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Augustus Bradford Endicott

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Augustus Bradford Endicott

Birth
Canton, Norfolk County, Massachusetts, USA
Death
21 Nov 1910 (aged 92)
Dedham, Norfolk County, Massachusetts, USA
Burial
Norwood, Norfolk County, Massachusetts, USA Add to Map
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Son of Elijah Endicott and Cynthia Childs. He was a Massachusetts state legislator and sheriff of Norfolk County and was the brother of Charles W. Endicott.
From FAG Vol. Gone too Soon
“Genealogical and Personal Memoirs Relating to the Families of Boston and Eastern Massachusetts” William Richard Cutter Published in 1908
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Augustus Bradford Endicott, son of Elijah Endicott, was born in Canton, September 10, 1818.

He was educated in the public schools and learned the carpenter’s trade, serving an apprenticeship of four years and a half. He removed to Chelsea, when he was twenty-one, and was employed for ten years as a pattern aer in a foundry there.

In 1852, he returned to Dedham, and was appointed deputy sheriff in 1853, serving until August 1885, when he was appointed to serve the unexpired term of Sheriff Wood. He was elected sheriff in November following and re-elected to succeed himseslf at the expiration of each term for ten years. He has been an active citizen of Dedham; selectman twenty years, overseer of the poor and on the board of health for twenty-one years; was president of the Dedham Institution for Savings until the legislature passed a law that no one should hold an office in a savings bank and national bank at the same time; he is now President of the Dedham National Bank; director of the Dedham Mutual Fire Insurance Company. He represented Dedham in the legislature in 1872-74.

Augustus B Endicott married, July 22, 1845, Sarah Fairbanks, daughter of William and Millie Fairbanks, and descendant of the pioneer, Jonathan Fairbanks, of Dedham, ancestor of all of the name in America.

Children:
~ Mary Augusta, died January 25, 1902; Married December 29, 1870, William H Lord: (Children: Chester Bradford Lord, born September 5, 1875; Roger Endicott Lord, born August 11, 1885.)

~ Lizzie Blanche, born August 5, 1849; married August 17, 1881, George H Young; resides in Dedham. (Children: Eleanor Endicott Young, born September 13, 1884; Philip Endicott Young, born December 1, 1885.)

~ Henry Bradford, born September 11, 1853; married 1st May 5, 1876 Caroline Williams Russell; married 2nd Louise Colburn. (Children by 1st marriage: Henry Wendell Endicott; Gertrude Endicott, married November 21, 1901 Eugene Endicott
(Children: Barbara L and George Munroe Endicott)
Son of Elijah Endicott and Cynthia Childs. He was a Massachusetts state legislator and sheriff of Norfolk County and was the brother of Charles W. Endicott.
From FAG Vol. Gone too Soon
“Genealogical and Personal Memoirs Relating to the Families of Boston and Eastern Massachusetts” William Richard Cutter Published in 1908
________________________________

Augustus Bradford Endicott, son of Elijah Endicott, was born in Canton, September 10, 1818.

He was educated in the public schools and learned the carpenter’s trade, serving an apprenticeship of four years and a half. He removed to Chelsea, when he was twenty-one, and was employed for ten years as a pattern aer in a foundry there.

In 1852, he returned to Dedham, and was appointed deputy sheriff in 1853, serving until August 1885, when he was appointed to serve the unexpired term of Sheriff Wood. He was elected sheriff in November following and re-elected to succeed himseslf at the expiration of each term for ten years. He has been an active citizen of Dedham; selectman twenty years, overseer of the poor and on the board of health for twenty-one years; was president of the Dedham Institution for Savings until the legislature passed a law that no one should hold an office in a savings bank and national bank at the same time; he is now President of the Dedham National Bank; director of the Dedham Mutual Fire Insurance Company. He represented Dedham in the legislature in 1872-74.

Augustus B Endicott married, July 22, 1845, Sarah Fairbanks, daughter of William and Millie Fairbanks, and descendant of the pioneer, Jonathan Fairbanks, of Dedham, ancestor of all of the name in America.

Children:
~ Mary Augusta, died January 25, 1902; Married December 29, 1870, William H Lord: (Children: Chester Bradford Lord, born September 5, 1875; Roger Endicott Lord, born August 11, 1885.)

~ Lizzie Blanche, born August 5, 1849; married August 17, 1881, George H Young; resides in Dedham. (Children: Eleanor Endicott Young, born September 13, 1884; Philip Endicott Young, born December 1, 1885.)

~ Henry Bradford, born September 11, 1853; married 1st May 5, 1876 Caroline Williams Russell; married 2nd Louise Colburn. (Children by 1st marriage: Henry Wendell Endicott; Gertrude Endicott, married November 21, 1901 Eugene Endicott
(Children: Barbara L and George Munroe Endicott)


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