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of considering the subject from the other man's standpoint, as well as his own. Hence he knew little of labor troubles, and his employers recognized in him their best friend. It is said of him that no one in need was ever spurned by him. From early man- hood he was a member and a most liberal supporter of the Methodist Episcopal Church. He was a force for righteousness in every community in which he ever lived, and when he passed from earth he left, as a benediction, the influence that comes from a good man's life. October 31, 1867, Lorenzo L. Frost married Harriet L. Hayward. She was born Oc- tober 31, 1846, in Alexandria, New Hampshire, and was the youngest daughter of Jonas Reed and Mar- cia (Sleeper) Hayward. Jonas Reed Hayward was the son of Josiah and Rebecca Hayward, and was born in Antrim, New Hampshire, April 25, 1805, and died in Alexandria. January 9, 1873. He was a mer- chant for many years in Concord, New Hampshire, represented the town of Alexandria in the legis- lature several times, and was generally a man of public affairs. He took a great interest in what- ever helped onward the uplift of humanity. He married (first), October 30, 1832, Marcia Sleeper ; (second) in August, 1855, Mary Bodwell, a widow. Marcia Sleeper was the daughter of Moses West and Ruth (Worthen) Sleeper. She was born De- cember 26, 1809; she was descended on her father's side from Thomas Sleeper, who was born in Eng- land. about 1607. He emigrated to this country when a young man and settled in Hampton, New Hamp- shire, in 1640. The Sleeper and Worthen families are very numerous in various parts of the country, and have borne well their share in its civic, political and military affairs. The grandfather of Marcia Sleeper was David Sleeper, who commanded a com- . pany of militia in the Revolutionary war. Her father, Peter, also a member of the Continental army served as sergeant of his company and later became prominent in military and civic affairs. The children of Lorenzo L. and Harriet L. ( Hayward) Frost are: Fredric Worthen, Lorena May and Luther Hayward, all born in Franklin, New Hampshire.
Luther Hayward Frost fitted for college in the public schools at Franklin, Andover. Massachusetts, Academy and Potsdam, New York, Normal School, and graduated from Wesleyan University, Middle- town, Connecticut. On the death of his father, he succeeded him as business manager of the Frost & Sons Paper Company, at Napanoch, New York, which position he still holds. He married Alice J., a daughter of President Bradford P. Raymond, D. D., LL. D., of Wesleyan University (recently re- signed), and Lula (Rich) Raymond. They have one child; Dorothy Raymond Frost, and reside in Ellenville, New York.
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During the summer of 1896 lie acted as tutor for two boys, taking them through Europe. Mr. Frost then studied law, graduating from the New York Law School in 1898, and was admitted to the New York bar the same year. He is at present (1907) practicing law at 60 Wall street. New York City. October 25, 1899, in Brooklyn, New York, he mar- ried Christine Kellogg, daughter of Rev. Charles E. and Rosabella (Hallock) Glover. Charles E. Glover received ·his education in part at the Biblical Institute in Concord (later merged into Boston Uni- versity), and was ordained a minister of the Meth- odist Episcopal Church. On her mother's side Christine Glover Frost is descended from Stephen Hopkins through the line of his daughter Constance. Both were passengers on the "Mayflower." She is also of the famous Paine family that included Rob- ert Treat Paine, a signer of the Declaration of In- dependence, and her great-grandmother, Ruth Ad- anis. was an own cousin of President John Adams. Mrs. Frost is naturally interested in colonial history. She is a member of the New England Chapter of the Society of the Mayflower Descendants, and on the Adams side is eligible to the Society of the Colonial Dames. Fredric W. and Christine (Glover) Frost have two children : Fredric W. (2) and Constance Hopkins Frost. Their winter home is in New York City, and they reside in summer at Pearl River, Rockland county, New York.
The name Slade has an interesting or-
SLADE igin. It meaning as a common noun is "a small strip of green plain within a
woodland. One of the rhymes about Robin Hood runs :
"It had been better of William a Trent To have been abed with sorrowe. Than to be that day in greenwood slade To meet with Little John's arrowe."
In England we have the de la Slades of the Hundred Rolls. The word is seen in many com- pounds like : Robert de Greneslade (of the green- slade) ; William de la Morslade (the moorland- slade) ; Richard de Wytslade (the white-slade) ; Michael de Ocslade (the oak-slade). Sladen, that is slade-den, implies a woodland hollow. The name Slade in this country has sometimes been written Sled and Sleed.
(I) Stiles' Ancient Windsor gives three resi- dents of that town, named Slade, including Wil- liam, Junior, from which we may infer that they were sons of William. No account of the latter is given. His origin is unknown, but he probably lived in Windsor where were born to him three sons.
(II) John Slade, one of these, was married September 12, 1751, in Windsor, to the Widow Martha Gleason, of Enfield, and their children in- cluded : John. Martha, William. Thomas, Daniel and Samuel. He settled in Alstead, New Hampshire, in 1773. He received a grant of land there and is said to have been a revolutionary soldier. The Rev- olutionary Rolls of Connecticut mention a John Slade, who served eighteen days from Wallingford. (III) Samuel, youngest son of John and Martha (Gleason) Slade, was born in Windsor, Connecti- cut, and was in the neighborhood of two years old when he came with his father to Alstead, New Hampshire. He died there September 28, 1860. at the age of ninety-eight years. his death being caused by a fall which broke his hip bone. He, and his brother remained on the paternal homestead in Alstead. They lived and dwelt in great peace and harmony, although they held opposing principles in both religion ant politics. Samuel was an ardent
Democrat, while his brother was quite as earnest in support of Whig policies. Samuel enlisted at Keene, New Hampshire. July 6, 1779, for the defence of Rhode Island. He was a member of Captain Ephra- im Stone's Company of Colonel Bellow's regiment. He enlisted July 26. 1799, in Colonel Hercules Moony's regiment, and was discharged January 10. 1780. He received a bounty of thirty pounds and traveling expenses of twelve pounds for his Rhode Island service, being credited to the town of Al- stead. He married Hannah Thompson, who lived to the age of eighty years. They are said to have had eleven children, but they do not appear in the vital records of New Hampshire. ( Mention of their son, Samuel, appears in this article).
(IV) Enoch, son of Samuel (1) and Hannah (Thompson) Slade, was horn April 12, 1787, in Al- stead, New Hampshire. and settled when a young man in Brookfield. Vermont. When his children had become partially grown he removed to Thetford, Vermont, to secure the advantages of the academy there in the education of his family. He was the owner of a farm, but was kept employed in the trans- action of public business, in probate matters and other local affairs. Although he was not a licensed lawyer, yet he transacted most of the legal business in his town. He filled all of the chief offices, to which he was repeatedly elected. He was trustee of Thetford Academy, and a member of the Congre- gational Church. He was a very earnest adherent of the principles of the Republican party, and ever aimed to promote the welfare of the community in which he resided, as well as of the state and nation. Mr. Slade was possessed of an unusual degree of intelligence and executive ability. and occupied a very influential position in the community where he lived. He was a man of large stature and usually weighed more than two hundred and fifty pounds. He married Penelope Wellington, who was a daugh- ter of Palsgrave and Abigail (Sparhawk) Welling- ton. The last named was famed for her beauty, and before her marriage to Mr. Wellington was the wife of Hall Sewell, a wealthy Englishman, who was a graduate of Harvard College, and died early in life. Enoch Slade and wife had five children The first, a daughter, died in infancy. The second,
Samuel Wellington, became a distinguished lawyer, residing in Saint Johnsbury, Vermont. Laura the third, is the widow of Asa Snow and lives in Bos- ton. William lived and died in Thetford, Vermont. Hannah, the youngest, is the widow of Governor Moody Currier, of Manchester (see Currier).
(IV) Samuel (2), son of Samuel (I) and Han- nalı (Thompson) Slade, was born May 10. 1797, in Alstead. New Hampshire. He was a farmer in that town. He saw some service in the War of 1812. He enlisted in Captain James MI. Warner's company, in the Second Regiment of Detached Militia. He enlisted September 25. 1814, for sixty days. Samuel (2) Slade married Emma Angier, daughter of Benjamin and Enice (Johnson) Angier. She was born November 3, 1799, and had the distinc- tion of living in three centuries. Her death occurred May 12, 1901, at the remarkable age of one hundred years, six months and nine days. The children of Samuel and Emma Slade were: Lucius, whose sketch follows; Eunice, Lora, Ira, Dana, Orrissa and Orrilla.
(V) Lucius, eldest son and child of Samuel (2) and Emma ( Angier) Slade, was born in Al- stead. New Hampshire, April 12, 1818. He attend- ed the public schools in Ludlow, New Hampshire, and was graduated from the school in Unity, New Hampshire, taught by Dr Alonzo A. Miner, after- ward's the ro'ed Universalist clergyman in Post n.
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For a time Lucius Slade taught school in Surry and other places in his immediate neighborhood. At the age of twenty-four he moved to Boston, and for six months was employed by Aaron Aldrich, a butter and egg dealer in Faneuil Hall market. He was afterwards employed by John Miller in the same business. In 1851 Lucius Slade formed a partner- ship with George Rust, for the purpose of conduct- ing the butter, cheese. and egg business in Fanenil Hall market. Mr. Rust retired in 1851, and Mr. Slade removed to Faneuil Hall Square, where he conducted this business alone for forty-four years. In 1806, as Mr. Slade was approaching eighty years, he felt the need of an associate, and he took W. J. Haves into partnership. The firm then became Lu- cius Slade & Company. Mr. Slade lived on Poplar street, on the lower slope of Beacon Hill, Boston, till 1896, when he removed to North Cambridge, where he died at the age of nearly eighty-six. Dur- ing Lucius Slade's long and active life lie served as councilman two years and alderman for eight years in Boston. He was a member of the Massa- chusetts senate from 1862 to 1864. While alder- man he was chairman of the committee on sewerage, paving and public buildings. He was also a mem- ber of the school board. He made the public good his chief object and he was a thoroughly upright and much respected man. He was one of the oldest of the Boston Lancers, being a member for half a century. He was captain of the Lancers for eight years, and was in command at the time of the Cooper strect riot. one of the draft riots of the Civil war. After the war he was made major of a batallion composed of the National Lancers, the Roxbury Horse Guards, Prescott Light Guards and Dragoons. During the Civil war Captain Slade was active in forming several companies from the Lancers for the Union army. He belonged to the Masons and Odd Fellows, and was one of the oldest members of the Boston Club. While in Boston Major Slade lost his interest in New Hampshire. He bought several farms in Walpole, on one of which his daughter, Mrs. Sawyer, now lives. Lucius Slade married Lucy Rust, daughter of Daniel Rust, who was born in Alstead, New Hampshire, December 3, 1817. She was the granddaughter of Nathaniel Rust, who had a government grant of land in Alstead, and came there from Windsor. Connecticut. They had three children : Franklin, who lives in Cambridge, Massa- chusetts: Carrie, who died young; and Lelia L., whose sketch follows. Major Lucius Slade was a man of great energy and business capacity, and of a kind and genial disposition and many people have reason to remember his generosity. His long and useful life ended January 13, 1904. His wife lived a little more than a year after her husband, dying April 5. 1895, in her eighty-eighth year.
(VI) Leila L., second daughter and youngest child of Major Lucius and Lucy (Rust) Slade, was born in Boston, January 1, 1857. On March 12, IS83, she married Henry Holmes Sawyer, who was born in Charlestown, Massachusetts. (See Sawyer, III.)
There were several ancestors WAKEFIELD bearing this name who settled very early in the New England colonies, and their descendants have been conspic- uous for good citizenship through the numerous generations that have taken their turn upon the stage of life. A town in Massachusetts has been named for the family, and its members have been conspicuous in the fields of education, medicine, law and the ministry. They have also been active
as business men and have contributed universally to the mental and moral growth of society as well as the material development of the commonwealthi in which they lived.
(I) John Wakefield, the progenitor of the fam- ily which has been very numerously represented in Maine, was a native of England. The first record of him found in this country bears date January I, 1637, when at the town meeting held at Salem he was assessed fifteen shillings as an inhabitant of Marble- head in the Colony of Massachusetts Bay. It is presumable that he came as early at least as the previous summer. On the fourteenth of the same month, among the several portions of land laid out at Marblehead. he received four acres "on the Neck." Prior to 1648, he lived in Salem, which then includ- ed the present town of Marblehead. He first ap- pears on record in Maine in 1641, when he and his brother-in-law, John Littlefield, received a grant of what is known as the Great Hill Farm. The hill at that time extended much farther into the sea than it now does, and with the projecting land at the eastern end was called the Great Neck. This was in the ligonia patent, and neither of the grantees took possession probably on account of the uncer- tainty as to their title. John Wakefield settled in the town of Wells, where he attained considerable prominence. He served as commissioner and select- man in 1648-54-57. In each instance his father-in- law, Edmund Littlefield, served in the same capacity. In 1652 John Wakefield purchased Wakefield's Is- land and removed to it in that year and there re- sided for a time. He subsequently purchased land in Scarboro and resided upon it several years. Thence he removed to that part of Biddeford which is now Saco, where he remained until his death. That he was a man of considerable substance. is evidenced by the fact of his buying and selling lands, and he was frequently called upon to witness deeds for other ;. In 1670, when he was probably incapacitated by ill- ness or the infirmities of age, his wife acted as his attorney in selling parcels of land. He died Feb- ruary 15, 1674, and was buried at Biddeford. The destruction of the records of Wells, Maine, leaves us no accurate data as to the time of his marriage or his birth or the births of his children. His wife Elizabeth was a daughter of Edmund and Annis Littlefield, of Wells. Her death is not recorded. Their children included : John, James, Henry, Wil- liam, Mary and Katherine.
(II) William, fourth son and child of John and Elizabeth (Littlefield} Wakefield. was probably born at Biddeford, Maine. He was possessed of some property as is shown by the record of a deed of ten acres of land in York township. On October 25, 1707, he went out with his brother James and four others in a small sloop to fish. There was a heavy sea at the bar, and as they attempted to drive the sloop it was upset and all were drowned. One of the bodies was never recovered. Bourne's History of Wells says, "These men were all valuable citizens and their aid was greatly needed." William Wake- field was married at Salem, March 13, 1698, to Re- becca Littlefield. There is but one child on record, namely: William. Tradition gives three others : Joseph, Jonathan and Benjamin.
(III) Jonathan, third son and child of William and Rebecca (Littlefield) Wakefield, was born in Maine and settled in Sutton, Massachusetts. before 1734. He was a soldier in the Colonial wars, and died in October, 1765. He was married June 22, 1732, to Abigail Smith, and his children, born in Sutton between 1734 and 1755, were: Abigail (died young), Jonathan, Rebecca, Tabatha, Amasa, Sam-
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uel, Silas, Isiah, Luther, Mary and Abigail.
(IV) Jonathan (2), eldest son and second child of Jonathan (I) and Abigail (Smith) Wakefield, was born October 16, 1736, in Sutton. Massachus- etts, and served as a soldier of the Colonial wars and also in the Revolution. He was killed in the service at Dorchester Heights in March, 1776. Soon after his widow and her children settled in Newport, New Hampshire. He was married May 21, 1760, to Anne Wheeler. Their children were: Jonathan, Josiah, Joel, Sarah. Peter, Jesse, Lucy, Chloe and Anna. The migration of the family to Newport oc- curred in 1779.
(V) Peter, fourth son and sixth child of Jona- than (2) and Anne ( Wheeler) Wakefield, was born probably at Sutton, Massachusetts, about 1767. He came to Newport, New Hampshire, and lived many years in the west part of the town near the plumbago mines. He was the father of Methodism in this section and built the chapel at Northville, near Newport. He also built what was afterwards known as the Reed sawmill there; he spent his lat- ter years at Northville. He married Hannah, sis- ter of William Haven, and they had ten children: Nancy, born May 17, 1778; Lovina, mentioned be- low; Hannah, March 31, 1793, married Cyrus Mc- Gregor; Lucy, August 17, 1795, married Jeremiah Adams; Simeon, April 20, 1798; Ruth, September 8, ISOI. married. September 22, 1822, Lorenzo Freeto; Orpha, October 24. 1804: Mahala, April 26, 1809; Peter, June 21, IS10; Philena, July 31, 1812.
(VI) Lovina, second daughter and child of Peter and Hannah ( Haven) Wakefield, was born March 8, 1791. She maried, November 16. 1810, Stephen Reed, of Newport, New Hampshire. He was born December 9, 1790, and came from Plainfield, Ver- mont, at the age of nine years. They lived at the Reed sawmill in the northeast part of the town. They had five children: Erastus, born March, 15, ISO : Roena, married Azor Paul: Jackson, February 20, 1819: Rowancy, married Gilman Davis; Rosella, became the second wife of Azor Paul, of Newport (quod ride )
AFRICA This family is typical of the patient, persevering. progressive German stock which peopled Pennsylvania, cleared away the forest, settled farms, developed mines, and made it the second state in the Union in point of wealth and population.
(I) Christopher Africa, a native of Hanover, now a part of Prussia, came to America about 1750, and settled in Germantown, Pennsylvania, from which he afterward removed to Hanover, in York . county. He had two sons, Michael and Jacob.
(Il) Michael Africa, elder son of Christopher Africa, was born in York county, Pennsylvania, and settled in Huntingdon, Pennsylvania, in 1791. He became one of the founders of the Lutheran Con- gregational Church of that place, in which he was an elder. He married Katherin Graffius, of York, Pennsylvania.
(III) Daniel, son of Michael and Katherin ( Graffius) Africa, was born March 19, 1794, in Huntingdon, and passed his entire life in that town. He was a man of much intelligence and ability, and became prominent and influential in the community. He was deputy surveyor of Huntingdon county from 1824 to 1830, was justice of the peace for twenty-two years, and was noted for the extent and accuracy of his legal knowledge. He married a daughter of John Simpson, a native of Bucks county, Pennsyl- vania, and a Revolutionary veteran, probably of Scotch ancestry. His wife was a daughter of James
Murray, who took part in the Revolutionary war as captain of the Lancaster company. The latter was born in Scotland, and came to America in 1730, while still very young, and resided in Paxton, now in Dauphin county, Pennsylvania.
(IV) John Simpson, only son of Daniel Africa, was born September 15, 1832. in Huntingdon and died there August 8, 1900, near the close of his sixty-eighth year. He acquired his education in the common schools and in the academy of his native town. For the pursuit of his chosen profession, surveying and civil engineering, he received practical training under the instruction of his father, and his uncle, James Simpson. In January, 1853. he be- came a member of the engineering corps of the Huntington & Broad Top Mountain railroad, on its organization under Samuel W. Mifflin, chief engineer, and assisted in the location of the road. He was just twenty-one years old when he received his first public office, that of county surveyor of Huntingdon county, in October, 1853. Ile was the Democratic nominee. and although the normal Whig majority was over six hundred, he obtained a majority of one hundred and sixty-five. In 1856, a Presidential year, he was again a candidate, the vote resulting in a tie. But the court six months later appointed his op- ponent. In the meantime he kept up his surveying and became known as one of the most competent in central Pennsylvania In 1853 he and Samuel G. Whittaker established a weekly paper called the Standing Stone, and for two years he was the pro- prietor and one of its editors. In 1883 he edited the History of Huntingdon and Blair counties, a valuable work. In public addresses, newspaper arti- cles, and in various other ways, he largely con- tributed to the history of the commonwealth, and especially that of the Valley of the Juniata.
During the sessions of the senate of Pennsyl- vania. in 1858 and 1859, he served as journal clerk. In October, 1859. he was elected member of the house of representatives, serving during the session of 1860. During the Civil war, while he did not forsake the Democratic party. he supported the government. When the office of the Monitor, the organ of the Democracy of Huntingdon county, was wrecked by a mob, he was among the first to join in a letter publicly denouncing the outrage, and helped to re-establish the paper. In May. 1875, he was appointed deputy secretary of internal af- fairs, serving until May, 1879. The department was created by the Constitution of 1873, and its organ- ization devolved upon Mr. Africa. In 18So, at the request of William A. Wallace, then United States senator, President Hayes appointed him supervisor of the census for the seventh district of Pennsyl- vania, takin in fourteen counties in the center of the state. The duties of this office he discharged very thoroughly. Soon after he was appointed cashier of the First National Bank at Huntingdon. In 1882 he was elected secretary of internal affairs, and resigned his cashiership. His term was for four years, which ended in 1887. He was one of the incorporators of the Union Trust Company of Philadelphia. in 1882, and was one of its directors until his death in 1002. October 13, 1887, he was chosen president, and held this position until he died. He was director of the First National Bank of Huntingdon, Pennsylvania. and of the Fidelity Mutual Life Association of Philadelphia. He was a member of Mt. Moriah Lodge, No. 300. Ancient Free and Accepted Masons, and of Standing Stone Chapter, No. 201, at Huntingdon. He served as grand master of Masons of Pennsylvania during 1891-92, and was ou standing committees of the
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Grand Lodge and Grand Chapter. He also be- longed to the Engineers' Club, the Franklin Insti- tute, and the Pennsylvania Scotch-Irish Society.
On January 1, 1856, Mr. Africa married, at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Dorothea Corbin Green- land. of Huntingdon, who was born 1834, and died November 15. 1886. She was the daughter of Joshua and Elizabeth (Wright) Greenland. Five children were born of this union, of whom three are now living: Benjamin Franklin, the second child, is manager of the Gas and Electric Light Works at Huntingdon; James Murray, the third child, is a civil engincer and resides at Huntingdon. He is a graduate of the Rensselaer Polytechnic School at Troy, New York. Walter G., twin brother of James, is the subject of the next sketch. Benjamin F., the eldest. and Bessie, the youngest child of this family, died young.
(V) Walter Greenland, fourth son and child of John Simpson and Dorothea Corbin (Greenland ) Africa, was born in Huntingdon, April 11, 1863. He was educated in the public and private schools of that town, and at Huntingdon Academy. After graduation he took a place in the First National Bank of Huntingdon, where he remained about a year and a half, devoting his evenings and other leisure time to the study of civil engineering. Leav- ing that place he became connected with the firm of Elkins & Widener, the well known gas promoters of Philadelphia, who with their associates controlled the gas franchises of Philadelphia and many other cities in the United States. In 1885 he leased the Huntingdon Gas works, which he successfully oper- ated until, June 1887, when he removed to Man- chester, New Hampshire, at the time of the organ- ization of the People's Gaslight Company, which soon acquired control of the Manchester Gaslight Company. He served as superintendent of the new company for two years, and was then elected treas- urer. and has since filled both positions. Before leaving Pennsylvania his abilities and techanical knowledge had been recognized hy the state author- ities, and he was appointed to investigate the glass sand mining industry of that state, and at the con- clusion of his labors in 1886 published an illustrated report upon it. In addition to his work in connec- tion with the People's Gaslight Company, he has many other cares in his business relations with var- ious industries in Manchester. He was treasurer of the Manchester Electric Light Company twelve years, and was president of the Manchester Union Publishing Company; is treasurer of the Brodie Electric Company; treasurer of the Ben Franklin Electric Light Company; director of the Merchants National Bank; director of the Amoskeag National Bank; director in the Elliot Manufacturing Com- pany ; trustee of the Hillsborough County Savings Bank; president of the Manchester Garment Com- pany; treasurer of the Robey Concrete Company ; president of the Cohas Building Company: director in the East Side Company: and director of the Derryfield Company. Mr. Africa is connected ac- tively with so many of the leading enterprises of Manchester that few have a greater influence upon its industrial life than he. He is a comparatively young man, an untiring worker, and a success in everything he has undertaken. He is an active mem- ber and first vice-president of the New England Association of Gas Engineers, and a member of the American Gas Institute and secretary of the Guild of Gas Managers of New England. In politics he is a Democrat, but not an active personal participant in party affairs. He is a member of the Franklin Street Congregational Church, and president of the
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