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II, 1773. 8. Charles Lee, born November 30, 1776. 9. Betsey, born 1780, married Levi Whipple, August 21, 1803. IO. Patience, born December 2, 1782.
(VI) Jonathan Warner, son of Daniel Warner (5), was born in Hardwick, Massa- chusetts, September 13, 1763. He married Sally Paige, daughter of John Paige, Febru- ary 25, 1789, and she died June II, 1897, aged thirty-eight. He married (second) Annis (Agnes) Marsh, widow of Joel Marsh, Oc- tober 18, 1807. He was a judicious and thrifty farmer, inheriting the Warner home- stead, but after his second marriage he bought the Marsh farm and built a new house on the easterly road to Gilbertville at what is known as the A. Warner house. He was ensign in the militia, selectman for three years. He died July 1, 1831, aged about sixty-eight. His wife Annis died at Springfield, May 17, 1859, aged nearly ninety-four. Children (dates taken from family record, differing slightly from town records) : I. Mary, born December 3, 1789, married, November 28, 1809, William Robinson ; died in Barre, October 13, 1866. 2. - -, born March 20, and died March 26, 1792. 3. Moses Mandell, born March 30, 1793. 4. Jonathan, born March 28, 1795, mentioned below. 5. Lewis, born January, 1797, died April 1, 1797. 6. Daniel, born July 2, 1799. 7. Lewis, born June 1, 1801. 8. William Au- gustus, born January 8, 1804. 9. Levi Whip- ple, born June 7, 1806.
(VII) Jonathan Warner, son of Jonathan Warner (6), was born in Hardwick, Massa- chusetts, March 28, 1795, died September 12, 1867. He was brought up on the farm and educated in the district schools of 'his native town, and most of the time he rode a distance of four miles on horseback to school daily dur- ing the term. When he came of age, his father gave him a tract of land at Hardwick, Ver- mont, where many of the family, and others of Hardwick, Massachusetts, had settled. He had some three hundred acres of wild land. He cleared his farm and built his house. He became a well-to-do farmer, having many horses and fine herds of cattle and sheep. Of a jovial and agreeable disposition, Mr. War- ner made friends with everybody he met. Of strict integrity and unimpeachable character he had the respect and confidence of all who knew him. He was active in the temperance movement and was a faithful and pious mem- ber of the Baptist church of Hardwick, Ver- mont. He was a Whig in politics. He served six months in the War of 1812, when he was eighteen years old, going from Hardwick,
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Massachusetts, to Boston harbor to do coast guard duty under Captain Gass. His widow was granted a pension, dated March 4, 1879.
He married at. Hardwick, Vermont, Febru- ary 25, 1819, Emily Florilla Farnum, who was born January 16, 1801, and died April 6, 1889, daughter of Aaron and Florilla (Strong) Farnum. Children, born at Hardwick, Ver- mont : I. Adeline Florilla, born December 23, 1819, married (first), July 1, 1850, Zacha- riah Shedd, of Franklin, Vermont; child, Emma Shedd, born June 4, 1851, died May 30, 1883; married, 1880, Otto Wilde. Ade- line F. married (second), November 25, 1858, David Camp, of Hanover, New Hampshire. 2. Eliza Ann, born June 3, 1822, died July 4, 1879 ; married Dr. Harrison W. Brockway, of St. Johnsbury, Vermont; child, Edward Au- gustus Brockway, born September 10, 1856, married, January 1, 1880, Lizzie A. Emmons. 3. Mary Jane Robinson, born 1827, married (first), October 6, 1859, Garret Van Riper, who died in 1866; (second), November 9, 1866, Alfred Taber, of Franklin, New Hamp- shire. 4. Ariadne Tilton, born April 12, 1828, married, June, 1855, Asa Barton Closson ; children, born at Hanover, New Hampshire : i. Jessie Closson, born February 28, 1856; ii. Elsie Closson, born November 18, 1859; iii. Carlos Farnum Closson, born March 1, 1868, married, April 20, 1898, Susan Stephens, of Franklin, New Hampshire. 5. Levi Whipple, born October 26, 1830, married (first), Anna Mann; (second), Adeline Dennison; (third), Julia Griffin. 6. Augustus Jonathan, born November 3, 1833, married (first), June 3, 1869, Margaret Sherry, of Elmira, New York, who died January 7, 1874; married (second), August 19, 1879, Anna T. Hoag, born August 12, 1847, died October 13, 1884; married (third), in 1890, Ora Ella DeVed; child of first wife, Sherry A., born January 7, 1874; child of second wife, William C., born Octo- ber 13, 1884; child of third wife, Doris E., born March 10, 1899. 7. Charles Davenport, born October 30, 1835, mentioned below. 8. Laura Annette, born April 20, 1837, married, January 8, 1862, George Sherman, of Tioga county, New York, born May 27, 1825, died October 10, 1883; children: i. Guy Warner Sherman, born October 21, 1862, married, 1885, Harrietta Withington and had Clifford Withington Sherman, born October 10, 1887; ii. William Tecumseh Sherman, born Sep- tember 29, 1865, married, November 29, 1890, Nellie Clark, (children: Rhoda May Sher- man, born October 20, 1891 ; Ruth Belle Sher- man, born April 14, 1893 ; George Clark Sher-
man, born in 1895) ; iii. Mary Maud Sherman, born October 29, 1867, married, January 20, 1892, Irving Tarrant, (child, Stanley Sher- man Tarrant, born September 18, 1893) ; iv. Louis Alfred Sherman, born July 3, 1870, married, November, 1893, Carrie Cogswell. v. Levi Whipple Sherman, born January 28, 1875, married, March, 1897, Almira Pinney (children : Phillis S. Sherman, born April 14, 1898; Vera S. Sherman, born April 12, 1900; Alfred C. Sherman.) 9. Sidney Smith, born June 14, 1839, married Mary no children. 10. Louis Alfred, born May 1, 1841, died May 27, 1870.
(VIII) Charles Davenport Warner, son of Jonathan Warner (7), was born in Hardwick, Vermont, October 30, 1835. He received his early education in the district schools of his native town, and in the Colby Academy at Meriden, New Hampshire. He remained at home helping his father carry on the farm un- til the age of twenty-two, when he and his brother Levi formed a partnership to conduct the homestead and later they bought it of their father. The homestead is situated in the south- ern part of the village of East Hardwick, about a mile from the center. The section own- ed by Charles D. Warner comprised one hun- dred and fifty acres. He was a prosperous farmer. Seeking to get nearer the markets, he moved to Arlington, Massachusetts, in 1872, and being satisfied with the prospects there, sold his farm in Hardwick, the year following. He bought sixteen acres of land on Highland avenue, Arlington, and carried on a market garden in company with Alfred Taber, about five years. They then dissolved partnership and Mr. Warner engaged in the express business, running an express team be- tween Arlington and Boston. He built up a large business during the twenty-five years in which he conducted it and acquired a compe- tence. He sold out a few years ago to William Stiles, and has since been retired. He is liv- ing in Arlington in the residence that he built there in 1880 at 1180 Massachusetts avenue. He has also built for investment several other houses in Arlington. He is a highly respect- ed and useful citizen. He is a member of the Baptist church at Arlington. In politics he is a Republican, and while in Hardwick served the town as highway surveyor, He was a member and an earnest believer in the Ameri- can Protective Association while it was in ex- istence.
He married (first), June II, 1866, Eliza- beth Johnson, of Enfield, New Hampshire, who was born in 1833 and died June 24, 1873,
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daughter of John and Elizabeth (Westgate) Johnson. He married (second), June 23, 1884, Marion Henderson, of North Cambridge, born November 20, 1843, daughter of Robert and Marion (Johnston) Henderson. Children : I. Alice Elvira, born March 9, 1867, died May 27, 1894; married William Alanson Spauld- ing, of Hanover Center, New Hampshire; child, Charles Jackson Spaulding, born Au- gust 30, 1890. 2. Gertrude Elsie, born Octo- ber 30, 1868, married, May 25, 1899, Charles R. Houston, of Thornton, New Hampshire ; child, Elizabeth Marion, born May 2, 1900. 3. Wallace, born June 22, 1870, died May 22, 1872.
(For first generation see Thomas Brigham I,)
(II) Thomas Brigham, son BRIGHAM of Thomas Brigham (I), was born probably in Cambridge, Massachusetts, about 1640, and died in Marl- borough, November 25, 1716. When his mother married Edmund Rice, he went with them to Sudbury and Marlborough. On at- taining his majority he bought of his step- father for thirty pounds a town right in Marl- borough of "twenty-four acres with the frame of a dwelling house thereon." This land, sit- uated near Williams Pond in the southwest part of the town, was the beginning of his large farm. He was also one of the purchas- ers of the old plantation "Ockoocangansett," which had been reserved for the Indians out of the ancient boundaries of Marlborough. On the old Thomas Brigham homestead on the south side of the present Forest street, about twenty rods from the highway, at the foot of Crane Hill, is a slightly raised rectang- ular plot, about 30 by 75 feet, in the center of which is a large apple tree. Here rest the last of the Marlborough Indians, including their last chief and about thirty of his follow- ers. This spot is sacredly cherished by the family of Brighams. It is now or was lately owned by George F. Nicols, whose wife was a Brigham. The last male Brigham owner is said to have strikingly resembled his paternal ancestry, "having thick, wavy, black hair, black eyes and red checks ; a fine looking man." The house stood a few rods above the brook, which flowed through the farm to Williams Pond. The first dwelling, a log hut built by Thomas Brigham (2), was burned during his absence by flax catching fire. In 1706 he built a frame house which was left for an ell by his son Gershom, who built a two-story horse about 1724. The old house was used
as a garrison during Queen Anne's war. This ell was finally taken down in 1791, by War- ren Brigham, and the house was inhabited until 1859. After it had stood empty for some time, it was finally razed. The Gershom Brig- ham house "was clapboarded but never painted outside; only two rooms were fin- ished; the sitting room and the principal bed- room were plastered and painted." About 1825 the present house was built on the oppo- site side of the road from the old house, by Barnabas Brigham. The old well still exists. Thomas Brigham was one of the principal citizens of the town, but owing to the loss of records, nothing is known of the offices he held. He made his will April 21, 1716, and died November 25 of the same year in his chair, which is now in the possession of Mar- tha L. Ames. His will was proved January 2, 1717. He married first December 27, 1665, Mary, daughter of Henry and Eliza- beth (Moore) Rice, and granddaughter of Ed- mund Rice the immigrant. He married sec- ond, July 30, 1695, Susanna, daughter of Wil- liam Shattuck, of Watertown, widow first of Joseph Morse and second of John Fay, whose first wife was Mary Brigham, sister of Thom- as Brigham. Children: I. Thomas, born February 24, 1666-7; probably died before his father. 2. Nathan, born June 17, 1671. 3. David, born August 11, 1673; died young. 4. Jonathan, born February 22, 1675. 5. David, born April 12, 1678. 6. Gershom, born Feb- ruary 23, 1680; mentioned below. 7. Elnath- an, born March 7, 1683. 8. Mary, born Oc- tober 26, 1687; married July 30, 1710, Cap- tain Jonas Houghton, of Lancaster; seven children.
(III) Gershom Brigham, son of Thomas Brigham (2), born in Marlborough, February 23, 1680, died there January 3, 1748-9; mar- ried, May 18, 1703, Mehitable, born 1684, daughter of Joseph and Experience (Whee- lock) Warren, an early settler of Medfield. of A. M. from Clare College, Cambridge, Ralph Wheelock, her father, was the founder of the town of Medfield and held the degree England; his house was burned in King Phil- ip's war. Gershom settled on the homestead of his father in Marlborough, and was survey- or for the west end of the town in 1710; tyth- ingman 1716; constable 1721 ; one of a com- mittee to "seat the meeting" 1727; selectman I733. Children, born in Marlborough; I. Martha, born October 6, 1704. 2. Joseph, born April 21, 1706; mentioned below. 3. Abigail, born November 25, 1708; married March 25, 1729, John Snow, of Marlborough.
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4. Gershom, born November 4, 1712. 5. Benjamin, born February 19, 1714-5.
(IV) Joseph Brigham, son of Gershom Brigham (3), born in Marlboro, April 21, 1706, died July 29, 1786; married, August 26, 1728, Comfort Bigelow, died Septem- ber 24, 1755, aged forty-eight, daughter of John Bigelow. Her father was taken captive by the Indians, October 15, 1705, previous to her birth. After his libera-
tion he named his first born Comfort
and his second Freedom. Joseph Brig- ham married second, May 3, 1757, Ruth Rice Ward, born September 1, 1721, died Febru- ary 1, 1786, daughter of Joseph Rice, of Marlborough, widow of Elisha Ward. He resided in Marlborough, and built the Joseph Brigham-Ames house. He was surveyor in 1734 ; petit jury-man 1738; warden 1766; tyth- ingman 1775. He was in Captain Nathan Brigham's company in the French and In- dian war, on the Marlborough alarm list in 1757. Children by first wife, born in Marl- borough: I. Mehitable, born July 14, 1729; died in Berlin, Massachusetts, 1762; married 1748, Captain Samuel Jones, Jr. 2. Sarah, born May 13, 1731. 3. Lavinah, born July 10, 1733. 4. Joseph, born June 14, 1735; died July 17, 1742. 5. Comfort, born July 29, 1737; died July 17, 1742. 6. Martha, born September 9, 1739; married January 20, 1763, Daniel Barnes, Jr .; two children. 7. Stephen, born October 15, 1741; mentioned below. 8. Joseph, born September 27, 1743. 9. Com- fort, born August 26, 1745; died May 19, 1771; married March 14, 1770, Daniel Stev- ens. IO. Jonah, born November 19, 1747; died December 1, 1827; married, 1771, Sarah Walker; no issue. II. Lucy, born August 19, 1752; married Samuel Stratton.
(V) Stephen Brigham, son of Joseph Brig- ham (4), born in Marlborough, October 15, 1741, died about 1811; married first, 1764, Jemima Snow; married second, Wil- der. He moved to Shrewsbury, and thence to West Boylston, Massachusetts. He prob- ably was a private in Captain Maynard's company, Colonel Cushing's regiment, which marched on the alarm at Bennington in 1777, and was discharged after three days service. Children by first wife, born in Shrewsbury: I. Martha, born September 9, 1766; died May 23, 1784. 2. Edmund, born September 29, 1769. 3. Sarah, born February 21, 1772; married Gershom Flagg, of Boylston. 4. Ja- bez, born August 28, 1775. 5. Dolly, born July 10, 1777; died 1782. 6. Stephen, born September 21, 1779; mentioned below. 7.
Dolly, born December 20, 1783; died January IO, 1858; married first, Rev. Reuben Ball: second, James Libby, of Bridgton, Maine; no issue. Children probably by second wife: 8. Levi, born June 8, 1778. 9. Lucinda, mar- ried Simon Plympton, of West Boylston; no issue.
(VI) Stephen Brigham, son of Stephen Brigham (5), born in West Boylston, (then Shrewsbury), Massachusetts, September 21, 1779, died in Roxbury, about 1819; married Lucy White, born March 27, 1777, died about 1820, daughter of Aaron White, of Roxbury. He was a wholesale flour merchant in Boston, junior member of the well-known firm of Bigelow and Brigham. Children, born in Boston : I. William, died young. 2. Mary W., born September 2, 1806; died in Roxbury January 4, 1892. 3. Stephen A., born June 28, 1808; died unmarried in Roxbury, No- vember 21, 1866. 4. Elizabeth D., born Feb- ruary 27, 1810; died in Roxbury, March 30, 1898. 5. Lucy A., born December 8, 181I, died September 9, 1896. 6. Louisa, born July 27, 1813; married November 18, 1844, San- ford Kendall; resided in Worcester. 7. Car- oline, born February 15, 1815; died unmar- ried, aged about seventeen. 8. Henry Bige- low, mentioned below.
(VII) Henry Bigelow Brigham, son of Ste- phen Brigham (6), was born in Boston, July 15, 1818. When he was a year and a half old he lost both parents, and he and his brothers and sisters went to live with their uncles and aunts. Henry and his sister, Elizabeth, went to live with their uncle Isaac Davis, of Rox- bury, a farmer. They received the usual com- mon school education provided by the town of Roxbury. Henry worked with his uncle on the farm during his youth. When a young man he refused a flattering position with a business house in Boston, at his uncle's re- quest, and continued on the Roxbury farm, and at the death of Mr. Davis in 1857, Mr. Brigham had an equal share with the widow and daughter. He carried on the farm until the estate was divided in 1871. In the fall of 1870 he sold a section of the farm, and in April, 1871, removed to Lexington, where he had purchased a beautiful home in Hancock street, with seventeen acres of land, and vir- tually retired from active business devoting his time to the care of his property. He sold the remainder of his land in Roxbury, now part of the city of Boston. His home in Lex- ington included the old Hancock-Adams house, or Clark parsonage, which he sold to the Lexington Historical Society. The
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house was removed to its present site on the opposite side of the street and is one of the historic treasures of New England. Mr. Brigham died January 24, 1887. He was a man of public spirit, of sound judgment and sterling character, and was held in the high- est esteem by his townsmen. He was for many years trustee of the Lexington Savings Bank, a position he held at the time of his death. He was a Republican in politics. He was a member of the Unitarian church of Lexington and served on its parish commit- tee. He married, March 26, 1860, Mary E. Dudley, daughter of Samuel and Mary E. (Gay) Dudley of Roxbury, granddaughter of Colonel Joseph and Pedy (Whitney) Dudley.
Colonel Dudley commanded the United States garrison at Fort Warren in Boston harbor during the war of 1812; married July 20, 1784, Pedy Whitney, descendant of John and Elinor Whitney, pioneers at Watertown. Judge Paul Dudley, grandfather of Colonel Joseph, born 1675, died 1751, married Lucy Wainwright. Governor Joseph Dudley, fath- er of Judge Paul Dudley, born 1647, died 1720, married Rebecca Tyng. Governor Thomas Dudley, father of Governor Joseph, was born in England in 1596, died in 1652, married Catherine (Dighton) Hackburne. Governor Thomas Dudley was one of the most important and distinguished men of the colonial era in Massachusetts. Children of Samuel and Mary E. (Gay) Dudley: I. Mary E. Dudley, married Henry B. Brigham. 2. Sarah W. Dudley, married Quincy Adams Chandler, of Lexington. 3. Samuel Dudley, married Emily Brown; he was living in 1907. 4. Joseph W. Dudley died when eight years old. Henry Bigelow and Mary E. (Dudley) Brigham had one daughter, Mary Louisa, born in Roxbury, March 3, 1862; now living with her widowed mother at the family home in Lexington.
Erasmus Darwin Leavitt, of LEAVITT Cambridge, son of Erasmus Darwin and Almira (Fay) Leavitt, was born in Lowell, Massachusetts, October 27, 1836. He was educated in the Lowell public schools and entered the machine shop of the Lowell Manufacturing Company in April, 1852, where he served three years as an apprentice, at the close of which time he worked under instruction for a year at the works of Corliss & Nightingale, Providence, Rhode Island, the birthplace of the Corliss en- gine. From 1856 to 1858 he was engaged in
developing some inventions in steam engineer- ing, for which a patent had been granted to him in 1855. In 1858 and 1859 he was as- sistant foreman at the City Point Works, South Boston, and had charge of building the engines for the flagship "Hartford." From 1859 to 1861 he was chief draughtsman for Thurston, Gardner & Company of Providence, Rhode Island, leaving there to enter the United States navy in the summer of 1861 as third assistant engineer. He served through the war of the rebellion, and during his term of service was detailed to the Naval Academy at Annapolis as instructor in steam engineer- ing. Resigning in 1867, he resumed the prac- tice of mechanical engineering, making a specialty of pumping and mining machinery.
In 1872 Mr. Leavitt designed and patented a novel pumping engine which was first used at Lynn, Massachusetts, and on account of its remarkable performance it became celebrated in Europe as well as in this country; similar engines were subsequently erected at Law- rence, Massachusetts, Louisville, Kentucky, and at the sewage station of the city of Boston.
In 1874 he became connected with the fa- mous Calumet and Hecla Copper Mine as an adviser of mechanical matters, and was con- sulting engineer of the company until 1904, when he retired from active practice. During his term of service with the company, he fur- nished the designs and plans for its huge equipment, which so materially reduced the cost of mining. He has also acted as consult- ing engineer to the cities of Boston and Louis- ville, and to the firm of Henry R. Worthing- ton, of New York, the celebrated builders of pumps. He is a member of the American Society of Civil Engineers, American Insti- tute of Mining Engineers, American Society of Mechanical Engineers (and past president of same), Boston Society of Civil Engineers, American Society of Naval Engineers, life member of British Association for the Ad- vancement of Science, member of the Ameri- can Academy of Arts and Sciences, the Insti- tution of Civil Engineers and the Institution of Mechanical Engineers of Great Britain. In 1884 he received the honorary degree of Doc- tor of Engineering from the Stevens Insti- tute of Technology, of Hoboken, New Jersey. He is a member of the Union and Commercial Clubs of Boston and the Colonial Club of Cambridge.
Mr. Leavitt was married, June 5, 1867, to Annie Elizabeth, daughter of William Pettit, of Philadelphia, who was the pioneer in loco- motive building in the United States, and long
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connected with the Baldwin Locomotive
Works. Mrs. Leavitt died December 28, 1889. Their children were Mary Alford, Hart Hooker, Margaret Almira, Harriet Sherman and Annie Louise. Of these, three are living -Mary A., Margaret A. and Annie L.
Mr. Leavitt's life has been one of close ap- plication to his chosen profession, and to-day he occupies a leading position among the most eminent engineers of this country and of Europe, his ability being recognized by all his contemporaries. During his several trips abroad he has received marked attention from engineers, and from the various engineering societies. He was a warm personal friend of the late Herr Krupp, of Essen, who frequently consulted him concerning engineering mat- ters.
ENDICOTT
Gilbert Endicott, the immi- grant ancestor, was born in England, son of John End-
icott, of Marldon, Devonshire. He was bap- tized October 22, 1648, and died in Dorches- ter, Massachusetts, October 18, 1716, aged sixty-eight years. His brother, John Endi- cott, (or Indicott, as it was commonly spelled) resided in Boston and was warden of Kings Chapel in 1691. Another brother, William,
lived in Canton, Massachusetts. All three brothers were inn keepers. In 1681 Gilbert Endicott was at Kennebunk, Maine, and liv- ing on land granted him in 1677 on condition that he build a house there and settle within a year, and in 1682 had a mill at Cape Por- poise. He was back in Dorchester in 1690; in Reading in 1696, when his son James was born. He probably left Maine on account of the Indian alarms. He was living in Canton and built a house there in 1700. He leased from the town, February 27, 1704-05, a hun- dred acres of land, agreeing to pay a yearly rental of four pounds in pepper corn, the lease running for two hundred years. H had also land in Sharon, Massachusetts, bounded by the Massapoag brook and the road leading to Billings' Tavern. His son erected a house on land that Gilbert Endicott supposed to be his, but which was discovered to belong to Rev. Mr. Morse, in 1710. He seems to have retained the land and the min- ister got a new grant in compensation in 1826. Gilbert was a soldier in King. Philip's war under Captain John Jacobs, of Hingham, enlisting August 24, 1776. He was the first person buried in Canton graveyard, and his gravestone is the most ancient. The inscrip-
tion is : "Here lyes the Body of Gilburt Indi- cott, aged 58 years Died October ye 18th, 1716." The cellar hole of his house is now or was lately to be seen, though in 1727 it was called "ye old cellar hole." He had a tavern at Canton from 1702 to 1707, when he was succeeded by Daniel Morey. He kept an inn on Orange street, Boston, from June, 1709, to 17II. He was back in Stoughton (now Canton) in 1713, when he entertained Judge Sewall, who relates also a visit to the inn in his diary under date of September 15, 1716, only a month before the landlord died. He married, April 28, 1686, Hannah Gooch, of York, Maine. She married (second), No- vember 4, (or 17) 1717, John Minot. Chil- dren of Gilbert and Hannah Endicott: I. John. 2. James, mentioned below.
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