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tinuing to be occupied in agricultural pursuits.
He has followed in the footsteps of his father,
and has long been one of Westport's leading
farmers and substantial men. For three years
he served as selectman of the town. He is of
a quiet, unassuming nature, and has so lived
as to have the respect and esteem of his com-
munity.
On Nov. 7, 1861, Mr. Borden married Mary
M., born April 24, 1846, daughter of Thomas
and Mary (Snell) Estes, he a direct descendant
of Richard Estes, who came from Dover, England,
to this country in 1684 (stopping a few
1878, married Arthur M. Read; Jonathan L. is
deceased. The mother of these died Sept. 10,
1896.
(IX) Edwin Boeden, son of Christopher
and Lucy H. (Davis) Borden, was born June
26, 1850, in that part of Tiverton, R. I., now
Westport, Mass. He attended the public schools
of his native town and the Friends' School in
Providence, R. I. Mr. Borden continued at
home assisting his father in his farming and
business operations until his marriage, and has
since been engaged in farming and business for
himself.
Unlike his father before him Mr. Borden has
given little or no time to politics in the way of
office seeking or holding, having no taste in that
direction. He has, however, ever taken that
interest in public affairs that becomes any good
citizen, and is a Republican in principle. He
has many acquaintances and friends who hold
him in the highest esteem for his many good
qualities. He is a member of Mount Vernon
Lodge, No. 157, K. of P., Fall River.
SOUTHEASTERN MASSACHUSETTS 555
On March 2, 1871, Mr. Borden married Mary
E., daughter of William and Nancy (Pierce)
Young, and their children are: Minnie E.,
born Sept. 16, 1872, married George S. Law-
ton, and has two children, Ina A. and Alice E. ;
Ida H., born Sept. 19, 1874, married Henry J.
Sampson; William C, born Aug. 17, 1878,
married Cora Macomber, lives at Westport, and
has three children. Hazel L., Elton M. and
Eleanor M. ; Beriah E., born May 16, 1880,
resides at Westport, where he is prominent in
days in Boston, thence proceeding to what is
now Portsmouth, R. I., there joining his brother
Matthew who had preceded him), from whom
his descent is through Robert Estes, Thomas
Estes and Peter Estes. Seven children have
blessed the marriage of Jonathan Borden to
Mary M. Estes, namely : Mercy D. married
Walter F. Grinnell, of Tiverton, R. I., and has
three children, Annie May, Wilfred and Dorothy;
Thomas E., born Aug. 9, 1866, married
Macie Grinnell, lives in Westport, and has six
children, Myra T., Clarence, Louise, Raymond,
Philip and Katherine; Othniel T., born Dec.
18, 1868, married Sarah P. Upham, resides at
Westport, and has children, Othniel, Esther
and Osmund; Christopher, born Nov. 27, 1871,
married Alice F. Greene, lives at Westport,
and has children, Mildred, Gertrude, Christopher,
Vivian and Jonathan; Mary R., born
June 20, 1874, married James H. Kay, of Fall
River, and has children, Harold, Henry, Bere-
Masonry, being
nice and Dorothy; Jennie M., born Jan. 1,
a Knight Templar and a Shriner;
and Minerva A., born Dec. 26, 1882, married
Walter F. Sanford, of Dorchester, Mass.
(no issue).
DR. FREDERICK HUBBARD HOOPER.
In the death of Dr. Frederick Hubbard Hooper
the city of New Bedford lost one of its eminent
medical practitioners and a citizen who in fifty
years of residence there had proved himself
worthy of the confidence and respect of his
fellow men. He was a native of the State of
New Hampshire, born at Walpole June 12,
1829.
John Hooper was the first of the name in
Bridgewater. He married Sarah, perhaps the
daughter of .John Harden, and they had children
born in the very beginning of the eighteenth
century, and before their location in
Bridgewater.
Levi Hooper was bom in Bridgewater in
1742, and in 1767 married Susanna Leach.
When a young man he went on a whaling voyage
to Hudson bay, and on his return enlisted
as a soldier in the French and Indian war,
which closed in 1763. On the expiration of
his term of enlistment— nine months— he was
unable to get his pay unless he would remain
in the service three months longer; this he
did, but at the close of the time he was no
better off, and so with three other soldiers he
took "French leave" and made for home. On
reaching Walpole, N. H., the soil and heavy
growth of timber pleased Mr. Hooper so much
that he was induced to return, after visiting
his home and friends, and locate there. He
returned to Walpole in 1771, and soon after
buried his wife Susanna. He married (second)
in 1771 Sarah, daughter of Jonathan Hall,
by whom he had six children. He bought in
1775 the Samuel Chase farm and located on
the southern part of it. In 1781 he built and
moved into the so-called mansion, later the
residence of George D. Hooper, of Walpole;
there he lived and died. In the Revolution he
served as second lieutenant of a company in
General Bellows's regiment, and later as cap-