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(IV) Benjamin, third son of John and Sa- rah (Ford) Stowell, was born May 4, 1730, in Watertown, and was a soldier of the revo- lution, holding the rank of lieutenant, and for this service was granted a large tract of land
in what is now Paris, Maine, and on this his sons settled. He was married at Worcester.
The surname Gregory is iden- GREGORY tical with McGregory, the prefix meaning merely "son of" and being dropped and added at pleasure by various branches of the family. The Eng- lish Gregory family is traced back many cen- turies. Before 1600 the Scotch family of Mc- Gregory was well established in Aberdeen- shire. The Scotch family was originally Mac- Gregor.
(I) The progenitor of the Nova Scotia fam- ily of Gregory came from Scotland or the north of Ireland with other Scotch pioneers during the great Scotch-Irish emigration after 1718, and settled in Pennsylvania.
(II) - Gregory was born in Pennsyl- vania and before the revolution removed to Nova Scotia, where he died. Among his chil- dren were: Thomas, Alexander, George, John J., mentioned below ; Agnes.
(III) John J., son of Gregory, was born in Sherburne, Nova Scotia, in 1828, died there in 1905. He received a common school education in his native town, and learned the trade of stone mason there. In connection with his farm he followed his trade through all his active life. He was a Conservative in politics and served in the council of his dis- trict from Sherburne. He was a member of the Episcopal church. He married Sarah J. Acker, born in Sherburne in 1824, died in 1900. Children, born in Sherburne: Thomas J., John, Enoch, Henry E., George Augustus, mentioned below; Lavinia, Sarah Jane, Eliza- beth, Cordelia, and two others who died in in- fancy.
(IV) Dr. George Augustus, son of John J. Gregory, was born in Sherburne, Nova Sco- tia, 1865. He attended the public schools of his native town and took a preparatory course at Dalhousie College, Halifax, and entered Bowdoin Medical School, where he was grad- uated with the degree of M. D. in the class of 1891. He had a year of practice in the City Hospital, Boston. He located in Boothbay Harbor, Maine, in 1892, and has practiced his profession there to the present time. He is a member of the Maine Medical Association, of the American Medical Association, of the Mil- itary Surgeons' Association, surgeon of the Public Health and the Marine Hospital ser- vice in 1899. He is now building a private hospital for his own use at Boothbay Harbor. He is a member of Seaside Lodge of Free Ma-
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sons ; member and high priest of the Pente- cost Chapter, Royal Arch Masons ; member of Dunlap Commandery, Knights Templar of Bath, Maine, and of the Maine Consistory, Portland, having taken the thirty-second de- gree in Masonry. He is also a member of the Knights of Pythias, of Boothbay. He married, June 3, 1908, Gertrude Dora Dodge, daughter of Charles F. and Abbie L. (Adams) Dodge, of Boothbay Harbor, Maine.
FINSON All those in New England who bear this patronymic are prob- ably descended from Thomas Finson, who, family tradition states, came from Scotland about the year 1700.
(I) Thomas Finson, according to the frag- mentary record of the Finson family in Gloucester, was killed by Indians in 1724. He married, December 6, 1716, Mary, born Au- gust 8, 1696, daughter of John Lane. Their children were: Mary, Thomas, Ambrose, and Elizabeth, the last probably a posthumous child.
(II) Thomas (2), son of Thomas (I) and Mary (Lane) Finson, was born July 16, 1720, and was living at Sandy Bay in 1754. The marriage of Thomas Finson is not found in the records, but it appears that he had a wife Sarah and three children, at least, Thomas and Tammy baptized at the First Church, August 21, 1757, and Jerusha, April 19, 1760. The History of Gloucester states: "It is said he removed with his family to Maine."
(III) Thomas (3), son of Thomas (2) and Sarah Finson, was a revolutionary soldier. The Massachusetts records state that : Thomas Finson, of Cape Ann, was in Captain John Rowe's company, Colonel Ebenezer Bridge's Twenty-seventh regiment. His name is on the company receipt for advanced pay dated Cambridge, June 28, 1775. He was also a corporal in the same company and regiment, and his name is on the muster roll dated Au- gust 1, 1775; enlistment May 29, 1775; ser- vice two months eight days. His name is also on the company return (probably October, 1775) and also on an order dated Gloucester, October 16, 1776, signed by said Finson and others, for money allowed by the general court for losses sustained at the battle of Bun- ker Hill; also an order for bounty coat or its equivalent in money dated Cambridge, No- vember 9, 1775. The name of Thomas Fin- son, seaman, is on the list of American pris- oners brought to Marblehead in the "Pacific" to be exchanged for British prisoners, as re- turned by Thomas Stone, Commissary (year
not given) ; reported taken in the "Yankee Hero" (privateer) by the British ship "Mil- ford." After the war he was at Martha's Vineyard, and still later moved to Maine and settled at Danville, about 1787 or 1788. He was a farmer, merchant and prominent citi- zen. In military matters he took a leading part and held the office of major for some years. He married a daughter of Thomas Goss. "Thomas Goss, a fisherman, son of Thomas Goss of Squam, who went from Marblehead to Gloucester, Massachusetts, married Mary Farr in 1751, and settled in Sandy Bay. In his advanced years it is said he and part of his family removed to Maine." (From the His- tory of Gloucester.) Children of Thomas Finson were: Thomas, John, Ambrose, Polly and Jabez.
(IV) Captain Ambrose, third child of Thomas (3) Finson, was born in Danville, Maine, June I, 1789, and died in 1829, aged forty years. In 1816 he removed to Hartland, which was then almost an unbroken wilder- ness, and there cleared land for his farm and helped to lay out roads, townships and so on. When Maine was made a state in 1820, he was elected representative of the first legis- lature, then held in the city of Portland, and was twice elected to the same office by the voters of the district comprising Hartland, St. Albans and Palmyra, after Augusta was made the capitol. He long held the office of first se- lectman and organized the first militia com- pany in that wild section and was its captain for many years. In politics he was always a Democrat, staunch and unswerving. He mar- ried Elizabeth Jordan. Children: Ambrose, Elizabeth, Thomas Major, Emeline Jordan, James Jordan, John Dresser, Henry Warren, Mary J., Amasa Bigelow and Greenleaf Church.
(V) James Jordan, fifth child of Captain Ambrose and Elizabeth (Jordan) Finson, was born in Hartland, Maine, February 25, 1820, and died in Bangor, April 25, 1895. He set- tled in Glenburn, and engaged in farming. A few years later he removed to Levant, where he continued to be a cultivator of the soil and engaged in lumbering trade till his death. He was a Republican and a local leader in his party. He held several town offices, among which were those of selectman. He married, November 26, 1846, Mary Esther, born March II, 1823, died August 21, 1895, daughter of John W. and Esther Church, of Norridge- wock. Seven children were born of this union : I. Cassie E., born November 26, 1847. 2. Augusta, July 29, 1849. 3. Jerome Church,
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see forward. 4. Walter R., December 15, 1853, employed in the custom house at Vance- boro. 5. Charity May, September 3: 1856, married William Heughen; children : Georgette N. and Harry W. Heughen. 6. James T., July 4, 1858, of St. Paul, Minne- sota. 7. John Winslow, died in infancy.
(VI) Jerome Church, third child of James J. and Mary E. (Church) Finson, was born in Glenburn, December 30, 1851. He was edu- cated in the common schools of Glenburn and worked on his father's farm for some years. In 1872 he traveled extensively through the states of the Missouri valley, finally settling in Brookfield, Missouri, where he remained for a year. Returning east he was for six years em- ployed at Pittsfield, Maine, in the Lancey House and stores as clerk. He then came to Bangor, where he was clerk at the Penobscot Exchange until 1880, when he became a trav- eling salesman for Rice & Miller, of Bangor, wholesale dealers in hardware. After a ser- vice of twenty years with this firm he per- formed like service for Emery, Waterhouse & Company, of Portland, and later was in the employ of Emerson & Adams, wholesale deal- ers in dry goods, for whom he rendered good service until 1907, when he retired from busi- ness. He now resides in Bangor. In poli- tics he is a Republican. He is unmarried.
WINTER
John Winter, of Livermore, Maine, had children: Beulah, John, mentioned below, Isaac.
(II) John (2), son of John (I) Winter, was born in Livermore Falls, Maine, August 23, 1794, died at New Portland, Maine, No- vember 12, 1867. He married, October 26, 1817, Betsey Vose, born at Mercer, Maine, June 20, 1800, died in June, 1881, daughter of Ebenezer Vose. (See Vose family here- with.) Children, born in Freeman, Maine: I. Beulah S., born July 27, 1818, died January 17, 1886. 2. Isaac, March 20, 1820, died April 9, 1874. 3. Lettice, January 5, 1822, died No- vember 21, 1901. 4. Mary, March 23, 1824, died May 14, 1842. 5. Nancy, January 2, 1826, died December 22, 1904. 6. John Jr., March 2, 1828, died January 21, 1909. 7. Elisha, February 9, 1830, died February 28, 1889. 8. Betsey E., June 30, 1832, died Octo- ber 31, 1878. 9. Hiram V., October 18, 1834, died September 6, 1893. 10. Ira S. F., May 10, 1837, living at the present time (1909). II. Solomon, June 25, 1839, died May 18, 1840. 12. William C., April 1, 1841, died Jan- uary 25, 1863. 13. Amos G., March 6, 1843, died June 26, 1866.
(III) John (3), son of John (2) Winter, was born in Freeman, March 2, 1828. He had a common school education. During his life he engaged in farming, logging, lumbering, kept a general store in Kingfield, Maine, for a few years, shipped and drove cattle to the Brighton market for many years, dealt ex- tensively in real estate, purchasing a lumber tract for which he paid $21,000, and which he sold after holding about two years at a good advance. During the winter months there is probably no better known man in the state of Maine than John Winter. He settled in King- field when a young man and became one of its leading citizens. He and Hon. Mr. Stubbs, of Strong, were the prime movers in the suc- cessful effort of having the railroad built to Kingfield. He started a paper with a generous subscription and worked constantly until his end was secured. He was a director in the Franklin & Megantic Railroad Company. He was one of five who organized, built and owned the water system of the town of King- field. He built what is now known as the Kingfield House, formerly "Hotel Winter" and conducted the hotel for seven years. He is now retired from active business, but is oc- cupied in the care of his property. Mr. Win- ter has been very active and prominent in mu- nicipal affairs. He is a Republican ; served on the board of selectmen in New Portland, rep- resentative to the state legislature two terms, 1870-71. He is a member of Mount Abram Lodge of Free Masons of Kingfield; of Lemon Stream Lodge of Odd Fellows of West New Portland. He married, November 14, 1852, Mary Drummond, born in New Port- land, November 13, 1832. Children: John C., Ida M., Elizabeth S., William, died in infancy ; George H., mentioned below.
(IV) George Henry, son of John (3) Win- ter, was born in New Portland, May 30, 1866. He attended the public schools of his native town and the Farmington Normal school (Maine). He engaged in business in King- field in 1886, dealing in men's clothing, etc. He added dry goods and boots and shoes later and built up a large and flourishing business. In 1899 he was appointed postmaster by Presi- dent Mckinley and has held this position by reappointment to the present time. He dis- posed of his store in 1899. He has held the office of town treasurer ten years. He is a Republican. He is a member of Mount Abram Lodge of Free Masons of Kingfield and of the Baptist church. He married, October II, 1893, Lena May Hawkes, born in Buckfield and lived in Phillips, Maine, daughter of Nathaniel S.
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and Frances Hawkes, of Phillips. Children, all born in Kingfield: I. John Glenwood, July 8, 1894. 2. Madeline F., September 7, 1896. 3. Marjorie L., October, 1902. 4. George Henry Jr., February 5, 1905.
VOSE The American surname Vose is undoubtedly a variation of the an- cient English surname Vaux or Vaus, also spelled Voss De Vallibus and Vaulx in the old country. Vorse in America is doubtless from the same origin. It is said that the illustrious family of Vaux derived their surname from a district in Normandy, where there were seven or eight places bearing this name. The family has been prominent in France from the earliest use of this surname. A tomb erected in 1615 in the church of St. Clair at Naples by Hieronymus de Vaux con- tains the bones of his ancestors, among whom are: Antonia, Queen of Sicily; Isabella de Vaux, Queen of Naples; Cecilia, Countess of Savoy, and others of royal families. The Eng- lish family springs from Bertrand de Vaux, who was living in 929, a favorite of Robert I, Duke of Normandy, grandfather of the Con- queror.
The great barony of Gilsland in Cumber- land was given by the Earl Ranulf Meschines to one Hubertus, called also De Vallibus or Vaulx, from the dales or valleys whereof that country is full. The French word Vaulx (pro- nounced Vaux) became thence a surname to him and his posterity. The family has had seats at Boverton, county Glamorgan (time of Queen Elizabeth) ; Wipsnot, county Bedford; Marston Mairley, Wiltshire; Corley and Pyer- main, Cumberland; Storesby, Yorkshire. All this family uses this coat-of-arms: Argent a bend chequey or and gules. Crest : An eagle's head sable beaked or.
(I) Robert Vose, immigrant ancestor, was born in county Lancaster, England, about 1599, died in Milton, Massachusetts, October 16, 1683. In July, 1654, he purchased of the heirs of "Worshipful John Glover" one hun- dred and seventy-four acres of land in Dor- chester, afterward Milton, on the easterly and southerly sides of "Robert Baddocks River." Over this territory in subsequent years the de- scendants of Robert Vose were scattered along Canton avenue, in the vicinity of School street, on Gun Hill and Pleasant streets. A part of this land has remained in the family for two and a half centuries. Robert Vose was a man of note in his day. He was one of the three petitioners for the incorporation of Milton. He gave to the town in 1664 eight acres of
land for church purposes near Vose's lane and Centre street, now occupied in part by the house of Mrs. Blanchard. He was active in church affairs. He lived in the old Glover house, near the junction of Canton avenue and Brook road. Children: I. Edward, born 1636, died January 29, 1716. 2. Elizabeth, 1639; married, December 9, 1657, Thomas Swift, died without issue January 15, 1675. 3. Thomas, mentioned below. 4. Martha, mar- ried Lieutenant John Sharp, of Muddy Brook (Brookline), who was killed by the Indians, April 21, 1676, with Captain Wadsworth in the Sudbury fight; married (second) Buckminster.
(II) Thomas, son of Robert Vose, was born about 1641 and died April 3, 1708. For many years he was town recorder and under his management the town records assumed a sys- tematic and business-like form. He married Waitstill Wyatt, who died in 1727, aged eighty-four. Among his children was Thomas, mentioned below.
(III) Thomas (2), son of Thomas (I) Vose, resided on Brush Hill, on Canton ave- nue, near Atherton street, Milton. He mar- ried Hannah Among his children were: I. Edward, settled at the foot of Brush Hill. 2. Captain Thomas, born March 12, 1707, fourth son; married Patience Billings. 3. Jonathan, mentioned below.
(IV) Jonathan, son of Thomas (2) Vose, resided in Milton. Among his children were: I. Seth, born January 4, 1733-34, resided in Thomaston and Cushing, Maine. 2. Jesse, March 3, 1742-43, mentioned below. 3. Thomas, May 8, 1753, married Sarah George; went to Thomaston, Maine, with General Knox.
(V) Jesse, son of Jonathan Vose, was born in Milton, March 3, 1742-43. He went to Sandy River, Maine, and died at Kingfield, Maine. Among his children was Ebenezer, mentioned below.
(VI) Ebenezer, son of Jonathan Vose, had children : Charles W., and Betsey, born June 20, 1800, died in June, 1881, married John Winter (see Winter family herewith).
LINN The surname Lin, Lynn or Linn is derived from a Celtic topographical expression, used alone and also as a prefix signifying a deep pool or lake, or any body of water, and commonly used in Scot- land to designate a cascade falling into a pool. The family is distinctively and purely Scotch. From the earliest historical times the family has lived in Ayrshire, Scotland. At present the
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name is found in various other sections of Scotland and the United Kingdom, as well as the United States.
(I) Archibald Linn was born in the town of Biggor, Scotland, January 13, 1818. He was educated in his native place. He came to America and worked in the mills of Cherry Valley, in Leicester, Massachusetts; of Law- rence, and Saugus. He died at Hartland, Maine, November 18, 1889. He married, in Scotland, Grace Wilson, born in Scotland, Jan- uary 31, 1819, daughter of Thomas and Chris- tina (Lindsey) Wilson. Her father was born September 12, 1790; her mother April 2, 1792; their children: i. Adam Wilson, born De- cember 18, 1814; ii. George Wilson, January 31, 1817; iii. Grace Wilson, January 31, 1819; iv. Robert Wilson, November 6, 1821 ; v. Ag- nes Wilson, July II, 1823; vi. Isabelle Wil- son, December 26, 1826; vii. Mary Ann Wil- son, March 22, 1829; viii. Margaret Wilson, September 3, 1831. Children of Archibald and Grace (Wilson) Linn: I. Christianna, born in Scotland, September 25, 1842, died in Dexter, Maine. 2. Robert Wilson, Scotland, November 5, 1844, now living in Hartland, Maine. 3. Thomas, Scotland, September 5, 1846, died in Scotland. 4. Thomas Archibald, May II, 1854, mentioned below. 5. Mary Isabella, Cherry Valley, Leicester, Massachu- setts, November 18, 1856, married Henry C. Fuller, of Hartland; he died in 1902. 6. Will- iam Beattie, Lawrence, Massachusetts, Jan- uary 12, 1860, died in Dexter, Maine, 1865.
(II) Thomas Archibald, son of Archibald Linn, was born in Saugus, Massachusetts, May II, 1854. He was educated in the pub- lic schools of Lawrence, Massachusetts, whither the family moved when he was a young child, and he also attended an Episco- palian school at Portland, Maine. He went into the mills to work at Lawrence when very young, and learned the business of textile manufacturing from bottom to top. He en- gaged in manufacturing on his own account, and at the present time is treasurer of the Linn Manufacturing Company, of Hartland, Maine, and is an owner in the Fuller-Osborn Skirt Manufacturing Company of the same town. He has taken a leading position among the manufacturers of his section and has done much to make the town of Hartland a busy industrial center. He is prominent in political and social life as well as in business. He is an active and influential Republican, has been chosen often as delegate to nominating con- ventions of his party and is chairman of the Hartland town committee. He is a member
of Corinthian Lodge of Free Masons, Hart- land; of Ira Berry Chapter, Royal Arch Masons, Pittsfield, Maine; of the Command- ery Knights Templar, of Skowhegan; of the Maine Consistory, Portland; of Kora Temple, Mystic Shrine, of Lewiston, and he is a thirty- second degree Mason. He is a member also of the Hartland Lodge of Odd Fellows; the Pittsfield Encampment and the Waterville Canton ; the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, Waterville. He is a member of the Methodist Episcopal church of Hartland. He married, 1880, Clarabelle Osborn, daughter of George Osborn, of Dexter, Maine. They have one child, Carrie May, born 1881, educated in the schools of Hartland and at Bradford Academy; married Lynne H. Blanchard, M. D., of Springfield, Maine. They have one daughter, Meredith Blanchard, born in Hart- land, 1905.
BROWN The name of Brown is exceed- ingly numerous in New Eng- land, and it is not, like some sur- names, traceable to one fountain head. In the case of Alden, for instance, one may be reason- ably sure that the person bearing that patrony- mic is one of the thirty thousand (or there- abouts) who are descended from the Pilgrim John, whom Longfellow has immortalized; but the name of Brown affords no such cer- tainty. In New Hampshire alone, no less than eleven different lines have been traced to as many entirely unrelated ancestors, many of whom were among the very earliest settlers of our country. The following line cannot be carried further back than the revolution. Sev- eral Brown families were living at Weare, New Hampshire, at that time, but no Stephen is found among them; nor in the neighboring town of Henniker, which was also full of Browns. Several Stephen Browns were born about that period in different parts of southern New Hampshire, among them Stephen, the son of Silas and Mary Brown, born at Temple, New Hampshire, September 23,- 1781; but there is no proof that he was identical with the progenitor of the following branch.
(I) Stephen Brown was born at Weare, New Hampshire, in 1780. As his birth is not recorded in the town records and as no trace of him is found in the town history, it is prob- able that his parents may have been merely temporary sojourners in that place. Whether they were descended from John Brown, who settled at Hampton, New Hampshire, in 1639, and founded a line which continued in that town for seven generations, or whether they
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sprung from some of the Massachusetts pion- eers who helped to colonize Newbury, Con- cord and Rowley-this must remain a matter of conjecture. At all events Stephen Brown could not have remained in New Hampshire very long, for he moved to Bucksport, Maine, where he became a merchant, afterwards going to sea, where he contracted ship fever, which caused his death in Boston in 1814, at the early age of thirty-four. There was probably considerable adventures crowded into his brief life, but the only facts known to us are those connected with his marriage. On August 23, 1803, Stephen Brown married Mary Pearson, daughter of Benjamin Pearson, who was born at Byfield, Massachusetts, July 7, 1780. (See Pearson VII.) She survived her husband nearly half a century, dying at Waterville, Maine, June 21, 1860. Stephen and Mary (Pearson) Brown were the parents of two children: Celissa, who was born at Bucks- port, Maine, 1804, and died in 1851, and Stephen Pearson, see forward.
(II) Stephen Pearson, only son of Stephen and Mary (Pearson) Brown, was born at Bucksport, Maine, November 12, 1807, died at Dover, Maine, July 22, 1867. He lost his father at the age of seven, and he returned with his mother to her old home at Byfield, Massachusetts, where the boy grew up and at- tended school at the famous old Dummer Academy. He learned the woolen business early in life, and made it his permanent in- terest. He began work in the mills at Ames- bury, Massachusetts, where he became ac- quainted with Charles Vaughan, of Hallowell, Maine. In 1829, at the age of twenty-two, young Brown moved to Dover, Maine, and the next year started the mills there under the auspices of Mr. Vaughan. In 1837 the firm was manufacturing goods and trucking them to Bangor by ox team, whence they were shipped by water to Boston and Philadelphia. At this time the business was known as the Piscataquis Manufacturing Company. The en- tire plant was burned down in 1840, and the mills were then rebuilt by Mr. Brown, who became the sole owner and proprietor and remained such until his death. Mr. Brown was a Whig in politics, and represented his town in the legislature of 1836. On March 30, 1833, Stephen Pearson Brown married Nancy Per- kins Foss, daughter of James and Susan (Sin- clair) Foss, of Meredith, New Hampshire. She was born in the latter town, January I, 18II, and died at Dover, Maine, November 16, 1882. To Stephen Pearson and Nancy
(Foss) Brown were born three children: Celissa, December 21, 1833; Stephen Orman, whose sketch follows; and Susan Abby, De- cember 29, 1848. Celissa Brown, the eldest child, married Judge Samuel F. Humphrey, of Bangor, Maine. Their children are Orman B. and Fannie Susan Brown. Susan (Sin- clair ) Foss was born at Meredith, New Hamp- shire, May 15, 1789, died there March 6, 1824, daughter of Thomas Sinclair.
(III) Stephen Orman, only son of Stephen Pearson and Nancy P. (Foss) Brown, was born at Dover, Maine, November 21, 1841, and was educated in the schools of his native town, at Foxcroft Academy and at a commer- cial school in Boston. When a boy he went into the woolen mill, and he has been iden- tified with that phase of manufacturing ever since. 1865 Stephen O. Brown was taken into partnership with his father under the firm name of S. P. Brown and Company. On the death of the senior partner in 1867, the estate, each sharing in proportion, became sole owner and proprietor, and after 1884 the business was known as the Brown Manufacturing Company. In 1899 Mr. Stephen Orman Brown sold his plant to the American Woolen Company, and it is now known as the Brown Mills of which Mr. Brown is agent and man- ager. Mr. Brown is a Republican in politics, and served for two terms in the state senate, from 1875 to 1878. He was a member of the Republican state committee at the time of the Greenback movement. He attends the Con- gregational church, and is a member of Mosaic Lodge, Ancient Free and Accepted Masons, at Dover, of Piscataquis Royal Arch Chapter, and of Saint John's Commandery, Knights Templar, at Bangor. Mr. Brown married, September II, 1871, Mary Parish Gurney, daughter of Rev. John H. and Susan (Irvine) Gurney, of Saint Johnsbury, Vermont. Three children were born to Stephen O. and Mary P. (Gurney) Brown: Celissa, May 7, 1874; Stephen Pearson, April 29, 1877; Mary, No- vember 16, 1888. Celissa Brown, the eldest daughter, was graduated from Smith College in 1898, and was married May 27, 1902, to Joseph Arnold Norcross, of New Haven, Con- necticut, who is treasurer of the New Haven Gas Light Company. Stephen Pearson Brown, the only son, was educated at Foxcroft Acad- emy, at the Hotchkiss School at Lakeville, Connecticut, and was graduated from the Mas- sachusetts Institute of Technology in 1900. He studied civil engineering, and is now (1908) assistant engineer engaged in tunnel
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