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year also he was chief clerk in the oflicc of the Suiicrvisor of the Census for the Capital District
of Illinois. In the autumn of 1880 he became legal secretary to the Railroad and Warehouse
Commission of Illinois, which position he held until Jan., 1883, when he formed his present law
partnership with H. S. Greene and F. W. Burnett.
In 1884 he was a Presidential Elector on the Republican ticket. He married 20 Apr., 1879,
Mary Ellen (dau. of Rev. Abel H. and Jane) Scott. Mrs. Humphrey is a cultured lady. She is
a graduate of the Academy at Jacksonville, 111., and at the time of her marriage was a teacher
at Alton, 111. Her father. Rev. A. H. Scott, is a Baptist minister at Girard, Kan.
Children:
235. I. Mary Etta,' b. 26 Feb., 1880.
236. II. Adelink Maude,5 b. 6 June, 1881.
237. HI. Caroline Gracf.,? b. 3 Sept., 1882.
238. IV. Otis .'^cott,' b. 24 July, 1885.
JAMES HUMPHREY, OF RHODE ISLAND.
I- James" Humphrey was bom at (or near) Providence, R. I., about 1750, and settled
in Rhode Island. He enlisted as a soldier in the war of the Revolution at its beginning, and
served till its close, having been at Valley Forge with Washington, and experienced much danger
and hardship on many other fields. At the close of the war he returned to Rhode Island. He
married Amy Hardy,* of Providence, and resided at Warren, R. I., till after the birth of his two
eldest children, when he removed to and settled in Alstead, N. H., and not long afterward in
Brookfield, Vt., where other children were born to them.
Children:
2. I. Amy,- b. in Rhode Island; m. William Messinger, of Jericho, Vt., and settled on a
farm in the same town, where a family of five children were born to them. On
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the breaking out of the war of 181 2, William Messenger enlisted as a soldier in
the service for five years; was taken prisoner at Buflfalo, N. Y., and died in a
British prison at Halifax. His widow maintained a home, raised her little ones,
and survived till the age of eighty-two years; she died at Jericho, Vt.
James,^ b. 9 Mch., 1780; m. (i) Cynthia Messinger; m. (2) Orpha Dow. Family 2.
Nancy,-' b. at Brookfield, Vt. ; m. Jesse Thompson, of Jericho, Vt. ; both died; had
several children.
WiLi.iAJi.= b. 14 Apr., 1783; m. Betsey Clawson. Fajiii.y 3.
Betsey (or Elizabeth), b. in Brookfield, Vt., 31 Aug., 1789; m. 3 Mch., 1817, Silas
Benham, of Jericho, Vt. They settled and resided all their lives at Jericho, where
she d. 2 Jan., 1837. He d. there, 29 Apr., 1865. Children:
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i. Mdissa C, b. 12 Mch., 1818; m. (i) 11 Nov., 1838, Dennis Rood, of Jericho, Vt. He
died at Milton Falls, Vt., 29 Mch., 1847. She m. (2) at Fort Atkinson, Wis., 29 July,
iisly stated .iNo to bave Ix-on Harden .and H.irdinp.