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and here he lived retired the remainder of his
days. He died in 1888, and was buried in the
local cemetery. He was a stanch Republican,
but no office seeker, and was liberal in his
church views. He was a Mason, belonging to
the blue lodge and chapter, and was active in
the latter for forty years. He married in
Woodstock, Vt., Mary Taft, born in Taftville,
Vt., daughter of Lewis and Mary (Cobb) Taft,
and granddaughter of Daniel Taft, who founded
the village of Taftville. Mrs. Lovell died in
Middleboro in 1891, and was buried beside
her husband. They had two children : Charles
E., mentioned below and Flora ; L., who is now
the widow of Israel T. Hathaway, and resides
in Middleboro with her son Ralph.
joining towns for the past twenty-four years
he has been successfully engaged. Dr. Lovell
takes a deep interest in his profession. In
1891 he built the fine home on South avenue,
Whitman, where he has since resided.
Dr. Lovell is a stanch Republican, and has
been elected selectman of Whitman, now serv-
ing his fifth term. He is also town physician
and school physician, and was a member of the
board of health (of which he was chairman)
for twelve years. He is a member of the Plymouth
District Medical Society of the Massachusetts
Medical Society ; of the American Medical
Association, and of the Hatherly Medical
Club, of which he is secretary. For several
years he was United States examining surgeon
for the Brockton District of Massachusetts,
having received this appointment from President
McKinley. Fraternally he belongs to the
Sons of the American Revolution ; Puritan
Pythias, of Whitman ; of the Middlesex Club
of Boston, and of the Commercial Club of
Brockton. He is a trustee of the Whitman
Savings Bank. During the celebration of the
250th anniversary of the settlement of Bridgewater,
June 13, 1906, Dr. Lovell made the
following address: "I congratulate' myself
upon the opportunity which this occasion affords
of attending a celebration upon such a
spot as this. There is power in historic association.
We celebrate to-day an event separated
from us by two hundred and fifty years.
I am glad the ancestors of so many good people
came over in the 'Mayflower.' I am sometimes
disposed to think she must have made a
(VIII) Charles E. Lovell, son of Edward
Sparrow, was born April 13, 1861, in Woodstock,
Vt., and was quite young when he went
with his parents to Michigan, where he attended
school a short time. On going to Watertown,
N. Y., with his parents, he was a
student there, finishing his preparatory education
in Middleboro, Mass. In 1882 he took
np the study of medicine at Dartmouth College,
where he graduated with the degree of M.
D. in 1885, after which he practiced for two
years in the State Hospital at good many trips,
Tewksbury. In
July, 1887, he came to the town of Whitman
and began practice, and here and in the ad-
but I am pleased that they
are so numerous. Nothing prevents my having
had an ancestor on the 'Mayflower' but my
veracity. The 'Mayflower' continues sailing,
transformed into a Brockton canal boat, a dude
train or even an electric baggage car. Sh^
is landing many pilgrims in many portions
of our country. Wherever men and women
have gone with the spirit of the brave settlers
of this town to found new communities there
has been a new landing of the 'Mayflower.'
So long as the spirit of her passengers abides
in her sons, so long as the sons of Revolutionary
sires keep alive the flame those patriots
kindled, our land is safe. We have come here
to-day that by another spark this sacred flame
within us may burn with a brighter glow, with
confidence in law, in education, in liberty and
in —we morality dedicate ourselves anew to
these principles." Dr. Lovell is a member and
secretary of the committee having in charge
the celebration of the 250th anniversary of the
settlement of Abington (which now includes
the towns of Abington, Whitman and Rockland),
to be held in 1912.
Dr. Lovell married in Middleboro, on Sept.
11, 1889, Eugenia Frances Bartlett, born in
Boonton, N. J., daughter of Bradford D. W.
Bartlett. Mrs. Lovell is a woman of culture
and refinement, keenly interested in the public
schools of Whitman and other institutions.
She is a member and chairman of the school
committee, serving as such for a period of nine
years, and a member of the library board of
trustees. She belongs to the Daughters of the
Lodge, A. F. & A. M., of Whitman; Pilgrim
Chapter, R. A. M. ; Abington Council, R. &
S. M. ; Old Colony Commandery, K. T., of
Abington ; American Revolution. Dr. Lovell and his
family
and Aleppo Temple, Order of the
Mystic Shrine, of Boston. He is also a member
of Webster Lodge, No. 113, I. 0. 0. F.,
and Plymouth Rock Lodge, No. 43, Knights of
attend the Episcopal Church. One child
has been born to the Doctor and his wife,
Lathrop Bartlett, who was educated in the
Whitman public and high schools, Dean
Academy at Franklin, Mass., and is now a
student at Dartmontli College, class of 1912.