Alice Darracott Seabrook

Alice married Clarence Baker King on 4 Mar 1911 in New York, New York. Clarence (son of Franklin Hiram King and Carrie Hunter Baker) was born on 5 Jun 1884 in River Falls, St. Croix, Wisconsin; died on 27 Sep 1974 in Nantucket, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Lowell King was born on 2 May 1920 in New Canaan, Farfield, Connecticut; died on 27 Aug 1969 in New York, New York.

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"Former practitioner of medicine, specializing in diseases of the eye, president of the Nason Manufacturing Company, makers of stream and plumbing supplies with offices at 71 Fulton Street, New York City, died in his apartment in the Hotel Robert Fulton, 228 West 71 St, at age 71." [Harry Hartshorne Seabrook obituary, citation details below.]

Harry married May Nason on 2 Nov 1881 in Montclair, Essex, New Jersey. May (daughter of Joseph Nason and Sarah Clark Darracott) was born in Mar 1859 in New York, New York; died on 17 May 1932. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Also called Martha Mary Nason.

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From a page at www.monmouthhistory.org, no longer online:

"Henry H. Seabrook was one of the founders, and served as managing director and treasurer of the Keyport [New Jersey] and Middletown Point Steamboat Company. The Keyport and Middletown Point Steamboat Company was incorporated in 1852 by Mr. Seabrook, DeLafayette Schenck, and Thomas V. Arrowsmith. He also served as Keyport's second Postmaster from 1841-1856. Mr. Seabrook also had other business interests in Keyport."

Henry married Therese Walling on 5 Feb 1852. Therese (daughter of Leonard Walling and Catherine Aumack) was born on 8 Aug 1821 in Centerville, Monmouth, New Jersey; died on 9 Oct 1899 in Keyport, Monmouth, New Jersey; was buried in Green Grove Cemetery, Keyport, Monmouth, New Jersey. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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"Therese Walling Seabrook [...] was very active in the women's suffrage movement in the late 19th and early 20th century as well as the temperance movement, being a member of the Women's Christian Temperance Union of Keyport, New Jersey. A highlight of the collection is a letter from Susan B. Anthony (February 22, 1888) to Seabrook thanking her for a monetary donation and comments on her visit to Washington D.C., note by Florence Howe Hall, co-signed by Emma Blackwell and a letter by Clara Bewick Colby." [Rand Boyd, citation details below.]

"Therese Walling Seabrook lived on West Front Street overlooking the Bay. She was the wife of a prominent businessman in Keyport and an activist for women’s rights. She was a strong supporter of the Woman’s Christian Temperance Union and an advocate of women’s suffrage. In her mind, as in the minds of others late in the 19th-century, there was a connection between the temperance movement and the suffrage movement. In 1884, suffragists Phebe Hanaford of Jersey City, Therese Walling Seabrook of Keyport, and Henry Blackwell of Massachusetts met with the New Jersey Assembly Judiciary Committee to press for the introduction of a women’s suffrage resolution in the Assembly. They succeeded in having the bill introduced, but the Assembly would take no action on the resolution." [Keyport Historical Society: Three Generations of Seabrook Women]

"Mrs. Seabrook was an intellectually gifted woman, steeped in local genealogical lore, derived from her great ancestors. Upon their laps she sat when young, or with the assembled elders at the nearby hearthside, to be entertained by their constant repetitions of tales of exposure, hardship, love and war. The old are garrulous, live in the past, delight in the young, and with contracted lives and thought they become the local historians of the past to young but willing ears, upon whose excited imagination the stories remain indelibly impressed. Thus it was that Mrs. Seabrook passed onward the tales of her childhood." [John E. Stilwell, citation details below]

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• Alternate birth: 31 Dec 1815, Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts

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Manufacturer and inventor. Said to have coined the term "radiator," he received a number of U.S. patents for hot water and steam heating.

"NASON.--On Wednesday, 11th inst., at Montclair, N.J., in the 57th year of his age, JOSEPH NASON, of the firm of Joseph Nason & Co., New-York, and formerly of the firm of Walworth, Nason & Co., Boston. The remains will be taken to Boston for interment. Funeral services will be held at his late residence in Montclair, N.J., on Thursday, Dec. 12, at 3 1/2 P.M. Carriages will await the arrival of 2 P.M. train from foot of Barclay st. Return trains at 5 and 5:55 P.M. Boston papers please copy." [New York Times, 13 Dec 1872, p. 5]

"Mr. [James Jones] Walworth was first married in 1837 to Miss Elizabeth C. Nason, daughter of Leavitt Nason, and sister of Joseph Nason, his early partner." [Men of Progress: One Thousand Biographical Sketches and Portraits of Leaders in Business and Professional Life in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, compiled by Richard Herndon, ed. Edwin M. Bacon. Boston: New England Magazine, 1896.]

Joseph married Sarah Clark Darracott on 18 Jun 1844 in Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts. Sarah (daughter of George Darracott and Sarah "Sally" Clark) was born on 13 Nov 1815 in Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts; died on 11 May 1892 in New York, New York; was buried in Mount Auburn Cemetery, Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Alternate death: 13 Jul 1844

Thomas married Anne Longstreet on 17 Dec 1794. Anne (daughter of Aaron Longstreet and Williampe Hendrickson) was born on 8 Apr 1779; died on 10 Jul 1852; was buried in Fair View Cemetery, Middletown, Monmouth, New Jersey. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Leonard Walling and Catherine Aumack were fifth cousins, both being 4xG-grandchildren of early New Jersey settlers Richard Stout and his wife Penelope.

Leonard married Catherine Aumack. Catherine (daughter of Mattheus Amack and Mariam Marsh) was born on 19 Jun 1793; died on 25 Jun 1828; was buried in Old Walling Family Burial Ground, Holmdel, Monmouth, New Jersey. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Catherine Aumack and Leonard Walling were fifth cousins, both being 4xG-grandchildren of early New Jersey settlers Richard Stout and his wife Penelope.

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• Alternate birth: of Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts

Leavitt married Nancy Guild on 3 Apr 1808. Nancy (daughter of Jacob Guild and Chloe May) died on 3 Mar 1842; was buried in Mount Auburn Cemetery, Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Shared with his son-in-law Joseph Nason, U.S. patent 1,261, 26 Jul 1839, for an "Argand Gas-Burner."

The handwritten registry that records his death in Boston on 13 Jul 1865 calls his occupation "gentleman" and names his parents William and Mary.

"George Darracott, one of our Directors, died on the 13th day of July last, in his 81st year. He was born Oct. 6, 1784, and was of Norman-English descent, his ancestors having resided for many generations in Devonshire, England. Commencing business on a moderate scale, he soon developed a taste for mechanical ingenuity and improvements. In 1826, he projected the Marine Railway for the merchant service of Boston, the construction and management of which during a period of nine years were intrusted to his care. He superintended the affairs of the Boston Gas-Light Company for sixteen years. He was a member of the Board of Health at a time when the visitation of the yellow fever at this port caused a serious alarm, and he assisted in adopting the most efficient measures to stay its ravages. He served at another time of excitement, in the introduction of the Voluntary Fire Department, as an assistant engineer. He was a Director of one of the public institutions of the city, a Representative to the General Court, and President of the Massachusetts Charitable Mechanic Association. Of the latter, he was one of its early and prominent members; he was long associated in the management of its affairs, displaying great intelligence and persevering industry. He exhibited the same devotion to the interests of the Bunker-Hill-Monument Association, of which he was Director for thirty-four years, and, in 1840-1843, was a member of the Building Committee; in 1835, with Mr. Thorndike and Mr. Hammond,he made a long and laborious calculation of the cost of the work remaining to be done, on two different plans, by calculating the contents of each stone in every course to be laid, and estimating the cost thereof, for which service the Committee received a special vote of thanks on the part of the Corporation." [Proceedings of the Bunker Hill Monument Association at the Annual Meeting on Monday, June 18, 1866, citation details below.]

George married Sarah "Sally" Clark on 18 Jan 1807. Sarah (daughter of James Clark and Mehitable Lambert) was born on 6 Aug 1787; died on 16 Jun 1859 in Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts; was buried in Mount Auburn Cemetery, Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Alternate birth: 27 Aug 1784, Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts

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The birthdate of "August 6, 1787" is clearly visible on her gravestone at Mount Auburn.