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ern Part of Essex County. His great work, to which he 

 gave many years of labor, is "A Memoir of the Prescott 

 Family," in 1 vol., 8vo. 



William Ives, eldest son of Capt. William and Mary 

 (Bradshaw) Ives, was born in Salem, Feb. 15, 1794. 

 He served an apprenticeship in the office of the "Salem 

 Gazette" with the late Thomas C. Gushing. In January, 

 1823, he commenced the "Salem Observer," which assumed 

 a permanent condition under his management. He was 

 also for many years well known as the senior partner of 

 the old firm of W. & S. B. Ives. He retired several 

 years since and has passed the interval in the enjoyment 

 of social life and in reading. He died at his residence in 

 Salem, Dec. 12, 1875. An original member of Essex 

 County Natural History Society, 1833. 



John Merrill Bradbury died at his residence in Ips- 

 wich on Tuesday, March 21, 1876. He was the son of 

 the late Ebenezer Bradbury of Newburyport, formerly 

 State Treasurer, and was born in that city Oct. 29, 1818. 

 He was three years a student in Dickenson College, but 

 did not graduate ; teacher for several years in Newbury- 

 port, then chief clerk in the Treasury Department of the 

 State, and afterwards connected with a banking firm in 

 Boston ; retired from business in 1866 with a competency. 

 In 1868 went to Europe and remained there several years. 

 Mr. Bradbury had a fondness for antiquarian research, 

 and devoted his leisure and time to the history and gene- 

 alogy of many old families of Essex County. He was 

 elected a member Dec. 16, 1873. 



Josiah Stickney. This welb known and for many years 

 active merchant in the metropolis, died at his residence, 

 on the banks of Charles River, Watertown, Monday, 

 March 27, 1876. He was the son of William and Abigail 

 (Walker) Stickney, and was born at Grafton, Vt., Jan. 



