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(VIII) Chapin, youngest son of Samuel Peters and Charlotte Metcalf (Mason) Brown, was born in Orland, near Bucksport, Hancock county, Maine, March 25, 1856. He spent his youthful years between 1861 and 1865 in Washington, D. C., and retains in memory the important events of the later years of the Rebellion. He returned to Maine, however, to attend school for a portion of the years between 1861 and 1867, first at Orland and subsequently at "Little Blue" school for boys in Farmington. In 1867 he returned to Washington, D. C., and was pre- pared for college at the preparatory school connected with the Columbian University (now changed by act of the United States Congress to the George Washington Univer- sity) in Washington City. He graduated from the university, receiving the degree of A. B. in 1876, and LL. B. in 1877, entering upon his course in law while a senior in the college. While attending the last year of the law school, he held a government position in the post office department in Washington, from which he resigned upon being admitted to practice at the bar of the District of Co- lumbia, June 16, 1877.
In 1900 he was elected president of the George Washington Alumni Association ; and in 1901 and 1902 he held the office of presi- dent of the Bar Association of the District of Columbia. By appointment of the President of the United States he became a member of the board of trustees of the Reform School for Girls in the District of Columbia shortly after it was created by act of Congress in 1892, which act placed it under the super-
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vision of the Department of Justice. He was elected president of the board of trustees in 1903, resigning in 1906, but has remained upon the board by successive appointments to the present time, and is now vice-president of the board. He was one of the charter mem- bers of the University Club, and has retained his membership to the present time. He has been since 1886 a member of the Cosmos Club, a social organization for the advancement of scientific and literary objects. He is also a member of the Columbia Historical Society of Washington. He is also one of the charter members of the Commercial Club of Wash- ington, D. C., the, social organization of the business and professional men of Washington, and a member of its board of directors. He was the member representing the District of Columbia on the Republican National Commit- tee at the convention held at Chicago June 21, 1904, that nominated Theodore Roosevelt for President of the United States.
His interest in educational advancement was early manifested in Washington when he was made a member of the board of trustees of the Washington public schools, by making a thorough study of the public school system as it obtained in the older states, and his admin- istration was productive of many reforms and innovations theretofore unknown in the school system of the District.
In 1894, when the national convention of the Knights of Pythias was held in Washing- ton, he was chairman of the committee of citizens appointed to provide for the entertain- ment of the visiting Sir Knights and their ladies. At the inauguration of William Mc- Kinley as President of the United States, March 4, 1897, Mr. Brown was a member of the general inaugural committee and chairman of the transportation committee. On the oc- casion of the dedication of the new municipal building of the District of Columbia, which took place July 4, 1908, he was selected to make the address on behalf of the Washington Chamber of Commerce.
His law practice is of a general character before the courts of the District of Columbia and the Supreme Court of the United States. Mr. Brown was never married.
(For preceding generations see Nathan Lord I.)
(IV) Thomas, youngest son of LORD John and Mary (Chapman) Lord, was born in Berwick, and married (second wife) January 10, 1750-51, Mary Wise. He died in 1767. Children: Mary, born December 8, 1751 ; Henry, February I,
1754; Thomas, March 5, 1756; John, Decem- ber 13, 1760; Dorcas, April 27, 1763; Abigail, April 7, 1765; William Wise, November 29, 1767, and Lucy, named in her father's will.
(V) Thomas (2), second son of Thomas (I) and Mary (Wise) Lord, was born in Berwick, March 5, 1756. He probably moved early to New Hampshire. The record of his marriage reads: "Esther Bradbury married Thomas Lord, born in Berwick, Maine, died Freedom, New Hampshire, 1843." Esther was daughter of Jacob and Abigail (Cole) Bradbury, and was born 1764, in Biddeford, Maine. She was the great-great-grand- daughter of Captain Thomas Bradbury, the emigrant, of county Essex, England, who set- tled in Salisbury, Massachusetts, and whose family is traced back to Robert Bradbury, of Ollerset, Derbyshire, England, 1433. Thomas Lord was a private in Captain Mark Wig- gins' company, Colonel Pierce Long's regi- ment of New Hampshire militia.
(VI) Thomas Bradbury, son of Thomas (2) and Esther (Bradbury) Lord, was born in Limerick, Maine. He married Clarissa Watson. They resided in Limington, Maine.
(VII) William Godding, son of Thomas Bradbury and Clarissa (Watson) Lord, was born in Hiram, Maine, December 31, 1827. He fitted for college at Limerick and Norway Academies, and entered Waterville College (now Colby University) in 1847, graduating in 1851. He received the degree of A. M. from Colby, 1854, and from Dartmouth in 1885. He was principal of Limington Acad- emy, 1851-94, excepting twelve terms, when he taught in the following institutions : High School, Ware, Massachusetts, 1856-57; High School, Saccarappa, Maine, 1860-64; Female Seminary, Gorham, Maine, 1865-67; High School, Scarboro, Maine, 1876-79. Mr. Lord commenced teaching when but sixteen years of age, and continued through an unbroken period of fifty-one years, until his resignation from Limington Academy in 1894. The com- bined testimony of some of his pupils, voiced by many who have become men of promi- nence is, that he possessed "practically all of the requisite qualifications for a teacher ;" was "one of the best men and best teachers ever known;" "a strong personality that won the respect of students;" had "great ability to turn off work himself and to inspire ambition in the young to make the most of their tal- ents ;" "very genial and sympathetic;" "an ideal teacher and a noble man." He was a great student and reader, and his lectures were highly instructive. Was active in poli-
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tics in Limington, a Democrat in a Repub- lican town, but held almost every office-se- lectman, town clerk, town treasurer, super- visor of schools, and was a trial justice for twenty-one years, 1877-98. He was a mem- ber of Adoniram Lodge, F. and A. M., Lim- ington, and of Aurora Chapter, R. A. M., Cornish, and held the highest office in the gift of each, serving as the first high priest of the latter. Mr. Lord was deacon in the Congre- gational church,, 1876-98, and was active in Sunday school work. He married, in 1854, Mary Shepard, daughter of Edward and Abi- gail (Hicks) Clark, of Limington. He died there, August 28, 1898. Their children were : Mary Louise and William Edward, deceased; George Dana, graduate of and professor in Dartmouth College; member of Delta Kappa Epsilon fraternity; Inez Clark and Edward Thomas Sumner.
(VIII) Edward Thomas Sumner, youngest son of William G. and Mary S. (Clark) Lord, was born at Limington, November 18, 1871. He was educated at Limington Academy, graduating 1885; Dartmouth, A. B. 1891; A. M. 1894. He is also a member of the fol- lowing .clubs : Aldine; Dartmouth; Glen Ridge and Glen Ridge Golf Club. He is a member of Delta Kappa Epsilon fraternity, of which his father was a member In Colby Uni- versity. He taught for one. year at the Worcester Academy, at Worcester, Massa- chusetts, and in 1892 started as New England sales agent for D. C. Heath & Company, con- tinuing for two years, when he came to New York City and engaged with the firm of Charles Scribner's Sons, 153-157 Fifth Ave- nue, and is now general manager for the Edu- cational Department. He married, April 18, 1905, Agnes, daughter of Andrew and Eliza- beth Ferguson Halladay, of Brooklyn, New York. They have one son, William Shepard Lord.
(For preceding generations see John Hall I.)
(III) John .(2), son of Ralph Hall HALL and his first wife, was born in Dover, as early as 1685, lived first on Dover Neck, and after 1730 in Somersworth, New Hampshire, where he had land evidently inherited from his father, and which came originally from his grand- father. He appears to have possessed con- siderable land in the town, and bought and sold quite extensively. He married, August 9, 1705, Esther (or Hester), daughter of Philip Chesley, and sister to his father's sec- ond wife. It is said of Esther Chesley that
she jumped from the upper story of her fath- er's house at Durham Falls, with a babe in her arms, when nearly all others of the fam- ily were killed by Indians in 1694. Children of John and Esther (Chesley) Hall: John, Samuel, James, Keziah, Esther and Betsey.
(IV) Samuel, son of John (2) and Esther (Chesley) Hall, was born about 1708. He re- ceived his father's lands in Rollinsford, New Hampshire, July 4, 1732, afterward lived in Somersworth, and in 1750 removed from the latter town to New Castle, Maine, with his family of eight sons and two daughters. Four of these sons died quite young, two died in the colonial army, and two lived to good old age. The baptismal name of his wife was Lydia, but her family name is not known.
(V) Ebenezer, son of Samuel and Lydia Hall, was born in Somersworth, New Hamp- shire, June 16, 1743, and died in Vassalboro, Maine, September 27, 1836. He went from Somersworth to New Castle, Maine, with his father's family in 1750, and removed thence to Vassalboro in 1808. He married, Febru- ary I, 1774, at Boston, Elizabeth Goff, born June 3, 1748, died April 15, 1835. "The tra- dition is that she was a descendant of Judge Goff, of England, the regicide." Children of Ebenezer and Elizabeth (Goff) Hall : I. Alexander, born January 18, 1871 ; died Octo- ber 20, 1776. 2. Benjamin, born November 29, 1772, died Boston, October 27, 1814. 3. Mary, born May 2, 1775, died Vassalboro, Maine, January 4, 1854. 4. Betsey, born No- vember 5, 1777, died May 17, 1865. 5. Han- nah, born December 10, 1780, died Vassal- boro, June 30, 1863. 6. Alexander, born Jan- uary 25, 1784, died Augusta, Georgia, July 27, 1822. 7. John Goff, born March 4, 1792; sheriff of Kennebeck county many years, and member of the state legislature. 8. George Washington.
(VI) George Washington, youngest son and child of Ebenezer and Elizabeth (Goff) Hall, was born in Vassalboro, Maine, October 21, 1796, and died in Washington, D. C., in March, 1873. He was a miller during the earlier years of his life, and after leaving his native state lived for a time in Boston, Massa- chusetts, and Troy, New York. In 1847 he went to Washington and held a clerkship in the navy department. He married Zerviah Wall Sturgis, daughter of Jonathan Sturgis, of Vassalboro, Maine, and a descendant of the seventh generation of Edward Sturgis, the immigrant, born in England, son of Philip Sturgis. Edward Sturgis Jr., son of Edward the immigrant, was born in England in 1624,
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came to America with his father, and mar- ried Temperance Gorham. Edward Sturgis, of Yarmouth, Massachusetts, son of Edward and Temperance (Gorham) Sturgis, was born in Yarmouth in 1673, and married, November 29, 1703, Mehitable Hallet. Edward Sturgis, son of Edward and Mehitable (Hallett) Stur- gis, was born in Yarmouth, July 24, 1710, and married, February 3, 1730, Thankful. Hedges. Edward Sturgis, son of Edward and Thank- ful (Hedges) Sturgis, was born July 27,: 1737, and married, January 28, 1767, Mary Bassett. They had ten children: I. Mary, 1767. 2. Abigail, 1770. 3. Samuel, 1772. 4. Thank- ful, 1775. 5. James, 1776. 6. Olive, 1780. 8. Jonathan, November 26, 1782, father of Zer- viah Wall Sturgis, who married George Washington Hall. 9. Lucy, 1786. 10. Heman, 1789. All the children of Edward and Mary (Bassett). Sturgis were born in Yarmouth, Massachusetts, and James, David, Jonathan and Heman removed to Vassalboro with their parents in 1795.
George Washington and Zerviah Wall (Sturgis) Hall had seven children: I. Goff Alfred, twin with Albert G., born September 19, 1831. 2. Alfred G., twin with Goff Alfred, born September 19, 1831 ; married Carrie H. Nairn. 3. Anna Maria, married R. B. Don- aldson, D. D. S., of Washington, a native of Virginia; children: Anna B., born January 25, 1857; Henry A., January 31, 1858; Lucy D., January 18, 1861, died 1903, married H. J. Lanck, and had daughter, Lucy Donaldson Lanck. 4. Margaret, married John Swin- doune, and had John, Cordelia, Hall, Mar- garet and Charles Bruce Swindoune. 5. Eve- lyn, died 1900; married Lee Nutwell, and had Goff and Evelyn Nutwell. 6. Alfred Munroe, died aged thirteen years. 7. Elizabeth, mar- ried Dr. F. T. Johnson, of Washington, and had Ethel Winne Johnson.
(VII) Goff Alfred, son of George Wash- ington and Zerviah Wall (Sturgis) Hall, was born in Vassalboro, Maine, September 19, 1831, and was educated in the public and academic schools of his native town, also in public schools in Boston and Troy, New York. In 1847 he removed with his father's family to Washington, D. C., and soon afterward be- gan to learn telegraphy, which being accom- plished he became an operator in the service of the Bain Chemical Telegraph Company, which company afterward merged with and became a part of the Morse Company. In April, 1852, he left off telegraphing and went to California, by way of the Isthmus of Pan- ama, but after a year in a region which to
him brought little else than climatic fevers, returned to Washington and was given a posi- tion as manager of the Western Union Tele- graph office in that city; but at the end of a year became cashier of the Washington Gas- light Company, which position he held until 1861, when he became special agent of the postoffice department, which appointment he secured through the influence of Hannibal Hamlin, then vice-president, during Mr. Lin- coln's first presidential term. The field cov- ered by his agency included Maryland, Vir- ginia and Kentucky, and he performed the duties of his position about one year, then asked for and was granted a transfer to the department in Washington. He remained in the city until 1863, then resigned, and went to New Orleans to engage in a general auction and commission business. While there he was appointed by the secretary of the navy as United States prize auctioneer for the De- partment of the Gulf, a position he held until the close of the war. As prize auctioneer it was his duty to make public sale of govern- ment prizes taken in that jurisdiction by the federal forces and authorities, and also of con- fiscated property, of corporations and indi- viduals; and in carrying out his duties it may readily be seen how a government official in his position might become decidedly unpopular with many southern people, although never by any personal action on his part did he con- tribute to the causes of their unfriendliness. But the result of the matter was that he was virtually compelled to leave New Orleans. Soon afterward he received appointment as cotton agent for the Treasury Department, succeeding Governor Warmouth, of Louisi- ana, and for several months lived in Houston, Texas, in connection with the duties of his position, and at the end of that period re- ceived appointment as deputy supervising special treasury agent for the fourth agency district, with headquarters at Galveston, Texas. This place he soon afterward re- signed on account of the serious illness of his wife, then returned to Washington, and for a time engaged in mercantile pursuits with only indifferent success. In 1872 he became inter- ested in a flour milling enterprise at Pontiac, Michigan, and after three years of earnest but unprofitable work in that state he re- turned to Washington and became connected with the municipal government of the Dis- trict of Columbia, in the capacity of assistant assessor, which position he still holds.
Mr. Hall is a Mason, past master of Fed- eral Lodge, the oldest body of the craft in the
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District of Columbia ; has served as an officer of the Grand lodge, and was deputy master in 1862-63. In 1861 he received all the de- grees in Free Masonry up to the thirty-second degree, Ancient Accepted Scottish Rite. He is a firm and unyielding Republican, and in 1860 was a delegate to the Republican na- tional convention which nominated Mr. Lin- coln for the presidency, as well as his old friend, Mr. Hamlin, for the vice-presidency. Mr. Hall married Caroline, daughter of Cap- tain Daniel Choate, of Portland, Maine, and by her had six children: I. Kate, married Edward Howes, of Philadelphia, Pennsyl- vania. 2. Alice, unmarried. 3. Anna, unmar- ried. 4. Mabel, now dead. 5. Edith, mar- ried Dr. J. Hall Lewis, of Washington. 6. May, married Edward Nye.
HAWTHORNE What pleasant memories cluster around the name ! The history of New England, past and present, passes in review as we read the name in its pages. The stern and uncompromising Puritan spirit of the two early generations, as illustrated in the lives of William and John Hathorne, as stamped by them on church and state through their part in the government of Massachusetts Bay Col- ony in the full meridian of the seventeenth century, will never be forgotten. The perse- cution of the Quakers and the injustice vis- ited upon the innocent victims of the witch- craft delusion will never be effaced from the pages of history. Then the gentle spirit that produced "The Scarlet Letter," "Mosses from an Old Manse," "The Blithedale Romances," and made "The House of the Seven Gables," at Lenox; "Wayside," at Concord; the Old Custom House at Salem; "Brook Farm" at Roxbury; the old Manse in Concord; and Blithedale and Newton-points of historic in- terest, took all the sting from the history made by the first two stern Puritans who bore the name, and made Hawthorne synonymous with gentleness, love of nature, the best in literature, the spirit of love and forgiveness, and the graves of Hawthorne at Sleepy Hol- low, Concord, where the illustrious Emerson, and Thoreau and his faithful and helpful wife, Sophia Peabody, rest nearby, have be- come the mecca of literary worshipers the world over. The fruit that has sprung from the misshapen seeds as first planted in the new world has made it the garden of a new civilization.
In England, one James Hathorne and his wife Joane lived in Bentley, Southampton-
shire, and he is sometimes credited as the father of William, the immigrant ancestor of the Hawthornes of New England. He was a yeoman and had children: John, Peter, Will- iam and Joane. His will was proved June 23, 1621. But to another William Hathorne, son of William and Sara Hathorne, of Ben- field, Berkshire, England, belongs the honor as the progenitor of the New England Ha- thornes, the spelling of which name was changed by his descendant, Nathaniel, the au- thor, to Hawthorne, when he began the publi- cation of his literary productions, and this spelling of the name was thus made authori- tative.
(I) William, son of William and Sara Hathorne, of Binfield, Berkshire county, Eng- land, was born about 1607, and came to New England with Winthrop in the "Arabella" in 1630. He lived first at Dorchester, where he had a grant of land, and he appears prominent in the affairs of the colony, as attested by the records of the colony of the Massachusetts Bay in New England. He was a deputy in the general court for fourteen terms, was ad- mitted freeman in 1634, deputy from Dor- chester 1635 and 1637, removed to Salem, from which place he was deputy many times, and in 1644 was elected speaker of the gen- eral court for his first term, and served in that honorable position for several terms af- terward. He was made assistant in 1662, serving 1662-79, and was one of the most en- ergetic, able and influential men in New Eng- land in his day. His military career began in Boston in 1639, when he is named as being present at "training." He was captain of the Salem company from May, 1646, and major before 1656. His religious theories were se- vere and bigoted, and he was arbitrary and intolerant in the administration of affairs of both church and State; and yet he was a zeal- ous and fearless advocate of the personal right of freedom against the overreaching au- thority exhibited by royal emissaries and agents. His worth and the advantage of his citizenship to the little village of Salem, said to have been at the time "the foremost of all the Puritan communities," induced the town authorities, which constituted the voice of the people as expressed at the town meeting, to settle in their midst, and as an inducement the town granted him two hundred and fifty acres of land. His descendant, Nathaniel Haw- thorne, says of him: "He had all the Puri- tan traits, both good and evil." William Hathorne, the Puritan immigrant, died in Salem, Massachusetts, in 1681, aged seventy-
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four years, and his will was published Janu- ary 28, 1681. The children of Major William and Anne Hathorne were: I. A daughter, born about 1633. 2. Sarah, March 11, 1634- 35 ; married Joseph Coker, of Newbury, Mas- sachusetts. 3. Eleazer, August 1, 1637; mar- ried Abigail, daughter of George Corwin. 4. Nathaniel, August 1I, 1639. 5. John, August 5, 1641; married Ruth, daughter of George Gardner. 6. Anna, December 12, 1642, mar- ried Joseph Porter. 7. William, April I,
1645, married Sarah -; was a soldier in the war against the Narragansett Indians and succeeded Captain Joseph Gardner, who com- manded the company in which he served and fell in the great "Swamp Fight" at South Kingstown, Rhode Island, where the Indians were almost annihilated. Captain Hathorne also engaged in subsequent Indian warfare and was made major of his regiment. He died while his father was still living. 8. Eliz- abeth, born in 1649, married Israel Porter.
(II) John, third son and fifth child of Major William and Anne Hathorne, was born in Salem, Massachusetts, August 5, and bap- tized August 22, 1641. He was made a free- man in 1677, and was a deputy to the general court of Massachusetts Bay Colony from Sa- lem, 1683, and was made assistant and mem- ber of the governor's council in 1684, serving up to 1712, excluding the years in which Andros was governor. He was active and merciless in the prosecution of the so-called witches, being "exceedingly wed against them." As a judge of the supreme court of the colony, 1702-12, he passed the severest judgment allowed by the law of the colony upon many of the unfortunate victims to the hallucination and charged them with prac- ticing the art of witchcraft. He was equally severe to others charged with heresy and non- confirmation. He died in Salem, May 10, 1717.
(III) Joseph, son of John and Ruth (Gard- ner) Hathorne, was a quiet farmer in Salem, and very unlike his father and grandfather, taking no part in public affairs. He and his sons and grandsons were fishermen and sea- faring men, and Nathaniel Hawthorne in speaking of these generations of his forbears designates them "a dreary and unprosperous condition of the race."
(IV) Daniel, son of Joseph Hathorne, com- manded the privateer, "The Fair American," in the period of the American revolution. He purchased a farm of two hundred and fifty acres in North Woolwich, Maine, on the Ken- nebec river, about 1740, having walked from
the land office in Wilmington (No. 51) all the way to. Woolwich, and, being swift of foot, he beat out another prospective home- staker, who was also on his way from Wil- mington to buy the same property, and he acquired it lawfully in that way. His sons included Captain Nathaniel, the father of Na- thaniel Hawthorne, the author, and Seth, the great-grandfather of Frank Warren Haw- thorne.
(V) Seth, son of Captain Daniel Hathorne, married Sarah Thwing, daughter of Judge Thwing, of Woolwich, Maine, a former just- ice of the supreme court of Massachusetts.
(VI) Seth, son of Seth and Sarah (Thwing) Hathorne, married Naiamiah Ha- thorn, a cousin, and through this union a son Warren was born.
(VII) Warren, son of Seth and Naimiah Hawthorne, married Priscilla Eaton, of Tops- ham, Maine; and became the father of Frank Warren Hawthorne.
(VIII) Frank Warren, son of Warren and Priscilla (Eaton) Hawthorne, of Topsham, Maine, was born in Bath, Maine, July I, 1852, He was prepared for college in the public grammar and high school of his native city, and was graduated at Bowdoin College A. B., 1874. He became associated in busi- ness with his father soon after he left college, owing to a serious accident that deprived his father of active participation in any business for some months, and he took entire charge of the business, despite the fact that his design on leaving college was to take up literature as a vocation; and this accident deprived him of the opportunity of carrying out that pur- pose until 1885. This incident in his life obliged him to give eleven of what he con- sidered his best years to business pursuits. He did not, however, give up his cherished pur- poses to take up journalism and he was strengthened in this purpose through the suc- cess of his contributions to both the newspa- per press and to the current magazines. His various articles were not only readily accepted and published, but were read, and this the more determined his purpose. His faith in himself was strengthened by the opportunity offered him to contribute an original poem on the occasion of the celebration of the centen- nial anniversary of the settlement of the town of Bath, which was observed in March, 1881. His poem was so favorably received and com- mented on by the entire press of Maine that he impatiently awaited the favorable oppor- tunity to carry out his ambitious journalistic plans. His Democratic political faith inher-
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