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1839. He was editor of the North American Review for several years, secretary of the com- monwealth of Massachusetts from 1844 to 1847, member of congress from Massachusetts, postmaster of the city of Boston, and author of Palfrey's "History of New England," in three volumes, which takes the highest rank on subjects treated. 5. Samuel, born October 7, 1801. 6. Sarah, February 21, 1803, died October 20, 1820. 7. Catherine, born May 20, 1804; married, September 19, 1833, John Gardiner Gibson, of Boston. 8. William Dawes, born April 13, 1806, graduated at Harvard College in 1827, died unmarried No- vember 12, 1835. 9. Almira, born December 30, 1809; married, September 3, 1838, Walter Cooper Greene. They lived in New York City.
(VII) Samuel Hammond, born in Boston, October 7, 1801, died in Brookline, September IO, 1834; married, November 5, 1828, Sus- annah (Clarke) Greene, born October 29, 1806, died March 22, 1844, daughter of Gardiner and Elizabeth Clarke (Copley) Greene, of Bos- ton. She was the third wife of Gardiner Greene, and was the mother of Mrs. Ham- mond. She was the daughter of John Single- ton Copley, the most famous American por- trait painter of that time. He was born in Boston, July 31, 1737, son of Richard and Mary (Singleton) Copley. He visited Italy in 1774, settled in London in 1776, and became a member of the Royal Academy in 1783. He died September 25, 1815. His son became Lord Lyndhurst, lord high chancellor of Great Britain. Children of Samuel and Susannah Clark (Greene) Hammond were: I. Francis Henry, born October 6, 1829, died November 28, 1829. 2. Samuel Hubbard, born October 13, 1830, died July 20, 1833. 3. Gardiner Greene, born November 19, 1832. 4. Samuel, born January 4, 1835, died May 27, 1896; mar- ried, October 28, 1858, Mary Crowninshield Warren, daughter of Dr. John Mason and Anne (Crowninshield) Warren, of Boston.
(VIII) Gardiner Greene Hammond, born November 19, 1832, married (first), October 29, 1856, Elizabeth Crowninshield Mifflin (born in Philadelphia), daughter of Dr. Charles and Mary (Crowninshield) Mifflin. She died near New London, Connecticut, February 21, 1877. He married (second), July 11, 1891, Mrs. Elizabeth (Bowditch) Fay, daughter of Nathaniel I. and Eliza- beth (Francis) Bowditch, of Boston. Mr. Hammond's first wife, Elizabeth Crown- inshield Mifflin, was the granddaughter of Samuel and Elizabeth (Davis) Mifflin, of the wellknown Mifflin family of Phila-
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delphia. Her mother, Mary (Crowninshield) Mifflin, born in Salem, Massachusetts, August 9, 1806, was daughter of Benjamin Williams and Mary (Boardman) Crowninshield, of Salem. Mr. Crowninshield, obtained letters of marque in the war of 1812, and was the owner of several privateers in connection with his father and brothers. The armed ship "Amer- ica," owned by George Crowninshield & Sons, carrying twenty-one guns and one hundred and fifty men, was the fastest privateer in the war of 1812, and captured and brought into port twenty-six prizes valued at over $1,000,000, besides many others burned and sunk. This family was for a long time famous for ship- building and trans-Atlantic trade. Children of Gardiner Greene and Elizabeth Crownin- shield (Mifflin) Hammond, are: I. Elizabeth C., born April 19, 1858, died at Norwich, Con- necticut, July 1, 1880; married, January, 1879, William Appleton, son of William and Emily (Warren) Appleton, of Boston. Mrs. Apple- ton was killed in a railway accident at the second Harvard-Yale boat races. 2. Gardiner Greene, born September 28, 1859; married, June 8, 1893, Esther Lathrop Fiske, daughter of George Jenckes and Frances Lathrop (Bee- be) Fiske, of Boston. She was the grand- daughter of James M. Beebe, eminent mer- chant of Boston. 3. Charles Mifflin, born Au- gust 4, 1861 ; married, December 18, 1888, Harriet Paine Lee, daughter of George Cabot and Caroline (Haskill) Lee, of Salem. Her sister, Alice Lee, was the first wife of Presi- dent Roosevelt. 4. Susan Greene, born March 24, 1863; married, August 10, 1888, William Otis Edmonds, of Newton; live in California. 5. Mary Crowninshield, born in New London, Connecticut, October 5, 1864, married Edward Brooks. 6. Edward Crowninshield, born in New London, Connecticut, November 4, 1868. At the death of his mother in 1877, he was adopted by Mr. and Mrs. George B. Ironside, of New London.
(IX) Mary Crowninshield Hammond, born in New London, Connecticut, October 5, 1864, died January, 1904, married Edward Brooks, of West Medford, October 21, 1884. Chil- dren: I. Edward Brooks, born West Med- ford, May 19, 1887. 2. Elizabeth Hammond Brooks, born New London, Connecticut, Sep- tember 24, 1889.
This family of the surname Swan (Swann, Swanne, Swayne SWAN or Swain), is of very ancient ex- traction, Swain, a Dane of noble ancestry, having early settled in the southeastern por-
tion of England. The Swans have been pos- sessed of landed property in the counties of Kent and Derby since the Conqueror (1066), when we find their names occur twice in the Domesday Book, as land owners, and as early as the reign of Richard II. they wrote them- selves "Gentlemen," as appears from ancient deeds.
John Swan, of Southfleet, county Kent, sat as Baron for the borough of Sandwich in the reigns of Henry VI., Edward IV. and Richard III. The family held large possessions in the county of Kent, including the Manors of Swanscombe, Demsted, Sutton, Denton. The chief seats of the Swan family were Hook Place in Southfleet, the residence of the elder branch, from which Swan of Baldwinstown claims descent, and Lydd and afterwards Wye and Denton Court, the places of location of the younger branch, which inter-married with the Derings, Boys and Twisdens, all families of high extraction and great antiquity in the county Kent. (See Berry's County Genealo- gies of Kent). Both these English branches have become extinct, the former in the per- son of Edward Swan, son of Sir Francis Swan, of Denton Court, who died without issue in 1643. Joseph Percival Swan, the present possessor (1858) of Baldwinstown, (representative of the Irish branch) claims to be also the representative of the Southfleet family, being lineally descended from the John Swan of that place, who as above stated sat for the borough of Sandwich. This John Swan acquired the Manor of Swanscomb and died in 1490. His son, John Swan, Esq., pre- sented the large bell to the church at South- fleet; died 1550, leaving a son Thomas who left at his decease in 1561 two sons: i. Sir William, Knight of Hook Place, county Kent; ii. John, who founded the Irish line, went to Ireland in a military capacity under the Earl of Essex in the reign of Elizabeth. The coat- of-arms of the present Swan family of Ireland of this lineage is : Azure, on a fess, wavy arg, between three swans displayed ppr. unguled and crowned, or, a trefoil vert. Of the vari- ous coats-of-arms of past families in Kent all were similar in that they used the swan as an emblem, indicating doubtless the origin of the . name. The motto: Sit Nomen Decus.
(I) John Swan, the immigrant ancestor of this family, descended doubtless from the Swans of Kent, England, was born in 1620- 21, and was brought to this country and raised in the family of Thomas Bittlestone, who provided by will November 3, 1640, that his wife Elizabeth should be served five years
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by his "boy, John Swan," and she should then pay him five pounds, showing that he was under some form of apprenticeship at the time. Swan became a farmer at Menotomy (now Arlington). He was a member of the Cambridge church, but for some reason was excommunicated in 1684. "It would seem that he was not easily moved from his pur- poses, good or bad, for in that day," says Paige, "when excommunication was gener- ally regarded as an effectual bar against sal- vation, he withstood the power of the church more than twenty years; but at length, when he had attained extreme old age, he made his peace with the brethren, and was restored to communion December 22, 1706." He was a proprietor of Cambridge in 1642. He had been earlier at Watertown, the town adjoin- ing. He died June 5, 1708, aged eighty- eight, as shown by his gravestone. He mar- ried (first), June 1, 1650-51, Rebecca Palfrey, who died July 12, 1654. He married (second) March 2, 1655-56, Mary Pratt, of Charles- town, daughter of Phinehas and Mary (Priest) Pratt, who died February II, 1702, in her seventieth year. Mary (Priest) Pratt was a daughter of Digerie Priest, who was one of the band of Pilgrims who came to Massa- chusetts in 1620 in the "Mayflower." Chil- dren of John and Rebecca Swan: I. Ruth, born March 10, 1652. 2. Gershom, born June 30, 1654, married, December 20, 1677, Sarah Holden, of Watertown, who died April 9, 1737; he died July 2, 1708. Children of John and Mary Swan: 3. Samuel, born May I, 1657, died June 20, 1678. 4. Mary, born May 2, 1659. 5. Elizabeth, born July 14, 1661, married, July 27, 1687, Ezekiel Rich- ardson. 6. Lydia, born July 28, 1663. 7. John, born May 1, 1665, married, April II, 1692, Sarah Thompson, of Woburn. 8. Hannah, born February 27, 1667. 9. Mercy, born about 1670, died June 23, 1748; mar- ried, December 19, 1706, John Perry, of Cambridge. 10. Ebenezer, born November 14, 1672, mentioned below.
(II) Ebenezer Swan, son of John Swan (I), was born November 14, 1672, died July 27, 1740. He married, March 2, 1698, Eliza- beth Bruce, of Woburn. Children: I. Eliza- beth, born March 29, 1699, married, January 8, 1724, Ezra Skinner, of Norton. 2. Sarah, born February 26, 1701, married, December 14, 1727, Ephraim Cook, of West Cambridge, Massachusetts, died March 24, 1748. 3. Ebenezer, born March 23, 1704, mentioned below. 4. Mary, born March 4, 1706-07, died 1750, unmarried. 5. Samuel, born April 5,
17II, married Sarah Patten; died June 19, 1750. 6. William, born January 31, 1713-14, married, April 13, 1743, Ruth Polley, of Med- ford, Massachusetts; married (second) at New London, Connecticut.
(III) Ebenezer Swan, son of Ebenezer Swan (2), was born March 23, 1704, and died April 23, 1752. He married, September 12, 1728, Bathsheba Grant, of Watertown. Chil- dren: I. Peter, born January 6, 1729. 2. Ebenezer, born November 18, 1730, men- tioned below. 3. Benjamin, born April 20, 1733. 4. Joseph, born February 16, 1735-36, married, January 26, 1764, Jannet MacCloud. 5. Bathsheba, born February 15, 1737-38, died August 26, 1805, unmarried. 6. Mary, born January 29, 1738-39, died July 22, 1740. 7. Joshua, born June 28, 1743, married, July 20, 1762, Sarah Cutler; died in April, 1777. 8. Mary, born April 3, 1745, died August I, 1747.
(IV) Ebenezer Swan, son of Ebenezer Swan (3), was born November 18, 1730, and died August 8, 1798. He married in January, 1757, Mary Mansur, of Watertown. Chil- dren: I. Peter baptized February 19, 1758, died young. 2. Ebenezer, baptized January 25, 1761, mentioned below. 3. Peter, born May 12, 1763, chairmaker, died February 21, 1822, unmarried. 4. Gershom, born March 18, 1766, chairmaker; married, January 4, 1787, Cherry Hill; died October 10, 1827. 5. Timothy, born August 16, 1769, married Lydia Munroe, of West Cambridge; died De- cember 12, 1813.
(V) Ebenezer Swan, son of Ebenezer Swan (4), was born at West Cambridge, Massachusetts, (Menotomy) and baptized January 25, 1761. He was brought up on his father's farm and received the usual education of a farmer's son of that period. He con- tinued farming all his life. It was his house that his grandsons, Henry and Harrison Swan, moved to the rear of the present Swan block when it was built in the seventies. He was a soldier in the Revolution. being a pri- vate in Captain Alexander Foster's company, Colonel Thomas Carpenter's regiment, in Rhode Island in the summer of 1778; also in Captain Joshua Walker's company, Colonel Samuel Denny's regiment, in 1779, three months to reinforce the Continental army; also in Captain Abraham Andrew's company, Colonel Cyprian Hows's regiment, July 27, 1780, to October 30, 1780, detached from Middlesex county for the same purpose. He was a stern man, very strict in the manage- ment of his home. He was a member of the
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First Church. He died February 3, 1814. He married, October 9, 1791, Sally Adams, of Waltham, Massachusetts. They had one child, Henry, born 1792, mentioned below.
(VI) Henry Swan, son of Ebenezer Swan (5), was born at West Cambridge, Massachu- setts, 1792, and died March 15, 1846. He was educated in the district school, going during the winter months, and helping his father on the farm, where he stayed until he was of age. He early started in the poultry business. Na- than Robbins, afterwards a leading poultry dealer, worked for him. He carried on this business all his life. In those days, before vessels could be supplied with ice, live stock was carried to be killed en route. He made a business of supplying outgoing vessels with poultry and hogs, some of which was fur- nished by nearby farmers. His house was on a three acre plot, which was his share of the Swan property. He was a man six feet tall, of slender build, and like his father was very stern and decided. He was an Orthodox Unitarian, and a Whig in politics. He was in the War of 1812, and served at Fort Inde- pendence. His widow received a pension during her life. He died of consumption March 15, 1846.
He married, August 27, 1815, Elizabeth Parker, of West Cambridge, born in 1793, died October 29, 1884, daughter of David and Elizabeth (Tufts) Parker. Children: I. Sally Ann, born 1816, married (first), September II, 1842, Daniel Peirce, of Lexington, and (second), Frederick Fiske, of Holliston; died without issue in 1889. 2. Elizabeth, born March 23, 1818, died October 22, 1878; mar- ried, September 4, 1842, Eli Simonds, of Lex- ington; children: i. Alice Parker Simonds, born June 8, 1843, married, April 6, 1871, James H. Wright, of Concord, and had Harry Simonds Wright, born November 5, 1885, who was married June 6, 1905, to Harriet Martha Roberts and had Harry Simonds Wright, born July 2, 1907. ii. William Henry Simonds, born November 1, 1844, married (first), May 3, 1877, Jenny Garty, of Concord, Massachusetts, who died March 20, 1891; he married (second), July 14, 1892, Winifred B. Thorndyke, of Rockport, Maine. Child of the first wife, Frank Herbert Simonds, born April 5, 1878, married, December 25, 1902, Mary Gledhill. and had Katharine Garty Simonds, born November 26, 1906; children of the second wife: Margaret Simonds, born July 31, 1895; Ruth Thorndyke Simonds, born May 31, 1897. iii. Frank H. Simonds, born May 12, 1848, died February 22, 1878; mar-
ried, March 23, 1877, Eliza Maria Emery, of Lexington, and had Gertrude Naomi Si- monds, born October 31, 1877. 3. Henry, born August 24, 1822, mentioned below. 4. Hannah Adams, born May 19, 1824, died August 8, 1891; married, March 24, 1841, John J. Brown, of Lexington; children: i. Henrietta Brown, died young; ii. Henry Brown, died young; iii. Ida Florence Brown, born November 7, 1849, married, September 9, 1868, Frank E. Richardson, of Arlington, Massachusetts, and had Alice Brown Rich- ardson, born August 3, 1872, who married, December 2, 1900, Dr. Charles W. W. Miller, of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; iv. Charles Adams Brown, born December 2, 1851, died March 1, 1907. 5. William Parker, born February 24, 1827, died August 24, 1848. 6. Benjamin Franklin, born 1829, mentioned be- low. 7. Harrison, born January 9, 1832, mentioned below. 8. Gershom, born June 19, 1834, died August 2, 1893; married, June 9, 1864, Mary Ward Harrington, of Lexington, who was born November 24, 1834, and died September 6, 1884; children: i. Charles Ward Swan, born July 24, 1866; ii. Elizabeth Bowen Swan, born November 16, 1869, died July 22, 1870. 9. Ellen Parker, born March 3, 1838, died March, 1906; married, June 4, 1865, William Mullet, of Brighton, Massa- chusetts. 10. Ebenezer Willard, born August 4, 1825; died June 9, 1891; married (first) Octavia Bragdon, of East Boston, Massachu- setts; (second), in 1850, Emily Hutchins, of North Kennebunk, Maine; (third), Caroline Cushing, of Framingham, Massachusetts; (fourth), Nellie E. (Hallett) Tidd; children of the second wife: i. Emma Hutchins Swan, born September 25, 1852, married, March 22, 1875, James S. Southgate, of Worcester, Massachusetts, and had Freddie Swan South- gate, born February 29, 1876, died February 26, 1877; Edna Southgate, born July 10, 1877: Alfred Willard Southgate, born Sep- tember 27, 1878: Herbert Ralph Southgate, born December 22, 1879, married, March 20, 1907, Helen May Trim: Stewart Swan South- gate, born July 15, 1887. Children of the third wife: ii. Allston DeWitt Swan, mar- ried Hattie Morse; iii. Harry Everett Swan; iv. Dr. Roscoe Wellesley Swan, married Elizabeth Prentice; v. Bertha Cushing Swan, married John Kennedy.
(VII) Henry Swan, son of Henry Swan (6), was born at West Cambridge, August 24, 1822 and died October 1, 1895. He was edu- cated in the West Cambridge common schools until sixteen years of age, assisting
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ploy of his brother Henry, who was a poultry dealer, and became a salesman for him until about 1854. Then he went to Lowell, Massa- chusetts, and became a salesman for the wholesale provision house of Smith & White, Fletcher and Dutton streets, remaining about two years. After returning and working for his brother another year, he started in busi- ness for himself, making daily trips to Boston market with his poultry until September 25, 1871. At this time he took stall No. I, base- ment No. 3, New Faneuil Hall market, in company with Nathan A. Fitch, under the firm name of Swan & Fitch. The firm con- tinued the business successfully until January 12, 1885, when Mr. Fitch sold his interest in the firm to Mr. Swan, and bought out the business of George C. Boynton at stall No. IO. Mr. Swan then admitted George H. Valpey to the business under the name of Swan & Valpey, poultry and game. Mr. Val- pey remained in the firm four years, retiring September 29, 1888, later acquiring the busi- ness of George H. Scoville, stall No. 8, butter and eggs. Since the retirement of Mr. Val- pey Mr. Swan has conducted the business alone, occupying the same stall in which he began business in 1871. Mr. Swan has been a member of the Arlington First Baptist Church since 1867, and has served on its standing committees. He is a Republican.
He married, January 29, 1857, Rebecca Monroe Walton, born at Lexington, Massa- chusetts, October 23, 1834, daughter of Jona- than and Eliza (Locke) Walton, of West Cam- bridge. Children: I. Hattie Maria, born No- vember 27, 1861, married, September 18, 1882, Wesley E. A. Legg, of Boston; chil- dren: Harry Wesley, Marion Edith, Vera Mildred, Edward Raymond Legg. 2. Eliza- beth Walton, born June 17, 1864, died April 17. 1865. 3. Mildred Eliza, born April 17, 1867, married, February 17, 1897, Rev. Jonas Hamilton Woodsum, of Hyannis, Massachu- setts, native of Boston; children: Mildred Munroe. born May 5. 1902: Hamilton Swan, March 5, 1905, died September 25, 1906.
(VIII) Benjamin Franklin Swan, son of Benjamin Franklin Swan (7), was born at San Francisco. California, August 14, 1864. When he was quite young his parents removed to Ar- lington. Massachusetts. their former home, where he received his education in the com- mon schools, graduating from the grammar school and going two years to the Cotting high school. During these two years he worked after school hours in the local drug store, Dodge's Pharmacy. Then his desire
to learn the business impelled him to give up school, and he spent two and one-half years in the Dodge Pharmacy. Then he entered the wholesale drug business of Gilman Broth- ers at 50 Franklin street, Boston, as clerk. Strict attention to business soon led to pro- motion, and to-day he occupies a position of trust, being buyer and salesman for the firm. Gilman Brothers is one of the old-established firms in Boston, and went through the big fire in 1872. Mr. Swan purchased in 1892 a house at 68 Evans street, Dorchester, Massa- chusetts, where he resides with his family. Since 1906 he has been a member of the Church of the Epiphany (Episcopal) in Dor- chester. He was one of a committee of five to start that society, and has always been a leader in the church, to-day being treasurer of the society. In politics he is a Republican. He is a member of the church club. He was formerly a member of the Arlington Boat Club, being captain of the first club bowling team that was entered in inter-club competi- tion.
He married, October 11, 1892, Sophia Pris- cilla Rudolf, of Dorchester, Massachusetts, born May 8, 1864, daughter of John George and Priscilla' Couch (Collings) Rudolf, of Lunenburg, Nova Scotia. Her father was a sea captain and a prominent Free Mason, a descendant of the old family of Von Ru- dolphs of Germany. Children: i. Franklin Rudolf, born February 22, 1897. 2. Ernst Thaxter, August 6, 1900, died September 22, 1900. 3. Evelyn Elizabeth, September 14, 1903.
This Dutch sur-
KNICKERBOCKER name, made fam- ous by several dis-
tinguished New York personages and by the pseudonym of Washington Irving, was vari- ously spelled in the early records of New York Knikkelbakker, Knickerbacker, Knickerbak- ker and Knickerbocker. The name of the immigrant was Van Bergen, but when his descendants finally held to a surname and abandoned the old Dutch custom of naming, Knickerbocker was adopted.
(I) Van Wye Knickerbocker (Harmen Janse) went from New Amsterdam to Dutchess county, New York, and settled finally in Al- bany. His will is dated January 7, 1708-09. Children: 1. Johannes, mentioned below. 2. Lourens. 3. Cornelia, baptized September 2, 1688, died young. 4. Cornelis, baptized Janu- ary 6, 1692, died young. 5. Cornelia, bap-
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his father on the farm until early manhood. He then entered the employ of Joshua Rob- bins, a poultry dealer, where he remained un- til about 1846, doing much of the selling for Robbins. Then he started a business of his own, having good success, selling poultry in the Boston market. After a time he opened a stall, No. 18, in Faneuil Hall market, where he was associated with Sullivan B. Newton under the firm name of Swan & Newton, af- terwards Swan, Newton & Co., where he con- tinued up to the time of his death. The firm continues under the same, the present part- ners being Kidder, Richardson and Newton. Sullivan B. Newton died September 30, 1907. In 1876 the general appearance of Arlington Center was improved by the removal of the old Swan house and erecting on a portion of the lot the westerly half of Swan's block by Henry and Harrison Swan, owners of the property. Two years later another and larger section was added, the upper part being fin- ished as a public hall. Within a short time this was leased to the trustees of the Robbins Library, and was used as a library and read- ing room until the new library was built.
Henry Swan and his brother Harrison were associated in the real estate business in Arlington, buying out the heirs of the old Swan homestead, which had been held by the Swan family since 1650. The old house bore many evidences of its extreme age. It was made of cedar timbers, and when it was taken apart for removal, several bullets were found embedded in the timbers. Henry Swan was a man who enjoyed the confidence of his fellow citizens to a remarkable degree. Upright and honorable, his word was as good as his bond, and he had many friends. He was a member of the Universalist church, serving on the parish committee, and was superin- tendent of the Sunday-school for twenty-two years. He was a public-spirited man, and held several town offices. He was a Republi- can, and had held the offices of selectman and overseer of the poor. He was a member of the school committee for twenty-five years. He belonged to Hiram Lodge of Masons, the Boston Chamber of Commerce, and was also a director of the Arlington Five Cents Sav- ings Bank.
He married, May 10, 1846, Lydia Ann Frost, daughter of John and Lydia (Win- ship) Frost, of West Cambridge, who was born March 19, 1825, and died August 21, I904. Children: I. Henry Oscar, born August 1, 1848, died October II, 1851. 2. Lizzie M .. March 16, 1851, died July 18, 1860.
3. Annie Florence, July 3, 1853, died Sep- tember 30, 1900, unmarried. 4. Nellie Hor- tense, January 18, 1858, married, April 29, 1885, Rev. Charlie Arthur Knickerbocker, of Arlington, and had Henry Swan Knicker- bocker, born June 5, 1888. (See Knick- erbocker sketch). 5. Gracie Greenwood, October 3, 1859, married, April 22, 1891. . Shirley C. Ingraham. 6. Harrie, May 6, 1863, died March 12, 1864.
(VII) Benjamin Franklin Swan, son of Henry Swan (6), was born at Arlington, Massachusetts, 1829, and died at San Fran- cisco, California, January 9, 1900. He had a common school education in Arlington, and assisted his father in the poultry business. He went to work for Nathan Robbins, a poultry dealer, driving his team to Boston, and gath- ering the stock from farmers of the district. When he was twenty years of age the gold fever broke out, and he was one of those early "Forty-niners" who braved countless dangers to go overland to California. When he had accumulated quite a fortune, he re- turned and married, taking his wife back to California with him, by way of the isthmus. In 1866 he again returned to Arlington, where he lived several years, but finally re- turned to California. Like all "Forty-niners" money came easily and went as it came, and he made and lost three large fortunes. He was for a long time interested in stocks, and was a member of the Pacific Stock Exchange at San Francisco for years. During the last few years of his life he suffered from a severe kidney trouble, which terminated in a heart affection, causing his death, January 9, 1900, at San Francisco. He was a man of strong qualities and superior intellect, energetic in business. He was a member of the Congre- gational Church at Arlington. In politics he was a Republican. He was a member of Hiram Lodge of Masons at Arlington. He married, April 8, 1863, Elizabeth Thaxter, of Arlington, who died June 25, 1885, aged thir- ty-nine years and nine months. Children: I. Benjamin Franklin, born at San Francisco, August 14, 1864, mentioned below. 2. James Thaxter, born April 4, 1867, married October 9, 1889, Alice Gertrude Tappan, of Arlington, Massachusetts.
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