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tled in Francestown, New Hampshire, about 1780; was soldier in Revolution, selectman 1786-87-88; was on the committee to consid- er the constitution in 1788; was a man of mark in town, of strong religious character; was on the first list of buyers of pews in the old church; was cousin of Hugh Hogg, son of Joseph Hogg, whose name was changed to Hugh Moor; James removed to Acworth and finally to Warrensville, Ohio. 3. Wil- liam, married Elizabeth Ferson (McPherson) and lived where Mrs. Giddings lately resided in New Boston, removing thence to More- town, Vermont, where they died. 4. Nancy, married Thomas Peterson, and died in Ohio. 5. John, married Polly Brown and died in Plainfield. 6. Margaret, married Joseph Cochran, afterwards a deacon in the Presby- terian church, and lived on the homestead owned later by their son, John Cochran. 7. Robert, married Eleanor Clark and died in Alstead, New Hampshire. 8. Sarah, married Stephen Ferson and lived on the John Dodge place. 9. Samuel, mentioned below. IO. Betsey, married Samuel Fisher and settled in western New York and finally in Pennsylvan- ia. II. Abner, born in Londonderry, Febru- ary 15, 1759, and came to New Boston with his father; enlisted in the Revolutionary army in 1776 under Captain Barnes, of Lyndebor- ough; next spring he enlisted for three years under Captain Livermore in the Third New Hampshire regiment under Colonel Scam- mel: was in the battle of Saratoga and saw the surrender of Burgoyne; was later near Phil- adelphia under Washington and fought alto- gether in ten battles; had a pension later in life: was second lieutenant of the New Bos- ton company in 1787; married, October 21, 1784, Rosannah Ferson; he died October 16, 1856, aged ninety-seven years, eight months and one day, leaving a large family of chil- dren whose descendants are numerous.
(III) Samuel (Hogg) Prentiss, son of Rob- ert Hogg (2), was born in New Boston, New Hampshire, October 8, 1775. He was next to the youngest son, four of whom changed their names from Hogg to Prentiss by act of the New Hampshire legislature. This name was selected, it is said, being the name of one of their ancestors. Samuel Prentiss died in Walpole, New Hampshire. He married Ly- dia Clark, who was born in Methuen, Massa- chusetts, May 12, 1776, and died at Walpole, New Hampshire, March 4, 1849. Children of Samuel and Lydia (Clark) Prentiss: 1. Mary C., born at Acworth, May 31, 1800, died in Cambridge, Vermont, July 31, 1880; mar-
ried January 27, 1829, Gardner Watkins, who was born in Walpole; children: i. David Howard Watkins, born in Walpole, married Harriet A. Holmes, who was born in Graf- ton, Massachusetts, June 28, 1831 (children: Samuel P. Watkins, born in Cambridge, Ver- mont, July 22, 1855, a farmer at Jefferson- ville, Vermont; Harley F., born March 19, 1857, a mechanic at Jeffersonville, married, February 19, 1879, Frankie J. Moore, born December 19, 1859, in Montgomery, Ver- mont, and had two children, Clayton M. Wat- kins, born November 2, 1879, and Ralph E. Watkins, born September 7, 1881; Elmer H. Watkins, born at Jay, Vermont, February 5, 1862, died May 15, 1863; Eloine H., born April 10, 1864; Joe A. Watkins, born in Jay, October II, 1868); ii. Samuel P. Watkins, born in Walpole, March 4, 1831, died Decem- ber 6, 1875; married Beatrice E. Eliot, born at Bakersfield, Vermont, August 25, 1839; (children : Fannie L. Watkins, born October 20, 1859, married May 6, 1878, Alvah S. Cros- by ; Mary E. Watkins, born in Boston July 3, 1834; John G. Watkins, born in Cambridge, Vermont, December 16, 1864); iii. Fannie A. Watkins, born in Walpole, July 3, 1833, died December 9, 1875; married George B. Miner, born in Cambridge in 1833; had two children: Eugene S. Miner, born in Cambridge, Ver- mont, April 5, 1857, and Fred E. Miner, born in Grafton, September 7, 1870. 2. Ephraim, born September 25, 1804, died February 19, 1860, in Walpole; married Olive Ware Hix- on, born October 30, 1806, and had two daughters : i. Eunice Maria, born April 23, 1829, married James Patterson, July 25, 1851; residence Hyde Park, Massachusetts; two children: Annie Eloine Patterson, born April 28, 1852; Frederic Lawrence Patterson, born November 26, 1863: ii. Nancy, born April 19, 1836, married, February 18, 1863, Charles Stephens Norton, born November 28, 1834, died January 12, 1882; two children: Charles Stephen Norton, Jr., born December 12, 1865; Florence Elizabeth Norton, born January 9, 1868. 3. Margaret, born Decem- ber 10, 1806, died in Walpole, December 25, 1864. 4. Theron, born May 9, 1808, died in Walpole, January 18, 1858; married Mary Scavy and had one child: Frances, who re- sided at Saco, Maine. 5. Samuel, born in Alstead, New Hampshire, November 17, 1812, mentioned below. 6. Nancy Prentiss, born February 25, 1817, married Mark Chase, born November 17, 1817, and died October 4, 1871, a policeman of Boston; his widow resided in Goodwin Place, Boston; child, Mary Ellen
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Chase, born November 21, 1849, died No- vember 9, 1869. 7. John Willard Prentiss, the Ist, settled on the homestead at Walpole.
(IV) Samuel Prentiss, son of Samuel Pren- tiss (3), was born in Alstead, New Hamp- shire, November 17, 1812, died in Reading, Massachusetts, March 19, 1865, from dis- ease contracted in the army during the Civil war. He was fife major in Thirteenth Mas- sachusetts Regiment and also in the Fiftieth Regiment of Volunteers. He was a cabinet maker and wood carver by trade. He mar- ried, April 16, 1843, Cornelia Ruggles, in Reading, Massachusetts. Children: I. Har- ley, born January 20, 1844, mentioned below. 2. John Willard, 2d, born October 9, 1848, died March 26, 1853. 3. Walter Samuel, born January 27, 1854, in Reading, clerk for Fitch- burg Railroad, Boston.
(V) Harley Prentiss, son of Samuel Pren- tiss (4), was born in Reading, Massachusetts, January 20, 1844. He was educated in the public schools of his native town. He served two years in the army during the civil war as sergeant in the Fiftieth Massachusetts Volunteers in 1862, re-enlisting in 1864 in the First Battalion Heavy Artillery. He was a commercial traveller for the firm of Carter, Ruggles & Company, 207 State street, Bos- ton, and later with Winslow, Rand & Wat- son and John A. Andrews & Company, wholesale grocers. He always lived in Read- ing. He was a Republican in politics, and filled several of the town offices including postmaster at Reading under the administra- tions of Mckinley and Roosevelt. . During his regime the free delivery as well as the rural system were inaugurated in Reading. He was one of the executive committee as well as chief marshal at the two hundredth anniversary of Reading, was trustee of Pub- lic Library, was member of Post No. 194, Grand Army of the Republic, and was char- ter member of Security Lodge, Independent Order of Odd Fellows. In religion he was always a unitarian, being one of the founders of the Christian Union Society of Reading. He married Helen Campbell Lindsay, Octo- ber 16, 1866. She was born in Edinburgh, Scotland, May 1, 1847. Children, born in Reading: 1. Harley Lindsay, born March 24, 1868. 2. Archer Ruggles, born December 27, 1870, mentioned below. 3. Marian Helen, born February 8, 1877. 4. Cornelia, born July 20, 1881.
(VI) Archer Ruggles Prentiss, son of Har- lev Prentiss (5), was born in Reading, Mas- sachusetts, December 27, 1870. He was ed-
ucated there in the public and high schools. He engaged in general insurance business in Reading, and became the senior partner in the firm of Prentiss & Viall, who have built up the largest insurance business in that place. He is also superintendent of the insurance of- fice of Field & Cowles of Boston, having been associated with this firm since 1890. In poli- tics he is a Republican, taking an active part in the affairs of his party and serving as chair- man of the town Republican committee. In religion he is a Unitarian. He is a member of Good Samaritan Lodge, Free and Ac- cepted Masons, of Reading, and was several years secretary of the Reading Athletic Club. He married, June 28, 1894, Mabel Thomas, of Reading. She is the daughter of Charles Dwight and Eunice Josephine Thomas. Her father was an officer of the United States custom house, Boston. Children: I. Hilda Cameron, born October 7, 1895. 2. Donald Christie, born June 6, 1904, died August 12, 1906.
The Hartwell family in
HARTWELL England is traced back to the days of William the Conqueror, who alotted lands to one of his followers from Normandy by the name of Hartwell. He must have been born as early as 1050, A. D. Although the American pro- genitor's ancestry is not definitely known, he is probably a descendant of this ancient fam- ily, and he is undoubtedly the ancestor of all the American families of the name.
(I) William Hartwell, the American immi- grant, was born in England, about 1613. He was among the first settlers of Concord, in New England, 1636; was admitted a freeman May 18, 1642; and signed the petition for the grant of Chelmsford, 1653. He was com- missioned corporal in 1671, and quartermas- ter, 1673. He had a homestead in Concord, one mile east of the common on the road to Lexington. In 1666 he owned two hundred and forty-seven acres, and was among the largest taxpayers of the town. He died March 12, 1690, aged seventy-seven years. His wife Jazan (family name unknown) de- posed May II, 1675, that she was sixty-seven years old, which would fix her birth in 1608. She died August 5, 1695. Children: I. Sar- ah, died July 8, 1674; married, April 18, 1661, Benjamin Parker, of Billerica. 2. John; see forward. 3. Mary, probably born 1643, died February 13, 1695-6; married Jonathan Hill. 4. Samuel, born March 26, 1645, died July 26,
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1725; married Ruth, daughter of George and Catherine Wheeler. 5. Martha, born May 25, 1649, died before 1690.
(II) John Hartwell, eldest son and second child of William Hartwell (I), was born in . Concord, December 23, 1640, and died of smallpox January 12, 1702-3. He married, June I, 1664, Priscilla, daughter of Edward and Priscilla Wright; she died March 3, 1680- I. He married (second) August 23, 1682, Elizabeth, sister of his first wife; she died De- cember 16, 1704. He served with Captain Thomas Wheeler's company at Brookfield, and elsewhere in King Phillip's war. He was admitted a freeman March 21, 1689-90. His children: I. Ebenezer; see forward. 2. John, born April 15, 1669; married Sarah Shepard. 3. Samuel, born October 9, 1673, died De- cember 31, 1694. 4. Sarah, born February 12, 1676-7; married Ebenezer Lamson. 5. William, born December 22, 1678, died July IO, 1762; married Abigail Hosmer. 6. Jo- seph, born January 24, 1680-1; married Ruh- amah Cutter, of Charlestown. 7. Elizabeth, born October 23, 1683, died young. 8. Eliz- abeth, born December 23, 1684, probably the one who married Samuel Wilson. 9. Ed- ward, born August 23, 1689, died February 17, 1785 ; soldier in 1708-9; was major, justice of the peace, judge of court of common pleas, representative to general court until past eighty years old, on committee of safety and correspondence, and was the most conspicu- ous man of his day in Concord; married Sar- ah Wilder. 10. Jonathan, born February 15, 1691-2, died October 18, 1713; married first, Elizabeth Brown, and (second) Sarah Wheeler.
(III) Ebenezer Hartwell, eldest child of John Hartwell (2), was born in Concord, February 28, 1665, and died in Carlisle, an adjoining town, January 1, 1723-4. He bought his homestead of his father-in-law, and the southern part of the house where John S. Keyes lately lived, in Concord village, across the line in Carlisle. He married, March 27, 1690, Sarah Smedley, daughter of John and Sarah (Wheeler) Smedley; she was born 1670, and died November 13, 1715. Their children: I. John, born April 1, 1691; was district clerk of Carlisle before it was incorporated as a town, and ensign in the militia. 2. Priscilla, born December 13, 1692; died young. 3. Sarah, born July 28, 1694; married Jonathan Melvin. 4. Priscilla, born January 27, 1696- 7. died August 2, 1778; said to have had a lover who went to Maine, turned hunter and hermit, and never returned. 5. Ebenezer,. born March 22, 1698-9, died 1739; went to
Groton; married, August 4, Rachel Francworth. 6. Samuel, see forward.
(IV) Samuel Hartwell, youngest child of Ebenezer Hartwell (3), was born in Concord, April 30, 1702, died in Groton, May 26, 1782 ; married, 1727, Sarah who died in 1733, having two children who died young. He married (second) June 7, 1737, Sarah Holden, of Groton, who was born September 5, 1717. He settled in the north part of Gro- ton, near the Nashua river. Their children were all probably born in Groton: I. Sarah, born March 9, 1738, died May 5, 1790; mar- ried Job Shattuck, a captain in the revolution. 2. Rachel, born December 19, 1739, died Au- gust 16, 1758. 3. An infant, born May 21, 1742, died young. 4. Priscilla, born February 25, 1745, died February 17, 1828; married James Green. 5. Samuel, born July 21, 1748, died young. 6. Hannah, born September 27, 175I ; removed to Springfield, Vermont, 1805. 7. Lois, born December 19, 1758, married Simeon Lakin, of Groton, a revolutionary soldier. 8. Samuel; see forward.
(V) Samuel Hartwell, youngest child of Samuel Hartwell (4), was born in Groton, August 7, 1771, and died there March 24, 1842. He married Caroline M. Wright, of Groton, who was born August 21, 1772, died March 5, 1853. He was a farmer, noted for He his fine physique and great strength. lived in Groton. Children : I. Samuel, born November 7, 1804, died June II, 1825. 2. John H., born November II, 1806; married, May 12, 1831, Caroline M. Shattuck, of Groton, born October 11, 1811; they removed to Germania, Wisconsin, in 1860, and have many descendants. 3. David, born August 2, 1808, died September 20, 1878; married Harriet N. Hayward, of Eas- ton, who was born March 8, 1815, died De- cember 8, 1869; in 1837 removed to Beverly, Ohio; in 1849 to Carrollton, Illinois; in 1854 to Macoupin county, Illinois; in 1870 to Val- ley Centre, Kansas; was a contractor and' builder; left many descendants. 4. Caroline, born December 3, 1812, died July 8, 1844. 5. Matilda, twin with Caroline; died April 8, 1848; married, September 24, 1840, Harrison J. Searles, of Westford, carpenter. 6. Benja- min F., of whom later. 7. James C., born May 12, 1817, died April 22, 1862; married September 24, 1840, Mary G. Corey, of Gro- ton, who was born March 10, 1819; removed to southern Ohio; later to Carrollton, Illinois, and Medora, Illinois; was farmer and carpen- ter.
(VT) Benjamin Franklin Hartwell, sixth
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child and fourth son of Samuel Hartwell (5), was born in Groton, November 5, 1814. He married November 25, 1839, Emma Whit- man, of Stow, daughter of Dr. Charles Whit- man; she was born March 27, 1812, and died April 22, 1880. In early life he was a teach- er, and was for some time principal of Frank- lin Academy, at Germantown, Pennsylvania. Later he was a contractor and builder at Lit- tleton, Massachusetts. He also lived at Gro- ton afterward, and at Zanesville, Ohio, where hedied, January 21, 1891. The three genera- tions ending with Benjamin F. Hartwell were unusually long lived. His grandfather was born in 1702, and he died in 1891, making for three generations a span of one hundred and eighty-nine years. Children: I. Josephine, born December 22, 1840, died young. 2. Em- ma, born May 20, 1843; married September 13, 1871, M. V. B. Kennedy, of Georgetown, Ohio, who was born February 24, 1843, deal- er in books and stationery in Zanesville, Ohio; she is living there now (1906); had son Har- ris H., born September 29, 1873, late city auditor of Zanesville, Ohio. 3. Benjamin Hall, born February 27, 1845; see forward. 4. Harris C., born December 28, 1847; died at Fitchburg, December 9, 1891 ; graduate of Harvard; lawyer by profession; member of school board, Fitchburg; city so- licitor; representative in general court and state senator; president of senate, 1889; offi- cially connected with various financial and industrial corporations ; married Effie M. F., daughter of Colonel Daniel Needham, of Gro- ton. 5. Charlotte E., born August 8, 1852; married, August 16, 1872, Philetus C. La- throp, of Norwalk, Ohio, who was born Au- gust 7, 1839; he served in the civil war; was manufacturer of gloves at Gloversville; re- sides in Arlington, Massachusetts; no chil- dren.
(VII) Benjamin Hall Hartwell, third child and eldest son of Benjamin Franklin Hart- well, was born February 27, 1845, in Acton, Massachusetts. He began his education in the public schools of his native town; pur- sued advanced branches in Lawrence Acade- my, where he graduated and was later a trus- tee of the institution; and Dartmouth Col- lege ; then taught in the high school in Gro- ton, and prepared for his profession, that of medicine, in the Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, from which he was graduated in 1868, when twenty-three years of age. He subsequently took special courses in medicine in New York City, and London, England. He began practice in
Troy, New Hampshire, but after a brief resi- dence there removed to Groton Junction, now Ayer, Massachusetts, in 1869. In the last named place he became one of the leading men, not only in the line of his profession, but in every enterprise that had for its object the . betterment and development of the town. He combined with the duties of physician the personal interest and sympathy of personal friendship, and in many cases his services were unrequited, as he never inquired into the ability of his patients to make compensa- tion, and never forced a collection of a bill if it would work oppression upon the debtor. His professional ability brought him appoint- ment as surgeon on the staff of Colonel Kim- ball, Tenth Regiment Massachusetts Militia, and he served in that capacity for three years. For about thirty years he was a member of the United States board of pension examin- ers. He was also a member of the Medical Legal Society, of which he was president for three years; member of the Massachusetts Medical Society, and a trustee of the Fox- boro Hospital. Outside his profession he rendered public services of great value. In 1888 he was a member of the legislature from Ayer, and served on the committee on ways and means. He was an earnest champion of the cause of education, and it was through his instrumentality that the high school of Ayer was established; he was chairman of the Ayer school board for many years; and at the time of his demise, of the two hundred and forty-three graduates of the high school, every class, two only excepted, received their diplomas from his hands. He was one of the organizers and a life trustee of the Public Li- brary, serving as chairman of the board; and was the leading factor in the organization of the Ayer National Bank, of which he was a director; and of the North Middlesex Sav- ings Bank of Ayer, of which he was president until his death. In all these public relations he never permitted his personal interests to stand before the performance of official duty. He was prominent in the Masonic fraternity ; he was affiliated with Caleb Butler Lodge, for upwards of thirty years, in which he was past master; he served as district deputy grand master for three years. He was a Congrega- tionalist in religion, a Republican in politics, also was a member of the Middlesex Club.
Dr. Hartwell married, September 10, 1879, Helen Emily Clarke, born June 12, 1848, in Groton, Massachusetts, daughter of Major Eusebius S. and Mary J. (Shattuck) Clarke, and granddaughter of Robert Clarke, whose
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grandfather was one of three brothers who came from Londonderry, Ireland, and set- tled in the village of the same name in New Hampshire. At the outbreak of the civil war Eusebius S. Clarke responded to the first call of President Lincoln for troops, and entered the service as captain of Company B, Sixth Regiment Massachusetts Volunteers. It was his regiment which met the murderous on- slaught of the mob in the city of Baltimore. It filled out its period of three months guard- ing the approaches to Washington City, at Relay Depot, near Baltimore. On the expir- ation of his term of service he re-entered the service as captain of Company B, Twenty- sixth Regiment Massachusetts Volunteers, was promoted to the rank of major, and was wounded in action at the battle of Winches- ter and died a month later from the effect October 17, 1864.
RODGERS Among the representative citizens of the city of Malden is Millard Filmore Rodgers, a lineal descendant of Thomas Rogers, who came over in the "Mayflower" in 1620, with Joseph Rogers, his son, and settled in Plym- outh, Massachusetts Bay Colony. The next in line of descent of whom we have any in- formation was Hezekiah Rodgers, who mar- ried Martha Scott. Their son, Hezekiah Rod- gers, born October 12, 1780, married Dorcas Cleveland, born May 13, 1777, and they were the parents of a son, Lucius Cleveland Rod- gers, born in Plymouth Colony, May 15, 18II, a Methodist preacher, and a Republi- can in politics. He married Mary Austin, born April 14, 1816, in West Frankfort, New York, daughter of Freeborn Austin.
Millard Filmore Rodgers, son of Lucius Cleveland and Mary (Austin) Rodgers, was born November 15, 1848, at Schuyler, Herki- mer county, New York. His early schooling was obtained in the village school, and this was supplemented by attendance at the sem- inary at Whitestown, Oneida county, New York, and Fort Edward Institute, Fort Ed- ward, Washington county, New York, from both of which institutions he graduated. He served an apprenticeship at the trade of car- penter, but did not follow that line of work. For several years he was employed in the manufacture of army guns for E. Reming- ton Sons, Ilion, New York, and in 1884 took up the undertaking business as a profession and has followed same to the present time (1908). That good deeds can be accom-
plished even in our daily vocations is evi- denced by the fact that for many years and also at the present time, Mr. Rodgers has taken upon himself the entire cost of burial of members of the Malden Home for Aged Persons, a most philanthropic work. Mr. Rodgers is a member of the Center Metho- dist Episcopal Church, and for many years has served in the capacity of secretary of dif- ferent Sunday schools. He is a Republican in politics, serving as warden of ward three in the city of Malden. He was formerly a member of Olive Branch Lodge, No. 40, Free and Accepted Masons, of Frankfort, New York, of which he was secretary, and is now a member of Converse Lodge, Ancient Free and Accepted Masons; the Royal Arch Chap- ter of the Tabernacle; and Beauseant Com- mandery, Knights Templar, all of which are of Malden. He is also a member of Aleppo Temple, Ancient Arabic Order of the Mystic Shrine, of Boston; Crystal Chapter, Order of Eastern Star, Malden; Malden Lodge of Elks; the Kernwood and Malden Clubs, of Malden; associate member of Post No. 40, Grand Army of the Republic, Malden, and of the Malden Young Men's Christian Association. That Mr. Rodgers is taking an active and prominent part in the various affairs of his adopted city is clearly demonstrated by this brief account of his career.
Mr. Rodgers married, October 28, 1874, Fannie M. Fairchild, in Ilion, New York. She is a daughter of Robert T. and Nancy Fairchild, of Ilion, New York. She was a graduate of the Oswego Normal School, Os- wego, New York, and had been a teacher for several years. Children: M. Floyd and M. Flora (twins), born January 14, 1877, in Ilion, New York; the latter was married to Ralph A. Knight, June 12, 1907, and resides in Mal- den. Ralph Fairchild, born in Frankfort, New York, November 9, 1879, was drowned in Maranacook Lake, Maine, in August, 1903, in the twenty-fourth year of his age.
HOWARD The surname Howard origi- nated in England during the thirteenth century, and was derived from Hayward, Harward and Here- ward. The first to adopt the present form of spelling, was, undoubtedly William Howard, a learned and honored jurist in the reign of Edward I. That monarch married for his second consort Margaret, daughter of Philip the Hardy of France, and his eldest son by this marriage was Thomas Plantagenet, sur-
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named De Brotherton. The latter's great- granddaughter Margaret, who was the eldest daughter of Thomas de Mowbray, Duke of Norfolk, became the wife of Sir Robert How- ard, a descendant of William Howard, the jurist just mentioned. Howard was the fami- ly name of several dukes of Norfolk. The Howards of America, in common with those of the mother country, are the posterity of William the jurist. The Howard family now being considered is thought to be the progeny of Robert and Mary Howard, who came from England and were early settlers in Dorchester, Massachusetts, where Robert was made a freeman in 1635. Their children were: Jonathan, Robert, Hannah, Jeremiah, Bethia, Mary, Temperance and perhaps oth- ers.
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