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Samuel Haven, a merchant of Boston, and was engaged in the china trade in that city. He became broken in health and died while Mrs. Putnam was an infant. The children of George Palmer Putnam and Victorine Haven were : Mary Corinna, born 1842, married, 1873, Abram Jacobi, M. D .; George Haven, born 1844; Edith G., born 1846; John B., born 1848; Amy V., born 1850; Irving, 1852; Bayard, 1854; Kingman, 1856, Ruth, 1860, Herbert, 1862, Sidney, 1869.
Several of the children were possessed of literary taste and have contributed more or less to American literature. Among the prin- cipal works issued by the father were: "Amer- ican Facts," London and New York, 1846; "The World's Progress," a manual of histor- ical reference, New York and London, 1832- 1871 ; "Tabular Views of Universal History." This constitutes the second division of "The World's Progress," and has been issued in suc- cessive editions from 1832 to 1908. The last edition is rewritten and brought down to date. The elder son is the author of: "The Ques- tion of Copyright," New York and London, 1892; "Authors and Their Public in Ancient Times," New York and London, 1898; "The Artificial Mother," 1884, New York and Lon- don; "Books and Their Makers in the Middle Ages," 1900, New York and London; "The Censorship of the Church, a Study of the Pro- hibitory and Expurgatory Indexes," with ref- erences to their influence on the production and distribution of books, two volumes, New York and London, 1906-07; "Authors and Publishers," a manual of suggestions for be- ginners in literature (written in co-operation with J. B. P.), 1899, New York and Lon- don.
J. Bishop Putnam, another son, co-author of the last named above, is also the author of "A Norwegian Ramble." He is the founder and president of the Knickerbocker Press.
Ruth Putnam is the author of "William the Silent," two volumes, 1900, New York, Ams- terdam and London; "Medieval Princess," 1905, New York and London; "Charles the ' Bold of Burgundy," 1908, New York and London.
Mary Putnam Jacobi, M. D., who died in 1905, had had a distinguished career as a phy- sician. She was the first woman to secure ad -- mission to, and a degree from, the School of Medicine in Paris. She was the author of a number of medical treatises, and was a con- stant contributor to the scientific journals.
(IX) George Haven Putnam, Litt. D., eld-
est son of George P'. and Victorine ( Haven) Putnamı, was born April 2, 1844, in London, and was educated at Columbia University, New York, at Göttingen and Paris. He en- listed in 1862 in the One Hundred and Sev- enty-sixth New York Volunteers and was pro- moted successively to sergeant, lieutenant, quartermaster, adjutant, and was on retiring commissioned major. He served in the Army of the Gulf, and later under Sheridan, in Vir- ginia, and participated in the engagements of the Red River campaign, and of Sheridan's campaign in the Shenandoah Valley. In 1865 he was appointed deputy collector of internal revenue, and served until 1866. In 1866 he was admitted a partner in his father's publish- ing house, which is now incorporated under the style of G. P. Putnam's Sons, and of which he is the head. The establishment occupies spacious quarters, extending from Twenty- third to Twenty-fourth street, near Fifth Ave- nue. Mr. Putnam has taken active part in copyright legislation, and is himself the au- thor of numerous volumes bearing upon ille relations of authors and publishers, as well as of a memoir of his father, which was printed in two volumes for private circulation. He has received honorary degrees from Bowdoin College and the University of Pennsylvania, and is a member of the Century Association, and Legion of Honor (France). He married (first) in July, 1869, Rebecca Kettell Shep- ard, who died in July, 1895. He married (second) April 27, 1899, Emily James, daugh- ter of Judge James C. and Emily ( Adams) Smith, a graduate of Bryn Mawr, and from 1894 to 1900 dean of Barnard College. His children by his first wife were: Bertha Haven, Ethel Frothingham, Corinna Haven and Dor- othy Leslie. By his second wife: Palmer Cosslett, born July, 1900.
(IX) Herbert Putnam, Litt. D., son of George Palmer Putnam, was born September 20, 1861, in New York City, and graduated from Harvard College in 1883. He was li- brarian of Minneapolis Athenaeum and Pub- lic Library from 1884 to 1891 ; was librarian of the Boston Public Library from 1895 to 1899, and in 1899 was appointed Librarian of Congress, and was delegate to the Interna- tional Library Conference in 1897, and presi- dent of the American Library Association in 1898. He was admitted to the bar in 1886. He married, in October, 1886, Charlotte Eliza- beth, daughter of Charles W. Munroe, of Cam- bridge, Massachusetts. Their children are: Shirley and Brenda.
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This name,
RAWLINS or ROLLINS which is per- haps a modifi- cation of Rollo, the name of the Scandinavian conqueror of the north of France, about A. D. 9II, who became Duke of Normandy, has been borne by numerous clergymen, authors, musi- cians, lawyers, physicians and merchants; and by thousands of the sturdy middle-class people from whom the ranks of the rich and dis- tinguished are constantly replenished. As early as 1394 Roger Rawlin was Lord of the Manor of Testerton, in Norfolk, England, and from that date until the present time the Raw- lins have been found in the midst of the busy progressive element of humanity. From the early settler in New England are sprung sev- eral men who have been prominent in the councils of the nation.
(I) James Rawlins, some of whose descend- ants have since spelled their name Rollins, came to America in 1632, and was among the pioneer settlers of Ipswich. He remained there only a short time, and in 1637 was at Newbury, where he was probably one of an advance party who were looking for a suitable place for a settlement. In 1644 he was lo- cated at Dover. July 10 that year he received a grant of land, and November 26, 1656, he had another grant of one hundred acres of land laid out to him. At subsequent times he received still other grants of land. He re- sided at Bloody Point, in that part of ancient Dover which is now Newington. The public records gave some other facts of the life of James Rawlins in the New Hampshire wilder- ness. In the records of the court, under date of August 5, 1634, "It was witnessed upon oath that James Rawlins took 8 pence per day, and meat and drink for ten days' work, for one of his servants, for weeding corn, con- trary to an order of the Court" (an act regu- lating the price of commodities and labor ) "and therefore he is to pay 5 shillings for every day he hath so transgressed." January 27, 1656, "James Rawlins was presented for neglect of coming unto the public meeting, and admon- ished-therefor, and sentenced to pay the fees of the court, two shillings and six pence." Oc- tober 18, 1659, "The Court having considered the several offenses of those persons that en- tertained the Quakers, with the answers given in by them respectively, do order that James Rawlins, being more innocent and ingenious (ingenuous) than the rest, be only admonished by the honored Governor, which was done." Thus it seems that James Rawlins was three times before the court for acts that are no
longer considered offences against the law ... The arbitrary regulation of the price of labor was repealed the month following Mr. Raw- lin's appearance in court. He was compelled to travel to Cocheco (Dover) or Piscataqua (Portsmouth), a distance of several miles, by Indian trails and exposed to attacks by sav- ages, if he attended church, but this was con- sidered not a sufficient excuse for non-attend- ance in those days. As to his extending to the homeless and persecuted Quakers the humble hospitality his home afforded, it was an act of charity that marks him as a man who had a warmer heart and broader views than those who then made the laws of Massachu- setts. John R. Rollins, the compiler of the "Records of Families of the Name of Rawlins. or Rollins, in the United States," thus char- acterizes James Rollins. He "was one of the hardy pioneers in the settlement of the West- ern Wilderness; a plain, sturdy farmer, pos- sessed of good common sense and practical ideas ; capable of thinking and acting for him- self, sometimes independently of the arbitrary enactments of the law of his time, and hos- pitable to the stranger tho' proscribed. Thus, probably, he spent his life, as contentedly as the savage foes around him would permit- cultivating his broad acres and rearing a fam- ily, who were subsequently to do their part in carrying out the undertaking of founding and establishing the new state; and, at a good old age, his spirit was gathered to his fathers, while his ashes, the first of his tribe in the new world, were mingled with the original soil, which he aided in clearing from the "for- est primeval." His will, dated December 16, 1685, was probated July 25, 1691. His wife's name was Hannah. Their children were: Ichabod, Thomas, Samuel, James, Benjamin, Joseph and Deborah.
(II) Ichabod, eldest child of James and Hannah Rawlins, resided at Bloody Point, where he was taxed in 1665. It is probable that being the eldest son he remained on the homestead, which is yet in possession of a de- scendant. He lived at Bloody Point until 1707. May 22 that year, while driving a team in company with John Bunker, from Lieuten- ant Field's garrison to James Bunker's (be- tween Oyster River, now Durham, and Dover) for a loom, he was attacked by a party of twenty or thirty Indians and killed. He mar- ried (first) Mary, daughter of Jeremiah Tib- betts, of Dover Neck, who died before she at- tained her thirtieth year, leaving one son, Jeremiah. He married (second) Elizabeth, by whom he had one daughter, born July 16,
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1706, who was less than a year old at the time of her father's death.
(III) Jeremiah, only son of Ichabod and Mary (Tibbetts) Rawlins, lived in that part of Dover which is now Somersworth, and was one of the petitioners for the incorpora- tion of Somersworth into a separate parish. He died before 1768. His will, dated Decem- ber 7, 1752, was proved June 29, 1768. He gave to his wife Elizabeth one-half of the homestead while unmarried, a negro, and lands in Rochester; to Ichabod, "the only son," the homestead, land in Canterbury, and part of a sawmill; to Mary, land in Rochester ; and par- cels of land to Sarah, Elizabeth, Deborah and Lydia; Ichabod being the principal heir and executor of the will. Jeremiah Rawlins was an industrious, prudent and successful man, and no doubt a man of considerable influence among his townsmen. He married Elizabeth, daughter of John and Mary (Heard) Ham, granddaughter of William Ham, of Exeter and Portsmouth, who was a native of Eng- land. She was born January 29, 1681. Their children were: Mary, Lydia, Deborah, Icha- bod, Sarah and Elizabeth.
(IV) Hon. Ichabod (2), fourth child and only son of Jeremiah and Elizabeth (Ham) Rawlins, was born July 18, . 1722, and died January 31, 1800. He resided in that part of Somersworth which was subsequently incor- porated and named in honor of him, Rollins- ford. He was a staunch patriot and a leader among the men of New Hampshire in the great struggle for independence. He was a member of the revolutionary conventions at Exeter, in April, May and December, 1775; one of the committee to prepare and bring into the convention a plan of ways and means for furnishing troops; and was also one of the committee of supplies. June 20, 1775, he was sent in company with Timothy Walker, of Concord, a member of the committee on sup- plies, to ascertain the losses sustained at the battle of Bunker Hill, by each of the officers and soldiers of the New Hampshire forces, and in behalf of the colony to make them com- pensations ; also to secure to them supplies, and advance a month's pay to such as had en- listed, or might enlist, in the Continental ser- vice ; January 5, 1776, he was a member of the convention when it resolved itself into an independent state government; a delegate to the legislature, October, 1776; and the first judge of probate under the new government, which office he held from 1776 to 1784. He was also a member of the executive council of New Hampshire in 1789. He was a land
owner and slave owner, and is said to have treated his slaves "in the kindest manner." He married (first), Abigail, daughter of Cap- tain Benjamin and Elizabeth Wentworth, of Dover. She died in her sixty-eighth year, October 17, 1790, and he married ( second), in 1792, Margaret (Colton) Frost, widow of Joseph Frost, of Newcastle, a descendant of Mayor Charles Frost, of Kittery. She died at Rollinsford, July 5, 1813, aged eighty-nine. His children, all by his first wife, were: John, Ichabod, James, Daniel, Elizabeth, Abigail, Mary.
(V) John, eldest child of Judge Ichabod (2) and Abigail (Wentworth) Rollins, was born March 22, 1745, and resided in Somers- worth, where he died January 23, 1820, aged seventy-five. He was a cultivator of the soil, had qualities of leadership, and represented his town in the legislature in 1789. He mar- ried Mary, daughter of Dr. Moses Carr, of Newbury, Massachusetts. She died April 16, 1823, aged seventy-eight. Their children were: Hiram, Mary, John, Elizabeth (died young), George, James, Elizabeth, Abigail, Sarah, Paul (died young), and Paul.
(VI) John (2), third child and second son of John (I) and Mary (Carr) Rollins, was born in Somersworth, New Hampshire, Jan- uary 26, 1771, and lived in that town until 1792, when he removed to Lebanon, Maine. He married, in August, 1791, Elizabeth, daughter of Elisha and Elizabeth ( Waldron) Shapleigh, by whom he had eleven children : Moses, Elisha, Daniel G., John, Richard, Paul, David Legro, Caroline, Elizabeth Wal- dron, Samuel Shapleigh and Andrew Went- worth.
(VII) Hon. Daniel Gustavus, third son and child of John (2) and Elizabeth (Shapleigh) Rollins, was born in Lebanon, October 3, 1796, and died in Somersworth, February, 1875. From 1823 to May 31, 1826, he resided at Portsmouth, New Hampshire, where he was agent of the Portsmouth Sugar Refining Com- pany. From the latter date until 1835 he was engaged in trade in Wakefield. His fine busi- ness ability and experience made him a favor- ite town official, and he filled various town offices. He was chairman of the board of se- lectmen of Wakefield from 1829 to 1834, with the exception of the year 1832. He was also town treasurer. In 1838-39 and 1840-41-44- 45, he was chairman of the board of selectmen of Somersworth. The same years, and also 1843 and 1858, he was town treasurer, and in other town offices; in 1843, 1853 and 1854 he was a member of the New Hampshire ·legis-
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lature from Somersworth, being a member of the judiciary committee in 1853. He was one of the corporators, a trustee and vice-presi- dent of the Somersworth Savings Bank, from its organization, 1845, until his death; one of the corporators and a director of the Great Falls Bank, from 1846 to 1862, and agent for the bank building, supplying its notes, etc .; one of the corporators of the Great Falls & Conway Railroad, from 1848 to 1854, in- clusive ; one of its directors, and in 1849-50-51, agent, treasurer and superintendent of the same; and in 1853-54 president and superin- tendent. From 1853 to 1856 he was president of the Great Falls and South Berwick branch railroad; he was also one of the corporators of the Great Falls Fire Insurance Company, and one of its directors from 1849 to 1860. In June, 1857, he was appointed judge of pro- bate for Strafford county, which office he held till October 2, 1866, at Dover, and the next day, being his seventieth birthday anniversary, he was constitutionally disqualified, and the office became vacant. Judge Rollins was a man of the strictest integrity, great activity, and exceptional business qualifications. He endeavored to be on the right side of all pub- lic questions, and gave his support to those movements that are inaugurated to promote the public welfare. He was always a warm friend of the temperance cause, and was for three years president of the Great Falls Temper- ance Society. He married, February 3, 1825, Susan Binney Jackson, who was born in New- ton, September 13, 1805, and died in the sum- mer of 1888, aged eighty-three years. She was the daughter of Captain Simon and Sally Spring Jackson, and granddaughter of Gen- eral Michael Jackson, of Newton, Massachu- setts. Eleven children were born of this union : Francis E., Franklin Jackson, Edward Ashton, Caroline E., Susan Augusta, Mary Packard, Sarah Jane, John Adams, Daniel G., Margaret E. and George Frederic.
(VII) Franklin Jackson, second child and eldest son of Daniel G. and Susan ( Binney ) Jackson Rollins, was born in Wakefield, New Hampshire, April 3, 1827, and died in Port- land, Maine, March 4, 1894. He resided at Great Falls, New Hampshire, from 1835 to 1862. In that year he removed to Portland and entered the internal revenue office, when it had been inaugurated but three weeks. In 1869 he was appointed collector of internal revenue for the District of Maine, and filled that office for sixteen years. From the time of his retirement from this position until his death he was engaged in the insurance busi-
ness. He married, November 22, 1854, Ara- bella C. Jordan, who was born in Somers- worth, September 29, 1835, daughter of Hon- orable Ichabod G. and Sarah L. (Goodwin) Jordan, of Berwick, Maine. Their children were: Margaret Jordan, Sarah Rice, Kate McLellan, Susan Jackson, Jordan Jackson, and Weld Allen. Margaret J., born June 12, 1856, was married at her father's residence in Portland, March II, 1880, to Clarence Hale, Esq., of Portland. (See Hale IX.) Susan Jackson, born in Somersworth, February II, 1864, married, June 2, 1886, Dr. Irving E. Kimball, of Portland (see Kimball IX).
(VIII) Jordan Jackson, fifth child and elder son of Franklin J. and Arabella C. (Jor- dan) Rollins, was born December 20, 1869, in Portland, where his early life was passed. He attended the public schools of his native city and graduated from the high school in 1888. Entering Dartmouth College at once, he was graduated from that institution in 1892, fol- lowing which he spent a year at Harvard Law School in Cambridge. In November, 1893, he went to New York City and entered the law office of his uncle, Daniel G. Rollins, for fur- ther study. Having made the most of his opportunities, he was admitted to the bar in November, 1894, and immediately engaged in practice in association with his uncle. This arrangement continued until the death of the latter, August 30, 1897. The law firm of Rol- lins & Rollins was then formed by Jordan J. Rollins and his cousin, Philip A. Rollins, and this has been one of the most successful in the city. It now occupies a large suite of offices in the Mutual Life Building, where many as- sistants are employed and a large amount of business transacted. Mr. Rollins takes part in many of the social activities of New York, for which he is amply fitted by a genial nature. He is a member of the New York State Bar Association, the Association of the Bar of the City of New York and of the New York Law Institute, of which he has been many years secretary. In religious faith he is a Congre- gationalist, and is an active supporter of Re- publican principles in politics, though he has given no time to active political operations. Among the clubs of which he is a popular member may be named: Union League, Man- hattan, University, Psi Upsilon, Dartmouth, Harvard, New York Athletic, Racquet and Tennis, Metropolitan, Down Town Associa- tion, Railroad Club, City Lunch Club, Maine Society, New Hampshire Society, American Yacht Club, Seawanhaka Corinthian Yacht Club and Rockaway Hunting Club.
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(For first generation see preceding sketch.)
(11) Thomas, second son and
ROLLINS child of James and Hannah Rawlins ( Rollins), was born perhaps in 1643, and resided at Bloody Point until after 1668, when he removed to Exeter, New Hampshire, and there passed the remain- der of his life. His farm was located on the old road leading from Exeter to Hampton. He was one of the company of Edward Gove who were found in arms and endeavoring to overthrow the government of Governor Ed- ward Cranfield, known as Gove's Rebellion. It is a matter of history that all except the leader in this rebellion were pardoned. On one of these petitions for the removal of Cranfield appears the name of Thomas Rol- lins, and his rebellious blood seems to have been bequeathed to his descendants, for in the revolution twenty or more of them formed against the arbitrary government of George III. Rollins was a justice of the peace in 1682. He was married, about 1670, to Rachel, daughter of Moses and Alice Cox, of Hamp- ton. It is probable that his death occurred about 1706, as the inventory of his property was returned to the probate office November 3 of that year. His children were: Thomas, Moses, Joseph, Mary, Benjamin, Aaron, Sam- uel, John, Alice and Rachel.
(III) John, seventh son of Thomas and Rachel (Cox) Rollins, was born in Dover, New Hampshire, and removed to East Brad- ford, now Groveland, Massachusetts. He lived on the river road near the old chain ferry, and the house in which he resided is still in a good state of preservation. He removed with his family to Damariscotta, Maine, where he died in 1776, the year of our independence. He married (first) Mary, daughter of Thomas Sevary, July 31, 1732; (second) Mary Glid- den ; ( third) Patience ; (fourth) Annie His- cock. Children, by first two wives: Eli- phalet, Deborah, Benjamin, Susan, Jane, Na- thaniel, Samuel, Sarah, John, Mary, Betsey, Martha and Lydia.
(IV) Nathaniel, third son of John Rollins, was born in 1738, in Damariscotta and died in 1783. He married (first) Lydia Clark; (sec- ond) Marie Chadbourne. Children by both marriages were: Susanna, John, Nathaniel, Eliphalet, Ebenezer, Stephen, Josiah, Ichabod, Sarah, Lydia and Patience.
(V) John (2), son of Nathaniel and Lydia (Clark) Rollins, was born in Newcastle, Maine, and resided in Jefferson and Sidney, dying at the latter place April 14, 1843. He was a revolutionary soldier. He married
(first) Susan Ridley; (second) Abigail Whitehouse, of Sandy River; (third) Mary Jones, of Jefferson. Children: Eunice, Rob- ert, Eliphalet, Mary, Sarah, Nathaniel, John, Rebecca, Betsey, Susan, Robert, George, Jo- seph, Thomas and Lydia.
(VI) Nathaniel (2), third son of John (2) Rollins, was born September 8, 1796, and was a tanner and currier. He married at Ray- mond, Maine, Harriet Wheeler, of Waterford. Children : Henry and Lucy.
(VII) Henry, only son of Nathaniel (2) and Harriet ( Wheeler) Rollins, was born at East Holden, Penobscot county, Maine, in 1828, died in April, 1868. He was a harness maker in Bangor and Ellsworth. He was a Democrat, and was candidate for representa- tive on that ticket. He married Frances H., daughter of Thomas and Joanna Morrill, of Newburgh, Maine; she was born February 20, 1832, died March 17, 1901. Children : Frank W., Charles Henry, Helen Maria and Harriet. Mrs. Rollins after her husband's death mar- ried Moses Hale and had one son Arthur Les- lie, died September 28, 1901.
(VIII) Frank Waldron, eldest son of Henry and Frances H. (Morrill) Rollins, was born at East Holden, Maine, January 23, 1853, and raised in Ellsworth in the same state. The Ellsworth schools and the Boston Latin School fitted him for Harvard Uni- versity, from which institution he graduated in 1877 with the degree of A. B. In the late sixties he learned "the art preservative of all arts" on the Ellsworth American. After grad- uation he published a newspaper in Abington, Massachusetts, till 1878, when he taught in the high school at North Abington. In 1879-80 he taught in the high school at Great Falls, New Hampshire, and in July, 1880, went on the editorial staff of the Boston Commercial Bulletin. In 1884 he established a newspaper in Abington, relinquishing this in 1885 to re- turn to the Bulletin. In 1887 he was con- nected with the Daily Commercial Bulletin of New York, the Journal of Commerce and the Evening Post. At about this time he founded the Mamaroneck Paragraph. In 1893 he bought out the Ellsworth, Maine, American, on which he learned his trade, of which he is still proprietor and editor. He was appointed postmaster of Ellsworth in 1890 by President McKinley, and still retains the appointment. Mr. Rollins travelled extensively in Europe in 1896. He is one of the active working Re- publicans in Maine. He was raised to the master's degree in the John Cutler Lodge, Free and Accepted Masons of Abington ; he is
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a Chapter Mason and a Knight Templar in Blanquefort Commandery of Ellsworth, and has been received into the Independent Order of Odd Fellows. He is a musician of accom- plished tastes and talents, and a director of the Eastern Maine Musical Association and con- ductor of the Ellsworth festival chorus. He is a member of the Harvard Club of Bangor, director in the Ellsworth Loan and Building Association, and a member of the Congrega- tional church. Mr. Rollins is one of the brightest editorial writers in Maine journal- ism, and wields a trenchant pen in the inter- ests of good government, purity in politics and the industrial development of his native state. The Ellsworth American is one of the leading agencies in the educational and intel- lectual advancement of its city and the sections of Maine in which it circulates.
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