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JOHN
ALDEN
Puritan settler in Plymouth Colony. He came to America on
the Mayflower and was prominent as assistant to the governor of the
colony. He moved (c.1627) to Duxbury and there was neighbor and
friend of Miles Standish . Alden's marriage to Priscilla Mullens
gave rise to the romantic legend made familiar by Longfellow's poem,
The Courtship of Miles Standish.
The
Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
John
Alden c.1599-1687,
Author not
available, ALDEN, JOHN., The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
2008
JOHN FORRESTER ANDREW
.
ANDREW, John
Forrester, a
Representative
from
Massachusetts; born
in
Hingham,
Plymouth
County,
Mass.,
November
26,
1850;
attended private
schools
in Hingham
and
the
Phillips
School
and
Brooks School in
Boston;
was
graduated from
Harvard
University
in
1872 and
from
Harvard
Law School
in 1875; was
admitted to
the
Suffolk
bar in 1875
and
commenced practice
in
Boston;
member of
the
State
house of
representatives
1880-1882;
served
in the
State
senate in
1884 and
1885;
commissioner
of parks
for
Boston
1885-1890
and
again in
1894;
unsuccessful
Democratic
candidate for
Governor in 1886;
elected as
a
Democrat to
the
Fifty-first and
Fifty-second
Congresses (March
4,
1889-March 3,
1893);
chairman,
Committee on
Reform in
the Civil
Service
(Fifty-second
Congress);
unsuccessful
candidate
for
reelection
in 1892
to
the
Fifty-third
Congress;
resumed
the
practice of
his
profession;
died
in
Boston,
Mass., May
30, 1895;
interment in
Mount Auburn
Cemetery,
Cambridge, Mass.
Source:
Biographical Directory of the United States
Congress,
1771-Present
[Contributed by Anna Newell]
HENRY K.
BRALEY
Henry King Braley, son of Samuel T. and Mary A.
Braley, was born in Rochester, Mass., March 17, 1850. He studied law
in the office of Hosea Kingman, in Bridgewater, and was admitted to
the bar in Plymouth, in October, 1873. He settled in Fall River, and
continued in practice there until 1891, when he was appointed Judge
of the Superior Court. He was City Solicitor in Fall River in 1874,
and Mayor in 1882-83. He married in Bridgewater, April 29,1875,
Caroline W., daughter of Philander and Sarah T. Leach. He is still
on the bench.
[Source: History of the Judiciary of Massachusetts: By William
Thomas Davis; Publ. 1900; Transcribe for Genealogy Trails by Andrea
Stawski Pack.]
GROVER
CLEVELAND
22nd & 24th
PRESIDENT
Grover Cleveland, well known for his
enjoyment of the outdoors, good
food
and
beverages
spent his
summers duck hunting and fishing while staying
at
the
Idlewild
Hotel
in
Manomet Bluffs. In
1884, he began his
first
term
as
the
22nd
President of
the United
States. While
serving
this
term,
then in
his
fifties, he
caused
quite a stir by
marrying
Frances
Folson,
age 21.
He
lost
his
re-election
bid to
Benjamin
Harrison
in
part through
the efforts
of
the
Prohibition
League
that campaigned
against
his
life
style.
In
between
his
terms,
in
1890,
he purchased the
above
parcel to build his own
summer
cottage.
Later he was returned to office, becoming
the
only
President to
be
elected
for
non-consecutive
terms.
After
his
second term,
in
1897,
the
President and
his
wife, then living in
Buzzards Bay, sold the
property.
Please note the unusual deed restriction
within this
document.
Compliments of Register of Deeds John R.
Buckley, Jr.
and Paul
J.
Garvin
[Manomet 1890 - Book 590 Page 472]
From
the “Plymouth County Registry of Deeds Notable Land Records
Collection”
DEXTER, John Lloyd, wholesale flour dealer;
born, Mattapoisett, Mass., Apr. 4, 1859; son of Moores R. and
Mary A. (Purington) Dexter; educated in public schools of
Massachusetts; married, Boston, July 20, 1887, Emma Scroggs. Began
active career with whaling merchant, at New Bedford, Mass., 1875;
came to Detroit, 1882 and was bookkeeper and salesman for the Union
Flour Mills Co., of Detroit, until 1886; has been operating in his
own name as wholesale dealer in flour, salt, etc., since April,
1886. Member Detroit Board of Commerce, Detroit Flour Men's
Association (ex-president). Republican. Episcopalian. President
Detroit Newsboys' Association; vice president National Newsboys'
Association. Mason. Club: Detroit Boat (commodore, 1904-06).
Recreation: Yachting. Office: 27-29 Atwater St. Residence: 31 Edmund
Place.
(The Book of
Detroiters. Edited by Albert Nelson Marquis Copyright
1908
Submitted by Christine Walters)
REGINALD AUBREY FESSENDEN
Historic Trans-Atlantic Two-Way
Broadcast
First Radio
Broadcast
A Canadian born engineer by the name of
Reginald Aubrey Fessenden
conducted
the first
two-way trans-Atlantic
radio broadcast in 1906
between his Brant
Rock
Station and
Scotland. Later that year
on
Christmas Eve, in
the
Brant
Rock
section
of
Marshfield,
on
property
owned
by Mrs.
Olive
Blackman,
radio
broadcast
history
was
made.
Fessenden produced a radio broadcast
which included music and the
religious
hymn
“Silent
Night” which was
heard
by
ships
as far
away
as the
Caribbean.
The 420 foot radio tower known as the
“Fessenden Tower” was dismantled in
1917.
However, the base
on
which
it
stood
remains
today
along with
a
plaque
memorializing
the event.
Fessenden had previously worked for the
National Weather Bureau and as
chief
chemist
for
Thomas Edison. After
moving
to
New
London,
Connecticut,
he
had
a
successful
career in
underwater
sound.
Fessenden’s achievement in 1906 continues
to
be
recognized
by
the Town
of
Marshfield,
Plymouth
County and
other
national
organizations.
Compliments of Register of Deeds John R.
Buckley, Jr.
and Robin
L.
McGonagle
[Marshfield 1896 - Book 712 Page
272]
From the
“Plymouth County Registry of Deeds Notable
Land
Records
Collection”
John W.
Hammond
John Wilkes Hammond, son of John Wilkes and
Maria Louisa (Southworth) Hammond, was born in Mattapoisett (then
Rochester), December 16, 1837, and graduated at Tufts in 1861. He
afterwards taught school in Tisbury, Stoughton, Wakefield and
Melrose, serving: during an interval nine months in the 3d
Massachusetts Regiment. He studied law at the Harvard Law School and
in the office of Sweetser & Gardner in Boston, and was admitted
to the Middlesex bar in March, 1861. He settled in Cambridge, which
place tie represented in the General Court in 1872-3, was City
Solicitor three years and in 1886 was appointed to the bench of the
Superior Court. In 1898 he was promoted to the Supreme Judicial
Court and is now on the bench. He married in Taunton, August 15,
1866, Clara Ellen, daughter of Benjamin F. and Clara (Foster)
Tweed.
[Source: History of the Judiciary of Massachusetts: By
William Thomas Davis; Publ. 1900; Transcribe for Genealogy Trails by
Andrea Stawski Pack.]
HERVEY,
JAS. K., retired merchant,
Marion; born in Bridgewater, Plymouth Co., Mass., April 25, 1804;
lived there until 1818, when he moved to New Braintree, Worcester
Co., Mass.; resided there until 1831, then removed to Oakham, in the
same county; lived there until 1851, then went to Boston, where he
remained three years; in 1854, came to Marion; engaged in mercantile
pursuits many years. Married Mary Woods June 30, 1831; she was born
in New Braintree, Mass., Jan. 28, 1810; they have had six children;
two died in infancy; the living are Kate W., now the wife of Judge
Hubbard, of Cedar Rapids; James F. is at present a resident of
Chicago; Frank G. and George W. Mr. and Mrs. Hervey are members of
the Congregational Church.
[Source:
The history of Linn County Iowa; Western Historical Company; 1878;
transcribed by Andaleen Whitney]
ALBERT
MASON
Albert Mason, son of Albert T.
and Arlina (Orcutt) Mason, was born in Middleboro, Mass., November
7, 1836, and after studying law in Plymouth was admitted to the
Plymouth bar February 15,1860. He enlisted as a private in one of
two companies raised by William T. Davis for the 38th Regiment, and
on the recommendation of Mr. Davis was commissioned Second
Lieutenant of Company F in that regiment. He served until 1865 as
Second Lieutenant, First Lieutenant, Captain and Assistant
Quartermaster, and then resumed practice in Plymouth. At a later
date he moved to Boston and in 1874 was appointed a member of the
Board of Harbor Commissioners, and in 1882 a Judge of the Superior
Court, of which he was made Chief Justice in 1890, which position he
still holds. He married, November 25,1857, Lydia F., daughter of
Nathan and Experience (Finney) Whiting, of Plymouth.
[Source: History of the Judiciary of Massachusetts: By William
Thomas Davis; Publ. 1900; Transcribe for Genealogy Trails by Andrea
Stawski Pack.]
NAHUM MITCHELL
Nahum Mitchell, son of
Cushing and Jannet (Orr) Mitchell, was born in East Bridgewater
February 12, 1769, and graduated at Harvard in 1789. He studied law
with Joshua Thomas of Plymouth and was admitted to the bar in
Boston. He practiced law in East Bridgewater and among his students
were Ezekiel Whitman, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Maine,
and Elijah Hayward, Judge of the Supreme Court of Ohio. He was
Representative from 1798 to 1803 and in 1809 and 1812, Senator in
1813, member of Congress from 1803 to 1805, one of the Commission in
1800 to establish the Massachusetts and Rhode Island line and in
1823 to establish the Connecticut line. He was Judge of the Circuit
Court of Common Pleas for the Southern Circuit from 1811 to 1821 and
the last two years Chief Justice. He published in 1840 a history of
Bridgewater. He married in 1794, Nabby, daughter of General Sylvanus
Lazell of Bridgewater and died in Plymouth August 1, 1853.
[Source: History of the Judiciary of
Massachusetts: By William Thomas Davis; Publ. 1900; Transcribe for
Genealogy Trails by Andrea Stawski Pack.]
THOMAS RUSSELL
Thomas Russell, son of Thomas
and May Ann (Goodwin) Russell, was born in Plymouth, Mass.,
September 26, 1825, and graduated at Harvard in 1845. He studied law
with Whiting & Russell in Boston and was admitted to the Suffolk
bar November 12, 1849. He was appointed Justice of the Police Court
of Boston February 26, 1852, and in 1859 an Associate Justice of the
Superior Court. He resigned in 1867 and was made Collector of the
Port of Boston by President Grant, serving until after the
re-election of President Grant, when he resigned and was appointed
Minister to Venezuela. He married Nellie, daughter of Rev. Edward T.
Taylor, of Boston, and died in that city February 9,
1887.
[Source: History of the
Judiciary of Massachusetts: By William Thomas Davis; Publ. 1900;
Transcribe for Genealogy Trails by Andrea Stawski Pack.]
WILLIAM
SIMMONS
William Simmons was probably born in
Scituate, about 1782, and graduated at Harvard in 1804. He was a
member of the Suffolk bar certainly as early as 1811, and was
appointed June 10, 1822, Judge of the Boston Police Court. He
married in 1810, Lucia, daughter of Abraham Hammatt of Plymouth and
died in Boston, June 17, 1843.
[Source: History of the
Judiciary of Massachusetts: By William Thomas Davis; Publ. 1900;
Transcribe for Genealogy Trails by Andrea Stawski Pack.]
NATHANIEL THOMAS
Nathaniel Thomas, appointed Associate Justice in 1712, was the
son of Nathaniel and Deborah (Jacobs) Thomas, and was born in
Marshfield about 1665. He was a great grandson of William Thomas,
one of the merchants of London, who assisted the Pilgrims in their
enterprise, and came to Massachusetts in 1630, and settled in
Marshfield. He was bred as a lawyer and took the oath as an Attorney
of the Superior Court in 1686. He was a Judge of the Inferior Court
of Common Pleas for Plymouth County from 1702 to 1712.
Judge Washburn, in his Judicial History, errs in stating
that General John Thomas of the Revolution was a descendant of
Nathaniel. The General belonged to an entirely distinct family, and
was descended from John Thomas, who came an orphan from London in
1635, in the ship Hopewell. General Thomas married Hannah Thomas, a
granddaughter of Judge Nathaniel, and thus the descendants of the
General can claim both William of 1630 and John of 1635 as their
ancestors. Judge Thomas left the Superior bench in 1718, and died in
the same year.
John Thomas, son of General John and Hannah (Thomas)
Thomas was born in Kingston, Mass., in 1766, and was appointed in
1811 Judge of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas for the Southern
Circuit.
[Source:
History of the judiciary of Massachusetts: By William Thomas
Davis; Publ. 1900;
Pgs. 94, 221,;
Transcribed and submitted by Andrea Stawski
Pack.]
TOM THUMB
Tom Thumb 1838-83, American
entertainer, whose original name was Charles Sherwood Stratton, b.
Bridgeport, Conn. His career as General Tom Thumb began in 1842,
when the showman P. T.
Barnum gave him the title and arranged with
the
child's
parents
for his
exhibition
as a
midget.
His height then
was less
than 2 ft (61
cm), and at no time did
it exceed 33 in. (84
cm). Barnum aroused
the
intense curiosity of
people throughout the
world by consummately
skillful publicity and
profitably displayed
the general in many
countries, bringing Tom
Thumb wealth and fame.
At the age of 10 the
general had already been
the guest of
President
Polk, Queen Victoria,
Isabella of
Spain, and
King Louis
Philippe of
France. His
courtship
of
Lavinia
Warren, a
dwarf,
led to a
fashionable
wedding in
New York's Grace Church
in 1863. In the
course
of their
wedding
trip
President
Lincoln
received
them at the
White
House. Thumb
and
his
wife continued
to
entertain
audiences
in
the
United States
and
abroad until their
retirement in 1882. He
died
at the age of
45,
and
Mrs. Tom
Thumb died
at
77.
[Author
not available, TOM THUMB., The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
2008]
CHARLES H. WAREEN
Charles Henry Warren, son of Henry and Mary
(Winslow) Warren, was born in Plymouth, September 29, 1798, and
graduated at Harvard in 1817. He studied law with Joshua Thomas in
Plymouth, and Levi Lincoln in Worcester, and was admitted to the
Plymouth bar. He settled in New Bedford, first as a law partner with
Lemuel Williams and afterwards with Thomas Dawes Eliot, and from
1832 to 1839 was District Attorney for the five southern counties of
Massachusetts. In 1839 he was appointed Judge of the Common Pleas
Court and resigning in 1844 moved to Boston and associated himself
with Augustus H. Fiske and Benjamin Rand. In 1846 he was chosen
President of the Boston and Providence Railroad and resigned in
1867. In 1851 he was President of the Senate. The writer of this
sketch was told by Judge Warren that as a Judge he took no notes, as
a lawyer never had a brief, and as District Attorney never lost an
indictment and only in two instances failed to convict. He married
December 27, 1825, Abby, daughter of Barnabas Hedge, of Plymouth,
and died in Plymouth, June 29, 1874.
[Source: History of the Judiciary of Massachusetts: By William
Thomas Davis; Publ. 1900; Transcribe for Genealogy Trails by Andrea
Stawski Pack.]
DANIEL
WEBSTER
LAWYER...ORATOR...STATESMAN...SENATOR
Born in New Hampshire in 1792, he was
educated and trained in the Law. He
established a
practice
in Boston in 1820, in
that year he delivered
an
oration in
Plymouth
celebrating
the
bicentennial
of the
Pilgrim’s
arrival.
As a
lawyer,
he
came
to
national
prominence
as
counsel
in
many
Supreme
Court
cases,
which
remain
major
precedents
in the
constitutional
jurisprudence of the United
States.
Webster's record in the House of
Representatives
and
his
celebrity as an
orator
led to his
election to
the Senate
in
1827, where he served until
1836.
He was appointed Secretary of State by
President Harrison in 1840, re-elected to the
senate
in 1845, and
again appointed Secretary
of State by
President
Fillmore in 1850, where
he
served until
his
death in
Marshfield in
1852. He
is best
remembered
for his
skill
as
a
Senator in the
pre-Civil War era and
was so
esteemed
that in
1957,
he was
officially
named
by the
Senate as
one of its five most
outstanding
members.
The
deed below
represents
a
portion
of
his
purchase
of
the two
largest
estates in
Marshfield
formerly
owned
by
the
Thomas
and
Winslow
families.
[1833 Marshfield Book of Deeds - Book 175
page
238]
Compliments of
Register of
Deeds
John
R. Buckley,
Jr.and
Anthony M.
Markella
From the
“Plymouth County Registry of Deeds Notable
Land Records
Collection”
KILBORN
WHITMAN
Kilborn Whitman, son of Zechariah and Abigail (Kilborn) Whitman,
was born in Bridgewater, August 17, 1765, and graduated at Harvard
in 1785. He studied divinity with Rev. Dr. William Shaw of
Marshfield, and was settled some time over the parish in Pembroke,
Mass. After ten years' service in the ministry, he studied law with
his brother Benjamin in Hanover, Mass., and was admitted to the
Suffolk bar in 1791. He continued his residence in Pembroke until
his death, and was County Attorney from 1811 to 1832. He was
appointed to the Plymouth County Common Pleas May 10, 1810. He
married Elizabeth, daughter of Isaac Winslow of Marshfield, and died
December 11, 1835.
[Source: History of the Judiciary of Massachusetts: By William
Thomas Davis; Publ. 1900; Transcribe for Genealogy Trails by Andrea
Stawski Pack.]
PELHAM WINSLOW
Pelham Winslow, son of General John and
Mary (Little) Winslow, and great-great-grandson of Governor Edward
Winslow, of Plymouth, was born in Plymouth in 1737, and graduated at
Harvard in 1753. Being a Loyalist he joined the British Army in 1776
and died in the service on Long Island in 1783. He married, Joanna,
daughter of Gideon White of Plymouth.
[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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