1845. Edmund Little, Jr.
Ira Blake.
Samuel Rogers, Jr.
1846. Eliphalet Emery.
Moses Newell.
Edmund Little, Jr.
1847. Moses Newell.
Eliphalet Emery.
Hanson Ordway.
1848. Jloses Newell.
Hanson Ordway.
Edmund Little.
1849. Moses Newell.
â– Wm. H. Cottin.
Moses P. Stanwood.
1850. Thos. S. Ordway.
Edmund Little.
Bouj. Edwards.
1851. Moses Newell.
John u. Plumer.
George Emery.
1852. Eliphalet Emery.
N. F. Emery.
DavidSmith.
1833. Nehemiah F. Emery.
Eliphalet Emery.
Ichabod Titcomb.
1854. Ichabod Titcomb.
N. F. Emery.
John Moody.
lSo5. N. F. Emery.
M. H. Poor.
Ichabod Titcomb.
1856. Ichabod Titcomb.
Moses Newell.
Stephen C. Noyes.
185". N. F. Emeiy.
Ichabod Titcomb.
Calvin Rogers.
1858. Geo. Emery.
N. F. Emery.
Samuel N. Bailey.
1859. N. F. Emery.
Ichabod Titcomb.
Thos. C. Thurlow.
1860. Ichabod Titcomb.
N. F. Emery.
The following persons have presided as moderator
of the annual town-meetings :
Daniel Emery 1819-20 Benj. F. S. Griffln 1847-48
Dean Robinson 1821-23 Moses Newell 1849-51
Samuel Tonney 1824 Dean Robinson 1M2
Dean Robinson 1825-29
Daniel Emery 18.30-31
Dean Robinson 1832-39
Otis Little 1840
Moses Newell 1841-46
1862. Ichabod Titcomb.
Moees NewelL
N. F. Emery.
1803. Wm. Merrill.
Geo. Emery.
Dean 1
1864. Geo. Emery.
Wm. Merrill.
N. F. Emery.
1865. Wm. Merrill.
N. F. Emery.
Dean B. Sti
1860. Dean R. Stanwood.
Wm. Merrill.
Geo. W. Carr.
1807. Samuel Rogers.
Wm. Merrill.
Jos. Newell.
1808. Samuel Rogers.
Dean R. Stanwood.
Wm. Mernll.
1869. Geo. \V. Carr.
Wm. Merrill.
Chus. W. Ordway.
1870. Geo. W. Carr.
Chas. W. Ordway.
Edmund Little.
1871. Wm. Merrill.
Chas. W. Ordway.
Geo. W. Carr.
1872. Chas. W. Ordway.
Geo. W. Carr.
Edmund Little.
1873. Chas. W. Ordway.
Geo. W. Carr.
Edmund Little.
1874. Chas. W. Oi-dway.
Henrj-T. Bailey.
John M. Poor.
1875. Chas. W. Ordway.
Henry T. Bailey.
John M. Poor.
1870. Same.
1877. Chas. W. Ordway.
Henry D. Lay.
Henry T. Bailey.
1878. Same.
1879. Chas. W. Ordway.
Henry D. Lay.
Richard Newell.
1880. Same.
1881. Same.
1882. Chas. W. Ordway.
Jos. Watson.
Richard Newell.
1883. Same.
1884. Same.
Moses Newell
Dean Robinson
Moses Newell
Dean Robinson
Geo. W. Carr
WEST NEWBURY.
1865
Kehemiah 1". Emery 1862-65
J. Gardner Tewksbury 1866-70
Haydu Brown 1871
James II. Durgin 1872
Isaac N. Lane 1873
Haydn Brown 1871-78
..1879
Moody E. Boynto:
Moses C. Smith 1880
Lawrence H. Biiiloy 1881
Moses C. Smith 1882-86
Kzekiel G. Nason 1887
The town clerks have been as follows :
lSSC-87. Eben P. Stanwood.
At a town-meeting held on the 18th of March a
committee of three, consisting of Daniel Emeiy, Jo-
seph Stanwood and Thomas Chase, was appointed to
meet a committee of the town of Newbury and settle
all legal demands under the act of incorporation. At
the same meeting the school districts were established
and at the two meetings all town officers necessary to
perfect the municipal machinery were chosen.
Up to and including 1856 the town system pre-
vailed in the choice of Representatives to the General
Court. During that time the following Representa-
tives were chosen in West Newbury in the years set
against their names :
1819-21. Daniel Emery.
1838. Benjamin Edwards.
1822. No Kepresentative.
Moses Carr.
1823. Joseph Stanwood.
1839. None.
1824-25. Daniel Emery.
1840. George Hosum.
1826. Moses Newell.
1841. Mosea Newell.
1827-28. Daniel Emery.
1842. None.
1829. Eliphalet Emery.
1843. None.
1830. Daniel Emery.
1844. Enoch Bailey.
1831-32. Eliphalet Emery.
1845. Otis Little.
1833. Samuel Carr.
1846. None.
1834. Samuel Ciirr.
1847. None.
Eliphalet Emery.
1848. None.
1833. John E. Bartlett.
1840. None.
Moses Carr.
1850-51. Benjamin Edwards
1836. Moses Carr.
1852. None.
Moses Emery.
1853. John C. Carr.
1837. Hanson OiJway.
1854. None.
John C. Carr.
1855. Joseph Z. Gordon.
1866. Benjamin Edwards, J
In the election of 1850 a singular state of things
existed. The whole number of votes was 246 and 124
was declared necessary for a choice. Mr. Edwards
had 123. Three of the 246 votes were for John B.
Alley, who was a candidate for Congress, and the
meeting voted to throw out these three votes, leaving
the whole number 243, of which 122 would be neces-
sary for a choice. The eflect of this was the election
of Mr. Edwards, and he was declared chosen.
From 1857 to 1866, inclusive, the district system
prevailed, and Newbury, West Newbury and Rowley
formed the Seventeenth Representative District of
Essex County. The Representatives from this dis-
trict were as follows :
1857.— Benjamin Edwards, Jr., of West Newbury.
1858.— Gorham P. Sargent, of Newbury.
1850.- Moses T. Whittier, of liowley.
1860.- Calvin Rogers, of West Newbury.
1861.— Nathan Adams, of Newbury.
1862.— Amos Bishop, of Rowley.
1863.— Eben P. Stanwood, of West Newbury.
1864.— Wm. M. Rogers, of Newbury.
1865.— Edward H. Potter, of Rowley.
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From 1866 to 1875, inclusive, Amesbury, West New-
bury and Salisbury formed the First District of
Es.sex County, and the following were the Represen-
tatives :
1866. — Amos Buswell, of Salisbury; Addison A. Sawyer, of Amesbury.
1867.— J. R. Huntingdon, of Amesbury; J. G. Tewksbury, of West
Newbury.
1868.— Joseph N. Clark, of Salisbury ; Wm. H. Haskell, of Amesbury.
1869.— William Merrill, of West Newbury; Wm. H. Ames, of Salis-
1870. — John Hume, of Amesbury; Charles L. Allen, of Salisbury.
1871.— B. F. Sargent, of Amesbury; James H. Durgin, of West New-
1872.— Charles W. Morrill, of Salisbury; Richard F. Briggs, of Ames-
1873. — Joseph M. Eaton, of Salisbury; Moses Carr, of West Newbury.
1874.— William Chase, of Amesbury; Charles M. Brown, of Salisbury.
1875, — George W. Morrill, of Amesbury; Enoch Sawyer, of Salisbury,
Fi-om 1876 up to 1887, inclusive, Amesbury, Salis-
bury, West Newbury and Merrimac have formed the
Eighteenth District of Essex County, and the follow-
ing Representatives have been chosen :
1876.— Orlando S. Bailey, of Amesbury; Frederick W. Merrill, of Salis-
bury.
1877.— James D. Pike, of Merrimac; Samuel Coffin, of Salisbury.
1878.— Albert S. Adams, of Amesbury ; Grin Warren, of West New-
bury.
1879.— William Smeath, of Amesbury; Charles P. Collins, of Salisbury.
1880.— Benjamin L. Fifield, of Salisbury; Richard Newell, of West
Newbury.
1881.— Albert Sargent, of Merrimac; Oliver A. Roberts, of Salisbnry.
1882.— Mark D. T. Steene, of Amesbury; David L. Ambrose, of West
Newbury.
1883.— John L. Little, of Salisbury; John B. Judkins. of Merrimac.
1884. —Alexander H. Huntingdon, of Amesbury; M. C. Smith, of
West Newbury.
1885.— Hiram Walker, of Salisbury; George 0. Goodwin, of Merrimac.
1886.- Alexander Smart, of Merrimac; John H. Paisland, of Ames-
1887.— John C. Risteen, of Amesbury; Charles Goss, of Amcsbnry.
At the time of the incorporation of West Newbury
its industries were unimportant, yielding a product of
not more than forty thousand dollars per year. They
have increased largely since, and consist chiefly of
establishments for the manufacture of shoes and
combs. The comb manufacture was the earliest per-
haps of all, dating back to the year 1770. It origi-
nated in an enterprise projected by Enoch Noyes, a
farmer, for the manufacture 'of horn button.s. He
worked in the kitchen of his house during the winter,
having as his only tools a hatchet, a saw, a bit of
glass and a woolen polishing rag. After the battle of
Bennington he hired a Hessian comb-maker, who
was a deserter from Burgoyne's army, who taught
him the use of the grail, the guarrett and other con-
trivances for the manufacture of combs and their prep-
aration for the market. The business thus begun by
Mr. Noyes has been continued by his son, grandsons
and great-grandsons. About the year 1830 there
were twenty-five or thirty shops in West New-
bury in which combs were made, and the manufac-
turers would take them to Boston and sell them and
bring back horns in their one-horse wagons. There
are now but two establishments ; but these, by the
use of steam, turn out a much larger product than all
HISTORY OF ESSEX COUNTY, MASSACHUSETTS.
the older ones combined. These two are those of S.
C. Noyes & Co. and H. G. O. & T. M. Chase. The
largest of these is that of S. C. Noyes & Co., in which
are some machines invented by Haydn Brown, by
which horn-combs are made equal to ivory in appear-
ance and beauty of finish.
The manufacture of carriages, once quite extensive,
has to a large extent disappeared and become estab-
lished at Amesbury, on the other side of the river.
The manuliicture of shoes is carried on to a moder-
ate extent, the only establishment at present being
that of James Durgin & Son, au enterprising and
successful firm.
The two parishes existing at the time of the incor-
poration of the town have been aheady referred to.
At the present time there are other religious societies
which should be mentioned. On the loth of Feb-
ruary, 1832, Micajah Poor, Joseph Perry, Jesse
Xoyes, Samuel Gould, Simeon Pilsbury, William W.
Perry, Giles Woodman, Joseph J. Bailey, David
Cleftbrd and Samuel Stickney and their associates
were incorporated into a society by the name of the
First Methodist Episcopal Society in West Newbury
and Newbury. This society built a meeting-house
in West Newbury, near Great Kock ; but the society
is now located over the line in Newbury, and the
meeting-house was either taken down or moved.
On the 16th of April, 1868, Moses P. Stanwood,
Moses H. Poor and James B. Kelley and their asso-
ciates were incorporated as a religious society under
the name of the West Newbury Chapel Association.
This association was merely auxiliary to the First
Parish, and the chapel is used in connection with its
Sunday-school and other parochial services.
A Baptist society was organized not many years
ago, which is situated on one of the many pleasant
spots on the land formerly owned by the Poore family.
Many years ago the trustees of Andover Theological
Seminary bought the same lot for the location of
their building; but, for some cause, the deeds never
passed. The land was presented to the Baptist So-
ciety by Sewell S. Chase, and the meeting-house
erected on the lot is creditable to the society and the
town. At present the society has no settled min-
ister.
A Catholic Church has also been erected within a
few years, and is now presided over by Father Mur-
phy, in connection with other neighboring churches;
The other associations worthy of note are the West
Newbury Farmers' Club — an enterprising association
which holds annual meetings of great interest — and
the West Newbury Mutual Fire Insurance Company,
incorporated March 22, 1849, of which William Mer-
rill is president, and Henry T. Bailey secretary.
In the War of the Rebellion West Newbury per-
formed her full part. Soon after the incorporation
of the town, a company of infantry was raised and
attached to the regiment of which Colonel Samuel
Tenney, of that town, was commander. This company
was successively under the command of Captains
Bailey, Otis Little, Joseph Goodrich and Hanson
Ordway. About the same time, a company of cav-
alry was organized under Captain Uriah Bailey, and
attached to the regiment commanded by Colonel
Mo.ses Newell. This company was subsequently com-
manded by Thomas Chase, John Pearson and Joseph
Little. Both of these companies were disbanded
long before the war.
In 1852 a battalion of rifles was raised by Ben :
Perley Poore, of which Company A, of West New-
bury, commanded by Moses P. Stanwood, was a part.
Major Poore was made its commander.
On the 29th of April, 1861, the town appropriated
ten thousand dollars for a war-emergency fund, and
voted to pay to each member of the rifle company
belonging to West Newbury ten dollars a month
while in active service and ten dollars a month to
the family of each. In addition to this appropria-
tion, one hundred and fifty dollars was appropriated
for uniforms. The rifle company Wiis afterwards the
nucleus of Company A of the Nineteenth Regiment
of Massachusetts Volunteers for three years.
In July, 1862, it was voted to pay $150 to each
soldier enlisted for three years, and on the 15th of
August it was voted to pay the same bounty to nine
months' men. On the 30th of August it was voted
to increase the bounty to $300. During the whole
war the number of men furnished by the town was
two hundred and sixty-seven, of whom twelve were
commissioned oflicers. The quota of the town was
two hundred and thirty-three. The war expendi-
tures, exclusive of State aid, were $36,240. The
amount of State aid paid, which was reimbursed by
the State, was $21,058. The population of the town
at the time was two thousand and eighty-eight, and
its valuation le.'^s than a million dollars. The follow-
lowing is a list of separate enlistments in the town
taken from the rolls at the State-Douse and contain-
ing only two hundred and thirty enlistments.
It is piobable that the remaining thirty-seven
covered credits for the town's share of enli-tments
made by the State, —
Ben : Perley Poore, Miyor.
Daniel B. Abbott.
George H. Chase.
David Atkinson.
Calvin F. Brown.
Daniel P. Brock.
Francis B. Emery.
Edward Knight.
Georgo H. Morrill.
Lewis F. Morrill.
Charles L. Noyes.
Samuel Oliver.
Kiland W. Sawyer.
John W. Stevens.
John McAleer.
Kb«n P. Stanwood, Lieut. -Col.
Moses B. Merrill, Capt.
Wni. T. Woodburu, Sergt.
John \V. Hogg, Sergt.
Ebeuezer Carlton, Corp.
Joshua Ordway, Musician.
Hosea W. Onlway, Wagoner.
Daniel B. Abbott.
Jeremiah M. .\dnni8.
Horace N. Bailey.
Warren Biilch.
Daniel P. Brock.
Richard T. Carter.
David W. Clary.
Daniel F. Connoll.
John Donavan.
Francis B. Emery.
Charles S. Oilman.
Joshua Hills.
Thomas G. Hills.
Richard Hudson.
Wm. B. Jewett.
Harlan P. Johnson.
Lucius C. Johnson.
James E. Kelley.
WEST NEAVBURY.
Henry G. Marsh.
John A. Morse.
Joseph Morse.
Thomas E. Moylan.
Wm. H. Nelson.
Jos. 0. Noyes.
JohnO'Liuighlin.
Charles E. Preble.
Elbridge A. Richardson.
Wm. Ryan.
Isaac A. Short.
James H. Short.
Calvin J. Stevens.
Charles X. Wiiiting.
Julius R. Wilson.
Luther P. Blaisdell, Sergt.
Wm. II. Gould.
George E. Cotfin.
George \. Jewett.
Henry C. Logan.
Frank McGuire.
George Robinson.
John Ryan.
Wm. Thompson.
John Watson.
Wm. H. WiUon, Jr.
James Foye, re- enlisted.
Laurentio Bailey, Corp.
John Donovan.
Charles W. Goiven.
Richard Lynch.
James Porter.
Edmund T. Pillsbury.
John G. Coffin.
George T. Smith.
Phineas B. CarletoD.
John Clancy.
Michael Clancy.
Benj. T. Noyes, Capt.
Warren A. Galeucia.
Wm. W. Reed.
Joseph Rhodes.
Patrick Dunn, Sergt.
Abner Gould, Sergt.
Horace Ruddock, Sergt.
Thos. B. Parker, Corp.
Ira W. Poor, Corp.
Wm. M. Nichols, Musician.
Benj. A. Applebee.
Charles W. Bradstreet.
Alfred H. Dennet.
Benj. W. Edwards.
Daniel W. Hoyt.
Nathaniel Uogere.
Sawyer Rogers.
Augustus H. Spiller.
Franklin L. Walker.
George Woodbury.
John Bradley.
Jos. W. Gilman.
Wm. H. Nelson.
Jos. Elbridge, Corp.
Wm. Atkinson, Sergt.
Wm. B. Carleton, Corp.
Frank W. Bailey.
Charles 0. Bridges.
Luther C. Bridges.
Charles S. Gilman.
Walter J. Pope.
Robert S. Edison.
Charles Notting.
James Flaherty.
Joseph H. Smitli.
Joseph Smith.
Wm. Henry.
John Leonard.
Paul Giddings.
John M. Blown.
Daniel Farrington.
Luke Dolan, Corp.
John Smith.
Isaac H. Boyd, Ma.ior.
Moses P. Stanwood, Capt.
Francis Osborne, Ist Lieut.
Giles D. W. Johnson, 1st Lt.
Sherman S. Robinson, 2d Lt.
Samuel A. Bridges, 2d Lieut.
John McCannon.
Wm. Atkinson, sergt.
Edward W. Bartlett.
Charles Bradley.
Gorham Coffin.
Patrick Dunn.
Rufus H. Chase, corp.
Charles P. Coffin, Corp.
Wm. A. Kennett, corp,
Charles L. Noyes, corp.
Wm. C. Tuson, Corp.
Wm. Young, corp.
Charles H. Fowler, wagoner.
Charles F. Appleton.
Edward B. Bartlett.
James Booth.
Osgood Brown.
Daniel W. Carleton.
Everett Carleton.
Samuel Carleton.
Moses F. Carr.
Owen Carr.
John G. Coffin.
Wm. J. Curtis.
Nathaniel W. Davis.
Augustus Grant.
Isaac G. Hagar.
Charles Hudson.
Jonathan Hudson.
George A. Kennett.
Stephen D. Kennett.
John McCannon, re-enlisted.
James Mcintosh.
Levi C. McKinstry.
Charles W. Merrill.
Theron P. Newhall.
Gilman F. Nichols.
Stephen Noyes.
Otis Pearoon.
James Porter.
John Preble.
Philip Roth.
Wm. Osborne.
George W. Rogers.
Shubael D. Rogers.
Wm. T. George, sergt.
Wm. C. Foster, corp.
Eben Colby, re-enlisted.
Samuel Downer.
John F. Fowler.
Henry E. Palmer.
Edmund H. Jacques, corp.
John J. Jacques, corp.
Wm. Dawkins.
Moses 0. Little.
Abram A. Dow, corp.
George F. Coffin.
Simeon S. Steele,
Charles Kelley.
Henry Curtis, unassigned.
James Harmon, unassigned.
Orin Warren, assist, surg.
John Towser.
Daniel Farrington.
Charles F. Appleton, 2d lieut.
Walter Sneadon.
Luke Dolan, corp.
John Smith.
Orin Warren, surg.
Wm. Bohanon.
Charles S Brigham.
Wm. P. Goodwin.
Peter Johnson.
George Thompson.
Lowell S. BuUens.
Jeremiah Canon.
Edward Finley.
Edward Greenwood.
Lyman H. Hardie.
James Hickey.
Martin H. Lawless.
James Robinson.
Hugh 0. Toy.
James Tracey.
Frank Duggin.
Wm. Dawkins, Jr.
Robert Archibald.
Warren K. Bailey. Edward Turner.
West Newbury 13 chiefly dislinguished as a farming
town and few towns in the State can boast of better
farms or better methods of tillage. There are so
many of these farms that it is difficult to mention
any without doing injustice to those which may be
omitted. It will be sufficient, in order to show the
extent of the farming interest, to mention the farms
of Cyrus K. Ordway, George J. Pierce, Richard
Newell, Charles S. Bradley, Dean E. Stanwood,
Thomas C. Thurlow, Thomas G. Ordway, William
Bryant, Horace Moody, E. Moody Boynton, Moses
M. Ridgeway, Moses H. Poor, and the Indian Hill
farm and the Jennings farm on Silloway Hill.
Among those who were born either in West New-
bury or within its territory before its incorporation,
there are a few the incidents in whose lives are acces-
sible and may without any invidious distinction be
mentioned in this narrative.
Rev. John Tufts, to whom reference has been
already made as pastor of the First Church in West
Newbury from 1714 to 1738, published during his
ministry a small book of tunes, entitled "Avery
Plain and Easy Introduction to the Art of Singing
Psalm Tunes, contrived in such a Manner as that the
Learner may attain the skill of singing them with
the greatest ease and speed imaginable." This was
the first publication of the kind in New England and
was severely criticised by those who were wedded to
old customs. The singing in the churches at that
time was usually by rote and not more than four or
five tunes were used. The most common were
"York," "Hackney," "St. Mary's," "Windsor" and
" Martyrs." The book of Mr. Tufts contained twenty-
eight tunes, with rules which made their learning
easy, and was looked upon as a daring and unjustifia-
ble innovation. One critic said concerning it, " Truly
I have great jealousy that if we once begin to sing by
rule the next thing will be to pray by rule and
preach by rule, and then comes popery."
Dean Robinson was born at Andover, Mass., on
the 18th of April, 1788. He studied in the common
schools, in the North Parish Academy at Andover,
and finished his classical education under the tuition
of Rev. Dr. Peter Eaton, of West Boxford, a graduate
of Harvard in 1787. For a time he taught school at
Danvers, and then studied medicine with Dr. Thomas
Kittridge, of Andover. In April, 1811, he made a per-
1868
HISTORY OF ESSEX COUNTY, MASSACHUSETTS.
manent settlement in the AVest District of Newbury,
and there for fifty years he devoted himself to the
practice of his profession. He becamb a member of
the Massachusetts Medical Society in 1S15 and was
entered as a retired member in 1848. Ue was a
prominent member of the Masonic order and one of
the founders of the Essex County Agricultural So-
ciety, of which he was for many years an officer.
He continued his practice until he was so feeble in
body as to be obliged to be carried to the bedside of
his patients, a chronic spinal affection having induced
partial paralysis of his limbs. He was looked up to
iis authority by his brothers in the profession, es-
teemed by the community and beloved by those who
had been cured or solaced by him in their sufferings
and pains. He died at his residence on Pipe-Stave
Hill, in West Newbury, on Saturd.ay, the 24th of Au-
gust, 18(>3, at the age of seventy-five.
Samuei- Moody was born in West Newbury in
1837, and through life devoted himself to the culti-
vation of an inherited estate, on which he died on
Wednesday, July 25, 1877. He was one of the
leading agriculturists in Essex County, and met
with succos in his occupation, which his judgment
and skill deserved. He was a man of the purest charac-
ter, a devoted son, a kind friend, an estimable and
respected citizen. It was said of him after his death
that there was a " a daily beauty in his life that dis-
pensed contentment, happiness and joy to all within
its reach."
CoKNELiu.s Conway Felton was born in that
part of Newbury which was incorporated in 1819 as
West Newbury, November 6, 1807. He was the
oldest son of Cornelius and Anna (Morse) Felton.
The residence of his father was in the Lower Parish
of AVest Newbury, next to the house in which Moses
Brown, a wealthy merchant of Newburyport was born,
and not far from the birthplace of Bailey, the author
of Bailey's Algebra, in the neighborhood of Brown's
Springs, and near Pipe-Stave Hill. H^ attended the
Bradford Academy, and afterwards the town school
of Saugus, to which place his father removed in his
boyhood. In 1822 he was sent to a private school at
North Andover, under the charge of Simeon Put-
nam, where he fitted for college. He graduated at
Harvard in 1827, having during a portion of his junior
year taught mathematics in the Round Hill School,
at Northampton. After leaving college he taught
in the Livingston County High School, in Geneseo,
New York, and occupied the position of tutor in
Latin at Harvard in 1829, of tutor in Greek in
1830, and Professor of Greek in 1832. In 1834 he
was appointed Eliot Professor of Greek, and oc-
cupied that position until 18G0, when he was inau-
gurated president of the college. He received the
degree of Doctor of Laws from Amherst in 1848,
and from Yale in 1860. He died at the house of his
brother in Chester, Penn., February 2G, 1862.
His brother, Samuel Morse Felton, a graduate of
Harvard in 1834, at one time president of the Phila-
delphia, Wilmington and Balitimore Railroad, was
his brother, and the latter was the father of Samuel
M. Felton, Jr., who, at the age of thirty-one years,
was made president of the Erie Railroad corporation.
Mr. Felton was widely known among scholars, not
only as a professor, but as an author, editor and
translator of foreign literature. In 1833 he publish-
ed an edition of Homer with notes, in 1840 a trans-
lation of Menzel's "German Literature," a Greek rea-
der with notes, in 1841 the "Clouds of Aristophanes,"
in 1845 the " Pauegyricus of Isocrates " and the
" Agamemnon of iEschylus," in 1849 a translation
from the French — Guyot's "Earth and Man" — and
the " Birds of Aristophanes," in 1852 a selection
from the writings of Professor Popkin and a volume
of selections from the Greek historians, in 1855 a
revised edition of Smith's " History of Greece " and
an edition of " Lord Carlisle's Diary " in Turkish
and Greek waters, in 1856 a selection from modern
Greek writers, a compilation of a work on Greek and
Roman metres, and a memoir of General Eaton in
Sparks' " American Biographies." He was also a
prolific writer for the North American Review, the
Christian Examiner, and other magazines.
At the reception of the sons of Newburyport in
that city on the Fourth of July 1855, Mr. Felton
one of the invited guests, thus alluded to the place
of his birth : —
"It is now nearly forty years— 'liow my heart treml)Ie8 while my
tongue relates ! ' — since, in early childhood, I was borne away from the
place uf my birth, caring little or nothing to what distant shores the
currents of life wore drifting me. I have but seldom visited Newbury