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Mr. Benjamin Cleveland, the father of the modern antediluvians, was a good dea- con, and composed a volume of hymns · which are still in existence. The family were of strictly temperate and pious, and seven of their number, all who had ar- rived at adult age, were converted under the ministry of the Rev. Henry Alline, of Fal- mouth, the Whitefield of Nova Scotia. The numerous posterity of this family, with but slight exceptions, were all temperate. The following will show their respective names and ages : Ann (Mrs. Pitts). born May 2, 1755, died aged eighty-one. Roxalena (Mrs. Purdy), born January 23, 1757, died aged seventy-seven years and nine months. Martin Luther, born January 23, 1759, died aged eighty years and six months. Mary (Mrs. Johnson), born May 16, 1761, died aged sev- enty-eight years and six months. Olivia (Mrs. Fox), born February 23, 1763, died aged ninety-three years and nine months. Enoch, born September 14, 1765, died aged eighty- seven. Cynthia (Mrs. Moses), born Novem- ber 9, 1767, died aged fifty-three. Eunice (Mrs. Sangster), born February 25, 1770, died aged eighty-six years and six months. Jerusha (Mrs. Neary), born March 29, 1773, died aged sixty-five. Sarah (Mrs. Coldwell), born November 16, 1775, died aged ninety- seven years and four months. Rev. Nathan, born November 16, 1775, died aged ninety- two. Aaron, born May I, 1780, died aged eighty-eight years and six months. Their average age was eighty-one years, eight months.
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RICH The Rich family is of ancient Eng- lish origin. As early as A. D. 1236 Edmund Rich was the arch- bishop of Canterbury. Baron Richard Rich, who was born in London in 1498, was a poor barrister of humble family who rose to fame, became a wealthy nobleman and founded the most powerful family in England. His sons were the earls of Warwick and Holland, famous and powerful. The former was pres- ident of the Plymouth council and admiral of the English navy.
(1) Richard Rich, the immigrant ancestor, was born in England. He appeared first in this country at Dover, later on Cape Cod, dy- ing in 1692 in Eastham, Massachusetts. He bought land in Dover of Samuel Treworgey and wife Dorcas, who were from Cornwall, England, by deed dated November 6, 1674. Philip Demon or Dimon, of Dover Neck, who died June, 1676, in his will dated May, 1676, mentions Richard Rich, his kinsman, and his son Evans as executors. Mr. Rich was a man of position, property and influence, as shown by his record and by his marriage with Sarah Roberts, daughter of Governor Thomas Roberts. His only child known was Richard, mentioned below.
(II) Richard Rich, son of Richard Rich (1), was born about 1640, perhaps in England. He was a resident of Eastham, Massachus- etts, in 1665, and was taxed there in 1671 and admitted a freeman August 23, 1681. Children, born at Eastham: I. John, born 1665, married Mary Treat, daughter of Rev. Samuel Treat. 2. Thomas, removed to Con- necticut or New York. 3. Richard, born 1674, died May 3, 1743; resided in Truro. 4. Sam- uel, born 1684, mentioned below. 5. Sarah, married Samuel Treat, son of Rev. Samuel. 6. Lydia. 7. Joseph, voter at Eastham in 1695.
(III) Samuel Rich, son of Richard Rich (2), was born in Eastham, Massachusetts, 1684, died 1754. He was tithingman in Eastham in 17II. He resided at Truro. He married (first) Elizabeth -; (second) Bethia -. His first six children were bap- tized in the Truro church at the same date, September 1I, 1720. Children : 1. Hannah. 2. Samuel, Jr. 3. Lemuel, born about 1705, mentioned below. 4. Elizabeth. 5. Sarah. 6. Jemima. 7. Deliverance, married Jonathan Collins. 8. Jerusha, married Lieutenant Hugh Paine. 9. Dinah, baptized April I, 1722, married George Lewis. 10. Mary, bap- tized November 24, 1724, married Elkanah Paine. Children of Samuel and Bethia, his
second wife: II. Ezekiel, baptized November 29, 1728. 12. Ebenezer, baptized April 26, 1730, married Ruth Paine. 13. Lydia, bap- tized November 7, 1731. 14. Ruth, baptized May 13, 1733. 15. Bethia, baptized January II, 1736, married Nicholas Sparks. 16. Aquila, baptized June II, 1738. 17. Lydia, baptized July 5, 1741. 18. Samuel, baptized May 8, 1743. 19. Rachel, baptized February 17, 1745, married Jonah Stevens. 20. Apollos, baptized November 30, 1746, married Abi- gail Collins and removed to Ware, Massa- chusetts. 21. John, baptized November 5, I749. Three others whose baptisms were not found, perhaps died young, as all 'accounts give the number of his remarkable family as twenty-four.
(IV) Lemuel Rich, son of Samuel Rich (3), was born at Truro, Massachusetts, about 1705, and was baptized September 1I, 1720, with six brothers and sisters. He died in 1791 at Gorham, Maine, aged about ninety years. He removed to Gorham before 1766. He was a Freewill Baptist in religion, and his name appears on the list of those exempt- ed from paying rates to support the Congre- gational church. Also his sons Barnabas and Ezekiel. Children, baptized at Truro, Cape Cod, Massachusetts : I. Lemuel, Jr., born 1736, baptized August 29, 1736; had six chil- dren. 2. Elizabeth, baptized April 24, 1737. 3. Ezekiel, baptized January 14, 1739, married Sarah Stevens, daughter of Benjamin; had eleven children 1765 to 1788 at Gorham, Maine. 4. Sampson, baptized November 23, I740. 5. Deliverance, baptized March 20, 1743, married, October 6, 1765, James Mc- Callister. 6. Martha, baptized December 2, 1744, married, October, 1763, Jonathan Saw- yer. 7. Zephaniah, born 1746, had seven chil- dren in Gorham, Maine. 8. James, baptized April 2, 1749, mentioned below. 9. Amos, married Eunice Woodman and had seven children. 10. Barnabas, married at Gorham, June 28, 1779, Lydia Brown.
(V) James Rich, son of Lemuel Rich (4), was born in Truro, Massachusetts, in 1749, and was baptized there April 2, 1749. He re- moved with his father to Gorham, Maine. The family was there in 1765, perhaps several years earlier. James Rich was a seaman on the ship "Protector," Captain John Foster Williams, in the Revolution; also in the brig- antine "Tyrannicide," commanded by Cap- tain John Cathcart, in 1779. Joel Rich, of Gorham, was also a soldier in the Revolution. The residence of James Rich is not given in the Revolutionary rolls, however. James
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married (intentions dated May 3, 1775) Abi- gail Stevens, of Gorham, born 1753, daughter of Nathaniel Stevens, who was with his brother, Benjamin Stevens, among the earli- est settlers in Gorham before the old French War of 1746. Children, born at Gorham: I. Robert, born February 4, 1776. 2. Mary, February 15, 1778. 3. Abigail, April 23, 1780. 4. Joseph, June 17, 1782, mentioned below.
(VI) Joseph Rich, son of James Rich (5), was born June 17, 1782, at Gorham, Maine. He removed to Thorndike, a town set off from Lincoln Plantation in Waldo county, Maine. He married Lydia F. Farwell, of Unity, Maine, daughter of Henry Farwell, and half-sister of Hon. Nathan A. Farwell, late of Rockland, Maine, formerly United States senator. They had twelve children, among whom was Raymond S., mentioned below.
(VII) Raymond S. Rich, son of Joseph Rich (6), was born in Thorndike, Maine, in 1809. He was almost a giant physically, six feet four inches in height and weighing two hundred and eighty pounds. He had an ex- cellent education and exceptional ability. He was for more than forty years justice of the peace in quorum and trial justice. He repre- sented his district in the general court, and was a member of the governor's council dur- ing the Civil war in the administrations of Governors Washburn and Cony of Maine. He held nearly every town office at various times. He spent the latter part of his life in settling estates, examining titles and doing various other legal work. He married Elea- nor Jane Grant, born April 16, 1819, daughter of Parker Grant, of Prospect, Maine. They had seven sons and two daughters, among whom was Frank Urbanus, born July 18, 1857, mentioned below.
(VIII) Frank Urbanus Rich, M. D., son of Raymond S. Rich (7), was born in Thorn- dike, Maine, July 18, 1857. His early educa- tion was obtained in the district schools of his native town, working during his youth on his father's farm. At the age of fourteen he entered Freedom Academy and later China Academy. At the age of eighteen he had charge of the commercial department and pen- manship in the Oak Grove Seminary at Vas- salborough, the only Friends' School in Maine. At about the same time he began to study medicine while teaching under the guidance of a practising physician at North Vassalborough. Subsequently he entered the medical department of the University of Ver- mont, at Burlington, and was graduated in
1880 with the degree of M. D., being the vice- president of his class. In July following his graduation he began to practise in Maynard, Massachusetts, where he has continued to the present time to enjoy a large and varied prac- tise. He has been member and chairman of the board of health. He is a member of Charles A. Welch Lodge of Free Masons of Maynard; Walden Royal Arch Chapter of Concord; Massachusetts Consistory, thirty- second degree, Boston; a charter member and second noble grand of the Maynard Lodge of Odd Fellows; a member of Waltham En- campment, Odd Fellows; charter member of Assabet Council, Royal Arcanum, and its ex- amining physician; charter member of Court Maynard, Ancient Order of Foresters and its court physician; member of Magdalene Chapter, Order of the Eastern Star, and Miz- pah Lodge of the Daughters of Rebekah. Dr. Rich is a Republican in politics, but has not had the time for a public career.
He married, December 24, 1883, Minnie Bard Newcomb, of Maynard, daughter of Henry and Olivia Augusta (Potter) Newcomb. Her family lived at Maynard, Barre and Con- cord, Massachusetts. Children: I. Ethel B., born at Maynard, April 21, 1886, graduate of the Concord high school, now training as a nurse in the Waltham Hospital. 2. Robert Raymond, born at Maynard, January 6, 1891, student in the Concord high school. 3. Ger- trude, born at Maynard, May 5, 1893.
(I) Dennis Murphy was born
MURPHY in county Cork, Ireland, about 1788, lived and died there. Among his children was John, mentioned be- low.
(II) John Murphy, son of Dennis Murphy (I), was born in Cannovee, county Cork, Ire- land, in 1818, and died in 1877. He married Mary Cotter, who was born in Bantry, in the same county, also in 1818, and died in 1893 at the ripe age of seventy-five years. Among their children was Dennis, mentioned below.
(III) Dennis Murphy, son of John Murphy (2), was born in Coachford, county Cork, Ire- land, January 1, 1841, and died in Lowell, Oc- tober 8, 1902. He received his early educa- tion in the national schools of his native land. At the age of twenty-one he left home and found employment in the Merchants' Ex- change in Liverpool, England. After working there some five years he determined to make his home in America and in 1868 settled in Lowell, Massachusetts. He was employed
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during his first year in this city by John party. He is a member of Lowell Council No. 72, Knights of Columbus ; a parishioner of St. Butcher as gardener. During the next five years he worked for the firm of Winter & Peter's Roman Catholic Church of Lowell, to Smith, marble cutters, on Central street. In which he gives liberal support. 1875 he struck out for himself in the shipping He married, October 1, 1902, Annie G. Raff- erty, daughter of John and Mary Rafferty, of Lowell. They have one child, John, born June 15, 1904. business, in which he had had some experience in Liverpool and he made rapid advancement in his business, representing after a short time all the principal trans-Atlantic steamship lines, (IV) Dennis J. Murphy, son of Dennis Murphy (3), was born in Lowell, May 17, 1870. He attended the public and high schools of Lowell, where he fitted for college, entering the College of the Holy Cross, Worcester, Massachusetts, in 1889, and graduating in 1894. He chose the law for his profession and studied it at Boston University Law School, where he was graduated with honors in 1897. He was admitted to the bar the same year and began at once to practice his profession in his native city. He has established an excellent business and ranks among the most promising members of the Middlesex bar. In politics Mr. Murphy is a Democrat and active in the party councils. He served for six years on the school board of Lowell. He is a member of the Massachusetts Bar Association, of the Knights of Columbus, of the Foresters of America, of Knights of Honor, of the Alpine and Washington clubs of Lowell. He is a member of St. Peter's Roman Catholic Church of Lowell. the Cunard, White Star, American, Allan, French, German and Italian companies. He built up a large banking business as well, issu- ing drafts on all foreign countries. Mr. Mur- phy achieved an enviable position among the men of influence and financial standing in the city of Lowell. His uprightness in business was the foundation of his well-earned fortune, and his integrity inspired the confidence of his townsmen of every walk in life. He was a director of the Lowell Trust Company, a trus- tee of the Washington Savings Institution. In politics Mr. Murphy was an influential Demo- crat, not active in the sense of seeking public honors, but alive to his duty as a citizen and with firm convictions on the political issues and public questions of his day. He was nominated by his party for the office of alderman of the city of Lowell, a tribute to his worth. In re- ligion Mr. Murphy was a faithful Roman Catholic, a liberal supporter of St. Peter's Church and a regular attendant upon its serv- ices. He was one of the strongest men of the parish. He was a member of the Knights of Columbus.
He married, in February, 1868, Margaret Quigley, in Liverpool, just before sailing for America. Children : 1. John M. 2. Dennis J. 3. Thomas H., all mentioned below. 4. Mary E., born in 1874. 5. Edward M., mentioned below. 6. Francis, born in 1878. 7. Freder- ick P., mentioned below.
(IV) John M. Murphy, son of Dennis Murphy (3), was born in Lowell, Massachu- setts, October 15, 1868. He was educated in the public and high schools of his native city. After leaving school he became associated with his father in business, and when his father died he took charge of the steamship agency and has since conducted it in connection with a thriving business in stationery. He repre- sents in Lowell every trans-Atlantic line of steamships, and has a money order department for all foreign countries. He is well known among all classes of his fellow citizens and highly esteemed in both social and business circles. In politics Mr. Murphy is an active Democrat and assists to the extent of his power the candidates and principles of his
(IV) Thomas H. Murphy, son of Dennis Murphy (3), was born in Lowell, May 18, 1872. He was educated in the public and high schools of his native city. When he left school he accepted a position as messenger with the Lowell Trust Company. He was pro- moted in due season to the position of book- keeper and finally teller. He was chosen actu- ary of the Lowell Trust Company and filled that responsible position with credit until he re- signed to become treasurer of the Washington Savings Institution of Lowell, his present po- sition. He is highly respected by all the citi- zens of Lowell, especially those who know him best, in financial and banking circles, and his associates confidently predict a bright fu- ture for him. Mr. Murphy is a Democrat in politics, although not active in partisan poli- tics. He is a member of the Knights of Col- umbus, of the Washington Club of Lowell and is honorary member of the Alpine Club. He resides in the parish of the Roman Catholic church of the Immaculate Conception and is loyal to the religious faith of his ancestors, and a liberal supporter of his church. He mar- ried, October 15, 1901, Alice L. Downing, of Boston. She is the daughter of William J.
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Downing. They have one child, Virginia Clare, born August 12, 1902.
(IV) Dr. Edward M. Murphy, son of Den- nis Murphy (3), was born in Lowell, June 13, 1876. He was educated in the public schools of Lowell and at Tufts Medical School, from which he was graduated with honors in 1903. He opened an office in Lowell and immediate- ly began the practice of his profession. He. has already an extensive practice and is deemed one of the most promising of the younger doctors of the city. He is a member of the Massachusetts Medical Society and the American Medical Association. He is the medical examiner of the Boston Mutual Life Insurance Company for Lowell and vicinity. In politics he is a Democrat; in religion a Catholic. He is a member of the Knights of Columbus, the Ancient Order of Hibernians, the Order of Eagles, the Foresters and the Washington Club. He is unmarried and lives at home with his mother.
(IV) Frederick P. Murphy, M. D., son of Dennis Murphy (3), was born in Lowell, Oc- tober 7, 1880. He attended the public and high schools of Lowell and studied medicine in Tufts College, from the medical school of which he graduated with honors in 1905. He received an appointment on the hospital staff at St. James Hospital of Lowell and remained in this position eighteen months. He then took a post-graduate course of study at Rotunda College, Dublin, famous as the oldest college of medicine in the world. He then served for three months on the staff of the great Armonde Hospital in London. He settled down to prac- tice in his native city. An interesting fact in connection with his service in the London hos- pital is that his mother's mother was a head nurse in that institution when a young woman. Dr. Murphy is a Democrat in politics, and a member of St. Peter's Roman Catholic Church. He is a member also of the North Middlesex District Medical Society, Massachusetts Medi- cal Society, the American Medical Associa- tion, the Alpha Kappa Kappa college fraternity and of the Y. M. C. I.
Christian Osterman was OSTERMAN born in Sweden and lived and died there. He was a farmer. He married Pella Anderson, who was born in 1826 and died July 9, 1906. Children : Charles, John, Annie, Aaron, born September 16, 1857, mentioned below; Betty, Peter.
(II) Aaron Osterman, son of Christian Os- terman (I), was born in Sweden, September
16, 1857. He was educated in the schools of his native place and during his youth was em- ployed on a farm. At the age of seventeen he left his home to seek his fortune in the new world. He came to Boston and immediately found employment at Tewksbury as a de- livery clerk on a milk route. He learned the business and after seven years bought it of his employer and also his present farm in Tewksbury. He has a large dairy, keeping about forty head of cattle and breed- ing his own registered cattle. Though he has but sixty acres of land he has brought it to such a high state of cultivation that he has hay to sell besides caring for his own stock. His milk route has flourished, not only because of the high grade cows and up-to-date methods of his dairy and farm, but because of the faith- ful and conscientious service given to his pa- trons, the accommodation and courtesy shown his customers. He has remodeled his resi- dence and introduced modern improvements, and has introduced the latest devices in his barns and the modern machinery for cultivat- ing his farm. In the thirty years that Mr. Osterman has lived in Tewksbury he has won and deserved the admiration and esteem of his neighbors and townsmen. His good judgment is respected and his success is pleasing to all who know him.
He married, December 5, 1885, Bena John- son or Johanson, who was born in Sweden, June 8, 1865, daughter of John and Agnate (Pearson) Johanson. Her parents were mar- ried in Sweden, March, 1854; their children: i. Johanna Petronella Johanson, born April 19, 1855; ii. Carl August Johanson, born January 7, 1857; iii. Araria Johanson, born December 31, 1859; iv. Johan Alfred Johan- son, born May 8, 1863 ; v. Bena Johanson, born June 8, 1865; vi. Caroline Johanson, born September 30, 1868. Her grandfather was Peter Johanson. Her parents lived and died in their native land. Children of Aaron and Bena (Johanson) Osterman: I. Frederic Ar- thur, born September 24, 1891. 2. Alice, born April 27, 1892. 3. Agnes, born December 18, 1894. 4. Edwin, born October 4, 1896. 5. Lucella, born January 24, 1898. 6. Algot, born September 30, 1901. 7. Olga, born July 27, ·1903.
James Stott, one of the several STOTT heads of families of this surname who settled in the early and mid- dle parts of the nineteenth century, 1841, in Lowell, Massachusetts, and vicinity, all com- ing from Rochdale, England, was born there
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about 1795, died in Lowell, 1850. He was a brother of Charles Stott, who settled in Low- ell, father of Major Charles A. Stott (See sketch). He brought his son James with him and made his home in Lowell, working at his trade as carder in the Belvidere Woolen Mill, of which his brother was the agent, and con- tinued in this position until his death at the age of fifty-five years. He married Crabtree. Children: Thomas, Ann, Mary, James, mentioned below.
(II) James Stott, son of James Stott (I), was born in England, December II, 1825, at Rochdale. He began to work in the mills at the age of nine years, but after coming to America he attended the public schools of Lowell and graduated from the grammar school, then went to high school two years, 1843-44. He then went to work in the mills at Saugus, Massachusetts, and in the first three years saved enough money to pay his expenses one year at Phillips Academy, And- over, Massachusetts. Upon the advice of his uncle, Charles Stott, of Lowell, he entered the Bay State Mills at Lawrence as a wool sorter, and a few months later came to work in the Middlesex Mills of Lowell, where he continued for three years. Then he had the gold fever and left his position to go to Cali- fornia, where for five years he was mining and prospecting. He then bought a ranch in the San Joaquin valley, California, and en- gaged in the business of stockraising. Later he bought a half-interest in a hotel at Spring- field, California, 1854-55. The firm ran the hotel without a bar in the days when temper- ance hotels were novelties, even in the east. He sold out to his partner after some time and returned to Lowell as assistant forward- ing clerk for J. C. Ayer, one year, 1856 and spring 1857, and entered the Talbot Mills at Billerica, which were built in 1857. Mr. Stott engaged as superintendent of the Tal- bot Mills, and in 1862 succeded Charles Stott, assuming full charge, when the Talbot Broth- ers (C. P. and Thomas) assumed full control, until 1894, when he retired. Since then he and his wife have been living in their home in Bil- lerica, not a stone's throw from the mills in which he was employed so many years. He is a Republican in politics, and has been a member of the school committee of Billerica. He attends the Baptist church. Mr. Stott is universally respected and esteemed for his sterling character and excellent qualities.
He married, in 1856, Hannah Burtt, of Dracut, Massachusetts, daughter of Seth and Hannah (Fry) Burtt, of Andover, Massachus-
etts. Children : 1. Josephine E., born Lowell, September 26, 1857, died July 3, 1876. 2. Hannah L., born September 18, 1859, mar- ried, November 16, 1887, George H. W. Whiteside, of Lowell. 3. Harriet A., born August 30, 1861, married Henry H. Austin, of Webster, New Hampshire; now a civil engineer of Boston. Two children: i. Her- bert Stott, born November 19, 1892; ii. Naomi, born August 28, 1894. 4. James W., born September 13, 1863, died August II, I888.
Dennis O'Keefe was born in O'KEEFE Ireland, 1860. He comes of an ancient and respectable family dating back to the early history of his native land. His father and ancestors were farmers. He received a common school edu- cation, and at the early age of thirteen came to this country. He went to work first at Con- cord, Massachusetts, on a farm and learned the business of market gardening. A few years later he became head gardener on one of the finest estates in the old town of Bedford, adjoining Concord, and held this place with much success and credit for a period of three years. From his first savings he bought a small farm in Billerica, Massachusetts, and went there to live. At first he worked out on various estates requiring the services of a skilled gardener, but later devoted his time to his own gardening. He has one of the hand- somest gardens in a territory noted for its market gardens and horticulture. His home, which stands some fifty yards from the road, is the background for a fine bit of landscape gardening. Mr. O'Keefe is well known and greatly respected by all his neighbors. It was he who planted the tree to the memory of Asia Pollard. This beautiful tree has flourished and is a source of pride to all the village. It bears an appropriate inscription to the memory of Asia Pollard and is at the same time a mem- orial to Mr. O'Keefe's thoughtfulness and to that of Mrs. Luther Fauthness, who has the credit of suggesting it to Mr. O'Keefe. Mr. O'Keefe and family are faithful and liberal supporters of the Roman Catholic church of their parish.
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