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(V) Job Cushing was born in Hingham, second precinct (Cohasset), April 17, 1744. He was married, November 21, 1781, to Martha, daughter of Thomas and Elizabeth (Lincoln) Nichols. After her death he was married, April 27, 1784, to widow Abigail Peirce. He was a deacon in the church at Cohasset, and August 1, 1775, organized a company of fifty- six men and joined Colonel John Greaton's reg- iment, serving as captain. He wintered at Val- ley Forge with Washington. Later he com- manded another company of Hingham and Co- hasset men, and had the rank of major in 1782. His children were by his second wife, and were born in Cohasset: Job, September 27, 1785. Roland Franklin, May 3, 1791. Abigail, mar- ried Isaac Wheeler. Elizabeth, married Elias Nichols, of Cohasset.
(VI) Job Cushing was born in Cohasset, September 27, 1785. In 1820 he was married to Elizabeth Lincoln, of Cohasset. He was a farmer, and lived in Cohasset. Children, born in Cohasset : Charles, 1821; Abigail, 1823; Samuel, 1825 ; Martin, 1828; Job, 1831 ; May, 1833 ; Otis, 1836.
(VI) Samuel Cushing was born in Cohasset in 1825. He was married in 1851 to Martha S. Chafey, daughter of Hiram and Asenath (Ken- dall) Chafey, of Albany, Vermont. She died in 1894, and in 1896 he was married to Harriet W. Wheeler, of Binghamton, New York. He died May 21, 1904. He came to Medford in 1850. He was a ship joiner. and worked for
some time in the navy yard in Charlestown. He also worked for several years in the ship- yards in Medford for some of the ship build- ers on Ship street, who made the old town famous the world over. His children were by his first wife, and born in Medford: I. Hiram Chafey, born 1852, married first, in 1876, to Maymie Cutter, of Arlington; and (second) September 14, 1896, to Mary J. Burrie, of Po- mona, California, and now lives in South Pasa- dena, California. 2. Roland Franklin, born 1854, died 1871. 3. Walter Foster; see for- ward.
(VII) Walter Foster Cushing, youngest child of Samuel and Martha S. (Chafey) Cush- ing, was born in Medford, September 15, 1857, and was married in 1881 to Carrie E., daughter of Albert Bullard, of Medford, formerly of Sharon. He was educated in the public schools of Medford, entered the high school of Med- ford in 1871, but remained only two weeks on account of ill health. He started at once as a boy with Thompson, Bigelow & Brown, whole- sale booksellers and stationers, 25 and 29 Corn- hill, Boston, continuing in the same business until 1878, when he went to California for his health, returning in 1881. He was in business in Meriden, Connecticut, for a year, and then returned to Boston. In 1888 be became a member of the firm of Greenough, Hopkins & Cushing, wholesale stationers and blank book manufacturers, Boston. He is now a member of the firm of Adams, Cushing & Foster, Bos- ton, successors to the above firm. He is a member of the Boston Stationers' Association, serving as president in the years 1899-1902. He represented the Association as delegate in the Boston Associated Board of Trade and also the State Board of Trade, in these years.
Mr. Cushing's residence is in Medford. He is a member of the First Baptist church of Medford, also a deacon and member of the standing committee, and has been treasurer of the society for the past twelve years. He is a member of the Boston Baptist Social Union, and past president of the Boston Young Men's Baptist Social Union. He was a member of the first board of aldermen of the city of Med- ford, serving in 1893-4-5 and 6, being chair- man the last year. He was park commissioner in 1897 to 1901, inclusive; member of joint committee of Somerville and Medford, serving as chairman in charge of securing the boule- vard along Mystic river from Wellington to Mystic Lake. He was elected sinking fund com missioner by the city government -in 1907, and was elected a director of the Medford National Bank 1907 ; is past grand of Harmony Lodge,
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No. 68, I. O. O. F. ; treasurer of Odd Fellows' Building Association that built the Odd Fel- lows' Building; member of Mount Hermon Lodge, Free and Accepted Masons; and of Mystic Royal Arch Chapter ; member of Med- ford Historical Society; and charter member of Medford Club ; and was treasurer of the ex- ecutive committee that had charge of the cele- bration of the 275th anniversary of Medford. The descendants of Matthew Cushing have distinguished themselves in different lines of activity. Some have done excellent work in the pulpit, others in the medical profession, and others at the bar or on the bench.
(V) Among those who made his mark was William Cushing, who was born in Scituate, March 1, 1732, and died September 13, 1810. He was graduated at Harvard in 1751. He became a lawyer, and commenced practice in Pownalboro, in the district of Maine. He was appointed the first judge of probate in Lincoln county, and in 1772 made judge of the superior court. At the organization of the superior court in Massachusetts, in 1777, he was ap- pointed chief justice of the court. He became judge of the supreme judicial court in 1782, and became chief justice. At the organization of the United States government in 1789, he was selected by Washington as an associate justice of the United States supreme court, and administered the oath of office to Washington at the beginning of his second term, March 4, 1793. In 1796, after Judge Jay's resignation he was nominated by Washington as chief jus- tice, and was unanimously confirmed by the senate, but he declined on account of the con- dition of his health.
(VII) Luther Stearns Cushing was born in Lunenburg, Massachusetts, June 22, 1803. He was a son of Edmund and Mary (Stearns) Cushing. He was graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1826. He served as clerk of the Massachusetts house of representatives for twelve years from 1832 to 1844. He was ap- pointed judge of the court of common pleas in Boston, and remained on the bench for four years. In 1848 he was lecturer on Roman Law at Harvard College, was one of the editors of the American Jurist, and wrote several able works on jurisprudence. He was reporter to the supreme court of Massachusetts, and pub- lished eight volumes of reports. He was the author of "Cushing's Manual of Parliamentary Practice," and the "Law and Practice of Par- liamentary Assemblies." The "Cushing Man- ual" has been for more than forty years the recognized authority for nearly all the state legislatures in the country, and the standard for reference in nearly all deliberative assemb -.
lies and societies. More than a half million copies of "Cushing's Manual" have been sold by the publishers.
(VII) Caleb Cushing was a son of John Newmarch and Lydia (Dow) Cushing, and was born in Salisbury, January 17, 1800. He was graduated at Harvard in 1817, and was a tutor there in 1820 and 1821. He was ad- mitted to the bar in 1822, and practiced law in Newburyport until 1829. He was representa- tive to the Massachusetts state legislature in 1825-26-33-34-50-58-59, was senator from Es- sex county in 1827, and elected to congress in 1835. He was re-elected three times, and re- mained there until he was appointed envoy ex- traordinary and minister plenipotentiary to China, and negotiated the famous treaty with that country in 1844. On the 15th of January, 1847, he was commissioned colonel of the Mas- sachusetts regiment, and led it to Mexico, and was promoted and made brigadier-general. From 1852 to 1853 he was judge of the su- preme judicial court of Massachusetts, and from 1853 to 1857 attorney general of the United States. In 1866 he was appointed one of the three eminent lawyers to revise and codify the laws of the United States, and in 1872 was one of the counsel for the United States at the Geneva Conference for the set- tlement of the Alabama claims.
The Cushings have always responded to the call for service wherever it might be. As soldiers they have shouldered the musket and marched for the defence of the town, the state, and the country. It is noteworthy that in the War of the Revolution there were over one hundred of the Cushing family who served in that war.
William P. Martin is a de-
MARTIN scendant of Robert (I) and Hannah (Pearl) Martin, of Windham, Cumberland county, Maine. They resided for a time in Windham, but later re- ' moved to New Gloucester, Maine. Their son Ezekiel Martin (2), was born in Windham, November 22, 1766. He married Mary Stinch- field. Their oldest child Ezekiel was born about 1790. Their ninth child Pearl was born in New Gloucester. He married, and settled in Abbott, Maine. His son, Augustus P. Mar- tin, who removed with his father and family to Boston, served in the civil war with signal ability and success, commanding the Third Massachusetts Battery. He went first for three months, re-enlisted for three years, and took part in the siege of Yorktown, and the battles of Antietam, Fredericksburg, and Chancellors-
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ville, having the rank of captain. He after- ward served on Governor Gaston's staff with the rank of general, and later was elected may- or of Boston.
(III) Ezekiel Martin was born in Wind- ham, Maine, about 1790. He lived in Turner, and was postmaster at East Turner when the office was first established in 1831, and retain- ed the position for twenty-five years. At first the mail was brought on horseback from Win- throp, later it was carried from Auburn. He was a farmer, but was interested in every- thing that related to the prosperity of the town. In 1854 he was appointed one of the trustees of the ministerial and grammar school funds, and served for many years. He married Eliz- abeth Cushman. She was a descendant of Isaac Allerton, who came to Plymouth in the "May- flower," through his daughter Mary, who mar- ried Elder Thomas Cushman. Ezekiel and Elizabeth (Cushman) Martin had seven chil- dren. The sixth child was
(IV) Dr. Pearl Martin, who was born in Turner, Maine, September 29, 1829. He grad- uated at the medical department of Bowdoin College, and commenced to practice his profes- sion in Lewiston, Maine, removing to Med- ford, Massachusetts, in June, 1868. For more than thirty years, till his health failed, he was one of the leading physicians of the city. He was a Republican in politics, and was active in town affairs, serving as street commissioner and on the board of health for several years. He was surgeon in one of the Maine regi- ments for three years during the civil war. He gave an address at the centennial celebration of his native town, Turner, Maine, in 1886. Dr. Martin married Mary Davis Frye, daugh- ter of John M. and Alice (Davis) Frye, March 25, 1857. She is a sister of the Hon. William P. Frye, United States Senator from Maine. They are descended from John Frye, who came to New England in 1670, through his grandson, General Joseph Frye, who was born in Andover, Massachusetts, in 17II, and dis- tinguished himself as a soldier, serving as en- sign in Colonel Hale's regiment in the siege of Louisburg. He was colonel of a regiment in the French and Indian wars, major-general of the Massachusetts troops in 1775, and briga- dier-general in the Continental army, being the first officer of that grade commissioned by the Continental Congress. For his dis- tinguished military services he received a grant of land forming the town of Fryburg, Maine, which took his name when he died in 1794. He had three sons-Simon, who was for many years a judge; Nathaniel, who was an officer in the Continental army; and Jo-
seph, who was an officer in the Brit- ish army, but later in the United States army. Dean Frye, son of Cap- tain Joseph Frye, married Joanna March, and had three sons and four daughters. One of the sons, Colonel John M. Frye, born in 1802, was the father of Mrs. Pearl Martin. Colonel Frye was state senator and member of the governor's council in Maine. Children of Dr. Pearl and Mary Davis (Frye) Martin, all born in Lewiston, Maine, were: I. William Pierce, born July 30, 1858. 2. Mary Pearl, born December 6, 1863, married Charles Hol- yoke of Medford.
(V) William Pierce Martin, born July 30, 1858, came to Medford, Massachusetts, with his parents when ten years old. He was edu- cated in the public schools of Medford, gradu- ating in 1875. He continued his studies an- other year, and in 1876 entered Bowdoin Col- lege, graduating in the class of 1880. He was a member of the Alpha Delta Phi society. On leaving college he began the study of law in the office of the Hon. Benjamin F. Hayes, of Boston, and entered the Boston University Law School, from which he was graduated in 1883, with the degree of LL.B., and was ad- mitted to the Suffolk bar in July of the same year. For several years he was associated with Mr. Hayes in the practice of his profes- sion, and by his ability and energy has achiev- ed a recognized standing among the lawyers of Boston. Mr. Martin is an ardent Republi- can, and for about eight years was chairman of the Republican committee of Medford, and was city auditor in 1885 and 1886. In 1893-94 he represented Medford in the lower house of the Massachusetts legislature, taking a leading part in the legislation of these years. For two years he was a member of Company E, Fifth Regiment Maine Volunteer Infantry. He is a member and past master of Mount Hermon Lodge of Masons ; member of Mystic Chapter, Royal Arch Masons, of Medford; of the Council, Royal and Select Masters; of the Sons of Veterans; of the Massachusetts Society of Colonial Wars, of the Medford Club and the Medford Historical Society. He is member of the board of directors and vice-president of the Medford National Bank, and is the attorney for that bank, the Medford Savings Bank, and the Medford Co-operative Bank, and also a trustee of the Medford Savings Bank.
Mr. Martin married, November 12, 1894, Jane M. Hammond, daughter of Oliver and Belinda (Bertschy) Hammond. Children born in Medford : I. William Frye, born June 26, 1897. 2. Mary, born June 16, 1900. 3. Kath- .aryn, born March 2, 1902.
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MEAD The Mead family is among the oldest in England. It dates back to the time when surnames were first used in the Mother Country, immediately after the Norman Conquest. The origin of the name is doubtless found in the old Saxon word meaning meadow. Similar are such place names as Lake, Pond, Wood, Hill, Brook, River, and numerous others. The name of the family under consideration appears in the various forms of Mede, Meades, and Meade, as well as Mead, and the use of the final "e" is still common with some branches of the family in America.
Gabriel Mead, the immigrant ancestor, born in England in 1589, was an early settler at Dorchester, Massachusetts, where he was living when he was admitted a freeman May 2, 1638. In the adjoining town of Roxbury settled William and Richard Mead, known to be brothers. William Mead was very wealthy for his day, and made a liberal bequest to the Roxbury Free School. There was another William Mead at Gloucester before 1639, and a Joseph Mead at Stamford, Connecticut. Gabriel Mead died at Dorchester, May 12, 1666, in his seventy-ninth year. His wife Joanna became a member of the Dorchester church about 1638. In his will, which was proved July 17, 1667, he bequeathed to his wife Joanna and to his children Lydia, Experi- ence, Sarah, and Patience, minors, not men- tioning by name the elder children. Children: I. Israel, baptized September 2, 1639; men- tioned below. 2. Lydia, married October 19, 1652, James Burges. 3. Experience, bap- tized January 23, 1641-2; married December 4, 1663, Jabez Heaton. 4. Sarah, baptized January 4, 1643; married November 30, 1664, Samuel Eddy. 5. Patience, baptized March 29, 1646-7 ; married April 28, 1669, Matthias Evans. 6. David, baptized July 7, 1650.
(II) Israel Mead, son of Gabriel Mead (I), was born in Dorchester, Massachusetts, and baptized there September 2, 1639. He lived in Watertown, and in August, 1674, removed to Dorchester. He lived later, we are told, in Woburn and Cambridge. He was elected viewer of wood in Cambridge in 1683, and in 1693 he was living in the north precinct of Cambridge ; was an original mem- ber of the church in the north parish in 1696, and his son Thomas was admitted to that church in 1699. Israel Mead served on the committee to seat the gallery in the meeting house in 1700. His will was dated April 2, 1713, and proved September 20. 1714. He married February 26, 1669, Mary Hall, daugh-
. ter of Widow Hall. Children, born at Dor- chester : I. Thomas, born about 1670. 2. John, born about 1672. 3. Hannah, born about 1674, died January 28, 1702. The following born at Cambridge: 4. Margaret, born January 20, 1676; married Joseph Locke. 5. Stephen, born about 1679; lived in Concord. 6. Mary, born February 10, 1682. 7. Ruth, born August IO, 1684. 8. Ebenezer, born May 10, 1686.
(III) Thomas Mead, son of Israel Mead (2), was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts, about 1670. Thomas and his wife Hasaniah were admitted to the church in the north pre- cinct of Cambridge, August, 1699. In 1700 he had a seat assigned to him in the "front side Galery." He was constable in 1704 and 1714. It is doubtful whether any of his sons except Israel and Cornelius lived permanently in Lexington, their names not appearing on the tax lists. Children, born at Lexington : I. Hannah, baptized May 8, 1699; died 1723. 2. Sarah, baptized May 8, 1699. 3. Thomas, baptized September, 1700; probably settled in Littleton. 4. Jonathan, baptized Septem- ber 6, 1702. 5. Israel, baptized August 16, 1704; married Sarah 6. Samuel, baptized May 3, 1706; mentioned below. 7. Mary, baptized March 3, 1709. 8. James, baptized April 8, 1711. 9. Cornelius, baptized June 3, 1714 ; married Hannah Hadley.
(IV) Samuel Mead, son of Thomas Mead (3), was born in Lexington, in 1706, and was baptized there May 3, 1706. He married Dinah , and resided at Littleton until about 1735. The history of Harvard says : "Samuel Mead was a cordwainer from Con- cord, who in 1727 bought of Daniel Wether- bee sixty acres bounded north by the Groton line, adjoining the farm of Jonathan Rand and west of it." He was living there in 1730, in what was called the Stow Leg, and he owned the covenant in the church at Harvard in 1733. He was assigned the fourth seat in the meeting house in 1750 and his son Samuel had the fourth seat in the side gallery. He served in the French and Indian war in Cap- tain Israel Taylor's company, Colonel Oliver Wilder's regiment, in 1757. Dinah died November 26, 1754, aged forty-four years. Children, born in Littleton: I. Hannah, born April 10, 1729. 2. Rebecca, born December, 1730. 3. Samuel, born June 18, 1732; men- tioned below. 4. Beulah, born March 24, 1733-4. Born at Harvard : 5. Silas, born 1736; died November 7, 1839, aged eighteen months. 6. Lucy, born 1739; died October 7. 1748, aged nine years. 7. Lois, born 1741, died at Harvard, September 29, 1748, aged seven
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years. 8. Silas, born 1745, died October 3, 1745 ; aged nine weeks. 9. Alice, born 1748, died October 24, 1748, aged three days.
(V) Samuel Mead, son of Samuel Mead (4), was born, according to the Harvard records, June 18, 1732, at Littleton, Massa- chusetts. This birth was probably several years earlier. If it is correct he was but sixteen when he married, October 12, 1748, at Harvard, Hannah Willard. He was elected deacon of the Harvard church November 16, 1775, and resigned November 28, 1798. He was a soldier in the French war in 1755, under Colonel Whitcomb, Lieutenant Judah Clark in command; also in 1757. He was in the revo- lution in Captain Joseph Fairbank's company, Colonel Asa Whitcomb's regiment, on the Lexington Alarm, April 19, 1775. He was one of the largest taxpayers of Harvard before the revolution, and a leading citizen in every way. His wife Hannah died October I, 1778. Children : I. Samuel, born September I, 1748; died September 12, 1748. 2. John, born June 29, 1749. 3. Oliver, born Septem- ber 2, 1751; mentioned below. 4. Hannah, born August 13, 1753; died February 5, 1753-4. 5. Lucy, born January 15, 1756. 6. Lydia, born January 9, 1759. 7. Samuel, born May 30, 1761. 8. Mercy, born February 15, 1769.
(VI) Deacon Oliver Mead, son of Samuel ยท Mead (5), was born in Harvard, Massachu- setts, September 2, 1751, and died at Box- borough, March 20, 1836, aged eighty-four years. He settled in the adjacent town of Boxborough after his marriage; was selectman and prominent in civil and military life. He had the second seat in the front gallery while at Harvard. He was with his father a soldier in the revolution, in Captain Jonathan Davis's company, Colonel John Whitcomb's regiment April 19, 1775. He married, at Harvard, June 22, 1777, Anna Whitney, born at Har- vard, May 2, 1760, daughter of Abraham and Sarah (Whitney) Whitney, descendant of John Whitney, of Watertown, Massachusetts, the immigrant. Children : I. Sarah, born De- cember 19, 1778; married Levi Houghton, of Harvard. 2. Lucy, died unmarried. 3. Anna, married William Stevens, father of Oliver Stevens, of Boxborough. 4. Abraham, mar- ried Kimball, of Littleton. 5. Oliver, Jr., married Betsey Taylor, aunt of Captain Varnum. 6. Elizabeth, married Reuben Hough- ton, of Harvard, brother of Levi Houghton. 7. Nabby W., married as second wife of Reu- ben Houghton, of Harvard. 8. Samuel W., married Betsey Stevens; second, Mary Stev-
ens; third, Lucinda Conant, of Harvard. 9. Hannah, died aged eight. 10. Nathaniel, married Lucy Taylor, mentioned below.
(VII) Nathaniel Mead, son of Oliver Mead (6), was born in Boxborough, Massa- chusetts, October 30, 1798, died July 4, 1852. He married Lucy Taylor, who was born in Boxborough, July 26, 1801, and died October 5, 1865. They settled on the farm at Box- borough now or lately owned by Frank Whit- comb. Children : 1. Adelbert (name changed from Nathaniel) born in Boxborough, Janu- ary 10, 1822, died April 6, 1905; mentioned below. 2. Oliver W., born October 19, 1823 ; mentioned below. 3. Sarah, born August 22, 1825, died December 14, 1865; married John Lowe, of Fitchburg, who died in 1907 at an advanced age. He was the father of seventeen children by his two wives, all grow- ing to maturity-a truly remarkable family "Historic Homes, etc., of Worcester County" says : "He has the unique honor of being the head of the largest, and taken altogether, the most successful and distinguished family ever raised in Fitchburg ; he has seventeen children grown, and not a single black sheep in the flock !" 4. Maria, born September 7, 1827, died November 24, 1905; married Andrew Patch, of Littleton, and settled in Harvard; had four children. 5. Mary, born June 9, 1829; married John J. Lothrop, and lived in California until the death of her husband, a period of over thirty-four years; they had no children ; she returned to West Acton, Massa- chusetts, to reside. 6. Anna, born January I, 1831 ; married Charles Twitchell, of Fitchburg, Massachusetts; resided later in West Acton ; their son Clarence resides at home. 7. Var- num B., born October 16, 1832; mentioned below. 8. Frances Adelaide, born September 30, 1842.
(VIII) Adelbert Mead, son of Nathaniel Mead (7), was born in Boxborough, January IO, 1822. His name was originally Nathaniel Jr., but was changed later to Adelbert. He was educated in the public schools of his native town and brought up on his father's farm. When a young man he and his brother Oliver W. Mead established the firm with which their names have ever since been con- nected, beginning with the firm of A. & O. W. Mead in 1844, in the produce commission busi- ness in Boston. Their business flourished. With a thorough knowledge of the business of farming and market gardening, the firm united special knowledge of the commercial needs of their trade and high business principles. The partners were energetic, capable and indus-
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trious. They commanded success and built on a solid foundation. Their house is now one of the oldest in continuous business in Boston in this line.
Before engaging in the produce business, Mead had intended to follow the trade of shoe making, which he had learned. In 1841 he began to sell his shoes in Boston, and it became convenient for his neighbors and for those along the route which he followed on his trips to ship goods to the Boston markets in his care on commission. He soon saw the possibilities of a large trade along these lines, and thus came to establish the business, in partnership with his brother. At first they had only one large market wagon with a stand outside Quincy Market. After conducting the business for nine years at this stand the firm removed to 50 North Market street, and in 1866 to the present location at 35 North Mar- ket street and 35 Clinton street, Boston. This location is one of the best in the city. Besides the facilities at Boston, the Mead firm had a cold storage plant at West Acton. This firm built the first cold storage house in Massachu- setts for holding fruit and produce. In the place of business this firm has every facility for the handling, care and sale of produce of all kinds. The specialties are butter, cheese, poultry, eggs, fruits, etc. Two-thirds of the business is from the west. The present name of the house is A. & O. W. Mead & Company. Adelbert Mead, the founder, remained in active business until 1900. He was a member of the Boston Chamber of Commerce and of the Boston Fruit and Produce Exchange, and with his brothers was interested in railroads in various sections of the country, and at one time in live stock and ranches in Wyoming. He was a man of sterling character.
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