Plymouth Co, MA Bios Project

Source: "History of Plymouth, Norfolk and Barnstable Counties Massachusetts; Volume I" by Elroy S. Thompson. Pub. 1928. Pages 127-128

Dr. Paul Louis Nichols

1788 - ____

Plymouth District Medical Society-The first president of the Plymouth District Medical Society, Dr. Paul Louis Nichols of Kingston-which, by the way, was the home of the first physician in what is now Plymouth County, Dr. Samuel Fuller of the "Mayflower"-was born in Cohasset, September 24, 1788 He remained president of the society until 1867. He practiced in Kingston more than fifty-five years and during that time never left his practice, except to attend the Massachusetts Medical Society's annual meetings and one visit of a week in New York. His death came after he had attained the age of an octogenarian.

Source: "History of Plymouth, Norfolk and Barnstable Counties Massachusetts; Volume I" by Elroy S. Thompson. Pub. 1928. Pages 129

Dr. Frank George Wheatley

1851 - 1926

     Dr. Frank George Wheatley of Abington, an honored member of the society, passed away in 1926. The anna[u]ltown report of that year was printed with a good likeness of the doctor as a frontispiece, inasmuch as every family in Abington wanted a picture of their friend and townsman. He had acted as moderator at the town meetings since 1891. In the same town report the library trustees had a memorial tribute printed as a part of their report. It was as follows:
      "In the passing of Frank G. Wheatley, chairman since 1911 and member from 1896, the Board of Library Trustees met the heaviest loss it could sustain. For thirty years, during a public life of exceptional distinction, he gave generously of his time and interest to the library. The Trustees desire to place on record their deep appreciation of the value of this service, to do honor to the qualities that made Dr. Wheatley a great figure in this community, and to offer to his memory the tribute of their lasting gratitude."
      Dr. Wheatley was born in Woodbury, Vermont, in 1851. He was educated at the Vermont Seminary, Dartmouth College, and at the Vermont State Normal School. He was employed for a time as a teacher, but took his degree of Doctor of Medicine from Dartmouth in 1883. He practiced in Norwich, Vermont, before coming to North Abington. He had served as a trustee of the Massachusetts School for Feeble Minded, as a United States Pensioner Examiner, as associate medical examiner of the Second Plymouth District, professor of materia medica at Tufts College Medical School; was a member of the American Medical Association, Massachusetts Medical Society, American Therapeutic Society, Massachusetts Association of Boards of Health, John Cutler Lodge, Free and Accepted Mason; Pilgrim Royal Arch Chapter, Old Colony commandery, Knights Templar; Winthrop Lodge, Independent Order of Odd Fellows; member of the Abington School Commitee; served in the Massachusetts General Court as a representative in 1904 and 1905 and in the Senate in 1907 and 1908.

Source: "History of Plymouth, Norfolk and Barnstable Counties Massachusetts; Volume I" by Elroy S. Thompson. Pub. 1928. Page 130

Dr. Wallace C. Keith

1858 - ____

     Death of Dr. Wallace C. Keith-The society lost one of its most popular and devoted members in June, 1927, by the death of Dr. Wallace C. Keith, of Brockton, after a long illness. He had held several positions in the community life of Brockton, having served on the school committee with especial distinction several terms.
      Dr. Wallace Cushing Keith was born in West Bridgewater November 15, 1858. He married Helen Richmond Ford, of Brockton, January 14, 1885. He was educated at the North Bridgewater High School, Adams Academy, Quincy; Amhearst Colleg; and Harvard Medical School. He had practiced in Brockton since 1885 and was associated with the staffs of the Boston City Hospital and Brockton Hospital. He was a member of the Boylston Medical Society, Massachusetts Medical Society since 1884, Brockton Medical Society, Brockton Board of United States Pension Examining Surgeons, Association State Inspectors of Health, Loyal Legion, Masonic bodies of Brockton and Scottish Rite bodies of Boston.
      Dr. Keith was president of the Plymouth District Medical Society at the time it observed its sixtieth anniversary in 1911. In his address of introduction, on that occasion, he said: "I find that Dr. Samuel Fuller, one of the company who landed in Plymouth in 1620, was the first physician in New England. History tells us that for twelve years he went in and out among the people, like a guardian angel, making all happy with whom he was associated." The same words, uttered by Dr. Keith, might truthfully be said of Dr. Keith, "he went in and out among the people, like a guardian angel, making all happy with whom he was associated."

Source: "History of Plymouth, Norfolk and Barnstable Counties Massachusetts; Volume I" by Elroy S. Thompson. Pub. 1928. Page 131

Dr. A. Elliot Paine

     Medical Examiner Nearly Fifty Years-Dr. A. Elliot Paine of Brockton in March, 1926, tendered his resignation as medical examiner in the Brockton district, after serving in that capacity more than forty-nine years. He had hoped to hold the position and even half century but failing health made it desirable that he tender his resignation to Governor Fuller who accepted the same. Undoubtedly he served longer as medical examiner in Plymouth County than any other man ever had or ever will. So far as known he was the oldest medical examiner in the country in both age and service. He was at that time eighty-two years of age and had served since his appointment in 1877 by Governor Rice. During that time he handled many cases which became nationally known. He had qualified in courts as an expert on medical investigations and his opinions were always regarded highly by judges, juries and attorneys. He was succeeded as medical examiner by Dr. Walter W. Fullerton, also of Brockton, who had served as assistant medical examiner seven years.
       Dr. Pain was a native of Truro, Cape Cod. He entered Harvard Medical School in 1862, but the same year enlisted for service in the Civil War, and was assigned to Company E, Forty-third Regiment, Massachusetts Volunteers, and became assistant to the surgeon. As a medical practitioner following the war he was located at Wellfleet, Taunton and North Bridgewater. He was president of the Massachusetts Medical Association in 1891 and 1892 and for several years was treasurer of the Massachusetts Medico-Legal Society. He is a member of the American Medical Society and the Plymouth District Medical Society. He was vice-president of the Brockton Hospital association in its early years and was for several years a member of the consulting staff of that institution. For more than forty years he had charge of the emergency hospital at the Brockton Fair Grounds during successive Brockton Fairs.
      The first autopsy performed by Dr. Paine in his capacity as medical examiner of the First Plymouth District was on the body of Barney McMennihan, whose body was found near the railroad between West Bridgewater and Matfield. Foul play was suspected but no one was ever apprehended for the deed.
     Dr. Paine's first murder case was that of Justin L. Gunn of Bridgewater, killed by gunshot. His son was arrested, tried and convicted, sentenced, pardoned, and finally met his fate by jumping in front of a train in New Jersey, meeting death by suicide.
     There were several unusual and unsolved murder cases within the experience of Dr. Paine. On April 27, 1892, Collin Leaman, a Brockton barber, was murdered by having his skull crushed by an unknown assailant as he was walking home from his shop in Montello in the evening. A man was arrested in Rhode Island in whose pocket was found a wallet, said to have belonged to Leaman, but, at the trial, the evidence was conflicting and the witnesses unsatisfactory. The man was not convicted and no one was ever apprehended as the rightful murderer. The deed was done with a sword or a sword fish, one of the strangest weapons ever used in committing a crime in Massachusetts.
     Another unsolved murder was that of Elijah Godfrey of West Bridgewater, a recluse, living alone, who furnished evidence against a group of people charged with violation of the liquor laws. Before the case against the men came up in court Godfrey's shanty was blown to bits. The verdict at the inquest was: "The man met his death by an explosive thrown into this dwelling by persons unknown," and they are still unknown.
     The bodied of Thomas and Grace Ball, small children, were found in the woods off Oak Street in Brockton several years ago. They had been killed and buried by their mother, and insane person, later committed to an asylum in Taunton. For many days and nights following their disappearance searching parties scoured the woods, fields and every place where they might be found, dead or alive, but without success. They had disappeared int he winter and it is supposed their mother took them into the woods, strangled them and buried them in leaves and such loose earth as she could get together with her hands, as the ground was frozen. Their bodies were discovered May 29, 1908.
     Dr. Paine played an important part in unraveling the evidence in the murder of Admiral Eaton of Norwell several years ago, on account of his knowledge of anatomy.
     On March 20, 1909, the R. B. Grover & Company shoe factory in Brockton was demolished by explosion of the engine boiler and fire. It was one of the worst catastrophes in New England, in the number killed and the horrible manner in which the shoe workers were pinned down beneath their machines and roasted to death in the holocaust Dr. Paine was called upon to work days and nights, as bodies were being discovered and brought out for identification. He refers to this as the worst experience of his life.
     There were probably five thousand cases in which Dr. Paine figured officially during his half century as a medical examiner and during all that time he served faithfully and was re-appointed term after term without question, until age and failing health made it impossible for him to continue. Dr. Paine said after his retirement that a majority of accidental death were traceable to drunkenness and things were fully as bad before as since the Volstead act changed liquor laws.

Source: "History of Plymouth, Norfolk and Barnstable Counties Massachusetts; Volume I" by Elroy S. Thompson. Pub. 1928. Page 131-133

William Henry Cobb

1846 - ____

Cobb, William Henry, clergyman and librarian of Boston, Mass., was born April 2, 1846, in Rochester, Mass. In 1872 he was ordained to the ministry; and in 1878-87 was pastor in Uxbridge, Mass. Since 1887, he has been librarian of the Congregational library of Boston, Mass. He is the author of "A Criticism of Systems of Hebrew Metre," and other works.

Source: Biographical sketches from the book, Men of 1914

Elmer Lawrence Corthell

1840 - ____

Corthell, Elmer Lawrence, civil engineer of New York City, was born Sept. 30, 1840, in South Abington, Mass. He was educated at Phillips Exeter Academy and at Brown University of Providence, R.I. He is a civil engineer of distinction and has an office in New York City. In 1898 he was a delegate from the United States Government to International Congress of Navigation at Brussels. He is the author of History of the Jetties at the Mouth of the
Mississippi ; Maritime Commerce, Past, Present and Future; also articles on Jetties, Levees and Ship Canals and Ship Railways, in Johnson's Cyclopedia.

Source: Biographical sketches from the book, Men of 1914

Alonzo Willard Damon

1847 - ____

Damon, Alonzo Willard, fire and marine insurance president, born Norwell, Mass., Feb. 1847; son of Davis and Lucy (Damon) Damon; educated in public schools of Boston, Mass. Began business life as clerk in office of Washington Fire and Marine Insurance Co., of Boston, 1862; became secretary of company, 1880-1887; special agent for Franklin Insurance Co., of Philadelphia, 1888-1889; became special agent Springfield Fire and Marine Insurance, 1890; was assistant secretary 1891-1895; and in 1895 became president, which position he has held ever since. Elected president National Board of Fire Underwriters in May, 1910. Is director Third National Bank of Springfield, Mass., Springfield Street Railway Co., Holyoke Water Power Co., Cheney-Bigelow Wire Works; trustee Springfield Institution for Savings, New England Investment and Security Co.; commissioner of Sinking Fund, City of Springfield, Mass. Republican. Unitarian. Recreation: Golf. Clubs: Nayasset, Country (Springfield). Hosea Kingman, son of Philip D. and Betsey B. (Washburne) Kingman, was born
April 11, 1843, at Bridgewater, Massachusetts. He began his classical studies at Appleton Academy, New Ipswich, New Hampshire, and entered college at the beginning of Sophomore year, in the Fall of 1861. During Junior year, he enlisted in the army and served for one year, when he returned to our class and completed the regular course. Immediately after graduating, he entered the office of William Latham, Esq., in Bridgewater, Massachusetts, and commenced the study of law. He continued his studies there until June 21, 1866, when he was admitted to the bar of Plymouth county, Massachusetts. He immediately
entered upon the practice of his profession in company with William Latham, Esq., at Bridgewater, Massachusetts. This copartnership continued until October, 1873, at which time Mr. Latham retired from practice, and he has continued alone up to the present time. He was appointed a Justice of the Peace November 8, 1865. He was also appointed a Captain in the State Militia in 1866, and held that position for one year. He has been a Notary Public since
November 25, 1873; Commissioner of Insolvency since November 23, 1877; Special Justice of the First District Court of Plymouth County since November 12, 1878, and City Solicitor of the city of Brockton, Massachusetts, since March 5, 1883. All of these official positions he continues to hold at the present time, with the single exception of Captain of Militia, and, taken in connection with his regular legal practice, they keep him crowded full of work all the time.
His religious preferences are Unitarian. In politics, he is a Republican. He was married June 21, 1866, to Miss Carrie Cole, of North Carver, Massachusetts. They have one child, Agnes Cole, born October 28, 1867.

Source: "Memorialia of the Class of '64 in Dartmouth College" complied by John C. Webster, Shepard & Johnston, Printers, 1884, Chicago

Jacob Osborne Sanborn

1840 - ____

Jacob Osborne Sanborn, son of Daniel Ladd and Adah Shepard (Moore) Sanborn, was born July 6, 1840, at Loudon Centre, New Hampshire. He received his Academic education at New Hampton, New Hampshire, and entered Dartmouth at the beginning of the Fall term, August 24, 1860. He had resolved in early youth to adopt the profession of teaching, his first attempt being a school at Gilmanton, New Hampshire, when he was sixteen years of age. In the light of modern ideas, he now questions whether he taught or simply kept the school. Before graduating, he was engaged to take charge of the Grammar
School at South Hingham, Massachusetts, and entered upon his duties there in August, 1864. He remained there until the Spring of 1866, when, in a competitive examination, he was the successful candidate for the position of Principal of the Cradock Grammar School at Medford, Massachusetts. He was soon after elected Principal of the High School at Needham, Massachusetts, but for good and sufficient reasons he declined the position and remained at Medford until November, 1868, at which time he removed to Winchester, Massachusetts, and assumed the duties of Principal of the Grammar School. While there, he was presented with a handsome gold watch, which would indicate the esteem in which he was held. Although he had a liberal salary among a very intelligent and appreciative people, he preferred to teach in a school of higher grade, and accepted an invitation to become Master of the High School at Hingham, Massachusetts. In the Summer of 1872, he moved to his present field of labor. In this ancient and honorable town there had been an Academy for nearly seventy-five years; but as it did not meet the growing wants of all its people, the town made a very liberal appropriation to establish a free High School. He had the pleasure of organizing the school in September, 1872, and has been its only Principal. In the Fall of 1873, he was invited and urged to return to Winchester, Massachusetts, as Principal of the High School, but thought best to decline. With no further fluctuations of place, he has been, for the past twelve years, anchored to the South Shore, so near to Plymouth Rock that he frequently hears from the Pilgrim Fathers. He feels a pride, in common with other residents of Hingham, that the town is taxed more proportionately for educational purposes than most towns in Massachusetts, and has the
reputation of supporting good schools. They also have the oldest church in the United States used for public worship, and have given the State two noble Governors, Andrew and Long. He is still teaching, and hopes to die in the harness. He has been absent from school but three or four days on account of sickness since leaving college, and, were he to begin life again, would select the same calling, from which it may be inferred that he does not find it irksome. His school has a good physical apparatus and chemical laboratory, and he aims to teach according to the latest and best methods. He has been honored with no title but pedagogue, and although living where governors are made, does not expect or aspire to be one. He has twice been elected President of the Plymouth County Teachers' Association, and has read papers on educational topics before local, county and state organizations. He is a Trustee of the Hingham Public Library. He is a deacon in the Evangelical Congregational Church of Hingham. In politics, he has always been a Republican. He was married October 30, 1869, to Miss Louisa Attelia Slader, daughter of the late Edward A. Slader, of Nashua, New Hampshire. He says: "Let me add by way of advice to my bachelor classmates, especially my old chum,' that the step has proved a wise one, for in my wife I have a devoted companion and an invaluable aid."
They have no children.

Source: "Memorialia of the Class of '64 in Dartmouth College" complied by John C. Webster, Shepard & Johnston, Printers, 1884, Chicago

John Reed

1781 - 1860

REED, John, (son of John Reed [1751-1831]), a Representative from Massachusetts; born in West Bridgewater, Plymouth County, Mass., September 2, 1781; was graduated from Brown University, Providence, R.I., in 1803; tutor of languages in that institution for two years and principal of the Bridgewater (Mass.) Academy in 1806 and 1807; studied law; was admitted to the bar and commenced practice in Yarmouth, Mass.; elected as a Federalist to the Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Seventeenth Congresses (March 4, 1813-March 3, 1817); elected as an Adams-Clay Federalist to the Eighteenth Congress, reelected as an Adams candidate to the Nineteenth and Twentieth Congresses, elected as an Anti-Jacksonian to the Twenty-first through the Twenty-third Congresses, elected as an Anti-Masonic candidate to the Twenty-fourth Congress, and reelected as a Whig to the Twenty-fifth and Twenty-sixth Congresses (March 4, 1821-March 3, 1841); chairman, Committee on Revisal and Unfinished Business (Twenty-second Congress); declined to be candidate for reelection in 1840; lieutenant governor of Massachusetts 1845-1851; died in West Bridgewater, Plymouth County, Mass., November 25, 1860.

Father:
John Reed
Born:     11 Nov 1751
Framingham, Middlesex, Massachusetts, USA
Died:     17 Feb 1831
Mother:
Hannah Sampson
Born: 15 Apr 1755 in Middleborough, Plymouth, Massachusetts, New England
Died: 13 Nov 1815 in Bridgewater, Plymouth, Massachusetts, USA
Marriage of Parents: 14 Oct 1780 in Bridgewater, Plymouth, Massachusetts,
USA
Spouse: Olive Alger
Born: 26 May 1785 in Bridgewater, Plymouth, Massachusetts, USA
Died: 25 Oct 1859
Marriage: 1809 in Yarmouth, Barnstable, Massachusetts, USA
Children     Sex     Birth
John Reed     M     2 Sep 1781 in Yarmouth, Barnstable, Massachusetts, USA
Daniel Reed     M     1783
Solomon Reed     M     22 Mar 1788 in Bridgewater, Plymouth, Massachusetts, USA
Hannah Reed     F     7 Jul 1790 in Bridgewater, Plymouth, Massachusetts, USA
Sarah Reed     F     1793
Caleb Reed     M     1797
Caleb Reed     F     1797
Sampson Reed     M     10 Jun 1800

Dr. Walter W. Fullerton

____ - ____

     March 24, 1926, Dr. Walter W. Fullerton, a native of Brockton, succeeded Dr. A. Elliot Paine as medical examiner of the brockton district. For seven years before that he had been assistant medical examiner and during the latter part of the time had much of the work assigned to him, owing to failing health of the veteran examiner, who nearly completed fifty years in office before resigning.
     Dr. Fullerton has practiced since 1896, following his graduation the previous year from the College of Physicians and Surgeons at Baltimore, Maryland. He took a post-graduate course in medicine and pathology at the Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore. For nine years he was visiting physician and pathologist at the Brockton Hospital. He served as city physician of Brockton three years. He has done post-graduate work in pthology, laboratory and autopsy training at the Massachusetts General Hospital.
     He served with the American medical units in the World War, as captain int he United States Medical Corps.

Source: "History of Plymouth, Norfolk and Barnstable Counties Massachusetts; Volume I" by Elroy S. Thompson. Pub. 1928. Page 133-134

Giles Heale

____ - 1653

     Strangely enough, the first physicain to minister to the Pilgrims proffessionally has never had his name mentioned in any history in the United States and presumable has not appeared in any history printed in the world. He was a regularly educated and recognized physician, according to the standards and customs of his day, and practiced his profession throughout his lifetime, so far as known, living respected and dying regretted. Dr. Samuel Fuller has always been mentioned as the first physician in New England but the Pilgrims were first under the care of the "Mayflower's" ship's doctor, Giles Heale. His bones and those of the "Mayflower" itself have recently been discovered in England, the latter by people from Plymouth County.

Source: "History of Plymouth, Norfolk and Barnstable Counties Massachusetts; Volume I" by Elroy S. Thompson. Pub. 1928. Pages 142-143

     "Mayflower's" Man Overboard-Many times is has been said that when the "Mayflower" sailed on the return trip to England in April, 1621, not one of the passengers accepted the invitation of Captain Jones to return. In February, 1927, something came to light to repute that statement, providing one wants to include in the list of passengers one whom William Bradford evidently decided did not belong there. This mas was Giles Heale, the man-overboard from the "Mayflower" story, who has been missing so long that it makes the long, lost Charlie Ross seem a recent neighbor.
     Giles Heale was the ship's doctor and colonel Charles E. Banks came across his signature as a witness to the last will and testament of William Mullins, who died in the early spring following the landing of the Pilgrims. Since he returned on the "Mayflower", he may rightfully have been excluded from the list of Plymouth colonists, the same as other members of the "Mayflower" crew, although they all took part in the investigations made by means of the shallop from the "Mayflower" and were very useful while they remained, during that first winter, with its suffering and toll of death. Heale went back to London and lived and died in "Marry England", missing his chance of being a Forefather and remaining unheard of by his shipmates of the Pilgrim band and their decedents for three centuries. what his record was with the Pilgrims, we have no way of knowing. The "Boston Transcript" takes it for granted that he was a poor doctor because so many of the Pilgrims died while he was at Plymouth. So was Dr. Samuel Fuller. Why condemn one and honor the other" Presumably those who endured that first winder in Plymouth were either very busily engaged in humane ministrations or among those "on the danger list." We can easily imagine a slacker would have had his head and feet tied together and if that had happened to Giles Heale, he would be on Bradford's records. Colonel Charles E. Banks, who brought Dr. Giles Heale out of obscurity, is a retired United States Army officer who has spent years in historical research. He brought back with him from London a photograph of the nuncupative will of William Mullins, made on his deathbed in Plymouth in February, 1621, in the presence of John Carver, the first governor of Plymouth Colony, chosen the day the Compact was signed in the "Mayflower"cabin in Cape Cod Harbor; Christopher Jones, captain of the "Mayflower;" and Dr. Giles Heale, the "Mayflower" surgeon. This he presented to the Massachusetts Historical Society.
     Investigation by Colonel Banks showed the apprenticeship of Heale in the Guild of Barber Surgeons of London and his freedom in 1619, the year before he sailed on the "Mayflower." He practiced medicine in London and lived in Drury Lane. The will is in the handwriting of Governor Carver and is in the provincial Probate Court of the County of Surrey.
     Not only were many of the Pilgrims laid low by disease after landing at Plymouth, but there was considerable sickness on board the little vessel tossed about on the broad Atlantic when it was uncertain where it was going but was on its way. Dr. GIles Heale must have been a busy physician on the voyage. It is likely that he officiated at the birth of Peregrine White when the "Mayflower" lay in the harbor. It is evident that he was the physician in charge at the sick bed of William Mullins and it may have been at his suggestion that the latter made his will, after being informed by his physician that death was near. So near was death, as a matter of fact, that Mullins was unable to write the will but this was done for him by Governor Carver. The will appears in the handwriting of Carver and, so far as known, it is the only piece of writing still existence from his quill.
     Emaciated by the "general sickness," knowing full well his struggle to retain the breath of life would only last a brief time, surrounded by his wife and young children, amongst them Priscilla, later destined to become the wife of John Alden, perhaps Mullins dictated his will to Governor Carver, in the presence of his physician and Captain Christopher Jones, believing that hose who survived until the time of the return of the "Mayflower" would return with it. Knowing that Captain Jones and Dr. Heale would return, if they escaped the "general sickness", may have prompted him to select them as witnesses, believing that the will would be administered in England and the witnesses who would be there. It was the first will made in New England, what is legally known as a nuncupative will. It was unsigned. He merely expressed his desires for the distribution of his few belongings and it it is probable that the actual language of the will was not written out until after his death. It was finally filed with the Probate records of the Archdeaconry of Surrey. The elder children of William Mullins resided at Dorking in that county.
     It does not seem especially strange that Bradford did not mention Dr. Heale as one of the Plymouth colonists, as presumable he was employed n the capacity of ship's surgeon by Thomas Weston, a London merchant who was the moving spirit in the emigration and who chartered the "Mayflower" for the use of the Pilgrims, acting for his associates, The Merchant Adventurers. Much interest has been aroused in Dr. Heale, nevertheless, since he was first heard of last February, as a sort of Rip Van Winkle of the "Mayflower" who had been sleeping, not twenty years, but three hundred and six. Dr. Heale was the first physician who practiced in New England and Governor Carver wrote the first will, two facts discovered in 1927.
     As for this Dr. Heale, there is on record in the parish of St. Giles-in-the-Fields, his own last will and tetament, which reads as follows:

In the name of God, Amen:

             I Giles Heale of the parish of St. Giles-in-the-Fields in the Countie of Midd(lesex) Chirurgeon beinge infirme and weake of Bodie but Sound
       and perfect memorye praysed be God doe make and ordaine this my last will and Testament in maner and forme following:
              First I bequeathe my Soule into the hands of Almighty God my Creator and my Body I comitt to the Earth to be decently interred at the
       discretion of my deare and loving wife and Executrix heeafter named: And concerning my small portion of worldly goods I dispose therof as
       followeth Vizt:
             Imprimis I give unto my Brother Henry Heale my gray Cloth Cloke my best Hatt and a Satten Capp and one Hollond shirt. The rest and
        residue of all and singular my Goods and Chattles and Debts whatsoever and wheresoever I give and bequeath unto my beloved wife Mary
       Heale whom I make constitute and appoint full and sole Executrix of this my last will and Testament hereby revoking all former Wills and
       Bequests. In witness wherof I have hereunto sett my hand seale this fourth day of Aprill one thousand six hundred fifty and two.
                                                                                                                                        Giles Heale.

    The parish records show that "Mr. Giles Heale" ws buried February 3, 1652-3, doubtless in the church of churchyard, of St. Giles-in-the-Fields. This edifice still stands in London, near Drury Lane.
    The signature to his will as above shown, is a complete proof of identification as the same Giles Heale, chirurgeon, who witnessed in Plymouth thirty-two years before the dying statement of William Mullins.

Source: "History of Plymouth, Norfolk and Barnstable Counties Massachusetts; Volume I" by Elroy S. Thompson. Pub. 1928. Pages 144-147

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Henry Rowley

____ - ____

Henry Rowley was an early planter at Plymouth, Mass., where he was taxed in 1632. It is possible that he was one of the company that came over from Leyden to Plymouth in 1630. It has also been conjectured that he came with Mr. Hatherly in 1632. 1 have found nothing by which either conjecture can be verified. It is probable that he was married when he came over, and that his three children were born before that time. It has been declared that his first wife was Sarah, daughter of William Palmer Senior, of Duxbury. The latter came over in the Fortune in 1621, and his wife Frances came in the Anne in 1623. In his will, dated 1637, William Palmer names "Moyses Rowley (son of Henry¹), whom I love," and provides for his bringing up, but does not state what relation Moses was to himself. Henry Rowley m. Oct. 17, 1633, Anne, widow of Dea. Thomas Blossom, who embarked in the Speedwell at Leyden in 1620, but being obliged to return to Leyden, came over to Plymouth in 1629, where he d. previous to March 1632-3. Henry and Anne Rowley removed to Scituate in1634, the year he was elected freeman. Both were members of Rev. John Lothrop's church on Jan. 8, 1634-5, and removed with him to Barnstable in 1638. He was a deputy from Barnstable to the General Court of Plymouth at least once.
Thomas and Peter Blossom came to Barnstable with their mother, Mrs. Rowley, and were probably members of the family of their father-in-law. In 1650 Henry Rowley removed, with his son-in-law, Peter Blossom, to West Barnstable, and later to Falmouth. Henry Rowley d. in 1673. Inventory of the estate of "henery Rowley of Sacconessett," exhibited in Court, July, z673, on oath of Moses Rowley. "Item: a debt of twenty-nine pounds due from Jonathan Hatch upon the repurchase of a parsell of land which the said Hatch sold to said Henery Rowley with that limitation provided." Plymouth Colony Records, Vol. iii, part 2, p. 93.

Source: "The New York Genealogical and Biographical Record" by Homer W. Brainard. Pub. January 1906. Page 58-59

Harry Irving Thayer

1869 - 1926

Thayer, Harry Irving (1869-1926), a Representative from Massachusetts; born in Pembroke, Plymouth County, Mass., September 10, 1869; attended the public schools of Hanover, Mass.; engaged in the leather business; organizer and president of the Thayer-Ross Co.; president of the New England Shoe and
Leather Association 1916-1921; was president of the Tanners’ Council of the United States in 1920 and 1921; was a delegate to the Republican National
Convention in 1924; elected as a Republican to the Sixty-ninth Congress and served from March 4, 1925, until his death in Wakefield, Middlesex County,
Mass., March 10, 1926; interment in Lakeside Cemetery.

Parents: Wendell Phillips Thayer, Amelia J Josselyn
Spouse: Emma L [Thayer]
Born: Dec. 21, 1871 in    Scituate, Massachusetts
Children:
Lloyd J Thayer b. abt 1893 Massachusetts
Raymond H Thayer b. abt 1897     Massachusetts
Phillip Thayer b. abt 1908     Massachusetts
Wendell P Thayer b. abt 1909 Massachusetts

Sources:
New York Passenger Lists, 1820-1957
U.S. Federal Census
The Political Graveyard
Submitted by Deborah Crowell

Eugene Francis Loud

1847 - 1908

Loud, Eugene Francis (1847-1908), a Representative from California; born in Abington, Plymouth County, Mass., March 12, 1847; went to sea and afterward
settled in California; during the Civil War enlisted in a California Cavalry battalion in 1862, which formed a part of the Second Regiment, Massachusetts
Volunteer Cavalry; returned to California; engaged in mining and as clerk for fifteen years; studied law; clerk in the customs service at San Francisco, Calif.; member of the State assembly in 1884; cashier of the city and county of San Francisco; elected as a Republican to the Fifty-second and to the five succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1891-March 3, 1903); chairman, Committee on the Post Office and Post Roads (Fifty-fourth through Fifty-seventh Congresses); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1902 to the Fifty-eighth Congress; died in San Francisco, Calif., December 19, 1908; remains were cremated and the ashes interred in the Odd Fellows Cemetery.

Father's First Name: Reuben
Mother's First Name: Betsey

Sources:
Vital Records
U.S. Federal Census
Biographical Directory of the U.S. Congress
Submitted by Deborah Crowell

Wiliam Sarsfield McNary

1863 - 1930

McNary, William Sarsfield (1863-1930), a Representative from Massachusetts; born in Abington, Plymouth County, Mass., March 29, 1863; attended the
public schools of Abington and graduated from the Boston English High School; engaged in newspaper work; reporter and managing editor of the
Boston Commercial Bulletin 1880-1892; also engaged in the retail and wholesale furniture business; member of the Boston City Council in 1887 and
1888; member of the State house of representatives in 1889 and 1890; served in the State senate in 1891 and 1892; water commissioner of Boston in 1893
and 1894; again a member of the State house of representatives 1900-1902; engaged in the insurance business and a dealer in real estate; delegate to
the Democratic National Convention in 1900 and 1904; elected as a Democrat to the Fifty-eighth and Fifty-ninth Congresses (March 4, 1903-March 3,
1907); was not a candidate for renomination in 1906; continued his former business pursuits in Boston, Mass., until his death in that city on June 26,
1930; interment in St. Joseph’s Cemetery, West Roxbury, Mass.

Father's Birth Place: Ireland
Mother's Birth Place: Ireland
Spouse: Abertine Martin
Born: abt 1861 Massachusetts
Married: abt 1893
Children:
Helen McNary b. abt 1894 Massachusetts
William McNary Jr. b. abt 1903 Massachusetts

Sources:
U.S. Federal Census
Biographical Directory of the U.S. Congress
Submitted by Deborah Crowell

Martin Kinsley

1754 - 1835

Kinsley, Martin (1754-1835), a Representative from Massachusetts; born in Bridgewater, Plymouth County, Mass., June 2, 1754; was graduated from
Harvard College in 1778; studied medicine; purveyor of supplies in the Revolutionary Army; member of the State house of representatives in 1787,
1788, 1790-1792, 1794-1796, 1801-1804, and 1806; treasurer of Hardwick, Mass., 1787-1792; moved to Hampden in 1797; representative of Hampden in the general court 1801-1804 and 1806; member of the executive council in 1810 and 1811; judge of the court of common pleas in 1811; judge of the probate court; served in the state senate in 1814; elected as a Republican to the Sixteenth Congress (March 4, 1819-March 3, 1821); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1820 to the Seventeenth Congress; died in Roxbury, Suffolk County, Mass., June 20, 1835.

Parents: Samuel Kingsley, Sophia White

Sources:
Family Collections LDS
Biographical Directory of the U.S. Congress
Submitted by Deborah Crowell

Barzillai Gannett

1764 - 1832

Gannett, Barzillai (1764-1832), a Representative from Massachusetts; born in Bridgewater, Plymouth County, Mass., June 17, 1764; was graduated from
Harvard University in 1785; studied theology, but did not enter the ministry; selectman of Pittston, Maine (then a district of Massachusetts), in 1793, 1794, 1796-1798, 1801, and 1802; town clerk in 1794; moderator 1797-1802; selectman and assessor, Gardiner, Maine, 1803-1808; appointed as the first postmaster of Gardiner and served from September 30, 1804, to October 1, 1809; moderator 1804-1806, 1808, 1809, and 1811; member of the
Massachusetts house of representatives in 1805 and 1806; served in the Massachusetts senate in 1807 and 1808; elected as a Republican to the
Eleventh and Twelfth Congresses and served from March 4, 1809, until his resignation in 1812; died in New York City in 1832.

Parents: Joseph Gannett, Elizabeth Latham
Spouse: Elizabeth Farley
Born: 7 Jul 1774 in Newcastle, Maine
Died: 18 Sep 1845
Marriage: 30 Apr 1797
Children:
Edward F GANNETT 1798–1826
Elizabeth L GANNETT 1800–1836
Michael F GANNETT 1802–1889
Catherine GANNETT 1804–1861
Joseph GANNETT 1806–1807
Joseph Farley GANNETT 1810–1888

Sources:
Vital Records
Family Collections LDS
Biographical Directory of the U.S. Congress
Submitted by Deborah Crowell

Benjamin Winslow Harris

1823 - 1907

Harris, Benjamin Winslow (1823-1907) Father of Robert Orr Harris. A Representative from Massachusetts; born in East Bridgewater, Plymouth
County, Mass., November 10, 1823; pursued an academic course and was graduated from Dane Law School, Harvard University, in 1849; was admitted to
the bar in Boston in 1850 and commenced practice in East Bridgewater; served in the State senate in 1857; member of the State house of representatives in
1858; district attorney for the southeastern district of Massachusetts from July 1, 1858, to June 30, 1866; collector of internal revenue for the second
district of Massachusetts from June 30, 1866, to March 1, 1873; elected as a Republican to the Forty-third and to the four succeeding Congresses (March
4, 1873-March 3, 1883); chairman, Committee on Naval Affairs (Forty-seventh Congress); was not a candidate for renomination in 1882; resumed the
practice of law in East Bridgewater, Plymouth County; judge of probate for the county of Plymouth 1887-1906; died in East Bridgewater, Mass., on
February 7, 1907; interment in Union Cemetery.

Father's First Name: William
Mother's First Name:     Mary W.
Spouse: Unknown Orr (died bef 1880)
Children:
Mary M. Harris b. abt 1852     Massachusetts
Robert O. Harris b. abt 1855     Massachusetts
Alice M. Harris b. abt 1857     Massachusetts

Sources:
U.S. Federal Census
Massachusetts Town Birth Records
Biographical Directory of the U.S. Congress
Submitted by Deborah Crowell

Raymond Percival Palmer

1895 - ____

Palmer, Raymond Percival (b. 1895) — also known as Raymond P. Palmer — of Braintree, Norfolk County, Mass. Born in East Bridgewater, Plymouth County,
Mass., December 27, 1895. Republican. Served in the U.S. Navy during World War I; member of Massachusetts state house of representatives, 1939-43,
1947-50; alternate delegate to Republican National Convention from Massachusetts, 1940; served in the U.S. Army Air Force in World War II.
Congregationalist.

Father's name:     Frank H
Father's Birth Place:     Massachusetts
Mother's name:     Jessie D
Mother's Birth Place:     Canada English
Spouse: Margaret L Campbell
Born: abt 1893 Massachusetts
Married: abt 1914
Children:
Marjorie K Palmer b. abt 1923

Sources:
U.S. Federal Census
The Political Graveyard
Submitted by Deborah Crowell

John Reed

1781 - 1860

Reed, John (1781-1860) Son of John Reed [1751-1831]; father-in-law of James F. Joy. A Representative from Massachusetts; born in West Bridgewater,
Plymouth County, Mass., September 2, 1781; was graduated from Brown University, Providence, R.I., in 1803; tutor of languages in that
institution for two years and principal of the Bridgewater (Mass.) Academy in 1806 and 1807; studied law; was admitted to the bar and commenced
practice in Yarmouth, Mass.; elected as a Federalist to the Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Seventeenth Congresses (March 4, 1813-March 3, 1817);
elected as an Adams-Clay Federalist to the Eighteenth Congress, reelected as an Adams candidate to the Nineteenth and Twentieth Congresses, elected as an Anti-Jacksonian to the Twenty-first through the Twenty-third Congresses, elected as an Anti-Masonic candidate to the Twenty-fourth Congress, and
reelected as a Whig to the Twenty-fifth and Twenty-sixth Congresses (March 4, 1821-March 3, 1841); chairman, Committee on Revisal and Unfinished
Business (Twenty-second Congress); declined to be candidate for reelection in 1840; lieutenant governor of Massachusetts 1845-1851; died in West
Bridgewater, Plymouth County, Mass., November 25, 1860.

Parents: John Reed, Hannah Sampson
Spouse: Olive Alger
Born: 26 May 1785 in Bridgewater, Plymouth, Massachusetts
Died: 25 Oct 1859
Marriage: 1809 in Yarmouth, Barnstable, Massachusetts

Sources:
U.S. Federal Census
Family Collections LDS
Biographical Directory of the U.S. Congress
The Political Graveyard
Submitted by Deborah Crowell

Edward Gilmore

1867 - 1924

Gilmore, Edward (1867-1924), a Representative from Massachusetts; born in Brockton, Plymouth County, Mass., January 4, 1867; attended the graded
schools, the high school, and Massachusetts State University extension classes; engaged in mercantile pursuits; member of the Democratic State
committee 1896-1903; delegate to the Democratic National Conventions in 1900 and 1904; president of the Brockton Board of Aldermen 1901-1906; member of the State house of representatives in 1907 and 1908; elected as a Democrat to the Sixty-third Congress (March 4, 1913-March 3, 1915); postmaster of Brockton 1915-1923; city assessor in 1923 and 1924; died in Boston, Mass., April 10, 1924; interment in Calvary Cemetery, Brockton, Mass.

Father: John Gilmore b. abt 1829     Ireland
Mother: Ellen [Gilmore] b. abt 1829     Ireland
Spouse: Annie M [Gilmore] b. abt 1867     Massachusetts
Children:
John E Gilmore b. abt 1888     Massachusetts
Charles F Gilmore b. abt 1893     Massachusetts
Robert O Gilmore b. abt 1897     Massachusetts
Edward B Gilmore b. abt 1900     Massachusetts
Philip S Gilmore b. abt 1903   Massachusetts

Sources:
U.S. Federal Census
Family Collections LDS
Biographical Directory of the U.S. Congress
Submitted by Deborah Crowell

George Partridge

1740 - 1828

Partridge, George (1740-1828), a Delegate and a Representative from Massachusetts; born in Duxbury, Plymouth County, Mass., February 8, 1740;
was graduated from Harvard College in 1762; taught school in Kingston, Mass.; studied theology; delegate to the Provincial Congress in 1774 and
1775; member of the state house of representatives 1775-1779; sheriff of Plymouth County 1777-1812; Member of the Continental Congress 1779-1785;
member of the state house of representatives in 1788; elected as a Pro-Administration candidate to the First Congress and served from March 4,
1789, to August 14, 1790, when he resigned; endowed Partridge Seminary in Duxbury; died in Duxbury, Plymouth County, Mass., on July 7, 1828; interment in Mayflower Cemetery.

Parents: George Partridge, Hannah Foster

Sources:
Family Data Collections LDS
Biographical Directory of the U.S. Congress
Submitted by Deborah Crowell

Joshua Cushman

1761 - 1834

Cushman, Joshua (1761-1834), a Representative from Massachusetts and from Maine; born in Halifax, Plymouth County, Mass., April 11, 1761; served in
the Revolutionary Army from April 1, 1777, until March 1780; was graduated from Harvard University in 1787; studied theology; was ordained to the
ministry and licensed to preach; located in Winslow, Maine (then a district of Massachusetts), and was pastor of the Congregational Church for nearly
twenty years; served in the Massachusetts senate in 1810; member of the Massachusetts house of representatives in 1811 and 1812; elected as
Republican from Massachusetts to the Sixteenth Congress (March 4, 1819-March 3, 1821); when the State of Maine was separated from Massachusetts and
admitted as a State into the Union was elected as a Republican Representative from Maine to the Seventeenth Congress; and reelected as an
Adams-Clay Republican to the Eighteenth Congress (March 4, 1821-March 3, 1825); served in the Maine senate in 1828; member of the Maine house of
representatives in 1834; died in Augusta, Kennebec County, Maine, on January 27, 1834; interment in a tomb on the State grounds, Augusta, Maine.

Parents: Abner Cushman, Mary Tilson
Spouse: Lucy Jones
Born: abt 1760 in Medford, Middlesex, Massachusetts
Died: 13 Jan 1847 in Winslow, Kennebec, Maine
Children Sex Birth
Charles Cushman M 28 Sep 1802 in Winslow, Kennebec, Maine

Sources:
Family Data Collections LDS
Biographical Directory of the U.S. Congress
Submitted by Deborah Crowell

Levi Lincoln

1749 - 1820

Lincoln, Levi (1749-1820) Father of Enoch Lincoln and Levi Lincoln [1782-1868]), great-granduncle of Frederick Robie. A Representative from
Massachusetts; born in Hingham, Plymouth County, Mass., May 15, 1749; attended the common schools; was graduated from Harvard College in 1772;
studied law in Newburyport and Northampton, Mass.; joined the Minutemen in Cambridge at the outbreak of the Revolution; moved to Worcester, Mass.; was admitted to the bar and commenced practice in 1775; member of the committee of public safety; clerk of the court and judge of probate for Worcester
County 1775-1781; was specially designated to prosecute the claims of the Commonwealth to the numerous estates of loyalists in 1779; delegate to the
state constitutional convention in 1779; elected a Member of the Continental Congress in 1781, but declined to serve; member of the state house of
representatives in 1796; served in the state senate in 1797 and 1798; elected as a Republican to the Seventh Congress; subsequently elected to the
Sixth Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Dwight Foster and served from December 15, 1800, to March 5, 1801, when he
resigned; appointed Attorney General of the United States in the cabinet of President Jefferson and served from March 5, 1801, to December 31, 1804, and
as Acting Secretary of State from March 5 to May 2, 1801; member of the governor’s council of Massachusetts in 1806; lieutenant governor of
Massachusetts in 1807 and 1808; became governor upon the death of Governor Sullivan and served in this capacity from December 10, 1808, to May 1, 1809; appointed Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States by President Madison, but declined to accept by reason of failing eyesight;
again a member of the governor’s council in 1810 and 1811; died in Worcester, Worcester County, Mass., April 14, 1820; interment in the Rural
Cemetery.

Parents: Enoch Lincoln, Rachel Fearing
Spouse: Martha Waldo
Born: 14 Sep 1761 in Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts
Died: 28 Mar 1828 in Worcester, Worcester, Massachusetts
Marriage: 25 Nov 1781 in Worcester, Worcester, Massachusetts
Children     Sex     Birth
Amos Lincoln     M     1754
Levi Lincoln     M     25 Oct 1782 in Worcester, Worcester, Massachusetts
Daniel Waldo Lincoln     M     2 Mar 1784 in Worcester, Massachusetts
Martha Lincoln     F     19 Oct 1785 in Worcester, Massachusetts
Enoch Lincoln     M     28 Dec 1788 in Worcester, Massachusetts
Rebecca Lincoln     F     11 Jan 1792 in Worcester, Massachusetts
Waldo Lincoln     M     3 May 1800 in Worcester, Worcester, Massachusetts
William Lincoln     M     26 Sep 1801 in Worcester, Massachusetts

Sources:
Vital Records
Family Data Collections LDS
Biographical Directory of the U.S. Congress
Submitted by Deborah Crowell

John Forrester Andrew

1850 - 1895

Andrew, John Forrester (1850-1895), 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, Suffolk County, Mass., May 30, 1895; interment in Mount Auburn Cemetery, Cambridge, Mass.

Parents: John Albion Andrew, Eliza Jones Hersey
Spouse: Harriett Bayard Thayer
Born: 6 Feb 1853 in Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts
Died: 16 Sep 1891 in Dublin, Cheshire, New Hampshire
Marriage: 11 Oct 1883
Children Sex Birth
Cornelia Thayer Andrew F 19 Nov 1884

Sources:
U.S. Federal Census
Family Data Collections LDS
Biographical Directory of the U.S. Congress
Submitted by Deborah Crowell