Genealogical and family history of the state of Maine, Volume III, Part 30

Author: Little, George Thomas, 1857-1915, ed; Burrage, Henry Sweetser, 1837-1926; Stubbs, Albert Roscoe
Publication date: 1909
Publisher: New York, Lewis historical publishing company
Number of Pages: 818


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(VII) Matthew, second son of Peter and Susan (Hawes) Cushing, was baptized at


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Hardingham, England, March 2, 1589, and died at Hingham, Massachusetts, September 30, 1660. For the first fifty years of his life he lived at Hardingham and Hingham, Nor- folk county, England; but in 1638, with his wife and five children, and his wife's sister, Widow Francis Riecroft, who died a few weeks after their arrival, Matthew Cushing embarked on the ship "Diligent," a vessel of three hundred and fifty tons, under the com- mand of John Martin. This ship sailed from Gravesend, April 26, 1638, with one hundred and thirty-three passengers, among whom was Robert Peck, M. A., rector of the parish of Hingham, England. The immediate cause of their departure seems to have been trouble in ecclesiastical matters. Their rector, doubtless with the sympathy and aid of most of those constituting the emigrating party, had pulled down the rails of chancel and altar, and leveled the latter a foot below the church, as it re- mains to this day. Being prosecuted by Bishop Wren, Reverend Robert Peck left the kingdom, together with his friends, who sold their estates at half their real value. The party, having landed at Boston, August IO, 1638, immediately proceeded to their destina- tion, Hingham, Massachusetts, so named after the former home of the Cushing family in Hingham, England. At a town meeting held in 1638 a house lot of five acres on Bachelor (Main) street, was given to Matthew Cush- ing, and it continued in the possession of the family till 1887, practically a quarter millen- nial. Matthew Cushing was early engaged in the affairs of the town, and became a deacon in the church. He had many eminent de- scendants, for it is now a well-established fact that, with the exception of some recent immigrants, all the Cushings of the United States and Canada are his direct lineal de- scendants. On August 5, 1613, Matthew Cushing married Nazareth Pitcher, daughter of Henry Pitcher, of the famous family of Admiral Pitcher, of England. She was bap- tized October 30, 1686, and died at Hingham, Massachusetts, January 6, 1682. They had five children, all born in Hingham, England : Daniel, April 20, 1619; Jeremiah, July 21, 1621; Matthew, April 5, 1623 ; Deborah, Feb- ruary 17, 1625, married Matthias Briggs and lived at Hingham; John (2), whose sketch follows.


(VIII) John (2), youngest of the children of Matthew and Nazareth (Pitcher) Cushing, was born at Hingham, England, in 1627, and died at Scituate, Massachusetts, March 31, 1708. At the age of eleven he migrated to


America with his people, and he appeared to have remained at Hingham, Massachusetts, till after his father's death in 1660. In 1657 John (2) Cushing, together with Matthias Briggs, purchased for one hundred and twenty pounds the Varsall estate at "Belle House Neck," Scituate, which consisted of one hundred and twenty acres with house and barns; but Cush- ing did not move there till about 1662. The place derived its name from the fact that for a century, at least, a bell hung at the house there to give an alarm to the neighboring country in case of the approach of the In- dians. In 1663 John (2) Cushing was sur- veyor of highways; in 1667, receiver of ex- cises; in 1674 was deputy to the colony and was often re-elected; in 1673 he was on the committee for dividing the Scituate lands ; and in 1676 he was chosen to report to the govern- ment a statement of all services of the soldiers of Scituate in the war with King Philip. Mr. Cushing was selectman from 1674 to 1686, inclusive, and county magistrate ( Plymouth county ) from 1685 to 1692. He was assistant of the Old Colony government of Plymouth colony from 1689 to 1691, and representative to the general court at Boston in 1692 and for several succeeding years, member of the coun- cil in 1796 and 1707, and was colonel of the Plymouth regiment. On January 20, 1658, at Hingham, Massachusetts, John (2) Cushing married Sarah Hawke, daughter of Matthew and Margaret Hawke, who was baptized at Hingham, August 1, 1641, and died at Scitu- ate, March 9, 1679. Her father was the third town clerk of Hingham. To John (2) and Sarah (Hawke) Cushing were given twelve children : John, born April 28, 1662; Thom- as, December 26, 1663; Matthew, February, 1665; Jeremiah, July 13, 1666; James, Jan- uary 27, 1668; Joshua, August 27, 1670; Sarah, August 26, 1671 ; Caleb, whose sketch follows; Deborah, 1675; Mary, August 30, 1676; Joseph, September 23, 1677; Benjamin, February 4, 1679.


(IX) Rev. Caleb, seventh son of John (2) and Sarah (Hawke) Cushing, was born at Scituate, Massachusetts, in January, 1673, and was baptized on May II of that year. He died January 25, 1752, after a pastorate of fifty- six years at Salisbury, Massachusetts. He was graduated from Harvard College in 1692, and went to Salisbury in March, 1696, and was ordained minister of the first parish, Novem- ber 9, 1698. He was one of the numerous signers of documents in 1745, unfavorable to the itinerary of Whitefield, and endorsing the proceedings of Harvard College in 1744 rel-


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ative to Whitefield's career. The preacher of Mr. Cushing's funeral sermon said of him: "We know not the man in the County of Es- sex who has moulded a broader and deeper influence on the minds of the people than this venerable divine." The Boston Evening Post stated: "He was of excellent natural parts, judgment and memory which so rarely meet, yet met in him in so eminent degree that it was not easy to say in which he excelled, and at the same time, he had the easiest and hap- piest temper, and most benign soul. He was a learned, solid divine, and of exemplary con- versation, condescending, prudent, benevolent and a wise counsellor, remarkable for hospi- tality." The painting of him still preserved shows a man of large build, with a long yet rather full face, a prominent aquiline nose, keen dark eyes, and rather a humorous mouth. There is a certain family resemblance, par- ticularly about the eyes and nose, to Chief Justice William Cushing and to Lieutenant- Governor Thomas Cushing. Reverend Caleb Cushing is represented in wig and bands, ac- cording to the custom of the times. On March 14, 1698, Rev. Caleb Cushing married Mrs. Elizabeth (Cotton) Alling, daughter of the Rev. John Cotton, and widow of Rev. James Alling, Mr. Cushing's predecessor at Salis- bury. There were four children, all of whom filled creditable positions in life. I. Caleb Cushing, the eldest son, born October 10, 1703, became chief justice of the court of common pleas, was a deacon in the church at Salis- bury, was colonel of the Essex Regiment, and for twenty-seven years a representative to the general court. 2. Rev. James, follows in the next paragraph. 3. Rev. John, born April 10, 1709, was graduated from Harvard College in 1729, and became the first minister of the sec- ond church at Boxford, Massachusetts. 4 . Elisabeth, married Rev. Joshua Moody, of the Isles of Shoals.


(X) Rev. James, second son of Rev. Caleb and Elizabeth (Cotton) (Alling) Cushing, was born at Salisbury, Massachusetts, November 25, 1705, died May 13, 1764. He was grad- uated from Harvard College in 1725, was or- dained December 2, 1730, and settled as the first minister at Haverhill, Massachusetts, and Plaistow, New Hampshire. In the Collec- tions of the Massachusetts Historical Society we find: "Reverend James Cushing was a solid and fervent preacher, in conduct upright, prudent and steady, and recommended the amiable religion of his Master, by meekness and patience, condescension and candor, a tender sympathy with his flock, and a studious


endeavor to maintain and promote the things of peace." On October 16, 1730, Rev. James Cushing married Anna Wainwright, daughter of John Wainwright, and great-granddaughter of Simon Wainwright, who was killed by the Indians at his own door. She died February 12, 1810, having reached the great age of ninety-nine years. There were seven children, one of whom became a minister, and two of whom married ministers. I. Caleb (2), men- tioned in the succeeding paragraph. 2. Rev. James, born May 8, 1739, died at Pondicherry, in the East Indies, June 2, 1764. 3. Eliza- beth, born November 6, 1741, married (first) Rev. Jacob Emery, of Pembroke, New Hamp- shire, and (second) Captain Alexander Todd, of Goffstown, New Hampshire. 4. Moses, born July 14, 1745, served as a private in the revolutionary war. 5. Lucy, born August 12, 1747, married Rev. Giles Merrills, who suc- ceeded her father as minister at Haverhill and Plaistow, preaching there till his death in 1801. 6. Dr. John, born December II, 1749, was twice married, and died at Goffstown, New Hampshire, in 1833. 7. Thomas, born June 28, 1754, died at the age of ten years.


(XI) Caleb (2), eldest child of Rev. James and Anna ( Wainwright) Cushing, was born May 28, 1737, at Haverhill, Massachusetts, and died there October 6, 1806. He fought at Lexington, and served all through the revo- lutionary war, first as quartermaster, and later as brigade quartermaster. On August 13, 1761, Caleb (2) Cushing married Sarah Saw- yer, born November 16, 1742, who died at Salisbury, January 10, 1832, in her ninetieth year. There were eight children: Ann, born January 19, 1763, married Timothy Dunstan ; James, March 9, 1765; Caleb, September 4, 1767; Theodore, March 9, 1770; Sarah, De- cember 26, 1771, married Ananiah Bohonan ; Elizabeth, November 13, 1775, married Ben- jamin Stark, of Derryfield, New Hampshire, a son of General John Stark of the revolution ; Abigail, October 3, 1778; and John Wain- wright, whose sketch follows.


(XII) John Wainwright, youngest of the eight children of Caleb (2) and Sarah (Saw- yer) Cushing, was born at Haverhill, Massa- chusetts, July 23, 1782, and died at Burling- ton, Vermont, in August, 1836. He spent his life at Haverhill, and married, September 29, 1807, Sarah Swett, of Salisbury. They had three children : James William; Joseph Wain- wright, whose sketch follows; and Mary. There were also two who died in infancy.


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ing, was born at Haverhill, Massachusetts, about 1812, and died at Brownsville, Maine. He lived at Milo and Sebec, Maine, and built and operated woolen-mills in both places. The first woolen-mill ever erected in Piscataquis was built by Mr. Cushing. On November 26, 1840, he married Anna Morrill, daughter of John and Morrill, of Sebec. There were seven children: Wainwright, whose sketch follows; Sarah Martha, born May 28, 1843; Caleb, January 17, 1845, was killed in the battle of the Wilderness; Celia Ann, March 17, 1847, married Edwin C. Prentiss, of Bos- ton; Maria Josephine, June 17, 1850, died February 1, 1851 ; Clara Elizabeth, November 19, 1854 (Mrs. Frank Ellis) ; William Edwin, July 3, 1856, married Ida L. Perry, and lives at Somerville, Massachusetts.


(XIV) Wainwright, eldest child of Joseph Wainwright and Anna (Morrill) Cushing, was born August 12, 1841, at Sebec, Maine. He was educated in the town schools and at Foxcroft Academy, and worked in his father's woolen mills at Sebec. In 1861 Mr. Cushing enlisted in the Sixth Maine Regiment, Com- pany A, and later re-enlisted in the First Maine Veterans, a company made up of the Fifth, Sixth and Seventh regiments. Mr. Cushing served under Burnside and Hooker at Williamsburg, in front of Richmond, at the Second Battle of Bull Run, at Antietam and Fredericksburg, and campaigned in the Shen- andoah Valley under Sheridan. He enlisted as a private, was twice wounded, and was dis- charged July 5, 1865, as a lieutenant. After the war was over, Mr. Cushing returned to Sebec, and went to work in the mill as dyer. In 1869 he moved to Dover, Maine, and went to work for the Brown Woolen Company, where he had charge of the dye-house for thirteen years. While engaged in this work he conceived the idea of developing a business absolutely new to the world by perfecting a set of household dyes that would replace the family dye-pot, in which there had been no practical improvement for hundreds of years. Mr. Cushing experimented for a whole decade in his little shop near the mill where he was employed during business hours, and in 1880 he started an establishment on his own ac- count. He had now to educate the world to the value of his goods and his methods. As his ready means were small, his progress was naturally slow, but he was materially aided by his modest salary as register of probate for Piscataquis county, which office he held for six terms. Persevering in the introduction of his goods, which, under the name of Cushing


Perfection Dyes, soon became locally known and largely used, in 1886 Mr. Cushing began to advertise in a small way by means of cir- culars and samples. In six years there were placed upon the books the names of over twenty-five hundred regular customers, many of them dealers, agents and Indian-traders, lo- cated not only in every section of the United States, but in other countries, civilized and uncivilized, from Dakota to India. Mr. Cush- ing's original shop or laboratory has grown into a large factory with commodious offices, and his mail and express business has attained extensive proportions, and is constantly in- creasing. It was in 1892 that he built his present large plant, containing some sixteen thousand square feet. The business is now run under the name of Cushing's Perfection Dyes, and the product is sold all over the world. The firm is composed of Mr. Cushing and his son, Caleb H.


Mr. Wainwright Cushing has a beautiful home on the banks of the Piscataquis river, in Foxcroft, of which town he is a valuable and public-spirited citizen. He is a Republican in politics, and served on the executive council of Governor H. B. Cleaves during 1895-96. He is a Mason of the thirty-second degree, and has served as worshipful master of Mosaic Lodge, and high priest of Piscataquis Chap- ter, Royal Arch Masons, and belongs to Ban- gor Council and to all the Scottish Rite or- ders. He is past chancellor of Onawa Lodge, Knights of Pythias, past master workman of Protection Lodge, Ancient Order of United Workmen, and past master of Piscataquis Lodge, New England Order of Protection. In the Grand Army of the Republic he has been commander of C. S. Prouty Post, No. 23. of Foxcroft, and in 1893 was department commander of the Department of Maine. He also belongs to the military order of the Loyal Legion of the United States, and to the Union Veterans' Union, and has been department commander of the Department of Maine of the latter organization. He is active in the Christian Science faith.


On October 20, 1866, Wainwright Cushing married Flora A. McIntyre, of Sebec, Maine. She was born at Rockport, Maine, December 13, 1849, daughter of Captain Uriah and Susan ( Boardman) McIntyre, the former a retired sea captain. Two children have been born to the Cushings: Caleb H., October 20, 1868, at Sebec ; and Annie F., April, 1872, at Foxcroft. Caleb H. Cushing was educated in the schools of Foxcroft and at Foxcroft Academy, and is now engaged in business


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with his father. He has served three terms as county treasurer, and is trustee of the Pis- cataquis County Savings Bank. He married Mary F. Fogler, daughter of J. F. Fogler, of Rockland. Annie F. Cushing was educated in the schools of Foxcroft and at Foxcroft Academy, and was graduated from Lasell Seminary, Auburndale, Massachusets, in 1896. On April 30, 1902, she was married to Cap- tain Walter J. Mayo, son of John G. Mayo, of Foxcroft.


STEVENS There were many pioneers bearing this name identified with the earliest settlement of Massachusetts, and their descendants? have been numerous and widely scattered, and have born no inconsiderable part in the develop- ment of this nation. John Stevens, of New- bury and Andover, Massachusetts, was born about 1606, and settled in Andover about 1645; he had six sons. William Stevens, of New- bury, Massachusetts, left three sons; Ser- geant John Stevens, of Amesbury, Massachu- setts, was born about 1611, and resided early in Salisbury ; he left three sons. Deacon Thomas Stevens, of Amesbury, Massachusetts, was a sawyer and husbandman, and a promi- nent citizen of the town. He left three sons. Another John Stevens, of Amesbury, left two sons. It is probable that the line herein traced is descended from John Stevens, of Andover. (I) John and Elizabeth Stevens lived in Chelmsford, Massachusetts, in 1679.


(II) Joseph, son of John and Elizabeth Stevens, was born March 24, 1679, in Chelms- ford, and was a resident of Woburn, Massa- chusetts, whence he removed to Billerica, same state, in 1710. He was probably born about 1675. In 1723 he removed to Groton, Massa- chusetts, and seven years later to Townsend, same colony, where he died in 1738. He was an able and active citizen; selectman of Bil- lerica, and at the incorporation of Townsend, in 1732, was delegated by the general court to call the first town meeting. He was modera- tor and selectman almost continually until his death, and was deacon of the church. He was married in Woburn, September 24, 1701, to Elizabeth Tidd, who was born September 19, 1679, in that town, daughter of John and Elizabeth (Fifield) Tidd, and granddaughter of John and Rebecca (Wood) Tidd. She died in Billerica, February 6, 1714, and he subse- quently married Elizabeth Sherman. The first wife was the mother of four of his chil- dren and the second of eight. They were: Joseph (died young), James, Elizabeth, Jona-


than, Joseph (died young), Esther, Joseph, Ephraim, William, Jonas and Lucy.


(III) Jonas, eighth son of Joseph Stevens and seventh child of his second wife, Eliza- beth (Sherman) Stevens, was born April 26, 1727, in Groton, Massachusetts, and grew up in Townsend, whence he removed to Falmouth, Maine, and thence to the town of Gray, not far from Falmouth. He cleared up a farm in the wilderness and there made his home until his death. He was a soldier of the revo- lution, going from Gray as a private in Cap- tain Moses Merrill's company of Colonel Thomas Phinney's (third) regiment, enlisting April 15, 1775, and was allowed subsistance for seven weeks and two days. He received an order for a bounty coat at Cambridge Fort No. 2, October 26, 1775, and was among those recruited by New Gloucester for the Continental army, enlisting for three years, or during the war, under Captain Paul Ellis, in Colonel Timothy Bigelow's regiment, be- ing then a resident of Gray. His name ap- pears in the pay accounts from March 23, 1777, to the same date, 1780. No record of his marriage appears, but his children are accounted for as follows : I. Jonas, born 1747, married Mary Crandall and had chil- dren : Benjamin, William, Jane, Elizabeth, Amos, Ruth, Sarah, Joseph, Jonathan. 2. Joel, born 1751, died May 18, 1850; married for third wife Olive Hobbs, and had children : Joel, William, Eleanor, Polly, Charlotte, Olive, Jeremiah, Job Eastman, Dresser, Miriam, Moses, Sally, William, Irene, Ezra. 3. Joseph, see forward. 4. Nathaniel, born in Townsend, Massachusetts, February, 1761, died June 30, 1816. Married Rebecca Cobb, born in Cape Elizabeth, and had children : Abigail, Charles, Susanna, Susan, Rebecca, Rhoda, Nathaniel, Orpha, William and George. 5. Ruth, born 1762, married James Doughty, of Gray. 6. Susanna, married Samuel Winslow.


(IV) Captain Joseph (2), third son and child of Jonas Stevens, came to Norway, Maine, from Massachusetts, in 1787, and built the first frame house in the town. He mar- ried Elizabeth Hobbs, and they had children : I. Daniel, see forward. 2. Jonas, born 1782, married Mary Hobbs. 3. Amy, 1784, died unmarried. 4. Apphia, 1786, married Benja- min Eastman, of Conway, New Hampshire. 5. Joseph, born in Norway, May 31, .1788, married Ruth Bradbury. 6. Elmira, 1794, married Dr. John Eastman, of Conway. 7. Simon, August 10, 1798, married Rebecca Atherton, of Waterford.


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Elizabeth (Hobbs) Stevens, was born in Greenwood, Maine, in 1780. He followed the occupation of farming throughout his life. He married Miriam Fowler and had children : I. Edmund, born November 18, 1804, died in Missouri. 2. Ruth, December 21, 1807, went west and is unmarried. 3. Daniel, May 31, 1809, resided in Manchester, New Hampshire. 4. Ansel, see forward. 5. Amy S., January 28, 1812, died young. 6. Mary Jane, married John G. Robinson. 7. William, who also went west.


(VI) Ansel, third son and fourth child of Daniel and Miriam (Fowler) Stevens, was born in Greenwood, Oxford county, Maine, July 16, 1811, and died in 1857. Like his forefathers, he was a farmer. He moved from Maine to Manchaug, town of Sutton, Massachusetts, from thence to Michigan, and still later to Illinois, where he died. He was a corporal at the time of the Aroostook war, and went as far as Augusta at that time. He married Sarah Knight, of Greenwood, who died at the age of forty-eight years. Their children were: Ferdinand Ivsley, Lewis Ansel, Amy Ann, Sarah Octavia, Daniel Atwood, see forward : Charles Peter, Ruth Ellen.


(VII) Daniel Atwood, third son and sixth child of Ansel and Sarah (Knight) Stevens, was born in Greenwood, July 26, 1845. He was educated in the public schools of Sut- ton, to which town his parents had removed when he was seven years old. His attendance at school was confined to the winter months, as his assistance was required on the farm during the summer. At the age of seventeen years he commenced an apprenticeship to the machinist's trade at Whitinsville, Massachu- setts, but in July, 1863, when the civil war was at its height, he responded to the call for volunteers and enlisted in the Second Massa- chusetts Heavy Artillery. His term of serv- ice extended to September 3, 1865, when he was honorably discharged. Returning to Whitinsville, he finished his apprenticeship and subsequently worked at his trade until 1878, when he engaged as clerk for W. M. Walker, in York Village. Finding himself better adapted to mercantile duties than to mechani- cal labors, he established a store of his own in 1881 in the town of York, and has since conducted a successful business. He is a Republican in politics and was postmaster under Harrison's administration. He was ap- pointed postmaster at York Village in 1905, but resigned. He has been actively engaged in many useful enterprises, and is always ready to assist in promoting any project for


the good of the community. Believing thor- oughly in the elevating power of religion, he is an active member of the Congregational " church, is a deacon, and has been parish clerk for many years. He is a member of St. Aspin- quid Lodge, No. 198, Ancient Free and Ac- cepted Masons; Knights of Pythias; and Or- der of the Golden Cross. He married, May 5, 1871, Clara E., daughter of Richard H. and Clarissa (Wilson) Walker, and they have one child, Alice Emma, born March, 1873. She attended the town schools of York and a private school in New Hampshire. She mar- ried, 1905, Walter C. Badger, of New York, an electrician. They are now living in York, Maine.


The name Stevens occurs in STEVENS the records of Maine at an early date, and as early as 1720 John Stevens, from whom the Stevenses of this article may be descended, was in Ken- nebunkport. Thirty-five pages of the record, "Massachusetts Soldiers and Sailors of the Revolution," are given to accounts of the Stevenses.


(I) Moses Stevens, the earliest known an- cestor, married, November 16, 1703, Elizabeth Butland, of Wells.


(II) Benjamin, son of Moses and Elizabeth (Butland) Stevens, married, December 3, 1735, Mary Hatch. He moved to Kennebunk in 1751.


(III) Joel, son of Benjamin and Mary (Hatch) Stevens, was born in Kennebunk, 1744, died April 2, 1840. He was a farmer in Kennebunk; a revolutionary soldier and pensioner. He married, March 10, 1774, Mary Webber.


(IV) Calvin, son of Joel and Mary (Web- ber) Stevens, was born in Kennebunk, March 14, 1793, died March 31, 1877. He was a cabinetmaker and farmer in Standish. He married (first) Lydia P. Moulton, who died June 2, 1852, and they were the parents of Lorenzo, Leander and George. He married (second) Mrs. Lucy Paine, a widow.


(V) Leander, second son of Calvin and Ly- dia P. (Moulton) Stevens, was born in Stand- ish, March 8, 1822, died in Portland, Novem- ber 27, 1903. He was engaged in the grocery business in Boston and in the hardware busi- ness in New York; then was a clerk in a Bos- ton hotel; in 1857 removed to Portland, Maine, where he was in the employ of a gro- cery firm three years. For a time he was a messenger on the road between Portland and Montreal. He was clerk at the Preble House,


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Portland, for some years, until the opening of the Falmouth in that city; was then clerk at the Falmouth from 1868 to 1876, and pro- prietor 1876-79, and was for ten years clerk at the American House, Boston. After a term as clerk at the Poland Spring Hotel he retired and spent the remainder of his life in Portland. In politics he was an independent voter. He served one year in the Portland city council. He married Maria Jane Han- . cock Wingate, born in Gorham, November 7, 1825. She was the third child of John and Salome (Small) Wingate, of Gorham, and descended from the first John Wingate who settled near Dover, New Hampshire, about 1658. (See Wingate VI.) Their children were: I. Leander L., born November 20, 1849, married, December 16, 1874, Mrs. Lucy Blanchard, and they have had two children : Leander Elwood and Alice G., died young. 2. John Calvin, mentioned below. 3. Lydia Maria, born August 10, 1859, married Stephen E. Winslow, and died April 27, 1900. 4. Henry Wingate, born January 8, 1869, mar- ried Frances Seely, and has three children : Wingate Irving, Theodore Moulton and Frances Louise.




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