The history of the state of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, V. IV, Part 56

Author: Bicknell, Thomas Williams, 1834-1925. cn
Publication date: 1920
Publisher: New York, The American Historical Society
Number of Pages: 978

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Mr. Bailey retired from active life in 1909 and became associated with his son, Henry D. Bailey. in the conduct of the mill at Hope Valley. He resided in Hope Valley until his death, which occurred in Rochester, N. Y., June 27, 1918. For many years Mr. Bailey was prominent in the religious life of the com- munities where he resided, and was one of the leading members of the Free Will Baptist Church at Carolina and a trustee of the same. He had taken a keen inter-

est in Sabbath school work and was himself a teacher, and his wife also has been prominent in church work. Mr. Bailey avoided taking part in public life, being .quite without ambition for office, but he always dis- charged the duties of citizenship most adequately and conscientiously. In sentiment he was a staunch mem- ber of the Prohibition party, though at times he acted with the Republican party, but in local affairs he always supported the candidate and issue which he regarded as most advantageous for the community, without regard to partisan consideration. He was a member of Pawtucket Lodge, Free and Accepted Masons; Narragansett Chapter, Royal Arch Masons; Council, Royal and Select Masters; Narragan- sett Commandery, Knights Templar of Westerly, and attained the thirty-second degree in the Scottish Rite bodies.

Henry Cooper Bailey married, October 18, 1871, at Carolina, Ellen W. McInnis, a daughter of Duncan and Agnes (Black) McInnis, both of whom were natives of Scotland. Mrs. Bailey was herself born at Carolina, December 26, 1849. To Mr. and Mrs. Bailey the following children were born: I. Nellie, born Sept. 19, 1874; was educated at the Friends' School in Providence, and Eastman's Business Col- lege at Poughkeepsie, N. Y. She married, Octoher 27, 1897, Charles E. Martin, treasurer of the Rochester Optical Company, and they reside in that city with their two children, Charles and Henry. 2. Viola J., born July 15, 1876; received her preliminary education at the Friends' School in Providence. She later entered the medical department of Cornell University, from which she was graduated with the degree of M. D. She located at Hope Valley, R. I., and there practised her profession until Oct. 14, 1903, when she became the wife of Clair S. Taylor, a prominent manu- facturer of Northboro, Mass. 3. Henry Duncan, a sketch of whom follows.

HENRY DUNCAN BAILEY-Henry Duncan Bailey, the youngest child of Henry Cooper and Ellen W. (McInnis) Bailey, was born March 18, 1879. He was prepared for college at the Friends' School in Providence, later entered Brown University, where he was a member of the class of 1899, and belonged to the Delta Kappa Epsilon fraternity. In 1899 he entered the employ of the Carolina Mills Company, and under the direction of his father learned the woolen manufacturing business, in which capacity he continued until 1900, becoming superintendent of the Stanley Woolen Company at Uxbridge, Mass., for two years. In 1908 he became superintendent for W. J. Dickey & Son Woolen Mills at Baltimore, Md., where he remained one year. He purchased the Woolen Mill of Youngman & Hammond at Hope Valley, R. I., in 1909, and at once took charge of same, operating under the firm name of Henry D. Bailey, producing a general line of woolen goods, which firm continues to date (1919). Mr. Bailey directly superin- tends the business in manufacture and sales. He is a member of Mechanics' Lodge, No. 14, Independent Order of Odd Fellows; Niantic Encampment, No. 7;

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a member and treasurer of the Town Republican Committee of Hopkinton, and a member of the School Committee of the town of Hopkinton.

Mr. Bailey married, November 4, 1905, Julia Brown, of Rochester, Pa., a daughter of Hartford P. Brown, a retired contractor of that city. Mr. and Mrs. Bailey are the parents of a daughter, Sue T. Bailey.

WILLIAM GAMMELL-Six generations of Gam- mells in New England, beginning with William (1) Gammell, of Boston, Mass., in 1723, down to William Gammell, Jr., of Providence, born March 8, 1885, have borne the name of William with the single exception in this line of the third generation which is headed by John Gammell who, however, had a brother William.

William (1) Gammell was succeeded by a son, Wil- liam (2) Gammell, who married Anna Page, of Med- ford, Mass., and had two sons, John and William, both of whom served in the War of the Revolution, William enlisting at the age of fourteen. John Gammell, the eldest of these two sons, enlisted in the American army, June 18, 1775, and after the war was over re- turned to Boston, where he and his wife, Margaret (Vrann) Gammell, were members of Federal Street Congregational Church. Their son, the Rev. William (3) Gammell, A. M., became an eminent divine of the Baptist church, his rare gifts as a pulpit orator attract- ing large congregations. He was pastor of the Second Baptist Church of Newport, R. I., from Angust, 1823, until his lamented death at the early age of forty-one, and during that time was one of the strong advocates for the establishment of the first public school in New- port, an undertaking which encountered strong opposi- tion. He was a trustee of Brown University, and in 1817 received from the University the honorary degree of Master of Arts.

Professor William (4) Gammell, LL. D., son of Rev. William (3) and Mary (Slocumb) Gammell, gradnate of Brown University, A. B., 1831, University of Roch- ester, LL. D., 1859, was for thirty-two years connected with Brown University as tutor, assistant professor and professor, filling the chair of Rhetoric and English History, 1836-51, and the chair of History and Political Economy (the first incumbent) 1851 until he resigned in 1864. After his resignation, and until his death in 1889, he devoted himself to literature and lecturing, the rare ability of his honored father descending upon him. He was a constant contributor to the "Christian Review," "The Examiner and Chronicle," and other magazines and papers, and was also an editorial and obit- uary writer on the "Providence Journal." He prepared biographies of Roger Williams and Governor Samuel Ward for Sparks' "American Biography," published a "History of American Baptist Missions" and numerous addresses, reviews and monographs upon a variety of subjects, including the annual necrology list of Brown graduates, which he prepared for more than thirty years. Some of his eloquent addresses before literary and learned societies have been preserved in print, and the records of Providence Athaneaum teem with his deeds, he having been president of that body from 1870 until his death. He was president of the Rhode Island Bible Society ; first vice-president of Rhode Island His- torical Society; corresponding member of the Massa-

chusetts Historical Society and held official relation wit several financial and charitable institutions of Provi dence. In 1870 he was elected a Fellow of Brown Uni versity, and many honors were conferred upon thi distinguished adopted son of Rhode Island.

Professor Gammell married (first) Elizabeth A Whipple, Oct., 1838, who died Nov., 1839, daughter o Hon. John Whipple. He married (second), in Sept 1851, Elizabeth Amory Ives, daughter of Robert H. an' Harriet (Bowen) Ives. Professor William and Eliza beth Amory (Ives) Gammell were the parents of thre sons and three daughters: 1. Robert Ives, Brow University, A. B., 1872, A. M., 1875; manufacturer an financier, was president of Providence National Bank died Jan. 8, 1915. 2. Elizabeth Hope. 3. William (5); of further mention. 4. Arthur Emory, died in March 1887, aged twenty-five years. 5. Harriet Ives. 6. Hele Lonise.

William (5) Gammell, second son of Professor Wi liam (4) Gammell and his second wife, Elizabet Amory (Ives) Gammell, was born in Providence, Ma; 20, 1857. He is a graduate of Brown University, A. B; 1878, and like his older brother he chose a busines rather than a professional career, although heredit would have sanctioned the latter. After he passe through the grades of preliminary service of two year business training, he became identified with the Berk ley Land Company in 1881, and as the years passed h increased his activities and responsibilities until reach ing his present secure position in the business life c the city. He is president of the Berkley Company president, treasurer and director of the Beverly Lan Company; president and director of the Providenc National Bank; president and director of the Hop Company ; trustee of the Providence Institute for Sav ings ; trustee of Brown University and Butler Hospital member of the firm of Brown & Ives and Sturges Gammell, and connected with many other business ir terests. He is a member of Psi Upsilon fraternity University, Hope, Agawam, Squantum, and other club of Providence, the University and Garden City Gol clubs of New York, Newport Golf Club, Newpor Reading Room Club and many others.

Mr. Gammell married, February 20, 1884, Bessi Gardner Bowen, and they are the parents of three son. all of whom are officers with the American Expeditior ary Force in France. William (6), born March & 1885, major of the Three Hundred and Second Fiel Artillery; Arthur E., born Sept. 5, 1888, captain of th Three Hundred and Fifth Field Artillery; R. H. Ive: born Jan. 7, 1893, first lieutenant of infantry, servin with the intelligence department.

JOHN GODDARD WEAVER, JR .- The surnam Weaver is of early English origin of the occupativ class, signifying literally "the weaver." Webster, wit the feminine suffix ster, applied to the same calling had much wider popularity, however, and is found wit much greater frequency in early registers.

Arms-Barry of four, argent and sable, a chief of the last a garb or.

Crest-A ram's head erased, argent armed or.

The Weaver family in America dates from the yea 1655, when Sergeant Clement Weaver, Sr., so-called t

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distinguish him from his son, Clement Weaver, Jr., settled in Newport, R. I., and became a freeman there. He subsequently rose to prominence in Colonial affairs, ind was chosen deputy to the General Court, in 1678. From this date to the present day his descendants played conspicuous and important part in the civic, political und business life of Newport, and have ranked among he foremost families of the city. Among the most distinguished figures in public and mercantile life in Newport in the nineteenth century were the late Hon. Benjamin Weaver and his sons. Hon. Joseph Briggs Weaver, and Hon. John Goddard Weaver.

(1) Clement Weaver, founder and immigrant an- estor, is first of record in Newport in 1665, when his lame appears on a list of freemen. On June 7, 1671, he served as juryman. In 1678 he was chosen deputy to he Rhode Island General Assembly. In 1680 he deeded o his son, Clement Weaver, of East Greenwich, eighty acres there, and on February 13, 1682, sold George Vaughan, of Newport, ten acres in East Greenwich. He married Mary Freeborn, who was born in 1627, daughter of William and Mary Freeborn. He is called Sergeant Clement Weaver, Sr., in the records of New- port to distinguish him from his son, Clement, Jr. This would seem to indicate that he held a military office.

(II) Thomas Weaver, son of Clement and Mary (Freeborn) Weaver, was a resident of Newport and Middletown, R. I. On December 3, 1684, he had ten acres of land laid out to him in East Greenwich. In (696-1710-15-21-22-23 he served as deputy to the Gen- eral Assembly. On February 18, 1702, he was one of and died in 1753. he proprietors of the common lands. He married Mary -

. (III) Benjamin Weaver, son of Thomas and Mary Weaver, was a resident of Newport and Middletown, R. I. He received from his father's estate, "certain and in Middletown, and buildings where he liveth." He was a prosperous farmer, and like many of the period a slave owner. Benjamin Weaver married Hannah -, who died in 1763. He died in 1754. and his will, dated August 17, 1752, was proved Sep- ember 16. 1754.

(IV) Thomas (2) Weaver, son of Benjamin and Hannah Weaver, was born May 1, 1718. He married Ruth Ann Bailey, and resided in Middletown, R. I., all his life. He died in 1802.

(V) Perry Weaver, son of Thomas (2) and Ruth Ann (Bailey) Weaver, was born in Middletown, R. I., and resided there during the early part of his life. He married Catherine Goddard, who was born April 20, 1757, and died March 24, 1816. In 1780 Perry Weaver removed to Newport, where he died, June 27, 1827.

(VI) Benjamin (2) Weaver, son of Perry and Cath- rine (Goddard) Weaver, was born March 4, 1781, in Newport, R. I., and was educated in the schools of the city. He subsequently rose to prominence in business and public life in the city, and for many years was one of its foremost citizens. He was elected to the Rhode Island General Assembly in 1819. In 1837-43, Mr. Weaver was elected to the Rhode Island Senate, and again in 1845-46 filled the office. He held various other offices, and in 1834 was a delegate to the Con- stitutional Convention. In 1844 he was a presidential lector. For many years he was a member of the New-

port Artillery Company. Benjamin Weaver married Hannah Spooner Briggs, who was born in January, 1783, and died October 9, 1847, daughter of Joseph Briggs, of Newport.

(VII) John Goddard Weaver, son of Benjamin (2) and Hannah Spooner (Briggs) Weaver, was born in Newport, R. I., November 25, 1812. He received his elementary education in the schools of Newport, later attending the Friends' School at Providence. On com- pleting his studies he became connected in business with his father, the late Benjamin Weaver, and learned the hatter's trade, which he followed for a short period. Failing health forced him to abandon this line of work, however, and to seek an occupation less confining. Shortly afterwards he established himself in the livery business on a small scale in Newport. He was highly successful in this venture, and rapidly developed the business into one of the largest of its kind in the city, engaging in other lines of work in conjunction with it. For more than twelve years he was one of the proprietors of the Providence Stage and Mail Line. In 1843 Mr. Weaver, in association with Abram Potter, engaged in the hotel business, conducting the "Belle- vue House" on Catherine street for a year. He was highly successful, and finding the "Bellevue House" too small to meet the demands of his growing patronage, Mr. Weaver, in 1844, with a company of Newport busi- ness men, erected the original "Ocean House," which was destroyed by fire on August 3, 1845. The place was immediately rebuilt, on a larger and more sump- tuous scale, and in 1846 was completed and opened. For more than fifty years the "Ocean House" was the leading hotel in Newport. Its location, in the heart of the fashionable residence district, drew to it a very high class patronage. Mr. Weaver was the genial, affable, courteous host, lavish in his hospitality. A man with a genius for friendship, he was known throughout the East, and among the thousands who made the old "Ocean House" their summer home, hundreds remained his life-long friends. This famous old hostelry was destroyed by fire on September 9, 1898.

John G. Weaver for two decades was active in the public and political life of Newport. He was a member of the Board of Aldermen and the Common Council from the incorporation of Newport as a city. On the death of the old Whig party, of which he had been a staunch member, he allied himself with the Repub- lican party, and was active in its formation, and in its councils until the time of his death. In 1863-6; he was a representative from Newport in the Rhode Island State Assembly, serving ably and well in the Lower House. The welfare and advancement of the city were always in his heart, and he was prominently identified with all notable movements toward this end through- out his public career. Through the nature of his busi- ness he was one of the best known men in the city, but he was also one of the most highly respected and best loved. In early life he was a member of the In- dependent Order of Odd Fellows.

In 1832 Mr. Weaver married Susan Bliven, daughter of Ray and Susan (James) Bliven, of Newport. They were the parents of the following children: I. Benja- min, who was associated with his father in the hotel business; a member of the First Rhode Island Cavalry,

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in the Civil War; died in New York, November 26, 1863. 2. Joseph Briggs, was a member of the firm of Kerner & Weaver, proprietors of the Everett House, New York; he died in New York City, unmarried, April 9. 1882. 3. Marian Jones, died at the age of six- teen years. 4. Susan, died in infancy. 5. John God- dard, Jr., mentioned below. 6. Susan James, unmarried, deceased. 7. Hannah Briggs, died unmarried, in 1894. The mother of these children died in Newport, Novem- ber 19, 1889. For many years Mr. Weaver, who was a Unitarian in religious belief, was president of the board of trustees of the Channing Memorial Church at New- port. John Goddard Weaver died at his home in New- port, August 10, 1892.

(VIII) John Goddard Weaver, Jr., son of John God- dard and Susan ( Bliven) Weaver, was born in New- port, R. I., October 2, 1842. He was educated in the schools of the city, and on completing his studies became associated with his father in the management of the "Ocean House." He later became the proprietor of the "Everett House," in New York City, and for many years was well known in business and hotel circles in that city. He was an able business man, and was highly success- ful in his business career.

In 1865 Mr. Weaver married Wealthy More Town- send, daughter of the late Edmund J. Townsend, and member of a family long established and prominent in Newport life and affairs. Extended mention of the Townsend family is made in the article on the late Amasa Manton Chace, whose wife, Mrs. Sarah Hull (Townsend) Chace, was a daughter of Edmund J. Townsend, and sister of Mrs. Weaver. Mr. and Mrs. Weaver were the parents of one son, Benjamin, men- tioned below. Mrs. Weaver survives her husband and resides at No. 12 Redwood street, Newport. She is well known in social circles in the city, and has been prominently identified with many charitable efforts. John Goddard Weaver, Jr., died at his home in New York City, February 7, 1894.

(1X) Benjamin Weaver, the son of John Goddard, Jr. and Wealthy More (Townsend) Weaver, was born in Newport, R. I., May 3, 1866, and died there Novem- ber 9, 1915. He was graduated from Harvard Univer- sity in the class of 1889. The following tribute to his memory is taken from the "Harvard Graduate Maga- zine," of March, 1916:

In college he was a member of the Institute, D. R. E., Hasty Pudding, "Zeta Psi," and Art clubs; he also played on the freshman ball team. His star parts In the Hasty Pudding theatricals will long be remem- bered, and the songs sung therein by him have become classics. After graduation he was associated with his father In the hotel business in Newport and New York. Upon his father's death in 1894 he sold his interest In New York, and in 1906 his hotel property in Newport. He then engaged in farming until 1902. After travel- ing to some extent he became treasurer of the George A. Weaver Company, in 1907, and until 1913 was en- gaged in the agricultural hardware business. After April, 1913, he was in the real estate and insurance business, as a member of the firm of Andrews & Weaver. He married, November 30, 1892, Eleanor Whipple, who survives him with one child, Eleanor Swann, born October 23, 1897.

"Benny" Weaver was one of the best known men in his class and at all class reunions could be counted on for a humorous song or story. Genial and witty, at the same time quiet and retiring, a veln of deep ser- lousness lay frequently beneath his jester's air. No one can fill exactly hls place at our reunions.

COLONEL JAMES MONROE INGALLS, 01

of the foremost authorities in the United States in tl science of ballistics, was born in Sutton, Vt., the sci of James and Mary (Cass) Ingalls, and is a line descendant of Edmund Ingalls, founder of the fami in America. Edmund Ingalls, immigrant ancestor, was native of England, where the family has been estall - lished for several centuries. The name of Ingalls of Scandinavian origin, and was introduced into Eng land by Scandinavian pirates in their raids on the ea coast of early Britain. The most ancient families of th name have been seated in Lincolnshire from mediev. times. The name Ingalls signifies literally "by th power of Thor." The Domesday Book records a Barc Ingald, a tenant of William the Conqueror, at Ressi and Elvestone, Leicestershire, 1080. The family fir. appears in American Colonial records in the year 162 when Edmund Ingalls came to New England, a membr of Governor Endicott's company, and was the fir. settler of Lynn, Mass.

Colonel Ingalls was educated in the public schools cf Massachusetts, and at the age of eighteen went to Mad ison, Wis., where for a time he was a teacher in th high school. From 1860 to 1863 he was instructor ( mathematics in the Evansville Seminary, Wisconsin. H enlisted, January 2, 1864, in Company A, Second Ba talion, Sixteenth Infantry. On May 21, 1865, he wa commissioned second and first lieutenants, both com missions having the same date. On April 17, 1869, h was transferred to the Second Infantry, and on Januar 1, 1871, to the First Artillery, of which he was con missioned captain, July 1, 1880. On June 1, 1877, h. was commissioned major, and on October 28, 1899 trans ferred to the Fifth Artillery. On October 5, 1900, h became lieutenant-colonel of the Third Artillery, wit which rank he retired, on January 25, 1901, havin reached the retiring age of sixty-four years. By Ad of April 23, 1904, he was advanced to the rank of col onel. Colonel Ingalls served gallantly through the las year of the Civil War, participating in the Atlanta cam paign. On the conclusion of peace he was assigned t reconstruction duty in the South, until January 1, 1871 In 1882 he founded the department of ballistics at th United States Artillery School at Fort Monroe, an was principal instructor in that science until the out break of the Spanish American War, in 1898, when th school was suspended. Colonel Ingalls was the autho in 1883-85-86 of "Exterior Ballistics." In 1885 he wrot "Ballistic Machines," in 1890-91 his "Handbook o Problems in Exterior Ballistics," "Interior Ballistics, 1894, 19II ; "Ballistic Tables," 1891, 1900, "Ballistics fo the Instruction of Artillery Gunners," 1893. He was th author also of extensive articles on gunnery, gunpowder etc., and as an eminent authority in this field was asker to prepare articles on these subjects for "Johnson' Universal Encyclopedia," in 1894. He also wrote the article "Ballistics" for the "New International Ency clopedia," second edition, 1915.

On July 29, 1860, Colonel Ingalls married Eliza H Niles, of Windsor, Wis. He married ( second) Harrie Elizabeth Thurston, daughter of Hon. Benjamin Bab cock and Frances E. (Deshon) Thurston, of New London, Conn., July 17, 1877. (See Thurston VII).

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Colonel Ingalls resides in Providence, R. I. He is well known in club and military circles in Rhode Island. He is a member of the Loyal Legion, of the Order of Foreign Wars; and of the University, Chess and Rhode island Churchman's clubs of Providence, and the Offi- :ers' clubs at Fort Monroe, Va., and Governor's Island, N. Y.

(The Thurston Line).

The Thurston family in Rhode Island dates from he second decade of the colony's history. Edward Thurston, in 1647, founded in Rhode Island a family which has ramified strongly and has produced in suc- :essive generations to the present date many men of wide reputation in professional and civic life. The ine herein under consideration, that of the late Hon. Jeremiah Thurston, 1768-1830, Hon. Benjamin Babcock Thurston, 1804-18 , Benjamin F. Thurston, 1829-1890, and John Deshon Thurston, 1842-1909, has been repre- sented in public and legal affairs in Rhode Island, by four of the most talented and brilliant men of the period of a century and a half, which their lives covered. The Thurston family coat-of-arms is as follows :

Arms-Sable a chevron between three bugle-horns stringed or.

Crest-Out of a plume of five ostrich feathers a demi- griffin segreant.

Motto-Thrust on.

(I) Edward Thurston, the founder of the family in America, is first of record in Rhode Island in the year 1647. It is possible that he was there before that date, at least long enough to attend to the preliminaries of his marriage to Elizabeth Mott, daughter of Adam Mott, who came from Cambridge, England, with his wife and several children, in the ship "Defence." in July, 1634. Elizabeth Mott, born in 1629, married Ed- ward Thurston, and the stones of Elizabeth and their sons, Daniel, Samuel, and others, are still standing in the Coddington burying ground in Newport. Their marriage is the third of the record of the Society of Friends at Newport. Edward Thurston became a free- man in 1665, and subsequently rose to prominence in the affairs of the colony. He was commissioner, as- sistant and deputy to the General Court from Newport at different times between 1663 and 1690. On August 26, 1686, he, with others, signed an address from the Quakers of Rhode Island to the King. He died March I, 1707, aged about ninety years.

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The history of the state of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, V. IV, Part 56

Author: Bicknell, Thomas Williams, 1834-1925. cn Publication date: 1920 Publisher: New York, The American Historical Society Number of Pages: 978

Author: Bicknell, Thomas Williams, 1834-1925. cn
Publication date: 1920
Publisher: New York, The American Historical Society
Number of Pages: 978