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At the close of the war he returned to Lew- iston, Maine, and took up his duties as over- seer in the mill. Soon afterward he was ap- pointed agent of the Dwight Mills in Chicopee, Massachusetts. During the five years in which he had charge of this property, three large mill buildings were erected. The next five years he spent in Montreal as agent of a mill in the vicinity, and there had charge of the erection and equipment of a large new mill. He was agent for the next five years of a mill company at Laurel, Maryland, and again had charge of the building of new mills. With the purpose of providing for the education of his children he returned to Massachusetts, and accepted a position as inspector for the Mu- tual American Liability Company. Upon as- suming this position he purchased a home in South Natick, Middlesex county, Massachu- setts, near Wellesley College, where he resided most of the time until 1884, when he came to Boston. During his connection with the com- pany named, he traveled extensively in New England, New York, New Jersey, Pennsyl- vania, Delaware, Maryland, Ohio, and other eastern, states, covering a period of over twenty years until 1895, when he resigned, this ending his active career. He died October 22, 1908, at the Dunbar, Roxbury district, Boston, where he had his home for some years.
General Nye was made a Mason in Bruns- wick, Maine, in 1854. He was afterward a charter member of a blue lodge in Montreal, which he was active in organizing. He was a Royal Arch Mason; member of Council, Royal and Select Masters, and of the various bodies of the Scottish Rite Masonry to the 33d degree, which was conferred upon him in October, 1896, and at the time of his death he was one of the oldest Masons in the country, having been a member of the order for fifty- four years. He never lost his interest in mili- tary affairs, and when the Spanish-American war broke out, he tendered his services to the government, but on account of age he was not accepted. He was a member of the Minute
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Men, also of the Union Veteran Union, and the Military Order of the Loyal Legian, which latter he joined at the same time as Captain Sigsbee, Admiral Dewey, General Harrison, General Arthur, Major Mckinley and others, in Washington. Afterward he was trans- ferred to the Massachusetts Commandery, in which he was prominent. In politics he was a Republican, and for many years was active in political life. He was a campaign speaker of much ability and in various campaigns spoke, chiefly in the southern states in company, with John P. Gorman and others. He was a promi- nent member of the Grand Army, and in 1904 took a leading part in the national encampment in Boston. Though seventy-six years old, he paraded with Thomas G. Stevenson Post No. 26 of Roxbury, of which in later years he was a member.
He married (first) November 29, 1851, Charlotte A. Hussey, who died December 21, 1885. Children: I. Georgianna H., born at Rome, Maine, September 19, 1852; died Janu- ary 18, 1861. 2. Clara A., born at Rome, April 5, 1856; died July, 1906; married February 18, 1880, at Washington, D. C., Shields Burr, who died September 6, 1883; children: i. George Houston Burr, born May 20, 1881, in Mon- treal, Canada ; ii. Shields Burr, born July 29, 1883. 3. Grace A., born at Rome, March 12, 1859; married, July 8, 1880, at Washington, W. Harry Steiger ; she died January 26, 1888, at South Natick; children: i. Walter Van Patten Steiger, born December 19, 1881 ; mar- ried Alice Burks, of Natick; ii. George Nye Steiger, born October 24, 1883; iii. William Tell Steiger, born November 24, 1885 ; iv. Neil Burr Steiger, born January 19, 1888; v. Clar- ence Burr Steiger, born January 19, 1888 (twin). 4. Charlotte A., born at Lewiston, Maine, February 14, 1864; married, August 17, 1886, Albert Ross Cuthbert, at Berthier, Canada; connected with the English army, now stationed in northwestern Canada; chil- dren: i. Margaret Ross Cuthbert, born May 12, 1887; ii. Ross Cuthbert, born February 6, 1892; iii. Stuart Ross Cuthbert, born Decem- ber 23, 1896. 5. Gertrude H., born at Lewis- ton, June 16, 1867, teacher of music in Cornell University. 6. Catharine A., born at Chicopee, Massachusetts, July 1, 1870; died May 20, 1871. 7. George H., born at Montreal, Can- ada, October 24, 1873; married, July 9, 1897, Maude L. McCarrick and lives at Lynn, Mas- sachusetts; children: i. Charlotte Houston, born July 3, 1898; ii. Philip Rawdon, born September 26, 1901; died May 7, 1906; iii.
Gertrude, born December 7, 1906; iv. Hous- ton, born December 8, 1907.
General Nye married (second) September 20, 1892, Mrs. Elizabeth Adams, nee Stetson, born in Bangor, Maine, daughter of Milton and Amanda (Adams) Thompson, grand- daughter of Peter Adams. Peter Adams was a descendant of the immigrant, Henry Adams, of Braintree, Massachusetts, from whom the Presidents Adams descended, and was born in Franklin, Massachusetts, settled in Gardiner, Maine, where he became one of the leading men, removed to Lowell, Massachusetts, but died at Boothbay, Maine, being then one of the oldest Free Masons of that state ; married (first) Betsey Stone, and (second) her sister, Nancy Stone; children : Elmira, Nancy, Amanda (mentioned above), Maria, John and William, all by first wife; Elizabeth, Julia, Cyrus, and Peter of Danvers, by second wife. The children of Milton and Amanda ( Adams) Thompson were : Elmira, Edwin, Lucretia, Delia and Elizabeth. Mrs. Thompson was a woman of fine education and ability, and re- tained her faculties throughout her long life. Milton Thompson died by drowning at the age of thirty, leaving five children, who were reared by the widow. Elizabeth Adams Thompson married (first) Adelbert H. Stet- son, who was a carriage trimmer by trade and carried on this business and harness mak- ing and died in Boston. By this marriage she had four children, three of whom died young. Her daughter, Nina M. Stetson, born in Maine, May 14, 1880, married Joseph M. LeCain, of Somerville, Massachusetts; chil- dren: Elizabeth Adams LeCain, born May 24, 1906, and Robert LeCain, May 20, 1907.
(For ancestry see John Farrington I.) (III) Benjamin, fifth FARRINGTON son and tenth child of Daniel and Abigail (Fisher) Farrington, was born in Wrentham, Massachusetts, March 12, 1714-15. He mar- ried Christiana Cox, and had four children as follows: I. John (q. v.), October 20, 1756. 2. Susan, married Benoni Cummings, had eleven children, lived in Royalston, Massachu- setts, where she died February 2, 1838. 3. Jemima, married James Hawes and had six children. 4. Hannah, March, 1765, married Thomas Fisher, December, 1786; lived in Templeton, Massachusetts; had ten children, and died October 15, 1826. Her husband died in Wrentham in 1772.
(IV) John (2), eldest son of Benjamin and
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Abigail (Fisher) Farrington, was born in Wrentham, Massachusetts, October 20, 1756. He was left, by the death of his father, when only sixteen years of age, with the care of his mother and three sisters, and he worked as a carpenter in Wellington, Vermont, in 1781, and in Claverack, New York, in 1784. He also served as a soldier in the American revolution, the last years of the war, and in 1786, in com- pany with seven or eight of his comrades, went to the district of Maine and settled on land seven miles east of the Penobscot river, and the place they located became the town of Holden. He married, July 14, 1788, Cynthia, daughter of Daniel and Abiah (Bramin) Hawes, of Wrentham, Massachusetts, and he carried her to the woods of Maine and they lived in a log cabin in the wilderness, while her husband was clearing a farm. He was a deacon in the church for many years, and rep- resented his district in the general court of Massachusetts. His wife died October 13, 1840, in Holden, Maine, and he died there Sep- tember 30, 1843, having lived an exemplary christian life. The children of Deacon John and Cynthia (Hawes) Farrington, born in Holden, Maine, were: I. Sylvia, September 13, 1789. 2. John, February 4, 1791. 3. Ben- jamin, April 27, 1792. 4. Daniel, November 2, 1793. 5. Nancy, January 17, 1795. 6. Silas, April 15, 1796. 7. Oliver (q. v.), Sep- tember 18, 1797. 8. Cynthia, December II, 1800. 9. Pliny, July 8, 1803.
(V) Oliver, fifth son and seventh child of Deacon John and Cynthia (Hawes) Farring- ton, was born in Holden, Penobscot county, Maine, September 18, 1797. He was brought up on his father's farm and when he reached manhood purchased a farm in Brewer, Penob- scot county. He married, November 1I, 1822, Hannah, daughter of Deacon Lot and Hep- zibah (Skinner) Rider, of Brewer, and ten children were born of the marriage in the home established by their parents in Brewer, Maine. Oliver Farrington, like his father, was a christian citizen of excellence and was a foremost advocate of moral reform. He died in Brewer, Maine, September 16, 1863, and his widow at the age of ninety years. Their chil- dren were: I. Henry Mertyn, January 12, 1824. 2. Ann Louise, October 29, 1825. 3. Hannah Jane, October 3, 1827. 4. Joseph Rider (q. v.), May 3, 1830. 5. Sarah Eliza- beth, May 17, 1832. 6. Clarissa Elvira, Octo- ber 25, 1834. 7. Charles Oliver, May 4, 1837. 8. Edward Payson, September 24, 1839. 9. George Shepard, June 14, 1842. 10. Caroline Amanda, April 15, 1845.
(VI) Joseph Rider, second son and fourth child of Oliver and Hannah (Rider) Farring- ton, was born in Brewer, Penobscot county, Maine, May 3, 1830. He attended the public schools of Brewer, Maine, and Farmington, and taught school several winters. He was deacon of the church, a farmer and brick maker ; superintendent of the Maine State Col- lege farm at Orono; professor of agriculture at the Maine State College; superintendent of the Maine State Reform School, South Port- land, for seventeen years, and a useful and in- fluential citizen, educator and philanthropist. He died May 30, 1897. He married, October II, 1855, Ellen Elizabeth, daughter of Deacon Edward and Melinda (Snow) Holyoke. She died in South Portland, Maine, February 28, 1895. Children: I. Arthur Manley, Septem- ber 22, 1856, was assistant chief of Bureau of Animal Industry, Department of Agriculture, Washington, D. C. 2. Sarah Perkins, Novem- ber 19, 1858, married George P. Merrill, one of the head curators of the National Museum, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D. C., and their children were: Joseph, Margaret, Mildred and Ruth Merrill. 3. Edward Hol- yoke, born Brewer, Maine, December 20, 1860, Maine State College, B. S., 1881, Sheffield Sci- entific School, Yale University, M. S., 1882; professor of dairy husbandry, University of Wisconsin, since 1894; married, June 1, 1898, Margaret Tate, of Chicago, and have a daugh- ter Isabel, born 1899. 4. Oliver Cummings (q. v.), October 9, 1864. 5. Horace Parker, May 26, 1867, teacher of manual training, Newark, New Jersey, and draftsman at United States navy yard, New York, borough of Brooklyn, 1908. 6. Wallace Rider, Orono, Maine, May 3, 1871, University of Maine, B. S., 1891, newspaper worker in Bangor, and Augusta, Maine, Springfield, Massachusetts, Rockland, Maine, Honolulu, Islands of Hawaii, since 1894; member of the territorial board of education of Honolulu; married, October 26, 1896, Catherine McAlpine Crane, of San Fran- cisco, California, a graduate of Stanford Uni- versity ; their children are : Joseph Rider, born October 15, 1897, in Washington, D. C .; Ruth, born January 22, 1899, in Honolulu, Hawaii Islands ; Frances.
(VII) Oliver Cummings, third son and fourth child of Joseph Rider and Ellen Eliza- beth (Holyoke) Farrington, was born in Brewer, Maine, October 9, 1864. He was pre- pared for college at the public schools of Orono, Maine, matriculated at the University of Maine in 1878 and was graduated B. S., 1881, M. S., 1888, and after a post-graduate
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course in philosophy at Yale University earned the degree Ph. D., 1891. During his col- legiate course he taught the sciences in acade- mies in Maine, 1882-87, and was a tutor on mineralogy and biology at Yale University, 1889-91; assisted in the United States Na- tional Museum; Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D. C., 1893-94; curator of ge- ology in the Field Museum of Natural His- tory, Chicago, Illinois, since 1894, and lec- turer in mineralogy in the University of Chi- cago, 1894-1904. He was collaborateur in the United States department of mines and metal- lurgy at the Paris Exposition, 1900; member of the international jury of awards, Louisiana Purchase Exposition, St. Louis, Missouri, 1904. He is the author of "Meteorites"; "The Volcanoes of Mexico"; "Gems and Gem Min- erals" (1903) and a voluminous contributor to current magazines. He was married in Glov- ersville, New York, August 6, 1896, to Clara Adeline, daughter of Frederick and Clarissa J. Bradley, of New Haven, Connecticut, a teacher of music. They have no children ; their home is at 5741 Monroe avenue, Chicago. His church affiliation is with the Congrega- tional denomination, and he is a member of the University Congregational Church of Chicago. His political views are those of the Republi- can party. His professional affiliations in- clude membership in the American Associa- tion for the Advancement of Science, the American Association of Museums and the Genealogical Society of America.
"Os" as a root word implica- tive of Deity, has made for it- OSGOOD self a firm place in Osgood and other surnames which are as old as the Saxon language. John, Christopher and Wil- liam Osgood, who do not seem to have been relatives, though they and their families were closely associated, settled in Massachusetts Bay Colony within a short time after the set- tlement of the Puritans at Plymouth.
(I) John Osgood, born in Wherwell, Hamp- shire county, England, July 23, 1595, died in Andover, Massachusetts, October 24, 1651. He came from Andover, England, and settled in Andover, Massachusetts, before 1645. He had been at Ipswich and Newbury before his settlement at Andover. John Osgood was one of the petitioners who had liberty to begin a plantation at Hampton in 1638. On a leaf in the town records a list is written in an ancient hand, without date, but probably when most of the settlers were living, and may be considered correct : "The names of all the householders
in order as they came to town: Mr. Brad- street, John Osgood, etc." So, John Osgood was the second settler in Andover. He was a freeman in 1639, one of the founders of the church in Andover, October, 1645, and the first representative of the town in the general court in 1651. His will was dated April 12, 1650, and probated November 25, 1651. He was married in England. His wife Sarah sur- vived him more than fifteen years, and died April 8, 1667. Their children were: Sarah, John, Mary, Elizabeth, Stephen and Hannah. Abbott, in "The History of Andover," men- tions two more, Christopher and Thomas.
(II) Stephen, son of John and Sarah Os- good, was born in 1638 at Ipswich or New- bury, Massachusetts, and died of small pox, January 15, 1690-91. He took the oath of freeman at Andover, May 19, 1669. On Oc- tober 24, 1663, he married Mary Hooker ; they had five children, the eldest and youngest of whom died in infancy. The children were: Stephen, born March II, 1665, died October I, 1667; Hooker, mentioned in the next para- graph; Stephen, August 16, 1670; Joseph, June 1, 1673; and Mary, December 23, 1677, died March 4, 1678.
(III) Hooker, second son of Stephen and Mary (Hooker) Osgood, was born at And- over, Massachusetts, August 24, 1668, and died at Lancaster, January 29, 1748. He was a sadler by trade, and moved from Andover to Lancaster about the time of his marriage. Whether at this time he became a permanent settler is not known; but in 1710 and 1714 he bought land in that town. In 1715 he was one of the selectmen of Lancaster, and the next year he held a license to sell liquor. He was very active in town affairs. On April 26, 1892, he married Dorothy Wood, and they had ten children, seven sons in succession, and then three daughters. It is somewhat remarkable that all of these ten children lived to marry and rear families. The children were: Hooker, born March 26, 1693; Joshua, September 2, . 1694; Jonathan, September 16, 1696; David, October 8, 1698; Benjamin, whose sketch fol- lows; Moses, 1702; Aaron, 1706; Dorothy, 1707, married Josiah Whitcomb, of Lancaster ; Elizabeth, 1709, married Thomas Sawyer ; Sarah, 1710, married John Divoll, of Lancas- ter.
(IV) Benjamin, fifth son of Hooker and Dorothy (Wood) Osgood, was born at Lan- caster, Massachusetts, May 21, 1700, and died at Keene, New Hampshire, October 29, 1789. About 1725 he married Hannah Divoll, and they had six children, all of whom lived to
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mature years. Children were : Benjamin (2), whose sketch follows; Oliver, born 1728, was a cripple and died unmarried; Abner, 1734; Ebenezer, 1736, was lost at sea; Han- nah, 1738, married Joseph Wilson, who was killed in the revolution; Elijah, March 27, 1740.
(V) Benjamin (2), eldest child of Benja- min (I) and Hannah (Divoll) Osgood, was born at Lancaster, Massachusetts, in 1726, and died at Keene, New Hampshire, in 1808. He was originally a farmer in Lancaster, but accompanied his father on the latter's removal to Keene, and made his permanent home there. He united with the church in Keene in 1767, and was chosen selectman in 1775. He was probably the Benjamin Osgood taken prisoner at Fort Dummer by the Indians in 1748. On December 5, 1753, he married Mary Carter, and they had seven children, all of whom lived to mature years, and many of them to great age. Children were: Benjamin, born De- cember 17, 1754, lived to be ninety-three; Samuel, August 19, 1757, married Amy Rich- ardson; Mary, November 18, 1759, married Hananiah Hall; Oliver, February 18, 1762; Jonas, 1765; Peter, whose sketch follows; Je- mima, 1774, married Cornelius Howlett, of Keene.
(VI) Peter, fifth son of Benjamin (2) and Mary (Carter) Osgood, was born at Keene, New Hampshire, in 1768, and died at Still- water, New York, October 16, 1852. He was a farmer, and lived for some years at Eaton, Canada East, but spent his last days with his son Barnard at Stillwater. About 1793 he married his first wife, Lucy Wheeler, who died about 1800 at Keene, leaving three children : Safford, whose sketch follows; Sylvia, De- cember 24, 1796, died April 27, 1799; Abigail, March 17, 1798, married Benton. The name of the second wife is unknown, but there were two children: Barnard, July 24, 1802; and George.
(VII) Safford, eldest child of Peter and Lucy ( Wheeler) Osgood, was born at Keene, New Hampshire, March 21, 1794, and died at West Worthington, Massachusetts. He was a farmer, and lived at New Lebanon, New York, and West Worthington, Massachusetts. On December 6, 1816, he married Olive Abby, who died February 25, 1864. They had seven children : Henry A., whose sketch follows : Ann J., May 6, 1820, died in November, 1831 ; Charles F., October 25, 1822, died unmarried in Boston, January 13, 1857; Lucy A., Decem- ber 27, 1824, married Austin Geer, of West Worthington, Massachusetts; George, May
27, 1831, married Lucy Allen, of Becket, Mas- sachusetts; Milo, December 14, 1833, died July, 1836; Oliver, August 6, 1835, died No- vember, 1838.
(VIII) Henry A., eldest child of Safford and Olive (Abby) Osgood, was born April 6, 1818, at New Lebanon, New York, and died December 7, 1905, at Lewiston. He was a trader in jewelry, and lived at Groton, New Hampshire, from whence he moved to Lewiston, Maine, January 28, 1859. In Sep- tember, 1844, he married Elizabeth Hannah Place, of Dover, New Hampshire. They had two children: Ann Elizabeth, born Decem- ber 5, 1845, married Frank W. Martin; and Charles H., mentioned below.
(IX) Charles H., only son of Henry A. and Elizabeth Hannah (Place) Osgood, was born December 28, 1849, at South Berwick, Maine. On June 27, 1871, he married Henrietta A. Parker, daughter of Jacob and Louise (Robin- son) Parker, of Greene, Maine. Mrs. Osgood is a member of the Congregational Church, while Mr. Osgood is a member of the Parish, and also on the Prudential committee. He is a member of Rabboni Lodge, No. 150, A. F. and A. M .; King Hiram Royal Arch Chapter, No. 9; Lewiston Commandery, No. 6, K. T .; Maine Consistory, 32d degree Sublime Prin- ces of the Royal Secret; Industry Lodge, No. 2, K. P., of Lewiston; Kora Temple, A. A. O. N. M. S., Lewiston ; Golden Rule Lodge, No. 73, I. O. O. F., Lewiston ; Worumbus Encampment, No. 13, I. O. O. F .; and B. P. O. E., No. 371, of Lewiston, Maine ; for three years was the only Elk in the state of Maine, and for three years and until March, 1908, was a member of Boston Lodge, No. IO, B. P. O. E., but got a demit.
The Gordon name is one of GORDON the most ancient in England and is now represented in the peerage by the Earl of Aberdeen. The fam- ily is of Norman origin and dates back to very early times. In 1150, Richard de Gordon, knight banneret, granted to the monks at Kelso, lands at Gordon near Huntley Strather. There were several early American immi- grants of the name, and their descendants can be found in all parts of the country, especially in the south. The Gordons in America are for the most part of Scotch origin, some of them being the progeny of an immigrant who came from Scotland by the way of England, while others are of Scotch-Irish descent. The first of the name in New England was Edmund Gordon, who came in the ship "Susan and
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Ellen" in 1635. A John Gordon was residing in Bridgewater, Massachusetts, in 1682, and a Nicholas Gordon was in New Hampshire in 1689. Nathaniel Gordon, born in Tyrone, Ire- land, in the year 1700, emigrated in 1749 to join his eldest son Samuel who had preceded him. Nathaniel was accompanied by his other children, whose names were John, Jane and Hannah. He and his son Samuel went to Dun- stable, Massachusetts, where they entered the employ of one William Gordon, a merchant of that town, and presumably a relative. John, son of Nathaniel Gordon, was a brewer, and between the years 1750 and 1760 became asso- ciated in business with the famous patriot, Samuel Adams, in Boston. Five of this name were graduated from Harvard University down to 1834; three were graduated from Yale and Dartmouth, and five from other col- leges.
(I) Alexander Gordon, the first of the name in New Hampshire, was a member of a High- land Scottish family which was loyal to the cause of the Stuarts. While a soldier in the royalist army of King Charles the Second, he fell into the hands of Cromwell as a prisoner. After being confined in Tuthill Fields, Lon- don, he was sent to America in 1651, and held a prisoner of war at Watertown, Massachu- setts. In 1654 he was released and went to Exeter, New Hampshire, where the town gave him a grant of twenty acres of land, ten years later, and he became a permanent resident. He engaged in lumbering upon the Exeter river, and was a successful and exemplary citizen. In 1633 he was married to Mary, daughter of Nicholas Lysson, and they had six sons and two daughters.
(II) Daniel, youngest son of Alexander and Mary (Lysson) Gordon, was born in 1682 in Exeter and resided most of his life in Kings- ton. In partnership with his brother, Thomas Gordon, he engaged for several years in lum- bering, at the mill of Mathew Harriman, in Haverhill, Massachusetts, and both married daughters of Mr. Harriman. The latter was a son of Leonard Harriman, who came from Yorkshire, England, in 1640, and settled in Rowley, Massachusetts. Daniel Gordon was a blacksmith by trade and gave his attention to that occupation after settling in Kingston. He married, September 5, 1708, Margaret Harriman, and died prior to 1736. The inten- tion of marriage of his widow to Samuel Bradstreet, of Suncook, New Hampshire, was published January 19, 1736. Daniel Gordon's children were: I. Elizabeth, born June 28, 1709. 2. Mary, February 20, 1711, married
Nathan Merrill. 3. Abner, mentioned in the next paragraph. 4. Margaret, died at the age of three months. 5. Alexander, June 29, 1716, married (first) Susan Pattee, (second) Han- nah Stanley.
(III) Abner, eldest son of Daniel and Mar- garet (Harriman) Gordon, was born Novem- ber 24, 1712, probably in Kingston and lived in South Hampton, New Hampshire, Suncook and Hopkinton, and probably died with his children in Henniker. He married, at South Hampton, 1745, Elizabeth, daughter of Sam- uel and Elizabeth (Dimond) Straw. They were the parents of nine children: I. David, baptized at South Hampton. 2. Jonathan, mentioned below. 3. Daniel, February 16, 1748, was a cripple. 4. Miriam, November 26, 1749. 5. Hannah, died in her eighteenth year. 6. Amos, October 4, 1755, married Anna George and removed to Garland, Maine. 7. Samuel, died in his ninth year. 8. Mary, November 14, 1758, married Eben Rider. 9. Abel, January 18, 1762, married Hannah George and died 1837.
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