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(V) Richard Kimball, baptized in Dover, August 29, 1731, died August 18, 1792. He married Ann Hanson, daughter of William
and Bathsheba Hanson. They lived in Dover, at the third Fall of the Cocheco. Children born in Dover, New Hampshire: I. Abigail, baptized June I, 1755. 2. Sarah, baptized Au- gust 7, 1756, died June 10, 1776. 3. Mary, baptized October 7, 1759, married, July 2, 1783, James Young, of Rochester, New Hamp- shire. 4. William, baptized June 27, 1762, lost at sea, October, 1782. 5. Ezra, baptized August 12, 1764, died October 13, 1801 ; mar- ried, April 21, 1793, Mary, daughter of the Rev. Israel Harvey, of Lebanon, Maine. 6. Moses, born February, 1767, died October 25, 1859; married Mary Runnells, daughter of Samuel Runnells, of New Durham, New Hampshire. 7. Nathaniel, born March 20, 1769, mentioned below. 8. Samuel, baptized September 8, 1771, died April 19, 1847; mar- ried Esther Kimball, daughter of Paul Kim- ball. 9. Elizabeth, baptized September 8, 1780, married Richard Waldron, son of Michael and Elizabeth Clements Waldron.
(VI) Nathaniel Kimball, born March 20, 1769, died June 16, 1852. He resided in Dover, then in North Berwick, and changed to Shapleigh, Maine. He married Mary, daughter of Nathaniel and Mercy (Libbey) Horne. Children: I. Cynthia, born in North Berwick, December, 1793, married, April 25, 1816, Henry Lindsey, of Rochester. 2. Abi- gail, born North Berwick, married James Garvin. 3. Richard, born in North Berwick, March 1, 1798, mentioned below. 4. Increase Sumner, born in North Berwick, August 30, 1800, died July 26, 1888; married (first) Miriam W. Bodwell: (second) Eliza A. Mill- er; (third) Mary A. Waterhouse. 5. Ezra, born November 25, 1802, died October 9, 1869; married (first) Electra W. Nye; (sec- ond) Adeline (Horne) Owen, widow of James Owen, a physician. 6. David, born May 24, 1804, married Lovey Wilson, of Shapleigh, Maine. 7. Mary, born June 29, 1809, died April 17, 1880; married, May 25, 1841, Dr. Timothy Wilson. They resided at Orleans, Massachusetts. 8. John H., born May 20, 18II, at Shapleigh, married Sallie Rollins Philpot. 9. William A., born at Shapleigh, September 12, 1813, married Mary H. Nutter. He was a lawyer. 10. Samuel, went to Ken- tucky.
(VII) Richard Kimball, born in North Berwick, March 1, 1798, died in Dover. March 2, 1881. Married (first) Margaret Jane Pen- dexter ; (second) Elizabeth Hale, of Roches- ter, born 1818, died 1844: (third) Elizabeth White Hale, a cousin of his second wife. He graduated at Phillips Academy, Exeter, studied
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law in Harvard Law School, and practiced for several years in Dover. He was the first edi- tor of the Dover Enquirer, and was repre- sentative to the legislature from Dover and Somersworth, and very prominent in town af- fairs. He was also agent for the mills at Rochester and Great Falls, New Hampshire, was judge of police court in Dover from 1856 to 1869, and member of school committee for several years. He was a thorough student and an earnest seeker for truth. He was social and companionable, a man of strong attach- ments, a reverent christian believer, and an untiring student of the Bible. Children of the first wife: Isabella Graham, born 1836; Ellen Jane, born 1839. By second wife: Samuel Hale, born October, 1844. By third wife: Richard Dwight, born September 16, 1847, mentioned below; Grace Niebuhr, born May IO, 1857 ; she was a missionary for the Ameri- can board for thirteen years, and at the head of the relief work in Armenia at the time of the massacre. She is now a physician at Poughkeepsie, New York.
(VIII) Richard Dwight Kimball, born in 1847, was married May 13, 1873, to Lenora Jane Deland, daughter of Charles Worthy and Harriet Newell (Chase) Deland, born Au- gust 14, 1850. Children; Dwight Deland, born June 26, 1874. John Varney, July 17, 1875. Charles Worthy, November 10, 1876. Annie Elizabeth, August 10, 1881, died June 30, 1887. Richard Hale, September 2, 1885. Grace Newell, April 24, 1887. Kenneth Chase, September 17, 1888. Grenville White, February 24, 1891. Mr. Kimball fitted for college at the . Franklin Academy, Dover, New Hampshire. He did not go to college, but took special courses in mechanical engi- neering as a mechanical, electrical and sani- tary and consulting engineer. He has es- tablished heating, electrical and sanitary plants in many college buildings and hospi- tals. Among the number are those of Dart- mouth College; Williams College; Mount Holyoke College; Wesleyan University, Mid- dletown, Connecticut; the University of Maine; Berea College, Kentucky; State Hos- pital, Middletown, Connecticut; State Hospi- tal, Northampton, Massachusetts; Danvers Hospital for the Insane; the Massachusetts Epileptic Hospital at Monson; and is con- sulting engineer for more than twenty col- leges and other institutions. Mr. Kimball is a member of the American Society of Me- chanical Engineers, the Engineers Club of Canada, the Boston Club, Congregational
Club, and the Congregational church of West Medford, Massachusetts.
On his maternal side he is a descendant of Thomas and Thomasine Hale, among the early settlers of Newbury, Massachusetts. His lineage is Thomas and Thomasine Hale; Thomas (2) and Mary (Hutchinson) Hale, of Newbury; Same I (3) and Martha (Palmer) Hale, of Newbury and Bradford; Samuel (4) and Hannah (Hovey) Hale, of Bradford; Eliphalet and Rachel (Johnson) Hale, of Bradford, Massachusetts; Moses (6) and Eliz- abeth (White) Hale,' Samuel and Mary (White) Hale.
The late Leander Huntington JONES Jones, of Dorchester, was born in Alfred, Maine, August 31, 1827. His parents were industrious farming people, and he was reared to that occupation acquiring such educational advantages as were afforded by the district school system of that period. Leaving home at the age of six- teen years, he journeyed on foot to Boston, where he found employment as a teamster, and he subsequently entered the employ of B. P. Cheney, founder of the well-known ex- press business which bears his name, now the American Express Company. His habits of frugality and thrift enabled him to husband his earnings, which accumulated rapidly, and prior to his majority he had manifested his filial devotion to his parents by paying off a mortgage on the homestead, equipping the farm with live-stock, implements, etc., erect- ing a new barn, and remodeling the house to suit his mother's ideas. Establishing himself .as a dealer in flour, grain and hay, he was very successful as a merchant, and through his judicious investments he became a promi- nent capitalist. He was the largest share- holder in the South Boston Ice Company, owning three-quarters of the shares; was a silent partner in the firm of H. Gore & Com- pany, of Boston; constructed several horse railroads, and acquired extensive real estate interests. To the one hundred and sixty ten- ants occupying his tenements he proved a kind friend and liberal benefactor. It was his custom to provide each family with a turkey, together with the necessary accessories for a bountiful Thanksgiving dinner, and his many private charities in other directions were very numerous, fully demonstrating his philan- thropy and munificence. He resided in Dor- chester, where he was widely known and highly respected, and his somewhat untimely
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death, which occurred November 28, 1882, was sincerely mourned by the many who had been relieved from distress through his gen- erous benefactions. He was one of nature's noblemen in the true sense of the term, being totally void of mercenary instincts, mindful of the comfort and advancement of those less fortunate than himself and earnestly inter- ested in the general welfare of humanity. He was above all a devout Christian, and a mem- ber of the Baptist church. In politics he was a Republican. His fraternal affiliations were the Independent Order of Odd Fellows. He died January 23, 1908. His life was a living record of his noble character.
On March 4, 1880, Mr. Jones was united in marriage with Miss Jennie Marion Nelson, who survives him. She was born in Pittsfield, Maine, April 23, 1844, daughter of Joseph Granville Nelson, and is descended from two noble families of England. Her grandfather, Daniel Nelson, was the youngest child of a Lord Nelson, and it is thought that he was a native of Lancashire, England. His position as the youngest son gave him little or nothing save the prestige of his name, and, like all younger sons of a British nobleman who could not inherit the ancestral title and es- tates, was supposed to win fame and fortune, if he could in the civil or military service. Chafing under a law which practically de- prived him of future prospects, he came to New England, where he espoused the cause of American independence, and entering the navy as a musician was serving under Captain Paul Jones, in the "Bon Homme Richard" in the memorable engagement with the "Sera- pis," September 23, 1779. He learned the cooper's trade, and the first record of him is found in Newfield, New Hampshire, where he followed that occupation for some time, and going from there to Canaan, Maine, he be- came the owner of large tracts of timber lands in that locality. Among his neighbors he was known as Lord Nelson. In his relig- ious faith he was an Episcopalian. He was married in England to Polly Granville, a rela- tive of Earl Granville, and a distant relative of his own family. The Granville family is of French origin, and has produced many chiv- alrous and talented men, including the dis- tinguished British statesman and privy coun- cillor, Earl Granville, who was a contemp- orary of Gladstone. She bore him seven chil- dren: Daniel, born probably in New Hamp- shire; Polly, who became the wife of Jedediah Goodwin; Electa, who became the wife of a Mr. Pettigrew; Joseph Granville, already re-
ferred to as Mrs. Jones' father; Peggy, who married a Mr. Holt; Sally, who married a Mr. Waldron; Miles, who married May Leavitt; Samuel, unmarried, was a soldier in the Mex- ican war, a musician in the army.
Joseph Granville Nelson, second son and fourth child of Daniel and Polly (Granville) Nelson, was born in Newfield, New Hamp- shire, December 28, 1796. He became a pros- perous farmer and a large landowner in Maine, and also dealt extensively in lumber. Late in life he came to Boston, where through unfortunate investments he suffered heavy fi- nancial losses, and he died in that city April 28, 1885. He attended the Baptist Church. He was married September 21, 1821, to' Bet- sey Elizabeth Corson, born in Attleboro, Mas- sachusetts, March 8, 1803, daughter of Cap- tain Moses Corson, of that town. Her death occurred in Winthrop, Maine, June 13, 1894, while visiting one of her children. Joseph G. and Betsey (Corson) Nelson had a family of thirteen children: Sylvester Corson, George O., Frances Ann and Charles O., who were born in Canaan; John Corson, born in Bel- grade, Maine, or the immediate vicinity; Jo- seph Drew, Levi B., Roxanna L., and Lucina M., also all born in Canaan; William H., Jen- nie M., Martha Ellen and Augusta Emma, who were born in Pittsfield, Maine. The lat- ter died in Iowa, February 21, 1869.
After her husband's death Mrs. Jones took apartments at the Hotel Bellevue, Boston, where she remained until 1890, and from the latter year to the present time she has resided on Summer street, Malden.
John Briggs, the immigrant an- BRIGGS cestor, was born in England, and was an early pioneer and settler of Newport, Rhode Island. He was admitted a freeman October 1, 1638; was liv- ing at Portsmouth, April 30, 1639, and in 1642. He was admitted a freeman at Aquid- net, October 1, 1640. He was appointed on the committee to build a prison at Portsmouth in 1655; was an assistant in 1648 and was a commissioner for the purpose of effecting the union of the four towns of Providence Planta- tion, August 31, 1654. Children: I. John, mentioned below. 2. Thomas. 3. Susan, mar- ried - Northway. 4. Enoch. 5. Job.
(II) John Briggs, son of John Briggs (1), married Hannah Fisher, of Portsmouth, Rhode Island. Children : Edward, John, Job, William, mentioned below.
(III) William Briggs, son of John Briggs
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(2), was born in Rhode Island, about 1645, died May, 1716. Married, November 30, 1665, Sarah Macomber, who died March 20, 1680- 81. He married (second) Elizabeth
born 1653, died August, 1716. He settled at Taunton. Children, born at Taunton: I. Wil- liam, born January 25, 1667-68. 2. Thomas, September 9, 1669 (twin). 3. Sarah (twin), September 9, 1669. 4. Elizabeth, March 14, 1671. 5. Hannah, November 4, 1672. 6. Mary, August 14, 1674. 7. Mathew, Febru- ary 5, 1676-77. 8. Amos, about 1678, men- tioned below. 9. John, March 19, 1680, mar- ried Hannah Rocket and settled in Norton, Massachusetts. Children of William and Elizabeth Briggs : 10. Susan, April 9, 1681, married Robert Dennis. II. John, November 13, 1685, died January 21, 1712. 12. William, January II, 1688, died November, 1763. 13. Elizabeth, December 27, 1689, died March, 1763 ; married Richard Sisson. 14. Thomas (twin), September 5, 1693, died March 23, 1716. 15. Deborah (twin), September 5, 1693, died November, 1773; married Benjamin Head. 16. Job, August 3, 1696, died March 4, 1727.
(IV) Amos Briggs, son of William Briggs (3), was born about 1678. He resided in Berkeley. He married, January 2, 1706, at Taunton, Sarah Paine, who is mentioned as heir in the will of Ralph Paine, April 23, 1722. Amos resided also at Freetown, Massachu- setts, and died at Berkley. His will was dated March 14, 1753, and proved May 6, 1760. Children : I. Mercy, born June 26, 1707, mar- ried, January 23, 1724, Nathan Briggs; (sec- ond) Phillips. 2. Sarah, born June 16, 1709, married Clark. 3. Mary, born May I, 17II, died March 16, 1786; mar- ried, 1730, Benjamin Chace, 3d, of Freetown. 4. Hannah, born November 8, 1712, married Winslow. 5. Amos, born February 6, 1715, died March 24, 1760. 6. Thomas, born January 20, 1717, died November 10, 1779. 7. Abigail, born June 27, 1719, married
Chace. 8. John, born September 18, 1721, mentioned below. 9. Nathaniel, born Decem- ber 18, 1724. 10. Nathan, born May 10, 1727, married, May 10, 1748, Mary Crane, widow, of Berkley.
(V) John Briggs, son of Amos Briggs (4), was born September 18, 1721, at Freetown, and died May 23, 1791. He married, March IO, 1741-42, Abigail Burt, of Berkley. He probably settled at Berkley. Child, John, born about 1753, mentioned below: Others probably.
(VI) John Briggs, son or nephew of John Briggs (5), was born about 1753, probably
in Berkley, and died December 27, 1808. He married Sybil Greenfield, daughter of Captain George and Mary (Strange) (Chace) Green- field, of Freetown. Children, born at Free- town: I. Luther, born October 16, 1774, mar- ried, August 29, 1802, Ruby Chace. 2. Gil- bert, born August 31, 1776, mentioned below. 3. Sylvester, born June 21, 1778, died 1803; married, September 25, 1801, Desire Cud- worth. 4. Phebe, born September 8, 1781, died October 3, 1867; married Cud- worth. 5. George Chace, born March 1, 1784. 6. Mary, born July 6, 1791.
(VII) Gilbert Briggs, son of John Briggs (6), was born August 31, 1776, at Freetown, Massachusetts. He married, November 21, 1802, Betsey Randall, who died at Freetown, May 22, 1864, aged seventy-eight, daughter of Captain Matthew and Hannah (Paine) Randall. Her father was a captain in the Revolution, commissioned in 1776 in the regi- ment of Colonel Thomas Marshall, and in 1776-78 served under Colonel Jacob French. Her mother was descended from Ralph and Dorothy Paine, first settlers in Freetown through Thomas Paine (2) and Susannah Haskell, his wife, and Ralph and Elizabeth (Harlow) Paine. It is said that Captain Ran- dall fed and clothed his own troops in his zeal for the cause of the colonies. Child, Sylves- ter, born August 23, 1803, at Freetown, men- tioned below.
(VIII) Sylvester Briggs, son of Gilbert Briggs (7), was born at Freetown, Massachu- setts, August 23, 1803, and died there in 1874. He was a tanner by trade and besides manu- facturing leather engaged in the manufacture of boots and shoes with much success. He ad- mitted his son, Sylvester R. Briggs, to part- nership and the firm name became S. Briggs & Son. The tannery of the firm was at As- sonet, a village of Freetown. He was a lead- ing citizen of the town, much honored and esteemed. He married Louisa H. Martin, daughter of Mason and Hannah (Phillips) · Martin, and granddaughter of Ebenezer Phil- lips. The Phillips family is distinguished. The three sons of Ebenezer Phillips, Benjamin, James, and Eben, who married Betsey Pope, of Boston, were proprietors of a general store in Boston and all men of substance. The chil- dren of Mason and Hannah (Phillips) Mar- tin : i. Louisa Hathaway, ii. Elbridge Mason, iii. Benjamin, drowned at the age of twelve; iv. Hannah Maria Martin. Children of Syl- vester and Louisa H. (Martin) Briggs : I. Francis G., born December 26, 1836, died July 27, 1905. 2. Harriet L., March 23, 1839, un-
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married ; resides with her brother at 187 Cen- tral street, Somerville. 3. Sylvester Randall, November 5, 1843, mentioned below.
(IX) Sylvester Randall Briggs son of Syl- vester Briggs (8), was born in Freetown, No- vember 5, 1843. He attended the public schools of his native town and the Pierce Academy at Middleborough, Massachusetts, when J. W. P. Jenks was principal. He then taught school for a short time in Freetown, afterward was elected on the school board and was chairman six years, but concluded that he preferred a business career and accepted a partnership in his father's business under the firm name of S. Briggs & Son. About six years later. Chester W. Briggs, who is not known to be a relative, purchased the inter- ests of the senior partner and the name be- came S. R. Briggs & Co. The business was removed from Assonet to Boston some eight · years later and located in 1874 on Purchase street. Mr. Briggs remained in the hide and leather business until 1891, and since then he has devoted his attention to the banking busi- ness and caring for his investments. Mr. Briggs is a Republican in politics.
He has always nobly and generously re- sponded to the calls of the church, Young Men's Christian Association, Hospital, Associ- ated Charities, Home for the Aged, and other organizations in Boston and Somerville. He married July 24, 1874, Ellen P. Walker, daugh- ter of Benjamin and Phebe (Williams) Walk- er. Children : I. Lena, born at Berkeley, Massachusetts, November 3, 1870, educated in the public and high schools of Somerville, Massachusetts, student two years in Smith College, studied abroad under private tutors in Germany and Paris, France. She married, October, 1897, J. Edwards Porter, of Somer- ville; children: i. Randall E., born August 3, 1898; ii. Katrina Louisa, November 5, 1905. 2. Nellie May, born June 5, 1874, at Assonet, Massachusetts, educated at the public and high schools of Somerville, Lasell Semin- ary at Auburndale, and traveled abroad. Mr. Briggs and his family attend the Universalist church.
Harriet L. Briggs, sister of Sylvester R. Briggs, was educated in the public schools, Atkinson Academy, New Hampshire, and Charlestown Seminary. She taught school for ten years at Assonet, for one year at Berke- ley, and since then, a period of about ten years, has been cashier and bookkeeper for the Congregational Publishing House. In March, 1904, Miss Briggs and her niece, Mrs. J. E. Porter, aforementioned, attended the World's
Fourth Sunday School Convention held at Jerusalem. They sailed from New York in the steamer "Grosser Hurfurst," of the North German Lloyd line, and visited Maderia, Gib- raltar, Algiers, Malta, Athens, Constantinople, Smyrna and Ephesus, Beirut, Haifa and Mt. Carmel, taking an overland trip to Nazareth, Jaffa, Jerusalem, Jericho, the Jordan and Dead Sea, and returning visited Cairo, Naples and Rome.
McDONALD Philip McDonald, father of Daniel McDonald, was born at Torridon, Scotland, 1809,
died 1896, in Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, whither he removed from his native place in June, 1836. He was accompanied by his wife, Annie (Frazer) McDonald, who was born at Strath-Gairloch, Scotland, died 1895, in Cape Breton. They took passage in the ship called "The Clansman," Captain Small commanding. Philip McDonald was a ship carpenter, which occupation he followed in Aberdeen, Scotland, and Cape Breton, Nova Scotia. in the former place working in a ship yard in which the fam- ous clipper ships of Aberdeen were built, and in the latter working in the shipyards of Louis- burg, principally repairing ships that came into that port. Mr. McDonald and his father- in-law, John Frazer, had a ship yard in Cape Breton and took contracts to build ships, John Frazer building the first vessel ever built at that place. He was a member of a family of ship carpenters in Cape Breton, and Mr. Mc- Donald's two brothers were ship chandlers in Aberdeen, Scotland. John Frazer was born at Avenuee, Scotland, and his wife was a na- tive of Red City, Scotland.
Mr. and Mrs. McDonald were the parents of nine children as follows: I. Norman, who followed the sea for thirty-two years, served as mate, and retired from that occupation about 1887 ; he is now living in Somerville. 2. Mrs. Jane Mckenzie, of Cape Breton. 3. Daniel, of whom later. 4. John, resides on the home- stead in Cape Breton. 5. Annie, married a Mr. Monroe, and resides on the old home- stead. 6. Duncan, owner of an orange grove in Olga, Florida. 7. Charles, resides in Se- attle, Washington, unmarried. 8. Alexander, died in 1906. 9. D. J., went to India in 1894 as missionary under the Christian and Mis- sionary Alliance of New York City, and died the following year of cholera at Akala, July 21, 1895. He graduated from Revere Loy College, May 23, 1894.
Daniel McDonald, son of Philip and Annie
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(Frazer) McDonald, was born on Cape Bre- ton Island, June 15, 1854. He attended the common schools of Cape Breton till between fourteen and fifteen years of age. He then left home and the dull port where he was born, ambitious to see the world, and he followed the sea as a sailor for four years, serving on coast vessels from Boston up to Halifax. He re- turned to his home in 1872, and learned the stone cutting trade at Bay View, completing his apprenticeship at Malden, Middlesex coun- ty, Massachusetts, whither he removed. He engaged in business for himself November 14, 1875, in Malden, and has continued up to the present time. He cuts stone for buildings, also performs work on monuments, and to the stone cutting business he has allied the business of concreting, in which he became noted for the excellence of his work in manufacturing and laying concrete for foundations, walks and buildings. The fame of his work gave him the patronage of the city government of Malden and Everett, and the public buildings and grounds of these cities attest his excellence of workmanship. He is a member of the Centre Methodist Episcopal Church of Malden, and a Republican in politics.
Daniel McDonald married, October 23, 1882, Ellen Phinney, born February 6, 1855, on Stronach Mountain, Annapolis county. Nova Scotia, daughter of Benjamin and Olivia (Sangster) Phinney. Benjamin Phinney was born in Granville, Annapolis county, Nova Scotia, and his wife, Olivia (Sangster) Phin- ney, was born in Falmouth, and died about the year 1851. Elijah Phinney, father of Ben- jamin Phinney, was born in Connecticut, April, 1772, was a farmer and was also engaged in the tanning of leather on Stronach Mountain, where he had moved from Granville. He was a member of the Society of Friends. He mar- ried, April, 1796, Hepzibath Chesly, born April 25, 1773, daughter of Squire Chesly, of Granville. Their children were: Alvard, Lot, Elmer, Elijah, Sarah, Daniel, Harriet, Mary and Benjamin. Elijah Phinney died at the ad- vanced age of ninety-two, and his wife passed away one year and nine months later. Children of Benjamin and Olivia (Sangster) Phinney : I. Annie, married George Collins, now de- ceased; she is a resident of Burwick, Kings county, Nova Scotia. 2. Susie, deceased ; she was the wife of Edwin Sawtelle, of Malden. 3. Maggie, married John Tregloan, whose death occurred at Los Angeles, California ; he was the president of a mine in California. 4. John, died at Forest Glen, Annapolis county, Nova Scotia. 5. Leander, deceased, was a farmer
by occupation. 6. Eunice P., became the wife of Charles Waite. 7. Sarah B., second wife of Edwin Sawtelle, above mentioned. 8. Ella, Mrs. Fred Poplin, of Forest Grove, Oregon. 9. Ellen, aforementioned as the wife of Daniel McDonald.
Children of Daniel and Ellen (Phinney) McDonald were: I. Norman Sangster, born in Malden, Massachusetts, August 5, 1883. died February 3, 1899; he was a pupil in the Malden public schools. 2. Annie May, born in Malden, January 3, 1884, died October 26, 1889. 3. Charles S., born in Malden, June 23, 1886, graduated at the Malden grammar school, and from the Massachusetts Nautical Training Schoolship "Enterprise" as a ma- rine engineer in April, 1907, after having trav- eled around the world on the training ship and visiting the important parts of foreign centres. He then engaged in business with his father in Malden.
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