Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1895-04-03
WHO is MRS. MAVERICK"
In Her Veins mingIes the NobIest
Blood of Our Land.
Great Soldiers, Statesmen. Jurists. Preach
ers and Authors Among Her kinsmen. Gail
HamiIion's Powerful Plea for Justice Long
Delayed.
Boston Traveller.
Who is Mrs. Maybrick?

IHe NcW EHgidnu clergy SnOuiu KNOW
her we'll. She is the great, great grand
daughter of Rev. Benjamin Thurston,
who was graduated from Harvard in IVA,
and setted at Northampton, n. H.. an
efficient preacher of good parts and pleas
ing address. His wife was Sarah Phillips,
the beautiful sister of that John Phillips,
who, born in Andover and dying in Exc
ter founded Phillips Academy in Exeter,
and endowed a professorship in Dart
mouth and contributed literally to Prince
ton. 1t was Sarah Phillips nephew,
Samuel Phillips, who was lieutenant gov
ernor of Massachusetts,, who planned,
founded and organized Phillips Academy
at Andover, of which Andover Theo-
logical Seminary is the outgrowth and
development. To this institution also
Sarah Phillips brother gave first s31, 600
and third interest in his estate; to the
Exeter Phillips Academy, Sl34, 600 The
sermon at the inaugural ceremonies of the
Exeter Academy was preached by Sarah
Phillips husband. Benjamin Thurston,
the grandfather of Mrs. Maybrick' S grand
mother. Mr.. Thurstons charge and the
reply by Mr.. William Woodbridge are in
manuscript in the library of Harvard
first preceptor of Phillips Academy.
The mother of Sarah Phillips, the great
grandmother of Florence Elizabeth May
bricks grandmother, was an English
woman, Elizabeth Green, sister Of the
wife of DR.. John Joy of Boston. From
her the name Elizabeth come down in
regular descent to Mrs. Maybrick. Surely,
Boston should know Mrs. Maybrick.
Maine should know her gratefully. for
Elizabeth-daughter of Benjamin Thurs
ton and Sarah Phillips-married James
Milk Ingraham. The Ingrahams came
early to this country, and Edward Ingra-
ham settled in York, Me His son, Joseph
Holt Ingraham, settled in Falmouth, Me.
He gave to the city of Portland, for its
improvement, property now amounting
to millions-beautiful State street and
the market, the property of the high
school and much more. OF the lngraham
family was the wife of Philander Chase,
the first bishop of Illinois, uncle of Salmon
p. Chase, secretary of the treasury I'M
der Lincoln and chief justice of the SUI
preme court of the United States OF the
Ingraham family was that Commodore
Ingraham who won laurels for his coun-
try and himself by rescuing Martin
KosZta from the clutch of Austria. Con
nected with the lngrahams was that Ed
ward Preble-born at Falmouth Neck
whose father served under Wolfe, and was
wounded at Quebec; that Commander
Preble whose brilliant heroism before
Tripoli received the recognition of gold
medal, with the thanks of Congress.
Rev. Joseph Holt Ingraham, author
Of ho af Io >fn
and Rev. John Phillips Thurston Ingra-
Bible" both reetors in the Protestant
Episcopal church, We're sons of James
Milk Ingraham and Elizabeth Thurston
Ingraham.
From the latter, now rector of Grace
Church, St. Louis, Mo, 1 derive these
family details Their sister, Elizabeth
Thurston Ingraham, married Darius
Blake Holbrook, who was born in Dor
chester, Mass. His mother was a Ridg-
way Her sister married Quincy. and
was aunt to John Quincy Adams Mr..
HOlbrook was an originator of the land
grant for the Illinois Central railway and
its first president. He owned Cairo at the
mouth of the Ohio, and was associated
with Cyrus Field in laying the first At
lantic cable.
Caroline Elizabeth was the only child
of Darius Blake Holbrook and Elizabeth
Thurston Ungraham) Holbrook. She
married William G. Chandler of the
house of ST. John Power a. Co,
Mobile, Ala. William G. Chandler S father
was Daniel Chandler, a lawyer of high
in Georgia. his mother was
Sarah Campbell, sister of John Camp
bell, at one time assistant secretary of
state of the confederacy. previously judge
of the supreme court of the United States.
Judge Lamar, also of the supreme court,
was near akin by blood.
To Mr.. and Mrs Chandler two children
were born, Holbrook st. John and Flor
ence Elizabeth. Their father died in 1858,
and their mother, on account of the war,
took them abroad to be educated. The
son died while pursuing his medical stud
les. The daughter, less happy, married
when IS years of age, in St. James, Picca-
dilly, London, James Maybrick.
Who in this land has a better right to
be known than this child, sprung from
Andover, in direct descent from the godly
men and women whose munifcence still
blesses the world this child in whose veins
mingles the noblest blood of North and
South; this unhappy child who is endur-
ing penal servitude for life in an English
prison. for murder never committed,
upon an accusation for which she was
never tried, against the protest OF the lord
chief justice of England that she ought
not to have been convicted, that she
ought now to be released, against the pro-
tests of thousands in England and Ameri-
cas
Of all her sanity line, no woman has
shown more sanity bearing,a more dig
nified patience, than this Saint Elizabeth
through her five years of cruel martyr
dom. Five years of an Imprisonment
more terrible to the refined and delicate
young, mother of infant child |
rem, than that from which her kinsman
Martin Koszta-is there to be no
rescue for her?
Every man who has been educated at
has been fed at table spread by |
the generosity, the public spirit, of her
family. Can no crumb from that table |
feed her soul in prison? A poor SOUL |
whose only comfort to her mother is to |
cry out from her prison: "Your daughter |
dear, Is convict, but, thank God, not a
criminal. don't understand what God IS |