fessional services. In the performance of his duty to his patients he was untiring. At any hour, and in all weathers, his wellknown figure might be seen, driving to one part or another of our scattered community, and even to neighboring towns; always busy, yet seldom in a hurry, and with a friendly nod and word, if no more, for every one, carrying with him always the sunshine of his bright smile and friendly voice and serene temper.

And not merely as a physician was he a valued member of the community. As a man of affairs there was no one whose judgment was more sound, whose advice was more sought for, whose opinion had a greater influence. In all public and social enterprises he was a wise counsellor and an able director. In musical matters, especially, his knowledge and cultivated taste were of great value. Much of the time which he could spare from his busy life he devoted to the study of sacred music; and for the greater part of his life in Milton he directed, with distinguished success, the musical services of his church. He was also for many years a member of the Harvard Musical Association. He took great interest in all movements tending to promote the welfare or increase the happiness of the community; and few such enterprises were undertaken in the town without calling upon the experience, the judgment, or the musical taste of "The Doctor."

Christopher Columbus Holmes was born in Kingston, Mass., Sept. 14, 1817. He was the son of Jedidiah and Priscilla (Wilder) Holmes. He was fitted for college in Hingham, entered Harvard College in 1833, and was graduated in 1837. After leaving college he studied medicine with Dr. Nichols, of Kingston, and was graduated from the Harvard Medical School in 1840. After one year's service as house-surgeon at the Massachusetts General Hospital he came to Milton, in April, 1841. He joined the Independent Corps of Cadets, Sept. 30, 1844, and from Aug. 28, 1858, to Jan. 3, 1868, commanded the corps, with the rank of lieutenant-colonel. He died in Milton, July 16, 1882, and was buried in the cemetery of the town. A monument to his memory was, in 1886, "erected by the Veteran Association of the Independent Corps of Cadets."

Dr. Holmes was twice married. His first wife was Elizabeth Mary Rich, daughter of Benjamin and Susannah Rich. They were married in Boston, in June, 1842. Mrs. Holmes died May 18, 1863. Jan. 8, 1868, Dr. Holmes married Annie Porter Hollis, daughter of Thomas and Deborah Clark (Allen) Hollis (born Jan. 1, 1847, in Milton). Dr. Holmes left three children, -Annie Hollis, born 1869; Christopher Wilder, born 1872; Elizabeth Rich, born 1876.

MILTON PHYSICIANS OF 1887.

DR. HENRY P. JAQUES.

He was graduated from the Boston Latin School in 1872, Harvard College in 1876, and Harvard Medical School in 1880. After a year's service in the Massachusetts General Hospital he passed a year in the hospitals of Vienna. He settled in Milton early in 1882.

DR. MATHER VASSAR PIERCE.

He graduated at the Boston Latin School in 1873, at Harvard College 1877, and at the Harvard Medical School in 1880. He studied in the hospitals of Vienna, Berlin, and Heidelberg for two years, and took up his residence in Milton in the spring of 1882.

DR. WALLACE C. STRATTON.

He was graduated from the Medical Department of the Boston University in 1878, and commenced practice in Milton the same year.

CHAPTER XVII.

NOTED MEN AND WOMEN, AND EARLY FAMILIES.

SAMUEL ADAMS.

EACON SAMUEL ADAMS was one of the twenty children of Dr. Samuel Adams, an eminent physician of Truro and Ipswich, Mass., and Bath, Me. He was born in Ipswich, March 11, 1791; married Miss Mary Ann Bent, of Milton, daughter of Capt. Josiah and Mrs. Susannah Bent, May 10, 1815; and died in Milton, Jan. 3, 1879. At the age of fifteen Samuel left his home in Bath and entered a store in Boston; he afterwards learned the trade of tin-worker, and at twentytwo started in business for himself. During the war of 1812 he was a member of the "Rangers," a celebrated military company of Boston, performing garrison duty at Fort Strong, in Boston harbor, for which he afterwards received a pension. In 1820 he went to Chelmsford, Mass., to take the agency of the New England Glass Works; this position he held until the failure of the company some years later. From Chelmsford he came to Milton in 1828, and bought the homestead and bakery of Captain Bent, his father-in-law. Mr. Bent com

menced the manufacture of crackers in his own house, built in 1800, and had carried on the business in a small way for twenty-seven years. Preparations were at once made for increasing the facilities of manufacture; a bakehouse was built, which has been several times enlarged and supplied with additional ovens, as the demand has continued to increase, until the crackers of Bent & Co. are now called for in almost every part of the world.

Deacon Adams was a leading citizen of Milton for nearly half a century. At the formation of the Unitarian church, 1834, he was elected deacon, and this office he held for fortyfive years, until his death. For twenty years he was superintendent of the Sabbath school, devoting to this important interest a large amount of time and the intensity of an earnest nature.

REV. ELISHA G. BABCOCK.

He was born in Milton, Dec. 1, 1799. In early life he learned and followed the business of a cabinet-maker. At the age of nineteen he conceived it to be his duty to relinquish his trade, and seek an education preparatory to the ministry. In July, 1818, he began his classical studies at Milton Academy, and entered Amherst College two years later, graduating in 1824 in the first class that left the college. He completed the prescribed course of professional study at Andover, and commenced preaching in the towns of Abington and Sudbury, Mass., and subsequently at Wiscasset, Me. In the latter place he was invited to settle, and was ordained April, 1829. In June, 1830, he married Miss Eliza Hibbard, of Londonderry, N.II. He received a unanimous invitation to become the pastor of the church in Thetford, Vt., and was installed Feb. 6, 1831, where he remained the earnest and efficient pastor during his life, dying in the service Sept. 21, 1848.

REV. JOSIAH BADCOCK.

He was the son of Nathan Badcock, born in Milton in 1752. He graduated at Harvard College in 1772, and was settled in the ministry at Andover, N.II., the Rev. Benjamin Wadsworth, of Danvers, preaching the ordination sermon in 1783. He left the active work of the ministry twenty years before his death, and lived quietly on his farm, where he died in 1831.

RUFUS BADCOCK.

He was the son of George and Ruth Badcock, born in Milton, July 6, 1755. He graduated at Harvard in 1775, in the class with Edward H. Robbins. He became a teacher, and died in a Southern State, where he was employed in his profession, in 1793.

ANN BENT.

Ann Bent was the daughter of Rufus Bent and Ann (Middleton) McKenzie. Her father, Rufus Bent (born March 10, 1741-2), was the son of Joseph and Martha (Houghton) Bent, who were married in Milton, Feb. 13, 1723-4. Her mother, Ann Middleton (born 1741, died July 31, 1807), was great-granddaughter of Dr. George Middleton, Principal of King's College, Aberdeen, Scotland, whose grandson, Alexander Middleton, Jr., came to Boston about 1735, and married

Ann Todd,' sister to Mrs. James Smith. After their father's death and their mother's second marriage, the three daughters of Alexander Middleton lived principally with their aunt and uncle at Brush Hill; and after Mr. Smith's marriage to Mrs. Campbell a strong friendship sprang up between Mary, Ann, and Prudence Middleton,' the nieces of his first wife, and Dorothy and Elizabeth Murray, the nieces of his second wife; a friendship which has been perpetuated through all branches of their descendants.

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In 1763 Ann Middleton married, in Milton, Andrew McKenzie, of Dorchester, by whom she had a daughter, Ann, born May 3, 1764, who probably died young. Her marriage with Rufus Bent took place 1767; and Ann, the eldest of seven children, two sons and five daughters, was born June 19, 1768.* She was early called to aid in the support of the family; and while still quite a child went to live with Madam Price at Hopkinton, for two pistareens a week. Madam Price was very kind to her, and always remained her firm friend. After some years she returned to Milton, and taught school on Milton Hill, in the small school-house which was built in 1793 and burned down Nov. 23, 1846. She lived with Judge Robbins in what was afterwards known as the "Churchill house," at the head of Churchill's lane, and four of his children attended her school: Eliza, Edward, Sarah, and Ann-Jean. In 1795, by the advice of Judge Robbins, Miss Bent opened a shop at 56 Marlborough street (afterwards 214 Washington street"), which was in the beginning stocked for her by Messrs. Gregory & Pickard with goods imported by them for her to sell on commission. At first she and her sister Sarah, who aided her, boarded with Mrs. Thayer (mother of Rev. Dr. Thayer, of Lancaster), in what is now Washington street, opposite Central

Alexander Middleton and Ann Todd were published Nov. 10, 1735. She married, second, Sept. 28, 1752, David Fick, foreman of Mr. Smith in his sugar refinery; a marriage which was very displeasing to Mr. Smith.

Mary Middleton married James Lovell, son of John Lovell, master of the Boston Latin School; an ardent patriot, and member of Congress all throngh the Revolution. Her only daughter, Mary Lovell, married Mark Pickard, an Englishman, and was the mother of Mrs. Henry Ware, Jr. Prudence Middleton married Dr. Joseph Whipple, surgeon in the State Corps of Artillery, Lieut.-Col. Paul Revere commanding; her four children died unmarried. A fourth daughter, Helen Middleton, died unmarried.

a There is a tradition that Mr. Smith was three times married. He was born, son of James and Prudence, June 12, 1689.

Rev. J. II. Morison, in the notes to his Centennial sermon, June, 1862, says that Ann Bent's birthplace was a house that used to stand in a now disused lane leading south from Canton avenue, just cast of the Amory place (now Col. II. S. Russell's). There is an old well at the entrance.

The first number of the shop-door was 214, and that of her house, when she lived over the shop, was 216; but after a fire, in 1837, the shop was placed on the right and became 216, and the house 214.

Father of John E. and Nathaniel Thayer, founders of the banking-house which is now Messrs. Kidder, l'eabody, & Co.