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But lives with no startling events, no notorious or famous acts, are the foundation and superstructure of society. The famous and eventful lives may well considered the architectural embellishments, but they must have the solid structure to form themselves upon. Half of the beauty of a picture is a suitable background. Trimming is a good thing in its place, but the most essential thing is to have something to trim. Life is not a dream is the assertion of more than one experience, and the lives of great events are rendered possible only by just such lives as the one in question. Existence to the mass is upright and downright business. The value of right living,
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straightforward conduct and integrity, is not easily measured. We are apt to be dazzled by the strong glare of what are termed great achievements, and, in consequence, place their common value too high ; but to the people at large, to the common brotherhood of man, for the growth and stability of good solid char- acter and true worth, the example of a well-done life's work is of the highest kind of value. E. J. L.
WILLIAM C. N. SWIFT.
William Cole Nye Swift, son of Reuben and Jane (Nye) Swift, was born on the Nye farm in Fairhaven, Mass., April 27, 1815. (For ancestral history, see bi- ography of R. N. Swift, Aenshnet.) When William was five years old his father removed to New Bedford, where he received the educational advantages of pri- vate and academic schools. He entered Brown Uni- versity in 1831, being in the class of 1835, but left towards the end of his sophomore year on account of his health. He returned to New Bedford, and began his long and successful business career by entering the counting-room of Benjamin Rodman as assistant book-keeper. He gave satisfaction, and was soon pro- moted to book-keeper, in which capacity he remained until 1835. His father, largely engaged in the live- oak trade, then offered him a partnership in the firm of E. & R. Swift & Co. Accepting the partnership, William at once entered into active labor, going to Ossabaw Island, on the coast of Georgia, to superin- tend the getting out of live-oak ship-timber. From this time on, for many years, this was his business. He visited various parts of Florida and Louisiana examining lands and purchasing valuable live-oak lots. He was vigorous, and, although meeting many discomforts, privations, and hardships, enjoyed the life. The above-mentioned firm existed until 1837, and from that time Mr. Swift continued in the live- oak business steadily for ten years, and has been en- gaged in it at intervals since that time.
In June, 1838, he was a passenger on the ill-fated steamer "Pulaski" when she was blown up by the explosion of one of her boilers on a passage between Savannah and Baltimore. Mr. Swift escaped in one of the boats, and he and another New Bedford man were the first to land through the surf. The land they reached was an uninhabited island in Stump Sound, on the coast of North Carolina.
In 1843, Mr. Swift, who had before owned portions of whaling-vessels, bought the ship "Plowboy" and sent her on a voyage for sperm whales. In 1845, he, with his brother Obed, bought the "Formosa." In December, 1845, he went to Europe, and during the next year contracted with the English government to furnish spars. He was in Europe nearly a year, a large part of the time in Paris, where he gave much time to the study of French. In June, 1847, he mar- ried, and in July of that year went again to Europe, accompanied by his wife. They remained there over
a year, and were living in Paris at the time of the revolution of the 24th of February, 1848, and during the three terrible days in June, when the provisional government was overturned. In 1849 he again went to Europe for a short time on business, and again in 1851, and was in Paris on the 2d of December, at the time of the coup d'etat of Louis Napoleon. (Mr. Swift has ever since maintained an interest in European, and especially French, politics, which he has followed closely.)
While he was in Europe Mr. Swift established what would probably have been an extensive and lucrative business, having made contracts with the governments of France and Holland, as well as with that of Eng- land; but in 1849 Mr. Jireh Perry, Mrs. Swift's father, died. He had an extensive business, and was the owner of several whale-ships, and Mr. Swift was induced to give up his European timber trade and attend per- sonally to managing the estate in connection with Mr. Eben Perry, the son of Mr. Perry. From that time Mr. Swift has extended his business in whaling. His agents, Aikin & Swift, have now twelve vessels engaged in that pursuit.
Mr. Swift married Eliza Nye Perry, daughter of Jireh and Nancy (Nye) Perry, of New Bedford. Her great-grandfather, Dr. Samuel Perry, was a well- known and honored physician, who practiced in and near New Bedford. Her grandfather, Dr. Ebenezer Perry, was also a successful physician of New Bed- ford. Her father, Jireh Perry, was connected with the whaling business during his whole life, com- niencing as clerk for Charles & Seth Russell, and, growing up in the business, accumulated a large for- tune.
Mr. and Mrs. Swift have the following children : Henry W., who graduated from Harvard College in 1871, and from the Harvard Law School in 1874. He is now practicing his profession in Boston. Fred- erick, who graduated at Harvard in 1874, and is now a member of the firm of Aikin & Swift, in New Bed- ford, agents and managing owners of whaling-vessels. William N., who graduated at Harvard in 1874, and from Harvard Medical School in 1879, is now a phy- sician in New Bedford. Franklin, who is in the United States navy, having graduated at the Naval Academy at Annapolis in 1880. He was made passed midshipman in June, 1882. They also have a daugh- ter, Elise, who is the youngest of the family.
Mr. Swift is a man of fine appearance, courteous, hospitable, and affable. His cultivation and wide experience have given him a varied and thorough knowledge of men and events, and he has always been distinguished for sterling integrity of character, and for energy, enterprise, and good judgment. These qualities have made him successful in business, and in earlier years, when he gave some attention to poli- tics, influential in his party in the State. He has for years been one of the prominent business men of New Bedford, and has, among other interests, been for a
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long time connected with the Bank of Commerce, of 1847, aged eighty-two years. Mrs. Abbe died in 1839, New Bedford, having been a director since 1849, and aged sixty-seven. being its vice-president at the present time.
In politics Mr. Swift was a Whig until 1856, and since then has been a Democrat. He at one time had great influence in Massachusetts politics, owing to his intimacy with President James Buchanan, but he never abused his power, either by recommending a friend for office or for personal advancement, and could never be prevailed upon to accept office him- self.
Mr. Swift has a place on Orchard Street in New Bedford, where he and his family live during the winter months; but his residence is in South Dart- mouth, where he has a farm called " Rockland," of about a hundred and twenty-five acres, on the shore of Buzzard's Bay. This has been the home of the family in summer since 1856.
DR. EDWARD P. ABBE.
citizens than by those Huguenots who came from France to New England in its early colonial days to find the liberty of religious thought denied them in their native land. Their firm religious belief brought persecution upon them with no other effect than to drive them from France to the new world of freedom across the ocean. Thomas Abbe was one of a num- ber of this faith who came to Enfield, Conn., in 1638, and became a resident. He was a man of some im- portance, was one of the commissioners who laid out the town, and was selectman, etc. It is said that the whole town was originally owned by three men,-Abbe, Terry, and Parsons. He was a farmer, married, in Enfield, Mary Pees ; so it is inferred that he was quite a young man when he left France. He had four children,-Thomas, Hannah, Sara, and Obadiah. Thomas Abbe inherited the land where he and his descendants lived and cultivated it, marrying, in 1692, Penelope Terry, by whom he had five children,- Thomas, Mary. Penelope, Sara, and John1. John 1 married Sara Root, and had eight children,-Sara, Obadiah, Hannah, Timothy D. (died young), Tim- othy, Daniel, Roxalana, and John2. John2 married Charity Simonds in 1764. Their children were John3, Sara, Asenath, Nancy, Roxalana, Charity, and Tim- othy. John3, born Sept. 11, 1765, married, in 1790, Hannalı, daughter of Samuel and Hannah (Bradley) Billings, of Somers, Conn. (They were both descend- ants of the English Puritans.) The following chil- dren who attained maturity were born in Enfield : Hannah, Harriet, and Alanson. In 1804 he sold the lands which had been inherited in direct line front Thomas, the emigrant, and removed to Warehouse Point, in the town of East Windsor, Conn. Here were born five children,-John B., Loretta, Sophro- nia, James M., Ann A., and here Mr. Abbe died in
Alanson Abbe, third child and oldest son of the above, was born in Enfield, Conn., June 17, 1795. He was graduated from Yale Medical School in 1821, and settled in Litchfield, Conn., where he had a large and lucrative practice, and became known for his suc- cess in orthopædie surgery. He removed to Boston in 1839, where he practiced his profession until a few years before his death. He married (1) Eliza Wood- ruff, daughter of Hon. Jonathan and Rachel (Steele) Barnes, of Tolland, Conn. They had five children who lived to mature years,-Elizabeth F., Edward P., Frederick R., Burr R., and William A. (2) Hephzibah, daughter of Benjamin Burgess, of Boston, Mass. They had one child, Benjamin. (3) Margaret Liv- ingston D., of Albany, N. Y. Dr. Alanson Abbe died of paralysis in April, 1864, when almost seventy years of age. His first wife died Dec. 31, 1837, aged thirty- eight years.
We give a condensed genealogy of Mrs. Abbe's (Eliza W. Barnes) ancestry as far as attainable : John1
Probably no country was ever settled by better Steele, first secretary of Connecticut colony, died 1664, leaving the following children by his wife Rachel : John2, Lydia, Mary, Sarah, Hannah, Samuel. John2 married Mercy -, and had Benoni, Henry, Daniel, Mary, John, and Samuel. Samuel and his wife Mercy had Thomas, Samuel, Jerusha, William, Abiel, Daniel, and Eliphalet. Eliphalet married Catherine Marsh- field, and had Josiah, Catherine, Mercy, Theophilus, Eliphalet, Elijah, Rachel, Ruth, and Jerusha. Jo- siah married Elizabeth, daughter of Rev. Benjamin Colton, first minister of West Hartford, Conn. They had Elizabeth, Amanda, Eliphalet, Josiah, Marsh- field, Rachel, Catherine, George, and Marshfield2. Stephen Barnes and his wife Mary, of Branford, Conn., had children born in Branford, -- Benjamin, Stephen, Sarah, and Experience. Stephen married Martha Wheadon, of Branford, and moved to South- ington. Their children were Mary, Stephen, Jona- than1, Martha, William, Nathan, and Asa. Jona- than1 married Elizabeth Woodruff, of Southington, Conn. Their children were Jonathan?, Elizabeth, Mary, Stephen, Sylvia, Lois, Levi, Joel, and Tru- man. Jonathan2 (graduated from Yale College in 1784) married Rachel Steele and had children,-Jon- athan3, Julius S., Edwin, Randolph, Eliza W., Wil- liam, and Josiah. All these sons of Judge Barnes were professional men.
Edward Payson Abbe, son of Dr. Alanson and Eliza W. (Barnes) Abbe, was born in Litchfield, Conn., Nov. 28, 1827. He was fitted for college at Phillips' Andover Academy, and was graduated from Yale in 1848, and from Harvard Medical College in 1852. The next year. he settled in New Bedford, Mass., and began the practice of his profession, which has steadily increased, and which has been his life work. He married, May 2, 1854, Mary Hooper, daughter of William G. and Eunice ( Hooper) Black-
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ler, of New Bedford. She came of an honorable lineage. On her father's side she was descended from Thomas Gerry, Esq., born in Newton Abbot, Eng- land, in 1702, and from Madam Elizabeth (Green- field) Gerry, born in Boston, in 1716. These were also the parents of Elbridge Gerry, Governor of Mas- sachusetts and fifth Vice-President of the United States. Her maternal grandfather was Hon. Na- thaniel Hooper, lineal descendant of Bishop Hooper, of England, and his family has been for several gen- erations prominent in the State. They have three children who are now living,-William, Edward, and Mary Hooper. Mrs. Abbe was a woman greatly beloved. She had great energy of character and strong self-reliance, and was an earnest, active, and valued member of Grace (Episcopal) Church. She died Dec. 18, 1881.
Dr. Abbe has quietly and without ostentation pur- sued his profession unweariedly for nearly thirty years, and has never found time nor inclination to engage in other pursuits. He has been successful in his chosen field, enjoying a large practice among all classes of people. He stands to-day high in the esteem of the leading medical men of this section, and is consulting surgeon at St. Mary's Hospital, councilor of the Massachusetts Medical Society, and was president in 1879-80 of the South Bristol Med- ical Society.
Republican in his political affiliations, he has never cared for official preferment. He honorably served, however, as member of the school board five years, but has sought honors only in the line of his profes- sion.
ANDREW MACKIE, M.D.
Andrew Mackie, M.D., was born in Wareham, Mass., Jan. 24, 1794, and died at his residence in New Bedford, May 2, 1871. He was son and grand- son of physicians, each successful. His father, Dr. Andrew Mackie, of Wareham, was a leading practi- tioner in Eastern Massachusetts. His grandfather, Dr. John Mackie, of Southampton, L. I. The son was fitted for college under the care of Rev. Noble Everett, of Wareham, graduated at Brown University in 1813, studied medicine with his father and elder brother, Dr. John Mackie, of Providence, R. I., and at the College of Physicians and Surgeons in New York, and commenced practice in Plymouth, Mass., in 1817, and there and New Bedford his professional life was passed ; that he stood well in respect to his associates is shown in the fact that he was twice viee- president of the Massachusetts Medical Society, and gave by election its annual address in 1850. He kept up his reading of current medical literature to the last; but had doubtless seen so many glittering spe- cialties come and go that, though not rejecting, he was jealous of new novelties.
At the annual meeting of the South Bristol Medi-
cal Society, held in New Bedford, May 10, 1871, the following resolutions were adopted :
" Resolved, That by the death of Dr. Andrew Mackie, of New Bedford, the members of this society lose an associate of marked professional ability and uprightness of character.
" Resolred, That, one of the founders of our society, he has claims to our gratitude for his unvarying support of it, a support given from an often expressed conviction of the correctness of the principles under- lying its organization, that by measures promotive of professional good that of our fellow-men will be promoted.
" Resolved, That as individuals our gratitude is due him for the ex- ample of steadfast devotion to duty and high moral principle which has governed his course; that, as a man, a friend, and a physician, his mem- ory will ever be precious.
" Resolved, That we tender our sincere sympathy to his widow and liis children in their bereavement."
In early life he united with the Congregational Church, and was ever a faithful and consistent mem- ber. In 1834 he was chosen deacon of the North Congregational Church of New Bedford, and retained his official relation till his death. A man is valuable who is strictly conscientious. We have the memory of a man serupulous to know the right and perfectly fearless to do it at any cost. In his life of seventy- seven years he left the testimony of an honest and conscientious man. A strong man, he was strong in his convictions. He reproduced the Puritan idea, modified only to less sternness. A massive strength, a solid faith, a fearless utterance, and though genial, and especially so in his family, where he considered everybody's comfort before his own, yet a character which, if aroused to wrath, one would dread to .en- counter. Such men are capable of great severity. He was satisfied with long life. He saw his family long settled, his sons in useful professions. He had the respeet of his fellow-citizens as a just man and the regard of those in his own work, to some of whom he was a patriarch.
Fifty years of consistent Christian life are his tes- timony. Duty was his watchword; duty fulfilled is preparation. It does take years to make such a prep- aration. Fruit does not ripen in blossom-time. A great oak is many years from the acorn. A good life, stalwart, vigorous, true, it takes years to build it up. Be patient, young men. Character is a plant of slow growth, but the reward of patient continuance is cer- tain.
Dr. Mackie married, Dec. 4, 1821, at Plymouth, Mass., Hetty A., daughter of Capt. Lemuel Bradford, who was killed in the war of 1812, and a lineal de- scendant of Governor Bradford.
Of their five children, Rev. Andrew was a dean of the Episcopal Church of Northern Indiana, died in the spring of 1878, aged fifty-five; John H., M.D .; George F. died at twenty-three, he was a captain in the merchant service; Elizabeth C., wife of George Hastings, of New Bedford; and Amelia B., who died at five years. Mrs. Mackie died Aug. 30, 1880, aged seventy-seven.
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JOHN HOWELL MACKIE, A.M., M.D.
John Howell Mackie, A.M., M.D., son of Dr. Andrew and Hetty Amelia ( Bradford) Mackie, of New Bedford. His father was a son of Dr. Andrew Mackie, of Wareham (an eminent physician of that section of the State, and a surgeon in the United States army during the Revolution), and a grandson of Dr. John Mackie, of Southampton, L. I. His mother was a lineal descendant of Governor Bradford. He was born at Plymouth, Mass., Aug. 24, 1826. Educated at private schools and under private tutors, he pur- sued his professional studies at Harvard College (on whose roll of honor his name stands), and at the Jefferson Medical College, in Philadelphia, where he graduated as M.D. March 9, 1850, and in the same year established himself in practice in New Bedford, where at this time, 1882, he is one of the leading sur- geons and physicians. His reputation as a surgeon is not confined to his city or county, but is recog- nized all through the United States, he having per- formed many of the most important and difficult operations in surgery, and being frequently called in consultation in various parts of his own as well as other States in New England. From the Massachu- setts Medical Society, of which he has been an hon- ored member since 1850, he has received many hon- ors, having been a councilor for many years, and been chosen to represent the State Society at the meetings of the Rhode Island, New Hampshire, Connecticut, and New York Medical Societies. He was also chosen a delegate from the Massachusetts Medical Society to the International Medical Congress of 1876, a con- gress composed of the most eminent men from all parts of the civilized world, and became a member of that congress. In 1876 he was chosen anniversary chairman of the Massachusetts Medical Society, and presided at the annual dinner in Music Hall, Boston, where among more than one thousand members and guests was Dom Pedro, Emperor of Brazil, and other distinguished strangers.
In 1882 he was chosen vice-president of the Massa- chusetts Medical Society. He is a permanent mem- ber of the American Medical Society, also a member and in 1863 and 1864 was president of the Bristol South District Medical Society. He is now (1882) president of the New Bedford Society for Medical Im- provement. He was appointed consulting physician and surgeon to St. Joseph's Hospital in 1875, and still retains the position. In the late war he was an acting surgeon in the United States navy from May 13, 1861, until March, 1862, when, his health being affected by his service in the Gulf of Mexico, he resigned his position, and was soon after appointed an acting as- sistant surgeon in the army, and during the rest of the war was in charge of hospitals at the North. Since 1863 he has been a United States examining surgeon for the Pension Bureau. He is a member and in 1881 was elected a trustee and member of the council of the Massachusetts Medical Benevolent Society.
From 1868 to 1871, inclusive, he was a member of the New Bedford City Council. In 1879 he assisted in the arduous work of organizing the first Board of Health in the city of New Bedford, and in 1880 and 1881 was its chairman. He also served as quarantine physician, and organized a system of quarantine which received the unqualified indorsement of the national authorities. Dr. Mackie has been largely called upon as a medical and surgical expert before the sessions of all the courts in Bristol County. His well-known thorough knowledge of his profession and the perfect clearness and honesty of his testimony are thoroughly appreciated by juries in the county of Bristol. In politics he was a Whig until the death of the party, when he became a Republican, and has since acted and voted with that party. When a young man he became an Episcopalian, but in later years has gone back to the faith of his fathers, and although not a member of the church, is a constant attendant at the old North Congregational Church, where for so many years his father was an honored member and deacon. His character is formed very much upon his father's, having the same stern devotion to the calls of duty, whatever they may be, and the same uncompromising sense of honor and devotion to his professional duties. Charitable to the poor, equally ready to respond to the call of the humble and the lowly as well as to the honored and wealthy, he is a worthy successor to an honored name and reputation. Jan. 1, 1860, he married Alice Weston, daughter of Henry Tobey, of Falmouth, Mass., formerly of George- town, S. C., by whom he had four children, one daugh- ter and three sons, of whom only one is now living.
CHARLES ALMY.
Charles Almy, son of Pardon and Mary (Cook) Almy, was born in Tiverton, R. I., June 8, 1819, of parents resident in Little Compton. He is a de- scendant in the seventh generation from William Almy, who came from England to New Jersey in very early colonial days, and afterwards permanently settled in Rhode Island, where he became a large land-owner. His son Job, born 1640, died at Ports- mouth, R. I., in 1684. The descendants of William Almy are numerous in Rhode Island and the con- tiguous parts of this State. The line of descent from William to Charles is William1, Job", Job3, John4, Sanford5, Pardon", Charles. The land first occupied by William lay at Little Compton and Tiv- erton, and is largely held to-day by his descend- ants. Sanford Almy, born 1759, died 1844, a large real-estate owner, having several farms, was an ac- tive Democratic politician, and all his life in public positions of trust and honor. He was State senator for many years. He married Lydia Gray, by whom he had fifteen children. He was a man of strong in- tellect and sterling worth, and, while quiet and nnas-
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suming, led public opinion and had the confidence of all. Both he and his wife lived to advanced years.
Pardon Almy, their eighth child, born 1792, died 1864, derived such advantages of education from the common schools as to be competent to teach, but soon became a farmer on a portion of the paternal acres, and was an agriculturist during his life. He was a man of good judgment and business sagacity. He held a colonelcy in the militia and was a deacon of the Baptist Church. He was quite retiring in dispo- : sition, never seeking office, and accepting it as a duty only when he was considered the best man for the po- sition. He was of uniformly even disposition, and was rarely provoked to anger.
He and four brothers lived on separate places in close proximity to each other, and they were all of strong physique and commanding appearance. They prided themselves on the amount of labor they could accomplish, and the superior manner in which it was done. They were social and hospitable, and none of them addicted to any vices. They were all good types of the best element of our intelligent New Eng- land yeomanry, and valnable and valued citizens. Each held an office which gave him an appellation for life. George was "Esquire," Frederick was " Col- onel," Oliver II. was "Judge," John was " Major," and Pardon was " Deacon."
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