Lowell. He married, February 17, 1865, Belle Mackey. Children: 1. Robert Henry, born May 20, 1867. 2. Edward Franklin, born July 9, 1869. 3. Aimee Edna, born January 9, 1874. 4. Winnifred Bernice, born June 28, 1878. 5. Arthur Wiggin, born December 31, 1880. 6. Edith Louise, born November 14, 1886.

Joseph Hittinger was HITTINGER born in Holland, of an

ancient Dutch family. Upon his emigration to this country he settled in Roxbury, Massachusetts, from whence he came to Charlestown, same state, and subsequently returned to the fatherland. He was a skillful currier and morocco dresser, and engaged in the latter line of work during his residence in this country. Family tradition states that he died abroad in 1816. He married a lady of English extraction, who bore him children: 1. Eliza, married and had a daughter who married a Mr. Walton and removed to Cairo, Illinois, where they settled. 2. Mary Ann, married a Mr. Baldwin, and had a son and daughter; the son migrated west and in many years has not been heard of. 3. Michael, married a lady from Maine, had sons George and James, the former now a resident of Somerville, Massachusetts; and daughters Hattie and Louise, who married, respectively, into the Hunt and Hillis families. 4. Jacob H., see forward.

(II) Jacob H. Hittinger, son of Joseph Hittinger, was born in Roxbury, Massachusetts, March 10, 1811. He was educated in the public schools of Charlestown. In 1825 he entered the employ of George Pierce as a gardener, and five years later engaged in the produce business in Boston with William E. Otis & Company. For several years he was a member of the firm, and at the same time was actively interested in the firm of Hill & Hittinger, the business of which was the cutting and shipping of ice from Spy pond and Fresh pond. The firm of Hill & Hittinger was dissolved in 1841 and was succeeded by Gage, Hittinger & Company, of which Hon. T. T. Sawyer, of Charlestown, was a partner. It was to this firm, conjointly with John Hill, former partner of Mr. Hittinger, that the merchants of Boston were indebted for the notable enterprise in 1844 when, the harbor being frozen over, a passage was cut from the wharf at East Boston through which the Cunard line steamer sailed on the day appointed. It was thought that a failure to sail on time

would seriously affect the future of Boston as a port of commerce. Mr. Hittinger sold his interests in the firm of Gage, Hittinger & Company a few years later, but he continued to furnish ice to his successors, Gage, Sawyer & Company, and was interested in shipping ice to the Barbadoes through the firm of Lombard & Whitmore, and in the last years of his life carried on this export trade under his own name.

In 1846 Mr. Hittinger purchased a large tract of land adjoining the old Cushing estate, within the limits of the present town of Belmont, and with the exception of a few months spent in Charlestown resided there until the end of his life. His intelligent management redeemed from the marshes all that part of the estate occupied later by his three sons as one of the largest market gardens in the vicinity of Boston. Pecuniary difficulties arising in the critical years of 1873-74 caused the loss of his fortune, and though he never became wealthy again, he could look with pride on the careers of his stalwart sons whose filial attention ministered to the comfort and happiness of his last days. He was a man of unusual abilities and force of character, a leader in business and public affairs. For four years in succession he led the fight for the separate incorporation of the town of Belmont. He gave freely of his money and time to effect this purpose, and must be counted as the principal founder of the town. He was a member of the first board of selectmen after the town was organized, elected in 1859, and re-elected in 1860-61. He was a Jeffersonian Democrat in politics, and always an influential factor in his party. He never lost his interest in the development and welfare of the town of Belmont. His was a long and busy life, and he won the esteem and confidence of all his townsmen and friends by his integrity, uprightness and high character. He died at Belmont, April 4, 1880.

Jacob H. Hittinger married (first) Mary Wilson, born in 1811, died at Charlestown, August 19, 1844. Married second, April 30, 1846, Mary Elizabeth, daughter of Rev. Farrington King, born in 1798, in New York, died at Charlestown, Massachusetts, September 13, 1839, aged forty-one years, leaving three sons and three daughters; he was a Universalist clergyman. She was a sister of Rev. Thomas Starr King, a well known Unitarian minister of Boston, formerly of Hollis Street Church. Child of Jacob H. and Mary (Wilson) Hittinger; 1. Sarah Anderson, born at Charlestown, March 24, 1836; married, Octo