Historic homes and places and genealogical and personal memoirs relating to the families of Middlesex County, Massachusetts, Volume IV, Part 107

Author: Cutter, William Richard, 1847-1918, ed
Publication date: 1908
Publisher: New York, Lewis historical publishing company
Number of Pages: 912

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(II) Abishai Merchant, son of John Mer- chant (I), was born at Yarmouth, January 10, 1651. He was on the tax list of Yarmouth in 1676. He married first, Susanna - -; sec- ond, Jane -- -. Children: I. John, settled in Edgartown, Massachusetts; had son Abi- shai; wife Hepsibath, died there 1764, aged seventy-two years. 2. Hannah, married, about 1695, Mathew Pease. 3. Samuel, born about 1685, taxpayer 1712 at Yarmouth. 4. Eben- ezer, born about 1690, removed to Gloucester, Massachusetts ; was taxpayer in Yarmouth in 1712; (record calls him of Yarmouth) ; mar- ried, at Gloucester, December 24, 1719, Bethia Millett (nee Day) and had one child, Martha, born October 21, 1720. 5. Jabez, mentioned below.

(III) Jabez Merchant, son of Abishai Mer- chant (2), was born at Yarmouth, about 1695. The history of Gloucester gives his death as 1773. He removed to Gloucester with or soon after his brother Ebenezer. He was a farmer and fisherman, and had a grant of land at Gloucester in 1722-23, at Lobster Cove. He married, January 12, 1721, Mary, widow of John Babson, daughter of John Butman and his wife Sarah Robinson, a descendant of the Rev. John Robinson, the Pilgrim pastor. She died at the house of her son Daniel, March 12, 1778, aged eighty years. Three sons married and lived in Gloucester. Children, born in Gloucester : 1. Daniel, mentioned below. 2. Mary, born 1723. 3. Martha, born 1725. 4. Jabez, born 1727. 5. Lois, born 1729. 6. Samuel, born 1731. 7. John, born 1733. 8. Eunice, born 1735. 9. Lemuel, born 1737.

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(IV) Daniel Merchant, son of Jabez Mer- chant (3), born November 18, 1721, at Glou- cester, and lived there all his life. He mar- ried there, November 19, 1744. Hannah, daughter of Nathan and Hannah (Giddings) Woodbury, descendant of the immigrant John Woodbury. Daniel owned slaves, the rec- ords show, in 1755 at Gloucester. He was a farmer and fisherman. Children, born in

Gloucester : I. Jabez, mentioned below. 2. William, born September 6, 1751, died about 1805 ; soldier in Revolution ; married Hannah, daughter of Moses and Susannah (Norwood) Wheeler ; their son Epes settled at Harbor Cove. 3. Hannah, born about 1753, married, 1772, David Lane, born December 1, 1750; she died November 30, 1840, aged eighty-sev- en. 4. Rebecca, married, December 24, 1765, William Tucker.

(V) Jabez Merchant, son of Daniel Mer- chant (4), was born in Gloucester, 1745-46. Babson says he was a soldier in the Revolu- tion, and that he died in 1829, aged eighty years, but it appears that he must have been a few years older or have married unusually young.

(VI) Captain Jabez Merchant, son of Jabez Merchant (5), was born in Gloucester, Mas- sachusetts, May, 1767, and died in New Glou- cester, Maine, at the advanced age of ninety- eight years. He had a common school educa- tion in his native town, and followed the sea in his youth, like his ancestors before him, and rose to the rank of master mariner. He was a prominent skipper in his day. He set- tled in New Gloucester, Maine. He married (first) Hannah , who was born July 20, 1772, and died in New Gloucester, Maine, married (second) Judith Bennett, born 1786, died August 22, 1856, aged seventy years thir- teen days, at New Gloucester. Children : I. Caroline A., born September 19, 1798, died October 12, 1825. 2. Mary Ann, born August 2, 1800, died September 8, 1825; married Webber. 3. George Washington, born January 28, 1803, died February 16, 1887. 4. Jabez, mentioned below. Children of second wife: 5. Louisa, born November, 1807, died September 7, 1886. 6. Maranda, born June II, 1809, died January 6, 1889. 7. Hannah, born November 23, 1810, died February 19, 1892. 8. William York, born October 10, 1812, died February 24, 1890. 9. Judith, born October 18, 1814, died January 18, 1896. 10. John W., born October 10, 1815. II. Isaac S., born October 11, 1818, died young. 12. Sally Bennett, born August 9, 1820, died 1904. 13. Isaac, born February 13, 1822, died

in Civil war in the service. 14. Nathaniel Ben- nett, born May 15, 1823, died 1901. 15. Charles Bennett, born July 21, 1824, died May 22, 1847. 16. Addison, born August 13, 1826, died October 14, 1854. 17. Albion K. Paris, born November 15, 1827, died 1905. 18. Al- pheus, born August 20, 1832, died 1905.

(VII) Jabez Merchant, son of Jabez Mer- chant (6), born on the homestead in New Gloucester, Maine, September 12, 1805, died there April 18, 1885. He was educated in the common schools of his native town, and was a farmer on the · homestead most of his active life. He held various town offices, and was intensely interested in national politics, being an old line Whig. He was a Universalist in religion. He married, June 20, 1833, Esther, daughter of Michael and Sarah Webber. He married (second), November 12, 1847, Laura Bennett; married (third), March 8, 1863, Charlotte Stanchfield. Children, born at New Gloucester : I. John Webber, born March 22, 1834, died in North Yarmouth, Maine, No- vember 3, 1905. 2. William Henry, born No- vember 13, 1835, killed in service in the Civil war. 3. Joel Gilman, mentioned below. 4. Franklin Augustus, born August 15, 1840, re- sides in Michigan. Child of second wife : 5. Abbie, born March 29, 1854.

(VIII) Joel Gilman Merchant, son of Jabez Merchant (7), was born in the old homestead in New Gloucester, Maine, June 29, 1838, and died at Lowell, Massachusetts, March 28, 1898. He was educated in the public schools in his native town, working with his father on the farm until he was of age. He enlisted at the opening of the civil war in 1861 in Com- pany G, Twelfth Regiment Maine Volunteers, and remained in the service until, disabled by typhoid fever, he returned home. He decided to learn the trade of machinist at Lowell, after- ward entered the employ of the Otis Allen Company of Lowell, and remained for a period of thirty years as master mechanic for this concern. He was one of the most skillful and efficient men in his line of work, and was highly appreciated by his firm. In politics he was a Republican, but never sought public honors. He was a member of Pentucket Lodge of Free Masons; Oberlin Lodge of Odd Fellows ; the Red Men; and the Grand Army of the Republic. He was a Universal- ist in religion, and served on the board of di- rectors of the Grace Universalist Church in Lowell. He was a man of strong character, standing high in the esteem of his friends and townsmen.

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man, daughter of Lucius and Olive (Stanch- field) Woodman, of New Gloucester, Maine. Children :. I. Edith, educated in public and high schools of Lowell; resides with her mother in Westford street, Lowell. Two chil- dren died in infancy.

CLAPP Thomas Clapp, immigrant an- cestor of Gilmer Clapp, of Wal- tham and Boston, born in Dor- chester, England, 1597, was son of Richard Clap of Dorchester, and brother of Nicholas Clapp, an immigrant settler of Dorchester, Massachusetts Bay Colony, known to geneal- ogists as "Nicholas of Dorchester." These two brothers were cousins of Edward and Roger Clapp, sons of William Clap, the young- er, of Salcombe-Regis, Devonshire, England, and this gives us Richard Clap of Dorchester, England, and William Clap, the elder, of Sal- combe, England, as brothers. The name is probably of Norse origin, if we take it to be derived from Clapa, as Osgood Clapa, a fam- ous Danish nobleman, was a prime favorite of Hardacanute, an early English king; or it may be a cognate form of some ancient gothic word, as we find the German name Klapp of frequent occurrence. The two ways of spell- ing the name in England and America is not confined to families, but wills and other legal papers may be signed Clap, and the notary or copyist in the same document write it Clapp, so it has come to be a matter of taste and usage, and the two spellings indicate nothing more. Roger Clapp, cousin of Thomas, was the most prominent of the four immigrant an- cestors of the Clapps of New England, by reason of the publication of his memoirs, as prepared by him about 1676 and published in 173I under the title "Memoirs of Captain Roger Clap, Relating Some of God's Remark- able Providences to Him, in Bringing Him into New England, and some of the Straits and Afflictions the Good People Met With Here in their Beginning." Six subsequent editions of this valuable contribution to early New England history, were published, the last appearing in 1844, as volume I of "Collec- tions of the Dorchester Antiquarian and His- torical Society."

Thomas Clapp, the immigrant, arrived in Boston, July 24, 1633, probably on the ship which arrived from Weymouth, England, that date. He was probably accompanied by his brother Nicholas and cousin Edward. An- other brother, John, arrived much later. Thomas removed to Dorchester in 1634, and became a freeman of the town and of the col-

ony 1638, and the same year removed to Wey- mouth, a town of recent establishment, hav- ing been set apart by the general court out of the plantation of Wessaguscas, September 2, 1635. He appears to have tarried in the new town but a short time, and his farm was locat- ed near that subsequently the property of Hon. Christopher Webb, of Weymouth. He ap- pears in the town of Scituate, as a deacon in the First Church, 1647, and as deputy in the general court 1649, and when the town meet- ing petitioned the general court for an of- ficer to take care of the poor of the town he was made overseer in 1667-the first record we have of an "overseer of the poor" as a town officer in Scituate. Farmer, in his "Gen- ealogical Register," says that Thomas Clapp removed to Hingham from Weymouth, and thence to Scituate, while Deane says he had grants of land in Hingham, but never resided there. He appears to have been in Scituate as early as 1640. As deacon of the First Church, over which Rev. Charles Chauncey was minister (1641-53), he was a witness of the difficulties that beset the pastor and par- ishioners of the church that led to its divi- sion at the establishment of the Second Church. Previous to his leaving Massachu- setts Bay Colony he appears to have been a disciple of Richard Sylvester and of Mr. Len- thail, the minister who advocated the admitting of any baptized person to membership in the church without further examination, and Thomas Rawlins, James Torrey and William Holbrook went with Richard Sylvester to Plymouth Colony, settling in Scituate about the same time Thomas Clapp removed to that town, and it is probable the question of bap- tism moved all these men to seek freedom in the Pilgrim Colony. But Mr. Lenthail, in- stead of leaving the Colony of Massachusetts Bay, retracted his opinion before the great and general court and found peace among the Pur- itans. As deacon of the First Church of Scit- uate he was under the preaching of Mr. Charles Chauncey, and took interest in the opinions so freely expressed by that contro- versialist, who was a Puritan of the Puritans, and was prosecuted in England in 1635, for opposing the railing in of the communion table at Ware. For this he was imprisoned after being suspended from the ministry, condemned to costs and obliged to make humiliating re- cantations. Late in 1637 he left England, ar- rived in Plymouth Colony in May, 1638, preached with Mr. Reyner in the church of Plymouth three years, and in 1641 was elected pastor of the church in Scituate, where

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he was troubleful pastor for twelve years ; was invited to return to Ware, England, but on reaching Boston to take passage he accepted the presidency of Harvard College, and was inaugurated November 29, 1654, and died in office February 19, 1672. As deacon of the Scituate church, Thomas Clapp naturally. took part in the thirty years controversy between the First and Second Churches in Scituate, and in 1675 he was selected one of three mem- bers of a committee from the First Church appointed in 1673 to carry a letter containing news of reconciliation to the Second Church, so long desired by the peaceloving of both congregations. His sister Prudence married her cousin Edward Clapp. The family name of his wife Abigail is not known. He died in Scituate, April 20, 1684, greatly respected, a useful and enterprising man blessed with a good wife, eight children, and length of days, having attained the ninety-seventh year of his age. The children of Thomas and Abigail Clapp were: Thomas, born in Weymouth, March 15, 1639; Increase, Samuel, Eleazer, Elizabeth, Prudence, John and Abigail, all born in Scituate.

(II) Samuel Clapp. youngest son of Thom- as and Abigail Clapp, born in Scituate, March 15, 1639, died probably in 1691, but of his death there is no reliable date. He was a prominent man in the community, and with his family succeeded in possession of the home- stead built and occupied by his father up to the time of his death. He was a deputy to the general court of Plymouth Colony 1680- 85, and 1690-91 ; served as a member of the grievance committee, appointed by the free- men of the town May 27, 1686, to draw up resolutions importing to the inhabitants the apprehensions of the community concerning the new laws that day read to them; was also a member of the commission to settle the boundary line between the towns of Scituate and Marshfield, established 1682, and also a commissioner to establish the boundary be- tween Scituate and the Conihassett grant. Upon the union of the governments separately maintained by the Massachusetts Bay Colony and the Plymouth Colony up to 1691, Samuel Clapp was elected a member of the house of representatives of the great and general court of Massachusetts, 1693-96, 1699, 1703-05, 1707-09, 1714-15, fourteen years, and the last years service in the legislature of the Colony was given when he was seventy-six years old. His skill as a legislator was evidenced by his address prepared in collaboration with John Cushing, also of Scituate, characterized as "A

very spirited declaration" to Governor Andros in 1687, the occasion being the governor's grant of a warrant to Humphrey Johnson to lay out lands for his personal benefit in the town of Scituate. He owned a grist and saw mill on the mill privilege on which Stock- bridge mill was subsequently built. His rank in the colonial militia was probably that of major. The date of the death of his wife was February 27, 1722, thirty-one years after the date fixed upon as probably that of the death of Samuel Clapp of the second generation. Children of Samuel and Hannah (Gill) Clapp : Samuel, born May 15, 1667 ; no record of his marriage, issue or death; Joseph, born De- cember 14, 1668; Stephen (1670-1756) ; Han- nah, born 1673; Dethia, 1675; John, 1677; Abigail, 1679; David, 1684; Deborah, 1686, married Joseph Bates; Jane, 1689, married Samuel Holbrook, Jr.

(III) Joseph Clapp, second child of Samuel and Hannah (Gill) Clapp, born in Scituate, December 14, 1668; married Abigail, daughter of Joseph and Rebecca (Leader) Allen ,and granddaughter of John and Abigail Leader, of Boston. They are supposed to have lived on Black Pond Hill, as his son Deacon Joseph Clapp and grandson Elijah Clapp lived there, probably in the house built by their ancestor. Joseph Clapp of the third generation was a deacon in the First Church of Scituate. Their first child, Samuel, was born 1695, and their last child March 9, 1714.

(IV) Samuel Clapp, the eldest child of Jo- seph and Abigail (Allen) Clapp, born in Scit- uate, November 18, 1695 ; married, January 7, 1725, Sarah Curtis; children : Michael, born 1726; Sarah, 1729; Mary, 1731 ; William 1733 ; Samuel, December 25, 1739, died 1817; Jer- chenid; Albert, born 1791; Temperance; Sarah and Hepza. All born in Scituate.

(V) William Clapp, son of Samuel and Sarah (Curtis) Clapp, born in Scituate, De- cember 3, 1733; married, 1767, Priscilla Otis, who died at the advanced age of ninety-five years. He probably lived in Scituate, and died at the age of seventy-four years. Children : William, Caroline, Sarah Eliza, Frederick, Edward, Hannah, Mary, George, Barney, Harriet, Barney, Henry Augustus and Eme- line.

(VI) Barney Clapp, son of William and Priscilla (Otis) Clapp, born in Scituate, Au- gust 2, 1798; married Eliza B. Hall, of Bos- ton, October 17, 1826; removed to Louisiana, and died in New Orleans, 1829. Children : James Hall Clapp, see forward; Catherine, born 1829, died 1834.

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(VII) James Hall Clapp, son of Barney and Eliza B. (Hall) Clapp, was born in Cov- ington, Louisiana, where, his parents tempor- arily resided, 1828. He removed to Massa- chusetts ; married (first) September 29, 1851, Ann Caroline Taylor, of Boston; lived in Newtonville, and his wife died March 3, 1860, leaving one child, Edith, born August 4, 1852. He married as his second wife, October 8, 1863, Harriet B. Foster, of Waltham; two children; Gilmer, see forward; Lyndon, born August 13, 1874, deceased.

(IX) Gilmer Clapp, son of James Hall and Harriet B. (Foster) Clapp, was born Novem- ber 4, 1864. He is a trustee of the estate of Oliver Ames, with offices at No. 94 Ames Building, Boston, and resides at Waltham.

Francis Dudley, immigrant an- DUDLEY cestor, born about 1640, settled at Concord, Massachusetts, about 1663. It is not known whether he was a relative of Governor Thomas Dudley, though the presumption of relationship is strong. He gave his age as twenty-six when a witness April 8, 1666. He married Sarah, daughter of George Wheeler, of Concord, Oc- tober 26, 1665, and probably remained in that town until his decease. His wife died Decem- ber 12, 1713, in Concord. He was living in 1702. He was a soldier in King Philip's war, and his name appears on a pay roll dated Feb- ruary 29, 1675-76. Children : I. Mary, born February 9, 1666, married Joseph Fletcher. 2. Joseph, married, 1691. Abigail Goble, and died November 3, 1702, at Concord. 3. John, mentioned below. 4. Benjamin, born March 6, 1681-82. 5. Samuel, born June 27, 1682, married (first) Abigail King; (second) Lydia Wetherbee; (third) and (fourth) Sarah Shepard; he died at Douglas, May 27, 1777. 6. Sarah, born August 4, 170I. 7. Francis, married Sarah and Abigail

(II) John Dudley, son of Francis Dudley (I), born March 10, 1675; married Hannah Poultier, of Medford, May 16, 1697. She died December 20, 1707. They lived at Con- cord and had born there: I. John, mentioned below. 2. Hannah, born March 9, 1703, died at Concord, October 18, 1716. 3. Sarah, born February 16, 1705-06. 4. A son, born Decem- ber 20, 1707, died young at the time of his mother's death.

(III) John Dudley, son of John Dudley (2), born August 16, 1699; married Mary -, and lived in Acton, Massachusetts. He was a housewright. He died before 1752.

Children : 1. John, born March 13, 1729, died young. 2. Peter, born August 26, 1731, mar- ried, at Southborough, December 12, 1754, Experience Newton. 3. Daniel, mentioned be- low. 4. James, born November 21, 1734, was in the French war in 1758. 5. Ephraim, born about 1735. 6. John, born January II, 1737, all born in Concord. Guardians were appoint- ed for Daniel and Ephraim, February 12, 1752. (IV) Daniel Dudley, son of John Dudley (3), born at Concord, June 22, 1733; mar- ried, June 28, 1757, Hannah, born February 24, 1736-37, daughter of Henry and Sarah Farrar. In 1759 he settled in Westford, Mas- sachusetts. Children: 1. Daniel, mentioned below. 2. Josiah, born at Concord; married, August 31, 1797, Abigail Brown, of Sudbury. 3. Ebenezer, born at Westford in 1759. 4. Jesse, born at Westford in 1761, died in Rev- olutionary army in 1778. 5. Sarah, born in 1763. 6. John, born in 1765, married Sarah Dutton, of Westford, in 1787. 7. Isaac, born 1770 at Westford.

(V) Daniel Dudley, son of Daniel Dudley (4), born at Concord, March 27, 1758; bap- tized April 2, 1758; married, July 23, 1787, Lucy Vose, of Concord, and removed to East Sudbury (Wayland). He died intestate April 23, 1808. His widow survived him. Jacob Reeves was administrator of the estate, which was sold in 1810-three acres of woodland to Ephraim Dudley and seven acres to Dr. Moses Dudley ; sheep pasture to Ephraim; most of barn lot to Dr. Moses Dudley. Children: I. Lewis, married, January 7, 1819, M. Winch ; drowned in Dudley pond, January 16, 1838. 2. Thomas Hastings, mentioned below. 3. Jo- seph, born September 24, 1789. 4. John Vose, born about 1792, married, July 18, 1819, Eliza Harrington; died October 17, 1837, at Way- land; children : Moses, born at Wayland, Jan- uary 3, 1820; James Winthrop, born March 27, 1824. 5. Sally, married Artemas Green- wood, of Needham, October 19, 1823. Daniel Dudley (5) was a soldier in the Revolution, private in Captain Thomas Brintnall's com- pany, Colonel Cyprian Howe's regiment, en- listed August 30, 1780, discharged November I, 1780; raised to reinforce the Continental army at Rhode Island. His service was cred- ited to East Sudbury (now Wayland).

(VI) Thomas Hastings Dudley, son of Daniel Dudley (5), born in Wayland, Massa- chusetts, March 27, 1788; died there, May 8, 1833.

(VII) Thomas Dudley, son or nephew of Thomas Hastings (6), and of this line given above, was born in Wayland, Massachusetts,

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February 27, 1815. He married at Waltham, Massachusetts, Irene Pratt, a' native of that town. He resided in Medway and other places. Children : I. Augustine Washington, born July 16, 1837. 2. Rosanna, born Sep- tember 28, 1839. 3. Sarah, born February 10, 1843. 4. Martha, born February 24, 5. Edward Lewis. 6. Alfred Ferdinand. 7. Herbert. 8. Caroline, mentioned below.

(VIII) Caroline Dudley, daughter of Jo- seph Dudley (7), was born November 17, 1845. She was educated in the public schools. Early in life she removed with the family to Lowell, Massachusetts. She married, July 16, 1863, Alfred Lovingston, who was born in Framingham, Massachusetts, June 27, 1836, had a common school education and learned the trade of carpenter. For many years he has been one of the leading carpenters and builders of Lowell, Massachusetts. He re- tired in 1895 from the contracting business. Children of Alfred and Caroline (Dudley) Lovingston : I. Maud, born June 23, 1865, died July 23, 1884. Blanche, born December 22, 1872, married Charles R. Goddard, an iron and steel merchant; child, Alfred Goddard, born February 19, 1900.

GUPTILL The surname Guptill was form- erly also spelled Gubtail and Guptil. Two brothers, born about 1675-80, settled in the vicinity of Rye, New Hampshire, about 1700. Thomas Guptill had a grant of fifty acres of land above Salmon Falls, May 10, 1703. He and his wife Mary sold this farm October 20, 1728, to John Shorey. In 1703 Thomas had a grant of land at Old Eliot, Maine, of fifty acres, possibly the same land mentioned above. Thomas and Mary had a daughter Mary born April 16, 1705, but it is not known that he left any sons. (I) Captain Nathaniel Guptill was born in Lubec, Maine, about 1792. At the age of six- teen he enlisted on an American privateer, and in the war of 1812 was captured by the British and thrown into prison, where he re- mained eighteen months, was finally ex- changed, and came to Boston, but settled later in East Thomaston, Maine, now Rockland, and died there April 5, 1857. He married at Thomaston, December 22, 1817, Eleanor Spear, of East Thomaston. He followed the sea all his life and became a sea captain. Chil- dren, born in Rockland: I. Joseph, born De- cember 16, 1821. 2. Eleanor, born April 13, 1823, resided in Rockland. 3. Captain Robert R., mentioned below. 4. Phylotia C., born March II, 1728; married September 19, 1846,

Winchester T. Rice, of Camden, Maine. . 5. Wallis, born May 9, 1832. 6. John, born Au- gust 1, 1834.

(II) Captain Robert R. Guptill, son of Captain Nathaniel Guptill (I), was born in East Thomaston, Maine, December 1, 1825. He also followed the sea and became a cap- tain. He married at Rockland, Elizabeth Fayles, of that town. Children: I. Albert D., born 1850. 2. Charles C., born 1854. 3. Robert Clifford, mentioned below.

(III) Robert Clifford Guptill, son of Cap- tain Robert R. Guptill (2), was born at East Thomaston, now Rockland, Maine, June 24, 1857. He was educated there in the public schools. He learned the trade of carpenter and has been very successful in business as a contractor and builder. He has built many important structures in Malden and vicinity, and continues one of the leaders in his line of business. He has lived in Malden since April, 1887. A few years ago he acquired a controll- ing interest in the Josiah Quincy Photograv- ure Works, which was reorganized under the name of Excel Art Company, and is now con- ducting an extensive business in the manufac- ture of engravings and high class cuts, illus- trating magazines and other publications. The beautiful colored plate work in the magazine, The Holy Grail, is done by his company. He is fortunate in having in his employ the most expert and skilled artists and engravers in the country, and he has built up a very large and prosperous business. The plant is located on Drury Lane, Malden. In politics Mr. Guptill is a Republican, but has declined all public offices. In religion he is a Universalist. He is a member of the Malden Club, the Malden Automobile Club. He is a Mason and an Odd Fellow. He married, in Rockland, Maine, 1878, Clara, daughter of James and Nancy (Bysby) Simons, of Waldoborough, Maine. Her father was a lime burner. Chil- dren of Robert C. and Clara S. Guptill: I. Fremont S., born in Rockland, 1879; married Catherine Stout, of Malden, Massachusetts. 2. Arthur B., born 1881, in Rockland, mar- ried Edith Mansfield, of Melrose, Massachu- setts. 3. Eva M., resides at home in Malden, with her parents.

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Historic homes and places and genealogical and personal memoirs relating to the families of Middlesex County, Massachusetts, Volume IV, Part 107

Author: Cutter, William Richard, 1847-1918, ed Publication date: 1908 Publisher: New York, Lewis historical publishing company Number of Pages: 912

Author: Cutter, William Richard, 1847-1918, ed
Publication date: 1908
Publisher: New York, Lewis historical publishing company
Number of Pages: 912