History of Beverly, (Essex County) Massachusetts United States of America

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Frederick Albion Ober, author, was born in Beverly, Mass., Feb. 13, 1849; son of Andrew K. and Sarah (Hadlock) Ober; grandson of Andrew and Sarah (Smith) Ober, and of Elijah and Huldab (Herrick) Hadlock, and seventh in direct descent from Richard Ober, who emigrated from England to Massachusetts and settled in Beverly in 1663. Frederick Albion Ober attended the public school, and in 1862 engaged in business. He attended the Massachusetts Agricultural college for one year and thereafter devoted himself to the study of natural history, exploring the Lake Okeechobee region of Florida, 1872-74; making an ornithological exploration of the southern West Indies in 1876-78 and 1880, where he collected birds for the Smithsonian Institution, and discovered twenty-two new species. He visited Mexico in 1881, 1883 and 1885, gathering material for several books, and traveled in Spain and northern Africa in 1888, South America in 1889, and in the West Indies again in 1891-92, as commissioner for the Columbian exposition. He lectured on Mexico and the West Indies for nearly ten years in various parts of the country. He is the author of: Camps in the Caribbees (1879); Young Folks' History of Mexico (1882); The Silver City (1882); Travels in Mexico (1883); Mexican Resources, A Guide to and Through Mexico (1885); Montezuma's Gold Mines (1885); The Knockabout Club in the Antilles, Everglades, etc. (6 vols., 1887-92); In the Wake of Columbus (1893); Josephine, Empress of the French (1895); Under the Cuban Flag (1896); My Spanish Sweetheart (1897); Crusoe's Island (1898); Puerto-Rico and Its Resources (1899); A Brief History of Spain (1899); History of the West Indies (1900); The Last of the Arrawaks (1901); Tommy Foster's Adventures (1901), and contributions to magazines.

From: Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans, Johnson, Rossiter, editor

Thomas Poynton Ives, merchant, was born in Beverly, Mass., April 9, 1769. His parents died when he was a child, and relatives in Boston took him to that city, where he was educated in the public schools. In 1782 he was received as a clerk in the house of Nicholas Brown & Co., of Providence, R.I., and soon after the death of Mr. Nicholas Brown, May 29, 1791, he became a partner with Nicholas Brown, Jr., in the new firm of Brown & Ives. He was president of the Providence bank for twenty-four years; of the Providence Institution of Savings fifteen years, and a trustee of Brown university forty-three years. He married, in 1792, Hope, the only surviving daughter of Nicholas and Rhoda (Jenckes) Brown, and their son, Moses Brown Ives, succeeded to his father's business, Mr. Ives died in Providence, May, 1835.

From: Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans, Johnson, Rossiter, editor

Benjamin Osgood Peirce, physicist, was born in Beverly, Mass., Feb. 11, 1854; son of Benjamin Osgood and Mehetable Osgood (Seccomb) Peirce; grandson of Benjamin and Rebecca (Orne) Peirce, and of Ebenezer and Mary (Marston) Seccomb of Salem; great-grandson of Benjamin of Charlestown and Salem, killed at the battle of Lexington, April 19, 1775, and of Mary (Waite) Peirce; great, great-grandson of Jerahmael Peirce of Charlestown, and a descendant of John Pers, Watertown, Mass., 1637. He was graduated from Harvard in 1876, and was an assistant in the physical laboratory, 1876-77. He studied in Berlin and Leipzig, Germany, 1878-79, receiving the degrees A.M. and Ph.D. from the University of Leipzig in 1879, and was a teacher in the Boston Latin school, 1880-81. He was instructor in mathematics at Harvard, 1881-84, assistant professor of mathematics and physics, 1884-88, and was elected Hollis professor of mathematics and natural philosophy in 1888. He was married, July 27, 1882, to Isabella Turnbull Landreth of Edinburgh, Scotland. He was elected a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He is the author of: Theory of the Newtonian Potential Function (1886); Table of Integrals (1899), and many scientific papers on physics and mathematics.

From: Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans, Johnson, Rossiter, editor

Franklin Dexter, lawyer, was born in Charlestown, Mass., Nov. 5, 1793; son of the Hon. Samuel and Catharine (Gordon) Dexter. His father was secretary of the treasury under President John Adams. He was graduated at Harvard in 1812, studied law under the Hon. Samuel Hubbard, and was admitted to the bar in 1815. He was a representative in the state legislature in 1825, 1826 and 1840, and a state senator in 1835. He was a member of the select committee appointed in 1836 to revise the statutes of the state; was U.S. district attorney, l841-45,under appointment of President Tyler, and was again appointed in 1849 by President Taylor. He defended the murderers of Captain White of Salem, Mass., in 1830, Daniel Webster appearing for the prosecution. He was married in 1819 to Catherine Elizabeth, daughter of the Hon. William Prescott. He received the degree of LL.D. from Harvard in 1857. He died in Beverly, Mass., Aug. 14, 1857.

From: Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans, Johnson, Rossiter, editor