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property Bartlett received the Sigourney and Rockdale Mills which he has since operated. He is a liberal supporter of the Baptist society at North Ox., has been considerably in public life, school committee, moderator, six years chairman of the selectmen. He m. 1859, Sarah L. Eddy of Webster.
. Children : HARRIET, b. 1863, m. 20 Oct., 1881, Edward T. Hallowell, b. · 28 Feb., 1858, at Sandy Spring, Md., son of John E. and Anna W. (Town- send) ; they had Anna T., b. 13 Oct., 1882; Henry B., b. 5 July, 1884; Sarah E., b. 26 May, 1886; William, b. 2 April, 1891; JOSEPHINE, b. 1868; EDWIN N., b. 1872.
BETSEY and George Clapp, m. 1 Jan., 1827.
ROYAL T., b. 24 March, 1829, at Cumberland, R. I., son of Job and Lucinda (Stearns), residence H. 19, Francis Sibley place.
ELEAZER and Miriam Stowe, m. 3 Jan., 1835.
LEVI, w. Eliza, had CHARLES H., b. 1841, d. 1843.
BARTON,1 SAMUEL, first record of, in court at Salem as witness in a witchcraft trial, w. Hannah, perhaps dau. of Edmund Bridges, Jr., of Salem. Samuel Barton was warned against settlement, June, 1693, at Watertown. [Bond]. Mr. Temple says he was of Framingham in 1699 and perhaps earlier. His children were recorded there although it is thought the eldest two were b. elsewhere. He bought 1716 the Eliott grist-mill in Ox., dismissed from Framingham church to Ox. 15 Jan., 1724. He d. 12 Sept., 1732, she d. 13 March, 1727. He gave in his will all his lands and movable estate to his son Caleb. .. . Children : SAMUEL, b. 8 Oct., 1691, m. 23 May, 1715, Elizabeth Bellows of Marlboro', one of the 30 settlers of Sutton, blacksmith, selectman and treasurer, removed 1748 to Dudley ; had Amariah, b. 1716, d. 1730; Mary, 1718; Bezaleel, 1722, killed in battle of Bunker Hill, the Bartons of Croydon, N. H., are his descendants; Samuel, 1724; Ebenezer, 1726, m. Hannah, his cousin, dau. of Caleb (4), residence, Tolland and Suffield, Conn., went into the Revolutionary army and not heard from afterward; Betty, 1728; Amariah, 1731; MERCY, b. 22 May, 1694, m. intentions 17 Dec., 1716, David Town; JOSHUA, b. 24 Dec., 1697; ELISHA, b. 22 April, 1701; CALEB, b. 9 Feb., 1705, at Framingham; JEDEDIAH, b. 18 Sept., 1707; MEHETABLE, b. 22 Aug., 1710, m. 12 Nov., 1730, Samuel Duncan of Worcester, where she d. 1742; EDMUND, b. 5 Aug., 1714.
2. JOSHUA, son of Samuel (1), m. Anne, b. 27 Feb., 1699, residence, Ox., removed about 1730 to Leicester, and later to Spencer, where she d. 24 June, 1757, m. (2) 7 Dec., 1757, Hannah Holman of Sutton, no ch., he d. 13 Feb., 1773. . . . Children by first m. : ANNA, b. 17 March, 1721; SARAH, b. 13 Oct., 1724; JOSHUA, b. 2 Oct., 1727, m. 1750, Abigail Pratt of Framingham; had with others, Abia (son), 1769, m. Eunice Prouty of Spencer, who had with others, Rice, b. 22 Jan., 1797, resided and d. at Ox .; MARY, b. 10 May, 1730; TIMOTHY, b. 13 April, 1732, at Leicester; NATHAN, b. 23 July, 1734, at L .; REUBEN, b. 28 March, 1738, at L.
3. ELISHA, son of Samuel (1), m. 3 Feb., 1731, Betty Waite of Sutton, where they settled, removed to South Hadley, later to Granby, where both d., he d. 15 Oct., 1776, she d. 1 Feb., 1806, aged 97. . . . Children, b. at Sutton : EZEKIEL, 1732; ELISHA, 1734; MEHETABLE, 1736; DAVID, 1739; GERSHOM, 1742; BETTY, 1745; SARAH, 1746; REBECCA, 1748.
1 We are indebted for much of the history of Worcester, who has made a study of the sub- the Barton family to Lieut. B. B. Vassall of ject.
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4. CALEB, son of Samuel (1), residence on Prospect Hill, constable, executor of his father's will, removed about 1763 to Charlton, where he d., he m. 6 Dec., 1725, Mary, dau. of Peter Shumway, b. at Topsfield, she d. 29 Aug., 1747, m. (2) 3 Jan., 1748, Susanna March of Sutton, who d. very aged at Plainfield. ... Children : JOHN, b. 12 Oct., 1726; HANNAH, b. 1728, m. 24 Jan., 1749, Ebenezer, son of Samuel Barton of Dudley, 4 ch. and w. d. of epidemic; Molly, only survived, she m. Ebenezer Humphrey ; REUBEN, b. 1731, d. 1733; AZUBAH, b. 1733, d. 1747; CALEB, b. 11 Aug., 1736, d. 1756, in the French war; ch. by second m. MARCH, b. 1 Jan., 1749; ABRAHAM, b. 16 Oct., 1750; JACOB, b. 2 Nov., 1752; BATHSHEBA, b. 15 Oct., 1754, m. 8 July, 1779, Samuel Streeter of Sturbridge, removed to Plainfield, where she d. 12 Oct., 1838, large family; HANNAH, b. 18 July, 1757; SIBLEY, b. 18 Aug., 1760; OLIVE, b. 14 Oct., 1763, m. 31 Aug., 1788, Ephraim Segar, removed to Plainfield, where he d., she m. (2) 1821, Joseph Torrey.
5. JEDEDIAH, son of Samuel (1), Lieut. of militia, bought 1732 60 acres on Prospect Hill, 1742 the Kidder place, North Ox., H. 133, and 1760 the Robert Williams place, H. 89, probably built the present house, resided there many years, he m. (1) 23 March, 1731, Lydia Pratt, who d. 13 Aug., 1765, m. (2) intentions 9 July, 1778, Mrs. Sarah Miller; he d. at Ward. ... Children : LYDIA, b. 1734, d. 1743; JEDEDIAH, b. 1736, d. 1743; MERCY, b. 1738, d. 1743 ; ISAAC, b. 21 Sept .. 1740; TAMAR, b. 12 Feb., 1743, m. Nathan Barton of Spencer [see 19]; ABRAHAM, b. 1732, d. 1743.
6. ISAAC, son of Jedediah (5), m. 29 July, 1761, Sarah Covel, he d. 9 Oct., 1769, aged 29. . .. Children: ABRAHAM, b. 1762, d. 1768; ISAAC, b. 1766, d. 1768; ISAAC, b. 21 March, 1768; she m. (2) Lieut. John Ballard.
7. ISAAC, son of Isaac (6), m. Hannah Pierce, residence, North Gore, removed to New Salem, thence to Gill, where she d. 1856, he d. 1840 at Green- field. ... Children : BENJAMIN, b. 3 Aug., 1789; JOSEPH, b. 27 Sept., 1791 ; ISAAC, b. 8 Feb., 1794 ; NEHEMIAH P., b. 30 June, 1796, m. intentions, 8 Nov., 1822, Abigail L. Parsons of Greenfield; HANNAH, b. 10 April, 1798, m. Lucius P. Chapin of Bernardston; DAVID, b. 31 March, 1801, at Ward, m. Dec., 1807, Olive Horr; SALLY, b. 5 June, 1804, at Ward, m. Charles Scott of Gill; LOUISA, b. 8 Jan., 1808, m. Salem Rich of Greenfield.
8. EDMUND, son of Samuel (1), m. 9 April, Anna Flynt of Salem b. 9 June, 1718, settled and d. at Sutton, now Millbury, soldier in the French war. . Children : STEPHEN, b. 10 June, 1740, at Sutton; JEDEDIAH; MARY, m. . . Obadiah Brown of Sutton; HANNAH, m. Samuel Boutell, 3 ch.
9. STEPHEN, son of Edmund (8), was a physician, studied with Dr. Green of Leicester, was trader at the centre 1764 to 1766, from 1766 to 1769 landlord at the old tavern. He and his wife also were well educated, and he was a good physician; charitably inclined, and, it is said, lost much by never presenting bills to his patrons. He was patriotic, a good citizen, and one of the leading organizers of the " Social Library." He removed about 1776 to Winslow, or Vassalboro', Me., with his sons. About 1790 returned to Ox., and in March, 1794, the town granted him leave to build a shop " to be used as a mechanical shop during the town's pleasure," on the north side of the Sutton road near the school-house, a little east from the main street. He later returned to Maine, where he d. 21 Oct., 1804, and at his request was buried at the side of a large rock on the spot on which he spent the first night on going into the wilderness. This rock has been faced and now bears his monumental inscription. He m. 28 May, 1765, Dorothy, dau. of Elijah Moore,
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she d. 11 Nov., 1838, at Ox., aged 92. . . . Children : ELIJAH M., b. 1765, d. 1769; GIDEON, b. 1767, d. 1770; PAMELA, b. 28 Nov., 1768, m. 18 July, 1787, Benjamin Porter of Boxford, settled at Goshen, now Vienna, Me., where both d., he d. 11 April, 1837, she d. 16 Nov., 1836, 12 ch., a dau., Julia A. M., m. David Barton, her cousin, of Ox .; CLARISSA H., b. 10 Sept., 1770, m. 1790, Richard Foster, settled in Me., 10 ch., she d. 1843; STEPHEN, b. 18 Aug., 1774; in Me. were b .: HANNAH, b. 20 July, 1776, m. Jonathan Davis; PARTHENA, 1780; POLLY and DOLLY, twins, b. 1782, POLLY m. Daniel Batcheller, DOLLY m. 7 Oct., 1793, Jeremiah Learned, his third wife, and had Martha, who m. Capt. Jos. Stone; she d. 14 July, 1799; ELIJAH M., 1784 ; GIDEON, 1786; after return to Ox., LUKE, b. 3 Sept., 1791, m. Martha Ballard of Me., settled at Windsor, 7 ch.
10. STEPHEN, son of Stephen (9), enlisted at 21 in the western Indian war, marched by way. of Philadelphia from Ox. to Detroit, Mich., served three years under Gen. Anthony Wayne, soon after his return chosen Capt. of militia, at his m. settled in the west part of the town near Charlton, later built a house about a mile north of " Ben Learned Hill," H. 95, and afterward resided at the Col. Ebenezer Learned house at North Ox. and d. there.
He was a man of much force of character, strong physique, a clear head, quick wit, and integrity and manly firmness which rendered him a leader among his fellow-citizens, a charitable and kindly disposition, and in politics a Democrat. He was often in town office, selectman, representative and moderator. He was a warm patriot and at the beginning of the Civil war declared his belief that Lincoln should have called for 200,000 instead of 75,000 men. He was a Royal Arch Mason and was buried with the honors of the order. He m. 22 April, 1804, Sarah, dau. of Capt. David and Sarah (Treadwell) Stone, he d. aged 87, 21 March, 1862, she d. 18 July, 1851. .. . Children : DOLLY, b. 2 Oct., 1804, a successful teacher, unm., d. 19 April, 1846; STEPHEN, b. 29 March, 1806; DAVID, b. 15 Aug., 1808; SALLY, b. 20 March, 1811, m. Vester Vassall; CLARISSA H., b. 25 Dec., 1821, unm.
Being 10 years younger than her youngest sister she had few mates in her childhood. Her father amused her often by arranging imaginary battle- fields and troops of soldiers, and she once remarked, " I had no end of camp material, but no dolls-I never had one." As her older brothers and sisters were her instructors, she early imbibed a love for teaching, and when her brother Stephen took in hand the matter of improving the schools of the town she aided much in the work. He at this time was engaged in business requiring the services of a bookkeeper, which position she filled efficiently, thus early in life learning the methods of business. She taught school for several years at North Oxford, beginning when quite young, but not having had the opportunities for study in the higher branches later entered the Clin- ton Liberal Institute in central New York whence she went temporarily with school friends to New Jersey. Observing the state of educational affairs there she at once interested herself to devise means for their improvement. · Public schools there were none worthy of the name. A portion only of the children were educated, and they in private classes, and the idea of education at public expense, in " pauper schools," as they were designated, was ridiculed by the people. In these circumstances she proposed to open a free school at Bordentown, and under the laws of the State and with the sanction of the local authorities, began with six boys, renegades from some of the private schools of the town. Other pupils soon came in, and the third week her school-room was filled and the services of an assistant were required. The
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enterprise proved such a success that private schools began to be discontinued and soon the borough voted to build a school-house at a cost of $4,000, which was done, and a few months later Miss Barton inaugurated the Free Public School of Bordentown with 600 pupils and eight teachers. This movement gave an impulse to the cause of education throughout the region, and its influence is felt to the present time.
Being on account of her severe labors obliged to seek a change for recupera- tion, she repaired to Washington, where after a few months she obtained a position under Mr. Charles Mason as clerk in the Patent Office. Continuing under many discouraging circumstances one of the first female clerks employed in government service drawing money for herself until the election of Buchanan, when being suspected of disloyalty to the prevailing sentiment her resignation was called for, and leaving she returned to Massachusetts, there spending the succeeding two or three years chiefly in study. Upon the election of Lincoln she was recalled to her old position.
April, 1861, brought the beginning of the Civil War, and when the Sixth Mass. Regt. entered Washington on the 19th, after its struggle with the mobs of Baltimore, she was at the railroad station and accompanied the wounded to the " Old Infirmary," and the next day was attending with needed provisions to the wants of the troops at the Capitol. As other soldiers came in through her efforts they were supplied with many comforts and necessities such as men leaving home in haste might feel the need of.
As the greatness of the coming contest became apparent the desire of Miss Barton increased to do all in her power in the country's behalf, and finding it impossible to carry out her wishes while retaining her clerkship she resigned, and thereafter gave herself to the service of caring for the sick and wounded of the Union army.
As soon as it was known throughout the North that she was thus acting as receiver and distributer, supplies came from all quarters in such quantities that she was obliged to ask transportation for them from the government. Through the efforts of Gen. Rucker her request was granted and the service continued through the war. Whenever a battle was looked for, or had unexpectedly occurred, by means of army wagons, boat or by train, supplies were taken, often in advance of the regular medical stores, so that the wounded and the surgeons were held in comfortable supply until regular help could reach them. The wounded on the boats in the Peninsular Campaign, at the battle of Cedar Mountain, the second Bull Run, Fairfax, Chantilly, Antietam, Falmouth, Fredericksburg, the siege of Charleston, Fort Wagner, the Wilderness and Spottsylvania and at Fredericksburg after these battles, the siege of Petersburg, the Mine, Deep Bottom, Point of Rocks, and in front of Richmond until the breaking up of the Southern prisons called her to Annapolis to meet the starving prisoners sent there, received more or less the benefits of her efforts.
- Toward the close of the war a search was instituted for missing soldiers, numbering probably 80,000. At her request, made in July, 1865, and with President Lincoln's sanction, the Secretary of War sent to Andersonville an expedition under her direction to identify the graves of dead soldiers, and by means of Dorrance Atwater's " Death Record " 13,000 soldiers' graves were found, a large cemetery enclosed, laid out and adorned, graves put in order and head-boards erected, thus giving rest to many anxious ones at the North who knew not the fate of their missing friends, and enabling families to draw needed and well deserved pensions.
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In compliance with a popular desire to hear details of her work she entered - the lecture field, and in different parts of the North addressed large audiences until 1868, when her strength failing she went abroad for rest. She was in Switzerland in 1869 when the Franco-German war broke out, and at the invitation of the International Committee of the Red Cross of Geneva joined in the care of the wounded at the front at the battle of Woerth, and later was invited by the Grand Duchess of Baden to aid in the establishment of hospitals. She proceeded to the Court of Carlsruhe where she remained until the fall of Strasburg, when she entered that city with the German army, remaining eight months, doing relief work among its destitute and starving people, not only distributing necessaries but organizing charities and specially aiding the women in providing clothing for the people.
She went thence at the fall of the Commune to the more terrible necessities of Paris, entering while the fires were yet raging and the Communists being shot down by troops. Her labors here were as arduous as at Strasburg, but not of so long duration. From Paris she went to other cities of France which had suffered from siege, doing the same service, closing her labors at Metz. In 1872 she went to London, fell ill from over-exertion and remained until the fall of 1873, when she was able to embark for her native land. Several years of infirm health followed. In 1877, having somewhat improved, in accordance with a resolution formed when in Europe she made an endeavor to obtain the influence of the United States government in favor of the Red Cross Association, and after five years of urgent effort in 1882 a unanimous vote of Congress for it was obtained, and it became a part of our national polity. The results of the treaty, in which European powers are associated, were a change in the Articles of War for the entire medical and hospital department of the army, the change of all military hospital flags to the Red Cross on a white ground, the neutralization of all non-combatants, surgeons, chaplains and hospital attendants, the wounded themselves, and all hospitals and supplies, protecting them from capture. Miss Barton was appointed President of the Association in America by President Garfield, and all corres- pondence on relief work in war addressed to our government passes through her hands.
In 1884 she took charge of the Red Cross Relief in the inundations of the Ohio and Mississippi rivers, spending four months in boats upon those waters. The same year she represented the United States government at the Third International Conference of the Red Cross at Geneva, Switzerland.
Hers is a record of efficient philanthropic endeavor, which will abide as a part of the history of the great Civil contest of our country. Her memory is enshrined in the hearts of thousands of the veterans of the war, and the souvenirs conferred upon her by persons of high rank in Europe attest the esteem in which she is held abroad. The local newspaper at Dans- ville, N. Y., in giving a report of a meeting held in her honor as she was about leaving for Washington, said : "At her throat was suspended a magnifi- cent pansy-form amethyst, presented her by the Duchess of Baden, proba- bly the finest and largest stone of the kind in this country. At the right she wore the royal arch-mason badge which came to her from her father, and just below it the jewel of the American Red Cross. On the left was the Servian decoration of the Red Cross presented by Queen Natalie; just above it the Gold Cross of Remembrance, presented by the Duke and Duchess of Baden; and just above these two the Iron Cross of Merit, for which so many serve a life-time, the gift of the Emperor and Empress of Germany." 51
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The tact and business abilities of Miss Barton have enabled her always to live in independence. She has for many years been the owner of a house in - Washington, and has made that city her headquarters, although for sanitary reasons she for several years after her return from Europe dwelt in her own home at Dansville, N. Y., leaving there early in 1886 for a permanent residence at the Capital.
11. STEPHEN, son of Stephen (10), had many of the characteristics of his father, was industrious, energetic, active in town affairs; a strong man mentally and physically, at 17 years of age the champion gymnast of the vicinity. He was early fitted for teaching, and while young was employed in the schools at North Oxford. His business life began in partnership with his brother David at the old Learned saw-mill, where they became the leading lumbermen of the region. They later erected mills near by and began busi- ness as cloth manufacturers.
He was chosen school committee of the town and was active in remodelling and grading the schools. The cemetery at North Oxford and the new road from the village to the N. & W. R. R. station were laid out and completed largely through his influence. He inherited a love for military affairs and was captain of the militia. In 1855 he bought a tract of timber land, of about 2,000 acres, on the Chowan river, Hertford Co., North Carolina, on which was a steam saw-mill, and removed thither, taking with him men to carry on an extensive lumber manufacturing. He had entered on the new adventure with good prospect of success, when in 1861 the war broke out and the business was suddenly suspended. He at once dismissed his men and sent them to their northern homes and himself remained alone to guard his possessions. He was soon set upon by a band of desperados and ordered peremptorily to leave, but gave them to understand that he should defend his rights with his life if necessary. They were surprised at his deter- mination, respected his courage and left him unmolested. He remained thus isolated until the fall of 1864, when a small party of Union troops from Norfolk on a raiding expedition went to his vicinity. He had at this time in a measure lost his health. These troops believing him to be a secessionist took from him several hundred dollars in money in spite of all his protests and declarations of loyalty and left for Norfolk, where they reported him as a "noted and dangerous rebel." On his arrival at Norfolk, whither he had fol- lowed these troops, he was seized and imprisoned. Two months of incarcera- tion in his then reduced state told severely on his strength. After a time he succeeded in sending a letter to his son Samuel R., then resident at Washing- ton, which (through the instrumentality of his sister Clara, then at the front with Gen. B. F. Butler's command) soon came to the General's hands. He at once sent for Capt. Barton, heard his story, reprimanded the men who had injured him, and sent him in his carriage at dead of night to the camp where his sister awaited him, ready to give him all the service slie could command. But he was too weak for recuperation, and was soon after taken to Washing- ton, there in the care of his son and Mrs. Vassall, another sister, lingering until the following March, when he died. His many ill fortunes only con- firmed his patriotism, and among his latest words were " God bless Abraham Lincoln and his army."
He m. 24 Nov., 1833, Betsey, dau. of Jacob Rich, he d. 10 March, 1865, at Washington, she d. aged 67, 22 Jan., 1875, at Oxford. .. . Children : JOHN R., b. and d. 1837; SAMUEL R., b. 31 May, 1839, secretary of Manufacturers' Insurance Co., Worcester, m. 12 Feb., 1863, Amelia L., dau. of Loren C.
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Parks, she d. aged 35, 21 Aug., 1877; they had Stephen I., b. 4 Aug., 1864, d. 3 Feb., 1882; Bessie A., b. and d. 1865; Herbert P., b. 25 Dec., 1866, at Worcester; studied at Oxford High School, Hinman's Business College, and Worcester Academy; entered Oct., 1887, Jefferson Medical College, Phil., where he was graduated 4 April, 1890; began practice in New York City, served on Board of Health and 1891 was on medical staff of Manhattan Eye and Ear hospital. He m. 18 Oct, 1890, Fannie J. Vasseur of Phil .; residence Brooklyn, N. Y .; Myrtis A., b. 1868, d. 1869; Loren C., b. 28 Aug., 1870; Walter S., b. and d. 1872; Clarence W., b. 16 May, 1875; Marion A., b. and d. 1877; DAVID S., b. 1845, d. 1847.
12. DAVID, son of Stephen (10), a worthy citizen, representative, quarter- master with rank of captain at Hilton Head in the late war, m. 30 Sept., 1839, Julia A. M. Porter of Vienna, Me., his cousin, he d. 12 March, 1888. . . . Children : ADA IDELLA and IDA ADELLA, b. 18 Jan., 1847, the first m. 4 Dec., 1869, Charles M. Clark of Oxford and had David B., 1871; Mary J., 1873; Harry L., 1875, residence, Webster; the second m. 22 March, 1879, Adolph Riccius, residence, Millbury; they had Edith J., 1881; Herman R., 1883; STEPHEN E., b. 24 Dec., 1848, m. 28 June, 1870, at Port Hastings, Cape Breton, Joyce, dau. of Dr. Thomas Wilmot of Birmingham, Eng., b. 24 Aug., 1848. He was in the United States service during the war as telegraph opera- tor at Hilton Head, and later at Cape Breton in the employ of the Overland Cable Co., afterward in insurance business in Boston. She d. 12 April, 1881; they had Irving W:, b. and d. 1872, at Port Hastings; Ida M., b. 23 March, 1873, at Oxford; Edith J., b. 1875, at Worcester, d. 1876, at Webster; Lauretta G., b. 7 Dec., 1876, at Webster, killed by a loaded wagon, 5 April, 1883, at Oxford; MARY ANNA, b. 11 Dec., 1851, m. 22 March, 1879, John H., son of John Stafford.
13. JEDEDIAH, son of Edmund (8), m. 23 March, 1774, Lydia Pierce of Sutton, he d. 1808, at Sutton, will approved 4 Oct. . . . Children : PLINY, RUFUS, executor of his father's will, his son, Hon. George S., b. 18 July, 1825, is a prominent business man of Worcester, of the firm of Rice, Barton & Fales Machine and Iron Co., State senator; AARON, LIVY, WARNER, PORTER.
14. PLINY, son of Jedediah (13), m. 31 March, 1808, Naomi Morse, he removed 1809 to Spencer, machinist, in 1814 he removed to Cairo, N. Y., and thence, 1832, to Olive, where he d. 1851. . . . Children, b. at Ox. : PLINY M. L., b. 22 Jan., 1809, an influential man at Salisbury, Conn., State senator, has occupied many positions of responsibility and honor, he m. 7 April, 1836, Mary A. Lockwood of Cairo, N. Y .; they had Mary, m. and resided at Salis- bury; Edward, agent on Conn. Western R. R. at Salisbury, representative; John C., master mechanic on same railroad; Charles C., graduated 1869 at Trinity College and later at Harvard Law School, lawyer in Boston, residence, Newton, where he has been President of the City Council; George K., merchant at Cedar Rapids, Ia.
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