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- Memorial Biographies of "The New England Historic Genealogical Society, Volume 4 (on microfiche)
- by NEHGS, Pub. 1885.
- This volume contains memoirs of thirty-five deceased members of the New England Historic Genealogical Society. The memoirs of these men, faithfully and fully portrayed, contain valuable materials for the history of the people, throwing light on manners and customs. The subjects of these biographies resided mostly in New England, or are descendants of people who lived in New England.
Contents:
- 1- Hon. Gustavus Swan
- 2- Mr. Frank Vose
- 3- Samuel Jennison, A.M.
- 4- Mr. William Edwards Mayhew
- 5- Hon. Benjamin Vinton French
- 6- Hon. Charles Stearns
- 7- Hon. Thomas Sergeant. A.M.
- 8- Rev. Ralph Sanger, D.D.
- 9- Hon. Ansel Phelps, Jr.
- 10- Dr. Elisha Thayer
- 11- Hon. Jonathan Phillips, A.M.
- 12- Mr. Andrew Johonnot
- 13- Mr. Jeffrey Richardson
- 14- Hon. Frederick Palmer Tracy
- 15- Rev. Charles Lowell, D.D.
- 16- Rev. Nicholas Murray, D.D.
- 17- John Wakefield Francis, M.D., LL.D.
- 18- Rev. Samuel Fulton Clark
- 19- Hon. Lemuel Shaw, LL.D.
- 20- Hon. Daniel Appleton White, LL.D.
- 21- Hon. John McLean, LL.D.
- 22- Rev. Joseph Hunter, F.S.A.
- 23- Hon. Nathan Appleton, LL.D.
- 24- Hon. Aaron Clark, A.M.
- 25- Hon. George Nixon Briggs, LL.D.
- 26- Gen. William Hyslop Sumner, A.M.
- 27- Hon. John Hubbard Wilkins, A.M.
- 28- Mr. Jonathan Marsh
- 29- Hon. Richard Sullivan, A.M.
- 30- Mr. Pynson Blake
- 31- Hon. John Tyler, LL.D.
- 32- Mr. Matthew Schropp Henry
- 33- George Herriot Tucker, M.D.
- 34- Cornelius Conway Felton, LL.D.
- 35- Rt. Rev. William Meade, D.D.
The index is for both subjects and names. There are 559 pages on six microfiche. The text is clear and easy to read.
Sample paragraphs with genealogical information:
Mr. Jammison was the second son of Samuel Jennison, Esq., of Brookfield, Massachusetts; and was born at that place February 24, 1788. His father was a graduate of Harvard College of the class of 1774, and a lawyer. His mother was a daughter of the Rev. Nathan Fiske, D.D., of Brookfield. His paternal grandfather, Dr. William Jennison, a respected physician, and his maternal grandfather both resided in that town.
... He was married, in 1815, to Mary G. Ellery, of Newport, Rhode Island, a granddaughter of Chief Justice William Ellery, one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence. They have five children, - a son, and four daughters. Mr. Jennison died March 11, 1860, at the age of seventy-two.
... Mrs. Jennison survived her husband, but died May 14, 1867. Their son Samuel is a well-known lawyer in Boston; one daughter, Katharine Almy, is unmarried, and resides at Worcester; another, Sarah Fiske, is the widow of Rev. John Weiss, of Boston, and also resides in Worcester; another, Mary Ellery, the widow of Mr. John Bangs, of Springfield, resides in that city; and the youngest, Ann Elizabeth, not now living, was the wife of William Sumner Barton, Esq., of Worcester.
Surnames:
Abbot Abell Abernethy Acrill Adams Addison Acschylus Agassiz Aikin Alderson Aldrich Alger Allen Allston Ambler Ambrister Ames Amory Andre Andrews Appleton Armistead Armstrong Arnold Atherton Atkins Atkinson Auchmuty Austin
Bacon Bailey Baker Baldwin Ballard Balmain Bangs Banks Barbour Barclay Bard Barrett Barry Barstow Bartlett Bartol Barton Bassettt Batchelder Bates Beals Beck Belcher Bell Bouldin Boutelle Boutwell Bouve Bowditch Bowdoin Bowen Boyer Boylston Bracken Brackett Bradford Bradlee Brahmo Bramhall Brande Brent Brewer Brewster Briant Bridge Bridges Brigg Brigham Bright Brimmer Brock Brodnax Bromfield Brooke Brookfield Brooks Brother Brougham Brown Browne Bryant Buchan Buchanan Buckley Buckminster Bulfinch Bullard Burch Burgess Burke Burlingame Burnet Burnham Burns Burr Burt Burwell Byron
Cabot Cadwallader Caldwell Calhoun Campbell Carroll Carruth Carter Cartwright Cary Caryl Caton Cavendish Chaffers Chamberlain Champuey Chandler Channing Charles Chase Chatham Chatsworth Chauney Cheever Chelsen Cheshire Childs Choate Christian Claggett Clap Clark Cleveland Clifford Clinton Clopton Cobb Cobbs Codman Coffin Colby Colden Cole Colles Collier Conroy Contesse Cook Cooke Coolidge Cooper Coram Corday Corwin Crane Cranmer Cruger Cunningham Cumming Currie Curtin Curtis Cushing Cushman Custis Cutler Cutter Cutts Cuvier
Dadmun Dall Dalton Dana Dane Daniel David Davis Dawes Dean Deane Dearborn DeGray DeLancey Dennison Derby Desforges Deshon Devereaux Dewey DeWolf Dexter Dickens Dickinson Dimmock Disney Dixon Doane Dodd Dongan Donnison Dorr Dow Downer Drake Dred Drummond Dunmore Dunn Dunton Duponceau Duport Dutton Dwight Dyce Dyckman
Eastburn Eaton Eatton Eckley Eddy Edgeworth Edloe Edwards Elder Eliot ElleryElliott Ellis Ellmaker Emerson Emmons Emory Eppes Erskine Erving Erwin Eustis Evans Everard Everett Ewing
Faber Fairbanks Fairfax Fales Falstaff Faneuil Felton FieldFields Findlay Fiske Fitch Fitzbugh Fitzpatrick Follen Foote Forbes Force Forsyth Foster Foster Fowler Fox Francis Franklin Frederick Freeman Fremont Freneau Fullerton Fulton
Gage Gall Galt Gannett Gardiner Garfield Garrard Garrison Gassett Gatch Gay Gerard Gholson Gibbon Gideon Giles Gill Gilmer Girdler Gladstone Glover oddard Goode Goodell Goodman Goodwin Gorham Govan Grammer Graves Gray Greely Green Greene Greenhow Greenleaf Greenough Greenwood Gregory Griffin Griswold Grote Grymes Guild Gulliver Guyot
Hall Hallett Hallock Hollowell Hamilton Hammond Hancock Hardaway Harddyman Harlan Harris Harrison Hart Harwood Hatfield Haven Hawks Hawley Hayden Haynes Hayward Hazen Henley Hesse Hewley Heywood Hiester Higginson Hill Hillard Hobby Hogarth Hollis Holloway Holmes Holt Hooker Hope Hopkins Horne Hosack Hosmer Hovey Howard Howell Hoyt Hubbard Hudson Hughes Hull Hulton Hume Humphreys Hunnewell Hunt Hunter Hunting Huntington Huntoon Hurd Hutchinson Hyslop
Ingersoll Ingham
Jackson Jarratt Jarvis Jay Jellison Jenings Jenks Jennison Johnson Johonnot Jones Judd
Kean Keene Keith Kemble Kendall Kent Kidd Kidder Kimball King Kingman Kirkland Kirwan Knapp
Lamb Larkin Lawrence Lee Leverett Lewis Light Lincoln Little Livermore Livingston Lloyd Llobdell Locke Lodge Lombard Long Longfellow Lord Loring Lothrop Louis Lovejoy Lovell Low Lowber Lowell Loxley Ludlow Ludwell Lyman
MacChristian McDowell McGaw McIlvaine Mackay McKean Mackenzie Mackintosh McLachlan McLean McMain McNeven Madison Magee Malbone Mangum March Marsh Mason Mather Mattherws Mattoon Maverick Maxey May Mayhew Meade Meiklejohn Melbourne Mellen Melrose Melvill Melyn Miller Milnor Milton Minge Minot Mirick Moodie Moore More Morell Morgan Morison Morrill Morris Morse Mott Murray Mussey
Nash Nelson Newberry Newman Nicholas Hichols Noddle Norris Norton Nutman Nye
O'Brien Odiorne Offley Oliver Orchard Orne Oxnard
Page Paige Palmer Parker Parkman Partridge paterson Paxton Peabody Pearson Peel Perkins Perry Phelps Phillips Pickens Pickering Pierce Pinson Pintard Pipon Pitt Plummer Pomroy Poor Pope Porter Potter Prescott Pryor Purdon Putnam Pynchon
Quincy Quint
Randolph Rawle Rawson Reed Rees Reynolds Rhees Rich Richards Richardson Ripley Ritenhouse Rives Roane Robbins Robertson Rogers Russell
Salisbury Sanborn Sanger Savage Savil Sayre Seawell Sedgwick Seger Semple Sergeant Sever Sewall Sharp Shaw Sheafe Shelton Shipley Shirley Shrimpton Shute Slack Smith Snow Sowdon Spear Spence Spencer Stearns Stebbins Stedman Stoddard Stone Sullivan Sumner Swan Swett Sylvester
Talcott Taylor Thayer Thompson Thurlow Ticknor Tiffany Tilden Todd Tompkins Towne Tracy Traill Tucker Tuckerman Tudor Turell Tuttle Twitchel Tyler
Vinton Vose
Waggaman Wales Walker Wallace Waller Walley Walpole Walter Ward Washburn Watson Webb Weed Weeks Weiss Welch Weld Wellman Wells Wendell Wentworth West Wetmore Weylie Whaley Wharton Wheelwright White Whiting Whitney Wight Wilder Wilkins Wilson Wolcott Wolsey woodward Worcester Wright Wyatt Wythe
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