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(II) John, son of Edmund and Anne Good- now, was born in Dunkead, Weltshire, Eng- land, in 1635, and was brought as an infant to Massachusetts Bay Colony in the ship "Con-
fidence" in 1638. He was brought up in town of Sudbury, of which he was a citizen, to the age of thirty-eight before he could take part in the government of the town. He was a farmer, and in 1656 married Mary Axtell. He was made a freeman in 1673, and March 26, 1677, Peter King, Thomas Reed Sr., John Goodnow, Joseph Freeman and Jonathan Smith were granted liberty to build a saw mill on Upper Hop brook, above Peter Noyes's corn mill, at a place viewed by a committee of the town, which if they do they are to have twenty tons of timber and earth for the dams. Mary (Axtell) Goodnow died in Sudbury, April 14, 1704, and her husband died August 6, 1721. Children : Hannah, married James Smith; Mary, Edmund, Sarah, Sarah, Eliza- beth, married Joseph Hayden; Joseph, Eben- ezer, Lydia, Mary, married Joseph Patterson (her name also written Mercy).
(III) Joseph, son of John and Mary (Ax- tell) Goodnow, was born in Sudbury, Decem- ber 1, 1674, and was brought up presumably on his father's farm. His wife, Patience Goodnow, died in Sudbury, February 23, 1731-32, and he died there September 3, 1758. Children, all born in Sudbury: Martha, May 22, 1701; Daniel, May 24, 1703; Elizabeth, September 1, 1704; Daniel, June 16, 1707; Peter, February 10, 1709-10; Jonathan, April 6, 1714.
(IV) Peter, son of Joseph and Patience Goodnow, was born in Sudbury, February 10, 1709-10. He married Dorothy Moore, of Sudbury, and lived in Rutland, Worcester county, during the first year of his married life, and their first child Jotham was born in Rutland, August 8, 1737; Lucia, was born in Sudbury, May 12, 1739; Jedediah, September 8, 1740; Jonas, April 19, 1742; Peter Jr., July 18, 1745; Dorothy, November 3, 1747 ; Doro- thy (2d), January 18, 1751 ; Patience, August 24, 1752.
(V) Jonas, son of Peter and Dorothy (Moore) Goodnow, was born in Sudbury, April 19, 1742. He married, January 29, 1763, Mary, daughter of Nathaniel Davenport, of Sudbury, and after the birth of their ninth child, Jonas, February 1I, 1785, they removed to Boylston, where their children Tamor, Au- gustus and Joseph were born. Mary (Dav- enport) Goodnow died at Boylston, January 3, 1826, having lived seventy-seven years, and as a widow fifteen years. Of the children, one or more of the sons joined the early migrants who took up the wild lands of the district of Maine and became the progenitor of the numerous Goodnows in that state, and
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Bowdoin College graduated of these descend- ants as follows: John Goodenow, born in Paris, Maine, February 1, 1817, graduated A. B., 1836, lawyer in Auburn, Maine, and Boston, Massachusetts; Robert Goodenow, born April 19, 1800, in Henniker, New Hamp- shire, Honorary A. M. Bowdoin, 1836, law- yer in Farmington, Maine, representative in the Thirty-second Congress 1851-53, died in Farmington, Maine, May 15, 1874; John Holmes Goodenow, born in Alfred, Maine, September 25, 1832, graduated A. B. 1852, A. M. 1855, lawyer . in Alfred and Saco, Maine, president of Maine Senate 1861-62, U. S. consul general to Constantinople, resi- dence New York City; Henry Clay Gardener, born Alfred, Maine, June 23, 1834, graduated A. B. 1853, A. M. 1856, lawyer in Lewiston and Bangor, Maine; Daniel Goodenow, born in Lewiston, Maine, December 15, 1863, student at Bowdoin College, class of 1885, graduate of Dartmouth A. B. 1885, M. D. 1889, physician at Alstead, New Hampshire. A descendant of Edmund Goodnow in the eighth generation is Jacob Nelson Goodnough (q. v.).
(VIII) Jacob Nelson Goodnough was born in Maine. He removed from Maine to East Boston, Massachusetts.
(IX) Walter Scott, son of Jacob Nelson Goodnough, was born in East Boston, Massa- chusetts. He was educated in the public schools of Boston, and trained himself in man- ual exercises and in art, and is now director of art and manual training in the public schools of the city of New York. He married Char- lotte Bartlett, daughter of Captain Ralph and Martha Young. Captain Young was a cap- tain in a Maine regiment in the civil war. Child of Walter Scott and Charlotte Bartlett (Young) Goodnough: Howard Nelson. The home of the family is at 135 Livingston street, Brooklyn, New York.
The earliest known ancestors of PIERCE the line of the Pierce family herein traced came to this coun- try about 1779, probably from Gloucester, England, and settled in New Gloucester, Mas- sachusetts. They were the parents of thirteen children, two of whom accompanied them to the new world.
(I) Daniel Pierce, son of the ancestors above mentioned, was born in Poland, Maine, was reared and educated there, and in later life followed the occupation of farming. He married Ruth Cobb, who bore him five chil-
dren : Abigail, Samuel Atwood, mentioned below; Hannah, Charles and Caroline.
(II) Samuel Atwood, son of Daniel and Ruth (Cobb) Pierce, was born at Poland, Maine, April 25, 1825. He was reared in his native town, educated in the common schools, and in April, 1851, located in Portland, same state, where he formed a partnership with Robertson Dyer in the ship stores business in Fore street. They were burned out in the great fire of 1866, and after the death of his partner, Mr. Pierce continued the business under the name of Samuel A. Pierce, on Milk street; later he removed to 34 Market street, where he is engaged at the present time (1909), although having attained the unusual age of eighty-four. He is a mem- ber of the Congregational church, and a Re- publican in politics. He married (first) at Gorham, Maine, June 15, 1859, Lucina Jane Elder, born in Portland, Maine, Octo- ber 24, 1831, died there April 7, 1862, daughter of Samuel Elder, of Portland, born 1805, died 1856, and his wife, Sarah (Ayres) Elder; granddaughter of Samuel and Nancy (Mosher) Elder, the former of whom was of White Rock, Maine, born 1781, died 1860; great-granddaughter of Samuel and Hannah (Freeman) Elder, the former of Gornam, born 1747, died 1819, and the latter a daugh- ter of Nathaniel Freeman, who was a son of Major John Freeman, who was judge of court of common pleas, took part in King Philip's war, and was given two hundred acres at Gorham for his services, and who married Mercy Prince, daughter of Thomas Prince, governor of Plymouth, Massachu- setts, for many years; great-great-grand- daughter of Samuel and Mary (Houston) El- der, who came from Ardmore, Ireland, 1729. Children of Samuel A. and Lucina J. (El- der) Pierce: George Howard, born March 17, 1860, mentioned below. Infant son who died in 1862. Mr. Pierce married (second) Sarah Higgins Pennell, a widow with one daughter, Elizabeth Stanwood Pennell. Chil- dren of Samuel A. and Sarah Higgins ( Pen- nell) Pierce: Frank Higgins, born August 16, 1866, commission grain merchant at Port- land. John Higgins, born March 17, 1870, graduate of Bowdoin College, 1893, A. B .; member of Theta Chapter, Delta Kappa Ep- silon ; received Brown memorial scholarships, 1890-91-92 ; member of Phi Beta Kappa; de- livered oration; student at Harvard Law School, 1894-95; lawyer at Portland; member of city government, 1898-1900.
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(III) George Howard, son of Samuel At- wood and Lucina Jane ( Elder) Pierce, was born in Portland, Maine, March 17, 1860. He graduated from the Portland high school, 1877; received degree of A. B. at Bowdoin College, 1882; member of Theta Chapter, Delta Kappa Epsilon; received second sopho- more declamation prize, first prize for senior English composition, subject : Kant and His Contribution to Philosophy ; was orator Junior Ivy Day, senior part, marshal Commencement Day, Bowdoin Centennial, 1902; received de- gree of M. D. at Yale Medical College, 1886; served as prosector in anatomy in that insti- tution, 1885-86; and passed regents examina- tion, University State of New York, 1893. He practiced medicine in Danbury, Connecticut, up to 1892. He is an ex-member of the Con- necticut State Medical Society ; ex-secretary of Danbury Medical Society; member of Kings County Medical Society ; member of Brooklyn Pathological Society; medical director of Missionary Society of Methodist Episcopal Church; assistant medical director of Union Life Insurance Company of New York; med- ical examiner of State Mutual Life Assurance Company, Penn Mutual, Bankers' Life, John Hancock, Prudential, Manhattan Life, Na- tional Life of Vermont and Sun Life of Canada. Dr. Pierce is a member of the State Street. Congregational Church of Portland, a member of the University Club of Brooklyn, and a Republican in politics. He married, in New Haven, Connecticut, October 20, 1886, Betty Raymond Keeler, born in Dan- bury, Connecticut, August 21, 1865, and they have one child, Jeannie Elder, born at Dan- bury, Connecticut, April 21, 1888, educated in the public schools of Brooklyn.
Jeremiah Keeler, ancestor of Betty Ray- mond (Keeler) Pierce, participated in the bat- tle of Ridgefield, being then a lad of about seventeen. His young spirit then became kin- dled with patriotic fever, and thenceforth he entered boldly into the service of his country. Joining the Continental army he quickly rose to the position of orderly sergeant in the Light Infantry under Lafayette. He was often called upon to perform hazardous and im- portant service requiring skill and judgment, and for his bravery on one occasion was pre- sented with a sword by General Lafayette. During the last days of the siege of York- town two redoubts greatly annoyed the men at work in the trenches by a flanking fire. It was determined to capture the redoubts by assault. This duty was entrusted to the Amer- ican Light Infantry under Lafayette, and Ser-
geant Keeler was among the foremost in scaling the breastworks. Sergeant Keeler witnessed the surrender of Cornwallis, and after the disbandment of the army in 1783 he returned to Ridgefield on foot, using the sword presented to him by Lafayette as a cane. The lower part of the leather scabbard was worn out in the long homeward tramp. The sword and scabbard are carefully pre- served. Upon reaching Ridgefield he settled a few hundred yards beyond the Westchester line, in the town of Lewisboro, where in 1788 he built himself a house in which he passed the remainder of his days. He was the father of twelve children.
Timothy Keeler, grandson of Jeremiah Keeler, and father of Betty Raymond (Keeler) Pierce, was engaged as a civil engi- neer and in railroading. He married Harriet Sherwood, who bore him the following named children : Thaddeus, Betty Raymond, afore- mentioned; Joseph W., John, Girard.
EMMERTON To indulge in ancient Eng- lish genealogy we can go back to the town of Em- berton, in northern Buckinghamshire, to find the genesis of the name. After the battle of Hastings the land from which Emberton in the hundred arch deanery of Newport-Pog- nell in Northern Buckinghamshire took its name fell to the share of spoils- allotted to the Bishop of Constance. Paganus de Emberton held one knight's fee as tenant of the Paga- nells in 1168. William de Emberton, son of Paganus, succeeded his father before 1219, as at that date Robert de Emberton was rector of Emberton church founded by the family. Nicholas de Emberton was "copellanus" of Lavendon, a neighboring village in 1262, and Godfrey Markham de Emberton was pre- sented rector to Okiney cum Petsoe, a neigh- boring town, in 1326, and was succeeded in 1349 by William Markham et de Emberton. Then coming down to 1567 we find Robert Emerton, carpenter of Stepney Middlesex. In 1597 Robert Emerton's will recorded in the archdeaconry of St. Albans, and his business given as shoemaker. His sons were: Will- iam, Thomas, Richard and Benedict. In 1603 Thomas Emerton, of Chauncy Lane, London, makes his will, but appears to be childless. In 1625 the rolls of parchment containing the record of the court of London names Sir William Compton et al and William Emerton et al, as parties to a suit at law. In 1638 Ar- thur Emerton, "lately dwelling beyond the seas," owed Walter Boone and his wife Jo-
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anna. In 1652 Jeffrey Emmerton, of Beach- ampton, Bucks, in his will mentions sons Rich- ard, Jeffrey, William, Robert. In 1652 John Emerton, of the Parish of St. Thomas South- work, survey in his will mentions brothers: Thomas and William. 1654 we have Michael Emmerton, gardener, Surry. 1656, William Emerton, yeoman, Heath. 1657, Peter Emer- ton, husbandman, Soulbery, Bucks. 1659, James Emberton, blacksmith, Putney. 1702, Richard Emerton, Gentleman, London, with sons Richard, John and Samuel, his will signed "Emarton." 1703, Francis Emerton, citizen and baker of London. 1710, William Emmerton, Esquire, of the Temple, married, in 1691, Elizabeth, daughter of Sir John Beale, sheriff of Kent, 1665. 1716, Thomas Emmerton, Gentleman, of Norcott Hill, in will, mentions brother William, but no sons. 1745, John Emmerton, Esquire, of Thromp- ton, Nottinghamshire, mentions no sons in his will. When or from whence the parents of James and John Emmerton came or what re- lationship they held to each other is not known. It is supposed that John Emmerton, born in Chebacco, Massachusetts, June 23, 1714, died in Salem, Massachusetts, April 10, 1784, and had thirteen children, all born in Essex county, was the son of a Scotchman and came to America as one of the soldiers of George II, and settled in the district of Maine and removed to Chebacco, Massachusetts, subsequently. Having lived and married in the same vicinity, and born, one in 1712 and the other in 1714, it is natural to suppose they were brothers. It is of Joseph and his tribe of descendants that we have to deal in this sketch, but Job had a tribe of descendants, probably not as large, yet sufficiently numer- ous, to occupy a prominent place .- New Eng- land genealogy.
(I) Joseph Emmerton was born probably in the district of Maine about 1712 and drowned in the Chebacco river, Chebacco, Massachusetts, September 27, 1782, in the eightieth year of his age. He was corporal in Captain Foster's company at the siege of Louisburg in 1745, and he is named at various dates in "Craft's Journal of the Siege of Lou- isburg." He married, January 22, 1734-35, Rebecca, daughter of Henry Jr. and Rebecca (Cole) Gould, and granddaughter of Henry and Sarah (Wood) Gould. She was born May 2, 1716. Joseph and Rebecca (Gould) Emmerton had ten children, all baptized in the church at Chebacco, Essex county, Massachu- setts, which place became known subsequently as Essex, a village in the township of Ips-
wich, Essex county, Massachusetts, baptized in the order following: 1. John, October 19, 1735, died before 1746. 2. Joseph, July 17, 1737, married. April 16, 1761, Lucy Somes, died October 21, 1803. 3. Henry, September 23, 1739. 4. Mary, March 14, 1741-42. 5. Thomas (q. v.), July 1, 1744. 6. John, No- vember 2, 1746, married, October 19, 1767, Molly Lufkin. 7. Sarah, February 26, 1748- 49. 8. William, January 26, 1751-52, died September 30, 1774. 9. Rebecca, July 28, 1754. 10. Oliver, January 29, 1758-59, mar- ried, October 23, 1783, Elizabeth Andrews, died September 3, 1804.
(II) Thomas, son of Joseph and Rebecca (Gould) Emmerton, was baptized at Che- bacco, Massachusetts, July 1, 1744, and died at Hebron, New Hampshire, about 1832. He was a seaman and boasted of having eaten bread in seventeen kingdoms, as an evidence of his knowledge of the world as gained on shipboard. Another family tradition illus- trates his valor as a soldier in the American revolution. He was in the ranks of the troops at Bunker Hill and there received several buckshot wounds. His own "buck and ball" being exhausted, he cut two buckshot with their covering from his leg, and with a shout of "one shot more" to his comrades, double loaded his musket and had another shot at the advancing redcoats now within the Amer- ican breastworks. One more and a less glori- ous tradition is that in the retreat to the camp at Cambridge after "wading over shoes in gore" he indulged in a panniken of rum and the heavy drought caused a troublesome hem- orrhage from his wounds, and this incident called forth an order from the surgeons re- stricting the use of stimulants by the wounded. He is on the pay rolls as private and corporal in a company of coast guards stationed at Gloucester in 1775-76. He sold to the Second Parish Church of Ipswich, January 5, 1792, a strip of land containing two square rods, be- ing about four and a half rods long by seven feet wide, and the remains a part of the green in front of the Meetinghouse on the Hill. Like his brothers he was above average stature, and of great muscular strength. He married, January 14, 1768, Lydia, daughter of Westley and Deborah (Story) Burnham, born in 1745. They lived in Hebron, New Hampshire; chil- dren : I. Lydia, 1768, died of fever, April 25, 1774. 2. William, said to have been at sea in 1803. 3. Thomas (q. v.), June 15, 1773. 4. Lydia, married (first) Simeon Lovejoy, (second) John Tucker, of Thornton, New Hampshire. 5. Eunice, married, January 3,
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1793, Robert Burnham. 6. Joseph, married Priscilla Lamphier, and (second) Sarah An- drews. 7. John, born October 18, 1787, mar- ried Sarah Merrill, of Hebron, New Hamp- shire.
(III) Thomas (2), son of Thomas (I) and Lydia (Burnham) Emmerton, was born June 15, 1773, died at Columbia, New Hampshire, April 12, 1848. Like his father he was a mariner and fisherman in early life, and after his marriage settled on a farm at Groton, New Hampshire, which he gave to his son Ira as a wedding gift in 1824, and he removed with the other members of his family to Columbia, New Hampshire. He married Rachel, daugh- ter of Jacob Perkins. She was born at Hebron, New Hampshire, in May, 1782, and died at Columbia, New Hampshire, May 10, 1866. Children: I. Ira, September 24, 1800, married Susan Kidder. 2. Ruth, July 21, 1802, married Robert S. McClure, of Groton, New Hampshire, and died in that town. 3. Thomas Jefferson, March 15, 1805, married Rebecca Rogers, of Northfield, New Hamp- shire. 4. Harvey, July 25, 1809, married Susan Clement, of Columbia, New Hampshire, and died September 5, 1850. 5. Jacob Per- kins (q. v.), April 29, 1811. 6. Joseph War- ren, May 2, 1815, married Elvira Fairman. 7. Atlanta, February 19, 1817, married Parker Fersun, and died June 10, 1844.
(IV) Jacob Perkins, son of Thomas (2) and Rachel (Perkins) Emmerton, was born in Groton, New Hampshire, April 29, 1811, died in Moscow, Maine, September 13, 1863. He engaged in lumbering in Maine. He married, in 1838, Susan, daughter of John and Mary Dinsmore, of Topsham, Maine. She was born at Topsham, January 18, 1810, and died at Moscow, Maine, March 29, 1872. The first four of their children were born at the Forks of the Kennebec, and here Mr. Emmerton cleared a farm and made his first home. He removed to Moscow to provide his children with school privileges, in 1846, and being fond of reading was an oracle of information and news to his neighbors, who gathered at his house to be entertained by story and song. He was a justice of the peace and selectman, and thus held the highest offices in the community in which he lived. Calamity visited the fam- ily in September, 1863, in the shape of diph- theria, which attacked the entire family and three of the children died within a week. Children : I. Thomas, April 7, 1839, married, September, 1867, Lizzie Parlin Bassett. 2. Susan, January 5, 1841, lived in Lewiston, Maine. 3. John Graves, December 3, 1842,
died of diphtheria, September 14, 1863. 4. Andrew Dinsmore, June 18, 1845, died of diphtheria, September 17, 1863. 5. Elvira Fairman (q. v.), October 26, 1847. 6. Rachel, May 17, 1851, married Marcelius N. Gilbert, September 26, 1874, and died February 5, 1879. 7. Amos Warren, October 8, 1853, died of diphtheria, September 9, 1863. 8. Clara Atlanta, March 24, 1857, lived in Lewiston, Maine.
(V) Elvira Fairman, daughter of Jacob Perkins and Susan (Dinsmore) Emmerton, was born in Moscow, Maine, October 26, 1847. She married, August 26, 1871, Clark Robbins, son of Peleg Benson and Mary Quimby (Robbins) Caswell. Clark Robbins Caswell was born at Leeds, Maine, March 21, 1848. He was a mill engineer and master me- chanic, employed by the Lockwood Company, Waterville, Maine. He was in the United States naval service, 1864-67, and saw one year active service during the civil war, the year in which the navy was largely responsible for the conditions which brought about the surrender of the Confederate army by effec- tively closing the southern ports and render- ing blockade running impossible. He removed after his marriage to Winslow, Maine, where their first child, Winfield Benson Caswell (q. v.) was born, March 29, 1877. They then removed to Waterville, Maine, where their seventh child, Mary Helen, was born. The other children of Peleg Benson and Mary Quimby (Robbins) Caswell were: Lloyd and Levi, older than Clark Robbins, Londall and Nancy, younger than Clark Robbins. Peleg Benson Caswell was a farmer at Leeds Junc- tion, and during the winter season taught school.
(VI) Winfield Benson, only son of Clark Robbins and Elvira Fairman (Emmerton) Caswell, was born in Winslow, Maine, March 29, 1877. He was prepared for college at the Waterville high school, and was graduated at the University of Maine, C. E., 1899, and went from the University to the drafting room of the Booth Iron Works, Bath, Maine, where he was employed. Resigning his position, he accepted a similar position in the Eastern Shipbuilding Company, Groton, Connecticut. He resigned to accept from Neafie & Levi, of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, a position as draughtsman in their designing rooms. He returned to the shipyard of the Eastern Ship- building Company as shipyard draughtsman. Receiving a favorable proposition from the Perth Amboy Shipbuilding Company, Perth Amboy, New Jersey, he accepted it, and re-
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signed to accept the position of draughtsman in the engineering department of the Fore River Shipbuilding Company at Quincy, Mas- sachusetts. He resigned to accept the post of hull inspector for the Southern Pacific Steam- ship Company's Atlantic steamship lines, and he removed to New York and entered into the service of that company at their offices, Pier No. 34, North river, Manhattan, New York City. Mr. Caswell, while a resident of Wa- terville, Maine, became affiliated with the Ma- sonic fraternity, having been initiated in the mysteries of the order through a local lodge of Waterville, and when he removed to New York City, he was recognized as a true Ma- son and admitted to the Triune Chapter. He married, in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Sep- tember 8, 1906, Charlotte M., daughter of Captain Theodore Lemme, of Hamburg, Ger- many, where Charlotte M. was born April 8, 1879.
(For ancestry see Stephen Hopkins I.)
HOPKINS
(V) Isaac, son of Joseph Hopkins, was born March 10,
1712-13, at Eastham. He married, March 5, 1740, Thankful Smith, who was dismissed to the South Church at East- ham, December 7, 1746. Children, born at Eastham: I. Nathan, mentioned below. 2. Priscilla (twin), baptized September 23, 1744. 3. Thankful (twin), baptized September 23, 1744. 4. Susanna, born May 12, 1745.
(VI) Nathan, son of Isaac Hopkins, was born about 1742, and died at Hampden, Maine, 1810. He was a soldier in the revolu- tion, a private in Captain Joseph Griffith's company, Colonel John Jacob's regiment, from June 19 to December 18, 1778; appears to have been a prisoner of war, brought in the prisoners' cartel "Silver Eel" from Halifax to Boston, October 8, 1778, to be exchanged ; called a seaman. He settled at Hampden, Maine. Children: I. Andrew Wilson, men- tioned below. 2. Elisha, born March 29, 1796; died at Carmel, Maine, May 30, 1875. Prob- ably others.
(VII) Andrew Wilson, son or nephew of Nathan Hopkins, was born in Frankfort, Maine, or Hampden. He married Clementine Curtis, of Frankfort. Children: I. Esther. 2. Andrew Wilson Jr., mentioned below. 3. Reuben. 4. Lafayette (twin). 5. Flavia (twin).
(VIII) Andrew Wilson (2), son of An- drew Wilson (1) Hopkins, was born in Frankfort, Maine, March 14, 1843. He was educated in the public schools, and learned the
trade of ship-carpenter. He was a soldier in the civil war, enlisted in Company G, Twenty- sixth Maine Volunteers, for nine months, and was in the campaign in Louisiana. After the war he lived for a time in Ohio. He followed the sea for a time, and made a voyage to South America. During most of his life he has followed ship-carpentering, however. He removed from Frankfort to Dexter, Maine, in 1903, and since then has been farming. In politics he is a Republican, and has served the town as treasurer of Frankfort. He is a mem- ber of the Grand Army of the Republic. He married, February 22, 1872, Anne Hadley, of Waldo, Maine, born October 9, 1851, died January 27, 1908. Children: Adoniram B., Marian Shepherd, Percival Orison, mentioned below.
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