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Martha, born and died May 25, 1719. 12. Elisha, born August 28, 1721. 13. Amy, born February 2, 1723-4; married Ebenezer Whit- taker. 14. Priscilla, born May I, 1728; mar- ried Philip Brown, of Cumberland.
(XIII) Isaiah Carpenter, son of Noah Car- penter (12), born at Attleboro, February 7, 1714; married Althea, widow of John Titus, September 12, 1734. She was born May 29, 1714. Isaiah was killed March 23, 1744, by a falling tree. Their first two children were born at Attleboro, the other two at Sutton. Children : 1. Sarah, born November 14, 1736; married John Bradford. 2. Isaiah, Jr., born September 27, 1738; died November 1, 1748. 3. John, born December 16, 1740, removed to Vermont. 4. Jonah, mentioned below.
(XIV) Jonah Carpenter, son of Isaiah Car- penter (13), born in Sutton, Massachusetts, 1744; married, November 22, 1769, Zerviah, daughter of Isaac Whitmore, of Thompson, Connecticut. She died August 29, 1834. He died January 31, 1805 at Ashford, Connecti- cut. His father was killed about the time of his birth, and he was adopted by Isaac Whit- more. He was a minute man in the Revolu- tionary army and fought in the campaign about Boston in 1775. During his absence in the war, his wife did the farm work, harvest -. ing the corn and carrying it up a ladder to the corn crib. This unusually severe labor she used to tell her children and grand- children caused her to become round-shoul- dered, and she bore throughout life the marks of her contribution to the cause of liberty. Their children, born at Ashford, Connecti- cut : I. Althea, born September 19, 1772; married Abial Cheney. 2. Rev. Asa, born Oc- tober 10, 1770, in Pomfret; married Erepta, daughter of John Crow; Asa was settled at Waterford. 3. Joseph Titus, born January 2, 1774. 4. Jonah, mentioned below. 5. Chester,
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born July 3, 1780; married Charles Holt. 6. Isaiah, born June 29, 1783; married Caroline Brigham, of Ashford. 7. Dyer, born April 22, 1786.
(XV) Jonah Carpenter, son of Jonah Car- penter (14), born at Ashford, Connecticut, October 4, 1777; married Hannah, daughter of Obadiah Rice, who removed from Brook- field, Massachusetts, to Hartland, and thence to Waterford, Vermont. He died August, 1867. He was town clerk 1817-23 and repre- sentative to the legislature 1823. He removed from Connecticut to Vermont soon after 1800, and made the trip twice on foot. He was captain of the Waterford military company and deacon of the church. Children, born at Waterford: I. Accliva, born June 4, 1801, married Israel Scott, resided in Newport, Vermont. 2. Zerviah, born October 22, 1802, died February 10, 1803. 3. Lucius, born Feb- ruary 4, 1804; married Mary Adams, Decem- ber, 1827; resided at Springfield, Ohio. 4 Zerviah, born January 29, 1806; married John Gilfillen ; lived in Barnet, Vermont ; seventeen children. 5. Rev. Erasmus, born April 29, 1808; settled at Littleton and Swanzey, New Hampshire, and in Vermont. 6. Francis R., mentioned below. 7. Emily Charlotte, born July 10, 1811; married Timothy B. Pratt, of Newport, Vermont. 8. Marietta Elvina, born October 22, 1814; married Alpheus Daggett. 9. Hannah, born August 30, 1816; married Abraham R. Ross. 10. Jonah, born Febru- ary 10, 1818, died March 1846, at Barnet, Vermont.
(XVI) Francis Rice Carpenter, son of Jonah Carpenter (15), born November 10, 1809, at Waterford, Vermont; married De- cember 30, 1835, Achsah, daughter of William and Elizabeth (Williams) Holbrook. She was born October 19, 1812, died September 6, 1886; he died March 26, 1883. He was a carpenter and joiner by trade, a successful, selfmade man, shrewd and correct in his bus- iness affairs, of superior ability and character. He held various positions of trust and honor ; was justice of the peace for fifty years; assis- tant judge of Caledonia county four years, and directed the building of the county jail; two years representative in the legislature. He was prominent in building up the church, and was deacon many years and superintend- ent of the Sunday school. Children: I. El- more Augustus, born October 1, 1836; died March 14, 1877, at Waterford. 2. Allen F., mentioned below. 3. Harlan Jonah, born April 16, 1846; died September 5, 1891 ; had homestead at Waterford.
(XVII) Allen Francis Carpenter, second and only survivor of the three sons of Francis Rice and Achsah (Holbrook) Carpenter, was born at Waterford, Vermont, February 28, 1842. He was educated in the common schools of his native town, and at St. Johnsbury Acad- emy. He enlisted for service in the civil war, in Company H, Twelfth Regiment Vermont Volunteers, and was mustered in in October, 1862, being something more than twenty years of age. His regiment was assigned to the Army of the Potomac, and he participated in all the stirring campaigns of that great army until the expiration of his term, and was hon- orably discharged in July, 1863. In the fol- lowing year he located in Somerville, Massa- chusetts, where he has since resided. He gave his first attention to learning the grocery bus- iness, and in 1869 opened an establishment in that line on his own account. His business has prospered and extended from year to year, and that he is recognized as of the highest ability in his trade circles is attested by the called, and the associations he enjoys. He was responsible positions to which he has been one of the organizing members of the Boston Retail Grocers' Association; and was presi- dent of that body in 1896 and 1897. He was general manager of the Boston Food Fair, held in Mechanics' Building, Boston, in Octo- ber, 1897; and is treasurer of the New Eng- land Grocers' Publishing Company, a director of the Sprague & Hathaway Company, and a member of the Boston Chamber of Commerce. He is actively identified with the principal public and semi-public interests of Somerville. He has been a director of the Somerville Na- tional Bank from its organization ; was one of the prime movers in the organization of the Somerville Trust Company, in the fall of 1907, and is a member of its directorate; and is a trustee of the Somerville Savings Bank. He was a member of the common council, 1889; of the board of aldermen, 1890-91 ; repre- sented the city in the general court, 1893-94, serving on the committee on public reserva- tions, and other important committees ; and is a member of the Somerville Board of Health, of which he has been chairman for several years. He is also a trustee of the Somerville Hospital, and a member of its executive com- mittee ; and is also a trustee of the Somerville Home for the Aged. He is affiliated with numerous Masonic bodies-Charity Lodge, F. and A. M .; Somerville Chapter, R. A. M .; Coeur De Lion Commandery, K. T .; Somer- ville Council, S. P. R. S. ; he is also a member of Oasis Lodge and Somerville Encampment,
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I. O. O. F .; the Independent Order of Red Men, and Willard C. Kinsley Post, G. A. R. In politics he is a Republican.
Mr. Carpenter married, December 26, 1873, Caroline S. Pratt, of Cohasset, Massachusetts, born February 3, 1846, died March 1, 1903, daughter of Job and Susan (Nichols) Pratt. Of this union was born one child, Irving Francis, November 27, 1886. He attended the public grammar and high schools, entered Phillips Exeter Academy, at Exeter, New Hampshire, one year, graduating in 1906, and is now a student in Harvard College, class of 1910.
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BUTTRICK jor John Buttrick, of Con- cord, married, and had chil- dren : I. Abner, married Hannah S. Parkhurst, daughter of and Rachel (Howard) Parkhurst. 2. Alden B. 3. John A., mention- ed below.
John A. Buttrick, born at Saco, Maine, April 14, 1813, died March 31, 1879. He mar- ried, September 13, 1841, Martha Parkhurst. He lived in Lowell. He was engaged in the grocery business with his brothers, A. W. and Alden B. He was a member of the First Bap- tist Church. Children, born in Lowell: I. Ab- ner W., born August 28, 1842. 2. Emma S., born February 8, 1845. 3. Alice, died in in- fancy. 4. Elizabeth W., died in infancy. 5. Fred A., mentioned below. 6. Ella Brooks, born January 10, 1850, died 1860.
Fred A. Buttrick, son of John A. Buttrick, was born in Lowell, January 10, 1848. He was educated in the public schools of that city. At the age of sixteen he left school. He was clerk for two years in a grocery store, he then took a course in the Williston Sem- inary at Easthampton, Massachusetts. He spent the year 1870 in Wyoming, in banking, returning to Lowell in 1871 with his father. In 1875 he was made treasurer pro tem of the City Institution for Savings, on account of the illness of his father. He became treas- urer of the Savings Bank in September, 1875, and president in November, 1896. He was vice-president of the Appleton National Bank until a recent law prohibited a person from holding the presidency of both national and savings banks at the same time. He is one of the sinking fund commissioners of the city of Lowell. In politics he is a Republican, in religion a Unitarian. He is a member of Kil- winning Lodge of Free Masons; and member
of the Yorick Club and the Vesper Country Club of Lowell. He married, May 24, 1882, Florence W. Clark, born April 2, 1860, daugh- ter of Francis T. and Eleanor (Wheeler) Clark. Children : I. Eleanor Brooks, born September 23, 1883, at Lowell, educated in Rogers Hall School, Lowell, and Quincy Mansion School, Quincy, Massachusetts. 2. Winthrop Parkhurst, born at Lowell, June 29, 1886; educated in the public and high schools of Lowell, and in Williams College, class of 1909.
Frank Norwood Bott, son of BOTT Frank Bott, was born in Glouces- ter, Massachusetts, June 24, 1876. He received his education in the public schools of his native city, subsequently removing with his parents from Gloucester to Arlington, Massachusetts, where he was a student in the Cotting high school, completing two years of study. He also took the business training afforded by a course in Comer's Commercial College, Boston. He began his business life as clerk at the age of eighteen, April, 1895, for The Twitchell, Champlin Company, 71 Com- mercial street, Boston, packers of canned goods, manufacturing grocers and importers of groceries. After three years with this house he was sent out as traveling salesman. He has continued to the present time as traveling salesman for this firm in Boston, and New England. Mr. Bott resides at 47 Irving street, Arlington. He is a member of the Universal- ist church, and for the past five years has been its treasurer. In politics he is a Re- publican. He married, December 31, 1902, Mary Louisa Morrill, born August 6, 1876, daughter of Dr. George H. and - (For- sythe) Morrill, of St. Louis, Missouri. Her father was a well-known physician and sur- geon. Children, born in Arlington : I. Mary, born August 13, 1904. 2. Morrill, born Oc- tober 18, 1905.
John Corcoran was born in CORCORAN county Galway, Ireland, in 1825. He was educated in his native parish. He came to this country when a young man and learned the printer's trade. He was one of the first compositors employed by Henry O. Houghton, the founder of Houghton, Mifflin & Company, the River- side Press. He worked in the printing estab- lishment of the Riverside Press for fifty-one
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years, and was one of the oldest, most trust- worthy and efficient men. He died at his home on Putnam avenue, Cambridge, Mssa- chusetts, October, 1900, in his seventy-sixth year. He was a faithful member of St. Paul's Catholic Church. He married in Boston, Mas- sachusetts, Ellen Carr, who was born in county Galway, Ireland, 1826, daughter of Martin and Margaret (Cosgrove) Carr. They had three children, all born in Cambridge: I. John Hu- bert, mentioned below. 2. Mary Anna. 3. Ellen Louise.
(II) John Hubert Corcoran, son of John Corcoran (I), was born in Cambridge, Massa- chusetts, April 1, 1855, and was educated there in the Webster grammar school and the Cambridge high school. He then went to work as clerk in the dry goods store of the late Dana W. Hyde, of Cambridge, in 1871, and re- mained in his employ in various capacities un- til 1881, when he engaged in the dry goods business on his own account. His store was in the building formerly occupied by John S. Bates, one of the oldest stands in the city. It was located on the present site of the Central Trust Company. In 1893 he moved his busi- ness to his present location on Massachusetts avenue, in a building constructed especially for his use and needs. He has the largest and best dry goods store in Cambridge, occupying base- ment and first floor of the building. Mr. Cor- coran stands well in the business and social life of the city. He has been active in munici- pal politics. He was member of the common council three years, and president two years ; member of the board of aldermen two years, and president one year. He was president of the Citizens' Trade Association for two years ; trustee of the Cambridge Public Library ; member of the Cambridge Water Board. He is a trustee of the Cambridgeport Savings Bank, director of the Cambridge Electric Light Company, member of the Colonial Club, the Boston City Club; of the Young Men's Democratic Club of Boston, president of the New England Dry Goods Association ; dele- gate to State Board of Trade; member of Ozanane Council, Knights of Columbus, and the Catholic Union. His residence is at 50 Lexington avenue, Cambridge. He is a man of enterprise, public spirit and integrity, a use- ful citizen in every walk of life.
He married, December 27, 1893, Anna M. Ford, who was born in Weymouth, 1868, daughter of John and Margaret (Reid) Ford of Weymouth, Massachusetts. Children : John Ford Corcoran (deceased), born February 21,
1895, died August 15, 1896. John Hubert, Jr., born January 15, 1897, and Paul Reid, born September 5, 1899.
William Butterick, the first BUTTERICK American ancestor of Sid- ney Homer Butterick, born in England, came to Massachusetts Bay Col- ony and settled in the town of Concord. He married Sarah Bateman, also a native of Eng- land, who immigrated with him to the New World. Their son,
(II) Samuel Butterick, born in Concord, Massachusetts, married Elizabeth Blood, and lived in Concord during their entire life. Their son,
(III) Jonathan Butterick, married Elizabeth Wooley, and lived in Concord where their son,
(IV) Willard Butterick, was born; he mar- ried Esther Blood, of Concord, and their son,
(V) Willard Butterick, born in Concord, married Mary Bartlett, of Boston, and were the great-grandparents of Sidney Homer But- terick.
(VI) John Proctor Butterick, son of Wil- lard and Mary (Bartlett) Butterick, born in Gorham, Maine; married Mary W. Fuller of Bedford, Massachusetts, and lived in Fitch- burg, Massachusetts. Their son,
(VII) John Willard Butterick, born in Fitchburg, married Sarah Homer, of Boston, Massachusetts. They had four children : Sid- ney Homer, Ella Louise, Josephine W., and Mary A. Butterick.
(VIII) Sidney Homer Butterick was born in Acton, Massachusetts, December 25, 1850, son of John Willard and Sarah (Homer) Butter- ick. He attended the public schools, and was married, September 22, 1874, to Sarah E., daughter of Joseph T. and (Atherton) Swan. They established their home in Mel- rose, Massachusetts. Their children were: Charles H., Joseph D., Sydney Homer, Jr., John W., and Sarah E. Butterick. Mr. But- terick became prominent in the civic affairs of Melrose, serving as mayor of the city 1903-04-05. He was made a trustee of sev- eral large estates. His political affiliation was with the Republican party and his church affil- iation with the Universalist denomination, serving the church of Melrose as a member and as superintendent of the Sunday school from 1884. He was a member of the board of directors of the Melrose Hospital. and vice- president of the board
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G. Pray Smith, of Newtonville,
SMITH Massachusetts, was born in Northumberland, New Hamp- shire, June, 1851. His father removed to Maine, and here G. Pray Smith was brought up, and alternated work on his father's farm with attendance at the district school and academy. In 1867 he left home to study the art of engraving, being possessed of an am- bition to make art his profession. He located in Worcester, where he worked as an engraver up to 1875, when the artistic fever was over, and he determined to become a miner and ranchman in the far west. He located in Ne- vada, where he acquired large interests and be- came the controlling owner of the Buck Moun- tain gold mine, one of the most profitable gold mines in the territory, and in 1907 he was still in control of the property as president and general manager of the Buck Mountain Gold Mining Company. He also acquired a large cattle ranch in New Mexico, which he held as an investment, the property including eighty thousand acres of land, all of which he placed under fence, and in 1907 there were several thousand growing cattle on the ranch, the ma- tured stock producing a large annual income. Besides his western interests, Mr. Smith, on locating in Massachusetts, became interested in eastern enterprises, and he organized, be- 'came vice president, treasurer and general manager of the Boston Fuel Company, with offices in the Beacon Building on Beacon street. He also organized the Beacon Ma- chinery Company, which owns and controls the patented machinery used by the Boston Fuel Company in the manufacture of peat into commercial fuel. The universal destruction of peat throughout every state in the United for works. Continuous practical demonstra- States gives to their corporations a vast field tions are being made of the value and utility of properly prepared peat for general heating purposes which has carried the enterprise into the region of practicability, and it only needs the introduction of specially prepared stoves and furnaces to make its use universal. Mr. Smith is one of the owners of a well equipped stock farm near McCordsville, Indiana, and the pacers and trotters bred upon this farm have become familiar as favorite objects of admiration at every trotting association in the country, for their peculiar grace, beauty and wonderful intelligence.
Mr. Smith has behind him a genealogical record that gives him especial pride by reason of the blood that runs in his veins. His Revo- lutionary ancestors were not rare in the annals
of that seven years effort to throw off the yoke of England, and he is doing a duty to his country and to the liberty loving in all the world by doing his part in keeping alive the spirit of liberty, through encouraging the work done by the various patriotic societies of Amer- ica. He was instrumental in founding the Sons of America, and as head of that patriotic and philanthropic order he placed the organ- ization in a commanding position among the fraternal societies of the United States and the Mortuary Benefit Fund suggested by him has in the quarter century of its existence dis- tributed over $100,000 annually to members in benefits. Mr. Smith became peculiarly promi- nent in this connection at the convention of the order held in Washington, D. C., where in his address to the convention he touched upon the murder of Dr. Cronin, of Chicago, in a way that caused the Associated Press to telegraph that portion of his address verbatim, to all parts of the English speaking world.
Mr. Smith with his wife and daughter Ethel, born in 1890, made a delightful home in their beautiful residence on Otis street, New- tonville, that charming suburb of Boston, and here with the fine roads and bridle paths of the neighborhood, he with his family enjoyed to the fullest the companionship of his intelligent and well trained horses. Mr. Smith became known all over the United States, and of him the New York Herald said: "A man who wears his heart upon his sleeve," and an au- thor who dedicated a novel to him which be- came widely read, described him as "A man who loves a horse, whose heart pulsates in a royal setting, whose fidelity never falters, and whose friendship never fails !".
This name does not appear LARRABEE in America until after 1650. Some have supposed that its origin was French rather than English. This theory is borne out by its non-appearance in the lists of English heraldry. Some have be- lieved that the American line was of Hugue- not origin, and others that the name was long distinguished in France, notably in the per- son of one Count Larrabee.
If this theory holds good, the name may have been originally l'Arabie (L'arabie) or some other form of the word, becoming in America Larabee, or Larrabee, with other va- riations due to the unsettled system of spell- ing in that day, notably in the vicinity of Mid- dlesex county, a spelling so far away from the original as Leatherby, probably the way two centuries ago the name was colonially or pro-
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vincially pronounced. Thus, as late as 1808, the Reverend John Marrett, pastor of the church in Woburn, second parish, now Burl- ington, in recording the death of a member of this family, writes the name Lartharbee.
(I) Stephen Larrabee, immigrant ancestor, with William Larrabee, a kinsman, came to New England with the early immigrants. Wil- liam settled in Malden, Massachusetts, where he married, November, 1655, Elizabeth Felt, and died leaving no children. His will, proved October 24, 1692, names wife Elizabeth, and several kinsmen and kinswomen, named Ste- phen, William, Isaac, Thomas, Samuel, Ben- jamin, and Jane Larrabee, and Hannah, a daughter of said Jane, also John Larrabee, a kinsman "beyond the sea ;" he bequeathed to Stephen Larrabee "my cousin's [nephew] Ste- phen's eldest son," he calls Nathaniel Nichols another kinsman of his. His estate was enu- merated in an inventory taken September 28, 1692, as a house and barn with twenty acres of land. William Larrabee was a soldier in King Philips' War, 1675-6. Stephen Larrabee was one of the pioneers of North Yarmouth, Maine, where he early purchased lands. As the lands were not occupied for many years because of danger during the period of In- dian hostilities, it is likely that he himself did not occupy them, but at a later period a peti- tion dated March 6, 1732-3, in which the names of his sons appear would indicate that they, at least, had an interest in them, if not a settlement upon them. What relation exist- ed between Stephen and William is not clear, but it may have been a "cousin," or nephew, as that term was commonly defined at that time. Stephen Larrabee was a soldier in the early Indian wars in Maine.
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