Alan FAY (1880-1909)
1 Alan Motley FAY1,2,3,4 (1880-1909) [15032]. Born 23 Oct 1880.1,2 Died 14 Apr 1909, Boston, MA. Cause: Suicide.
From the Duluth News Tribune (Duluth, MN)
April 15, 1909 - "TRAGEDY AFTER THEIR INTERVIEW - Prominent Boston Broker Fires Bullets Through Woman's Window and Suicides.
BOSTON, April 14, - After making an unsuccessful attempt on the life of Miss Alberts, Alan M. Fay, aged 28 years, a prominent broker of this city, today shot himself through the mouth in an alley in the rear of the Hotel Navarre, Columbus avenue, early today and died while being hurried to the hospital.
Fay had spent the evening with Miss Alberts at her home, leaving some time after midnight. He then went to the alley at the rear of the house and fired four shots, three going through the young woman's window, but none reaching Miss Alberts. A policeman who heard the shooting found Fay lying in the alley, bleeding from a bullet wound in the roof of his mouth. Miss Alberts, who is 25 years old, has known Fay about four years and during that time she has repeatedly refused his proposals of marriage, it is said. Last evening after a stormy interview, Fay left Miss Alberts, saying he would never see her again.".
2 Joseph Story FAY II1,2,5,6,7 (1847-1912) [15026]. Born 10 Aug 1847, Boston, MA.1,8 Marr Rebecca Rodman MOTLEY 7 Jun 1870.2 Marr Fidele KOENIG 25 May 1907, Longwood, MA.7 Marr Grace ELY c. 1908.6,8 Died 4 Feb 1912, Boston, MA.8,9 Buried Mount Auburn Cemetery, Cambridge, MA.10
From the Grand Forks Herald (Grand Forks, ND) on November 4, 1887.
MICHIGAN GOLD MINES
Large Plant to be Erected to Develop the Production.
ISHPEMING, Mich., Nov. 4. - Joseph S. Fay, Jr., of Boston, general manager of the Lake Superior Iron Company; W. G. Mather, of Cleveland, of the Cleaveland Iron Mining company, and a number of other prominent iron men who are interested in the gold discoveries, have been in the city for for the past few days lookng over their property on the gold range, seven miles west of this city. It is generally believed that their visit here will result in building mills to treat the gold ore of Lake Superior and Michigan gold mines. The explorations conducted in the Michigan property show that the entire tract is seamed with quartz veins, all containing gold in greater or lesser quantities. The exploring work so far has given very satisfactory results, and the Michigan company's stockholders feel justified in building a large mill. The enlargement to the mill of the Rope's gold mine, now being built, will make that mill one of the largest of its kind in the country.
4 Joseph Story FAY1,11 (1812-1897) [9929]. Born 8 Dec 1812, Canbridge, MA.1,11 Marr Sara Smith BRYANT 22 Sep 1840, Boston, MA.1 Died 17 Jun 1897, Woods Holl, MA.1 Buried Mount Auburn Cemetery, Cambridge, MA.5
From History of Barnstable Co., Mass. edited by Simeon L. Deyo, 1890, we learn of Joseph's involvement with the Church of the Messiah at Woods Holl.
8 Samuel Phillips Prescott FAY1,12,13,14,15 (1778-1856) [4360]. Born 10 Jan 1778, Concord, MA.1,12,13,14 Marr Harriet HOWARD 1801.1 Died 18 May 1856, Cambridge, MA.1,14,16
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.".
9 Harriet HOWARD1,12,15 (1782-1847) [4361]. Born 1782.12 Died 28 Jul 1847, Cambridge, MA.17
5 Sara Smith BRYANT1 (1812-1887) [15025]. Born 21 Sep 1812.1 Died 6 Apr 1887.1
3 Rebecca Rodman MOTLEY1,2 (1849-1905) [15029]. Born 10 Jun 1849, New Bedford, MA.1 Died 1905.8
Sources
| 1 | "Fay Genealogy: John Fay of Marlborough and his Descendants by Orlin P. Fay, 1898". |
| 2 | "Genealogy of the Rodman Family, 1620 to 1886 by Charles Henry Jones, 1886". |
| 3 | "Article on the death of Alan M. Fay in the Duluth News-Tribune , April 15, 1909". |
| 4 | "Article on the estate of Alan Motley Fay in the Boston Journal, April 24, 1909". |
| 5 | "Obituary of Joseph Story Fay in the Boston Journal, June 17, 1897". |
| 6 | "1910 MA, Suffolk, Boston census". |
| 7 | "Boston Daily Globe, May 26, 1907". |
| 8 | "The Harvard Graduate's Magazine, 1911-12". |
| 9 | "Boston Journal, February 6, 1912". |
| 10 | "Boston Daily Globe, February 6, 1912". |
| 11 | "Department of State document dated June 6, 1870". |
| 12 | "Information provided by Jeffery H. Lloyd". |
| 13 | "History of the Town of Concord by Lemuel Shattuck, 1835". |
| 14 | "History of Middlesex Co., Massachusetts compiled by D. Hamilton Hurd, 1890". |
| 15 | "Ancestors of George W. Bush *1946 (explanations) by William Addams Reitwiesner". |
| 16 | "Obituary of Judge Fay in the Boston Evening Transcript (Boston, MA), May 20, 1856". |
| 17 | "Death notice of Mrs. Harriet Fay in the Daily Atlas (Boston, MA), August 5, 1847". |
