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parents of a daughter and a son: Anna Eliza- beth and Warren Oscar. The former died at the age of nine months.
(VIII) Warren Oscar, only son of Asa W. and Harriett E. (Fuller) Plimpton, was born July 24, 1858, in Litchfield, and began his education in the public schools of that town. For three terms he was a student at Litchfield Academy and one term in Gardiner. He fitted for college at the Hallowell Classical and Sci- entific School, from which he received a di- ploma in July, 1878, through the hands of James G. Blaine, as president. He imme- diately entered Bowdoin College, from which he was graduated in 1882 with the degree of Bachelor of Arts, and in three years obtained the degree of Master of Arts. While fitting for college and pursuing the course, he taught three terms of school to aid in his own main- tenance. In college he at once took an active and leading part in both the classical and athletic work of the institution. During the course he composed several odes, and in his sophomore year took the first prize for decla- mation, and in his junior year the second prize. In the same year he was class poet, and from the beginning he was stroke oarsman of his class crew. For one year he was commodore of the Bowdoin Rowing Association, and at the inter-collegiate contest on Lake George in 1882 he was stroke oarsman of the college crew. His record in throwing the heavy ham- mer continued the highest for about a dozen years. He was an active member of the Psi Upsilon fraternity, and was very popular with both the student body and the faculty. Imme- diately after leaving college he became prin- cipal of the high school at Rochester, New Hampshire, where he continued three years, and during the next three years he was a student of the College of Physicians and Sur- geons in New York City, receiving the de- gree of M. D. in 1888. Immediately follow- ing this he was for two years an interne at Charity Hospital on Blackwell's Island, New York. While there he attracted the favorable attention of Dr. A. M. Phelps, professor of orthopedic surgery in the University Medical School of New York, and also in the Post- Graduate Medical School, and professor-gen- eral of surgery in the University of Vermont. Dr. Phelps desired to take a trip to Europe, and invited Dr. Plimpton to fill his hours at the Post-Graduate Medical School and various duties involved in his position, and to take care of his office practice. Dr. Plimpton ac- cepted, and has ever since been engaged in teaching in various medical institutions, hav-
ing for the past eight years filled the chair of orthopedic surgery in the New York Post- Graduate Medical School, besides having an extensive and lucrative practice. He gives special attention to orthopedic surgery, and maintains an office at 47 East 28th street, in which vicinity he has long been established, and is very frequently called in consultation and practice from his residence in West 84th street. He is consulting surgeon of the Tarry- town Hospital, of the Mary Immaculate Hos- pital of Jamaica, and is surgeon-in-chief of the Daisy Fields Hospital of Englewood, New Jersey ; also visiting surgeon at the New York Post-Graduate Hospital. He is a member of the American Medical Association, of the New York State Medical Association, and the New York County Medical Society. He is also a member of the Physicians' Mutual Aid and the Physicians' Defence League, insur- ance organizations whose membership is com- posed wholly of medical men. He is a mem- ber of the Medical and Pharmaceutical League ; of the Charity Hospital Alumni Asso- ciation; the Alumni Association of the Col- lege of Physicians and Surgeons ; the Bowdoin College Alumni Association, of which he is now president; the Maine Society of New York; and of the Post-Graduate Clinical So- ciety. He is also a fellow of the American Geographical Society. Dr. Plimpton is pos- sessed of the pleasant personality which is a peculiar character of his family, is a man of compact figure and much physical strength. His genial nature and suavity of manner con- tribute to the pleasure of all who may be brought into contact with him, and his stand- ing in the profession and among acquaintances is of the highest.
He married, September 23, 1890, Harriet Matilda Stevens, daughter of John Gilman and Harriet Amanda (Moulton) Stevens, of Union, New Hampshire. Mrs. Plimpton is descended from several of the oldest and best families of New Hampshire. She is the mother of a daughter, Harriet Plimpton, born No- vember 1, 1892, now a student of the Veltin School, a large private school for girls in New York, where she is fitting for Vassar College.
(For preceding generations see Robert Lord I.)
(III) John, second son of Robert LORD (2) and Hannah (Day) Lord, was born about 1659, in Ipswich, and continued to reside there. He married, De- cember 9, 1695, Elizabeth Clarke. Children : John, Elizabeth, Thomas and Robert.
(IV) Robert (3), youngest son of John
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and Elizabeth (Clarke) Lord, was born 1712, in Ipswich, and removed to Boston before 1739. He had wife Catherine, and children : James, mentioned below ; Catherine, born April 14, 1739; Sarah, September 27, 1740; Eliza- beth, May 26, 1742; Mary, December II, 1743; Abigail, November 11, 1745; Robert, October 29, 1748. All except the first were born in Boston.
(V) James, eldest child of Robert (3) and Catherine Lord, was born in 1737, in Ipswich, and died February 13, 1830, in Litchfield, Maine, and was buried in the burying ground in the Grant neighborhood of that town. He served three years in the French and Indian war, and was also a soldier of the revolution. Soon after the battle of Lexington he was commissioned first lieutenant by John Han- cock, governor of Massachusetts, and was in command of his company in the battle of Bunker Hill. He received a wound in the right thigh at the battle of Long Island, July 27, 1776, and was ever after lame as a result. He was placed on the pension list March 30, 1818. In 1778 he settled in Litchfield, Maine, and was prominent in the affairs of that town in many ways. While the plantation of Smith- field existed, he was a member of its board of assessors. He married, August 7, 1762, Elizabeth Brown, born March 1, 1742, in Windham, Connecticut, died July 21, 1831, in Litchfield. Children: James, Thomas, Eliza- beth, Lucy, Ephraim, John, Mary, Annie and Joseph.
(VI) Joseph, youngest child of James and Elizabeth (Brown) Lord, was born June 8, 1783, in Litchfield, and resided in that town, where he died May 15, 1864. He married, August 9, 1804, Sarah Magoon, born May 20, 1784, died October 23, 1869, eldest daugh- ter of Benjamin and Elizabeth (Watson) Magoon, who came from Kingston, New Hampshire, to South Litchfield, about 1797. Children : Anna Lake, Phebe Searle, Joseph (died young), Hannah Stanwood, James, Jo- seph, Amaziah Emerson, Sarah Elizabeth, Mary Ann, Oliver Magoon and Caroline Smith.
(VII) Anna Lake, eldest child of Joseph and Sally (Magoon) Lord, was born August 15, 1804, in Litchfield and died March 9, 1877, in that town. She married January 19, 1825, Daniel Fuller and resided in West Gardi- ner. (See Fuller below.)
William Fuller, born March 18, 1761, mar- ried, January 14, 1787, Lucy Hodgkins, born June 10, 1764. He died September 2, 1842, and she survived him nearly four years, dying
May 4, 1846. Children: Hannah, born Sep- tember 17, 1787; Lucy, December 14, 1788; Catherine, February 3, 1791 ; William, Febru- ary 1, 1793; David, January 19, 1795 ; James, January 12, 1797; Abigail, December 12, 1798; Daniel, mentioned below; Joseph, February 17, 1803; George, July 13, 1807; Mary, Au- gust 20, 1810.
Daniel, fourth son of William and Lucy (Hodgkins) Fuller, was born February I, 1801, in Gardiner, Maine, and resided in the- western part of that town, where he died October 8, 1886. He married, March 19, 1825, Anna L. Lord, daughter of Joseph and Sally (Magoon) Lord, of Litchfield. (See Lord above.)
Harriett Elizabeth, daughter of Daniel and Ann L. (Lord) Fuller, was born May 3, 1835,- in West Gardiner, and married, November 9, 1854, Asa W. Plimpton, of Litchfield. (See Plimpton VII.)
The families of Farns- FARNSWORTH worth in the United States are all of Eng- lish origin. The earliest Farnsworth men- tioned in New England history is Joseph, who probably came to Dorchester, Massachu- setts, with Rev. Mather in 1635. Joseph, of Dorchester, probably the eldest son of the preceding, was a freeman in 1649. Matthias is mentioned at length below. Samuel, of Windsor, Connecticut, who married in 1677, was also a son of the first Joseph. In Lan- cashire, England, are two places called Farn- worth. One is in the parish of Prescott, near Liverpool, and the other is in the parish of Dean, not far from Manchester, in the Hun- dred of Salford. From one of these places, probably the latter, the family name is derived. The name of those places has always been spelled without an s, and the families of the name in England almost universally write it Farnworth, as it was written by all those who came to New England in the seventeenth century. It was different, however, with town and court clerks and others who had to write the name in records, and by them it was writ- ten ffarneworth, ffernworth, ffearneworth, ffearnoth, and in various other forms.
The native Farnworths themselves were generally very little more uniform in their spelling than others were, until in the early part of the eighteenth century it was grad- ually changed to Farnsworth. In the Groton records the name is spelled without an s until about 1750. The pronunciation in early times in this country was probably as if spelled Far-
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woth, as it is spelled in some of the records. Etymologically the name comes from the Anglo-Saxon words, fearn, fern, and worth, signifying a place, farm or estate, and hence signifying the "place of ferns," which took its designation from the abundance of the fern plants about it. The record shows that men took their title from Farnworth in very early times; and we have Roger de Farn- worth in the year 1297; Adam de Farnworth, 1314; John Hulton de Farnworth, 13II, and so on.
(I) Matthias Farnworth appears as a resi- dent of Lynn, Massachusetts, in 1657. He may have been a resident there some years before that time; when he came to this coun- try is unknown. He was a farmer, owned and resided on a farm in what is now Fed- eral street until 1660 or 1661. The town rec- ords show that to Matthias Farnworth were born a son Joseph, November 17, 1657, and a daughter Mary, October II, 1660. He prob- ably removed to Groton soon after the last date. It appears on the records that Matthias Farnworth was a proprietor of Groton, holding a twenty-acre right, that in its proportional application gave him something over a. thou- sand acres, but he is not mentioned in the church records of the town until May, 1664, and in the records of the town meeting, No- vember 27, 1664. At the latter date he was granted forty poles of land. He had several parcels of upland assigned him. "This house lot, ninety acres more or less, lying on both sides of the mill highway"; "six acres and a half more or less on Indian hill"; "eighteen acres more or less, bounded on the west by the mill road"; "seventy-one acres more or less, lying on the other side of the mill road." He also had several lots of meadow land. On the first described lot he built his house of logs which was undoubtedly burned by the Indians when about all the town was de- stroyed by them, March 13, 1676. He built another house later, and it was standing until about the year 1820. In the time of the In- dian outbreak, Matthias Farnworth escaped with his family to Concord and lived there two years; he then returned to Groton and passed the remainder of his life there. He became a freeman of the colony, May. 16, 1670. He filled many town offices, the most important of which was that of constable and selectman. The principal duty of constable in those days was the collection of taxes. The last time he held the office was in 1684, when he was seventy-two years old. He executed his will January 15, 1688 (O. S.), by attach-
ing his mark, whether he was too ill to sign his name, or whether he was unable to write, no one knows. He seems to have been a man of more than average influence among his townsmen. His inventory was taken February 4, 1688. Among the items enumerated are : "House and barn and homestall within fence, £48; homeland without fence £3; outlands and uplands, £2, 10 s; meadows, £12; a yoke of small oxen, £5;" which show that land in those days was relatively very cheap.
Matthias Farnworth was born in 1612; was a weaver by occupation ; died January 21, 1688 (O. S.). He was probably married twice, but the name of only one wife is known. He married, probably as his second wife, Mary, daughter of George Farr, of Lynn, Massachu- setts, who died in 1717, surviving her husband many years. Her will was made December 5, 1716, and probated March 7, 1717. The first three children of Matthias Farnworth, Eliza- beth, Matthias and John, are thought to have been by a first wife; those by the second wife were: Benjamin, Joseph, Mary, Sarah, Sam- uel, Abigail, Jonathan.
(II) Benjamin was third son and probably the fourth child of Matthias Farnworth. The date and place of his birth are unknown. There is reason to believe that he was born at Lynn about 1653, and he is probably the "Benjamin," surname blank, numbered 43 in the list of settlers who had returned from Concord to Groton after the town was burned by the Indians in 1676, as the list appears in Green's "Early Records of Groton." If that name was for Benjamin Farnsworth, it is the first time it appears in the records. The list was made about 1680 or 1681. He owned a large amount of land west of Broad Meadow where he built a house and resided. His house was standing until about 1830. He was a member of the board of selectmen and held other town offices, but was not so prominent a man as his brother John. He and his wife were members of the church, and their chil- dren were all baptized. He married, in 1695, Mary Prescott, born February 3, 1674, daugh- ter of Jonas Prescott. Jonas Prescott, an Englishman, came to America in 1640 and lived at Watertown and Lancaster. He was a heroic figure in the early history of Lan- caster and Groton. The children of Benjamin and Mary (Prescott) Farnsworth were : Mary, Martha, Benjamin, Isaac, Ezra, Amos, Lydia, Aaron, Martha, Jonas and Deborah.
(III) Jonas, tenth child and sixth son of Benjamin and Mary (Prescott) Farnsworth, was born October 14, 1713, and died Decem-
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ber, 1803. He was a joiner and lived on the "great road" to Boston. He was interested in the exodus of his brother Amos and some settlers of the family to Nova Scotia, but whether he went there is not certain. Six of his children were among those who went. He married, 1739, Thankful Ward, of Worcester, Massachusetts, who was born February 15, 1712, died May 1, 1799. Their children were : Azubah, Martha, Jonas, Deborah, Daniel, Isaac, Thankful, Peter, Joel.
(IV) Peter, eighth child and fourth son of Jonas and Thankful (Ward) Farnsworth, was born August 18, 1754. In 1780 he settled in Norridgewock, Maine, and died December II, 1803. He married Margaret Marshall, of Bath, Maine, who was born August 6, 1755. She married (second) August 7, 1806, Ed- mund Parker, whom she survived, and died March 2, 1844. Peter and Margaret (Mar- shall) Farnsworth had six children: Martha, Fanny, William, Jonas, Drummond, Cephas, whose sketch follows.
(V) Cephas, sixth child and fourth son of Peter and Margaret (Marshall) Farnsworth, was born in Norridgewock, Maine, March 14, 1793. He first settled in Vassalboro, where he lived until about 1822, when he removed to Lisbon, Maine. In 1849 he went with his son Benjamin to California, where he remained two years. He then returned to Lisbon, where he spent the remainder of his life, dying May 17, 1881, aged eighty-nine. He married, in 1816, Eunice Brown, born April 27, 1796, died December 31, 1882. She was the daughter of Benjamin and Sarah (Mclellan) Brown, of Norridgewock. The six children born of this union were: Parker, Sarah Jane Mclellan, Susan Brown, Josiah, Benjamin Brown, Oc- tavia McKeen.
(VI) Benjamin Brown, fifth child and third son of Cephas and Eunice (Brown) Farns- worth, was born October 22, 1826, in Lisbon, and died in Portland, February 9, 1906. He was educated in the common schools and aca- demic institutions of Lisbon and Skowhegan, and after leaving school was engaged in minor business affairs until the exodus to California in search of gold in 1849. From Bath, Maine, he sailed with his father in a ship for the California coast, and the voyage around the Horn was a subject of much interest to him throughout his life. The party arrived in San Francisco, February 25, 1850. The greater part of the miners were above the lawless class and these higher men formed a sort of vigi- lance association to preserve order. Benjamin B. Farnsworth was made deputy sheriff, and
his father alkeda-Spanish for judge. After a residence of two years in California he re- turned to the States via the Nicaraugua route, and settled in Bangor, Maine, where he en- gaged in the lumber and coal business, con- trolling much of the packet trade from that place to South America. He was also en- gaged for a time in the manufacture of woolen cloth in Lisbon, Maine. In 1868 he removed to Portland and engaged in business with Thomas F. Lamb, under the firm name of Lamb & Farnsworth, dealers in leather and findings. This partnership was dissolved, and Mr. Farnsworth went into business with Ben- jamin F. Whitney, forming the firm of Farns- worth & Whitney. A year later, the junior partner retiring, he formed the firm of B. B. Farnsworth & Company, wholesale shoe deal- ers, and when the business was incorporated in 1891 he was elected president and treas- urer, and held that position until a few weeks before his death when he resigned. During almost his entire life Mr. Farnsworth enjoyed good health, and his sunny disposition made him a good companion who brought pleasure to many others, and was no doubt in a large measure due to his physical condition. He enjoyed life and wished others to do so, and did what he could to make others happy. In politics he was a Republican. At one time during his residence in Bangor he was a mem- ber of the city council, but became so dis- gusted with politics in general that he would never afterward even accept a nomination for office. He was one of the men enlisted in Bangor to prevent a riot during the days of the draft in the civil war, when it was feared that those who were set against the system would rise in petty rebellion. In religious belief Mr. Farnsworth was an Episcopalian. For many years he was a vestryman at St. Stephen's Church in Portland, of which he be- came a member after leaving Bangor, where he was a member of St. John's Church. For many years he was a member of the Maine Genealogical Society, the Maine Historical So- ciety and the Maine Pomological Society. In Masonry he found that which of all social organizations was to him the most attractive and the most instructive, and in this order he rose to many honored positions. He was made a Mason in Rising Virtue Lodge, June 2, 1857, and there held various offices up to and in- cluding the position of senior warden. He became a Royal Arch Mason in Mount Moriah Chapter, August 16, 1858, and after serving in various official capacities, including that of king, he refused further offices and was made
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treasurer, which position he held until his removal to Portland. April 20, 1859, he was made a member of Bangor Council, Royal and Select Masters, and later served in several offices. He was elected deputy grand master of the Grand Council of Maine in 1868. April 18, 1860, he was created a Knight Templar in St. John's Commandery, in which body he was elected captain general, February 22, 1864, and generalissimo, March 27, 1865. He held the office of junior grand warden of the Grand Commandery of Maine in 1864-65 ; was made Scottish Rite Mason in Dunlap Chapter, June 22, 1863, and was made a Mason of the thirty- second degree in Maine Consistory, July 12, 1872. After he took up his residence in Portland, he affiliated with the following named Masonic bodies in that city: Atlantic Lodge, Greenleaf Chapter, Portland Council of Royal and Select Masters, and St. Alban Com- mandery, Knights Templar. In the command- ery he was elected captain general for the years 1884-85, and eminent commander in 1886-87. He was grand warden of the Grand Command- ery of Maine in 1889-90, declining further promotion.
Mr. Farnsworth married, August 24, 1852, in Trinity Church, Boston, Caroline Augustine Babcock, of Bangor, born December 2, 1828, daughter of Asa Williams and Mary Ann (Brown) Babcock, and a descendant of "May- flower" ancestry, tracing descent from Dreg- ory Priest and his wife Sarah, sister of Isaac Allerton, one of the most prominent members of the Plymouth colony, and a descendant from the Mclellans, second settlers in the town of Gorham, Maine. Asa Williams Bab- cock was born. in Augusta, Maine, April 15, 1799, died August 1, 1869, at Bangor, Maine ; his wife, who was a daughter of Benjamin Brown, of Vassalboro, was born August 8, 1805, died October 24, 1848. Children of Benjamin B. and Caroline A. (Babcock) Farnsworth: I. Edward Clarence, born May 27, 1853, married, December 20, 1893, Mary Best. 2. Ada Caroline, born December 27, 1854, married, September 3, 1883, Elmer E. Clifford, of Portland. 3. Anne, born Decem- ber 27, 1858, died December 30, 1858. 4. Mary Isabella, twin, born December 27, 1858, died February 16, 1859. 5. Sarah Helena, born January 31, 1860, died August 5, 1861. 6. Benjamin H., born December 6, 1864, mar- ried, June 24, 1895, Mary Webb, born Decem- ber 28, 1865, daughter of Mason Greenwood and Elizabeth Neil (Bates) Webb, the former born July 24, 1832, died March 28, 1871, and the latter born January 11, 1839. 7. Julia
Elizabeth, born November 5, 1867, married, December. 7, 1887, John Alden Daniels, of Newton Centre, Massachusetts.
(VII) Benjamin Hooker, sixth child and second son of Benjamin B. and Caroline A. (Babcock) Farnsworth, was born in Bangor, Maine, December 6, 1864. He was educated in the public schools of Portland, finishing in a private academy in 1885. Immediately after leaving school he entered his father's employ in the store, and from that time till now has been connected with the business. Following the death of his father in 1906 he became president and treasurer of the B. B. Farns- worth Shoe Company, which position he now fills, proving a worthy successor of his father in the place. In politics and religion he has followed the lines of his ancestors, and is a Republican and an Episcopalian. In Masonry he holds membership in the following organ- izations of that order: Atlantic Lodge, No. 81; Greenleaf Royal Arch Chapter; Portland Council of Royal and Select Masters; St. Al- ban Commandery, Knights Templar, and Kora Temple, Ancient Arabic Order of the Mystic Shrine. He married, June 24, 1895, Mary Webb, born in Portland, Maine, December 28, 1865, daughter of Mason Greenwood and Elizabeth Niel (Bates) Webb, the former of whom was born July 24, 1832, died March 28, 1871, and the latter born January 11, 1839. Children of Mr. and Mrs. Farnsworth: I. Julia Caroline, born March 18, 1896, died May II, 1903. 2. Benjamin Brown, born July 25, 1897. 3. Hugh Mclellan, born April 11, 1904.
(For first generation see preceding sketch.)
(II) Jonathan, sixth FARNSWORTH son and tenth child of Matthias Farnworth, was born in Groton, June 1, 1675. In the very month of his nativity King Philip's war, one of the most sanguinary in the history of In- dian tribes, broke out ; and June 20, 1675, was fought at Swanzey the first battle of that struggle. March 2 of the following year, 1676, the Indians attacked Groton and burned nearly every dwelling in the town, killed the settlers' live stock and left the country deso- late. The inhabitants, as before stated, fled to Concord for safety. At the end of two years he was brought back to Groton by his parents, at thirteen years, and he was left fatherless in the care of a mother who was able to bring him up with intelligence and fidelity. He lived not far from Prescott's "old mill," perhaps on the land assigned to his father situated in that part of Groton which
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became a part of Harvard, 1732. He owned the covenant in Groton, September 21, 1707, and Ruth, his wife, united with the church October 9, 1715. They, with their son, Jona- than, were dismissed from the church in Gro- ton and "recommended to lie the foundation of the church in Harvard," September 14, 1733. He spent all his mature years as a farmer in Harvard, where he died June 16, 1748. He married, in 1698, Ruth Shattuck, who was born June 24, 1678, daughter of John and Ruth (Whitney) Shattuck, of Watertown. Their children were: Ruth, Jon- athan, Ephraim, Reuben, Phineas, Priscilla, Nathaniel, John, died young ; Hannah, Simeon, Susanna, Elias, John, Silas, Betty.
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