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about 1704, married Elizabeth Willey, of Lee, New Hampshire. 7. Joseph, born March 26, 1706, mentioned below.
(III) Joseph Hall, son of Ralph Hall (2), was born at Dover, New Hampshire, March 26, 1706, and died November 14, 1782. He married, December 19, 1734, Peniel Bean. Children: I. Anna, baptized July 29, 1735, married (first) Reuben Daniels, of Wolfs- boro; (second) Philip Kelley, of Wakefield. 2. Mary, baptized May 23, 1736, married Paul Hessey, and had four children. 3. Joseph, baptized November 5, 1738, mentioned below. 4. Daniel, baptized August 22, 1742, resided at Wakefield, and married widow Patience Taylor, of Sanbornton, New Hampshire. 5. Ab- igail, baptized October 7, 1744. 6. Samuel, baptized March 19, 1748. 7. Hannah, bap- tized April 2, 1749, married (second) Reuben Long. 8. John, baptized November 2, 1752. 9. Peniel, married, March 19, 1775, John Scribner, of Wakefield.
(IV) Joseph Hall, son of Joseph Hall (3), was baptized November 5, 1738, and resided at Bartlett, New Hampshire. According to the federal census of 1790, Joseph Hall was the head of the only family of this name in the town of Bartlett. He was in the Revolu- tion in Captain Joseph Parsons' company. Children : I. Joseph, born about 1760. 2. Dorcas. £
3. Nathan. 4. Betsey. 5. Rev. Elias, mentioned below. 6. Josiah. 7. Polly. 8. Benjamin.
(V) Rev. Elias Hall, son of Joseph Hall (4), was born at Falmouth, (Portland), Maine, August 16, 1777, and died at Jefferson, New Hampshire, October 16, 1851. He re- moved to Bartlett, New Hampshire, when young and was educated there in the district schools, and studied for the ministry in the Free Baptist denomination and was settled in Bartlett for many years. He married (first), about 1798, Hannah, daughter of Richard Tina, who died April 29, 1801, aged twenty-nine years. He married (second) Pol- ly Hubbard, who died at Bartlett, February 5, 1813, aged twenty-eight years. He married (third) Hannah Seavey, born April 22, 1790, died August 26, 1839, daughter of Joseph and Abigail (Cummings) Seavey, of Bartlett. He married ( fourth) Sarah (Mead) Chase, wid- ow. Elias Hall removed to Shapleigh, Maine, where he preached in the Free Baptist church. As a preacher he stood in the foremost ranks of his denomination ; as a man he was kindly, sympathetic and charitable, attracting many friends; of large heart and high character.
Children of Rev. Elias Hall : I. Samuel, born at Bartlett, December 24, 1799, died at Meredith, New Hampshire, about 1870. 2. Ivory, born at Shapleigh, Maine, February 23, 1801, mentioned below. 3. Hannah, born at Shapleigh, October 15, 1803, died at Bartlett, New Hampshire, about 1860; married Barzilla Emery. 4. Dorothy, born at Shapleigh, Jan- uary 6, 1806, died November, 1880; married Isaac Nute. 5. Elias Merrill, born at Bart- lett, New Hampshire, March 3, 1808, married Clarinda Stillings, and had Charles Mitchell (married Melissa Hall), Loami, Elmira. 6. Elmira, born May 17, 1810, died 1816. 7. James Hubbard, born at Bartlett, June 16, 1812, died at Gorham, Maine, about 1870; married Sarah Ann Hall, daughter of Judge Hall, and had Betsey, Sarah Ann, Mary, and James. 8. Timothy Emerson, born June 9, 1814, died about 1818. 9. Alvah, born April 10, 1816, died at Stamford, Connecticut, June 23, 1881 ; married, at New York City, Sophia E. Pettigrew, daughter of Robert and Helen (Boistreage) Pettigrew; children: i. Sophia Virginia, married William N. Beach; ii. Ana Byrd, married Albert C. Hall; iii. Alice, mar- ried William B. Duncan; iv. Isabel McRae. 10. Joseph Seavey, born March 24, 1818, died 1898, married (first) Sarah Crawford, (sec- ond) Julia Baltshaw, widow; (third) Calista Fay; had one child by second wife, Josepha (Stone). II. Dudley Pettingill, born Oc- tober 2, 1820, died at Lyndon, Vermont, June 22, 1885; married Amelia Hibbard Gregory; children: i. Edward, died young ; ii. Emma Hibbard, married Rev. U. C. Brewer; iii. Albert Clement, married his cousin Anna Byrd Hall, and had Albert Clement, Jr., Audrey Boistreage, Ella (unmarried), Mabel, (married Charles T. Walter), Alice, (married Herbert E. Walter ). 12. Charles, born November 25, 1822, died at East Lyndon, Vermont, 1907. 13. Timo- thy Emerson, born December 14, 1824, died at North Monroe, New Hampshire, December, 1894. 14. Thomas Shepard, born April I, 1827, died at Meriden, Connecticut, December I, 1880 ; married (first) Mary Page, (second) Isabel McCrea, of New York; third Kate Phillips, died 1907, daughter of Rev. Dr. Phil- lips, of New York City ; children of first wife : i. Alvah William; ii. William Phillips, mar- ried Charlotte Hollister ; iii. Harry; iv. Mel- ville Phillips ; v. Mason; vi. Mary ; vii. Fanny. 15. Jonathan, (twin) born July 22, 1829, died same day. 16. David (twin), born July 22, 1829, died March, 1899. 17. John, born Aug-
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ust 22, 1832. 18. Mary Elizabeth, born at Hart's Location, New Hampshire, November IO, 1834, died at Lyndonville, Vermont, Octo- ber 15, 1896; married Robert Pettigrew, of New York City.
(VI) Ivory Hall, son of Rev. Elias Hall (5), was born at Shapleigh, Maine, February 23, 1801, and died April 4, 1883. His mother died when he was a few days old, and he was brought up in the family of his uncle, Joseph Tina, of Shapleigh. He was educated in the public schools, and settled in Shapleigh and became a successful farmer. His brothers be- came prominent citizens in the localities in which they settled, without exception. One brother survives, John Hall, of North Mon- , roe, New Hampshire. Ivory Hall married, October 10, 1824, Louise Marie Thompson, who died July 18, 1896. Children :
I. John T., born August 21, 1825, died Oc- tober, 1903; married Mary E. Garvin, No- vember, 1849; children : i. Harlan P. ii. Sarah L. iii. Edwin H. iv. Thomas G., married Mabel Page ; children : Edith M., Bertha, John T., Preston G., of Alfred, Maine. 2. Abbie E., born December 22, 1827 ; married Edmund Warren, June, 1849; children: i. Hannah A. ii. Alvah Hall. iii. Charles F. iv. Willis E. v. Lillia M., of Kennebunk, Maine. 3. Joseph M., born April 12, 1830, died October 25, 1907; married Mary O. Pray, December, 1856; children: i. Frank P. ii. Grace L., of Moline, Illinois. 4. Woodbury A., born March 14, 1833; married Delia W. Abbott, Septem- ber, 1857 ; children : i. Eva A. ii. Carrie E. iii. Mary Louie, of Kennebunk, Maine. 5. Han- nah T., born January 28, 1836; married An- drew J. Lord, of Acton, November 20, 1855; child, Ida Bell. 6. Lavinia, born October 26, 1838; married, June 8, 1863, Benjamin F. Peirce, of Waterboro, surgeon in United States navy. 7. Ivory Alphonse; see for- ward.
(VII) Ivory Alphonse Hall, son of Ivory Hall (6), was born in Shapleigh, Maine, Sep- tember 4, 1841, and died December 2, 1895. He was a farmer in his native town. He served in the Twenty-seventh Maine regiment for nine months in the Civil war and later en- listed in the Second Maine Cavalry ; he took part in many of the important engagements of the war. In religion he was a Baptist. In politics he was a Republican, and for many years was deputy sheriff of his county. He married Olive Maria Clark, born September 7, 1848, daughter of Samuel and Betsey (Lit- tlefield) Clark. Her father was the proprietor
of a prosperous general store in Kennebunk, Maine, and an extensive dealer in lumber. Children : I. Herbert A., born April 21, 1869, resided in Kennebunk; married, December 7, 1895, Eliza B. Leavett, of Shapleigh, Maine ; one child, Nelson B. Hall, born January 15, 1902. 2. Harry A., born July 9, 1870, men- tioned below. 3. Samuel C., born September 5, 1872, married, October 25, 1898, Daisy L. Moody, of Liberty, Maine; children: Victor- ia, born August 13, 1901 ; Ivory A., born No- vember 27, 1904. 4. Charles H., born July 25, 1874, married, June 28, 1902, Mary L. Dresser, of Kennebunk, Maine; child, Milton F., born April 25, 1903.
(VIII) Harry Alphonse Hall, son of Ivory Alphonse Hall (7), was born in Shapleigh, Maine, July 9, 1870. He received his early education in the common schools of his native town and the Lindsay high school of Shap- leigh. He started on his mercantile career in the general store of his uncle, Charles H. Clark, at Kennebunk, as clerk. He worked two years in Portland and then became a travelling salesman for a Boston house deal- ing in paints and varnish. In 1899 he en- gaged in business, being one of the incorpora- tors of the Boston Varnish Company, of which he is treasurer and manager. This company has its factory and office at Everett, Massachusetts. Mr. Hall has devoted his whole time and energy to his business and has had the satisfaction of seeing it grow rapidly and constantly. He has demonstrated unusual ability and a thorough knowledge of the var- nish business. He is a Republican in politics, but not active in public affairs. He is a thirty- second degree Mason. He is a member also of the Kernwood Club of Malden, the Paint and Oil Club of Boston and the National Paint, Oil and Varnish Association.
Mr. Hall married, November 8, 1899, El- vianna Hutchinson, of Newmarket, New Hampshire; one child, Harry A., Jr., born September ,27, 1904.
POPE John Pope, the senior immigrant ancestor of George Barker Pope, came to New England from Sus- sex, England, before 1634. He appeared be- fore the general court of the Massachusetts Colony, September 3, 1634, and took the free- man's oath, thus becoming a member of the ' governing body of the new colony, known as the great and general court of Massachusetts. Forty-three equally prominent leaders in the
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town governments and making up the colony of Massachusetts Bay took the oath at the same time and returned to their several towns to represent them in the general court that as- sembled to frame laws for the government of the province. John Pope lived in the same field in the town of Dorchester where Edward and Roger Clap or Clapp had taken up home lots.
On account of his prominence in the govern- ment of the church and town he was desig- nated "Goodman" Pope, or as sometimes written, Poape. The date of his arrival in the place is not known, but he certainly was liv- ing in the town in the autumn of 1634. He is by tradition variously credited as a pass- enger on the "Mary and John," when that good ship landed colonists May 30, 1630; on the "Lion" from Bristol, England, February 8, 1631, and on a ship from Weymouth, Eng- land, that arrived in the colony July 24, 1633. His wife Jane and children, John, Jr., and Patience, were with him in Dorchester and his wife was a passenger with him; it is prob- able that his daughter Patience was born in New England. About this time Thomas Pope, a Plymouth immigrant, appeared and may have been his brother, and Joseph Pope, the Salem immigrant, may have been his brother or son. Contemporaneous writers in record- ing the history of the settlement of Dorches- ter, Massachusetts, name as the pillars of the church of that town: Richard Mather, George Minot, Thomas Jones, John Kimley, Nathan- iel Duncan, Henry Withington and John Pope. These seven pillars are credited with really supporting the church, so greatly weakened by the exodus of colonists in quest of more favorable climate, soil and freedom, in the Connecticut valley. John Pope made his last will and testament February 12, 1646, but the exact date of his death is not recorded. His wife Jane survived him probably six years, as the date of his death is recorded as January 12, 1662. John and Jane Pope may have had other children than John, Jr. and Patience, but of this nothing positively is known, but gene- alogists have accounted for persons of the name in different parts of New England by such a "guess."
(II) John Pope, Jr., son of John and (probably) Jane Pope, was born in England. but does not appear to have come to New England with his father. He may have mar- ried his first wife Jane in England, and his first son John, born June 30, 1635, may have been born and died in England, as no positive
record of his name appears in the Dorchester Records. His second son, Nathan, was born in Dorchester, Massachusetts, July, 1641, and died immediately after his birth, which prob- ably caused his mother her death. John Pope, Jr., married as his second wife Alice
and their first son was Thomas, born Novem- ber 27, 1643, mentioned below. John Pope, Jr., married as his third wife Margaret
who was born in England in 1628, and died in Dorchester, Massachusetts, October 20, 1702. By this marriage he had ten children. The eldest, Margaret, married Pierce, and had one child Margaret Pierce. The second, John, born March 5, 1658, married, September 20, 1683, Beatrix Houghton, and had children as follows : i. Susanna, married Thomas Wild- er ; ii. Beatrix ; iii. Margaret. John, the father died in 1698. The third, Susanna, married John Cook or Cox. The fourth, William, married Mary -, and their only child, Mary, was born May 21, 1692. The fifth, Eb- enezer, died before 1700. The sixth, Thank- ful, married, July 29, 1691, Smith Wood- ward. She died in 1738. The seventh, Ralph, born in 1673, was the progenitor of the Dor- chester family.
(III) Thomas Pope, son of John, Jr. and Alice Pope, was born in Dorchester, Massa- chusetts Bay Colony, November 27, 1643. He was deprived of a mother's care when quite young ; he also did not have the advantages of church membership or church instruction, his father being neither a freeman or entitled to hold town offices, in fact being recorded as de- linquent in paying the "Rates of the Ministry," one record appearing as having failed to pay for three years, the sum total being f1 18s, IId, in 1665, and another record mentions him as appearing before the selectmen to give an account of the education of his children "by way of Catechising" and he promised "to En- deavor for time to come to be more diligent that way to attain instruction for them." When he was twenty-four years old, "the selectmen were minded to admonish certain young men under the Government of famyles according as the law enjoins:" "and though not called to the lecture room for a warning, Thomas Pope was privately cautioned that he must have a place as an obedient child under his father's roof, or find some other home." This action on the part of the town officials resulted in his marriage about the year 1670 to Elizabeth Merrifield, daughter of Henry Merrifield, the farmer who cultivated part of the Clapp lands, adjacent to the farm of his
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father. Previous to this time he had taken some interest in public affairs as his name ap- pears on the petition of the inhabitants of the town of Dorchester abut 1664, addressed to King Charles II, looking to gaining the favor of that ruler for the purpose of averting any revenge on the part of the son of a beheaded monarch for the part taken by the New Eng- landers, who had sympathized with the Crom- well party during the Revolution and the es- tablishment of the short-lived Commonwealth. The humble and submissive words spoken in the address of the signers to the restored Stu- art were excused by the fear of such liberties and privileges as they enjoyed in the new col- ony. In 1675, possibly looking to the need of finding a home, he was granted by the town officials "libertie to get about 2 or 300 rails out of the 500 acrs," and four years later to cut and haul from the same town lands "soe much timber as to build a hous of 18 foot long and 16 wide," the land on which it was erected being provided by his father. He was also provided by the town with a share of the leg- acy left by Jane Baryes to the needy people of the town, his father-in-law also receiving a share. After five children had been born of the marriage his wife died, and he married Margaret Long, by "the Worshipfull Hum- phrey Davy, Esq.," November 18, 1681. In 1683 he built and sold his property to Increase Summer for the benefit of his creditors, and thus freed from debt he moved to the Connec- ticut valley, his seventh child Mindwell, being born in Suffolk, Connecticut, September 12, 1689. His wife Margaret died in Springfield, Massachusetts, December 28, 1688, and his daughter Experience in Northampton, Mass- achusetts, September 20, 1689. He died be- fore 1700, as he had a right laid out to him in the New Grant beyond the Bless Hill that is in Stoughton, July 29, 1698. The children of Thomas and Elizabeth (Merrifield) Pope were: Thomas, born in Dorchester, Novem- ber 26, 1670 (q. v.). Wilenonton, born in Dor- chester, May 21, 1671. Henry, born in Dor- chester, December 20, 1673. Experience, born in Dorchester, June 21, 1675, died September 20, 1689. Alice, born in Dorchester, Decem- ber 20, 1676, married John Harris, of Lan- caster, Massachusetts. John, died August 20, 1683, and may have been a child by his sec- ond wife, born in Dorchester. The other child by his second wife was Mindwell, born in Suffield, Connecticut, September 12, 1689.
(IV) Thomas Pope, Jr., son of Thomas and Elizabeth ( Merrifield) Pope, was born in
Dorchester, Massachusetts Bay Colony, No- vember 26, 1670. He received adult baptism and owned the covenant, October 28, 1705. He was married at Roxbury, Massachusetts Bay Colony, January 2, 1705-06. His wife, Margaret (Downing) Pope, was baptized at the New South Church, Boston, October 30, 1719. Thomas next appears at Gloucester on Cape Ann, where his second wife, Mary Pope, was received in full communion at the Second Church, February 25, 1727-28, and the chil- dren of Thomas and Mary Pope join that church: Elizabeth Pope and Hannah Willetts, July 10, 1737 ; Ann Steele (wife of William), and Margaret Pope, August 7, 1737. Mary Pope was dismissed to the Second Church, Haverhill, March 15, 1740-41, and her daugh- ter, Elizabeth Pope, married, January 15, 1740-41, David Haskell, of Gloucester. When the boundary line between Massachusetts and New Hampshire was established in 1741, the house of Thomas and Mary Pope in Haverhill was found to be in the state of New Hamp- shire. On November 1, 1741, it is recorded that Mercy Pope, the wife of Theodore Pope, received a letter of dismission from Second Church of Gloucester. On October 14, 1742, the records of the town of Methuen records the marriage of Thomas Pope, of Haverhill, New Hampshire, to Hannah Austin, of Me- thuen, daughter of Thomas and Sarah Austin, and in the records of the Second Church of Haverhill, afterwards Plaisters, New Hamp- shire, Thomas and Hannah Pope owned the covenant February 26, 1743, and on June 3, 1743, Hannah, daughter of Thomas Pope, Jr., and April 20, 1746, David, son of Thomas Pope, Jr., and on November 4, 1750, Betty, daughter of Thomas Pope, were baptized. In the petition for the location of a new meet- ing-house in Henniker, New Hampshire, Sep- tember II, 1786, Thomas Pope, Daniel Pope and Simon Pope signed the petition. Thomas Pope died in Henniker, New Hampshire, No- vember 12, 1807. , (V) David Pope, son of Thomas and Han- nah (Austin) Pope, was born in Plaisters, New Hampshire, March 13, 1746. Married (probably), in Henniker, New Hampshire, Susanna Clark. Lived on the homestead his father had located on the south slope of Craney Hill, the most elevated eminence in the town of Henniker. The children of David and Susanna (Clark) Pope, were: I. Han- nah, born September 4, 1774, married· Elisha Brown. 2. Thomas, born January 18, 1776, in Henniker, removed to Weare, and later
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to Washington, Vermont, where he sought land in 1799 and died there. He was married before 1797 and had seven children, born be- tween 1797 and 1820. 3. Bettie, born Febru- ary 7, 1777, married Jonathan Kimball, of Weare; died September II, 1865, and had five children. 4. Sarah (Sally), born April 16, 1780, died about 1865-66. 5. David, Jr., born April 5, 1782 (q. v.). 6. Susanna, born August 2, 1784, married a Mr. Stoning. 7. Ada (Edith), born April 24, 1786, died about 1865. 8. Mehitable, born February 25, 1789, mar- ried Jonathan Collins, of Weare. 9. William, born March 17, 1791, married, December 30, 1818, Mary, daughter of Dr. Peter and Molly (Muzzy) Emerson, of Hillsboro, New Hamp- shire; was a farmer in Hillsboro and had three children: i. Sarah, born February 20, 1820, married George Eastman Hoit, a farmer of Hillsboro Bridge; ii. Ralph Emerson, born December 24, 1821, a mechanic in Hillsboro; iii. Frederick William, born June 17, 1824, married Mary Florence Fletcher, of Amherst, New Hampshire, and had three children : Nellie Florence, Frank Fletcher and William Frederick Pope. David Pope died in Henni- ker, New Hampshire, about 1820.
(VI) David Pope, Jr., son of David and Susanna (Clark) Pope, was born in Henniker, New Hampshire, April 5, 1782. He lived on a farm in Henniker. Married, February I, 1809, Susanna, daughter of Dr. Peter and Molly (Muzzy) Emerson, born in Hollis, New Hampshire, December 10, 1781, died Decem- ber 20, 1865. His wife was a direct descend- ant of Thomas Emerson, the immigrant pion- eer of Ipswich, Massachusetts Bay Colony, through his son the Rev. Joseph Emerson, minister at York, 1648, made a freeman of the colony in 1653; minister to Wells 1664-67; minister to Mendon from 1669 for many years; married Elizabeth, daughter of Rev. Edward Bulkeley, of Concord, and died at Concord, Massachusetts, January 3, 1680. Their son, Peter Emerson, born 1673, married, 1696, Ann, daughter of John Browne and his wife Anna Fiske. Their son, Rev. David Em- erson, was born in Reading, Massachusetts, May 20, 1716; Harvard College, A. B., 1739; minister to Hollis, New Hampshire; married Hannah - -, and had several children, in- cluding Dr. Peter Emerson, surgeon in Col- onel Momey's regiment, 1779, physician in Hillsboro, New Hampshire; married Molly Muzzy, and their oldest daughter Susanna became the wife of David Pope. Another daughter, Mary, married William Pope. The
children of David, Jr., and Susanna ( Emer- son) Pope were: I. ,William Clark, born in Henniker, New Hampshire, November 23, 1809, married, December 16, 1834, Persis (Warren) Lane, and their only child, Warren Lane Pope, born in Reading, December 5, 1842, married Mary Harriet Treat, of Walt- ham. 2. Mahala, born in Henniker, New Hampshire, July 7, 1811, died August 20, 1865. 3. Zeresh, born in Henniker, New Hampshire, October 27, 1812, died September 24, 1813. 4. Daniel Emerson, born in Henni- ker, New Hampshire, July 31, 1814 (q. v.) 5. Hannah, born in Henniker, New Hamp- shire, March 29, 1816, married, June 14, 1855, Stephen Austin, of Manchester, New Hamp- shire. 6. Mark, born in Henniker, New Hamp- shire, February 17, 1818, married (first), May 22, 1849, Elmira Edith ( 1823-1861) daughter of Luther and Edey (Moore) Johnson, of Nashua, New Hampshire, by whom he had five 'children born in Charlestown, Massachu- setts ; married (second), June 6, 1868, Olive Andrews, daughter of Edward and Harriet Spear (Andrews) Wilson, of Camden, Maine. 7. John Muzzy, born in Henniker, New Hampshire, November, 1819. 8. Luke, born in Henniker, New Hampshire, 1821, died 1826. 9. Albert, born in Henniker, New Hampshire, September 13, 1822, married Alma Stearns Seavy, of Tunbridge, Vermont, and had two children, Burt David and Charles William Wilson Pope. David Pope, Jr., died in Henniker, New Hampshire, May 31, 1861.
(VII) Daniel Emerson Pope, son of David, Jr. and Susanna (Emerson) Pope, was born in Henniker, New Hampshire, July 31, 1814. He learned and carried on the trade of machin- ist during his early manhood. He made his home in Waltham, Massachusetts, after 1840. when he carried on a general mercantile busi- ness for forty years. His son George Barker Pope became a partner in 1863. He became well and favorably known during his long and successful career as a merchant at Waltham ; he was a man of sterling principles, and in all his business transactions his word was as good as his bond. He was possessed of a genial and kindly disposition, and was much de- voted to his home and family. He mar- ried, August 3, 1837, Sophia, daughter of Reuben and Rebecca ( Davis) Barker, of Acton, Massachusetts. The children of Dan- iel Emerson and Sophia ( Barker ) Pope were : 1. Susan Sophia, born July 3, 1838, in Lowell. died November 11, 1841-2. 2. George Barker, born in Lowell, May 4, 1842 (q. v.) 3. Fran-
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cenia Rebecca, born in Waltham, December 28, 1843, married, June 5, 1871, James Davis, son of Abel and Olive (Davis) Hosmer, of Concord, Massachusetts ; she died January 17, 1907. 4. Albert Taylor, born in Waltham, Massachusetts, May 26, 1846, married, May 26, 1870, Helen Priscilla, daughter of Ascel and Hannah (Rhodes) Lerned, of Cam- bridge, and their son, Daniel Arthur, was born April 3, 1871, and their daughter, Anna Martha, was born December 10, 1875. Dan- iel Emerson Pope died in Waltham, Massa- chusetts, November 25, 1895.
(VIII) George Barker Pope, son of Dan- iel Emerson and Sophia (Barker ) Pope, was born in Lowell, Massachusetts, May 4, 1842. He received his elementary educational train- ing in the schools of Waltham, and after attending the English and Latin School of Nathaniel Allen at West Newton, Massachu- setts, intending to enter college, he became identified with his father in the mercantile business at Waltham, Massachusetts. He later engaged in the grain, flour and feed bus- iness, which line of enterprise he successfully conducted up to the time of his death which occurred December 1, 1899. He was progres- sive and enterprising, and in every way worth- ily upheld the traditions of his ancestors; his name always stood as a synonym for honesty and straightforwardness in all his business
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