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Of the children of Deacon Warren Howard6, Melvin Clark died at the age of 24 years, Jan. 15, 1853.
Lucy Mitchell married, Nov. 3, 1852, Ezra B. Ramsdell, who was born June 3, 1828. They settled in Leeds. To them were born four children, viz .: Luther, March 10, 1855; Mildred, June 23, 1858; Marilla, March 28, 1864, and Howard, Oct. 12, 1866. Left a widow July 24, 1874, Mrs. Ramsdell later removed to California where she has since made a home with her children.
Marilla Mark and Almina Augusta, the third and fourth children of Deacon Warren, both died when young ladies, the former Sept. 21, 1850, and the latter Jan. 25, 1853, aged 17 and 18 years, respectively.
Mary Jane, the fifth child, married Everett Lindsy and spent her short life in Leeds, dying April 28, 1868, aged 29 years ; had no issue.
Dexter Waterman, the sixth child, on the breaking out of the Civil War in 1861, enlisted into the 3d Maine Infantry Regi- ment, Co. K, which went into camp at Augusta, May 28, and was organized June 4, 1861. From a private he was promoted to Sergeant and transferred to the 17th Maine Regiment, Co. C; and later promoted to 2d Lieutenant, Co. E .; and still later pro- moted to Lieutenant. Step by step he advanced to the position of Captain, with a bright military prospect before him; but from wounds received in the many hard-fought battles in which he participated, he died June 20, 1866, after a linger- ing sickness at his parental home, among his many friends and loving relatives, who tenderly cared for his every want and made his last days as endurable as the nature of his wounds and their effects would admit. He was a beautiful young man, a
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favorite with associates and his death wa's mourned by a large concourse of friends and relatives.
Hannah Lane, the seventh child, married, Jan. 5, 1862, Ward B., a son of Stillman L. and Julia A. (Turner) Howard. He was born in Leeds. Jan. 8, 1834. They settled in Leeds where they continued their residence until May, 1875, when they removed to the adjoining town of Wayne, where they have since continued their residence. She is a prominent member of the Baptist Church in which she exerts a manifest interest and influence. They have one daughter, Lizzie Emma, born in Leeds, Dec. 10, 1874. She married George E. McAllister, June 26, 1892. To them were born Irene H., May 5, 1893; Florence O., July 27, 1894, and Henrietta W., Nov. 4, 1897. Their residence is Wayne.
Clara Cornelia, the youngest child of Deacon Warren, mar- ried Duane S. Wing, in January, 1866, who was born in Leeds, Nov. 18, 1842. To them was born a daughter, Elsie, who died when a young lady; and a son, Alfred, who resides with his parents, in Portland, Me.
The three children of Barnabus, Jr., viz. : Oren G., Sewall P. and Henry H., the dates of whose birth have been given, all settled in Brockton, Mass., where they married. Oren G. has one daughter (Mrs. Clark Lane). Sewall P. has a daughter, and Henry H. has no children.
Of the children of Cornelia B. whose husband was Alvin Foss, the eldest, Ann, died Jan. 4, 1867.
Francis G., married Vesta P., the youngest daughter of Rev. Walter Foss, Jan. 31, 1869. Like his father, he is a mason by trade, and in connection with his farm at North Leeds, where he resides, his time and services are in good demand. He has a family of children of whom mention will be made in sketch of Foss family. Her third child, Warren Howard Foss, was many years a locomotive engineer on the Old Colony. Railroad, and later, and now is, an officer in the Custom House, in Boston. He married Maria Deane, Oct. 20, 1872, and settled in South Braintree, Mass., where he is an extensive owner of real estate. They have two daughters. The fourth child. of Cornelia B. is Fred C. He married Eugenia E. Jennings of West Leeds, and resides at Livermore Falls. They have issue one daughter. He is a master mason by trade, and many fine and extensive struct- ures of masonry in Massachusetts and Maine are living monu- ments of his handiwork. Her fifth child, Minnie A., married, July 9, 1879, O. A. Johnson and settled in Wayne. She has one son, Owen, born April 29, 1887. Her husband died April 2, 1894 ; since which time her residence has not been permanently established. The son is being educated in the schools of Wayne. The youngest child of Cornelia B. is Preston E. He has been
OTIS HILL MONUMENT. Erected by Gen. O. O., Rev. R. B., and Gen. Charles H. Howard.
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in the employ of the Old Colony Railroad a long time, and for a term of years a locomotive engineer on that road. He married Edith Chandler in 1891, in South Braintree, Mass., where he has a fine home.
.Cornelia B. resides at North Leeds, in the family of her son,- Frank G., and on this thirtieth day of March, 1901, is 81 years old. Among the mothers of which Leeds may well be proud, she holds a prominent place.
Of the children of Luther Loomis second, and Sarah P. (Hussey) Howard, Melissa Almira, the eldest, married C. L. Belden, of Westfield, Mass., in which place they reside. Three sons have been born to them, all of whom died in early manhood.
Melvin Clark second, died in Cartagena, South America, in August, 1888.
Luther Loomis third, the third child, married Hattie F. Davis by whom he had a son, Vivian Luther, born Nov. 1, 1874. In May, 1898, his wife, Hattie F., died; since which time he has made his home with the son, Vivian L., in Battle Creek, Mich. This son married, June 1, 1896, Matilda Ostland, and they have two children, viz. : Melvin David, born May 10, 1898; and Esther Sophie, born May 31, 1900.
Ella Marilla, the fourth child of Luther Loomis second, mar- ried Eugene L. Howe, of Hallowell, Me., Nov. II, 1873. To them were born two children, Willard O., Oct. 19, 1874, and Mina I., Feb. 3, 1887. Mr. Howe died, Aug. 25, 1900. It is with this daughter that the Rev. L. L. Howard makes his home.
Lizzie T., the fifth child, died Aug. 25, 1855 ; and Sarah F., the next child, died March 30, 1873.
Lot, the seventh child, married Ella True, born Aug. 6, 1853, the only child of Francis D. Millett, May 10, 1880. Their resi- dence is the old Millett homestead, at North Leeds. They have one son, Francis Davis Millett Howard, born Feb. 15, 1891. Mr. Howard is one of Leeds' most industrious, enterprising and successful young farmers. Of good physique and high intellect, a great reader with retentive memory, to which may well be added his bright and active business capacity, bespeaks a life of usefulness and worth to himself, his family and the community in which he moves. He is a cheerful and active worker, con- tributor and promoter of any and all public enterprises of benefit to his native town, and much interested in the cause of education and the up-building of moral principles of the people. His kindly nature, cordial greetings and genial hospitality endear him to his neighbors and many friends.
Leander M., the eighth child in the list, married Clara, a daughter of Bradford Boothby. They reside in Jamaica Plains, Mass. They have no issue.
Fred .N., the youngest of the children of Rev. L. L. Howard
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married Alma Abbott. Their residence is in Portland, Me. They have two sons, Homer and Roland.
The Howard family has been one of prominence in Leeds, and composed of many members. It occupies a large amount of space in this work as do several other of the early families of the town whose prolificness has been of vital importance in its growth and development. Let us hope that in coming years, the; example of our early parents may be closely imitated in this direction, and our sparsely settled districts again sound and resound with the merry chatter and songs of the little ones as. they go to and come from the newly dressed houses of education now going down in decay. On this the life of the town,-yea, the life and prosperity of the nation depends. Study and reason as we may to devise means of remedy, we are at once confronted with the naked facts and brought back to the only feasible stand- point that can be successfully maintained.
THE DEANE FAMILY
Descended from John Deane, who, with his brother Walter, came to this country from Chard, England, about 1637 and settled in Taunton, Mass.
Zebulon Deane, born June 12, 1773, of the fourth generation from John Deane and the seventh son of Abial Deane and Zebiah Field, his wife, came to Maine from Taunton, Mass., in 1792 to visit his brother Cyrus, then living in Greene. Later he took up land at South Leeds. In 1796, when 23 years of age, he married Mary Rackley, of Greene, and in 1797 they moved to West Leeds, to the place now owned by his grandson, Volney A. Deane.
Their children were: Zopher. Anna, Susan, Wealthy, Abial, Zebulon, Zebiah and Benjamin Rackley.
In 1814, Mary, the wife of Zebulon died, and in 1815, he mar- ried a second wife, Esther Millett, of Turner. Their children were : Stephen Rackley Deane, born Sept. 4, 1816; and Elvira J. Deane, born March 10, 1819. The latter married Nathaniel P. Moulton, of New Bedford, Mass., March 25, 1843.
Stephen R. Deane married Elvira Pratt, of Leeds, May I, 1844. Their children were Rose Ellen, Henry Homer and Abbie E. Rose Ellen married Hon. R. H. Gilmore, son of Col. John Gilmore, of Leeds, Aug. 8, 1866. They moved to Iowa where she died Sept. 25, 1876.
Henry Homer died Sept. 5, 1851.
Elvira, wife of S. R. Deane, died Oct. 12, 1855. April 3, 1859, he married, second, Victoria H. Turner, daughter of Phillips Turner and Mary L. Howard, his wife, who was the daughter
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of Hon. Stillman Howard. The children of Stephen R. and Victoria are Stephen Homer, Stillman Howard, Phillips Herbert and Percy Harold. The last named died Aug. 23, 1877.
Stephen R. Deane was educated in Maine and Massachusetts. He taught school at Kent's Hill, Leeds and other towns in Maine, and in 1844-5 taught commercial and writing school in New Bed- ford, Mass .; after which he went to Lowell, Mass., where he was a member of, and clerk and paymaster for the Merrimac River Lumber Co. for 12 years. He was in trade in Leeds sev- eral years; postmaster at West Leeds 15 years; on the school committee 13 years.
He belonged to the Rifle Company of Leeds when 18 years of age. In 1852, he bought of Mr. Joslyn the second farm south of the one owned by his father, Zebulon, the first farm on the south being owned by his brother, Benjamin R. and now owned by Truman Deane, son of Benjamin R. and brother to Volney A.
Stephen R. spent the most of his life after 1859, on this farm. He was of a poetical temperament and always very much inter- ested in the cause of education. He much enjoyed gardening and fruit culture. In 1894, he and his sons S. Homer and Phillips H. built a house on the farm. On Oct. 19, 1898, Stephen R. died, and the place is now owned by Deane Brothers, S. Homer and Phillips H. and known as Sunny Shore Farm. In 1899, they built a barn connected with the house. They now have a good set of buildings. They keep a stock of dairy cows, their cream going to the Turner Center Factory. S. Homer taught school several years; has been on the board of selectmen five years; was overseer of the Grange two years and master three years. He has also been a member of the Republican Town Committee.
Phillips H. Deane has been Deputy Sheriff five years ; over- seer of the Grange three years and is the present master of the Grange, this being his third year. He has been a member of the Republican Town Committee, and is now a member of the School Committee.
S. Howard Deane, the second son of Stephen R. and Victo- ria, taught several terms of school, and when 20 years of age, went to Turner to take charge of the farm of J. H. Hooper, where he remained several years. In 1890, he went into the butter fac- tory at Turner Center, where he learned the business; after which, he first took charge of the factory at Brettun's Mills, and subsequently was employed by the firm of Eli Jepson & Son, of Lynn, Mass., and took charge successively of the factories at Liv- ermore Falls, Monmouth and Winthrop. He is now in the employ of the Turner Center Dairying Association, with head- quarters at Auburn, Maine. He has had charge of wholesale and retail stores at Worcester, Mass., Bath, Me., the fac-
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tory at Milo and at present, is running a large wholesale and retail butter and cream store at Providence, R. I., a branch store of the T. C. D. Association. He married on Oct. 20, 1896, Carrie May, daughter of H. S. Blue, of Monmouth, Me.
MITCHELL FAMILY.
The name Mitchell first appears on the records of Leeds in the year 1800. Joseph Mitchell, who, with his parents was a res- ident of Bath, came to Littleborough in that year and settled on the north end of Quaker Ridge. He took up the farm subse- quently owned by Col. John Gilmore. At that time, he had a. brother Thomas, who was a boot- and shoe-maker in Bath, and in connection therewith was a merchant, dealing in West India goods. The need of a saw-mill was badly felt in that section of Leeds, and Thomas Mitchell was persuaded by his brother to sell his business in Bath and move his family to the new town and embark in that enterprise. As it is of Thomas and his descend- ants that we shall make mention (having little data of him and none further of Joseph), it is noted that he was born (presuma- bly in Bath) in the year 1771. He married Mary Lamont who was born in 1778. They removed to Leeds in 1802, and at that time had two children, William and James Warren Lamont, better known in Leeds as Warren Mitchell. He was six years old in 1802. Before moving his family to their future home, Thomas purchased the land and water-power since known as Coffin's Mills, erected buildings where Henry Mitchell, his grandson now resides, built the dam on the stream and a mill, which was the first erected in that locality. Both his house and mill were burned. In company with Elias Lane he built another mill which was run successfully until 1812, when the war so affected and prostrated the lumber business that little work was then done, and the mill was idle for a time. In that year he built a new house near the mill.
They had a family of ten children. William, the eldest, born in Bath, married Abigail Morse, of Turner, in April, 1818. They settled in West Leeds and had issue three or more children .
J. Warren L., their second child, was also born in Bath, in 1795. He married Julia Gilbert, of Leeds, in November, 1820, where he spent most of his years, although he died in Turner. He had issue Clara M., Ellen and Henry,-more ?
Clara M. is a widow ; married Charles B. Collier in Novem- ber, 1845, and later a Mr. Crockett; resides at Keen's Mills.
Ellen married Rev. Joseph Crekore, resides in Peabody, Mass., and Henry lives in Leeds, on the old family homestead.
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He is the only member of the family of Warren now remaining in town.
Betsey L., a daughter of Thomas, married in May, 1826, Joshua P. Lamont, of Bath, and settled in that town.
Thomas, Jr., settled in Oldtown, Me.
Benjamin, another son of Thomas, married Mary Mitchell, of Brunswick, and settled there. He spent much of his life at sea.
Jesse, the last son of Thomas to be accounted for, married Elvira Knapp, in September, 1840, and settled in Leeds, near the place now occupied by the Jennings Bros. He, later, removed his family to Madrid, Me.
Mary, another daughter of Thomas, married a Mr. Carr, and settled in New Hampshire.
The other three children died in childhood.
HERRICK (ENGLISH FAMILY).
Eirikr, Eric, Erik, Erick, Irik, Eyryk, Erryk, Herik, Hireck, Heryck, Hericke, Hearick, Heyricke, Heyrick, Herrick.
This very ancient and much cherished Scandinavian cogno- men has passed through numerous variations and mutations in England, some of which may have been idiomatic, but generally they are referable to the prevailing fancy of the early ages of English literature, and the absence of anything like an estab- lished orthography. Recurring to the English orthography of our own name, in all its variety and mutability for many centu- ries, we perceive something like a progressive transition, from the original Scandinavian Eirikr, down to the settled and perma- nent English Heyrick and Herrick of the seventeenth century. The earliest English forms were Ericke, Eric and Erik with occasional variations in the final letter, and some few instances of the substitution of I instead of E as the initial. In the twelfth century, Henry of Great Strettan spelled his name Eyryk.
A. D. 1450 Robert of Houghton wrote Eyrick, and about the year 1500 his son Thomas, spelled his name Eyricke and Eyrick, and his son, John of Leicester, merely indulged in a great vari- ety, as ; Eyrik, Eyrek, Eyricke, to which last, the engraver of his epitaph, for the first time on record, prefixed the H. unless, indeed, it may have been previously assumed by his son Nicholas of London, who had early chosen the name Heryk, which his sons again changed to Herrick about the middle of the seven- teenth century; at this time, or a few years earlier, the sons of John of Leicester had fixed the orthography of the names Her- rick and Heyrick which have remained permanent and unchanged
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to this day; Robert the eldest son, having assumed the latter, and the other sons of John, the former.
The traditions of this very ancient family, claim their descent from Ericke, a Danish chief, who invaded Britain during the reign of Alfred, and having been vanquished by that Prince, was compelled, with his followers, to repeople the wasted districts of East Anglia, the government of which he held as a fief of the English crown. He is recognized in history as Ericke, King of those Danes, who hold the Countrie of East Angle. In an attempt to unite the Danish power in Britain against the English- men, Erické was defeated by Edward, the son and successor of Alfred; and was subsequently slain by his own subjects for alleged severities in his government.
The Norman invasion found this name represented by Eric the Forester, who resided in Leicestershire, and possessed exten- sive domains along the sources of the Severn and on the borders of Wales. Eric raised an army to repel the invaders and in the subsequent efforts of the English Earls and Princes, to dispossess the Normans of their recent conquest, and to drive them out of the country, he bore a prominent and conspicuous part. But he shared also, in the unfortunate issue of all these patriotic efforts. His followers and allies were stripped of their estates, and the sources of his own power were dried up; and being no longer in a condition formidable to new government, Eric was taken into favor by William-entrusted with important offices about his person, and in the command of his armies; and in his old age was permitted to retire to his house in Leicestershire, where he closed a stormy and eventful life, as became the representative of an ancient and distinguished race.
With this hasty glance at our earliest family remembrances, remote and obscure as they may be, we proceed to deduce the pedigrees of the English and American races through the branch of the posterity of Eric the Forester, which is still respectably known in England, and whence we derive our lineage.
Henry Eyryk, a lineal descendant from Eric the Forester, was seated at Great Strettan in the County of Leicester, England, at a very remote period. His grandson, Robert Eyryk of Strettan, by his wife Joanna had Sir William, Robert and John. Sir William Eyryk, Knight of Strettan, was commissioned to attend the Prince of Wales on his expedition into Gascony in the year 1355.
From Sir William, descended Robert Eyrick of Houghton on the Hill, living 1450, who left by his wife Agnes, Robert (who died without issue), and Thomas Eyrick of Houghton, who settled in Leicester. He died in 1517 leaving Nicholas, John and Elizabeth. John Eyrick or Heyrick of Leicester, born 1513; died April 2, 1589; twice mayor of that corporation, 1559 and
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1572 ; married Mary, daughter of John Bond, Esq., of Ward End in Warwickshire, who was born in 1514 and died Dec. 8, 1611.
The following epitaph on the tombstone of John Heyrick, Esq., and Mary Bond, his wife, is found in St. Martin's Church, Leicester, at the last end of the north aisle, in a part thereof called "Heyrick's Chancel," being appropriated as a burying place for that family : "Here lieth the body of John Heyrick late of this Parish, who departed this life ye 2d of April, 1589, being about the age of 76. He did marry Marie, ye daughter of John Bond of Wardende, in the County of Warwicke, Esquire, and did live with said Mary, in one house, full fifty-two yeares ; and in all that tyme, never buried, man, woman, or child, though they were sometimes twenty in household. He had yssue by ye said Marie five sonnes and seven daughters. The said John was mayor of this towne in anno 1559, and again in anno 1572. The said Marie departed this life ye 8th of December, 1611, being of the age of 97 years. She did see before her departure, of her children, and children's children, and their children, to the num- ber of 142."
Sir William Herrick, of Leicester, London and Beaumauar Park, son of John and Mary Bond Eyrik or Heyrick, was born 1557. Member Parlement 1601 to 1630. Knighted 1605.
Ambassador from Queen Elizabeth to the Sublime Porte; held various lucrative offices in the Treasury ; married 1596 Joan, daughter of Richard May, Esq., of London; died March 2, 1652-3, aged 96.
(American Family.) Henerie Hireck-Hericke-Herrick, the Anglo-American ancestor of a numerous race in this country, son of Sir William and Joan May Herrick, of Leicester, London and Beaumauar Park, was born 1604; came over from Leicester, England, to Naumkeag, then first named Salem, June 24, 1629. He married Editha, daughter of Mr. Hugh Laskin, of Salem (who was born 1614 and living in 1674) and settled at Cape- Ann-Syde over against Massies. Died in 1671. Out of a very numerous family (our traditions say twelve sons and several daughters) seven sons and a daughter, whose names are given below, survived their father and are named in his will. Children of Henry and Editha Herrick who survived infancy: Thomas, Zacharie, Ephraim, Henry, Joseph, Elizabeth, John, Benjamin.
Henry Herrick settled on Cape-Ann-Syde of Bass River (now Beverly) on which his farm was bounded. He purchased several farms at Birch Plains and Cherry Hill, on which he settled his sons Zacharie, Ephraim, Joseph and John. Joseph resided on Cherry Hill, where he acquired a good estate. Zacharie, Ephraim and John, at Birch Plains. Henry inher- ited the homestead at Lower Beverly, Mass.
Henry Herrick was a husbandman, in easy circumstances,
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but undistinguished by wealth, or civil rank and influence in the colony. He was a very good and honest dissenter from the established church, and the friend of Higginson, who had been a dissenting minister in Leicester. Mr. Herrick and his wife Editha, were among the thirty, who founded the first church in Salem, in 1629 and on the organization of a new Parish, on Ryal-Syde 1667, they, with their sons and their sons' wives, were among the founders of the first church in Beverly, also. But there are reasons to suspect that neither Henry, nor his sons were, at all times, and in all things, quite as submissive to the spiritual powers of their day, as they should have been. On the Court records of Essex County is an entry like this : "Henerie Hericke, and Edith his wife, are fined Ios. and IIS. for cost of Coort, for aiding and comforting an excommunicated person, contrary to order."
Joseph Herrick of Cherry Hill, Salem, son of Henry and Edith (Laskin) Herrick, died Feb. 4, 1717 or 1718; married first, Sarah Leach, daughter of Richard Leach of Salem, Feb. 7, 1666-7, who died about 1674. Married second, Mary Endicott, of Salem, about 1677-8, who died Sept. 14, 1706. Married third, Mary, widow of Capt. George March of Newbury, June 28, 1707, who survived him.
Joseph Herrick, son of Joseph and Sarah (Leach) Herrick, born April 2, 1667; settled on a farm given him by his father, in the northwest corner of Beverly, near Wenham line; thence he removed to Marblehead, where he kept a tavern; thence to a farm on Mine Hill, Topsfield, gave a lot for burying ground, about half a mile south of Agawam River, March 13, 1739, which is still occupied as such. He died Sept. 11, 1749. His wife died Sept. 30, 1748. (I have no record of his wife's name.)
Benjamin Herrick, son of Joseph Herrick, born April 14, 1700; settled on the farm in Beverly, and Wenham, given him by his father, whence he moved to Gage's Ferry, Methuen, where he died in 1773. He married Lydia Hayward Nov. 27, 1720
Israel Herrick, son of Benjamin and Lydia (Hayward) Her- rick, born Dec. 3, 1721 ; lived in Topsfield, Methuen, Boxford and Lewiston, Maine. Entered the army as a Lieutenant, 1745; served in nineteen campaigns; left the army 1763, a brevet Major. Fought at Bunker Hill; resigned his commission as Major when the army removed from Cambridge. He died at Lewiston, Sept. 14, 1782. Married first, Mary, daughter of John Bragg, who died June 24, 1748. Married second, Abigail Kilham of Boxford, Mass., who was born Nov. 3, 1725, and died Feb. 8, 1817. Israel and his second wife, Abigail Kilham Herrick, were buried in the cemetery at Barker's Mills, Lewis- ton, near the old Herrick house which was built by his son, John Herrick. They lived at one time in the Davis house in Lewiston,
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