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1054 SOUTHEASTERN MASSACHUSETTS
meat business at Boston, having three stalls in
the Faneuil Hall market. He bought his cattle
in the Brighton market, killed and dressed
them in his own slaughter house, and took the
meat to his Boston market, being assisted In
this business by his sons. He made his home
on the farm in the east part of Abington, now
Eockland, and there died July 23, 1846. On
May 5, 1792, he married Elizabeth Hersey,
daughter of Capt. David old homestead, unmarried; William is mentioned
below Mehitable ; R., born Feb. 2, 1850,
married John C. Partridge Jan. 1, 1879, and
resides in Rockland;
Hersey, and their
children were: David, born Dec. 7, 1792;
Eliza, born in 1794, who died in 1797; William,
born July 4, 1797, who died in Hingham;
Josiah, born Xov. 29, 1798 ; Harvey, born
July 27, 1801; Eliza, born 1803, who married
Judson Smith; and Maria, born in August,
1807, who married in 1838 Isaiah Jenkins, and
located in Maine.
Ella F., born Oct. 10,
1852, is deceased; Ruth, born M^rch 28, 1854,
is unmarried.
Charles H. Dill, 2d, who married Ann
Elizabeth Torrey, was a well-known shoe manufacturer
in Rockland at one time and died in
Boston Jan. 20, 1908. His remains are placed
in the chapel of the Massachusetts Cremation
Society at Forest Hills, Boston. His widow
made her home in Boston, where she died Aug.
14, 1910 ; her remains are also in the chapel
of the Massachusetts Cremation Society at
Forest Hills, Boston. They had two children,
Annie and George Albert. The latter is en-
in the real estate and insurance business
(X) Josiah Torrey,
son of William and
Elizabeth, born Nov. 29, 1798, was educated in
the local schools, and worked from an early age
on the farm with his father, also assisting in
the meat business. He remained at home until
his father's death. In 1848 he embarked in
the soap manufacturing business with James
M. Mansur, under the firm name of Torrey &
Mansur, operating the plant which is now
owned by Josiah Austin Torrey, his son. The
partnership continued for several years, when
Mr. Mansur retired, and Josiah Austin Torrey
became a partner in the iirm under the name
of Josiah Torrey & Son, and as such the business
was continued until the death of the elder
Mr. Torrey. He died at his home Jan. 31, 1880,
in the eighty-second year of his age, and was
buried in Mount Pleasant cemetery. On Jan.
5, 1830, he married Elizabeth D. Estes, born in
Hanover, Mass., April 12, 1812, daughter of
Robert and Experience (Studley) Estes, of
Hanover. Mrs. Torrey, a devoted wife and
mother, died at her home Jan. 10, 1893, at the
age of eighty years, and she, too, rests in Mount
Pleasant cemetery. To this union were born
children as follows : Mary L., born Jan. 30,
1831, is now the widow of Joseph J. Estes, and
resides in Rockland, Mass. ; Lucius A., born
Oct. 28, 1833, died Nov. 23, 1837 ;
Josiah Aus-
tin is mentioned below ; Beulah E., born July
20, 1837, married Nov. 4, 18.58, Samuel A.
Walker, of Newton, Mass., and died April 1,
1890,; Ann Elizabeth, born April 21, 1839,
married May 6, 1858, Charles H. Dill, 2d;
Lucius Alden, born April 7, 1841, died Aug.
31, 1843; Sarah J., born March 22, 1843, married
Oct. 12, 1861, Henry S. Moulton, of Sanford,
Maine, and died July 28, 1889 ; Robert
A., born Jan. 14, 1845, died May 31, 1848;
Clarissa, born Aug. 19, 1846, resides on the
gaged
at No. 73 Tremont street, Boston. He married
Laura Stoughton Clark, and they have two
children, Dorothy and Ruth.
(XI) Josiah Austin Torrey, son of Josiah
and Elizabeth D. (Estes), was born on the
homestead farm Dec. 31, 1835. He attended
public school in the winter season, and worked
on the farm in the summer time. When his
father engaged in the soap manufacturing business
he became employed in the factory, where
he learned all branches of the work, and later
he became a partner in the business under the
firm name of Josiah Torrey & Son. Since his
father's death in 1880 Mr. Torrey has conducted
the business alone, although now over
seventy-five years old, and is still active and in
full possession of all his faculties. He is noted
for the great interest he takes in fishing and
hunting, being a sportsman in the true sense of
the word, and traveling far and wide in search
of fish and game. Mr. Torrey bears an enviable
reputation for a high sense of honor and
for honesty in all his dealings. He is a good
citizen and takes a deep interest in his town
and its institutions. He was for years a director
of the Rockland National Bank, and is now
president of the Rockland Savings Bank, an
office he has filled with credit and ability for
years. He is a stanch Republican, and has
served as selectman of the town. He is a firm
believer in temperance, as was his father, and
takes a deep interest in all movements tending
toward the moral uplift of the town and its
people. He is a member of Standish Lodge,
I. 0. 0. F., of Rockland, and the First Congregational
Church of Rockland, which he has
served as trustee.
On Aug. 12, 1858, in' Bethel, Maine, Mr.
Torrey married Arabella Grover, who was
born Feb. 8, 1833, in Bethel, Maine, daughter