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(II) Sergeant Joseph Dow, son of Henry and Joane (-Nudd) Dow, was born in Watertown, Massachusetts, March 20, 1639, and died April 4, 1703. He married, December 17, 1662, Mary Sanborn. Children: 1. Joseph, born October 20, 1663; married, at Amesbury, Massachusetts, May 25, 1687, Mary Challis. 2. John, born December 12, 1665; married, November 27, 1696, Hannah Page. 3. Mary, born January 15, 1668. 4. James, born September 17, 1670, probably died before his father, without issue. 5. Hannah, born August 25, 1672; married Wil- liam Fowler. 6. Henry, of whom further. 7. Jeremiah, born March 24, 1677; married, April 5, 1697, Elizabeth Perkins. 8. Josiah, born June 2, 1679, died April 18, 1718; married, September 22, 1710, Mary Purington, of Salisbury, Massa- chusetts. 9. Thomas, born April 26, 1682; un- married in 1721. 10. Charity, born December 7, 1684, at Salisbury; unmarried in 1721. 11. Samuel, born June 4, 1687; married, November 17, 1711, Sarah Shepard. 12. Aaron, born April 4, 1692, probably died before his father, without issue.
(J. Dow: "History of Hampton, New Hampshire," Vol. II, pp. 678-80.) Bos.i-9
(III) Henry Dow, son of Joseph and Mary (Sanborn) Dow, was born November 7, 1674. He married, December 7, 1694, Mary Mussey. Children: 1. Joanna, born October 4, 1696, died April 18, 1736; married, January 21, 1719, Aaron Morrill, Jr. 2. Lydia, born December 31, 1699; married, December 10, 1719, Samuel Gould, of Amesbury, Massachusetts. 3. Samuel, born January 22, 1702. 4. Susanna, born March 12, 1705. 5. Ruth, born June 4, 1707; married (first) a Rowe; (second), January 13, 1735, John Morrill of Kittery, Maine. 6. Judith, born June 10, 1710; married, May 16, 1728, John Mumford, of Newport, Rhode Island. 7. Henry, born December 13, 1711. 8. Daniel, of whom further.
(Ibid., pp. 679, 681.)
(IV) Daniel Dow, probably son of Henry and Mary (Mussey) Dow, was born February 4, 1714. He married, November 16, 1749, Re- beckah Pesele or Peaslee, born July 18, 1727, died June 2, 1757, daughter of Daniel and Rebecca (Kelley) Peaslee, of Salem, New Hampshire. Children: 1. Phineas, born June 16, 1750. 2. Olif, born November 25, 1751, died September 25, 1753. 3. Peaslee, born September 2, 1754. 4. Zellia or Zilliah, of whom further.
(Ibid., Vol. II, p. 681; E. Gilbert: "History of Salem, New Hampshire," pp. 17, 18, 73, 102.)
(V) Zellia or Zilliah Dow, daughter of Daniel and Rebeckah (Pesele or Peaslee) Dow, died in Wood County, Ohio, September 2, 1844. She married (first), November 26, 1773, at Salem, New Hampshire, Benjamin Woodbury (Wood- bury VI); (second), June 2, 1814, Jonathan Pillsbury, of Candia, New Hampshire.
(E. Gilbert: "History of Salem, New Hampshire," p. 18; M. B. Lord: "History of New London, New Hampshire," p. 170.)
(The Pettingell Line).
The origin of this name is not entirely clear, but it is probably from Portingale, Portigall, or Portugal, old forms of the name which indicate that it was first applied to Portuguese settlers in England. It has also been suggested that
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the name Pettingell may come from Petinicol, or Little Nicholas, which is found in the Hun- dred Rolls at an early date. The family ap- pears in England in the sixteenth century un- der various spellings, in London and Oxford- shire. The American ancestor, Richard Pet- tingell, came from County Norfolk, and be- cause of his own statement that he knew in England Giles Fuller, of Hampton, who came from Topcroft, County Norfolk, Richard Pet- tingell has been connected with the neighbor- ing village of Shottesham in the same county.
(Harrison: "Surnames of the United Kingdom"; C. H. Pope: "A Pettingell Genealogy," pp. 3, 4, 7; Lower: "Patronymica Britannica.")
(I) Richard Pettingell was born about 1620, in England, probably in Shottesham, County Norfolk, who died about 1695. The exact date of his coming to America is not known, but he was a resident of Salem, Massachusetts, before 1641, and was admitted as a freeman of the colony on June 2 of that year. He held land at Wenham and Salem, and was regarded as a man of character and judgment. In April, 1651, he bought land in the Newberry planta- tion, having sold his Wenham property. He was chosen as a grand juryman for the year 1661. Richard Pettingell married, before 1644, Joanna Ingersoll, daughter of Richard and Ann (?) Ingersoll, of Bedfordshire, England, and Salem, Massachusetts. Children: 1. Sam- uel, baptized at Salem, February 9, -1644-45; died in 1711; married, February 13, 1673-74, Sarah Poore, daughter of John Poore. 2. Matthew, of whom further. 3. Mary, born July 6, 1652, at Newbury, died September 19, 1705; married Sergeant Abraham Adams, son of Robert and Eleanor Adams. 4. Nathaniel, born at Newbury, September 21, 1654, died about 1718; married (first) Mary; (second), about 1703, Hannah Goodridge, daughter of Jeremiah and Mary (Adams) Goodridge. 5. Son, born November 15, 1657, died November 17, 1657. 6. Henry, born Jan- uary 16, 1659, died January 20, 1659.
(C. H. Pope: "A Pettingell Genealogy," pp. 3-11.)
(II) Matthew Pettingell, son of Richard and Joanna (Ingersoll) Pettingell, was born in Enon, now Wenham, Massachusetts, about 1648, and died after October 24, 1714, the date of his will. He took the oath of allegiance in 1678. He was a felt maker by occupation, and his name appears in various land transactions between 1699 and 1710, buying and selling property in Newbury and vicinity. Matthew Pettingell married, Sarah Noyes, born August 22, 1653, daughter of Nicholas and Mary (Cut- ting) Noyes, of Newbury, Massachusetts, and granddaughter of the Rev. William Noyes, of Cholderton, Wiltshire, England. Children: 1. Son, born in 1674, probably died young. 2. Nathaniel, born January 21, 1675-76; married, December 22, 1702-03, Margaret Richardson. 3. Matthew, of whom further. 4. Joanna, born January 27, 1680-81, died April 15, 1722; mar- ried (intentions published November 2, 1700) Joseph Mussey, son of Joseph and Esther (Jackson) Mussey. 5. Cutting, born September 30, 1683, died after September 13, 1760; married, November 24, 1714, Bathsheba Noyes. 6. Nicholas, born November 15, 1685; died before 1792, married, December 25, 1718, Tabitha March, daughter of Lieutenant James and Mary (Walk- er) March. 7. Sarah, born April 19, 1688; mar- ried (first), December 15, 1715, Francis Brown; (second), December 2, 1717, John Weed. 8. Mary, married, January 21, 1719-20, Daniel Lunt. 9. John, born February 16, 1693-94, died in Jan- uary, 1766; married, February 16, 1720-21, Mary Knight. 10. Abraham, born September 23, 1696, died in 1715. 11. Abigail, born October 17, 1699; married, July 2, 1724, Nicholas Jack- man.
(Ibid., pp. 9-24.)
(III) Matthew Pettingell, Jr., son of Mat- thew and Sarah (Noyes) Pettingell, was born at Newbury, Massachusetts, November 18, 1678, and baptized on November 29 of the same year. His will was proved December 6, 1756. He was a weaver, and his name occurs in records of land transactions in Hampton, New Hampshire, in 1738, in Newbury in 1721, and in Salisbury in
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1721-22 and 1729. He and his wife were admit- ted to the Salisbury church July 28, 1723. They resided chiefly in Salisbury. Matthew Pettin- gell married (intentions published October 23, 1703) Joanna French, born December 16, 1683, daughter of Samuel and Hester French. Chil- dren, first seven were born in Newbury, the rest at Salisbury, Massachusetts: 1. Abraham, born December 4, 1704; married, February 29, 1727-28, Hannah French, probably daughter of Edward and Mary (Winsley) French. 2. Benja- min, of whom further. 3. Joanna, born in Sep- tember, 1709, died before 1756; married, August 29, 1727, Daniel Wooster, of Newbury. 4. Judith, born October 28, 1711; married, Novem- ber 18, 1736, Timothy Davis, of Salisbury. 5. Rebecca, born July 23, 1714, died July 2, 1719. 6. Matthew, born November 8, 1716, died at Salisbury, in . 1736. 7. Samuel, born June 10, 1719, died about 1774; married, May 7, 1751, Mary Moulton, daughter of Joseph and Mary (Noyes) Moulton. 8. Esther, born May 23, 1721; married, September 24, 1740, at Salisbury, John Batchelder, of Hampton, New Hampshire, son of John and Abigail (Cram) Batchelder. 9. Mary, born September 14, 1724; married Samuel Pettingell.
(Ibid., pp. 20-22, 43, 46.)
(IV) Benjamin Pettingell, son of Matthew and Joanna (French) Pettingell, was born at Newbury, Massachusetts, May 15, 1707, and died at Plaistow, New Hampshire, May 30, 1756. His occupation was that of a tailor. On De- cember 31, 1727, he was admitted to full com- munion in the church at Newbury. At various times from 1735 to 1747 he bought land in Haverhill in the part that was later set off as Plaistow, New Hampshire. He was one of the proprietors of Contoocook, New Hampshire. About the time of his death letters were granted to him and his wife from the Newbury church to that of Plaistow, New Hampshire. Benjamin Pettingell married, December 30, 1729, Elizabeth Stickney, who married (second), August 4, 1757, Samuel Sanborn, and died Oc- tober 16, 1762. Children, first born at New-
bury, second to sixth at Haverhill, rest at Plais- tow: 1. Rebecca, born December 31, 1730. 2. Benjamin S., of whom further. 3. Matthew, born October 28, 1735; married (first), Decem- ber 7, 1759, Sarah Carlton, of Plaistow, who died 1767; (second) Sarah Colby. 4. David, born March 1, 1738-39; made will January 6, 1807; married, in May, 1760, Betsy Heath. 5. Andrew, born February 25, 1741-42, died Decem- ber 12, 1777; married, at Salisbury, April 23, 1769, Abigail Greeley. 6. Elizabeth, born June 6, 1744, died July 18, 1818; married Jacob Garland. 7. Joanna, born August 17, 1745, died January 14, 1745-46, at Plaistow. 8. Joanna, born Jan- uary 17, 1747, died, at Salisbury, December 5, 1793; married Joseph Calef, of Kingston, New Hampshire. 9. James, born May 3, 1750; lived in Salisbury, New Hampshire.
(Ibid., pp. 25-27, 56, 58-59, 64, 66.)
(V) Benjamin Pettingell, Jr., son of Benja- min and Elizabeth (Stickney) Pettingell, was born in Haverhill, Massachusetts, July 6, 1734, and. died in Salisbury, New Hampshire, March 15, 1805. He was a soldier in the Crown Point Expedition, serving eight months in Meserve's regiment. In 1757 he was a resident of Plais- tow, New Hampshire, and bought land the same year at Sandown, New Hampshire. He served in the expedition to the Penobscot in 1762. Again in 1771 he purchased land in Plaistow, and had from his first wife Bradford property which he asked to have included in the limits of Plaistow, probably on account of boundary troubles. Benjamin Pettingell married (first), February 11, 1755, Martha Pemberton, daugh- ter of John Pemberton of Bradford, Massachu- setts; (second) Mrs. Mehitable (Kimball) Hale, born August 28, 1739, died April 23, 1812, daugh- ter of Benjamin and Mary (Emerson) Kimball, and widow of Thomas Hale, who died in 1756. Children of second marriage, born in Plaistow: 1. Benjamin, born September 22, 1759, died February 3, 1834; married Lydia Sleeper, of Kingston, New Hampshire. 3. Amos, of whom further. 3. Betsey, born June 11, 1763; married John Fifield, son of Joseph Fifield, of Kingston,
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New Hampshire; he married (second) Hannah Farnum. 4. Mehitable, born July 19, 1765, died October 8, 1831; married, at Salisbury, New Hampshire, March 11, 1784, Captain Winthrop Fifield, son of John and Anna (Snow) Fifield, of Kingston, New Hampshire. 5. Abigail, born De- cember 31, 1767, died June 1, 1858; married, as third wife, Major Isaac Blaisdell, son of Isaac and Mary (Currier) Blaisdell. 6. Polly (Mary), died before 1814; married, September 3, 1790, Colonel Levi S. George, of Canaan, New Hamp- shire; he married (second), October 25, 1814, Betsey Sanborn. 7. Patty, married a Judkins. 8. Moses, born May 22, 1772, died June 30, 1774. 9. James, born November 13, 1775, died at Ogden, New York; married, January 8, 1797, at Salisbury, New Hampshire, Hannah True.
(Ibid., pp. 53-56, 104, 107-08.)
(VI) Amos Pettingell, son of Benjamin and Mehitable (Kimball-Hale) Pettingell, was born in Plaistow, New Hampshire, November 5, 1760. His will was made March 3, 1837, and proved March 4, 1840. He was a deacon of the church. He married (first), February 2, 1786, Charlotte True, who died June 26, 1834, aged seventy- three; (second), August 30, 1835, Mrs. Jane (Garland) Greeley, who died February 27, 1836, aged fifty-nine; (third), May 19, 1836, Mrs. Deborah (Lee) Worcester, born July 1, 1772, in Manchester, Massachusetts, died July 26, 1839, widow of Rev. Thomas Worcester. Children of first marriage, born at Salis- bury, New Hampshire: 1. Eleanor, born De- çember 26, 1786, died March 7, 1861; married, July 31, 1810, Samuel C. Bartlett, son of Jo- seph and Hannah (Colcord) Bartlett, of Ames- bury, Massachusetts. 2. Amos, born March 22, 1789, died March 22, 1790. 3. Ann (Nancy), born April 10, 1791, died November 3, 1868, at Peoria, Illinois; married, August 11, 1816, Dr. Peter Bartlett, son of Joseph and Hannah (Colcord) Bartlett, of Amesbury, Massachu- setts. 4. Susannah, born August 10, 1793, died November 18, 1837; married, September 4, 1820, Rev. Benjamin Huntoon, who married (second), July 7, 1841, Lydia Bowman, and after a third
marriage died at Canton, Massachusetts, April 19, 1864. 5. Mehitable, of whom further. 6. Sarah, born September 21, 1797, died at Hamp- den, Maine, in 1852; married, June 27, 1821, Jo- siah Babcock, who died at Galesburg, Illinois. 7. Amos, born April 5, 1800, died February 3, 1801. 8. Lucy, born February 5, 1802, died at Peoria, Illinois, February 29, 1864; married, May 23, 1833, Honorable Moses Pettingell. 9. Charlotte T., born February 26, 1805, died at Gorham, Maine, September, 1843; married, June 1, 1828, Dr. Enoch Cross, of Galesburg, Illi- nois, and Newburyport, Massachusetts.
(Ibid., pp. 105-07.)
(VII) Mehitable Pettingell, daughter of Amos and Charlotte (True) Pettingell, was born No- vember 2 or 12, 1795, in Salisbury, New Hamp- shire, and died October 14, 1849, at Bowling Green, Wood County, Ohio. She married, at Salisbury, New Hampshire, October 2, 1824, the Rev. Benjamin Woodbury. (Woodbury VII.)
(Ibid., p. 107.)
LESTER WILKINS COOCH-A leader of the Boston bar, in practice since 1912 save for three years' war service, Lester Wilkins Cooch has had an unusual career, and belongs to an honored family old in the history of the United States.
The progenitor of this family was Thomas Cooch, native of England, who came from Hatfield, England, and located in Delaware in 1746. Lester Wilkins Cooch is descended in the sixth generation from Thomas Cooch, and through his forebears is eligible to men- bership in the Sons of the American Revolu- tion. His father, Zebulon Hollingsworth Cooch, was born at Cooch's Bridge, Delaware, olden family seat of the Cooch line, September 11, 1849, and died February 3, 1918, having spent many years in the mercantile circles of Boston as wholesale dealer in paints and oils. Zebulon Hollingsworth Cooch married Nettie E. Dix,
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who survives him, and is a direct descendant of Roger Williams. (Anent the town of Cooch's Bridge: Records show battle Septem- ber 3, 1777, when present flag first unfurled in battle; homestead seized by General Howe as British headquarters. Thomas Cooch, it is fur- ther shown, served as captain in the French and Indian War and colonel in the Revolution, while his son Thomas, Jr., and his grandson William also served in the Revolution, being three generations in service simultaneously.)
Lester Wilkins Cooch, son of Zebulon Hol- lingsworth and Nettie E. (Dix) Cooch, was born in Boston, August 28, 1888, and was a child when his family removed their place of residence, to Everett, Massachusetts. In 1903 he completed the course at Lincoln Grammar School, then took two years of secondary in- struction in Everett High School, after which he went to work, for seven years, with the Old Colony Trust Company, of Boston. Mean- while his feeling for the law as a life's work had increased substantially, and he became a student at Northeastern University Law School, whence he received the degree of Bachelor of Laws, cum laude honors, in the spring of 1912. He was admitted to the bar that year, and began practice in Boston. By the time the United States entered the World War this practice had augmented largely. He had an extended clientele, to leave it meant a certain sacrifice; but none the less his duty was clear, and he enlisted for service at the very entrance of our country into hostilities. During most of his service he was attached to the First Naval District in charge of all legal activities as an aide on the staff of the admiral of that district. After holding four commissions he was mustered out in June of 1920, as a senior lieutenant in the Naval Reserve Force, which commission and rank he still retains. He re- sumed the course of his profession where it had so hastily been dropped, taking offices at No. 18 Tremont Street. In January, 1925, he re- moved his offices to the present address, No. 45 Milk Street, where he has practiced since, with still greater prestige at the bar.
For a number of years Mr. Cooch made his residence in Everett, and served that city variously. In 1912 he was a member of the Everett City Council, and since coming to Watertown, where he lives, at No. 99 Robbins Road, in 1919, has continued his public service, now (1928) being a representative of the town government. Fraternally he is a member of Pequossette Lodge, Free and Accepted Masons; Watertown Chapter, Royal Arch Masons; As- sociated Craftsmen; American Bar Association; Bank Officers' Association of Boston; United States Naval Reserve Officers' Association; American Legion; Northeastern University Law School Alumni Association; Watertown Re- publican Club, and other bodies.
Mr. Cooch married, at Peabody, Massachu- setts, June 30, 1916, Mary Elsie Blaney, of that city, daughter of Edward A. and Adelaide (Demeritt) Blaney, of that community; and of this union was born a son, Robert Lawrence, May 18, 1920.
KINGMAN P. CASS-Though he is only thirty-two years of age, Kingman P. Cass has had a varied experience in the insurance broker- age and agency business. Early in his career he was associated with the well-known firm of Thomas E. Sears, Incorporated, insurance bro- kers, and in 1927, after having been employed elsewhere for a period of seven years, he re- turned to this concern, with which he is now employed as office manager and assistant to Mr. Sears, who is insurance adviser for the Associated Industries of Massachusetts.
Kingman P. Cass was born in Tilton, New Hampshire, in 1895, son of Arthur T., also a native of Tilton, New Hampshire, where he was engaged in the banking business, and of Mary (Packard) Cass, who was born in South Boston, Massachusetts. Mr. Cass received his early education in the public schools and then
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prepared for college in the Tilton School for Boys, studying in the bank during vacations, under his father, who was then president of the Northern Bankers' Association of New Hamp- shire and Vermont. When his preparatory course was completed he became a student in Wesleyan University, at Middletown, Connecti- cut, from which he was graduated in 1916 with the degree of Bachelor of Arts. Following a short training cruise with the Naval Reserve on the U. S. S. "New Jersey," he then con- tinued study in the College of Business Admin- istration, of Boston University, entering the auditing department of the Federal Reserve Bank, where he remained until the war, being one of the first three from the bank to enlist. In 1919 he became associated with the firm of Thomas E. Sears, Incorporated, insurance bro- kers, located in the Rice Building in Boston, and here remained for a year. In 1920 he identified himself with Gilmour Rothery & Company of Boston, general agents, and this connection he maintained until 1924, working as an insurance engineer. In 1924 he entered the employ of Elmer A. Lord and Company, of Boston, and here remained until 1927, serving as special agent for their fire insurance business, covering Met- ropolitan Boston. In 1927 he again associated himself with Thomas E. Sears, Incorporated, being now secretary of the corporation, with offices at No. 945 Park Square Building. Politically, Mr. Cass gives his support to the Republican party. Upon the entrance of the United States into the World War he enlisted for service and was sent to First Training Camp at Plattsburg, New York, where on August 25, 1917, he was com- missioned a second lieutenant in the Quarter- master Corps of the National Army. In November, 1917, while attached to Camp Head- quarters at Camp Devens as a personnel officer, he was promoted to the rank of first lieutenant and assigned to the Construction Division, with headquarters at Camp Wheeler, Georgia, where he remained as company commander of the Construction Detachment until he received his discharge, April 9, 1919, with the rank of first
lieutenant, having also served for a time as fire chief and later as emergency purchasing officer for the Camp.
Fraternally, Mr. Cass is identified with Delta Tau Delta College Fraternity, and is past presi- dent of the Delta Tau Delta Club of Boston, Incorporated. He is also a member of William Parkman Lodge, Free and Accepted Masons, of Winchester; Winchester Chapter, Royal Arch Masons, of which he is a Past High Priest; Med- ford Council, Royal and Select Masters; and De Molay Commandery, Knights Templar, of Boston. He is a member of the Army and Navy Club, Boston Chamber of Commerce, Calumet Club of Winchester, Scituate Country Club, Winchester Boat Club, and of the Amer- ican Legion. He is also vice-president of Win- chester Council, Boy Scouts of America; and treasurer of the Wesleyan Alumni Club of New England. Mr. Cass is fond of organiza- tion work of all kinds, and he also finds healthful recreation and an absorbing interest in fishing and boating as well as landscape gardening. He is an attendant of the Church of the Epiphany (Episcopal).
Kingman P. Cass was married, in 1919, to Mary Frances Fiske, who was born in Newton Center, Massachusetts, and they have one child: Donald Chandler Cass.
RAYMOND PALMER DELANO-Success in his chosen profession of the law, following years of important realty transactions which served to promote the welfare of the community as well as himself, and his many-sided interests in public affairs have combined to give Ray- mond P. Delano an enviable position as popular leader in Dorchester and Boston, Massachusetts. He is a man of great vigor and force, as well as altruism. Whatever he supports, and he gives his aid to every worthwhile civic move-
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ment, results in success through the stimulus of his work and spirit.
Raymond P. Delano was born in Hyde Park, in 1880, son of Alphonso F. and Emma L. (Stevens) Delano, who had one other child, a daughter. The father, a well-known industrial figure, a mechanical and industrial superintend- ent, organized a lodge of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows in Hyde Park. Given a good foundational education in the public and gram- mar schools of Hyde Park, and the high school and Adams Academy in Quincy, the son, Ray- inond P. Delano, continued to acquire informa- tion on the subjects which interested him by well-directed and energetic study. He studied in the classes of the Young Men's Christian Association and read law with Charles H. Innes and Joseph H. Samuels. In 1901 he engaged in the real estate business in the Dorchester section, carrying forward to a successful con- clusion large transactions and at the same time continuing his law studies in the evenings. He was admitted to the Massachusetts courts in February, 1915, and to the United States Courts in November, 1916. Since that time he has been in general practice for himself, but has found time to promote every phase of public progress, both locally and in the larger area of all Boston.
Mr. Delano is a Republican and was on the State Committee in 1910, 1912, 1923-29, inclusive, and is a past president of the Republican Club of Dorchester. In 1917 he organized Company A, 10th Regiment, Massachusetts State Guard, and had the rank of corporal. At the time of the police strike, he reënlisted as senior cor- poral. He also proved a persuasive "three-min- ute" speaker for philanthropic and Liberty Bond drives. He has been president of the Dorchester Board of Trade and of the United Improve- ment Association of Boston, past president of the Dorchester Federation, and of the Boston Sub-District Insurance Agents' Association, and was for six years secretary of the Real Estate Brokers' Association of Dorchester, and was ac- tive in the Massachusetts Real Estate Exchange. He was chairman of the Committee on Organ-
ization and Rules of the Progressive party of Massachusetts when this party was organ- ized in the State in 1912. These and other public positions have been most capably and earnestly filled by a man who unselfishly loses himself in the good of his fellows. He is moderator of the Second Congregational Church of Dorchester and acted for it when, in 1922, it incorporated and merged the old parish and the church society into one corporate body.
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