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262, and she is to-day actively engaged in her profession, which she loves, and in which she has already made for herself a name.

ARAH PRATT McLEAN GREENE was born in Simsbury, Conn., in 1856, daughter of Dudley Bestor and Mary (Payne) McLean. Her father was a son of the Rev. Allan McLean and his first wife, Sarah Pratt, and a descendant in the fourth generation of Allan McLean, a native of the island of Coll, Argyleshire, Scotland, who sailed from Glasgow in 1740, arrived in Boston in September, and settled in Connecticut.

Allan1 McLean married in 1744 Mary Loomis, a descendant of Joseph1 Loomis, of Windsor, Conn. Their son. Captain Alexander2 McLean, married in 1768 Johanna Smith, and resided in North Bolton, now Vernon, Conn. Their fifth child, the Rev. Allan McLean, born in 1781 (Yale College, 1805), was pastor of the Presbyterian church in Simsbury for fifty years. He was a man of wealth for those days. But he loved his worldly possessions only as they benefited others. After a busy and useful life he died in 1861, "full of years" and greatly beloved.

Mrs. Mary Payne McLean, the mother above named, now a widow, residing in Simsbury, was born in Canterbury, Conn., being the daughter of Solomon and Hannah (Bishop) Payne. On the paternal side she is a descendant of Thomas Paine, of Eastham, Mass., and numbers among her ancestors Stephen Hopkins and his daughter Constance, who both came in the "Mayflower" in 1620, and Nicholas Snow, who came in the "Ann" in 1623. Through these early colonists she is akin to not a few Cape Cod folk of the present day.

Thomas Paine came over when a lad of ten or twelve years (tradition says, with his father, of the same name). He married, about 1660, Mary, daughter of Nicholas1 and Constance (Hopkins) Snow. Their son, Elisha2 Paine, married Rebecca3 Doane, grand-daughter of Deacon John1 Doane, of Plymouth and Eastham, who served seven years as Deputy to the General Court, about the year 1700 Elisha2 Paine removed to Canterbury, then a part of Plainfield, Conn. (Some of his descendants, as seen below, have spelled the name Payne.) His son Solomon,3 horn in Eastham, was ordained in 1746 as pastor of the Separate church in Canterbury. Solomon,4 born in 1733, son of the Rev. Solomon3 and his second wife, Priscilla Fitch, was a farmer in Canterbury. He married Mary Bacon and was father of Elisha,5 born in 1757 (Yale College, 1780), who married Anna Dyer. Elisha5 Payne and his wife Anna were the parents of Solomon,6 named above, father of Mrs. McLean.

Mrs. Priscilla Fitch Payne was a grand-daughter of the Rev. James Fitch, of Saybrook and Norwich, Conn., and his second wife, Priscilla Mason, daughter of Major John Mason, of Norwich, for many years commander of the colonial forces and nine years (1660-69), Deputy Governor of Connecticut.

Dudley B. and Mary P. McLean had five children, all born at the McLean homestead in Simsbury. The eldest child, Hannah Bishop McLean, married William H. Greeley, and for some years resided in Lexington, Mass. She is now a widow living in Cambridge, her son being a student at Harvard. Charles Allen McLean (deceased) is survived by his wife and two children. John Bunyan McLean, educator, is now a professor in the Westminster School in Simsbury. George Payne McLean, lawyer, born in October, 1857, was Governor of Connecticut in 1901 and 1902.

Sarah Pratt McLean, the fourth child in this family of five, grew up under careful home training. She attended both district and private schools during her childhood, but studied far more with her mother, a woman of broad culture. The old Pvu'itan ideas and ideals prevailed in the McLean household. The sacredness of th(> Sabbath was impressed on the children's minds, and the parents strove to have all the influences of that home good and elevating. Books there were in plenty, and when Sarah, or Sally, as she was called, was sent to Mount Holyoke Seminary, she was well equipped to do good work. Her mind was stored with general reading. She knew and loved nature, and was frankly interested in all her new experiences. The rules were rigid at Holyoke, and some of the regulations seemed