Harriet FAY (1836-1923)
1 Harriet Melusina FAY1,2,3,4 (1836-1923) [9941]. Born 24 Feb 1836, Burlington, VT.2,4 Marr Charles Santiago Sanders PEIRCE btw 16 Oct 1861 and 1863.3,4,5 Div 24 Apr 1883.5 Div. Died 28 Apr 1923, Watertown, MA.6
From the Philadelphia Inquirer.
October 28, 1873 - Mrs Zina Fay Pierce told the women of Boston, lssst week, why they should not want to vote. Among her arguments was the assertion that women could not adhere to party lines, but would follow the dictate of their hearts."
From the Fay Genealogy: John Fay of Marlborough and his Descendants by Orlin P. Fay, 1898.
HARRIET M. FAY (3070) - She was familiarly called "Zina". Author of a book on "Co-operative Housekeeping," also a pamphlet on the "History of the Democratic Party," which Mr. Gladstone had read with great interest. She has also written various articles for the Atlantic Monthly and Music and Art Criticisms for numerous papers in Boston, N.Y. and Chicago. She has written a pretty severe review of "Daniel Derondo." She dislikes George Elliot's "No Religion." She married Charles S. Peirce. She was once an intense Democrat and refused to sit on a platform at a meeting of women with Horace Greely.
Mr. Peirce's father is Prof. Peirce of Harvard College, from which Mr. Peirce graduated in the Class of 1859. He was the author of the "Logic of Relatives" in the memoirs of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences of 1870, and various papers on Logic, published in the proceedings of that academy in the Journal of Speculative Philosophy delivered before the Lowell Institute at Boston, and at Harvard University about 1869, also a memoir on Observations on the Light of Fixed Stars, presented to the American Academy in 1875. He is now (1876) in the service of the United States Coast Survey, engaged in pendulum experiments to determine the density of the earth. (Pierce Family Genealogical Record.)
From the Boston Daily Globe.
April 29, 1923 - "Mrs. Melusina Fay-Peirce, 87, prominent id patriotic movements as a member of the Daughters of the American Revolution, died today at the home of Mrs. Nellie B. Smith, with whom she had lived for Many years. Mrs. Fay-Peirce had long been an invalid.
She was one of the earlier supporters of cooperative housekeeping and had written articles upon that subject. She was instrumental in having preserved in New York, the Edgar Allan Poe House and an old tavern where George Washington is said to have made his farewell address. Funeral services will be held Monday at Mt. Auburn.
Mrs. Fay-Peirce was born in Burlington, Vt. Her father was Rev. Charles Fay, a prominent Episcopalian clergyman of his time, closely identified with Boston. She was married in the sixties to Charles S. Peirce, a scientific man whose specialties were astronomy and mathematics, and who was also identified with the United States Coast Survey. The family hoe was for a time Cambridge, then in Chicago, and later in New York city.
The survivors are four sisters and on brother, those being Mrs. William B. Stone of Cambridge, Miss Amy Fay of New York, Mrs. Theodore Thomas of Cambridge and Mrs. Charles B. Wilmerding of New York, and Charles Norman Fay of Cambridge.".
2 Charles FAY1,3 (1808-1888) [9919]. Born 21 Jul 1808.3 Marr Charlotte Emily HOPKINS 5 Sep 1833, Burlington, VT.3 Marr Sophronia B. ADAMS 9 May 1864.3 Died 6 Nov 1888, New York City, NY.1 Buried Mount Auburn Cemetery, Cambridge MA.1
From the Chicago Tribune.
November 16, 1888 - "Death of a Venerable Episcopal Minister.
The Rev. Dr. Charles Fay, some time a resident of this city, died at the house of Mrs. M.F. Peirce, No 7 East Thirty-first street, New York, the morning of Tuesday, Nov. 6, 1888. He was buried in Mount Auburn Cemetery, Cambridge, Mass, upon the Friday following.
Dr. Fay was born in Cambridge July 21, 1808, and was therefore in his 81st year. He was the son of the Hon. S.P.P. Fay and his wife, Harriet Howard Fay. He was graduated at Harvard - as were his father, grandfather and great-grandfather - in the celebrated class of 1829, of which he was the valedictorian. Among his classmates were the Rev. James Freeman Clarke, Dr. Oliver Wendal Holmes, Prof. Benjamin Peirce, the Rev. Charles F. Smith, the Rev. Samuel May, William Gray, and other noted men, and was the fiftieth of his class to depart this life. Twelve survive, several of whom were present at his funeral. He was married twice; his first wife was a daughter of the Rt. Rev. J.H. Hopkins, Bishop of Vermont, and his second, who survives him, is a daughter of the Hon. Samuel Adams of Grand Isle. He leaves seven children, several of whom were residents of this cit
He was for forty years a successful minister of the Protestant Episcopal Church, chiefly in the Diocese of Vermont, but had long retired from active service.".
4 Samuel Phillips Prescott FAY3,7,8,9,10 (1778-1856) [4360]. Born 10 Jan 1778, Concord, MA.3,7,8,9 Marr Harriet HOWARD 1801.3 Died 18 May 1856, Cambridge, MA.3,9,11
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.3,7,12 (aft1752-1811) [4358]. Born btw 21 Jan 1752 and 1754, Westboro, MA.3,7 Marr Lucy PRESCOTT 6 Dec 1776.12 Died 1 Jun 1811, Concord, MA.3,8,13
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 PRESCOTT3,7,12 (1757-1792) [4359]. Born 24 Apr 1757.3,7 Died 10 Oct 1792.14
5 Harriet HOWARD3,7,10 (1782-1847) [4361]. Born 1782.7 Died 28 Jul 1847, Cambridge, MA.15
3 Charlotte Emily HOPKINS16 (1817-1856) [9934]. Born 4 May 1817, the Hermitage, PA.3 Died 23 Sep 1856, St. Albans, VT.3
6 John Henry HOPKINS3,16 ( - ) [9935]. Marr Melusina MULLER May 1816.16
7 Melusina MULLER16 ( - ) [9938]. Born Hamburg, Germany.16
Sources
| 1 | "Obituary of Rev. Charles Fay in the New York Times, November 7, 1888". |
| 2 | "1880 IL, Cook, Chicago census". |
| 3 | "Fay Genealogy: John Fay of Marlborough and his Descendants by Orlin P. Fay, 1898". |
| 4 | "Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans, 1904". |
| 5 | "MacTutor History of Mathematics". |
| 6 | "Obituary of Melusina Fay-Peirce in the Boston Daily Globe, April 29, 1923". |
| 7 | "Information provided by Jeffery H. Lloyd". |
| 8 | "History of the Town of Concord by Lemuel Shattuck, 1835". |
| 9 | "History of Middlesex Co., Massachusetts compiled by D. Hamilton Hurd, 1890". |
| 10 | "Ancestors of George W. Bush *1946 (explanations) by William Addams Reitwiesner". |
| 11 | "Obituary of Judge Fay in the Boston Evening Transcript (Boston, MA), May 20, 1856". |
| 12 | "History of Concord, Massachusetts by Lemuel Shattuck, 1835". |
| 13 | "Massachusetts Town Death Records". |
| 14 | "1920 NY, Steuben, Corning census". |
| 15 | "Death notice of Mrs. Harriet Fay in the Daily Atlas (Boston, MA), August 5, 1847". |
| 16 | "History of Chuttenden County, Vermont edited by W.S. Rann, 1886". |
