freeman March 3, 1635-6, and was a proprietor in 1636. He died July 12, 1672. His will dated April 16. 1672, proved October I following, bequeathed to wife Reana; to sons Ephraim, Thomas, John and Joseph; to his daughters Sarah and Mary; to Jacob French and wife, and the chil- dren of Golden More; to Harvard College, and to Mr. Alcock's son there. His wife Tamesin died, and he married (second) before 1669, Reana Daniel, widow successively of James, William Andrew and Robert Daniel. Children : 1. John, born in England, about 1634. 2. Thomas, born April, 1637, died young. 3. Samuel, born February, 1637-8. 4. Joseph, born January 13, 1638-9. 5. James, born April 9, 1640. 6. Mary, born July 24, 1645. 7. Ephraim, see forward. 8 .. Thomas. 9. Sarah, born 1653.
(II) Ephraim Frost, son of Elder Edmund Frost (I), was born in Cambridge, about 1646. He had the homestead on the northerly side of Kirkland street, and was a farmer. He died January 2, 1717-8, aged seventy-two years. His widow Hepsibah survived him. Children, born in Cambridge: I. Edmund, born March 14, 1689-90. 2. Ephraim, born September 23, 1682, see forward. 3. Thomas, born probably 1688. 4. Ebenezer, baptized January 17, 1696-7. 5. Sarah, married, May 17, 1720, Nathaniel Patten.
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(III) Ephraim Frost, son of Ephraim Frost (2), was born in Cambridge, September 23, 1682. He married Sarah Cooper, September 9, 1714 ; she was a daughter of Deacon Samuel Cooper. Ephraim Frost followed farming on his homestead at Arlington (Menotomy). He died June 26, 1769; his wife died February 21, 1753, aged sixty-six years. Children, born at West Cambridge: I. Ephraim, born July IO, 1715. 2. Samuel, born December 18, 1716. 3. Sarah, born January 2, 1718-9, married Moses Harrington, and died May 12, 1759. 4. Anna, born December 15, 1720, married Thomas Adams, September 22, 1737. 5. Martha, born August 4, 1722, married Joseph Adams, Jr., January 10, 1740. 6. Eunice, born July 19, 1724, died April 10, 1732. 7. Abigail, born April 25, 1726. 8. William, born November 13, 1727, died February 13, 1727-8. 9. Lydia, born August 8, 1729.
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(IV) Ephraim Frost, son of Ephraim Frost (3), was both in Arlington, July 10, 1715. He resided in Arlington, then called Menotomy, and died there March 5, 1799, aged eighty- four years. He was captain in the militia, and a member of the committee of safety and cor- respondence, which was a most important body during the Revolutionary war. He mar- ried, March 16, 1739, (published March 16), Mary, died October 20, 1805, aged eighty- nine years, daughter of Deacon John Cutter. Children, born at Menotomy: I. Anna, born October 22, 1740, died November 20, 1740. 2. Ephraim, born September 29, 1742. 3. Jonathan, born December 15, 1744; graduated at Harvard, 1767, and died April 25, 1771. 4. Stephen, born June 18, 1747. 5. Ruhamah, born November 4, 1749; married, August 31, 1769, John Russell. 6. Lydia, born October 21, 1756, died October 23, 1766. 7. John, born September 9, 1760. 8. Amos, born Au- gust 17, 1763 ; see forward.
(V) Amos Frost, youngest child of Ephraim Frost (4), was born in Arlington, August 17, 1763, died February 25, 1850. He married Lydia Bemis, who died February 19, 1855: children : I. Amos, baptized June 1, 1788, died June 18, 1812. 2. Joel, baptized March I, 1789; see forward. 3. Thaddeus, baptized December II, 1791, died October 4, 1792. 4. Lydia, baptized November 24, 1793. 5. Thaddeus, baptized February 7, 1796. 6. William, baptized December 3, 1797. 7. Abijah, baptized October 13, 1799. 8. Susan, baptized September 6, 1801. 9. Mary. IO. Emily. 11. Lucinda, born April 13, 1810; married, April 14, 1831, Oliver Russell; she died October 18, 1895, at Belmont.
(VI) Joel Frost, son of Amos Frost (5), was baptized in Arlington, March 1, 1789; died October 23, 1839. He married, June 20, 1819, Caroline Bartlett, daughter of Elisha and Sarah (Beals) Bartlett, died September 23, 1840, and they settled in Newton, Massa- chusetts. Children: I. Amos, born 1820, died October 24, 1839. 2. Joel, baptized October 17, 1824, died November 6, 1842, aged twenty years. 3. Reuben Bemis, baptized June 2, 1826. He served in the civil war, in the Forty- fifth Regiment Massachusetts Volunteers, Colonel Codman, and was wounded in battle of Kinston, North Carolina. He married Jane Peabody. Children : Hattie, unmarried; Fan- nie, married Henry Smith; Joseph, married Maria Tarr ; four died young. 4. Elisha Bart- lett, born November 20, 1823; married, Sep- tember 10, 1848, Sarah Louisa Lawrence; re- sides at Ashby, Massachusetts; children : i. Elva Louisa, born February 23, 1850, died October 8, 1850. ii. Clarence B., born No- vember 4, 1852; married Fannie C. Brewer, of Cambridge, Massachusetts. iii. Lunette Marion, born December 16, 1857; married, November 21, 1878, A. W. Brooks, of Ashby. iv. Harry Irving, born November 12, 1867. 5. Lavinia, born February 10, 1836, died Janu- ary 15, 1882; married W. Dana Fletcher, 1855 ; children : i. J. Willard, born January 10, 1856, married Miletta Wilder, who died 1894 ; he married (second) Etta Whidden. ii. Frank H., born August 5, 1858, died February 23, 1887. iii. George A., born September 16, 1861, married, June 13, 1886, Frances E. Jackson. iv. Fannie E., born October 6, 1863, died April 10, 1894. v. Walter V., born Jan- uary 9, 1866, married, November 21, 1888, Cora E. Perkins. vi. Dana F., born October 6, 1870. 6. Caroline, born December 3, 1831 ; married, November 3, 1853, Albion O. Rus- sell, died January 14, 1859; child, Howard A., born April 5, 1858, died April 7, 1859. 7. Susan M., born 1834, died March 25, 1865 ; married, April 12, 1853. Alonzo Simpson (See Simpson).
John Spofford, the immi- SPOFFORD grant ancestor, was born in England in 1612, and died in 1678. He settled in Rowley, Massachusetts, where before 1643 he was one of the proprie- tors. On the division of the common land that year he had a house lot granted on Bradford street, Rowley, an acre and a half, and had many grants later. In 1669 he lived on Spof- ford's Hill in Rowley, and was doubtless the
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first settler in what is now Georgetown, Mas- sachusetts. He had a farm at Gravell Plain, now Bald Hill, leased for twenty-one years, assigned to his sons John and Samuel in 1676. He married Elizabeth Scott, daughter of Thomas Scott. (See Kimball and Scott fami- lies.) Spofford died in 1678; his will was proved November 6, 1678, bequeathing to wife Elizabeth, sons Francis, John, Thomas and Samuel; daughters Elizabeth, Hannah, Mary and Sarah. The genealogy makes the same error in dates as the Stickney genealogy. In all dates given originally in figures (as 3-II-1666, which is January 3, 1666-67) two months should be added to the date given in the genealogy. As far as possible the dates herein are thus corrected. Children: I. Eliza- beth, born February 14, 1646-47; married Alexander Sessions. 2. John, born Decem- ber 24, 1648; married Sarah Wheeler. 3. Thomas, born January 4, 1650-51; married Abigail Haggett. 4. Samuel, born January 31, 1653 ; mentioned below. 5. Hannah, born April 1, 1654. 6. Mary, born November I, 1656; married Hunnewell, and lived at Westchester, New York. 7. Sarah, born January 15, 1658; died February 15, 1660. 8. Sarah, born March 22, 1662; married Richard Kimball. 9. Francis, born September 24, 1665 ; married Mary Leighton, daughter of Richard.
(II) Samuel Spofford, son of John Spof- ford (I), was born in Rowley, January 31, 1653, and died January 1, 1744, aged ninety- one. He married Sarah Burpee, December 5, 1676, who died November 18, 1729, and was buried with her brother John on the old Brad- ford farm. He was admitted freeman in 1684. He left a numerous posterity. His descend- ants have preserved some of his account books. Children: I. Samuel, born September 12, 1677; died September 23, 1677. 2. Thomas, born June 6, 1678; married Bethiah Hazeltine. 3. Sarah, born September 24, 1680; married June 10, 1700, Robert Hazel- tine. 4. Mary, born August 7, 1682. 5. Hannah, born February 12, 1684; married Isaac Adams. 6. Ruth, born November 18, 1687 ; married Samuel Brocklebank. 7. Sam- uel, born 1690; mentioned below. 8. Abigail, born March 9, 1694; married Samuel Ames. 9. Mehitable, baptized May 10, 1698; married Nathaniel Harriman. 10. Lydia, born July 7, 1700. II. Elizabeth, born July 5, 1702; mar- ried Benjamin Stickney.
(III) Samuel Spofford, son of Samuel Spofford (2), was born 1690, baptized April 27, 1690 : married June 17, 1717, Sarah Stick-
ney, of Boxford, where they settled. He was taxed there in 1717. She died September 26, 1758. Children: I. Bethia, born August 6, 1719, blind many years. 2. Sarah, baptized January 15, 1721. 3. Samuel, born October I, 1722. 4. Thomas, born June 10, 1726; mentioned below. 5. Amos, born August 9, 1729; married Abigail Pease.
(IV) Thomas Spofford, son of Samuel Spofford (3), was born in Boxford, June IO, 1726; married December 5, 1750, Roxbee Moody. They were admitted to the First Church, December 3, 1750. Children: I. Sarah, born September 23, 1751; married Ephraim Jewett, of Ipswich. 2. Phineas, born May 1, 1653; married Sarah Chadwick. 3. Moody, baptized April 20, 1755; married Dolly Farnham. 4. Samuel, baptized May 8, 1757; married Lydia Peaslee. 5. Isaac, born May II, 1763; married Mehitable Wood. 6. Martha, born 1764; married Joshua Johnson. 7. Thomas, mentioned below.
(V) Thomas Spofford, son of Thomas Spofford (4), was born about 1740, and died about 1830, aged nearly ninety. He was a sol- dier in the Revolution,-sergeant in 1777, in Lieutenant Isaac Cochran's company, Colonel Moor's regiment, to reinforce the Continental army at Saratoga ; also ensign in Colonel John Waldron's regiment of Dover, New Hamp- shire, in 1776. He was selectman of the town of Pelham, New Hampshire, in 1779. He settled in Pelham; married Esther Pearl, and second about 1794 Children of first wife: 1. Thomas, born September 14, 1772; married Nancy Searle. 2. Abigail, born about 1774, married General Samuel M. Richard- son. 3. Charles, born December . 25, 1776;
married Lucy . 4. Pearl, born Decem- ber 7, 177 -; married Mary Atwood. 5 .. Dud- ley, born December 20, 1779; mentioned be- low. 6. John, born February 21, 1783. 7. Frederick, lost at sea, sailing from Boston to Deer Isle, Maine. Child of second wife: 8. Sophia, died 1823, quite young.
(VI) Dudley Spofford, son of Thomas Spofford (5), was born at Pelham, New Hampshire, December 20, 1779 ; married Mary Atwood. Children : I. Charles, born Decem- ber 4, 1807 ; married Edna Scales. 2. Mary, born February 28, 1809 ; married Elijah Wil- son and Ira Gage. 3. Esther Pearl, born March 8, 1810; mentioned below. 4. Pearl, born May II, 18II ; married Susan F. Kelso. 5. Aaron P., born October 13, 1812; married Martha J. Way and Lydia Pike. 6. John, born May 20, 1814; married Mary A. Taylor. 7. Elizabeth P., born May 13, 1815; married
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Moody Hobbs. 8. Sarah, born January 31, 1817; married Darius Stickney. 9. Frederick A., born October 3, 1818; married Mary Stickney. 10. David, born May 23, 1820; married Lucinda Hall. II. Susan A .. born October 29, 1821 ; married Asa Stickney Jr. 12. Moses, born June 23, 1823; married Achsah B. Butler. 13. George W., born May 27, 1825 ; died May 9, 1887. 14. Samuel M., born March 27, 1827; died 1827. 15. Sophia, born March 14, 1828; married Henry M. Hook, M. D. 16. Pamelia, born July 15, 1830; married William Dodge. 17. Ellen A., born January 28, 1833, married 1851, John Clark ; she died at Lincoln, Nebraska, July 4, 1887.
(VII) Esther Pearl Spofford, daughter of Dudley Spofford (6), was born March 8, 1810. She married first Jesse S. Burnham, who died September 28, 1847, and second, Daniel Atwood. Children of Jesse S. and Es- ther P. Burnham: I. George H. Burnham, born May 28, 1832, died December 10, 1907 ; married Emeline C. Boutwell. 2. Esther M. Burnham, born March 13, 1834; married June 28, 1860, Daniel Parham. 3. Charles S. Burnham, born February 9, 1836; married Sarah I. Avery. 4. Sarah Jane Burnham, born May 30, 1839; mentioned below. 5. Ed- win S. Burnham, born September 1, 1841; married Catherine W. Adams ; second, Eliza- beth Bacon. 6. Willis G. Burnham, born Oc- tober 1, 1843; married Harriet Gay. 7. Har- riet E. Burnham, born September 16, 1846; married Albert F. Parker ; second, Adolph S. Batchelder. Child of second husband : 8. Daniel Pearl Atwood, born February 23, 1853.
(VIII) Sarah Jane Burnham, daughter of Jesse Smith and Esther Pearl (Spofford) (7) Burnham, was born May 30, 1839; married Charles Hazen Stickney. (See Stickney.)
Robert Harrington HARRINGTON (1616-1797), the immi- grant ancestor of Ed- win Eugene Harrington, of Malden, Massa- chusetts, was born in England in 1616, came to New England and settled at Watertown on the Charles river, where he accumulated dur- ing his lifetime six hundred and forty-two and a half acres of land valued at £717. He ap- pears as a proprietor on the list made out 1642-44. He was married October 1, 1649, to Susanna George (1632-1694), and was made a freeman May 27, 1663. He held various town offices, and was the owner of a grist mill. His death occurred May II, 1707, when he was ninety-one years of age. The children
of Robert and Susanna (George) Harrington were: I. Susanna, born August 18, 1649, married (first) John Cutting in 1671; mar- ried (second) Eliezer Beers in 1690, and he: died in 1690; married (third) Peter Cloyes, of Framingham, in 1704. 2. John, born Aug- ust 24, 1651, died August 24, 1741. 3. Rob- ert, born 1653, died in infancy. 4. George, born 1655, fell while fighting against the In- dians at Lancaster, February 16, 1676. He was one of the first twenty men impressed from Watertown in November, 1675, for the defence of the colonists against the active hos- tilities of the Indians under the leadership of Philip. His heirs obtained a grant of land in Westminster in consideration of his ser- vices and his brother John who served in the same emergency also secured a like grant. 5. Daniel, born November I, 1657, became a freeman April 18, 1690, and died April 19, 1728. 6. Joseph, born 1659, took the free- man's oath April 18, 1690. 7. Benjamin, born 1661, died 1724. 8. Mary, married John Bemis, about 1680, and had fourteen children. 9. Thomas, born April 20, 1665, see forward. IO. Samuel, born 1666. II. Edward, born 1668-69. 1 12. Sarah, born 1670-71, married, November 24, 1687, Joseph Winship, Jr., of Cambridge; she died 1710. 13. David, born 1673, died 1725.
(II) Thomas Harrington, ninth child of Robert and Susanna (George) Harrington, born April 20, 1665, died March 29, 1712. He was made a freeman April 18, 1690. He mar- ried Rebecca, daughter of Joseph Bemis, and widow of John White, and their children were: Ebenezer, born 1687. Susannah, born 1688, married Joshua Kendall. Rebecca, born 1690, married Simon Tainter in 1714, and had six children. Thomas, born January 14, 1691- 92. George, born 1695.
(III) George Harrington, youngest son of Thomas and Rebecca (Bemis) Harrington, was born in Watertown, August 31, 1695. Married, December 5, 1715, Hepzibah Fiske, daughter of John Fiske, of Watertown. She died March 26, 1736.
(IV) John Harrington, son of George and Hepzibah (Fiske) Harrington, was born No- vember 14, 1719, at Waltham. Married, No- vember 13, 1740, Sarah, daughter of John Bernard and Sarah Phillips, and great-grand- daughter of the Rev. George and Elizabeth Phillips, first minister at Watertown.
(V) Abraham Harrington, son of John and Sarah (Bernard) Harrington, was born in Weston. Married, November 5, 1776, Anna Russell, of Weston.
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(VI) Captain Luther Harrington, son of Abraham and Anna (Russell) Harrington, was born in Weston, and was the fortieth cap- tain in the succession of commanders of the Company of Light Infantry of Weston, and his brother, Abraham Harrington, born in Weston, November 16, 1790, was graduated at Harvard, Bachelor of Arts, 1812, Master of Arts in course, and died in Hopkinton in August, 1828. Captain Harrington married Axsah Viles.
(VII) Andrew J. Harrington, son of Cap- tain Luther and Axsah (Viles) Harrington, was born in Weston, Massachusetts, Septem- ber 19, 1821. He married Almira Brown.
(VIII) Edwin Eugene Harrington, son of Andrew J. and Almira (Brown) Harrington, was born in Brookline, Massachusetts, July 21, 1857. He attended the Brookline gram- mar and high schools, and engaged in business in Boston with John Graves & Company, pro- duce commission merchants. He was married January 1, 1879, to Carrie A., daughter of George W. and Harriet S. (Deering) Bird, of Brookline, and granddaughter of Jenner and Elizabeth (Cooke) Bird, of Westford, Massa- chusetts. They made their home in Malden, Massachusetts, after the birth of their first child, Mabel Bird Harrington, born in Brook- line, Massachusetts, February 22, 1880. Their children born in Malden, Massachusetts, are : Elmer Ellsworth Harrington, born 1881, graduated at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1906, and was married October 8, 1905, to Bertha, daughter of John and Irvet (Wight) Milliken, of Buxton, Maine. The third child of Edwin Eugene and Hannah S. (Deering) Harrington, was Sophronia, born February 15, 1883, died 1885, and the fourth, an adopted child, Ruth G. Woodbury-Har- rington, born January 13, 1897, at Stoughton, Massachusetts, daughter of A. F. and Stella (Bird) Woodbury, daughter of George W. Bird, the mother having died in February, 1897.
COON Nicholas Koorn, probably the an- cestor of the Coon family of New York, came from Holland to New Netherlands about 1642, and settled later at Albany. The name was spelled Koen, or Coon, some generations later, when we find Jurnaem Koen, who married Ann Erhart, at Albany, New York.
(I) Orlando Washington Coon was born in New York state, January 9, 1838. He mar- ried Nancy Jane Young, perhaps a descendant
of Simon Young (Joung) who lived in Al- bany; he was sheriff of Albany county in 1696. Children : I. Ada May. 2. Lillian Susan. 3. William Henry. 4. Orvis Arthur. 5. Orville Ervin ; mentioned below.
(II) Orville Ervin Coon, son of Orlando Washington Coon (I), was born in Concord, New Hampshire, September 8, 1876. He was educated in the public schools of his native town. He was apprenticed to learn the jew- elry trade, when he was seventeen years old, to J. C. Derby, of Concord. He came to Lowell in 1896, and was employed as a clerk in the jewelry business until 1901, when he started in business on his own account. He has suc- ceeded in establishing already a handsome business in the jewelry and watch trade, and is counted as one of the most active and promis- ing young merchants of the city. He is an active member of the First Congregational Church and of the Young People's Society of Christian Endeavor, and greatly interested in the charitable work of the church. In politics he is a Republican, and takes a lively interest in city affairs.
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