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- New England historical genealogical society
Book notices April, 1888 page 214
Robert Henry Eddy esquire in life member and benefactor admitted March 05, 1873 , was born in Boston , September 27, 1812 and died in the same place , May 13, 1887 . The American line of his ancestry on his father's side was as follows ; Samuel the founder born in England , may , 1608 , who arrived in plymouth October 29, 1630 and died 1685 ; Caleb of Swansea born 1672 , died 1747 ; Caleb Bourne 1721 , died 1752 ; Benjamin of Boston , February 19, 1743 , died August 11, 1817 ; Caleb of Shrewsbury Massachusetts , born May 27, 1784, died February 22, 1859 ; Robert Henry the subjects of this sketch , born as above , September 27, 1812 . His mother was Caroline gay , born in Boston , April 4 1792 .
Samuel Eddy the American founder was the son of reverend William Eddy , AM vicar of St. Dunstan's Chruch, Cranbrook in the county of Kent , England , from 1589 to 1616 . A brother of the founder , John , also came to this country and settled in Watertown in 1633 .
Robert Henry Eddy was united in marriage December 24, 1851 , with Annie Goddard Pickering , daughter of John Knight Pickering of Portsmouth new Hampshire , who survives him .
We cannot do better and then copy word for word a brief sketch of a portion of his life which he himself prepared for the historic genealogical society in 1873 at the time when he became a member of it . "I was educated in Boston, partly at the English high school, and subsequently studied architecture with the late Asher Benjamin , architect after which was a student at civil engineering with the late Loammi Baldwin of Charlestown, Massachusetts . Was engaged in the building of the dry dock at Charlestown navy yard and also on the Middlesex and Merrimae River canals ; and afterwards at the early age of 21 years was chosen engineer of the east Boston company and laid it out and surveyed east Boston , built wharf's , bridges, roads and other improvements there . In 1838 and nine I visited you root for the purpose of scene and examining the great engineering works in great Britain and on the continent . With Elie de Beaumont I was present at the afternoon siting of the French institute at Paris when Arago, the president, announced the discovery of the daguerreotype. I was the only American there."
upper layer. He became a solicitor patents and he claimed to be the first who established the form of business in this country. In 1873 he retired from his profession with a handsome property. Mr. Eddy left liberal bequest is to this society and other public institutions
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1812 - 1887 (74 years)
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