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Chandler Family of Boston and East Bridgewater MA

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This Boston – East Bridgewater Chandler family, the head of which was the late Hon. Peleg Whitman Chandler, long one of the leading counselors of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, and one of a family of lawyers, comes of a Massachusetts-Maine branch of the ancient Duxbury family whose progenitor was Edmund Chandler. The branch just alluded to for several generations at New Gloucester and Bangor, Maine, and at Boston in this Commonwealth, has been one of liberal education, college-bred men, men who have adorned the legal profession, and it has allied itself through generations with a number of the ancient and first families of the Old Colony. There follows in chronological order from Edmund Chandler, the first American ancestor of this branch of American Chandlers, and in detail the family history and genealogy.

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Biography of Andrew McGregor

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This doughty end intrepid frontiersman, now one of the leading farmers and stock men of his vicinity, having a tine estate eight miles west from Ontario, which is the family home, and being a man of prominence and capabilities, has accomplished much in the development of the County and we are pleased to accord to

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Biographical Sketch of William M. Mangin

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The subject of this article is one of the oldest pioneers of Jordan Valley, a man of ability and worth. one who has wrought here with assiduity and sagacity since the early days, is now recognized as one of the prominent men of the County, has ever maintained an unsullied reputation and manifested a stanch

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Biography of David Johnson, M. D.

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David Johnson, M. D., a prominent medical specialist whose home and laboratories are at Salina, returned to Kansas a few years ago after many years spent in practice in the New England states, most of the time at Boston. He returned to Kansas because many years ago, on first coming to America, he had located

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Boston MA Intentions of Marriage 1776

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Joseph How Jr. & Sarah Davis Jan. 16, 1776 Charles Grant & Francies Dumpey Feb. 23, 1776 Mr. Nathaniel Pierce & Mrs. Polly Fisk of Watertown Apr. 24, 1776 Mr. Joshua Witherly & Mrs. Rebecca How May 10, 1776 Mr. Richard Langley & Mrs. Lucy Williston May 10, 1776 Mr. Thomas Taft & Mrs. Rebecca

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Charles Irving Todd of Boston MA

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Charles Irving Todd9, (Charles S.8, Eliel S.7, Samuel6, Eliel5, Samuel4, Samuel3, Samuel2, Christopher1) born April 9, 1880, in Boston, Mass., married April 11, 1906, Louise Elizabeth Rooney. He was a traveling salesman for wholesale leather concern in Boston, Mass. Children: 2672. Charles Frederick, b. July 30, 1907. 2673. Muriel Louise, b. March 4, 1909. 2674.

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Biographical Sketch of Abbot, Francis Ellingwood

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Abbot, Francis Ellingwood, son of Joseph Hale and Fanny (Larcom) Abbot, was born in Boston, November 6, 1836. His early education was obtained at home, and in the Boston public Latin school. Fitting for college, he entered Harvard in 1855, and was graduated with the class of 1859. He spent three years in the Harvard

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Boston MA Intentions of Marriage 1764

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Isaac Gamberto & Elizabeth Calf Jan. 5, 1764 Thomas Holland & Hannah Thompson Jan. 12, 1764 Joseph Edes & Mary Murrell Jan. 16, 1764 Jonathan Sewall Esq. of Charlestown & Mrs. Esther Quincy Jan. 21, 1764 Thomas Davis & Elizabeth Bennison Feb. 7, 1764 Robert Lash & Joannah Brown Feb. 9, 1764 Samuel Obar &

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Missionaries Among the Choctaw

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In 1832, at Hebron, the home of the missionary, Calvin Cushman and his family, was the place appointed for the assembling of all the Choctaws in that district preparatory to their exodus from their ancient domains to a place they knew not where; but toward the setting sun as arbitrary power had decreed. Sad and

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Boston MA Intentions of Marriage 1795

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Levi Lindley & Abigail Hill Jan. 4, 1795 Thomas Tayler & Mary Grant Jan. 21, 1795 Jacob Pettingill & Sally Larkin Jan. 27, 1795 Isaac Pereck & Lydia Fuller Jan. 28, 1795 Isaiah Ireland & Christiana Dolbear Jan. 28, 1795 David West & Abigail Leonard of Raynham Feb. 24, 1795 Samuel Whiting & Rebecca Holbrook

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Biography of Calvin Perry Bascom

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Calvin Perry Bascom, general manager for the business conducted under the name of the Fayette R. Plumb Company, Incorporated, of St. Louis, was born in Ellsworth, Kansas, October 17, 1876. His father, Daniel Craig Bascom, a native of the state of New York, removed to Kansas in 1868 and there engaged in ranching for a

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Boston MA Intentions of Marriage 1807

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Levi Willard & Eliza Jaine Norman (forbid) Jan. 1, 1807 Peter Bergen & Ann McCabe Jan. 5, 1807 Peter Bruno & Mary Egaud Jan. 6, 1807 Peter Brown & Sylvia Gamma Jan. 3, 1807 Jonathan Howe & Sally Hopkins Jan. 6, 1807 John Dennis & Rachel Brown, (blacks) Jan. 9, 1807 Dennis Martin & Rachel

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Boston MA Intentions of Marriage 1775

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Jeffery Manning & Mary Coit Jan. 2, 1775 William White of Haverhill & Mrs. Polly Chandler Jan. 5, 1775 John Patten & Elizabeth Clough Jan. 5, 1775 Edward Wilkinson & Elizabeth Welch Jan. 6, 1775 William Sharp & Hannah Burk Jan. 6, 1775 Henry Prouse & Nelly Shaw Jan. 7, 1775 James Bennet & Susannah

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Boston MA Intentions of Marriage 1757

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David Ochterlony & Catha. Tyler Jan. 4, 1757 Richard Anderson & Ann Green Jan. 5, 1757 Stephen Wales & Abigail Peat Jan. 6, 1757 John Brooks & Eliza. Wadland Jan. 7, 1757 Robert Cook & Ann Carlisle Jan. 8, 1757 John Barry & Mary Blake Jan. 11, 1757 William Parkman & Mary Hawkins Jan. 13,

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Biographical Sketch of Harry N. Hill

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Hill, Harry N.; gem mgr. The Cleveland Tanning Co., born, Boston, Mass., 1866: son of Hosea E. and Mary Pillsbury Hill; educated, Cleveland Kentucky Grammar school, West High School, Gambier Milner Hall Academy, Kenyon College; married, Cleveland, Sept. 25, 1888, Mary E. Mathivet; four children, three sons and one daughter; since 1899, mgr. of The

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Descendants of John Saxton Kent of North Bridgewater, MA

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HON. JOHN SAXTON KENT, ex-mayor of the city of Brockton, and one of that city’s leading manufacturers, is as well one of the most enterprising and progressive citizens who have made their way to success in this Commonwealth. Merit commands recognition, and the deserving find doors opening and the way growing plainer as they go

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Biographical Sketch of Maurice F. Boland

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Maurice F. Boland, proprietor of Boland’s Cigar Store and Billiard Room in San Mateo, and for eleven years Chief of Police of San Mateo is well known throughout the county. As police chief, Boland had an enviable record. In addition to preserving order in the community, Chief Boland figured in the capture of many famous

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Biographical Sketch of Adams, Charles Follen

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Adams, Charles Follen, son of Ira and Mary Elizabeth (Senter) Adams, was born in Dorchester, Norfolk County, April 21, 1842. He was the youngest but one of ten children, and has now five sisters and three brothers living. He received a common school education, and leaving the grammar school in Dorchester at fifteen years of

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Biographical Sketch of George Aldrich

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(I) George Aldrich was born in Derbyshire, England, about 1605. He married, in England, November 3, 1629, Katherine Seald, and came to New England in 1631 with his wife. She was born about 1610, according to her deposition made June 18, 1670, when she was sixty years old. He was a tailor by trade. He

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Biographical Sketch of Alger, Alpheus B.

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Alger, Alpheus B., son of Edwin A. and Amanda (Buswell) Alger, was born in Lowell, Middlesex County, October 8, 1854. His early education was accomplished at the public schools of his native place. In the Lowell high school he fitted for college, and was graduated at Harvard with the class of 1875. The same year

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