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Albert was a farmer in Hampton Falls, New Hampshire. He and Annie also ran a roadside stand there.

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Note N20172 Index

Fred worked in a shoe factory in Pittsfield, New Hampshire.

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Harry was a shoe factory worker in Haverhill, Massachusetts.

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Albert was a farmer in Holden, Massachusetts. Over the years (according to the Censuses), he lived with his widowed mother, Polly, in Milford, Massachusetts (1850), in Hampton Township, Dakota County, Minnesota (1860), and Holden (1870, 1880). He died from pneumonia.
Albert is buried in Oakdale Cemetery, West Boylston, Massachusetts.

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Arletta was a seamstress. She stayed with, and cared for, her mother until Polly died. In 1860, they were in St. Anthony, Minnesota, with Albina and her family. In 1870, they were in West Roxbury, Massachusetts.

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Edward died from typhoid fever.

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John was "an excellent" machinist. As did his brother-in-law, Albert Hathaway, John and his wife, Cynthia, moved out to Minnesota (to what is now East Minneapolis) in the mid 1850's, where they lived for a few years, before returning to Massachusetts in 1862. The Sioux massacre of settlers in August of 1862 convinced them that it would be best to return to Massachusetts. They lived in Natick, West Boylston, Worcester, and Charlestown, where he continued his trade as machinist.

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Abby was a schoolteacher in the public schools of Boston. She had unusual success in special classes of "rough and unruly" boys at Dudley School. Her sussess can be attrubuted to , first, her background as an active churchwoman of Trinity Methodist Episcopal Church in Charlestown. She taught in the Sunday School, was a class-leader of boys in the evening meetings, and was active in the Woman's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU), King's Daughters, and the Women's Home Missionary Society. A second reason for her success as a teacher was her personal concern for them. She took pains to talk with them about their home life, even going to their homes to tutor them. In the Hapgood History [op.cit.], we learn that, in many cases, "she followed up the boys after they left school, and her wise counsel and substantial aid has kept them on the right road, when otherwise they must have stumbled."

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Melvin's life was cut short, as he died in his early 40's. However, the years he had on Earth were productive.
As a young man, he indicated a fondness for drawing, especially along architectural lines. His parents encouraged him to make a life study of architecture. He began this study in earnest. During his Sophomore, Junior and Senior years at Charlestown High School, he also studied afternoons and evenings at the Massachusetts Normal Art School and at the Lowell Institute Drawing School, besides attending scientfic lectures at the Lowell Institute.
In 1877, after his graduation from high school, he began working as a student in the architectural office of William Gibbons Preston in Boston. This meant that, evenings, he worked at the Massachusetts Normal Art School and the Appleton-street Evening Drawing School, while attending architectural lectures at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). He also taught drawing at the Bird School in South Boston.
After a few years of working for other firms, he went into business for himself about 1885 in Hartford, Connecticut. On 1 January 1890, a partnership was formed, that of Charles C. Cook and Melvin, whose firm was titled Cook, Hapgood & Co., architects and builders. Melvin's cousion, Edward Thomas Hapgood, entered the firm in May 1893. Mr. Cook withdrew in July, leaving the two cousins to operate the fim of Hapgood & Hapgood, architects.
Within 5 years, the two men had designed about 300 buildings, public and private, from Maine to Colorado (Hapgood, THE HAPGOOD FAMILY [op.cit.], 332-333).