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9th of February 1801" as stated in his account filed and approved in February, 1801, and which shows that he chartered and hired vessels for the transporta- tion of the President's furniture, records and furniture of the public offices etc. from Philadelphia to Washington, and had full charge of the removal, his ac- count summing up to $15,293.23. During the epidemic of yellow fever in Phila- delphia he removed his family to his country seat but came to the city, a dis- tance of twelve miles every day to assist in caring for the afflicted people of the city, as shown by a letter written by Isaac Wharton to Rufus King at that date.
The following obituary notice of him was published in a city paper at the time of his death in October, 1806 :-
DIED on the 21st instant in the 54th year of his age, Israel Whelen, Esquire, formerly a representative of this City and district in the Senate of Pennsylvania. Few men have experienced greater vicissitudes of fortune than Mr. Whelen or supported them with equal moderation and firmness.
As a Senator, conciliating, active and intelligent, even his political opponents were un- able to withhold from him the tribute of their esteem and affection. In private life his ex- alted integrity secured to him, under the most trying exigencies, the unlimited confidence of his numerous friends. In his domestic relations every endearing quality united to ren- der his loss irreparable.
Such a man will be long remembered and deeply lamented; whilst we regret his loss let us endeavor to imitate his virtues.
Israel Whelen was buried in the Friends' burying ground at Fourth and Arch Streets, Philadelphia. He married, at East Caln Meeting House near Downing- town, Chester county, May 13, 1772, Mary Downing, born January 17, 1750-51, daughter of John and Elizabeth (Hunt) Downing, and granddaughter of Thomas and Thomazine Downing, who came from Bradnich, Devonshire, Eng- land, about 1722, and were the founders of Downingtown, Chester county, Pennsylvania, where Thomas died January 15, 1772, at the age of 81 years, an- other Mary Downing, cousin to the above, married Dennis Whelen, brother of Israel. Mary, the widow of Israel Whelen, died March 14, 1831, and is buried among her kindred in the Friends burying ground at Downingtown.
ISRAEL WHELEN, (2) son of Israel and Mary (Downing) Whelen was born November 21, 1783. He engaged in mercantile pursuits with his father at an early age and was for many years an eminent merchant of Philadelphia, and was also for many years proprietor of the Nitre Hall Powder Mills on Cobbs creek, in Darby township. He was a pioneer life insurance agent, being the sole representative of the Pelican Life Insurance Company of London, the first company to do business in this line in Philadelphia. In 1810 he became the Philadelphia representative of the Phoenix Fire Insurance Company of Lon- don. On the enactment in 1811, of legislation putting a 20 per cent tax on foreign insurance he organized the American Fire Insurance Company. He died June 9, 1827, and was buried in the Friend's burying ground at Downing- town. Israel Whelen was married by the Right Rev. William White, Bishop of Pennsylvania, November 26, 1810, to Mary Siddons, of Philadelphia, (b. Sa- lem, N. J., July 19, 1788, d. Jan. 15, 1867) daughter of Edward and Amy (Ware) Siddons. She was not a member of the Society of Friends and Israel Whelen was disowned from the Society for his marriage but continued to at- tend their meetings throughout his life. Mary Siddons Whelen was a remark- able beauty. Her portrait painted by Sully is in possession of the family. She was the mother of seven children :- Israel, 3d, Edward Siddons, Mary, Eliza- beth, Townsend, and Robert Waln Whelen.
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TOWNSEND WHELEN, third son of Israel and Mary (Siddons) Whelen, was born at 399 High (now Market) Street, Philadelphia, April 3, 1822. He was associated with his elder brothers, Edward Siddons and Henry Whelen in the brokerage firm, known first as Edward S. Whelen Company, and after the death of Edward S., as Townsend Whelen & Company, at the head of which latter firm he continued until his death on October 26, 1875. He mar- ried Sarah Yeates, daughter of Thomas B. McElwee, of the Lancaster bar, and his wife, Willamina Elizabeth Smith, daughter of Judge Charles Smith and his wife Mary Yeates, daughter of Judge Jasper Yeates of the Pennsylvania sn- preme court.
The Yeates family was founded in America by Jasper Yeates, a native of Yorkshire, who, after some years spent in trading ventures in the West Indies, settled in New Castle county, now Delaware, later locating in Chester, Pennsyl- vania, serving as a justice of the Chester county courts, and as an associate jus- tice of the Pennsylvania provincial court 1704-1711, and as a member of pro- vincial council from December 25, 1696 to his death in 1720. He had however returned to New Castle county some years prior to his death and was a justice there, 1717-1720. He married Catharine, daughter of James Sandelands, an early Scotch settler among the Swedes on the Delaware, and his wife Anika, daughter of Joran Jeen, or Kyn, who had come from Stockholm to the Dela- ware in 1642, with Governor Printz. Jasper Yeates was a member of the ves- try of Christ Church, Philadelphia, and of St. Paul's Church, Chester, and was named one of the first board of burgesses of Chester in the charter of 1701. He was always a very strong adherent of and enjoyed the confidence of Wil- liam Penn, by whom he was named for many important commissions pertain- ing to his colony on the Delaware, among them as dedimus potestatem, to ad- minister the oath to several of the early Colonial governors. Jasper and Cath- arine (Sandelands) Yeates had four sons and two daughters. Their fifth child, John Yeates, born May I, 1701, inherited his father's mansion, mills, wharves, . etc. in New Castle county and at Chester and became a prominent shipping merchant, doing a large business with the West Indies. He removed to Phila- 'delphia about 1745. He was commissioned comptroller of customs at the head of Wicomico River, Maryland, July 24, 1764, and died in that province, October 9, 1765. He married in 1730, Elizabeth Sidebotham.
Judge Jasper Yeates was a son of John and Elizabeth (Sidebotham) Yeates, and was born in Philadelphia, April 9, 1745. He entered the College of Phila- delphia, now the University of Pennsylvania in 1758, and received the degree of Bachelor of Arts in 1761, and that of Master of Arts two years later. He studied law and was admitted to the Philadelphia bar in 1765. He immediately lo- cated at Lancaster, Pennsylvania, and became one of the most successful practi- tioners in the state. He was one of the foremost patriots from the inception of the Revolutionary struggle, serving as chairman of the first committee of corres- pondence, filling that position for many years and taking an active part in equip- ing troops for the war and in formulating measures for the prosecution of the war. He was a delegate from Lancaster county to the convention that ratified the first Federal constitution. He was commissioned justice of the Pennsylvania supreme court, March 21, 1791, and served until his death on March 14, 1817. Judge Yeates married at Lancaster, December 30, 1767, Sarah Burd (b. Jan.
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I, 1748-49, d. Oct. 25, 1829) daughter of Colonel James Burd, and his wife Sarah Shippen daughter of Edward Shippen, of Lancaster, and sister to Chief- justice Edward Shippen.
Colonel James Burd, was a son of Edward Burd, of Ormiston, near Edin- burgh, Scotland, and his wife Jane Halliburton, daughter of the Lord Provost of Edinburgh. He was born at Ormiston, March 10, 1726, and came to Penn- sylvania when a young man. He was commissioned a colonel of provincial forces of Pennsylvania and rendered long and efficient service in the French and Indian Wars. During the Revolution he was active in the patriot cause and was commissioned colonel of the Second battalion of Pennsylvania troops, 1775. He lived at "Tinian", Dauphin county, Pennsylvania, where he died October 5, 1793. Sarah, the wife of Judge Jasper Yeates was his eldest child. She survived her husband, dying at Lancaster, October 25, 1829, and was buried at St. James churchyard, where a pyramidal monument, marking her grave bears an inscrip- tion, commendatory of her virtues.
Judge Jasper and Sarah (Burd) Yeates had ten children, the eldest of whom, Mary Yeates, born March 13, 1770, married at Lancaster, March 3, 1791, Judge Charles Smith, LL.D., born in Philadelphia, March 4, 1765, son of the Rev. William Smith, D.D., Provost of the College of Philadelphia, now the Univer- sity of Pennsylvania, 1754-1779, and 1789-1803, and his wife Rebecca, daugh- ter of William Moore of Moore Hall, Chester, now Delaware county, Penn- sylvania, a prominent and unique character of colonial times, "a gentleman of the old school," long a colonial magistrate.
William Smith, D.D., the first provost of the College of Philadelphia, was born near Aberdeen, Scotland, September 7, 1727, and died in Philadelphia, May 14, 1803. He graduated at the University of Aberdeen in 1747; came to Amer- ica in 1751, locating at first in New York. He was induced to take charge of the new college about being established in Philadelphia in 1753, but first re- turned to Europe to take out holy orders; returning was inducted into the of- fice of provost, May 24, 1754. When the work of the college was suspended by the Revolutionary War he went to Chestertown, Maryland, and took charge of a parish and school there, returning to Philadelphia in 1789; he secured a renewal of the charter of the college, which was merged into the University of Penn- sylvania in 1791. He married Rebecca Moore, July 3, 1758, and Charles, the fifth of their nine children, was born March 4, 1765. He graduated at Wash- ington College, Maryland, May 14, 1783, studied law under his elder brother, William Moore Smith, at Easton, Pa., and was admitted to the bar, of Phila- delphia, June, 1786. He removed to Sunbury, Northumberland county, and practiced law there until called to the bench. He was a delegate to the Penn- sylvania state constitutional convention of 1790; and was a member of general assembly, 1806-08, and of state senate 1810-16; and was otherwise prominent in public affairs early in his professional career. March 27, 1819, he was ap- pointed president-judge of the judicial district composed of the counties of Cum- berland, Franklin and Adams, and April 28, 1820, president judge of Lancaster county, and located in Lancaster. His later days were spent in Philadelphia, where he died April 18, 1836. He married, as before stated, March 3, 1791, Mary, eldest daughter of Judge Jasper Yeates. The honorary degree of LL.D. was conferred upon Judge Smith, by the University of Pennsylvania in 1819.
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He was a member of the American Philosophical Society, and author of legal and scientific publications. Judge Charles and Mary (Yeates) Smith, had eight children, the third of whom, Willamina Elizabeth, born October 3, 1797, mar- ried, February 6, 1822, at Lancaster, Pennsylvania, Thomas B. McElwee, Esq., of the Lancaster bar, born October 31, 1792. He died August 23, 1843, and his widow, January 9, 1848. Sarah Yeates McElwee, daughter of Thomas B. and Willamina Elizabeth (Smith) McElwee, married Townsend Whelen, of Phila- delphia, (son of Israel and Mary Whelen, of that city) born in Philadelphia, April 3, 1822, died there, October 26, 1875. They had five children :- Henry Jr. the subject of this sketch; Charles Smith; Kingston Goddard; Alfred, M.D .; and Sarah Yeates, married (first) Edward Tunis Bruen, M.D. and (second) Wm. Rudolph Smith, Esq., of Philadelphia.
HENRY WHELEN, JR., eldest son of Townsend and Sarah Yeates (McElwee) Whelen, was born in Philadelphia, August 20, 1848. He was appointed a mid- shipman to the United States Naval Academy at Annapolis, Maryland, and grad- uated from that institution in 1866. He however resigned from the navy in 1873, and engaged with his father in the brokerage business in Philadelphia, with the firm of Townsend Whelen & Company, of which he was many years a member. He was for many years a patron of music and the fine arts, and at the time of his death was president of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, of which organization he had previously been treasurer for sixteen years. He gave his attention for many years to the collection of works of art and was the owner of the finest collection of engravings and Washington prints in ex- istence. He was also treasurer of the Rittenhouse Club and a director and treasurer of the Philadelphia Orchestra, and one of its chief supporters, hav- ing since 1895 been actively interested in the production of grand opera in Philadelphia. He was also treasurer of the Protestant Episcopal Divinity School. He died after a brief illness, at his country home, "Clovely", Devon, Pennsylvania, May 17, 1907. Mr. Whelen married, October 21st, 1875, Laura, daughter of William Spohn Baker, a member of the board of managers of the Pennsylvania Society of the Sons of the Revolution, in which Mr. Whelen had likewise held membership since 1890. They had issue, three children :- William Baker, Laura, and Elsie.
WILLIAM BAKER WHELEN, son of Henry Whelen, Jr. and his wife Laura Baker, was born in Philadelphia, July 6, 1877. He received his elementary ed- ucation at the Episcopal Academy, Philadelphia, and preparing for college at St. Paul's Preparatory School, Concord, New Hampshire, entered the Uni- versity of Pennsylvania, graduated in the Class of '99. On his graduation he entered the office of his father's firm, Townsend Whelen & Company, bankers and brokers, founded by his grandfather and his two elder brothers in 1837, and later becoming a partner has continued a member of that firm to the present time, carrying on an extensive and successful business. He is a member of the Rittenhouse, Philadelphia Racquet, Radnor Hunt, Merion Cricket, and Mask and Wig Clubs, and associated with a number of business, social and philan- thropic associations in his native city. He married, July 9, 1909, Virginia, daughter of the late Winfield S. and Lydia (Berger) Arter, of Pittsburgh, Penn- sylvania.
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LAURA BAKER WHELEN, eldest daughter of Henry Whelen, Jr. and his wife Laura Baker, born September 6, 1879, married Craig Biddle, of Philadelphia, and they have issue, two sons and one daughter.
ELSIE WHELEN, the youngest daughter of Henry and Laura ( Baker) Whelen, born December 19, 1880, married Robert Goelet, of New York, and they have one son.
ABBOT S. COOKE
Mr. Cooke (Cooke-Wilson Electric Supply Company, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania ; obtains his membership in the patriotic orders from the distinguished services of his great-great-grandfathers, Brigadier-General Nathan Miller, and Governor Nicholas Cooke (see Cooke), both of Rhode Island.
Nathan Miller was deputy for Warren, Rhode Island, 1772-73-74-80-82-83-90. In May, 1777, he was colonel of militia in the county of Bristol, Rhode Island. In 1778 he was a member of the Council of War. In May, 1779, he was chosen brigadier-general of the Rhode Island brigade consisting of Bristol and New- port county troops. It was voted by the General Assembly that "Brig. Gen. Nathan Miller be, and he is hereby requested to and required, to cause all the men who are drafted and detached from his Brigade to do duty for the month of July inst. to join the Regiment on Rhode Island, immediately. That he be requested to continue in his said office during the present year, if no longer, as his resigning the same at so critical a situation of public affairs will be attended with bad consequences to the state in general and that the Secretary transmit a copy of the vote to him by the Deputies of the town of Warren". February, 1786, both houses in General Committee chose Nathan Miller, Esq., delegate to represent the state in Congress. (See letter from above to Governor of Rhode Island, dated New York, September 28, 1786, Vol. X, pp. 222, 223, R. I. Colonial Records). Nathan Miller was chosen delegate to the Constitutional Convention held at Newport, Rhode Island, May, 1790. There is in possession of the family a sword presented General Miller by General Rochambeau at the opening of the Cornwallis Campaign. This sword is referred to in "Our French Allies". Gen- eral Nathan Miller married Rebecca Barton and had issue: Abigail, married Charles Wheaton and had issue: Charles Wheaton, was quartermaster sergeant of a Rhode Island regiment of artillery, and served in Revolutionary War. Laura Wheaton, daughter of Charles and Abigail (Miller) Wheaton, married Joel Ab- bot, Commodore of the United States Navy, and the grandfather of Abbot S. Cooke.
JOHN COOKE, emigrant ancestor of Abbot S. Cooke, is said to have come from Wales. He was of Saybrook, Connecticut, June 19, 1696, as the records of that town show he sold a tract of five acres on that date. He died at Middle- town, Connecticut, January 16, 1705. He was twice married; by his first wife he had a son John and a daughter Mary. His second wife was Hannah, born February 11, 1669-70, youngest daughter of Captain Daniel Harris, born in Eng- land, and his wife Mary Weld, of Roxbury. John Cooke and his wife Hannah were the parents of Daniel. Whether there were other children by this second marriage is not shown.
DANIEL COOKE, son of John Cooke, was born at Saybrook, Connecticut, September 19, 1691. He became a resident of Providence, Rhode Island, where he married, February 4, 1713, Mary, daughter of Nicholas Power (3), grand- daughter of Nicholas Power (2), who was slain at the famous capture of the
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Narragansett Fort, December 19, 1675, and a great-granddaughter of Nicholas Power (1), who was an associate of Roger Williams in the settlement of Provi- dence and one of the thirteen purchasers of Shawomet (Warwick) from the Indians. He was a man of large means and his sudden death, intestate, August 25, 1657, was the occasion of what would now be regarded as a most extraor- dinary proceeding. Ten years after his death his estate being unsettled, the town council made a will for him, disposing of his property as they thought proper and noť according to any rule of law. Mary (Power) Cooke was born March 29, 1696, died December 17, 1741. Daniel Cooke, her husband, died February 7, 1738.
NICHOLAS COOKE, third child of Daniel and Mary (Power) Cooke, was born February 3, 1717, died November 14, 1783. He married, September 23, 1740, Hannah, daughter of Hezekiah Sabin, the first settler of that portion of North Eastern Connecticut, where his Red Tavern was the favorite hostlery of travellers for many years. Hannah Sabin, born March 13, 1722, died March 21, 1792, was of Huguenot extraction. Early in life Nicholas Cooke began a nau- tical career and became a successful shipmaster ; he was also a merchant, owned and managed various agricultural estates in Rhode Island, Massachusetts and Connecticut; he also engaged in rope making and distilling. He was possessed of a handsome fortune for his day. For years he was one of the most influential men in the Colony and held many offices of honor and trust and was almost con- tinuously one of the "Assistants" (senators) or deputy governor. Upon the out- break of hostilites between England and the Colonies he was called to become gov- ernor of Rhode Island, the Legislature having declared the office of governor vacant. The Legislature unanimously agreed upon Nicholas Cooke for the high office. He pleaded his advanced years as a reason for declining leadership at such a critical time, but finally consented and for the next three years Governor Cooke presided in the general councils, directed the state military operations, and fur- nished the supplies for the troops, not only in his department but those under the immediate command of General Washington. His correspondence with Congress, with the Commander-in-Chief, with the Councils or Governors of the neighbor- ing states, reflect high honor on the writer and the state he represented, Rhode Island. Governor Nicholas Cooke died suddenly, November 14, 1783. His widow survived him nine years, dying March 21, 1792. They were the parents of twelve children.
The following epitaph is from the granite obelisk erected to his memory in the Old North burying ground at Providence, Rhode Island : "Born in Providence, R. I., Feb. 3, 1717, Died Sept. 14, 1783. Unanimously elected governor of R. I. in 1775. He remained in office during the darkest period of the Revolution and won the approbation of his fellow citizens and was honored with the friendship and confidence of Washington. When Governor Cooke and his deputy governor Brad- ford withdrew in 1778 the general assembly moved 'That as they had entered upon their offices at a time of great public danger, difficulty and distress and had discharged their duties with patriotism, firmness and intrepidity, the thanks of the Assembly should be given them in behalf of the state of Rhode Island' ".
JESSE COOKE, ninth child of Governor Nicholas and Hannah (Sabin) Cooke, was born in Providence, Rhode Island, December 19, 1757, died Sep- tember 13, 1794. He married (first) Rosanna, daughter of Captain Christo-
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pher Sheldon, a prominent citizen of Providence, the son of John Sheldon the emigrant ancestor, and his wife Joan (Vincent) Sheldon. Rosanna (Sheldon) Cooke died November 20, 1789, and he married (second) Hannah Warner. By his first marriage he had a son Joseph, and by his second, a daughter, Rosanna Sheldon Cooke, born August 30, 1792, died December 20, 1808.
JOSEPH COOKE, only son of Jesse and Rosanna (Sheldon) Cooke, was a slender lad and narrowly escaped death by yellow fever during his youth. Upon attaining manhood he procured the insertion of Sheldon in his name by Act of the Legislature. He became a noted business man of Providence and New York City, for eighteen years was the business agent of the Lyman Cot- ton Manufacturing Company and in New York was an associate of Job An- gell in the wholesale dry goods business. He was interested in the banks and the canal enterprises of his day, and was connected as councilman with the public affairs of Providence. In 1821 he was elected director of Providence Mutual Fire Insurance Company, and in 1831 a trustee. In the Masonic fra- ternity he attained the highest honors. After passing through all the chairs of his Lodge he became a member of the Grand Lodge in 1828, and in 1831 was invested with the dignity and honor of Grand Master of the State, holding the high office until 1835. He was also a Chapter, Council and Commandery Mason. Mary (Welch) Cooke, his wife, survived her husband and lived to be eighty-four years of age. Children : 1. James Welch, born March 5, 1810, died 1851; married Emily Stevenson, August 13, 1839, and died in New York City, April 12, 1853; he was a graduate of Brown University and a minister of the Episcopal Church. 2. Rosanna Elizabeth, born October 3, 1811, died De- cember 8, 1815. 3. Joseph Jesse, born June 1, 1813; married (first) Adelaide Martha Baker, February 18, 1834, by whom he had five children; she died Feb- ruary 9, 1865, and he married (second) Maria Adelaide Salisbury ; he was a merchant of New York and San Francisco, California, a noted book collector, owning one of the largest private libraries in the country, among them being four, first folio volumes of Shakespeare. 4. Christopher Sheldon, born July 28. 1815, died October 1, 1816. 5. George William, born December 6, 1816, died January 27, 1817. 6. Albert Russell, born August 15, 1819; married Phoebe Brightman Melville, March 3, 1842; he established, in 1859, the Providence Evening Press. 7. George Lewis, born September 16, 1821; married Laura Frances Wheaton, December 14, 1842. 8. Mary Elizabeth, born June 27, 1823; married Henry Brown Williams, June 2, 1846. 9. Nicholas Francis, (see for- ward).
DR. NICHOLAS FRANCIS COOKE, called by so many "the beloved phy- sician," was the youngest of the nine children of Joseph Sheldon and Mary (Welch) Cooke. He was born in Providence, Rhode Island, August 25, 1829. His parents were fifty years of age at the time of his birth. For several years he was the private pupil of Rev. D. Thomas Sheppard, of Bristol, Rhode Isl- and, and later under the special attention of Professor Henry S. Frieze, later Professor of Latin at the University of Michigan. Dr. Cooke entered Brown University in 1846, and in 1849 he began a tour of the world, returning in 1852. Having now decided to follow the profession of medicine he entered the Medi- cal Department of the University of Pennsylvania, and also attended lectures at Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. After close study
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and investigation of the truth of the Hahnemann System he adopted Homoeo- pathy as his particular school of medicine and began practice in Providence, Rhode Island, with Dr. A. H. Okie, the first homoeopathic graduate in Ameri- ca. In 1855 Dr. Cooke removed to Chicago where his skill soon brought him a large practice and where he soon became famous. When Hahnemann Medi- cal College of Chicago was organized in 1859, Dr. Cooke was selected for the chair of Chemistry and afterward to that of Theory and Practice from which he resigned in 1870. Shortly before his death in 1885, Dr. Cooke was elected Professor Emeritus of Special Pathology and Diagnosis, by the same college and hospital (Hahnemann). Dr. Cooke hailed every new medical discovery with delight and introduced each new antiseptic or remedy into his practice. He lectured a great deal before medical bodies and religious associations such as the Young Men's Christian Association. He wrote and published "Satan in Society," in which he quotes largely from his own experiences as a physician. Dr. Cooke in 1866 became a convert to the Roman Catholic religion and with his wife joined that church. He decided this after months of close study and it was from strong conviction that he took the step that separated him from his beloved brother Masons and cost him a large part of his professional practice, which, however, he soon recovered. Saint Ignatius College, Chicago, conferred upon Dr. Cooke the degree and title of LL.D. He died on Sunday morning, February 1, 1885, and was buried in Calvary Cemetery, Chicago, his Grace, Most Reverend Archbishop Feehan, pronouncing the eulogy. Dr. Cooke mar- ried, October 15, 1856, Laura Wheaton Abbot, of Warren, Rhode Island, born in 1835, died in 1895, daughter of Commodore Joel Abbot, a distinguished offi- cer of the United States Navy (see Abbot). The children of this marriage were: Nicholas Francis Jr., born August 7, 1857; Abbot S., see forward; Jo- seph W., born November 29, 1867; Mary G., born November 17, 1869, who mar- ried Craig Heberton, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, October 21, 1902.
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