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William C. Endicott received his early education in the Latin school in Salem ; he entered Harvard University in 1843, and was graduated with the class of 1847.
Soon after graduating, he studied law in the office of Nathaniel J. Lord, then the leading member of the Essex bar, and in the Harvard law school. He was called to the bar in 1850, and began practice in Salem in 1851. He was elected a member of the Salem common council in 1852, and in 1853 entered into co-partnership with J. W. Perry, under the firm naine of Perry & Endicott. In 1857 he became city solici- tor, which office he held until 1864. In 1873 he was appointed by Governor Wil- liam B. Washburn, to the bench of the supreme court of Massachusetts. He re- mained on the bench until 1882, when he resigned.
Judge Endicott was president of the Salem Bank from 1857 to '73. In 1863 he was elected president of the Peabody Academy of Science in Salem, and still holds the office.
In 1884 he was Democratic candidate for governor of the State.
In 1885 he became secretary of war in the cabinet of President Cleveland.
He was married December 13, 1859, to Ellen, daughter of George Peabody, of Salem. His family consists of two chil- dren : William C., Jr., and Mary C. Endi- cott, who was married on the 15th of No- vember, 1888, to Mr. Joseph Chamberlain of Birmingham, England.
ENNEKING, JOHN J., son of Joseph J. and Mary M. (Bramlage) Enneking, was born in Minster, Auglaize county, Ohio, October 4, 1841, and is of German descent.
He received his early education in the schools of his native village, was an apt scholar, always preferring, however, to draw pictures on his slate rather than per- form sums in arithmetic. This natural predilection was not appreciated by the teacher, nor was the indiscriminate use of charcoal at home looked upon with favor by his father, but he had the sympathy of his mother, who was quite an artist in many directions.
In 1858 he was sent to Mt. St. Mary's College, Cincinnati, Ohio, where, in addi- tion to his regular studies, he devoted
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some hours a week to music and drawing ; in the latter study being much encour- aged by the kindly advice of the principal of the college, President Rosecrans, a brother of General Rosecrans.
His career at the college was cut short by the breaking out of the civil war. After serving the cause of the Union in one capacity and another, having many hair-breadth escapes, he was at last se- verely wounded and laid up for many months. When convalescent he visited an exhibition of oil paintings in Cincinnati, which created in him a strong desire to become an artist. Not finding the advan- tages in the West great for the study of art, he turned his face towards the East. After a short stay in New York, he came to Boston and commenced to draw on stone under Professor Richardson. He was compelled to abandon this after a short time, owing to trouble with his eyes. He then went into business, but lost all his money in a few years. He then worked for several years in pastel, and from that branched into oil painting,
He was married in 1864, in Boston, to Mary E. Elliott, by whom he has five chil- dren : John Joseph, Florence May, Mary Emily, Gracie Clara, and Joseph Elliott.
In 1873 he went to Europe with his family, traveling through England, Hol- land, Switzerland, Germany, Austria, Italy, and France. After spending six months in Munich, Bavaria, studying landscape painting and drawing of the figure, and three months sketching in Venice, he went to Paris ; studying the art exhibits of the different countries at the Vienna exposi- tion, he concluded that Paris must be the Mecca for art students. Here he entered the school of Bonnat, one of the cele- brated schools of art at that time, where he studied the figure for three years, and landscape painting for a short time under the great landscape painter, Daubigny.
He returned home in time to see the centennial exposition. He opened a studio on West Street, and after two successful seasons went abroad again, visiting the Paris Exposition, and made a three months' trip to Holland ; there he studied the Dutch masters in the galleries of the Hague, Amsterdam, Rotterdam, and other places, and returned after six months' absence. For the last five years he has had a studio on Tremont Street, Boston, and his summer studio near his residence in Hyde Park.
Mr. Enneking has received several gokl and silver medals for excellence in his art,
and his works may be found in many of the best collections in this country. He is a member of the Boston Art and the Paint and Clay clubs.
ERNST, GEORGE A. O., son of Andrew H. and Sarah G. Otis Ernst, was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, November 8, 1850. His father was a native of Germany, and his
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mother was born in Boston. He is a grand- son of George A. Otis, well known in the early literary history of Boston.
His early school life was passed in the private schools of Cincinnati. He was afterward sent to Mount Pleasant Military Academy, Sing Sing, New York, then to the Eliot high school, of Jamaica Plain, Mass., and lastly to prepare for college in one of the private schools of Boston.
He was graduated from Harvard Uni- versity, class of 1871. Taking up the study of law, he was soon admitted to practice in Boston, where he has already won for him- self an enviable position in his chosen pro- fession.
Hle was sent to Chicago in 18So as one of the committee of " Young Republicans," to advance the interests of civil service reform in the convention which nominated Garfield. He was elected to the lower branch of the Legislature in 1883 and '84, and served on the committees on elections
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(chairman), street railways, and railroads. He has taken a quiet but active interest in all the reforms of the day - temperance, civil service, suffrage, and the purity of the ballot. A staunch believer in Republican principles, he yet shows a firm independ- ence of party dictation.
Mr. Ernst was married in Brooklyn, N.Y., December 11, 1879, to Jeanie, daughter of Edwin and Caroline ( Edgarton) Bynner. Of this union are two children : Roger and Sarah Otis Ernst.
ESTABROOK, ADIN C., son of Thom- as and Sybil (Brown) Estabrook, was born at Reading, Windsor county, Vermont, December 9, 1828. He is in the sixth gen- eration from Thomas Estabrook, of Eng- land, who settled in Concord, 1660, and the eighth generation from Nicholas Brown, the first settler of Reading, Mass.
His early education began in his native town. When seventeen he went to school near Buffalo, N. Y., and from eighteen to
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twenty attended the academy in Wood- stock, Vt. At twenty he began to teach, still continuing his studies at the academy, and at twenty-five was chosen principal of Centerville Academy, Michigan, where he remained for two years. During that time he secured the arrest and sentence to prison for life of three murderers of his brother
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Thomas. Loss of health required him to return to the East.
On the 5th of January, 1857, in Wood- stock, Vt., Mr. Estabrook was married to Emma W., daughter of Daniel and Rebekah (Dickerman) Tarbell. Their children are : Viola May and Athelia Gertrude.
After his return to the East, Mr. Esta- brook engaged in various undertakings. He was a printer, a merchant, a postmaster under Lincoln, and was connected with the Vermont Central Railway at East Gran- ville. In 1863 he sold his real estate and moved with his parents to Lunenburg, where he has since been engaged in the more congenial and peaceful work upon a farm.
In 1868 he accepted the office of school committee and has been interested in town affairs to the present time. In 1876 he was a representative in the state Legislature and served upon several committees, among others that of re-districting the State. In 1879 he wrote a brief history of Lunenburg for the Worcester County History.
ESTES, DANA, son of Joseph and Ma- ria (Edwards) Estes, was born in Gorham, Cumberland county, Maine, March 4, 1840 ; removed to Augusta, Maine, in 1855, and to Boston, 1859.
His early educational training was ob- tained in the public schools. At the be- ginning of the war of the rebellion he enlisted as private in the 13th regiment, Massachusetts volunteers ; was three times wounded at the battle of second Bull Run, August 31, 1862, in which battle his only brother, Albert S. Estes, was killed.
Returning to Boston, he became the head of the publishing house of Estes & Lauriat, 1872 ; removed to Brookline, 1881; edited a series of volumes entitled "Half Hour Recreations in Popular Science ;" compiled several volumes of juvenile and standard poetry, 1872-'74; became life member of the American Archaeological Institute, 1882 ; Bostonian Society, 1883 ; American Association for the Advance- ment of Science. 1884 ; Boston Memorial Association, 1885 ; director of the latter, and first secretary of the Pine Tree State Club, 1886 to'89 ; visited England, and was entertained by Lord Tennyson and Thomas Hughes, 1887; organized the International Copyright Association, and was its first secretary, November, 1887 ; brought from northern Italy a large collection of Paleo- Italian antiquities of great archaeological value, 1888 ; was president of Brookline Club, 1888-'89 ; won the celebrated series of "Chatterbox" international trademark
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law-suits, 1884 to '89, by which foreigners can acquire copyright in certain classes of books in America.
Mr. Estes was first married at Newton, April 11, 1867, to Louisa S., daughter of Peter and Mary (Filgate) Reid, of England. Of this union were three children : Freder- ick Reid, Dana, Jr., and Philip Sydney Estes. His second marriage occurred November 10, 1884, with Grace D. (Coues) Page, daughter of Samuel E. and Char- lotte Haven (Ladd) Coues of Portsmouth, N. H.
Mr. Estes is a lineal descendant in the eighth generation from Robert Estes, of Dover, England. Richard, the son of Robert, came to America in 1684, accord- ing to the record in the Bible now in pos- session of Mr. Estes. Benjamin, son of Richard, was born in Lynn, Mass., and died in Berwick, Maine, to which state he had removed at an uncertain date. This branch of the Estes family settled in Maine - Henry, son of Benjamin, born in Ber- wick ; Samuel, son of Henry, born in Port- land, and Robert, the grandfather of Dana, born in Windham, Me.
Mr. Estes' mother was the great grand- daughter of Hugh and Elizabeth McLel- lan, who came from Londonderry to Gor- ham, Me., in 1733. Hugh was a lineal descendant of Sir Hugh Mclellan of Ar- gyle, Scotland.
EVANS, ALONZO H., son of Robert and Sarah R. Evans, was born in Allens- town, Merrimack county, N. H., February 25, 1820. He received his early education in the common schools of his native town, and subsequently attended a private school in Boston.
In 1836 he commenced business as clerk in a produce and grocery store in the New England metropolis, and in 1842 started in the same city the same line of business on his own account, which he carried on until 1850, when he changed his occupation to that of an exchange and specie broker.
In the year 1854, he, with others, peti- tioned the Legislature of Massachusetts for a charter for " The Boston Five Cents Savings Bank," which bank was organized the same year. Mr. Evans was elected treasurer of this institution, which office he held until 1874, when he was chosen president, which position he still holds. The bank now has more than 100,000 depositors, and an amount on deposit exceeding $15,000,000.
In 1874 and '76 Mr. Evans represented the town of Everett in the Legislature of Massachusetts, being the first representa-
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tive after the incorporation of the town, in obtaining the charter for which he had been very energetic.
In 1889 he represented the 6th Middle- sex district in the state Senate, to which position he was elected by a large majority.
He was married in 1844 in the city of Boston, to Sarah R., daughter of Daniel Hawkes. She died in 1870. Of this union were two children : Irving A. and Wilmot R. Evans.
Mr. Evans was married again in 1879 to Caroline, daughter of Samuel S. Stowers of Revere.
EVERETT, NOBLE WARREN, son of Noble and Mercy (Nye) Everett, was born in Wareham, Plymouth county, February 20, 1827. He received his early education in the public and private schools of Ware- ham. He afterwards attended Greenwich Academy, Rhode Island, and was several years at Wyoming Seminary, Wyoming Valley, Pa. He was one year a teacher in this seminary, and one year president of the Lackawanna Bible Society, Pa.
He was twelve years a member of the Wyoming Conference of the Methodist Episcopal church, filling some of the most important stations-among them being Central church, Wilkes Barre, and Adams Avenue church, Scranton. When the civil war broke out he was preaching at Hyde Park, now a part of the last named city, and throughout that terrible struggle, labored with great earnestness, both in the pulpit and on the platform, for the Union. After preaching seven years he was offered the office of presiding elder, but declined it, preferring the work of pastor.
In 1878 Mr. Everett was a member of the lower branch of the Legislature from the 6th Plymouth district, and again in 1882. He served on the committee on education, and was appointed House chair- man of said committee. In the last named year a bill was passed abolishing the old school district system in this State, and, in the opinion of those competent to judge, Mr. Everett did more than any other mem- ber towards effecting that result, being possessed of ample qualifications, in the vigorous grasp, graceful presentation and eloquent advocacy of that, as in all matters in which he takes an interest.
During the last eight years he has served on the Wareham school board, most of the time as chairman. After he became a voter, he associated himself with the Free Soil party, and acted with it until it was merged in the Republican party, having been an ardent Republican ever since. He
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has written some history and biography, and delivered several historical addresses.
Mr. Everett came from good ancestral stock. His paternal grandfather was a chaplain in the revolutionary army, and for nearly forty years pastor of the Con- gregational church in Wareham. His father was a soldier in the war of 1812, and highly esteemed by his fellow-towns- men.
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Mr. Everett was first married at Fall River, to Abby Ann H., daughter of Nicholas H. and Sophia Antoinette (Tis- dale) Sherman. There was no issue by this marriage. His second marriage was in Wareham, with Hattie J., daughter of Leander L. and Harriet (Gibbs) Packard. Of this union were two children : War- ren Irving (deceased) and Juliet Chester Everett.
FARMER, MOSES GERRISH, eldest child of Colonel John and Sally (Gerrish) Farmer, was born in Boscawen, Merri- mack county, N. H., February 9, 1820. He is a lineal descendant of Edward Farmer, who emigrated from Ancely, War- wickshire, England, and settled in Bil- lerica about 1670. He attended. the dis- trict school in Bashan, the academy on Boscawen Plains, Phillips Academy, An- dover, and entered Dartmouth College in 1840, but was obliged to leave during his third year on account of ill health. The degree of A. M. was conferred upon him by the faculty of Dartmouth in 1853.
He taught the academy in Eliot, Maine, where he was married, December 25, 1844, to Hannah Tobey, daughter of Richard and Olive (Tobey) Shapleigh, of Berwick, Maine, and later taught the Bel- knap school in Dover, N. H. In 1847 he gave up teaching and turned his attention wholly to scientific pursuits.
In 1847 he constructed a small electro- magnetic locomotive and railway, which he exhibited in various towns, lecturing upon the subject of electro-magnetism. In December, 1847, he opened a telegraph office in South Framingham, and while there invented his first fire alarm appa- ratus. He exhibited this in Boston in 18.49. Two years later he became acquainted with Dr. W. F. Channing, and in connec- tion with him he brought to perfection and put into operation the system of fire alarm telegraph now in universal use.
The office in Boston was opened April 28, 1852, and Mr. Farmer remained its superintendent until 1855.
Between 1852 and 1855 he devised and constructed an apparatus for transmitting four messages simultaneously over a single wire. He was the first to suggest the use of the continuity-preserving key in the duplex telegraph.
In 1855, as a member of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, he read a paper on multiplex teleg- raphy. In 1856 he perfected the double transmitter with reversed currents and constant resistance.
In 1859 he invented an automatic regu- lator for controlling the distribution of electricity to numerous electric lamps, and began investigating the production of light
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by electricity, which investigations have never been relinquished. He invented an automatic regulator by which the light can be kept at a uniform intensity for any length of time. In 1859 he lighted his own house in Salem by elec-
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tricity -the first house on record ever so lighted.
Between 1864 and '68 he perfected a thermo-electric battery, and in 1868 con- structed the largest one ever built, to be used for the deposition of copper upon steel in the production of the American compound telegraph wire-a joint in- vention of Messrs. Farmer and Milliken. Mr. Farmer claims to have been the first to construct a magneto-electric machine in which the field was sustained by the current derived from its own armature. He made valuable improvements in the construction of dynamo-electric machines for firing torpedoes, now supplied to every ship in our navy.
In October, 1872, he accepted the posi- tion of electrician at the U. S. N. Torpedo Station, Newport, R. I., which position he held until September, 1881, when failing health compelled him to tender his resignation. He still pursues his in- vestigations, aided by a skilled assistant. As an electrical expert he stands among the foremost. In all works and laws of nature he sees a divine mind, and with him religion and science go hand in hand.
He has had two children : a daughter, Sarah Jane, who is still living, and a valu- able assistant to her father in his scientific work. His son died in infancy.
He is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences ; fellow of the Ameri- can Association for the Advancement of Science ; member of the Institute of Tech- nology, of the Essex Institute, of the American Society of Mechanical Engi- neers, of the American Institute of Elec- trical Engineers, and of the English Insti- tution of Electrical Engineers.
FARNHAM, LUTHER, son of Ephraim and Sarah (Brown) Farnham, was born in Concord, Merrimack county, N. H., February 5, 1816 - the youngest of nine children.
His early education was public school and academic. Having fitted for college in Meriden, N. II., he entered Dartmouth and was graduated in the class of 1837. After graduation he taught school as prin- cipal of Limerick Academy, Me., and as assistant at Pembroke Academy, N. H. He then entered the theological seminary at Andover, from which he was graduated in 1841 ; licensed to preach by the Hop- kinton Association the same year ; after two years was ordained and called to the Congregational church, Northfield, Novem- ber 20, 1844.
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Mr. Farnham was married in Northfield, June 23, 1845, to Eugenia Alexander, daughter of Levi and Lucretia (Scott) Fay. During the year he resigned his pastorate and removed to Boston, where, in 1846, was born his son, Francis Edward Farnham.
Since the latter date he has been called to the pastorate of churches in various parts of the State, several of which he has served, such as the Congregational churches in Concord, Plymouth, Marsh- field (where Daniel Webster was a parish- ioner), New Bedford, Gloucester, and Ever- ett. He has done much preaching at large in the interests of the Southern Aid So- ciety, for the assistance of feeble churches among the poor whites and blacks of the South. He was secretary of this society 1854 to '60. He has spoken for, and aided by his labors, the General Theo- logical Library, Boston, of which he may be called one of the founders. He has been its only secretary and librarian for twenty-seven years, and has raised one hundred thousand dollars to place it upon a partial financial basis. By his suggestion was established the Dartmouth College Alumni Association of Boston, the earliest of the kind in this country, also the Kim- ball Union Academy Association, of which he is one of the vice-presidents.
In the winter of 1888-'89 he assisted in the organization of the Boston Association in aid of the Texas Home for Disabled Soldiers, and was elected a vice-president.
His life has been a busy one, and be- sides his local cares he has been obliged to travel extensively to fulfill his profes- sional duties in connection with these socie- ties. In the early history of the New Eng- land Historic Genealogical Society, he held the office of librarian for several years, and was very active in promoting its interests.
In 1855 he published a small volume entitled " A Glance at Private Libraries ; " a notable Thanksgiving sermon delivered by him in the First Congregational church in West Newbury. In 1876 he published a volume of the " Documental History of the General Theological Library," which was sent to the Centennial Exposition at Philadelphia. " The History of the Hor- ticultural Society," published a few years ago, was largely his work, also that of the Handel and Haydn Society, not yet pub- lished. Another volume in preparation is the " Documentary History and Proceedings of the General Theological Library" for the last twelve years. He was Boston cor-
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respondent for the "Journal of Com- merce," New York, many years previous to 1860 ; assistant editor of the " Christian Alliance," and of the "Massachusetts Ploughman ;" a writer for the "Puritan Recorder," Boston, and the "New York Observer," " Boston Post," " Hunt's Maga- zine " and many other periodicals. He also prepared for "Gleason's Pictorial Newspaper " historical and biographical sketches of the leading churches in Bos- ton, together with their pastors. Mr. Farn- ham's pen has been a fertile one, and he is still active in public service.
FAXON, HENRY HARDWICK, son of Job and Judith B. (Hardwick) Faxon, was born in Quincy, Norfolk county, Septem- ber 28, 1823.
He is a descendant in the eighth genera- tion of Thomas Faxon, who came with his family from England previous to 1647, and settled in that part of the ancient town of Braintree which is now Quincy.
His early education was received in the common schools of his native town. He passed his youth on his father's farm until sixteen years of age, when he was appren- ticed to a shoe-maker.
In 1843, in company with his brother John, he began manufacturing boots and shoes. About 1846 he changed his busi- ness to that of grocer and provision mer- chant in Quincy, conducting the same for about seven years, the last three years carrying on a bakery also. The bounds of this business becoming too narrow for one of his active temperament, he changed his base of operations to Boston, becoming a wholesale and retail grocer, the firm name being at first Faxon, Wood & Co., and subsequently Faxon Bros. & Co. Re- tiring from the firm in 1861, he made suc- cessful ventures in various kinds of mer- chandise, but finally devoted his business energies to dealing in real estate, in which he accumulated the bulk of his fortune.
During these years Mr. Faxon was not a total abstainer, and had made some speculative transactions in liquors ; but at the time he first represented his town in the Legislature he was appointed a mem- ber of the committee on the liquor law and there became interested in the temperance question. He has ever since been a pro- hibitionist, intense in feeling and active in prosecution. It has been his aim to accom- plish temperance legislation through the Republican party rather than outside of it, although induced in 1884 to run on the Prohibitory ticket for lieutenant-governor. He has had the satisfaction of seeing
Quincy rid of dram-shops during the past eight years, in which time he has had the responsibility of enforcing the laws regu- lating the sale of intoxicating liquors.
Mr. Faxon was married, November 18, 1852, in Quincy, to Mary B., daughter of
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Israel W. and Priscilla L. (Burbank) Mun- roe. Mrs. Faxon died September 6, 1885, leaving one son, Henry Munroe Faxon, now in his twenty-sixth year.
Mr. Faxon was elected to the General Court in 1864 and again in 1871. He was a police officer in Quincy from 1881 to '86, inclusive, and was re-appointed to the latter position by Mayor Porter in 1889, in the first year of Quincy's new era as a city. His church connections are with the Unitarian society.
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