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For a time longer Mr. Dexter continued painting portraits and modelling in clay, ac- cording as he had orders for the one or leis- ure for the other. He had had no regular in- struction in either art, and devised his own methods and made his own tools. At this period, with a single exception, he had never even watched a painter at his work, or clay in the hands of a sculptor ; least of all, had he any notion how to handle a block of marble, for it is doubtful if a portrait bust in marble or any sort of statuary had hitherto been at- tempted in this country. Suitable marble was hard to obtain and very expensive. Colonel Samuel Swett, whose portrait he had already painted, sat to him for a portrait-bust. This brought him into public notice. He was known as the "Blacksmith artist" at first. He was not overpowered with his successes, but labored with increased ardor and the most pa- tient industry to make himself master of the sculptor's art. He took lessons in anatomy, and was constantly studying the human fig- ure. He made busts of the Rev. Hubbard Winslow, and of Peter Harvey, Daniel Web- ster's great friend, and Samuel Eliot, Boston's most honored citizen and its mayor. When it was completed and in plaster, Mr. Eliot was so well satisfied that he said, "Mr. Dexter, you may put my bust into marble." To his first marble bust Mr. Dexter succeeded in giv- ing an admirable likeness. It was considered a great achievement, and Mr. Eliot's personal worth and official position added lustre to the work, and attracted attention and commenda- tion to the artist. Mr. Dexter's record of the
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work is this: "I have this day, June 9, 1838, completed a marble bust of Hon. Samuel A. Eliot, it being the first I ever made, the first time I ever struck marble with mallet and chisel."
The next order was from Hon. Thomas H. Perkins, foremost among Boston's art patrons. It was for a bust of Ellen Tree, the most cel- ebrated English actress of her day, and whom Mr. Dexter had already painted in one of her stage characters. His next marble bust was of Judge Jackson. Then followed the memorial marble of "The Binney Child," the little Em- ily, which at once made him famous. This pathetic figure in full length and recumbent- its little hands folded over the bosom, sleeping, nevermore to awaken, nor would one wish to disturb so reposeful and sweet a sleep, drew throngs to Mount Auburn. Charles Dickens, who made his first visit to this country in 1842, sat to Mr. Dexter for a·bust. Samuel Apple- ton was another of his generous patrons, also Messrs. Lawrence, Amos, Abbott, Winthrop, Warren, Adams, Chickering, Mudge, Little, all men of eminence in various ways. His most distinguished patrons in Cambridge were George and Isaac Livermore. He also made the busts of two presidents of Harvard Col- lege-Walker and Felton. In 1840 he made a bust of his mother, and in the same year he made the bust of Marcus Morton, Democrat- ic governor of Massachusetts. The following year he made one of John Davis, of Worces- ter, one of the most popular of Massachusetts governors. From 1840 to 1845 he made more than twenty-five busts and statues of living subjects, and one of the Magdalene, his first attempt in the ideal. In 1846 he made a bust of Governor Briggs, of Massachusetts, six other busts, and an elaborate mural monu- ment in marble, representing Grief. In 1847 he made The Backwoodsman. From 1850 to 1856 he executed twenty-one busts, besides an ideal figure, The Yankee Boy, one mural mon- ument, and a dog in freestone. He made the statue of General Joseph Warren, the hero of Bunker Hill, which was set up and dedicat- ed on the anniversary of the battle, June 17, 1857. He also made a portrait-bust of Henry Wilson, a famous anti-slavery agitator, United States senator from Massachusetts, and later vice-president of the United States. In 1859 Mr. Dexter conceived the idea of making a complete collection of busts of all the state governors and the president, James Buchanan, forming, as it were, an official gallery of the period. The first bust in the group was that
of James Buchanan, who gave him daily sit- tings, and Governor Buckingham, of Connec- · ticut, was his first subject among the state governors. His last order was for a bust of a Mr. Taylor, of Boston, who was lately de- ceased, and Mr. Dexter worked from photo- graphs.
His love of his country, which was one of his strongest and steadiest traits, made him deeply interested in the Centennial Celebra- tion. He could not expatriate himself at a time when other lovers of art thought it was the price to be paid for opportunities and success. For some time before the Exposi- tion, in the intervals when released from the extreme sufferings of his disease, he amused himself in writing a Centennial poem. It con- sists of about twelve hundred lines descriptive of the gathering of all the nations-Europe, Asia and Africa-with their products, their animals, even to the smallest insects, upon the coast of England, whence they sail for Amer- ica. Then follows an account of the assemb- ling of the people, and their several belong- ings, from every part of North and South America, and their reception at Philadelphia. This was the last effort with his pen. This outlet through writing poetry was his faithful companion and playmate throughout his ardu- ous and laborious life, giving him moments of pleasure and repose. The following is one of his later poems :.
God! my spirit calleth to its cause; Soul! as that is which in me In its spirit seekest thee;
Yet not the word but conscious laws.
Word? What word can e'er my spirit lead? What the drop can ever show Kindred drop by which to know God, that source from which we all proceed?
That which God is, language ever veils; Line on line, fold over fold, Ever telling, never told; In vain, in vain, no tongue reveals ..
God! Then sound deep the soul-struck lyre Stringed with human soul and heart; Yet then only can impart Some spark from that celestial fire.
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Nay, touched of God his spirit speaks, Grants us now responsive sound Though all human tongues confound- Blest! Supreme! feels the thought it seeks.
In May, 1828, Mr. Dexter married Calista Kelley, and to his wife's excellent administra- tion of his affairs was due in large measure his endurance of the early struggles, and in his later successes a good measure of freedom
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from worldly cares. They had three children : A son who died in infancy and two daughters; one of the latter, Mrs. Harriet D. Mason, is deceased, and the other, Mrs. Anna E. Doug- lass, still lives, and has devouted much time and care to the preservation of her father's works and memory. In 1857 Mrs. Dexter died. Mr. Dexter married (second) Mrs. Martha Billings, of Millbury, Massachusetts.
Robert Douglass, son-in-law of Henry Dex- ter, was born June 17, 1806, in Cambridge, Massachusetts, died February 19, 1885. He was a son of Robert and Betsey Douglass. Robert Douglass, Jr., was engaged in the man- ufacture of confectionery, and had the largest and oldest established business in those days. He was a member of the water board, presi- dent of the Cambridge Bank and the First National Bank, the name later taken by the Cambridge Bank, serving nineteen years, trustee of the Cambridgeport Savings Bank, and treasurer of the Union Glass Works of Somerville for a number of years.
Mr. Douglass married (first) Adaline Welch, of Cambridge, no children. He mar- ried (second) Anna E. Dexter, daughter of Henry and Calista (Kelley) Dexter, of Cam- bridge, and three children were born to them: Adaline A., Harriet D., deceased, and Eliza- beth P. Douglass.
BUCKMINSTER Thomas Buckminster, the immigrant ances- tor, born in England was a descendant of John Buckminster (or Buckmaster), of Peterborough, Northampton- shire, of one of the ancient and noble English families. He settled first in Scituate, Massa- chusetts, and as early as 1639 in Boston, and in that year had a house lot laid out to him in Sudbury near the two ponds at the west end of the town plot, but it is not known that he built on it. He and his wife Joanna were ad- mitted to the Boston church October 4, 1645, upon letter of dismissal from the Scituate church. He was admitted a freeman May 6, 1646. He lived at Muddy River ( Brookline) and died there September 28, 1656. His will mentions wife Joanna ; sons Zachary, Thomas, Joseph, Jabez; daughters Elizabeth Spowell and her two children, Mary Stevens, Dorcas Corbin ; and Sarah Buckminster. His widow married second, September 1, 1661, Edward Garfield, of Watertown. Children: I. Law- rence, died about 1645; bequeathed to sisters Elizabeth Buckminster, Abigail Sherman;
brother Zachary Buckminster; his father ; Thomas Spaule and his daughter Mary Spaule (or Spowell). 2. Zachariah (or Zachery), married March 7, 1654-55, Sarah Webb, and settled in Sherborn. 3. Elizabeth, married Thomas Spowell. 4. Mary, married
Stevens. 5. Dorcas, married Clement Cor- bin. 6. Thomas, lived in Boston. 7. Sarah, married John Lawrence. 8. Joseph, mention- ed below. 9. Jabez.
(II) Joseph, son of Thomas Buckminster (I), born about 1640, lived at Brookline, Massachusetts, and died there November 20, 1668, a young man. He married, in 1665, Elizabeth Clark, born. January 31, 1648, in Watertown, Massachusetts, daughter of Hugh and Elizabeth Clark. Clark lived at Water- town and Roxbury; was born in 1613 in Eng- land, died in Roxbury, July 20, 1693; was a member of the Ancient and Honorable Artil- lery Company ; coat-of-arms: Gu. three swords erect, arg. hilts or. Crest, lion ram- pant, or. Elizabeth (Clark) Buckminster died in Roxbury or Brookline, but her body was removed to Framingham by her son and de- posited in the family tomb there. She owned the covenant at the Roxbury church in 1666. Children : I. Joseph, born July 31, 1666; mentioned below. 2. Elizabeth (posthumous), baptized in Roxbury, January 10, 1668-69.
(III) Colonel Joseph Buckminster, son of Joseph Buckminster (2), born in Brookline, July 31, 1666, was admitted to the Roxbury church in 1684, though he continued to live at Brookline (Muddy River), where he follow- ed the trade of tanner. In May, 1693, he and Joseph White took a lease of the larger part of Governor Danforth's great estate at Framing- ham, Massachusetts, and Buckminster renewed this lease in his own name March 25, 1699. This lease is published in Temple's "History of Framingham" in full, page 126. The provis- ions and devises of Governor Danforth's will and the terms and reservations of this lease to Buckminster were important factors in the later history and growth of Framingham, especially during the fifty years subsequent. Buckminster built in Framingham, on the place since known as the Brinnley, Wheeler and Bowditch farm, in 1702, and removed his family in the spring of 1703. The house stood at the angle of roads to the southeast of the present mansion of Mr. Bowditch. He sold land to new settlers, and was for many years one of the foremost men of the town; he was selectman for seventeen years; deputy to the general court twelve years; justice of
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the peace ; captain of grenadiers in Sir Charles Hobby's expedition to Port Royal, and attain- ed the rank of colonel of his regiment. Tra- dition describes Colonel Buckminster as "tall and athletic, of great physical powers and of a resolute spirit." He died April 5, 1747. He married (first), May 12, 1686, Martha, daugh- ter of John Sharp. He married (second), February 7, 1716, Martha Dall, of Boston, who died February, 1724-25. Children : I. Elizabeth, born 1687, married, March 3, 1704- 05, John Wood, of Framingham. 2. Joanna, born 1690, married (first) June 23, 1712, John Eames; (second) March 19, 1741, John Butler. 3. Martha, born 1693, married (first) February 13, 1717-18, Ebenezer. Winchester, of Framingham; (second) November 1, 1749, Rev. James Bridgham, of Brimfield. 4
Joseph, born 1697; mentioned below. 5. Sarah, born 1702, married, June 23, 1720, Dr. Bezaleel Rice. 6. Sybilla, born 1705 ; married, January 24, 1728, John White. 7. Zerviah, born July 26, 1710; married, December 19, 1729, William Brintnall.
(IV) Colonel Joseph Buckminster, son of Colonel Joseph Buckminster (3), was born at Brookline, 1697, and came with his father to Framingham when a young boy. He lived for a time after he came of age on the Bow- ditch farm, then built a house on the minis- terial lands west of the old cemetery in 1725, and lived there most of the remainder of his life. He went through the grades of military promotion, receiving his commission as col- onel in 1739; took part in the French and In- dian wars and in the opening of the Revolu- tion. In town affairs he was also very prom- inent, being a selectman for twenty-eight years, town clerk thirty-two years, and deputy to the general court nineteen years. He died May 15, 1780. He married (first) June 18, 1719, Sarah Lawson, of Hopkinton, who died September II, 1747. He married (second) Hannah Kiggell, widow, who died October 25, 1776. Children, born at Framingham: I. Joseph, born March I, 1719-20, graduate of Harvard, 1739, ordained minister of Rutland, Massachusetts, September 15, 1742; died No- vember 3, 1792 ; married, June 30, 1743, Lucy Williams, of Weston. 2. Martha, born Aug- ust 20, 1726; married, December 28, 175I, Obadiah Curtis, of Boston. 3. Anne, born December 3, 1728; married, September II, 1751, Rev. Abraham Williams, of Sandwich, Massachusetts. 4. Sarah, born April 6, 1733; died March 9, 1842. 5. William, born De- cember 15, 1736; married Martha Barnes,
daughter of Edward, of Marlborough; settled in Barre, Massachusetts; commanded a com- pany of minute-men from Barre, April 19, 1775; lieutenant-colonel of Jonathan Brewer's regiment ; dangerously wounded at the battle of Bunker Hill; died June 22, 1786. 6. Frances, born November 23, 1738; married Colonel Jonathan Brewer. 7. Lawson, born April 8, 1742; mentioned below. 8. Thomas, born August 18, 1751. (By second wife).
(V) Major Lawson Buckminster, son of Colonel Joseph Buckminster (4), was born in Framingham, April 8, 1742. He was a soldier in the Revolution, second lieutenant in Captain Simon Edgell's company of minute-men on the Lexington Alarm, April 19, 1775, march- ing to Concord and Cambridge ; also first lieu- tenant in Captain Joseph Winch's company (Second Framingham), Fifth Middlesex reg- iment, commissioned March 27, 1776; also first lieutenant in Captain Aaron Gardner's company, Colonel Eleazer Brooks's regiment in 1776, at various times ; captain second com- pany, Fifth regiment of Middlesex, commis- sioned June II, 1778; also in Lieutenant Col- onel Samuel Peirce's regiment, 1779, also cap- tain in Colonel Abner Perr's regiment in 1780, in Rhode Island campaign. Later he was com- missioned major of the Fifth regiment. He was equally prominent in town affairs; town clerk twenty-four years, and selectman many years. His home was on the place now or lately owned by Moses Ellis. He built the house there in 1768, and had a tavern many years there. He died February 26, 1832. He married, May 4, 1769, Mary Jones, daughter of John Jones and wife Mary, of Hopkinton. She died September 17, 1842, aged ninety- two years. Children: I. Sarah, baptized July I, 1770, married Daniel Stone, Jr. 2. Betty, born August 25, 1772; died July 5, 1793. 3. . John, born May 6, 1774, died March 14, 1798, unmarried. 4. Ruth, born September 17, 1776, married Eli Bullard. 5. Lawson, Jr., born May 16, 1779, lived in Framingham. 6. Nancy, born August 26, 1781 ; married, July 17, 1801, Daniel Bell, of United States army, Boston ; died July 10, 1811. 7. William, born January 22, 1784; mentioned below. 8. Jones, born December 5, 178-, graduate of Harvard, 1804; died April 3, 1806. 9. Mary Jones, born January 19, 1788; died November 9, 1805. IO. Caroline, born March 27, 1790; married Captain John J. Clark. II. Fanny, born March 29, 1792; married, May 29, 1823, Hon. George Morey, of Boston ; died May II, 1866, aged seventy-six; wife died July 19,
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1880. 12. Elizabeth, born October 8, 1796, married Levi Eaton, and died January 4, 1874.
(VI) William Buckminster, son of Major Lawson Buckminster (5), was born in Fram- ingham, Massachusetts, January 22, 1784. His father was desirous that he should devote him- self to agricultural pursuits, as his elder broth- er was in trade, and the younger had gradu- ated at Harvard College in 1804. He remain- ed on the farm at Framingham until his twen- ty-first year, when he commenced in earnest the work of preparation for college, and in one year and three months was fitted to enter one year in advance, and was admitted to the class of 1809. He did not graduate, as the great re- bellion occurred in 1807 and he took part with, as he thought, the oppressed, and left college. He entered the law office of Judge Ward, of Boston, and was admitted to the bar in 18II in Middlesex county, and lived to be its oldest surviving member. In 1812 he began to prac- tice his profession in the town of Vassalboro, Maine, then in Massachusetts, and remained there for ten years. In the autumn of 1822 he returned to Framingham with his family, four children having been born in Maine and two in Massachusetts. He followed the law as a pro- fession until 1839, when he became one of the proprietors and sole editor of the Boston Cul- tivator. In October, 1841, he established an agricultural paper in Boston, the Massachu- setts Ploughman, and was the only editor for about four years, when his eldest son, Wil- liam J. Buckminster, became associated with him. In 1862 Mr. Buckminster retired from active business and lived on his father's home- stead in Framingham, part of the original thousand acres owned by the first Colonel. Joseph Buckminster as early as 1693. While practicing law he gave some attention to farm- ing, inventing and patenting a horse rake, a corn planter and a mill-gate, his attention being called to the need of such a device by operating a small saw mill on his own farm. He was very active in procuring the Agricul- tural Branch railroad to Fitchburg. He was the principal mover in procuring the charter for the Middlesex South Agricultural Society and in locating their grounds in Framingham and was chosen the first president of that soci- ety, resigning at the end of three years. He was a justice of the peace for fourteen years in the town of Framingham, where he made his home the remainder of his days. Early in March, 1865, he began to sink under the infirmities of age, but conversed cheerfully until two weeks before his death, riding out
in his carriage to enjoy the beauties of nature, of which he was ever fond, and even to the end he was in possession of his mental facul- ties unimpaired. He died Friday, June 9, 1865, in his eighty-second year. He was cousin of Rev. Joseph Buckminster, of Ports- mouth, New Hampshire, the father of Rev. Joseph Stevens Buckminster, the gifted pastor of Brattle Street Church, Boston. The inter- ment was near the ancient Buckminster tomb, in the old burying ground in Framingham.
William Buckminster married (first), Octo- ber 21, 1812, Sally Larrabee, of Malden, who died July 22, 1842, aged fifty-four years. He married (second) June 6, 1848, Lydia Nelson Hastings, born at Dedham, Massachusetts, November 26, 1818, daughter of Jonathan and Nancy Hastings, of Brighton, Massachusetts. She was of the seventh generation from the immigrant, Thomas Hastings, who settled in Watertown in 1634, and was selectman, town clerk, deputy and deacon; he was a distin- guished citizen, and the progenitor of an hon- ored and excellent family. Mrs. Buckminster wrote in substance the sketch of her husband here given. Children of William and Sally Buckminster : I. William John, born in 1813; mentioned below. 2. Harriet L., born died young. 3. Harriet L., born 1818, died April 19, 1789. 4. George Morey, born 1822; died unmarried, September 24, 1879. 5. Ellen K., born 1827; married Edwin B. Stone, of Cornish, Maine, who died July 26, 1878.
(VII) William John Buckminster, son of William Buckminster (6), was born in Vassal- boro, Maine, in 1813. He was educated in the public schools of Framingham and at Har- vard College, where he was graduated in 1835. He became associated with his father in the publication of the Massachusetts Ploughman, and succeeded him as editor in October, 1862. He resided in Boston. In politics he was anti- slavery in sentiment, and became a steadfast Republican. He was an active member of the Unitarian church. He died March 2, 1878, at his home in Malden, Massachusetts. He mar- ried Eliza (Eaton) Dodge, of Boston. Chil- dren: I. William Bradley, born in Boston, . September 9, 1847; mentioned below. 2. John Morey, born January 15, 1850, in Boston, now a resident of San Francisco, California.
(VIII) William Bradley Buckminster, son of William John Buckminster (7), was born in Boston, September 9, 1847. He attended the public schools of that city and Malden, and graduated at Harvard College in 1870. He chose a business career and began in the
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counting room of Charles W. Dabney & Company, Boston, as bookkeeper. He was later with Isaac Rich & Company, of Bos- ton, wholesale dealers in fish, and finally en- gaged in the mining business in the west. As a man of business and finance Mr. Buckmin- ster has achieved great success. He is a direc- tor of the Malden Trust Company, of the Cox Last Company of Malden, the Huron Milling Company of Michigan, and of other corpora- tions. He has resided in Malden since 1873, living previously at Melrose. In politics he is a Republican. He was a member of the Malden common council in 1885 and 1886, and has always shown his interest in his home city in every possible way. He served as water commissioner from 1891 to 1897, was chairman of the board five years, and also chairman of the joint board of water commis- sioners of Malden, Medford and Melrose, during the same time. He has been trustee of the Forest Dale Cemetery, Malden, since 1892. In religion Mr. Buckminster is a member of the Protestant Episcopal church of Malden. He is a Mason, affiliated with Mount Vernon Lodge, Free and Accepted Masons; Chapter of the Tabernacle, Royal Arch Masons; and Beauseant Commandery, Knights Templar. He is a member of the Eastern Yacht Club, the Kernwood Club, the Tedesco Country Club at Swampscott, and the Middlesex Club. He was formerly a member of the Algonquin Club of Boston.
educated in the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Boston, making a specialty of mining engineering, and is now associated with his father in the mining business ; married in 1903, Susan Grace Purrington, of Topsham, Maine. 3. Morey Willard, born December 5, 1880; died January 31, 1898. 4. Roy, born June 8, 1886; died April 23, 1893.
PRIOR The immigrant ancestor of the Prior family, which is of remote English origin, was Thomas Prior, who came from London with Rev. John Lothrop, and settled at Scituate, Massachusetts, in 1634. Land was allotted him on the east side of "Hickses" swamp, but he was not permitted to enjoy for any great length of time the reli- gious liberty so dear to the opponents of the Established Church of England, as he died in 1639. His children were Samuel Thomas, Elizabeth and Mary, who were still in Eng- land in 1639; and Joseph, John and Daniel, who probably accompanied him to this coun- try. His will, made in 1639, bequeaths to his sons Samuel and Thomas, in England, twelve pence each; to Samuel five pounds if he come to this country; to daughters Elizabeth and Mary six pounds each; to John and Daniel, rest of land divided equally between them; to the pastor, Mr. Lothrop, ten shillings. His son Joseph, who was born in England in 1623, settled in Duxbury, Massachusetts, in 1643, and died in 1690. The Christian name of Joseph's wife was Hannah. John Prior, son of Thomas, also settled , in Duxbury, and there married Eleanor Childs, daughter of Ebenezer Childs.
Mr. Buckminster married, in Cambridge, September 14, 1870, Christine I. Chase, daughter of Francis Christopher and Amelia (Willard) Chase. She was born in Leomin- ster, Massachusetts, where her father was a merchant, and she was educated there in the Benjamin Prior, grandson of Thomas of Scituate, was a native of Duxbury, and resided there his entire life. He was the son of either Joseph or John Prior mentioned above, but the "Historian of Duxbury" is unable to determine which of them was his father. December 9, 1697, Benjamin married Bethiah Pratt, who died at the age of seventy-seven years. Their children were: Benjamin, see next paragraph; Abigail, born September 9, 1701; Ruth, born August 4, 1704' (married John Delano, Jr.) ; Joshua, born August 1, 1709; and John, born March 21, 1712. public schools. She is descended from Major Simon Willard, the founder of Lancaster, and from the Chase family of Newbury, Massa- chusetts. (See Chase). She is a member of Faneuil Hall Chapter, Daughters of the Amer- ican Revolution ; of the Old and New Club of Malden, of the Hospital Society, vice-presi- dent of the Ladies' Aid Sewing Society, and of the executive committee of the Aged Persons' Home. Children: I. William Read, born at Malden, January 17, 1872 ; educated at Malden and at Harvard, where he graduated in 1894, summa cum laude; graduated from Harvard Benjamin (2) Prior, eldest child of Benja- min and Bethiah (Pratt) Prior, was born in Duxbury, October 30, 1699. He married Deborah Weston, November 7, 1723, and she died December 7, 1775, aged seventy-three Law School in 1897, and is now practicing law in Boston ; married June 10, 1897, Mary Alice Miller, of Boston; children: Constance Brad- ley, born June 3, 1899; Joan, born March 8, 1901. 2. Harold Chase, born June 23, 1874, . years. His death occurred December 3, 1766.
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