of the Pilgrims in England, and is said by
one writer to have purchased the ship "May-
flower," and took an active part in sending
over the Colony that landed at Plymouth in
1620, coming himself, as stated, in 1623. His
daughter Remember, who married Abraham
Jackson, was born to his second wife, Hannah,
former widow of Richard Templar, of Charles-
town, and daughter of Richard Pritchard, and
born in 1637 at PhTnouth. She died July



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24, 1707, and Abraham Jackson died Oct. 4,
1714. Their children were : Lydia, born Nov.
19, 1658; Abraham; Nathaniel; Eleazer, born
in October, 166!); and John.

(II) Eleazer Jackson, son of Abraham, born
in October, 1669, married in 1690 Hannah
Ransom. Their children were: John, born
in 1692; Eleazer, born in 1694; Joanna, born
in 1696; Mercy, born in 1697; Hannah, born
in 1698; Mary, born in 1701; Abigail, born
in 1702; Deborah, born in 1704; Content, born
in 1705; Susanna, born in 1706; Ransom, born
in 1708,; Benjamin, born in 1710; E.xperience,
born in 1713; and Ephraini, born in 1714.

(III) Ephraim Jackson, son of Eleazer and
Hannah (Ransom) Jackson, born in 1714,
probably is the Ephraim Jackson who went to
Bridgewater, locating perhaps in West Bridge-
water. In 1736 he married Lydia Leach. He
later removed to Wrentham, Massachusetts.

(IV) Lieut. Ephraim Jackson, son of Eph-
raim, married in 1765 Bathsheba Trask,
daughter of John Trask. Ephraim Jackson
was a private in the French and Indian war, as
a member of Capt. Simeon Cary's company, in
Col. Thomas Doty's regiment, in the service
from March 13 to Dec. 11, 1758, and he also
served in the Revolutionary war, as a member
of Capt. Daniel Lothrop's company, in Col.
John Bailey's regiment, in 1775. His wife,
Bathsheba, died Dec. 24, 1782, and he mar-
ried (second) in 1784 Hannah Delano. His
children by the first union were : Asa, born
Dec. 5, 1765, who went West; Oliver, born
March 18, 1767; Caleb, born Sept. 3, 1769;
Lydia, born Feb. 26, 1771; Bathsheba, born
July 28, 1772; George Washington, born Oct.

19, 1776; Rhoda, born Jan. 16, 1778; Calvin,
born June 17, 1779; and Clarissa, born Dec.

20, 1780. To the second union were born three
children: Barnard, Lucy and Polly. The
father died in North Bridgewater May 29,
1814, in the seventy-fifth year of his age, and
is buried in the old cemetery near the Brock-
ton Fair Grounds, his grave being marked by
the Sons of the Revolution.

(V) George Washington Jackson, son of
Lieut. Ephraim, was born Oct. 19, 1776, in
North Bridgewater. He was foreman of a
foundry and furnace in Halifax, Mass., where
he spent the greater part of his life, and
where he married Molly Briggs. He died in
Bridgewater, aged ninety-four years, and is
buried at Halifax. His children were as fol-
lows: Bathsheba, who married Ezekiel Wa-
terman (they died in Weymouth, Mass.) ;
George W., Jr., who was engaged in farming,
and died in Bridgewater; Louisa, who mar-



ried Benjamin F. Dewing, of Chelsea; Abner
Cushman, who is mentioned below; Nancy,.
who married William Pedrick (they lived at
Somerville, Mass.) ; and William Dunham, who
died a young man, of smallpox, in Halifax.

(VI) Abner Cushman Jackson, son of
George W., was born July 5, 1815, in Halifax,.
Mass., and received his early education in the
district schools of his native town. After leav-
ing school he became apprenticed to the car-
penter's trade, and early in life settled in East
Bridgewater, where he carried on a large busi-
ness as contractor and builder, doing work in.
most of the towns of Plymouth county. Mr.
Jackson was a master of his craft, and when
at the height of his active career was recognized
as one of the best farmers and builders in
the county. He was actively engaged in the
business of contracting for a period covering'
about fifty-five years, when he retired from
business cares, and he died in East Bridge-
water, Jan. 16, 1902, aged eighty-six years,
six months, eleven days, an honored and re-
spected citizen of the community in which his
long and useful life had been spent. Mr.
Jackson married Lydia Snow Wade, daughter
of John and Caroline (Wade) Wade, of Hali-
fax. Mrs. Jackson passed away in East Bridge-
water Nov. 3, 1892, aged seventy years, the
mother of eight sons, all of whom grew up
and learned the trade of carpenter under their
father, as follows: Andrew, who went West,,
where he followed the business of builder and
cabinetmaker; William, who died young; John
A., who is mentioned below; Wallace Cushman,
who died young; Sidney Roscoe, who died
young; George W., who resides in Brockton;
Abner Williams, who is living in Whitman, a
retired builder; and Prescott H., who is men-
tioned below.

(VII) John Adams Jackson, son of Abner
Cushman and Lydia Snow (Wade) Jackson,
was born June 12, 1847, in East Bridgewater,
Mass., and in the district schools of his native
town acquired his early educational training.
Leaving school when about fifteen years of age,
he became apprenticed to the carpenter's trade
under the instruction of his father, in whose
employ he contimied for a period of about six
years, until he had reached his majority. Go-
ing to Lynn, Mass., he followed his trade as a
journeyman there for about two years. Coming-
then to North Bridgewater (now Brockton),
he continued at his trade in the employ of
John F. Beal and James P. Beal, as a journey-
man, until 1875, in which year he engaged
in the contracting business on his own account,
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Among the many substantial buildings which
Mr. Jackson has erected in Brockton may be
mentioned the Home National Bank block,
the Field block, the Enterprise building,
the Whipple-Freenian block, the Elm Court
apartments on West Elm street, as well as
many others, in and about the city, including
the State Sanatorium for Consumptives at
Lakeville, completed in February, 1910.

Fraternally Mr. Jackson is a prominent and
active member of various organizations, hold-
ing membership in Paul Revere Lodge, A. P.
& A. M., of which he is past worshipful master ;
Satucket Chapter, R. A. M., of which he is
past high priest; Brockton Council, R. & S. M.,
of which he is past thrice illustrious master;
Bay State Commandery, Knights Templar, of
which he is past eminent commander, having
been eminent commander during the triennial
conclave held in Boston, when he was pre-
sented the bear by Golden Gate Commandery,
of San Francisco ; and he is also a member of
Aleppo Temple, Nobles of the Mystic Shrine,
of Boston, and has attained the thirty-
second degree, being a member of Bos-
ton Consistory. He is also a member
of Massasoit Lodge, No. 69, Independent Or-
der of Odd Fellows, of Brockton. Mr. Jack-
son has long been identified with the Hancock
Veteran Firemen's Association, which organiza-
tion he has served as president for a period
of eight years. He is a prominent member of
the Massachusetts State Association of Master
Builders, being one of the vice presidents for
several years, and is now president, and is also
a member of the executive board and a member
of the legislative committee.

In political faith Mr. Jackson is a firm sup-
porter of the principles of the Republican party,
and has served the city from Ward One as a
member (in 1886) of the common council (of
which he served as president), as a member
of the board of aldermen for a period of three
years, in 1887, 1888 and 1889 (being presi-
dent of the latter board the last year of his
service in same), and again in 1896 was a
member of the board of aldermen.

On Nov. 24, 1870, Mr. Jackson was united
in marriage to Abbie K. Wade, daughter of
Lorenzo and Marcia K. (Jackson) Wade, of
North Bridgewater, and to this union have
been bom two children: (1) Arthur Adams,
bom Sept. 23, 1880, is a graduate of the Mas-
sachusetts College of Pharmacy, and also took
special courses at the Boston School of Tech-
nologv, since which time he has followed the
profession of chemist, having been in the em-
ploy of the Southern Cotton Oil Company, of



Augusta, Ga. ; the Chicago and Rock Island
Railroad Company, in the testing department,
at Chicago, the Sun Oil Company, of Toledo,
Ohio, the Zephon Chemical Compound Com-
pany, of Chicago, and is now in the employ of
the American Cotton Oil Company at Cincin-
nati, Ohio. He married Anna Louise Salfers-
berg, of Dorchester, Mass., and they have one
daughter, Marion. (2) Harold Stanley, born
March 8, 1885, who was educated in the public
schools and the Brockton high school, is now
interested with his father in the contracting
business; he married Maude C. Keith, of East
Bridgewater.

(VII) Prescott n.\RDiNQ Jackson, young-
est son of the late Abner Cushman and Lydia
Snow (Wade) Jackson, was born Aug. 8, 1859,
in East Bridgewater, Mass., and in the dis-
trict .schools of his native town acquired a prac-
tical common school education. During the
time not spent in school he worked with his
father at carpentering, and in his eighteenth
year, in 1877, he came to Brockton, where he
became apprenticed to the carpenter's trade
with his elder brother, John A. Jackson, with
whom he spent about three and a half years.
Mr. Jackson then entered business as a con -
tractor and builder, forming a partnership with
Alfred E. Woodward, under the firm name of
Woodward & Jackson, this association lasting
for a period of about two years. After sever-
ing his connection with Mr. Woodward, Mr.
Jackson continued in the business on his own
account, and he met with marked success. In
April, 1905, he admitted his son Ralph Pres-
cott Jackson as a partner, and in September
of the same year the business was incorporated
under the laws of Massachusetts as the P. H.
Jack.son & Son Company, a close corporation,
with a capital stock of "$25,000, Ralph Pres-
cott Jackson becoming president and Prescott
H. Jackson treasurer. Mr. Jackson erected
many of the most prominent buildings in
Brockton as well as in other sections of the
State, among which may be mentioned the
Brockton high school (and annex, completed
in the summer of 1911), the Masonic building,
the Y. M. C. A. building, of Brockton, the
First Parish building, the new City Theatre
building, the big mill constructed factory plant
of the Howard & Foster Company, the Whit-
man school building, the Copeland school, the
Cary Hill school, the high school at Melrose,
the large Mason school at Newton Centre, the
Brockton Central police station, a large school-
house in the town of Provincetown, the present
new plant of the Brockton Gas Light Com-
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of the Emerson Shoe Company in Eockland,
the high school at Weymouth, Mass., the
Thomas Gardner school at Allston, Mass., the
Ticknor school at South Boston, a school at
Everett, one at Salem, and, among the hand-
some residences of the city, those of Moses
A. Packard, Hon. John S. Kent, and many
others.

In political faith Mr. Jackson was an ad-
herent of the principles of the Republican
party, but he never aspired to public office.
Fraternally he was a member of Paul Revere
Lodge, A. F. & A. M.; Damocles Lodge, No.
16, Knights of Pythias; and Brockton Lodge,
No. 240, Independent Order of Odd Fellows.
Socially he was an active member of the Com-
mercial Club of Brockton. With his family he
attended the First Universalist Church of
Brockton, to which they give their support.

Mr. Jackson died Sept. 20, 1911, at his home
on Forest avenue, Brockton, his death result-
ing from an apoplectic shock which he suf-
fered two days before. He was a man es-
teemed by all who knew him. Fair in his
relations and dealings with his employees, he
had their regard as well as their respect.
Companionable, cheery and kindly, he was liked
by all who had occasion to meet him.

On Aug. 14, 1881, Mr. Jackson married
Elizabeth H. Nash, daughter of Henry F. and
Abbie (Fuller) Nash, of Brockton, and by this
union there was one son, Ralph Prescott, who
was born July 5, 1882 ; he was graduated
from the Brockton High School, and was as-
sociated with his father in the contracting busi-
ness, being president of the P. H. Jackson &
Son Company; he married Mrs. Marie Goss,
daughter of George J. Smith, of Brockton.

ELISHA TUCKER JACKSON, long a
prominent citizen of Taunton, was born in
Middleboro Aug. 23, 1829. His ancestors took
an active part in the early colonial life of
Plymouth county, Mass. He was the son of
James and Julia (Vaughan) Jackson.

James Jackson was a cotton manufacturer
of Middleboro, who possessed talents and a
force of character that promised a brilliant
future. He died, however, in young manhood,
in the midst of his activities and usefulness,
esteemed by all who knew him. His wife, Julia
(Vaughan), was the daughter of George and
Mercy (Estes) Vaughan.

Elisha T. Jackson received his education at
Peirce Academy, in Middleboro. A few years
after his father's death, his mother marrying
again, he left school and a little later came to
Taunton, there entering upon his business



career. As a clerk in one of the town's busy
stores, afterward as senior member of the firm,
Jackson & Williams, and for the last thirty
years of his life as head of the ^widely known
firm of E. T. Jackson & Co., he acquired the
confidence and respect of all with whom he
came in contact, and his name stood for solid
worth, ability, integrity and high ideals. An
independent Republican in politics, he served
with zeal and distinction in the city govern-
ment, and for nine years as a county commis-
sioner.

Underneath a quiet and gentl_e manner he
possessed an indomitable spirit.' Those who
went to him for advice and help, and the num-
ber was a large one, knew his kindness of
heart, broad charity and nobility of character,
as well as the soundness of his judgment. As
the place which a city gains and holds depends
upon the individual worth and dignity of its
citizens, Taunton owes much to the devoted
lives of such men.

In religion Mr. Jackson made the Sermon
on the Mount his creed, and the rule of his
daily life. To posterity he left the heritage of
an untarnished name.

In 1850 Mr. Jackson married Caroline Keith
Fobes, of Bridgewater. Their surviving chil-
dren are : Hon. James Frederick Jackson, of
Brookline, for eight years chairman of the
board of railroad commissioners, and one of the
best-known lawyers in the State ; and Mrs.
Henry Frankland Bassett. Mr. Jackson left
as his widow a wife by second marriage, Jean
Gordon (Dean) Jackson.

CHARLES E. LOVELL, M. D., a well-
known physician of Whitman, who has given
much time and study not alone to the relief
of physical ills, but to the many questions of
the moral and material progress of the com-
munity as an active and efficient member of
the board of selectmen for five terms, as chair-
man of the board of health, as town physician,
and as school physician, is a native of Vermont,
born at Woodstock April 13, 1861, a repre-
sentative of a family old and honorable in
New England, planted here in less than two
decades after the landing of the Pilgrim
Fathers.

(I) Robert Lovell, a member of the com-
pany of Rev. Joseph Hull, at Weymouth, Eng-
land, in March, 1635, came to Wessaguscus,
New England, during the following summer.
The name of the town was changed at the time
to Weymouth, in kindly remembrance of the
port whence they sailed. The company had been
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of Somerset, Worcester and Dorchester, but
from which of these Mr. Lovell came does
not appear. He was called a husbandman
and his age is given as forty years, while that
of his wife Elizabeth, who accompanied him, is
given as thirty-five. They brought with them
children : Anne, aged sixteen years ; Zaccheus,
aged fifteen years ; John, aged eight years ; El-
len and James, twins, aged one year ; and also
a servant, Joseph Chicken, aged sixteen years.
The father's will was proved June 25, 1672.
His property seems to have extended from the
tide mill to King Oak Hill, in scattered lots,
and probably covered the place on the east side
of "the latter hill which was in after times the
homestead of Capt. Enoch Lovell.

(II) James Lovell, son of Robert, aged one
year on the coming of the family to New Eng-
land, was twice married, his first wife being
Jane, his second Anna. Mr. Lovell remained
in Weymouth, residing on the family home
stead, upon the slope of King Oak Hill. He
died in Weymouth in 1706, leaving a large
property. His children, all save the youngest
born to the first wife, were : Deborah, bom
June 8, 1664; James, March 7, 1667; Hannah,
Sept. 29, 1668; Enoch, Dec. 29, 1670; Mary,
Jan. 5, 1673; John, April 19, 1676; Elizabeth,
Sept. 22, 1679; Joseph, Oct. 25, 1684; and
Anna, Nov. 20, 1697.

(III) John Lovell, born April 19, 1676,
married Mary, daughter of John and Hannah
Shaw, and removed to Middleboro, where the
^vife became a member of the First Congrega-
tional Church there prior to 1708, the church
having been organized in 1694. Their chil-
dren were: John, born Sept. 29, 1702; Peter,
Feb. 7, 1706; Ebenezer, Oct. 17, 1712; Mary,
April 20, 1714; Joseph, Jan. 20, 1717; Han-
nah, March 24, 1720; and perhaps others born
between 1702 and 1712.

(IV) Joseph Lovell, bom Jan. 20, 1717,
married in 1750 (intentions expressed or mar-
riage occurring Oct. 13th of that year) Pa-
tience 'Barrows. They lived in Middleboro,
Mass. Mr. Lovell died Feb. 11, 1796, aged
seventy-nine years. Their children were:
Millicent, bom Dec. 22, 1751; Hannah, July
10, 1754 : Joseph, Sept. 9, 1758 ; Samuel, Aug.
29, 1762; and Sylvanus, Aug. 29, 1764.

(V) Joseph Lowell (2), son of Joseph, was
bom in Middleboro, Mass., Sept. 9, 1758. He
participated in the war of the Revolution, his
record taken from the Massachusetts records
of soldiers and sailors in the Revolutionary
war being: "Joseph Lovell, Middleboro, list
of men mustered between Sept. 10 and Sept.
24, 1777, by James Hatch, muster master of



Plymouth county, Colonel Robinson's regiment,
enlisted by Captain Hollis; also return of men
mustered for Colonel Jacobs's regiment by
James Hatch, muster master of Plymouth, to
serve in the four New England governments,
dated June 8, 1778, enlisted by Capt. Lemuel
Wood. Joseph Lovell was also corporal in Capt.
Jacob Fuller's company. Col. John Jacobs's
regiment, enlisted May 4, 1778, serving seven
months, twenty-nine days, at Rhode Island, en-
'listment to expire Jan. 1, 1779." Joseph Lovell
married Sept. 16, 1783, Jerusha Sparrow, of
Middleboro, and to them were born children
as follows: Millicent, 1784; Hannah, July 27,
1786; Samuel, Aug. 6, 1789; Jerasha, Nov. 6,
1791; Joseph, Dec. 14, 1794; Sally, April 5,
1797; Sparrow, Aug. 16, 1799. Joseph Lovell,
the father, died July 20, 1817, aged fifty-nine
years.

(VI) Joseph Lovell (3), son of Joseph (2),
was born in Middleboro Dec. 14, 1794. He
there grew to manhood and when a young man
went to the State of Vermont, locating at
Woodstock, on a farm, making farming his
life occupation. He spent the remainder of his
years in his new home, and there died. He
was an officer in the militia, and was quite
prominent in the public affairs of the town.
He married in Woodstock Sarah Lathrop, a
descendant of Rev. John Lathrop. After the
death of her husband she removed to East
Houndsfield, N. Y. She died at Watertown,
N. Y. Their children were: One born Sept.
3, 1827, deceased in infancy; Edward Sparrow,
bom Oct. 13, 1830; Augustus Monroe, bom
Dec. 21, 1834; Sarah Louise, born Sept. 25,
1837; Joseph Wheeler, bom Aug. 20, 1839,
who resides in Buffalo, N. Y., where he is
active in the Grand Army of the Republic;
and Samuel Alonzo, born Nov. 24, 1848, who
is retired and resides in Watertown, New York.

(VII) Edward Sparrow Lovell, son of Jo-
seph (3) and father of Dr. Lovell, was born
on the farm in Woodstock, and there grew
to manhood, attending the local school. He
entered a woolen mill at an early age, and
learned all the branches of the woolen manu-
facturing business. He moved from Woodstock
to Michigan with his family, locating at Raw-
sonville, where he became superintendent of a
woolen mill. After some time there he re-
moved to Watertown, N. Y., where he filled
a similar position for some time. He next be-
came engaged in the insurance business, rep-
resenting the Phoenix Mutual Life Insurance
Company, of Hartford. In 1876 he removed
to the town of Middleboro, Mass., which for
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and here he lived retired the remainder of his
days. He died in 1888, and was buried in the
local cemetery. He was a stanch Republican,
but no office seeker, and was liberal in his
church views. He was a Mason, belonging to
the blue lodge and chapter, and was active in
the latter for forty years. He married in
Woodstock, Vt., Mary Taft, born in Taftville,
Vt., daughter of Lewis and Mary (Cobb) Taft,
and granddaughter of Daniel Taft, who founded
the village of Taftville. Mrs. Lovell died in
Middleboro in 1891, and was buried beside
her husband. They had two children : Charles
E., mentioned below ; and Flora L., who is now
the widow of Israel T. Hathaway, and resides
in Middleboro with her son Ralph.

(VIII) Charles E. Lovell, son of Edward
Sparrow, was born April 13, 1861, in Wood-
stock, Vt., and was quite young when he went
with his parents to Michigan, where he at-
tended school a short time. On going to Wa-
tertown, N. Y., with his parents, he was a
student there, finishing his preparatory educa-
tion in Middleboro, Mass. In 1882 he took
np the study of medicine at Dartmouth Col-
lege, where he graduated with the degree of M.
D. in 1885, after which he practiced for two
years in the State Hospital at Tewksbury. In
July, 1887, he came to the town of Whitman
and began practice, and here and in the ad-
joining towns for the past twenty-four years
he has been successfully engaged. Dr. Lovell
takes a deep interest in his profession. In
1891 he built the fine home on South avenue,
Whitman, where he has since resided.

Dr. Lovell is a stanch Republican, and has
been elected selectman of Whitman, now serv-
ing his fifth term. He is also town physician
and school physician, and was a member of the
board of health (of which he was chairman)
for twelve years. He is a member of the Ply-
mouth District Medical Society of the Massa-
chusetts Medical Society ; of the American Med-
ical Association, and of the Hatherly Medical
Club, of which he is secretary. For several
years he was United States examining surgeon
for the Brockton District of Massachusetts,
having received this appointment from Presi-
dent McKinley. Fraternally he belongs to the
Sons of the American Revolution ; Puritan
Lodge, A. F. & A. M., of Whitman; Pilgrim
Chapter, R. A. M. ; Abington Council, R. &
S. M. ; Old Colony Commandery, K. T., of
Abington ; and Aleppo Temple, Order of the
Mystic Shrine, of Boston. He is also a mem-
ber of Webster Lodge, No. 113, I. 0. 0. F.,
and Plymouth Rock Lodge, No. 43, Knights of



Pythias, of Whitman ; of the Middlesex Club
of Boston, and of the Commercial Club of
Brockton. He is a trustee of the Whitman
Savings Bank. During the celebration of the
250th anniversary of the settlement of Bridge-
water, June 13, 1906, Dr. Lovell made the
following address: "I congratulate' myself
upon the opportunity which this occasion af-
fords of attending a celebration upon such a
spot as this. There is power in historic as-
sociation. We celebrate to-day an event sep-
arated from us by two hundred and fifty years.
I am glad the ancestors of so many good people
came over in the 'Mayflower.' I am some-
times disposed to think she must have made a
good many trips, but I am pleased that they
are so numerous. Nothing prevents my having
had an ancestor on the 'Mayflower' but my
veracity. The 'Mayflower' continues sailing,
transformed into a Brockton canal boat, a dude
train or even an electric baggage car. Sh^
is landing many pilgrims in many portions
of our country. Wherever men and women
have gone with the spirit of the brave settlers
of this town to found new communities there
has been a new landing of the 'Mayflower.'
So long as the spirit of her passengers abides
in her sons, so long as the sons of Revolu-
tionary sires keep alive the flame those patriots