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7, 1727 : no record of his death, but it oc- 1858. Ile was the maternal grandfather of curred later than 1782. Stephen Rice (6), John L. Rice. John Loveil Rice, after leav. fourth son of Jabez, was born in Maribor- ing school, was engaged as a clerk In a ough. Mass .. June 8. 1762, and died In store In Cornish, N. Il., until 1861, when be Reading, Vt. (whither he removed In 1786), enilsted as a private In the 2d N. H. Vols., July 12, 1802. Haven Rice (7), first son was appointed captain of a company In the of Stephen, was born In Petersham, Mass., 10th Regiment on November 4. 1862, and on October 25. 1786, and died In West Wind- September 20, 1863, was promoted to colo- sor, Vt., February 6. 1868. Lysander Mason nel of the 75th U. S. Colored Infantry. He Rice (8), first son of Haven, was born in was severely wounded, being shot through Reading. Vt., November 11, 1812, and is the lungs at the first Bull Run battle, and stili ilving In Springfield, Mass., to which was reported dead ; funeral ceremonles were place he came in 1889, on the death of his held at his home, and he was deeply wife In Weathersfield, Vt., September 26, mourned, the meanwhile he was suffering 1889, the only one of the ancestors who in Libby prison untli January 3. 1862. In ever lived In Hampden county. On the December of the latter year he was ordered maternal side. John L. Rice is descended to Louisiana, sharing in many of the ardu- from John Upham (1), who was born In ous campaigns In that State, Including the Somersetshire, England, in 1596; salled slege of Port Hudson. Ile returned la March 20. 1635, with his wife and three January. 1867, and took up his residence in children, from Weymouth, England, and Springfield, Mass., where he has since lived. settled in Weymouth, Mass., where he was After being engaged in business for six "admitted a freeman" September 2. 1635. years, he served two years as inspector of In 1648 be removed to Malden, Mass., where customs in Boston, devoting his spare time he died February 25. 1681. He was many to reading law and was admitted to the bar times a member of the General Court. and on April 24, 1876, and has been In practice a commissioner to treat with the Indians. in Springfield since. He has held many He was an active ploneer In the settlement positions of honor and responsibility and of Weymouth, Malden, and Worcester. He has been active and prominent In the affairs was married in England to Eilzabeth Webb of the Grand Army of the Republic and the about 1627 ; she died about 1670, and in Military Order of the Loyal Legion.
August, 1671. he married Catharine Hoi- GALBRAITH, SAYWARD. p. o. Springfield, land, one of the original settlers of Wey- Mass., son of Frederick W. and Abble (Sar- mouth. No record exists of her death. ward) Galbraith, was born in Benecia. Cal- Phineas Upham (2), third son of John, was Ifornia, March 6. 1870. He came to Hamp- born In Weymouth, Mass., in 1636, and dled den county with his mother and three in Boston, in October, 1876, of wounds re- brothers In November, 1884. On May 21. ceived at the storming of Fort Canonicus, 1894, he married Esther Frances Towne. In the King Philip war, where he was a One child has been born of this unlon. lleutenant in the Massachusetts forces. Helen, on June 9, 1897. Mr. Galbraith's John Upham (3), third son of l'hineas, was first American ancestor was Jonas Clark, born In Maiden, Mass., December 9, 1666, the famous eider of Cambridge church. and dled there June 9, 1733. Ezeklel I'p. where the records show him to have been bam (4), third son of John, was born In In 1642. He married July 30, 1650, and Malden, Mass .. In 1700, and dled in Stur- died In 1699, aged eighty years. Jonas' son bridge, Mass., April 21. 1783; he was a Thomas was born In 1652. and died in captain In the provincial army In the 1704. He was made second minister of French and Indian war. 1755-61. Asa Up- Chelmsford, Mass .. October 17. 1676. The ham (5). third son of Ezekiel, was born In records state: "Mr. Thomas Clark, minis- Sturbridge, Mass., May 18, 1736, and dled ter, being seven weeks in the army at Nar- In Weathersfield, Vt., September 13, 1828, ragansett and officiating at the request of whither he had removed at the close of the the commander-in-chlef during that time, French and Indian war in 1763. Asa Up- the (General) Court judgeth it meet to ham 2d (6), second son of Asa, was born grant him six pounds money to be paid by in Sturbridge. Mass., November 26. 1771. the Treasurer." Thomas was graduated and died in Weathersfield, Vt., July 24. from Harvard In 1670. By his wife, Mary.
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who died in 1700. he had four children : ty-six years. Ills brothers, Edward settled Jonas, Thomas 2d. Elizabeth and Lucy. at Weymouth, Mass., and James at Dor- Thomas 2d bad a son, Thomas 3d, who mar- chester, Mass. On the maternal side he is rled Lydia Fletcher, and they had twelve descended from William and Abigall Car- children ; Thomas 3d. died June 9, 1823, penter, who settled In Rehoboth in 1638, aged eighty years. Oliver, one of Thomas and whose ancestry in England Is trace- 3d's children, married Anna Huse, of Meth- able back to 1300. Everett Alanson Bates uen. She died In 1815, leaving four was graduated from Yale In 1886 with the daughters, the second of whom, Elizabeth, degree of A. B .. and received bis degree of born in 1810, married John S. Sayward, M. D. at the Harvard Medical school. On July 25, 1900, he was married to Ellen Ruth Bowen. They have one child, Eliza- beth Bates, born May 30, 1901. Dr. Bates settled In Springfield, March 28, 1892.
born in Newburyport In 1803. of Bangor, Me. Abble, daughter of John S. and Eliz abeth Sayward, was born at Bangor, Me .. In 1845, married April 16, 1867. to Fred- erle W. Galbraith, at Augusta, Me. Their
CHAPIN, WILLIAM HORACE, p. o. Spring. children are four : Sayward. born March feld. Mass., Is a direct descendant of Dea- 6. 1870, at Benecla. California ; Frederic con Samuel Chapin (see the Chapin Gene- W., jr., born May 6, 1874, at Watertown, alogy for complete details.) William Mass. ; John Sayward. born September 22, Horace Chapin married first, Miss Fannie 1875, at Boxford. Mass. ; Archibald V., I .. Stebbins, daughter of the late John B. born September 29. 1877, at Boxford, Mass. Stebbins, of Hampden county. They were
FRISSELL, GEORGE NEWTON, p. o. Hol- the parents of one daughter, Frances A. ; yoke. Mass., was born In Peru, Berkshire he married, second. Miss Grace F. Ordway, county, March 26. 1847. son of Emerson of Arlington, Massachusetts, by whom he Scott and Sarah A. (Granger) Frissell. has had one son. Samuel Burnham.
He came to Holyoke In 1886 as manager for the J. S. Carr baking company, In whose MEEKINS, EMORY (deceased), was born November 1, 1837. In Conway, Mass., son employ he remained until May 1. 1892. of Truman and Polly (Packard) Meekins. when he engaged with Glenville C. Frissell. U'ntil he was fourteen years of age he lived as manager in his baking and Ice cream in Conway, attending school and doing a manufacturing business. In this position boy's work on the fart. At that time his he remained until July 1. 1901, when, with parents removed to Greenfield. Mass .. where William R. Frasier, be purchased the en- he completed his schooling, and at the age tire Interest of Glenville C. Frissell and the of seventeen entered the general store of T. new firm is doing a very satisfactory busi- D. Root. In Greenfield, where he remained ness. In 1873 Mr. Frissell married Ella until 1860, undergoing the hard appren- A. Boutwell of Northampton, Mass. They ticeship of a clerk In a country store, but have three children, Ethel Loulse, Laurence showing such aptitude and business ability Emerson and Bessle Irene Frissell. Ethel that he was constantly promoted and won Louise, on October 5, 1897. married J. WIl- the confidence and esteem of his employer. liam Carlson. of Arlington, New Jersey.
January 1. 1860, he removed to Springfield
BATES, EVERETT ALANSON, M. D. p. o. and was employed In the store of A. F. Springfield. Mass., was born In Danielson- Williams, and later in that of Tinkham & ville( now Danielson), Conn., September 14, Co. While in the employ of the latter 1860. He is descended from Clement Bates firm he enlisted In Co. A. 46th Regiment and Anna, his wife, who, both at the age of Mass. Vols., and served a year in the field. forty years, embarked at London for New returning to his clerkship with Tinkham & England. April 6, 1635, In the ship "Ellz- Co., with whom he was soon taken Into abeth." and settled in Hingham. Mass., in partnership ; which connection existed until September, 1635. Ills ancient dwelling March 15, 1875. when he formed a part- house was later known as the "Anchor nership with A. A. Packard-laying the Tavern." The ancestors of Clement can foundation of the later prominent and well- be traced back five generations to 1485, In known mercantlie house of Meekins. Pack- Lydd. Parish of All Hallows, England. the ard & Wheat. Mr. Meekins was a member name then being Bate. Clement dled In of the board of trustees of the Springfield Hingham. September 17, 1671, aged seven- Institution for Savings, and a director in
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the Mutual Fire Insurance Co. ; niso a mem- Aspinwail & Russell, architects, New York ; ber of the E. K. Wilcox Grand Army Post all men of marked ability, eminent In their and of the Nayasset and Winthrop clubs. profession. In 1890 he came to Springfield lle was deeply interested in religious work and was for a time In the office of Gardner, In connection with the South church, and l'yne & Gardner. In 1890-91 he went to was a trustworthy friend and upright citi- Europe to prosecute his studies In Paris, zen, unostentatiously charitable and quietly Rome and Florence, and In 1892 returned but interestedly active in all measures tend- to Springfield and established his present Ing to the pubile good. Mr. Meekins was practice. He was the architect of Wesleyan married October 1, 1867, to Sarah L ... daugh- academy gymnasium at Wilbraham. the ter of Joseph Clark and Lucretia Colton Home for the Friendiess building on William Parsons, who survives him. with one daugh- street, the Home for Aged Women, Chestnut ter. Grace Parsons Meekins. Mr. Meekins street. the William street public school, the died May 19, 1900. Smith & Wesson offices, and numerous pri- vnte residences. In 1892 he married Grace Freeman, daughter of George Dwight. jr. They have one son, Philip Leffingweil, and two daughters, Dorothy Dwight and Har- riet Merriam.
DICKINSON, FRANCKE WALDEN. p. O. Springfield, Mass., was born In Springfield, April 19, 1849, son of Elijah Walden and Mary Abbott [Crossett) Dickinson. Hia father was a native of lladiey, Mass., and his mother of Northampton, Mass. ; they came to Springfield in 1840. Francke W. Dickinson was educated In the public
MARSH, DANIEL J., of Springfield, was the son of Michael Marsh (born In Hart- ford. 1790, died In West Springfield. In and private schools of Springfield, and is 1847,, who in 1840 came up the Connecti- well known as a funeral director. On Jan- cut river from Hartford with his family uary 16. 1873. he was married to Katle and effects in a flatboat and settled in West May Allgood. They have had three children Springfield. In 1846 he was elected town as follows : Emma Aligood, dled at the clerk and served in that capacity until bis age of ten years : Ethel May. now wife of death. His wife, whom he married. Janu- Edward W. Beattle, jr. ; and Ilenry Walden ary 28, 1828. was Catherine Allyn. daughter Dickinson, who died at the age of twenty of Col. Job Allyn, and a descendant in the years. Mr. Dickinson has been a member sixth generation of Matthew Allyn, of Hart. ford. Tracing his ancestry still farther, of the common council three years and itx president one year, president of the board Daniel J. Marsh Is descended from Joba of trade one year, and Is past grand regent Marsh (born In 1618, died In 1688), who of the grand council. Royal Arcanum. emigrated from Branktry (now Braintree). of Massachusetts. He is an ex-president of Essex county, England, In the early part the New England I'ndertakers' association, of the Massachusetts I'ndertakers' assorla- association.
of the seventeenth century and settled in New England. He subsequently removed to Hartford with Gov. John Webster and Rev. Thomas Hooker. He married Anne.
KIRKHAM, Gry, p. o. Springfield. Mass .. was born in Springfield, Mass., Nov. 14. daughter of Gov Webster, In 1642. Mich- 1864. son of William and Harriet (daughter ael Marsh was the son of John and Susan of Charles Merrinin) Kirkham. William Kirkham was a native of Newington. Conn .. where the family were among the pioneers. He learned the jeweler's trade and came to
Bunce. the son of Capt. Hezekiah and Chris- tlan Edwards, the son of Capt. John and Elizabeth Pitkins, the son of John and Sarah Lyman, the son of John. the latter Springfield about 1848, where he was a the Immigrant and ancestor of the family in leading jeweler until his death in 1871. America. Harriet M. Gay, wife of Daniel Guy Kirkham attended the pubile schools Jny Marsh, is a daughter of Noah D. Gay of Springfield and St. Paul's school. Con- and Mary Pomeroy Gay, the former being cord. N. II . and took the three-years' course a descendant in the sixth generation of In architecture at the Massachusetts Insti- John Gay, who settled In Dedham in 1630. tute of Technology. Boston. 1883-6. From The children of Daniel Jay and Harriet 1886 to 1888 he was in the office of Gilbert (Gay) Marsh are Henry Daniel (born & Taylor, architects, St. l'aul, Minn., and March 6, 1865. married, March 16. 1896. from 1888 to 1890 In the office of Renwick. Anna F. Lifiis. born August 22. 1873, died
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April 28. 1898 ; children, John Atherton and Harriet Pomeroy Marsh), and Oliver Ailyn Dwight : children. Elsie Dwight, Allyu Jay and Caroline Marsh). BARNEY, EVERETT HOSMER, is a native of Saxonville ( Framingham). Mass., born De- (born October 15. 1866, married Anna R. cember 7. 1835, son of Jarius S. and Har- riet (Hlosmer) Barney. On his father's side he is a descendant In the seventh gen- Daniel J. Marsh, treasurer of the Spring- field Five Cents Savings bank of Spring- field, was born at Hartford, Conn., July 27th. 1837. in the year of the great finan- cial panic. He completed his education at the Wilbraham nendemy. He started bug- Iness as a druggist clerk and afterward to America In 1634. aud died in Concord. was bookkeeper In a dry-goods store. In 1856 he went to St. Louis, where for three years he was clerk and assistant paymaster of the Northern Missouri railroad. He ran eration of Jacob Barney, who settled in the Salem colony in 1634 ; and on the maternai side he is a descendant In the seventh gen- eration of James Hosmer, Immigrant (son of Stephen and Dorothy), born in Hawk- hurst, Kent county , England. In 1605, came in 1685. Thus, on both sides Mr. Barney is descended from some of the oldest and best New England stock. and while he him- self appears to have been the pioneer of bis the first passenger train as conductor from family in our own Hampden county. his St. Charles to St. Louis. After the com- business life and his unselfish devotion to pietion of these two roads he returned to all the institutions and public Interests of Springfield to take a position in the Five our city have given him an extended ac- Cents Savings bank, where he has remained quaintance throughtout the region.
ever since. being elected treasurer in 1859. Soon after the civil war broke out. Mr. Marsh started a drill club which sent many officers Into the field. In 1862 this club voted to enlist for nine months as Co. A. 46th Reg. M. V. M. Mr. Marsh was ap- pointed orderly sergeant and later lieuten- ant on staff duty. The regiment was sent to North Carolina, with headquarters at Newburn, where he was ald-de-camp and assistant adjutant general to Gen. Horace
BREWSTER, HENRY M., p. o. Springtleid. was born at Northampton. Mass., January 21. 1841. 1lis father was Jonathan Brew- ster. born at Worthington. Mass., and his mother was Clarissa Allen, born at North- ampton. He is in direct line from Elder William Brewster, of Mayflower fame. On July 18. 1881. Mr. Brewster enlisted in the 57th N. Y. Vols .. was wounded nt Fredericksburg, Va., December 11, 1862 : promoted to second lieutenant. first C. Lee. He also served on the staffs of lientenant. captain. brevet major, and Gen. John A. Dix and Gen. John G. Foster. reslgued August 1. 1885. In 1884 he was elected an alderman in Springfield. He is president and treasurer of E. Stebbins Mfg. Co. and treasurer of Mill- lett Core Oven Co., both of Bright- wood. Mass. Mir. Brewster came to llamp- den county In 1878, July 18, At North- ampton, Mass., Jannary 21. 1804. he was married to Clementlue S. Tanner, and they have the following children : Emma Loulse. born In Washington, D. C., March 15, 1865. died in New York, July 9. 1806: Harry Vincent, born In New York. August 7, 1867. died in Springfield. January 24. 1893 : Min- nie Emma, born in New York. January 31. 1570. married Edmand P. Marsh. April 8. 1896, to whom was born one son. Brewster. December 29. 1896; Frank Edgar. born in ilaydenville, Mass., November 12. 1871. died In Springfield. September 6, 1893.
On the breaking up of the brigade by orders from Washington, he was sent to North Carolina with directions to take all the convalescents from the different hospitals. in all about 1.500 men. to their northern homes. On his return after eleven months" service. he resumed his old place in the bank. Mir. Marsh has served as a director of the Second National bank. from which position he resigned in 1891, and also as councilman in the city government in 1875. He was appointed on the park commission in 1885, and has been president of the com- mission since 1886 ; and upon him has prac- tically devolved the burden of the develop- ยท ing of Forest park. which has few equals in the country. ile was treasurer of Ilamp- den Park association In 1870-1875 inclusive, during which period some of its most she- cessful meetings were held. He is also a MORGAN. NEWTON, D. D. S., p. o. Spring. Mites Morgan. the first settler of that fam- member of the Nayasset club, Loyal leglon field.Is descended on his paternal side from and the Wilcox Post, G. A. R.
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ily In Hampden county. Nathan Morgan, this sketch. was married July 16, 1873. to another ancestor, was a soldier In the Rev- Anna J. Stebbins. Their children have been olutionary army. On the maternal side, Mr. as follows : Walter H., born December 25. Morgan Is descended from Benjamin Cooley 1875 ; Harry Leroy, born December 9. 1550. and Abel Cooley. the former having been and dled August 15, 1883; and Natalie. one of the early Immigrants to America born April 19, 1885.
and who died In 1684; the latter having been a first lleutenant in the Revolutionary
BRAGG, FREDERICK A .. D. D. S., p. o. Springfield, was born in Milford. Mass.
army. Newton Morgan was born In West October 13, 1852, and was educated at th> Springfield, Mass., on the twenty-fifth of Dean Academy, Franklin. Mars .. and for October. 1840; was educated In the public thirty years has been one of the leading schools and later In the Springfield English dentists of Hampden county. He married. and Classical Institute and the Academy at first. Ida E. Dudley, of which union two
Westfield. He Is a graduate of the Phil- children were born: Mabel E .. wife of Arthur Green, of Westfield, and Dr. Henry adelphla Dental College, class of 1868-69. On June 23, 1870, Mr. Morgan married Willard, of Boston ; and marited. second. Esther J. Loomls, of Westfield, and they Annle S. Reed. Of this branch of the have the following children : Mabel Anita. Bragg fandly. Ariel was the first to come born January 13, 1873 ; and Harold Loomis, to America, having settled In Wrentham. born December 4, 1875. Mr. Morgan resides at 7 Lincoln street.
Muss., In 1650. Frederick A. Bragg's great grandfather was a private in the battle of
CLARK, JAMES H., p. o. Springfield. Mass., Bunker Hill, where he was killed. His was born In New Hartford, Conn., on the grandfather was Col. Arial Bragg, who was third of December. 1848. His father was a member of the first board of selectmen of Lewis, a blacksmith, born at Farmington, the town of Millford, Mass. His father Conn., on the second of October, 1814: he manufactured shoes In Milford, having con- enlisted In Co. HI, 104th Regt. N. Y. Vols. on tinued the business established by Col. Arial on the thirteenth of February, 1862, and Bragz in 1790. which business was sucresa was honorably discharged March 13, 1863. fully conducted by the father and son for Lewis Clark's wife, the mother of James over one hundred years. Dr. Bragg is a H .. was descended from Governor Webster, brother of Judge Henry W. Bragg of Boston of Connectleut. The other direct Clark an- cestors in America were James, a black smith. the father of Lewis, born at Walling- ford, Conn., 1768, died at Sand Lake, N. Y., January 12, 1863; James Ward, a black-
ESTABROOK, GEORGE ROWLAND. P. o. Springheld. was born at Hubbardston, Mass .. October 9, 1850. He was educated in the Worcester public schools and the Worcester Institute of Technology, graduating from smith, father of James, born at Walling. the latter Institution in 1877. May 10. ford. Conn., 1765, dled at Sand Lake, N. Y., 1866, Mr. Estabrook married Mary Louise March 7. 1841, was a soldler in the Con- Warren. They have had two children : necticut Continental Army and received a Ruth, born in 1887. dled In Infancy, aged pension : Daniel, a sea captain, the father six months ; and Loulse Warren, born la of James Ward, was born at Wallingford, 1889. Mr. Estabrook settled In Hampden Conn., February 7, 1712, and died in the county In 1878, and has lived at 34 Avon same place August 17, 1774; Ebenezer, a Place since 1892.
farmer, father of Daniel, was born In New
CHAPIN. EDWARD PLINY. p. o. Spring- Haven, Conn .. November 29, 1651, and dled field, Is a lineal descendant of Samuel at Wallingford, April 30, 1721, having been Chapin, who took the freemen's oath In one of the first settlers of Wallingford; Boston. June 2, 1641, and came to what is James, father of Ebenezer, was the first now Hampden county In 1642. He died American settler of the Clark family. He November 11, 1675. His wife. Cislly, died signed the "Fundamental Agreement" at February 8, 1653. These descendants then the first settlement of New llaver and had followed: Japhet, born 1642. dled 1712: hls "home lot" In the "suburbs quarter." on John. born May 14. 1674. dled January 1. the further side of the creek. This James 1759; Stephen, born May 29. 1718; Pliny. came from England, and was probably born born July. 1764. died June 2. 1810 ; Pliny. In Welles. James H. Clark, the subject of born May 12, 1810, dled May 13, 18$1 ; Ed
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ward Pliny, our subject, born In Chicopee, May 27, 1892, at Spokane, Wash., and Fay then Springfield, October 7, 1839. He was Albert Noble, born January 9. 1894, at educated in the public schools, married West Suffield, Conn. Among the early set- Edna Harriet Kibbe on the sixth of June, tlers to whom Mrs. Roadstrand can trace 1866. To this union have been born the fol- her ancestry on both sides are the follow- lowing children : Emlly Harriet, born April ing : Christopher Avery and his only son, 17, 1867; James Edward, born October 30, James, came to America In 1630 and in 1869 ; Ida Pearl, born July 11, 1873, and 1649 James became a resident of New Horace Kibbe. born November 7, 1875. London, Conn. In 1656 he built a house BUSH, GILBERT ALDEN, Springfield, Mass., In what is at present Groton, Conn., and was born in Enfield, Conn., June 7, 1819, was known as Captain James Avery of son of Rufus Bush, jr. and his wife Sally Groton. He was born In 1620 In England (Allin) Bush. He is descended from Jona- and was married on November 10, 1643, to than (1), born in 1650, died In 1739 in Joanna Greenslade-Robert Allyn, born in Enfield. Conn. Jonathan (2), born in 1681 1608, came to Salem, Mass., in 1637, and re- In Springfield, Mass., dled in 1746 in En- moved to New London, Conn., in 1651, and field, Conn. Aaron (3), born In 1717 In a few years later to Allyn's Point, now Led- Enfeld, and dled there in 1805. Rufus, sr., yard, Conn. ; his wife's name cannot be (4) born In Enfield In 1754, and dled there recalled ; he dled In 1683. Thomas Noble, in 1840. Rufus, jr. (5), born in Enfield in of Boston, removed to Springfield In 1653, 1784, died in Springfield In 1862. Glibert an early settler of Westfield. Hle was mar- Alden (6), born In Enfield In 1819. Jona- rled November 1, 1660, to Hannah Warrl- than. the first ancestor of whom there Is ner, born August 17, 1643, In Springfield, record, came to Springfield In 1678, where Mass. Thomas, dled January 20, 1704. he took the oath of allegiance the same Peter Brooks, born In Upton, Mass., June year : In 1680 he emigrated to Enfield. 23. 1803, removed to Westfield, Mass., about Conn., becoming one of Its earliest perma- 1850 : married November 29, 1827, to Emily nent settlers. All his children, except the F. Woodward. He died at Westfield, Octo- oldest son, were born there. Rufus Bush, ber 19, 1872.
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