_James BOOKER _______+
| (1723 - ....) m 1747
_Joseph BOOKER ______|
| (1755 - ....) m 1778|
| |_Mercy YOUNG ________+
| m 1747
|
|--Betsy BOOKER
| (1788 - 1863)
| _William MORGRIDGE __
| |
|_Prudence MORGRIDGE _|
m 1778 |
|_Unknown ____________
_Asa CHASE __________+
| (1777 - 1865) m 1799
_Jonathan CHASE _____|
| (1806 - 1835) |
| |_Huldah TOWLE _______+
| (1775 - 1858) m 1799
|
|--Asa CHASE III
| (1826 - 1861)
| _Isaac MESSER _______
| |
|_Mary MESSER ________|
(1806 - 1836) |
|_* __________________
[305] Asa III was crippled when a boy by the felling of a tree on him by his father.
__
|
_James Lorenzo FULLER _|
| |
| |__
|
|
|--John Winslow FULLER
| (1859 - ....)
| __
| |
|_Mary Ann POTTER ______|
|
|__
_Benjamin HIGGINS ___
| (1681 - ....) m 1701
_Thomas HIGGINS _____|
| (1704 - ....) m 1727|
| |_Sarah FREEMAN ______+
| m 1701
|
|--Sarah HIGGINS
| (1740 - ....)
| _____________________
| |
|_Abigail PAINE ______|
m 1727 |
|_____________________
_____________________
|
_Charles A. HOLDEN __|
| m 1880 |
| |_____________________
|
|
|--Elizabeth Sumner HOLDEN
|
| _David Ladd TOWLE ___+
| | (1817 - 1867) m 1847
|_Hattie Libby TOWLE _|
(1859 - 0187) m 1880|
|_Susan S. WRIGHT ____
m 1847
_Taylor SMALL _______+
| (1716 - ....) m 1742
_Ephraim SMALL ______|
| (1759 - ....) |
| |_Mary RIDLEY ________+
| (1726 - 1796) m 1742
|
|--Ephraim SMALL
| (1785 - 1862)
| _____________________
| |
|_Dorcas COOMBS ______|
|
|_____________________
_Jonathan TOWLE _____+
| (1747 - 1822) m 1773
_Daniel TOWLE _______|
| (1779 - 1831) m 1807|
| |_Miriam MARSTON _____+
| (1749 - 1835) m 1773
|
|--Caroline TOWLE
| (1826 - ....)
| _____________________
| |
|_Mary LADD __________|
m 1807 |
|_____________________
[334]
Caroline was but five years of age when her father died, and her home life
was sadly broken by this event. For a few years she remained at home with her
mother, but when the latter went to Farmington, Caroline was distributed among
her relations, stopping first with her grandmother Ladd at Mount Vernon, later
with her uncle Samuel Sprangue in Avon, and for a longer period with one Levi
Johnson, who had married her mothers cousin, Mirian Marston, in Vienna, Maine.
When her mother returned to Avon. Caroline came back to the farm, and taught
school for a time. The life on the small country village was not to her
liking, however, and in 1842, with $20 that she had saved from her summer's
teaching, she started for Boston when only fifteen years of age, without
knowing a person, a street, or a hotel in that great city. On a boat from
Hallowell she became acquainted with a lady who knew some of her people, and
who was in business in Boston. She first secured employment with a Mrs. Frank
Loring as seamstress, but her health failing with close confinement, she
entered the family of Charles Jackson, taking care of the older children and
helping with her needle. With them she remained some years, traveling with the
family in the summer, and enjoying many privilages; but the restless spirit of
the Towles was not satisfied, and when a little over twenty-one she entered
the employ of Damuel S. Houghton, the founder of Houghton & Dutton, now one of
the largest department stores in the country (written in 1903). Her natural
ability early showed itself, and she was soon in practical command of the
forces, taking entire charge of the wholesale department, and carrying on the
business during the absence of Mr. Houghton. Her connection with the firm
continued until her marriage in 1852. She has always lived in Boston.