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Rh on account of illness resulting from sunstroke at Ball's Bluff. He was an architect and builder, and previous to the Civil War had charge of the construction of important works on the Connecticut River and of public buildings elsewhere. In 1864 he superintended government work in Tennessee, and was present at the battle of Nashville.

Returning to Danvers, he was appointed master carpenter of the Eastern Railroad, which position he held fifteen years, when he accepted a similar appointment on the Northern Pacific Railroad, and removed to Dakota. He subsequently went to the Yellowstone Park, and erected the large hotel at Mammoth Hot Springs. He constructed many bridges and buildings on the branches of the Northern Pacific Railroad. His last work was on the Duluth and Manitoba Railroad, with headquarters at Hawley, Minn., where he died in 1886.

He was a prominent Free Mason, a member of Amity Lodge and Holten Royal Arch Chapter, of Danvers, of Pilgrim Commandery, of Lowell, Mass., and was also a thirty-second degree Mason, Scottish Rite. His funeral was conducted by the Rev. George J. Sanger, of Essex, and he was buried at Danvers with Masonic honors. He married Hannah Jaquith Abbot, of Andover, by whom he had four children, namely: Sarah Elizabeth, the subject of this sketch; George W.: Frank; and Albert. His wife died in 1868, and he married Miss Mary J. Morse, of Andover, Me., by whom he had one son, Charles.

It may be added as worthy of mention that Jonathan Ingalls, grandfather of Charles Nathan, was brother to Theodore Ingalls, grandfather of the late John J. Ingalls, of Kansas, United States Senator.

Sarah Elizabeth Ingalls was born in Andover, November 8, 1846. Her parents subsequently removed to Danvers, and she was graduated from the high school of that town. She married July 9, 1874, George Washington Fielding, and settled in Bangor, Me. They have also lived in Connecticut and New York, and in Charlestown, Mass., but have resided in Somerville for the past twenty-five years. Mrs. Fielding, on her mother's side, descended from the Jaquiths of Billerica, the house in which her grandmother was born and married having been used as a garrison house.

Two of the family united with the old church in Charlestown, in 1649.

Mrs. Fielding is a member of the Prospect Hill Congregational Church, and is deeply interested in all its work. She is deaconess of the church, has been a teacher in its Sunday-school during the past eleven years, and is an active worker in the home missionary department, of which she has charge. She is also vice-president of the Woman's Auxiliary, and conducts monthly meetings, which have been addressed by prominent speakers. The various charities and missions connected with the local church have been aided by her efforts, and she has contributed to the educational and other enterprises of the denomination at large, in all of which she takes a special interest.

When the Associated Charities of Somerville began its beneficent work, Mrs. Fielding accepted an invitation to serve as agent for Ward Two, and for nearly four years devoted her time and energy to its duties without compensation. With heartfelt sympathy for the unfortunate, and with excellent judgment and ability, she conducted the work in a zealous manner; and regrets were expressed when she felt obliged to decline a reappointment.

In 1878 a Relief Corps was organized in Somerville by Willard C. Kinsley Post, No. 139, G. A. R., and Mrs. Fielding was chosen secretary, serving until the corps was reorganized, three years later, as one of the corps of the Department of Massachusetts, W. R. C., when she was elected to the office of treasurer. She has continued her membership, and is interested in all Grand Army work, having inherited a patriotic spirit from her father, who joined the Andrew Sharp-shooters in August, 1861. She was a member of the Committee on Information during National Convention week in Boston in 1890, and is a member of the Press Committee for the National Convention in Boston in 1904.

Mrs. Fielding's husband, who is a member and past officer of Willard C. Kinsley Post, No. 139, G. A. R., enlisted in Company A, Forty-fourth Massachusetts Regiment, commanded by