126 FACTS RELATING TO GROTON, MASSACHUSETTS. 



ALBERT JONES BELLOWS. 



Albert Jones Bellows was the eldest child of Asahel 

 and Hannah (Valentine) Bellows, and was born at Groton 

 on July 28, 1804. His mother was Hannah, third daughter 

 of WiUiam and Elizabeth (Jones) Valentine, who was born 

 at Hopkinton, on March 25, 1781, and died at Groton, on 

 September 11, 1843. [He graduated at the Harvard Med- 

 ical School in the Class of 1829, and practised his pro- 

 fession at Milford, Salem, Charlestown, and Roxbury. He 

 was married, first, on February 5, 1829, to Pamela Fitch, of 

 Worcester; secondly, to [ ] Cleaves, of Portsmouth, 



New Hampshire ; and, thirdly, to Maria Snow. His death 

 took place in Boston, on December 11, 1869. 



Albert Fitch Bellows, his eldest child, was an artist of some 

 note, and in our boyhood we were schoolmates at Lawrence 

 Academy. The son painted a picture which has been en- 

 graved, and through the reproduction is somewhat famous. 

 The engraving bears the title of " The Village Elms," with a 

 secondary legend of " Sunday Morning in New England," 

 and was copyrighted in 1878. One day on meeting him in 

 the street, out of curiosity I asked if he did not have Groton 

 in mind when he painted the picture, as the view might well 

 apply to many a country village. He replied at once that he 

 did not, but that the scene lay mainly in Hadley. The view 

 represents the coming together or converging of two streets 

 in a country town ; and I am told that one street, the princi- 

 pal one, is supposed to be in Hadley village, and the other 

 in Northampton, before that town became a city, and while 

 it still had a rural aspect. 



WILLIAM NEWCOMB STONE. 



Dr. William Newcomb Stone was a son of Dr. Thomas 

 Newcomb and Hannah (Atwood) Stone, and was born at 

 Truro, on August 7, 1845. He began to attend school at 



