Benjamin Lovell, son of Ezekiel and Martha (Cahoon) Lovell, and grandson of Ezekiel Lovell, was born in 1813. He was a sea-faring man for eighteen years, was six years night watchman at the Sandwich railroad station, and since that has been a farmer. He was married in 1837 to Mercy P. Baker, who died in 1882, leaving four children: Eliza A., Benjamin W., Boyden E. and Lote M. He was married again in 1883 to Mrs. Eliza A. Marston.
