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Abner J. Holbrook (1811 - 1875)

Abner J. Holbrook
Born in Weymouth, Norfolk, Massachusetts, United Statesmap
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Husband of — married 12 Jul 1831 in Weymouth, Norfolk, Massachusetts, United Statesmap
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Died at age 64 in Weymouth, Norfolk, Massachusetts, United Statesmap
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Biography

Abner HOLBROOK, Jr. was born on 11 March 1811 in Weymouth, Norfolk County, Massachusetts[1], [2] and died on 23 September 1875 in Weymouth, Norfolk County, Massachusetts.[3] He was the son of Abner HOLBROOK, Sr. and Mehitable "Hitty" BEAL.

He married Abigail CUSHING on 12 Jul 1831 in Weymouth, Massachusetts.[4]

Children of Abner Holbrook and Abigail Cushing:

  1. Alanson Augustus HOLBROOK (Born: 16 August 1832 in Weymouth, Norfolk County, Massachusetts[5], [6])
  2. Melvina Frances HOLBROOK (Born: 1 October 1834 in Weymouth, Norfolk County, Massachusetts;[7], [8] Married (1): ? PRATT; Married (2): 13 November 1858 in Weymouth, Norfolk, Massachusetts to T. Austin POOL[9])
  3. Abner J. HOLBROOK (Born: 13 November 1841 in Weymouth, Norfolk County, Massachusetts[10], [11]

Abner HOLBROOK's married second Lydia LOVELL on 18 March 1843 in Weymouth, Norfolk County, Massachusetts.[12]

Children of Abner HOLBROOK and Lydia LOVELL:

  1. Henry C. HOLBROOK (Born: 1844; Died: 17 August 1844 in Weymouth, Norfolk County, Massachusetts[13], [14])
  2. Joseph Warren HOLBROOK (Born: 9 March 1852 in Weymouth, Norfolk County, Massachusetts[15]


Census

The household of Abner HOLBROOK, Jr. in 1840 contained the following individuals:
1 Free White Male & 1 White Female Aged 5 to 10 Years
1 Free White Male Aged 15 to 20 Years
2 Free White Males & 1 White Female Aged 20 to 30 Years

Notes

Excerpts from Edmund S Soper's Weymouth Ways and Weymouth People[16]

Excerpt 1:

In 1854, the School Board was composed of these men : Dr. Appleton Howe, Noah Vining, John W. Loud, James Humphrey, Dr. J. H. Gilbert, Benjamin F. White, and Lemuel Torrey. These were men of note in the town.
The Selectmen were Noah Vining, Jr., James Humphrey, and Prescott Lathrop; Treasurer, Thomas Nash; Town-Clerk, Oran White. The three Selectmen were paid for their services 3.49 ; the Treasurer, ; the Clerk, ; and the School Committee, 6.
Abner Holbrook and Daniel Dyer were chosen Representatives, and Henry J. Gardner Governor. There are still some amongst us who will remember the great Gardner inauguration ball, held at the Town Hall, which was given by the Weymouth Band.
As I remember our townsmen fifty years ago, Adoram Clapp was our Representative in 1839 > mv father, Major Elias Hunt, in 1851 ; Charles E. Hunt was a delegate to the State Convention in 1852-3 ; Atherton N. Hunt was State Senator in 1860, and his son, E. Atherton Hunt, was a Representative, and a State Senator in 1875 ; Richard A. Hunt and Freeman Hollis were also Representatives. Strange to say, Nathaniel Hlanchard seems to have been the only one of the coterie who obtained no office. I am inclined to think that he cared little for office, but enjoyed going to the old shop, " Tammany Hall," and working for others than himself. The reader will notice that those who held the town offices seemed to be of our best people.
" 'Tis distance lends enchantment to the view,
And robes the mountain with its azure hue.

Excerpt 2:

The men from the north part of the town that I remember at town meeting in the new Town Hall in 1853 were Elias Beals, the Torreys, the Cleverlys, and not the least, the old Selectman, Squire James Humphrey. From the east were the Bicknells, the Canterburys, Henry Loud, and my old friend John P. Lovell. From Lovell's corner came Abner Holbrook, a large man for so small a corner. I remember him as our Representative, with Daniel Dyer, in the Know-nothing times, and also as a pleasant companion in Orphan's Hope Lodge. From the south part came the Whites, the Torreys, the Vinings and the Thomases. Of all that I have mentioned only one man, Mr. Henry Loud, is alive to-day (Nov. 2, 1906). Keeping a country store, he used to come into my brother's store on Central street, Boston, and buy women's gaiters and slippers of the writer.

Abner Holbrook was born on March 11, 1811, in Weymouth, Norfolk, Massachusetts[17].

Sources

  1. "Massachusetts Births and Christenings, 1639-1915," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:F45T-BQS : 9 February 2018), Abner Holbrook, 11 Mar 1811; citing Weymouth, Norfolk, Massachusetts, pg 84; FHL microfilm 2,031,513. [Parents listed as Abner Holbrook and Mehitable.]
  2. "Massachusetts Births and Christenings, 1639-1915," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FCQY-MJ6 : 10 February 2018), Abner Holbrook, 11 Mar 1811; citing WEYMOUTH,NORFOLK,MASSACHUSETTS, ; FHL microfilm unknown. [Parents listed as Abner HOLBROOK and Hitty.]
  3. "Massachusetts Deaths, 1841-1915," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:NWWZ-Q5P : 10 December 2014), Abner Holbrook, 23 Sep 1875; citing Weymouth, Massachusetts, p284 n113, State Archives, Boston; FHL microfilm 960,207.
  4. "Massachusetts Marriages, 1841-1915," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:Q28L-6Q64 : 28 November 2018), Abigail Cushing and Abner Holbrook, 12 Jul 1831; citing Norfolk, Massachusetts, United States, State Archives, Boston; FHL microfilm 2,031,514.
  5. "Massachusetts Births and Christenings, 1639-1915," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FCQY-22D : 10 February 2018), Alanson Augustus Holbrook, 16 Aug 1832; citing WEYMOUTH,NORFOLK,MASSACHUSETTS, ; FHL microfilm unknown
  6. "Massachusetts Births and Christenings, 1639-1915," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:F45T-B9Q : 9 February 2018), Alanson Augustus Holbrook, 16 Aug 1832; citing Weymouth, Norfolk, Massachusetts, pg 85; FHL microfilm 2,031,513.
  7. "Massachusetts Births and Christenings, 1639-1915," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:F45T-B94 : 9 February 2018), Melvina Frances Holbrook, 01 Oct 1834; citing Weymouth, Norfolk, Massachusetts, pg 85; FHL microfilm 2,031,513.
  8. "Massachusetts Births and Christenings, 1639-1915," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FCQ5-S31 : 10 February 2018), Melvina Frances Holbrook, 01 Oct 1834; citing WEYMOUTH,NORFOLK,MASSACHUSETTS, ; FHL microfilm unknown.
  9. "Massachusetts Town Records, ca. 1638-1961," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FHVM-DBN : 4 November 2017), T. Austin Pool and Malvina Frances Pratt, 13 Nov 1858; citing Weymouth, Norfolk, Massachusetts, United States, Town clerks and local churches; FHL microfilm 2,031,515.
  10. "Massachusetts Births and Christenings, 1639-1915," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FCQY-MJN : 10 February 2018), Abner Holbrook, 13 Nov 1841; citing WEYMOUTH,NORFOLK,MASSACHUSETTS, ; FHL microfilm unknown.
  11. "Massachusetts Births and Christenings, 1639-1915," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:F45T-B9Z : 9 February 2018), Abner Holbrook, 13 Nov 1841; citing Weymouth, Norfolk, Massachusetts, pg 85; FHL microfilm 2,031,513.
  12. "Massachusetts Births, 1841-1915", database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:N4QP-RQ7 : 7 December 2017), Abner Holbrook and Lydia Lovell, 1843.
  13. "Massachusetts Deaths, 1841-1915," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:N7BH-WX1 : 10 December 2014), Henry C. Holbrook, 17 Aug 1844; citing Weymouth, Massachusetts, v 15 p 80, State Archives, Boston; FHL microfilm 959,807.
  14. "Massachusetts Deaths and Burials, 1795-1910," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FHYR-5FX : 10 February 2018), Henry C. Holbrook, 17 Aug 1844; citing Weymouth, Norfolk, Massachusetts, reference pg 206; FHL microfilm 2,031,513.
  15. "Massachusetts Births and Christenings, 1639-1915," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:F451-4HM : 9 February 2018), Joseph Warren Holbrook, 09 Mar 1852; citing Weymouth, Norfolk, Massachusetts, pg 68; FHL microfilm 2,031,513.
  16. Hunt, Edmund Soper. 1907. Weymouth Ways and Weymouth People: Reminiscences. Boston: Priv. print.
  17. The New England Historical and Genealogical Society, Vital Records of Weymouth, Massachusetts to the Year 1850 Volume I - Births (Boston, Mass. 1910)(Free e-book) p. 129
  • "United States Census, 1840," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XHYQ-6N2 : 15 August 2017), Abner Holbrook, Weymouth, Norfolk, Massachusetts, United States; citing p. 291, NARA microfilm publication M704, (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.), roll 192; FHL microfilm 14,679.
  • "United States Census, 1850," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MDSW-C2D : 12 April 2016), Abner Holbrook, Weymouth, Norfolk, Massachusetts, United States; citing family 439, NARA microfilm publication M432 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.).
  • "Massachusetts State Census, 1855," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MQ4W-KLH : 2 April 2016), Abner Holbrook, Weymouth, Norfolk, Massachusetts, United States; State Archives, Boston; FHL microfilm 953,955.
  • "United States Census, 1870," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MDQW-CQY : 12 April 2016), Abner Holbrook, Massachusetts, United States; citing p. 162, family 1395, NARA microfilm publication M593 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.); FHL microfilm 552,136.

Acknowledgements

  • WikiTree profile Holbrook-465 created through the import of oldweymouth families072011.GED on Jul 5, 2011 by Alyson X.




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