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(VIII) Homer C. Holt, son of Varnum Sawtelle Holt (7), was born at Wilton, New Hampshire, April 4, 1846. He removed to Cambridge in 1858. He was educated in the public schools, and graduated at the Cam- bridge high school. He studied law in the office of his elder brother, Joseph Gibson Holt, Boston, and was admitted to the bar in 1867 at the age of twenty-one. He followed his profession as a lawyer in Middlesex county, Massachusetts, for a period of thirty-one years and took high rank in the profession. For the past eighteen years he had been in- terested chiefly in the real estate business. His firm laid out the township of Lakewood,
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New Jersey, formerly called Bricksburg, and have handled many large transactions in Bos- ton and vicinity. Mr. Holt was a justice of the peace and notary public for many years. He was a member of the Free masons and a Knight Templar, Cambridge. In religion he was a Congregationalist; in politics a Repub- lican.
He married (first), July 9, 1879, Alice M. Dresser, born at Portland, Maine, September 12, 1857, died August 24, 1896. . Edward K. Dresser, her father, married Mary L. Whit- ing and had: Fannie E. Dresser, married Robert A. Hancock; and Alice Dresser, mar- ried Mr. Holt. Robert Dresser, father of Ed- (IX) Alice Louise Holt, daughter. of Hom- er C. Holt (8), was born in Cambridge, Mas- sachusetts, March 20, 1882, She was edu- cated in the public and high schools of her na- tive city. She married, June 5, 1905, Walter L. Reynolds, born February 20, ,1878, at La- moine, Maine. He was educated in the pub- lic schools and took up a mercantile career. He is at present a wholesale confectionery dealer of Boston, residing at 5 Hammond street, Somerville, Massachusetts. The only child of Walter L. and Alice Louise Holt is : Homer Holt Reynolds, born at Somerville, April 13, 1906. Charles A. and Mary Ellen (King) Reynolds, parents of Walter L. Rey- nolds, had also: i. Arthur W., married A. Gertrude Hutchins'; ii. Persis M. Reynolds, who married Sumner W. Foster ; iii. Louise Reynolds, unmarried. ward K. Dresser, was born in Scarborough, Maine, December 3, 1799. Wentworth Dress- er, father of Robert Dresser, and wife So- phia resided in Scarborough; children: i. John, born March 27, 1795; ii. Israel, Octo- ber 14, 1796; iii. Robert, December 3, 1799, mentioned; iv. Daniel, August 31, 1802; v. Lydia, February 12, 1805; vi. Asa, April 27, 1807; vii. Joseph, October 27, 1811. Jona- than Dresser, doubtless the father of Went- worth Dresser, was a member of the First Church of Scarborough, Maine, July 17, 1743. Nathaniel Dresser, father of Jonathan Dress- er, according to the best evidence at hand, and certainly grandfather of Wentworth Dresser, was born in Rowley, Massachusetts, August 27, 1681; married there November 13, 1707, Elizabeth Wentworth, born August 27, 1689. He received a gift of land from his father in Rowley in 1711-12. She was the daughter of Sylvanus and Elizabeth (Stewart) Robert Lane, the English progen- LANE itor, lived at Rickmansworth, Wentworth, and granddaughter of Elder William Wentworth (See Wentworth sketch) Hertfordshire. His will, dated July 4, 1542, proved June 11, 1543, provides that he be buried in the churchyard of Our Blessed Lady in Rickmansworth, and gives to daughters Annes (or Agnes) Page and Margaret Thorpe each one acre of wheat, one cow and ten sheep, and various articles of liam Page, and John Thorpe, son of Edward Thorpe, each one sheep; and to Elyne, his son's daughter, one bullock. His son Thom- as was executor and residuary legatee. Chil- dren : I. Thomas, mentioned below. 2. Annes, married William Page. 3. Margaret, married Edward Thorpe. and Duncan Stewart, of Rowley. Sylvanus Wentworth resided in Rowley and in Dover, New Hampshire. Lieutenant John Dresser, father of Nathaniel Dresser, born about 1640; married, November 27, 1662, Martha, prob- ably daughter of Richard Thorley. She died June 29, 1700; he married (second), January household furniture; to John Page, son Wil- 7, 1701-02, Rebecca Dickinson, widow of James Dickinson, and she died April 2, 1718. Lieutenant Dresser died March 14, 1723-24, Newbury or Rowley (records at both places). John Dresser (1), father of Lieutenant John Dresser, was one of the pioneers of Rowley, Massachusetts, where he had a house lot as early as 1643: his wife Mary came with him; he died 1672, leaving a will, mentioning his children and others.
Homer C. and Alice L. (Dresser) Holt had one child: Alice Louise, mentioned below. Homer C. Holt married (second) August 31,
1898, Elizabeth V. McCallum, born at Saco, Maine, July 4, 1856, daughter of John and Mary A. (Johnson) McCallum, whose chil- dren were: Elizabeth V., Jane, Lucy, Sarah, John, James, George, Mary, Fannie, Annie, William, the latter being the only one surviv- ing; he resides in Saco, Maine, and has sons, John and Paul McCallum. William McCal- lum, father of John McCallum, married Nan- cy Buchanan, and had children: Robert, John, William, Alexander, Andrew, James, Margaret, Elizabeth, Nancy McCallum. There were no children by the second mar- riage of Mr. Holt.
(II) Thomas Lane, son of Robert Lane (1), was born about 1515. He was a yeoman of Rickmansworth. His will, dated December 9, 1586, proved June 14, 1587, provides that his body be buried in the churchyard at Rick- mansworth, and bequeathed ten shillings to
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the poor of the parish; to his son George "the table in the hall, and the form and settles about the window, and the horse mill stand- ing in the barn, with all things belonging to the said mill; also a brass pot which was his grandfather's, after the death of his wife; to son John; son. Richard; daughter Joan Wynchfield; to Elizabeth Culverhouse; to Mary Page; to James Lane, house and land at Croxley Green, on condition that the aforementioned George Lane, father of James pays to testator's daughter Dorothy ten pounds at the time of her marriage; to sister Thorpe. His wife Alice was executrix and residuary legatee. Children: I. Elyne, men- tioned in her grandfather's will in 1542. 2.
George, mentioned below. 3. John. 4. Richard. 5. Elizabeth, married Culver- house. 6. Dorothy, perhaps wife of Thomas Hull.
(III) George Lane, son of Thomas Lane (2), was born about- 1550. His will, dated November 6, 1627, proved September 27, 1628, bequeaths to son Henry; son Symon, a life annuity towards the bringing up of his children, upon condition that he shall not re- turn his children to his kindred, otherwise the legacy to be void; to daughter Isabel Lane; sons Jerome and James; to Edward, James's son; to Anne, daughter of Thomas Hull, and other children of Thomas Hull. Thomas and John were executors and resi- duary legatees. Children: I. Thomas, exec- utor of father's will. and trustee under the will of his brother Symon in 1629, probably died before 1646, in England. 2. John, ancestor of one branch of the American family. 3. Henry. 4. Symon, died in England. 5. Jer- ome. 6. James ; mentioned below. 7. Isabel. 8. George, married and had children.
(IV) James Lane, born in Rickmansworth, England, was the father of Job, James and Edward Lane, of Malden, Massachusetts, 1650. He died possessing a landed estate, before the year 1654. His wife's name was Katherine. Children: 1. John, the eldest, remained in England and received joint in- heritance with his brother James in the par- ental estate prior to 1654. 2. Job, born about 1620, in England; settled in Malden, Massa- chusetts; ancestor of the Billerica and Bed- ford Lane families. 3. James ; mentioned be- low. 4. Edward, an early settler of Malden; bought real estate there in 1651 of Robert Harding; visited England, returning 1656; settled as a merchant in Boston.
(V) James Lane, son of James Lane (4), was born in England, and perhaps was the
craftsman and member of the guild of Turn- ers, London, 1654. That same year James, and John Lane, his brother, had joint owner- ship in real estate at Rickmansworth, Hert- fordshire, received from their parents. Job Lane, their brother, also claimed a share. James had paid debts on the property, "a good sum," and was reduced in circumstances. The brothers -- Job, James and Edward-settled in Malden about 1656, in some kind of partner- ship which did not continue long. James Lane soon removed to Casco Bay, Edward Lane to Boston, and Job to Billerica, about 1664. James Lane was called an inhabitant of Charlestown in 1658; in 1660 he was at Mal- den, according to a power of attorney given his brother Job. At North Yarmouth he ac- quired by purchase and improvement large es- tates in different sections. He gave his name to a point of land and an island off the east coast of Royall's river, which still bear his name. The Indian headquarters for fishing the streams and coves along the shores of Casco Bay seems to have been on Lane's Isl- and. Lane was living in Falmouth in 1658, when he signed the petition to come under the Massachusetts (government. He received a legacy from his uncle, John Lane, August 7, 1661. In 1665-6 and probably afterward for some time he was sergeant of the military company. In King Philip's war Lane was killed by the Indians, and his family had to leave North Yarmouth. The inventory of his estate was dated August 18, 1681. James Lane married first, Ann , and second, Sarah White, daughter of John and Mary White. Mary (White) married first James Phips, and by her two husbands became the mother of twenty-six children. Sarah White was half- sister of Governor William Phips. James died intestate and left six children to share his estate. Children : 1. Ann, lived in Billerica in 1678; married John Bray, son of Richard Bray-perhaps a Quaker marriage, as an at- tempt was made by some party to prove tthe marriage illegal. 2. John, mentioned below. 3. Samuel, resided at North Yarmouth. 4. Henry ; lived at North Yarmouth; died at Boston, June 4, 1690. 5. Job, married Mary Fassett. 6. James, was living August 25, 1679.
(VI) John Lane, son of James Lane (5), born about 1652, died 1738. He testified July 2, 1733, that "fifty-two or three years since, he went to live at Falmouth in Casco Bay, and there lived till he removed from thence in the second Indian war." Other records show that he was at Cape Elizabeth, under President Thomas Danforth, in 1680. He married Dor-
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cas Wallis, daughter of John and Mary (Shepard) Wallis. John Wallis bought his property at Cape Elizabeth in 1667 of Nicho- las White. The locality was known as Papod- ing, in Casco Bay. In the attack upon Casco Bay, August II, 1675, Wallis had his dwell- ing house burned. In this attack eleven men were slain and twenty-three women and chil- dren killed or taken captive. Wallis returned to Falmouth, where he was selectman in 1681. Compelled to leave again in the second Indian attack, he settled at Gloucester, where he died September 23, 1690. Nathaniel Wallis, father of John, was a native of Cornwall, England, and was with his son among the twenty-nine inhabitants of Black Point and Casco Bay, as early as 1658. John Lane was living near his father-in-law, John Wallis, at Purpooduck Point, in 1687 and May 26, 1689. King Wil- liam's War, "the second Indian War" men- tioned in Lane's deposition, broke out in 1686. Falmouth was again abandoned May 17, 1690, when an expedition from Quebec dismantled three forts there, killed and captured one hun- dred inhabitants, and destroyed the town. The slain had no funerals, and were left unburied until the next year. From Casco Bay to Pem- aquid not one single English plantation re- mained. The families of John Wallis and John Lane, of Cape Elizabeth, and of Samuel Lane of North Yarmouth, are found soon after- ward at Gloucester, Massachusetts. Here the Lane family gave the name of Lanesville to a village of the town. He sold his land at Fal- mouth in 1700 and bought land in Gloucester. In 1714-5 he presented claims for six parcels of land of his father at North Yarmouth, and also claimed in his own right fifty or sixty acres of land at Pond Cove, Cape Elizabeth. These claims were established. John and Dorcas Lane shared in the division of the Wallis estate at Falmouth, February 19, 1723. In the records of the commission appointed to establish the land titles after the danger of In- dian attack had passed, several important de- positions of John Lane are on file. Lane was a member of the First Church of Gloucester ; also an original member of the Third Church at its organization in 1728, at Annisquam Harbor. Lane died January 24, 1737-8, aged- eighty-six years. His wife Dorcas was ad- mitted to the church January 14, 1730, and died February 2, 1754, in her ninety-third year. Of the children, five were born at Cape Elizabeth and six at Gloucester; nine were baptized at the First Church of Gloucester before 1703. by Rev. John White: I. James, bo":1 1682; mentioned below. 2. John, born
1688; married Mary Riggs. 3. Josiah, mar- ried January 15, 1713, Rachel York. 4. Dor- cas, married January 8, 1713, William Tucker, born May II, 1690. 5. Sarah, born about 1690; married, December, 1713, Thomas Riggs; he married second, Sarah Hunt, of Ipswich. 6. Hepzibah, born at Gloucester July 20, 1694, married November 27, 1718, Caleb Woodbury. 7. Mary, born August 8, 1696; married first, Thomas Finson, who was klled by the Indians at Fox Island, June 24, 1724. 8. Joseph, born October 15, 1698; mar- ried Deborah Harraden. 9. Benjamin, born July 25, 1700; married Elizabeth Griffin. 10. Deborah, born February 19, 1703; died May 9, 1729. II. Job, born February 8, married Mary Ashby.
(VIII) Deacon James Lane, son of John Lane (7), was born at Cape Elizabeth, in 1682; married first, October 25, 1710, Ruth, daughter of John and Ruth (Wheeler) Riggs; granddaughter of Thomas Riggs, who was educated as a scrivener in England, was in Gloucester by 1658, school master, town clerk 1665 to 1716, fifty-one years, selectman over twenty years, representative in 1700. Mrs. Lane was born in Gloucester, November 4, 1690, and died August 18, 17II, aged twenty years. Deacon Lane married second, Judith Woodbury, widow of William Woodbury. She was admitted to the church November 13, 1739, and died August 29, 1770. Lane resided at Lanesville, Gloucester, where he was a prom- inent citizen of wide influence. He bought much land. James, John and Samuel Lane were among the forty petitioners in 1726 for the Third or Annisquam Parish, incorporated June II, 1728, and they signed the original covenant. James Lane was chosen deacon of this church at its organization ; was selectman of Gloucester 1726, 1727, 1730 to 1735 inclu- sive. He died intestate April 20, 1751. His estate was divided February 20, 1771. Chil- dren : I. James, born August 8, 17II; died May 14, 1729. Children by second wife: 2. William, born June 24, 1716; married Lydia 3. Griffin and Deborah (Lane) Langsford. Ruth, born December 27, 1718; married April 6, 1738, Paul Morgan. 4. Josiah, born March 29, 1721, mentioned below. 5. Mary, born June 25, 1723. 6. John, born August 8, 1725. 7. James, born October 9, 1729; master of fishing schooner, lost at sea in 1753.
(IX) Josiah Lane, son of James Lane (8), born in Gloucester, Massachusetts, March 29, 1721 ; married March 20, 1743, Abigail Nor- wood, born March 28, 1723, daughter of Joshua and Elizabeth (Andrews) Norwood.
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Francis Norwood, father of Thomas, was one of Cromwell's soldiers, and after the restora- tion of Charles II he fled from England. Joshua Norwood was a fisherman, and en- gaged in getting out mooring stones and mill- stones, the first man in Gloucester to quarry stone, an industry that has flourished in later years. Mr. Lane and his wife were members of the Third Church in Annisquam. 'He died 1766, and administration was granted to his widow Abigail, November 3, 1766. The in- ventory included half a schooner, a pew in the meeting house, and a third of another pew, and one-third of one-eighth of the vacancy in the gallery. His widow seems to have mar- ried second, Joseph Caffareen, the schoolmas- ter, who died September 6, 1814. The house formerly occupied by Josiah Lane is still standing at Bay View, Gloucester, though changed in appearance. Six or seven of his sons were soldiers in the Revolution. Chil- dren : I. Ruth, born October 8, 1743. 2. Ju- dith, born June 23, 1745. 3. James, born June 8, 1747 ; married Hannah Robinson. 4. Josiah, born December 6, 1748; mentioned below. 5. Isaac, born November 4, 1750; married Dor- cas Bennett and Jerusha 6. Theophil- us, born July 9, 1752; married Susannah Davis. 7. Levi, born November 3, 1754; mar- ried Elizabeth Gyles and Susannah (New- man) Lane. 8. Francis, born December 12, 1756, married Esther Griffin, Hannah Wyman and Betsey Gammon. 9. Abigail, born Octo- ber 19, 1759; married Nathaniel Bennett, re- sided at Mount Desert. 10. Mark, born Janu- ary 8, 1762; married Esther Gott. II. Ammi; born June 17, 1764.
(X) Josiah Lane, son of Josiah Lane (9), was born December 6, and baptized Decem- ber II, 1748, at Annisquam, Gloucester, Mas- sachusetts. He married (intention dated De- cember 19) 1769, Jerusha Stevens. He set- tled with others of the family at New Glouces- ter, Maine. His only child was Josiah, men- tioned below.
(XI) Josiah Lane, son of Josiah Lane (10), born in New Gloucester, Maine, January 15, 1771 ; died there January 19, 1833, aged sixty- two years; married (intentions dated March 30) 1795, Abigail (Rowe) Cleaves, who was born October 3, 1773, and died July 25, 1834, daughter of Jonathan Rowe, of New Glouces- ter. Josiah Lane settled at New Gloucester on a farm that he bought of Cotton Tufts and Samuel Tucker in 1799. This farm he be- queathed to his wife, and it was sold by his heirs to Benjamin Rollins, May 1, 1838. Chil- dren : I. Isaac, born October 1, 1795. 2. Dr.
Josiah, born December 7, 1796, settled at Lis- bon, Maine ; died June II, 1850. 3. Jonathan, born May 26, 1798. 4. Abigail D., born Oc- tober 25, 1800; died January 1, 1815. 5. Cyn- thia, born September 13, 1802; died June 28, 1844. 6. Edmund Cleaves, born October 23, 1804; married Mary Ring Humphrey. 7. Moses, born September 16, 1806; married Oc- tober 18, 1829, Angelina Tyler, and died in Minot, Maine, August 10, 1831, leaving two daughters. 8. Mary E., born December 23, 1808, lived at New Gloucester. 9. Jane C., born March 6, 1811; married Ephraim G. Gordon, of Poland, Maine, and died January 25, 1858. 10. Seth, born March 18, 1813; married Hannah C. C. Rowe. II. Julia Ann, born March 24, 1815 ; died at New Gloucester, February 27, 1853. 12. Abigail C., born June 7, 1817. 13. Addison, born March 1, 1821 ; mentioned below.
(XII) Addison Lane, son of Josiah Lane (II), was born in New Gloucester, Maine, March 1, 1821. In 1838 his guardian, Jesse Hayes, sold his share in his mother's estate to Benjamin Rollins. ' He was educated in the public schools of his native town. At the age of thirteen he began to earn his own living. He learned the trade of cabinet making. He removed to Melrose, Massachusetts, in 1851,. and followed his trade in Boston until 1870, when he opened a place of business in Melrose. After about a year he was appointed superin- tendent of the Melrose Water Works, and he sold his store. He was at the head of the water department of Melrose for a period of seventeen years, and had much to do with the development and extension of the system in that rapidly growing municipality. When he left this position he engaged in the real estate business for four years. During the next eight years he served the city of Melrose as collector of taxes, a position in which he gave the utmost satisfaction to both taxpayers and city officers. When he retired from this office it was to give up active business, and he has since then lived quietly in Melrose. In poli- tics Mr. Lane is a Republican. He was some- what active in party affairs in his younger days, and often served as delegate to nomina- ting conventions. In religion he is a Baptist, an earnest and faithful member of the Melrose Baptist Church, and for many years a deacon.
He married twice : first Lucy A. Morrison, born in Portsmouth, New Hampshire ; he mar- ried second Children of Addison and Lucy A. Lane: I. Emily W. 2. Alice M. 3. Adelaide L., married Edwin H. Downing, of Arlington Heights, Massachusetts. 4. Hattie
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The immigrant ancestor of
CHANDLER Frank E. Chandler was William Chandler, who came to New England in 1637, with his wife Annis and four children-Thomas, Hannah, John and William. He died of consumption January 26, 1641, after a lingering illness of nearly a year, having "lived a very religious and godley life." Two years later his widow married John Dane, of Ipswich and Roxbury. (II) Thomas Chandler, born in 1630, died in 1703. He came to Roxbury with his par- ents when seven years old. He married Han- nah Brewer, of Roxbury. They were among the pioneers and early settlers of Andover. He was proprietor of an iron foundry, as well as farmer, and was also captain of the military company. He was representative to the gen- eral court in 1678 and 1679.
(III) Captain Joseph Chandler, born Au- gust 3, 1669, married Sarah Abbott, daughter of Thomas and Sarah (Stewart) Abbott. He had a saw mill in Andover in 1695, but sold his property there and removed to Amesbury, then a new town. In 1709-10 he was survey- or, and like his father was captain of a mili- tary company.
(IV) Joseph Chandler was the second of nine children. He married Mary Tucker, of Amesbury, December 28, 1717. He worked at blacksmithing and iron making, and lived many years in Salisbury, but removed to Southampton, New Hampshire, in 1753, and to Epping, New Hampshire, in 1755.
(V) Captain Joseph Chandler, second of seven children, was born in Salisbury, in 1725, and married Lydia Eastman, of Epping, Jan- uary I, 1746. He was a blacksmith by trade, as well as farmer. He served in the French and Indian war, and was captain of a com- pany in the Revolutionary war, and died at Fort Independence, September 17, 1776. His estate was valued at £849 os 3d. After his death his wife married John Bartlett, and out- living him she went to live with her son, John Chandler, at Monmouth, Maine.
(VI) Nathaniel Chandler, the oldest of ten children, was born September 22, 1748. He married Ann Prescott, of New Hampton, New Hampshire. She was a descendant of James Prescott, of Hampton, New Hampshire, previ- ously of Dryby, England. Her father was Major Joseph Prescott, born November 17,
1725, of Epping, who was a major in Colonel Stephen Evans' regiment, and was in the bat- tles of Bennington and Ticonderoga, and at the taking of Burgoyne. Mr. Chandler was a blacksmith, and lived in Sanbornton several years, and removed to New Hampton. He died in 1795 in his forty-seventh year.
(VII) Joseph Prescott Chandler, the sec- ond of nine children, was born December 29, 1776, in New Hampton. February 22, 1816, he married Hannah Cram, daughter of Jon- athan Cram, of Hampton Falls, New Hamp- shire. He had charge of the light house on Burnt Island, Boothbay, for several years, and then settled down as a farmer at Exeter, Maine. He died January Ist, 1864.
(VIII) Joseph Cram Chandler, born in Monmouth, Maine, February 5, 1819, mar-' ried, in 1851, Mary Elizabeth Hicks, daugh- ter of David Hicks, of Corinna, Maine. He died December 3, 1905, in Medford. She died August 17, 1888, in Medford, Massa- chusetts. He lived in Corinna for quite a number of years, and was chairman of the board of selectmen for several years. At that time he owned and operated a large corn- meal and flour mill in that town. He made a specialty of erecting mills for the manufac- turing of lumber, also grist mills and tanner- ies throughout New England and Canada, was afterwards associated with his son in the coal business at Medford, and in later years they were together in the milling business, having bought the City Flour Mills at Law- rence, Massachusetts. He belonged to the ·Republican party. Only one son, our subject.
(IX) Frank Eugene Chandler, born in Ex- eter, Maine, September 14, 1852, fitted for college at Kent's Hill Academy. He did not go to college, preferring a business career, and came to Medford, Massachusetts, in 1873, and went into the coal business, which he fol- lowed for twelve years. In 1885 he bought the City Flour Mills of Lawrence, which were destroyed by fire July 23, 1907. He is treas- urer of the Dillon Machine Company of Law- rence, for the manufacture of machinery for paper mills. He is in the grain and lumber business, with office at the Chamber of Com- merce building, Boston. He has never held an elective office, but is one of the trustees of the Medford Savings Bank, and was a member of the board of investment fourteen years. He was chairman of the Medford water board twelve years, resigning two years ago. For his services on the water board the city of Medford is greatly indebted to him. His intimate knowledge of the water supply
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