John Hawkins

Notes:

His wife is said to have been Mary Leavitt. According to the Whipple Database of the Whipple One-Name Study, "[t]he History of Bocking in the Rawlinson MSS, Essex 5, p. 32 at the Bodleian Library (Oxford) states that John Hawkins, oldest son and heir of John Hawkins of Braintree, was a chief inhabitant of the town and trustee for the poor and had two wives, the first not mentioned and the second Mary Levitt. He was a respected citizen and trustee for the poor of Bocking."

Family/Spouse: Unknown. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

The 3 Sep 1633 will of John Hawkins of "Brayntree, Essex" gives "my sister Whipple" forty shillings.

Anne married Matthew Whipple on 7 May 1622 in Bocking, Braintree, Essex, England. Matthew (son of Mathew Whipple and Joan) was born about 1590 in Bocking, Braintree, Essex, England; died on 28 Sep 1647 in Ipswich, Essex, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Alternate death: 12 Feb 1685

Elizabeth married Jacob Perkins about 1648. Jacob (son of John Perkins and Judith Gater) was born before 12 Jul 1624; was christened on 12 Jul 1624 in Hillmorton, Warwickshire, England; died on 27 Jan 1700 in Ipswich, Essex, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Elizabeth married Thomas Boardman on 1 Jan 1668 in Ipswich, Essex, Massachusetts. Thomas (son of Thomas Boreman and Margaret Offing) was born about 1644; died on 3 Oct 1719 in Ipswich, Essex, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Deacon married Martha Morgan on 22 May 1700 in Norwich, New London, Connecticut. Martha (daughter of Lt. Joseph Morgan and Dorothy Parke) was born on 20 Mar 1681 in Preston, New London, Connecticut. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

He was a carpenter.

Thomas married Sarah Langley about 1697. Sarah (daughter of Abell Langley and Sarah Quilter) was born on 7 Nov 1675 in Rowley, Essex, Massachusetts; died on 27 Dec 1725. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Alternate birth: 1 Aug 1713, Norwich, New London, Connecticut

Matthew married Hannah Bishop on 19 Apr 1739 in Norwich, New London, Connecticut. Hannah (daughter of Samuel Bishop and Sarah Fobes) was born on 2 Aug 1722 in Norwich, New London, Connecticut. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Elizabeth married Dr. Joseph Manning on 14 Nov 1732. Joseph (son of Thomas Manning and Mary Giddings) was born on 16 Mar 1703 in Ipswich, Essex, Massachusetts; died on 8 May 1784. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

"Sufanna ye Daughter of Matthew Perkins & his wife Hannah was born January 29: 1752." [Norwich Vital Records, citation details below.]

Family/Spouse: Rev. John Staples. John (son of Deacon Seth Staples and Hannah Standish) was born on 23 Apr 1742; died on 15 Feb 1804. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

From The Genealogical and Biographical History of the Manning Families of New England (citation details below):

He studied medicine under his father’s direction and then commenced practice, at the age of twenty, at Newmarket, N.H. After one year he returned to Ipswich, where he resided and practiced the remainder of his life. As there were no medical colleges or hospitals in America at that day, Dr. Manning, at the age of thirty-three, and after some twelve years of active practice, crossed the ocean to perfect his medical education in England. Returning to this country, 1772 May 8, after a course of six months training in the hospitals and lecture rooms of London, his practice soon became extensive. On the 19th of April, 1775, the day of the battle of Lexington, he drove to Boston to bring his sister, Mrs. McKean, to Ipswich. When near Boston he overtook a British officer, severely wounded, to whom he freely gave the medical attention which he greatly needed. For this humane act the officer gave Dr. Manning a pass which enabled him to enter Boston and depart with his sister. He arrived at Ipswich at night, aroused his family, and when he had collected such articles as he knew would be needed, hastened to the relief of those wounded in the battle, giving to his suffering countrymen such aid as his skill and medicine could accomplish. His grandson, Joseph Bolles Manning Esq., is authority for the further statement that, when this was done, he assisted the British surgeons in caring for their wounded, "and by his direction, both parties [of wounded] were removed to Cambridge, where he attended six weeks until they were discharged." This was, on his part, an early application of the doctrine, since common to all civilized nations, that in the presence of those suffering after battle, all partisan feeling should be forgotten. Later in the war he served as surgeon at Newport, R.I. In 1777 he strongly advocated inoculation for the prevention of small pox, which caused so much opposition and hostility that, for a time, it is said, his life seemed in danger. He was active in business enterprises. He bought and sold real estate outside of his own county, having transactions of this kind in Worcester Co., Mass., Hillsborough Co., N.H., and Cumberland Co., Me. In 1788 he, with others, made proposals to the Legislature for taking the poor of the Commonwealth which were in the almshouse at Boston, and removing them to Ipswich, where, with the selectman of that town to act as overseers, the projectors of the plan would supply them with lodging, good, wholesome food, medical attendance, etc., for three-fourths of the then present expense. A paper was drawn up by the House to accept the proposal, but shows no sign of having been acted upon [House Document 2640]. Ten years later, however, the doctor petitioned for the payment of expenses which he had incurred because, by direction of the selectmen of Ipswich, he had during the past year "supported several of the poor of the Commonwealth", proving that his plan had in some degree been carried into effect. The Acts and Resolves of Massachusetts for 1790 show that he petitioned for payment of certain dues from the Commonwealth to enable and encourage him to carry on a woolen manufactory at Ipswich. The State agreed to pay from its treasury the interest due him on the State notes he held in his own name, and so much of the principal as should amount, with the interest, to £1,000, he first giving bond that the £1,000 should be within one year employed in a woolen manfactory in Ipswich. Whether this official action was satisfactory, and was accepted, has not been learned, but the enterprise was consummated. In 1792 the town of Ipswich granted Dr. Manning land for the erection of the factory. This was, perhaps, the first woolen mill in the country. It stood upon the bank of the river, and was run by a windmill. It was a two-storied building, about 60 x 30 feet, and was at the foot of the hill at the northwest corner of Choate Bridge. The structure now on the site is called Caldwell’s Block. On the end of the building, away from the bridge, was a signboard, about 5 x 23 feet, with "Massachusetts Woolen Manufactory" painted upon it, this being the name by which it was known. Blankets and flannels were made at the factory, which went into operation in 1794, but the enterprise was not a success, and it was closed in 1800. The doctor’s son, Capt. Richard Manning, was superintendent of the mill, and his pattern book is now in the possession of Mr. Francis H. Manning. Dr Manning’s hospitality was widely known. The house he built on High Street, Ipswich, still standing, was constructed with a view to indulging this characteristic. The partitions of the lower story were hung upon hinges at the ceiling, so that they could be raised, thus making one room of the hall and the rooms on each side. As an illustration of this hospitable proclivity, his grandson Richard H. Manning related this incident: "Dr. Manning was riding one summer afternoon, about 1818, toward Hamilton, when he met a Company of Horse, known as the Salem Troop. Drawing up before the captain, whom he saluted as only he could do it, for he was an exceedingly courteous gentleman, stately and venerable withal, he invited the Company to ride on to his house in Ipswich and take supper with him. The invitation being accepted, the doctor turned his horse and rode back to Ipswich at the head of the Troop, which soon drew up in front of the mansion on "Pudding street", now High street. This was the first intimation the family had of the intended feast, and I, a shaver of eight or nine years, was dispatched to all the neighbors for spoons and cooked food to eke out the entertainment.” Dr. Manning was elected representative from Ipswich 1781, '82, '84, '87, '89, '92 and '94 or a total of nine years. His skill and experience rendered him for a long time eminent in the medical profession; all publications dealing with his county mention this fact. He had his own opinions upon politics and religion, and was fond of power and resolute in carrying out his purposes. His character was marked by unvarying courtesy, a broad charity and great kindness of heart.

John married Lucy Bolles on 27 Nov 1760 in Ipswich, Essex, Massachusetts. Lucy (daughter of Charles Bolles and Lucy Kimball) was born on 5 Apr 1742; was christened on 25 Apr 1742 in Ipswich, Essex, Massachusetts; died on 23 Aug 1817. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Lawyer and politician. He was a representative of the town of New Haven in the State Legislature for seven or eight sessions, most of them during the war of 1812. The institution that eventually became Yale Law School began with him training legal apprentices in his law office in New Haven in the first decade of the 19th century.

"After completing his studies at Yale [Seth Perkins Staples] began the study of the law in the office of the Hon. David Daggett in New Haven, Connecticut for two years. During this time Seth hand-copied a set of Tapping Reeve's law notes for his own use, but never attended the Litchfield Law School as a student (a common misconception). Once his understanding of the law was adequate. Seth passed the bar in Litchfield in 1799, and then immediately opened a law office of his own in New Haven and commenced practice. In that same year he married Catharine Wales Staples. During their marriage the couple had six children; three sons and three daughters, one daughter of which later attended the Litchfield Female Academy. The future Yale Law School formed in the New Haven law office of Seth P. Staples. Staples owned an exceptional library (an attraction for students at a time when law books were scarce), and he began training apprentices in the early 1800s. By the 1810s his law office had a full-fledged law school. Samuel Hitchcock, one of Staples’ former students, became a partner at the office and later, the proprietor of the New Haven Law School." [Litchfield Historical Society]

"The [New Haven Law] School began in the New Haven law office of Seth P. Staples in the 1800s, who began training lawyers. By 1810 he was operating a law school. He took on a former student, Samuel J. Hitchcock, as a law partner, and Hitchcock became the proprietor of the New Haven Law School, joined by David Daggett in 1824. (The Yale Law School shield, shown at the upper right of this page, shows staples and a rampant dog, representing Seth Staples and David Daggett.) The school's affiliation with Yale began in the mid-1820s and in 1843, the school's students began receiving Yale degrees." [Wikipedia article on Yale Law School]

Susanna married Roger Sherman on 7 Jan 1801 in Canterbury, Windham, Connecticut. Roger (son of Roger Sherman and Rebecca Prescott) was born on 16 Jul 1768 in New Haven, New Haven, Connecticut; died on 5 Mar 1856 in New Haven, New Haven, Connecticut. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Alternate death: 9 Jul 1852, Ipswich, Essex, Massachusetts

Lucretia married Asa Smith on 27 Nov 1788 in Ipswich, Essex, Massachusetts. Asa (son of Adam Smith and Elizabeth) was born on 17 Jul 1759 in Ipswich, Essex, Massachusetts; was christened on 5 Aug 1759 in Ipswich, Essex, Massachusetts; died on 30 Jul 1852 in Hamilton, Essex, Massachusetts; was buried in Old South Cemetery, Ipswich, Essex, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Nordhoff, California was renamed Ojai during World War I.

Elizabeth married Thomas Anthony Thacher on 1 Aug 1860 in New Haven, New Haven, Connecticut. Thomas (son of Peter Thacher and Ann Parks) was born on 11 Jan 1815 in Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut; died on 7 Apr 1886 in New Haven, New Haven, Connecticut. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Ammi Smith and his wife Lucy Lakeman were third cousins, both being great-great-grandchildren of Thomas Manning and his wife Mary Giddings. Ammi was a great-grandson of Dr. Joseph Manning (1703-1784), and Lucy was a great-granddaughter of Joseph's identical twin John Manning (1703-1775).

Ammi married Lucy Lakeman on 26 Nov 1815. Lucy (daughter of William Lakeman and Sarah Wells) was born on 9 Apr 1799 in Ipswich, Essex, Massachusetts; died in 1859. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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From www.ywcasf-marin.org/marin-womens-hall-fame/honorees/elizabeth-thacher-kent:

Elizabeth Thacher Kent, a matriarch in the founding family of Kentfield, is one of the few Marin County women to be elected posthumously to the Marin Women's Hall of Fame. Kent was a distinguished proponent of women's rights and international peace and was instrumental in securing women's right to vote.

Kent took up permanent residence in Marin in 1907 and immediately became a vocal activist in support of women's' suffrage. When her husband, William, was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives, Kent leveraged her position as a Congressman's wife to support the national suffrage movement. She was a featured speaker at the 1913 and 1914 conventions of the National American Women's Suffrage Association (NAWSA) and shortly thereafter assumed leadership of their Congressional Committee. By 1915, she helped form the Congressional Union (later re-named the Women's Party), which picketed the White House in support of suffrage. Kent was arrested twice for her suffrage demonstrating. However, her cause prevailed and in August 1920 the Susan B. Anthony Amendment to the United States Constitution was passed guaranteeing American women the right to vote.

In addition to supporting suffrage, Elizabeth Kent was committed to the cause of world peace. In the 1930's, she provided leadership to the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom. She and her husband were also early supporters of the fledging conservation movement. They donated a large tract of land to the U.S. Government to preserve old-growth redwoods. Their gift, the Muir Woods National Monument, provides a lasting testimony to the Kents' exemplary lives of public service.

Elizabeth married Rep. William Kent on 26 Feb 1890 in Nordhoff, California. Rep. (son of Albert Emmet Kent and Adaline Elizabeth Dutton) was born on 29 Mar 1864 in Chicago, Cook, Illinois; died on 13 Mar 1928 in Kentfield, Marin, California. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Hannah B. Shaw. Hannah (daughter of William Benson Shaw and Cynthia Witherell) was born on 6 Mar 1828; died on 23 May 1899; was buried in Newton Cemetery, Newton, Middlesex, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Elizabeth married George Stanleigh Arnold on 26 Feb 1915 in Washington, D.C.. George (son of George Sumner Arnold and Evelyn Greenwood Thompson) was born on 3 Apr 1881 in New Haven, New Haven, Connecticut; died on 18 Jan 1942 in Marin, California. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Ella married Frederick Augustus Gardiner on 28 Apr 1875 in Newton, Middlesex, Massachusetts. Frederick (son of David L. Gardiner and Abigail A. Winslow) was born on 7 Jan 1848 in Farmington, Franklin, Maine; died on 29 Jul 1923 in Barnard, Windsor, Vermont; was buried in Newton Cemetery, Newton, Middlesex, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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http://www.sfgenealogy.com/boards/mcobits/archive4/5426.html:

Elizabeth 'Bibbs' [sic] Arnold of Los Altos, a mathematician, environmentalist and wildlife advocate who helped crack the Japanese code during World War II, died Friday, Sept. 18, 1992, at her Los Altos Hills home of lung cancer. She was 76.

A native of San Francisco, Dr. Arnold was reared in Marin County and was the oldest grandchild of Rep. William Kent, for whom the city of Kentfield was named.

The daughter of a prominent San Francisco attorney, Eugene Arnold, she attended the Katherine Branson School in Ross and graduated first in her class in 1932. The school later named a day in her honor after she was elected to Phi Beta Kappa at Vassar College in her junior year.

After graduating from Vassar in 1937, Dr. Arnold earned her Ph.D. in mathematics from the University of California at Berkeley in 1941.

During World War II, Dr. Arnold was recruited by the Navy and worked on a team of cryptographers cracking Japanese codes, for which she received a Meritorious Civilian Service Award.

In the 1960s, Dr. Arnold worked on machine language translation at Lockheed Missiles and Space Co. Inc.

After her retirement in 1969, Dr. Arnold helped establish a recycling center in Los Altos and worked with Wildlife Rescue, helping injured animals.

Dr. Arnold is survived by her husband of 46 years, Dr. William Francis Whitmore of Los Altos; four sons, Charles Whitmore of Washington, D.C., Edward Whitmore of San Francisco, Thomas Whitmore of Oakland and Peter Whitmore of Victoria, B.C. Also surviving are her brothers, George Stanleigh Arnold of Kentfield, Peter Arnold of Grass Valley and Anthony Arnold of Novato.

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Note that the above obituary is in error in two respects. Her father was George Stanleigh Arnold, not Eugene Arnold; and her family nickname was "Bibba", not "Bibbs."

Her page at the Mathematics Genealogy Project is here, showing her to be a generation of advisors closer to Felix Klein than her husband was.

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Elizabeth Sherman Arnold and William Francis Whitmore were 7th cousins, both being 6XG-grandchildren of Col. John Lane (1661-1715) and Susanna Whipple (1661-1713).

Elizabeth married William Francis Whitmore on 1 Nov 1946. William (son of Charles Edward Whitmore and Elizabeth Manning Gardiner) was born on 6 Jan 1916 in Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts; died on 6 Jan 1996. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Elizabeth married Charles Edward Whitmore on 31 May 1913 in Church of St. John the Evangelist, Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts. Charles (son of William Henry Whitmore and Frances Theres Walling "Fanny" Maynard) was born on 26 Sep 1887 in Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts; died on 7 Dec 1970 in Santa Clara, Santa Clara, California; was buried in Mount Auburn Cemetery, Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: 6 Jan 1917, Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts

Notes:

His papers, described as "Journal, reports, and printed articles, relating to the development of the Polaris missile and other American naval weapons systems", are at the Hoover Institution. In connection with those papers, the Online Archive of California describes him as "American physicist; chief scientist, Special Projects Office, United States Navy, 1957-1959; chief scientist (ocean systems), Lockheed Missiles and Space Company, 1969-1983."

His page at the Mathematics Genealogy Project is here, where it can be seen that his great-grand-advisor was Felix Klein, of the bottle; one of Klein's two advisors was Rudolf Lipschitz, and one of Lipschitz's grand-advisors was Joseph Fourier.

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William Francis Whitmore and Elizabeth Sherman Arnold were 7th cousins, both being 6XG-grandchildren of Col. John Lane (1661-1715) and Susanna Whipple (1661-1713).

William married Elizabeth Sherman "Bibba" Arnold on 1 Nov 1946. Elizabeth (daughter of George Stanleigh Arnold and Elizabeth Sherman Thatcher Kent) was born on 2 Dec 1915 in San Francisco, San Francisco, California; died on 18 Sep 1992 in Los Altos, Santa Clara, California. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]