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1875. Their children are Ernest Jenness. Philip Wilcox and Courtland Wilcox Dexter.
WARREN, WILLIAM CHAPIN, D. O. Spring- field. Mass .. was born in Wardsboro, Vt .. September 24. 1829, son of Dr. John Parker and Lney Maynard (Wheelock) Warren. Dr. John P. Warren and his wife were both natives of Wardsboro ; he was born August 21, 1795, and she September 29. 1798, The doctor was a well-known and successful physician in southern Vermont for many years ; he died in Brattleboro, Vt., Septem- ber 14. 1878. William Chapin Warren was educated in the district school and at Mon- son academy. and is a wholesale dealer in flour and produce. ile was married on September 18, 1867, to Louise Towne . F'itts. They have had seven children, four of whom are now living, viz. : Robert F'itts Warren, Katharine Louise UMrs. James P. Clark), Clifford Parker and Emily Ward. Mrs. Louise T. Warren is a daughter of Lewis 1 .. and Emily (Ward) F'itts. MIr. l'itts was born in Charlton, Mass., Derem- ber 5, 1813. He was educated in the dis- triet school and learned the carpenter's trade, and later that of statr bullder and being for many years the only stair builder in Western Massachusetts. He settird In Springfield in 1841, and in 1842 was married to Emily Ward, of Charlton. They lived in a house he built on William street until the land was required for the Willlam street school house in 1000, when he removed to Pearl street, where he died July 20. 1901. At the time of his death he was one of the oldest residents of the city.
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BLOKLAND, HARLHEIGH HLATH. Spring. beth Hills. Jonathan Buckland, born about fehl. Mass .. was born at East Windsor. 1716 in Ellington, Conn .. (4) and Sybil Conn .. October 25, 1505. son of Cap !. Burnham. Alexander Buckland (5), born
Erastus and Sarah (Heath) Buckland. in Ellington, Conn., in 1737, and Sarah
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Smith, of New Haven. Conn., born in 1738. Capt. Erastus Buckland (6), born in East Windsor, Conn .. April 2. 1773 (or 1774), le and Sarah Heath. born in East Windsor, of Coun .. April 19, 1355. Sarah Heath Buck-
practiced his profession a number years in Springfield, but on account of ill land was descended from John osborn, of
health was obliged to practically abandon active practice. On November 5. 1834. he was married to Sophia Moseley. youngest daughter of Nathaniel Moseley. of Spring field. They purchased a delightfully siu. ated home on North Main street. just north of Seventh street. They had five children. two of whom died in infancy ; the other three being Edward Harlheigh Buckland, Almanzor Ames Buckland and Anne Sophia Buckland. Harlheigh Ileath Buckland died August 25. 1546, and his wife Sophia on September 10, 1897. Edward Harlheigh Buckland, the oldest son, was graduated from Philadelphia Dental college. February 2s. 1865, and the Medical Chirurgical col- lege. April 16. 1501. He settled in Phila- East Windsor, Conn., and Ann Oldage, his wife: he was of Welsh origin, and died in 108G. Sarah's father. Stephen Heath, born in England May 25. 1750. died May 19, 1$10. East Windsor, Conn. Sophia Moseley Buckland. wife of Il. H. Buckland. was a direct descendant of John Alden (1) and Priscilla, daughter of William Mullens. all coming on the Mayflower to Plymouth in 120, as follows: Ruth Alden (2). third daughter of John and Priscilla, born about 1631, married John Bass, of Braintree (now Quincy . Sarah Bass 13), born January 20. 1632. married Ephraim Thayer. Ruth Thayer (4), horn April 1. 1704. married John Capen. Sarah Capen (5), born July 21. 1725. married Nathaniel Moseley, Aug- delphia in the practice of dentistry. He ust 11. 1742. and settled in Pomfret. Conn.
was married to Florence P. Byers, eldest daughter of Col. Charles P. and Emeline ( Cox) Byers, November 2. 1\GD. They had three children, two of whom died in infan- cy. and the eldest. Florence Cora, died February 21. 1995. Almanzor Ames fuck- Inud. the younger son of H. H. and Sophia.
was associated with his brother Edward 11. The Moseley line is as follows : John Mose-
in the jewelry business in Springfield pro- Vious to the latter studying dentistry. The business was given up on account of the falling health of Almanzor and Edward's about 163G. married Mary Lawrence. Ebe- change of business. Their store in the nezer Moseley (3). born September 4, 1673, building of the Springfield Institution for married. first. Elizabeth Trescott. second, Savings will be remembered by many. ho- UJannah Weeks. Nathaniel (41, born De- cember 1. 1715. married Sarah Capen. enuse of the sidewalk clock they erected ju
front thereof. Almanzor died November 27. Nathaniel (5h. born December 22. 1743, 1×95. at his home. on State street. Anne married Rosanna Alworth. Nathaniel (6). Soplna Buckland resides at the homestead. born JJune 20. 1571. married Electa Buck- laid. Sophia (). horn March 19. 1815, married Harlheigh 11. Buckland. The only living descendants at the present time are Edward Harlheigh Buckland. D. D. S., of Philadelphia, and A. Sophia Buckland, 731 State street. Springfield. Mass. where her mother lis dd and died. 731 State street. Bnrlheigh H. Buckland was de- seended from William Buckland, of English descent (1), who resided In East Hartford. l'onn .. and was buried September 1. 1679. William Buckland (20. born about 1G2s. . nd wife Elizabeth. They lived in Windsor. Conn., where he died May 13. 1691. WII- Ham Buckland (31, born 1650, and Elza.
TORBY. FRANK GEORGE. D. o. Springfield, Mass .. son of George and Lucina (Stod- dardı Tobey, was born at the family home-
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Nathaniel Moseley, jr. (1. born December 22. 1743, married Rosanna Alworth. Sep- tember 29, 1768. Nathaniel Moseley (7), son of Nathaniel, jr., born June 20, 1771, married Electa Buckland. July 14. 1796. Sophia Moseley (S). ninth child and roung- est daughter. married H. II. Buckland.
ley f1) came from England in 1620 and settled at Dorchester : first wife. Elizabeth, serond. Nicely. Thomas Moseley (2). born
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stead on State street, the fifteenth of Jan- DEANE, WALLACE H., M. D., p. o. Spring- field, Mass., was born in Canaan, C'onn., May 24, 1853, and was educated at Yale college. He first settled in lampden coun- ty in 1877. at Blandford, where he re- munined eighteen years. In December, 1895. he removed to Springfield, where he now resides, at 265 Union street. On his father's side he is descended from the Deanes who came from Germany and set- tled in Canaan. Conn., in 1780. Dr. uary, 1847. On the twenty-first of Jannary. 1875, he married Ednah D. Parker, of Exeter, N. Il .. and they have had the fol- lowing children : Mary Lucina, born Jan- nary 21, 1877. died March 12, 1886 : lath- orne Parker, born December 5. 1879, died January 23, 1884. The first Tobey to settle in America was Thomas, who came to this country in 1635. Thomas married Martha Knott. of Sandwich, Mass .. in 1650. An- Deane's mother was Mary Church, whose ancestors came to Boston from England shortly after the Pilgrim colony was founded. One of the most prominent of her ancestors was Capt. Benjamin Church, who was one of the most important Eng- lish officers in King Philip's war, having brought the contest to a successful issue. Capt. Church lived near Boston and was a leader in the stirring events of colonial days. Commodore Perry-the hero of "Perry's Victory on Lake Erie" was a de- scendant of the Churches. The commo- dore's mother was a Church, and a sister to Dr. Deane's great-grandfather Church. lle (Perry) it was who sent the famous message to General Harrison, viz., "We have met the euemy and they are ours." Dr. Denne's great-grandfather Church was in the French and Indian war and also fought throngh Revolutionary war. His Grandfather Church fought in the war of ISI2-15. other prominent ancestor was fapt. Prince Tobey, horn at New Bedford, Mass., June 7, 1741, and died July 7. 1810. On the fifth of January, 1765, he married Jane Delano, great-great-granddaughter of Philip De la Noye. a French protestant who joined the English at Leyden and arrived at Plymouth in the Fortune on Angust !, 1621. Capt. Prince Tobey settled at Con- way, Mass. The first Tobey to settle in Hampden county was Elisha, born February 22, 1779, in Conway, Mass., and died June 20, 1840, at Springfield. He was the son of Capt. P'rince Tobey. On the twelfth of Angust, 1812, Jonathan Smith, jr., first high sheriff of Ilampden county, appointed Elisha Tobey deputy sheriff. Elisha was a promi- nent Mason. was first junior warden of Hampden lodge. 1818, and secretary of the Morning Star Royal Arch chapter. Ile first married a Mrs. Gambier, of Philadelphia. and of this union were born two sons and three daughters. His second wife was Miss NORTON. HENRY L., p. o. Springfield. Mass,, was born April 1, 1871. in the town Sophia Ferre, granddaughter of Enoch Chapin. of Springfield. She was born in of Canaan, Conn., son of John and Sarah A. (Jones) Norton. John Norton was n native of Great Barrington. Mass., where he was connected with mining Interests.
1788, and died in Springfield. August 2-4. 1859. Of this union there were six sons and four daughters born. llis fifteen chil- dren were Joseph, born March 12, 1802; lle removed to West Springfield In 1871, Jane, born February 4. 1804 ; Margaret. born December 12, 18OS; Mary. born Feb- ruary 22, 1810; Henry, born March 31, 1813: Sophia Chapin, born April 19. 1815 : Elizabeth Goddard, born July 12. 1517. War-
and became identified with raftrond inter- ests. Henry L. Norton was eduented in the public schools and studied practical en- gineering under Willinm HI. Burrell. For fourteen years he devoted his attention to ren Delano, born January 24, 1819; George, bridge building, and in 1897 organized the the father of the subject of this sketch, firm of Collins & Norton, contracting engin- born November 17. 1820, at Springfield, and died December 21, 1898. at Blandford. Mass. ; Josiah, born September 4. 1822; Elisha, jr., born Jannary 26, 1826; Sarah. born September 18. 1827. and died Septem- ber 30, same year ; Sarah Eliza, born Otto- ber 27, 1×28; Edward Everett. born Orto. ber IT, 1832, and Willfam.
vers and bridge builders. HIP is a member of the American society of civil engineers. In 1879 he married Emma Frances, daugh- ter uf Lyman L. Kimball, of Revere.
BAMIS. I'MNER A., P. o. Springtel. Mass,, was born in Putney, Vt., August 9. 1$32. 1Ils father was a contractor und butler, and married Amanda Carlin. Sum-
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ner was educated In the common schools school in 1\74, and for the next four years und learned the cabinet maker's trade. In Was a teacher in the public schools of that ·Ity. He then took up the study of law and was graduated from the law department of Boston university In 1880. lle came to the lampden bar in 1981, and since that time has been engaged in active practice in Springfieldl. He was a member of the school vommitter six years. On June 5, 1864, Mr. Dunning married Nadie L. Potter, of Bath. The children of this marriage are Harold G. Dunning. born May 17. 1885, and Ray P. Dunning. born December 12, 188%. 1\51 he came to Springfield and engaged in cabinet making, which business he soon disposed of. and then was employed for twelve years In the F. S armory, In ISS3 he received a patent on a car box. for the manufacture and sale of which he organ- ized the Bemis Car Box Co., of which he is the president. Mr. Bemls is also presi- dent of the Munder Electrical works and of the J. H. Rogers Carriage Co. In 1872 he married Ella M. Chase.
Pin.Lis. JEwis. p. o. Springfield, Mass .. was born in West Springfield. November 21. 1825. a son of Elijab (a native of the same town and Mary (Smith) Phillips, and grandson of Thompson Phillips, the latter also a native of the town. For three gen. erations the famlly have been prosperous farmers in West Springfield. Lewis Phil- lips was educated in the Westfield Nor- mal school and. following in the footsteps of hls ancestors, he afterward engaged in farming, having lived on his present farm over forty years. He also deals in real es- tate to a limited extent. Mr. Phillips is a member of the Hampden lodge. F. & A. M. of Springtell : of the Springfield council. R & S. M. and of Morning Star chapter. R. A M He has been married twice ; first. tu Luteinda Payne of Cavendish. Vt .. who died braving one son. Milton I ... now of West Springfield : and second. he married Marta D. Watson of Blandford, who bore him two children. Watson I ... and Hattie 1 ... the latter now the wife of John J. Reed, of Boston.
DINNING, JAMES GARDNER. attorney and counsellor at law, residing and practicing In Springfield. is a native of Bath, Maine, burn May 25. 1857. and is a descendant of the Maine family of Innings, who for many years have been familiar characters In the history of that state. The ancestor of the family was Andrew Dunning. born In Ashburton, Devonshire. England. in 1664. and who Immigrated to America with his famlly In 1718, settling on Magnolt bay. town of Brunswick. District of Maine. where he was a personage of Influence and of acknowledged Integrity and uprightness of character. In religious faith and prof. prenee he was a devant Presbyterlan. James 6 Dunning acquired his early education in ihr Hath schools, graduated from the high
WEISER, WALTER RUPERT, M. D., physician and surgeon. of Springfield, is a native of York, I'm .. born June 13, 1570. Ile is of German extraction and is descended from Conrad Weiser, who settled in Pennsyl- vania in the seventeenth century. Dr. Weiser nequired his elementary education in the York public schools, graduating at the high school in that city in 185. He graduated from the Philadelphia College of Pharmacy (Ph. G.) in 1589, and from the I'niversity of Pennsylvania (M. D.) in 1\02. Two years later he came to Spring- field and since has been actively identified with the practice of medicine in that city and its vicinity. On September S. 1806. Dr. Weiser married Hattie L. Lamson, by whom he has one son. Frank Ilale Welser. born August 30, 1897.
BELDING, ELIJAH. of the firm of MeIn- tosh & Co., of Springfield, whose ancestor in America was Stephen Belding, was born in Northfield. Mass .. April 18. 1847. His elementary and business education were ac- quired in Powers institute. Bernardston, the Brattleboro (Vermont) high school and Eastman's Business college. Poughkeepsie, V Y. Mr. Belding came to Springfield in March. 1568, and since that year has been identified with the business and mercantile history of the city. On June 14, 1870, he married Harriet E. Overhiser. Their chil- dren are John Eastman Belding, born Oc- tober 16. 1872. and Everett Elijah Belding. born February 15. 1879.
IRELAND. OSCAR BROWN. D. o. Springfield. was born in New York city October 2S. 1440. He was educated in New York pri- vate and public schools and the then free academy. now the College of the City of New York. On December 11. 1877. Mr. Ireland married Joannie Gordon. and they have one son. Gordon, born December 23.
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1580, in Springfield. Mr. Ireland settled l'. Turner (died October {, 1828), by whom in llampden county in 1872. Thomas Ire- land. the first of this family in America, was in 1644 one of the original settlers of Ilempstead. Queens county, New York. he had five children, all now dead. Ilis sec- ond wife was Tirza Porter (died September 24, 1857), who bore him three children : Olive, Edwin White and Ellen Maria Shat- tuck. Of these Edwin White Shattnek alone survives. lle was reared and edu- cated in Amherst. but was put to work early in life to help maintain his widowed mother and care for the home farm. lle learned the carpenter's trade and became a thorough workman, all of which was for his personal advantage when he assumed the more hazardous responsibilities of con- tracting and building. Mr. Shattuck bas twice married. first, Betsey E. Kimball, of Enfield, and second. Sarah Lavinia Bug- bee, of Belchertown. The late Edward Por- ter Shattuck was the only child of the first marriage. Ile was born May 31, 1861, and died February 13, 1877. The children of the second marriage were Emma Eliza, llat- tie Almira (wife of E. F. Leonard), Ger- trude Sarah and Grace Anna( twins) Shat- tuck.
IIRRIS, DANIEL LESTER, was born in Providence, R. 1., February 6. 1818. son of Allen and Hart (Lester) Harris and a descendant in the eighth generation of Thomas llarris, a native of England, who came to America with his brother William in 1031 and settled in Salem. lle left the Salem colony with Roger Williams and his company and settled in Providence, R. l., where he was a man of consequence in the affairs of the new plantation, and where, also, for many generations his descendants continued to reside, Indeed. all the an- cestors of Daniel L. Harris were Rhode Islanders, and he alone was the pioneer of his family in Hampden county. having settled in Springfield in 1843. Five years later he purchased the house and property at the corner of Pearl and Chestnut streets, where hils family ever since have lived. Mr. llarris died July 11. 1879. Ile was edu- cated in the academy in l'Ininfield, Conn .. and also in Wesleyan university in Middle- town, graduating at the latter institution Angust 23, 1837. On May 25, 1543, at Albany, N. Y., he married llarrlet Octavia Corson, of Canastota, N. Y. Of this mar- riage eleven children were born. viz: Ed- gar Lester, died aged 2 years ; twin dangh- ters. died in Infancy ; Corinne Lester, llar- riet Buckingham, Azariah Boody, Sarah Jeannie. Eliza Johnson. Ambia Corson. llenrietta ('lark and Cornelia Hawkins llar- ris.
CALDWELL, WINFORD NEWMAN, was born in Springfield, July 26, 1857, only child of Charles Edmund and Melissa Samantha Morgan Caldwell. On his father's side he is descended from John Caldwell (born 1624. died 1692), who settled In the Massa- chusetts colony about 1640, and on his mother's side he is descended from Miles Morgan, who settled In Springfield In 1656, and whose statue in bronze is one of the chief adornments of court square. Win- ford Newman Caldwell married. May 22. 1883. Fannie Louise Houston. Their chil- dren are Ruth llonston Caldwell. born July 2. 1859, and Charles Morgan Caldwell, born August 1. 1804.
SHATTUCK, EDWIN WHITE, first became a factor in Springfield history in 1859, In which year he returned from a journey THE RI'MRILL FAMILY. Among the early settlers of Enfield, Conn., when that region was a part of Massachusetts, was Simon Rumrill, from whom has descended that branch of the family whose representa- tives have figured so prominently in Spring- field and Hampden county history. At- cording to established record, the name or. ifinally was spelled Romril, the ancestors having been of Norman origin, and among the early Huguenot Imudgrants to the Salem and Roxbury colonles were persons of that name. In Enfield. Simon appears to have bern among the colonists and there in 1650 in the western states. Since that time he has been closely identified with Spring- field's growth and development. Arst as practical carpenter and joiner, and subso- quently and chiefly as builder aud con- tractor. Mr. Shattuck is a native of Am- herst, born August 12. 1834, and a descend- ant in the seventh generation of William Shattuck, who was born In England about 1621 or 1622 and died In Watertown, Mass .. August 14, 1672. Edwin Shattuck's father was born in Deerfield in 17SB and removed thence to Amherst in 1833, and he died In that town In 1851. He married. Ilrst. Olive he married Sarah Frimin. The date of the
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settlement in Springfield of the first Rum- written by the son to the father and dated rill is now unknown, but it was before the Schenectady, N. Y., August, 1780, speaks of time of Alexander Rumrill, who was a figure in early Springfield history. He married one of the numerous family of the sur- name Bliss, and his wife was twin sister to the mother of the late John B. Stebbins. in early days the Rumrills were farmers. and fourteen of them are credited with patriotic service in the revolution, and eleven others with service during the war of Is12 15. Ebenezer and Nehemiah Hom- rill are mentioned among the ratable inhab- itants of the town in 1771. The collateral branches of the family are much scattered. mit all trace their ancestry to Simon Rum- rill of Enfield. Some of them held offices of responsibllity in colonial times, and in all generations of Hampshire and Hampden history since the revolution the surname Kumrill has been known in civil and busi- ness life. The late James G. Rumrill was a prominent figure in Springfield history. He married Rebecca Pierce. James A. Rum- rill is a son of this marriage.
SMITH, WILLIAM HOWARD,-Among the Smiths who came to New England in 1630. was a family of four brothers and one sis. ter-Christopher, Simon. Joseph. William, and Mary, who removed to Hartford, Conn., soon after their arrival. William married Elizabeth Standley of Hartford, August, 1641, and they settled in Farmington. Conn .. where William died in January, 1670. leav- ing nine children. His sixth child. Benja- min, was born in Farmington in 1658, and after his marriage to Ruth Loomis of West- field, he removed to that precinct. On the seventh of September, 1688. he purchased of John Pynchon, of Springfield, several tracts of land in West Springfield, at a Place called Panqueturk, and after a year or two, built a house which he occupied with his family. He died in 1738. at the age of eighty years. Ile had eight children. Jonathan, the seventh child, was born 1697. married and built a house just east of Pau- quetu k brook and died there Feb. 9. 1772. He had seven children. David, his second hild, married Margaret Day and they had six children. He occupied a house and land year his father. One of the children. David. jr., born in 1757, married Naomi Howard, born at Sturbridge. Mass .. April 23. 1767. David. jr., with his father. fought In the revolutionary war. A letter
"his company being ordered to join Col. Vol. Brown's regiment at Stone Arabia, where the Indians are making havoc." He lived after his marriage at the ancestral home in Pauquetuck and died there July 21. 1814, his wife having died previously. He had four children, Harvey, David, Marvin and Naomi. After his death the children lived with relatives. The son David was born March 19. 1503; was apprenticed to Capt. Fowler of Freding Hills at the age of sixteen, to learn the wagon making busi- ness. David came to Springfield in 1826 and started the carriage making business on South Main street, now the corner of Main and Park streets. He married Harriet Griffin of Granby, Conn. (Copper hill dis- trict), May 20, 1828. She was born at Granby, August 24, 1801, and died in Springfield, March 5, 1570. Three children were born to them : Harriet, born Septem- ber 25, 1820, died in infancy ; William How- ard, born November 24. 1832, and Mary Jane, born February 9. 1836. dled March 10. 1854. William Howard Smith was edu- rated in the public schools and at Wilbra- ham academy, and entered the employ of liis father in 1849. He was admitted to partnership in 1856, succeeding to the bus- iness in 1873, and he still continues it at the same place. David Smith died in Springfield. April 0, 1575. William married Martha Young Trafton, daughter of Rev. Mark Trafton. May 5, 185S. in this city. She was born at East Pittston, Me., March 29. 1837. One child, Minnie Lee Smith. was born to them, October 5, 1859; the wife died November 16. 1862. Minnie Lee Smith married Norman Norton Fowler of Springfield. October 9, 1849. Ile was born at Agawam. October 24, 1857. Four chil- dren have been born to them: Constance, born December 25. 1890: William Smith. born July 1S. 1892 : Roger Wood, born May 22. 1895, and Mark Trafton, horn Angust 2, 1×99. died June 17. 1900.
BRECK, DR. THEODORE FRELINGHUYSEN, of Springfield, state medical examiner, sur- geon for the Boston and Albany railroad company, is a native of Phelps, Ontario county. N. Y .. born July 29, 1544, son of the late Dr. William Gilman and Mary Van Deventer Breck. his father having breu for many years one of Springfield's leading phy-
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sicians and surgeons, and whose professional life is noted at length in the medical chap- ter of this work. Dr. Theodore F. Breck acquired bis elementary education in Willis- ton seminary, and graduated at Harvard medical college in 1866. Ile also studied medicine two and one-half years in Europe, and the greater portion of his professional life has been passed in Springfield. During the war of 1861-5, he was with the union army in the capacity of surgeon and was stationed at Norfolk and Portsmouth, Vir- ginia. On April 18. 1872, he married Ilelen Cordelia Townsend, of Boston, of which marriage two children have been born : Ilelen Townsend Breck, born March 13, 1873, and William Gilman Breck, born June 22, 1877. On his father's side Dr. Breck is a descendant of Edward Breck, a man of distinction, born in Lancaster, England. about 1595. He married in England in 1617 and emigrated from Ashton-on-Lyme with a band of Puritans to the Massachu- setts colony in 1635, sailing in the ship "James" from Bristol. Eng., to Boston, in company with Rev. Richard Mather and others. Ile settled in Dorchester and joined the church there in 1636. and he appears, also, to have prospered in his efforts in life. having built and owned one of the first grist mills, and also became the owner of more than one house besides his property in Lancaster. Eng. Ile was an officer of the town in 1642, 1645 and 1646, and he died November 2, 1662. Robert Breck, great- great-great-grandfather of Dr. Theodore F. Breck, was graduated at Harvard college in 1700, and is mentioned as having been a man of great learning and such a master of languages that frequently at family prayers he would read in English a chapter from the Hebrew bible. Ilis son. Samuel Breck, great great-grandfather of Dr. Breck, grad- uated at Harvard in 1742. He became an eminent physician and was one of the founders of the Episcopal church in Great Barrington in 1762. Dr. Breck's great- great-great uncle on his mother's side was Nathaniel Whitaker (a Presbyterlan min. ister), who was sent to England to collect
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