The Brewster Genealogy, 1566-1907: A Record of the Descendants of William Brewster of the "Mayflower", Ruling Elder of the Pilgrim Church which Founded Plymouth Colony in 1620, Volume 2, Part 1

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Emma C. Brewster Jones
Higginson Book Company, 1908 - Plymouth (Mass.) - 1415 pages

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Page 587 - The Brewster genealogy, 1566-1907; a record of the descendants of William Brewster of the "Mayflower," ruling elder of the Pilgrim church which founded Plymouth colony in 1620 . . . New York, The Graf ton Press, 1908.
Page 775 - Hillard offered himself for the home missionary service, and from the Home Missionary Society received appointment to California, at that time a new and distant field. But the society, falling just then into straitened financial circumstances, was unable to send him, and he became pastor of the Congregational Church at Hadlyme, where he labored from 1855-60.
Page 708 - Bar where he was elected justice of the peace and associate justice of the first Court of Sessions.
Page 684 - Volunteers, for gallant and meritorious services during the campaign in Georgia and Tennessee.
Page 895 - State Convention, 1888 ; US collector of internal revenue, 1890-94; secretary of the Constitutional Convention of NY, 1894; State lecturer before the Teachers...
Page 895 - Syracuse, NY, and Newbern, NC, until 1866. He was editorin-chief of the Syracuse Daily Standard, 1866-73, and of the Rochester (NY) Democrat and Chronicle, 187390, and since 1875 has been editorial contributor to the Rochester Post Express.
Page 775 - Thirty-eight years in all he exercised the ministry of the gospel, and continually with his whole heart, with burning zeal and the enlistment of every faculty of his being. When at last he laid down his work, he was worn out.
Page 735 - He was a clerk in the store of his first wife's father when she was born, and was afterwards lawyer, and patent agent in Boston.
Page 733 - American fot • many years; was interested in' pneumatic experiments; built and operated a short tunnel and railway under Broadway opposite the City Hall, expended a large sum of money and sold his interests to the Underground RR Co.
Page 789 - ... in Nashua, where he remained till 1874, when he removed to Springfield, Mass., where he established the Springfield Glazed Paper Company, of which he was treasurer and general manager, for more than a quarter of a century till his" retirement from active business. He was elected to the Massachusetts House of Representatives in 1899, and to the State Senate in 1901 and 1902. Colonel Marsh was a Mason and a member of the Loyal Legion. He ' had been twice married, and leaves one son, Frank W. Marsh...

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