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(IV) John C. Wilson, son of John Wilson (3), was born December 9, 1836. He served an apprenticeship at the trade of machinist in . the city of Lowell, and worked at various places, spending five years in Portland, Maine, from whence he returned to Lowell, where he was in partnership with his brother, David Henry Wilson. He retired July 1, 1886. He is a Baptist in religion, a Republican in pol- itics, and a member of the Knights of Malta. He married (first) Anna E. Brethrick, born June 23, 1839, died September 14, 1871; four children : i. John F., born July 15, 1859 ; ed- ucated in the public schools, graduating from the high school; at time of death was with the Lamson Cash Carrier Company. He mar-
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ried Mabel Richardson; two children, Ethel and Irene. ii. Albert, born February 20, 1862; educated in public and high schools, attending the latter three years, and then learned the art of printing; is now teller in the Middlesex Trust Company. He married Alice Woods ; one child, Anna M., born April 29, 1885. iii. David, born May 2, 1864, died in infancy. iv. Benjamin H., born July 26, 1867, died April 9, 1903; he attended the public and high schools, the latter two years, and then en- gaged in the grocery business. He married Annie Harris; one child, Vivian, born Octo- ber 28, 1895. John C. married (second) Mar- garet A. Munroe; two children: i. Charles C., born March 21, 1879; married, August 29, 1903, Florence E. Williams, born February 5, 1881. ii. Edith, born December 26, 1884, died May 12, 1886.
John C. (4) and David H. (4) are brothers.
(IV) David Henry Wilson, son of John Wilson (3), was born in Paisley, Scotland, June 15, 1839. He was brought to this coun- try by his parents when three years of age, they arriving July 4, 1842. He was educated in the public schools of Lowell, Massachu- setts; spending two years in the high school. In 1852, at the age of thirteen, he went to work for the Lowell Manufacturing Com- pany, studying designing. He remained in this position until the following year, when he was apprenticed to David Dana for five years to learn the trade of coppersmith. In 1859 he removed to Windham, Maine, and for three years was engaged in the grocery business there. Returning to Boston he worked at his trade as coppersmith on government work under Edward Ayer. Afterwards he removed to Portland, Maine, where for eight years he worked at his trade, most of the time on the copper work of gunboats for the United States. He entered the employ of the Union Machine Company at Fitchburg in 1871, re- maining two years. In 1874 he and his brother, John C. Wilson, formed a partner- ship, and they established a successful busi- ness in Lowell as coppersmiths, being the first concern in this country to make copper slasher cylinders. The business in recent years has been located at 279 and 283 Dutton street. Mr. Wilson stands high in the con- fidence of the community, and has won sub- stantial success in his business career in Lo- well and throughout all New England, his slashers being used in all the different states of the south. He has now (1908) retired from business. He is an active member of
the Worthen Street Baptist Church, and has held at various times all the offices of the church to which laymen are eligible. He is a member of the Knights of Pythias, Pentucket Lodge of Free Masons, and of the various Masonic bodies up to and including the thirty-second degree. He is a Republican in politics, and has been active in the duties of citizenship.
He married, February 7, 1863, Harriet Hudson, of Lowell. She died March 18, 1899. He married (second), October 16, 1900, Hat- tie M. Hubbard, of Lowell. Children: I. Henry D., born at Westbrook, January 8, 1865, graduate of the public schools; removed to Lowell, and is engaged in business; mar- ried Lilla Bates; two children, died in infancy. 2. Arthur, born June 20, 1869; graduate of public and high school; engaged in business with father; married Carrie Kitteridge; four children: Natalie, Arthur, Harriet L. and Emma. 3. Walter E. H., born in Lowell, May 26, 1880; graduate of grammar and high schools, and Lowell Textile School. Since the retirement of his father, he supervises the business and is considered an able successor to his father. 4. George, died young.
Robert Moir and his wife Eliza- MOIR beth (Moir) Moir, natives of Den- nypoe, Scotland, and of Paisley, Scotland, respectively, had ten children, all born in Dennypoe, Scotland, and named in the order of their birth: George, Alexander (1825), Robert, Susan, Isabella, Jeanette, James, William, John and Andrew Moir.
(II) Alexander Moir, son of Robert and Elizabeth (Moir) Moir, was born in Denny- poe, Scotland, April 17, 1825. He learned the trade of calico printer, and in view of the in- creasing demand for skilled labor in the cot- ton mills of Massachusetts, he came to that state and found employment at the Pacific Mills, Lawrence, and in 1874 came to Lowell and found employment as a calico printer at the Hamilton Mills. He was married March 13, 1855, at Lowell, Massachusetts, to Isabella, daughter of Duncan and Ann McLardy, na- tives of Paisley, Scotland, where Isabella Mc- Lardy was born in 1831. The eight children of Alexander and Isabella (McLardy) Moir were. Robert, Ann, born September 12, 1858. Elizabeth, August 12, 1860. Duncan, Septem- ber 8, 1862, died September 12, 1892. Alex- ander, April 17, 1864. George, April 15, 1866. John, May 8, 1868. James, October 15, 1870. These children were brought up in the relig-
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ious faith of their parents and ancestors, that of the Presbyterian church, and like their par- ents were charitable and given to good works as well as to strict church attendance and re- gard for religious living. Mr. Moir fell from a tree in 1888, and the result of the fall was to disable him physically, so as to confine him to his home for the remainder of his life. His misfortune was accepted by his children as but another opportunity to meet the filial ob- ligation they considered a pleasure to repay. The home of Mr. and Mrs. Alexander Moir at 170 West Sixth street, Lowell, was the mecca for not only sons and daughters by blood and marriage, but as well for a troop of devoted grandchildren. Mrs. Moir, wife of Alexander Moir, died in September, 1896.
Moses Given was born at Gil- bertstown, county Donegal, Ire- GIVEN land. He was educated in the district schools of the parish, and up to the time of his father's death was engaged with him in farming. He succeeded to the home- stead, a farm of one hundred acres in the cen- ter of Gilbertstown. He carried on general farming, raising large crops of flax, oats, bar- ley, etc., and having cattle and sheep. He was prosperous, as prosperity goes in the old coun- try. He was a man of great size and fine physique, though somewhat disabled in later years by lameness. He died at Gilbertstown in 1878. He was an active and faithful mem- ber of the Methodist Episcopal church. He married Fanny Watt, of Drummore, county Donegal, Ireland. Her mother was of the Walker family of that place, Frances Walker. Children : I. Margaret, died young. 2. Jane, married William Given; no issue. 3. Mary, married John Graham; residence, Woburn, Massachusetts; children: i. Elizabeth Gra- ham. ii. Sarah Graham. 4. Eliza, married Robert Hazelett at Cambridge; no issue. 5. William, married Shaw and had seven children. 6. James, born March 7, 1850, men- tioned below. 7. Moses, married Annie Cam- eron, of Lowell, Massachusetts; no issue. 8. Fred, married Jennie Johnson, of Woburn. 9. John. 10. Frances, married Richard Porter ; children. i. Cassie Porter, born September, 1886; ii. Jane Porter, 1888; iii. Annie Porter. (II) James Given, son of Moses Given (I), was born at Gilbertstown, county Donegal, Ireland, March 7, 1850. He received his edu- cation in the common schools of his native land, attending during the winters terms and working on the farm during the summer
months. He remained at home until seventeen years of age, when he came to America, sail- ing April 29, 1867. He landed in Boston and secured employment with the Bay State Brick Company at North Cambridge, Massachusetts. He worked there one year, then started in Feb- ruary, 1868, to learn the trade of blacksmith under James Little, of Cambridge, and work- ing in his shop nine months. He finished learning his trade in the shop of R. S. Easter, of North Cambridge, where he worked two years. He and Mr. Easter then opened a blacksmith shop in Woburn, doing business under the firm name of Easter & Given for a year and a half. In 1873 Mr. Given bought out his partner and continued under his own name. In 1878 he added to his business wheel- wright and carriage painting departments and began later to manufacture heavy wagons. He built up a large and profitable business in Woburn and vicinity. He owns his place of business as well as his farm on Bedford street, where in 1897 he built his present residence. Besides other real estate he owns a house on Beacon street, Woburn, and is a large taxpayer He stands well in the business world and in the estimation of all classes of his townsmen. Mr. Given comes of Protestant stock and was brought up in the Methodist religion. He is a member of the Methodist Episcopal church of Woburn, and has for twenty years served on its advisory board. In politics he is a Re- publican and has frequently been elected dele- gate to county and senatorial nominating con- ventions. He is a member of the Royal Or- ange Institution of America of Orangemen, and has been master, secretary and chaplain of his lodge, of which at present he is treas- urer. He is a member of the Ladies' Auxil- iary of Loyal Orange Institution at Woburn.
He married, December 14, 1881, Lora L. Barnum, who was born June 11, 1858, daugh- ter of Daniel and Nichia Harris (Vaughan) Barnum. Her father was a blacksmith also. Children: 1. Frances Winifred, born Decem- ber 16, 1882. 2. James Selwyn, June II, 1884. 3. Stanley, May 2, 1886, died March 27, 1887. 4. Ethel Vaughan, September 12, 1889. 5. Elton Barnum, February 6, 1891. 6. Lora L., July 30, 1893. 7. Harold Hutch- ings, January 23, 1899.
PATTEN Patten is an ancient English surname dating back to the very beginning of the use of surnames in England and taken, like many of English names, from localities. Richard
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Patten was a resident of Pattine, near Chelmsford, Essex county, England, as early as III9. One of his descendants, Richard Patten, of Waynefleet, was a man of distinc- tion from 1422 to 1462 in England, was bishop of Winchester and lord high chancel- lor and founded Magadalen College at Ox- ford. In 1490 a branch of this Patten family located in Scotland and one of the Scotch Pattens, perhaps several of them, removed to Ulster Province in the north of Ireland 1610- 20, and a number of these Scotch-Irish came to New England about a century later. From Coleraine, in Ireland, came the brothers Hec- tor (generally called Actor), Robert and Will- iam. The latter settled in Boston and left no male issue. Hector was born, according to the history of Saco Valley, Maine, in Dimbo, now Belfast, Ireland; married Sutor, and came to New England in 1727; married (second) a Widow Armstrong, of Arundel, Maine; settled at Old Orchard and later at Frenchmans Bay, Maine.
(I) Robert Patten, the third of the broth- ers, was the immigrant ancestor of this family. He came with his brothers in 1727 and settled in Arundel. He is said to have kept a public house in Arundel. He married Mc- Laughlin, who died on the voyage to this country. He married (second) Florence Johnston. He settled in Arundel and lived in that vicinity the remainder of his days. Child by first wife: I. Actor, married Jane Mclellan and removed to Topsham. Chil- dren by second wife: 2. Robert, married Sarah Deering. 3. James, mentioned below. 4. Margaret, married Israel Cleaves. 5. Mary, married William Willson. 6. John, married Sarah Wiswall. 7. Rachel, married William Smith.
(II) James Patten, son of Robert Patten (I), was born in Arundel, Maine, in 1745, and died May 8, 1817. He was a soldier in the Revolution from Topsham and Bowdoinham, Maine, a private in Captain Asa Haynes's company, Colonel Edward Wigglesworth's regiment in 1777; also in Captain John Smith's company, Colonel Calvin Smith's regiment in the Continental army in 1777; also in Captain Aaron Haynes's company and Colonel Wigglesworth's regiment. He was at Camp Greenage in 1778 and in 1779 was in Captain John K. Smith's company, Colonel Wigglesworth's regiment. In 1780 his enlist- ment states his age as thirty (he was probably a few years older, thirty-five according to the date of birth given by the family); was five
feet ten inches tall; complexion light; eyes "light." He served again in 1781. His brother, Actor (Hector) Patten, was a cap- tain in the Revolution from Topsham in Colonel Samuel McCobb's regiment in 1779. He married (first) Sally Stone; (second) Abby (Abigail) Meservey, who was born in 1755, and died September 3, 1838. Children of the first wife: I. Johnston, married Lucy Towne; son James D., born August 26, 1817, died October 7, 1865; married Mary J. Gardner; prominent citizen of Gardner. 2. Robert. Children of second wife: 3. Daniel, born June 26, 1792, mentioned below. 4. James, born July 3, 1795.
(III) Daniel Patten, son of James Patten (2), was born in or near Topsham, Maine, June 26, 1792, and died March 22, 1871. He married, 1817, Phebe Adams, who was born July 25, 1799, and died February 26, 1856. Children : I. Joseph A., born September 29, 1818, mentioned below. 2. Abigail M., born October 25, 1821. 3. Lydia P., born October 16, 1823, died 1904. 4. James, born March 25, 1826, died March 14, 1848. 5. William, born March 13, 1829, died June 6, 1860. 6. Priscilla J., born February 12, 1836.
(IV) Joseph Adams Patten, son of Daniel Patten (3), was born in Kennebunkport, Maine, September 29, 1818. He was educated there in the' common schools and in 1840 left home and located in Lowell, Massachusetts, where he spent the remainder of his days. He worked in the mills eight years, rose to the position of overseer and held it for a period of twenty-seven years. He died Janu- ary 27, 1897. He was a Republican in politics, was a member of the common council of Lo- well in 1855-68-69. He was a member of the Old Residents' Association and was honorary member of Pentucket Lodge of Free Masons of Lowell. He was a member of the Uni- tarian church, Merrimac street. He married, August 23, 1847, Marie Antoinette Bixby, born October 19, 1826, at Corinth, Vermont, and died February 9, 1906. Children, born in Lowell: I. Marie Antoinette, born April 29, 1848, died July 6, 1849. 2. Marcellus Adams, born December 4, 1849, mentioned below. 3. Frank James, born March 4, 1852, died July 22, 1854.
(V) Marcellus Adams Patten, son of Joseph Adams Patten (4), was born in Lo- well, Massachusetts, December 4, 1849. He was educated in the public schools of his native town, and graduated from the high school in 1868. When he completed his edu-
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cation and left home to start on his own ac- count he entered the employ of a florist and learned the business. He was one year with Wieland Bros., Harvard street, Cambridge, and a year with W. C. Strong, Brighton, Mas- sachusetts. In 1870 he engaged in business on his own account with a store and hot- houses on West Fourth street, Lowell, and continued for twenty years and became a leader in his line. In 1888 he established his present plant in Tewksbury and made a specialty of raising carnations, and in 1890 he opened a store on Central street, Lowell, for the retail sale of his flowers.
The business is conducted under the firm name of Patten & Co. He resides in Tewksbury. His greenhouse business is now confined ex- clusively to Tewksbury. He is a Republican but has not been active in politics. He is a member of Pentucket Lodge of Free Masons; of the Knights of Pythias; of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks; of Tewksbury Grange, No. 207, Patrons of Husbandry; of the Knights of Malta; of the American Flor- ists' Society and of the Boston Florists' and Gardeners' Club.
He married, August 3, 1875, Susan Gene- vieve Allen, born June II, 1852, in Danville, Vermont. Her father, John Gordon Allen, was born February 16, 1811, and died July 1, 1892, in Lowell; her mother, Nancy Martin (Crane) Allen, was born February II, 1813, and died July 27, 1890; married February 5, 1834; children: i. Charles H. Allen, born December 19, 1834; ii. Lydia Jane Allen, born February 16, 1836, married M. J. Bart- lett; iii. Eliza A. Allen, born September 17, 1837, died July 7, 1877; iv. George Frank Al- len, born June 8, 1839; v. Fannie A. Allen, born January 23, 1841; vi. William Silvester Allen, born October 13, 1842; vii. Flora Helen Allen, born October 22, 1844; viii. John Gordon Allen, born October 28, 1848, died 1853; ix. Mary A. Allen, born October 9, 1850, died in infancy. x. Susan G. Allen, born June 10, 1852, mentioned above. Chil- dren of Marcellus Adams and Susan G. Pat- ten: I. Willie (twin), born October 7, 1876, died same day. 2. Fred (twin), born and died October 7, 1876. 3. Wilbur Allen, born Sep- tember 5, 1879, in Lowell, educated in his native town and is associated with his father in business; married Bertha L. Lee; children : i. Helen L., born September 12, 1903; ii. Do- herty A., born December 22, 1907. 4. Har- old Joseph, born May 27, 1884, at Lowell, works with his father on the homestead.
Nicholas Snow, the immigrant SNOW ancestor, was born in England. He came to New Plymouth in the ship "Ann," in 1623, and had a share in the division of land in Plymouth in 1624. In 1634 he settled at Eastham, Massachusetts, and was a prominent citizen. His home was on the road from Plymouth to Eel river, on the west- erly side. He was admitted a freeman in 1633, and was elected town clerk at the first meeting of the town of Eastham, holding that office sixteen years; was deputy to the gen- eral court from 1648, three years; selectman from 1663, seven years. He and his son Mark signed the call to Rev. John Mayo to settle as their minister in 1655. He was one of Gov- ernor Thomas Prence's associates. He died at Eastham, November 15, 1676. He married, at Plymouth, Constance, daughter of Stephen Hopkins, who came in the "Mayflower." All the descendants of Nicholas and Constance Snow are eligible to the Mayflower Society. Constance herself came in the "Mayflower." She died October, 1677. Children: I. Mark, born May 9, 1628. 2. Mary, born about 1630. 3. Sarah, born about 1632. 4. Joseph, born about 1634. 5. Stephen, born 1636. 6. John, born about 1638. 7. Elizabeth, born about 1640. 8. Jabez, born about 1642. 9. Ruth, born about 1644. IO. Hannah, born probably at Eastham, about 1646. If. Rebecca, born about 1648. 12. Bradford states that he had twelve children.
(II) Stephen Snow, son of Nicholas Snow (I), was born probably at Plymouth, about 1636, and died December 17, 1705, at East- ham. He married first, December 13, 1663, at Eastham, Susanna (Deane) Rogers, daughter of Stephen and Elizabeth (Ring) Deane. She was born in Plymouth before 1634; married first, Joseph Rogers, Jr., son of Lieutenant Joseph Rogers, who came as a boy in the "Mayflower." Susanna died before 1701, and Stephen married second, April 9, 1701, Mary Bigford. He resided in what is now East Or- leans, Massachusetts. Children, born in East- ham: I. Bathshua, born July 25, 1664. 2. Hannah, born January 2, 1666. 3. Micajah, born December 22, 1669. 4. Bethiah, born July 1, 1672. 5. Mehitable. 6. Ebenezer, born about 1677, mentioned below.
(III) Ebenezer Snow, son of Stephen Snow (2), was born in Eastham, Massachusetts, about 1677 ; died before April 9, 1725 ; married December 22, 1698, Hope Horton, who mar- ried (second) Thomas Atkins, and went to Chatham to live. Some of her children settled
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there. This name Horton seems to be a varia- tion of Houghton, and related to the Hough- tons of Milton, descendants of Ralph Hough- ton, of Lancaster, one of the immigrant ancest- ors. Ebenezer Snow's estate was divided March 4, 1737-8. Children, born in Eastham: I. Sus- anna, born February 6, 1699-1700. 2. Thom- as, born February I, 1702, mentioned below. 3. Ebenezer, born February 16, 1703-4. 4. Nathaniel, born February 7, 1705-6. 5. Henry, born January 6, 1706-7. 6. Aaron, born March 20, 1707-8. 7. Samuel, born 1709-10, died June 10, 1728. 8. Thankful, born July 3, 1714. 9. Elisha, born October 9, 1716. 10. Hope, born November 18, 1718. II. Hannah, born December II, 1720. 12. Bashua, born October 4, 1723.
(IV) Thomas Snow, son of Ebenezer Snow (3), was born in Eastham, Massachusetts, February 1, 1701-2. He married January 27, 1731, Abigail Doane, daughter of Israel and Ruth (Freeman) Doane, granddaughter of Daniel Doane (2), son of the immigrant, John (page 53, Dóane Genealogy). Children, born at Eastham: I. Elnathan, born March 3, Doane. Abigail was born December 29, 1706 1734; mentioned below. 2. Abigail, born March 9, 1736; married Isaac Paine. 3. Sus- anna, born March 31, 1743. 4. Ruth, born April 1, 1749.
(V) Elnathan Snow, son of Thomas Snow at Eastham: I. Elnathan, born March 2, (4), was born in Eastham, Massachusetts, March 3, 1734-5. He married Phebe Sparrow, of Eastham. Child, Isaac, mentioned below.
(VI) Isaac Snow, son of Elnathan Snow (5), was born December 8, 1757, and died at Orleans, Massachusetts, March 12, 1855, aged ninety-seven years five months and four days, one of the last of the revolutionary soldiers of Barnstable county. He married, March 16, 1786, Hannah Freeman, born March 6, 1764, died September 30, 1838, daughter of Jona- than and Thankful (Linnell), granddaugh- ter of Lieutenant Edmund and Sarah (Spar- row) Freeman. Sarah Sparrow was daughter of Richard Sparrow. Edmund Freeman (3), father of Lieutenant Edmund Freeman (4), married Sarah Mayo (or Myrick). Major John (2), father of Edmund Freeman (3), married Mercy Prence, daughter of Governor Prence and his wife Patience. Edmund Free- man (I), the immigrant, was father of Major John Freeman (2) ; came to Sandwich about 1637; from England about 1635.
Isaac Snow was in Captain Isaiah Higgins' company, Colonel Thomas Marshall's regi- ment, stationed at Boston in 1776, and serving
in the siege under Washington. He was also in Captain Benjamin Godfrey's company, Col- onel Josiah Whitney's regiment, in 1777. He was also in the navy, and was taken prisoner November 28, 1780, in the brig "Resolution," taken to Gibraltar with other Cape Cod men, escaped, was retaken and committed to the old Mill Prison with other Cape Cod men, and was confined there twenty-two months (See "N. E. Reg." 1855, page 295; also "Massa- chusetts Soldiers and Sailors in the Revolu- tion." Children: I. Jonathan, died 1868; was selectman and representative to the general court from Eastham. 2. Russell, born August 1, 1804; mentioned below. 3. Elisha. 4. Dorcas. 5. Thankful, born May 8, 1787; died June 27, 1870 ; married Joshua Doane, son of Azariah Doane. 6. Savilla. (See Freeman Genealogy, page 185). These children are not given in the order of their birth.
(VI) Russell Snow, son of Isaac Snow (5), was born August 1, 1804. He married Han- nah Shaw Sparrow, daughter of Josiah and Mercy (Smith) Sparrow, and granddaughter of Isaac and Rebecca (Knowles) Sparrow; great-granddaughter of Lieutenant Richard and Sarah (Paine) Sparrow; great-great- granddaughter of Richard and Hannah (Shaw) Sparrow. Jonathan Sparrow (2), father of Richard Sparrow, married Rebecca Bangs, Hannah Prence and Sarah Cobb. Richard Sparrow (I), the immigrant, father of Jonathan, married Pandora ; was in Plymouth before 1633; was constable 1630-40; removed to Eastham, where he was a towns- man in 1655, and where his descendants have been one of the leading families ever since. Phebe Sparrow, wife of Elnathan Snow, men- tioned above, was of this family. The farm on which Jonathan Sparrow (2) located in: 1660 in Eastham remained in the possession of his lineal descendants until sold in 1907. Hannah Sparrow was born there, the ninth generation of the family born on the old home- stead. Russell Snow followed the sea and be- came captain of a vessel. Children of Russell Snow: I. Julia K., born July 21, 1829, died September 1, 1857. 2. Elvira G., born July 19, 1831, died April 19, 1899. 3. Russell L., see forward. 4. Hannah F., born 1836, died 1839. 5. Hannah F., born October 7, 1840; married Captain Alfred Doane, who circum- navigated · the globe many times, and sailed more than a million miles during his seagoing life, beginning with a vessel of nine hundred tons, and when he retired commanded one of nineteen hundred tons ; children : i. Alfred O., born May 2, 1862, in East Orleans, now of
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Newtonville; an engineer in the office of the Metropolitan Water Board, Boston. ii. Julia S., born December 2, 1866, in Cambridge ; re- sides with her mother in Newtonville. iii. Francis H., born September 9, 1870, in Cam- bridge; instructor in International School of Correspondence, Scranton, Pennsylvania. iv. Arthur L., died in infancy. 6. John H., born March 16, 1843, died November 10, 1892; married Tempa J. Arey, of Orleans ; children : Marion J., of Arlington ; Florence D., deceas- ed; a son, died in infancy. The mother re- sides in Arlington Heights, Massachusetts. 7. Lucy A. S., born May 25, 1847.
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