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Beal, or Beals, is an English sur- BEALS name of great antiquity, derived from the name of a place. It means literally a narrow pass. The Scandi- navian giant Beli, from whom the name may descend, was slain by Freyr. The French form de la Beale is found in the Hundred Rolls in the thirteenth century. There is a hamlet of this name in the detached portion of Durham, England, and the family is numer- ous in Herefordshire and Northamptonshire. Their coat-of-arms: Argent a chevron be- tween three pheons sable the two in chief lying fesseways point to point. Another ancient coat-of-arms of this family was derived from William Beale, port reeve of Maidstone in the fourteenth century ; his descendant, Sir John Beale of Farmington Court, Kent, was high sheriff of County Kent in 1665. Arms : Sable on a chevron or between three griffons' heads
erased argent. As many estoiles gules. Crest -- A unicorn's head erased or semel of estoiles gules.
(I) John Beal, the immigrant ancestor, came from the parish of Hingham, county Norfolk, England, where he was born, 1588, to Hingham, Massachusetts, with his wife, five sons and three daughters and two servants. This fact is stated in so many words on the town clerk's records by Daniel Cushing, fourth town clerk of Hingham. He had a grant of land at Hingham, Massachusetts, September 18, 1638, six acres for a house lot on what is now South street, near Hersey street. He was a shoemaker. He was admitted a freeman in 1639, and was deputy to the general court in 1644 and 1659. He married first, Nazereth Hobart, born in England, about 1600, died at Hingham, September 23, 1658, daughter of Edmund and Margaret (Dewey) Hobart. He married second, March 10, 1659, Mary, widow of Nicholas Jacob ; she died at Hingham, June 15, 1681. In noticing his death, David Ho- bart, son of Rev. Peter Hobart, made full rec- ord "April 1, 1688 my uncle John Beal died suddenly." Judge Sewell also made a record on the same date "Father Beal of Hingham died aged one hundred years." His will was dated September 27, 1687, and bequeathed to his children and grandchildren. Children, all by first wife: I. Martha, born 1620; married March 16, 1640, William Falloway, of Plym- outh ; married second, June 29, 1649, Samuel Dunham; died April 26, 1690. 2. Mary, born 1622; married December 30, 1647, James Whiton, of Hingham; died December 12, 1696. 3. Sarah, born 1625; married March 22, 1648-9, Thomas Marsh ; second, September 5, 1662, Edmund Sheffield, of Braintree; died at Braintree, November 9, 1710. 4. John, born about 1627. 5. Nathaniel, born 1629. 6. Jeremiah, born about 1631 ; mentioned be- low. 7. Joshua, born about 1633. 8. Caleb, born 1636. 9. Rebecca, baptized at Hing- ham, February, 1640-1; died December 13, 1686. 10. Jacob, born October 13, 1642.
(II) Jeremiah Beals, son of John Beal (I), was born in England about 1631. He came with his parents to America, and settled in Hingham. He was a blacksmith; was con- stable in 1672; selectman in 1671, 1673, 1684; deputy to the general court in 1691, 1692 and 1701. He resided on Bachelor street, near Main street, near the meeting house of the First Parish, but late in life removed to East street, near Hull street. He married, Novem- ber 18, 1652, Sarah Ripley, born in England and died in Hingham, June 29, 1715, daughter
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of William Ripley. He died, August 10, 1716, aged eighty-five years. Children, born at Hingham: I. Jeremiah, born May 13, 1655. 2. John, born March 8, 1656-7 ; mentioned be- low. 3. Sarah, born July, 1659; married January 21, 1679-80, John Lane. 4. Lazarus, born September 7, 1661. 5. Phebe, born March 2, 1663-4; died July 12, 1665. 6. Mary, born May 6, 1666; married December 23, 1702, John Orcutt, of Bridgewater. 7. Eliza- beth, born May 16, 1699; married December 29, 1708, Ephraim Lane.
(III) John Beals, son of Jeremiah Beals (2), was born in Hingham, March 8, 1656-7, and died December 30, 1735, in his seventy- ninth year. He resided on East street, at Rocky Nook. He married, about 1686, Han- nah who died April 27, 1762, aged ninety-three years. His will was dated May 7, 1734, and proved January 27, 1735-6. Chil- dren, born at Hingham: I. Sarah, born Oc- tober 12, 1687. 2. Ruth, born 1690; married, 1718, Richard Cobb; died May 14, 1719. 3. Infant, died young. 4. Infant, died young. 5. Hannah, born October 14, 1695; married November 15, 1722, Caleb Marsh. 6. Lydia, born April 10, 1697; married December 25, 1718, David Lincoln. 7. Deborah, born June 22, 1699; died November 14, 17II. 8. John, born December 30, 1700. 9. Daniel, born June I, 1703; married October 15, 1724, Elizabeth Tucker. 10. Samuel, born February 2, 1704-5 ; mentioned below. II. Stephen, born Septem- ber 16, 1707. 12. Mary, born May 7, 1710; married November 20, 1729, Thomas Water- man.
(IV) Samuel Beals, son of John Beals (3), was born at Hingham, February 2, 1704-5; died 1750. He settled at East Bridgewater, on the Eleazer Kieth place. He married, 1725. Mary, daughter of Elnathan Bassett. Chil- dren, born at Bridgewater: I. Samuel, born 1726; married, 1745, Elizabeth Blackman ; settled in Medford; had David and Samuel. 2. Nathan, born 1727; married Bathsheba 3. Daniel, born 1729; married Me- hitable Byram, daughter of Joseph Byram, and settled in Medford. 4. Jonathan, born 1730; mentioned below.
5. Joseph (twin), born 1733. 6. Benjamin (twin), born 1733; married Sarah ; settled at Medford. 7. Seth, born 1736. 8. Mary, born 1742. 9. Joseph, born 1743.
(V) Jonathan Beals, son of Samuel Beals (4), was born 1730, and died 1813, aged eighty-three. He married, 1751, Abigail Har- low, who died 1779, aged fifty. He married second, Abigail (Snow) Edgerton, widow of
John Edgerton, and daughter of James Snow, in 1780. He removed with his brothers to Mendon (now Medford), Massachusetts. Children, born in Bridgewater: I. Joseph, born 1752 ; removed to Abington. 2. Azariah, born 1753; mentioned below. 3. Abigail, born 1755; married, 1779, Josiah Hull. 4. Jonathan, born 1758. 5. Hannah, born 1760; died young. 6. Hannah, born 1762 ; married, 1780, Noah Hull. 7. Molly, born 1770; married, 1793, Bela Reed.
(VI) Azariah Beals, son of Jonathan Beals (5), was born at Bridgewater, Massachusetts ; married, at Bridgewater, 1776, Bathsheba Bis- bee, born April 21, 1753, died March 24, 1844. He removed to Cummington and Plainfield, Massachusetts, and thence to New York State. He had extended service in the Revolution; in an independent company under Captain Joseph Trufant, 1775; in Captain Thomas Nash's company, Colonel Solomon Lovell's regiment at Dorchester Heights, 1776; under the same captain in Colonel Josiah White's regiment, at Hull, 1776 and 1777; in Captain Thomas Nash's company, Colonel David Cushing's regiment, 1777 and 1778, in Rhode Island; and in Captain Nathan Alden's company, Major Eliphalet Cary's regiment, in Rhode Island, 1778. Children : I. Daniel, born 1779; probably died young. 2. Ezra, born February 20, 1781 ; married January 29, 1807, Lucena born January 4, 1789; children: i. Bathsheba, born March 16, 1808; ii. Delilah, November 28, 1809; iii. Ralph, May 11, 1812; died April 1, 1834; iv. Orphia, born June 26, 1814; v. Badoura, September 12, 1816; vi. Horatio, January 23, 1819; vii. Rush, March I, 1821; viii. Leroy, September 17, 1823; ix. . Horace, June 16, 1829. 3. Levi, May 18, 1789; mentioned below.
(VII) Levi Beals, son of Azariah Beals (6), was born May 18, 1789, at Bridgewater, and died August 31, 1861, at Moline, Illinois. He was brought up on his father's farm, and learned the trade of a tanner, which he follow- ed for some time. He also learned the trade of shoemaker, and worked at his trade all his life. He removed to Moline, Illinois, and made it his home until his death. He was a man of excellent judgment, and was promi- nent in the town. He married Catherine Smith, who died December 30, 1833. Chil- dren : I. Morel Bisbee, mentioned below. 2. Patty M., born August 25, 1826; married Horatio Beals, of Bear Lake, Pennsylvania; one child. 3. Austin M., born September 22, 1828; married Julia Wells, of Meadeville, Pennsylvania. 4. Charles James, born July
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12, 1832; died June 6, 1865; married Decem- ber 24, 1853, Henrietta Prosser, born March 10, 1837, died January 26, 1884, of Girard, Pennsylvania ; children : i. Bird Prosser, born October 17, 1855; married Ida V. Blood of Monroe, Ohio; had Marie Henrietta, born July 26, 1889, Prosser Blood, February 9, 1890, Gilson Willis, October 10, 1892, Cary Chamberlain, September 26, 1894, Edith Cor- nelia, April 2, 1896; ii. Mary Jane, born De- cember 25, 1857, married Edgar R. Skinner, of West Springfield, Pennsylvania, five chil- dren ; iii. Charles Bartlett, born May 7, 1859, died March 20, 1901; iv. Emma Ruth, born August 22, 1861, married April 4, 1894, Charles H. Dixon, of Cleveland, Ohio, had Charles H. Dixon, Jr., born April 23, 1898, died April 29, 1898, and Lelia Alberta Dixon, born April 28, 1899, died April 28, 1899.
(VIII) Dr. Morel Bisbee Beals, son of Levi Beals (7), as born in Pharsalia, New York, September 18, 1822, and died at Mus- kegon, Michigan, November 26, 1889. He fitted for college in his native town, and graduated at Williams College at the age of twenty-five. He studied medicine and took an allopath degree. He went west and taught school several years, being teacher and school superintendent at Lacrosse, Wis- consin, Iowa City, Iowa, Moline and Rock Island, Illinois; also several years at Flint, Michigan. In 1868 he became interested in the theory and practice of homoeopathy, and in 1877 he received a diploma from the Hahn- emann College in Chicago. He located at Muskegon, Michigan, where he built up a large general and surgical practice, and re- mained there until his death, November 26, 1889. He was a scholarly man, of fine intel- lect, one of the foremost teachers of his day, and a powerful public speaker, although he was not generally speaking a public man. He was a close follower of the Swedenborgian religion for forty years, having become ac- quainted with the works of Swedenborg while at college, and always admired and studied them. He was a member of the Ma- sonic order, and was a Republican in politics.
He married Caroline Wells, born October 25, 1827, died in New Mexico, June 7, 1897, daughter of Joab and Edna (Long) Wells, of Meadeville, Pennsylvania. Her father was a farmer. Children: I. Dr. Guy William, born March 21, 1853; resides in Hillsboro, New Mexico; married Ida M. Morrish, of Flint, Michigan; children: i. Pattie, born October 31,. 1889; ii. Ethel, born June 13, 1891; iii. Morel Morrish, born June 6, 1893. iv. Car-
olyn, born June 30, 1895; v. Arthur Carroll, born September 24, 1898, died May 23, 1901. 2. Ella Gertrude, born April 18, 1855; un- married. 3. Jessie, born November 22, 1857; died. 4. - Jessie, born November 25, 1859; unmarried. 5. Carl Morel, born May 10, 1865, died February 2, 1908; married Em- ma Quick, of Lake Valley, New Mexico; children: i. Kenneth Bisbee, born Septem- ber 13, 1902, died April 28, 1906. ii. Carl- ton Madison, born April 27, 1904. iii. Guy Morgan, born May 28, 1906. 6. Caroline. 7. Erl Vinton, born June 17, 1867; mentioned below. 8. Archie Bisbee, born December 12, 1869; unmarried.
(IX) Erl Vinton Beals, son of Dr. Morel Bisbee Beals (8), was born at Topeka, Kan- sas, June 17, 1867. At the age of four he re- moved with his parents to Moline, Illinois, where he attended the public schools, later removing to Ovid, Michigan, and thence to Muskegon, Michigan, where he received the greater part of his education, going to the high school until 1886. He then became a reporter for the Muskegon Chronicle, where he remained ten years. He became inter- ested in type-setting machines before any practicable machines were on the market and later turned his attention to the problem of improving the machinery for type-setting. In 1891, when he took up the work seriously, there were several type-setting machines on the market. The Thorne machine set type and distributed it again by an ingenious de- vice. The Mergenthaler machine casts each line separately, and after using the slugs the metal is melted and used again. The Mono- type machine, which in later years has be- come a strong rival of the linotype, casts each letter separately and is used extensively in book work. The Rogers and Mergenthal- er companies each had devices advantageous to the other's machine, and finally the Mer- genthaler obtained a monopoly of them. Since 1893 the Mergenthaler company has equipped amost every newspaper office of importance in the United States and many foreign countries with its machines, chang- ing the whole character of the press, enor- mously increasing the size of newspapers. The New York Sun uses the Monotype ma- chine. The original type-setting machines have not held their own in the race-the type casting machines have the field. Mr. Beals studied the problem of simplifying the me- chanisms which require skilled machinist's care all the time, and which are costly to make and to keep in repair. The linotype
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costs from three to four thousand dollars, and some offices have more than fifty of these machines in use. He secured the financial support of such men as Chief Justice Charles D. Long, Colonel Frank J. Hecker, of the Panama Commission, and M. S. Smith, of Detroit, where he began his experimenting. He has developed a machine entirely differ- ent from all others, more efficient, less com- plicated and less expensive. He had the ma- chine well worked out in 1897 when he came to Boston to complete it, the mechanical fa- cilities for developing the more complicated parts being obtainable best in that city. Af- ter two years in Boston he made his home in Arlington, Massachusetts, occupying the Pi- per estate. In 1901 he purchased the Samp- son estate, which overlooks the city of Bos- ton and its harbor. He has converted a por- tion of the buildings into a laboratory and workshop for his experiments, and has in- stalled an electrical plant that lights all his buildings and supplies power for his shop. His machinery is of the most delicate and ex- pensive sort. The three floors of his labora- tory have an area of four thousand square feet. The Beals machine will be placed upon the market within a year. It has at least double the capacity of any other machine for setting or casting type. It is operated en- tirely by electricity. The keyboard has the one-magnet system, a device of Mr. Beals that is being applied to church organs, type- writers, leather measuring machines and sim- ilar mechanisms. Mr. Beals has also in- vented an area-meter for measuring leather sides, a device that is indispensable to tan- ners and concerns buying large quantities of leather. This machine is built by the Beals . Area-meter Company, a corporation organ- ized under state of Maine laws. Mr. Beals is a follower of the Swedenborgian religion, and a radical thinker. In politics he is a Re- publican.
He married, June 27, 1899, Marguerite (Bammel) Cook, born July 4, 1860, adopted daughter of John and Mary (Franauer) Bammel, of Marine City, Michigan. Her father was a farmer and stationary engineer.
WHITING
Samuel Whiting, great-grand- father of William Clark Whit- ing, was born in Franklin,
Vermont. He was graduated at Harvard College, A. D., 1769, and received the honor- ary degree of Master of Arts from Yale Col- lege in 1772. He was installed pastor of the
Congregational Church in Rockingham, Ver- mont, and died 1819.
Joseph Whiting, son of the Rev. Samuel Whiting, and grandfather of William Clark Whiting, was born in Rockingham, Vermont. He married Ann Webb, and lived in Rocking- ham during his lifetime.
Samuel Whiting, son of Joseph and Ann (Webb) Whiting, and father of William Clark Whiting, was born in Rockingham, Vermont. He married Lucy Ann Clark, of Springfield, Vermont, and they had children.
William Clark Whiting, son of Samuel and Lucy Ann (Clark) Whiting, was born in Springfield, Vermont, May 20, 1858. He was prepared for college at the Springfield (Ver- mont) high school, and was graduated at Dart- mouth College, A. B., 1882. He took up the profession of teaching at once, and his first school was at Holden, Vermont, where he taught for one and one-half years, 1882-83. He then went to Webster, Massachusetts, as principal of the high school, and in 1888 resigned to fill a similar position at Milford .. After one and one-half years at Milford he accepted an offer to be- come head master of the high school at Chicopee, where he gave acceptable service to the school board, parents and pupils for eight years. In 1899 he resigned to accept the Mel- rose high school mastership, which position he still holds in 1907, having sustained and in many ways largely improved the standard of excellence already acquired by that school. Professor Whiting was married at Holden, Massachusetts, November 25, 1886, to Sarah F. Perry, of Marlboro, Massachusetts, and they had no children.
He was always a student of pedagogy, and was president of the Hampden County Teach- ers' Association for two years, 'and president of the Western Massachusetts Head Masters' Association, and his position as head master of the Melrose high school brought him in touch with the eminent educators in and about Boston, by all of whom he was held in high esteem as an able master. He was by faith and inheritance a Congregationalist in re- ligious belief, and was with his wife active in all the church works carried on by the First Congregational Church of Malden. His po- litical faith was Republican, and while not a partisan or political worker in local elections he firmly supported the principles of his party at the polls, and on all reasonable occasions that demanded public expression of party af- filiation. His educational life was however, uppermost, and he felt that he could always
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depend upon his chosen political party to sup- port his educational convictions.
Calvin Howe Topliff, late of
TOPLIFF Cambridge, was born in Mansfield, Connecticut, April I, 1818, youngest of twelve children born to Horatio and Sarah (Sargent) Topliff, and grandson of Calvin Topliff, a native of Mil- ton, Massachusetts, from whence he removed to the state of Connecticut. Calvin Topliff was the father of eight sons and eight daugh- ters.
Calvin H. Topliff attended the schools in his native town, and the knowledge thus ac- quired was supplemented by attendance at Brown University, from which he was grad- uated in 1846, then entering the Newton Theological Institute, where he pursued a course of study. He was ordained at Neck Village Baptist Church, Charlestown, Massa- chusetts, September 30, 1850, and preached there for two years. Later he had the pas- toral charge of churches at Branford, Con- necticut; New Ipswich, New Hampshire; and Collinsville, Connecticut; and for fourteen years was the pastor of the Baptist church of Newton, Massachusetts, after which service he retired from regular pulpit work, but con- tinued to supply churches throughout the state. He was a faithful and conscientious worker in the ministry, striving to the best of his ability to follow in the footsteps of his Mas- ter, and his daily walk and conversation was such as to serve as an example for those who looked up to him for spiritual guidance.
Mr. Topliff was married, in 1849, to Nancy Harlow Mason, of Cambridge, daughter of Samuel Mason, who was a carpenter and builder. Two children: I. Charles Mason, died in Dakota. 2. Annette L., deceased; was wife of George D. Mason, the well known surveyor, and a resident of Cam- bridge. Mr. Mason is a descendant of Hugh Mason; one of the old settlers of Watertown, Massachusetts. Children of George D. and Annette L. Mason: Henry Topliff; graduate of Harvard, class of 1904; now employed by Hood Rubber Works, Watertown, Massa- chusetts; Ralph Hugh, who is interested in business with his father. Calvin H. Topliff died November LI, 1907, at the residence of his son-in-law, George D. Mason, 385 Wash- ington street, Cambridge, where he had re- sided for ten years. His wife passed away in 1878.
Henry Ducachét Wiltbank, WILTBANK bank official, was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, July 14, 1840. His position in New York and Chicago involved great financial responsibility, and he filled each with unimpeached fidelity. He is a Republican in political faith; he at- tends the Protestant Episcopal church. He married, August 10, 1885, Maria Josephine Manning. They have no children.
Peter White Wiltbank, father of Henry Ducachét Wiltbank, and son of the Rev. John J. Wiltbank, chaplain in the United States navy, was born in Lewes, Sussex county, Del- aware, about thirty-five miles southeast of Dover, the capital of the state. His birthplace was located on Delaware Bay, with a fine har- bor formed by the United States government building the celebrated Delaware breakwater, 1828-29, at a cost of over two million dollars. He was for many years engaged in the whole- sale dry goods business in Philadelphia. He married Julia Vandenbergh, of Troy, New York, who bore him the following children : Charles P., Henry D., Frederick H., Annie and Louis C. Wiltbank.
It is a common belief in the family that the Rev. John J. Wiltbank while in the service of the United States navy was for a time chap- lain on board the "Constitution" ("Old Iron- sides"), which gallant frigate was restored to its original condition as fitted out in Boston harbor in 1798 by the United States govern- ment in response to the petition of all the pa- triotic societies of America, led by the Boston Chapter, Daughters of 1812, to the congress of the United States, and is now open to visi- tors at her berth in the Charlestown navy yard.
The heirs of John Wiltbank, the bell found- er of Philadelphia, are claimants and rightful if not legal owners of the bell cast in London and received in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in August, 1752, and hung in the Pennsylvania state house, afterwards known as Carpenter's Hall and Independence Hall. The bell, not proving of satisfactory tone, was broken up and recast in April, and again in June, 1753, when the prophetic words "Proclaim liberty throughout all the land, unto all the inhabi- tants thereof" (Lev. xxv. 10) were inscribed upon it. By this process the "Old Liberty Bell" became in workmanship thoroughly American, the metal in the English bell being added to it to improve the tone. This bell announced the Declaration of Independence, July 4, 1776, and was rung every 4th of July thereafter until it was cracked July 8, 1835,
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when being tolled for the death of Chief Jus- tice Marshall. John Wiltbank, of Philadel- phia, was given the contract for furnishing a new bell, and his bill for casting it and put- ting it in place was eleven thousand four hun- dred dollars. When his bill was presented to the state government of Pennsylvania the su- preme executive council, in consideration of the value of the metal in the old bell which John Wiltbank had chosen not to use in the new bell, cut the bill down to eleven thousand dollars, and this was paid, and the old bell be- came the property of John Wiltbank at any time he chose to take possession of it. As its value to the bell founder, who thus became the owner of the invaluable relic, was only to be obtained by breaking it up, he patriotically declined to remove it, and it remained in the possession of the city of Philadelphia, stored away as mere junk in the steeple where the workmen left it when John Wiltbank removed it from its hangings on the old Pennsylvania state house. It was subsequently placed on exhibition among the other Revolutionary relics in Independence Hall, near the original copy of the Declaration of Independence, the signing of which it announced July 4, 1776, and it was not until the bell was taken from its place and carried to Chicago on the occasion of the Columbian Exposition in 1893 that the heirs of John Wiltbank sought by suit at law to prevent its being harmed by being carried from place to place and made an object of ex- hibition for gain. Even if the claim of owner- ship by the Wiltbank heirs is not established, the suit accomplished the object sought, bring- ing it to the attention of the American public, who are jealous of the few sacred relics they possess, and John Wiltbank's name will ever be associated with the "Liberty Bell" as re- fusing to allow its destruction, and his heirs will be held in grateful remembrance for pre- venting the desecration of the historic relic by commercial iconoclasts.
MARSHALL Joshua Marshall, great- grandfather of Abner Hall Marshall, was born in
Dracut, Massachusetts, October 6, 1756. He married Esther Moore, who was born Janu- ary 6, 1757.
(II) Simeon M. Marshall, son of Joshua and Esther (Moore) Marshall, was born in Dracut, Massachusetts, September 17, 1782, married Jeannette L. Berry, who was born in Newburyport, in 1800, and died in Dracut, September 12, 1851.
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