Richard FAY (1833-1882)
1 Richard Sullivan FAY1,2 (1833-1882) [11767]. Born 28 Feb 1833.1 Marr Elizabeth Frances BOWDITCH 20 Oct 1858, Boston, MA.1 Died 7 Mar 1882.1
Date of death is listed as either March 5th or 7th, 1882.
From the Times Picayune (New Orleans, LA).
March 18, 1882 - "A Fortress Monroe dispatch announces that Mr. Richard S. Fay, of Boston, shot and killed himself on board the steamer Tennessee while on his passage from Fortress Monroe to New Orleans. Mr. Fay was born in Boston, and was the son of the late Richard S. Fay, the well known manufacturer and capitalist, and grandson of the late Judge Samuel P.P. Fay, of Cambridge. He was educated for Harvard, but, on account of ill health, gave up his studies and went South, where for some years he sojourned, being at one time clerk in a prominent Savannah house. On his return to Boston he entered the banking house of Fay, Mudge & Atwood, and later severed this connection to accept the treasurership of the Middlesex Mills, which corporation has, by reason of his able and judicious management, become one of the most successful manufacturing companies of the world. He was also treasurer of the Lake Superior Iron Company, the Champion Iron Company, President of the Appleton Manufacturing Company and director in a number of other manufacturing, mercantile and banking corporations. He was also director in several charitable associations, and was an active and highly esteemed member of St. Bernard Commandery of Knights Templar. His treasurership of the Middlesex Company covers a period of about twenty five years. Mr. Fay has at intervals during his life traveled extensively abroad. While a young man he married Miss Bowditch, daughter of Nathaniel J. Bowditch and granddaughter of the late Ebenezer Francis. The result of this union was one son, who has just graduated from Harvard. Mr. Fay has been for a long suffering from Bright's disease and went South in a sad physical and mental condition. Some years since he was stabbed by the late Dr, Thayer, of Lowell, but recovered almost entirely from the effects of the wound. He resided on Beacon street. He is said to have amassed a considerable fortune. Boston Post, 11th.".
2 Richard Sullivan FAY1,2 (1806-1865) [9918]. Born 15 Jun 1806, Cambridge, MA.1,2,3 Marr Catharine Saunders PICKMAN 30 May 1832.3 Died 8 Jul 1865, Liverpool, England.1,3,4
From The Fay Genealogy by Orlin P. Fay, 1898.
"RICHARD SULLIVAN FAY - He graduated at Harvard College 1825, was a merchant of Boston and resided here. He had a beautiful summer residence in Lynn, Mass., and was much interested in forestry and landscape gardening. A few items are given from Newhall's History of Lynn concerning his residence there. "In 1847 he purchased the estate (and many acres of adjoining territory) on which was the mineral spring, popularly called the "Red Spring," its waters having a reddish hue. About the century 1600, Dr. John Casper Ritcher Van Crowningshield, the ancestor of the Crowingshiields of Salem, purchased the adjacent lands and settled on them, the celebrated Cotton Mather among others visited him and partook of the waters of the spring, and in one of his elaborate works extols their virtues. The situation is delightful. The little lake which has received the pretty name, "Lynnmore" nestles so cosily and smiles so brightly between thickly wooded hills, that it might be imagined there had been a compact that it should be shielded from the wild winds that should agitate its bosom in return for refreshing exhalations it might send up to renovate the drooping foliage. Upon the western bank which rises gracefully to a considerable height was erected in 1810, the edifice long known as Lynn Mineral Spring Hotel. It was a favorite summer resort and no inland retreat could be more charming. There was fishing in the "Pond," fowling in the woods, and beautiful drives in all directions.
In 1847 Mr. Fay purchased the estate and improved it greatly by planting a great many varieties of rare and beautiful trees, many of them are foreign. England and France are re[presented, the Black Forest of Germany, even Russia and Liberia. There is a pleasing variety of grove and lawn, pasture and arable ground, woodland and meadow, and altogether the landscape is one of uncommon freshness and vigor. In traversing the grounds one is forcibly reminded of feudal days and baronial domains, and if the ivied walls of an ancient castle could be discerned peering from some rocky crest across the lake the illusion might be complete. This beautiful estate is still in possession of the Fays which they continue to improve and beautify. The family leave their city home early in the season to enjoy the loveliness of their beautiful estate, where they remain until late in the autumn. Mr. Fay died in Liverpool, England in 1865, aged 59 years. Mrs Fay was living in 1886."
From the Liberator (Boston, MA).
July 26, 1865 - "Death of Hon. R.S. Fay. Hon Richard S. Fay died at Liverpool on the day of departure of the steamer Africa, which has arrived here last week. It is reported that he was on his way to the steamer, and dropped dead in the street. The deceased was about 60 years old, and a graduate of Harvard College.".
4 Samuel Phillips Prescott FAY2,5,6,7,8 (1778-1856) [4360]. Born 10 Jan 1778, Concord, MA.2,5,6,7 Marr Harriet HOWARD 1801.2 Died 18 May 1856, Cambridge, MA.2,7,9
From the History of Middlesex Co., Massachusetts compiled by D. Hamilton Hurd, 1890.
"Samuel Phillips Prescott Fay, son of Jonathan Fay, of Concord, was born in that own January 10, 1778, and graduated at Harvard in 1803, in the class with John Farrar, James Savage and Samuel Willard. He was admitted to the Middlesex bar in 1803 and first settled at Cambridgeport. He was a councilor in 1818-19, member of the Constitutional Convention of 1820, and an overseer of Harvard College from 1825 to 1852. On the 12th of May, 1821, he was appointed judge of Probate and afterwards lived in old Cambridge until his death, May 18, 1856."
From the Boston Evening Transcript (Boston, MA).
May 20, 1856 - "DEATH OF JUDGE FAY. The venerable Hon. Samuel Phillips Prescott Fay, of Cambridge, died in that city on Sunday last. The deceased was Judge of Probate for Middlesex County for a long term of years, and was a man universally respected and esteemed. He was the disciple of Dr. William E. Channing, Judge Story, Rev. Dr. Tuckerman, and other noted men, having graduated at Harvard in 1798. His age was 78.".
8 Jonathan FAY , Jr.2,5,10 (aft1752-1811) [4358]. Born btw 21 Jan 1752 and 1754, Westboro, MA.2,5 Marr Lucy PRESCOTT 6 Dec 1776.10 Died 1 Jun 1811, Concord, MA.2,6,11
From History of the Town of Concord by Lemuel Shattuck, 1835.
"Jonathan Fay, son of Captain Johnathan Fay of Westborough, who was graduated at Harvard College in 1778, settled in Concord soon after, married Lucy Prescott, and died June 1, 1811, aged 59."
"Lucy Prescott b. April 24, 1757, dau. of Dr. Abel Prescott & his wife, Abigail Brigham of Concord, Mass. Lucy Prescott m. Dec. 6, 1776, Jonathan Fay, Esq., & settled in Concord, where he became distinguished in the profession of the law. He was Representative for Concord in the General Court from 1792 to 1796 inclusive. He was a student of Harvard College at the time it was removed to Concord to avoid the dangers incident to the war. He was the son of Captain Jonathan Fay of Westbrook, Mass., and born on Jan. 21, 1752; grad Harvard Coll. in 1778; read law and settled in Concord, Mass. (ancestors of the two Presidents of the United States, Bush.)"
Researchers note: Based on the Orlin P. Fay data, Jonathan was born January 21, 1754. Shattuck says January 21, 1752.
9 Lucy PRESCOTT2,5,10 (1757-1792) [4359]. Born 24 Apr 1757.2,5 Died 10 Oct 1792.12
5 Harriet HOWARD2,5,8 (1782-1847) [4361]. Born 1782.5 Died 28 Jul 1847, Cambridge, MA.13
3 Catharine Saunders PICKMAN1,3 (1810-1901) [11765]. Born 9 Jul 1810.1,14 Died 26 Nov 1901, Boston, MA.1,14 Buried Pine Grove Cemetery, Lyon, MA.
Sources
| 1 | "The Diary and Letters of Benjamin Pickman (1740-1819) of Salem, Massachusetts by George Francis Dow, 1928". |
| 2 | "Fay Genealogy: John Fay of Marlborough and his Descendants by Orlin P. Fay, 1898". |
| 3 | "The Fay Genealogy by Orlin P. Fay, 1898". |
| 4 | "Death notice of Richard S. Fay in the Albany Evening Journal (Albany , NY), July 25, 1865". |
| 5 | "Information provided by Jeffery H. Lloyd". |
| 6 | "History of the Town of Concord by Lemuel Shattuck, 1835". |
| 7 | "History of Middlesex Co., Massachusetts compiled by D. Hamilton Hurd, 1890". |
| 8 | "Ancestors of George W. Bush *1946 (explanations) by William Addams Reitwiesner". |
| 9 | "Obituary of Judge Fay in the Boston Evening Transcript (Boston, MA), May 20, 1856". |
| 10 | "History of Concord, Massachusetts by Lemuel Shattuck, 1835". |
| 11 | "Massachusetts Town Death Records". |
| 12 | "1920 NY, Steuben, Corning census". |
| 13 | "Death notice of Mrs. Harriet Fay in the Daily Atlas (Boston, MA), August 5, 1847". |
| 14 | "Obituary of Catharine Saunders Fay in the Boston Journal, November 29, 1901". |
