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uing he says: "I should like to go ashore once more, as I have not been for about seven months." This letter was written while en route to relieve the "State of Georgia," then at Beaufort, North Carolina, which went north to coal. The "Nashville," a well-known Con- federate blockade runner, was in Beaufort harbor when the "Cambridge" arrived, but es- caped from one of the unguarded entrances to the harbor the following night. In May the "Cambridge" was ordered to Baltimore for re- pairs. A month after arriving there Mr. Jen- nings was transferred to the "Alleghany," where, after serving a month, he was dis- charged on surgeon's certificate, for disability incurred while in the line of duty. He re- turned to Wayne, where he remained until Au- gust, 1864, when he enlisted in the quarter- master's department, United States army, and went from Boston, Massachusetts, to Nash- ville, Tennessee, and served as a member of the guard on various government steamers on the Cumberland and Ohio rivers. Just before the battle of Nashville, December 15-16, 1864, he was one of the many armed and sent for- ward from the levy to take part in that en- gagement. He was under command of Gen- eral Donaldson and stationed on the right wing of the army in the rifle-pits on the turn- pike where he remained four days, during two of which he was engaged in the fighting. Dur- ing the most of this time rain fell heavily and filled the entrenchments knee-deep with mud and water, and as those who had been brought off the ships had neither overcoats nor blank- ets their condition was of the most serious character. To alleviate his discomfort in some degree, Mr. Jennings went over the breast- works in the night and secured a pair of blank- ets one of the enemy had no further use for. The utter rout of the rebel General Hood and his forces, relieved the Union army of further need of the aid of those of Mr. Jennings's class, and in February, 1865, he was dis- charged by reason of expiration of service, and returned to Wayne.
. In the summer of 1863 he apprenticed him- self to the shoemaker's trade. After the war he spent two years at Middleborough, Massa- chusetts, and then a year at Kent's Hill, Maine; and then removed to North Wayne. He was a shoemaker and dealer in boots and shoes from the time he went to Kent's Hill till he lost his store at North Wayne, by fire, in 1889. He then gave up the shoe business, and for about a year was an insurance solicitor. In 1885 he was appointed agent of the North Wayne Water Power Company, and filled that
place three years. From 1891 to the present time he has been superintendent of the North Wayne Tool Company and agent of the North Wayne Water Power Company. In political faith he is a consistent Republican. He was postmaster at North Wayne for terms of two and four years, was appointed justice of the peace by Governor Garcelon in 1879, and has ever since filled that office ; was a member of the legislature 1894-96, and was a member of the Republican town committee ten or fifteen years. For four or five years past he has been a notary public, and since his appointment as justice of the peace he has prepared deeds conveying nearly all the real estate in the vicinity of North Wayne. He has been ad- ministrator of many estates and has assisted many executors of wills and administrators in the discharge of their duties, and performed many marriage ceremonies. In the compila- tion of the History of Wayne he was promi- nent, and had charge of the preparation of the town's military history. In all matters of pub- lic benefit, both secular and religious, he has borne an ample share of the expense. In 1880 he was made a Mason in Asylum Lodge, No. 133, Free and Accepted Masons, and served as secretary of that body continuously from the following election till 1889. He is a member of Starling Grange, No. 156, Patrons of Hus- bandry ; and also of Lewis H. Wing Post, No. 167, Grand Army of the Republic, of which he was commander one year. Williston Jen- nings was married June 1, 1870, at Kent's Hill, by Rev. Dr. Weber, to Melora Elzada Faunce, of Wayne, who was born at North Wayne, January 15, 1847, daughter of Sam- uel and Mary E. (Currier) Faunce. Of this marriage was born one child, Charlotte Mor- ton, November 9, 1872. She married (first) August 8, 1891, Otis Howard Nelke, of Wayne, son of Solomon A. and Pamelia ( Ray- mond) Nelke. He was born in Wayne, Feb- ruary 18, 1864, and died December 30, 1895, leaving one child, Gladys Leone, born July 29, 1895, who resides with Mr. Jennings. Char- lotte M. married (second) November 14, 1898, at Lewiston, George R. Hall, and lives in Lew- iston.
(VII) Edward Lobdell, second son of Samuel M. and Mary (Lobdell) Jennings, was born at North Wayne, April 14, 1850, and died in Waterbury, Connecticut, November 6, 1908, and was buried at Hyde Park, Massa- chusetts. He was educated in the public schools and at the Maine Wesleyan Seminary. In June, 1870, he went to Boston and spent the greater part of the two following years in
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finding a satisfactory position. In February, 1872, he entered the employ of W. A. Wood & Company of Boston, dealers in oils and gen- cral lubricants. In 1874 he began to sell oil on the road ; in 1886 he became assistant man- ager, and in 1900 manager of the concern, which position he held until 1901. In the lat- ter year he resigned to become purchasing agent of the American Brass Company, of Waterbury, Connecticut, and continued to hold that place till his death. In 1903 the charge of the traffic department was added to his du- ties. He was a man of superior executive ability and commanded a large salary. He was a member of the First Congregational Church of Waterbury. In politics he was a Republi- can. He was also a Mason, a member of Hyde Park Lodge, Hyde Park, Massachusetts, and also of the Chapter, Council, and Commandery there. The only club in which he had a mem- bership was the Waterbury. He was a kind and affectionate husband, fond of his chil- dren, for whose welfare he was always alert, providing them with good educations; fond of music, a good singer, and a gentleman whose pleasing personality won and kept many friends. Edward L. Jennings married ( first ) December 14, 1874, in Boston, Massachusetts, Mary Evelyn Brockway, who was born in Bradford, New Hampshire, March 15, 1850, and died in Hyde Park, August 1, 1892. She was the daughter of Lyman and Eurania Brockway. He was married (second) in Hyde Park, Massachusetts, to Mabel Blanche Caffin, by Rev. Francis Williams, October 15, 1902. She was born in Dorchester, Massachusetts, April 22, 1862, daughter of Francis Henry and Harriet ( Butters) Caffin. The children by wife Mary E. were: I. Ralph Wood, men- tioned below. 2. Edward Morton, has ex- tended mention below. 3. Ina Frances, born in Hyde Park, January 24, 1884, was educated in the Hyde Park and Winthrop schools, at St. Margaret's Diocesan school, Waterbury, Connecticut, and the New England Conserva- tory of Music. She was married in Water- bury, Connecticut, to Horace Richardson, by Rev. John N. Lewis, July 18, 1906. 4. Nevill Brockway, born in Hyde Park, October 10, 1888, was educated in the Hyde Park and Winthrop schools. October 1, 1904, he was washed from the deck of the ship "Atlas" and drowned in the Indian Ocean, while on a voy- age from New York to Shanghai. 5. Walter Lobdell, born in Hyde Park, July 21, 1892, died May 3, 1907. 6. Evelyn Lauriat, child of second wife, born in New York, February 13, 1904.
(VIII) Ralph Wood, eldest child of Ed- ward L. and Mary E. ( Brockway ) Jennings, was born in East Cambridge, Massachusetts, October 26, 1875, and was educated in the public schools of Hyde Park and the Massa- chusetts Nautical Training School. He has. filled the position of superintendent for the Rice & Hutchinson Shoe Company of Rock- land, Massachusetts, for some years. He mar- ried, in New York, August 15, 1896, Belle Hutchings, and has two children : Ralph Ed- ward, born in New York, June 14, 1897; and Howard Lobdell, born in Rockland, Massa- chusetts, September 26, 1900.
(VIII) Edward Morton, second son of Ed- ward L. and Mary E. ( Brockway) Jennings, was born in East Cambridge, Massachusetts, November 29, 1877. After passing the gram- mar, and a year in the high school in Hyde Park, he entered the Massachusetts Nautical Training School in 1893 and graduated after a two years' course in marine and electrical en- gineering. His first position after graduation was as cadet in engineering on the steamship "St. Paul" of the American line plying be- tween New York and Southampton, England. He filled that place a short time and then was engineer for the Benedict Burnham Manufac- turing Company, of Waterbury, Connecticut. He was with that company at the outbreak of the Spanish-American war, when he offered his services to the government and was com- missioned assistant engineer with the relative rank of ensign in the United States navy, June 3, 1898, thus becoming the youngest commis- sioned officer in the United States navy. He saw service as acting chief engineer of the United States steamship "Piscataqua" on the Havana blockade and was later transferred to the United States steamer "Vixen," and hon- orably discharged in January, 1899, the war having ended. Returning to Massachuetts, he became assistant engineer in the employ of the Edison Electrical Illuminating Company of Boston, from which he went to the employ of John P. Squire & Company, of Cambridge, as mechanical engineer. After two years' service there, in 1902, he entered the employ of the Parson Manufacturing Company, and for six years past has acted as sales agent for it in New England, selling forced draft equipments for steam boilers. In politics he is a Repub- lican. He is a member of Winthrop Lodge,. Ancient Free and Accepted Masons, of Win- throp, Massachusetts, the Winthrop and Cot- tage Park Yacht clubs, also American Society of Mechanical Engineers, New England So- ciety of Naval Engineers, and Military and
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Naval Order of the Spanish-American War. He was married in Winthrop, Massachusetts, October 16, 1901, by Rev. William S. Key, to Grace Willis Waite, who was born in Calais, Maine, April 27, 1880, daughter of Horace and Julia Carolyn ( Washburn) Waite. Mr. Waite is a commission merchant in Boston. The children of Edward M. and Grace W. (Waite) Jennings are: Laurence Williston, September 2, 1902 ; and Edward Morton, No- vember 24, 1906; both born in Winthrop.
(VI) Lovias, second son of Samuel (3) and Phebe ( Morton) Jennings, was born in Wayne, March 10, 1820, and died in Turner, July 31, 1903, aged eighty-three. He was married by Stephen Bray, Esq., October 5, 1843, at East Turner, to Jane Millett, who was born in Turner, August 13, 1825, daughter of Israel and Betsey ( Harris) Millett, of Turner, and died February 26, 1901, aged seventy-five. He lived on the farm his father-in-law had owned near Keens Mills. In politics he was a Demo- crat. He was a sociable man and a good judge of stock. The children of Lovias and Jane ( Millett) Jennings were: I. Lovias Miletus, born June 26, 1844, died March 1, 1846. 2. Isidore, born October 21, 1845, married, April 14, 1875, Simeon Goodwin, and lives in Ta- coma, Washington. 3. Louisa Maria, Octo- ber 7, 1848, died June 1, 1858. 4. Mary Helen, born May 3, 1851, married, November 26, 1873, Austin Hutchinson, and died Feb- ruary 21, 1886.
5. Julia E., February 19, 1854, married in Auburn, February 23, 1881, Zebulon Tyler Newell and resides in Auburn. 6. George W. H., born April 27, 1858, died July 21, 1862. 7. Lilla Jane, March 19, 1862, married (first) October 13, 1878, Fred B. Wing, from whom she obtained a divorce. She married (second) May 17, 1904, F. Wal- ter Marden, of Turner. 8. William Harris, born March 28, 1865, married in Turner, Jan- uary 17, 1888, Rose Hill. 9. Infant, born May 8, 1868, died May 20, 1868. 10. Minnie, October 24, 1869, died in Lewiston, June, 1889.
(VI) Dr. Perez Smith, fourth son of Samuel (3) and Phebe ( Morton) Jennings, was born in Wayne, July 22, 1824, and died in Clinton, Missouri, February 28, 1893. He was educa- ted in the common schools and at the Maine Wesleyan Seminary ; and in 1851 went to Mis- souri, where after teaching about three years he entered the medical department of the Uni- versity of the State of Missouri, commonly known as McDowell's Medical College, in St. Louis, from which he gradated February 27, 1855. He then entered the practice of medicine
at Clinton, where for thirty-eight years he was one of the most successful and most pop- ular physicians. He was a Democrat and held the office of alderman and member of the school board at various times and was mayor of Clinton three terms, 1874-75-76. In relig- ious faith he was a Missionary Baptist, and one of the three most liberal and influential supporters of the flourishing First Church at Clinton. He was always kind and charitable to the poor and needy, and after his death he was universally mourned by rich and poor alike. The amount he disbursed in charities was large. For twenty-eight years he was as- sociated professionally with Dr. John H. Britts, a leading physician and surgeon of southwest Missouri. Dr. Jennings married, June 14, 1857, in Henry county, Missouri, Laura Vick- ers, who was born in Muhlenburg county, Ken- tucky, December 20, 1838, daughter of Absa- lom and Elizabeth ( Welch) Vickers, of Henry county. Two children were born of this mar- riage : I. Williston Temple, August 4, 1865, is a practicing physician in Clinton. He married, October 25, 1893, Anna C. Fewell, daughter of R. Z. Fewell, of Henry county. 2. Olive Vick- ers, April 20, 1870, married, October 25, 1893, Rev. Mark W. Barcafer, now pastor of Will- iam Jewell ( Baptist) Church, in Kansas City, Missouri.
(VI) Seth Williston, youngest son of Sam- uel (3) and Phebe ( Morton) Jennings, was born in Leeds, April 18, 1826, and died at North Wayne, March 10, 1882, aged fifty-six years. He attended school until eighteen years of age and then was a seafarer for about five years, making a whaling voyage in the middle Atlantic and later voyages to ports of Cuba and the southern and eastern coasts of the United States. After 1849 he was engaged in farming just east of North Wayne, and also carried on the manufacture of soap. His little farm was one of the best kept and most care- fully cultivated in the town, and the orchards he planted and the stone walls he built upon it were memorials of his industry. He was an untiring toiler, and a true-hearted and gener- ous friend. In political belief he was a Demo- crat. He enlisted for service in the civil war, April 5, 1865, and was a private in the Thir- tieth Company Unassigned Infantry. He was married (first) in Turner, by Daniel Chase, Esq., June 14, 1849, to Delia Malenville Gil- more, who was born in Turner, June 14, 1829, and died in Wayne, September 14, 1865, aged thirty-six years. She was the daughter of Ansel and Laura M. (Rackley) Gilmore, of Turner, and granddaughter of Elisha Gilmore,
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of Raynham and Taunton, Massachusetts, who was a soldier of the revolution. She was an intellectual woman of artistic temperament and scholarly taste, and a well-informed lover of nature. He married (second) September 29, 1866, Elvira Elizabeth Haskell, who was born July 11, 1839, daughter of John and Mary (Johnson) Grindle, of Bluehill, widow of John Hl. Haskell, of Jay, who died in the United States military service in 1862. She survived him and married (third) May 30, 1897, Calvin J. C. Dodge, whom she also sur- vives. Seth W. and Delia M. Jennings were the parents of five children : Julius Caesar and Octavius Lord, mentioned below ; Laura Em- ily, born April 28, 1860, died September 14, 1864; Delia Josephine, January 12, 1862, died February 6, 1863 ; and an infant.
(VII) Julius Caesar, eldest child of Seth W: and Delia M. (Gilmore) Jennings, was born at North Wayne, February II, 1853. Af- ter completing the common school course he attended the Maine Wesleyan Seminary, at Kent's Hill, where he made languages his principal study. October 18, 1870, he started west, and from 1871 to 1875 resided with his uncle, Dr. Perez S. Jennings, at Clinton, Mis- souri, teaching school a large part of the time and reading law for two years, 1874-75, in the office of Charles B. Wilson, Esq., an ex-Con- federate soldier. He afterwards taught school and was superintendent of city schools at Cov- ington, Indiana, and was principal of schools at Ingalls, Cimarron, and Spearville, Kansas. In June, 1879, he was admitted to the bar at Clinton, Missouri, and practiced law seven years in Henry county. In 1886 he went to Gilliam county, Oregon, where he lived for over a year near Mayville, in the foothills of the Blue Mountains, and made various jour- neys on horseback and by vehicle into the sur- rounding regions. In 1887 he removed to Ingalls, Kansas, where he practiced law until 1891, taking a prominent part in the county seat contest between Ingalls and Cimarron. He declined to be a candidate for county attorney at the first election, when the Ingalls ticket was elected, but later served in that office a short time by appointment. In 1891 he engaged in completing the "History of the City of Omaha, Nebraska," and the canvass for its sale, a work which required nearly two years. For several years subsequent to that time he was employed in various capacities in the production of city and county histories and biographical works, principally in Milwaukee, Chicago and other cities and various counties of Illinois and other states, and in New York City. From 1905 to
1907 he assisted in compiling the "Genealogical and Family History of the State of New Hampshire." For about a year, beginning Oc- tober, 1907, he was engaged in compiling sketches of Portland families for the present work; and since September 1, 1908, has been engaged in a similar capacity in Springfield, Massachusetts, on "Genealogical and Personal Memoirs Relating to the Families of the State of Massachusetts." He is a member of the New Hampshire Society of Sons of the Ameri- can Revolution; the Maine Genealogical So- ciety ; Ingalls Lodge, No. 426, and Ingalls Re- bekah Lodge, No. 287, Independent Order of Odd Fellows, of Ingalls, Kansas; Alpha Camp, No. I, Woodmen of the World, of Omaha, Ne- braska, and Spearville Lodge, No. 13, of the Accidental Mutual Benefit Association, Spear- ville, Kansas.
(VII) Octavius Lord, brother of the pre- ceding, was born at North Wayne, May 9, 1855. While yet a boy he entered the employ of the North Wayne Tool Company, and for some years spent his time, when not at school, in learning the business of scythemaking. Sub- sequently he worked at his trade at Oakland, and was employed in a grocery store in Port- land, and at the Oceanic Hotel on Peak's Island. Later he was employed at his trade at various places in Maine and New Hampshire. In 1889 he settled in Concord, New Hamp- shire, and has since been employed in the car construction department of the Boston & Maine railroad. The winter of 1891-92 he spent at Magnolia Springs, Florida. He is a member of Harmony Colony, No. 160, United Order of Pilgrim Fathers ; and is a past coun- cilor of Nathaniel White Lodge, No. 7, of the United Order of American Mechanics, and member of the State Council of that order. He married, in Oakland, Maine, July II, 1877, Alice Emma Goodwin, who was born in Belgrade, May 15, 1857, daughter of Charles N. and Emma C. (Ellis) Goodwin, a descend- ant of Daniel Goodwin, the immigrant. Two. children have been born of this marriage: Carl Edgar, May 7, 1881, who died young; and Octavius Earl, born at East Lebanon, New Hampshire, April 4, 1885.
(IV) Nathaniel, third son of John and Han- nah (Newcomb) Jennings, was born in Sand- wich, Massachusetts, May 26, 1772, or 1773, and died in Wayne, Maine, September 28, 1828. Samuel and John, the older brothers, moved to Littleborough (now Leeds), and Nathaniel, the only remaining son, stayed with his father, and on the death of the latter in 1800 succeeded to the farm in Wayne, the
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clearing and improvement of which he con- tinued. He was a man of energy and native ability and a successful farmer. In 1816, after a road had been constructed on the north side of his farm, Nathaniel built the present man- sion occupied by his grandson, Tudor G. Jen- nings, for years the largest taxpayer in Wayne. Nathaniel Jennings married Tabitha Ford, who was born in Sandwich, Massachusetts, in 1776, and died in Wayne, December 25, 1863, aged eighty-seven. Their children were : Lewis, Henry, Josiah, Isaac, Hannah, Mary, Newcomb, Joseph F., Robert (died young), Levi, Robert, Nathaniel and Loton. Captain Joseph F., born October 30, 1804, died July 24, 1870, became the owner of the homestead and was a man of property and influence.
(V) Mary, born October 20, 1801, married John A. Pitts, of Winthrop, and died Septem- ber 15, 1876, at Buffalo, New York. (See Pitts VI.)
(For first generation see George Morton I.)
(II) Hon. John, second son of MORTON George and Juliana (Carpen- ter ) Morton, was born at Ley- den, Holland, 1616-17, also came with his par- ents in the "Ann." He was admitted a free- man of the colony 7 June, 1648, chosen con- stable for Plymouth in 1654, one of the grand inquest of the county in 1660, elected by the freemen of Plymouth a deputy to the general court in 1662, tax assessor in 1664, selectman in 1666, collector of excise in 1668, and served the town of Plymouth in other important capa- cities. He removed to Middleboro, in the same county, where he was one of the "famous twenty-six original proprietors and founders," and in 1670 was the first representative of the town to the general court, which office he held until his death (1673). Among his colleagues in the general court in 1662 were his cousin, the Honorable Constant Southworth, Captain Peregrine White, Cornet Robert Stetson and Mr. William Peabody. Mr. Morton died at Middleboro, October 3, 1673. He married, about 1648-49, Lettice, whose surname is un- known. She afterwards became the second wife of Andrew Ring, and died 22 February, 1691. Children of John and Lettice Morton, all born at Plymouth: John (died young), John, Deborah, Mary, Martha, Hannah, Es- ther, Manasseh and Ephraim.
(III) John (2), the eldest surviving child of Hon. John (I) and Lettice Morton, was born at Plymouth, December 21, 1650. Like others of his family, he was well educated, and to his effort is due the establishment of what
is believed to be the first absolutely free pub- lic school in America, which he "erected and kept" at Plymouth in 1671, "for the education of children and youth." He was succeeded as teacher by Ammi Ruhamah Corlet, a grad- uate of Harvard, and son of the renowned Elijah Corlet, who, bred at Oxford, was for half a century master of the Latin School at Cambridge, Massachusetts. Mr. Morton died at Middleboro in 1717. He married (first) about 1680, Phebe - -; (second) at Mid- dleboro, about 1687, Mary, daughter of An- drew and Deborah ( Hopkins ) Ring. Children of John (2) Morton by his first wife: Joanna and Phebe ; by his second wife: Mary, John, Hannah, Ebenezer, Deborah and Perez.
(IV) Captain Ebenezer, fourth child of John (2) and Mary (Ring) Morton, was born at Middleboro, 19 October, 1696. He was a prominent citizen and served in the office of assessor, surveyor of highways, selectman, moderator of the town meeting, and captain of the militia. He died at Middleboro, 1750; married, 1720, Mercy Foster, born 1698, daughter of John and Hannah (Stetson) Fos- ter, of Plymouth. She died at Middleboro, April 4, 1782, aged eighty-four. Children of Captain Ebenezer and Mercy (Foster) Mor- ton, all born at Middleboro: Mercy, Mary, John, Ebenezer, Hannah, Deborah, Seth, Sarah, Nathaniel and Lucia.
(V) Ebenezer (2), fourth child of Captain Ebenezer (I) and Mercy (Foster) Morton, was born at Middleboro, August 27, 1726; married there July 23, 1753, Mrs. Sarah Cobb. Children, all born in Middleboro: Mercy, Ebenezer, Phebe, Livy, Priscilla and Sarah.
(VI) Priscilla, fifth child of Ebenezer (2) and Sarah (Cobb) Morton, was born Octo- ber 4, 1763; married, 1780, Seth Morton Jr., and died 19 February, 1847.
(V) Seth, seventh child of Captain Ebe- nezer (1) and Mercy (Foster) Morton, was born at Middleboro, March 11, 1732, died Jan- uary 30, 1810; married (first) October 10, 1751, Lydia Hall, of Sandwich; (second) 1757, Hepsibah Packard. Hepsibah died in 1820, aged eighty-eight. Children of Seth Morton by his first wife : Phebe, Joshua, Seth ; by his second wife: Caleb, Samuel, Lydia, George, Hepsibah, Isaac, Mercy, David and Sarah.
(VI) Seth (2), third child of Seth (I) and Lydia (Hall) Morton, was born at Middle- boro, February 27, 1756, and died December 3, 1805. He was a revolutionary soldier, a private in Captain Nehemiah Allen's company, Colonel Theophilus Cotton's regiment, and
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