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710 SOUTHEASTERN MASSACHUSETTS
Robert, born May 14, 1799, who died Feb. 3,
1826; Levi, bom March 3, 1801; Lucy, born
Feb. 14, 1803; Betsy, born Feb. 13, 1805;
Alden, born Jan. 24, 1807, who died April 15,
1812; Albert, born March 4, 1809; Mary, born
March 5, 1812, who died Nov. 15, 1812;
Amanda, born March 4, 1817, who died May
22, 1889.
(VI) Albert Shurtleff, son of Gideon, was
born March 4, 1809, and died April 26, 1887.
He married Lucy Thomas, a native of Middleboro,
Mass., and they had five children, two
of whom died in infancy. The three survivors
were: Lucy Ann, born in 1839, who married
Job Cole Chandler, of Carver, Mass., and their
children were Alton C. and Ida M. ; Eunice
B., who married Daniel Dunham, of Carver,
and had three children, William B., Charles
Otto and Teresa M. (deceased) ; and Albert
parts of the country. He continued in the
same until his death.
On Aug. 8, 1871, Mr. Shurtleff was married
to Maria Young Davis, daughter of James and
Sophia (Smith) Davis, of Washington, D. C,
and they had children as follows: (1) Mary
Elizabeth, born June 28, 1872, married Alfred
Allen Walker, of Washington, D. C, and their
children are : Ruth S., born May 24, 1895, and
Grace A., born Jan. 23, 1899, all living in
Washington, D. C. (2) Walter Davis, born
May 31, 1875, in Washington, D. C, is mentioned
below. (3) Lucy Thomas, bom Jan. 9,
1877, in Washington, D. C, married March 4,
1896, Herbert F. Atwood, of Carver, where
they reside, and they have children: Roy F.,
Charlotte M., Eunice, Carlton S. and Davis B.
(4) Anna Kimball, born Jan. 6, 1882, in Carver,
married July 9, 1904, Ellsworth Vernon
Shaw, of Carver, and they have one child, Mar-
jorie Aima, born April 17, 1909. They reside
in Pembroke, Mass. (5) Carlton, bom May
8, 1888, in Carver, is unmarried, living with
his mother.
Tiilson.
(VII) Albert Tillson Shurtleff was
born Jan. 31, 1837, in Carver, Mass. When
a young man, at the age of sixteen, he secured
a position on a fishing schooner, but after four
years on the §ea resigned his place from the
ship's crew and went to Providence, R. I., to
learn the jeweler's trade. On April 17, 1861,
he enlisted from Providence in Company D,
1st R. I. Detached Militia. He was mustered
in at Washington, D. C, and on July 21, 1861,
was at the first battle of Bull Run, where he
received a wound caused by a minie ball striking
him on the right arm between the elbow
and shoulder. He was taken prisoner on the
retreat, and after the expiration of ten days
was taken to Libby prison, where he was held
until Oct. 7, 1861, being paroled and delivered
to the Union lines at Newport News. His right
arm was amputated by the surgeons on the
battlefield three days after he was taken prisoner.
Mr. Shurtleff then applied himself diligently
to the study of law and in 1879 was
admitted to the District of Columbia Ijar, after
graduating with honors from the National Law
School. His health becoming impaired, he resigned
a position in the War Department at
Washington, in the paymaster general's office,
which he had held for a number of years, and
returned to Carver. Here he entered the lumber
business, becoming associated with the late
Benjamin Ward and the late John J. Russell,
of Plymouth. Later Mr. Shurtleff devoted
himself to cranberry growing, shipping to all
The death of Albert Tillson Shurtleff occurred
Feb. 16, 1902, in Carver, Mass. He
was a man of wide acquaintance and held in
high esteem by all who knew him. He was
instrumentaL in the establishment of the Carver
Free Public Library, and was chairman
of the board of trustees from its inception up
to the time of his death. He served fourteen
years as town clerk of Carver, and for eight
years he was selectman, assessor and overseet
of the poor. He was justice of the peace also
for a number of years. A member of Collingwood
Post, No. 76, G. A. R., of Plymouth,
his funeral was attended by the comrades of
that post, and he was laid to rest with all
the honors due a soldier, the interment taking
place in Carver Centre cemetery.
(VIII) Walter Davis Shurtleff. M. D.,
son of Albert Tillson, was bom May 31, 1875,
in Washington, D. C, and was educated in the
public schools of Carver, in the Eaton School at
:^Tiddleboro, and in the State Agricultural College
at Amherst. In Howard University,
Washington, D. C, he took the full medical
course and graduated in 1897, with the degree
of M. D. He opened an office for practice that
same year in Kingston, Mass., and has since
continued in active work in Kingston and Plymouth.
In 1903 he opened an office in Plymoiuh,
where he also has a good practice. Dr.
Shurtleff belongs to Cornerstone Lodge, A. F.
& A. M., of Duxbury; Middleboro Lodge, I. 0.
0. F.; Accomack Tribe, I. 0. R. M., of Plymouth,
of which he is a charter member; and is
medical examiner for a number of insurance
companies and fraternal organizations. In
politics he is a Republican, and is now serving
as a commissioner of Inland Fisheries, and is
also a member of the Fish and Game commis-