Ladd Family

Notes from Warren Ladd: He left home at the age of 17 to learn a trade with a relative in the town of Raymond. At the age of 21 he commenced business for himself in a neighboring town. But feeling the necessity of a more thorough education, he soon after concluded to devote himself to the completion of the same, at the Gilmanton Academy. In the Fall of 1838 he came to Boston, and immediately set about obtaining a situation suited to his taste and ambition. The pianoforte business being then comparatively new in this country, he determined to engage in that, and accordingly soon obtained employment in one of the oldest and most respectable establishments. He soon rose to the direction of the most important trust, and was at one time offered a partnership in the firm, which he declined. In 1848 he entered upon his new enterprise. It was at this time that he effected negotiations with Chief Justice Shaw for the erection of a massive and beautiful granite building, for a manufactory and salesrooms of pianofortes. The building was completed in 1848. In a few years it became necessary to enlarge the premises in order to extend his rapidly growing business. The following announcement appeared in Dwight's Journal of Music, Aug 2, 1856: "A W Ladd, Esq., of Boston, Was officially notified by the last mail from Europe that he had been admitted as a brother member of the Grand Imperial Society of Pianoforte Makers of Paris, as a distinctive mark of honor".

Notes from Warren Ladd: He was sent to Phillips Academy at Exeter in 1827, and from there entered Dartmouth College, in the class of 1835. Preferring an active business life to studying for a profession, he prepared for it by a course of training in the counting-room of his late brother-in-law, Samuel E Cowes, and the late Gov J Goodwin, and in 1838 formed a partnership with his brother Charles H Ladd, and with him establish a manufactory of sperm oil, mainly to supply the large cotton mills of the vicinity. On the opening of railroads, some years later, this ceased to be profitable and was given up. In the meantime he had taken an active part in getting up the Portsmouth Steam Factory for the extensive manufacture of lawns, of which he was director. In 1842 he joined in an enterprise for the production of pig iron, which though very successful at first, was in common with with all the iron industries for the country, ruined by the tariff of 1846. He then accepted the position as agent for several of the largest cotton mills in New England, for the purchase of cotton for them at Galveston, TX, in which he spent the cooler months of the year until 1857, when his brother relieved him until 1859. After the war he resumed the work for ten years, and the house, in the hands of his nephew, is still, forty years after its establishment, one of the largest cotton buying houses in Texas.

Oneida Lake environs have reared a lot of rugged outdoors person, sometimes called an "Oneida Laker" in the area's vernacular. For these people, the lake provided a major source of their lives' sustenance and activity. Fish pirates such as Jack Rogers and Jake Kyser fit neatly into the "Laker" category as did Asa Ladd, son of Douglass and Jane Ladd, pioneer settlers of Ladd Point, near Lower South Bay. Born in a logging camp near Brewerton in 1872, Asa Ladd lived by Oneida for all of his 94 years and immersed himself, and his family, in every aspect of the lake's outdoor life. Asa Ladd's son, Marv, has vivid memories of his father, recollections that he shares with a fishing tale zeal that reveals much of the older man's character. The following saga describes one of Asa's memorable ice-fishing adventures.

"In January of 1958, my father had ten tip-up's set off the west end of Frenchman's Island. It was early in the month and the ice was but six inches thick. Rain fell during the previous day and, during the night things froze up and it snowed. One half an inch of snow covered the rain-weakened ice. Whenever possible, dad skated to his fishing spot. That morning, after pulling five walleyes from eight tip-ups, he skated to the next hole, which the rain had enlarged to three feet in width. Down went my father, but he didn't panic; using the line and the metal tip-up, he managed to pull himself onto the ice and roll away from the dangerous hole. He skated home to Muskrat Bay and, when asked what happened, answered 'Nothing exciting -- I'll skate back to fish again tomorrow.' He was then eighty-six years old."

In another outdoor tale, Marv narrated details of a carp netting venture that he, his dad, and his brother, Ernest were involved with in the late 40's. "We were issued a state license to use a carp seine in Oneida Lake, under supervision of game warden Bob Landgraff of Cleveland. One year we took over 88,000 pounds and shipped the fish to New York City, NY. We only received three cents per pound and that barely covered transportation and icing costs. We threatened to stop the netting, but the state, wanting Oneida's carp population to be thinned out a bit, decided to pay us the same price just to net the fish and load them on a truck. They used the carp to fertilize corn fields in state game management areas. Bob's job was to estimate the weight of our catches. One hot summer day the warden viewed our haul and said he'd credit us with four tons of fish. We asked him to help load carp on the trucks and he agreed. After finishing, Bob sat down, exhausted, his back as sore as heck. He then upgraded his estimate to five tons!

Asa Ladd was also an avid duck hunter: Waterfowl pursuit on the lake in the first half of this century was extremely popular, with duck "blinds" dotting the area's numerous points and islands during autumn. On January 23, 1949, a Syracuse newspaper highlighted Ladd's lifetime of outdoor experiences, with particular emphasis on his duck hunting experiences. The article included these excerpts:

"'Never touched a bit of tobacco in my life,' Ladd says in explanation of his present energy. 'That's why I don't get short-winded like these smoking fellers do.' 'I don't drink either,' Ladd continues, 'even when the wind is nippin' cold in the duck blind.' Of exciting experiences, Ladd says he has had none. 'I was shot two to three times on hunting trips and I've fallen through the ice heaven knows how many times, but those tales aren't worth setting dawn,' the rugged outdoor man goes on. When he was shot through the foot on a duck hunting trip he and his companion went on to bring in a wounded duck in a chase by boat before he went for medical aid. 'On the way in I stopped by my father's place to get warm,' Ladd recalled. 'I can remember sitting by the fire and pushing sock lint out of the hole in my foot with a knitting needle, but I wasn't really hurt.' On other occasions shots grazed Ladd's chin and forehead, but again the incidents are barely worth mentioning, according to the victim's own account. Ladd has fallen in the lake during ice fishing seasons, and then continued fishing with his clothes frozen on him. But the only time he ever caught cold, he says, was sitting in the house by the fire when the room was too hot. Today, Ladd will reminisce about some of these 'unexciting' experiences when his children, 16 grand- children and four great-grandchildren gather around far a surprise party. He'll share the spotlight with Mrs. Ladd, who found pansies in bloom in the back yard a few days ago, proving the mildness of the winter."

Today we view Asa Ladd's life as being far from his "unexciting" label, but as Asa that word was appropriate. His experiences were those of an old-time "Oneida Laker", a person in harmony with water in all seasons, a person seldom found by today's lake of high-speed powerboats and snowmobiles and, above all, a person whose wealth exceeded our wildest dreams. 

July-August 1957: "Asa Ladd, 83 years young, his son Marv Ladd and Chuck Rogers, all of Brewerton, recently while netting carp in Oneida Lake ran in to a big one. It was checked at the Brewerton Bait Shop where it tipped the scales at 39 1/2 pounds. Even more amazing, the big fish contained 10 1/2 pounds of eggs. The boys took a lot of future carp out of the lake when they caught that one."

Notes from Warren Ladd: of Dorchester. He was educated at the public schools and the Haverhill Academy. He learned at Gookin and Herbert the trade of woolen machine manufacture and the iron foundry business. He carried on the business for himself for some time, but sold out and entered the employ of E & F Fairbanks, scale manufacturers at St Johnsbury, Caledonia Co, VT where he had charge of three of their shops. He remained with them three years, made some improvement in the movement of levers, obtained a patent for the same, and commenced the manufacture of scales under his patent under the firm name of Ladd & Jameson, Irasburg, VT; sold out his business at Irasburg and removed to Montreal, Quebec, Canada, and entered the employ of Hedge & Boomer as superintendent of their establishment for the manufacture of tools, stove, machinery, etc.; continued with them for nine years and then bought them out and carried on the business for himself for ten years. He was often employed as an expert in cases relating to machinery. While at Montreal he was appointed by the city as one of three commissioners to the great Hyde Park Exhibition in London, in 1851. He has the diploma and medal for services signed by Prince Albert. On Feb 22, 1861 his foundry and machine shops were destroyed by fire, and he sold out what property remained and returned to the US. He accepted a position in the chief engineer's office at the Brooklyn Navy Yard and remained there two years, then he superintended the Essex Felt Mill, NJ, for William Bloodgood, and remained with him and at his brothers factory in Brooklyn six years.

Dictionary of American Biography; Sup #3, 1947: Agricultural educator; born McLean, Tompkins Co. NY., at the farm of his parents, Arnold D. & Mary E. [MINEAH] LADD. He was their second son and the youngest of three children. Both parents were native of Tompkins Co.; his father was descended from Daniel LADD, who came from England to Massachusetts in 1634. Carl attended local schools and at fifteen entered the Cortland Normal School, nearby, from which he graduated in 1907. After a year as school principal in South Otselic, NY, he enrolled in the College of Agriculture at Cornell University. He received a B.S. degree in 1912 but stayed on for graduate study in the department of farm management, specializing in cost accounting under the direction of Prof. George F. WARREN, whose economic ideas he was to share during the agricultural crisis of the early 1930's. He received the Ph.D. in 1915. That year LADD became director of the New York State School of Agriculture at Delhi, one of six regional schools recently established to provide a two-year program in applied agriculture. In 1917 he assumed overall direction of the six schools as specialist in agricultural education in the State Education Department at Albany. Two years later, he became director of the State School of Agriculture at Alfred, NY. LADD returned to Cornell in 1920 as extension professor of farm management. He was made director of extension work for the College of Agriculture and the College of Home Economics at Cornell in 1924.

Carl LADD's career was built upon identification with the interests of New York agriculture. He regarded the extension service as a vehicle for transmitting the needs of the farmer to the college and as an agency for formulating research programs to meet those needs. As director of extension he worked closely with the state's Farm Bureau Federation, using its county units as local bases of operation for the College of Agriculture; through this structure extension specialist were made available to individual farmers for consultation. Under LADD, Cornell also continued its policy of aiding farmer cooperatives such as the Dairymen's League. In 1932 LADD became dean of the colleges of agriculture and of home economics and director of the agricultural experiment station at Cornell. A skilled administrator and mediator, he set up meetings at the college between farmers and the businessmen who supplied their needs. Recognizing the trend toward specialization in agriculture, he altered the focus of extension work from general farming to particular commodities. He also kept Cornell in the forefront of agricultural research, concentrating on such problems as better food packaging, dehydration, and the artificial breeding of livestock. He set up a special interdepartmental research and extension project designed to expand the market for potatoes, an important state product, and encouraged the development of the frozen food industry in New York state. LADD's influence in agricultural matters extended beyond the campus. He had become widely known to the farming public at large through the columns of the American Agriculturist, edited by his close friend Edward R. EASTMAN. Sensitive to the techniques of public relations, he maintained contacts at Albany and Washington and with the newspaper publisher Frank GANNETT. LADD served as secretary of the State Agricultural Advisory Commission under Gov. Franklin D. ROOSEVELT, and later as chairman; he became chairman of the New York State Planning Council in 1936; and was the director of the Federal Land Bank at Springfield, MA, a major source of credit for Northeastern farmers. LADD's reaction to the agricultural program of the New Deal was ambivalent. He supported the Agricultural Adjustment Act as a temporary expedient and recognized the need for government assistance, but objected to the degree of central planning envisaged by the Roosevelt administration. As new federal agencies concerned with the farmer were created, LADD sought with considerable success to have them administered by the existing network of county agents that made up the extension service of the various land-grant colleges. The matter was formalized at a conference in 1938 between representatives of the colleges and the federal Department of Agriculture at which a compromise [the Mount Weather Agreement] was worked out by LADD. LADD was gregarious and outgoing. He had a romantic view of America's rural past, yet it was his conviction that farms should be managed like businesses and their performance measured by business standards. He found relaxation on his own farm near Freeville, NY. On 09 Mar 1912, LADD married Camilla Marie COX of South Otselic, NY, by whom he had one daughter, Elizabeth Marie. Following the death of his first wife in 1917, he married Lucy Frances CLARK of Brandford, VT, on 16 July 1918; they had two sons, Carl Edson and Robert Daniel. In religion, LADD was a Presbyterian. While still active as dean, he died of a coronary attack at Freeville at the age of fifty-five and was buried at McLean, NY.

With Edward R. EASTMAN, LADD wrote a romanticized account of farm boyhood, Growing Up in the Horse and Buggy Days (1943). Biographical sources: Gould P. COLMAN, Education & Agriculture: A History of the NY State College of Agriculture at Cornell Univ. (1963); Ruby Green SMITH, The People's Colleges (1949); Nat. Cyc. Am. Biog., XXXIV, 148; Who Was Who in America, vol II (1950); New York Times obituary, 24 July 1943. LADD's administrative files as director of extension and dean are in the Cornell Univ. Archives.] G.P. COLMAN

University of Montana Library: Few men in the state have experienced a more exciting and at the same time successful career than Mr Ladd. He is a resident of Great Falls and was born in Franklin, Merrimack County, NH, on August 13, 1847. His parents were Dudley and Amanda (Palmer) Ladd, both natives of New Hampshire.

Charles D Ladd was an only son. Up to the age of seventeen he was reared in his native state, receiving his education in the public schools of Franklin and at St Paul's school at Concord, where he was graduated. Following this event he removed to Massachusetts, and in the Spring of 1856, determined to see the great west, he and a companion conceived the plan of enlisting in the army as a means of accomplishing this end. They joined the Thirteenth United States Infantry, which was ordered to the frontier, and came with it up the Missouri river from Leavenworth to the mouth of the Judith river, whence they arrived in July. His regiment was stationed at Camp Cook and Fort Shaw, where it assisted in building those frontier defenses against the Indians. The soldiers were actively engaged in scouting parties which scoured the country, scattering the various bands of hostile Indians, keeping them in motion and too busy to plan attacks. The absolute necessity of the presence of soldiers in those troublous times can only be appreciated by those who were then on the ground. Ranchmen and their families were in continual danger from marauding savages and many a poor fellow was discovered in the cold embrace of death by these scouting parties, with their scalps torn from their heads.

In 1869 Mr Ladd engaged in wood-cutting on the Missouri below the mouth of the Judith. Continuing in this occupation for one year, annoyed considerably by Indians, but suffering no fatalities, he removed to Fort Benton and began freighting and trading with the Indians, these combined occupations being quite remunerative. Large herds of buffalo were roaming at will in the valleys and on the benches. In 1872, he and his two companions were attacked by Indians on Eagle Creek, and after acting on the defensive from daylight until noon of the next day, the Indians withdrew, having succeeded in capturing their horses and killing their oxen. In the Summer of 1873 a squad of Indians from Canada stole some of their horses and ran them safely across the line. In a short time a party of eleven white men and one half breed was organized at Fort Benton to rescue the property, and they followed the Indian's trial for five days, overtaking them at Farwell's trading post. From the post the pursuing party proceeded directly to the Indian camp and began to talk with them. The Indians soon exhibited hostility and were about to attack them when the party opened fire and killed between thirty and forty of the savages. The Fort Benton party lost one member, Edward Grace. After the Indians fled, the successful whites followed the trail for some distance but were compelled to return. The horses were never recovered but the punishment administered by Mr Ladd and his brave companions ended the Indian raids into that country.

Notes from Warren Ladd: She graduated at Vassar College in 1869; taught scientific subjects at various advanced schools for several years; made a number of contributions to mathematical journals and was called to a fellowship at Johns Hopkins University in 1879, (being the only woman upon whom this honor has ever been conferred); held this fellowship three years, during which she made contributions to the American Journal of Mathematics, and wrote a paper on the "Algebra of Logic", which was published in "Studies in Logic by Members of the Johns Hopkins University"; has since contributed original memoirs and reviews to the American Journal of Psychology, Mind (London), the Nation, and Science. In 1887 Vassar College conferred upon her the degree of LL.D, a distinction not hitherto granted to any other of its graduates.

From the Encyclopedia Britannica: "American scientist and logician known for contributions to the theory of colour vision. She earned an A.B. at Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, N.Y., in 1869 and then studied mathematics at Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore. Although she held a fellowship, 1879-82, and fulfilled all the requirements for the Ph.D., she was not awarded the degree until 1926 because at the time of her graduate work the university did not officially recognize women candidates. She taught logic and philosophy at Johns Hopkins from 1904 to 1909 and lectured at Columbia University in New York City from 1910 to 1930. She is probably best-known for her work on colour vision. While studying in Germany in 1891-92, she developed the Ladd-Franklin theory, which emphasized the evolutionary development of increased differentiation in colour vision and assumed a photochemical model for the visual system. Her theory, which criticized the views of Hermann von Helmholtz and Ewald Hering, was widely accepted for a number of years. Earlier in her career, while investigating the problems of symbolic logic, she reduced syllogistic reasoning to an "inconsistent triad" with the introduction of the "antilogism," a form which made the testing of deductions easier. Ladd-Franklin also published numerous papers on mathematics and binocular vision. Her principal works are "The Algebra of Logic" (1883), "The Nature of Color Sensation" (1925), and "Colour and Colour Theories" (1929)."

Written by An Phan, Class of 1999 (Agnes Scott College): Christine Ladd-Franklin was born on December 1, 1847, in Windsor, Connecticut. Her ancestors were prominent in Connecticut and New Hampshire (Green, 121). Christine's father was a merchant; her mother died when she was thirteen years old. In her childhood, Christine dreamed of education. From the ages of twelve to sixteen, she attended school in Portsmouth. Then she was a student at Wesleyan Academy in Massachusetts for two years. Her studies included two years of Greek, a subject in which she was the only female student (Green, 122). She studied at Vassar College in 1866-1867. The lack of funds, however, prevented her return to Vassar. Instead, she taught one semester in Utica, New York, while studying trigonometry as well as the piano, biology, and several foreign languages. She also published an English translation of Schiller's "Des Madchens Klage" in the Hartford Courant (Hurvich, 354). In 1868 she returned to Vassar to continue her studies in languages, physics, and astronomy, but relatively little mathematics. However, by the time she graduated and returned to teaching, she was determined to learn more mathematics. The study of physics strongly aroused her intellectual enthusiasm, but Christine turned to mathematics as an area in which a woman could pursue independent study and develop her scientific creativity. While teaching in Washington, Pennsylvania, in 1871, Ladd-Franklin began contributing to the Mathematical Questions section of the London- based Educational Times (Green, 122). She continued her study of mathematics at Harvard during the following year, under W. E. Byerly and James Mills Pierce. By 1878 she had published several articles in the new American journal, The Analyst, as well as at least twenty mathematical questions or solutions to questions in the Educational Times (Green, 122). In that year she applied for admission to the graduate program at Johns Hopkins University even thought the university was not open to women. Professor J. J. Sylvester, an Englishman who knew her contributions to the Educational Times, urged that she be admitted on a special status and that she be granted a fellowship. While at John Hopkins, Ladd published three papers in the American Journal of Mathematics and wrote a dissertation in the area of symbolic logic. However, as Johns Hopkins would not award degrees to women, she left in 1882 without the Ph.D. On August 24, 1882, she married Fabian Franklin, a member of the Johns Hopkins mathematics faculty,. Even though she did not receive a degree, her dissertation was published in Studies in Logic by Members of the Johns Hopkins University in 1883 (Green, 122). While Christine continued to work in symbolic logic, she also began investigations in the field of physiological optics. She published many papers in this field. Her first paper in 1887, "A method for the experimental determination of the horopter," was a mathematical investigation of binocular vision (Green, 123). In 1892 she discussed her theory of color vision at the International Congress of Psychology in London. She continued publishing on that subject during the next thirty-seven years. Her collected works on color vision, Colour and Colour Theories, was published when she was eighty-one years old. Christine was also an associate editor for logic and psychology for the 1902 Dictionary of Philosophy and Psychology, and she contributed many articles and letters to various newspapers and magazines. Christine Ladd-Franklin worked hard during her life in mathematics and science, but she was also remarkable in other ways. She spent much time, and some of her own money, helping women obtain a graduate education. She was awarded an LL.D. in 1887 by Vassar College, the only honorary degree that college has ever bestowed, and was finally granted a doctorate from Johns Hopkins University at the age of seventy- eight, forty-four years after the completion of her dissertation. On March 5, 1930, Christine Ladd-Franklin died of pneumonia at the age of eighty-two.

The Ladd's can be traced to Norway, A.D. 861. (See Chase's History of Haverhill). They married into the royal families of Norway, Sweden and Denmark. One of them married Estreth, Daughter of the King of Sweyn of Denmark, and came with his brother-in-law, The Danish king, Chanute, to England, and there settled in Kent County. (See "Pelton Genealogy", "Wentworth Genealogy", "The Ladd Family", "Thomas Butler and His Descendants". "Huntoon Genealogy", and "Keary's History of Norway and the Norwegians".

From the NEHGS Register, Volume 38, Page 345: "There is a tradition that Daniel Ladd came from Dartmouth, Devon, England, but it is more likely that he came from the County of Kent or Sussex, as there were Ladd's in those counties as early as 1424, as we find in Berry's History of the County of Kent, Page 342".

Notes from LDS file: b: 1614, Dartmouth, Devonshire, England; d: 7/27/1693, Haverhill, Essex Co, MA; Buried: Pentucket, Haverhill, Essex Co, MA; Married: 1639/1640, Salisbury, Essex Co, MA; Father: Nathaniel Ladd; Mother: Margaret Denwood.

Notes from file: DANIEL LADD, b: Abt. 1615, Ipswich, Suffolk Co., England; d. July 27, 1693, Haverhill, Essex Co., MA.

Notes from Donald L Ladd: Daniel took the oath of Supremacy and Allegiance on 24 March 1633/34, while the ships, the Mary & John of London under Captain Robert Sayres, among them, lay in wait on the River Thames for departure to America. As 24 March 1633 was the last day of the year, at that time on the calendar. Arriving Boston May or early June 1634. His brother Joseph [later of Portsmouth, RI] remained behind to care for the chattel that belonged to Daniel and him. He is purported to have followed in about a weeks time aboard the Hercules.

Notes from John Ladd: Daniel Ladd was born 1613 at his family farm near Deal in Kent County, on the South East coast of England. This is about 7 miles from Dover. Very little is known about his family except his father was a farmer and also operated a fishing boat out of Deal. Daniel had several brothers, all older. Joseph was one year older. In the summer of 1632 his father was lost at sea and his oldest brother became the head of the family. This created an unbearable situation for Daniel and Joseph who had a poor relationship with that brother. The older brother agreed to pay their way to America and gave each 10 pounds to finance the trip. Due to the law, he was responsible for their support and welfare and this removed that responsibility forever. Passage was arranged on the "John and Mary" of London and sailed for New England. The ship made many voyages between 1620 and 1640. On this trip it sailed with the "Clementine and Job", the "True Love", the "Elizabeth Bonaventure", the "Sea Flower", the "Planter", the "Elizabeth and Dorcus", the "Hercules", and the "Neptune". Never having been more than a few miles from the farm, and knowing that staying in England would mean a lifetime of working for their older brother, this was a chance to see new country and become land owners. From the farm they took as much as they were allowed in farm tools, seeds, and feed for their two horses. They also took a large supply of Clothing and weapons as well as staple foods. The ships lay offshore of Massachusetts Bay and docked in Boston. Daniel and Joseph went with friends to Ipswich, MA on the coast about 30 miles from New Hampshire. On January 5, 1637 Daniel was granted 6 acres of land on which he built a dwelling-house. In 1639/40 Daniel married a woman named Ann Moore. They sold their land in Ipswich MA to Henry Kingsbury for 10 pounds on March 31, 1648 and moved to Salisbury MA. Joseph remained in Salisbury the rest of his life and had a large family. On October 29, 1639 Daniel was granted 8 acres in Salisbury and developed the land as they did in Ipswich. After building a cabin Daniel acquired more land, a practice he followed the rest of his life. His first daughter, Elizabeth, was born January 11, 1640, in Salisbury. She married Nathaniel Smith on May 14, 1663. His first son, Daniel Jr. was born July 24, 1642. He lived his entire life in the vicinity of his parents and became prominent in early politics. He married Lydia Singletery, November 4, 1668. Daniels next child was a daughter named Lydia, born April 8, 1645 and was married to Joseph Gage. In the early spring of 1644, he joined a group of men, under the leadership of Rev John Ward, consisted of Daniel Ladd, William White, Samuel Gile, James Davis, Henry Palmer, John Robinson, Christopher Hussey, John Williams, Richard Littlehale, Abraham Tyler, and Job Clement, and moved westward looking for unclaimed land. They formed a town site 50 miles west where the Spicket River emptied into the Merrimac River and named it Haverhill, Essex Co, MA. Each received 10 acres within the town and 100 acres of surrounding area. He moved to Haverhill in 1645 after selling his property in Salisbury. He stayed there the rest of his life. On February 14, 1646, his daughter Mary was born. As Haverhill settled rapidly, he became a dealer in land and added to his land holdings. The rest of his children were born in Haverhill and are as follows: Samuel, born November 1, 1649, married Martha Corliss; Nathaniel born March 10, 1651 and married Elizabeth Gillman; Ezekial born September 16, 1654, and married Mary Folsom; Sarah born November 11, 1657 and married Onesiphorus Marsh. He worked as a farmer and in addition to his land dealings, he served many years as Selectman for the village. In 1659, in partnership with Theophilis Shatwell, he constructed a sawmill on the Spicket River within the town limits. They paid the village 5 pounds a year for the privilege. It was common practice to divide the land between the children before their death because of English Common Law which required a man's estate to go to the eldest son. Daniel gave a farm to each of his sons when they were grown and to each of his daughters when they married. Daniel and his wife died in Haverhill, he on July 27, 1693 at age 90 and she on February 9, 1694.

Notes from Larry Ladd - Daniel LADD was born in 1613 at his family farm near Deal in Kent County on the Southeast coast of England. This was about 7 miles from Dover. Very little is known about his family except [that] his father was not only a farmer but also operated a fishing boat out of Deal. Any historian of Kent will tell you that "fishing boat out of Deal" also probably = "smuggler," with one of the key items in the 17th century being French-processed smoking tobacco. The decadent French court accepted the evil weed long before James I of England. I can't verify the validity of the above account, but the relatives of a young man working on a fishing boat in Deal certainly might consider voyaging to Virginia to grow tobacco, perhaps even before Daniel left for New England.

Found at: http://waynesworld.org/My-Ancestors/PAGE-RUSSELL.htm "In 1675 occurred King Phillip's War, when the inhabitants of Haverhill, though not attacked, were greatly alarmed, and endeavored to protect themselves against the ravages of the hostile Savages. Troopers and militia were furnished with firearms and ammunition by the General Court, and towns were ordered to provide fortifications and garrisons. Daniel Ladd, Peter Ayer and Thomas Whittier were appointed to designate what houses should be garrisoned. Armed scouts were kept on the watch for the enemy day and night during the whole time. As late as 1684 thirty-five troopers were kept constantly on the scout, on the borders of Haverhill, Amesbury and Salisbury, and a foot-company was kept ready for service in each of these towns. Joseph's large, strong house, with its numerous port-holes, so conveniently near the border line of Salisbury and Haverhill, would furnish ample accommodations, not only as a "house of refuge" for the half a dozen families of the neighborhood, but for the troopers constantly on the scout in the out-lying district."

Notes from "The Hamlin Family": He went to Florida, 1833, and accepted a position as clerk in the store of his uncle, John Hamlen, at Magnolia, but afterwards took charge of his uncle's store at Port Leon, on the St Marks river; which town was washed away by the hurricane of 1846. In the following year he settled at Newport, FL, where he became a prominent business man and leading merchant. A plank road was built from Newport to Thomasville, GA, of which he was the principal man. Newport rapidly became the center of business, where he erected a large saw mill, foundry, two hotels, and turpentine works; he owned a steamer which controlled the principal business on the St Marks river. The merchants and planters of middle Florida and southern Georgia purchased their supplies at that period from Newport, and Daniel Ladd controlled the trade. He was a member of the Secession Convention of Florida, 1861, and by his speeches and influence opposed secession and supported the cause of the union. On account of his vast landed interests and many business establishments he remained in the south during the war, and was tendered a high rank in the Confederate army, which he declined on the grounds that he was a northern man, and that his kindred were numerous in New England. His losses by the war aggregated half a million dollars. His mills, foundry, warehouses, etc, at Newport were burned by order of Col Scott, commanding the Union troops, after the surrender of Lee. After the war he continued business at St Marks until his death.

The "Floridian" published the following tribute to his memory: "It is with sincere sorrow that we record the death of this good and true man. For several days he had been suffering a complication of diseases, his system seeming generally to give way, and on the morning of the 22nd last, at his home in Newport, he quietly breathed his last. Few names were more intimately associated with the mercantile interests of middle Florida, and a large portion of southern Georgia, before the war than his, and in everything connected with the welfare and prosperity of the people of Wakulla County, in this state, it was the foremost. For many long years his carried with it the idea of everything that was public spirited, self sacrificing and generous. Indeed, we doubt whether a more generous heart, one more susceptible to all the kindlier emotions of our better nature, ever beat within the breast of man. He was beyond question, one of the very gest men we ever knew, his deeds of charity towards the poor, the distressed and unfortunate being numberless. Notwithstanding the loss of nearly everything by the late war and his own hard struggle to keep himself in business even on a small scale, he seemed to forget his own adverse fortune, and was never satisfied unless helping somebody else along- always ready to share the last crumb of bread with any who asked. In Daniel Ladd we have on of the brightest examples of pure and disinterested friendship and genuine love for his fellow-man that we will ever have presented to us in this too often cold and selfish world-- We close this brief notice with sad hearts, trusting that at no distant day, another pen will do fuller justice to the memory of one whose departure from among us has occasioned such general and heartfelt sorrow. 'Peace to his Ashes'"

Notes from Warren Ladd: When but 16 years old he went to Florida and entered his father's counting-room as clerk, and soon after took charge of the business. After his father's death in 1835 he continued his father's Florida business, and soon became a leading merchant of Middle Florida. He was extensively engaged in the lumbering business, and was the owner of several steam saw-mills and a large iron foundry and machine shop. He was the owner of two steamers, which he employed on the St Marks river, and was a member of the Florida Convention when the State seceded from the Union. The war of the rebellion nearly ruined his business, and when peace came he found himself in much reduced circumstances, but with his usual energy, pluck, and New England push, he worked hard to recover his property and restore his lost fortune, but his health failed.

Notes from John Ladd: On February 22, 1698, Samuel Ladd and Jonathon Haynes, with their eldest sons, Daniel and Joseph, left to bring in hay from a meadow about 3 miles west of town. Both Daniel and Joseph were 20 years old. When returning they were surrounded by Indians and taken prisoner with no chance to defend themselves. Samuel and Jonathon were killed and the two boys taken to an Indian village at Pencock and held captive. Soon after arrival, Daniel was able to escape but was recaptured before he could reach safety. He was bound hand and foot and laid on his back with one foot tied to a tree and kept that way for 14 days. His face was gashed with a knife and black powder placed in the wounds until his face was tattooed black. Those marks never left and was referred to as the "Marked Man". After several years, he did escape and returned to Haverhill where he lived until his death in 1751. On Daniels return to his home he became heir to his father's estate and head of the family. He married and fathered many children.

Notes from Warren Ladd: At the time his father was killed by the Indians, he was captured by them. Chase, in his History of Haverhill, gives an account of his capture, from which we make the following synopsis: "Samuel Ladd was killed by the Indians at Haverhill, Feb 22, 1698, and his son Daniel taken prisoner and carried to Penacook, NH. Soon after reaching Penacook young Ladd made an attempt to escape. He left the wigwam when all were asleep, and had gone but a short distance when it occurred to him that a hatchet might be needed. He returned, and entered the wigwam where a squaw was sick. She noticed him, gave warning, awakened the other Indians, and he was recaptured where his hands were bound and he was laid upon his back, with one foot fastened to a tree. In this condition he was kept fourteen days. As soon as he was bound his face was gashed, powder was inserted into the wounds, and remained there until it became so indented in his flesh that it was impossible to remove it. The dark spots never left his face, and he was often referred to by his descendants as the 'marked man'. Some years after his capture he escaped and returned to Haverhill."

U. S. Senator from North Dakota; born in Starks, Somerset County, Maine, December 13, 1859; attended the public schools and Somerset Academy, Athens, Maine, and graduated from the University of Maine at Orono in 1884; chemist of the New York State Experiment Station, Geneva, N.Y., 1884-1890; dean of the school of chemistry and pharmacy and professor of chemistry at the North Dakota Agricultural College, Fargo, N.Dak.; chief chemist of the North Dakota Agricultural Experiment Station 1890-1916; editor of the North Dakota Farmer at Lisbon 1899-1904; administrator of the State pure-food laws, for which he actively crusaded 1902-1921; president of the North Dakota Agricultural College 1916-1921; elected as a Republican to the United States Senate in 1920 and served from March 4, 1921, until his death in Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, Md., June 22, 1925; chairman, Committee on Public Roads and Surveys (Sixty-eighth Congress); interment in Glenwood Cemetery, Washington, D.C.

Notes from Warren Ladd: At the early age of twenty-three, in 1767, he was captain and part owner of a brig in trade to the West Indies. Later he was a merchant and ship-builder at Exeter, NH, where he rapidly accumulated property. During the Revolutionary War he was interested in several privateers and letters of marquee, and having a reputation for great force of character and sound judgment, was often consulted by the Committee of Safety, and by leading members of the legislature. He was aid on the staff of Gov John Taylor Gilman during his whole fourteen years of consecutive service as Governor of NH, Whence came his title of "Colonel", by which he was always afterwards known. He removed to Portsmouth, Rockingham Co, NH in May 1792 and interested himself mainly in the welfare of that then growing and prosperous town. He was a strong Federalist in politics, and represented the town for several years in the State Legislature. He enjoyed a high credit in England, by the aid of which his business and commerce were largely extended and very profitable; but he suffered severely form the French spoliations prior to 1800, and also by the great fire by which the town was desolated in Dec 1802. But at the time of his death, at the age of 61, he was one of the wealthiest of the many wealthy merchants of Portsmouth.

Notes from the Moffatt-Ladd House Book: Richard C. Storey says: "His greatest contribution to life in Portsmouth was the Portsmouth Aqueduct Company. This carried water 2 1/2 miles through logs from the "warm springs" [that did not freeze in winter] to the city....To demonstrate his skill as an engineer Col Ladd erected a vertical pipe in front of his house and made a mark to which he expected the water to rise. When the water was brought in, it rose to exactly the mark he had made."

MR. LADD'S AMAZING AQUEDUCT - By Charles W. Brewster [Editors Note: C. W. Brewster was a Portsmouth columnist in the mid-1800's. This article includes his opinions and may not reflect current research or current values.] Eliphalet Ladd - Early life - Family - The Hercules - The Archelaus - Buildings - Portsmouth Aqueduct - The challenge - His death and character. SPRING has returned. The face of nature, - in the promise of the swelling bud, in early creeping grass, in the growing warmth of the sunshine, and in the return of the feathered songsters,--now extends invitations for all to come forth, and enjoy those charms which were not lost with Eden. All these the rambler can richly enjoy,--but it is his more peculiar province to walk in the scenes of the past, and thus endeavor to give interest to the existing localities which meet every eye. To say that our present walk is to the Portsmouth Journal office block, in Ladd street, would convey the idea of a very limited ramble, and perhaps of an unsightly termination. But as it takes the circuit of nearly a century to reach the point, some scenes of interest may arise. On the morning of the 25th of January, 1761, the old hotel of James Stoodly, on Daniel street, was burnt on the spot north of the Post Office, where a like structure was afterward reared, and long known as the mansion of Elijah Hall. At the same fire a barber's shop was consumed, and Wiseman Clagett's residence (the Hart house,) in the immediate vicinity, was torn in pieces, his property much damaged and many things stolen. The sight of such a fire was then a rare occurrence - its brilliancy was seen in neighboring towns, and its light shed far out upon the ocean.

Eliphalet Ladd: The Early Years, Between Portsmouth and the Shoals its light shone upon one adventurous boat, in which, before the dawn of day, a young man of seventeen years was bearing to those isles some articles for traffic with the islanders. At the time when a general scarcity prevailed from the failure of crops, and the energies of the young men were aroused to do what they could for a living, this juvenile merchant, then an inhabitant of Exeter, began in this small way his career in the arts of trade. As he looked back upon the illumination from his small craft, little did he then think that his own prosperity and that of the terrified town, were destined in after years to rise together; or that the time would arrive when the largest merchant ship of the last century that the Piscataqua floated, would be passing over the same ocean track, from his own ship yard. But young men have only to expect great things, live accordingly, and they will receive them. In a day or two the adventurer returns with his load of fish, and passes through to Exeter. The events of the next thirty years of his life mostly transpired in that town. In 1772 he married a lady of Berwick whom he met at her brother's house in Portsmouth, Miss Abigail Hill, who was a true helpmeet. To her good management, he used in his latter days to attribute at least three-fourths of his wealth. Ten children were added to their household--William, Henry, Alexander and Eliphalet. Four of his daughters were married. Rev. William F. Rowland, of Exeter, Capt. Samuel Chauncy, John P. Lord, and John Langdon, Jr. of Portsmouth, were their husbands. Two of the children died in youth. When about sixteen, he went with some civil engineers on a professional expedition to Crown Point. At that time Vermont as well as the western part of our own State was a wilderness. The company mistook their way, and were several days in the woods without provisions. At length they were driven to the necessity of eating horse meat and raw pumpkins. The meat relished well, and the pumpkins were as palatable as ripe melons usually are. In after life when the children at his bountiful table were disposed to find fault with any provision, he would remark that if they could but once have an appetite for horse meat or raw pumpkins, no complaint would be heard. In business matters, the thirty years spent at Exeter exhibited all the various changes which are attendant upon men of enterprise, whose motto is, "nothing risk, nothing gain." Three times he regarded himself a man of wealth, and as many times he was reduced to his last dollar, before his removal to Portsmouth in 1792, and to the occupancy of the Tompson mansion near the Academy, which so long bore his name. In the time of the Revolution, Col. Ladd built a twenty gun ship, called the Hercules. The enemy, well posted up in all the movements of the rebels, had a knowledge of the building, and in a Halifax paper was inserted an advertisement, giving notice that a ship of twenty guns, then on the stocks on the Piscataqua, would be sold at auction in Halifax on a day designated. Two British frigates were put on the watch, and the Hercules was captured and sold at Halifax on the very day advertised! He accomplished, what was a marvel in his day, the building of a monster merchant ship of nearly five hundred tons. The Archelaus, the Leviathan of sixty years ago, was built at Exeter, and was three years in being completed. She afterwards became the property of Mr. Scott of Boston, and was lost, we have been told, on Cape Cod. Among the articles received in payment for the ship was a cord of coat buttons, which Col. Ladd, being in the hardware and variety line, no doubt turned to good account. But a stock of one hundred and twenty-eight cubic feet of buttons could not be at once disposed of. Some remained on hand until in the war of 1812 there arose a great demand for bright ball buttons for military use. They were scarce, could not be imported, and an advance of several thousand dollars was at once made on the stock which remained on hand in his sons' store. Among his real estate enterprises was the removal of the large house which now stands on Bridge street, facing Hanover street, from Exeter--also the barn, next south, recently taken down by George Tompson, to give place to his new one. Col. Ladd opened the street which bears his name, and built the block of buildings in which our office is located. At the fire of 1802 the whole block was burned. He immediately rebuilt it, and the eastern tenement which we have occupied for a third of a century, was fitted for a store for his own occupancy. The trap-hatch for taking in his goods is still under our press. He also built the three stores on Market street, from the corner of Ladd street to that now occupied by J. Woodman Moses. Into one of these stores he removed and continued his business until his death. In the erection of that symmetrical structure now used as the Piscataqua Exchange Banking house, he was the principal architect.

The Portsmouth Aqueduct. But what should, more than any of the above matters, keep him in remembrance, is the active part he took in supplying Portsmouth with one of the greatest luxuries we have,--a luxury which few places in the world so liberally enjoy, and of which none can boast a superior quality--pure water. In 1797 a company was formed and incorporated under the name of the "Portsmouth Aqueduct Company." Eliphalet Ladd, Samuel Hill and Thomas Chadbourne were managers, who in person broke the ground at its commencement. They purchased the invaluable springs at the Oak Hill farm, about two and a half miles from Market Square, and in two years the water was brought into town, through logs, and into immediate use in two hundred families. The stock of the company was divided into one hundred shares, and such sums only were assessed as were necessary to commence the work, and the balance of expense paid from the income. The whole direct assessments ever made have amounted to only eighty-two dollars on a share. There were some eight or ten years when the income was devoted to meeting expenses, but for many years it has been so good property that the shares have been sold as high as three hundred dollars. Col. Ladd made a personal survey of the track of the aqueduct from the fountain into town; and so confident was he of his accuracy as an engineer, in leveling, that he erected an upright pipe in front of his mansion, cut it off at a particular height, and said, "thus high the water will rise." When it was let into the logs, it rose exactly to the point he designated, not varying an inch. But it is the real benefit of the public generally, more than the pecuniary benefit to the aqueduct proprietors, that we take into view, when we bring into remembrance those who have bestowed upon Portsmouth blessings which are now many leagues in length, and flow in upon a thousand households every hour. The springs (which from their flowing in winter bore the name of the "warm springs" more than a century before an aqueduct was extended from them,) are inexhaustible--they have never diminished in the least in the greatest drought. An analysis of the water shows it of unsurpassed purity. Who can duly estimate the blessing!

Almost a Duel. Of the sons of Col. Ladd, were William Ladd, the great apostle of peace, and two of our most distinguished and successful merchants, Henry and Alexander Ladd -- gentlemen of education and enterprise, whose impress has been felt upon our public institutions. In the strong party times near the close of the last century, it was almost impossible for any man who took an active part in public affairs to avoid coming in collision with political opponents. Col. Ladd was not disposed to mince matters in such discussions, and drew upon himself the ire of a distinguished ship master, a leader of the opposition, who felt himself so much aggrieved that nothing short of pistols were looked to, to heal the breach. The challenge was borne to Col. Ladd by Gen. Clement Storer. It was presented in due form, in the presence of his son William, whose disposition at that time partook more of the belligerent than of that peace spirit which in his latter days made him conspicuous on both sides of the Atlantic. The challenge was read--the place of meeting designated was the island, that has since become the Navy Yard. Looking up to the second, Col. Ladd said, "Tell Tom -- he is a dirty fellow." "What! do you mean to insult me by such a message," said the dignified General. "And you are another," was the only response. The General withdrew somewhat irritated. After he had retired, young William Ladd, feeling somewhat stirred by the occasion, said, "Father, I'll fight him." Set down, Bill, set down; why, hang the fellow, it is as much as a man's life is worth to go over the river on such a day as this." The meeting did not take place. Col. Ladd died on the 24th of February, 1806, in the sixty-second year of his age. The record of his death is accompanied with a sketch of his character: "Having always led a life of assiduous industry, his example excited the emulation of others, and the industrious were certain of receiving his approbation and encouragement. In sentiment too independent to be biased by flattery, he neither condescended to it himself, nor permitted it in others. Though cautious in the formation of his opinions he was not obstinately tenacious of them, and he adhered to them no longer than they were believed correct. He possessed a degree of fortitude rarely attainable, which enabled him to bear the frowns of adversity without being depressed, and the smiles of prosperity without being elated. Whether success or defeat attended his undertakings, he remained calm and equable, acknowledging in all that befell him the hand of God, and reposing unlimited confidence in the justice of providence. As he was a lover of his country, he extended a liberal hand for the encouragement of all works of public utility; and as he was a professor of the Christian religion, he strove to extend its influence, by discountenancing and repressing vice and irreligion, and by animating others to the practice of piety and virtue." As here we sit, perhaps in the very spot where Col. Ladd once sat devising plans which gave business to those around him,--and from the small pump by our side flows at command that clear stream from a pure fountain several miles distant, brought by him to our chamber recesses--how can we do better than to invite the thousands in Portsmouth when they read this sketch to fill one goblet of that sparkling fluid, and drink with the rambler, "The Remembrance of Col. Eliphalet Ladd."

A history of the Whig party, Robert McKinley, 1814-1881. xvii, 13-377 p. 19 1/2cm.
Boston, Crosby, Nichols & Company, 1859; page 92 - (About the British impressments of Americans during the War of 1812)

"After war was declared against England by the United States, the American sailors thus impressed begged to be excused from serving against their own country, and claimed to be treated as prisoners of war; but such applications were answered with irons and the lash. Authenticated cases of the kind were at the time established.
 
Perhaps all British officers did not carry their contempt of the rights of Americans so far as this; but many did. The impressments of American seamen were continual, notorious, and brutal in manner. Many instances of the kind were certified by authentic proof. Among others, we read of the impressment and conveyance on board of the British man-of-war Brunswick, during the administration of John Adams, of Eliphalet Ladd, John Eddes, and others. One of the press-gang, with a drawn sword, cut Ladd on the forehead, and made a wound of three inches.

Eddes, for claiming to be an American citizen, was whipped with a rope's end until his back was bruised from his shoulders to his hips. Neither to Eddes nor to Ladd was any surgical aid allowed, and the sufferings subsequently experienced from their wounds was most intense. William Savage, impressed at the same time with Ladd and Eddes, was severely beaten by the boatswain's mate, who doubled a rope of about three inches and a half thick, and plied it to his neck, back, face, head, and stomach, until the mate was exhausted, when he gave the rope to one of the marines, who applied upwards of a hundred blows. Savage was awfully mangled,
externally and internally, the infliction being followed with raising of blood. His cruel treatment was for his persistence in claiming to be an American citizen."

Ladd, a professor of political science at UConn since 1964, recently retired as director of the Institute for Social Inquiry and executive director of the Roper Center. One of the University's most prolific writers, Ladd wrote and edited more than 20 books, including a textbook, The American Polity, now in its sixth edition. Many of his articles appeared in the nation's leading newspapers, including The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, the Chronicle for Higher Education, and many others. He commented frequently on politics and was widely quoted in the media.

Everett C. Ladd, Jr., former professor and executive director of the Roper Center, died December 8. "This is a loss not only to me personally and to the University of Connecticut but to the body politic. Everett's contributions to the public dialogue on issues of national policy, through the many books and dozens of commentary pieces he wrote, were often intriguing and always informative," President Philip E. Austin said Wednesday. "His ability to analyze poll results, in all their intricacies, was beyond reproach. I will miss his friendship, and the community will be lessened by the loss of his scholarship and wit."

Robert Smith, vice provost for research and dean of the graduate school, added, "In the social sciences and, especially, political science, Everett Ladd is looked upon as somewhat of a legend. The Roper Center is truly one of our centers of excellence and the University has Everett Ladd to thank for his role in guiding its development for more than two decades."

Under Ladd's leadership, the Roper Center, founded in 1946 by Elmo Roper, has become the premier archive of polling data in the world, with data from more than 14,000 major national and international surveys, and the first-ever online information retrieval system for public opinion data from the United States and abroad. He also expanded the Roper Center's mission with an ongoing publications program, including the bimonthly journal, Public Perspective, the biennial election analyses America at the Polls, and a series of issue-specific monographs.

Burns Roper, son of the founder of the Roper Center and long-time chair of its board, said "the remarkable growth of the center and the recognition it has achieved during the last 20 years is due almost entirely to Everett and the staff he assembled."

Along with his positions at UConn and the Roper Center, Ladd served as adjunct scholar of the American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research in Washington, D.C.

An internationally recognized authority on American public opinion and the role of survey research in democracy, he has been a Fellow of the Ford, Guggenheim, and Rockefeller Foundations, the Center for International Studies at Harvard, the Hoover Institution at Stanford, and the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences in Palo Alto, Calif.

From 1987 through 1995, he was a columnist for The Christian Science Monitor. He also served for a decade as senior editor of Public Opinion magazine, and then for six years as "Opinion Pulse" editor for The American Enterprise magazine. Collaborator and co-author, Karlyn Bowman, said Ladd "was that rare person who could combine scholarly excellence with perceptive insights into the realities of the public policy world. He willingly shared that knowledge with decision makers, students and fellow researchers."

Ladd's recent work went beyond his traditional interests in American political thought, electoral politics and public opinion, with publications such as The Ladd Report: The Surprising News of an Explosion of Voluntary Groups, Activities, and Charitable Donations that is Transforming Our Towns and Cities.
 

Dr. Fred Eugene Ladd, for many years a resident of this city, who held the distinction of being a dentist, physician and a lawyer, also a graduate of the South Bend College of Optics died Thursday in Antrim, NH after being in failing health a long time. He was 67 years of age.

On account of ill health he had been making his home with a dear friend Arthur Frame in Antrim for about three years. Although his health had been failing, his passing comes as a shock to his dear ones and many friends.

He was a talented musician and played several brass instruments as well as the violin. Music was his pleasure and his hobby. For a time he conducted the Y.M.C.A. orchestra. He also played the cornet in bands including the former Harlow's band, Burke's band and the North Easton band.

Dr Ladd passed the Massachusetts medical board and was admitted to the practice of medicine in 1899 while he was in the third year of a four year course of study. He passed the Massachusetts dental board in 1901 and though busy with his medical and dental practice, he began the study of law, and diligently continued at it, notwithstanding the limited time permitted him for the study. He studied under direction of ex-city solicitor W. G. Rowe now Judge Rowe and tried cases in the Superior and lower courts in Plymouth county under power of attorney.

Dr Ladd was a graduate of the South Bend College of Optics, receiving his diploma in 1906. He took a special course of study during his four years at Tufts Medical School of which he was a graduate. He studied two years under the late Dr. Charles H. Foster, a former leading dentist of Brockton. He was also a graduate of the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Boston finishing in 1902.

Dr Ladd was born in Dexter Maine in 1871, a son of Mr. and Mrs. Francis W. Ladd. The family moved to Brockton in 1879. In successfully passing the examination for the Massachusetts bar and being admitted to the practice of law in 1913, Dr. Ladd received many congratulations. At the age of 41 he had accomplished the unusual feat of passing three professional boards in Massachusetts, medical, dental, and legal. His success was especially unusual in view of the fact that he lacked early advantages, being compelled at the age 13, five years after his parents moved to Brockton to go to work in a local shoe factory, because of a serious injury to his father in a dynamite explosion.

When Dr. Ladd entered the shoe factory at Eaton and Terry at 13 he at once entered Brockton evening schools and continued as a pupil in them for five years. His leading studies were chemistry, natural philosophy and physics.

On Nov. 23, 1900 he took as his bride the former Alice Elliot who survives him. He leaves also two daughters Helen L. Ladd of Fall River and Pauline Ladd Lambert of the staff in the business office of the Brockton Daily Enterprise. A brother George Ladd of Everett and a grandson Donald Lambert.

He practiced dentistry and medicine in Brockton until 1926, when he went to Everett and continued his practice there until some years ago when he was obliged to retire on account of ill health.

Yarmouth County Museum Archives, Nova Scotia: Frederick Arthur Ladd was born in Westport, Nova Scotia on 11 December 1858, the son of Bryon P. Ladd and Mary Elizabeth Davis. He married Grace Forrest Brown, the daughter of Charles E. Brown and Azuba Rose, on 20 May 1886. Immediately following their marriage, the couple departed on a trading voyage to Shanghai on board the barque Morning Light, of which Frederick was captain. The couple had two children, Forrest and Kathryn, who were both raised at sea. In 1890 Frederick took command of the barque Belmont and the family continued to travel around the world. Grace was a prolific letter writer, many of which are in the collections of the Yarmouth County Museum and Archives, which detail her life at sea. Frederick's logs, Ladd family photographs, ship portraits and artifacts collected from the family's travels are also in the YCMA's collections.

Rank and Organization: Private, Company H, 22d New York Cavalry. Place and Date: At Waynesboro, Va., 2 March 1865. Entered Service At: Camillus, Onondaga County, N.Y. Birth: Camillus, N.Y. Date of Issue: 26 March 1865.

Earned The Medal of Honor During the Civil War For heroism March 02, 1865 at Waynesboro, VA - During the battle of Waynesboro, Virginia, on March 2, 1865, fourteen soldiers were awarded Medals of Honor. Twelve of the fourteen awards were for the capture of flags of the Confederate Army, and two others were for recovery of a captured standard of the Union force. Private George Ladd earned the Medal of Honor for his capture of a flag of the Confederate Army along with the color bearer and his horse and equipment.

"LEAVING Winchester, Va., on February 27, 1865, General Sheridan began his march to Petersburg, Va., with the intention of destroying the Central Railroad and James River Canal. General Early with a large Confederate force stood ready to oppose and frustrate, if possible, the expedition, and upon learning of the approach of the Federals went into position at Waynesboro, Va. The two armies clashed March 2d. The rain had been pouring in torrents for two days and the roads were bad beyond description ; nevertheless the Union men seemed tireless, although neither they nor their horses could be recognized for the mud which covered them. General Early had at his disposal two brigades of infantry and some cavalry under General Rosser, the infantry occupying breastworks. General Custer was ordered to attack the enemy and, not wanting the Confederates to get up their courage during the delay that a careful reconnaissance necessitated, made his dispositions for attack at once, sending three regiments around the left flank of the enemy, which was somewhat exposed by being advanced from, instead of resting upon, the bank of the river in his immediate rear. "Our general committed an unpardonable error in posting so small a force with a swollen river in its rear and with its flanks wholly exposed," says a Confederate report of General Early's position. General Custer with two brigades, partly mounted and partly dismounted, at a given signal boldly attacked and impetuously carried the enemy's works, while the Eighth New York and the Twenty-second New York Cavalry formed in columns of fours, dashed over the breastworks and continued the charge through the little town of Waynesboro, the Twenty-second supporting the Eighth New York. The Eighth crossed the South Fork of the Shenandoah River-General Early's rear-where they formed with drawn sabres and held the east bank of the stream. The enemy being now pressed by Custer found their retreat cut off, and, completely disorganized, confused, bewildered, threw down their arms. Amidst cheers and hurrahs the victorious Federals surrounded their brave opponents.

The substantial result of this magnificent victory was the capture of the Confederate General Wharton and some 1,800 officers and men, fourteen pieces of artillery, seventeen battle-flags and a train of nearly two hundred wagons and ambulances, including General Early's headquarters wagon, containing all his official papers and records, 1,500 stands of small arms and 800 team horses and mules.

It was a battle where the Eighth New York Cavalry, under the gallant leadership of Major Hartwell B. Compson, earned undying fame. The major himself performed wonderful feats of bravery and set an example which electrified his men and inspired them to deeds of splendid heroism. At the head of his troops who were selected to make the attack, he charged down the highway into Waynesboro. The enemy had five pieces of artillery in the roadway and had thrown up earthworks on each side of the road ; behind these breastworks infantry was posted. He was at the head of his command with a color-bearer on one side and a bugler on the other, when they struck the Confederate forces and a hand-to-hand fight took place. Just then General Early and his staff moved down their front to direct the movement of the Confederate forces.

Coming upon Early's headquarters battle-flag he ordered the bearer to surrender. A fierce fight at close quarters ensued and finally a heavy blow with the sabre knocked his opponent from his horse and the flag was captured.

Breaking through the Confederates, he moved his forces down towards South River and kept up the charge until he reached the bank. Seeing that the enemy were closing in on his rear and that his support did not come up, he crossed the river and found earthworks thrown up on the opposite side from which the enemy could have prevented their crossing had they occupied them. He at once dismounted his men and placed them in the Confederate earthworks. Then when Custer pressed down upon the rebels they were forced to cross the river, where they were ordered to surrender. The result was that when the battle was over Colonel Compson's command alone had taken 800 prisoners five pieces of artillery, 1,500 stands of small arms and eight battle-flags.

Being needed no longer at the ford, Compson, who had noticed the enemy moving their wagon-trains over the mountains by way of Rock Fish Gap, followed with his regiment, overhauled it and captured everything in sight. It was in this action where Second Lieutenant Robert Niven, of Company H, of the same regiment, had a hot encounter with a body of rebels. "I was ordered to pick out five men from my company," says the lieutenant, " to go ahead as an advance guard and we pressed along the narrow, hilly road, densely lined with woods. By this time the atmosphere was quite foggy. I had gotten far in advance of my comrades when suddenly I found myself right in the midst of a wagon-train composed of about ten wagons and a dozen Confederates, commanded by a lieutenant. With a great show of bravery I ordered them to surrender and promised that every one who attempted to escape would be shot on the spot. But they saw that a one-man order to twelve scattered men was practically worthless, when the bushes around there offered such a good opportunity to get away. Consequently, when the regiment came up I had captured not only three or four prisoners, but also two rebel flags, ten army wagons with mules attached, the lieutenant's horse, and all of General Early's official papers."

Second Lieutenant Andrew Kuder, First Sergeant Charles A. Goheen and Sergeant Daniel Kelly of Company G, and also Corporal Henry H. Bickford and Sergeant James Congdon as well as Private John Miller of this same regiment, the Eighth New York Cavalry, were fortunate enough to capture rebel colors in this grand melee.

Rebel flags were also captured in this battle by Privates Peter O'Brien and Warren Carman, of the First New York Cavalry (Lincoln), and Harry Harvey, George Ladd and Michael Crowley of the Twenty-second New York Cavalry. All of above mentioned were awarded the Medal of Honor."

Quoted with some modifications from "The Descent of George Edgar Ladd," p. 39-41: George Edgar Ladd graduated from Harvard with an AB in 1887 and an AM in 1889 having specialized in geology. He initially served as an assistant geologist in the State Geological Survey in Austin, Texas, then went to Jefferson City, Missouri, to participate similarly in the State Geological Survey of Missouri. He served as assistant in geology at Harvard, 1892-4, receiving his Ph. D. in the latter year, during which time he superintended the assembly and display of the Massachusetts mineral and stone exhibit at the Chicago World Fair, 1893. In February 1896 he became chemist for the Georgia Geological Survey at Atlanta, its assistant geologist in April 1896, and in September 1897 he became director and professor of mines and metallurgy (later mining) of the Missouri School of Mines and Metallurgy at Rolla [Now the University of Missouri at Rolla]. Here began a decade of glorious accomplishment, violent controversy, and enormous frustrations, a decade of adulation from friends and of detraction and unrelenting opposition from entrenched enemies. He has left his own account of the matter, including "Against great and unscrupulous opposition I changed a moribund, thirty-year-old country academy of only local importance, into one of the finest technical institutions in America." By 1907 he had enough of politics and controversy, and resigned to engage in mining. This not proving successful, he became in 1908 the first president of what was then the Oklahoma School of Mines [now Eastern Oklahoma State College] at Wilburton, which he "built from the ground up." Here, too, he encountered political interference and graft "on a huge scale" and in 1913 was forced by "intolerable conditions.. .to jump 'out of the frying pan into the fire"'. He accepted the presidency of the New Mexico College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts [now New Mexico State University] near Las Cruces. "There, more of the same, but worse. Four years of it. Whew!" In 1917 he became an economic geologist for the U. S. Bureau of Public Roads in Washington, D. C., serving until his retirement in 1937, and lecturing simultaneously on engineering geology at the University of Maryland from 1921. Quite aside from his career in administration, his professional achievements were substantial. He made a specialty of clays and did important work also on building stone and on quarrying (7); he became the world authority on landslides, subsidence's, rock-falls and fill-failures as related to engineering. He has been called the Father of Soil Dynamics as a result of his 1898 paper on geological phenomena resulting from the surface tension of water.

Notes from Warren Ladd: of San Francisco, CA. He was educated at the high school at Marshall, MI; was engaged in telegraphing in 1856; was prominent in originating and conducting the first overland telegraph between the Atlantic and the Pacific; became general superintendent and manager of all the telegraphs on the Pacific coast in 1865, and retired in 1873, after which he established and successfully developed many other important enterprises, including large land reclamations, electrical manufactures, district telegraphs, and finally the extensive telephone company of the Pacific coast, of which he was President. He opened at San Francisco, Feb 14, 1878, the first regular commercial telephone exchange ever started upon the plan which has since been universally adopted elsewhere.

Notes from Warren Ladd: of New Haven, CT. He lived in Hudson OH from the fall of 1842 to 1850, then removed to Painesville, OH where he lived until 1860, and then was in Western Reserve College from 1860 to 1864; was in business in Painesville, OH, 1864 to 1866; was in Andover Theological Seminary 1866 to 1869; preached in Edinburgh, OH, 1869 to 1871; was pastor of the Spring Street Congregational Church at Milwaukee, Milwaukee Co, WI, 1871 to 1879 and to Yale University as Professor of Philosophy, in 1881. He was the author of several books. The degree of DD was conferred upon him by Western Reserve College in 1880, and the degree of MA by Yale College in 1881.

Submitted By: Misty Flannigan: He is a congregational clergyman of prominence; and professor of philosophy at Yale university since 1881. He is the author of Principles of Church Polity; The Doctrine of Sacred Scripture; Philosophy of Mind; A Primer of Psychology; Psychology, Descriptive and Explanatory; Outlines of Psychological Psychology; Elements of Psychological Psychology; Introduction to Philosophy; and What is the Bible? He has translated Lotze's Philosophical Outlines, from the German.

From the Encyclopedia Brittanica: "...philosopher and psychologist whose textbooks were influential in establishing experimental psychology in the United States. Though he call for a scientific psychology, he nonetheless viewed the role of psychology as ancillary to philosophy. Educated for the ministry, Ladd was pastor of a Congregational church in Milwaukee, Wisc., for eight years before becoming a professor of philosophy at Bowdoin College, Brunswick, Maine (1879-2881). During those years, he began investigating the relationship between the nervous system and mental phenomena and introduced the first study of experimental psychology in the United States. From 1881 to 1905 he was a professor at Yale University, establishing the first American Laboratory in experimental psychology. His main interest, however, was in writing Elements of Physiological Psychology (1887), the first such handbook in English. Because of its emphasis on neurophysiology, it long remained a standard work. His large scale Psychology, Descriptive and Explanatory (1894) is important as a theoretical system of functioning psychology, considering the human being as an organism with a mind purposefully solving problems and adapting the self to its environment."

Notes from "The Hamlin Family": He was educated Kent's Hill Seminary; druggist; Augusta, until 1838; afterwards, Bangor, ME, where he conducted the same business fifteen years; later a successful dealer in corn and flour; he was forty years in business in Bangor; member Whig state committee several years; supported Bell and Everett, 1860; and Gen McClellan for President,1864; Greenbacker; and defeated for congress as Democrat, 1868; elected to congress on "Fusion Ticket", 1878, and re-elected 1880.

Notes from Warren Ladd: His father, imbued with the New England idea of the value of education, furnished him all the facilities at his command by private instruction, in connection with that of the public schools. He was sent to the seminary at Kent's Hill, Me, and was after-wards fitted for college by Rev J H Ingraham, a distinguished scholar and divine. Business affairs obliged young Ladd to suspend the pursuit of his studies, and he engaged himself as an apothecary's clerk in his native town. The six years passed in this establishment, at the capital of the State, afforded him excellent opportunities, not only for mental growth, in a general way, but for making the acquaintance of prominent men, and becoming familiar with the public topics. His capacity for business was early developed, and at the age of 18 he was entrusted with the entire management of an extensive drug and apothecary establishment. Two years later he removed to the city of Bangor, prosecuting the same business there for fifteen years with marked success. Hon Luther Severance, his uncle, the able editor of the Kennebunk journal for a quarter of a century, rendered valuable assistance to him in his business life. Mr. Ladd was one of the pioneers of railroad building in Maine, to which he gave much attention.

U.S. Representative from Maine 4th District, 1879-1883; born in Augusta, Kennebec County, Maine, September 28, 1818; attended the common schools and Kents Hill Seminary; engaged in the drug business in Bangor, Maine; later engaged in the lumber, commission, and wholesale grocery business in Bangor; was also interested in railroad development; elected as a Greenback candidate to the Forty-sixth and Forty-seventh Congresses (March 4, 1879-March 3, 1883); chairman, Committee on Expenditures in the Post Office Department (Forty-sixth Congress); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1882 to the Forty-eighth Congress; died in Bangor, Penobscot County, Maine, January 30, 1892; interment in Mount Hope Cemetery.

Notes from Warren Ladd: His father was an honored missionary of the American Board. His early life was spent largely in the cities of Smyrna and Constantinople. In the former place he resided fifteen years, with a break for two years and a half when he was about seven years of age, which time was spent in visiting this country. At age 17, in 1867, his family returned to this country. He spent one year in Middlebury VT, in preparation for college, and in the fall of 1868 entered Middlebury College, of which his uncle H D Kitchel was president. He led his class through the whole course of four years, and graduated with the Highest honors as valedictorian in 1872. In the fall of the same year he entered the Theological Department of the Yale University, from which he graduated in 1875. In 1875 he received a call to the First Congregational Church of Walton, NY. In July of the same year he delivered the Master's oration at Middlebury College and received the degree of Master of Arts. In 1880 he was elected to the position of foreign superintendent of the American missionary Association and moved to Danbury, CT in Feb 1881. He started his tour of inspection to the West Coast of Africa. He later received a commission to explore the upper waters of the Nile and across the great Atmoor Desert to Khartoum, and then into the heart of Africa. His alma mater conferred upon him the degree of D.D. in 1882, then only in his 32 year. In the Spring of 1883 he accepted the call to the Euclid Avenue Congregational Church in Cleveland, OH

ADDRESS ON CHURCH WORK. BY REV. DR. H. M. LADD. Mr. President, anyone who is at all conversant with the history of this Association knows that it has been intimately allied with all that is most heroic and inspiring in the annals of our country for over thirty years. But, sir, the war was over some time ago, and the enthusiasm, the romance and the poetry that gathered about the emancipated slave at the close of the war are rapidly fading into "innocuous desuetude." Worse than that, the abolitionist, the anti-slavery man, the man who contended for human rights in the political arena before the war, who served as conductor on the underground railway in defiance of iniquitous law, and who afterward shouldered his musket and volunteered for the war out of principle and from loyalty to a great idea, is, alas, either dead or dying. The younger generation do not feel the responsibility of this work as did their fathers who risked life and fortune that the slave might be free. They wrought well in those days, and the results are before us today. They are indeed grand. But the glamour of devotion to a great cause is gone. It has dawned upon the later generation that it is a very prosaic and commonplace sort of work, this trying to make a man out of the black. It has been found a rather slow and tedious process, and it must be confessed that, like other degraded sinners, though more sinned against than sinning he is not altogether lovely. But, sir, it is our privilege not to live in the past alone, heroic as it was, but in the grander present, and to look forward to even a more glorious future. This Association is allied today to a great forward movement, and the Christian young blood in all our churches must be made to thrill again with the magnetic impulses of a new devotion. It is about settled, I think, that the colored man is here to stay; he is a little whiter in spots than he used to be, but he is here to stay. You cannot export him, you cannot blot him out, and you cannot keep him down. "We's a-risin'," is as true of him as of the morning sun. Your faithful work for him in the past is beginning to show itself and bear fruit. It is the nature of this fruit that is the hopeful sign of these latter times. This new phase of the work, this spontaneous adoption of our New England and New Testament polity, should thrill the heart of every loyal Congregationalist who has the new ardor of our denominational life in his veins. We believe in our mission as a church- for I think we may now dare to say church, rather than churches-and we believe in our mission among all races of every color and clime, and now at last our brother in black believes in it too. It is still the appeal of justice that comes to us, it is still the appeal of liberty, but it is liberty in a new form, the liberty our Pilgrim Fathers sought when landing upon the bleak New England shore, "they sought a faith's pure shrine.' That was indeed a great day for the slave when with the bold stroke of his pen Abraham Lincoln broke the shackles from four millions of human beings and set them free. That was physical liberty. It was, however, a greater day for the race, greater as history will yet estimate it, when that band of timid teachers from the North opened their first school for colored children, and the light of Christian learning and intelligence streamed into that darkened South land. That was mental liberty, intellectual liberty. But this, which has now dawned, is, when rightly understood, the greatest day of all, greatest as God estimates greatness, for now at last has the Negro demanded for himself an intelligent ministry, a pure faith, a true church. This is religious liberty; it is ecclesiastical emancipation; it is the appeal of spiritual freedom born of the truth. This, when rightly viewed and fully understood, is the inspiring hour in the history and evolution of this people. That little "Eureka Congregational Church will be a historic church to our children's children. This new movement should appeal to every lover of religious liberty, to every wide-awake, earnest, faithful son of the Pilgrims, to every man who loves his country and his God. From the cotton fields of the black belt, from the mountains of Tennessee and Kentucky, there comes one voice, one appeal. Once more it is the cry of liberty, but now it is the cry of that kind of liberty which alone makes free~ The cry is heard and it is answered. The answer comes from Andover Hill, and the "Andover Band" says, "We are ready." The answer is echoed from Chicago and Oberlin and Yale, and devoted men everywhere are saying, "We, too, are ready." What, then, is wanting? Consecrated money is wanting-dollars that have hearts melted into them, dollars that have patriotism stamped upon them, dollars that have Christianity burning in them- these are wanting! Dollars enough there are-selfish, greedy dollars; pleasure-loving dollars; worldly, Christ less dollars; but thoroughly converted and consecrated dollars are too rare. Shall we of this younger generation deliberately close the opening doors of the kingdom of heaven? No! We are still worthy sons of our fathers, and this new cry of liberty is our opportunity.

Patent Claims: June 6, 1863 - 38,587 - Churn - H. R. LADD, Orwell, Ohio: I claim the shaft, D, sleeve, G, arms, J, and bars, K, when used in combination with the beaters, L. and M, these several parts being constructed, arranged and operated as and for the purpose set forth.

Notes from Warren Ladd: of Providence, RI. He was sent when quite young to an excellent private school, taught by Miss Elizabeth Wood; then to the Parker Street public grammar school; entered the High school Jun 9, 1856, and graduated May 18, 1860. Soon after he entered the wholesale dry goods house of Tucker & Taber, where he remained until July, 1861, when he entered the employ of Fessenden & Baker, editors and proprietors of the New Bedford Mercury, soon after he took charge of it. Oct 22, 1862, the steamers Merrimac and Mississippi sailed from Boston for North Carolina with two regiments, the 3rd and 44th, and joined Foster's command. Soon after their arrival these regiments were in an engagement with the rebel forces, and young Ladd's account of the same was sent home and published in the Boston Journal, and copied in New York papers, before the New York Herald's correspondent got his account in. The first Sunday paper ever published in New England, outside Boston, was an extra Mercury which young Ladd got out to announce the battle of Fredericksburg. Having decided to return to the dry goods business, on Jan 7, 1864 accepted a position with White, Brown & Co, Boston. He later followed interests in the oil regions of West Virginia and southeastern Ohio for two and one half years. In the spring of 1871 he returned to the dry goods business in Providence, RI. He was elected Governor of Rhode Island, May 28, 1889 and 1891.

Notes from Warren Ladd: of New York City, NY. His youth was spent in the towns of Farmington, Auburn, and Brunswick, where he attended academies and high schools and entered Bowdoin College in 1855 graduating the class of 1859. He studied divinity at Bangor and at Yale Theological Schools, and was graduated at the latter seminary in 1863. After teaching one year in New York he supplied the Crombie Church at Salem, and was ordained at Cromwell, CT, where he was pastor till he was called to a position as pastor and teacher in Olivet College, MI. He was later pastor at Romeo MI from 1869 to 1873. He was principal of the New Hampshire State Normal School form that time till 1876. He went to Santa Fe NM where he established the University of New Mexico, the Ramona Indian School, and secured in great part the location and establishment by Congress of the Government Indian School in Santa Fe. He remained ten years as president of the University. He was appointed supervisor of the census for New Mexico by President Harrison and confirmed by the Senate. He resigned his office and located in New York City, NY.

Submitted By: Misty Flannigan: He has held various positions as an educator and clergyman; was pastor and professor in the Olivet college, Mich.; principal of the State Normal school of New Hampshire; president of the First Incorporated university of New Mexico; and rector of Grace church, Jamaica, .N. Y. As an educator he was prominent in founding Indian schools in the southwest, supported by the United States government. He is the author of three books on American History; The War With Mexico; The Story of New Mexico; and The Founding of the Episcopal Church in Dutchess County, N. Y. He has been an editorial writer on The Churchman, and has contributed extensively to current literature.

Notes from Warren Ladd: of Charleston, SC. He enlisted, Oct 18, 1861, from Windsor, and Oct 29 entered Capt M J Smith's camp of instructions at Middlefield. He left Middlefield Dec 4 1861, passed medical examination at Worcester Dec 5 and joined the 15th Mass Regiment at Poolesville, MD, Dec 8 1861, and was assigned to Co I. He participate in every skirmish and battle in which that regiment was engaged throughout the entire memorable Peninsula campaign, and at the second battle of Bull Run, South Mountain, and Antietam. He was wounded at Antietam, Sept 17, 1862, by a minni ball, and on Sept 19 suffered amputation of the right arm near the shoulder. He was discharged from the service Jan 13, 1863, at Antietam Hospital, MD. He reentered the service from South Adams, with appointment as 2d Lt from the War Department, April 28, 1863; refused to enter the Invalid Corps, and was assigned to the 1st N C C Troops, afterwards designated the 35th U S C Troops, organized at Newbern, NC, and mustered int service June 30, 1863. He engaged with the besieging forces at Charleston Harbor, SC in 1863, having charge of alternating details of troops in the erection of parallel fortifications facing the enemy's batteries on Morris Island, and in the construction fo the famous "Swamp Angel" battery under the fire of the enemy, for the bombardment of the city of Charleston. He was promote to 1st Lt Jan 12, 1864. In Feb 1864, his regiment joined the Federal forces at Jacksonville FL and he participated in the battle of Olustee FL, Feb 20, 1864, after a desperate and bloody engagement, the steamer being captured and hastily burned by the enemy, with the dead and many wounded on board. He was confined in rebel prisons at Macon and Savannah, GA and Charleston and Columbia SC, being under fire of Federal forces from the "Swamp Angel" battery from Sept 13 to Oct 5, in the jail yard at Charleston. He mad his escape from rebel prison at Columbia, SC Nov 4 1864 and was recaptured on Nov 9 having been run down by hounds. He was exchanged form the rebel steamer "Fly by Night" off Charleston harbor Dec 10, 1864, and taken to Annapolis, MD. After a leave of absence, he was assigned to special duty by the War Dept at Annapolis, mustering paroled prisoners of war for commutations of rations. He rejoined his regiment at Branchville, SC in June 1865, and was detailed as acting assistant quartermaster and assistant commissary of subsistence until mustered from the service June 1 1866. He was promoted to captain March 1, 1866. After his muster form the service he was employed in the Bureau of Civil Affairs at Headquarters Dept of the South at Charleston, SC and thereafter assigned as chief clerk in the Adjutant General's office at those headquarters. He was subsequently assigned to Freedmens's Bureau in South Carolina. In 1868 he entered the State Treasury office in South Carolina as book-keeper, became chief clerk, and served in that capacity until Jan 1 1871 when he resigned to assume the duties of superintendent and treasurer of the Chronicle Publishing Co, and business manager of the Washington DC Daily Chronicle, which position he resigned in August, 1872. He 1874 he had charge of the assets of the Bank of the State of South Carolina, at Charleston.

"A Haunting Tale" By: Susan Hill Smith, October, 25, 1998: The brown book, published in 1832, has tender pages and a broken cover tied together with a red ribbon by the staff at the Charleston Library Society. Once the ribbon is undone, the volume falls open to a poem by Joseph Brown Ladd, a promising doctor forced to leave his beloved Amanda in Rhode Island until he could establish himself in Charleston after the Revolutionary War. The ghost of a popular Charleston doctor may be searching for his lost love. Legend has it that the spirit of Dr. Joseph Brown Ladd haunts 59 Church St., also known as the Thomas Rose House for the man who built it in 1735. A marker outside the house refers to the ghost story, although it mixes up the doctor's middle and last names. Details of Dr. Joseph Brown Ladd's short, tragic life are found at the beginning of The Literary Remains of Joseph Brown Ladd, M.D., which his sister published years after his death. While Cathy Forrester says she's quite the skeptic when it comes to the supernatural, she does admit to possibly catching a glimpse of an apparition on the staircase one evening. The poem, "Absence," is one of several pieces addressed to Amanda, and while it rings with sadness, the author promises he will return to her one day. "And blest in meeting, both shall live,'' the last line reads. In real life, Ladd never saw Amanda again. He died in November 1786 at the age of 22, killed after a duel with a friend who resented Ladd's growing popularity in Charleston. As the story goes, Ladd spent his final days in a bedroom at 59 Church St., delirious with pain, calling for Amanda. Two centuries later, some say Ladd's spirit still climbs the staircase of the house where he died. The legend of the lovesick poet has persisted for years as one of the Lowcountry's favorite ghost stories. The golden yellow house with green shutters at 59 Church St. certainly doesn't look haunted, though a marker that explains the history of the 263-year-old home alludes to the ghost story. Cathy Forrester opens the door to the piazza on a breezy Saturday morning and leads the way to a back room that used to be part of a carriage house. She explains that her grandparents bought the house in 1941, and after they both died, she moved in with her family in 1988. Forrester says she's a ghost skeptic. Yet, after being pressed several times, she admits that she may have caught a glimpse of an apparition not long after her family moved in, when her teen-age children were much younger. Her husband was out of town that night, and she was trying to put the children to bed on the third floor. She walked back and forth from her son's room to her daughter's room several times, trying to settle them. "I sort of, out of the corner of my eye, thought I saw a figure on the landing ...," she says. "My image was of a man, and not dressed in contemporary clothes. But it was just a split-second thing, and I didn't feel scared or threatened or anything like that." There have been other incidents through the years, including several described to Forrester by her grandmother, Juliette Staats. Visitors staying in the second-floor guest room where the doctor likely died would occasionally arrive at breakfast and ask who was walking up and down the stairs during the night. One family friend told Mrs. Staats that he woke up suddenly, grabbed a sheet of paper and jotted down the letters "JBL." When he asked if the letters meant anything to her, she recognized them as Ladd's initials. Mrs. Staats enjoyed telling such stories and admitted hearing noises herself during the years she and her husband used the guest bedroom as their own. But she also remained something of a skeptic. "If I believed in ghosts," she told the "Today" show in 1986, "I would believe he was a very good friend of the house and sort of protects the house and everyone that's in it." Most Charlestonians are more familiar with Ladd's story as told by Margaret Rhett Martin in her classic 1963 book, "Charleston Ghosts." Ladd met a man named Ralph Isaacs the moment he stepped off the stagecoach in Charleston, according to Martin's story. Isaacs saved the doctor from some unsavory characters, and the two became fast friends. Ladd was good-looking, charming and intelligent. He rented a room at 59 Church St., much to the delight of the two old sisters who lived there, Fannie and Dellie Rose. When he was not home writing love poetry to Amanda, he was in high demand on the Charleston social scene. Isaacs wanted to spend more time with Ladd and grew resentful of the doctor's standing. The two friends argued one night over the performance of an actress in a play, and the disagreement escalated to the point that they traded insults in the Gazette of Charleston. Isaacs called Ladd "as blasted a scoundrel as ever disgraced humanity," according to Martin's account. Fearing his reputation might be damaged, Ladd took the advice of friends and challenged Isaacs to a duel. Yet, when the two confronted each other, Ladd could not follow through. He took his gun and fired in the air. Isaacs, consumed by envy, shot Ladd in both legs below the knees, intending to cripple him. Ladd's friends rushed him to 59 Church St., where the Rose sisters nursed him and watched him grow weaker until he finally died. Martin tells us that the sisters wrote to Amanda urging her to come to Charleston, but her guardian refused to let her come. "He had her watched by day and locked in her room at night," the story says.

The year was 1861, and around the nation's capital anti-Union hostilities were escalating. In response to President-elect Abraham Lincoln's call for troops, a young farm boy from New Hampshire packed his things and headed south. Just days later, en route to the capital and yet to be mustered into the Union Army, 17-year-old Luther Ladd was shot and killed in the streets of Baltimore.

It's a morsel of history largely forgotten, but that day, April 19, 1861, the Alexandria, NH native attained heroic status as the first casualty of the Civil War. "I don't think most people have heard of him," said Ben Shattuck, a member of the Alexandria Historical Society. "There's been some interest in him . . . every now and then his name comes up, but that's about it."

According to Shattuck, though, a small war still rages over Ladd's place of birth. "The Bristol people say he was born in Bristol, and the Alexandria people say he was born in Alexandria," Shattuck said. There is nothing to mark the birth-place in either town, and because Ladd's father reportedly owned farms in both towns, it's difficult to ascertain which one can rightfully claim him, he said. That little piece of controversy, in fact, may be helping to preserve Ladd's memory. The Alexandria Historical Society is currently conducting research to pin Ladd to Alexandria, albeit with little success so far.

Ladd signed up with the Lowell City Guards and, just a week after hostilities commenced at Fort Sumter, boarded a train for Washington to help protect the capital from anti-Union plots. Stopping off in Baltimore, the troops had to ride horse-drawn wagons across the city between railroad lines. "An angry crowd of secessionists tried to keep the regiment from reaching Washington, blocking several of the transports, breaking windows and, finally, forcing the soldiers to get out and march through the streets," the Official Records of the War of the Rebellion states. "What had now become a mob surrounded and jeered the regiment, then started throwing bricks and stones." As chaos took over, Ladd continued marching, until "he fell bleeding on the pavement, and the last words his comrades heard him utter were 'all hail the stars and stripes,' " . John Hanson writes in Historical Sketch of the Old Sixth Regiment of Massachusetts Volunteers.

According to Richard Musgrove, a bullet hit Ladd's thigh, severing an artery. A drunk by the name of Wrench has historically been blamed for the shooting, Guy Lefebvre said. Whitney was killed at about the same time, and several other soldiers were injured. Ladd's name might still ring with familiarity around New Hampshire had he been allowed to rest in his original grave. After a huge funeral in Lowell, Ladd's remains were returned to his hometown. But in 1865, Lowell officials erected the Ladd and Whitney Monument and convinced his family to send the body for burial there.

Time factors and technicalities have also served to steal Ladd's fame. Some historians argue that the war had not officially begun when Ladd was killed. Others disqualify him on the basis that he had not yet been mustered into the Union. For that reason, his name does not appear in the National Archives. Still others bestow the honor on a soldier who was reportedly wounded before Ladd but who died several days later. But Lefebvre, who has studied the Civil War for about 12 years, is convinced that Ladd and Whitney were its first casualties - and has more than a dozen documents to back him up. Harpers Weekly, the nation's largest newspaper at the time, named them as the first, he said, as did the authoritative Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. The government, too, used their names on posters and other recruitment paraphernalia.

Notes from Warren Ladd: When a young man he removed to Exeter, NH. He married Elizabeth, daughter of Hon. John Gilman, of Exeter, NH, who in 1679 "was appointed by the Crown on of the Council for the government of the Province of New Hampshire under Pres. John Cutts and Gov. Cranfield, and was later a delegate to the Assembly and Speaker of the House. Nathaniel Ladd thus became, by his marriage, a member of the leading family of that part of NH. He was implicated in Gove's rebellion against Gov Caufield, was arrested, and on Dec 6, 1683, "was examined before Barefoot, a judge of the special court for the trial of Gove and his associates, for treason, and entered into recognizance, with William and Charles Hilton as his sureties, in L100 for his good behavior and for his appearance at court when called for to answer to the charge of treason". We find no evidence that his case was ever called for trial. In the summer of 1690 an expedition was fitted out in MA with a contingent from NH, to protect the most western settlements, in which Nathaniel Ladd was one of the volunteers form Exeter, NH. On the 22 of Sept the party landed at Maquoit, near Cape Elizabeth, and soon fell into ambush, and in the fight which ensued were compelled to retreat to their vessels. These being aground, the Indians made a bold effort to take them, but after a hard fight they were repulsed, with a loss to the English of eight killed and twenty-four wounded. Of the last was Nathaniel Ladd, who died of his wounds at Exeter, NH Aug 11, 1691.

"The History of Exeter", written by Charles Bell, published in 1888: "Edward Gove of Hampton, who had been a member of the dissolved assembly, distracted by indignation and heated by strong drink, attempted to raise the standard of revolt. He succeeded, however, in enlisting only eight or ten young fellows in his own town and Exeter, who joined him probably in a spirit of adventure, fortified, perhaps, with the idea that they were thus championing the cause of the people. Gove, with his little following, armed with sword and pistol, appeared on horseback in the streets of Exeter, and rode to the sound of the trumpet, into Hampton where they were soon arrested and committed to prison for trial. The hare-brained project never could have endangered the government for a moment, but Cranfield chose to regard it in the most serious light, and without delay issued a commission for a court to try the culprits. Through his attorney general he caused an indictment to be presented to the grand jury against them, for treason, the highest crime known to law. For this offense the prisoners, nine in number, were tried, with indecent haste, little more than a week after the acts complained of were committed; and, apparently, undefended, were found guilty; Gove of the entire offense of treason and the others of lesser offences. Gove was sent to England and imprisoned in the Tower of London for about 3 years, and then was pardoned and returned home. The Exeter men concerned in this escapade were Robert, John and Joseph Wadleigh, sons of Robert Wadleigh, who was a member of the dissolved assembly, Thomas Rollins and John Sleeper and perhaps Mark Baker. They were all permitted by the governor to be set at liberty on giving security to keep the peace, except one of the Wadleigh's, who was detained in prison for more than one year afterwards by the governor, apparently out of ill will for his father. Edward Smith and John Young, both of Exeter, had also been complained of as associated with Gove, but were not indicted. Nathaniel Ladd, likewise of Exeter, acted as the trumpeter to Gove's train, but when the others were captured, made his escape. It is probable that he remained "perda" until after the trial. He put his mettle to a better use a few years later when he fought Maquoit against the hostile Indians, though he received his death wound there." The battle mentioned above was a part of the King Phillip's War. Nathaniel participated in a battle that took place July 1691: An excerpt from the "History of Exeter" regarding Nathaniel's participation in the King Phillip's War.. "In the latter part of the succeeding month of July (1691), an expedition was sent to the eastward against the Indian enemy, under the command of Captain March and others, and landed at a place called Maquoit, near Casco, on the coast of Maine. They were attacked by great numbers of the enemy, and Nathaniel Ladd, an inhabitant of Exeter, who was in the expedition, received a mortal wound, of which he died on the eleventh of August, following."

Statesman Journal, Salem, Oregon: Richard Corrin (Dick) Ladd; May 02, 1939 - August 29, 2003; SALEM - Richard C. (Dick) Ladd, the architect of Oregon's long-term care program and delivery system, died Aug. 29, 2003 in Salem after a valiant battle with cancer. He was 64. He was born on May 2, 1939 in Kalispell, Mont. to John and Betty Ladd. He and his parents moved to Walla Walla, Wash. in 1940 and he attended schools there. He and his parents then moved to LaGrande where he graduated from high school in 1957. Immediately after graduation, he joined the U.S. Navy and served on the fast-attack submarine, the U.S.S. Gudgeon. He left the Navy in 1961. Mr. Ladd married Marda L. Pinkerton in May of 1960 in Walla Walla, Wash. They have two children, Laura and Doug Gosnell of Waldport, Ore. and Michael C. and Stacey Ladd of Salem. Mr. Ladd graduated in 1976 from Oregon State University in Corvallis with a B.A. in experimental psychology and statistics and in 1977 with an M. Ed. in adult education and political science. From 1976 to 1981 he held various positions in the Department of Human Services. Mr. Ladd was the first administrator of the 1981 newly-formed Senior Services Division, Oregon Department of Human Services. It was during this time he developed the still-used long-term care system, leaving a legacy of positive change for seniors and people with disabilities. He was considered a visionary who also could produce results. Through his respected leadership with providers of care, senior advocacy groups, Oregon's disabled population and the Oregon Legislature, he initiated the first Home and Community based Waiver in the United States, thus reducing the Medicaid nursing home population. Through his innovative approach, Oregon was able to serve more people in need of long-term care, with a full array of services directed toward preserving the dignity and quality of life of those served. Throughout Mr. Ladd's more than 20 years of experience in the management of health and social services programs, he proved he could change bureaucracies and bring special interests and politics together for the good of the most frail and needy citizens. Human dignity was the cornerstone of all programs he developed and administered while still being sensitive to the burdens of taxpayers. "I am committed to improving the quality of life for the aged, and physically and mentally disabled," he continued to say in speeches throughout the country. After his tenure as administrator of Senior Services Division, Oregon asked him to chair the Service Integration Task Force. It recommended a sweeping reorganization for all health and social services programs in Oregon and most were implemented. In 1992, Texas recognized his abilities and recruited him to become Commissioner of its Health and Human Services Commission. He was responsible for the coordination of 11 Texas heath and human service agencies with a combined budget of $12 billion Early in 1994, he formed a consulting firm, Ladd & Associates, which specialized in long-term care issues. He was invited to speak and consult throughout the United States and was considered the foremost authority on long-term care issues and how they could work successfully through local and state governments, assisted by special interest organizations and concerned citizens. From mid-1994 to 1997, Mr. Ladd was an adjunct faculty member at the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs at the University of Texas. During this same time period, he also was an adjunct assistant professor with the University's Department of Internal Medicine. From 1995 up to the time of his death, he was co-director of the National Long-Term Care Balancing Project with the Institute for Health Services Research, School of Public Health, University of Minnesota. He was a member of Phi Kappa Phi National Society, on the Board of Director of Oregon's Gerontology Association, a member and on the Board of the National Association of State Unit on Aging, held a variety of offices with the American Society on Aging and was a member of the Executive Committee of the National Academy of State Health Policy. He also was on the Board of Directors of the national concern, Assisted Living Concepts. In addition, he held offices on 11 national committees, all relating to long-term care policy, quality of care and case management. He has published articles and books on these subjects. His textbook, "The Heart of Long-Term Care", is used today by a variety of state governments and in classrooms throughout the nation. Throughout his career, he has received accolades and awards too numerous to mention. However, he was proud of providing in-depth evaluations of the long-term care systems in the states of Washington, Texas, Alaska, Iowa and Wisconsin. Minor evaluations were completed for Wisconsin, Indiana, Arkansas and Nevada. During his illness, he received hundreds of emails and notes stating what an inspiration and teacher he has been and the positive difference he had made in thousands of lives. One statement summed up all the thoughts and feelings that friends and associates had for him: "You have been a giant in the movement for social justice for the elderly in the past century. Your clarity of vision, leadership and determination made a permanent change in the way this nation perceives the rights and opportunities for frail older people. Oregon's older people don't have to fear nursing homes anymore and the movement you implemented is having the same effect across the country." In addition to his wife of 43 years and his children; Mr. Ladd is survived by a brother, John of Omaha, Neb. and a sister, Patricia of Salem. He also leaves five grandchildren and many nieces and nephews. His parents preceded him in death.

From the notes of John Ladd: He had little schooling and spent his youth helping his father on the farm. Farming was his occupation for life. On his 18th birthday his father gave him a farm which he operated, living at home until he married Martha Corliss on December 1, 1674. As a wedding present his father built him a house, next to his own, in the village. On February 22, 1698, Samuel Ladd and Jonathon Haynes, with their eldest sons, Daniel and Joseph, left to bring in hay from a meadow about 3 miles west of town. Both Daniel and Joseph were 20 years old. When returning they were surrounded by Indians and taken prisoner with no chance to defend themselves. Samuel and Jonathon were killed and the two boys taken to an Indian village at Pencock and held captive.

Notes from Warren Ladd: He lived in the West Parish, and his house stood on the spot where the West Parish church now (1889) stands. Chase, in his History of Haverhill, says: "Feb 22d, 1698, this Samuel Ladd, with his son Daniel, and Jonathan Hanynes, with his son Joseph, who lived in the western part of the town, had started that morning with their teams, consisting of a yoke of oxen and a horse each, to bring home some hay which had been cut and stacked the preceding summer in their meadow in the extreme western part of the town. While they were slowly returning, little dreaming of present danger, they suddenly found themselves between two files of Indians, who had concealed themselves in the bushes on each side of their part. There were seven of them on each side, with guns presented and cocked, and the fathers seeing that it was impossible to escape begged for 'quarter'. To which the Indians replied 'boon quarter, boon quarter!' (good quarter). Young Ladd, who did not relish the idea of being quietly taken prisoner, told his father that he would mount the horse and endeavor to escape. But the old man forbade him to make the attempt, telling him it was better to risk remaining a prisoner. He cut his father's horse loose, however, and giving it the lash the horse started off at full speed, and though repeatedly fired at by the Indians, succeeded in reaching home, and was the means of giving an immediate and general alarm. Two of the Indians then stepped behind the fathers and dealt them a heavy blow upon the head. Mr. Haynes, who was quite aged, instantly fell, but Ladd did not. Another of the savages then stepped before the latter and raised his hatchet as if to strike. Ladd closed his eyes, expecting the blow would fall, but it came not, and when he again opened his eyes he saw the Indian laughing and mocking at his fears. Another immediately stepped behind him and felled him at a blow. The Indians, on being asked why they killed the old men, said they killed Haynes because 'he was so old he no go with us', meaning that he was to aged and infirm to travel; and that they killed Ladd, who was a fierce, stern looking man, because 'he to sour'. They started for Penacook, where they arrived with the two boys."

Notes from file: Samuel Ladd was the father of three children born out of wedlock to Elizabeth Emerson, the last two being twins. Children: Dorothy Emerson, b: 10 April 1686 in Haverhill, Essex Co., MA; Infant Emerson, b: 08 May 1691 in Haverhill, Essex Co., MA, d: 10 May 1691 in Haverhill, Essex Co., MA; Infant Emerson, b: 08 May 1691 in Haverhill, Essex Co., MA, d: 10 May 1691 in Haverhill, Essex Co., MA. Elizabeth was subsequently hanged in the Boston Commons after having been convicted of killing her twins. There is no evidence that Samuel assumed any responsibility with respect to Elizabeth and the children. Note for ELIZABETH EMERSON: Elizabeth was the daughter of Michael Emerson and Hannah Webster. She was born January 26, 1665 in Haverhill, Essex County, Mass., and died June 8, 1693 in The Boston Common, Boston, Suffolk Co., Mass. The Records of the Court of assistants of the Massachusetts Bay, Volume I, has an excellent account of the charges and related information regarding Elizabeth Emerson. The Diary of Cotton Mather also has an extended account.

General Ladd came as a young man from Concord, New Hampshire to Hallowell, Maine, where he founded and maintained a large hardware establishment and stove manufactory. It was his life-long business. After the separation of Maine from Massachusetts, in 1819, he was the second to hold the office of Adjutant-General of the State of Maine. He held this office for two terms and during that time organized the militia of that state. In the War of 1812-1814 he was Captain of a militia company from Kennebec County, which marched to Wiscasset for its defense. He was a member of the Congregational Church of Hallowell, when he married Caroline Vinal. All his children, eleven, were born there. He moved from Hallowenn in 1840 to Farmington, Maine, thence to Auburn, Maine, and last to Brunswick, Maine, where in a few years his home was broken up and with his wife he went to live in Kingston, Pennsylvania with his daughter Ellen and her husband, Rev. Henry H. Welles, D. D., until his death.

Notes from Warren Ladd: In the year 1859 he entered the University of Vermont, at Burlington, and there graduated in 1863 with what is called "highest honors", and being among what is termed the "first third" in scholarship. He commenced studying law in 1864 with Hon Daniel Roberts, of Burlington, VT, one of the ablest lawyers in the State; attended the Law School at Albany, NY, in 1865, and in August, 1865, was admitted to the bar in Grand Isle County, VT, and the same Fall was elected on the Republican ticket State Attorney for Grand Isle County. He went west in the Summer of 1866, and located in St Peters, MN, in the practice of law, and at once took a leading position in his profession, practicing with great success, especially in the Supreme Court. He was elected without opposition to the legislature of Minnesota for the session of 1878, and was made chairman of the ways and means committee, and was on of the leading members of the judiciary committee. In 1882 he removed to Minneapolis, and practiced law there. He held the professorship of medical jurisprudence in the medical college at Minneapolis, called the "College of Physicians and Surgeons".

He was educated in the public schools and at Merrimac Academy. Coming to New Bedford in July 1840, he entered the employ of the New Bedford & Taunton Railroad Company as clerk in the freight office; soon promoted to freight agent, and then to general agent at New Bedford. In 1862 he was appointed superintendent of the road, which position he held until 1877. His connection with this road continued from its opening in 1840 to its consolidation with the Boston, Clinton & Fitchburg, a period of about thirty-seven years. Though actively engaged in arduous and responsible duties, he found time for intellectual culture, and by judicious course of reading acquired a general knowledge of scientific, mechanical and economical subjects. He took deep interest in municipal affairs, and gave his influence and active effort to the promotion of every measure which in his judgment promised to increase the growth and prosperity of the city. He was repeatedly called to the service of the city: for five years as member of the Common Council, and one year as its president; for five terms a member of the Board of Aldermen; for several years one of the School Committee. and a trustee of the Free Public Library. Mr Ladd was an early persistent advocate of the introduction of water and one of three commissioners under whose direction the water-works was built. Earnest advocate of the construction of common sewers, introduction of gas, and the purchase of a steam fire engine. For thirty years held the position of Justice of the Peace. For many years was correspondent of the Haverhill Gazette. Was a member of the New England Historic Genealogical Society, the Webster Historical Society, and the Bristol County Historical Society.

Author of The Ladd Family: A Genealogical and Biographical Memoir of the Descendants of Daniel Ladd, of Haverhill, Mass., Joseph Ladd, of Portsmouth, R.I., John Ladd, of Burlington, N.J., John Ladd, of Charles City Co., Va. Published in 1890, this book is the foundation for most research into the Ladd family history.

He was educated at the public schools, prepared for college at Phillips Academy in his native town, and entered Harvard University, Cambridge, at the age of 14. At college he was distinguished for his high flow and buoyancy of spirit, for his fondness for social enjoyment, and by the kindliness of his disposition. These traits of character made him beloved by his comrades, and did not interfere with a full average attention to his studies. He had an honorable appointment in his class when he graduated. His father had in the meantime removed from Exeter, NH, to Portsmouth, Rockingham Co, NH and was extensively engaged in commerce. When William came home one of his father ships was lying at the wharf ready for sea. He applied for permission to go in her as a passenger, and his father, that his son might see something of the world before he entered upon the active duties of life, gave his consent. He embarked, but in a short time his situation as a passenger, without employment, became irksome to him; he cut off the the skirt of his coat to make, as he said, "a sailor's jacket extempore", and though living as an officer, performed the duties of a seaman. In a second voyage he went as mate of the ship. In the next took command as master, and became one of the most successful of his father's captains. He soon became part owner, and for several years sailed ships belonging to himself and a brother. He continued in commercial business until the war of 1812 drove him from the ocean. He then retired to Minot, ME, where his family owned a large tract of land. He purchased the whole of it, built a large house, and began the business of farming and wool-growing with his accustomed energy. Soon he had a flock of six hundred blooded stock, and continued his interest in farming and wool-growing until his death.

Notes from the Moffatt-Ladd House Book: He was the founder of the American Peace Society and was called the "Apostle of Peace". William Lloyd Garrison dedicated a sonnet to him in the first volume of "The Liberator". Ladd's papers on deposit at the Portsmouth Athenaeum cover his early travels as a seaman in his brother's ships and include descriptions of a festive evening at the Czar's palace at St Petersburg. He also wrote about attempting to farm, without slave labor, in South Carolina and Florida, before devoting himself to the peace movement.

Notes from 1913 Harvard University Alumni Directory: Ladd, William Edward, Medicine (not Dental Med.), 42 Gloucester St., Boston MA.

Dr at Boston Children's Hospital.

1920: Dr. William Ladd devises procedures for correcting various congenital defects such as intestinal malformations.

Dr. William Ladd is considered by most to be the father of pediatric surgery and had the first survivor in the world who was born with esophageal atresia and tracheoesophageal fistula.

The First survivor of Esophageal with Distal Tracheoesophageal fistula is a baby girl and patient of Dr. William Ladd ( Father of Pediatric Surgery) in Boston in 1939. Dr. Ladd's patient had a distal fistula and he used a staged approach to the operation. This staged approach means that one part of the operation is disconnecting the fistula from the lower part of the trachea and then feeding the baby by the gastrostomy tube and now letting the baby grow and gain strength for the next part of the operation.

Notes from Warren Ladd: He entered Harvard College in 1862. He enlisted in the 13th New Hampshire Regt, Sept 13, 1862; was appointed and mustered as Sergeant Major, Non Com staff, 13th Regiment NH Vols, Sept 30, 1862; discharged Dec 30, 1862, and promoted to 2d Lt Co K, same regiment and same date; promoted to 1st Lt Co B, same regiment, May 30, 1864; was wounded in the neck, Sept 29, 1864, in action at Fort Harrison, VA; was appointed Captain USV, by brevet for gallant and meritorious service, to date from March 13, 1865.

He was on the staff of Generals Getty, Brooks, Devens, and some others; was commissary of musters, and was highly respected as a man and as an officer. He was mustered out as 1st Lt, June 21, 1865.

After the evacuation of Richmond he was one of the three officers who entered the city before the troops, and while riding down by the river he noticed the sloop of war Patrick Henry (nee Jamestown) on fire, with her flag flying, and that the boat that had set the train to her magazine had just landed. He jumped into the boat and boarded the vessel, hauled down the flag, and with it reenterd the boat and pulled for shore, which he reached as the vessel blew up.

Notes from Warren Ladd: of Portland, OR. Received the advantages only of a common school education, although he for a short time attended the Northfield Seminary. He was quick to learn, but after all did not particularly relish the routine life of a student, and soon abandoned it. At the age of 20 he was employed as freight and passenger agent of the Boston, Concord & Montreal Railroad, and won the confidence and respect of his employers. In 1851 he resigned his position, and, in direct opposition to the advice of parents and employers, he started to seek fortune and fame among the undeveloped territories of the Pacific slope, and he reached Portland the same year, where he accepted a position as clerk and book-keeper for the firm of Wakeman, Dimon & Co, who had sent a stock of goods out here in charge of Mr. Gookin, a junior member of the firm. This gentleman shortly afterwards returned east and Mr. Ladd took charge of their business, and in partnership with C E Tilton, subsequently purchased the interest of the firm, which partnership existed until 1854, when Mr. Tilton withdrew. Mr. Ladd continued the mercantile business until April, 1859, when he sold it to his two brothers and Mr. S G Reed. In April 1859, in partnership with CE Tilton, he established the first banking-house on the north west coast. He served several times as director of the common schools of Portland. He was on of the founders and for years a director of the Portland Academy, and a warm friend of the Willamette University at Salem. He was the senior member of the banking firm of Ladd & Bush, at Salem; a heavy stockholder and director of OSN Company; director in the Oregon City Woolen Mills and the Salem Flouring Mill Co. He held the position of mayor of Portland.

From the notes of Donald L Ladd: William S. moved with his parents in 1830 to Sanbornton Bridge [now Tilton] NH. He came to Oregon in 1851. His wife to be Caroline Augusta ELLIOTT of NH, followed him within a couple of years and they were married (17 Oct) 1854. William S. became a prominent business person having interest in coal mining, Transportation & shipping, and other endeavors. He held the office of Mayor, set up a lending Library, partnered in the LADD and TILTON bank [later know as LADD & BUSH bank] and was the benefactor in other gifts to the City of Portland. There are several areas in Oregon that carry the LADD name in his honor; A road, SW of Portland, a subdivision in Portland and I understood that a glacier on Mt hood was also so named, but I have been unable to find any reference to that in the Geographical Names of Oregon. He and Caroline had seven [7] children, five [5] of which lived to maturity.

A WWII ship was named for William S. LADD of Oregon. The cargo ship, William S. Ladd, was sunk by Kamikaze on Dec. 10, 1944, 11 mi. south of  Dulag, Leyte, P.I.

"Data from the book entitled Merchants, Money and Power The Portland Establishment, 1843-1913 Author - E. Kimbark MacColl with Harry H. Stein: He arrived in Portland, Oregon from Sanbornton Bridge, N. H. (Later Tilton, N. H.) He was paralyzed from waist down after 1877.

William S. Ladd arrived in Portland, Oregon three months after the town's incorporation, in early April, 1851. Coming ashore with a small consignment of liquor, a character reference from his Congregational minister, a hole in his shoe, and cash to survive for two weeks. The 24-year-old Ladd was short on cash but long on ambition and was destined to become a major business and political leader in the territory, believing that Oregon afforded him great opportunity. Ladd was barely covering expenses and hard pressed for money, when he needed to pay property tax. If Ladd could not pay the $6, he could in traditional American fashion dig up and remove two stumps in front of his shop, which he did. Ladd added to his liquor stock by touring valley farms; adding eggs, chickens and other produce. He also became a commissioned merchant selling consigned goods consisting of shaving soap, tobacco, paper, farm tools, blasting powder, and other items. The sweet smell of success came to Ladd after only five months in Portland. Ladd was involved in politics and was elected to the city council in 1853 and chosen mayor in 1854. The gold strike put Ladd heavily into gold-dust transactions with San Francisco and New York banks. In 1854, he found himself extending credit along with other Portland merchants, making loans, receiving deposits and generally functioning as a banker to customers. Never a borrower himself, he loaned money to customers at 1 percent per month, probably standard for the period. If not repaid promptly and fully, Ladd took goods in exchange, or in later years, a piece of property. In 1859, Ladd and his San Francisco associate would form the Ladd & Tilton Bank, destined to become Portland's leading and most profitable financial institution. The bank indispensably advanced Portland's growth and industrialization by providing working capital to many non-mercantile enterprises, especially manufacturing Ladd erected Portland's first brick structure during the summer of 1853. Within 10 years, the group of dedicated Front Street merchants consisting of William S. Ladd, Henry W. Corbett, Cicero H. Lewis and Josiah and Henry Failing, and their families would dominate the economic, political and social life of Portland. All became warm and lasting friends, close-knit, they trusted and respected one another as business people without losing their sharp competitiveness. All of Portland as well as the officials of River View Cemetery were shocked and dumbfounded when the one and only grave robbery occurred. William S. Ladd, one of the founders of the cemetery and one of Portland's leading citizens was buried at River View Cemetery Jan. 9, 1893. On Tuesday morning, May 18, 1897, a gardener noticed the grave of William S. Ladd had been opened, the top lifted off the wooden box, the metal coffin inside had been cut on three sides and the body was missing. Good detective work resulted in discovery of the body on the west bank of the Willamette River, opposite the Meldrum place, off old White House Road (which is now known as Macadam Avenue) and the arrest of the four men involved was made the following Friday. The body and grave marker, which had been taken for identification in ransom demands, were returned to River View Cemetery by a boat launch. Reburial was not sufficient. It was made certain Ladd's remains would never be disturbed again. After the box was closed, the grave was filled with cement instead of earth, and a guard stood by day and night until the concrete hardened.

Notes from Warren Ladd: of Lancaster, NH. He has lived in Dalton, Colebrook, and Lancaster, NH. He fitted for college at Tilton, NH at the NH Conference seminary, and graduated at Dartmouth College in the class of 1855; then taught school at South Danvers (now Peabody) then in Beverly; then studied law in the office of Alfred A Abbott, then district attorney of Essex County, until the Spring of 1858, when he returned home on account of the illness of his mother, which continued for several months and terminated in her death. He then entered the law office of Burns & Fletcher, at Lancaster, NH, where he remained until the April term of court, 1859, when he was admitted to the bar of Coos County, NH and opened a law office, and remained there until Sept 1867, when he removed to Lancaster, NH, and entered into partnership with Ossian Ray, under the name of Ray & Ladd, where they did a large business, as extensive, probably, as any lawyers in the State. After remaining with Mr. Ray three years, he was appointed judge of the Supreme Judicial Court, Oct 1870. On reorganizing the courts in 1874, he was appointed to the bench upon the Supreme Court of Judicature, which was the law court, and consisted of three members. In 1876 the courts were again reorganized and then Mr. Ladd's judicial labor ended. Since 1876 he has been practicing law, mainly in the courts of New Hampshire. He was president of the Siwoogauoch Guarantee Savings Bank of Lancaster, director in the Lancaster National Bank; was a member of the legislature from Lancaster in 1883; trustee of the Holderness School for Boys; was vice-president of the Alumni of Dartmouth College. In June 1887, Dartmouth College, conferred upon him the degree of LL.D

Son of Anna Ladd and Deacon Jonathan Folsom.

Note from file: Nathaniel Folsom was the great-grandson of John and Mary Folsom, who immigrated to America in 1638. Nathaniel was only 14 when his father died. His business life began early with an interest in the lumber field and continued sporadically throughout his life. In 1761 he formed a partnership with his neighbors, the brothers Joseph and Josiah Gilman. "Folsom, Gilman and Gilman" proposed "to keep a general store on a large scale, to build ships, and to carry on foreign commerce." Though the firm lasted only seven years Nathaniel continued in commerce well after that period.

As a young man, Nathaniel Folsom took military training, according to the custom of the time. In 1755, on the Crown Point Expedition of the French and Indian Wars, he commanded one of ten companies which marched through the woods to Albany and on to Fort Edward. His troops, well versed in ranger tactics, surprised the French troops of Baron Dieskau and, with the loss of only six men, dispersed the enemy and seized their baggage and ammunition. Folsom went on to become a colonel in the New Hampshire militia under Royal Governor John Wentworth. His royal commission was revoked when, following the raids at Fort William and Mary in December of 1774, he gathered his troops and marched to Portsmouth to guard the captured cannon and small arms until they could be transported up river to Durham.

He was active in town affairs, too, serving as town meeting moderator and as a delegate to the first Provincial Congress, which met in Exeter on July 21, 1774. This group elected him as one of two delegates to represent New Hampshire at the First Continental Congress in Philadelphia. He was elected to this post two times more in subsequent years, and Exeter continued to send him to the Provincial Congresses.

On May 29, 1775, following the alarm at Lexington and Concord, the New Hampshire Provincial Congress made Folsom commander of the re-organized New Hampshire forces. Meanwhile John Stark, who was at Cambridge with the New Hampshire men, had been named to the same post by the Massachusetts Provincial Congress! This conflict endured until the Continental Army was formed several months later, at which time a third man, John Sullivan of Durham, was appointed to command the New Hampshire forces. Folsom remained commander of troops within New Hampshire, tending to the recruitment of men and the gathering of supplies.

In May, 1775, Folsom was appointed to the New Hampshire Committee of Safety. He became a close political associate of Weare, Peabody and Bartlett. The following January he was elected second justice of the Court of Common Pleas for Rockingham County. When the state constitution was adopted in 1783, he was promoted to chief justice, a post he held until his death on May 26, 1790. Folsom served in several of the State Constitutional Conventions. Elected president pro tempore of the last Constitutional Convention he had the honor of signing the announcement of the adoption of this Constitution in 1783. It is interesting that Folsom was a member of the Constitutional Conventions, for one of the problems this body sought to correct was the plurality of offices held by one man!