Identifier: biographicalhist10elio (find matches)
Title: Biographical history of Massachusetts : biographies and autobiographies of the leading men in the state
Year: 1913 (1910s)
Authors: Eliot, Samuel A. (Samuel Atkins), 1862-1950
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Publisher: Boston, Mass. : Massachusetts Biographical Society
Contributing Library: Boston Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Boston Public Library

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or assisting boys of the Congregational Church of Norwood. On March 4, 1903, Mr. Pingree married Juliette Christie, daughter of Moses and Sarah A. (White) Merrill, granddaughter of Washington and Abiah (Kelley) Merrill and of True Worthy and Sarah Ann (Mansur) White and a descendant of William White, who came from England to Ipswich, Massachusetts, in 1635. The Merrills are descendants of the line of French Huguenots. Mr. Pingree endeared himself through his genial personality, his willing service, and his unselfish devotion to the welfare of the community, and his associates will never forget his brotherly and intimate comradeship, nor the sterling qualities of honesty, integrity and manhood he exemplified. His career was extraordinary for its accomplishment of good. He died as he lived with a protecting arm stretched out to the weak. He was a servant and preacher of Jesus Christ, a faithful pastor, a lover of boys and girls, a friend to man. He lived to serve others and died that he might save.
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RICHARD AUSTIN RICE. RICHARD AUSTIN RICE, Chief of the Division of Prints in the Library of Congress at Washington, was born at Madison, Connecticut, October 22, 1846. He was the son of Richard Elisha Rice, who was born February 8, 1816, and Parnella Scranton. His grandparents on his fathers side were Elisha Rice, 1787 to 1816, and Anna Piatt; on his mothers side, Hubbard Scranton, 1788 to 1881, and Elizabeth Augur, 1793 to 1891. Richard Rice, one of his immigrant ancestors, originally of Welsh origin, was born in 1609, emigrated from England in 1628, and finally settled in Concord, Massachusetts. He lived to a good old age and died in 1709. John Scranton emigrated from Guilford, England, in 1638, with the Rev. Mr. Whitfield, to Guilford, Connecticut, and died in 1671. Frederick Piatt settled in Killingworth, Connecticut, in 1670. And Robert Augur, born in 1650, came to New Haven, Connecticut, in 1670, married the daughter of Deputy Governor Guilbert in 1673, and settled in East Haven, Connec

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