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Middlesex County Biographies
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ABBOTT, Mrs. Elizabeth
Robinson, educator, born in (American Women, Fifteen Hundred Biographies, Vol 1, Publ. 1897. Transcribed by Marla Snow.) George Zaccheus Adams, son of Charles and Mary (Robbins) Adams was born in Chelmsford, Mass., April 23, 1833, and graduated at Harvard in 1856. He studied law in the office of Oliver Stevens in Boston and at the Harvard Law School and was admitted to the Suffolk bar, January 26, 1858. He was appointed August 4, 1882, Special Justice of the Boston Municipal Court and October 1, 1896, Associate Justice. He married September 16, 1861, Joanna F. daughter of Charles and Joan F. (Hagar) Davenport and is now on the bench. [Source: History of the Judiciary of Massachusetts: By William Thomas Davis; Publ. 1900; Transcribe for Genealogy Trails by Andrea Stawski Pack.] ADAMS, Mrs. Jane Kelley, educator, born in (American
Women, Fifteen Hundred Biographies, Vol 1, Publ. 1897. Transcribed
by Marla Snow.)
ALDRICH, Miss Susanna Valentine, author, born in (American Women, Fifteen Hundred Biographies, Vol 1, Publ.
1897. Transcribed by Marla
Snow.)
Charles Herbert Allen
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Allen, Edward Patrick,
clergyman and bishop of 400 Government St., Mobile, Ala., was born
March 17, 1853, in Lowell, Mass. He has received the degrees of
A.M., A.B. and D.D.; and in 1885-97 was president of St. Mary's
College of Emmitsburg Md. Since 1897 he has been bishop of
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Robert Roberts Bishop, son of Jonathan Parker and Eliza Harding Bishop, was born in Medfield, Mass., March 31, 1834, and studied law at the Harvard Law School and in Boston, in the offices of Peleg W. Chandler and Brooks it Ball. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar November 24,1857, and was a Representative in 1874, and a Senator from 1878 to 1882, the last three years of which he was President. He was the Republican candidate for Governor in 1882, and was appointed, March 7, 1888, Judge of the Superior Court, which place he still holds. He married, December 24, 1857, at Holliston, Mass., Mary Helen Bullard. [Source: History of the Judiciary of Massachusetts: By William Thomas Davis; Publ. 1900; Transcribe for Genealogy Trails by Andrea Stawski Pack.] | ||
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Lincoln Flagg Brigham, son of Lincoln and Lucy (Forbes) Brigham, was born in Cambridge, October 4, 1819, and graduated at Dartmouth in 1842. He studied law at the Harvard Law School and with John H. Clifford and Harrison G. O. Colby in New Bedford and was admitted to the Bristol bar in 1845. He was for a time a partner of Mr. Clifford and was District Attorney six years. In 1859 he was appointed Associate Justice of the Superior Court and in 1869 Chief Justice, serving until he resigned in 1890. He married at New Bedford, October 20, 1847, Eliza Endicott, daughter of Thomas and Sylvia (Perry) Swain, and died in Salem February 27, 1895. [Source: History of the Judiciary of Massachusetts: By William Thomas Davis; Publ. 1900; Transcribe for Genealogy Trails by Andrea Stawski Pack.] BULL, Mrs.
Sarah C. Thorpe, wife of Ole Bull, the famous violinist, is
the superintendent of the department of sanitary and economic
cookery in the National Women's Christian Temperance Union. She has
translated "The Pilot and His Wife" by Jonas Lie (Chicago, 1876),
and "The Barque 'Future'" (Chicago, 1879), by the same author. She
has also published a "Memoir of Ole Bull" (Boston, 1883.) She was
largely instrumental in securing the monument to Ericsson on
Commonwealth avenue, Boston. Her home is in Cambridge
Mass. (American Women Fifteen Hundred Biographies Vol 1 Publ. 1897 Transcribed by Marla Snow) HOWARTH, John
Bradshaw, treasurer The Pingree Company, wholesale shoe
manufacturers; born, Graniteville, Mass., (Middlesex Co) Mar. 29,
1858; son of George and Margaret (Bradshaw) Howarth; educated in
common schools and at Westford (Mass.) Academy; married Detroit,
Apr. 8, 1884, Fanny Child Perkins. Upon leaving school
December, 1875, entered employ of The Pingree Company (then
Pingree& Smith, organized 1866); became member of the firm,
1883, and has been treasurer of the company since time of
incorporation 1902. Has confined his business to activities to The
Pingree Company and its branches. Episcopalian. President Board of
Mission P.E. Diocese of Michigan. President Detroit Y.M.C.A. Club;
Detroit. Recreation: Study of sociology and political economy.
Office: 104 Jefferson Av. Residence: 785 Cass
Avenue.
(Source: The Book of Detroiters by Albert Nelson Marquis
1908 - Transcribed by Christine Walters)
BURNS, Mrs. Nellie
Marie, poet, born in Waltham, Mass., about 1850. She is a
daughter of Dr. Newell Sherman, of Waltham, a descendant of Rev.
John Sherman and Mary Launce, a granddaughter of Thomas Darcy, the
Earl of Rivers. The family came to America from Dedham, England, in
1642. Her mother's maiden name was Kimball, and BUTLER, Miss
Clementina, evangelist, born in Bareilly, India, 7th
January, 1862. Her father, Rev. William Butler, was
commissioned in 1856 to open mission work for the Methodist
Episcopal Church. After passing through great perils during
the Sepoy rebellion, in 1857. Bareilly was settled as headquarters.
The family moved their home seventeen times during the next eight
years, according to the needs of the work. Returning to the United
States, alter a few years' rest, Dr. Butler was requested to
organize mission work in Mexico. There the linguistic ability of the
daughter was of great service. In 1884 Miss Butler went with her
parents to revisit her native land, and her observations during an
extended tour in that country have served as the theme of many of
her addresses and articles. On account of the infirmities of age and
the heavy responsibilities borne so long, Dr. and Mrs. Butler reside
quietly in Newton Center, Mass., and from their home the daughter
goes out to inspire others with her own belief in the glorious
possibilities for women in every land, when aided by Christian
civilization. Miss Butler is interested in missionary work of all
kinds, medical missions for the women of the East being her favorite
subject. As a King's Daughter she works in the slums of Boston,
besides pleading in the churches and on public platforms for the
needy in the uttermost parts of the earth. A short residence in
Alaska gave her an insight into the condition of the people there,
and she is an ardent champion of their rights in regard to suitable
educational grants and the enforcement of the laws prohibiting the
sale of liquor in that Territory. Miss Butler is her father's
assistant in his literary labors, by which he still aids the cause
he served so long. She uses her pen also for missionary
publications. CORSE, William
Malcolm , chemist; born, Malden,
Mass., (Middlesex Co) May 25, 1878; son of William A. and Genevieve
(Alexander) Corse; educated in public schools of Malden and Medford,
Mass.; degree of S. B., Department of Chemistry, Massachusetts
Institute of Technology, 1899; married at Detroit, June 4, 1902,
Edith W. Bell. Chemist with William S. Merrell Chemical Co.,
Cincinnati, 1899-1901, Detroit White Lead Works, 1901-02; assistant
superintendent, in charge of brass foundry, Detroit Lubricator Co.,
since Jan., 1903; especially interested in scientific development of
foundry, particularly along metallurgical lines. Congregationalist.
Member American Chemical Society, Society of Detroit Chemists
(secretary), American Brass Founders' Association (vice president).
Recreations: Won first prize manual of arms, and first prize bayonet
drill, Medford High School Cadets; first prize (presented by
Governor Wolcott of Massachusetts) manual of arms and bayonet
combined, while holding rank of 1st lieutenant,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cadets. Office: Detroit
Lubricator Co. Residence: 54 Lothrop Av.
(Source: The Book of Detroiters Edited by Albert Nelson Marquis
1908 - Contributed by Christin Walters)
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Hannah
P. Dodge DODGE, Miss Hannah P.,
educator, born on a farm in Littleton, Mass., 16th February, 1821,
where her girlhood was spent. She attended the public school and
afterwards spent several terms in a select school for young ladies.
When she was seventeen years old, she began to teach a district
school in a neighboring town. She next taught successfully in her
own town. After teaching for some terms, she went to the Lawrence
Academy in Groton, Mass. She completed her education in the Townsend
Female Seminary, in Townsend, Mass. After graduating from that
school, she was chosen a teacher in the institution. One year later
she was chosen principal of the school, a position which she held
for seven years. She held the position of principal in the Oread
Institute in Worcester, Mass., for several years, traveled in Europe
for a year and there studied modern languages and art. She has
traveled much in her own country. After her sojourn in Europe, she
took a desirable position in Dorchester, Mass., where she
successfully managed a young ladies' school for five years. Retiring
from the school field, she purchased a pleasant home in Littleton,
where her family had remained. In that town she was made a
superintendent of schools, and served a number of years. She is
president of the local Woman's Christian Temperance Union and one of
the trustees of the public library, and is active in charitable
work. (American
Women, Frances Elizabeth Willard, Mary Ashton Rice Livermore, Volume
1 Copyright 1897. Transcribed by Marla
Snow.) | ||
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HARRIET THAYER
DURGIN Durgin, Miss Harriet Thayer, artist, born in the town of
Wilmington, Mass., in 1848. She is the daughter of Rev. J. M.
Durgin. Sprung from families who, leaving their homes for
conscience's sake, sought New England's shores, and whose lives were
freely given when they were needed in their country's defense, her
father was a man of dauntless courage and remarkable intellectual
power. He was of the Baptist faith and a man of broad and liberal
sentiments. An enthusiast in the anti-slavery movement, he entered
the army in the late war and left behind him a brilliant military
record. The mother, a woman of exalted character, fine intellect and
lovely disposition, united two good New England names, as she was of
the Braintree-Thayer family. One of a family of five children, Miss
Durgin's youth was surrounded by those gentle and refining
influences which are the lot of those born into the environment of a
clergyman's household. She pursued her preparatory studies of life,
not only in the training schools of those towns where her father's
profession called him, but in a home where every influence
wasdirected toward the up building of a rich and well rounded
character. She passed the concluding years of study in the New
Hampton Institute, in New Hampshire. When it became necessary
for Miss Durgin to assume the duties and responsibilities of life on
her own account, she chose teaching as a stepping-stone to the
realization of her dream, an art education. Finally the way opened
to enter upon her favorite field of study, and in 1880 she joined
her sister Lyle in Paris, France, where she entered the studio of
Mme. de Cool, and later that of Francois Rivoire, where daily
lessons were taken. Having in company with her sister established a
little home, she found many famous artists who were glad to visit
the cosy salon and give careful and valuable criticism. After seven
years of study Miss Durgin returned to Boston, where she had many
friends, and in company with her sister opened a studio in the most
fashionable quarter of the city. Their rooms were soon frequented on
reception days by admirers and lovers of art, and commissions have
never been wanting to keep their brushes constantly employed. As a
flower painter she stands among the foremost of American artists. A
panel of tea-roses received special notice in the salon of 1886, and
a group combining flowers and landscape in 1890 won much
notice. (American Women, Frances Elizabeth Willard, Mary Ashton Rice Livermore, Volume 1 Copyright 1897. Transcribed by Marla Snow.) | ||
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MISS LYLE DURGIN *1845 - 1904* Durgin, Miss Lyle, artist, was born in Wilmington, Mass., in
1850. A sister of Harriet Thayer Durgin, she grew up as one with
her, so far as environment and teaching were concerned. They drew
the same life and inspiration from their home surroundings and
studied in the same schools, and when their education was completed
found themselves with the same inclination toward art. Lyle went to
Paris in 1879 and became a pupil of Bonnat and Bastien Lepage. Later
she entered the Julien Academy for more serious study in drawing,
working enthusiastically, early and late, both in the school and in
her own studio, supplementing her studio work by anatomical studies
at the ficole de Medicine under M. Chicotot. In summer time the
sisters sketched in England, Switzerland and (Birthdate Feb 1845 Source: 1900 census of Boston, MA, Death date from Genealogical and Family History of the state of New Hampshire, Vol. II 1908) | ||
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GRAVES, Miss Mary H.,
Unitarian minister, born in North Reading, Mass., 12th
September, 1839. Her parents were Eben Graves and Hannah M.
Campbell Graves. Her maternal ancestors, the Campbells and
Moores, were descendants of the Scotch-Irish settlers of
Londonderry, N. H. Mary was graduated from the State Normal School,
Salem, Mass., in February, 1860. She taught in the public schools of
her native town and of South Danvers, now Peabody, Mass. She was
inclined to literature and wrote for the "Ladies' Repository” and
other journals. She took a theological course of study under Rev.
Olympia Brown in Weymouth Mass., and in Bridgeport, Conn., preaching
occasionally in the neighboring towns. In the summer of 1869 she
supplied the pulpit of the Universalist Church in North Reading,
Mass. In the summer of 1870 she preached in Earlville, Ill. On
December, 14th, 1871, she was regularly ordained as pastor of the
Unitarian Church in Mansfield, Mass., having already preached one
year for that society. In 1882 she had pastoral charge of the
Unitarian Society in Baraboo, Wis. She has done some missionary work
in the West, mainly in Illinois and adjoining States. In 1885 and
1886, while living in Chicago, she assisted in the conduct of
"Manford's Magazine," acting as literary editor. For one year she
was secretary of the Women's Western Unitarian Conference. At
present her strength is not sufficient to allow her to do the full
work of the ministry, and she is devoting herself to literary work.
She contributes occasionallv to the "Christian Register," the
"Commonwealth," the Boston "Transcript," the "Leader" and other
journals. (Source: American Women by Frances Elizabeth Willard, Mary Ashton Rice Livermore, Vol. 1, 1897. Transcribed by Marla Snow) | ||
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HAGER, Mrs. Lucie Caroline, author, born in Littleton, Mass., 29th December, 1853. Her parents were Robert Dunn Gilson and Lydia Gilson. There were nine children in the family, of whom Mrs. Hager was the youngest. Heavy and peculiar trials attended her childhood, yet these circumstances deepened and intensified her poetical nature, while the more practical side of her character was strongly developed. She had a thirst for knowledge and used all available means to satisfy it. Her education was acquired in adverse circumstances. Having entered the normal school in Framingham, Mass., in 1875, she was recalled to her home during the first weeks of the school year, and her studies were exchanged for days of patient watching with the sick, or such employment as she could obtain near her home. Her first poems appeared at that time. She met the daily ills of life with courage and lifted herself above them, seeking out what good she could find. With such private instruction as her country home afforded, she took up her studies with earnest purpose. She became a successful teacher of country schools and a bookkeeper. In October, 1882, she became the wife of Simon B. Hager. She has one child, a boy. Most of her poems have appeared over the name Lucie C. Gilson. She has written a number of short prose stories. Her estimate of her own work is modest. She has recently written and published a very interesting history of the town in which she resides, entitled "Boxborough: A New England Town and its People." (Source: American Women by Frances Elizabeth Willard, Mary Ashton Rice Livermore, Vol. 1, 1897. Transcribed by Marla Snow) | ||
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Hart (1845-1927)  The picture is an "Orphan Portrait" from an album in the possession of Betty Patterson. (Charles, Samuel, Daniel, Daniel, Thomas, Adam, Isaac) Eldora was born 22 Oct 1845 in Townsend, Middlesex, MA USA to Benjamin Franklin and Elizabeth (Lamson) Lewis. Eldora married Charles Brooks Hart, 12 May 1871, in Townsend, Middlesex, MA USA Eldora was the second born in the family of an older sister, Abbie Elizabeth, a younger sister, Nancy Jane, and the youngest child, a boy, Charles Francis. There is no evidence of Eldora and Charles ever having children. At the time of Charles's death in 1923, Eldora was still living. Both Charles and Eldora were buried in the Townsend, MA cemetery.
Sources: Census, Ancestry.com, and "the Genealogical History of Hart" by James M. Hart | ||
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Ebenezer Rockwood Hoar, son of Samuel and Sarah (Sherman) Hoar, was born in Concord, Mass., February 21, 1816, and graduated at Harvard in 1835. He studied law with his father, with Emory Washburn in Worcester and at the Harvard Law School and was admitted to the bar in Worcester September 3, 1839. He was Judge of the Court of Common Pleas from 1849 to 1853, Associate Justice of the Supreme Judicial Court from 1859 to 1869, Attorney General of the United States under President Grant, a member of the Joint High Commission which made the treaty of Washington with Great Britain, State Senator, member of Congress, Regent of the Smithsonian Institution, Fellow of Harvard College, member and President of the Harvard Board of Overseers. He married, November 26, 1840, Caroline Downes, daughter of Nathan Brooks of Concord and died January 31, 1895. He received the degree of LL. D. from Harvard in 1868, and from Williams in 1861. [Source: History of the Judiciary of Massachusetts: By William Thomas Davis; Publ. 1900; Transcribe for Genealogy Trails by Andrea Stawski Pack.] | ||
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Charles Sumner Lilley, son of Charles and Cynthia (Huntley) Lilley, was born in Lowell, December 13, 1851. He studied law in Lowell with Arthur P. Bonney and was admitted to the Middlesex bar at Cambridge in June, 1877. He settled in Lowell, was Chairman of the Board of Aldermen in 1879 and Senator in 1880-81-86. In 1884 he was a Councillor and in 1882-84 was the Democratic candidate for Congress in his district. In 1893 he was appointed Judge of the Superior Court and resigned in 1900. He married at Lowell, April 4, 1891, Clara, daughter of Arthur P. and Emma A. (Call) Bonney, of Lowell. [Source: History of the Judiciary of Massachusetts: By William Thomas Davis; Publ. 1900; Transcribe for Genealogy Trails by Andrea Stawski Pack.] | ||
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Frederick Lawton, son of James and Sarah S. (Priest) Lawton, was born in Lowell, May 10, 1852, and graduated at Harvard in 1874. He studied law in the office of G. F. Lawton of Lowell and was admitted to the Middlesex bar at Lowell in 1880. He settled in Lowell, was Senator in 1893 and in 1900 was appointed Judge of the Superior Court. He married, at Lowell, June 15, 1880, Helen Spalding, daughter of Sewall G. Mack. [Source: History of the Judiciary of Massachusetts: By William Thomas Davis; Publ. 1900; Transcribe for Genealogy Trails by Andrea Stawski Pack.] | ||
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THE BOSTON HERALD, THURSDAY,NOVEMBER 13, 1919 Lowell Proud of Old-Fashioned Family of Nine Healthy Children By William Preble
Jones LOWELL, Nov. 6. 1919. Here is a family worth having. One of the kind that our great-grandparents used to have: the kind the President Roosevelt was wont to admire. And one of which the city of Lowell is proud. The father, Arthur E. Mellen was born in
Lowell, married in Lowell, and all
of his nine children were born in
that city. Two of the children served in the war. Myrtle, a graduate of the Lowell Hospital, was a Red Cross nurse from August, 1918 to May, 1919. She served at Forts Hamilton and Jay. Raymond had already completed one year at Colby College Waterville, ME, when he went to the Plattsburg camp in the summer of 1918. After he received his second lieutenant’s commission he spent nearly a year at Camp Grant, Illinois, receiving his discharge at Camp Devens about Sept. 1 of that year. Earl, the eldest son, was graduated in 1917 from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and is now engaged in electrical engineering at Newark, N.J. Hazel, the second daughter is attending the Gordon Bible School in Boston. Theodore, 14 years old, is a patriotic
and energetic youngster, in keeping
with his name. Soon after his advent
he was given some sort of middle name beginning with the letter R. But with his first
name such as it was, there was only
one appropriate middle name, and
when he got old enough to know anything, of his own initiative, and with characteristic
strenuosity, he discarded the gift
of his parents and inserted the name
to Roosevelt, and so it remains to this day. The family lives in a large and
comfortable house at 1131 Bridge
Street, in the suburbs of Lowell, out near Dracut, where they cultivate a garden and help
“Dad” to meet the high cost of
living. Mr. Mellen is a printer by trade. He is foreman of the job department of Lowell Courier-Citizen, by which concern he has been employed for 35 years. Both Mr. and Mrs. Mellen and several of the children are members of the First Baptist Church, and when, as frequently happens, the whole family is present, two pews are crowded and part of a third are required to seat them. [The Boston Herald, Nov 13, 1919 - submitted by Mrs. Carole Dick www.myhartt.com] | ||
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Stephen Minot, son of Jonas and Mary (Hall) Minot, was born in Concord, Mass., September 28, 1776, and graduated at Harvard in 1801. He studied law with Samuel Dana of Groton, and began practice in New Gloucester, Maine. He afterwards removed to Minot, Maine, and finally to Haverhill, Mass. He was appointed in 1811 Judge of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas for the Middle Circuit, and in 1824 was appointed County Attorney for Essex, and was a Representative in 1825. He married November 9, 1809, Rebecca, daughter of Samuel Trask of Bradford, Mass., and died at Haverhill April 6, 1861. [Source: History of the Judiciary of Massachusetts: By William Thomas Davis; Publ. 1900; Transcribe for Genealogy Trails by Andrea Stawski Pack.] | ||
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William Burnham Stevens, son of William F. and Mary J. G. (Burnham) Stevens, was born in Stoneham, Mass., March 23, 1843, and graduated at Dartmouth in 1865. He studied law at the Harvard Law School and in the office 61 Sweetser & Gardner in Boston, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar July 3, 1867. He was District Attorney for the Northern District from 1880 to 1890, and was appointed in 1898 Judge of the Superior Court and is now on the bench. He married, October 20, 1868, A. Josie Hill, and September 30, 1873, Mary W. Green. [Source: History of the Judiciary of Massachusetts: By William Thomas Davis; Publ. 1900; Transcribe for Genealogy Trails by Andrea Stawski Pack.] | ||
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Charles Russell Train, son of Rev. Charles and Hepsibah (Harrington) Train, was born in Framingham, Mass., October 18, 1817, and graduated at Brown in 1837. He read law in Cambridge and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1841. He settled in Framingham, was Representative in 1847, member of the Constitutional Convention in 1853, District Attorney from 1848 to 1855, Councillor in 1857-8, and member of Congress from 1859 to 1863. About the close of the war, he removed to Boston, was a Representative again in 1871 and Attorney General from 1872 to 1879. He died at North Conway, N. H., July 29, 1885. [Source: History of the Judiciary of Massachusetts: By William Thomas Davis; Publ. 1900; Transcribe for Genealogy Trails by Andrea Stawski Pack.] | ||
