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gaged with his father in the shipping business, which he continued with perseverance and success to the end of his life. In 1856, being strongly urged by his friends, he consented to stand as a candidate for the office of mayor in Newburyport, to which he was elected, serving for the term of three years consecutively, the duties of which he discharged with singular fidelity and success. Nor did he cease to take an active interest in the well being of his native city as connected with its municipal government on resigning the office of mayor. For some years afterwards he served in the common council, advising and assisting in the administration of the government, and was more generally consulted in relation to the affairs of the different departments than any other citizen.

In 1874, while absent from home, notwithstanding he had distinctly declared that he would not be a candidate, he was elected mayor; but, adhering to his original decision, declined to serve.

In 1871 he was a member of the Massachusetts legislature, and though a new member, soon acquired respect and influence with his associates by his business talent, and the quickness and facility with which he dealt with matters of legislation. The last twenty years of his life were marked by constant activity and industry, and by a superior executive ability. Newburyport was his special field of labor and of interest, and his death was lamented by its citizens as a great loss to that city; it caused a void not easy to fill.

Mr. Cushing was twice married. His first wife was Sarah Moody, daughter of Ebenezer Stone, a merchant of Newburyport, by whom he had four children, three of whom, one son and two daughters, survive him. His second wife, who

is now living, was Ellen M. Holbrook, of Jamaica Plain. He was admitted a member June 2, 1872.

EDWARD BROOKS, A.M., of Medford, Mass., a life-member and benefactor, was born in Boston, Dec. 22, 1793, and died in Medford, April 11, 1878, aged 84 years.

Mr. Brooks was the eldest son of Peter C. Brooks, well remembered as one of Boston's wealthiest and most eminent men of business, and of whom may be found in the REGISTER (vol. viii. pp. 297-309; vol. ix. pp. 13-33) an admirable memoir by the Hon. Edward Everett, who married his daughter. His grandfather, the Rev. Edward Brooks, of Medford, was a graduate of Harvard University, class of 1757. Edward Brooks was also a graduate of Harvard, class 1812; studied law with his uncle, the Hon. Benjamin Gorham, and made the "grand tour" in Europe in the company of Mr. Ticknor and the Hon. John C. Gray.

Mr. Brooks was one of the representatives of Boston in the legislature of Massachusetts for the years 1834, '36, '37 and '42. The Hon. Robert C. Winthrop, who was also a member of the same body, speaks of his ability in debate, and of his earnest interest in the affairs of the commonwealth. He was a man of vigorous intellect, of great reading, and of many varied accomplishments. He was very active in the temperance movement, and was one of the first to interest himself in the Blind Asylum in connection with Dr. Howe. For nine years, and and until the year preceding his death-when the infirmities of age led him to resign-he held the office of president of the "General Theological Library," in which he took a warm interest, and to which he contributed time and money. He was also, until within about ten years of his death, a contributor to the North American Review. In consequence of the ill health of his wife, he spent many years in foreign lands. The Boston public library is indebted to him for an admirable original portrait of Franklin, presented on his return from Europe.* Mr. Brooks married May 3, 1821, Elizabeth, daughter of Kirk Boott, born July 20, 1799, and died in Paris, France, June 21, 1865. Her father, Kirk Boott, a name distinguished among the merchants of Boston, resided in what is now known as the "Revere House," Bowdoin Square. They had three childrenEdward, born Feb. 14, 1822, died June 22, 1851; Francis, born Nov. 1, 1824,

• See Boston Daily Advertiser, April 16, 1878. Address of Hon. Robert C. Winthrop, annual meeting of the General Theological Library.

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who survives his father, and occupies the ancestral mansion; and Anna Gorham, born Jan. 22, 1830, died Oct. 27, 1848.

His membership dates from Oct. 27, 1868.

EDWARD BUCKNAM MOORE, M.D., of Chelsea, Mass., a resident member, was born in Lancaster, N. H., June 12, 1801; died in Chelsea, Mass., Sept. 16, 1874, aged 73 years.

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Dr. Moore traces his descent on his father's side to Col. Jonathan' Moore, a British officer, said to have been of Scotch ancestry, through William, William,' Coffin, born in Stratham, N. H., Feb. 25, 1739, and Coffin, his father, born at Georgetown, Mass., April 30, 1768, and died at Lancaster, N. H., Aug. 22, 1842. He went to Lancaster about the year 1787, with Gen. E. Bucknam, and married Mary, his daughter, in 1789. They had eight sons and three daughters. Until he was nineteen years old, Edward Bucknam Moore lived in his native town, working upon a farm, with the advantage of schooling during the three winter months. This privilege he must have well improved, as during the two last years he was employed as a teacher. In the spring of 1821 he left Lancaster with twenty dollars, saved from his wages as teacher the previous winter, and commenced an academic course at Pembroke, N. H., where he fitted for college. Having decided to enter upon the study and practice of medicine without a collegiate course-which he ever after regretted-he entered the office of Dr. Thomas Brown, then of Deerfield, N. H., where he devoted four years to study, excepting the winter months, which he spent in teaching to keep himself in funds, and the two courses of lectures required of a graduating student. In May, 1828, he received his degree of M.D. from Bowdoin College.

In 1830, April 29, Dr. Moore married Elizabeth, daughter of Samuel Lawrence, Esq., of Epping, N. H. By her he had one daughter, Mary E., and two sons, Samuel L. and Edward N. B., all born in Epping.

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After his removal to Massachusetts he united with the Franklin Lodge in Boston, and July 12 received from St. Paul's Lodge a certificate of Master Mason; and May 4, 1863, the 33d and last Degree-Ancient accepted Scottish rite of Free Masonry." He was also a member for some years of the Boston School Committee; of the Massachusetts Medical, and other societies. One who knew him well says: "Dr. Moore was a true man, too true to seem what he did not feel, to say what he did not think, or to do what was only good policy." * In his friendships he was eminently true and firm.”

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As a physician he was successful. He won and deserved success, because he sought it by the noblest means.” "His life was such that those who knew him, will mourn for him as for an honest man and a true friend."

He was admitted to membership May 3, 1858.

The Rev. GEORGE Grout Hapgood, D.D., of Apulia, N. Y., a corresponding member, was born in Petersham, Mass., Feb. 11, 1804, and died in Apulia, May 17, 1876, aged 72 years.

He was the son of Eber, born Aug. 5, 1770, and Sally (Grout) Hapgood, born May 1, 1772, both in Petersham, Mass. He married Oct. 28, 1830, Marcia, daughter of Samuel McGraw, Esq., of McGrawville, N. Y., by whom he had ten children.

Mr. Hapgood's early education was in the common school at Petersham, and at Hadley and Amherst academies, Mass. He received the degree of A.B. at Union College, N. Y., 1830; of A.M., 1836, and of D.D., 1852. Before he entered college and while preparing to do so, Mr. Hapgood taught school in the towns of Phillipston, Petersham and Princeton, Mass., and in Schodack and the high school in Cortland Village, N. Y. For more than forty years, or from the time of his graduation until his death, a busy and useful life as a teacher and preacher, and a kindly cherished memory, is the testimony borne of him by those for whom and among whom he labored. He is spoken of by one who was associated with him, and in connection with other teachers of Mexico Academy, N. Y.-of which Mr. Hapgood was principal, 1834-39, and 1844-46-as "noble minded, genial, popular and enthusiastic." As a teacher he filled many

other places in schools and seminaries in the state of New York and in Canada. Mr. Hapgood was, in 1835, ordained as deacon in the Methodist Episcopal Church at Oswego, N. Y., by Bishop Hedding; in 1837, by the same bishop, as elder, at Potsdam, N. Y. He was presiding elder of the Syracuse District, 1851-55; of Oswego District, 1855-56.

As a minister and elder of a church ever awake in its Master's work, our necessarily limited sketch prevents an enumeration of all the stations and offices filled by the subject of our notice. May his example, like his Master's, lead those who knew him to do what they can for truth and righteousness, so that, with his, their memories may be kindly cherished.

He became a member March 25, 1862.

THOMAS BRADLEE, Esq., a corresponding member, of Jamaica, Long Island, N. Y., where he died Feb. 19, 1878, a. 89 years, was born in Boston, Mass., Nov. 17, 1788.

He was the son of Nathaniel and Ann (Dunlap) Bradlee, who were married by Rev. Mather Byles, April 23, 1769. Nathaniel, the ninth of twelve children of Samuel Bradlee, of Dorchester, died in Boston, April, 1813, and his wife, Ann Dunlap, Aug. 4, 1821.

Mr. Bradlee, in letters accompanying his acceptance as a member of our society. June, 1859, has given a genealogical record of his family, too minute to be copied in this sketch, but of which use may be made in a future and more extended biographical memoir.

Thomas Bradlee was born in the house situated on the south-west corner of

Hollis and Nassau (now Tremont) Streets. He was "baptized by Rev. Samuel West, the first person upon the record of the two-cupalo church rebuilt in Hollis Street, 1788, after a former church had been destroyed by fire." He was an apprentice with Col. Samuel H. Parker, Court Street, Boston, bookseller and book-binder, from 1802 to 1809. He was a member of the Boston light infantry company of Winslow Blues, 1814 to 1824. He was also for about the same years a member of the Massachusetts Charitable Mechanic Association. In December, 1819, he commenced business in Boston, which he relinquished in May, 1822. His bookstore was in Hanover Street. In 1824 and '25 he resided at Blenheim, Schoharie County, N. Y., and in the city of New York in 1826-27. In 1828 he removed to Jamaica, Long Island. In this town, which, so far as we learn, has since been his home, he has filled many places of honor and usefulness among them, as president of a sacred music society, and chorister of churches; as proprietor, publisher and editor of the Long Island Farmer newspaper; justice of the peace, and police justice of the village of Jamaica.

Mr. Bradlee was thrice married: first, July 24, 1814, to Mehetabel, daughter of John Andrews and Mehetabel Fulton, by whom he had one child, Thomas, born May 25, 1815; second, in August, 1819, to Ann, daughter of Edward and Rebecca Howard, by whom he had three children-Ann, Mehetable and Nathaniel; third, Sept. 20, 1830, to Rachel, daughter of Daniel and Margaret Wright, by whom he had four children-Eliza, Samuel, Mary and Margaret. He was admitted a member June 4, 1859.

HENRY VEAZEY WARD, Esq., of Boston, a resident member, was born in Sassafras Neck, Cecil County, Maryland, Sept. 26, 1809, and died at Ouchy, on Lake Geneva, Switzerland, March 15, 1873, aged 63. He was a son of Joshua and Sarah (Veazey) Ward; and a descendant in the fifth generation from William' and Elizabeth Ward, of Cecil County, Maryland, through John,2 baptized July 7, 1692, m. Susannah Veazey; John, by wife Elizabeth Wilson; and Joshua, above, his father, who was noted for integrity of character, and died April, 1815. His mother was a woman of more than ordinary mind. She died of cholera in September, 1832. The family removed to Baltimore in April, 1816, where Henry attended school, the latter part of the time at the Wentworth Academy. Early Early in life he engaged in mercantile pursuits. In 1826 he left Baltimore with an elder brother, for the west coast of South America. Arriving in Lima, he was employed in the commission house of Huth, Cist & Co., for

about two years, when he returned to Baltimore, where he resided some months. He then sailed for England, and was engaged in the banking house of Frederick Huth & Co., London, for eighteen months, after which he visited Ireland, where he had the small-pox. He again returned to Baltimore and spent several months there. In 1832 he sailed for Valparaiso, where he resided till 1852, in the employ of Huth & Co., and as a member of that firm. In 1839, and again in 1846, he visited the United States and England. In 1853 he made the tour of Europe, the Holy Land, Egypt, &c. In 1856 he settled in Boston. While residing in Boston he was consul for the republic of Chili, and also treasurer of the Lawrence, Tremont and Suffolk factories, Lowell. In 1868, on arriving at Dresden, where he lived four years, he was appointed consul general for Chili, which position he held at the time of his death.

He married, April, 1856, Caroline M., daughter of William B. Reynolds, by whom he had one child, Caroline Elizabeth. His wife died Feb. 13, 1857, and he married in April, 1862, Anna Saltonstall Merrill, of Haverhill, daughter of Hon. James C. Merrill, of Boston, by whom he had-Anna Saltonstall, Henry De Courcy, died young, Marian De Courcy, Robert De Courcy, and Elsa, died young.

Mr. Ward was admitted a member April 14, 1868.

HENRY B. GROVES, Esq., of Salem, Mass., a resident member, was born in that city about the year 1808. He died at the American House, Boston, April 16, 1877, aged 69 years.

Of the early education of Mr. Groves we have not been able to obtain any definite knowledge. He may be classed among the large and honorable list of self-made men, who, from comparative obscurity, have risen to usefulness and distinction. He learned the trade of a mason of his then future father-in-law, the late David Roberts, of Salem, whose daughter Lucy-sister of the Hon. David Roberts, ex-mayor of Salem-he married December 8, 1835. Their union was childless.

The beginning of the successful mercantile career of Mr. Groves may be dated from the year 1835, when he entered the service of the Hon. Ralph R. French, as an assistant in the registry of deeds for the county of Essex. In July, 1836, he was called to the office of bookkeeper in the Commercial, now the First National Bank of Salem. For more than 17 years he discharged the duties of this office to the entire acceptance of his employers. His unusual capacity for business also led to his employment in the responsible settlement of estates-conspicuously that of the late David Pingree, Esq., in liquidation.

In 1853 Mr. Groves left the bank to engage in business in East Boston. It was during this period he was elected a state director in the Western Railroad corporation, and subsequently appointed, by Gov. Boutwell, bank examiner. He served the state with marked ability in this capacity until elected manager of the Clearing House by the associated banks of Boston, March 29, 1856. From this date until his sudden death, his history is very intimately connected with the monetary interests of Boston. By his strict integrity and high sense of honor in his dealings with all, he won their respect and confidence, as he did the lasting friendship of those with whom he came more socially in contact. His mind was always animated by a most laudable ambition, and improved by habitual reading of the best books, and his heart distinguished for its kind and sympathizing tenderness for others. In early life he took great interest in military affairs, serving for several years upon the staff of Maj. Gen. William Sutton, with the rank of major. As a writer upon banks and banking, he was concise and forcible, and rarely erred in judgment.

A series of resolutions, passed at a meeting of the Boston Clearing House Association, called on account of the death of Mr. Groves, and published in the daily papers of Boston, April 17, 1877, are expressive of the high regard in which he was held by that body.

He was admitted to this society, March 31, 1866.

THOMAS EDWIN WHITNEY, A.M., of Shirley, Mass., a corresponding member, where he was born Nov. 1, 1825, and where he died Oct. 25, 1876, aged 50 years.

His great-grandfather was the Rev. Phineas Whitney, the first settled minister of Shirley, a graduate of H. C. 1759. He died in 1819, after a ministry of fifty-seven years. Thomas, the eldest son of Rev. Phineas, who remained in Shirley during a long life, had three sons, of which the eldest, Thomas Whitney, Jr., who died Dec. 6, 1865, was the father of the subject of this sketch.

Thomas Edwin Whitney was the only child of Thomas and Sally (Barrett) Whitney. His early education was in the common schools of his native town, and one or two terms in a Friends school under the instruction of Mr. Jonathan Frye, of Bolton. He then entered the Groton Academy, where he was prepared for college. His collegiate course was at Harvard, from which he graduated in 1845. The childhood and early active life of Mr. Whitney were well worthy of imitation in view of his obedience as a child; his gentle social habits as a boy and young man ; and his application and proficiency as a student. Returning to his native town, after finishing his collegiate course, he established a select school which he conducted with great ability and success, securing the strong attachment of his pupils for three or four terms. "Those who were well prepared to judge, declared that the teacher's calling was the appropriate sphere for the new graduate."* He was led, however, to change the work for which his education had fitted him, and to enter upon the business of a broker, and then in the Nova Scotia trade. In these and other mercantile adventures he was unsuccessful. Returning to his native town, he continued until his death to cultivate the broad acres which were his patrimonial inheritance."* Whitney was never married. His remains rest in the ancient cemetery of his native town, almost under the shadow of the church tower where his infant brow received the consecrating waters of baptism, and where he weekly engaged in public worship. The last of the name in the family line to which he belonged has been gathered to his fathers, and the dust of four generations has found one common resting place."'*

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His membership is from June 8, 1846.

Mr.

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History of the Town of Townsend, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, from the grant of Hathorn's Farm, 1676-1878. By ITHAMAR B. SAWTELLE. [Motto.] Published by the Author. Press of Blanchard & Brown, Fitchburg. 1878. [8vo. pp. 455. To be had of the author, Townsend, Mass. Price, $2.50; by mail, $2.70.]

A goodly history of an old Middlesex town, to take its place on our shelves by the side of Concord, Dunstable, Framingham, Lexington, Marlboro', Medford, Newton, Woburn and other towns of the county, whose histories have been more or less extensively written and read.

The first grant of what is now a part of the territory of Townsend, was made Sept. 6, 1676, to Capt. William Hathorne, who was a successor of Capt. William Trask, in military command, at Salem, also as Deputy to the General Court of the Province. This tract, of a mile square, on Nissequassick hill, was known as "Hathorne's Farm." In 1719, forty-three years afterwards, a grant was made by the Court, not to exceed 250 acres, to every person who would settle on the land known in those days as Turkey Hill, within three years of the time of said grant ; the sum of five pounds to be paid by them to the committee for the use of the province. Two townships were thus laid out, each containing a quantity of land not

Rev. Seth Chandler.

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