Historic homes and places and genealogical and personal memoirs relating to the families of Middlesex County, Massachusetts, Volume IV, Part 77

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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Florence, born November 8, 1878; vi. Carrie Evans, born October 1, 1880, died April, 1881 ; vii. Harriott Lincoln, born September II, 1882; viii. Anna Thaxter, born June 30, 1884, died June 10, 1888; ix. John Fairfield, born June 21, 1886. 5. Lothare, born September 5, 1849; died young. 6. Dana Prescott, born January 8, 1862 ; died young. Child of fourth wife : 7. Herbert Francis, mentioned below.

(VIII) Herbert Francis Shaw, son of Elisha Shaw (7), was born at North Chelms- ford; January 31, 1853. When about a year old he removed with his mother to Littleton, and was educated in the public schools there, with a supplementary course at New London (New Hampshire) Academy, and also Wor- cester Academy. When he had completed his education he went to Cambridge and entered the employ of Joseph Coolidge, a prosperous market gardener. From there he went to Belmont, and worked for James Richardson at the same business, and before he was twenty- one years of age bought twelve acres of land of Josiah Bright, on Washington street, Bel- mont. This first venture at market gardening was successful, and his business prospered steadily. He acquired much property, and was counted one of the most successful men in his line in the town. In a great measure his success was due to his close application to business and wise management. He died De- cember. 31, 1889, honored and respected by all. He was an honest competitor in business, and an upright citizen. The business has been carried on by his widow during the eighteen years since his death. The plant has been in- creased to five large greenhouses, with heat- ing plant, etc., and all accessories. Edward Shaw is now conducting the plant business. Mr. Herbert F. Shaw was a member of the Watertown Baptist church. In politics he was a Republican.

He married, January 14, 1880, Mary Louisa Houghton, born July 11th, 1857, daughter of Charles Ward and Louisa Maria (Kimball) Houghton, of Littleton. Children: I. George Herbert, born April 25. 1881 ; he attended about five years at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and at present is engaged as a civil engineer in the water department of New York City. 2. Clara Louisa, born October 17, 1883. 3. Edward Houghton, born October 7, 1885. After completing a course at Am- herst Agricultural College, he is carrying on the work which his father laid down. 4. Fred- erick Herman, born October 2, 1888; he pur- poses, on the completion of his studies, to work with his brother upon the farm.

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Mrs. Mary Louisa (Houghton) Shaw mar- ried, secondly. October 30, 1906, Rollin L. Holt, son of Frederick and Ellen Holt, of Woodstock, Vermont.

'Joseph Landers, father of LANDERS Heman Landers, and grand- father of Alvin F. Landers, of Somerville, Massachusetts, was a native of Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, and had several other children.

(II) Heman Landers, son of Joseph Land- ers, was a native of Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, and married Lucretia Cook. They had twelve children.

(III) Alvin F. Landers, son of Heman and Lucretia (Cook) Landers, was born in Yar- mouth, Nova Scotia, September 8, 1854. He attended the grammar school, and removed to Boston in 1877. He was married, September 9, 1879, to Jennie, daughter of William and Ellen (Johnson) Thomas, of Charlestown, Massachusetts. He engaged in the restaurant business in Boston, and made his home in Somerville at No. 48 School street. He at- tended the Baptist church with his family, the children being: Jennie May, born June 16, 1880 ; graduate of grammar and high schools of Somerville, and went into her father's of- fice as cashier. Elizabeth Blanche, born in Boston, July 5, 1882; graduated at grammar and high schools of Somerville, class of 1902. Alvin Gordon, born in Somerville, December 4, 1884 ; graduated at grammar school of Som- erville and a business college in Boston; be- came assistant manager in his father's busi- ness. Norman Heman, born at Somerville, September 24, 1888; is now student at the Somerville high school. Preston Knapp, born in Somerville, March 2, 1891; in 1908 in the high school. Thornton Ainsworth, born in Somerville, March 9, 1893; in 1908 in Som- erville grammar school. Mr. Landers and his son Alvin Gordon Landers were in 1907 pro- prietors of two model restaurants in Boston- one at 20 Huntington avenue, and one at 46 High street, and now at 20 Huntington ave- nue.

PERKINS The Perkins were among the founders of New England, and like the majority of the early coloniel families came from England in order to avoid compulsory adherence to the Es- tablished Church. They are for the most part the posterity of John Perkins, who arrived at

Boston from Bristol, England, in February, 1631, and was admitted a freeman in the follow- ing May. His descendants are numerous and constitute many distinct families, distributed through the New England and other states.

Alfred Perkins, born November 26, 1806, resided in Boston, and in early manhood be- came connected with the Boston & Maine rail- way, taking the position of fuel agent and continuing in that capacity for a period of forty years, or until his death, February 8, 1874. July 4, 1833, he married Christina Cook, born April 12, 1808, died April 9, 1883. They were the parents of four children : Al- fred, see forward ; Eben F., born July 3, 1838, died November 26, 1888; Henry Albert, born April 6, 1840, died February 26, 1905; and Christina Cook Perkins, born December 23, 1848, died October 3, 1880. Eben F. Perkins was married November 23, 1859, to Mary P. Pearman; no children. Henry Albert Perkins was married March 6, 1865, to Marion B. Lynch; five children: Henry A., Jr., born December 27, 1865, died December 15, 1874; Marion Edith, born December 18, 1867; Ellery Lowe, born November 19, 1869; Alfred Herbert, born De- cember 3, 1873, died November 12, 1900; and Russell, deceased. Christina Cook Perkins, only daughter of Alfred and Christina (Cook) Perkins, became the wife of Edward Cope- land of Boston, June 3, 1869, and died, leav- ing four children: Christina W. Copeland, born November 16, 1870; Marion Perkins Copeland, September 15, 1873 ; Agnes Wilson, June 14, 1875; Alice Francis Copeland, De- cember 3, 1878, died July 23, 1881.

Alfred Perkins, son of Alfred and Chris- tina (Cook) Perkins, was born in Boston, January 6, 1836. He was reared and edu- cated in his native city, and at an early age began to familiarize himself with the business of supplying a large railroad corporation with fuel. For years he was closely associated with his father, and succeeded the latter as fuel agent for the Boston & Maine railway. For twenty-five years he devoted his energy and . ability exclusively to the interest of that com- pany, winning the esteem and confidence of its executive department as well as of all others with whom he came in contact in the discharge of his duties, and he is now living in retire- ment in Reading. Politically Mr. Perkins acts with the Republican party, but has never aspired to public office. His society affiliations are confined to the Independent Order of Odd Fellows. He was married in Boston, June 14, 1877, to Jennie, daughter of Alfred Lynch,

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and she died December 11, 1888, leaving no children. Mr. Perkins is a member of the Congregational church.

Samuel Green Hallowell, HALLOWELL father of Albert Hallo- well, inventor, of Lowell, Massachusetts, was born in Massachusetts, January 9, 1802. He was married, August 12, 1828, to Betsy Read, who was born May 16, 1808, and died in Lowell, Massachusetts, De- cember 16, 1873. Samuel Green and Betsy (Read) Hallowell had four children, named in the order of their birth: George Henry (1829-1854) ; Charles Edwin; Albert; and William Goodman Hallowell. Charles Edwin Hallowell, born September 26, 1831, attended the public school of his native town, learned the machinist's trade, which he carried on in Lowell, Massachusetts, residing there in 1907.

Albert Hallowell was born in Dracut, Mas- sachusetts, October 12, 1835. He attended the public school up to his sixteenth year, when he found employment in the carpet mills of Lowell. He mastered the trade of pattern maker and brass finisher, and developed gen- ius as an inventor. He is the inventor of the whirling spray tumbler washer used so uni- versally at soda fountains, also the whirling spray used on garden hose and fountains. He is also the inventor of the apparatus used by brewers for cooling larger beer and ale, and the adoption of his invention saved brewers the expense of purchasing hundreds of tons of ice in order to refrigerate the beer inits process of manufacture. He first manufactured and sold the apparatus for cooling the beer to the brewers, and they finally formed a company capitalized for $1,000,000 and took over his patent, and the process came into universal use. His mechanical genius was recognized by the various scientific societies, and he was awarded numerous medals and diplomas for his inventions. He was for about nine years foreman of the pumping stations of the Lowell water works, and is now engaged with W. S. Lamson, treasurer of the American Mason Safety Tread Company, of Lowell, Massa- chusetts. He married (first), Livona A. E. Davenport, of Philips, Maine, and they had one child, Helena Estelle, who died single at the age of nineteen years. He married (sec- ond), Louisa B. Whittemore, and the only child by this marriage was William Kendall Hallowell.

William Kendall Hallowell, only son of Al- bert and Louisa B. (Whittemore) Hallowell,

was born in Lowell, Middlesex county, Mas- sachusetts, June 8, 1874. He was educated in the public schools of Lowell and graduated in the Lowell high school. He early displayed musical talent which was carefully cultivated, and he became a musical director of consider- able note and a composer of some excellent musical numbers. He was married to Lucille Barthelmy, born in Paris, France. Their child, William Hallowell, was born in Lowell, Mas- sachusetts, August II, 1903.

MOSES This surname, derived from the Biblical character of that name, has been in use in English fam- ilies from the beginning of the use of sur- names. We find the name Moyses in the Domesday Book, 1082. The surnames Moyce, Moyes and Moist are corrupt forms of Moses or Moyses, as was formerly spelled. The name occurs early in Kent, and a Pilgrim exile named Timothy Moses, from Kent, mar- ried in Leyden, July 6, 1613, Elizabeth Merri- weather, from Ingoldswells, county Lincoln, England, also an exile. The only coat-of- arms of the Moses family given by Burke is : Gules a chevron between three cocks argent. Three immigrants named John Moses were in Massachusetts among the early settlers. John Moses of Duxbury, a shipwright, sued for pay for a pinnace he had built June 21, 1641. It is believed by the family historian that John Moses of Windsor and Simsbury, Connecticut, was son of John of Duxbury and Plymouth. The other immigrant is mentioned below.

(I) Sergeant John Moses was born in Eng- land, about 1615, though there is a tradition in the family that he was of Scotch ancestry. He settled in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, received his first grant of land in 1639, had other grants, one of fifteen acres January 13, 1652, one of five acres December 5, 1653, and he shared in the general division of 1660, hav- ing finally received eighty-three acres. He signed the petition favoring the jurisdiction of Massachusetts over New Hampshire in 1665. He was sergeant in the militia company. He made a contract with his son Aaron, January 6, 1679, providing for his support for the rest of his life, in consideration of property deed- ed. Children : I. Aaron, mentioned below. 2. Elizabeth, married, 1662, Joseph Walker. 3. Daughter, married 1665, Thomas Creber. 4. Sarah, married Timothy Waterhouse.

(II) Aaron Moses, son of John Moses (1), born in Portsmouth, about 1650; married

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June 1, 1676, Ruth, born 1660, daughter of Henry Sherburne (see sketch). He married second, Mary , who married second, October 20, 1720, John Sherburne. Moses built a ship for the British government during the war in 1749. He had a homestead on the south side of Sagamore creek, and his de- scendants still own and occupy the premises, having preserved all the wills and deeds relat- ing to the ownership of the property. Children : I. James, farmer and cordwainer, died on homestead; married, September 10, 1713, Martha Jackson. 2. Joseph, born at Sagamore Creek ; housewright by trade ; married August 17, 1712, Rebecca Ayers. 3. Josiah, tanner, constable. 1736; married Abigail 4. Mark, mentioned below. 5. Sarah, married, 1714, Sylvanus Scott.

(III) Mark Moses, son of Aaron Moses (2), born in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, 1802-3, died February 2, 1789, aged eighty-six according to town records. He left no will. He lived at Portsmouth, Greenland, and after 1758 at Epsom, New Hampshire. He was a farmer and cordwainer. He married first, Oc- tober 29, 1724, Martha Williams, born Novem- ber 18, 1702. He married second, March 12, 1735, Jane, daughter of William Wallace, of Greenland, New Hampshire. Children: I. Samuel, baptized March 26, 1726. 2. Eliza- beth, born June 1, 1729. 3. Aaron, men- tioned below. 4. William. 5. Sylvanus, born at Epsom, August 25, 1754; died January 18, 1832; signed the association test at Epsom. 6. James, born February 27, 1757; died August 17, 1819. 7. Jenny, baptized December 18, 1763, at Epsom.

(IV) Aaron Moses, son of Mark Moses (3), born in Portsmouth or Greenland, 1742; married, about 1765, Dorothy Sanborn, who died at Gilmanton, June, 1820, aged seventy- five years. Aaron removed to Gilmanton, and died there March 20, 1816, aged seventy-four years. He owned the covenant in the church at Epsom. Children : I. William, born 1774; died February 21, 1825, aged fifty-one, at Gil- manton ; married October 17, 1797, Susan Boynton. 2. George, married Eunice Mead- er; had son Jedediah, born 1800, who lived at Sanbornton, settling finally at Campton, where he died November 10, 1864, aged sixty- four years. 3. Abiathar; children: i. John; ii. William, born at Plymouth, New Hamp- shire; settled at Campton and Meredith ; daughter Fanny married Hiram Gordon; iii. Isaac, born at Gilmanton or Plymouth, lived . and died at Campton; iv. Olive, married her cousin Nathaniel Moses. 4. Aaron, men-

tioned below. 5. Susan. 6. Joseph, (uncle of brother's children, according to Sanbornton history) resided on the Rundlett place, near the Meredith line renting a farm of Thomas Gardner.

(V) Aaron Moses Jr., son of Aaron Moses (4), was born in Gilmanton.

(VI) Samuel Moses, son of nephew of Aaron (5), born about 1800, resided in New Hampton, New Hampshire, and Alexandria. The Sanbornton history says he was joint owner with John M. Flanders of the mills at North Sanbornton, New Hampshire, 1868-73. He married, November 9, 1821, Nancy Gor- don, born at New Hampton, New Hampshire, 1801, died June 19, 1878, aged seventy-six years one month eight days, daughter of B. and E. Gordon, who lived at one time in Mere- dith, New Hampshire. Children: I. William Smithfield, mentioned below. 2. David P., born 1841.

(VII) William Smithfield Moses, son of Samuel Moses (6), was born in Alexandria, New Hampshire, in 1838. (Some of the rec- ords give his birthplace as New Hampton, an adjacent town). He was a manufacturer at Lebanon, New Hampshire, of hard wood furniture ; was also a contractor and builder. He had a common school education, and at the age of twenty-four enlisted in 1862 in the Sixteenth New Hampshire Regiment In- fantry. He married, November 7, 1857, Eliza- beth Mary Wood, of Lebanon. Children : 1. Frederick William, mentioned below. 2. Child, born November 9, 1861, died November 9 fol- lowing. 3. Frances Maria, born January 23, 1863. 4. Mary Lowell, July 27, 1865. 5. Charles Henry, October 6, 1867. 6. Sadie Frances, December 29, 1869. 7. Child, born and died November 10, 1870. 8. Frank Her- bert, born August 18, 1874. 9. Winifred Kendrick. (Some dates given in records with- out the name of child.)

(VIII) Frederick William Moses, son of William S. Moses (7), was born in Lebanon, New Hampshire, September 1, 1858. He was educated in, the public schools, and learned the trade of cabinet maker and became associated in business with his father in the manufacture of hard wood furniture for about five years. He then went to New York city and continued in the manufacture of furniture there until 1886. He then established himself in the fire insurance business in Boston, and has con- tinued to the present time with much success. He is associated with Benjamin Taft, W. B. Brophy, E. A. Fletcher and Edward Lawton, in offices at 31 Milk street, Boston, represent-

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ing the Cotton & Woolen Manufacturers' Mu- tual Insurance Company, Rubber Manufactur- ers' Mutual Insurance Company, and the In- dustrial Mutual Insurance Company. Mr. Moses has made his home in Ayer, Massachu- setts, since 1886, and is a well-known citizen of that town. In politics he is a Republican. He is a prominent Free Mason, a member of Caleb Butler Lodge; Bancroft Chapter, Royal Arch Masons; King Hiram Council and Jerusalem Commandery, Knights Templar. He attends the Unitarian church. He mar- ried, at Ayer, Massachusetts, November 10, 1880, Annie Samantha, daughter of Benjamin and Caroline E. (Whiting) Taft. Her father was born in Northbridge, Massachusetts ; her mother at Cumberland, Rhode Island. (See Taft family). Children : I. Frederick Taft, born November 14, 1885. 2. Kathleen Eliza- beth, born November 15, 1889. 3. Carl Alan, born November 29, 1895.

THOMPSON The first American ances- tor of Captain Joseph P. Thompson, register of deeds for the northern district of Middlesex county, appears to have been John Thompson, born in the north of Wales in 1616, who came to New'England 1622, and settled in Plym- outh Colony. He is recorded as having pur- chased land in March, 1645, at Spring Hill, from Samuel Eddy, and December 26, 1645, married Mary, daughter of Francis Cooke, one of the one hundred and one original "Mayflower" passengers of 1620. Later he purchased land from the Indians in that por- tion of the colony set apart as the town of Halifax, July 4, 1634, the land making up the township including parts of Middleborough, Pembroke and Plympton. His descendant, John Thompson, settled in the town of Union, Maine, then a part of the commonwealth of Massachusetts. He married Mehitable Rich- ards, born in England, died at Union, Maine. He was a, captain in the American army dur- ing the Revolution, and was killed at the bat- tle of Saratoga, Bemis Heights, New York, September 19, 1777, where out of two thou- sand Americans engaged under Arnold, over six hundred were killed and wounded, and it is through this soldier that Captain Joseph P. Thompson evidently inherited his military spirit.

Joseph P. Thompson, register of deeds for Middlesex county, northern district, from 1874, was born in Brownfield, Maine. April 11, 1830. He attended the public schools of Brownfield

up to 1844, when he engaged as a farmer up to 1848, except a single summer when he found employment in a brick yard. He re- moved to Lowell, Middlesex county, Massa- chusetts, in 1849, and worked in the mills of the Middlesex corporation for nearly a year, but the employment proving distasteful he found employment in 1850 in the clothing store of Addison Putnam in Lowell, and in seven continuous years service he mastered the business in all its details. In 1858 he opened a clothing store on his own account on Central street, corner of Herd, and in July, 1862, he enlisted in the service of his country in the United States volunteer army and was as- signed to company G, Thirty-second Massa- chusetts Volunteers, Captain Charles E. Jones, and received the appointment of second lieu- tenant of the company. His regiment was or- dered from camp at Lynnfield to Washington, D. C., and was on guard duty on the Potomac, at Alexandria, August and September, 1862. It was subsequently attached to the Eleventh Corps, Army of Virginia, commanded by General Franz Sigel, and he was made aide on the staff of General Francis C. Barlow, commanding Second Brigade, Third Division, Sigel's Corps. He was afterward assigned to the staff of General Adolph Baron von Steinwehr, in command of Second Division, Eleventh Corps, Army of the Potomac, in the Chancellorsville campaign. He was at Get- tysburg, July, 1863, and for his action in the three days battle of Gettysburg was promoted after the close of the fight. When General Joseph Hooker was given command of the Eleventh and Twelfth Army Corps, subse- quently consolidated as the Twentieth Army Corps, Lieutenant Thompson followed the for- tunes of the Twentieth Corps at Chattanooga, Lookout Mountain and Missionary Ridge, and led by Sherman in Georgia fought the stub- born fights at Ringgold, November 27, 1863; Snake Hill Gap, May 8, 1864; Rocky Ford Mountain, May 9, 1864; Resaca, May 13, 1864; Dallas, May 27-28, 1864; and Peach Tree Creek, July 20, 1864, when Hooker was relieved of his command. He served dur- ing this campaign as aide on the staff of Gen- eral Samuel Butterfield, and of General Wil- liam Thomas Ward, in command of the Third Division, who was wounded at Resaca and served with distinction at Peach Tree Creek. He was in Sherman's army at the siege of At- lanta, and on his triumphal "March to the Sea" and through South Carolina into North Caro- lina, where the last general battle of the war at Bentonville, North Carolina,

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closed the scene of conflict and resulted soon after in the surrender of Joseph E. John- son's army and the disbandment of the Con- federate forces. After the triumphal march as one of Sherman's "Bummers" up Pennsylvania avenue, he was mustered out of the service receiving an honorable discharge at Boston, Massachusetts, July, 1865. He was brevetted captain by President Johnson, upon the rec- ommendation of General W. T. Ward, at the close of the war.

After a well earned rest at his home in Lowell, Captain Thompson went to Chicago where he was employed by a large clothing house and returning to Boston took a like po- sition in the wholesale clothing house of A. W. Beard, from which position he resigned in 1874 upon his election as register of deeds for Middlesex county, north district, as the Republican candidate for that office. He was kept in office by repeated re-elections with but little opposition from the Democratic party. He is a member of the Lowell Board of Trade and of the Lowell Society of the Sons and Daughters of Maine. His military affiliation is with the Grand Army of the Republic, Post No. 42 of Lowell, and of the Union Veterans' Association. He is also a member of the Knights of Pythias, of the Ancient Free and Accepted Masons, of. the Commandery of Knights Templar, and of the Independent Or- der of Odd Fellows.

He was married in 1855 to Adelaide Bill- ings, and their son, William N. Thompson, was born May 8, 1867, and was married to Ida L. Butterfield, and their home was at 1378. Graham street, Lowell, Massachusetts. Wil- liam N. Thompson is prominent in the councils of the Republican party, and of the Sons of Veterans, to which patriotic society he was affiliated from his early youth.

Rev. Joseph Estabrook, ESTABROOK immigrant ancestor, born about 1640, came to this country in 1660 with his younger brother, Thomas Estabrook, who settled at Swansea, Massachusetts, and became a prominent citi- zen and was selectman for several years. He married at Concord, May II, 1683, Sarah Temple.

Joseph Estabrook became a student in Har- vard College, graduating in 1664; was or- dained soon afterward as the colleague of Rev. Edward Bulkeley, of Concord, and on the death of the pastor in 1696 succeeded him, filling the office with honor to himself and his

people until his death, September 16, 171I. He was succeeded by Rev. Joseph Whiting (H. C. 1661). Joseph Estabrook was ad- mitted a freeman May 3, 1665. His biograph- er tells us that as a preacher he was plain, practical and persuasive. In his intercourse with his people he was grave, affectionate and greatly beloved. In fact he was generally known as "The Apostle." He was invited to take a church in Boston, and urged to go to a larger field by friends who knew his powers. But great things have originated in the little town of Concord. Some of the greatest men of American history have been born and lived there ; men like Estabrook, who helped frame the characters of the early generations there, men of his spirit and pride in his own town, though its population was small and its busi- ness future unpromising. His salary at Con- cord was only forty pounds a year in money, and forty in farm produce of various kinds. The Boston . News Letter said of him at the time of his death: "He was eminent for his skill in the Hebrew language, and a most or- thodox, learned and worthy divine, of excel- lent principles in religion, indefatigably la- borious in the ministry, and of holy life and conversation." He was chaplain of the Mas- sachusetts legislature.

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Historic homes and places and genealogical and personal memoirs relating to the families of Middlesex County, Massachusetts, Volume IV, Part 77

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