DEARBORN
DEARBORN
DEARBORN, Heman Allen, educator, was
born lu w eare, N.H., May IS, ISol; son of Josiali
and Sarah (Greene) Dearborn; graadson of
Josiah and Susannali (Emerson) Dearborn; and
a descendant of Godfrey Dearborn, a native of
Exeter, county of Devon, England, who, with
his son Henry, settles ai Exeter, N.H., in 1639,
subsequently removing to Hampton, N.H. He
attended Francestovvn (N.H.) academy and in
1848 began to teach school. He prepared for
college and was graduated from Tufts in 1857,
valedictorian of the first class to receive degrees
from that college. He was principal of the
Clinton (N.Y.) liberal institute, 1857-64, and
professor of Latin at Tufts college, 1864-97. He
was sixteen months abroad, 1878-79, chiefly in
Rome and other cities of Italy, engaged in special
research, and again in England in 1889. He was
secretary of the faculty of Tufts college, 1880-94,
registrar, 1894-97, and acting assistant treasurer
until 1895. In 1897 he founded the " scholarship
of the class of 1857 "' for women students. He
was married, March 24, 1858, to Julia A.,
daughter of Isaac and Sabina (Starrett) Patch.
He died at Medford, Mass., May 4, 1897.
DEARBORN,' Henry, soldier, was born in North Hampton, N.H., Feb. 23, 1751; son of Simeon and Sarah (Marston), grandson of John and Abigail (Batchelder). great grandson of Henry and great ^ grandson of Godfrey Dearborn, who emigrated from Exeter, England, in 1639. He was educated as a physician and began the practice of med- icine in Nottingham Square, N.H., in 1772. When the news of the battle of Lexing- \ ton reached the town
- .e rallied sixty min-
ite men and led them over the country roads sixty-five miles to Cambridge, which place he reached the next morring. He was made a captain in Colonel Stark's regiment and with his com- pany covered the retreat of the patriot army, having reached the American redoubt on Bunker Hill by marching across Charlestown neck under a galling fire from the British forts and fleet. He was an officer in Arnold's army in its march tlirough the forests of Maine in September, 1775, to attack Quebec. Illness from fever caused his detention at a farmhouse for ten days, but he rejoined the expedition in time to take part in the attack. He was taken prisoner and confined in Halifax, N.S., not securing his exchange until
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the spring of 1777. He then joined Colouel
Scammell's 1st New Hampshire regiment aa
major, and fought at Stillwater, Saratoga, Mon-
mouth and Newtown. He was promoted lieu-
tenant-colonel, and at Monmouth his regiment
inade a gallant charge, forcing the main line of
the British army to flight. This action called
forth the special commendation of the com-
mander-in-chief. When Col. Alexander Scam-
mell was made adjutant-general on the staff of
Washi-igton, Colonel Dearborn was made deputy
quartermaster-general with the rank of colonel,
and accompanied Washington to Yorktown,
where he served during the siege and was present
at the surrender of Cornwallis. At the close oi
the war he retired to a farm on the Kennebeo
river. He was made brigadier -general of the
Massachu.setts militia in 1787 and major-generaJ
in 1795. President W^ashington appointed him
U.S. marshal in 1789. He represented Massachu-
setts in the 3d and 4th congresses, 1793-97, and
was secretary of war in President Jefferson's
cabinet during his two administrations. Presi-
dent Madison made him collector of the port of
Boston and he served, 1809-12. On Jan. 27, 1812,
he was made senior major-general in the U.S.
army in command of the United States army
and was succeeded by Maj.-Gen. Jacob Brown,
June 15, 1815. He directed the troops in the
capture of York and Fort George in 1818 and
was recalled and placed in command of the city
of New York. His recall, June 15, 1815, was a
matter of political intrigue in the war depart-
ment and his demand for a court of inquiry was
never granted. President Monroe appointed him
minister to Portugal in 1822 and after two j^ears'
service in Lisbon he resigned and settled in
Roxbury, Mass. He published an account of
the battle of Bunker Hill and of his expedition
to Canada. His charge of cowardice against
General Putnam, in his account of the battle of
Bunker Hill, led to a long controversy between
him and Daniel Putnam, the general's son. He
was married three times : first to Mary Bartlette ;
secondly, to Dorcas Osgood ; and thirdly, to
Sarah Bowdoin, widow of the patron of Bowdoin
college. By his first wife he had a daughter,
Augusta, in whose honor the name of the town
of Harrington, Maine, was changed to Augusta.
He died at Roxbury, Mass., June 6, 1829.
DEARBORN, Henry Alexander Scammell, representative, was born in Exeter, N.H., March 3, 1783; .son of Maj.-Gen. Henry Dearborn, Revo- lutionary patriot. He was graduated at William and Mary in 1803, studied law in Washington, D.C., and practised for a time with Judge Story in Salem, Mass. He later removed to Portland, Maine, where he superintended the erection of forts for the protection of the harbor. In 1812,
