. Representative men and old families of southeastern Massachusetts : containing historical sketches of prominent and representative citizens and genealogical records of many of the old families . ating purposes, and is located in Hartford,Conn., where he has charge of the Federal plant. lie married Lois Dunbar,daughter of Charles Henry Dunbar, of WestBridgewater, and they have two sons, RalphMerriman and Paul Howard. (2) HermanW., born Nov. 10, 1875, a graduate of JohnsHopkins I^Iedical School and the BostonSchool of Technology, is unmarried and re-sides in Boston, where he is a
. Representative men and old families of southeastern Massachusetts : containing historical sketches of prominent and representative citizens and genealogical records of many of the old families . ating purposes, and is located in Hartford,Conn., where he has charge of the Federal plant. lie married Lois Dunbar,daughter of Charles Henry Dunbar, of WestBridgewater, and they have two sons, RalphMerriman and Paul Howard. (2) HermanW., born Nov. 10, 1875, a graduate of JohnsHopkins I^Iedical School and the BostonSchool of Technology, is unmarried and re-sides in Boston, where he is a practicing phy-sician and surgeon. ^ -art -^ JA^[ES HENRY NYE, a successful busi-ness man engaged in the hay and grain tradeat Brockton, of which place he is one of therepresentative citizens, is a member of one ofNew Englands earliest settled families. was born Jan. 21, 1840, in Sandwich,Mass., a descendant of Benjamin Nye, theemigrant ancestor, in the seventh generation. Nye as a family name is said to have made-its first appearance about the middle of thethirteenth century in Denmark. From thattime on and into England the family has beenfollowed by the compiler of the Nye Family,. /W«<^2/?;^ ^f^fe^^^a^^ SOUTHEASTERN MASSACHUSETTS 12135 to which the reader is referred for the eoining to New England in the earlyyears of the seventeenth century of BenjaminNye, the forerunner of this family here inAmerica, it has been a continuous one, manymembers of which have given a good accountof themselves, becoming useful men andwomen in their various communities, and tliemen prominent and influential in various linesof effort and public service. The generationsdown to James Henry Nye follow in chrono-logical order. (I) Benjamin Nye, born May 4, 1620, atBidlenden, Kent, England, came to this coun-try and to Lynn, Mass., in the ship Abigail,with Edmund Freemans Company, 1635. lineage is traced back to Eandolf Nye,who settled in Sussex, England, in 1527,throug
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