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(II) James Endicott, son of Gilbert Endi- cott (I), was born March 10, 1696, at Read- ing, Massachusetts. He settled in Canton. It was he who built his home on the minister's land by mistake, in 1710. This was on the site of the brick house on Washington street, and it was burned October 29, 1806. He was an inn keeper. He married, November 26, 1823, Esther Clapp, born February 10, 1699, died July II, 1750, daughter of Ezra and Ex- perience (Houghton) Clapp. He married (sec- ond), January 9, 1752, Mrs. Hannah (Tilden) Lyon, widow, daughter of Elkanah Lyon; she died May 22, 1778. He died October 21, 1767, and his administrator was appointed Novem- ber 13, 1767. The date on his gravestone is. incorrect. Children of James and Esther: I. Ebenezer, born July 10, 1726. 2. James, born July 10, 1728; died April 27, 1729. 3. Han- nah, born April 12, 1730. 4. Esther, born March 14, 1734-35. 5. James, born August 17, 1738, mentioned below. 6. Sarah, born August 10, 174I.
(III) James Endicott, son of James Endi- cott (2), was born in Canton, August 17, 1738, died there April 4, 1799. He was cap- tain of minute men of Stoughton; responded to the Lexington alarm April 19, 1775; served on Dorchester Heights; was stationed at Roxbury during the battle of Bunker Hill; was in Ticonderoga campaign, and at Rox- bury in 1778. He was a prominent citi- zen in civil life also. In 1757 he gave land to the town for a highway. He was on a com- mittee with Preserved Lyon and Silas Crane to procure materials for the meeting house in 1745. In 1778 he made frequent trips to Bos- ton and elsewhere, enlisting recruits for the Continental army, and he employed his wife Hannah to weave thirty-seven yards of
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blanketing and spin thirty-two skeins of yarn for the army. He gave similar commis- sions to other women. In 1780 he was a representative to the general court, and also in 1784-85-86 and 1790; was town treasurer two years; appointed justice of the peace Feb- ruary II, 1785; and September 24, 1793, judge of the court of common pleas of Nor- folk county. His house was destroyed by fire October 29, 1806. He was universally re- spected by his fellow-citizens. He married, 1761, Abigail Puffer, born April 26, 1739, died May 26, 1833, aged ninety-four years, daughter of John and Abigail (Vose) Puffer, and great-granddaughter of Matthias Puf- fer, whose wife and eldest son were among the first victims of the Indians in the King Philip war. Children: I. Hannah, born Oc- tober 26, 1761, died June 3, 1860, aged ninety- eight years; married John Eaton, July 17, 1791. 2. John, born February 4, 1764, died January 31, 1857, aged ninety-three; married, June 14, 1787, Mary Humphrey. 3. James, born April 30, 1766, died February 22, 1834, aged sixty-eight; married Betsey Crane. 4. Elijah, born June 20, 1768, mentioned below. 5. Abigail, born May 17, 1771, died Octo- ber 9, 1857, aged eighty-six; married Laban Lewis.
(IV) Elijah Endicott, son of James Endi- cott (3), was born in Canton, June 20, 1768, died November 4, 1844, aged seventy-six years. He settled also in Canton. He mar- ried (first) Polly Spurr, of Canton, in Novem- ber, 1800. She died May 22, 1807. He mar- ried (second), October 31, 1813, Cynthia Childs (intentions at Stoughton October 10). Children of Elijah and Cynthia Endicott: I. Emily, born at Canton, February 14, 1814. 2. Evelina, born July 29, 1815. 3. Elizabeth, born February 13, 1817. 4. Augustus B., born September 10, 1818, mentioned below. 5. Elijah, born May 5, 1821, married, April II, 1847, Clara Browning, died February 5, 1899, aged seventy-seven years. 6. Charles, born October 28, 1822, mentioned below. 7. Henry, born. November 14, 1824, mentioned below.
(V) Augustus B. Endicott, son of Elijah Endicott (4), was born at Canton, September IO, 1818. He was educated in the public school and learned the carpenter's trade, serving an apprenticeship of four years and a half. He removed to Chelsea when he was twenty-one, and was employed for ten years as pattern maker in a foundry there. In 1852 he returned to Dedham and was ap- pointed deputy sheriff in 1853, serving until
August, 1885, when he was appointed to serve the unexpired term of Sheriff Wood. He was elected sheriff in November following and re-elected to succeed himself at the ex- piration of each term until he declined to serve longer. He has been an active citizen of Dedham; selectman; overseer of the poor; many years on the board of health; presi- dent of the Dedham Institution for Savings and the Dedham National Bank; president of the Dedham Mutual Fire Insurance Com- pany. He married, July 22, 1845, Sarah, daughter of William and Millie Fairbanks, and descendant of the pioneer, Jonathan, of Dedham, ancestor of all of the name in Amer- ica. Children : I. Mary Augusta, married William H. Lord. 2. Lizzie, married George H. Young. 3. Henry Bradford.
(V) Charles Endicott, son of Elijah Endi- cott (4), was born in Canton, October 28, 1822, died August 19, 1889, aged seventy-six years, ten months and twenty-one days. He was educated in the common schools there and learned how to conduct a farm and manu- facture shoes. In 1846, at the age of twenty- four he was appointed a deputy sheriff of Norfolk county. He read law in the office of Ellis Ames, of Canton, and was admitted to the bar in 1857; was county commissioner six years; commissioner of insolvency; repre- sentative to the general court in 1851-57-58; state senator 1866-67; in the executive coun- cil 1868-69; state auditor from 1870 to 1876; state treasurer from 1876 to 1881; deputy tax commissioner until 1889. He was a director of the Norfolk Mutual Fire Insurance Com- pany; of the Neponset National Bank; trus- tee for forty years of the Canton Institution for Savings and president many years. He married, at Canton, September 30, 1845, Miriam Webb, and (second), October 2, 1848, at Charlestown, New Hampshire, Augusta G. Dinsmore. Child of first wife: I. Charles W. Children of second wife: 2. Edward D. 3. Cynthia A., married J. Montgomery Fields.
(V) Henry Endicott, son of Elijah Endi- cott (4), was born at Canton, November 14, 1824. He was educated in the public schools of his native town. He learned the trade of machinist, and in 1845 became a dealer and manufacturer of steam engines and boilers in Boston in partnership with Caleb C. Allen, under the firm name of Allen & Endicott. The firm was successful, and Mr. Endicott after acquiring a competence retired from active business in 1872. He is president of the Allen & Endicott Building Company of
Henry Endicott, 30
Past Grand Master of the Grand Lodge of Massachusetts Past Eminent Com . of Boston Commandery of K T.
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Cambridge; director of the Cambridge Gas- light Company; director of the Harvard Trust Company of Cambridge; president of the Cambridgeport Savings Bank; president of the Hittinger Fruit Company of Belmont, Massachusetts.
He is one of the most prominent and popu- lar Free Masons in Massachusetts, and has held many responsible positions in the order. He was raised to the degree of Master Mason in the Amicable Lodge of Cambridge in 1860 and became worshipful master of his lodge in 1864, serving also in 1865-66. He was wor- shipful master of Mizpah Lodge (U. D.) in 1868 and was elected worshipful master in 1869. He was also district deputy grand mas- ter of District No. 4, 1867-68. He was ex- alted in 1861 in St. Paul's Royal Arch Chap- ter, Boston; was its scribe in 1862, king in 1864, high priest in 1865-66. He was high priest of the Cambridge Royal Arch Chapter (U. D.) in 1865 and grand king of the Grand Chapter of Massachusetts in 1867. In 1861 he became a member of the Boston Council and was made Royal and Select Master. In the same year he also became a member of the Boston Commandery, Knights Templar, and he held in turn nearly all the minor of- fices; in 1868 he was elected captain general and in 1869-70 was generalissimo and in 1891- 92 eminent commander. He was trustee of the permanent fund of this order from 1874 to 1888. On May 9, 1862, he received the de- gree of Ancient and Scottish Rite from the fourth to the thirtieth degrees, both inclusive and on May 16, 1862, the thirty-first and thirty-second degree of the Grand Consistory of Massachusetts, of which he was created a sovereign grand inspector general, thirty- third degree, in 1874. He was senior grand warden of the Grand Lodge of Massachusetts in 1873 and most worshipful grand master in 1888-89-90; was elected a member of its board of directors in 1869 and held that of- fice continuously to 1902. He is. also honorary member of Mount Olivet, Amicable and Miz- pah lodges of Cambridge; Converse Lodge of Malden, Massachusetts; St. Paul's and Cam- bridge Royal Arch Chapters; Boston Com- mandery and St. John Commandery, No. 4, of Philadelphia. In the printed volume, "Ex- ercises at the Centennial Anniversary of Amicable Lodge of Cambridge", appears the following :
"In our roll of honor are reckoned three Grand Masters of the Grand Lodge, Samuel P. P. Fay, Deputy Grand Master in 1819, and Grand Master in 1820; Augustus Peabody,
Senior Grand Warden in 1817, and Grand Master in 1843-4-5. Henry Endicott, Senior Grand Warden in 1873 and Grand Master in 1 887-8-9.
I risk nothing in the fear that I may touch any sensitive spot or stir any envy or jealousy among the living Past Masters or the present Master of Amicable Lodge, in the statement that there is one Past Master to whom Amic- able Lodge, as well as Masonry in Cam- bridge, not to say in the Commonwealth, in the more recent years, owes a debt of grati- tude more than to any other. Henry Endi- cott is a name to conjure by, a name writ large in our history, and a name writ very large in the hearts of the Brethren.
"Let the loving-cup go 'round, The cup with blessed memories crowned, That flows whene'r we meet."
Mr. Endicott made his home in Cambridge in 1859, and has resided there ever since. He built recently a beautiful residence at 151 Brattle street, in one of the most attractive residential sections of the city. He and his family attend the Unitarian church. In po- litics Mr. Endicott is a Republican. He is a member of the Union Club of Cambridge.
Mr. Endicott married (first), May 4, 1847, Miriam Jane Smith, who died in 1849, at the age of twenty years, leaving no children. He married (second) Abigail (Hastings) Brown- ing, of Petersham, Massachusetts, daughter of Asaph and Lois (Hastings) Browning. Mrs. Endicott's paternal grandparents were John and Clara (Sherman) Browning. James was the son of James and Rebecca (Scott) Browning, and grandson of James and Eliza- beth (Davis) Browning. The latter James Browning was the immigrant, born in Scot- land in 1672. Lois (Hastings) Browning was descended from Thomas Hastings, the immi- grant ancestor, who was born in England in 1605, settled early in Watertown, Massa- chusetts, a weaver by trade; married in 1651 his second wife, Margaret Cheney. The line continues through Samuel (2) and Sarah (Coolidge) Hastings: Daniel (3) and Sarah (Ball) Hastings; Daniel (4) and Priscilla (Keyes) Hastings; and Asaph and Lois (Hastings) (5) Browning.
Mr. and Mrs. Endicott have had four chil- dren, of whom the only one living is Emma, born January 20, 1854. She was educated in the public schools of Cambridge, and in Dresden and Hanover, Germany. She has contributed frequently to the magazines, and has pub- lished a volume of her verse. She married Joseph Mason Marean, of Cambridge. Chil-
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dren: I. Edith Endicott Marean, born De- cember 31, 1876, married, October 2, 1901, Rev. Roderick Stebbins, of Milton, son of Dr. Horatio Stebbins, San Francisco, California. Children: Roderick Stebbins, born February 2, 1903; Henry Endicott Stebbins, born June 16, 1905. 2. Henry Endicott Marean, born September 13, 1878, married Edith Denton Brooks, born September 19, 1878, daughter of Eugene D. Brooks; children: Mary, born January 31, 1906, Henry Endicott, April 13, 1907. 3. Parker Endicott Marean, born Sep- tember 19, 1880, married Clara Sortwell, daughter of Alvin F. and Gertrude W. (Daly) Sortwell. 4. Mason Browning Endicott Ma- rean, born February 20, 1884. 5. Endicott Marean, born January 5, 1890.
WALKER Captain Richard Walker, im- migrant ancestor, born in England in 1592, came to New England in 1630, and settled at Lynn, Massachusetts. He was admitted a freeman March 4, 1633-4, and was ensign in the Lynn militia company in 1630, later lieutenant and captain ; in 1638 was member of the artillery company of Boston; deputy to general court ; surety for Howes of Mattacheeset, in 1638. He removed to Reading, Massachusetts, where he was a proprietor in 1644, and later a town officer. He lent money on mortgage to Sir Richard Temple in 1660, and cancelled the bond in 1670. His son Richard, who came over in 1635 in the ship "Elizabeth," deposed in 1676 that he was aged about sixty-five
on years. In 1630, while Walker was
guard duty, he was attacked by Indians, who were frightened away without casualties, how- ever. (Walker Genealogy of the Shirley branch and history of Lynn, pages 171, 172). Pope says : "He joined in 1639 with William, Robert and Thomas Talmage, brothers of his wife Jane, in a letter of attorney for the col- lection of moneys from the overseers of the will of John Talmage, of Newton Stacey, in the county of Southampton, husbandman, the brother of their father Thomas Talmage, and from the executors of the will of their brother, Symon Talmage." Captain Walker married first, Jane Talmage, daughter of Thomas ; second Sarah He died May, 1687, and was buried May 16, aged ninety-five years. Administration granted June 19, 1688, to widow Sarah, who died December 21, 1695. He had a long, useful and active career. Children: I. Captain Richard, born 1611, in England. 2. Samuel, born 1615, ancestor of
many of the family in Reading and vicinity. 3. Tabitha, married March II, 1662, Daniel King. 4. Elizabeth, married March 2, 1663, Ralph King. 5. Shubael, born about 1640, re- moved to Rowley, to Lynn, and finally Brad- ford, Massachusetts, where he was selectman, captain, etc .; married Patience Jewett, and had among others a son Nathaniel. 6. John, mentioned below. 7. Obadiah.
(II) John Walker, son of Captain Richard Walker (I), was born at Lynn, Massachusetts, about 1638-40. His age is given in a deposi- tion dated 1675 as thirty-five, but if correct, his first wife was ten years older, so it is likely that the age as given is merely a guess, as was often the case in court records. He lived at Charlestown and Woburn, towns adjoining Reading, and named his second son Richard for his father. He died September 25, 17II. He married first, Anna Leager, who died Feb- ruary 17, 1671-2, aged forty-one. He mar- ried second, August 1, 1672, Hannah Mirick, who was admitted to the Charlestown church October 3, 1675, and who died December 5, 1714. Children: I. John, mentioned below. 2. Richard, born January 4, 1668. 3. Samuel, born February 12, 1670. 4. Anna, born March 15, 1671, died March 20, following. 5. Joseph, baptized (Benjamin on birth record, born and baptized Nov. 17, 1675). 6. Mary, born January 24, 1676, at Woburn, married 1688, Edward Larkin. . 7. Anna, bap- tized April 16, 1676; married
Morre. 8. Benjamin, born June 3, 1678, died young. 9. Lydia ,baptized August 18, 1680. IO. Benjamin, baptized August 7, 1681. II. Sarah, baptized March 25, 1683, married Lewis Jones. 12. Hopestill, married John Sargent. 13. Rebecca, born December 5, 1687. 14. Joseph, baptized July 5, 1691 ; sol- dier in Captain David Pigeon's company in 1710 and 1711, 173 days; died in the service April 1, 17II (N. H. Rolls).
(III) John Walker, son of John Walker (2), was born in Charlestown or vicinity, about 1666; baptized May 13, 1670, at Charlestown. He removed to Newington, New Hampshire, before 1690, with other Walkers and neigh- bors to that town, York, Maine, and vicinity. He was an early settler at Newington, and left descendants in that vicinity. Isaac Walker from Boston and William Walker were in York in 1653, and Joseph Walker was there in 1669. All seem to belong to the same fam- ily as that given above, though not all traced, and none but Edward and John left descend- ants in that section. When his father's will was proved, John was living in Newington,
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March I, 1715-6. His son signed his name John Jr., October 5, 1714, as witness to a deed in Kittery and he a similar document Septem- ber, 1715. He or his son John bought of Wil- liam Tucker two acres of land at Kittery Point alongside land of George Berry, June 3, 1717. Children : 1. John Jr., born at Newington in 1692; mentioned below. 2. William, born about 1695. 3. Joshua, married Hannah Per- kins ; removed to Arundel, Maine. (See Kennebunkport history). There is no record of a Peter Walker in the ancestry of the family or in the public records. John (3), may have had other children. He left no will, and per- haps died soon after his father.
(IV) John Walker, son of John Walker (3), was born at Newington, New Hampshire, 1692, and died at Kittery, June 3, 1743, in his fifty-first year. He was at Kittery as early as October 5, 1714, when he witnessed a deed. He married first, January 24, 1714-5, Elizabeth Gunnison. He bought of William Tucker, June 3, 1717, two acres of land at Kittery Point, on the eastern side of Spruce creek and on the north side of George Berry's two-acre house-lot. He married Mary Bickford, Octo- ber 24, 1717, and settled on his farm in Kit- tery. His wife owned the covenant and joined the church at Kittery Point, November 26, 1727. Her family was also from Newington. The farm he owned is still known in Kittery as the Walker Field. His will, dated May 13, 1743, was witnessed by his brother William. Child of first wife, born at Kittery: I. John, born November 27, 1715, died June 26, 1718. Children of second wife: 2. Eliphalet, born August 12, 1718; died November 5, follow- ing. 3. Gideon, born October 6, 1719; mar- ried February 3, 1741, Hannah Palmer; sec- ond, Mrs. Hannah Lassell, and settled at Arundel, now Kennebunkport, Maine. 4. Eliphalet, born April 21, 1722, died August 31, 1735. 5. Temperance, born September 9, 1724; died August 21, 1735. 6. John, born September 8, 1727; died at Cape Porpoise, June 14, 1752; had son Tobias, of Ports- mouth. 7. Mary, born August 27, 1730; died September 10, 1735. 8. Elizabeth, born March 21, 1732-3 ; married February 2, 1759, Pelatiah Whittemore. 9. Mary, born August 18, 1736; married Joseph Pettigrew. The four youngest children were each baptized shortly after their births through the right of their mother.
(IV) William Walker, son of John Walker (3), was born in Newington, New Hampshire, about 1695. He married January 16, 1723-4, Deborah Berry, daughter of George and Deliv- erance Berry, neighbor of his brother John,
who had settled at Kittery Point some five years earlier. William and Deborah settled on a farm adjoining the Berry and John Walker farms and by deed of gift dated May I, 1727, George Berry and his wife Deliverance con- veyed the place where the Walkers were liv- ing "where said Walker's house now stands and as the land is now fenced five and three- quarters rods square" at Kittery Point in the township of Kittery. Another lot adjoining this house-lot was deeded March 30, 1739. (York deeds xii, p. 175). His wife Deborah must have died about 1737. Walker bought land at Kittery from John Hicks, May 23, 1739, an acre and a half, "where I the said John Hix formerly lived as it is now fenced, bounded easterly by the highway that parts the parsonage land from this, northerly by George Berry's land, westerly by said Berry's and William Walker's (mentioned above) and southerly by the Piscataquis river and Joshua White's land, with the house and barn and land excepting the burying place three rods and a half square, which said Hicks reserves to himself, his heirs and assigns forever." This is the identical land on which Lady Pepperell built her residence about 1765. William and his second wife Mehitable sold this land Feb- ruary 19, 1742-3 (York Deeds, 23-199). They also sold other land in Kittery December 14, 1743. (York Deeds 24-87). He contributed the sum of ten pounds to the building of a new church at Kittery Point January 30, 1726. He was a private in Captain Jonathan Ingersoll's company, Colonel Jonathan Bagley's regiment, in camp at Fort William Henry and Lake George, 1756 (Mass. Arch. 94-463). Deborah Berry was born about 1710; daughter of George and Deliverance (Haley) Berry, married at Hampton, January I, 1702. Deliverance was daughter of Andrew Haley. George Berry, born 1674, at Rye, New Hampshire, was son of John Berry, born about 1630, in England, and grandson of William Berry, who came to New Hampshire as agent of the proprietor Mason. Children of William and Deborah Walker, born at Kit- tery: I. Charles, baptized June 25, 1725. 2. William, baptized September 24, 1727 ; soldier in Captain Joseph Ingersoll's company, Colonel Jonathan Bagley's regiment, in camp, at Fort William Henry, Lake George, October 12, 1756 (Mass. Arch. 94, 463-4); also private in First Company of Kittery, April 20, 1757 (Mass. Arch. 95-366) in the French and In- dian war. 3. George, baptized January II, 1730, died young. 4. George, baptized June 6, 1731 ; married Elizabeth Snow, daughter of
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John and Mary, September 5, 1754; soldier in Captain Israel Davis's company in the French war; also Captain Daniel Clark's company, Colonel Joseph Prime's regiment, in 1780, in the Revolution. (For children and descend- ants and collateral lines see manuscript of Walker family in Maine Genealogical Library, Portland, from which much information has been drawn for this sketch). 5. Miriam, bap- tized August 12, 1733, died young. 6. Miriam, born February 27, 1737. 7. Joseph (not re- corded) mentioned below. Children of second wife: 8. Deborah, baptized February 28, 1742. 9. Mehitable, baptized August 24, 1747, died young. IO: Samuel, baptized October 15, 1749. II. Mary, baptized February 4, 1753. 12. Mehitable, baptized April 19, 1755. 13. Sarah, baptized July 19, 1761.
(V) Joseph Walker, son or nephew of Wil- liam Walker (4), was born about 1740, at Kit- tery, Maine. He married
(VI) Joseph Walker Jr., son of Joseph Walker (5), was born in Kittery, May 25, 1777, and died there July 13, 1821. He mar- ried Sally born 1780.
(VII) Nathaniel Kenward Walker, son of Joseph Walker (6), born in Kittery, Maine, January 3, 1807, died May 23, 1880, in Ports- mouth, New Hampshire. He was brought up on a farm, and educated in the common schools of his native town. He removed to Ports- mouth, learned the trade of hatter, and en- gaged in business on his own account, continu- ing for a period of fifty years. He married Sarah A. Pray, born at Kittery, July 29, 1814, died at Portsmouth April 6, 1875, daughter of Captain Samuel Pray. (See Pray fam- ily).
(VIII) Hon. Clarence Orville Walker, son of Nathaniel Kenward Walker (7), was born in October, 1848, in Portsmouth, New Hamp- shire. He attended the public and high schools of his native town, and after gradu- ating began his career in business as clerk in a book store in Portsmouth, and after work- ing for the concern one year he entered the employ of C. J. Pickering & Co., flour and grain merchants. After being with this firm for two years, he purchased the store, form- ing a partnership with George Thompson, and conducting it under the firm name of George Thompson & Company. While still a young man he gave up the grain business and as- sociated with him his eldest brother, J. Albert Walker, in the retail coal business in the north end of Portsmouth. After three years he be- came a salesman for the Philadelphia & Read- ing Coal and Iron Company, with an office on
Exchange street, Boston. For eleven years he traveled through New England and Canada selling to prominent dealers. In 1888 he be- came a member of the well-known firm of J. Albert Walker & Company, wholesale deal- ers in coal, one of the largest concerns in this line of business in New England, owning im- mense pockets on the Mystic river, seen daily by many thousands in their ride to Boston on the Boston & Maine railroad, and also a large pocket on the Piscataqua river at Portsmouth, and still another at the old Boston & Lowell wharf, Boston. This firm sells coal to retail dealers and factories all along the line of the Boston & Maine railroad system. Every firm in Malden is a customer of this wholesale house to some extent. The head of the firm, Colonel J. Albert Walker, is one of the leading citizens of Rockingham county, New Hamp- shire, prominent in the public affairs of Ports- mouth and a leading Republican. The other member of this firm is Elbert L. Churchill. Clarence O. Walker came to Malden to live, March 17, 1877. When a young man just starting in life, he joined the Old North Church (Congregational orthodox) in Ports- mouth, and when he came to Malden he joined the First Congregational Church there. He has been a deacon since 1887, and was for many years superintendent of its Sunday school and clerk of the society. He has been identified with the various benevolences of his church and was active in founding Forestdale Chapel; he was also one of the founders of the Young Men's Christian Association and was for five years a director. The first lodge that Mr. Walker joined was Piscataqua Lodge of Odd Fellows, of Portsmouth, remaining an active member until he removed to Malden, when he was transferred to Middlesex Lodge. But it is in Masonry that he is best known. It is no exaggeration to say that he is among the most popular, beloved and highly respected Masons in Malden. He was raised to the de- gree of master mason September 4, 1884, and in 1887-88 was worshipful master, and for some years was a member of the grand lodge of Massachusetts, and trustee of the fund for widows and orphans of Mt. Vernon Lodge, this fund being the largest of its kind in New England. He has been chaplain of Taber- nacle Chapter, Royal Arch Masons, and of Melrose Council, Royal and Select Masters ; and member of Beauseant Commandery, Knights Templar. He is also a member of the Malden Board of Trade, and of Mystic Side Council, Royal Arcanum.
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