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Thomas Walker, immigrant
WALKER ancestor, was probably from England. The first record of
him in America is in Boston, 1650. He was born about 1600, and died in 1659, leaving, according to Pope, a young widow, Anne, and several young children. He was a brickmaker by trade. Administration was granted Sep- tember I, 1659, to his widow Anne and son Thomas, who must have been born of an earlier marriage to have been of age at that time. Children: I. Thomas, mentioned below. 2. Elizabeth, born August 18, 1650. 3. John, born March 15, 1652. 4. Anne, born 1654, died 1655. 5. Samuel, born June 26, 1656. 6. Anne, born and died in 1659.
(II) Thomas Walker, son of Thomas Walker (I), was born in the old country about 1625. It is possible that the children given by Pope as born to his father by a sec- ond marriage were the son's by a first mar- riage. He was in Sudbury in 1664 and re- ceived encouragement there to keep a free
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school. He kept an ordinary there in 1672 and he died in 1697. He married Mary
Children : 1. Mary, married James Sherman. 2. Thomas, born May 22, 1664, mentioned below. 3. William, married Sarah Goodnow. 4. Hannah, died young. 5. Hannah, born 1669, married Deacon David Rice, of Fram- ingham. 6. Daniel, died young. 7. Daniel, married Dorothy 8. Sarah. 9. Abi- gail, married John Stevens. 10. John. II. Elizabeth.
(III) Thomas Walker, son of Thomas Walker (2), was born May 22, 1664. He bought of Gookin and How sixty acres of land at Framingham on both sides of the county road adjoining farms of John Adams, John Bent and Thomas Drury. He built a house near the present school house at Rice's End. He was one of the organizing members of the Framingham church; town treasurer in 1700. He died October 25, 1717. He married, De- cember 7, 1687, Martha How, daughter of Samuel How. She married (second), Novem- ber 10, 1718, John Whitney, and she died No- vember 14, 1721. Children of Thomas and Martha Walker: I. Thomas, born Septem- ber, 1688, died young. 2. Samuel, born Sep- tember 24, 1689. 3. Obadiah, married Han- nah Learned. 4. Martha, married Joseph Haven. 5. Mary, married Elkanah Haven. 6. Thomas, settled in Hopkinton, Massachu- setts ; was clerk of the market there in 1724, constable, 1726, town clerk and selectman, lieutenant. 7. Asa, born June 7, 1702, died 1723. 8. Hannah, born June 1, 1705, mar- ried Moses Haven. 9. Jason, born October 28, 1708, mentioned below. IO. John, born February 1, 1713-14.
(IV) Deacon Jason Walker, son of Thomas Walker (3), was born in Framingham, Mass- achusetts, October 28, 1708. He married at Hopkinton, Massachusetts, December 25, 1732, Hannah Burnap. He was selectman in 1752-69-1770; town treasurer in 1761-68; town clerk 1763-68, a very prominent citizen in the new town in which he was one of the early settlers. Children: I. Jason, born Jan- uary 23, 1733-34. 2. Thomas, born August 12, 1735, mentioned below. 3. Asa, born Feb- ruary 9, 1738-39. 4. Hannah, born July 8, 1741. 5. Benjamin, born May 24, 1743. 6. Mary, born June 28, 1745. 7. Martha, born July 22, 1747. 8. John, born June 20, 1749. 9. Mehitable, born November 15, 1753. IO. Sarah, born November 28, 1754. II. Jerusha, born June 23, 1755.
(V) Thomas Walker, son of Jason Walker
(4), was born in Hopkinton, August 12, 1735. He married (first) Elizabeth - ---; (sec- ond), March 31, 1761, Lois Goodwin.
A "T. Walker" was a soldier in the Revolu- tion from Hopkinton (either this Thomas or a Timothy Walker), a private in Captain John Holmes' company on the Lexington Alarm. The records call this Thomas Walker "Junior" sometimes to distinguish him from an uncle of the same name. Child of Thomas and Elizabeth Walker: I. Nathan, born Septem- ber 26, 1752, died in 1771. Children of Thomas and Lois Walker: 2. Deliverance, born June 3, 1763. 3. James Goodwin, born September 9, 1764. 4. Elnathan, mentioned below. 5. Jason, born March 9, 1768. 6. Ruana, born May 26, 1770. 7. Lois, born March II, 1772.
(VI) Elnathan Walker, son probably of Thomas Walker (4), was born at Hopkinton, Massachusetts, about 1766. He married and was the father of Abel, mentioned below.
(VII) Abel Walker, son of Elnathan Walker (6), was born in 1796 at Heartland, Vermont. He resided in Milford near Silver Hill, according to the history of Milford. He married Martha Phipps, born November IO, 1805, the twelfth child of John and Hannah (Coolidge) Phipps. Hannah Coolidge, daugh- ter of Joseph Coolidge by wife Elizabeth (Frost) Coolidge, was granddaughter of Isaac Coolidge, Esquire, of Sherborn, and wife Hannah (Morse) Coolidge, daughter of Cap- tain Joseph Morse, great-granddaughter of John Coolidge of Sherborn, by wife Mary Coolidge, and great-great-granddaughter of Ensign John Coolidge, of Watertown, by wife Hannah (Livermore) Coolidge. The father of Ensign John was John Coolidge, of Water- town, the immigrant, who took the freeman's oath May 25, 1636.
John Phipps was born in Douglas, son of Jedediah Phipps, who settled in Douglas, May 5. 1768; was moderator in 1778-79; select- man in 1773-80; with President Lock and Hon. Daniel Whitney on the committee of correspondence in 1774-75 ; delegate to con- vention in 1779 at Concord ; a very prominent citizen ; married Sarah Learned, who was born in 1731 and died March 6, 1810, daugh- ter of Captain Edward Learned, of Sherborn, by wife Sarah (Leland) Learned, daughter of Ensign Henry Leland and wife Mary (Morse) Leland. Ensign Leland's father was Deacon Benoni Leland, his mother Sarah (Fanning) Leland ; granddaughter of Isaac Learned, of Woburn, son of William Learned, of Charles-
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town. Jedediah Phipps, born March II, 1724-25, died in his ninety-fifth year, son of John Phipps, Jr., who was the first of the name to settle at Sherborn. He was a descendant of Solomon Phipps, of Charlestown, the immi- grant, who was admitted to the church there January 15, 1641-42, and a freeman May 18, 1642; town officer; died 1671. Children: I. Charles Elnathan, born December 24, 1827, died young. 2. Caroline Augusta, born De- cember 21, 1829, died January 30, 1906. 3. George Phipps, born August 2, 1833, men- tioned below. 4. Harriet, born October 5, 1835.
(VIII) George Phipps Walker, son of Abel Walker (7), was born in Milford or Hopkinton, August 2, 1833. (See Milford History). He moved with his parents to Men- don or Milford, Massachusetts, an adjacent town, when he was a young child, and thence to Andover, Massachusetts, where he learned the trade of cabinet maker. He acquired the usual common school education of his day. He finally went into business on his own account in Wilton, New Hampshire, in the manufac- ture of wooden-ware. In 1870 he removed to Lowell, Massachusetts, where he established himself as a manufacturer of soap. He built up a very large and successful business, and after acquiring a competence retired from active business. In politics Mr. Walker is a Republican. He was an alderman of the city of Lowell in 1876. He is a director in the Moxie Manufacturing Company. He is a member of Pawtucket Lodge of Free Masons, joining in 1876, and of the Middlesex Knights of Pythias, and is past grand master. In reli- gion he is a Congregationalist and a member of the West Andover Congregational Church.
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He married (first), September 24, 1867, Sophia Strout, born in Bradford, Maine. He married (second) Lucy Bassett, of Lowell. She died in 1890. His only child died in in- fancy, but he has two adopted daughters: I. Bertha W., born September 9, 1870, married George B. Damon, have Carolyn Walker. 2. Jessie, born July 27, 1876, married Loren Mackey, have Jean and Dorothy.
The surname Kendall of Eng- KENDALL land is of local derivation from the town of Kendall, Westmoreland county. The town's name was doubtless derived from that of the river Ken, on which it is located. The family in Eng- land is very large and widely distributed, iii-23
many of the branches bearing arms and hav- ing distinguished members. The name is found common in Bedfordshire, at Basing- borne, Essex; in Lancashire; at Smithsby, Derbyshire; in Cornwall; in Devonshire; and Hertfordshire. In 1575 a branch of the fam- ily settled in Thorpthules, Durham, a younger son of the Kendall family of Ripon, York- shire, where the family lived at an early date. Among the early Kendalls who were promi- nent was John Kendall, sheriff of Nottingham, killed in the battle of Bosworth in 1485, fight- ing in the army of Richard III.
(I) John Kendall, progenitor of the Amer- ican family, lived in the county of Cambridge, England, in 1646, died there in 1660. Two of his sons came to America: I. Francis, men- tioned below. 2. Deacon Thomas, who was a proprietor of Reading, Massachusetts, in 1644; was admitted freeman May 10, 1648; had ten daughters and no sons, thus leaving no descendants bearing his name.
(II) Francis Kendall, the immigrant ances- tor, son of John Kendall (I), was born in England, and is believed to be the ancestor of all the Kendalls of America. In December, 1658, he deposed that his age was about thir- ty-eight years. On April 2, 1662, he deposed that his age was about forty-eight years. Pos- sibly the date of his birth was between the two dates indicated by these statements, say 1618. He came from England before 1640. With thirty-one others he signed the town orders of Woburn, December 18, 1640. He had been living in Charlestown, of which Wo- burn was then a part, and where he was a taxpayer in 1645. Francis Kendall married, December 24, 1644, Mary Tidd, daughter of John Tidd. In the record he is called Francis Kendall, alias Miles. There are several ex- planations of this record. It was common with emigrants to America to take assumed names to avoid vexatious laws, and there is a tradition that Kendall left England against the wishes of his family, using the name of Miles until he was settled in this country. His brother Thomas seems not to have used any other name. Francis Kendall was admitted a freeman May 10, 1648. Sewall says of him : "He was a gentleman of great respectability and influence in the place of his residence." He served the town at different times for eighteen years as selectman, and on important committees such as those for distributing grants to the pioneers, and on building the meeting house. He was tything man in 1676. He was not entirely in accord with the Puritan
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church, and was fined for some infraction of church rules about infant baptism or attend- ance at communion or attending meetings of the Anabaptists. He was a miller by trade and owned a corn mill, which he left to his sons Samuel and John. This corn mill, at Wo- burn, has been in the possession of the family down to the present time. The mill now, or lately on the Kendall place, is one built by Samuel Kendall soon after 1700 and is some distance from the location of the first mill.
He died in 1708, at the age of eighty-eight, according to the record, corroborating the affidavit of 1658. His wife Mary died in 1705. His will was dated May 9, 1706. His sons Thomas and John were the executors. Children : I. John, born July 2, 1646. 2. Thomas, born January 10, 1648-49, mentioned below. 3. Mary, born January 20, 1650-51, married Israel Reed about 1669. 4. Elizabeth, born January 15, 1652-53, married (first), Ephraim Winship; (second) James Pierce. 5. Hannah, born January 26, 1654-55, married William Green, Jr., as his second wife. 6. Rebecca, born March 2, 1657, married, De- cember, 1706, Joshua Eaton. 7. Samuel, born March 8, 1659. 8. Jacob, born January 25, 1660-61. 9. Abigail, born April 6, 1666, mar- ried, May 24, 1686, William Reed.
(III) Thomas Kendall, son of Francis Kendall (2), was born in Woburn, January 10, 1648-49, died May 25, 1730. He married, 1673, Ruth Blodgett, who died December 18, 1695. He married (second), March 30, 1696, Abigail (Reyner) Broughton, who died De- cember 31, 1716. He was a farmer at Wo- burn. Children, born at Woburn: I. Ruth, born February 17, 1675, married John Walker, Jr. 2. Thomas, born May 19, 1677, married, 1702, Sarah Cheever ; settled in Framingham, Massachusetts. 3. Mary, born February 27, 1680, married Joseph Whitmore. 4. Samuel, born October 29, 1682. 5. Ralph, born May 4, 1685. 6. Eleazer, born November 16, 1687. 7. Ephraim, born 1690, mentioned below. 8. Jabez (twin), born September 10, 1692. 9. Jane (twin), born September 10, 1692, mar- ried, 1712, Joseph Russell. IO. Child born and died December 16, 1695.
(IV) Ephraim Kendall, son of Thomas Kendall (3), was born at Woburn in 1690, and was a farmer there. He married Judith Walker, of an old Woburn family. Children, born at Woburn: I. Ephraim, born March 27, 1716, mentioned below. 2. Edward, born September 27, 1718. 3. Ezra, born January
I, 1721. 4. Reuben, born May 20, 1724. 5. Judith, born December II, 1728.
(V) Ephraim Kendall, son of Ephraim Kendall (4), was born in Woburn, March 27, 1716. He settled in Wilmington, formerly part of Woburn, Massachusetts. He was a soldier in the French and Indian war and died in the army at Lake George, July 18, 1758. He married, at Wilmington, February 24, 1736-37, Ruth Pierce (or Peirce, both spell- ings being used interchangeably), daughter of Lieutenant Ebenezer and Mary Pierce, of Wil -. mington. Lieutenant Pierce died April 16, 1766, in his eighty-eighth year at Wilmington ; his wife died there January 26, 1764, in her eightieth year.
The heirs of Lieutenant Ebenezer Pierce united in a deed to Ebenezer Pierce, Jr., dated May 5, 1767, viz .: Samuel Wyman and wife Mary, William Johnson and wife Eliz- abeth, Noah Eaton and wife Deborah, Keziah Wyman, all of Woburn; Samuel Butters, Jr., and wife Ruth, Reuben Wyman, of Billerica, Catherine Wyman, of Wilmington, Increase Wyman, of Billerica, Joshua Kendall, cord- wainer, of Cambridge, Jacob Barrett, of Ips- wich, mariner, Joshua Pierce, of Leominster, Massachusetts, and Jonathan Pierce, of Provi- dence, Rhode Island. Ebenezer Pierce, Jr., settled in Sutton, Massachusetts.
Children, born in Wilmington : I. Eph- raim, born October 29, 1737, probably died young. 2. Ephraim, born May 14, 1741, mar- ried Susanna Perkins, baptized at Ipswich, September II, 1743, daughter of Joseph Per- kins (4), Jacob (3), John (2), John (I); bought his farm, part of the old Brown estate in Ipswich, November 26, 1771, of Samuel Sawyer ; bought more land April 29, 1782, of Dr. Samuel Smith, Ipswich; his widow sold the farm May 28, 1816, to the county and for many years it was occupied by the old brick county building; children : i. Ephraim, born October 28, 1765, resided in Ipswich; ii. Su- sanna, born September 1I, 1767; iii. Jonathan, born November 1, 1769; iv. Lucy, born Octo- ber 4, 1774; v. Mary, born July 22, 1777. 3. Joshua, born September 29, 1746, mentioned below. His daughters are mentioned in the list of heirs given in the deed to Ebenezer Pierce, Jr., mentioned above.
(VI) Joshua Kendall, son of Ephraim Ken- dall (5), was born at Wilmington, Massachu- setts, September 29, 1746, died July 25, 1818, at West Cambridge. He early learned the shoemaker's trade, and followed it during the summer season, going about the country from
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house to house, as was the custom, making the yearly outfit of shoes for the family. During one of his trips he stopped at the house of Josiah Shattuck, a prosperous farmer of West Cambridge. He engaged himself to work for Mr. Shattuck on the farm for the winter, and while there he became engaged to marry the young and beautiful daughter of the house, Susannah Shattuck. (See sketch of Shat- tuck family herewith). They were married April 26, 1770, and lived on the Shattuck homestead, which, on the death of her father, his wife inherited. The homestead in 1884 was occupied by Adolphus Brown, grandson of Joshua Kendall, and was within the limits of the town of Belmont.
Joshua Kendall was both a good farmer and business man, and his farm proved profitable. For many years he supplied milk for the Bos- ton market. At the time the Concord turn- pike was put through in front of his house, he was an interested investor, although the enterprise was never a financial success. At the time the road was being constructed, he took some thirty of the workmen to board, and during that season they drank up thirty barrels of his cider.
His wife Susanna died September 9, 1803, and he inherited her estate. Children : I. Benjamin Shattuck, born July 30, 1771, died July 12, 1832; married, May, 1811, Hannah Stearns, of Belmont, Massachusetts ; no issue. 2. Susanna, born November 14, 1773, died November 5, 1833; married Thomas Brown, of Weston, Massachusetts; children: i. Mar- shall Brown, born December 18, 1793, died February . 15, 1842; married, October 23, 1821, Louisa Lawrence, of Waltham, and had Leonard Lawrence Brown, born August 7, 1822, married, January 20, 1848, Adaline Barnes, and had Addie Louise Brown, born November 6, 1848, died April 9, 1873; Louisa Maria Brown, born February 18, 1824, mar- ried, April 14, 1847, Samuel F. Clark (and had Maynard Marshall Brown, born June 30, 1848, died June 15, 1861 ; Ira Edgar Brown, born October 18, 1852, and Leonard Brown, born September 8, 1862) ; and Maynard Mar- shall Brown, born August 5, 1841, died April 21, 1842; ii. Almira Brown, born January 29, 1799; died 1863; iii. Adolphus Brown, born November 29, 1800, died May 1I, 1893; mar- ried, November 30, 1826, Mary Warren, of Weston, and had Josiah Kendall Brown, born September 7, 1827, died October, 1884; Mary Elizabeth Brown, born July 21, 1829; Thomas Warren Brown, born March 6, 1832; Susanna
Brown, born October 30, 1833, died Decem- ber 9, 1866; (married, August 9, 1855, Henry W. Maynard, of Cambridge, and had Herbert Fuller Maynard, born February 23, 1856) ; Almira Brown, born January 28, 1836 (mar- ried, November 30, 1876, --- Porter) ; Char- lotte Brown, born April 12, 1839, died Febru- ary 3, 1841; Edward Adolphus Brown, born March 27, 1841 ; Emily Augusta Brown, born November 13, 1843 (married, May 27, 1869, Oliver H. Fillebrown, and had Charles War- ren Fillebrown, born April 18, 1870, died July 29, 1872, Mary Louisa Fillebrown, born Jan- uary 29, 1872, William Locke Fillebrown, born October 23, 1873, Blanche Rebecca Fille- brown, born July 4, 1875, Emilie Frances Fillebrown, born November 8, 1877, Warren Fillebrown; Annie Louise Brown, born De- cember 30, 1846. 3. Joshua, born February 4, 1777, died June 5, 1846. 4. Mary, born November 16, 1779, died September 3, 1849. 5. Lucy, born June 27, 1782, died June 18, 1801. 6. Betsey, born May 28, 1785, died at Ludlow, Vermont, September 1, 1854; mar- ried, October 3, 1805, Newell Bent, of Cam- bridge, Massachusetts, born October 9, 1778, died February 9, 1831 ; children: i. Eliza Ann Bent, born August 7, 1806, died April 23, 1838; ii. Newell Bent, born March 5, 1810, died December 18, 1872; iii. Susan Maria Bent, born March II, 1814, died December 21, 1874; iv. Mary Kendall Bent, born August 12, 1822, died March 25, 1825; v. Mary Lu- cretia Bent, born April 19, 1826, died Febru- ary 20, 1855; vi. Fanny Loretta Bent, born March 22, 1828, died March 6, 1896. 7. Jo- siah, born January 27, 1788, mentioned below. 8. Hannah, born May 5, 1790, died May 10, 1823; married, March, 1820, Washington Pierce. 9. David, born May 26, 1793, died March 4, 1855 ; married, November 25, 1819, Lucretia Lawrence. 10. Charles, born June II, 1796, died October 9, 1876; married, May 31, 1825, Julia Smith; children: i. Charles Dexter, born April 20, 1826, died 1895: ii. David, born September 7, 1827, married, Feb- ruary 3, 1860, Mary Jane Adams, of Waltham, and had Charles Ellis, born February 3, 1861. died March, 1879, May Ritchie, born Septem- ber 26, 1866, Lena Anna, born 1870, died Oc- tober, 1876, Josie Adams, born March, 1872. Arthur Edgar Shattuck, born October 8, 1877 ; iii. Arthur Atkins, born April 13, 1832, mar- ried Anna Maria Cox; iv. Julia Ann, born January 30, 1834, died 1834; v. Julia Ann. born November 25, 1835, died November 10. 1856; vi. Susan Shattuck, born May 14, 1838,
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died January, 1908; vii. Lucia, born April 3, 1841, died at Clifton Springs, New York, Oc- tober 29, 1875.
(VII) Josiah Kendall, son of Joshua Ken- dall (6), was born at West Cambridge, Mass- achusetts, January 27, 1788. At an early age he was apprenticed to a carpenter, but did not follow the trade. About 1821 he and his brother David purchased the David S. Eaton place in the northeast part of Waltham, near the home of their birth, within the limits of what is now Belmont. This farm contained about one hundred and twenty acres, which the brothers later divided. Both the brothers were industrious and their business sagacity soon made them men of importance and wealth. Josiah ran a saw mill and David a grist mill on Beaver Brook, just below Josiah's house. Although his principal income was from the mill, which was very profitable, he sold garden produce to the housewives of Boston, going himself from house to house to dispose of his stock. His goodness and honesty endeared him to all, and his love for his kinspeople and friends was very strong. He was tall and slim, of a rather retiring dis- position. He died at his home on Mill street, Belmont, in the prime of life, April 5, 1845, aged fifty-seven. In religion he was a Uni- versalist and later a Unitarian. In politics he was a Whig; he was much opposed to secret societies, considering them a dangerous menace to the country.
He married, May 29, 1821, Mary Ann Brown, born at Waltham, November 2, 1797, died August 10, 1850, daughter of Jonas and Relief (Pierce) Brown, of Waltham. Her father was a farmer, town officer, and a dea- con of the church. Children: I. Elizabeth Baldwin, born March 20, 1823, unmarried. 2. Josiah Shattuck, born March 30, 1825, men- tioned below. 3. Joshua, born January 4, 1828; married, September 14, 1854, Phebe Mitchell, of Nantucket, Massachusetts, born February 23, 1828, died June 4, 1907; chil- dren : i. William Mitchell, born February 13, 1856, married, July 14, 1897, at Geneva, Switz- erland, Grace Elliott, of Detroit, Michigan. 4. Benjamin, born May 22, 1830, married, No- vember II, 1852, Sarah C. Marston, of Pow- nal, Maine; children: i. Susan Ring, born August 28, 1853, died October 28, 1854; ii. Frank Marston, born September 8, 1855, died April 24, 1856; iii. Susan Ring, born October 19, 1858, resides in California. 5. Jonas Brown, born May 7, 1834, whose sketch fol- lows. 6. George, born August 25, 1838, mar-
ried, November 7, 1866, Harriet L. Collins, of Watertown, Massachusetts; children: i. George Albert, born October 26, 1868, un- married; ii. James Henry, born August 10, 1870, unmarried; iii. Lillian Eliza, born Feb- ruary 15, 1872, unmarried; iv. Lucretia Har- riet, born March 14, 1874, died June 11, 1875; v. Charles Francis, born March 5, 1876, died August. 31, 1876; vi. Hannah Louise, born January 13, 1878, unmarried.
(VIII) Josiah Shattuck Kendall, son of Josiah Kendall (7), was born on the old Ken- dall homestead in the northeast part of Walt- ham, Massachusetts (now Waverly), March 30, 1825, died there March 13, 1907. He re- ceived his education in what was known as the Trapelo district just over the line in Waltham. When he was about twenty years old, his father died, and at about the age of twenty- two he bought the shares of the farm held by his brothers and sisters, who had inherited it with him, and became a successful farmer. The farm comprised seventy-five or eighty acres "more or less." He sold quite a large tract to the Metropolitan Park Commission, and another to the McLean Asylum, leaving about forty-five acres for cultivation. He conducted a successful dairy farm, selling the milk to his brothers in Boston, who were in the milk business. The garden produce was sold from house to house as his father had done. For a few years during the sixties he ran the grist mill, which had been established by his uncle David one hundred years before.
Mr. Kendall was one of the finest examples of the old-fashioned New England farmer, upright and honorable, strictly honest, and although sometimes blunt in speech, possessed of a kindly heart. He was a natural orator, and served the public without reward, and was honored with positions of trust and responsibility. He was an old-time Whig, but later a staunch Republican, serving as dele- gate many times to his party conventions. He was chairman of the board of selectmen and of the board of assessors, and member of the school committee. When he retired from pub- lic office on account of the infirmities of ad- vancing age, about 1895, the gratitude of his fellow citizens expressed itself unanimously in the most enthusiastic kind of a public recep- tion in the town hall. At this time an oil por- trait of Mr. Kendall, given by public subscrip -- tion, was unveiled as an inspiration to future generations. Mr. Kendall was brought up in the Waltham Unitarian church, but became identified with the Waverly Unitarian church,
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