History of Middlesex County, Massachusetts : with biographical sketches of many of its pioneers and prominent men, Vol. II, Part 149

Author: Hurd, D. Hamilton (Duane Hamilton) ed. cn
Publication date: 1890
Publisher: Philadelphia : J. W. Lewis & Co.
Number of Pages: 1226

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"Provided, That the inhabitants of the said towu of Lincoln shall pay their proportion (agreeable to what the inhabitants taken off by the said town of Lincoln from the town of Concord, paid in the last tax), of tbe charges that may hereafter arise in building or repairing of a bridge or bridges over the great river in the town of Concord, and the said town of Lincoln. And also their proportion of the charges of maintaining any poor person or persons that are now out of the town of Concord, hut hy reason of their former residence there, may become a charge to the town of Concord.

" Provided also, and be it further enacted, that the said several inhah- itants taken off from the towns of Concord, Lexington and Weston by this act, shall pay their proportion of all the town, county, precinct and province taxes already assessed on said town or precinct, as if this act liad not been made.

"And be it further enacted, That James Minot, Esq., be aud hereby is directed and impowered to issue his Warraut to some principal inhahi- tant of said town of Lincoln, requiring him to notify and warn the in- habitants of the said town of Lincoln, qualified to vote in town affairs, to meet at such time and place as shall therein be set forth, to choose all such officers as towns choose in the month of March annually, and said officers shall be enjoined totake the oaths now required to be taken hy town officers.

" Examined pr Thes Clarke, Depty Secry."

1 This is the date given in the town records. The true date is April 19, 1754.

SELECTMEN FROM 1754 TO 1890.

In the following list the number of years of service are given ; also the first and the last year of service :

Ephraim Flint, 3 years, 1754-57; Ephraim Hartwell, 12 years, 1764- 74; Ebenezer Cutler, 6 years, 1754-74 ; Famnel Farrar, 20 years, 1754-78; Jolin Hoar, 5 years, 1754-71 ; Nathan Brown, 6 years, 1755-72 ; Joshua Brooks, 5 years, 1756-63 ; John Gove, 7 years, 1756-65; Samuel Dakin, 1 year, 1756; Timothy Billings, 4 years, 1750-71; John Head- ley, 1 year, 1757 ; Benjamin Munree, 3 years, 1757-79 ; Timothy Weston, 5 years, 1758-63 ; Thomas Garfield, I year, 1759; Amos Heald, 6 years, J760-65; Jolin Adams, 8 years, 1764-77; Joseph Adams, 4 years, 1766- 74; Abijah Pierce, 12 years, 17€6-81 ; Eleazar Brooks, 9 years, 1764- 1782; Charles Russell, 1 year, 1770; Jeseph Abbott, 2 years, 1770-72; Jacob Fox, 1 year, 1770; Edmund Wheeler, 11 years, 1773-91; Aaron Brooks, 1 year, 1774; William Brown, 1 year, 1775; James Adams, 2 years, 1776-77 ; Jacob Baker, 1 year, 1778; Samuel Farrar, 13 years, 1779-96 ; Ephraim Brooks, 1 year, 1779; Samuel Hoar, 17 years, 1780- 1809; John Hartwell, 7 years, 1780-1801 ; David F'iske, 3 years, 1781-83 ; Timothy Brooks, 1 year, 1780; Humphrey Farrar, 3 years, 1781-86; James Parks, 4 years, 1782-85: Daniel Harrington, 3 years, 1783-85; Daniel Farrar, 1 year; Elcazer Melvin, 1 year, 1786; Elijah Welling- ton, 1 year, 1786 ; Richard Russell, 1 year, 1786; Samuel Hartwell, 1 year, 1787 ; Timothy Brown, 1787; Joshua Brooks, 13 years, 1788-1800; Jolın Perry, 1788; Nathan Weston, 7 years, 1789-96; William Law- rence, 4 years, 1792-96; Bulkley Adams, 1 year, 1793 ; Gregory Stone, 1 year, 1793; Ephraim Flint, 1797 ; Ephraim Brown, 9 years, 1792-1809; Leouard Hoar, 8 years, 1800-lo; Elijah Fiske, 18 years, 1804-33; Tho- mas Wheeler, 5 years, 1805-12; Daniel Brooks, 5 years, 1805-15 ; Charles Wheeler, 4 years, 1816-30 ; Solomon Foster, 2 years, 1816-17 ; Ephraim Flint, 1 year, 1817; Charles A. Wheeler, 6 years, 1818-24; Stephen Patch, 9 years, 1819-27; Ahel Hartwell, 1 year, 1819; Gregory Stone, 6 years, 1822-27 ; John W. Warren, 1 year, 1825 ; Daniel Haynes, 2 years, 1826-27 : Calvin Westou, 2 years, 1828-29 ; James Baker, 6 years, 1828-33; Emery Bemis, 1 year, 1830 ; Amos Hagar, 7 years, 1831-43; George Russell, 5 years, 1834-38 ; Jonas Smith, 2 years, 1834-35; Samuel Hartwell, 2 years, 1834-35 ; Leonard Hoar, Jr., 4 years, 1836-39; Daniel Weston, 4 years, 1836-39; Ahel Wheeler, 9 years, 1839-47; Aaron Davis, 4 years, 1840-43; Charles L. Tarhell, 9 years, 1844-64 ; William Foster, 11 years, 1844-59; Henry C. Chapin, 1 year, 1848; Amos Hagar, Jr., 13 years, 1848-70; Francis D. Wheeler, 1 year, 1848; John W. Farrar, 3 years, 1849-62; William F. Wheeler, 26 years, 1849-82 ; James L. Chapin, 16 years, 1852-75; William Mackintosh, 1 year, 1859; J. Dexter Sherman, 1 year, 1859; George Flint, 3 years, 1865-67; George Hartwell, 3 years, 1868-74; Francis Smith, 2 years, 1868 69 ; Samuel H. Pierce, 2 years, 1871-72; George H. Smith, 2 years, 1871-72; Andrew J. Drake, 1 year, 1873; John W. Gray, 3 years, 1874-76; William L. G. Peirce, 1 year, 1875; Samuel Hartwell, 15 years, present incumbent ; Albion N. Brown, 1 year, 1877; Amos P. Sherman, 5 years, 1878-82 ; Thomas F. Harrington, 1 year, 1882; Edward C. Foster, 8 years, 1883, present incumbent; George F. Harrington, 8 years, 1883, present incumbent.

TOWN CLERKS.

Ephraim Flint, 3 years, 1754-57 ; Ebenezer Cutler, 2 years, 1755-59 ; Samuel Farrar, 8 years, 1758-66; John Adams, 11 years, 1767-77 ; Abijah Pierce, 3 years, 1778-81 ; Samuel Hoar, 17 years, 1780-1809 ; Richard Russell, 4 years, 1783-86 ; Grovesnor Tarhell, 5 years, 1799- 1803 ; Thomas Wheeler, 3 years, 1804-06 ; Elijah Fiske, 15 years, 1810-33 ; Stephen Patch, 6 years, 1822-27; Charles Wheeler, 3 years, 1828-30 ; George Russell, 5 years, 1834-38; Abel Wheeler, 5 years, 1839-43 ; Henry C. Chapin, 34 years, 1844-77 ; James L. Chapin, 13 years, present incumbent, 1878.

TOWN TREASURERS.

Ephraim Flint, 2 years, 1754-56 ; Samuel Bond, 1 year, 1755 ; Tim- othy Wesson, 1 year, 1757 ; Nathan Brown, 1 year, 1758 ; John Gar- field, 2 years, 1759-60 ; John Adams, 3 years, 1761-63; Samuel Farrar, 1 year, 1764 ; Eleazar Brooks, 3 years, 1765-67 ; Abijah Pierce, 2 years, 1768-69 ; Thomas Garfield, 1 year, 1770; Jacob Fox, 1 year, 1771 ; Ed- mund Wheeler, 14 years, 1772-96; Joseph Parker, 2 years, 1775-76 ; Ephraim Brooks, 2 years, 1777-78 ; Samuel Hoar, 6 years, 1779-92; Samuel Hartwell, 1 year, 1780 ; Bulkley Adams, 3 years, 1797-99; Thomas Wheeler, 17 years, 1829; Leouard Hoar, 7 years, 1804-11 ; Charles Wheeler, 16 years, 1810-47 ; Elijah Fiske, 3 years, 1812-14 ; Joel Smith, 1 year, 1815 ; Henry Rice, 2 years, 1830-31 ; Frederick A. Huy- den, 1 year, 1832; Charles L. Tarbell, 1 year, 1841; Francis D. Wheeler, 1 year, 1848 ; William F. Wheeler, 28 years, 1849-84 ; lames L. Chapin, 8 years, 1868-75 ; Charles S. Wheeler, 6 years, 1885, present incumbent.

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REPRESENTATIVES.

Chambers Russell, 11 years, 1:54-65 ; Samnel Farrar, 3 years, 1766-68 ; Eleazar Brooks, 1:74; Chambers Russell, 1 year, 1788 ; Samuel Hoar, 10 years, 1792-18)8 ; Joshua Brooks, 3 years, 1800-11 ; Leonard Hoar, 2 years, 1812-14 ; Wm. Hayden, 2 years, 1815-16 ; Elijah Fiske, 2 years, 182)-21; Joel Smith, 3 years, 1823-25 : Silas P. Tarbell, 3 years, 1827-30 ; Geerge Russell, 1 year, 1832, Solomon Foster, 2 years, 1833- 34; Charles Wheeler, 1 year, 1835; Abel Hartwell, 1 year, 1837; Elisha Hagar, 2 years, 1838-39 ; Daniel M. Stearns, 2 years, 1841-42 ; Leonard Hoar, 2 years, 1815-46 ; William Foster, 1 year, 1850 ; Daniel Weston, 1 year, 1851 ; William F. Wheeler, 1 year, 1853 ; Samuel H. Pierce, 1354. Under the District System .- Charles L. Tarbell, 10th Mid- dlesex District, 1861 ; James L. Chapin, 10th Middlesex District, 1865 ; Samnel H. Pierce, 10th Middlesex District, 1870 ; George M. Baker, 20th Middlesex District, 1878 ; Charles S. Wheeler, 19th Middlesex District, 1890.

COUNCILORS. Chambers Russell, 5 years ; Eleazar Brooks, 11 years.

SENATORS.

Hon. Eleazar Brooks, 9 years; Hon. Samuel Hoar, 3 years, 1813-16.

DELEGATES.

Delegate to the Convention to Frame State Convention .- 1779, Hon. Elea- zar Brooks.

Delegale to the Convention to Ratify the Constitution of the United States in 1758 .- Hon. Eleazar Brooks.

Delegates to the Conventions to Revise the Constitution of the States .- 1820, Hon. Samnel Hoar ; 1853, William F. Wheeler.

JUSTICES OF THE PEACE.

Chambers Russell, James Russell, Charles Russell, Eleazar Brooks, Jo- seph Adams, Chambers Russell, Samuel Hoar, Eleazar Brooks, Jr., Juehua Brooks, Grosvenor Tarbell, William Hayden, Charles Wheeler, Elijah Fiske, Stephen Patch, Abel Wheeler, Constant F. Minns, Wil- liam Foster, James L. Chapin, Geo. H. Smith, Charles S. Wheeler.

CHAPTER XLVIII.

LINCOLN -(Continued).

College Graduates-Physicians-Educational-Burial-Places.

COLLEGE GRADUATES.1-Stephen Farrar, son of Dea. Samuel and Lydia (Barrett) Farrar, born Sept. 8, 1735 ; graduated in 1755, and was ordained first minister of New Ipswich, N. H., Oct. 22, 1760, and continued the only minister of that town until his death, June 23, 1809. He married, Nov. 29, 1764, Eunice Brown, daughter of Isaac and Mary (Balch) Brown, of Waltham. They had a family of thirteen children, twelve of whom survived him, married and had families of their own. Mrs. Eunice Brown Far- rar died Sept. 9, 1818. His pastorate was a long and an eminently successful one.

Timothy Farrar (Hon.), brother of the preceding, born June 28, 1747, graduated in 1767, studied law and settled in New Ipswich, New Hampshire, and became eminent in his profession. For more than forty years he was a judge in the Supreme and Common Pleas Courts of the State of New Hamp- shire. He was four times chosen an elector of Presi- dent and Vice-President of the United States, and was

for many years a trustee of Dartmouth College. He married, Oct. 14, 1779, Anna Bancroft, daughter of Capt. Edmund and Mrs. Rachel H. (Young) Bancroft, of Pepperell. They had a family of one son and three daughters. Mrs. Anna (Bancroft) Farrar died May 1, 1817. Judge Timothy Farrar died Feb. 21, 1849, aged 101 years, seven months and twelve days.

" Long did his golden lamp in splendor burn : Sero in Colum ! late to heaven return."

Rev. Joseph Farrar, son of George and Mary (Bar- rett) Farrar, born June 30, 1744; graduated at Har- vard, 1767, and was ordained at Dublin, N. H., when the church was organized, June 10, 1772. He was dismissed June 7, 1776, and installed at Dummers- ton, Vt., in 1779; dismissed, 1783, and settled at Eden, Vt., where lie remained three years. He mar- ried, July 28, 1779, Mary Brooks, of Grafton, Mass., and died in Petersham April 5, 1816.

Jonathan Gove, M.D., son of John and Tabitha (Livermore) Gove, born August 22, 1746 ; gradu- ated, 1768; studied medicine, and settled in Gro- ton, where he married and two of his children were born. He removed to New Boston, N. H., and in 1794 moved to Goffstown, N. H. He married, in Groton, Mary Hubbard, and in Goffstown Polly Dow, and died in Goffstown March 24, 1818.

Moses Brown, son of Isaac and Mary (Balch) Brown, was born in Waltham, April 6, 1748. His father died in 1759, and his mother married, May 22, 1760, Nathan Brown, of Lincoln, and brought her children to her new home. Hence he is said to be of Lincoin. He graduated in 1768 ; taught school in Framingham, Lexington and Lincoln. In 1772 he engaged in trade in Beverly. On the breaking out of the Revolutionary War he raised a company which was attached to Col. Glover's regiment, and was en- gaged in the battle of Trenton. After the term of the enlistment of this company had expired he re- turned to Beverly and engaged in trade, and acquired an ample fortune. He married-first, Elizabeth Trask, and second, Mary Bridge, and died in Beverly June 15, 1820.

Jonas Hartwell, son of Ephraim and Elizabeth (Heywood) Hartwell, born June 26, 1754; graduated in 1779. He engaged in mercantile pursuits ; went to Bilboa, in Spain, was arrested and confined in prison by order of the Holy Inquisition. After sev- eral months' imprisonment he was released upon the request of the President of Congress. He died soon after his release, as was supposed, from poison.

Nathaniel Pierce, son of Col. Abijah and Thankful (Brown) Pierce, was born Sept. 27, 1754, and gradu- ated in 1775. He engaged in trade in Boston, and died in Watertown Dec. 30, 1783. He married-first, Polly Fiske, and second, Elizabeth Cheever.

Abel Flint, son of Ephraim and Ruth (Wheeler) Flint, was born June 22, 1758, and graduated in 1780. He taught in Lincoln and Haverhill, and died in Lincoln Jan. 25, 1789.

1 Where no other college is mentioned they were graduates of Har- vard.

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William Brooks, son of Joshua, Jr., and Hannah (Simonds) Brooks, was born March 13, 1757, and graduated 1780. He was a successful inerchant in Augusta, Me. He married, June, 1780, Mrs. Susanna Howard, and died May 12, 1824.

Daniel Stone, son of Gregory and Hepzibath (Brooks) Stone, baptized in Lincoln June 7, 1767; graduated in 1791, and was ordained at Hallowell, Maine, October 21, 1795, and was dismissed by mu- tual consent in 1809. He afterwards held the offices of justice of the peace and treasurer of the county of Kennebeck. He married, August 27, 1800, Susanna Williams, of Easton, Mass., and died May, 1834.

Samuel Farrar, eldest son of Samuel and Mercy (Hoar) Farrar, born December 12, 1773; graduated 1797; was tutor in Harvard, 1800; studied law and settled in Andover. He was treasurer of the Theo- logical Institution and president of the bank for many years. He married, October 30, 1814, Mrs. Phoebe (Edwards) Hooker, and died in Andover iu 1864.

John Farrar, a brother of the preceding, born May 1, 1779; Harvard University, 1803; LL.D. Bowdoin, 1833; tutor in Harvard two years, 1805-07, and was appointed Professor of Mathematics and Natural Phil- osophy in 1807, the duties of which position he dis- charged with ability and success for twenty-nine years. During those years he published several valuable scientific treatises, and was a frequent contributor to the North American Review and the Meinoirs of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, of which he was secretary and vice-president. Professor Far- rar married, 1st, Lucy, daughter of Rev. Dr. Buck- minster, of Portland, and 2d, Miss Eliza Rotch, an English lady, and died in Cambridge May 8, 1853, leaving no children.

Hon. Samuel Hoar, son of Hon. Samuel and Su- sanna (Pierce) Hoar, born in Lincoln, May 18, 1778, graduated in 1802, LL.D., Harvard University, 1838. He studied law with Hon. Artemas Ward, and was admitted to the bar in 1805, and commenced liis pro- fessional career in Concord the same year, and was a leading member of the Massachusetts bar for more than forty years. He was a member of the conven- tion for revising the Constitution of the State in 1820, Senator 1825 and 1832, and member of the Executive Council, 1845 and 1846, and was a member of the Leg- islature in 1850.

"In 1844 he was appointed by Governor Briggs, in accordance with a resolve of the Legislature of Mass- achusetts, a commissioner to proceed to Charleston, South Carolina, to test in the Court of the United States the constitutionality of an act passed by the Legislature of South Carolina of the 20th of Decem- ber, 1835, legalizing the imprisonment of colored per- sons who should enter their boundaries. Mr. Hoar accepted this new duty and left home accordingly in November, 1844, for Charleston, reaching that city on the 28th of that montli. So utterly unsuspicious

was he of giving offence that his young daughter ae- companied him. On his arrival at Charleston, and making known the object of his visit, such was the excitement against him, on account of the object of his mission being deemed by the people of the place an unwarrantable interference with their State rights, that he was obliged to leave the city, and lie returned to Massachusetts without fulfilling the object of his mission."

One of Mr. Hoar's biographers has said : "The mission was attended with no other result than to disgrace the people of Charleston, and aggravate the increasing hatred between the two sections of the country." But this seems to be an inadequate con- ception of the results which flowed from Mr. Hoar's mission to South Carolina. Up to 1844 it had been claimed by the slaveholders and pro-slavery men that the Constitution and laws of the United States sanc- tioned slavery, and that the abolitionists were seeking to overthrow the government. But when Mr. Hoar, a most learned and courteous gentleman of sixty-five years, went to South Carolina on an errand as peace- ful as the mission of Jesus, with no other escort or attendant than his own daughter-an amiable and in- telligent young lady-only to be told by the " Re- spectable gentlemen of Charleston" that he could not be secure from the insults and violence of a mob, even in the citadel of Southern chivalry-the tables were turned, and the sober and self-respecting men of the North were able to see at a glance who the law- abiding, and who the law and gospel-defying people were, and the result of his mission was to arouse the people of the North to gigantic efforts for the over- throw of slavery-or, in the expressive language of the time : " It drove a whole cask full of nails into the coffin of slavery."

He married, October 13, 1812, Sarah Sherman, daughter of Hon. Roger and Rebecca (Prescott) Sher- man, of New Haven, Connecticut, and died in Con- cord, November 2, 1856. They had the following children : Elizabeth, born July 14, 1814. Ebenezer Rockwood, born February 21, 1816; Harvard Univer- sity, 1835; LL.B., 1839; a distinguished counselor and judge; married, November 26, 1849, Caroline Downs Brooks, daughter of Hon. Nathan Brooks, of Concord. Sarah, born November 9, 1817; married Robert Boyd Storer, a merehant of Boston. Edward Sherman, born December 22, 1823; Harvard Univer- sity 1844. George Frisbie, born August 9, 1826 ; Har- vard University, 1846; LL.B., 1849; settled in Wor- cester and is a Senator in Congress.

Hon. Nathan Brooks, son of Joshua and Martha (Barrett) Brooks, boru in Lincoln, October 18, 1785 ; graduated in 1809; studied law and settled in Con- cord. He was a member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives from Concord for the years 1823, 1824 and 1825; was a Senator for the county of Mid- dlesex for the years 1831 and 1835, and a member of the Governor's Council from May, 1829, to May, 1831.

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In 1838 he was nominated by the Whigs to represent the Middlesex District in Congress, but was defeated by the Hon. William Parmenter.

Upon the incorporation of the Middlesex Mutual Fire Insurance Company, in 1826, he was choseu its secretary and treasurer, and discharged the duties of those offices with distinguished ability and fidelity until his death. He was for many years largely engaged in settling the estates of deceased persons.

He married, first, Caroline Downs, and second, Mary Merrick, and died in Concord, December 11, 1863.

He had a daughter, Caroline Downs Brooks, now the wife of Hon. E. Rockwood Hoar, and a son, Hon. George Merrick Brooks, Judge of Probate for the couuty of Middlesex.

Nathaniel Pierce Hoar, son of Hon. Samuel and Sus- anna (Pierce) Hoar, born Sept. 2, 1784; Harvard Uni- versity, 1810; studied law with his brother in Concord and commenced practice in Portsmouth, N. H., in 1813. He died of consumption in Lincoln, May 24, 1820.

Thomas Fiske, son of Elijah and Anna (Harring. ton) Fiske, born October 26, 1800 ; Harvard Univer- sity, 1819; studied law and began his professional business in Charleston, S. C., 1826, and died at Pine- ville, S. C., August 30, 1831.

William Lawrence Stearns, son of Rev. Dr. Stearns, born October 13, 1793; Harvard University, 1820; studied divinity and was ordained at Stoughton, No- . vember 21, 1827. He subsequently sustained pastor- ates in Rowe and Pembroke. He married, June 5, 1828, Mary Munroe, daughter of Isaac and Grace (Bigelow) Munroe, and died in Chicopee, May 28, 1857. Mrs. Mary (Munroe) Stearns died in Cam- bridge, March 2, 1890. Hon. George M. Stearns, of Chicopee, and Albert B. Stearns, appraisers' office, Boston Custom-house, are his sons.

Daniel Mansfield Stearns, twin brother of the above; Brown University, 1825 ; studied divinity and was ordained at Dennis, May 21, 1828, and contin- ued in the ministry eleven years, and returned to his native town in 1839. He married, in 1825, Betsey Munroe, sister of his brother William's wife, and died in Lincoln, October 19, 1847. He had a family of three sons and one daughter. One of his sons, Ed- win M. Stearns, is a clerk in the custom-house, Bos- ton. The other children died young.

Joseph Green Cole, son of Capt. Abraham and Martha (Green) Cole, born in Lincoln, March 16, 1801, and graduated at Harvard University, 1822. He studied law one year with Gov. Lincoln, in Wor- cester, and finished his studies with Gov. Enoch Lin- coln, in Maine, and was admitted to the bar in 1826, and immediately opened an office in Paris, Me. He was secretary of the State Senate, member of the Legislature, clerk of the courts, and register of deeds for Oxford County, and judge of the District Court, which latter office he held at the time of his death. " He was a man of distinguished ability,

great industry and exalted character, and no death in Oxford County was ever more generally regretted." He married, February 12, 1834, Mehitable M. Marble, and died November 12, 1851.

George Fiske, son of Elijah Fiske, Esq., born Au- gust 22, 1804; Brown University, 1825, and was an Episcopal minister at Oriskany and Rome, N. Y., and Richmond, Ind., where he died February, 1860. He married Sophia Northrop and had a daughter, Theresa, born 1842, and married in 1864 to Col. W. W. Dudley, of the Union Army.

Humphrey Farrar, son of Humphrey and Lucy (Farrar), born September 15, 1773; graduated Dart- mouth College 1794, and died July, 1840.

Joseph Farrar, brother of the preceding, born Feb- ruary 24, 1775; graduated as classmate of his brother, aud settled as a lawyer in Chelsea, Vt., afterwards removed to Wolfborough, N. H. He married Me- hitable Dana, and died in New York February, 1851.

George Farrar, brother of the preceding, born Oc- tober 16, 1778; graduated at Dartmouth College in 1800, and settled as a physician in Derry, N. H., where he obtained an extensive practicc and was eminently successful in his profession. He married, 1st, Sarah Prentice and 2d, Hannah Crocker.

William Farrar, another brother, born September, 13, 1780; graduated at Dartmouth College 1801, and settled in Lancaster, N. H., as a lawyer. He married, 1st, Margaret Kibbe and 2d, Tryphena Burgin, and died in Lancaster, N. H., March 3, 1851.

Charles Stearns Wheeler, son of Charles and Julia (Stearns) Wheeler, born December 19, 1816 ; Harvard University, 1837. After his graduation he taught a classical school in Cambridge one year and was four years tutor in Greek in the university. During these years he studied for the ministry and was licensed to preach by the Cambridge Association and preached at Brookline, Medford, Concord and Lincoln. He published a Greek Reader in 1840, and an edition of Herodotus with English notes iu 1842.

On the 1st of August, 1842, he sailed from New York for Havre, intending to spend a year in study and travel in Europe. He spent the following winter in Heidelberg, and early in the spring visited Göttiu- gen and reached Leipsic early in April, where he was arrested by disease and died. During his sickness he was tenderly cared for by his friend, Mr. John Fran- cis Heath.

The following inscription, prepared by President Felton, appears on his monument in the college lot in Mount Auburn :

"CHARLES STEARNS WHEELER, a graduate of the class of 1837. Born in Lincoln, Mass., December 19, 1816. Died in Leipsic, Saxony, June 13, 1843.

He was four years an able and faithful instructor in Harvard Univer- sity. To the learning of the scholar he added the piety of the Christian. Ardent and indefatigable, in a short life he did the work of many years. Simple in manners, pure in heart, affectionate in disposition, he was be- loved by all who knew him. While pursuing his studies in a foreign

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country ho was attacked by the disease which ended his I fe. His re- mains, restored to his native land, rest here."

George Farrar, son of Deacon James and Dorcas (Chapin) Farrar, born July 9, 1818 ; Amherst College, 1839; Harvard Law School, 1844, and settled in Charlestown. He married, 1848, Julia Carlton, and died of consumption at Aiken, South Carolina, January, 1852, and was buried in Mount Auburn. He was a man of large frame, fine physical develop- ment, and universally esteemed for his genial nature and social qualities.

Rev. Charles Hartwell, son of Samuel, Jr., and Mary (Hagar) Hartwell, born December 19, 1825 ; Amherst College, 1849; 'studied theology in East Windsor (Connecticut) Theological Seminary, and was ordained as an evangelist at Lincoln, October 13, 1852. He married, September 6,1852, Lucy Estabrooks Stearns, and in November following sailed under appointment of the A. B. C. F. M. for Foo Chow, China, where he has successfully labored for more than thirty-six years, revisiting his native land only once. Mrs. Lucy E. (Stearns) Hartwell died July 10, 1883.

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History of Middlesex County, Massachusetts : with biographical sketches of many of its pioneers and prominent men, Vol. II, Part 149

Author: Hurd, D. Hamilton (Duane Hamilton) ed. cn Publication date: 1890 Publisher: Philadelphia : J. W. Lewis & Co. Number of Pages: 1226

Author: Hurd, D. Hamilton (Duane Hamilton) ed. cn
Publication date: 1890
Publisher: Philadelphia : J. W. Lewis & Co.
Number of Pages: 1226