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licans to the vice-presidency, refused to affili- ate with the Republican party until a year or two after its inception in his home state. To Mr. Boody, more than to any other, belongs the credit of organizing the party in Maine, and to this movement the state owes its recog- nition by the nomination of Mr. Hamlin to the high office which he filled. The Hon. William Pitt Fessenden, son of Mr. Boody's colleague in the movement, was among the belated ones who "got in the band wagon." Resigning his chair in the college in 1854, Mr. Boody en- tered with spirit into political reform, and was elected in the fall of that year by a hand- some majority to a seat in the state senate, where he acquitted himself with credit and usefulness. In the following year there was a revulsion of political sentiment, and the state was carried by the Democratic party, but the progressive movement could not be stayed, and the following year again saw Mr. Boody triumphantly elected as representative of the town of Brunswick in the legislature. Fol- lowing this he was urged to become a can- didate for member of congress in a district where election was sure, but the demands of his private business led him to decline. It was this condition that robbed the state of one of its strong leaders and led to his re- moval to another state, where an entirely dif- ferent career was opened to him. Having be- come a holder of both stock and bonds of the Chicago, Fond du Lac & St. Paul railroad, he visited New York in 1859 to investigate the condition of the property. At a meeting of creditors and security holders of the company a few days after his arrival, he was made a member of a commitee formed to prepare a plan of reorganization. While waiting for the meeting he had examined the books and informed himself upon the situation, and the result was that when the meeting convened he was found to have a clearer idea of the situation and its probable remedies than most of the others, and the result was that the plan of readjusting the affairs of the corporation propounded by him was adopted. Immediately following this he was urged by his colleagues to remain in New York and help put his plans into practical execution. His talent for finan- cial management was quickly recognized by the business world, and he was soon made a director of the railroad company and its finan- cial agent. This required his residence at the metropolis, and there he still remains, with a firm grasp upon the world of finance, and though now nearly ninety-two years old and retired from active participation in affairs, he
is recognized as an able adviser and respected as an active factor in the development of commercial progress. In the course of his career, Mr. Boody was the agent who brought about the purchase of the Chicago & Galena Union railroad, which was united with the one formerly mentioned in founding the Chicago & Northwestern railroad, one of the giant trans- portation agencies of the great west. In this undertaking he encountered severe obstacles during the uncertainties of the civil war, and sacrificed a quarter of a million dollars of his private fortune, from which his colleagues profited, with no recompense to him. During one dark day of 1863, when a war panic had demoralized Wall Street, he struggled all day against odds, after being deserted by some of those who had led him into the move- ment, but triumphed and carried through his plans to the great advantage of the properties under his guidance and of the territory served by his railroad properties. He was also active in the construction and administration of the Rockford, Rock Island & St. Louis railroad, now a part of the great Chicago, Burlington & Quincy system. In those days, when cap- ital was not as abundant as to-day, and when railroad operations were in their infancy, it required much financial acumen and foresight to carry through the operations in which Mr. Boody was engaged. Having "won his spurs" in the arena of financial warfare, the young squire from Maine was henceforth recognized by Wall Street as a business gen- ius, and he has won rewards accordingly. For many years he was engaged in banking, and has helped many others to a foothold in the American metropolis. His nephew, David A. Boody, was associated with him for some time as bookkeeper and subsequently became a partner. Another bookkeeper, Finley I. Wright, was also admitted as a partner. The founder is now retired from the business, which is continued by Boody, Mclellan & Company, the senior partner being the former bookkeeper. In their business office on lower Broadway, the founder of the concern is still found on every business day, active and in- terested in the problems of world progress. Of democratic mind and suave manners, full of interesting reminiscences of a half-century ago, he is a most interesting conversationalist, at whose feet the youth of to-day may well sit and learn.
Mr. Boody married, September 3, 1846, Charlotte Mellen Newman, of Brunswick, Maine, daughter of Professor Newman, of Bowdoin. She was born July 23, 1823, and
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died in Brunswick, February 5, 1876. Two children were born of this union, Henry Phil- lips and Caroline Kent. The son died at the opening of a most promising career, in his twenty-fourth year, and the daughter in her twelfth year.
Having led a very active and industrious life, starting with small opportunities, of which he made the most by the exercise of his un- usual talents, coupled with hard work and prudent economy, Mr. Boody may look back on a career of usefulness and, though his life has been saddened by the loss of those nearest to him, is still pressing forward in the battle of life, guided by high ideals and worthy am- bitions to serve the world well and fulfill his destiny.
BARTLETT This family is one of the oldest of the colonial fam- ilies in America, and has produced numerous representatives who have occupied positions of distinction, not only in New England, but in many of the central and western states. Josiah Bartlett, the second to sign the Declaration of Independence, was one of this family prominent during revolutionary times. There are in this country other fam- ilies of the name represented, but the family here sketched is accredited with being the earliest and most prominent. The name of Bartlett is frequently spelled Bartlet in the early records of Essex county, Massachusetts, other spellings such as Bartlit and Bartlot being sometimes found.
(I) Richard Bartlett, the ancestor of the principal family of that name in America, was probably born in Wiltshire, England, about 1575. He came to America in 1635, and settled in Newbury, Massachusetts. He was descended from Adam de Bartlot, who with William the Conqueror came over from Normandy and fought at the battle of Hast- ings, and who received grants of land at Stop- ham, Sussex. Later in the fifteenth century a castle, coat-of-arms and crest were granted to the family. The estates granted eight hun- dred years ago have descended in the male line of the Bartlett family to the present day. Richard Bartlett was a shoemaker, and was one of the earliest settlers of Newbury, where he died May 25, 1647, four days after making his will. In 1612 he purchased a "Breeches Bible," which has been preserved and is in the possession of his descendants. His chil- dren were: I. Joan, born January 29, 1610, married William Titcomb before 1640. 2. John, born November 9, 1613, died February
5, 1678. 3. Thomas, born January 22, 1615. 4. Richard, born October 31, 1621, see for- ward. 5. Christopher, born February 25, 1623, died March 15, 1669. 6. Anne, born February 26, 1625.
(II) Richard (2), third son of Richard (I) Bartlett, was born October 31, 1621, prob- ably in England, and died in Newbury, Mas- sachusetts, 1698, his will, dated April 19, 1695, being proved July 18, 1698. He was a shoemaker, cordwainer and yeoman, and lived at first at Oldtown in Newbury, remov- ing to Bartlett's Corner near Deer Island, at the Merrimac river. He is said to have been "a facetious and intelligent man"; he sub- scribed to the oath of allegiance at Newbury in 1678, and was for several years a deputy to the general court. He married Abigail who died March 8, 1686. His children, born in Newbury, were: I. Samuel, born Feb- ruary 20, 1645, died May 15, 1732; married, May 23, 1671, Elizabeth Titcomb. 2. Rich- ard, born February 21. 1648, died April 17, 1724; married, November 18, 1673, Hannah Emery. 3. Thomas, born September 7, 1650, died April 6, 1689; married, November 21, 1685, Tirza Titcomb. 4. Abigail, born March 14, 1653, died in 1723: married, May 27, 1700, John Emery, of Newbury. 5. John, born June 22, 1655, see forward. 6. Hannah, born December 18, 1657, died unmarried be- tween 1698 and 1723. 7. Rebecca, born May 23, 1661, died in 1723; married, September 5, 1700, Isaac Bayley, of Newbury.
(III) John, fourth son of Richard (2) and Abigail Bartlett, was born in Newbury, June 22, 1655, died May 24, 1736. He was, like his father, grandfather and brothers, brought up to the trade of tanner, cordwainer, and trades akin to the preparation and manufac- ture of leather. He was also an innholder in Newbury. He took the oath of allegiance at Newbury in 1678, and that of freeman in May, 1674. He married (first) September 29, 1680, Mary Rust, who was living in 1693. Married (second) November 13, 1710, Dorcas Phillips, of Rowley ; she died January 18, 1719. Children of first wife, born in Newbury, were : I. Mary, born October 17, 1681, died March 29, 1682. 2. John, born January 24, 1682, died in 1752; married (first) November 25, 1701, Prudence Merrill, who died May 5, 1718; (second) Frances Kindrick, intention of mar- riage being published June 18, 1720. 3. Mary, born April 27, 1684, died March 19, 1707; married, July, 1700, John Bailey. 4. Na- thaniel, born April 18, 1685, lived in Exeter, New Hampshire : married. September 22,
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1705, Meribalı Littlefield, of Kittery. 5. Doro- thy, born Angust 13, 1686, was living in 1733; married, June 6, 1707, John Ropes, of Salem. 6. Sarah, born November 27, 1687, died be- fore 1733; married, December, 1707, Joseph Fowler, of Ipswich. 7. Hannah, born March 13, 1688, married (intention published De- cember 15, 1732) Nathaniel Brown, of Wen- ham. 8. Nathan, born December 23, 1691, sce forward. 9. Abigail, born August 12, 1693, was living in 1733; married ( intention pub- lished September 7, 1717) Samuel Goodhue, of Exeter. 10. Alice, born March 18, 1694, died before 1733, probably unmarried. II. Mary, died before 1733; married, January 12, 1722, Joseph Jacobs, of Ipswich. 12. Gidcon, born about 1703, died September, 1793. 13. Seth, died in 1759; married (intention pub- lished October 5, 1728) Sarah Merrill. 14. Elizabeth, married, April 13, 1725, Josiah Bartlett. 15. Rebecca, was living in 1753; married, July 15, 1725, Deacon Daniel Coffin, of Newbury.
(IV) Captain Nathan, son of John and Mary (Rust) Bartlett, was the original Bart- lett to settle in that part of the province of Massachusetts Bay, now Maine. He was born in Newbury, December 23. 1691, and died in Kittery, Maine, in 1775. In 1713 he moved from Newbury to that part of Kittery now Eliot, where he built a tannery and erected a substantial brick house, making the bricks on his land bordering on Sturgeon creek. This brick house was partially destroyed by an earthquake about 1737, and Captain Bartlett built about 1740 the oak timbered two and a half story colonial house in which six genera- tions of the Bartlett family have been born and reared, and this house is now owned and occupied by James W. Bartlett. Captain Bart- lett purchased in 1725 sixty acres of land at Sturgeon creek, of John Wittum, for two hun- dred and fifty pounds. The following year he bought twenty acres of land of Peter Wittum. paying therefor one hundred pounds. An old deed from John Heard to his son-in-law, Cap- tain Nathan Bartlett, in 1725, gives him a tract of land at Third Hill with one-half part of Stoney brook and one-third part of a saw- mill built by James Emery and Major Charles Frost adding this note, "that it is to be under- stood yt ye above given & granted premises are not to be reconed as any part of my daugh- ter, Shuah's portion." This land and other land which he purchased became the home- stead place of his descendants. He married, March 10, 1714, Shuah, born January 15,
1694, daughter of Captain John and Phoebe (Littlefield) Heard. Captain Heard was an old Indian fighter and companion in arins with Major Charles Frost. Children: 1. Shuah, born January 1, 1716, married, November 15, 1732, Dr. Edmund Coffin, born March 19, 1708, son of Hon. Nathaniel Coffin, of New- bury; he was a practicing physician in Kit- tery; they had thirteen children. His home adjoined the Bartlett homestead. 2. Mary, born March 1, 1717-18, married (first) Thomas Dennett; (second) Lord. 3. Nathan, born April 30, 1720, died May 7, 1720. 4. Phoebe, born May 8, 1721, married, February, 1739, John Dennett, of Portsmouth. 5. Abigail, born December 6, 1723, married (first) in 1741, John Shapleigh, son of Major Nicholas Shapleigh; (second) Moses Hans- com ; she died June 3, 1800. 6. John Heard, born April 8, 1726, graduate of Harvard, A.B., 1747, A. M., 1750, the first Bartlett to graduate at Harvard, which university in 1900 had forty-seven of the name of Bartlett on its list of graduates; he married three times and was the father of eleven children ; he was a school teacher, trial justice, clerk of judicial court, and in 1757 was a lieutenant in Sir William Pepperell's regiment, called "The Blue Troop of Horse. 7. Hannah, born Octo- ber 29, 1728, married, June 9, 1745, Robert Cutts, eldest son of Major Richard Cutts, of Cutts Island. 8. Nathan, born November 3, 1730, died May 21, 1736. 9. James, born May 24, 1732, died September 17, 1738. 10. Sa- rah, born December 25, 1735, died January, 1736. II. Nathan, born March 31, 1737, see forward. 12. Sarah, born May 26, 1741, mar- ried, September 17, 1762, Captain John Went- worth, of Kittery.
(V) Nathan, fifth son and eleventh child of Captain Nathan and Shuah (Heard) Bartlett, was born in Kittery, district of Maine, in the homestead of the family, March 31. 1737, and died June 18, 1775. He was a tanner ; he lived in his father's house. He married, June 9, 1757, Sarah, daughter of Captain John and Dorcas (Littlefield) Shapleigh; she died December 17, 1805. Children : I. Dorcas, born January 9, 1758, married, June 20, 1776, Nathan Cof- fin. 2. James, born November 24, 1759, see forward. 3. Shuah, born November 1I, 1761, married, March 28, 1782, Stephen Ferguson. 4. Nathan, born November 21, 1763, married Abigail Staples. 5. Alice, born January 22. 1767, married Gile, of Alfred, Maine. 6. Mary, born March 16, 1768, married. No- vember 19, 1799, George Libby. 7. Lucretia,
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born November 4, 1771, married - Hods- don. 8. Sarah, January 14, 1775, married, February 19, 1795. George Frost.
(VI) James, eldest son and second child of Nathan and Sarah (Shapleigh) Bartlett, was born at the old homestead in Kittery, No- vember 24, 1759, and died October 30, 1836. He was a tanner by trade. He was a revolu- tionary soldier, a private in Captain Richard Rogers' company, Colonel Gerrish's regiment ; he was nineteen years of age at time of ser- vice, and was on guard duty at Winter Hill, Somerville, Massachusetts, from July 20 to December 14, 1778. He married, May 30, 1782, Lois, born in Kittery, May 29, 1757, died October 3, 1838, daughter of John and Elizabeth (Ferguson) Hill. They lived in the Bartlett homestead now owned and occu- pied by James W. Bartlett. Children: I. Elizabeth, baptized May 6, 1784, married, De- cember 28, 1802, Samuel Shapleigh, and moved to Lebanon, Maine; they had seven children. 2. Shuah, baptized June 21, 1784, married, February 1, 1810, Andrew Emery and moved to New Portland, Maine; they had four children, among whom was Dr. Hiram A. Emery, the father of Charles G. Emery, of New York City ; she died January 30, 1844. 3. James, born June 18, 1787, died in New Portland, March 4, 1875; married, November 28, 1814, Lucy Knowlton, who bore him three sons and three daughters ; they lived in Ports- mouth, New Hampshire. 4. John Hill, born December 9. 1789, died January 21, 1878; married, February 7, 1814, Phoebe Burbank, who bore him seven sons and five daughters; they lived in North New Portland. 5. Na- than, born February 2, 1792, see forward. 6. Sarah, born July 16, 1796, died November 24, 1883; married, December 24, 1812, Hugh Kennison; they had seven sons and four daughters : they lived in Temple, Maine. 7. William, born October 4, 1797, died March 12, 1882; married, March II, 1824. Abigail Burbank, who bore him three sons and four daughters : they lived in New Portland, Maine. (VII) Nathan, third son and fifth child of James and Lois ( Hill) Bartlett. was born in Kittery (now Eliot) February 2. 1792, on the old homestead and died October 15, 1865. He was a farmer, and lived in the Bartlett homestead. He was prominent in town affairs, serving in the capacity of se- lectman. He married, December 25, 1817, Mehitable, daughter of William and Philo- melia (Webber) Emery; she died September, 1857. Children: I. Lucinda, born May 24, 1819. died May 7. 1852. 2. Sylvester, born
July 4, 1822, see forward. 3. Elizabeth S., born June 14, 1824, died in Eliot, January 28, 1898; married, November II, 1873, Edwin P. Farley, of Lockport, Illinois. 4. Sarah, born August 30, 1826, died in Lockport, Illinois, January II, 1875; married, March 1, 1860, Hiram W. Emery. 5. James W., born July I, 1828, married (first) October 24, 1861, Caro- line A. Goodwin, who died March 26, 1887; married (second) October 30, 1888, Lydia F. Worster. 6. Justin S., born September II, 1830, died January 3, 1866; married, January 12, 1857, Emily D. Shorey.
(VIII) Sylvester, eldest son and second child of Nathan and Mehitable (Emery) Bart- lett, was born in the ancestral Bartlett home in Eliot, Maine, July 4, 1822, and died April 24, 1901, after a brief illness. He attended the public schools of Eliot, and subsequently taught school in Eliot and Lebanon, Maine, during the winter months. assisting his father on the farm during the summer season. In 1855, after his marriage, he was actively en- gaged for several years with his brother, James W., in a large retail meat business. Closing that about 1875 he devoted his time to his farm and other business interests. His home was on the site of the John Heard house and adjoining the old Bartlett homestead. The Heard family and two early generations of Bartletts are buried in an old burying ground in the field opposite the Bartlett Ancestral Home. Sylvester Bartlett was a man of keen intellect, good judgment and had a most re- tentive memory. He was hospitable and so- cial by nature and had a wide circle of friends. He was a Republican, and was a representa- tive from Eliot to the Maine legislature in 1895-96. He married, December 30, 1855, Clementine, daughter of John and Betsey (Ferguson) Raitt. Children : I. Elizabeth Mehitable, born September 21, 1857, never married. 2. John Howard, born October 29, 1860, died February 5, 1863. 3. Charles Ed- ward, born January 19, 1863, lives on the homestead place, and was elected to the Maine legislature in 1909-10; he is a Republican. 4. Ralph Sylvester, born April 29, 1868, see for- ward. 5. Rolla Willis, born September 2, 1869, graduated at Dartmouth College, A.B., 1894, and at Boston University Law School, LL.B., 1897; was admitted to the Suffolk county bar in 1897. and became engaged in the bond business in Boston, where he still resides. 6. Grace Isabel, born February 14, 1871, died April 28, 1874.
(IX) Ralph Sylvester, third son and fourth child of Sylvester and Clementine (Raitt)
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Bartlett, was born in the old homestead in Eliot, Maine, April 29, 1868. He attended the district schools of Eliot, after which he prepared for college at Berwick Academy, graduating in 1885, and at once matriculated at Dartmouth College, graduating in 1889 with the degree of Bachelor of Arts, and re- ceiving therefrom the degree of Master of Arts in 1892. He then pursued a course in law in the Boston University Law School, re- ceiving therefrom the degree of LL. B. in 1892. He also added to his knowledge of law by a course of reading in the law offices of Judge Edmund H. Bennett, dean of the Bos- ton Law School. He was admitted to the Suffolk county bar, July 26, 1892, and admit- ted to practice in the district and circuit courts of the United States, November 27, 1895. He was associated with former Governor William E. Russell in the practice of law from 1892 to 1896, and on the death of Governor Rus- sell in the latter named year continued the practice of his profession with offices in the Exchange Building, 53 State street, Boston, where he has since been located. He was for nine years a member of the First Corps of Cadets, Massachusetts Volunteer Militia, and served on coast duty during the Spanish- American war. He is a veteran member of the Cadet Corps, Spanish-American War Vet- erans, and a member of the University Club. His home in Boston is at 139 Beacon street. He is unmarried.
BRADFORD The name of Bradford is one of the most distin- guished in the early colonial history of Massachusetts, and the record of the Bradford family from the establishment of the Pilgrims in Holland in 1608 to 1657 in- cludes a great part of the history of the Pil- grim colony. From this family have sprung nearly all of the Bradfords of New England.
(I) The first of the name of whom record is known was William Bradford, of Auster- field, Yorkshire, England. He was buried there January 10, 1595-96.
(II) William (2), son of William ( 1) Brad- ford, married Alice, daughter of John and Margaret (Gresham) Hanson, June 21, 1584. He was buried July 15, 1591, at Austerfield, Yorkshire, England.
(III) William (3), son of William (2) Bradford, was born in March, 1590, in Aus- terfield, Yorkshire, England. About 1608 he went to Holland, and was among those who set out from England in 1620 on board of the historic "Mayflower," to settle the Pilgrim
colony across the broad ocean. He was ac- companied on this voyage by his wife, whose maiden name was Dorothy May. They were married at Amsterdam, December 10, 1613. She was accidentally drowned December 7, 1620, from the "Mayflower," in Cape Cod Harbor, during the absence of her husband with an exploring party. They had one son, John, born in Holland, who was left behind; he came later and died in Norwich, Connec- ticut, without issue, in 1678.
With the exception of five years, William Bradford was chosen governor of Plymouth Colony from 1621 to 1657, the year of his death. He was one of the most efficient in directing and sustaining the new settlement, and a writer of the times said of him: "He was the very prop and glory of Plymouth Colony, during the whole series of changes that passed over it." He was married (sec- ond) August 24, 1623, to Alice Southworth, a widow, whose maiden name was Carpenter. She came to Plymouth in the ship "Anne," and was among the most highly respected resi- dents, dying March 26, 1670, at the age of eighty years. She was the mother of three children by her second husband: William, Mercy and Joseph Bradford. Governor Brad- ford died May 19, 1657, and was lamented by all the New England colonies as a common father. The bodies of himself and wife were buried at Plymouth. Governor Bradford was the only historian of Plymouth Colony, and his history is now of priceless value. His is the only grave of a "Mayflower" passenger the location of which is known.
(IV) William (4), son of William (3) and Alice (Carpenter) (Southworth) Brad- ford, was born June 17, 1624, and married (first ) Alice Richards ; (second) Widow Wis- wall, and (third) Mrs. Mary (Wood) Holmes. His biographer says: "Mr. Bradford was, next to Miles Standish. the chief military man of the colony. During King Philip's war he was commander-in-chief of the Plymouth forces, and often exposed himself to all its perils. At the Narragansett Fort fight he received a musket ball in his flesh which he carried the remainder of his life. In that des- perate midwinter encounter, when both parties fought for their very existence, nearly a thou- sand Indians fell a sacrifice, and about one hundred and fifty of the English were killed or wounded. In the war with the Indians Mr. Bradford held the rank of major. He was assistant treasurer and deputy governor of Plymouth from 1682 to 1686, and from 1689 to 1691; and in the latter year he was one of
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the council of Massachusetts. His residence was in Kingston, Massachusetts, on the north side of Jones river. He died March 1, 1704, and by his expressed wish was buried beside the grave of his distinguished father, on Burial Hill, in Plymouth.
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