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December 4, 1904, Mr. Hyde married Alice Morse, daughter of Alonzo A. Morse, of Bath. Mr. and Mrs. Hyde have no children.
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WHITMORE shire, England, had two sons : William ( 1100-1135),
who had a son William (1158-1161) ; and Peter (q. v.).
(II) Peter de Boterel had a son born in Staffordshire, who was named Radalph or Ralph (q. v.).
(III) Ralph, son of Peter de Boterel, was born in 1152, and died in 1771. He married twice, and by his first wife had a son William, who married Avisa de Whitmore ( 1197). By his second wife he had a son Ralph (q. v.).
(IV) Ralph (2), son of Ralph (I) by his second wife, had a son John (q. v.).
(V) John, son of Ralph (2) de Boterel, be- came Sir John de Whitmore. He married
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Agnes --. (1252-1276), and among his children were three sons: John (q. v.), Lord of Whitmore, founder of the Caunton line; William, who married Alice Fenners, and had a son .Philip, founder of the Claverly line; and Ralph.
(VI) John (2), son of Sir John (1) and Agnes de Whitmore, married Margerie
(1270-1301). He was Lord of Whitmore, and had a son Richard (q. v.).
(VII) Richard, son of John (2), Lord of Whitmore, married Susannah Draycote, daughter of Sir Philip Draycote of Painesley, knight. The children of Richard and Susan- nah (Draycote) de Whitmore were: Jane, married John Blunt; Mary, married John Gifford; Beatrix, married John Chebwind; Christina, married Richard Flutwood; Philip (q. v.).
(VIII) Philip, youngest son of Richard of Whitmore and Susanna (Draycote), married Thomasine, daughter of Richard Oliver ( ?). and then had a son Richard (q. v.).
(IX) Richard (2), son of Philip and Thomasine (Oliver ( ?) Whitmore, married (first) a daughter of Sir Ralph Bagot; (sec- ond) a daughter of Richard Devereaux and (third) a daughter of Simon Harcourt, who was probably of Ellenhall, Staffordshire, and by his third wife he had a son Nicholas (q. v.).
(X) Nicholas, son of Richard Whitmore by his third wife, married Annie, daughter of Thomas Aston, of Tixall, Staffordshire, and had two children: Mary, married William Lusone ; Anthony (q. v.).
(XI) Anthony, only son of Nicholas and Annie (Ashton) Whitmore, married Christ- man, daughter and heir of Nicholas Vaux, and they had two children: Joan and William (q. v.).
(XII) William, only son of Anthony and Christina (Vaux) Whitmore, married, and had children, including a son John (q. v.).
(XIII) John (3), second son of William Whitmore, of Caunton, married (first), dur- ing the reign of Henry VI, Alice, daughter and heir of Robert Blyton of Caunton, and ( second) Catherine, daughter and heir of Robert Compton of Hawton, Visitation of York, 1536, and had two sons-William, and Robert (q. v.).
(XIV) Robert, son and heir of John Whit- more. of Caunton. married (first) Catherine, daughter of George Claye. of Finningly, Visi- tation of Yorkshire, and they had: William, the heir, who married a daughter of John Ridley, lived in Rotterdam, where he died in
1508, (second) Alice Atwoode, of Harling- ton, Bedfordshire, and by this marriage had: I. Richard, died without issue, 1559. 2. John, living in 1545. 3. Charles (q. v.). 4. Thom- as, probably died about 1603. 5. Edward, living in 1559. 6. Rowland, living in 1591. 7. James. 8. Randall. Also three daughters.
(XV) Charles, probably third son of Rob- ert and Alice (Atwoode) Whitmore, lived in Tuxworth, where he married, and had chil- dren : I. William, died in 1582. 2. John, was living in Staffordshire, where he died in 1571. 3. Robert, died in 1608. 4. Richard, died in 1578. 5. James, died in 1614. 6. Thomas, of Hitchen, who had a wife by the Christian name of Mary. and died in 1649. Two of his sons, Thomas and John, emigrated to New England-Thomas, who spelled his surname Whittemore, to Charlestown, Massachusetts Bay Colony, and settled in Malden; and John Whitmore to Stanford, in the colony of Con- necticut, where his two children, John and Elizabeth, were born. 7. Roger (q. v.). 8. Christopher, died in 1640. 9. 10, II and 12, daughters. 13. George. Charles Whitmore, father of these children, died in Hitchin, Hert- fordshire, England, in 1568. Three of his sons adopted the spelling Whitemore, three Watmore, and one retained the spelling Whit- more as used by their father, and which pre- vails in England.
(XVI) Roger, seventh son of Charles Whitmore, lived in Hitchin, Hertfordshire, where he married and became the father of Nicholas.
(XVII) Nicholas, son of Roger Whitmore, and first cousin of Thomas Whittemore, of Malden, and of John Whitmore, of Stanford, also American immigrants and heads of American families of the name. Nicholas had by marriage, besides other children, two sons : Frances (q. v.), and Thomas, who settled in Middletown, Connecticut Colony.
(I) Francis, son of Nicholas Whitmore, was of the eighteenth generation of the family in England, and appears as of the first generation in America. He was born in Hitchin, Hertfordshire, England, in 1625. He married Isabel, daughter of Richard and Margery (Crane) Parke, some time after reaching America, where he first located, between 1630 and 1640, in the town of Boston, Massachusetts Bay Colony, and removed across the Charles river to Cambridge before 1648. He was a soldier in the King Phillip war, and served as sclectman and constable of the town of Cambridge in 1668. His first wife, Isabel Parker Whitmore, died after bear-
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ing him six children: 1. Elizabeth, born May 2, 1649; married November 3, 1669, Daniel Markham. 2. Francis, October 12, 1650 ; mar- ried, February 8, 1674, Hannah Harris. 3. John (q. v.). 4. Samuel, May 1, 1658; married, March 31, 1686, Rebecca Gardner. 5. Abigail, July 30, 1660; married, May 9, 1683, Samuel Wilcox. 6. Sarah. March 7, 1662, married William Locke. After the birth of his child his wife died, and he married (second) Margaret Harty, November 10, 1666, and by her had : 7. Margaret, September 9, 1668; married Thomas Carter. 8. Frances, March 3, 1671 ; married Jonathan Thompson. 9. Thomas, 1673; married Mary Jennison. 10. Joseph, 1675; married Mary Kendall, February 13, 1698. Francis Whitmore, the immigrant to Boston and Cambridge, died in Cambridge, Massachusetts, October 12, 1685.
(II) John, second son and third child of Francis and Isabel (Parke) Whitmore, was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts, October I, 1654. He married Rachel, daughter of Fran- ces and Mary (Saunders) Eliot and widow of Poulter, who was born October 25, 1643, and died March 20, 1723. They resided in Cambridge, and removed to Medford, of which town he was a large land owner, as he was also in Billerica. He was a deacon in the First Parish Church of Medford, and served the town as treasurer. He was a sol- dier in the Indian wars, and served in the regiment of Major Swayne at Saco, in the district of Maine. He had by his first wife three children, and after her death he married as his second wife, June 3, 1724, Rebecca Cutter, who was childless, and became his widow on his death in Medford, February 22, 1739. Children of John and Rachel ( Eliot) Poulter Whitmore: I. Francis, born May 8, 1678, married (first), December 7, 1699, Anna Pierce, and (second) Mary, surname is not recorded. 2. Abigail, twin of Francis, mar- ried John Elder. 3. John (q. v.).
(III) John (2), second son and third child of John and Rachel (Eliot) Poulter Whit- more, was born in Medford, Middlesex county, Massachusetts. April 27, 1683. He learned the trade of housewright, but did not long continue in that occupation. He became a partner with his brother Francis in the busi- ness of general merchandising in Medford and Billerica, and dealer in real estate in both these towns. He was one of the chief factors in organizing the town of Bedford, which was incorporated September 23, 1729, having been established from lands belonging to both
Billerica and Concord. He was married, in 1706, to Mary, daughter of Colonel John and Susan ( Whipple) Lane, of Billerica. She was born in that town May 15, 1686, and died there March 27, 1783. John Whitmore was prominent in the First Parish Church in Med- ford, and is mentioned in the records of the church for his many benefactions. He was foremost and liberal in town affairs, but held no town offices. He spent his last days at the home of his son John, in Billerica, where his wife died, and that event was soon followed by his own death. Children of John and Mary (Lane) Whitmore, born in Medford: I. Mary, July 17, 1707; married, August 19, 1725, J. Webber, and when his widow she married White. 2. Susannah, Novem- ber 25, 1708; married, September 16, 1727, Benjamin Webber, and when his widow, she married Page. 3. John, April 5, 1711 ; married Martha Lane. 4. Francis (q. v.). 5. Martha, February 23, 1717-8; married John Skinner, December 22, 1743, and died March 7, 1780. 6. William, December 19, 1725; mar- ried, October, 1747, Mary Brooks.
(IV) Francis, second son and fourth child of John (2) and Mary (Lane) Whitmore, was born in Medford, October 4, 1714. He learned the business of general merchandising in the stores of his father and uncle, and suc- ceeded to the business on his own account. He also became largely interested in property in the district of Maine about 1760, and spent much of his time there, becoming a permanent settler. He purchased large tracts of land along the Kennebec river, selling it to actual settlers and cutting from the forests timber for masts and spars for the Royal navy. He was a pioneer in the lumber business on the Kennebec river, and finally settled at Bow- doinham, named for William Bowdoin, of Boston, and located on the river, ten miles north of Bath, in Sagadahoc ( then Lincoln) county, where he died April 27, 1794. He married, January 1, 1739, Mary, daughter of Lieutenant Stephen and Elizabeth (Fowle) Hall, born April 17, 1719, died October 20, 1791, and their children were all born in Med- ford: I. Stephen (q. v.). 2. Francis, Au- gust 16, 1741 ; married, December 30, 1764, Elizabeth Bowman. 3. William, September 6, 1746. 4. Mary, December 25, 1750; married Thomas Blodgett. 5. Elizabeth, November 27, 1752; married Elisha Seavins. 6. John, November 25, 1754; married, April 12, 1781, Huldah Crookes, and died November 29, 1820. 7. Susannah, September 14, 1757; married
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Thomas Dinsmore. 8. Andrew, October 2, 1760; married Lucy Cowillard, and died March 31, 1839.
(V) Stephen, eldest child of Francis and Mary (Hall) Whitmore, was born in Med- ford, October 21, 1739. He was brought up to the mercantile business in Medford, and in 1767 removed to the Kennebec river, district of Maine, where he assisted his father in his large lumber interests. He settled in Bow- doinham, at that time in Lincoln county, and which was incorporated as a town in 1762. He was one of the leading business men of the place, and foremost in the formation of the town government, and served as selectman for many years ; also as constable and collector in 1785, and as town clerk for a number of years. In 1793 he retired from active busi- ness, and changed his residence to the "Ridge," where he had a beautiful home, and where he died October 15, 1815. He married, July 14, 1763, Mary, daughter of Captain Samuel and Elizabeth (Spring) Whittemore, who was born May 6, 1741, and they had eleven chil- dren, the last ten born in Bowdoinham, Maine, Elizabeth and Stephen in Medford, Massachu- setts. These children were: I. Elizabeth, May 19, 1764, married John Springer. 2. Stephen, September 15, 1765, lost at sea, 1787. 3. Samuel, June II, 1768, married Mary Por- ter, and died October 30, 1818. 4. William, June II, 1768, married Rachel Adams, and died May 28, 1850. 5. John (q. v.). 6. Jon- athan, August 22. 1773, married, November 27, 1797, Mary Rogers, and died 1820. 7. Benjamin, July 12, 1775, married Elizabeth Temple, and died August 24, 1847. 8. Mary, October 26, 1777 ; married William Givin, and died 1867. 9. Rhoda, February 9, 1779, named Alexander Preble. 10. Sarah, Octo- ber 12. 1782, married (first) Joseph Perry, (second) Deering. II. Andrew, Oc- tober I, 1785, died October 1, 1785.
(VI) John (3), fourth son and fifth child of Stephen and Mary ( Whittemore) Whit- more, was born in Bowdoinham, Maine, No- vember 25, 1771, and died August 2, 1865, aged ninety-four years, eight months. He at- tended school and engaged in the lumbering business with his father and as his successor, taking his place in various enterprises and ably seconding his efforts in behalf of good schools, roads, and transportation facilities. He mar- ried Sarah Mclellan, born in 1778, and they lived and died in Bowdoinham, she dying April 10, 1839. Children, all born in Bow- doinham: I. Amherst, September 18, 1805; married Mary Jane Perry, and died May 22,
1886. 2. Philena, March 2, 1807; died un- married, September 16, 1892. 3. John, Jan- uary 29, 1809; married Mary Berry, of Lis- bon, Maine, and died April 15, 1896. 4. Han- nah, September 16, 1810, died unmarried, September 20, 1884. 5. Nathaniel Mclellan, October 1, 1812; graduated at Bowdoin Col- lege, A. B., 1833; was a lawyer in Gardiner, Maine; died February 26, 1900. 6. Stephen, May 9, 1814; graduated at Medical School of Maine, Bowdoin College, M. D., 1836; was a physician and surgeon in Gardiner, Maine; married Maria Haskell, and died in Gardiner, Maine, February 9, 1880. 7. Sarah, January 9, 1816; never married. 8. Chadburne War- ren, October 4, 1818; graduated at Medical School of Maine, Bowdoin College, 1839; mar- ried, January 1, 1850, Harriet E. Sampson ; he died in Washington, D. C., March 24, 1884. 9. Samuel.
(VII) Samuel, youngest child of John (3) and Sarah (Mclellan) Whitmore, was born in Bowdoinham, February 15, 1820, and died in 1898. He was a leading business man in his native town, and greatly esteemed for his solid worth and unostentatious charities. He married, in September, 1849, Helen Mahr, daughter of Thomas and Rhoda Stinson; she was born October 19, 1823, and died in 1902. Children, born in Bowdoinham: I. Stephen Chalmers, July 19, 1850; graduated at Bow- doin College, A. B., 1875; practiced law in Bowdoinham; married there, 1879, Estelle Guiboard. 2. Albion Stinson ; see forward. 3. John A., February 26, 1853; married Anna Crehore ; he died September 3. 1895. 4. Anna Philena, May 1, 1857. 5. Helen Maria, April 4. 1859. 6. Florence, August 6, 1861, died 1878.
(VIII) Albion Stinson, second son and child of Samuel and Helen Mahr (Stinson) Whitmore, was born in Bowdoinham, Maine, December 13, 1851. He was educated in the schools of his native town, at Kent's Hill, where he prepared for college, and at Bow- doin College, from which he was graduated A. B. in 1875, and received the degree of A. M. in 1878. He studied for his profession at Columbia University Medical School, New York City, from which he received his degree of M. D. in 1878. He has practiced medicine and surgery in Boston, Massachusetts, since the year of his graduation, with offices at No. 18 Union Park, and has been consulting physi- cian and surgeon of the Peabody New Eng- land Home for Crippled Children at Hyde Park, of which institution he was a trustee. In 1881, at the opening of the Home for Aged
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Couples, he became attending physician and surgeon, continuing in that capacity for ten years, since which time he has been consulting physician and surgeon. His skill as a surgeon has brought to him many important and, to the profession, interesting cases, in which he has been called in consultation, and in this way he has become widely known and highly es- teemed for his professional skill and his en- tire willingness to give it freely in cases of dire calamity or extreme urgency. His pro- fessional affiliation includes membership in the American Medical Association ; the Massachu- setts Medical Society ; the Boston Medical Li- brary Association, rooms at No. 8 Fenway ; the New England Electro-Therapeutical As- sociation, the first of its kind in the country ; and the New England Association of Gradu- ates of New York Medical Colleges. He is also a member of the University Club, Bow- doin College Club, Pine Tree Club (of which he was a director for many years), the Zeta Psi college fraternity; and is affiliated with various Masonic bodies : St. John's Lodge No. 7, F. and A. M .; St. Andrew's Chapter No. 7, R. A. M .; Boston Council, R. S. M .; De Molay Commandery, K. T .; and Aleppo Tem- ple, A. A. O. N. M. S. He is a trustee of the Penny Savings Bank of Boston.
Dr. Whitmore married, October 14, 1885, Maude, daughter of Moses M. and Nancy G. (Norcross) Swan. Mrs. Whitmore was born in Augusta, Maine, where her father was a jeweler for many years.
"The posterity of William HASKELL Haskell is believed to be much more numerous than that of any other early settler," says the genealogist of the Haskell family of Gloucester, Massa- chusetts. A large number of his descendants remain in town, but a still greater number are scattered abroad over the country. From six generations of this prolific stock emigrants have gone forth, who, whether they braved the dangers and hardships of pioneer life in the forests of Maine or sought a kinder soil than their own in more settled and cultivated regions, or engaged in handicraft and trade in the marts of business, have generally sustained the character for usefulness and respectability which the family have always borne in its an- cient seat.
Captain William Haskell was born about 1620, and was connected with the family of Roger Haskell, of Salem. He first appears in Gloucester in 1643; and in 1645 `mention is made of his land at Planter's Neck. He prob-
ably resided here a few years following the last date ; but the hiatus in the recorded births of his children affords ground for conjecture that he was not a permanent resident from that time. If he left town for a season, he had returned by 1656, and settled on the west- erly side of 'Amisquane river, where he had several pieces of land, among which was a lot of ten acres, with a house and barn, bought of Richard Window, situated on the west side of Walker's Creek, which is still occupied by descendants. The public offices to which he was elected affords sufficient proof that he was a prominent and useful citizen. He was a selectman several years and representative six times in the course of twenty years. In 1681 he was appointed by the general court lieu- tenant to the train band, of which he was afterward captain. He was one of the first two of whom we have any knowledge who were deacons of the First Church. He mar- ried Mary, daughter of Walter Tybbot, No- vember 16, 1643. She died August 16, 1693 ; and he four days after (on the 20th), leaving an estate of £548, 12s. His children, whose births are recorded were: William, Joseph, Mark, Sarah and Eleanor. Besides these, he had sons Benjamin and John and daughters Ruth and Mary. Various descendants of Will- iam Haskell settled in Falmouth and New Gloucester, Maine, among them being Moses, Job, of Hampton, New Hampshire, and Nathan, who settled in the latter place, but no history of the following generations of this article has been connected with that of the Gloucester parent family, though there is no doubt of their descent.
(I) Jacob Haskell is said to have come from Cape Ann, Massachusetts, and settled in New Gloucester, where he raised a family ; no dates given.
(II) Jacob (2), son of Jacob (1) Haskell, also resided in New Gloucester, and is said to have had a first wife whose surname was Godfrey before marriage.
(III) Peter, son of Jacob (2) and (Godfrey) Haskell, was born in 1769, and died in New Gloucester, July 14, 1849, where he was a prosperous farmer. He married, De- cember 8, 1791, Salome Parsons, born in Gloucester, 1772, died March 25, 1858, in New `Gloucester. She was the daughter of Colonel Isaac Parsons, who came to New Gloucester from Gloucester, Massachusetts, in 1761. He was the leading man in that part of Cumberland county in the days before the revolution. It was he who discovered a method of planting corn so that it could be
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raised successfully on newly cleared land, and thereby conferred a great boon upon the straggling settlers. His farm was at what is now Gloucester Lower Corner, and descended to the Haskell family, through the daughter Salome, who married Peter Haskell.
(IV) Captain Peter (2) son of Peter (I) and Salome (Parsons) Haskell, was born in New Gloucester, January 10, 1797, and died in New Gloucester, May 6, 1875. He was a prosperous farmer and an old-time militia offi- cer. He married, April 1, 1823, Sally Pulsi- fer, by whom he had Mary F., Jacob W., Eze- kiel, Lucy. He married (second) January 30, 1834, Betsey Hawes, born March 5, 1806, died January 21, 1881, aged seventy four, daugh- ter of Captain Thomas and Betsey (Whitman) Hawes of Wellfleet, Massachusetts. Betsey and Chief Justice Whitman were the only children of Josiah Whitman, of Bridgewater, Massachusetts. Children of Peter and Betsey (Hawes) Haskell: Charles Peter and Thomas Hawes.
(V) Charles Peter, son of Captain Peter (2) and Betsey (Hawes) Haskell, was born March 8, 1835, and is a farmer, residing on the old homestead. He married (first) March 5, 1868, Helen Marr, born March 22, 1841, daughter of Hezekiah and Eunice (Harmon) Crockett. She died January 4, 1884. He married (second) March 19, 1885, Sarah, daughter of Elbridge and Amanda ( Bevens) Tarbox. She was born September 30, 1859. Four children were born to the first marriage : Mary Cross, August 20, 1870; Eugene Maur- ice, January 16, 1873; Fannie Crockett, De- cember 27, 1874, died young ; and Fred Peter, June 7, 1877.
(V) Hon. Thomas Hawes, youngest son of Peter (2) and Betsey (Hawes) Haskell, was born in New Gloucester, May 18, 1842, and died in Portland, September 24, 1900. H grew up on his father's farm, and before he was twenty years old had attended the public schools and the academies at Auburn and Paris Hill, graduating from Norway In- stitute in 1862, and fitted himself for college, intending to enter Bowdoin, but instead en- listed in Company I of the Twenty-fifth Maine Regiment of Infantry commanded by Colo- nel Francis Fessenden, and served as a ser- geant with his regiment in Virginia. It was a nine months' regiment, and after his dis- charge, in the summer of 1863, he entered the office of Judge Nahum Morrill, of Auburn, as a law student. In 1865 he was admitted to the bar of that county. The following ac- count of him is taken from "The Green Bag,"
vol. vii, published 1895. For a time he re- mained with his instructor, but moved to Portland in 1866, where he resided ever after- ward, and continued in active practice of his profession until called to the bench, March 31, 1884, succeeding Hon. Joseph Symonds, who had resigned. He held no political office out- side the line of his profession, except as a member of the city council of Portland. He served as county attorney for part of a term, in 1870, being appointed by the court to fill a vacancy, and again in 1878; and was appointed to the office by the governor in 1879, serving until the expiration of the term. He was also a commissioner of the circuit court of the United States. He was for a time the law partner of the late Judge Goddard of the superior court for Cumberland county, and of Hon. W. W. Thomas Jr., late our minister to Sweden, and of Hon. Nathan Webb at the time he was appointed United States district judge in 1882. In 1881 he was appointed by Governor Plaisted upon a commission to inves- tigate abuses in the Reform School. He made a separate report that was full and exhaustive, and he drew and secured the passage of the law, approved March 15, 1883, now governing that institution, establishing regulations for the prevention of abuses, establishing a me- chanical school, and providing for a woman visitor and also a letter-box for the boys where they can deposit letters without scru- tiny of the officers of the school.
He early developed in the profession an aptitude for pleadings, and became proficient and successful in the branches of the law re- lating to admiralty, corporations, bankruptcy, criminal and commercial law. "Don't do too much for your boys," said a shrewd merchant, "if you expect them to make anything of them- selves." No doubt, confidence and self-reli- ance come largely in that way, but the suc- cessful lawyer must have a fearless and in- dependent spirit to build upon ; and I found that was the case with Judge Haskell the first time that I saw him. It was when I was holding a bankrupt court as register in a neighboring city, he appeared in opposition to a very able lawyer, skilled in all the tactics that long practice affords, who sought to pro- tect a preferential mortgage. The proceed- ings before me consisted in taking examina- tions of witnesses by Judge Haskell, who read- ily succeeded in laying the foundation for va- cating the preference, notwithstanding the in- terruptions, bluster and threats of his antag- onist. I could but admire his coolness and courage, for older lawyers and even judges
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