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ii. Esther, born September 6, 1822, married September 2, 1840, Milton Wyatt, of Dan- vers; died February 1, 1887; children: i. George F. Wyatt, born July 16, 1842; ii. John M. Wyatt, born April 30, 1844; iii. Tinkham H., born May 5, 1846, died aged seven; iv. Alice J. Westcott, born September 30, 1848, resides 593 Broadway, Brooklyn ; v. Lizzie M. Mugridge, born January 21, 1851, resides 27 Bowdoin street, Boston; vi. Charles W., born May 12, 1854; vii. Tinkham H., born March 21, 1856; viii. Emma H. Johnson, born April 2, 1859.) iii. Martha, married D. A. Hartwell; children : George A., of Minnesota, and Car- rie L., of Massachusetts; iv. Lucy, married Lyman B. Goss, in 1847, and had ten children (Emma A., resides at 14 Austin street, Charlestown; Kate F., married B. S. Mars- ters, and have: Florence M. Marsters, born November 1, 1883, and Harold H. Marsters, born June 21, 1886; Lyman E., of Chicago; Irving V., grocer, Franklin Falls, New York, married Flora B. Whittier, and has two chil- dren : Bernice L., born July 13, 1886, and a son born December 31, 1892; Maud Mckeon Goss, married S. D. Hedge, in 1885, and had one child, Alice M., born December 18, 1887, residing in Brockton, Massachusetts).
(VII) Joseph, son of Ephraim McKeen, was born in Belfast, July 17, 1805, and died March 13, 1860. He had a common school education, and learned the trade of stone ma- son, following his trade as well as farming for his occupation. In politics he was a Demo- crat. He married, December 29, 1825, Eliza Holmes, of Machias, Maine, born December, 1804, and died October 16, 1887. Children : 1. Ephraim, born October 13, 1826, married Sarah J. Nickerson, of Swanville, November 23, 1851 ; died August 29, 1869; children : i. Isaac, born April 28, 1853, married Flora Morrill, of Swanville, March 21, 1877 (chil- dren : Perley C., born November 29, 1897; Ephraim L., born March 23, 1881 ; Grace May, born May 21, 1887) ; ii. Joseph F., born Jan- uary 23, 1855, died April 29, 1857 ; iii. Melissa J., born May 13, 1859; iv. Roscoe D., born January 8, 1866, married Nettie S. Adams, of Lincolnville, December 1, 1891; he has been principal of Danforth high school, superin- tendent of schools at Bridgewater, Massachu- setts, and Haverhill, New Hampshire ; v. John A., born October 21, 1867, a stone cutter, of Swanville. 2. James F., born September 4, 1829; died December 21, 1832. 3. Hazael H., son. born October 27, 1831 ; married August 21, 1852, Amanda Harris, of Swanville; live in Belfast; children: Clara, born 1853, mar-
ried George Maker, lives at Concord, Massa- chusetts, and has three children ; ii. Ada, born 1855, married Albert Linnekin, lives in Bos- ton; iii. Fred, born 1858, married Etta Wil- son, who died leaving three children ; iv. Nel- lic, born 1860, married William Blazo, and lives in Belfast; one daughter; v. Eliza, born 1862, married Frank Jellison, of Brooks, Maine, reside in Belfast ; four children ; vi. Jo- seph, born 1864, married Almira Sholes ; sons, Harold and Lloyd; vii. Ralph, born 1868, lives at Belfast; married Mrs. Eaton, two boys; viii. Mary A., born 1871, married George Havener, two sons, Rex and Ivan, lives at Belfast. 4. James F., born July 17, 1834; mentioned below. 5. Eliza M., born Decem- ber 4, 1836; died July 2, 1858. 6. Joseph Al- bert, born at Swanville, September 29, 1839; died at sea, September 8, 1875, on schooner "William Frederick," of which he was master ; married Annie L. Burgess, of East Belfast, child : Florida B. 7. Rhoda M., married Will- iam J. Dennett, lived in Boston, died a year after her marriage. 8. Emma F., born De- cember 7, 1843; married James H. Perkins, May 22, 1869; children : i. Albert H. Perkins, born February 25, 1870; ii. Rena, born No- vember 22, 1874; iii. Amy, born March 24, 1881, died February 22, 1885. 9. Fred A., born May 21, 1851 ; died October 3, 1857.
(VIII) James Franklin, son of Joseph Mc- Keen, was born in Belfast, July 17, 1834. He had a common school education and when a young man went to sea. He enlisted Sep- tember 10, 1862, in Company I, Twenty-sixth Maine Regiment, in the civil war, and was mustered in October 3 following. He was in the campaign in Louisiana with his regi- ment, and took part in the battle of Port Hud- son and also of Irish Bend. He was mustered out August 17, 1863, and again became a mariner. He rose to the rank of master mari- ner and fifteen years was captain of a vessel. For seven years he commanded the "Annie L. Mckean." He built the "Nellie S. Picker- ing" and was master of her for eight years, being engaged in the shipment of hard pine from Maine to various ports along the coast. He retired from sea life in January, 1892, and since then has made his home on a small place in Belfast, Maine. He is a Republican, and has been a member of the common council and also of the board of aldermen of Bel- fast. He is a member of Timothy Chase Lodge, F. and A. M., Belfast; of Corinthian Chapter, R. A. M .; of King Solomon Coun- cil, R. S. M .; of Thomas H. Marshall Post, G. A. R., Belfast.
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He married, May 1, 1866, Julia G., daugh- ter of George Anson and Susan Kalock Mil- ler, of Belfast. George Anson Miller, her father, was born in Belfast, in 1815, and died there March 5, 1871; married, 1840, Susan Kalock, who was born at St. George, Maine, in 1813 and died in Belfast, in 1874. He was a farmer and shipwright. Children of George A. and Susan Miller: i. Sheridan F. Miller, killed at battle of Chancellorsville, cap- tain of Company K, Fourth Maine Regiment, May 2, 1863, serving in corps of General Dan- iel E. Sickles ; ii. Julia G. Miller, married Tames F. McKeen, as stated; iii. Samuel Weir Miller; iv. Nancy Miller; v. Ada S. Miller (twin) ; James Miller. Samuel Weir Miller, father of George Anson Miller, was born in Londonderry, New Hampshire, of which his ancestors were early settlers; mar- ried April 23, 1809, Nancy Brown ; children : i. George Anson Miller, mentioned above; ii. Samuel Freeman Miller; iii. Stephen Weir Miller ; iv. Charles H. Miller; v. Justin G. Miller ; vi. Matilda M. Miller; vii. Wales L. Miller. Captain and Mrs. McKeen have no children.
The Eliots, Elliots and Elliotts of ELIOT New England and their descend- ants in every section of the United States and Canada have reason to claim to have come from one of the notable immi- grant progenitors whose descendants have be- come unusually illustrious : John Eliot, of Roxbury; Ebenezer Eliot, of Newton; Ed- mund Eliot, of Salisbury ; or Andrew Eliot, of Beverly. They were all Puritans. From An- drew of Beverley we have Andrew Eliot (1718-78), pastor of the New North Church of Boston, 1743-78, and who declined the presidency of Harvard College, of which he was a graduate in 1737, when elected to that office in 1773; Charles William Eliot, presi- dent of Harvard, 1869-1909; Samuel Eliot (1739-1820), founder of the Eliot chair of Greek Literature at Harvard, through a gift of $20,000 made anonymously; president of the Massachusetts Bank, and prominent Bos- ton merchant; Samuel Eliot (1821-98), the eminent author, educator and benefactor ; Samuel Atkins Eliot (1798-1862), mayor of Boston, representative and senator in the United States congress, treasurer of Harvard College and public benefactor. Then we have an almost as illustrious line of eminent de- scendants for John Eliot (1604-90), the pioneer missionary to the Indians, who came to Boston in 1631, with Winthrop, and from
Ebenezer of Newton and Edmund of Salis- bury.
(I) Edmund; or Edward Eliot, as the name is sometimes written, was born in England about 1629, and came to America with the early patrons of the company of the Massa- chusetts Bay, of which John Humphrey and John Endicott, the two most prominent of the six patentees of the territory extending from the Atlantic to the western ocean, and in width from a line running three miles north of the Merrimac to one running three miles south of the Charles rivers. The company was ruled by a governor and thirteen council- ors for fifty-five years. The year of Edmund Eliot's departure from England or arrival in the Massachusetts Bay Colony has never been fixed, and the first record we have of him is in 1652, when he was taxed in the town of Salisbury, and was a husbandman in the west- ern portion of the town known as Salisbury, New-town, which was granted the privileges of a town May 23, 1666. He received by grant of land in the original town of Salis- bury in 1654, 1659 and 1662, and when Salis- bury New-town became corporate May 23, 1666, his property was within the bounds of this town and additional grants were made to him in 1666 and 1668. On May 28, 1668, it was decided by the general court that "Salis-
bury newtown * may be called Emes- bury," and was in the act of incorporation dated May 27, 1668, spelled Amesbury. He was made a freeman of the new town of Amesbury by taking the oath of allegiance in 1677, and the last record of his life was in 1680, when he is named among the residents. His will bears date February 26, 1675, and was probated March 17, 1684, which date gives the approximate time of his death ac- cording to the lapse of time ordinarily ob- served between the death of the testator and the proof of his will December, 1683, or Jan- uary, 1684. The will also gives evidence of his service in the Indian wars, as he recites the reason for making it "when he was going to the war." He names his wife Sarah and son John as his legatees, and in case of the death of both that his property was to go to his nearest relatives in England. The inven- tory of his estate amounts to £480 and up- wards, which amount made him a relatively rich man. He married, in 1659, Sarah, daugh- ter of Jared and Margaret Haddon, of Salis- bury New-town, born January 15, 1640. She became the mother of one child, John Eliot (q. v.), by her first husband, and after his death, in 1684, she married ( second) a Young-
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love, and her father made his will in 1687 and names her in the instrument, the nearest date we have by which to judge of the time of her death.
( H) John, son and only child of Edmund and Sarah ( Haddon) Eliot, was born in Salis- bury, New-town, Massachusetts Bay Colony, September 25, 1660. He followed the occu- pation of his father, and is so described as a "ycoman" at the time he took the oath of fidelity and allegiance to the government in 1677, on arriving at military age, and before reaching his majority he was made a member of the trainband in 1680. His will was dated on February 22, 1733, and probated the fol- lowing March, which would indicate that it was made on his sickbed and probably death- bed. One record of his death names Febru- ary 27, 1633, which no doubt is not exactly correct. He married, 1685, Naomi, daughter of Henry Tuxbury, born in Newbury, Jan- uary 18, 1667, and survived her husband, as she is mentioned in his will. The children of John and Naomi (Tuxbury) Eliot were born at the Eliot homestead in Amesbury, Massa- chusetts, as follows: 1. Edmund, July 30, 1686 (q. v.). 2. Sarah, October 10, 1688, married Sylvanus Carr, December 7, 1738. 3. Elizabeth, November 11, 1691, married Ja- cob Colby, December 20, 1724. 4. John, De- cember 25, 1693, married Sarah Colby, Decem- ber 20, 1721, and had children: Mary, born September 23, 1722 ; and John, born Septem- ber 19, 1724. 5. Thomas, November 26, 1696, married Judith Worthen, December 21, 1721. and had children : Thomas, born February 14, 1724; and Ephraim, born February 24, 1725 (?). 6. Mary, August 4, 1699, married Eze- kiel Colby, December 24, 1724. 7. Hannah, October 7, 1702, married Robert Corn, March 16, 1732. 8. David, June 12, 1705, married Mary Carter, January 2, 1728, and late in life removed to Newton, New Hampshire. 9. Naomi, May 13, 1709, married John Calfe, October 31, 1739.
(III) Edmund, eldest child of John and Naomi (Tuxbury) Eliot, was born in Ames- bury, Massachusetts, on the Eliot farm, July 30, 1686. He probably remained on the home- stead by right of being the eldest son, and worked the place with his father, bringing his wife there after his marriage, January 8, 1713, to Deborah, daughter of John and Elizabeth (Blaisdell) Huntington, of Amesbury, and granddaughter of William Huntington, the pioncer immigrant who was one of the pro- prietors of Salisbury. She was born Septem- ber 22, 1687, in Amesbury, and bore her hus-
band six children. He died apparently about the time of his father's death, as Thomas Hoyt was appointed administrator of his estate, April 16, 1733. The children of Edmund and Deborah ( Huntington) Eliot were born in Amesbury, Massachusetts, as follows: 1. Bet- ty or Elizabeth, December 25, 1714. 2. Ed- mund (q. v.), November 28, 1716, married Mehitable Worthen. 3. Sarah, September 29, 1719. 4. John, July 23, 1722. 5. Jonathan, July 31, 1726.
(IV) Edmund (2), eldest son and third child of Edmund ( 1) and Deborah ( Hunting- ton) Eliot, was born in Amesbury, Massachu- setts, November 28, 1716. He removed to Chester, New Hampshire, where he was a pioneer settler of the town, purchasing a town lot in 1747. The lot he first purchased was No. 31, and he subsequently added to his es- tate by purchasing lot No. 134. He married Mehitable Worthen, who died his widow, April 11, 1806. He died in Chester, New Hampshire, October 8, 1789. The children of Edmund and Mehitable (Worthen) Eliot were born in Epping, New Hampshire, as fol- lows: 1. Jonathan, never married, was living in Epping, New Hampshire, in 1828. 2. Elizabeth. 3. Mehitable. 4. Jacob, or Daniel, never married, and lived with Jonathan in Epping, New Hampshire. 5. Sarah. 6. John (q. v.). 7. Ephraim. 8. Edmund. 9. Eze- kiel. 10. Nathaniel, who was a pioneer resi- dent of Thornton, New Hampshire.
(V) John (2), third son and sixth child of Edmund (2) and Mehitable (Worthen) Eliot, was born in Epping, New Hampshire, Novem- ber II, 1764. He was brought up in Epping, New Hampshire, and was married in Septem- ber, 1789, to Dolly, born February 22, 1770, daughter of Gould French, of Epsom, New Hampshire. He was born August 26, 1741, and died in St. Albans, Maine, May 12, 1823. After their marriage they removed to North- wood, New Hampshire, where their children were all born, and they subsequently removed to "Dent Bennett," Cornville, New Hampshire, and thence to Corinna, Penobscot county, Maine. John Eliot died at Lincoln, Maine, August, 1843, and his widow in June, 1846. The children of John and Dolly (French) Eliot were born in Northwood, New Hamp- shire, as follows: I. Polly ( Mary), February 25, 1789; married John Bennett, in 1810, and died February 2, 1837, probably at Epsom, New Hampshire. 2. Daniel, 1794, married Edith Hayden, and died in 1846. 3. John, married Lucy Stewart, and died at sea. 4. Al- phonso, married Mary Davis. 5. Rufus, mar-
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ried Liddy or Lydia Hayden. 6. Gould French, September 14, 1802, married May Gardner Huntley, born June 19, 1804. 7. Thomas, died when two years of age. 8. Ja- cob Smith (q. v.).
(VI) Jacob Smith, seventh son and eighth child of John (2) and Dolly (French) Eliot, was born in Northwood, New Hampshire, August 10, 1808. He removed with the fam- ily to Cornville, New Hampshire, in 1810, and thence to Corinna, Penobscot, Maine, in 1812, which was then known as Warrentown, from Dr. John Warren, of Boston, the orig- inal proprietor. The place was incorporated as the town of Corinna, December 11, 1816. He was brought up in Corinna, and married there, August 12, 1832, Sarah Walker, daugh- ter of William and Sally ( Moore) Moore, who was born July 31, 1813. She had four brothers: Samuel, Benjamin, Robert M. and William Moore; and three sisters: Maria, married John Stenchfield, of Hartland, Maine; Roxana, married lived at Exeter, Maine; Clarinda, married Nathan J. Robin- son, lived at Foxcroft, then at Corinna, and removed to New Haven, Minnesota, in 1863. Clarinda Moore Robinson died at Santa Mon- ica, California, July, 1900. .
After the birth of their seven children they removed, in 1855, to the Falls of St. An- thony, in Minnesota territory, in the new set- tlement of Minneapolis, which was incorpo- rated as a city in 1867, the territory having been incorporated as a state May II, 1858. Here the family grew up with their new state and city. The children were educated in the public schools. The children of Jacob Smith and Sarah (Moore) Eliot were born in Cor- inna, Maine, as follows :
I. Wyman, born May 19, 1834; married, November 25, 1868, Mary E. Chase; children : i. Sarah Chase, born October 26, 1870, mar- ried Frank C. Metcalf, April 10, 1889 (chril- dren : Frank Elliot, born July 1, 1890, Allen Leonard, March 26, 1897, Mary Elizabeth, July 28, 1900, died July 16, 1901, and Vir- ginia, born July 13, 1904). ii. Jennella, born July 30, 1872 ; married Edward Percival Loye, June 26, 1895, (children : Percival Elliot, born April 18, 1899, and Jennella, January 26, 1903 ; Wyman Smith, born October 30, 1882, married Helen L. Dodson, November 4, 1907). iii. Stuart Dudley, born September 3, 1886.
2. Adolphus Fitz Clarence, born February 9, 1836, married Sarah J. Sheldon, December 25, 1871, and he died April 20, 1901. By this marriage they had one child: Leon Adolph, born November 24, 1874, died February 22,
1879. Adolphus F. C. married Mary Hoar, his second wife; she died January 29, 1905.
3. Ellen Artemesia, born November 18, 1838; married John M. Shaw, September 27, 1864. She died April 7, 1901, and their three children were: Mabel, born April 17, 1868, married Cavour S. Langdon; Bertha, born November 3, 1871, married Frank D. Blake- ley ; John Elliot, born April 30, 1875, married Ethel Bogan, and died December 3, 1908.
4. Jacob Rinald, born February 13, 1841 ; married Annie Montgomery, October 15, 1868, and had children: Anne Montgomery, born June 19, 1870, died June 14, 1882; Byron, May 9, 1874; Millie, born April 27, 1877, died October 13, 1879; Jay Rinaldo, born August 25, 1886; Florence, born May 23, 1889.
5. Clarenda Collista, born July 19, 1844, died September 14, 1846.
6. Sarah Carolyn, born June 23, 1849 ; mar- ried George W. Shuman, July 22, 1868, and they had three children: Harry Wert Shu- man, born January 18, 1872, married Beatrice Wallow, January 12, 1904, and had two chil- dren : Frances Evelyn, born January 3, 1905, and Harry Robert, February 18, 1906. Jesse Wyman, second son of George W. and Sarah C. (Elliot) Shuman, was born March 25, 1874, married Martha Rogers, June 23, 1903, and their third, an adopted child, Nellie Caro- lyn Shuman, was born January 16, 1882, mar- ried Arthur H. H. Anderson, June 12, 1902. Sarah C. (Elliot) Shuman died December 2, 1902.
7. Frank Micajah (q v.).
The spelling of the name was changed about 1865 to Elliot. Sarah Walker Elliot, the mother of these children, died in Minne- apolis, Minnesota. November 5, 1875. Dr. Elliot married (second) Esther A. Foote, March 5, 1877, from whom he was divorced in August, 1879. He married (third) Lizzie N. Van Druver, November 10, 1885, and by these marriages he had no children. He died April 1, 1892, at Santa Monica, California.
For many years, both in Maine and Minne- sota, Dr. Elliot was a successful practicing physician of the Old Thomsonian school of practice. In 1876 he moved to California and made his home at Santa Monica. An intimate friend gives this estimate of his character.
"Dr. Elliot was in many ways a remarkable man, possessed in an eminent degree of those sterling qualities of mind and character which fitted him for a pioneer, and even among a class of men who were generally distinguished for that steadiness and tenacity of purpose which insures success, he was peculiarly a
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marked and prominent character in respect to those qualities. While he made it a governing principle of his actions to stand with unflinch- ing firmness for what he conceived to be his individual rights, he was ever just and lenient in his dealings with his fellows, and it was always known that his word was as 'good as his bond.' In all business matters up to the clay of his death, his mind was singularly clear and lucid, and his instinct remarkably direct and unerring. He was a strong man who never failed to impress himself and his personality upon those with whom he came in contact. These qualities brought great suc- cess in business, and he died possessed of a considerable estate, both in Minnesota and California. Several years ago Dr. Elliot do- nated to the city of Minneapolis a valuable tract of land for a park, known as Elliot Park, one of the most beautiful and delightful re- sorts in the now famous park system'of that city."
(VII) Frank Micajah, youngest child and fourth son of Jacob Smith and Sarah ( Moore) Elliot, was born in Corinna, Penobscot county, Maine, March 27, 1853. He was educated in the public schools of Minneapolis, Minnesota, the home of his parents after 1855, and was prepared for college in the preparatory school of the Northwestern University, at Evanston, Illinois. He matriculated in 1874 in the Uni- versity in the College of Liberal Arts, and was graduated A. B., 1877. He then pur- sued a course in law, but did not take up the profession, selecting instead the real estate and loan business. He fitted himself for that business in the abstract department of the recorder's office of Cook county, Illinois, where he served as clerk up to 1879, when he resigned and formed a partnership with George Watson Smith, as Smith & Elliot. The firm conducted a real estate and loan business in Chicago up to 1881, when Mr. Smith retired and Mr. Elliot continued the business alone, and in 1909 he had been carrying on the business for twenty-seven years at 123 La Salle street, Chicago. He was a trustee of the village of Evanston in 1885, and when the State Bank, Evanston, was organized in 1890, he became a member of the board of directors. He was elected president of the Evanston Hospital Associa- tion in 1896, and was still in office in 1909, having served thirteen years as its president. He was also a member thirty years of the First Congregational Church of Evanston, which suburban town he made his residence from the time of his marriage in 1878. His
college fraternity affiliation was the Signia Chi, and in 1887 he was made grand consul of the fraternity. He is the author of: "His- tory of Omega," a reminiscence of North- western University; "Life of Governor Will- iam H. Bissell, of Illinois," and of numerous contributions to periodical literature. His club affiliations include : The University Club, of Evanston, the Evanston Country Club, the Evanston Club, the Glen View Golf Club, and the University Club, of Chicago. Mr. Elliot was married, 'November 13, 1878, to Anna, daughter of Andrew and Lucy (Dunlap) Shu- man, of Evanston, Illinois. They have no children.
MERRIAM The Merriams are an ancient English house and an honor- able house, and this applies
to the American branches of the family as well as to the pre-American. It is recorded that as early as A. D. 1295-96 one Laurence de Maryham paid taxes to Edward I, at Isen- hurst, in Sussex. Originally the surname Merriam was variously written Meryham, Merryham, Meriham and Mirriam. Ham, in old English, stood for house, or home, hence the name in its literal signification is merry house, happy house. It is somewhat remarkable, however, that while the Mer- riams are a fairly numerous family on this side of the Atlantic, the name has become virtually extinct in the mother country. (Pope's "Merriam Genealogy.")
William Merriam, immediate ancestor of the immigrant, was living in Kent, England, dur- ing the early years of the sixteenth century, and was a clothier, a maker and vendor of cloths, a business which required more than an ordinary degree of intelligence on the part of its proprietor, and one which prop- erly carried on yielded profitable returns. He did not come to America. The baptismal name of his wife was Sara, but her family name does not appear. Their children were Susan, Margaret, Joseph, George, Joane, Sara, Robert, and one other, a daughter who became the wife of Thomas Howe. The will of William Merriam of Hadlow, Kent, was admitted to probate November 27, 1635.
(I) Joseph Merriam, immigrant ancestor, son of William and Sara Merriam, and the eldest of their sons, as mentioned in his father's will, was born probably in Kent, England, about the year 1600. Like his father, he was a clothier merchant, and there is reason for the belief that he was possessed of considerable means when he sailed for this
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country, in his own ship, "Castle of London," bringing with him a large number of emi- grants. He was settled in Concord, Massa- chusetts, about 1638, and soon afterward was admitted to church communion there and was made freeman. He married, in England, about 1623, Sara, daughter of John and Frances (Jeffrie) Goldstone, of Kent; all their children except the youngest were born in England; they were: William, Sarah, Jo- seph, Thomas, Elizabeth, Hannah and John, the latter of whom is supposed to have been born soon after the death of his father.
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