[54187] Rachal is daughter of Napoleon Bonapart Blackden (1823-1897) & Lydia Whiting Cookson (1835-1920; m. 27 March 1852 in Greenbush, Penobscot Co., ME).
[1036] John is probably son of John Hood who died 06 Nov 1622, will proved at Halsted in England 20 Nov 1622, and wife Ann - John settled at Cambridge, MA by 20 Oct 1638 and was at Lynn with son Richard by 1650 - he sold property in Halsted, England 10 Dec 1652 and visited England in 1653 -- he first arrived in MA ca. 1625 (with son Richard). http://www.dws.org/dlovrien/genweb/g0000044.html states he m. Elizabeth ca. 1625 in Lynn Regis, Co. Norfolk, England. See NEHGR Vol. 50 (1896), p. 423, and Vol. 56 (1902), p. 184. See "John Hood of Lynn, Mass., "Pioneers of Massachusetts - 1620-1650," Charles Henry Pope (Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2013), p. 238-239, and "Some of His Descendants," Jennie Hood Bosson (Salem, MA: Essex Institute, 1909). Ancestry.com in 2016 offers: "Hood Name Meaning: English and Scottish: metonymic occupational name for a maker of hoods or a nickname for someone who wore a distinctive hood, from Middle English hod(de), hood, hud hood. Some early examples with prepositions seem to be topographic names, referring to a place where there was a hood-shaped hill or a natural shelter or overhang, providing protection from the elements. In some cases the name may be habitational, from places called Hood, in Devon (possibly hood-shaped hill) and North Yorkshire (possibly shelter or fortification).Irish: Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó hUid descendant of Ud, a personal name of uncertain derivation. This was the name of an Ulster family who were bards to the ONeills of Clandeboy. It was later altered to Mac hUid. Compare Mahood."
[53726] The 24 April 1940 federal census in Franklin, Hancock Co., MA shows Richard as part-owner and manager of a retail clothing store. He graduated from the University of Maine in 1927 and resided in Ellsworth before moving to Franklin. He served from Ellsworth in both houses of the Maine State Legislature (-Maine Alumnus, Volume 46, Number 6, April-May 1965).