a member of the Massachusetts Medical Society. He married, August 30, 1831, Elizabeth Webb Whitmore, of Brunswick, Maine, a descendant in the seventh generation of Deacon John Whitmore of Medford, son of Francis Whitmore, the immigrant (who was an early settler in Cambridge, served under Major Millard in King Philip's war,) and Rachel (Poulter) wife of John Whitmore and daughter of Francis Eliot, of Braintree (now Quincy) Massachusetts. Mrs. Gould descended from Bennett Eliot, of Nazing, county of Essex, England, father of the Indian Apostle of Roxbury. The mother of Rachel (Eliot) Whitmore was Mary Saunders, daughter of Martin, who came over in the "Planter" in 1635, one of the earliest settlers of Braintree, selectman and first innholder. Francis Eliot died January 17, 1697. He had been a teacher among the Indians under his brother, Rev. John Eliot, from about 1650. Children: I. Levi Swanton, born at Dixmont, March 27, 1834, mentioned below. 2. James Creighton, born August 22, 1838, died in California, 1905. 3. Edwin Carter, born August 19, 1840. 4. (Anne) Elizabeth, born January 22, 1845, at Malden, now Melrose, died June 5, 1892. 5. Mary M., born October 15, 1846; died July 25, 1847. 6. Charles W., born June 14, 1849, died August 15, 1849.

(VII) Levi Swanton Gould, son of Dr. Levi Gould (6), was born March 27, 1834, at Dixmont, Maine. When he was six months old his parents removed to his father's native town (Stoneham, Massachusetts) and located in Wilmington, where the son attended the district schools. In 1843 the family moved to North Malden (now Melrose) Massachusetts, where Mr. Gould has since resided. He attended the public schools of Malden and the Waitt & Ingalls Academies of Melrose. Early in life he learned the trade of shoemaker, and worked at the bench in North Malden, where, according to the custom of the time, he would make up a lot of shoes, pack them in a bag prepared for the purpose, carry them on his back to Stoneham, three miles from his home, and receive his pay and the stock for the next lot of shoes. When he was eighteen years old he took a position in a drug store in Woburn, but stayed there only a short time, leaving to become a clerk in the wholesale house of Messer, Warren & Davis, dealers in fancy goods, Boston. In 1857 he went to St. Louis and found employment with Alexander Leitch, a prominent druggist of that city. At the beginning of the civil war he returned to Melrose, and shortly afterward received,

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through the Hon. Salmon P. Chase, Secretary of the Treasury of Lincoln's cabinet, an appointment as clerk in the Treasury Department. He was transferred later to Boston in the navy agent's department. In 1866 he became connected with F. M. Holmes & Company, manufacturers of furniture, was advanced to a responsible position and in 1878 purchased the interest of his employer in the business. He continued the business under the firm name of F. M. Holmes Furniture Company. His factory was in Charlestown and his warerooms and salesroom in Boston. His business was successful; it grew to extensive proportions and he retired in 1887 with a competence.

Mr. Gould is well known in business circles in Boston and throughout the furniture trade, and bears one of the best names for the quality of goods and upright and square dealing. He is perhaps even more widely known as a town, city and county officer. Few if any men in Middlesex county have been called upon to fill more numerous positions of trust and honor. During the two sessions of 1868 and 1869 Mr. Gould was representative in the general court for Melrose, his district including at that time Wakefield and Stoneham also. He was appointed both years to the committee on mercantile affairs. He was first elected a selectman of Melrose in 1869, and was chairman of the board of selectmen from 1885 to 1892 inclusive. He has served one hundred and eight times as moderator of Melrose town meetings, and with one hundred and seven adjournments presided over hundred and fifteen town meetings. When Melrose became a city in 1900 he was elected its first mayor. He has been on the board of county commissioners since 1897, serving all that time as chairman. He was for many years a member of the Melrose Board of Health, one of the overseers of the poor and chairman of the highway surveyors, and was for some years a water registrar of Melrose. He is an active and loyal Republican, a member of that party since it was organized.

Mr. Gould was president of the New England Furniture Exchange in 1883 and 1884: president of the Furniture Club of Boston in 1886; is president of the Melrose Co-operative Bank, and a director of the Melrose National Bank. He belongs to most of the social organizations and clubs of Melrose. He was master of Wyoming Lodge of Free Masons in 1863 and 1864, and again in 1883 and 1884; is a member of and high priest of Waverly Chapter, Royal Arch Masons; and of Hugh de

Payens Commandery, Knights Templar; and is past chancellor of Fordell Lodge, Knights of Pythias. He is a member of the Society of Colonial Wars, and of the Sons of the American Revolution.

He is an active and liberal supporter of the Congregational church, and is greatly interested in the work of the Young Men's Christian Association. Mr. Gould is well known in every walk of life, and distinguished by his faithfulness to his duties as a citizen, as a public officer, and as a man. He is highly esteemed by his townsmen, and his popularity extends throughout the county of which he is the chief executive officer. The high reputation of the county commissioners of Middlesex is due in no small part to his zeal and sagacity. The mere recital of his varied public positions and other interests is enough to indicate his industry, breadth and force of character and his capacity to do many things well.

He married, February 23, 1860, Mary Eliza Payne, daughter of Samuel and Mary (Vose) Payne. Children: 1. Mary Pearl, born September 5, 1862; married Frederick L. Putnam, of Melrose. 2. Annie Elizabeth, born April 30, 1866; married Joseph Remick; has one child, Joseph Gould Remick, born September 4, 1897.

(For early generations see preceding sketch.)

(V) Nathan Gould, son of Jacob GOULD Gould (4), was born in Stoneham, March 20, 1768. In early life he was a shoemaker and also a farmer, but in later years followed farming exclusively. He married April 23, 1789, Abigail Evans. He lived at Woburn and Malden, and he left to his wife valuable property on Washington street, Malden. He went to Ohio, and settled in what is now Cincinnati, in that state, and died there. His widow returned to Malden. When the Boston & Maine railroad was built it passed within a few feet of her land, much to her disgust, and she made it as difficult as possible for the railroad to operate, notwithstanding her sex and age. Sometimes she would sit on the tracks and defy the engineers to run over her. Once she oiled the rails for a hundred yards or more, and blocked the road until the rails were cleaned. At length the railroad company bought her property. The place and date of her death are not known. Child of Nathan and Abigail (Evans) Gould: Nathan, mentioned below.

(VI) Nathan Gould, son of Nathan Gould (5), was born in Woburn about 1790. He married Mary P. Hackett, who died at Malden, January 2, 1838, at the ripe old age of a hundred and one years and ten months. He was a shoemaker and farmer during his active life, removing when a young man from Woburn, Massachusetts, to Peterborough, New Hampshire, but both he and his wife are buried in the Wyoming cemetery, Melrose. Children: 1. William. 2. Nathaniel B., mentioned below. 3. Mary. 4. Cynthia. 5. Elizabeth, (Mrs. George W. Seaver), still living at Harrisville, New Hampshire.

(VII) Nathaniel B. Gould, son of Nathan Gould (6), was born in the homestead on Washington street, Malden, in 1817, and died February 20, 1865. He was educated in the public schools of Malden. He established at Malden the business now known as the firm of S. W. Gould & Brothers and conducted by his sons, dealing in herbs, roots, bark, etc., manufacturing and importing medicine and herb products of all kinds, and wholesale drug millers. The Gould firm established its witch hazel business in 1875 at Derry and Windham, New Hampshire. In 1900 this branch of the business was sold to a corporation entitled the Gould Witch Hazel Company of New York, and at that time the old firm had manufactured a hundred thousand barrels of witch hazel or extract of hamamelis. In this unique business Mr. Gould made a fortune, and was known throughout the country as a leader in his line of trade. He was an earnest Republican in politics, and before the civil war was a strong Abolitionist. He belonged to no secret societies nor clubs, but was an active and faithful member of the Methodist Episcopal church of Malden.

He married Rebecca Pratt, of Malden, daughter of Jacob Pratt. Children, born in Malden: 1. Rebecca Ann, born 1837. 2. Sylvester Watson, born February 3, 1838; see forward. 3. Mary Eliza, born November 22, 1842. 4. Emily Alice, born February 5, 1845. 5. Alfred Monroe, born October 19, 1851; see forward. 6. Albert W., born March 2, 1855; see his sketch. All are living in 1908.

(VIII) Sylvester Watson Gould, son of Nathaniel B. Gould (7), was born February 3. 1838, in the home on Salem street, Malden. He was educated in the public school of his native town, in the old red brick school house which is remembered by all the older natives of Malden. In his youth he saw the first train from Boston pass over the tracks of the Bos

ton & Maine railroad. He worked for his father until he was twenty-six years of age, and after his father's death succeeded him in business. Later, as his two younger brothers came of age, they became associated with him, in the firm of S. W. Gould & Brothers, of which he was the head. To his enterprise and sagacity are due in large measure the material success and prominence of his firm. He is one of the best known and most successful men in his line of business in this country.

In national affairs Mr. Gould has always been a Republican in politics, but in municipal affairs he is independent. He has never sought public office, though a man of large influence in local affairs. He is a member of Center Methodist Episcopal Church. Mr. Gould has perhaps the shortest military record known. During the civil war he was standing in front of the Boston & Maine railroad station in Boston, one morning when a company of militia from Lynn was on its way to Boston to be mustered into service. One of the soldiers called to him to join the ranks and without hesitation he decided to go. But, after waiting for a day in Boston, the company was ordered home to await orders, and was never mustered in. So Mr. Gould was a soldier de facto from nine in the morning until five in the afternoon. He has always been an enthusiastic member of the Malden Fire Department since his youth. He was a member of Volunteer Company No. 2, in 1859, and later of the Steamer Company. He was on the board of fire engineers until 1875. He is a member of Mount Vernon Lodge of Free Masons; of the Royal Arch Chapter; of Lafayette Lodge of Perfection, Boston; of Middlesex Lodge of Odd Fellows, and of Middlesex Encampment of the same order.

He married first, in 1857, Hannah Elizabeth Sumner, who died in 1881. He married second, January 29, 1884, Annie Biathrow, born January 25, 1861, in Melrose, Massachusetts, daughter of Stillman A. Biathrow, who was born May 6, 1828, at Strafford, New Hampshire, and died at Malden, January 25, 1891. Her mother, Mary S. (Jackson) Biathrow, was born in West Paris, Maine, daughter of Jacob Jackson, an early settler of Paris, Maine; a farmer and blacksmith in early life, town clerk many years, and honored with other positions of trust and honor; married Nancy Besse. Stillman A. Biathrow was of French ancestry; he lived in Reading, Massachusetts, in early life, then in Melrose, and finally in Malden, after 1861; was a cabinet

maker by trade; was a Baptist in religion; children: i. Charles Biathrow; ii. Mary F. Biathrow; iii. Emma Biathrow, died young; iv. Annie Biathrow, mentioned above; v. Alice Isabelle Biathrow; vi. Hattie Bryant Biathrow; vii. Alice Martha Biathrow, married Vernon Davis, and resides in Maplewood, Massachusetts, and has one daughter, Olive Bryant Davis.

Children of Sylvester W. and Hannah E. Gould: 1. Hattie Elizabeth, married Herman A. Morse, and lives in Malden. 2. Charles Watson, married Nellie Hall, and lives in Windham, New Hampshire. 3. Everett Sumner, deceased. 4. Emma Ida Rebecca, married, first, Irvin Abbott, of Lawrence; and second, Frederick Chesley, and lives in Somerville, Massachusetts. 5. Everett Sumner (2d), married Emma Clark, and lives in Malden. 6. Florence Bertha, married Perley Rich, and lives in Malden. 7. Albert Weston. 8. Carrie Bell, resides in Malden. 9. Herman Sylvester, lives in Malden. 10. Maude Gertrude, resides in New York. II. Blanche May, lives with her sister, Mrs. Morse, in Malden. Children of Sylvester W. and Annie Gould: 1. Marion Wayne, born October 25, 1884; married, June 26, 1906, Carroll R. Read, principal of school in Marlboro. 2. Harry Vernon, born June 21, 1886; at home.

(VIII) Alfred Monroe Gould, son of Nathaniel B. Gould (7), was born in Malden, Massachusetts, October 19, 1851. He was educated there in the public and high schools, and then became associated with his father and brothers in the herb business, entering the firm when he came of age in 1872, and continuing to the present time. The three brothers continued the business that the father established, and have extended it greatly. place of business is on Main street, Malden. The firm has just purchased S. A. Fowle's Arlington Mills, where they have removed part of it. In politics Mr. Gould is independent but has a great admiration for William J. Bryan. In religion he is a Methodist. He is a member of no clubs or societies, and devotes his attention mainly to his own business and home.

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He married, in November, 1871, Mary Benson, of Temple House, county Sligo, Ireland, daughter of Michael Benson, of Medford, a native of England, and his wife, who was a native of county Londonderry, Ireland. Children: 1. Alfred M. Jr., born April 2, 1873; is working for his father's firm. 2. Watson Benson, born March 9, 1876; also with the firm.

Albert Weston Gould was born GOULD in Malden, March 2, 1855, son of Nathaniel B. and Rebecca Pratt Gould. (N. B. For an account of his parents and ancestors see preceding Gould sketches in this work, particularly those of his brothers, S. W. and A. M. Gould.) After concluding his attendance at the Malden public schools he entered the botanical drug business in Malden, and has ever since continued in that line of trade, with which he and his brothers, S. W. and A. M. Gould, are now prominently identified. He has always resided in Malden, and that portion of his time which is not absorbed by his business interests he devotes to his home and family. In politics he is a Republican. In 1889 Mr. Gould was married, in Malden, to Miss Louisa Merrill, who was born in New Gloucester, Maine, March 13, 1859, daughter of William Henry and Elizabeth (Emery) Merrill, both of whom were born in Maine. Children of Albert Weston and Louisa (Merrill) Gould: 1. Edith Alberta, born July 16, 1891, died January 7, 1893. 2. Albert Nathaniel, born December 8, 1892. 3. Edith Alberta, born March 26, 1894. 4. Amy Bell, born July 16, 1896.

Mrs. Gould's paternal grandfather was Hiram Merrill, a native of New Gloucester, Maine, and a cooper by trade. This family is probably the posterity of Nathaniel Merrill, who came from England in 1633, settling in Ipswich, Massachusetts, and later in Newbury. John Merrill, a descendent of Nathaniel, was born in Arundel (now Kennebunkport), Maine, January 20, 1734. He was employed as a surveyor by Sir William Pepperell, and in 1758 settled in Topsham, Maine. His death occurred in 1828. He married Susan Haley, of Kittery; their children were Susannah, Mary, John, Joseph and Abel. The New Gloucester Merrills undoubtedly belong to this branch of the family. Hiram Merrill married Rachel Campbell, of Poland, Maine, and had four sons: Gilman Henry, who died at the age of three years; Lyrd (?) Granville, Amos Gilman and William Henry.

Mrs. Gould is also descended on the paternal side from the Webber and Bunker families of Maine. William Henry Merrill, youngest son of Hiram and Rachel (Campbell) Merrill, was born in New Gloucester, March 28, 1831. Learning the cooper's trade, he followed it for many years, and is now residing with his sons in Pownal. Elizabeth (Emery) Merrill, his wife, who was born in Poland, August 17, 1835, daughter of John and Betsey (Johnson) Emery, is a lineal descendant in the

eighth generation of Anthony Emery, the emigrant ancestor of the Emery family in southwestern Maine.

Anthony and John Emery, sons of John and Agnes Emery, of Rumney, Hants, England, embarked at Southampton, April 3, 1635, in the ship "James" of London, William Cooper, master, and arrived in Boston on June 3 of that year. They were probably accompanied by their wives and families. Anthony went first to Ipswich, Massachusetts, whence he moved to Newbury, and about the year 1640 he removed to Dover, New Hampshire, settling on the "neck." October 22 of the latter year he signed the "Dover Combination," and continued to reside there until 1649, when he cast his lot with the colonists at Kittery, Maine. There he served as selectman, juryman and constable, and in 1652 was one of the forty-one residents who acknowledged themselves subject to the Massachusetts Bay government. In 1656 he was sentenced to pay a fine of five pounds for having questioned the authority of the Kittery court, and four years later, for entertaining Quakers, he was again fined, and also deprived of his privilege as a freeman. Having lost his civil liberties in Kittery, he went to Portsmouth in 1660, and being received and accepted as a worthy, upright man, was subsequently chosen juryman, constable, and deputy to the general court. The date of his death does not appear in the record at hand. The Christian name of his wife was Frances, and in addition to his son James, who was an immigrant, he had another son, name not given, and a daughter, Rebecca.

James Emery, eldest child of Anthony and Frances Emery, was born in England, about the year 1630. He resided in Kittery, and died there prior to 1714. He was twice married, and the Christian name of his first wife was Elizabeth. His second wife, whom he married December 28, 1695, was Mrs. Elizabeth Pidge (nee Newcomb), widow of John Pidge, of Dedham. His children were: James, Zachariah, Noah, Daniel, JElizabeth and Sarah.

Daniel Emery, fourth son of James by his first marriage, was born in Kittery, September 13, 1667. In 1706 he was chosen surveyor in Kittery, in which capacity he continued for a number of years, and he also served several terms as a selectman. He evidently resided in what is now Berwick. In 1703 he became a deacon of the Congregational church at Berwick, was chosen elder in 1720, and was probably one of its founders. His death occurred October 15, 1722. He was

married, March 17, 1695, to Margaret Gowen (record says alias Smith) born November 15, 1678, and died November 21, 1751. The ten children of this union were: Daniel, Noah, Simon, Zachariah, Margaret, Caleb, Ann, Jerusha, Tirzah and Holden.

Zachariah Emery, fourth son and child of Daniel and Margaret (Gowen) Emery, was born in Berwick, March 12, 1704-5. He resided in Kittery, and died there prior to April 30, 1789, on which date the administration of his estate was begun. The maiden name of his first wife was Ann Hodgdon, and that of his second wife was Hannah Johnson, The children of his first union were: Ann, James and Zachariah, those of his second marriage were: Peletiah, Huldah, Sarah, Betsey and Simeon.

James Emery, second child and eldest son of Zachariah and Ann (Hodgdon) Emery, was baptized in Kittery, November 1, 1730. He was first married, July 4, 1752, to Mary Fogg, and she died in 1759. His second wife was Mehitable Emery, daughter of Joseph and Mehitable (Stacey) Emery, and on January 27, 1782, he married for his third wife, Mrs. Catherine Jenkins (nee Frye), widow of Joseph Jenkins. His first wife bore him two children-James and Abigail. Those of his second wife were: Daniel, William, Mark, Josiah, Mary (or Molly), Mehitable, Betsey and Eunice. His third wife became the mother of two children-Catherine and Simeon.

William Emery, second son and child of James and Mehitable (Emery) Emery, was born May 10, 1767. In 1875 he married Sarah Maguire, of New Gloucester, Maine, and settled in Poland, same state, where he died March 19, 1862, at the advanced age of nearly ninety-five years. He was the father of fourteen children: Betsey, William, Sally, Polly, Eunice, Rachel, Mehitable, Thankful, John, Celia, Eliphalet, Esther, Rebecca, and Jane.

John Emery, second son and ninth child of William and Sarah (Maguire) Emery, was born in Poland, July 18, and his death occurred in 1889. He was the father of nine children Jeremy, born February 26, 1826; Henry, born May 7, 1827; Edwin, born December 31, 1829; Greenleaf, born July 20, 1831 Salome, born August 20, 1833, became the wife of Charles J. Peirce, of Poland; Elizabeth, the date of whose birth has already been given; Ellen, born July 13, 1838, became the wife of H. R. Lewis, of Malden, Massachusetts William, born July 27. 1840, married first, Elizabeth James, and second, Mary

James, a sister of first wife; and third, Mary Murtrie; Martha.

Elizabeth Emery, second daughter and sixth child of John and Betsey (Johnson) Emery, married William Henry Merrill, as previously stated, and is still living. In her younger days she was a Baptist. She is the mother of seven children-Louisa, now the wife of Albert W, Gould, of Malden; Herbert, Frederick Twombly, Lillian, Ina, Ellen and Edith.

William Thrall, the immiTHRALL grant ancestor, was born in

England in 1605. In March, 1630, a Congregational church was formed at Plymouth, England, the minister being Rev. John Wareham, the minister and his people sailed for New England in the ship "Mary and John," March 20, 1630, and landed at Nantasket Point, May 30. They settled in Dorchester and soon afterward went to Windsor, Connecticut. Among those who went to Connecticut was William Thrall. He lived in what was known as Hoytes Meadow, Windsor, and some of his descendants still live on the property. He was a soldier in the Pequod war. He died August 3, 1679.

(II) Timothy Thrall, son of William Thrall (1), born July 25, 1641, married, November 10, 1659, Deborah Gunn, and they had eleven children.

(III) Sergeant John Thrall, son of Timothy Thrall (2), born June 5, 1671, married, January 6, 1697, Mindwell Moses.

(IV) Moses Thrall, second son of Sergeant Thrall (3), was born April 20, 1702. He settled at North Bolton, adjoining Windsor. He married February 4, 1730, Elizabeth Filer.

(V) Lemuel Thrall, son of Moses Thrall (4), was born February 5, 1748-9. He married first Lydia King; second, Lydia Skinner, who died April 13, 1813. He was a soldier in the Revolution as follows: "This certifies that Lemuel Thrall of Bolton, Connecticut, served in the war of the Revolution, and the following is his service as shown by the records in this office. Corporal in Lieutenant Ezekiel Olcutt's company, marched for the relief of Boston in the Lexington Alarm, April 19, 1775: term of service eight days. The number of men who are reported to have marched in the Lexington Alarm was about four thousand; the duty was necessarily temporary and brief: some of the companies returned home before reaching Boston as their presence was not needed. Corporal in Captain Jonathan Well's company (Hartford),