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that at Adams, still continues to flourisli. He removed
to Carver, and was pastor there three
years. He published T/ie Mot/ier's Assistmit two
years, and T/ie Middleboroiir/h Gazette from that
time to his death, September 1, 1863, at the age
of fifty-three years. He was the author of four
volumes published by the Massachusetts Sabbath
School Society, a life of General Fremont, two edi-
tions of Sabbat/i School Questions, and a biograph-
ical catalogue of the class of 1831, Amherst College,
and a genealogy of the Pratt family. Under
his ministrations seventy-one were added to the
church in Orleans, fifty at South Adams, twenty-
five at Melrose, fifteen at Carver. His son. Stillman
B. Pratt, is the present editor and proprietor
of The Bundolph Massachusetts Eerjister, and of
The American IForkman, 37 Cornhill, Boston; and
was the candidate of the Labor-Reform party for
secretary of state in 1869. Another son, Eansom
D., has been connected with the Massachusetts
Bureau of Statistics. A third son, Thomas S., was
former editor of The Abinc/ton Standard.
William L. Peabody, son of Enoch, Dartmouth,
1856, studied law, practised for several years at
Lynn, and is now established in his profession at
Omaha, Nebraska, where he is also judge of pro-
bate.
Benjamin M. Hartsliorn, son of Benjamin, grad-
uated at the Harvard Law School, and opened an
office in this town. He was chosen for three years
as one of the general school committee, and in 1867
was elected chairman of the board of selectmen.
He died the same year, aged twenty-seven.
John M. Bancroft, son of Joseph, Dartmouth,
class of 1859. Went west as civil engineer till the
breaking out of the war, when he enlisted as a
private in the second iMichigan infantry, was in
sixteen battles, served three years, and attained the
rank of captain. He was then offered the colo-
nelcy of a regiment of cavalry, which he declined
on account of health. He removed to Brooklyn,
New York, and was engaged for a year or two in
laying out the public park there. He is now em-
ployed by ten New York insurance companies as
surveyor, which gives him employment in different
parts of the country, with his principal office in
New York.
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church of which he became pastor. After nine E. Bentley Yoiing, son of Edward, graduated at
years of labor at Adams, he removed to Melrose, Dartmouth, 1862. Teacher in Brimmer School,
laboring among the people, holding meetings in Boston.
the depot, and formed a church there over which Horace P. Wakefield, son of Deacon Caleb, Am-
he was settled about three years, and which, like herst, 1833, practising physician at Oakham, Massa-
chusetts, for several years, where he held the office
of selectman and town-clerk, and was twice elected
as representative to the legislature. Eeturning to
Reading, he was elected senator for tliis district
in 1863, and served one year, and also as school
committee and town-clerk for several years, and
justice of the peace. He was then appointed as
inspector of the almshouse at Tewskbury, and
afterwards physician there. Subsequently he was
transferred to the superintendency of the state
almshouse at Monson, which he retained till
1877.
Rev. William Wakefield, son of William, grad-
uated at Amherst, 1839, taught the South Reading
Academy one year; Codman School, Dorchester,
about two years; graduated at Andover, 1845;
went as home missionary to McConnelsville, Ohio,
remaining there six years ; preached at Jladison,
Ohio, three years. In April, 1855, he removed to
Harmar, a village of Marietta, where he was pastor
for many years. He is now settled at La Harpe,
Illinois.
Edward Hartshorn, M. D., formerly of this
town, studied medicine, settled at Berlin, has an
office in Boston, and is proprietor of the wellknown
bitters, " Key to Health."
S. 0. Richardson, M. D., son of Dr. Nathan, of
this town, resided in Wakefield, and was widely
known for his " Sherry Wine Bitters."
John Reid, son of Rev. Jared, formerly pastor of
the Old South Church in this town, graduated at
Yale, 1846, resides at Stockbridge, Massachusetts,
where he is engaged in teaching.
John S. Wallis, Yale, 1833, studied law; became
a farmer in Bolton, ]\lassaehusetts.
William P. Wallis, brother of John S., studied
at Yale, but died before graduating.
Rev. Pliny P. Sanborn, son of Rev. Peter Sanborn,
Amherst, class of 1840. Settled for some
years at West Bloomfield, New York, afterwards
at Springfield, same state.
Rev. George E. Sanborn, brother of Plhiy P.,
Amherst, 1843. Preached at Georgia, Vermont,
Mt. Vernon, New Hampshire, Northborough,
Massachusetts, and is now superintendent of the
orphan aslyum at Hartford, Connecticut.
Jose])h C. Sanborn, M. D., of tlie same family,