Rev. John Adams Vinton

Vinton, John Adams, clergyman, genealogist, author, was born Feb. 5, 1801, in Boston. Mass. He was a congregational clergyman. He was the author of The Vinton Memorial; The Symmes Memorial; The Giles Memorial; and The Sampson Family in America. He died Nov. 13, 1877, in Winchester, Mass.

John Adams Vinton

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I am the eldest son of Deacon Josiah and Betsey Vinton. I was born in Boston on February 5, 1801.

I spend my childhood and youth, from Aug., 1811, to Feb. 1822 (ages 10-21), as an assistant in my father's store.

My father, Josiah Vinton, was a dry goods merchant in Boston, from 1797 to 1824, with the exception of the interval from 1808 to 1813, which he spent in Braintree; induced thereto by the extreme stagnation of business consequent on the embargo. Early in 1813, he resumed business in Boston, having as a partner for a short time Zebah Hayden. In Nov. 1824, he moved to Braintree, intending fo reside there permanently; having given up his business to his son George. He was President of the Union Bank of Braintree and Weymouth from May, 1832, till Oct. 1833. In March, 1836, he moved to South Boston, where he has continued to reside till the present time. He was a member of the House of Representatives of Massachusetts during the session of 1840.

I bore a part, as a teacher, in the establishment of the first Sabbath Schools in the city of Boston in 1817.

I made a public profession of religion in Park Street Church, Boston, Rev. Sereno Edwards Dwight, pastor, June 4, 1820.

I entered Phillips Exeter Academy — having walked nearly all the way thither from Boston, forty-eight miles, under a burning sun — June 27, 1823. Map

I entered Dartmouth College, Sept. 22, 1824. I was chosen a member of the Phi Beta Kappa Society, June, 1827, at the first election of (six) members from my class. I graduated Aug. 20, 1828, having the Greek Oration, considered a high appointment.

I entered the Theological Seminary in Andover, the ensuing autumn, and completed the full course of study at that institution, Sept. 28, 1831.

It was my intention to be a foreign missionary, feeling it to be a duty to preach Christ to those to whom he was unknown; and was encouraged thereto by the advice of judicious friends, and especially by the suffrages of thirty-nine out of my forty class-mates. I made a tender of my services to the American Board of Foreign Missions, about first of Jan. 1831.

Four of my class-mates, Sherman Hall, David Beltlcn l.yman, Ephni'm Spauldhig, and Aslicr Wright, made a similar Offer of themselves to Ihe Board, at the same time. These four were subsequently sent forth as missionaries.

The slender and frail health of my intended wife led to a relinquishment of the plan; and having preached at Bloomfield, Me., three months, during which time there was a happy revival of religion, nearly doubling the membership of the church, I was ordained pastor, at New Sharon, Me., May 16, 1832.

On June 6, 1832, when I was 31, I married Orinda Haskell who was born in Strafford Vermont on January 14, 1805, the daughter of Thomas L. and Orinda (Carpenter) Haskell of Strafford and later from Hanover, N.H. Orinda was 27. Our marriage was solemnized at Hanover, N.H. by Reverand Robert Page. Orinda was of a delicate, slender frame and her health always feeble, but of a remarkably amiable temper. I never saw her out of humor or heard her utter an unkind or unpleasant word. She united with the church at Hanover on November 19, 1826 -- one of the fruits of the revival of that year.

Orinda and I had the following children...

1. Edward Papon Vinton

2. Mary Orimla Vinton

3. John Francis Vinton

I was dismissed from a failure of support, Nov. 11, 1834. That church had never attempted to sustain a minister the whole time before.

I preached nearly two years in Penobscot County, Me., to feeble and needy churches, somewhat in accordance with my early plan of preaching to the destitute. Most of this term of service was in Exeter, under the direction of the Maine Missionary Society.

I labored two years in Chatham, Mass., from Nov., 1836, to Nov., 1838, during which time Orinda died.

Orinda died on August 4, 1838 at the young age of 33 at East Bridgewater at the house of Wallace Rust, Esq., whose wife was a counsin of her mother's. Orinda was on a journey for her health, which had been greatly wasted by the humid atmosphere of the Cape. We had only been married for a little over 6 years.

After this, I preached in Kingston, Mass., and Stoneham, in the same State, in West Randolph and Williamstown, both in Vermont, and finally in Bristol, Me., the ancient Pemaquid.

In Dec., 1849, I was induced to leave Bristol, in consequence of the severe illness of my wife, and the partial failure of my own health; and took up residence in Stoneham, whence I moved to South Boston in April, 1852.

During my ministry, I chose to labor in places which would not have been attractive to most men; consulting not so much my own ease and comfort, as the necessities of the people. I was called to encounter some special, severe, and rather uncommon difficulties; and suffered some special disadvantages, arising from a diffident, retiring manner, a weak voice, and a slender physical frame. 2 Cor. 4:7; 10:10.

I wrote many articles for religious and other newspapers; enough to make a good-sized volume. A series of articles from my pen on Capital Punishment, which appeared in the Vermont Chronicle, in 1843, and another series on the History, Present State, and Prospects of the Jews, in 1846, attracted some attention.

On February 24, 1850, I married Laurinda Richardson who was born on October 26, 1813 in Stoneham, the daughter of Deacon Reuben and Sarah (Vinton) Richardson. The marriage was performed by Reverand Edward Cleveland at Stoneham. Laurinda enjoyed as also did my first wife Orinda the advantages of the Ipswich Female Seminary under the able tuition of Mis Z.P. Grant and Miss Mary Lyon. Her cousin Faustina was her room-mate and inseparable companion at the seminary. She was employed in teaching school seven summers and two winters, in Woburn, Stoneham, Reading, and Lynnfield, with good success. She publicly professed religion at Stoneham, Dec. 23, 1832, together with her cousin Faustina, and four others.

Laurinda and I had the following children.

4. Arthur Vinton

5. Laurinda Ellen Vinton

6. Alfred Clarence Vinton

7. Lucy Vinton

Rev. JOHN ADAMS VINTON, eldest son of Dea. Josiah and Betsey Vinton, b. in Boston, Feb. 5, 1801 ; m. 1, June 6, 1832, ORINDA HASKELL, b. in Strafford, Vt., Jan. 14, 1805, dau. of Thomas L. and Orinda (Carpenter) Haskell, of that place, afterwards of Hanover, N. H. The marriage was solemnized at Hanover, N. H., by Rev. Robert Page of that place. She was of a delicate, slender frame, her health always feeble; but of a remarkably amiable temper. Her husband never saw her out of humor, or heard her utter an unkind or unpleasant word. She united with the church at Hanover, Nov. 19, 1826 ; one of the fruits of the revival of that year. She d. at East Bridgewater, at the house of Wallace Rust, Esq., whose wife was a cousin of her mother's, Aug. 4, 1838, on a journey for her health, which had been greatly wasted by the humid atmosphere of the Cape.

2, Feb. 24, 1840, LAURINDA RICHARDSON, [1173,] b. in Stoneham, Oct. 26, 1813, dau. of Dea. Reuben and Sarah (Vinton) Richardson. Marriage performed by Rev. Edward Cleveland, then stated supply at Stoneham. She enjoyed, as also did the former wife, the advantages of the Ipswich Female Seminary, under the able tuition of Miss Z. P. Grant and Miss Mary Lyon. Her cousin Faustina, [1275,] was her room-mate and inseparable companion at the seminary. She was employed in teaching school seven summers and two winters, in Woburn, Stoneham, Reading, and Lynnfield, with good success. She publicly professed religion at Stoneham, Dec. 23, 1832, together with her cousin Faustina, and four others.

Mr. Vinton spent his childhood and youth, from Aug., 1811, to Feb. 1822, as an assistant in his father's store ; bore a part, as a teacher, in the establishment of the first Sabbath schools in the city of Boston, 1817 ; made a public profession of religion in Park Street Church, Boston, Rev. Sereno Edwards Dwight, pastor, June 4, 1820; entered Phillips Exeter Academy — having walked nearly all the way thither from Boston, forty-eight miles, under a burning sun — June 27, 1823 ; entered Dartmouth College, Sept. 22, 1824 ; was chosen a member of the Phi Beta Kappa Society, June, 1827, at the first election of (six) members from his class ; he graduated Aug. 20, 1828, having the Greek Oration, considered a high appointment.* Entered the Theol. Seminary, Andover, the ensuing autumn, and completed the full course of study at that institution, Sept. 28, 1831. It was his intention to be a foreign missionary, feeling it to be a duty to preach Christ to those to whom he was unknown ; and was encouraged thereto by the advice of judicious friends, and especially by the suffrages of thirty-nine out of his forty class-mates. He made a tender of his services to the American Board of Foreign Missions, about first of Jan. 1831.* The slender and frail health of his intended wife led to a relinquishment of the plan ; and having preached at Bloomfield, Me., three months, during which time there was a happy revival of religion, nearly doubling the membership of the church, he was ordained pastor, at New Sharon, Me., May 16, 1832. Dismissed from a failure of support, Nov. 11, 1834, that church having never attempted to sustain a minister the whole time before ; he preached nearly two years in Penobscot County, Me., to feeble and needy churches, somewhat in accordance with his early plan, of preaching to the destitute. Most of this term of service was in Exeter, under the direction of the Maine Missionary Society. He labored two years in Chatham, Mass., from Nov., 1836, to Nov., 1838 ; during which time Mrs. Vinton died. After this, he preached in Kingston, Mass., and Stoneham, in the same State, in West Randolph and Williamstown, both in Vermont, and finally in Bristol, Me., the ancient Pemaquid. In Dec., 1849, he was induced to leave Bristol, in consequence of the severe illness of his wife, and the partial failure of his own health ; and took up his residence in Stoneham, whence he removed to South Boston, his present residence, in April, 1852. During his ministry, he chose to labor in places which would not have been attractive to most men ; consulting not so much his own ease and comfort, as the necessities of the people. He was called to encounter some special, severe, and rather uncommon difficulties ; and suffered some special disadvantages, arising from a diffident, retiring manner, a weak voice, and a slender physical frame. 2 Cor. 4:7; 10:10. Mr. Vinton has written much for religious and other newspapers ; enough to make a good-sized volume. A series of articles from his pen on Capital Punishment, which appeared in the Vermont Chronicle, in 1843, and another series on the History, Present State, and Prospects of the Jews, in 1846, attracted some attention. See Appendix O. Children by first marriage — 2996. Edward Papon, h. in New Sharon, Me., Feb. 10, 1834 ; an organ builder, in Glovcrsville, N. Y. 2997. Mary Orimla, b. in New Sharon, Feb. 18, 1835 ; dress-maker in Braintrce. 2998. John Francis, b. in Exeter, Me., Oct. 3, 1836; d. at S. Boston, Aug. 8, 1847. Affectionate in temper, and a good scholar. Children by second marriage — 2999. Arthur, b. at W. Randolph, Vt., March 22, 1841 ; d. at Williamstown, Aug. 25, 1842. • 3000. Laurinda Ellen, b. at Williamstown, March 31, 1843; d. at Stoneham, Oct. 4, 1843. 3001. Alfred Clarence, b. at Stoneham, July 16, 1844; obtained a Franklin medal at the annual examination of Boston schools, July 23, 1855, a year before the regular time ; now a member of the Public Latin School. 3002. Lucy, b. at Bristol, Me., May 2, 1849 ; d. same day. * Fourothors, his class-mates, Sherman Hall, David Beltlcn l.yman, Ephni'm Spauldhig, and Aslicr Wright, made a similar "Her of themselves to Ihc Board, at the same lime. These four were subsequently sent forth as missionaries.

What Others had to say about Me

"Rev. John A. Vinton has been for several years known by the ministers and churches of Maine, and has uniformly sustained, and still sustains, both as a disciple and minister of Christ, a regular standing, and a good reputation. He is hereby cordially recommended to the confidence of the churches, wherever God in his Providence may call him."

BENJAMIN TAPPAN, One of the Committee appointed to certify the character of ministers. Augusta, Me., November 10, 1836.

"From a long and somewhat intimate acquaintance with Rev. John A. Vinton, I can confidently commend him to the friendship and kind offices of all ministers and churches, into whose acquaintance he may fall, as one in whom there is no guile, and who will conscientiously and faithfully discharge whatever duties may be devolved upon him in the Providence of God. He has a deep interest in the hearts of all his Christian friends, and has proved himself to be the willing and able servant of Jesus Christ."

RICHARD S. STORRS, Pastor of the First Church, Braintree, Ms.

"In the above testimonial I fully concur."

JONAS PERKINS, Pastor of the Union Church of Braintree and Weymouth.

"This certifies that the Rev, John A. Vinton is a member of the Royalton Association, in good standing; a beloved brother of this body, sound in the faith, and, as a preacher, possesses more than ordinary talents."

DANIEL WILD, Register of Association. Brookfield, Vt., Jan. 14, 1842

"The Rev. John A. Vinton, now of Williamstown, Vt., proposes to change the scene of his ministerial labors, and thinks of seeking a residence in a somewhat milder climate.

I have known Mr. Vinton as an undergraduate, and some part of his life as a minister of the gospel; and am happy to be able to say that his talents, and literary and professional attainments, entitle him to much respect, and qualify him for usefulness as a preacher and a pastor.

I am sure that entire confidence may be placed in him as a man and a Christian. I entertain no doubt that his ministry will be found instructive and edifying; and his parochial influence honorable to religion and useful to society."

CHARLES B. HADDOCK, Professor &c. Dartmouth College, January 4, 1844.

"Rev. John A. Vinton having requested a certificate of his labors with the Congregational Church and Society in Williamstown, Vt. :Therefore, resolved, by the Church aforesaid, that the said Rev. Mr. Vinton labored with this Church and people from Jan. 1842 to Jan. 1844, to the entire satisfaction of the Church and Society; that his ministerial qualifications were undoubted, and his Christian character above reproach. Voted unanimously."

Attest, H. C. WEEDEN, Church Clerk.

"I hereby certify that I have been for several years acquainted with the Rev. John A. Vinton, late of Williamstown, Vt., and that I regard him as an able, faithful, and useful minister of Christ. He possesses a clear and discriminating mind, is a thorough scholar, and a sound divine. I regard him also as a man of discretion and devoted piety. He is hereby recommended to the confidence of ministers and churches, wherever God in his Providence may cast his lot."

BENNET TYLER', East Windsor, July 10, 1844. Prest. Theol. Institute, Ct.

"The acquaintance I have had with Rev. John A. Vinton, prepares me to concur with the Rev. President Tyler, in the above recommendation."

EDWARD W. HOOKER, July 10, 1844. Prof. Sac. Rhet. Theol. Inst., Ct.

"The foregoing testimonies have my full assent."

WILLIAM THOMPSON, July 10, 1844. Prof. Bib. Lit. Theol. Inst.

"Rev. John A. Vinton was a regular student and graduate of this Seminary; and I fully concur in the testimony signed bv Rev. Dr. Tyler and others, respecting his character and qualifications."

LEONARD WOODS, Prof. Theology. Theol. Seminary, Andover, Aug. 3, 1844.

"I have been for manv years intimately acquainted with the Rev. John A. Vinton, and I can very cordially subscribe to the sentiments expressed above respecting his character as a man, a scholar, and a Christian."

BENJAMIN LABAREE, President. Middlebury College, Nov. 20, 1844.

"Having been personally acquainted with Rev. Mr. Vinton for many years, I would state for the information of others, that I know him to be an able, faithful, and judicious pastor, whose piety and talents have ever commanded the confidence and respect of his brethren in the ministry."

WILLIAM M. ROGERS, Pastor of the Central Congregational Church, Boston. Boston, Jan. 27, 1844.

"Rev. John A. Vinton has been for many years an approved minister of the gospel. His character is irreproachable. His views of Theology are strictly evangelical and orthodox; his literary and professional attainments are highly respectable, and his influence, in all his relations, is answerable to his calling. I regard him as worthy of the confidence of the Churches of Christ."

NATHAN LORD, President. Dartmouth College, Nov. 15, 1847.

"Being the Secretary of the Vermont Domestic Missionary Society and its General Agent in 1839, I became acquainted with Rev. John A. Vinton. He came from Massachusetts by invitation of the Cong. Church in West Randolph, Vt. The church was aided by the V. D. M. S. in supporting their minister. After two or three years' labor in W. Randolph, he removed to Williams town, in the same State and county, where resided my parents and other friends, all of whom attended upon his ministry. Here he resided two years. These facts gave me opportunity to know whereof I affirm. During all this time he was a member of the Royalton Association of ministers, a body of men not a whit behind the very chiefest of such organizations in the State of Vermont.

I can truly affirm that in all the relations here spoken of, brother Vinton was esteemed a minister highly competent and qualified. In mental discipline, in furniture for, and power of investigation, he was regarded as having few equals and no superiors. To sustain this statement, I refer, with great confidence, to a series of articles which he furnished, while living in Williamstown, to the Vermont Chronicle, on the great question of Capital Punishment, which then deeply excited and widely moved this region. For his thorough and various learning, his sound faith, and steadfast submission to the truth, his manifest piety, and uniformly consistent life, he was approved both by the ministry and by the churches. The reminiscences he left behind in his fields of labor, were such as any minister would be glad to meet again after the lapse of years."

SAMUEL DELANO, Pastor of Cong. Church, and Trustee of Dartmouth College. Hartland, Vt., April 17, 1854.

"In 1831, Rev. John A. Vinton preached to the Church and Society, of which I am now the pastor. During the time of his labors in the ministry here, a powerful revival of religion occurred, and the Church was greatly increased and strengthened. The Church entertained so high a sense of the value of his labors, and so righly appreciated him as a minister of the gospel, that they voted unanimously to invite him to become their pastor. But in the mean time, in the parish or Society connected with the Church, a small party had sprung up, which for causes disconnected with his Christian character or ministerial qualifications, were opposed to his settlement. But notwithstanding their opposition, the vote to concur with the Church was carried in the parish by a respectable majority. Unanimity being considered desirable, this vote, when it was ascertained not to bo unanimous, was reconsidered. It was from this cause alone that Mr. Vinton failed of being urgently invited to become pastor of this church and minister of this people.

After leaving Bloomfield, Mr. Vinton went to New Sharon, and was there settled. He continued there several years; sustained an unblemished Christian character, and by the pious and discerning portion of the community was highly esteemed as a faithful, laborious, sound, and edifying minister of Christ. He would doubtless have continued there much longer, and perhaps till this day, if it had not been for the feebleness of his health; the contrast between his voice, which was naturally weak, and that of his predecessor which was naturally loud and sometimes vehement ; the large size and dilapidated condition of the meeting-house, which it was difficult for Mr. Vinton to speak loud enough to fill; and some other such like things; none of which were in the least degree derogatory to his Christian character, or his moral and intellectual qualifications for the ministry. He is still remembered with respect and much esteem, not only in Bloomfield and New Sharon, but in the other towns in this vicinity, where he was known."

GEORGE W. HATHAWAY, Pastor of the Congregational Church in Bloomfield, Me. Bloomfield, Me., April 18, 1854.

Money was not my Motive

I would say a few words in reference to the slender support given to the ministry, in the country generally. Leaving out the cities and large towns, the marts of commerce, and seats of manufacturing industry, the ministry receives a very inadequate support. When I was ordained, 1832, three hundred dollars was about the usual salary in that vicinity, and this amount not paid in cash, but mostly in articles of produce. At the ordination of Mr. Hathaway in Bloomfield, March, 1833, the clergyman who addressed the people commended them for the "liberal " provision made for the pastor elect; which was four hundred dollars a year! At Chatham, I received five hundred dollars a year, which was complained of by some of the people as extravagant; and one man, a storekeeper and an intelligent man, wondered what I could do with five hundred a year! And this when flour was ten or twelve dollars the barrel, and other things in proportion. During the twenty years of my ministry my yearly support averaged less than four hundred dollars. In June, 1846, I attended the annual meeting, at Middlebury, of the Vermont General Convention of Congregational ministers. The statement was then and there publicly made by Rev. Isaac U. Worcester, then Secretary of the V. D. M. S., that thirty-nine ministers, within the State, received aid from the Society, and that the AVERAGE salary of each of those men, including ALL they received from the Society and from their parishioners, was but three hundred and twenty-five dollars a year; and deducting eighty-five dollars received by each from the State Society, it left but two hundred and forty dollars a year, on the average, received from the people! At the same time, Irish laborers on the railroads then being constructed in Vermont, received ninety cents a day, or two hundred and eighty dollars a year. But ministers are sometimes defrauded of part of the diminutive salaries promised by their people. This has been my experience. It has been so repeatedly. It was so at the last place where I was stationed as the pastor of a Church. The Congregational Church there, through their committee, solemnly pledged to me as their pastor, four hundred dollars a year; and told me that more might be confidently expected. "Pledged" was the word they used; this was "certain," they said, for the sum was already raised. As the recompense of my two years' labor, I received but six hundred and ten dollars; which, deducting one hundred and ten dollars for expense of removing there from Maiden and back again, and loss and damnge to furniture, left me but Five hundred dollars for my two years' services. Within a few years past, several volumes have appeared, portraying the difficulties, and especially the hardships and wrongs, suffered by the ministry. I could fill out from my own personal knowledge and experience, a picture of ministerial grievances, as dark, if not as graphic, as any in " Shady Side," or "A Voice from the Parsonage." To have all my plans for usefulness suddenly interrupted; to be turned adrift in the midst of a severe winter, in the northern parts of New England, and obliged to seek a new home; to be separated for many weeks together from my family, when they greatly needed my presence; to be literally and ever a stranger and pilgrim on the earth; and all this merely because two or three uneasy spirits could not keep quiet; the great body of the parishioners being well satisfied; has occurred to me more than once or twice; the effects of which remain to this day. Nevertheless, I confess a decided predilection for the "good work" of the gospel ministry. From my childhood to the present hour, I have been able to conceive of no human employment so worthy, so useful, so congruous to all our relations to GOD and to eternity. With all my heart, I gave myself to the Lord Jesus Christ to be his servant in making known his dying love to guilty and ruined men. In that work I found great enjoyment for many years. The failure of my health, and especially the weakness of my voice, compelled me, most reluctantly, to relinquish the service.

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John Adams Vinton was born in Boston, February 5, 1801, the son of Deacon Josiah and Betsey Snow (Giles) Vinton. He was descended from John 1 Vinton, who was an inhabitant of Lynn about 1643, through John 2 of Woburn, born 1650; John3 of Stoneham, born 1680; Thomas/ born in Stoneham, 1717; Josiah5 of Braintree, born 1755; and Josiah,5 the father of John A., born in Braintree, 1777.

When the subject of this sketch was only a few years old, his family removed to Braintree. He attended the public schools in Braintree three months in summer and three months in winter for several years, but before he was thirteen his school days ceased entirely. He, however, became a very industrious reader, applying himself to such books as had in them a constantly educating power, like Marshall's " Life of Washington," " Rollins's Ancient History," and " Prideaux's Connections." At the age of eleven he was taken into his father's store in Boston, where he continued until 1822, when he became of age. He then went to Philadelphia, where he had two uncles, brothers of his father, who kept a wholesale dry goods store. Here he was treated generously.

In May, 1823, he entered Phillips Academy, Exeter, New Hampshire, on the foundation of the Phillips Fund. Here in fourteen months he completed his preparation, and entered Dartmouth College in September, 1824, at the age of twenty- three. He taught school every winter during his college course, thus helping himself forward financially. With the money thus gained, and with help from his uncles and other relatives and friends, he passed through his college course successfully, and came out the fifth scholar in a class of forty.

He then went to Andover Theological Seminary, and took 270 JOHN ADAMS VINTON

the full three years' course there required. The missionary spirit was at that time very active in Andover, and before Mr. Vinton left the seminary his heart was set very strongly upon the foreign missionary work. But he had become engaged to a lady who was an invalid, and the American Board, for this reason, decided not to send him forth. This was the sore disappointment of his life.

Mr. Vinton labored in the Christian ministry for about twenty years, but with indifferent success. He was not fitted for a public speaker. He would have filled a professor's chair far better than he filled the pulpit. In 1852 he left the public labors of the ministry and gradually found the vocation for which he was pre-eminently fitted. That was, writing for the press, and especially in the line of preparing family histories and genealogies. His work in this department included the "Vinton Memorial," of more than five hundred pages, the "Giles Memorial," the "Upton Memorial," the "Symmes Memorial" and the "Richardson Memorial," of more than nine hundred pages.

Mr. Vinton married, June 6,1832, Orinda Haskell, daughter of Thomas L. and Orinda (Carpenter) Haskell, of Hanover, Vermont. She died in 1838. He married February 24, 1840, Laurinda Richardson, daughter of Reuben and Sarah (Vinton) Richardson of Stoneham, Massachusetts. He had seven children, most of whom died before their father. He died in Winchester, Massachusetts, November 13, 1877.

He was a life member, admitted in 1863.

A fuller memoir of Mr. Vinton may be found in the Register, vol. xxxiv, pp. 127-131

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John Adams Vinton wrote the genealogy book The Giles Memorial and it was published in 1864.