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156 Biographical Sketches. Holyoke. Hood.
same lad had occasion presently again to go to the store, and
remembering the admonition was careful to say " for my father."
" Aod who is your father } " was the quick response, in the old
inclement voice; "do you suppose I know every boy in the
street, and who his father is ;
why do'nt you give your father's
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name That boy was pretty sure, ever after, to say, " for my
father, Mr. Benjamin Newhall." These remarks are not made
for the purpose of casting
refleftions on a really worthy man, or
to unnecessarily exhibit his foibles, but for the opportunity of
suggesting that most of us might profit by the example. It is
easy to win the good-will of the juvenile legion by whom we are
surrounded, and quite as easy to lose it. And is it not much
better to have the sympathy and friendship of those who are
growing up around us, and on whom we shall surely be more or
less dependent, than to have their ill-will and opposition ? But
he was not blessed with any children of his own yet he
;
adopted several, whom he brought up in the most creditable
manner. In this matter, however, he was seconded by his
excellent wife who was undoubtedly entitled to a large share
of the praise due for such commendable benevolence.
The Major was one of the early and a6live members of the
Unitarian society, did what he could in a pecuniary way, but
more efficiently aided by his exemplary life. His wife was of the
same faith. She was a sister of Col. James Robinson, the first
postmaster, and a6led well her part in the management of their
hospitable and happy home. She was a woman of much force
of charafter, lively and sensible; and her conversation, even in
old age, was not only cheerful, but marked by a vein of attra6live
humor, and replete with pleasing
reminiscences.
Holyoke, Edward — a farmer and large land-holder ; anceslor
of the respeftable Holyoke family of New England
; a man
of note in the Colony and honored in her councils. See Annals,
1630, and other early dates. His autograph is on the Armitage
Petition.
Hood, George — the first Mayor of Lynn — was twice eledled
to the office, and inaugurated May 14, 1850, and April 7, 185 i.
He died June 29, 1859, aged 52. For biographical notice see