Biographical Memoir Of Alpheus Spring Packard, 1839-1905 (1920) - Paperback

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: ALPHEUS SPRING PACKARD 1839-1905 BY T. D. A. COCKERHXL. Alpheus Spring Packard, Jr., zoologist and teacher, Professor of Zoology and Geology in Brown University, was born at Brunswick, Maine, February 19, 1839, and died at Providence, Rhode Island, February 14, 1905. His father, Alpheus Spring Packard, D. D., was Professor of Greek and Iatin at Bowdoin College; his mother was Frances Elizabeth Appleton, daughter of the Rev. Jesse Appleton, president of Bowdoin College. Both the Packards and the Appletons are of English ancestry, but have been in New England since the seventeenth century. Samuel Appleton, born in England in 1624, came to Ipswich, New England, in 1635. Four generations, residing in the same region, come between him and Professor Packard's mother; and the several marriages bring into the stream of inheritance the families Oliver, Baker, Sawyer, Hubbard and Means. The Packards trace their ancestry to Samuel Packard, who came from Windham, England, and died in 1684. His son, Zaccheus, married Sarah Howard, who was brought up in the family of Miles Standish. Their son, Solomon, married Susanna King- man, and their son, Jacob, born in 1720, married Dorothy It has been possible to prepare this memoir only because Mrs Packard, with the greatest kindness, transmitted the materials concerning her husband which she had collected and preserved in four large volumes. She also answered all my questions, and secured information from others. I have thus been able to examine Packard's diaries, and numerous letters and other documents; making a brief summary and abstract of materials which, if fully utilized, would suffice for a book. I am also indebted for information and other assistance to Dr. Charles W. Packard, Mrs. Frances Packard Mc- Clellan, Mr. A. A. Packard, D...