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Mr. Horton married, Jan. 11, 1844, Mary M. Eddy of Swansea. They had four children. The two sons, Adin B. and Arthur E., both thrifty farmers, carry on the ancestral farm together. Mr. Horton died Jan. 4, 1900, in his 80th year.
HORTON, WELCOME F., youngest of the five sons of Gilbert M. and Sarah F. (Pierce) Horton, was born in Rehoboth, May 20, 1865. His father, Gilbert M., was born in Rehoboth in 1827, son
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of Arial B. and Freelove (Pierce) Horton. His mother, Sarah F. Pierce, was born in Rehoboth in 1826, daughter of Rev. Water- man and Betsey (Baker) Pierce. His father, Gilbert M., carried on the wholesale meat business and farming together for most of his life, going to the Brighton cattle market almost weekly for many years.
Welcome F., subject of this sketch, attended the public schools of his native town until, at the age of seventeen, he began the re- tail meat business which he carried on successfully for nineteen years, when he sold out and took a much needed vacation. He then accepted a government position which he still retains. When Mr. Horton became of age, he felt a keen interest in the political affairs of his town. At the age of twenty-nine he was elected a member of the boards of selectmen and assessors and overseers of the poor, which offices he filled successfully for eleven years, when, having taken a government position, he was obliged to de- cline further service in town affairs. As a town official Mr. Horton worked to secure various improvements, - a state highway, an electric street railway, and the free delivery of mail. He had the pleasure of riding on the first electric car from Taunton through Rehoboth to the state line. In 1902 he was a candidate for the Massachusetts Legislature, but was defeated by a small margin. Mr. Horton is a member of Annawan Grange, Rehoboth, and Pioneer Lodge of A. F. and A. M., Somerset, Mass.
He married April 7, 1887, Henrietta E. Barney, daughter of Henry W. and Eliza A. Barney, a teacher in the public schools of Rehoboth and Swansea.
HUNT, PETER BROWN, ESQ., was born in Rehoboth (now Seekonk) Feb. 1, 1794; graduated at Brown University in 1816; was admitted to the Massachusetts and Rhode Island bars; com- menced practice in Seekonk in 1819, and died April 28, 1831. He was the son6 of Peter5 and Sarah (Ide), of John4 and Rachel (Carpenter), of John3 and Susannah (Sweeting), of Ephraim2 and Rebecca -, of Peter1 and Elizabeth (Smith).
KING, WILLIAM A., was descended from the Kings of Rayn- ham, a family distinguished for its honesty and piety. His great- grandfather, Robert King, purchased a farm in Rehoboth, which remained in possession of the family for several generations, though in some instances the family moved out of town for a time and afterward returned. The son of Robert was Robert King, Jr., grandfather of William. He was born Aug. 17, 1750, and mar- ried March 8, 1779, Freelove Harvey, who was born Sept. 17, 1750. They both died at Rehoboth of a kind of typhus fever called the "cold plague" which prevailed and was very fatal in the vicinity during the cold summer of 1816. In Attleborough one hundred inhabitants died within the space of ninety days.
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Rev. Otis Thompson, in a note appended to his sermon preached at the funeral of Mrs. Freelove King, pays the following tribute to Mr. King: "Mr. King was not long left to lament the loss of his virtuous and estimable consort. In less than two months he followed her to the house of rest and glory. He died of the typhus fever, June 13, 1816, in the sixty-seventh year of his age. Mr. King was universally esteemed as a man of piety and worth. In the year 1800 he united with the Church of Christ, and ever after adorned his profession by a circumspect and exemplary conversation."
They had seven children, of whom the youngest was Elisha A., the father of the subject of this sketch. He was born Dec. 6, 1795. He married, in 1820, Mary A. C. Short of Rehoboth. After living for some years in Taunton, they returned to Rehoboth in 1835. Mr. King was deacon of the Congregational Church in the Village. In 1847 he moved to Providence, R.I. He had four children, one of whom, Mary A., married Philip C. Gray of Little Compton. William A., the eldest son, was born in Rehoboth in 1822. He married Mary (Luther) Peck of Rehoboth, and resided there many years, moving to Attleborough in 1885.
Mr. King was a member of the school board of Rehoboth for about fourteen years, and represented the fifth Bristol District in the Massachusetts House of Representatives in 1868. He was a man of sound judgment, upright character, and genial disposition. He was greatly interested in the welfare of his native town, par- ticularly in the schools. He died in Attleborough, July 11, 1891. He had four children as follows:
Benjamin Peck, born in Warren, R.I., Dec. 16, 1847, now a resi- dent of Attleborough, a tool-maker, has been a member of the Attleborough school board eighteen years, of which he is now chairman, also a member of the board of overseers of the poor for many years, and a prominent Mason.
Rufina M. E., born at Warren, R.I., March 17, 1850; she was married in 1870 to Stephen F. Munroe; they had five sons, three of whom are living; she died Feb. 17, 1908.
Mary H., born Nov. 14, 1857; married June 19, 1883, to William H. Easterbrooks. They had one child, Alice M., born July 2, 1884, who married Harold K. Richardson, June 24, 1908, and is now living in Attleborough. They have two children: Roger King, born Aug. 14, 1909, and Marian L., born April 18, 1912.
William Lincoln, born Nov. 4, 1860; married June 25, 1890, to Annie E. Gilmore of Attleborough; member of the firm of E. D. Gilmore & Co.
Mr. King is a successful business man and is prominent in town affairs and various orders.
LAKE, HIRAM, M.D., was born in Rehoboth, Mass., Aug. 25, 1820, the second son of Joseph and Eleanor (Williams) Lake. His
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paternal ancestry is traced back through the Lakes to a very early period; his Ellis line to Lieut .- Gov. John1 Ellis and Elizabeth? Freeman; his Goff line to Anthony1 and Sarah (Polly) Goff in this country; his Thurber line to John1 and Priscilla Thurber; his Cheney line to "Mr." William1 and Margaret Cheney; his Thurs- ton to Ensign (Dea.) John1 Thurston and Margaret; his Burgess, to Thomas Burgess, member of Parliament from Truro (1602-23), and wife, Elizabeth Pye, whom he married March 21, 1598; his Warden to Peter1; his Toogood to Nathaniel1; his Bullock to Stephen1; his Moulton to Capt. (Dea.) James,1 Sr .; his Bliss through Thomas and Dorothy (Wheatley) Bliss, Rehoboth's fa- mous settler, who was born in Deventry, England, 1582. His ma- ternal ancestry is also distinguished: here through the Williams and Makepeace lines, he goes back to the Mayflower Pilgrim, Thomas1 Rogers; to John1 Johnson, the first surveyor-general and the first commander of the Ancient and Honorable Artillery Com- pany. His Waldron line to William1 Walderns, Alcester, England, and wife Joan (he was buried there Jan. 13, 1590); his Briggs to the time of Edward III and 1272; his Macomber to Thomas and wife Thomasine of Exeter, Eng .; his Hilton to William1 who came in the Fortune, 1621; his Woodman to Richard Woodman who was burnt at the stake in front of Star Inn, Lewis, Sussex Co., Eng., June 22, 1557; his Greenleaf through Edmund Greenleaf to France, 1066; his Dole also to France, but family were in England after 1066; his Bryant to Stephen1; his Shaw to Abraham1; his Phillips to Dea. Nicholas.1
Dr. Lake's father was a prosperous farmer and horse-breeder, and his early life was not unlike that of most boys reared in the country. He enjoyed such advantages as the district school of those days afforded, worked on the farm, grew strong in body, varied in resources and sound in character. He attended the acad- emy and a boys' school in Providence, R.I., fitting for Brown University; but his father objected, and he entered a drugstore in Providence as clerk and began the study of anatomy and med- icine with Dr. Busker. Later he studied with Dr. Bowker of New York, afterwards entering the Cincinnati Medical College, receiving his M.D. 1846. In that year he married Olive Fuller Shorey of Seekonk and settled in Holliston, Mass., where, and in the towns in the vicinity, he was in active practice for forty-two years. As a physician he was unusually successful and greatly be- loved by old and young. He was a veteran Odd Fellow and also treasurer of Mt. Hollis Masonic lodge for many years. He was a trustee of Holliston Savings Bank. He organized the first Board of Health of Holliston, and was for many years its president and secretary. He was a Republican in politics, active in temperance work and the Y. M. C. A. when that organization flourished in Holliston. He united with the Methodist Episcopal Church in April, 1859, and was an active member and a trusted official of the
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church. He was interested in starting and maintaining religious services in outlying districts of the town and also in Sherborn, and contributed liberally of his time and means for their support. The pastors who served the church in the days of his activity will remember him as an earnest, faithful member, always ready to second their efforts and support them in all departments of their work. He was greatly beloved by the whole community for his friendly sympathy, his cheery words, and his ever-ready "helping hand."
Hiram Lake, M.D., died in Holliston, Mass., Feb. 16, 1898. Mrs. Olive Fuller Lake died March 6, 1909; both lie buried in the Village Cemetery, Rehoboth, Mass. A daughter, Miss Gertrude Imogene Lake, survives.
LUTHER, WILLIAM H., was the son of Rodolphus Luther of Swansea and Lephe (Goff) Luther of Rehoboth. He was born in Rehoboth, May 5, 1840; married Dec. 25, 1867, Abbie J. Goff, daughter of Enoch and Keziah (Luther) Goff of Rehoboth. They had two children:
William K., born Oct. 29, 1868; married Lillian B. Carpenter of Rehoboth, daughter of Thomas W. and Mary (Seagraves) Carpenter, Jan. 30, 1889. They had issue: Ella Blanche, born August, 1889; married Edward B. Roberts; Bessie May, born Sept. 23, 1892; Edwin Newton, born April 24, 1905; and two deceased.
George Henry, born Jan. 4, 1871; married Marianne Frances Bishop, June 10, 1895; one son, George Bishop, born Nov. 27,1897.
Mr. Luther attended the district schools and High School at Rehoboth, and also studied at the Thetford Academy, Vt., in 1858. During the War of the Rebellion he entered the Union service in Co. H, 3d Mass. Infantry, Sept. 23, 1862, and was mustered out with the regiment J une 26, 1863. By two re-enlistments in the 18th Unattached Mass. Co., he continued in the army until May 12, 1864, successively as private, corporal and sergeant. He was commander of Bucklin Post, No. 20, Dept. R. I., G. A. R., in 1901, 1911 and 1912. After the war he resided in Rehoboth till 1893, when he removed to East Providence, R.I., and was book- keeper for the East Providence Ice Company for nine years, and for the Citizens' Ice Company at Pawtucket for eight years. While at Rehoboth he was town clerk for many years, and also served on the school board for six years.
MARTIN, HON. SIMEON, was born in Rehoboth, Oct. 20, 1754. He was the son of Silvanus Martin, Esq., and Martha (Wheeler) Martin, a descendant of John Martin who emigrated from England in 1665. Not less than five successive generations were born and lived in Rehoboth: John,' emigrant ancestor, married Mercye Billington, June 27, 1681. John,2 born June 10,
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1682; married Hannah Darling, Dec. 25, 1701. Ephraim,3 born - ; married Thankful Bullock, Dec. 6, 1699; died June 25, 1733-4. Edward,4 born Oct. 22, 1700; married Rebecca Peck, Nov. 8, 1722; died June 2, 1745. Silvanus,5 born July 1, 1727; married Martha Wheeler, Feb. 20, 1745-6; died Aug. 13, 1782. Simeon,6 born Oct. 20, 1754; died Sept. 3, 1819.
While in his youth Simeon removed to Providence, R.I., and was one of the first to enlist in the War of the Revolution. He was in Col. Crane's artillery company at Roxbury with Washington in 1775. Was captain in Col. Lippitt's regiment, and was in the battle of Trenton under Washington in 1776. He was in the expedition on Rhode Island under Gen. Sullivan in 1778. On the evacuation of Newport by the British in 1779 he removed to that place and for several years was chosen to represent the town in the General Assembly. He was first Adjutant-General, then Major-General of the State Militia, and for a number of years was elected Gover- nor until he declined a re-election in 1816. At the time of his death he was a member of the corporation of Brown University. As a merchant he was highly respected for his honesty. It is said of him, "He was a dutiful son, a kind brother, a tender husband, an affectionate father and a good neighbor. He died in full be- lief of obtaining salvation in and through the merits of Christ the Son of God." He is buried in the old yard at Burial Place Hill in South Rehoboth.
MARVEL, PROF. FREDERICK WILLIAM, was born in Re- hoboth, Dec. 25, 1869, the son of William H. and Harriet (Bowen) Marvel. His grandparents on both sides were leading citizens of the town. On account of his mother's early death he was brought up by his grandparents at the Marvel homestead in Rehoboth Vil- lage. The home atmosphere of kindly service in which the boy grew up gave tone to his whole life. As a schoolboy he was a leader in the athletic and social activities of his neighborhood. From the Rehoboth schools, including the private school at the Goff Memorial Hall, he went to Worcester Academy. Here he soon won a position for himself by his manly character and by his physical accomplishments. He won the medal as all-round gym- nast, was captain of the track team and a member of the board of monitors. On entering Brown University in 1890 he imme- diately took a prominent part in college affairs. He was a member of the athletic team for four years and captain for two. During this time he established four Brown records and one New England intercollegiate record. He was president of the Reading-Room As- sociation, of the Base-Ball Association, of the Foot-Ball Associa- tion, and a member of the Cammarian Club, the honorary Senior society. He became a member of the Zeta Psi Fraternity, of which he is now a director. After his graduation, Mr. Marvel for two years acted as instructor in mechanical drawing and in physical
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training in Brown University. From this work he was called to the directorship of the gymnasium at Wesleyan University, Mid- dletown, Conn. Here he also acted as coach to the track team.
In 1901 Mr. Marvel returned to Providence and engaged in business for one year, during which time he had charge of the phys- ical training at the Moses Brown Preparatory School.
On June 2, 1902, he was married to Elizabeth Stanton Knowles, daughter of Edwin and Dorcas (Clark) Knowles of Providence, R.I. After another year at Wesleyan he was called, in 1903-4, to Brown to act as instructor in physical training. The following year his rank was raised to that of full professor of physical train- ing, and in 1906 he was also made Supervisor of Athletics, which positions he still holds. As every student is obliged to take the required work in the gymnasium under the direction of Prof. Marvel, no man on the Brown faculty has a larger acquaintance among the Brown alumni. "He has always believed," writes President Faunce, "in 'a sound mind in a sound body,' and has made physical development a real help to scholarship and char- acter."
Prof. Marvel is a member of The American Physical Education Society, The Society of College Gymnasium Directors, also the University Club of Providence, R.I., and the Brown Club of New York City.
Prof. John F. Greene, his colleague and friend, presents the following appreciation: "He has been chiefly responsible for the financial soundness and the sportsmanly conduct of Brown athlet- ics. His work is thoroughly appreciated at Brown and elsewhere in the country for the sense he has of the proportion of athletic to other college interests; for the spirit of fair play and sportsman- ship which he imparts to all associated with him, and for his suc- cess in holding students up to the standards of responsibility and honesty even when they are assailed by an overpowering desire to win."
MARVEL, JOHN COTTON, was born in Westport, Mass., July 31, 1817. His boyhood until the age of twelve was passed in that part of Swansea called "Swansea Factory," where his father, William Marvel 2d, was superintendent of the cotton mill.
In 1829 the family moved to Rehoboth Village and his father became agent for the Union Manufacturing Co., which position he filled for about six years. In the meantime young Marvel studied for a time in Minister Thompson's school and was busy helping in the Company's store and working on the land. Later he kept the Village store for many years, and also carried on his farm near the Village. He was appointed postmaster May 11, 1843, and held the office until Feb. 15, 1897, - a period of nearly fifty-four years. Politically he was a Whig of the old school, but later he became a steadfast Republican; was justice of the peace, and for
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three years town treasurer and collector. He served in the Massa- chusetts Legislature in 1859 and was an honored member and liberal supporter of the Congregational Church. About the year 1845, Mr. Marvel moved to South Rehoboth and took charge of the store of the Orleans Manufacturing Co. for two years.
Mr. Marvel married for his first wife, Ruth Wheeler Peck of South Rehoboth, Feb. 20, 1842. They had one son, William Henry, born Jan. 31, 1843, the mother dying ten days later. Wil- liam Henry married Harriet A. Bowen, June 25, 1865; he died May 20, 1909, leaving one son, Frederic W. (see sketch).
His second wife was Frances A. Peck, sister of Ruth W., whom he married Dec. 2, 1849. They had four children:
Ruth A., born July 18, 1851; died Oct. 6, 1871.
John F., born June 18, 1857; married Abbie (Wilmarth) Chace, Nov. 28, 1899; one child, Ruth Wilmarth, born July 24, 1902. Mary W., born Sept. 6, 1864; died Oct. 21, 1865.
Betsey W., born Feb. 10, 1867; married J. Irvin Chaffee, Nov. 26, 1885. They have three children: Francis Marvel, born Feb. 15, 1891, at Rehoboth, Mass .; Jonathan Irvin, born Jan. 24, 1900, in New York City; Clarence Church, born Aug. 26, 1901, in New York City.
MARVEL, JOHN F., son of the former, is of the sixth genera- tion from -
Thomas,1 born Sept. 15, 1709; married, Sept. 15, 1730, Ruth Kemp- ton5 daughter of Stephen,4 Ephraim,3 Ephraim,2 Ephraim.1 Stephen,2 born Aug. 4, 1737. Married Ann LeMoine.
Benanuel,3 born Jan. 25, 1765; married Jan. 7, 1788, Sarah Mason, 6 daughter of Amos,5 Caleb,4 Isaac,3 Isaac,2 Samson1 who mar- ried Mary Ann Butterworth.
William,4 born Nov. 23, 1789; married (1) Betsey Pettis; (2) Sally Pettis (sisters), who were descended on their maternal side from Francis Cook of the Mayflower.
John Cotton,5 born July 31, 1817; married Ruth W. Peck and Frances A. Peck.
John F.,6 the subject of our sketch, was born in Rehoboth Village, June 18, 1857; married Nov. 28, 1899, Abbie (Wilmarth) Chace. One daughter, Ruth W., was born July 24, 1902.
Mr. Marvel was graduated at the East Greenwich Academy in 1878. In 1879 he made his first trip to the Azores in the bark "Veronica," which carried supplies to whalers and returned with Portuguese emigrants. In 1882 he visited Madeira and other is- lands of the Atlantic. He afterwards assisted his father in the store and post-office. In 1888 he traveled in Germany, spending some months at Bremen and Munich, and in the Tyrol, Verona, Venice and Trieste. In 1889 he returned to Germany, sojourning for some time in Berlin. On returning home he continued to assist his father in business, and became fond of athletics, excelling par-
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ticularly in base-ball. He belonged to several local teams and played first base. In politics he is a Republican, and while in- terested in town affairs has declined to hold office. For many years he has pursued the double calling of carpenter and painter. In 1884 he joined the Pioneer lodge of Masons in Somerset. Mr. Marvel is an active worker in the Rehoboth Antiquarian Society, and is highly esteemed for his many sterling qualities.
MILLER, CALEB, M.D., son of Philip and Rhoba, was born in Rehoboth, June 23, 1785; married Mary Ann Bucklin of Seekonk, Aug. 14, 1816; settled in Bristol, R.I., where he died Nov. 13, 1826, in his forty-second year; buried beside his wife and two children at "Burial Place Hill," South Rehoboth. An inscription on his stone reads, "In all the relations of life he was a man."
MILLER, CAPT. JOSHUA, son of Philip and Rhoba and brother of Dr. Caleb Miller, was born in Rehoboth, Jan. 18, 1789. Married Lydia Wheeler of Rehoboth, Sept. 2, 1810; died Feb. 24, 1850, and is buried beside his brother at "Burial Place Hill." He owned and conducted a factory for the tanning of morocco leather at Palmer's River, near his residence. Was commissioned captain in the Rehoboth Militia, March 1, 1817. Like his brothers he had an aptitude for the healing art and was often called to prescribe for the sick and to give first aid in cases of injury. His daughter, Electa Ann, who married Dea. G. A. Reed of Rehoboth, was a gifted nurse.
MILLER, NATHANIEL, M.D., son of Philip and Rhoba, born in Swansea, Mass., April 23, 1771, but soon afterwards his parents removed to Rehoboth where he was brought up. He graduated from Bowdoin College in 1814, studied medicine with Dr. Louis Leprilete of Norton, and took his degree in 1817 at both Bruns- wick and Harvard. He settled in Franklin, where he built for his practice a large private hospital which, having stood for a century, was burned in 1913. He also built a small thread-mill near his residence and employed Col. Willard Boyd as manager. Dr. Miller was an influential citizen, active in public affairs and generous in charity. He married, Jan. 1, 1797, Hannah Boyd of Franklin. She died April 29, 1840. He died June 10, 1850, both at Franklin.
Two of Dr. Miller's sons were distinguished physicians and sur- geons: Lewis Leprilete, who practiced medicine in Providence, R.I., from 1827 to 1867; and Erasmus D., who settled in Dor- chester, Mass., where his distinugished son, Dr. Winthrop Miller, was born.
The genealogy of this branch of the Miller family is as follows --- bearing in mind that Miller and Millerd are two forms of the same name:
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Thomas Millerd of Boston, who owned a large part of what is now Boston Common.
Robert,2 born in 1640; married Elizabeth - Their children were born in Rehoboth.
Nathaniel,3 born in Rehoboth, March 31, 1672; married (1) March 30, 1694, Susannah Gladding, and (2) May 30, 1728, Rebecca Taylor of Taunton. He died March 16, 1740-1.
Nathaniel,4 born in Rehoboth, Oct. 7, 1696; married Ruth Chase of Newbury, Mass.
Nathaniel,5 born in Rehoboth, Jan. 23, 1725-6; married May 15, 1748, Mary Wheeler.
Philip,6 born in Rehoboth, May 6, 1750; married Rhoba
Lived for a time in Swansea. Was a soldier in the Revolution- ary War. Nine children.
Nathaniel,7 M.D., born in Swansea, April 23, 1771; spent his boy- hood in Rehoboth; settled in Franklin, etc.
Lewis Leprilete,8 M.D., born at Franklin, Mass., Jan. 6, 1798; graduated from Brown University in 1817; M.D. at Harvard. Married, December, 1822, Electra Smith of Bristol; prac- ticed medicine in Providence from 1827 to 1867. Died in Providence, March 8, 1870.
Nathaniel,9 M.D., born at Providence, Dec. 20, 1824, where he resided and practiced until his death, May 5, 1866. Both he and his father were eminent in their profession.
From the above we see that the Miller or Millerd family of Rehoboth gave to the world no less than six honored physicians, all of whom were distinguished in surgery.
MUNROE, HON. ADDISON P., son of Philip A. and Delana (Pierce) Munroe, was born in Providence, R.I., Jan. 2, 1862. As a small lad he attended the Harris School in Rehoboth, but com- pleted his education in the public schools of his native city, after which he engaged in the grocery business in Providence, following that until 1909 when he retired. Mr. Munroe has taken a prom- inent part in public affairs and ranks among the foremost Demo- crats of his city and state. He was a member of the Rhode Island House of Representatives from Providence in 1903, serving on the committee on accounts and claims. From 1911 to 1914 inclusive he served as state senator from the City of Providence, being a member of the judiciary and other important committees. He was the Democratic leader in the Senate and took an active part in legislation, introducing many important measures and participating in all important debates. In 1898, 1899 and 1900, he was president of the Young Men's Democratic Club, at that time the largest political organization in the state. In 1913 he was his party's candidate for United States Senator, receiving the full party vote in both branches of the General Assembly. In 1916 he was nomi- nated for Governor by the Democratic State Convention, but as a
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