(VI) Frank Howard, only child of Nathaniel and Elizabeth W. (Corliss) Cothren, born July 10, 1871, in Brooklyn, New York, prepared for college at Adelphi Academy. He entered Bowdoin College, from which he was graduated with the degree of Bachelor of Arts in 1892. He decided to adopt the profession of his father, and with that, purpose entered the office of the latter to prepare himself, and was admitted to the bar in 1894. While at college he was distinguished as an athlete, and was a member of the football team for three years, 1889-1892. He practiced law in company with his father until the death of the latter, since which time he has been actively engaged independently. He has taken an active interest in political matters, acting with the Republican party, and was a member of the New York state legislature during the years 1903-04. He married, June 29, 1905, Marion Benedict, who is the mother of one child, Frances, born March 3, 1907. This family belongs to the HUSTON good Scotch-Irish stock which has contributed some of the best blood to the amalgamation of races which makes up our American citizenship. name is not so common in this country as its allied form of Houston. In fact, the only places in America where men spelling their name Huston were living in the eighteenth century were a few towns in Maine and New Hampshire. We find Samuel Huston on the list of the proprietors of Londonderry, New Hampshire, which was incorporated in the year 1719. It may have been one of his descendants, John, born at Dunstable, now Nashua, New Hampshire, in 1773, who moved to Industry, Maine. A Simon Huston, who had a large family and left numerous children and grandchildren, was living at Gorham, Maine, in 1763. It is not known that any of these is related to the family now under consideration. The origin of the patronymic is obscure; possibly it may be connected with the Anglo-Saxon hus, which means house. Among Americans of distinction now bearing the name may be mentioned Henry A. Huston, an expert chemist of Chicago, connected with various educational institutions, who was born at Damariscotta, Maine, in 1858; also Thad Huston, born in Indiana in 1846, who is judge of the superior court in the state of Washing ton. (I) The progenitor of the following line was James (1) Huston, born near the end of the seventeenth century, who about the year 1725 emigrated to this country from Londonderry, Ireland, and first settled in Boston. He must have been a man in middle life when he sought the new world, because he brought with him a wife and seven children. If not actually a participant, he was probably familiar with the famous siege of Londonderry, Ireland, which took place in 1689. There is a family tradition that the ancestor of James, a native of Cornwall, accompanied Sir Richard de Huston into Ireland, during the reign of Elizabeth, and received for his services a grant of land near Londonderry, where many of the name are still living. After coming to this country, James Huston and his family, induced probably by the liberal offers of Colonel Dunbar, moved to Pemaquid, Maine, and settled on the banks of the Damariscotta. The place had just then received the name of Walpole from Dunbar. To each family was assigned a city lot of two acres and a farm of forty acres, with a promise of one hundred acres more in due time. The three families of Huston, Jones and Lermond, who had been neighbors in Ireland, were the first settlers in the new territory. When the pioneers passed up the Damariscotta, they landed on what is now called the Sugar Loaf, a bare rock, but which at that time was a small island about fifty rods from the shore. A sand-bar that connected the island with the mainland was uncovered at low water, and as the settlers walked over this, and saw such evidence of teeming life at their feet (clams were abundant), some one exclaimed: "Call this an inhospitable shore, where a man has only to dig his meat from the ground over which he walks!" Their first meal was cooked by hanging a pot from the limb of a tree and kindling a fire under it. But if food was plenty, other necessities were not. Before their first rude hut could be finished, a storm came on, and the women and children found protection under the empty hogsheads which had contained their scanty supplies of cooking-utensils and furniture. During the French and Indian wars, beginning in 1745, nearly all of the settlements in that region were broken up, and the settlers that remained lived in a garrison. It is not known how many of the Hustons were killed by the Indians, but some of the Lermond women suffered death at the hands of the savages, April 27, 1747. Those who could fled for safety, most of them going to Boston and the neighborhood, but at the close of the war, in 1759, nearly all found their way back to their old homesteads in Walpole. In 1811 John Hus ton testified that he was a grandson of the first of the name who came to Walpole, and that he was born in Boston in 1748. He learned from his parents that they came to Walpole the next year, and he himself remembered living in a garrison. Before he was born, an aunt and grandmother of his were killed by the Indians; but he does not say whether they belonged to his father's or his mother's family. There is every reason to believe that the Hustons suffered all the terrors and hardships of pioneer life, and without doubt some of their number endured captivity and death. James Huston married Mary Sloss: children: 1. William, married Nancy Lermond. 2. Robert, married Jane Bell. 3. James (2), whose sketch is given below. 4. Margaret, married William Jones. 5. Jane, married John Stinson. 6. Elizabeth, married a Dodd. One statement says that the Hustons had four daughters, but the names of three only have been preserved. Colonel William Jones, who married Margaret Huston, was a man of considerable prominence, and did good service during the revolution. Very early in the war Very early in the war an English ship, the "Rainbow," commanded. by Sir George Colyer, came up the Sheepscot river, and seized two vessels that were loading with masts and spars for France. Jones demanded that the American vessels should be given up, which was refused, and there was much threatening talk on both sides. The English, captain finally saw how determined would be the Colonial resistance; and he gave up the ships and persuaded the Yankees to allow him to leave the river without molestation. Colonel Jones represented Colonel Jones represented the town of Bristol in the general court many times, and was a member of the convention of Massachusetts by which the constitution of the United States was adopted. He objected to the latter document because it did not contain a more decided acknowledgment of God, and also because it did not require a religious test for candidates for office. (II) James (2), son of James (1) and Mary (Sloss) Huston, was born in or near Londonderry, Ireland, and when a young child came to this country with his people, about the year 1725. It is not known just what time the family moved to Maine, but James (2) Huston spent the remainder of his life there, and became a prominent citizen of Bristol, the town which sprang up near the mouth of the Damariscotta, where the immigrants first landed. He was elected to the board of selectmen in 1766, the second year after the town was incorporated, and he served many subsequent times, the last being in 1797. The date of his death is unknown. He married Fanny Rodgers, and among their children was Robert, see forward. His name as one of the three selectmen of Bristol is appended to an address to the provincial congress of the Massachusetts Bay, May 2, 1775, a document which can still be seen on file at the State House in Boston. An extract from it gives some idea of the resources, as well as of the patriotism of the men of Bristol: "Therefor we would now Inform your Honours that we have Indeavour'd to put ourselves into Military order and Discipline as well as we war Capable. We make out three Companys. Each Company consisting of Sixty Training Soldiers Exclusive of Officers, which Officers was Chosen by vote of the Several Companys in ye Trining Field. As to arms the most part of us have Got Guns, but we are in very low Sircumstances in Regard Ammunition, powder especially. We have used Several miens to provide our Selves with powder but it has hapened to be to no purpose. Therefore if it is passable that your Honours Can point out to us any way of Releff in this particular we shall take it as a very grate favour; we apprehend that we are very unsafe to be Distitute of ammunition as our Town borders on the Sea we are much exposed to our Enemys." In common with other towns, Bristol was obliged to furnish clothing and food to the soldiers. In a paper dated Bristol, September 28, 1778, and signed by Thomas Johnston and James (2) Huston, we find that the town furnished "27 pair of Shoes at 48s. per pair; 27 Shirts at 47s. a peace; and 27 pair of Stockings at 36s. per pair." The document was addressed to Dummer Sewall, Esquire, of Georgetown, who had evidently thought that the committee were guilty of extravagance, because we find the following apology tacked onto the bill: "We are informed by Mr. Hiscock that you think the price very High, but things is so dear that we was obledged to return Sundry articels to the owners again, because we could not come to their price." (III) Robert, son of James (2) and Fanny (Rodgers) Huston, was born at Bristol, Maine, in 1774, died there in 1858. He had the privilege, rare in this country, of living and dying in the house where he was born. Like most men who live near the shore, he derived some of his income from the sea. He worked at spar-making in ship-building goods, and was a part owner in some of the vessels that were built on Damariscotta river. and and sailed down the He also carried on the farm which he inherited from his father. He was major of a militia company, the Washingtonian Artillery, which was one of the famous military organizations of that day, and which was an important feature on public occasions. Robert Huston married (first) Sally Huston, born at Bristol, Maine, 1776, died in 1859. Children: Andrew, Joel, whose sketch follows; Thomas, Mary Ann, Robert and Caroline. (IV) Joel, second son of Major Robert and Sally (Huston) Huston, was born at Bristol, Maine, 1809, died in 1890. He was educated in the town schools, and then went to work in a shipyard, becoming master builder at the time he reached his majority. He subsequently held an interest in several ship-building concerns and became a large owner of vessels. He retired from active business when he reached the age of sixty. In politics he was originally a Whig, but joined the Republican party upon its formation. He was a member of the Congregational church and trustee of Lincoln Academy. He married (first) Elizabeth Jones, born in Bristol, July 4, 1820, died in December, 1861. They were married in 1845, and their children were: 1. Sally Elizabeth, married William C. Achron, of Damariscotta. 2. Joel P., whose sketch follows. 3. Esther Hilton, who is now living on the home place. In 1864 Joel Huston married (second) Ann Hunter, of Bristol. (V) Joel Payson, only son of Joel and Elizabeth (Jones) Huston, was born at Damariscotta, Maine, September 22, 1857. His preliminary education was obtained in the town schools and at Lincoln Academy, from which he was graduated in 1875. He then entered Bowdoin College, and took his degree of A. B. with the class of 1879. Immediately upon graduation he began the study of law with William H. Hilton, Esquire, of Damariscotta. He was admitted to the bar in 1882, and remained in partnership with Mr. Hilton for five years. In 1889 he was elected cashier of the First National Bank of Damariscotta, and has served in that capacity ever since. In politics Mr. Huston is an independent Republican, and he is deacon of the Congregational church at Newcastle, Maine. trustee and treasurer of Lincoln Academy. On October 30, 1889, he married Martha Susan, daughter of Captain Abner S. and Martha (Knowlton) Robinson, of Newcastle, Maine. One daughter, Christine Elizabeth Huston, born at Newcastle in 1892. He is HARRIS The Welsh custom of adding to a name the father's name in possessive form, to distinguish one from another of the same Christian name, was the origin of this patronymic. In the short four centuries that surnames have prevailed in Great Britain time has sufficed to make many changes and modifications in the form of all classes of words, and names are no exception to the rule. The Harris family was. among the earliest in New England; it has contributed much to the advancement of the nation, and is now found in connection with all worthy endeavor. It has been especially active in the fields of invention and pioneer development. Almost every state has found. the name among those of its pioneer settlers, and it has spread from the Atlantic to the Pacific. It is (I) Samuel Harris, with his wife Catharine, were living on Cape Newagen Island, Boothbay Harbor, Maine, in 1774. He died March 7, 1836, and she died May 19, 1837. They must have been well past eighty at the time, because their first child was born in 1773. They are said to have come from the neighborhood of Exeter, New Hampshire, but the birth of Samuel Harris is not recorded in any of the New Hampshire town records, and Harris is not a name found in Exeter. common, however, in many parts of New Hampshire, notably Portsmouth, Windham, Hopkinton and Warner; but no Samuel appears upon the lists that could possibly be identified with the one living at Boothbav. The name is numerous in Massachusetts also. and it is quite likely that the Maine Harrises may have come from that state, but the early records are imperfect and give no clue. Children: 1. John, born February 21, 1773. 2. Kitty, September 8, 1775, married Benjamin Webster. 3. Sarah, September 30, 1777, married Major John McKown. 4. William, December 6, 1780. 5. Samuel (2), whose sketch follows. 6. Paul, April 6, 1785, died Novem ber 19, 1813. 7. Benjamin, March 6, 1787. (II) Samuel (2), third son of Samuel (1) and Catherine Harris, was born at Cape Newagen Island, or Southport, Maine, August 26, 1783, died August 15, 1859. He lived on the homestead of his father, and was the only one of the sons who did not migrate from Southport. None of the name are now on the tax list of that town. In 1809 Samuel (2) Harris married Mary, daughter of Joseph and Sarah (Thompson) Pierce, of Southport, born July 29, 1789, died March 3, 1881. Children: 1. Almira, born May 14, 1811. 2. Nancy, December 9, 1812. 3. Elizabeth, August 3, 1815, married Michael McManus. 4. Catherine, February 2, 1818, married George Love (2). 5. and 6. Sarah and Isabella (twins), October 15, 1821. 7. Emily, April 27, 1824. 8. John McKown, April 6, 1828. 9. Benjamin, whose sketch follows. 10. Charles, July 22, 1835. (III) Benjamin, second son of Samuel (2) and Mary (Pierce) Harris, was born at Southport, Maine, February 17, 1832, died February 1, 1867. He was a sea captain and dwelt in the old homestead of his grandfather at Southport. About 1861 Captain Benjamin Harris married Fannie L., daughter of Arber and Hannah (Huff) Marson, born at Bath, Maine, February 5, 1842, died at Boothbay, Maine, in 1907. (See Marson.) Two children, George and Sewell, died in infancy, two are living, Lincoln M., February 9, 1862; and Fred H., whose sketch follows. After the death of Captain Benjamin Harris, his widow married for her second husband Hiram L. Ingraham, and lived at Boothbay Harbor. (IV) Fred H., younger son of Captain Benjamin and Fannie L. (Marson) Harris, was born at Boothbay, Maine, August 21, 1865. He was educated in the schools of his native town, and at the age of fifteen years went into the hardware store of J. C. P. Poole, at Boothbay, where he remained five years. In 1885 Mr. Harris went into partnership with his stepfather, Hiram L. Ingraham, and together they conducted a hardware business, which is still carried on under the firm name of Ingraham & Harris, though it is only one of several interests which now engage the attention of the junior partner. In 1890 Mr. Harris began his successful hotel career by taking charge of the Boothbay House, which he has managed ever since. In 1900 he went into the drug business with Henry C. McLearn, under the firm name of Harris & McLearn, and has carried that on since then. February, 1908, Mr. Harris undertook a more important venture than any of his previous ones, and bought the famous Squirrel Inn, on Squirrel Island, a large hotel of one hundred rooms and one of the finest along the coast, of which he is now sole owner and manager. Besides these various business interests, Mr. Harris is an extensive owner of real estate in Boothbay Harbor, and is a director in the First National Bank of that place. He is a Republican in politics, and was presidential elector for the second district of Maine in 1904. He is prominent in fraternal organizations, and is a member of Seaside Lodge, An In cient Free and Accepted Masons, of Pentecost Royal Arch Chapter, of Boothbay Harbor; of Dunlap Commandery, Knights Templar, of Bath; of Aleppo Temple, Boston; of Maine Consistory, Portland; and is a Mason of the thirty-second degree. He also belongs to the Boothbay Lodge, Knights of Pythias, and to Lewiston Lodge of Elks. In June, 1904, Fred H. Harris married Eldora A., daughter of Andrew Boyd and his second wife, Bethia Celia (Richards) Boyd, of Boothbay. (See Boyd, V.) One child, Frances Louise, born January 21, 1907, at Boothbay Harbor. MARSON This unusual patronymic has been found but twice in this country-in connection with. the family now under consideration, at Boothbay, Maine, and on the check-list at Boston, Massachusetts. The rarity of the name would lead one to think that it might be a corruption of some allied form, perhaps Marston; but Bardsley, in his "English Surnames," lists it as a separate word, and says that it is derived from the Christian name of Mark. (I) Arber Marson, whose given name is as unique as his family name, was born at Dresden, Maine, November 10, 1800, died May 23, 1889. As a young man he went to Bath, and thence to Boothbay Harbor in 1842. He was a caulker by trade, an industrious, prudent man, who accumulated a competence. The early Methodist church at the Harbor found in him a strong and earnest supporter. Arber Marson was twice married, and there were five children by the first wife and eight by the second. The children of first marriage were: 1. Mary J., born March 25, 1829, married John L. Adams. 2. Henry P., September 27, 1830, died in 1851. 3. Charles E., April 5, 1832, married Sarah Preble. 4. William D., December 17, 1833, died January 13, 1901, unmarried. 5. Abigail, July 25, 1835, married Willard Walker. The first wife of Arber Marson died about 1835, and in 1837 he married Hannah P. Huff, of Edgecomb, who died January 24, 1899, aged eighty-eight years. The children of second marriage were: 6. George A., May 11, 1838, married Sarah W. Martin. 7. Angenette, October 14, 1839. 8. Fannie L., mentioned below. 9. Emma E., September 6, 1844, married David Mayo. 10. Allah A., September 4, 1846, married James C. Poole. 11. James S., May 17, 1848, died July 5, 1863. 12. John S., July 7, 1850, married Ella Vanhorn. 13. Woodbury, June 5, 1852, married Clara Moore. (II) Fannie L., second daughter of Arber Marson and his second wife, Hannah P. (Huff) Marson, was born at Boothbay Harbor, Maine, February 5, 1842. She was first married to Captain Benjamin Harris, of Southport, who died February 1, 1867; and she subsequently married Hiram L. Ingraham, of Boothbay Harbor. (See Harris, III.) The name of Boyd is not only one BOYD of the most ancient in this coun try, but it can claim one of the longest and most romantic genealogies in Scotland. The family trace their descent from a younger son of the illustrious lord high steward of Scotland. Robert, son of Simon, who was third son of Alan, the second lord high steward, was of a very fair complexion, and received the surname Boyt or Boyd, from the Gaelic, meaning fair. From this Robert Boyt, or Boyd, who died in 1240, all the Boyds of Scotland are descended. Some families claim that the original spelling of the word was Boit. The first Robert had a son, Sir Robertus de Boyd, who died in 1270. The latter's son, the third Sir Robert Boyd, was one of the barons who were forced to swear fealty to King Edward I of England in 1296. The following year this Sir Robert joined Sir William Wallace, but died soon after. His son, the fourth Sir Robert Boyd, was one of the most gallant and able friends of Robert Bruce, and was by that king made Lord of Kilmarnock and covered with honors. His descendants have been traced in the male line down to the year 1800, and stand high among the dignitaries of old Scotland. Some of the younger sons have from time to time emigrated to Ireland, and thence to America. While in Ireland they kept clear of the natives. William Boyd, of Foxborough, Massachusetts, who was born in Newtownards, Ireland, in 1800, tells us that his grandmother would call out to the bairns in the street when the native Irish came along: "Came in, an' stay in till them folks hae gane awa', for they're Eerish oot there an' ye maunna gang near them." One of the brave American pioneers of the name was Captain William Boyd, a man of notable courage and force, who came to Londonderry, New Hampshire, among the early settlers of the town, though not till after its founding in 1719. Eight men by the name. of Boyd appear on the memorial to Governor Shute, March 26, 1718, asking encouragement to obtain land in "that very excellent and renowned Plantation" called New England. Captain Boyd came over the water fourteen times, bringing Scotch emigrants from Ireland to this country. Bristol, Maine, is another place where numerous Boyds gathered in early times. Some of them seem to have come directly from Ireland, and some, who emigrated a little earlier, were born in Massachusetts. Deacon William Boyd, born at Worcester, Massachusetts, July 30, 1745, moved to Bristol, Maine, in 1763, where he became a shipwright and farmer. He is said to have built the first vessel ever launched on the Penobscot, above the bay. He subsequently moved to Bangor, where he pursued ship-building, and where he died in 1829. Deacon Boyd had four brothers older than himself: Samuel, John, Andrew and James; and two younger, Thomas and Joseph. It is known that Thomas Boyd lived at Bristol, where he was a coroner and magistrate. He may have been the Thomas Boyd whose name is one of three committeemen signed to an address to the provincial congress at Massachusetts Bay, May 2, 1775. James Boyd was chosen one of the selectmen and assessors for Bristol at the first annual town meeting, held in 1766. That the name of Boyd was a common one in Bristol in early times is shown by the fact that no less than three, Thomas, Samuel and John Boyd, are signed to a "decent" (dissent) against building three meeting-houses in the township in the year 1768. (I) Samuel Boyd, a native of Ireland, was born previously to 1732, came to Bristol, Maine, about the middle of the eighteenth century, and lived and died there. About all we can judge of his early circumstances is derived from the statement of his brother in the old family Bible: "Thomas Boyd it is my name and I was Born in the Kingdom of Ireland and County of Antrim and Parish of Dunl- and the town of Bu-foot and I left my Native Country in the 18 year of my age and came to this Country and I have lived in New England 35 years which is 53 years witness my hand. Thos. Boyd." Under this statement is the entry of his birth, December 28, 1732, his marriage in 1758; and on another page his death, August 27, 1792. These statements enable us to make approximate estimates in regard to his brother Samuel. In 1758 six hundred men were recruited for the army in the district of Maine, and three hundred of these were assigned to garrison duty, and stationed at the various forts and blockhouses. Fifteen were assigned to Fort Frederic, and among this number we find the name of Samuel Boyd, of Bristol. Samuel Boyd was married in Ireland, but the name of his |