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Cutter, William Richard, Genealogical and Personal Memoirs Relating to the Families of Boston and Eastern Massachusetts (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1908), Volume II.
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Contents
AINSWORTH
[p. 779]
(IV) Daniel Ainsworth, ... married, second, January 7, 1766, Elizabeth Corbin, of Dudley, Massachusetts. ....
[p. 780]
.... Children of second wife: .... 14. Philip, September 3, 18--; maried first, Dolly Cronkhite; second, Mrs. Mary (Whitney) Burr.
GARDNER
[p. 832]
(VIII) Stephen Wilson Gardner, fifth son of Benjamin and Lucy Foster (Wilson) Gardner, was born June 12, 1835. During [most] of his business life he has been an ov[erseer] in leather manufacturies. He is a [_____] deacon in the Centeral Baptist church, [_____] and a member of John Endicott Colony, [_____] Pilgrim Fathers. His father, Ben[jamin] Brown Gardner, was a cooper by trad[e, and] made hogsheads for the West India tr[ade at] his shop on Orne's wharf. October 4, [_____] Stephen Wilson Gardner married M[arion] Wallace Woods, born in New Boston[, New] Hampshire, October 1, 1839, daught[er of] Aaron and Lydia Rogers (Wallace) W[oods,] and a descendant of some of the be[_____] families of New England: Samuel W[oods,] William Lakin, Abraham Browne, W[illiam] Shattuck, John Whitney, Robert Rey[nolds,] Richard Blood, William Longley, [John] Wright, Arthur Warren, John [_____,] Thomas Burnham, Samuel Richardson, [Mich]ael Bacon, Nicholas Davis, Capt. [Edward]
[p. 833]
[Joh]nson, Thomas Wiswell, Capt. Augustine [Wal]ker, William Read, Thomas Wallace, [Joh]n Gage, Richard Kimball and John Wyatt. [Ste]phen wilson Gardner and wife Marion [Wa]llace Woods have two children, dr. Frank [Au]gustine Gardner and Lucy Marion Gardner.
[(]IX) Dr. Frank Augustine Gardner was [bor]n in Salem, Massachusetts, January 7, 1861, [and] was given a good academic education at [Pea]body Academy and the Salem Classical and [Hig]h School, graduating from both. Later he [ent]ered Boston University and graduated C. [___] D. in 1882, M. D. in 1883. He practiced [med]icine in Peabody, and located permanently at Salem in 1884. He began the [tas]k of compiling the genealogy of "Thomas [Gar]dner and Some of His Descendants" in [___]7, and the finished work was published in [___]7. He is now engaged in assembling ma[teri]al for a still more comprehensive genealo[gy] of the Gardner family, and also for a his[tory] of Salem in the revolutionary war. He [is a] member of many societies, professional [and] otherwise, and an office of sseveral of [the]m. He married first, June 15, 1887, Caro[line] Louise Read, born in Salem, January 13, [___]1, and died April 23, 1902; second, Octo[ber] 31, 1906, Marion R. Fuller, born in [Sale]m, August 15, 1881. Dr. Gardner has [one] child, born of his first marriage: Pauline [Gar]dner.
[(]IX) Lucy Marion Gardner, daughter of [Ste]phen Wilson and Marion Wallace [(W]oods) Gardner, was born in Salem, Janu[ary] 9, 1875, and graduated from Tufts Col[lege], A. B. in 1897. She was one of the [Coll]aborators of the class of '97 who prepared [the] "History of Tufts College." She is a [mem]ber and present secreatry of the Old [___]ters Society.
[Transcriber's note: Her Whitney line is Marion Wallace Woods (Aaron, Ephraim, Sarah Lakin, Elizabeth Shattuck, John, Ruth3 Whitney, John2, John1).]
TAPLEY
[p. 973]
Joseph Johnson ... married second, June 1, 1819, Betsey Graves.... His children were: ....
[p. 974]
...; Franklin Everett, November 4, 1827, married (first), February 9, 1857, Harriet Whitney, (second), March 10, 1873, Almira J. Smith; ....
STEARNS
[p. 989]
[(IV]) Daniel Stearns, son of George Stearns, [baptize]d August 3, 1729, died August 21, 1779, [and ma]rried, September 4, 1755, Hannah Fuller, [of New]ton, born 1731, died October 15, 1756. [Childr]en: .... 3. Lydia, [born 1]759, died 1786; married, June 12, 1783, [Abijah] Whitney, of Watertown. ....
FOX
[p. 1003]
(VIII) Charles K. Fox, son of Charles L. [and Catherine (Richardson)] Fox (7), was born in Roxbury, Oxford county, Maine, January 25, 1851. He was educated in the public schools and Gould's academy at Bethel, and helped his father during his youth with the work on the farm. At the age of eighteen he left home and came to Haverhill to learn the printer's trade. He worked at the printing trade for a period of eight years. In 1882 he began the manufacture of shoes in a very small scale in a shop on Washington square, but soon got upon a solid foundation and owned a large and flourishing business. He continued until 1890 in the factory in which he started, then removed to Washington street, and in 1898 to the factory he now occupies, which was built in 1898 and 1905, and is one of the largest in Haverhill. He employs at present eight hundred hands. He also operates other factories. He makes
[p. 1004]
a specialty of high grade shoes for women and his product finds a market in all sections of the United States and foreign countries. Mr. Fox ranks not only among the the leading and most successful manufacturers of Haverhill, but among the most upright and useful citizens. He has done much in many ways to advance the growth and prosperity of the city and to benefit the citizens of Haverhill. Mr. Fox is a member of the Masonic Order and of the Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company of Massachusetts; director of the Merchants' National bank; trustee of the City Five Cents Savings Bank; also a trustee of the General Insurance Guarantee Fund of Massachusetts, to secure insurance by savings banks, by act of the legislature of 1897. In politics Mr. Fox is a Republican. He married, October 19, 1886, Mrs. Ida L. Whitney, born in Lynn, Massachusetts, October 19, 1852, daughter of Leverett G. and Elizabeth Lake. Mrs. Fox had one daughter by former marriage, Georgia M. Whitney, now the wife of Charles S. Drake, of Clover Bend, Arkansas. Mr. and Mrs. Fox have one daughter, Marjorie Whitney Fox, born January 12, 1890.
HALL
[p. 1016]
.... Stephen and Mary (Hill) Hall had children: .... 9. Susanna, baorn September 10, 1792, died Noveber 13, 1866; married Moses Whitney, of Upton, farmer. ....
BANGS
[p. 1076]
(V) Heman Bangs, .... In 1799 he married Mary -----, ... children: Hannah, married ----- Whitney, of Standish, Maine.
[p. 1077]
[(V]II) Nathan Bangs, son of Joseph and [Polly] (Bangs) Bangs, born in Gorham, Maine, [Augu]st 5, 1812, died in Durhma, September [16, 18]81. In the earlier part of his life he was [______]ner, but later on he came to Massachu[setts, ]and for a time was proprietor of a gro[cery ]store and business in Lowell, returning [thenc]e to Durham, Maine, where he set up a [_____] general grocery and provision store and [carrie]d on an extensive business. During [Gener]al Grant's presidential administration he [was p]ostmaster of Durham and took a rather [promi]nent part in local politics. Originally he [was a] Democrat, but during the brief period [of exi]stence of the Greenback party he allied [himse]lf with the Republican party and ever [after]ward supported its candidates. Mr. [Bangs] married first, at Gorham, Statira Whit[ney, ]of Cumberland. She died at Gorham, [Augu]st 3, 18862, and he married second, Fran[ces __] Newell, of Durham. He had three chil[dren ]by his first and two by his second wife: [1. Fr]ances L., born at Gorahm, March 12, [_____;] married Fred Dyer, of South Portland, [a desc]endant of an old and highly respected [_____] family and a business man of excellent [_____]ty. 2. Edwin Gay, born July 11, 1837. [3. La]vina A., born Gorham, August 5, 1842, [marri]ed December 28, 1865, Theodore B. Ed[wards], and lives now in South Portland. 4. [_____] B. 5. Harry N.
[(VI]II) Edward Gay Bangs, son of Nathan [and S]tatira (Whitney) Bangs, was born in [Gorha]m, Maine, July 11, 1837. He was a tailor [by tra]de, but for many years past has been [conne]cted with a grocery business in South [Portla]nd. He married, at Gray, Maine, Feb[ruary] 18, 1858, Hannah Plummer, of Ray[mond,] Maine, who was the mother of all his [childr]en. He married second, at Lewiston, [Maine], February 20, 1873, Emma F. Brandt, [of Au]burn, Maine, but who was born at Queau[_____], Australia, New South Wales.
BREED
[p. 1100]
(IV) Samuel Breed, ... of ... that part of Lynn which was known as Nahant, where he bought a house in 1717, the same which afterward was owned by his son Nehemiah, and still later by his grandson William Breed, by whom the old house was rebuilt. For about twenty-five years it was kept as a hotel by Jesse Rice, and in 1841 passed into the hands of a Mr. Whitney. ....
GUILFORD
[p. 1102]
The marriage records of Leicester, Massachusetts, mention the intention of marriage of John Gilford and Susannah Whitney, of Shrewsbury, Massachusetts, published February 25, 1749-50; also the intention of marriage of William Gilford and Jene Parsons, of Brookfield, Massachusetts, published March 4, 1759; and the Lynn vital records mention the intention of marriage of William Gilford and Abigail Very, published April 6, 1760.
PARKER
[p. 1114]
(V) Ebenezer Parker, ... married Experience (Keep) Hildreth, .... Children, born in Westford: .... 10. Eri, born 1797; settled in Littleton, Massachusetts; married Eliza Whitney, May 13, 1806; children: John Warren, Eliza Ann.
WOOD
[p. 1136]
(VIII) William Ellis Wood , ... of Arlington .... Some years later, (1879) on the occasion of putting a new organ into the Baptist Church, he studied the organ under Professor S. B. Whitney, organist of the Church of the Advent, Boston, for a period of two and a half years, while pursuing his regular business duties.
HASKINS
[p. 1145]
William Haskins (1), immigrant ancestor, was born in England. .... He [married] November 2, 1636, Sarah Cushman, [and seco]nd, December 21, 1638, Ann Hynes [or Hind]s. .... Children: 1. Sarah, whom he placed with Thomas and Winifred Whitney, of Plymouth, to remain until she was twenty years old, January 2, 1643-44; Sarah married, December 4, 1660, Benjamin Edson.
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