Historic homes and places and genealogical and personal memoirs relating to the families of Middlesex County, Massachusetts, Volume IV, Part 39

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

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(VI) John Robinson, son of John Robin- son (5), was born in Ipswich in 1775. He re- moved to Boston and followed his father's trade as shipwright, until he was eighteen years old when, owing to an accident that dis- abled him for that trade, he engaged in the bakery business in Boston. He died there May 23, 1822. He married, March 1, 1801, Mary Clark, who was born in Boston in 1777, and died there March 5, 1826, daughter of Samuel and (Cary) Clark. He was educated in the common schools. The following records of the birth of children of John and Mary (Clark) Robinson are from the family Bible : I. John Taylor, born November 29, 1801. 2. Mary, born January 23, 1802, died August 10, 1806. 3. Catherine, born September 11, 1804. 4. Robert Gutteridge, born January 23, 1806, died March 27, 1806. 5. Mary, born Febru- ary I, 1807, died February 14, 1807. 6. Mary, born July 10, 1808, died September 2, 1809. 7. William, born January 5, 1810, mentioned below.

(VII) William Robinson, son of John Rob- inson (6), was born in Boston, January 5, 1810, and died at Melrose Highlands, January 4, 1899. He was educated in the common schools of his native city, but left school and went to work at the age of thirteen years. He learned the painting and glazing trade and followed it for a number of years, but succeed- ed his father eventually in the baking business and conducted it successfully in the same lo- cation until 1860, when he retired from active labor and business. His residence until 1855 was at the corner of Ship street (afterward North) and Clark street, Boston, and then he removed to a house on Sheafe street, Boston, where he resided until 1881. He lived at Somerville from that time to 1894, when he went to Melrose Highlands and lived there the remainder of his days. He left a widow and one son, William Parker. He married (first), March 29, 1838, Caroline Amanda Jones, of Weston, Massachusetts. She died December 15, 1844. He married (second), September

17, 1847, Olive Garrett Parker, of Boston, daughter of David Parker, and granddaughter of Ebenezer and Mary (Pitcher) Parker, (whose other children were: William, a sail- or lost at sea, unmarried; Thomas Parker lived at Eastport, Maine, and had children : i. Ashley Parker, of South Boston; ii. Robert Parker, of Eastport, Maine; iii. Charles Park- er, died in Libby prison, Richmond, a prisoner in the Civil war; iv. Rebecca Parker; v. So- phronia Parker; vi. Mary Parker.) Mary Parker ; Robert Parker, left no issue.

David Parker married Olive Garrett, daugh- ter of Major Andrew Garrett, of West Barn- stable, Massachusetts; married (second) So- phia Marston, daughter of Benjamin Marston, of Barnstable; married (third) Susan Shaw Howland, of West Barnstable, daughter of Josiah Bodfish, of West Barnstable; was wharfinger of City wharf, Boston, until about 1850 when he removed to West Barnstable where he died April, 1866; was ten years of age when he located in Boston, living with a Mr. Davis from Shelburne, Nova Scotia, who brought him up and educated him; em- ployed him as clerk in his fish and salt store on Codman's wharf and finally left him the busi- ness ; he was master of the Lodge of St. An- drews, Free Masons, Boston. Children of David and Olive (Garrett) Parker: I. Rob- ert Parker, died in San Diego, California. 2. Olive G. Parker, married William Robinson, as mentioned above. Children of David and Sophia (Marston) Parker : 3. Benjamin Parker, died at Eureka, California. 4. David Parker, Jr., died aged nine years. 5. Sophia Parker, died in infancy. 6. Sophia Parker, died in infancy.

Children of William and Caroline Amanda (Jones) Robinson : I. William Henry, born January 8, 1839, died April 14, 1839. 2. Henry Franklin, born July 9, 1841, died Sep- tember, 1881. Children of William and Olive Garrett (Parker) Robinson: 3. Olive Gar- rett Parker, born January 7, 1849, died March 22, 1852. 4. Robert Parker, born February 19, 1851, died March 26, 1852. 5. William Park- er, born August 13, 1854, mentioned below. 6. Mary Amanda, born April II, 1856, died Oc- tober 1, 1866.

(VIII) William Parker Robinson, son of William Robinson (7), was born in Boston, August 13, 1854. He received his education in the public schools and the Chauncy Hall School of Boston, and at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He resided in Bos- ton until his marriage, when he made his

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home in Chelsea, Massachusetts. In 1890 he February 4, 1843. He attended the district removed to Melrose, where he has ever since resided. He was associated with a wholesale clothing business in 1874, and with the retail clothing business in Boston in 1891. In 1908 he established a retail clothing business at No. 5 Bromfield street. He is well advanced in Masonry, being affiliated with Zetland Lodge, Free and' Accepted Masons ; Waverly Chapter, Royal Arch Masons; and Hugh de Payens Commandery, Knights Templar. He married, August 1, 1878, Mary Eunice Webster, born October II, 1854, daughter of Charles Edward and Lydia A. (Sanderson) Webster, of Chel- sea. 'Mr. and Mrs. Robinson have children : I. Alice Webster, born July 30, 1879, is wife of Dr. Carvill was married, August 18, 1869, at Cambridge, Massachusetts, to Jemima Swanson Gray, of St. Margaret's Hope, Scot- land, born November 16, 1842, and their chil- dren were: Sewall Albert, born in Kingston, Minnesota, July 31, 1870; Lizzie Maud, born at Lewiston, Maine, April 27, 1873. Samuel Everett Eldridge, of Melrose; one child, Samuel Webster. 2. Mary Parker, born November 19, 1880, died May 23, 1881. 3. William Carleton, born March I, 1882, is associated with his father in business. 4. Reg- inald Gerrish, born March 23, 1892. The fam- ily attend the Universalist church.

William Carvill, grandfather CARVILL of Dr. Alphonso H. Carvill, was born in Portland, Maine, November 10, 1763. He married January 24, 1791, Rebecca Beard, of Portland, Maine, born July 23, 1768. They had eight children : Rachel, born October 14, 1791; Sewall, March 17, 1794 ; William, September 30, 1796; Mary, March 22, 1799; Elijah, March 30, 1802; Simon, November 18, 1804; Nathan, June 8, 1807; Rebecca, July II, 1812. In the war of the American Revolution both the Carvills and the Beards were well represented in the pa- triot army, and three of the brothers of Wil- liam Carvill were captured and carried to Can- ada as prisoners of war, and three or more of his wife's brothers took part in the same strug- gle.

(II) Sewall Carvill, eldest son and second child of William and Rebecca (Beard) Carvill, was born in Lewiston, Maine, March 17, 1794. He served in the army in the war with Eng- land in 1812-15. He was married, March, 1817, to Tamar Higgins of Lewiston, Maine, born November 13, 1797, and they had chil- dren named in the order of their birth: Mil- ton, Mary, died in infancy ; William, Elijah, Submit, Rebecca, Mary, Jefferson, Wesley, infant stillborn ; Jerusha Ann, Alonzo G. and Alphonso H., all born in Lewiston, Maine.

Alphonso Holland Carvill, thirteenth child and seventh son of Sewell and Tamar (Hig- gins) Carvill, was born in Lewiston, Maine,

school at No Name Pond, the Maine State Seminary (now Bates College), the Edward Little Institute, then Lewiston Falls Academy, matriculated at Tufts College in 1862, and was graduated A. B. 1866, A. M. 1869. He then took a course in medicine at Harvard Uni- versity and received his M. D. degree in 1869. He practiced medicine in St. Cloud, Minne- sota, 1869-73, and in Somerville, Massachu- · setts, from 1873, where he was a member of the school board for ten years and city physi- cian two years. He was a member of the commission that drew up the new charter for the city of Somerville.

Sewall Albert Carvill was a pupil of the grammar and high school of Somerville ; grad- uated from the Chauncy Hall School, Boston, in 1890, and martriculated at Tufts College, and after two years left college to take a course in medicine at Harvard University Medical School. He was married, Novem- ber 17, 1897, to Alice, daughter of Simon and Madeline (Lincoln) Goldthwaite, of Somer- ville, and their children were: Arthur Lin- coln, born March 18, 1902 ; Ralph Sewall, born October 14, 1906. Sewall A. Carvill was a salesman for the North Packing Company.

Lizzie Maud, daughter of Dr. Alphonso H. and Jemima Swanson (Gray) . Carvill, was born in Lewiston, Maine, April 27, 1873. She graduated at the Somerville high school; at the Chauncy Hall School, Boston; at Tufts College, A. B. 1899; at Tufts College Medical School, M. D., 1905; at Sargent's Normal School in Physical Training, 1895, and became a practicing physician as an eye specialist, and was teacher of physical training at Tufts Col- lege from 1897. She was president of the Powder House Club, a member of the Hep- torian Club, and the Delta Sigma fraternity.

Dr. Alphonso Holland Carvill was a mem- ber of John Abbott Lodge, F. A. M., of Som- erville Royal Arch Chapter ; a member of the American Institute of Homoeopathy, the Mas- sachusetts Homoeopathic Medical Society, Massachusetts Surgical and Gynecological So- ciety, and the Boston Homoeopathic Medical Society. His home in Somerville from 1893 was at 28 Highland avenue.

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Hamilton A. Marshall was MARSHALL born about 1800 in Ports- mouth, New Hampshire, and was educated in the public schools. He was married at Portsmouth (by Rev. I. W. Putnam) January 16, 1828, to Lucretia S. Hall, who died there April 30, 1875. He was a cabinet maker by trade. He had twelve sons and two daughters, all of whom were born in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, except- ing his son, George E. Marshall. Among his children were: I. Orlando Frederick, born October 19, 1828; mentioned below. 2. Mary Lund, died August 19, 1895; married Edwin Storrs, of Boston; no children. 3. Hamilton A., died May 30, 1854. 4. Alvin Hamilton, died May 3, 1864. 5. Albert Gillian, died June 18, 1864. 7. Ellen Lucretia, died May 30, 1854. 8. Horace Almander, married Ellen Runlet, of Newburyport; no children. 9. George Edwin, born October 6, 1848; died January 29, 1907 ; married January 14, 1875, Margaret Atwood, of Somerville; children : i. Ernest, born April 12, 1876; married Jose- phine Bruce, of Medford, and have: Marjorie Frances, born June 8, 1903, and George Ham- ilton, born November 21, 1906; ii. Edith, born October 7, 1877, married Joshua H. Baker, of Wellfleet, Massachusetts, and have Lorenzo Dow Baker, born July 24, 1900.

(II) Orlando Frederick Marshall, son of Hamilton A. Marshall (I), was born at Ports- mouth, New Hampshire, October 19, 1828. He attended the common schools of that town until he was eleven years old, when he re- moved to Boston, Massachusetts, with his par- ents, and completed his schooling in the pub- lic schools of that city. He learned the trade of carpenter and followed it many years in the employ of B. D. Whitcomb, a prominent Bos- ton contractor, and was his superintendent for many years. Among the important contracts of which he had charge under the contractors were : the new Old South Church; the Mu- seum of Fine Arts; the residence of Hollis Hunnewell. and the Boston Theatre arch. Later he engaged in business as a carpenter and builder on his own account. He lived on Rochester, Seneca and Perry streets while in Boston. About 1880 he removed to Pownal, Maine, where he continued in the building business. He built the town hall and school houses there, and many of the fine residences. He conducted a farm also, making a specialty of poultry. He died October 18, 1904, aged seventy-five years eleven months and twenty- nine days. He attended the Unitarian church, and was a Republican in politics. While liv-

ing in Boston he was foreman of Ladder Com- pany No. 3, Boston Fire Department. He was a member of the Bear Brook Grange, Patrons of Husbandry, at New Gloucester, Maine, and of Granite Grange No. 14, at Pownal.

He married, at Boston, Mary Louisa Small, born June 30, 1835, and died January 4, 1892, daughter of Joseph W. and Deborah (Watts) Small, of Portland, Maine. Her father was a sea captain, and later in life had a meat and provision market. Children: I. Geraldine Louise, born July 26, 1852, died September 19, 1853. 2. Frances Emeline, born January 22, 1855; died July 21, 1856. 3. Ellis Homer, born June 10, 1857 ; mentioned below. 4. Al- bert Gilman, born February 28, 1862; died June 16, 1864.

(III) Ellis Homer Marshall, son of Orlando Frederick Marshall (2), was born at Boston, June 10, 1857. He attended the Rice gram- mar school, Boston, until he was fourteen years old. Before he left school he worked from time to time for Knowles, Freeman & Co., dealers in fish. Afterward he entered the employ of Joseph F. Paul & Son, dealers in lumber, corner of Dover and Albany streets, as surveyor of lumber, remaining seven years. He entered the employ of the Highland street railway, and worked for several years as con- ductor and starter. During the next ten years he carried on the farm that had been his grandfather's. In September, 1891, he pur- chased the Teel farm at Woburn, consisting of forty-three acres, on Cambridge street, in the west part of Woburn, and since then has de- voted his attention to market gardening. He has enjoyed a prosperous business, making a specialty of peppers, celery, cucumbers, and lettuce. His market is in Boston, where he sells to commission houses and for his own account. He is enterprising and progressive and his farm is among the most tidy and well- kept in that section. He attends the Unitarian Church at Woburn. In politics he is a Re- publican. He was made a member of Mount Horeb Lodge of Free Masons, at Woburn, March 5, 1902. He was formerly a member of Bear Brook Grange, Patrons of Husbandry, of New Gloucester, Maine, and held offices in that body. He served five years as private in the Roxbury City Guards, Company D, First Regiment Massachusetts Volunteer Militia.

He married May 25, 1881, Emily Louise Chamberlain, born at Boston, March 8, 1864, daughter of John L. and Lavina (Burke) Chamberlain, of Boston. Her father was sales- man in a grocery store. Children: I. Albert Lincoln, born August 3, 1882. 2. Walter Fred-

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erick, born September 22, 1886. 3. Roland, Davis, born September 23, 1896.

Hon. John J. Donovan was DONOVAN born in Yonkers, New York, July 28, 1843. He was the son of Jeremiah Donovan, who was born in Ireland, and came among the first of the Irish whom famine drove to America in the forties, making his home in Yonkers, where he died in 1846. After his father's death in 1846 his mother removed to Lowell, Massachusetts, where Mr. Donovan lived all the remainder of his life. He attended the Lowell public schools and graduated from the Washington gram- mar school and the Lowell high school. After a term in Farnsworth Academy he entered the employ of David Gove, 223 Central street, Lowell, and when he came of age he was ad- mitted to partnership by his employer. When Mr. Gove retired a few years later Mr. Don- ovan took full control of the business and re- tained it to the time of his death, although during his last years he entrusted the active management to John T. Seede.

In 1877 Mr. Donovan began the manufac- ture of paper at Dracut and he built up a large and prosperous business there. In 1884 he or- ganized the Atlantic Telegraph Company and established lines as far east as Bangor, Maine. He was treasurer of the company from its organization until his death. In 1891 he was one of the founders of the Lowell Trust Com- pany and was its president from the first. He was also a trustee and president of the Wash- ington Savings Institution. In 1894 he was one of the organizers of the Fifield Tool Com- pany, the largest engine lathe manufactory in the country, and he was the treasurer from the first. From 1894 to the time of his death he was the active manager of the Coburn Shuttle and Bobbin Company.

During the time that Mr. Donovan took an active part in politics, he was very prom- inent in public life. He was on the board of overseers of the poor in 1882, and in the fall of that year was elected mayor of the city on the Democratic ticket. He was re-elected the following year and during both years of his administration gave the city a conservative and economical administration. While he was mayor the large intercepting sewer was con- structed, the Aiken street and Central bridges were completed and the Taylor street bridge practically completed as well as the new build- ings at the City Farm. The Pawtucket gram- mar school building and the Powell street

school building were erected. It was through his recommendation and influence that the public library was made free and the public reading room established. In 1886 he was nominated for congress in the eighth district, and he made an energetic campaign, reducing the Republican plurality from three thousand to about four hundred. In 1888 he was chair- man of the Democratic state convention, and his speech was received by the Democrats of the state with enthusiasm and by his opponents with much favorable comment. He was a brilliant public speaker, and was constantly in demand at occasions of public gatherings in Lowell.

Among his more notable addresses were those at the dedication of various public build- ings and especially that at the Washington Centenary. Mr. Donovan's home was in the Highland ward and gave evidence of his in- terest in literature and art. He died there April 21, 1905.

He married, 1869, Mary E. Seede, of Ports- mouth, New Hampshire. She was daughter of Augusta, and Sarah Seede. Children: I. Katherine S., 2. John A., graduated from In- stitute of Technology at Boston. 3. Sarah E. 4. Grace D., educated at Sunapee College. 5. Marianna, educated at Sunapee College. All his children are living in Lowell. Mrs. Dono- van, mother of these children, died March 2, I908.

Daniel Webster Bullard, son BULLARD of Enoch and Olive (Gilbert) Bullard, was born in Med- field, Norfolk county, Massachusetts, Janu- ary 5, 1824. He was brought up on his fath- er's farm, where he became accustomed to the tasks at discipline incident to New England farm work as performed in those days by very young boys. His father was a man of considerable local reputation, being for twenty years deputy sheriff of Norfolk county, keeper of a country store, and selectman for the town of Medfield. He married Olive Gilbert, and they had six children, of whom- Daniel Web- ster Bullard was the only survivor in 1907.

After attending the public schools during the winter terms, he left the farm and accept- ed a position in a store in Roxbury, where he was employed in 1861, when the call came from President Lincoln for seventy-five thou- sand men to put down the rebellion in the southern states. He enlisted for two years service, and was assigned to Company E, to which W. S. Cogswell had been assigned by

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Governor Andrew as captain and Nelson Ap- pleton Miles as first lieutenant. The regiment was under command of Henry Wilson, and known as the Twenty-Second Massachusetts Volunteers, but the regiment was mustered in the United States service September 9, 1861, with Lieutenant Miles as captain, and he was so enrolled on the paymaster's muster, and to avoid conflict between the state of Massachu- setts and the United States authorities, Col- onel Wilson, on November 9, 1861, obtained for the future lieutenant-general of the United States army to staff duty on the staff of Gen- eral Oliver O. Howard, and it is worthy of note that General O. O. Howard and General Nelson A. Miles , were both living in 1907, while most of their companions in arms hold- ing commissions of the highest rank were at rest in Arlington cemetery. The Twenty-sec- ond Massachusetts passed to the command of Colonel Jesse D. Gore on the resignation of of Colonel Wilson to resume his seat in the United States senate in December, 1861, and Company E reverted to the command of Captain W. S. Cogswell under commission from Governor Andrew. The regiment saw service on the Peninsula in the Army of the Potomac under General McClellan; at Me- chanicsville, June 26, 1862; Gaine's Mill, June 27, 1862; Savage Station, June 29, 1862; White Oak Swamp, June 30, 1862; and Mal- vern Hill, July 1, 1862. He was mustered out of the United States volunteer service in March, 1863, at Boston, Massachusetts, with his regiment, its term of service having ex- pired, and he received an honorable discharge. He returned to Cambridge, and in August, 1865, was appointed assistant clerk of the su- preme court, civil service, at Boston, which position he held for nearly thirty years, retir- ing in 1894, he having reached the age of seventy years. He assisted in founding Grand Army Post No. 186, in Boston, and was a charter member of the organization, and was largely instrumental in having it transferred to Cambridge.

He was married to Martha Frances, daugh- ter of Francis and Martha (Morrill) Curtis and their children were: Fannie Bullard, de- ceased. Enoch Herbert Bullard; he gave his time largely to the personal care of his father and of the property owned by him at No. 20 Maple avenue, Cambridge, where he had es- tablished his home in 1880; he now resides at Raynham, Massachusetts, where he owns a farm. Martha Bullard, deceased. Florence, married Albert F. Rivard, a jeweler of Taun- ton, Massachusetts, and they had in 1907 one

child, Alwin Curtis, born November 1I, 1890. Frank Bullard, deceased. Nellie Bullard, mar- ried Charles E. Palmer, of Waltham, Massa- chusetts, employed in the Waltham Watch Company establishment of that place. Their only child was Bulah W. Palmer, born Sep- tember 21, 1882.

Daniel Webster Bullard now resides with Mr. and Mrs. Charles E. Palmer, 29 South street, Waltham, Massachusetts.

Elicom Robinson was born ROBINSON in Limington, York county, Maine, was a farmer and the father of five children: William, Albert, Edwin Allen, Alrida and Henry.

Edwin Allen Robinson, son of Elicom Rob- inson, was born in Limington, Maine, April 3, 1842. He was instructed in the public schools of his native town, and while not at school worked on his father's farm. He left the farm in 1862 to enlist on September 10, in Company A, Twenty-seventh Maine Volunteers for nine months service; at the end of the term of his enlistment he was honorably discharged, and after recuperating from the effects of nine months service in the south he re-enlisted Sep- tember 17, 1863, in the Fifth Battery, First Regiment of Artillery, recruited in Portland, and he served in the artillery up to the close of the war. He then settled in Lowell, Mas- sachusetts,' and was employed by the Suffolk corporation, where he learned the textile man- ufacturing business, and for twenty years was overseer of the weaving rooms, serving in that responsible position from 1884 to 1904. In 1904 he retired from active business by reason of ill health brought on by close confinement to the unhealthy conditions in which he la- bored after leaving the army. He was promi- nent in the councils of the Republican party, and served his district in the board of the common council of the city of Lowell for two years. His military service won him recogni- tion in the Ladd Whitney Post, No. 185, Grand Army of the Republic, Lowell, Massa- chusetts, in which he held responsible office and was much esteemed by his comrades. He was married October 9, 1866, to Cornelia Ann, daughter of William Godfrey and Jane Fitz- herbert (Drummond) Taylor, of New Port- land, Maine. Her mother was born in Liver- more, Maine, September 17, 1818, and lived with her daughter who was born in New Port- land, Maine, July 1, 1844, and the Widow Taylor was still living in Lowell, Massachu- setts, in 1907, having reached the eighty-ninth

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year of her age. Her daughter Cornelia Ann had one child, a son, who was born in 1872.

Charles Edwin Robinson, son of Edwin Al- len and Cornelia Ann (Taylor) Robinson, was born in Lowell, Massachusetts, May 12, 1872. He was instructed in the public schools of Lowell, and learned the trade of compositor and printer, becoming the founder and sole proprietor of the Robinson Printing Com- pany of Lowell, Massachusetts. He was mar- ried September 22, 1894, to Carrie Huyck, of Michigan, and their son, Howard E. Robinson was born in Lowell, Massachusetts, Novem- ber 22, 1897.

William Drummond, grandfather of Cor- nelia Ann (Taylor) Robinson, was born in county Tyrone, Ireland, February 9, 1772, of Protestant parents. He married Martha Clark, born in county Tyrone, Ireland, June 12, 1771, and they immigrated to the United States in the ship "North Star," landing at Bath, Maine, in June, 1812. The children of William and Martha (Clark) Drummond were: Samuel, born December 23, 1800, died in 1845. Catherine, born April 9, 1803, died January 17, 1898. Eliza, born August 14, 1806, deceased. Mary, born August 1, 1809, died December 3, 1903. John, born June 26, 1812, deceased. Matilda, born May 8, 1815, deceased. Jane Fitzherbert, born September 17, 1818, living in 1907. She married William Godfrey Taylor, and had children as follows, in the order of their birth: Charles, Cornelia Ann, Martha, Myra and Laronia Taylor. The mother, Martha (Clark) Drummond, died February 5, 1849.

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Historic homes and places and genealogical and personal memoirs relating to the families of Middlesex County, Massachusetts, Volume IV, Part 39

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

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