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WILLIAM  RICHARD  CUTTER 

Former  Librarian  of  Woburn  Public  Library, 
Historian  of  New  England  Historic-Genea- 
logical Society;  Author  of  "History  of  Arling- 
ton," "Bibliography  of  Woburn,"  "History  of 
the    Cutter    Family,"    etc. 

EUGENE  C.  GARDNER 

Member  of  American  Institute  of  Architecture, 
etc.;  Author  of  "Homes  and  How  to  Make 
Them,"  and  other  popular  works;  Lecturer, 
and  frequent  contributor  to  leading  magazines 
and  newspapers. 

HARLAN  HOGE  BALLARD,  A.  M. 

Librarian  of  Berkshire  Athenaeum  and  Mu- 
seum: Secretary  of  Berkshire  Historical  Soci- 
ety; Author  of  "Three  Kingdoms;"  "World  of 
Matter;"  "Translation  into  English,  Hexameters 
of  Virgil's  Aeneid;"  Joint  .\uthor  "American 
Plant  Book;"  "Barnes'  Readers;"  "One  Thou- 
-■jand  Blunders  in  English." 

REV.  JOHN  H.  LOCKWOOD,  A.  M. 

Member  of  Connecticut  Valley  Historical  Soci- 
ety, and  Western  Hampden  Historical  Society; 
Author  of  "History  of  the  Town  of  Westfleld, 
Mass." 


HON.  ELLERY  BICKNELL  CRANE 

Charter  Member,  ex-Presidcnt  and  for  fifteen 
years  Librarian  of  Worcester  Society  of  Antiq- 
uity, and  Editor  of  its  Proceedings;  Author  of 
"Rawson  Family  Memorial,"  "The  Crane  Fam- 
ily," in  two  volumes,  "History  of  15th  Regi- 
ment in  the  Revolution,"  and  Compiler  of  a 
Number  of  Genealogies  of  the  Prominent  Fam- 
ilies of  Massachusetts.  Member  of  the  New 
England  Historic-Genealogical  and  other  His- 
torical  Societies. 

CHARLES  FRENCH  READ 

Clerk  and  Treasurer  of  Bostonian  Society; 
Director  of  Brookline  Historical  Society;  Sec- 
ond Vice-President  of  Mass.  Soc.  S.  A.  R.; 
Chairman  Membership  Com.  Mass.  Soc.  Colo- 
nial Wars;  Member  Board  of  Managers,  Mass. 
Soc.  War  of  1S12;  Treasurer  of  Read  Soc.  for 
Genealogical    Research. 

ROBERT  SAMUEL  RANTOUL 

Ex-President  of  Essex  Institute;  Member  of 
Massachusetts  Historical  Society;  ex-Repre- 
sentative  and   ex-JIayor  of  Salem. 

E.  ALDEN  DYER,  M.  D. 

President  of  Old  Bridgewater  Historical  Soci- 
ety; President  of  Dyer  Family   Association. 


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COOK,  Richard  Hartley., 

Manufacturer,   Inventor. 

It  may  be  maintained  with  great  cer- 
tainty, that  the  American  people  of  to- 
day, the  American  race  of  to-morrow, 
owe  much  to  each  of  the  various  races 
that  has  entered  into  its  complex  fabric, 
this  quality  to  one,  this  characteristic  vir- 
tue to  another,  qualities  and  virtues 
which  shall  doubtless  in  the  end  be  prop- 
erly amalgamated  to  a  harmonious  whole. 
But  if  this  be  so,  there  can  be  no  doubt 
that  for  the  very  basis  of  the  natural 
character  we  must  turn  to  that  great  mass 
of  English,  who  in  their  first  period  of 
colonization  and  for  many  years  there- 
after, came  in  such  generous  numbers 
to  our  shores.  It  was  these,  the  most 
enterprising  members  of  that  dominant 
race,  that  laid  the  foundation  of  our  social 
structure,  who  for  many  years  formed 
the  majority  of  our  people,  who  still,  in 
the  persons  of  their  descendants,  form  the 
chief  factor  of  our  citizenship,  and  who, 
whatever  change  in  racial  proportions  the 
future  has  in  store  for  us,  may  be  counted 
on  still  to  leaven  the  whole  mass,  to  fur- 
nish the  prevailing  ideals  for  that  future 
as  they  have  for  the  past,  to  give  the  fun- 
damental tone  and  color  to  our  customs, 
our  manners  and  our  institutions.  It  is 
because  we  feel  this  in  regard  to  them, 
because  we  believe  that  our  present 
character  has  been  determined  in  the  first 
instance  by  them,  and  because  we  would 
preserve  that  character,  that  it  is  still 
pleasant  to  welcome  to  this  land  the  de- 
scendants of  our  common  ancestors,  the 
men  of  whom  more  than  any  other  we 
can  think  of  as  our  cousins  from  abroad. 


Of  the  best  type  of  the  English  people 
with  whom  we  have  so  close  a  bond,  is 
Richard  Hartley  Cook,  the  distinguished 
gentleman  whose  name  heads  this 
sketch,  and  who  came  to  this  country  in 
his  young  manhood. 

Richard  Hartley  Cook  was  born  at  Bol- 
ton, England,  on  March  i8th,  1850,  son 
of  William  Cook,  of  Tyldsley,  Lanca- 
shire, England,  and  was  brought  up  in 
his  native  region,  receiving  there  the  ele- 
mentary portion  of  his  education  at  the 
local  public  schools.  At  a  very  early  age 
and  almost  before  he  had  completed  his 
studies,  he  began  to  learn  the  trade  of 
cotton  spinning  in  the  famous  mills  of 
Houldsworth  &  Company,  at  Reddish, 
near  Stockport,  England.  He  continued 
to  be  employed  by  this  great  concern  un- 
til he  had  reached  the  age  of  thirty-three 
years,  and  then,  in  the  year  1883,  came 
to  the  United  States,  locating  at  Harri- 
son, New  Jersey.  It  was  but  natural  for 
him  to  continue  in  the  same  line  of  work  to 
which  he  had  grown  used  to  in  his  native 
land,  and  accordingly  he  became  asso- 
ciated with  the  Clark  Mile  End  Manufac- 
turing Company.  Prior  to  this  time  the 
most  of  the  American  thread  manufac- 
turers had  found  it  expedient  to  import 
the  cotton  yarns  from  England,  finish- 
ing the  same  into  thread  in  this  country. 
When  it  was  learned  that  Mr.  Cook  was 
thoroughly  familiar  with  the  details  of 
cotton  spinning,  he  was  soon  made  sup- 
erintendent of  this  concern,  and  under 
his  supervision  a  large  spinning  plant,  the 
first  of  its  kind  for  this  company,  was 
added  to  this  thread  manufactory  at  Har- 
rison, New  Jersey,  near  the  city  of  New- 
ark.    Mr.  Cook  continued  as  superinten- 


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dent  of  the  Clark  Mile  End  Thread  Manu- 
facturing Company  for  a  period  of  five 
years,  when  he  removed  to  Fall  River, 
Massachusetts,  to  accept  the  superinten- 
dency  of  the  Kerr  Thread  Company,  of 
that  city,  where  he  has  since  continued 
to  make  his  home.  During  his  long  con- 
nection with  this  Fall  River  plant  he  has 
seen  it  grow  from  a  small  concern  to  one 
of  the  largest  and  most  properous  manu- 
facturing concerns  in  this  country,  cov- 
ering a  large  area  of  land,  Mill  No.  i,  in 
1890,  Mill  No.  2,  with  the  dye  and  bleach 
house,  in  1892,  and  later  Mill  No.  3,  all 
being  erected  under  his  supervision,  which 
stand  as  a  monument  to  his  executive  abi- 
lity and  to  his  forceful  business  acumen. 

When  the  American  Thread  Company 
was  formed  and  organized  in  the  year 
1899,  Mr.  Cook  was  appointed  general 
superintendent  of  this  corporation's  var- 
ious plants  in  America,  which  include  the 
plants  of  the  Kerr  Thread  Company,  of 
Fall  River;  the  Merrick  Thread  Company, 
of  Holyoke ;  the  Hadley  Thread  Com- 
pany, of  Holyoke;  the  Willimantic  Linen 
Company,  of  Willimantic,  Connecticut ; 
the  William  Clark  Company,  of  Wester- 
ly, Rhode  Island,  and  various  other  smal- 
ler concerns,  which  in  all  give  employ- 
ment to  about  five  thousand  employees, 
in  which  important  and  responsible  posi- 
tion he  has  since  continued. 

It  might  well  be  supposed  that  the  ac- 
tivities of  Mr.  Cook  in  connection  with 
the  vast  development  of  the  thread  spin- 
ning industry  in  the  United  States,  might 
well  have  made  such  great  demands  upon 
his  time  and  attention  as  to  render  his 
participation  in  any  other  activity  out  of 
the  question.  Such  has  not  been  the  case, 
however,  and  he  became  from  the  outset 
one  of  the  most  public-spirited  of  the 
citizens  of  Fall  River,  who  has  never  for 
an  instant  lost  interest  in  his  adopted 
community.     Indeed,  when  he  was     ap- 


pointed Park  Commissioner  of  Fall  River, 
by  Mayor  Grime,  of  that  city,  he  gave 
himself  with  the  greatest  enthusiasm  to 
the  duties  of  his  new  office,  and  is  regard- 
ed as  one  of  the  most  efficient  commis- 
sioners which  that  city  has  had.  Mr.  Cook 
has  served  as  a  member  of  this  commis- 
sion since  the  organization  of  that  body, 
and  still  gives  much  of  his  valuable  time 
thereto.  In  the  social  and  club  life  of  the 
community,  Mr.  Cook  is  a  prominent 
figure,  being  a  valued  member  of  the  Que- 
quechar  Club,  the  most  exclusive  in  Fall 
River;  the  Yacht  Club;  the  Golf  Club; 
and  was  one  of  the  organizers  of  the 
F.1II  River  Bowling  Green  Club,  of  which 
he  was  the  first  president.  He  is  also 
a  member  of  the  Masonic  fraternity,  hold- 
ing membership  in  Mount  Hope  Lodge, 
ancient  Free  and  Accepted  Masons,  of 
Fall  River.  In  religious  faith,  Mr.  Cook 
is  an  Episcopalian,  and  attends  St.  Mark's 
Church  of  that  denomination  in  Fall 
River,  of  which  he  has  served  for  twenty- 
eight  years  as  choir-master,  and  during 
his  residence  at  Harrison,  New  Jersey, 
also  filled  the  same  position  in  Christ 
Church,  of  that  city. 

Mr.  Cook  was  united  in  marriage,  on 
February  20,  1870,  at  Reddish,  England, 
with  Miss  Betsey  Dean,  a  native  of  Lon- 
don, England,  who  resided  before  coming 
to  this  country  in  the  town  of  Reddish, 
where  Mr.  Cook  had  himself  worked  for 
a  number  of  years.  To  Mr.  and  Mrs. 
Cook  two  daughters  have  been  born, 
namely:  i.  Mary,  who  married  Thomas  H. 
Nabb,  of  Fall  River,  and  they  are  the  par- 
ents of  three  children.  2.  Ellen,  who  mar- 
ried William  P.  Shaw,  of  Fall  River,  and 
they  are  the  parents  of  four  children.  The 
family  residence  is  at  No.  2267  Pleasant 
street.  Fall  River,  Massachusetts,  and  is 
one  of  the  most  popular  and  best  known 
for  its  gracious  hospitality  in  that  section 
of  the  city. 


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Mr.  Cook  has  been  connected  with  the 
cotton  manufacturing  industry  uninter- 
ruptedly for  more  than  sixty  years,  dur- 
ing the  entire  period  of  his  active  busi- 
ness life,  and  has  grown  to  feel  a  strong 
devotion  for  the  industry,  and  especially 
for  the  Kerr  Thread  Mills,  at  Fall  River, 
which  has  been  developed  into  its  present 
proportions  during  his  connections  there- 
with. Many  of  the  new  inventions,  which 
have  been  devised  for  the  more  rapid  or 
efficient  production  of  these  goods,  have 
been  the  product  of  his  skill  and  genius, 
and  the  development  and  improvement  of 
the  cotton  spinning  industry  in  this  coun- 
try have  been  in  a  large  measure  his 
work.  He  is  a  gentleman  of  most 
gracious  presence,  but  an  extremely 
strong  character,  whom  it  is  difficult  to 
bend  from  the  way  he  believes  to  be  the 
best. 

The  closeness  of  relationship  which 
exists  between  the  Englishman  and  the 
American  has  never  been  properly  em- 
phasized until  the  present  day,  when  the 
exigencies  of  the  World  War  have  drawn 
them  into  a  close  alliance.  What  has  not 
been  emphasized  has  been  none  the  less 
true,  and  it  cannot  but  be  obvious  to 
those  who  consider  the  question  that 
there  is  a  closer  affinity  of  blood  and 
spirit  between  these  two  peoples  than 
between  either  one  of  them  and  any  other 
on  the  earth.  The  ease  with  which  a 
member  of  either  country  can  go  to  the 
other  and  adapt  himself  to  the  life  and 
customs  thereof  so  that  he  becomes  at 
once  assimilated  with  the  people  whom 
he  meets  in  his  new  home,  is  all  the  evi- 
dence that  is  required  on  this  point  and 
is  conclusive.  It  is  consequently  a  pleas- 
ure to  this  country  to  welcome  its  cousins 
from  across  the  sea,  and  more  especially 
so  when  they  are  the  type  and  calibre  of 
Mr.  Cook,  whose  coming  has  been  ac- 
complished  by  a  great   increase   in     our 


industrial  knowledge  and  the  founding 
here  of  an  activity  which  has  greatly 
increased  the  material  prosperity  of  this 
country.  When  the  American  race  is  at 
length  wholly  formed  in  this  country, 
after  the  years  of  slow  preparation 
through  which  we  are  passing  at  the 
present  time,  and  in  which  the  peoples 
of  many  climes  and  races  are  amalgama- 
ted to  form  a  single  unit,  it  seems  prac- 
tically incontestable  that  the  general 
character  of  the  resulting  race  will  be 
Anglo-Saxon  or  English.  It  will,  of 
course,  contain  a  thousand  other  ele- 
ments, and  the  gaiety  and  pathos  of  the 
Celt,  the  romance  of  the  Slav,  the  intensi- 
ty of  the  Hebrew,  will  all  play  their  part 
in  the  resulting  admixture.  Yet  there  can 
be  no  doubt  that  the  Anglo-Saxon  quali- 
ties will  still  dominate,  and  it  shall  be 
from  the  English  that  we  derive  the 
customs,  the  institutions  and  the  prevail- 
ing social  tone  which  will  mark  the  pros- 
pective people.  It  has  so  happened  that, 
by  a  fortunate  circumstance,  the  English 
people,  upon  whom  we  depend  for  our 
most  fundamental  traits,  were  first  the 
dominating  element  here,  and  they  estab- 
lished a  civilization  of  their  own  type 
which  has  been  so  permanent  that  it  has 
never  been  greatly  altered.  It  has  been 
upon  this  as  upon  a  firm  rock  that  our 
tradition  of  freedom  and  equality,  which 
is  the  very  life  of  our  community,  has 
been  built. 


LOWNEY,  Jeremiah  Joseph,  M.   D. 

Physician. 

Dr.  Jeremiah  Joseph  Lowney  is  him- 
self a  native  of  this  country,  but  is  by 
blood  and  parentage  a  member  of  the 
Irish  race  and  exhibits  in  his  own  person 
the  virtues  and  characteristic  traits  there- 
of. He  is  a  son  of  Timothy  and  Ellen 
(Reagen)    Lowney,  both  of  whom  were 


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natives  of  Ireland,  having  been  born  in 
County  Cork,  but  who  came  to  this  coun- 
try in  early  life,  and  settled  in  Fall  River. 
Here  Mr.  Lowney,  Sr.,  was  employed  as 
watchman  of  the  Osborn  Mill  for  sixteen 
years.  He  then  retired  from  active  life 
for  a  time,  but  later  took  up  farming  and 
conducted  for  many  years  a  forty  acre 
farm  in  the  vicinity,  maintaining  a 
herd  of  sixteen  cows  and  at  the  same 
time  operated  a  store.  He  is  still  a  vigor- 
ous man,  though  eighty  years  of  age.  He 
married  Ellen  Reagen,  who  also  is  active 
and  hale.  They  were  the  parents  of  four 
children.  Mr.  Lowney's  grandfather  was 
also  a  native  of  County  Cork,  Ireland, 
where  the  entire  family  had  resided  from 
time  immemorial. 

Dr.  Jeremiah  Joseph  Lowney  was  born 
June  25,  1879,  at  Fall  River,  Massachu- 
setts, where  his  parents  had  settled  after 
coming  from  Ireland,  and  has  made  his 
native  city  his  home  continuously  since 
then.  He  was  educated  at  the  local  public 
schools,  including  the  Grammar  School 
and  the  High  School,  from  the  latter  of 
which  he  was  graduated  with  the  class 
of  1899.  He  then  attended  the  College  of 
Pharmacy  at  Boston  for  a  year,  and  later 
entered  the  Harvard  Medical  School, 
from  which  he  was  graduated  with  the 
class  of  1904.  Since  that  time  Dr.  Lowney 
has  had  five  years  practical  experience  in 
the  Fall  River  City  Hospital,  and  is  now 
engaged  in  the  general  practice  of  his 
profession  in  that  city.  He  is  already  re- 
garded as  a  leader  of  his  profession  there 
and  has  for  three  years  served  in  the 
office  of  city  physician.  In  politics  Dr. 
Lowney  is  a  Democrat  and  is  a  staunch 
supporter  of  the  principles  and  policies 
of  that  party-  He  is  also  prominent  in 
the  social  and  club  life  of  the  community, 
and  is  a  member  of  the  Knights  of  Colum- 
bus and  the  Foresters,  active  in  the  work 
of  both   organizations.      In   his   religious 


belief  Dr.  Lowney  is  a  Roman  Catholic; 
he  attends  the  Church  of  St.  Louis  in  Fall 
River,  is  a  prominent  member  of  that 
parish  and  has  done  not  a  little  work  to 
advance  its  interests  in  the  community. 

Dr.  Lowney  married  October  19,  1914, 
in  Fall  River,  Effie  May  Whiteman,  a 
native  of  this  city,  born  May  5,  1887.  She 
was  the  eldest  child  of  Hugh  and  Agnes 
(French)  Whiteman,  old  and  highly  hon- 
ored residents  here.  To.  Mr.  and  Mrs. 
Lowney  one  child  has  been  born,  Jere- 
miah Joseph,  Jr.,  October  6,  1916. 

One  of  the  greatest,  if  not  the  greatest, 
advances  that  has  been  made  in  the  science 
and  practice  of  medicine  in  our  modern 
epoch  is  that  of  the  general  recognition 
of  what  may  perhaps  best  be  expressed 
as  the  therapeutic  value  of  normal  con- 
ditions. More  and  more  have  our  wisest 
physicians,  the  leaders  of  their  profession, 
come  to  realize  that,  although  acute  cases 
often  require  extreme  remedies,  the  vast 
majority  of  human  ailments  yield  to  noth- 
ing so  readily  and  so  finally  as  to  the 
healing  powers  of  nature  itself.  How 
strikingly  true  is  the  fact  that,  if  the  pa- 
tient can  be  placed  under  normal  condi- 
tions where  these  natural  healing-agen- 
cies can  operate  fully,  he  will  in  almost 
every  case  recover,  is  shown  by  the  recent 
discoveries  in  connection  with  the  heal- 
ing power  of  nothing  more  complex  than 
a  solution  of  salt  in  water  for  even  severe 
wounds,  and  the  treatment  of  tubercular 
children  with  an  agency  as  simple  as  sun- 
light in  the  high  altitudes  of  the  Alps. 
Indeed,  it  may  be  said  that  it  is  those 
physicians  who  have  the  clearest  appre- 
ciation of  this  broad  truth  that  are  to  be 
regarded  as  the  pioneers  and  prophets  in 
the  science  of  medicine  to-day.  It  is  in 
line  with  this  idea  that  the  work  of  Dr. 
Jeremiah  Joseph  Lowney,  of  Fall  River. 
Massachusetts,  has  been  carried  on  dur- 
ing the  entire  length  of  his  career. 


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DUBUQUE,  Hugo  Adelard, 

Jarist. 

One  of  the  leading  representatives  of 
the  French-Canadian  people  in  New  Eng- 
land is  Judge  Hugo  Adelard  Dubuque, 
associate  justice  of  the  Superior  Court  of 
Massachusetts.  Judge  Dubuque  comes 
from  an  ancestory  famous  for  doing 
things.  His  grand-uncle,  who  was  the 
founder  of  Dubuque,  Iowa,  that  city  being 
named  in  his  honor,  was  noted  for  his 
push  and  business  sagacity.  His  father, 
Moise  Dubuque,  was  one  of  the  early  ex- 
plorers and  pioneers  of  the  far  West,  liv- 
ing in  California  and  Montana  from  1840 
to  1850,  and  died  at  St.  Louis,  Missouri, 
on  his  return  from  a  business  trip  to  Mon- 
tana and  Oregon,  in  1865.  It  is  to  the 
efforts  of  such  men  that  the  United  States 
is  indebted  for  the  rapid  growth  and 
development  of  its  vast  western  country. 

Judge  Hugo  Adelard  Dubuque  was 
born  at  Cavignac,  near  Montreal,  Canada, 
November  4,  1857,  son  of  Moise  and 
Esther  (Mathien)  Dubuque.  He  ob- 
tained his  preparatory  education  in  the 
common  schools,  and  was  graduated  from 
the  College  at  St.  Hyacinthe,  Province  of 
Quebec,  in  the  class  of  1870.  Shortly 
afterwards  he  removed  to  Troy,  New 
York,  where  he  was  employed  for  a  few 
months  in  a  shoe  store.  In  the  autumn  of 
that  same  year  he  located  at  Fall  River, 
Massachusetts,  and  for  a  period  of  about 
four  years  was  a  clerk  in  a  grocery  and 
drug  store,  continuing  in  that  capacity 
until  1874.  Like  many  another  poor  boy. 
bent  on  acquiring  a  profession,  he  was 
obliged  to  turn  aside  at  the  very  outset 
in  order  to  earn  the  means  for  continuing 
his  training,  but  being  of  an  ambitious  and 
thrifty  nature,  he  had  in  the  meantime 
saved  of  his  earnings  and  diligentlv  pur- 
sued his  studies,  preparing  himself  to 
enter  the  Boston  University  Law  School, 


where  he  completed  the  full  course,  grad- 
uating therefrom  with  the  degree  of  LL. 
B.  in  1877.  That  same  year  he  was  ad- 
mitted to  the  Bristol  county  bar,  and  im- 
mediately began  the  practice  of  his  chosen 
profession  in  Fall  River,  which  city  has 
ever  since  been  his  home,  and  where  he 
has  won  distinction  and  honor  as  a  result 
of  his  gifted  and  scholarly  attainments. 
Judge  Dubuque's  political  affiliations 
have  been  with  the  Republican  party,  and 
for  many  years  he  was  active  in  the 
councils  of  the  party.  He  has  been  a  fre- 
quent and  effective  platform  speaker  in 
important  campaigns,  having  a  pleasant 
manner  and  a  logical  and  convincing  way 
of  presenting  his  arguments.  From  the 
very  start  of  his  chosen  career  in  Fall 
River,  owing  to  his  capabilities,  his  thor- 
ough preparation,  his  scholarly  achieve- 
ments and  adaptation  for  public  business, 
he  was  placed  in  public  office  and  has  been 
repeatedly  honored  by  high  positions,  the 
gift  of  his  fellow-citizens  and  friends 
throughout  that  section  of  the  State.  Of 
a  studious  nature  himself,  he  has  always 
been  deeply  interested  in  educational  mat- 
ters, and  from  1883  to  1889  served  as  a 
member  of  the  school  board  of  Fall  River. 
During  the  years  1889,  1897  and  1898 
he  was  representative  to  the  General 
Court  of  Massachusetts,  and  made  a  repu- 
tation as  a  debater  and  a  man  of  prac- 
tical good  sense,  taking  a  leading  part  in 
the  discussion  of  important  questions,  and 
also  being  a  member  of  the  judiciary  com- 
mittee of  the  House  of  Representatives. 
In  1900  he  was  elected  city  solicitor  of 
Fall  River,  being  reelected  to  the  same 
office  the  succeeding  year.  In  recognition 
of  his  splendid  talent  and  devotion  to  his 
chosen  profession,  in  August,  191 1,  he 
was  appointed  by  Governor  Eugene  N. 
Foss  associate  justice  of  the  Superior 
Court  of  Massachusetts,  on  the  bench  of 
which  he  has  attained  equal  distinction. 


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Judge  Dubuque  is  the  author  of  the 
famous  Dubuque  law,  which  provides 
that  the  defendant  can  pay  a  debt  by  in- 
stallments if  unable  to  discharge  the 
judgment  in  full.  He  is  also  the  author 
of  various  papers,  among  them  a  histori- 
cal sketch  on  French-Canadians,  and  of 
an  article  on  the  main  subject  in  the 
French  language  in  the  Guide  Canadian 
Francais  in  Fall  River.  He  has  been 
honorary  president  of  the  Cercle  Sala- 
berry,  a  literary  society,  and  of  the  Ligne 
de  Patriotes,  a  benevolent  society,  both 
of  Fall  River.  He  is  a  valued  member  of 
the  Quequechan  Club  of  the  Club  Calu- 
met, of  Fall  River ;  and  of  the  Boston 
City  Club. 

On  May  15,  1881,  Judge  Dubuque  was 
united  in  marriage  to  Anne  M.  Coughlin, 
daughter  of  William  and  Abbie  (Moley) 
Coughlin,  of  Fall  River,  and  this  union 
was  blessed  with  three  daughters, 
namely :  Pauline,  Helene  and  Marie.  In 
November,  1916,  Mrs.  Dubuque  passed 
away,  and  the  home  life  suffered  an  irre- 
parable loss.  His  daughter,  Helene,  mar- 
ried in  June,  1914,  Dr.  Albert  E.  Perron, 
of  Fall  River.  Pauline  and  Helene  are 
graduates  of  Elmhurst  Academy,  of 
Providence,  Rhole  Island,  and  Marie  is  a 
graduate  of  Wellesley  College,  class  of 
1913;  she  teaches  in  the  High  School  in 
Fall  River. 

Judge  Dubuque  was  called  upon  to 
present  to  the  city  of  Fall  River  the  beau- 
tiful equestrian  statue  of  General  Lafa- 
yette, which  was  given  to  that  city  by 
certain  public-spirited  and  patriotic  Amer- 
ican citizens  of  French  descent,  and  was 
unveiled  in  September,  1916,  under  the 
auspices  of  the  Club  Calumet.  His  speech 
on  this  occasion  is  an  eloquent  and  mas- 
terly effort.  Beginning  with  the  early  life 
of  that  great  and  beloved  Frenchman,  he 
successively  traced  his  career  when 
as   a  young  man     of     twenty,     wealthy 


and  accomplished  he  came  to  America, 
and  freely  offered  his  services  and  wealth 
to  General  George  Washington  and  the 
suffering  American  people,  who  were 
then  in  the  throes  of  the  Revolution,  and 
stated  that  it  was  largely  owing  to  the 
help  of  General  Lafayette  that  this  coun- 
try won  its  independence. 

Judge  Dubuque,  as  a  lawyer  and  judge, 
has  the  reputation  of  being  a  sound  and 
safe  adviser.  He  has  always  been  frank, 
independent,  and  unequivocal  in  the  ex- 
pression of  what  he  thinks  just  and  true, 
although  never  dogmatical,  over-confi- 
dent, or  intolerant  of  the  opinion  of  others. 
He  is  honorable  and  upright  in  his  profes- 
sional conduct,  and  disdains  to  appeal 
to  personal  or  party  prejudices,  and  has 
refrained  from  securing  position  by  art 
or  management.  He  is  diligent  in  the  em- 
ployment of  his  talents,  and  ever  enter- 
tains a  just  sense  of  the  dignity  and  res- 
ponsibilities of  his  profession.  His  decis- 
ions are  recognized  as  governed  by  wise 
precedents  and  thorough  research.  His 
culture  has  not  been  confined  to  the  law, 
but  he  is  familiar  with  the  best  depart- 
ment of  literature,  always  delighting  in 
those  works  which  belong  to  a  high  range 
of  thought.  In  his  home,  he  shows  the 
true  characteristics  of  the  parent,  being 
the  loving,  wise  counselor  and  companion. 
As  a  citizen.  Judge  Dubuque  is  honored 
and  respected  by  the  entire  community, 
where  he  is  so  well  and  favorably  known. 
His  motto  is : 
"Pro  antico  sacpe,  pro  patria  semper." 
Translation:  "For  friend  often,  for 
country  always." 


DEDRICK,  Albert  Clinton.  M.  D., 

Physician. 

Among  the  prominent  physicians  of 
Fall  River,  Massachusetts,  is  Dr.  Albert 
Clinton  Dedrick.     His  father  was  also  a 


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successful  and  distinguished  physician 
and  surgeon  bearing  the  same  name.  The 
family  is  of  German  descent,  having  come 
to  this  country,  according  to  verified  re- 
cord, from  Heidelberg.  Because  of  the 
great  variety  of  ways  in  which  the  family 
name  has  been  spelled  it  is  extremely  dif- 
ficult to  identify  some  of  the  very  earliest 
ancestors.  The  Newport  records  show 
the  marriage  of  Susanna  Dedwich  to  Jo- 
seph Wilbur,  September  2,  1753,  and  the 
marriage  of  Elizabeth  Dedwich  to  Joseph 
Pike,  March  14,  1762.  In  the  census  of 
1774,  of  the  province  of  Rhode  Island, 
only  two  of  the  family  were  reported,  both 
of  Newport :  Oliver  Dewick  appears  to 
have  had  only  himself,  wife  and  a  daugh- 
ter under  sixteen ;  John  Dedery  to  have 
had  only  himself  and  wife.  In  the  first 
federal  census  of  1790,  but  one  of  the  sur- 
name is  reported,  viz.,  John  DeWich,  of 
Newport,  and  he  had  no  family.  How- 
ever, in  the  records  of  Rev.  Gardiner 
Thurston,  we  find  the  marriage  of  Wil- 
liam Dedwich  and  Mary  Hammett,  June 
20,  1784.  A  later  one  is  that  of  Francis 
Dederic  and  Mary  Reed,  July  22,  1805, 
which  is  recorded  in  the  annals  of  the 
Congregational  church  at  Barrington, 
Rhode  Island. 

(I)  William  Dedrick,  son  of  the  im- 
migrant ancestor,  was  born  May  16,  1753, 
and  is  thought  to  have  been  about  two 
years  old  when  brought  by  his  parents 
from  Heidelberg,  Germany,  to  America. 
He  is  also  believed  to  have  been  later, 
one  of  the  planters  of  the  old  Liberty 
Tree  at  Newport,  Rhode  Island.  His 
wife,  Mary  Dedrick,  of  whose  maiden 
name  there  is  no  trace,  was  born  Septem- 
ber ID,  1763.  They  had  eleven  children: 
John,  born  March  16,  1785:  Mary,  born 
August  25,  1786;  William,  born  June  20, 
1789;  Peter,  born  November  20.  1791 ; 
Constantine  H.,  born  November  10,  1793 ; 
Elizabeth,  born  February  26,  1796;  Hen- 


ry, born  June  i,  1798;  Catherine,  born 
July  ID,  1800;  Samuel  T.,  of  further  men- 
tion; Martin,  born  August  26,  1804;  Har- 
riet, born  March  26,  1807. 

(II)  Samuel  Taggart  Dedrick,  son  of 
William  and  Mary  Dedrick,  was  born  in 
Portsmouth,  Rhode  Island,  May  26, 
1802,  and  died  at  Natick,  Rhode  Island, 
November  6,  1883.  His  occupation  was 
that  of  a  machinist,  and  for  some  years 
he  was  boss  mechanic  at  the  mill  of 
Sprague  Company,  Natick,  Rhode  Island. 
In  politics  he  was  inclined  to  favor 
more  often  the  Republican  ticket  though 
as  a  matter  of  fact,  he  was  inde- 
pendent in  that  respect.  He  attended  the 
Baptist  church,  but  may  possibly  have 
been  a  member  of  the  Methodist  Epis- 
copal church,  as  was  his  wife.  When  a 
young  man  he  started  the  first  Sunday 
school  in  Portsmouth  by  gathering  to- 
gether the  children  of  the  neighborhood 
in  the  chamber  of  the  old  wind  mill  on 
his  father's  farm.  As  an  inducement  to 
attend,  he  offered  to  each  child  a  penny 
for  every  Sunday  he  or  she  was  present 
there.  In  a  short  time  the  attendance  had 
grown  to  such  numbers  as  to  warrant 
moving  the  Sunday  school  to  larger  quar- 
ters. 

He  was  married  April  25,  1830,  at  War- 
wick, Rhode  Island,  to  Sarah  Gardiner 
Clarke,  of  Usquepang,  South  Kingston, 
Rhode  Island,  by  Rev.  Moses  Fifield,  of 
the  Centreville  Methodist  Episcopal 
church.  She  was  the  daughter  of  William 
and  Amy  (Green)  Clarke,  and  one  of 
eight  children  of  whom  the  others  were: 
William,  Gardiner,  Daniel,  Joseph,  Ruth, 
Nancy  and  Lucy.  The  children  born  to 
Samuel  Taggart  and  Sarah  (Clarke)  Ded- 
rick were :  Mary  Smith,  born  in  May, 
1836,  died  June  30,  1857,  at  the  age  of 
twenty-one  years  and  one  month ;  and 
Albert  Clinton,  of  further  mention. 

(III)  Dr.  Albert  Clinton  Dedrick,  son 


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of  Samuel  Taggart  and  Sarah  Gardiner 
(Clarke)  Dedrick,  was  born  at  Natick, 
Rhode  Island,  August  27,  1831,  and  died 
at  Centreville,  Rhode  Island,  April  16, 
1889.  During  his  youth  he  learned  the 
machinists'  trade.  In  1849  he  went  to 
California  by  way  of  Cape  Horn  and  was 
said  to  have  been  the  youngest  "forty- 
niner"  to  go  from  that  section  of  the 
country,  having  been  eighteen  years  old 
at  that  time.  Later  he  returned  to  Rhode 
Island  and  took  up  the  study  of  medicine 
in  the  office  of  Dr.  James  Andros,  at 
Natick.  He  then  entered  Albany  Medical 
College,  from  which  he  was  graduated  in 
1857  with  the  degree  of  Doctor  of  Medi- 
cine, whereupon  he  immediately  began 
his  practice  at  Crompton,  Rhode  Island. 
In  October,  1862,  he  was  commissioned 
assistant  surgeon  of  the  Fourth  Rhode 
Island  Regiment  of  Volunteer  Infantry, 
serving  until  November,  1864,  when  he 
was  honorably  discharged  for  disability. 
During  these  years  he  served  at  different 
intervals  as  regimental  surgeon,  when 
his  principal,  Dr.  Rivers,  and  others  on 
the  staff  were  called  elsewhere.  After  the 
war  in  1865,  he  located  at  Centreville, 
Rhode  Island,  where  he  remained  in  gen- 
eral practice  to  the  end  of  his  life.  In 
1871  he  was  commissioned  surgeon  of  the 
Fourth  Brigade  of  the  Rhode  Island  Mili- 
tia. He  was  always  actively  interested 
in  public  affairs,  having  represented  his 
town  in  the  General  Assembly  during 
1873  and  1874  and  possibly  one  year  more. 
From  1876  to  1880  he  was  a  member  of 
the  school  board,  and  from  1873  to  1S80 
a  member  on  several  state  commissions. 
He  was  a  member  of  the  Rhode  Island 
Medical  Society ;  a  member  of  the  Loyal 
Legion ;  past  master  of  Manchester 
Lodge,  No.  12,  Ancient  Free  and  Accept- 
ed Masons,  of  Anthony,  Rhode  Island ; 
filled  successive  chairs  in  Landmark 
Chapter,    Royal   Arch    Masons,      Phenix, 


Rhode  Island ;  was  a  member  of  St.  John's 
Commandery,  Knights  Templar,  of  Provi- 
dence, Rhode  Island.  In  politics  he  was 
usually  a  Republican.  He  was  a  com- 
municant of  St.  Philip's  Protestant  Ep- 
iscopal Church,  Crompton,  Rhode  Island. 
Dr.  Dedrick,  married,  November  7, 
1859,  at  Centreville,  Rhode  Island,  Sarah 
Abbott,  who  was  born  at  Clitheroe,  Lan- 
cashire, England,  1840,  and  died  at  Centre- 
ville, Rhode  Island,  May  7,  1916.  Her 
parents  were  James  Abbott,  born  at  Skip- 
ton,  Yorkshire,  England,  in  July,  1813, 
.  and  died  at  Fall  River,  Massachusetts, 
February,  1876;  and  Catherine  (Henry) 
Abbott,  born  about  181 1  at  Clitheroe, 
Lancashire,  England,  and  died  Novem- 
ber 20,  1891.  James  Abbott  was  the  son 
of  John  and  Elizabeth  (Hamill)  Abbott, 
whose  children  other  than  the  above  men- 
tioned were :  John,  born  December  27, 
1795  ;  Ann,  born  November  13,  1797 ;  Jane, 
born  January  23,  1801 ;  Joseph,  born  May 
I,  1803  ;  Reuben,  born  September  20,  1805  ; 
Thomas,  born  April  9,  1808 ;  and  Eliza- 
beth, born  May  29,  1809.  Catherine 
(Henry)  Abbott  was  one  of  six  children  of 
whom  the  other  five  were :  William, 
James,  Ann,  Mary,  and  Margaret.  The 
Abbotts  immigrated  to  America  when 
their  daughter  Sarah  was  less  than  a  year 
old,  settling  in  Fall  River,  Massachusetts. 
Sometime  during  the  years  1847  to  1850 
they  removed  to  Clyde,  Rhode  Island, 
where  James  Abbott  became  manager  for 
the  Simon  Henry  Greene  Company, 
calico  printers  there.  In  1850  he  became 
a  partner  of  his  brother-in-law,  James 
Sanders,  in  the  firm  of  Abbott  &  Sanders, 
operating  a  print  works  at  Crompton. 
This  partnership  terminated  about  i860, 
when  he  went  to  Apponaug,  Rhode  Is- 
land, where  he  built  a  print  works  mill, 
but  which,  owing  to  conditions  brought 
about  by  the  Civil  War,  he  was  unable  to 
put  into  operation.  The  Abbotts  made 
10 


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their  home  at  Cherrystone  Park,  now  a 
suburban  village  called  Eden  Park.  The 
children  of  James  and  Catherine  (Henry) 
Abbott  other  than  the  above  mentioned 
daughter,  Sarah,  were :  Joseph,  born  in 
England,  June  i,  1838;  Elizabeth  Ann, 
born  in  Fall  River,  Massachusetts,  De- 
cember 12  1842 ;  William  Henry,  born  in 
Fall  River,  November  4,  1844;  and  John 
Hammill,  born  in  Fall  River,  August  11, 
1847.  To  Dr.  Albert  Clinton  and  Sarah 
(Abbott)  Dedrick  were  born  four  chil- 
dren: I.  Mary  Smith,  born  at  Crompton, 
Rhode  Island,  June,  i860;  died  February 
21,  1861.  2.  Mary  Smith  born  at  Crompton, 
December,  12,  1861,  is  still  living  in  Cen- 
treville,  Rhode  Island.  3.  Albert  Clinton,  of 
further  mention.  4.  William  Martin,  born 
Centreville,  Rhode  Island,  March  9,  1871. 
He  received  his  education  in  the  public 
schools  there  and  in  the  high  school  of 
Providence,  Rhode  Island ;  after  leaving 
school  he  clerked  in  the  drug  store  of 
E.  S.  Anthony,  and  for  more  than  a  year 
was  manager  of  Russeau  &  Brown's  drug 
store  in  Woonsocket ;  since  i8g2  he  has 
been  in  the  business  for  himself  at  South 
Main  street,  Fall  River,  Massachusetts ;  he 
has  taken  an  active  part  in  public  affairs, 
having  been  alderman  for  six  years ;  he 
married,  October  10,  1893,  Elizabeth  Alice 
Borden,  born  in  Frankford,  Pennsylvania, 
the  daughter  of  William  Arthur  Borden ; 
their  children  are :  Clinton  Borden,  born 
September  23,  1894;  and  Mary  Ruth,  born 
June  24,  1902. 

(IV)  Dr.  Albert  Clinton  (2)  Dedrick, 
son  of  Dr.  Albert  Clinton  (i)  Dedrick, 
was  born  at  Eden  Park,  Cranston,  Rhode 
Island,  December  10,  1864.  He  attended 
the  public  schools  of  Centreville,  Rhode 
Island,  the  Mowry  &  Goff  English  and 
Classical  High  School  in  Providence,  and 
the  Bryant  &  Stratton  Commercial  School 
in  Providence.  He  began  the  study  of 
medicine  under  the  instruction     of     his 


father,  and  in  due  course  of  time  entered 
the  New  York  Bellevue  Hospital,  from 
which  he  was  graduated  with  the  degree 
of  Doctor  of  Medicine,  March  12,  1888. 
For  three  months  he  was  associated  with 
his  father  in  Centreville.  Since  June  I, 
1888,  he  has  been  in  general  practice  in 
Fall  River,  Massachusetts.  From  1899  to 
1903  he  was  city  physician  and  ex-officio 
chairman  of  the  board  of  health,  having 
charge  of  the  city  hospital. 

Dr.  Dedrick  has  a  wide  circle  of  friends 
and  is  especially  popular  in  the  various 
fraternal  organizations  to  which  he  be- 
longs. He  is  a  member  of  Puritan  Lodge, 
Knights  of  Pythias ;  of  Fall  River  Lodge, 
Independent  Order  of  Odd  Fellows;  Man- 
chester Lodge,  No.  12,  Ancient  Free  and 
Accepted  Masons  of  Anthony,  Rhode  Is- 
land ;  Landmark  Chapter,  Royal  Arch  Ma- 
sons, of  Phenix,  Rhode  Island ;  Fall  River 
Council,  Royal  and  Select  Masters ;  God- 
frey de  Bouillion  Commandery,  Knights 
Templar,  and  the  Massachusetts  Consist- 
ory ;  also  the  Fall  River  Lodge  of  Per- 
fection ;  the  Samuel  C.  Lawrence  Council, 
Princes  of  Jerusalem,  of  Fall  River;  St. 
Andrew  Chapter,  Rose  Croix,  of  Fall 
River;  and  Azab  Grotto,  of  "Fall  River. 
He  organized  the  Knights  of  Pythias  in 
Fall  River  in  April,  1892,  and  is  past 
chancellor  of  the  lodge.  He  is  a  member 
of  Cavendish  Lodge,  Sons  of  St.  George, 
of  Phenix.  He  is  a  communicant  of  St. 
Philip's  Protestant  Episcopal  Church  of 
Crompton,  Rhode  Island.  He  is  a  mem- 
ber of  the  American  Public  Health  Assoc- 
iation. 

Dr.  Dedrick  married,  January  24,  1894, 
May  Leslie  Law,  born  in  Fall  River,  Jan- 
uary I,  1869,  daughter  of  Herbert  L.  and 
Laura  A.  B.  (Bliss)  Law.  Her  father 
died  in  1886.  He  was  in  business  for 
many  years  as  a  grocer  and  provision 
dealer.  Her  mother  died  at  the  residence 
of  her  daughter,  Mrs.  A.  C.  Dedrick,  at 


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No.  247  North  Main  street,  Fall  River, 
Massachusetts,  November  2,  1917.  Dr. 
and  Mrs.  Dedrick  have  one  son,  Albert 
Clinton,  Jr.,  born  at  Fall  River,  March 
2,  1898.  He  attended  Monson  Academy, 
and  is  now  a  student  of  the  textile  in- 
dustry at  the  Granite  Mills,  Fall  River, 
Massachusetts.  Dr.  and  Mrs.  Dedrick 
had  another  child,  born  in  1895,  who  died 
in  infancy. 


LEWIS,  Robert  Joseph, 

Dental   Surgeon. 

For  a  quarter  of  a  century  Dr.  Lewis 
has  been  engaged  in  dental  work  at  Fall 
River,  Massachusetts,  but  it  was  not  un- 
til 1908  that  he  opened  offices  under  his 
own  name  and  reaped  a  personal  reward 
for  his  skill  as  a  dental  surgeon.  The 
sixteen  years  of  preparatory  practice  were 
under  the  names  of  others,  but  during 
their  continuance  he  gained  a  wonderful 
skill  and  gentleness  in  professional  work 
which  was  highly  appreciated  by  the 
many  he  served,  thus,  when  he  finally 
opened  offices  of  his  own,  there  was 
awaiting  him  a  large  clientele  who  con- 
sidered him  one  of  Fall  River's  best  and 
leading  dentists.  The  years  that  have 
since  elapsed  have  but  added  to  that  re- 
putation, and  his  position  in  professional 
life  is  an  honorable  and  assured  one.  Dr. 
Lewis  came  to  Fall  River  from  the  State 
of  Oregon,  a  grandson  of  Thomas  Lewis, 
and  a  son  of  Thomas  Arthur  Lewis,  both 
of  English  birth. 

Thomas  Lewis,  born  in  England,  Au- 
gust 23,  1797,  came  to  the  United  States, 
and  died  at  Bards,  Coos  county,  Oregon, 
July  3,  1877.  His  wife  Harriet,  whom  he 
married  December  6,  1872,  died  Septem- 
ber 27,  1877.  Thomas  Arthur  Lewis  was 
born  in  Elsberre,  England,  January  15, 
1841,  died  at  Fall  River,  Massachusetts, 
January  20,  1915.    He  came  to  the  United 


States,  conducted  a  contracting  business 
in  Coos  county,  Oregon,  until  1884,  then 
came  to  Fall  River,  Massachusetts,  where 
he  continued  that  business  during  the  ac- 
tive years  of  his  life.  He  was  a  man  of 
energy,  uprightness  and  thrift,  a  Repub- 
lican in  politics,  widely  known  and  highly 
esteemed.  He  married  in  Marshfield,  Coos 
county,  Oregon,  June  17,  1876,  Agnes  M. 
Carney,  born  in  Manchester,  England, 
daughter  of  Thomas  Carney,  who  died 
March  5,  1876,  and  his  wife,  Kathryn 
(Leonard)  Carney.  They  were  the  par- 
ents of  two  sons :  Robert  Joseph,  of 
further  mention,  and  Thomas  William, 
who  was  drowned  at  Tiverton,  Rhode 
Island,  August  3,  1909. 

Robert  Joseph  Lewis  was  born  at  Ban- 
don,  Coos  county,  Oregon,  February  6, 
1877,  and  there  his  parents  resided  until 
1884,  when  they  came  east,  locating  at 
Fall  River,  Massachusetts,  traversing  the 
width  of  the  continent  in  their  change  of 
home.  Robert  J.  attended  the  Fall  River 
public  grammar  school  and  Notre  Dame 
School  until  fifteen  years  of  age,  even  at 
that  age  becoming  deeply  interested  in 
labaratory  work.  In  1892  he  began  den- 
tal work  with  Dr.  Cote,  and  for  five  years 
continued  in  that  ofiflce,  his  principal  du- 
ties being  filling  and  mounting.  Leaving 
Dr.  Cote  he  spent  the  next  twelve  years 
in  association  with  Dr.  T.  P.  Sullivan,  a 
leading  dentist  with  whom  he  acquired 
a  skill  and  a  reputation  equal  to  the  best 
in  the  city.  Deciding  to  engage  in  prac- 
tice under  his  own  name,  he  successfully 
passed  the  State  Board  of  Dental  Examin- 
ers on  April  2,  1908,  and  on  September 
8,  1908,  he  opened  dental  offices  at  Fall 
River  and  has  there  conducted  a  most 
successful     practice     until     the     present, 

(1917)- 

Dr.  Lewis  is  a  member  of  various  pro- 
fessional and  social  organizations,  mem- 
ber of  the  Benevolent     and     Protective 


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Order  of  Elks,  a  communicant  of  Sacred 
Heart  Roman  Catholic  Church,  in  politics 
an  Independent  Republican,  and  for  four 
years,  beginning  with  the  Spanish-Ameri- 
can war  period,  he  was  a  member  of  Com- 
pany I,  Massachusetts  Naval  Brigade,  the 
headquarters  of  that  company  being  at 
the  Fall  River  Armory. 


KINDLE,  Joseph  Henry, 

Well  Known  Chemist. 

We  could  find  no  better  example  of 
the  essential  kinsmanship  between  the 
two  great  branches  of  the  English-speak- 
ing race,  between  the  people  of  England 
and  their  descendants  in  America,  and 
of  the  ease  with  which  a  member  of  one 
branch  becomes  identified  with  the  mem- 
bers of  the  other  when  he  goes  to  live 
among  them  than  the  case  of  Joseph 
Henry  Hindle,  one  of  the  most  prominent 
citizens  of  Fall  River,  Massachusetts, 
where  his  public  spirit  and  essential 
democracy  has  made  him  respected  and 
admired  by  his  fellow  citizens  generally. 

Born  in  the  town  of  Darwin,  Lanca- 
shire, England,  Mr.  Hindle  comes  of  old 
English  stock,  his  forebears  having  lived 
in  that  country  from  time  immemorial. 
His  grandfather,  Joseph  Hindle,  was  a 
native  of  England  and  there  he  resided 
during  his  entire  life,  being  engaged  in 
the  printing  business.  He  married  Jen- 
nie Yates,  a  native  of  the  same  place, 
and  they  became  the  parents  of  several 
children,  three  of  whom  are  alive  at  the 
present  time  and  are  now  engaged  in  the 
printing  business.  One  of  these  children 
was  Havvorth  Hindle,  the  father  of  the 
Mr.  Hindle  of  this  sketch.  Haworth 
Hindle  was  born  near  Accrington  Church, 
Accrington,  England,  and  continued  to 
reside  there  all  his  life,  engaged  in  the 
printing  business.  He  was  a  methodist 
in  his  religious  belief,  and  was  a  very  good 


man  and  highly  thought  of  by  his  neigh- 
bors. He  married  Elizabeth  Watson,  a 
native  of  Darwin,  Lancashire,  and  they 
were  the  parents  of  eleven  children,  six 
boys  and  five  girls. 

Joseph  Henry  Hindle  passed  the  early 
years  of  his  childhood  in  his  native  vil- 
lage of  Darwin,  but  while  still  a  mere 
youth  migrated  to  Scotland  and  there 
took  up  his  abode  in  the  city  of  Glasgow, 
where  he  continued  his  education,  attend- 
ing the  famous  schools  of  that  place  for 
the  purpose.  After  completing  the  ele- 
mentary portion  of  his  studies  at  these 
institutions,  he  matriculated  at  Ander- 
son College,  Glasgow,  and  was  graduated 
therefrom  with  the  class  of  1888.  At 
Anderson  College  Mr.  Hindle  had  de- 
voted his  particular  attention  to  the 
course  in  chemistry,  and  it  has  been  as 
a  chemist  that  he  has  continued  to  work 
ever  since.  After  leaving  college,  he  be- 
came a  chemist  at  the  little  village  of 
Busby,  which  is  situated  in  the  neighbor- 
hood of  Glasgow,  and  here  he  remained 
for  a  number  of  years.  He  also  was  em- 
ployed by  the  Inglis  and  Wakefield  Com- 
pany, a  large  concern  of  printers  in  that 
neighborhood,  and  there  continued  for 
eight  years.  It  was  at  the  end  of  that 
period  that  Mr.  Hindle  first  came  to  the 
New  World,  although  it  was  not  until 
much  later  that  he  settled  in  the  United 
States.  His  first  home  on  this  side  of 
the  ocean  was  at  Porto  Alegre,  Brazil, 
where  he  was  engaged  in  various  chemical 
works  for  two  and  a  half  years.  Follow- 
ing this  he  returned  to  Europe  and  there 
travelled  in  Portugal  and  Germany,  where 
he  studied  the  application  of  the  new 
knowledge  in  chemistry  to  the  art  of 
printing.  Of  this  branch  of  his  subject 
he  became  a  master,  and  it  was  then  that 
he  came  to  Canada  where  for  fifteen  years 
he  was  associated  with  the  Dominion  Tex- 
tile Company  of  Quebec.     It  was  in  i8g6 


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that  he  began  this  association,  and  in 
1912  he  came  to  Fall  River,  Massa- 
chusetts, where  he  has  remained  ever 
since.  Here  he  became  associated  with 
the  American  Printing  Company,  the 
largest  calico  printing  company  in  the 
world,  and  has  now  been  with  this  con- 
cern for  five  years.  In  that  time  he  has 
made  himself  invaluable  to  his  employers, 
and  is  now  one  of  the  most  trusted  and 
valued  men  on  the  staff.  Mr.  Hindle  is 
one  of  those  rare  characters  which  find 
their  entire  interest  in  their  work.  One 
of  those  fortunate  characters,  for  surely 
it  is  true  that  as  Carlyle  says,  "Blessed 
is  the  man  who  has  found  his  work."  And 
this  is  indeed  the  case  with  Mr.  Hindle. 
He  does  not  take  any  active  part  in  the 
social  side  of  life,  since  his  mind  is  else- 
where. He  is  not  a  member  of  clubs,  fra- 
ternities or  other  organizations  of  a 
similar  nature — he  is  not  interested  in 
them.  In  his  own  phrase,  brief  and  to 
the  point  he  "attends  strictly  to  business 
and  has  no  time  for  anything  else."  But 
this  applies  only  to  worldly  interests. 
There  are  certain  matters  of  another  kind 
altogether  with  which  he  concerns  him- 
self deeply  and  to  which  he  gives  the 
closest  attention.  These  are  certainly  not 
calculated  to  take  his  attention,  but 
rather  to  center  it  there.  These  are  mat- 
ters connected  with  his  religious  belief, 
which  is  a  very  strong  factor  in  his  life 
and  far  more  operative  in  his  conduct 
than  is  the  case  with  the  majority  of  men. 
Mr.  Hindle  is  a  staunch  adherent  of  the 
Presbyterian  belief  and  attends  Dr.  Mar- 
tin's Church  of  that  denomination  at  Fall 
River.  He  also  gives  much  earnest 
thought  to  his  duties  as  a  citizen,  and 
being  of  an  independent  turn  of  mind  has 
not  allied  himself  irrevocably  with  any 
political  creed.  He  calls  himself  an  Inde- 
pendent and  allows  nothing  but  his  hon- 


est conviction  of  what  will  be  to  the  best 
advantage  of  the  community  to  sway  him 
in  the  casting  of  his  ballot. 

Joseph  Henry  Hindle  was  united  in 
marriage,  September  15,  1896,  at  Eagles- 
han,  Scotland,  with  Agnes  Brown  Mc- 
Cartney, a  native  of  Glasgow,  born  in  the 
year  1869,  a  daughter  of  William  McCart- 
ney, also  a  native  of  that  city.  Mr.  Mc- 
Cartney was  a  farmer  by  occupation,  and 
it  was  a  privilege  that  he  prized  that  his 
farm  included  a  portion  of  the  farm  of 
Robert  Burns,  so  that  he  often  plowed  the 
same  land  as  that  furrowed  by  the  great 
poet,  and  may  even  have  turned  over  the 
lineal  descendant  of  the  flower  apostro- 
phized by  him.  Mr.  McCartney  was  mar- 
ried to  Maggie  Riggins,  and  Mrs.  Hindle 
is  one  of  their  children. 

We  have  a  term  in  America  which 
probably  originated  here,  and  which  ex- 
presses better  than  any  other  one  of  the 
peculiar  products  of  our  social  life.  That 
term  is  "the  self-made  man"  and  sums 
up  with  a  certain  pungent  precision  com- 
mon to  popular  phrases  a  type  with 
which  we  are  all  familiar.  It  would  be 
difficult  to  find  a  better  example  of  what 
is  meant  by  the  term  than  in  the  person 
of  Joseph  Henry  Hindle,  of  Fall  River, 
the  distinguished  gentleman  whose  name 
heads  this  brief  appreciation,  one  of  the 
successful  figures  in  the  industrial  life  of 
the  community,  and  one  of  those  whose 
influence  is  felt  strongly  by  all  his  as- 
sociates. He  enjoys  the  most  enviable 
reputation,  the  highest  kind  of  business 
standing,  and  his  social  position  is  of  the 
highest.  Virtuous,  honorable,  public-spir- 
ited, his  career  exhibits  strikingly  those 
qualities  typical  of  the  best  English 
strains  which  have  contributed  so  greatly 
to  the  prosperity  and  development  of  the 
country. 


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BLOSSOM,  Waiiam  Wesley, 

Manufactory   Superintendent. 

William  Wesley  Blossom,  the  well 
known  business  man  and  public-spirited 
citizen  of  Fall  River,  Massachusetts,  is  a 
member  of  an  old  New  England  family, 
which  resided  for  many  years  in  the  town 
of  Somerset  in  this  State.  Here  in  the 
early  part  of  the  last  century  was  living 
one  Barnabus  Blossom,  a  native  of  the 
town,  and  grandfather  of  William  Wes- 
ley Blossom.  Barnabus  Blossom  was  the 
owner  of  a  planing  mill  and  contracted 
for  woodworking  jobs  in  this  region,  and 
it  is  said  that  he  finished  the  woodwork 
for  a  greater  number  of  the  mills  of  Fall 
River  than  any  other  man.  He  was  a 
Republican  in  politics,  and  a  Baptist  in 
his  religious  belief.  He  married  Nancy 
Davis,  who  was,  like  himself,  a  native  of 
Somerset.  One  of  their  children  was 
William  Elijah  Blossom,  father  of  the 
Mr.  Blossom  of  this  sketch.  William  Eli- 
jah Blossom  was  born  at  Somerset,  and 
as  a  young  man  became  a  bookkeeper  and 
accountant,  and  followed  this  line  of  work 
during  practically  his  entire  life.  He  mar- 
ried Mabel  Ripley,  a  native  of  Fall  River, 
a  daughter  of  Luther  Ripley,  of  that  city. 
They  were  the  parents  of  three  children : 
Luther  Ripley;  William  Wesley,  of 
whom  further ;  and  Romaine  Frances.  Mr. 
and  Mrs.  Blossom,  Sr.,  were  staunch 
members  of  the  Baptist  church,  and  their 
children  were  all  reared  in  this  persua- 
sion. 

Born  September  7,  1886,  in  the  city  of 
Fall  River,  William  Wesley  Blossom  has 
made  this  his  home  consistingly  ever 
since.  Here  he  formed  his  first  youthful 
impression  and  here  he  gained  the  ele- 
mentary portion  of  his  education  at  the 
local  grammar  school.  He  later  attended 
the  Bradford  Matthew  Chaloner  Durfee 
High  School,  from  which  he  was  gradu- 


ated with  the  class  of  1904.  Upon  com- 
pleting his  studies  at  this  institution,  Mr. 
Blossom  was  employed  by  the  Stevens 
Mill  in  the  capacity  of  helper,  and  there 
remained  for  about  one  year.  At  the  end 
of  this  period  Mr.  Blossom  found  an  op- 
portunity to  resume  his  studies,  and  en- 
tered the  Bradford  Matthew  Chaloner 
Durfee  Textile  School,  and  after  studying 
there  for  about  one  year  graduated  with 
the  class  of  1907.  He  then  took  up  once 
more  the  industrial  line  in  which  he  had 
commenced,  and  this  time  secured  a  posi- 
tion as  third  hand  in  the  Cornell  Mill, 
being  employed  in  the  cardroom.  Some 
time  afterwards  he  was  advanced  to  se- 
cond hand  in  the  cardroom.  Not  long 
afterwards  he  secured  a  similar  position 
in  the  cardroom  of  the  Arkwright  Mill. 
Here  he  advanced  to  the  position  of  over- 
seer of  the  cardroom,  and  then  once  more 
returned  in  this  capacity  to  the  Cornell 
Mill,  where  he  worked  for  six  years.  In 
the  year  1912  he  was  offered  the  position 
of  superintendent  of  the  Laurel  Lake 
Company,  which  he  accepted,  and  which 
he  holds  at  the  present  time.  In  his 
political  belief  Mr.  Blossom  is  a  sup- 
porter of  the  principles  and  policies  of 
the  Republican  party,  but  he  is  a  man 
of  very  independent  mind  and  one 
who  believes  in  the  highest  kind  of  po- 
litical ethics,  so  that  partisan  considera- 
tions count  for  but  very  little  with  him 
in  comparison  with  what  he  holds  to  be 
the  best  welfare  of  the  community.  He  is 
a  Baptist  by  religious  conviction,  and  at- 
tends the  First  Church  of  that  denomina- 
tion in  Fall  River.  Mr.  Blossom  is  also 
a  conspicuous  figure  in  the  fraternal  and 
club  life  of  the  community,  especially  in 
connection  with  the  Masonic  Order,  hav- 
ing taken  his  thirty-second  degree  in  Free, 
Masonry.  He  is  a  member  of  King 
Philip's  Lodge,  Ancient  Free  and  Accept- 
ed Masons ;  the  Chapter,     Royal     Arch 


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Masons ;  the  Council,  Royal  and  Select 
Masters;  Godfrey  de  Bouillon  Com- 
mandery.  Knights  Templar;  and  R.  I. 
Consistory,  Sovereign  Princes  of  the 
Royal  Secret. 

William  Wesley  Blossom  was  united 
in  marriage,  March  8,  1916,  in  the  city 
of  Fall  River,  with  Ruby  Buffington 
Morse,  a  native  of  this  city,  born  in  1889, 
a  daughter  of  Ezekiel  and  Mary  (Mar- 
lowe) Morse,  natives  and  lifelong  resi- 
dents here. 


MARCOUX,  Ephraim  Alphonse,  M.  D., 

Physician. 

In  the  last  century  many  families  of 
French  extraction  have  come  to  New 
England  by  way  of  Canada,  and  the  de- 
scendants are  found  among  the  most  ac- 
tive, progressive  and  useful  Americans  of 
to-day.  Under  our  excellent  educational 
system  the  children  are  educated  and 
many  are  found  in  the  learned  profes- 
sions. Alphonse  Marcoux,  of  St.  John, 
Canada,  was  the  father  of  Joseph  Al- 
phonse Marcoux,  who  lived  in  that  city, 
whence  he  removed  to  Martha's  Vine- 
yard, and  later  settled  in  Fall  River, 
where  he  was  an  extensive  contractor 
and  builder.  Many  of  the  houses  on 
North  Main  street  in  that  city  were  con- 
structed by  him.  He  married  Adeline 
Sabourin  of  Ottawa,  Canada. 

Dr.  Ephraim  Alphonse  Marcoux,  son 
of  Joseph  Alphonse  and  Adeline  (Sabou- 
rin) Marcoux,  was  born  October  6,  1881, 
in  Fall  River,  and  received  excellent  edu- 
cational advantages,  attending  the  public 
schools  of  the  city,  including  the  Durfee 
High  School,  was  subsequently  a  student 
at  Tibodeau  Commercial  College,  and 
graduated  from  the  Baltimore  Medical 
College  with  the  degree  of  M.  D.,  in  1904. 
He  immediately  began  the  practice  of 
medicine  in  his  native  city,  where  he  con- 


tinued four  years,  and  removed  to  Provi- 
dence, Rhode  Island.  After  four  and  one- 
half  years  of  successful  practice  in  that 
city  he  returned  to  Fall  River  in  1915,  and 
now  enjoys  a  large  and  lucrative  practice 
in  that  city,  specializing  in  diseases  of 
women.  Dr.  Marcoux  is  a  student,  keep- 
ing abreast  of  the  times,  and  gives  little 
attention  to  anything  outside  of  his  pro- 
fession. The  inevitable  consequence  is 
that  he  has  achieved,  in  a  short  period,  a 
remarkable  success,  and  is  widely  esteem- 
ed by  his  contemporaries.  While  he  is 
not  especially  interested  in  political  move- 
ments, he  takes  the  interest  of  every  good 
citizen  in  the  progress  of  events.  He  is 
not  bound  by  the  edicts  of  any  party, 
acting  independently  in  politics,  and  is  a 
faithful  member  of  the  Roman  Catholic 
church.  He  is  also  a  member  of  the 
Loyal  Order  of  Moose  and  physician  of 
the  order,  St.  John  Baptiste  Society  of 
America,  Artisans  Club,  and  the  Fall 
River  Medical   Society. 

Dr.  Marcoux  married,  in  Fall  River, 
September  8,  1904,  Mary  Salvina  La- 
moureaux,  daughter  of  Aphanese  La- 
moureaux,  a  successful  furniture  dealer  of 
Fall  River.  Dr.  and  Mrs.  Marcoux  have 
a  daughter,  Irene  Blanche,  born  1905. 
A  son  died  at  the  age  of  four  years. 


THIBAULT,  Onesime, 

Journalist. 

The  years,  1862-1885,  were  spent  by 
Mr.  Thibault  in  his  native  city,  Levis, 
capital  of  the  County  of  Levis,  Province 
of  Quebec,  Canada,  a  city  of  convents,  col- 
leges, mills  and  factories,  with  great 
docks  and  extensive  shipping  trade.  Levis 
or  Levis  Town  or  Port  Levis,  as  it  is  var- 
iously called,  is  now  an  important  point, 
being  a  landing  place  for  passengers  from 
Europe  and  heavily  fortified  against  ene- 
my attack.     His  ancestors     came     from 


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Normandie,  France,  but  his  mother  was 
born  in  Canada.  His  father  came  from 
Champagne,  in  the  western  part  of 
France.  He  was  among  the  early  eight- 
eenth century  French  settlers  in  Canada, 
and  bore  his  part  in  developing  that 
county,  even  before  it  passed  out  of 
French  control. 

A  descendant  of  this  hardy  French 
pioneer  was  Charles  Thibault,  born  at  St. 
Gervais,  Quebec,  March  25,  1839,  and  died 
at  St.  Merie,  Quebec,  February  12,  1914. 
He  married  at  Levis,  Quebec,  in  i860,  Vir- 
ginie  Boucher,  born  at  Ste.  Anne  de  la 
Pocatiere,  Quebec,  May  17,  1828,  daugh- 
ter of  Raphael  Boucher,  a  farmer,  born 
at  the  same  place  as  his  daughter,  in  1804, 
and  his  wife,  Celeste  (Lagasse)  Boucher. 
Raphael  Boucher  was  a  son  of  Francois 
and  Marie  Louise  (Ouellet)  Boucher. 
Charles  Thibault  was  a  successful  mer- 
chant of  Levis,  highly  esteemed  in  his  city 
by  all  who  knew  him.  Four  of  his  six  chil- 
dren died  young,  his  two  sons  surviving: 
Onesime,  of  further  mention,  and  Joseph, 
a  photographer,  born  April  23,  1871,  at 
Levis. 

Onesime  Thibault,  eldest  son  of 
Charles  and  Virginie  (Boucher)  Thibault, 
was  born  at  Levis,  Province  of  Quebec, 
Canada,  April  23,  1862,  and  spent  there  the 
years  until  1885.  x^fter  completing  pri- 
mary and  intermediate  courses,  he  entered 
a  preparatory  school,  Montmagny  Col- 
lege, Montmagny,  was  graduated  with 
the  class  of  1880,  and  at  once  matricula- 
ted at  Ste.  Anne  College,  Levis,  whence 
he  was  graduated  A.  B.,  class  of  1884. 
A  year  later  he  came  to  the  United  States, 
was  employed  in  a  drug  store  at  Fall 
River,  Massachusetts,  for  two  years,  then 
embarked  upon  his  extraordinarily  suc- 
cessful career  in  journalism.  In  1887  he 
founded  "L'Independent,"  a  weekly  news- 
paper printed  in  the  French  language,  of 
which  he  was  owner,  editor  and  publisher. 
He  continued  the  paper  as  a  private  enter- 
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prise  until  1900,  then  organized  the  L'In- 
dependent Publishing  Co.,  a  corporation 
which  took  over  the  business,  Mr.  Thi- 
bault being  treasurer  and  manager.  The 
sphere  of  the  paper  extends  far  beyond 
local  limits,  and  is  the  leading  French 
newspaper  of  Southern  Massachusetts. 
"L'Independent"  has  been  a  daily  since 
1893,  and  is  an  advertising  medium  of 
great  value,  entering  about  every  French 
home  in  the  Fall  River  section.  The  com- 
pany established  a  branch  office  at  New 
Bedford,  still  under  their  management, 
although  an  independent  newspaper  in 
that  city.  Mr.  Thibault  is  manager  of  "L'- 
Independent" and  has  conducted  it  in  a 
wise  and  patriotic  manner,  meeting  with 
the  approbation  of  his  countrymen  and  in 
line  with  the  truest  American  principles. 
As  a  business  proposition,  the  paper  has 
been  profitable,  and  in  its  sphere  has 
borne  an  important  part  in  the  upbuild- 
ing of  Fall  River.  Mr.  Thibault  is  a  mem- 
ber of  the  Calumet  Club  of  Fall  River, 
and  of  the  Ligue  des  Patriots ;  is  Repub- 
lican in  his  political  faith,  and  a  member 
of  Ste.  Anne  Roman  Catholic  Church. 

He  married,  in  New  York,  September 
II,  1888,  Anne  M.  Duval,  born  in  Mon- 
treal, Canada,  July  15,  1862,  a  daughter 
of  Joseph  Charles  and  Louise  (Barlow) 
Duval,  her  father  a  locksmith,  born  in 
Montreal  in  1818,  her  mother  born  near 
Quebec,  in  1826.  Mrs.  Thibault  is  a  lady 
of  culture  and  literary  ability,  her  pub- 
lished work,  "Fleurs  du  Printemps,"  ap- 
pearing in  1892.  Other  writings  from  her 
gifted  pen  have  been  published  in  news- 
papers and  magazines.  Mr.  and  Mrs. 
Thibault  are  the  parents  of  sons  and 
daughters :  Louise,  born  September  22, 
1892,  an  artist  in  oil;  Gabrielle,  born  De- 
cember I,  1894,  a  school  teacher;  Benja- 
min, born  April  26,  1898,  a  musician ; 
Josephine,  born  October  7,  1899,  yet  a 
student ;    Francois,  born  April  7,  1905. 


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TALBOT,  Edmond  P., 
Srnggist. 

Edmond  P.  Talbot,  of  Fall  River,  Mas- 
sachusetts, has  attained  distinction  not 
only  as  a  successful  man  of  business,  but 
as  a  leader  of  his  political  party,  keenly 
interested  in  municipal  affairs.  No  man 
in  the  city  is  better  known  than  he  and 
and  no  man  has  a  wider  circle  of  friends. 

Mr.  Talbot  was  bom  in  Tingwick,  Pro- 
vince of  Athabaska,  Canada,  April  21, 
1884,  son  of  Charles  and  Celina  (Vidal) 
Talbot.    His  father  is  a  weaver  by  trade. 

Mr.  Talbot  was  a  boy  of  ten  when  the 
family  came  to  the  United  States.  He 
received  his  education  in  the  schools  of 
his  native  town,  at  St.  Mary's  parochial 
school  in  Kingston,  New  York,  in  the 
Davol  School  in  Fall  River  and  at  Notre 
Dame  College.  He  began  his  business 
career  as  a  clerk  in  the  drug  store  of  A. 
S.  Letournean.  After  completing  his  edu- 
cation as  a  druggist  and  pharmacist  and 
passing  the  state  examinations,  he  en- 
gaged in  business  on  his  own  account, 
and  since  1900  he  has  been  the  proprietor 
of  one  of  the  best  drug  stores  in  Fall 
River,  year  after  year  his  business  in- 
creasing largely.  In  an  exceptional  degree 
Mr.  Talbot  has  shown  his  qualification  for 
the  line  of  business  in  which  he  is  en- 
gaged and  in  which  he  has  won  such  sub- 
stantial success.  Having  the  best  of  pre- 
liminary training  and  possessing  good 
judgment,  integrity,  enterprise,  excellent 
business  ability  and  personality  that  wins 
and  attracts  customers,  he  has  taken  a 
place  among  the  most  prominent  mer- 
chants of  the  city. 

He  was  a  director  of  the  Lafayette  Co- 
operative Bank  of  Fall  River.  In  political 
affairs,  he  takes  rank  among  the  leaders 
of  his  party.  He  has  always  been  a  firm 
believer  in  the  principles  of  the  Demo- 
cratic party  and  has  been  active   in  its 


councils.  He  was  a  member  of  the  Board 
of  Park  and  Cemetery  Commissioners 
from  1908  to  1916,  and  a  representative 
of  Ninth  Bristol  District,  Massachusetts 
in  1915.  He  was  the  Democratic 
nominee  for  mayor  of  the  city  in 
1916,  and  made  a  splendid  show- 
ing at  the  polls,  having  more  than  five 
thousand  votes.  His  friends  confidently 
expect  that  he  will  be  the  candidate  of 
his  party  in  1918  and  that  he  will  be 
elected.  He  enjoys  the  confidence  and 
support  of  the  large  foreign  population  of 
the  city  to  an  unusual  degree.  Mr.  Tal- 
bot is  well  known  in  the  various  fraternal 
orders  and  clubs  of  Fall  River.  He  is  a 
member  of  the  Knights  of  Columbus, 
Foresters  of  America,  St.  Jean  de  Bap- 
tiste  of  America,  Guarde  de  Napoleon, 
Ligue  des  Patriots,  and  Loyal  Order  of 
Moose.  In  the  Foresters  he  has  held  the 
office  of  chief  ranger  and  financial  secre- 
tary, and  was  a  delegate  to  the  National 
convention  of  the  Foresters  in  1915.  He 
is  a  member  of  the  Calumet  Club,  the 
King  Philip  Boat  Club  and  the  Franco 
Club,  all  of  Fall  River.  In  religion,  he  is 
a  Roman  Catholic. 

Mr.  Talbot  married  Marie  Alma  Beau- 
pre,  daughter  of  Philip  and  Mary  (Para- 
dis)  Beaupre.  They  have  five  children: 
Roland  Edmond,  born  1906;  Henrietta, 
1908;  Anita,  1910;  Germaine,  1912;  and 
Marie  Alva,  1914. 


ZUILL,  Robert  Winfred, 

Business    Man. 

The  sure  advancement  which  awaits 
the  young  man  of  energy,  ambition  and 
clean  living  in  American  business  does 
not  need  demonstration,  but  in  the  life 
of  Robert  W.  Zuill,  treasurer  and  direc- 
tor of  the  Cornell  Mills,  Fall  River,  Mas- 
sachusetts, the  young  man  who  would 
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much  that  will  profit  and  encourage  him. 
Mr.  Zuill  enjoys  the  distinction  of  being 
one  of  the  youngest  men  ever  elected  in 
Fall  River  to  so  responsible  a  position  as 
that  which  he  holds,  and  every  step  of 
the  way  has  been  won  by  personal  effort. 
He  began  at  the  bottom  and  was  so 
capable  an  assistant  bookkeeper  that  his 
rise  to  higher  position  was  almost  auto- 
matic, at  least  it  had  to  be.  Without 
influential  friends,  save  such  as  he  made 
for  himself  by  efificient  performance  of  as- 
signed duties,  he  rose  quietly  and  mod- 
estly to  his  present  position,  one  which 
he  most  ably  fills. 

But  three  generations  of  this  family 
have  resided  in  the  United  States,  Wil- 
liam Pratt  Zuill,  born  in  Bermuda,  West 
Indies,  being  the  founder.  He  settled  in 
New  York  City  when  a  young  man,  learn- 
ed the  sailmaker's  trade,  and  later  estab- 
lished a  loft  in  New  Bedford,  Massa- 
chusetts, then  a  great  whaling  port.  He 
spent  several  years  in  New  Bedford, 
then  moved  to  Fall  River,  Massachusetts, 
there  residing  until  his  death,  March  i6, 
1895.  During  the  excitement  caused  by 
the  discovery  of  gold  in  California,  he 
caught  the  "gold  fever"  and  spent  two 
years  in  California,  then  returned  to 
Fall  River.  He  was  a  highly  respected 
citizen,  a  member  of  King  Philip  Lodge, 
Free  and  Accepted  Masons,  a  good  busi- 
ness man  and  expert  workman.  William 
P.  Zuill  married  Elizabeth  M.  Fuller,  of 
New  London,  Connecticut,  who  survived 
him  three  years,  her  death  date,  March 
28,  1898,  her  age,  sixty-seven  years.  They 
were  the  parents  of  two  daughters :  Ade- 
laide, died  unmarried ;  Gertrude,  married 
Clarence  Bufifington ;  and  a  son,  also  Wil- 
liam P.  Zuill. 

William  Pratt  Zuill,  only  son  of  his 
parents,  was  born  during  the  residence  of 
the  family  in  New  Bedford,  A-Iassachu- 
setts,  November  21,   1853.     He  was  but 


a  young  boy  when  removal  was  made 
to  Fall  River,  and  in  that  city  he  was 
educated.  When  old  enough  to  choose 
a  trade  he  selected  that  of  his  father,  and 
under  his  father's  expert  instruction  he 
became  equally  noted  as  a  sailmaker. 
Father  and  son  were  contemporary  in  the 
business  for  many  years  and  partners  un- 
til death  claimed  the  senior  member.  Mr. 
Zuill  ihen  continued  alone  and  is  yet  ac- 
tively interested  in  the  business  of  sail 
making  in  Fall  River.  He  is  a  Repub- 
lican in  politics,  a  man  of  good  character 
and  upright  life.  He  married  Abbie 
Luella  Manchester,  born  in  Fall  River, 
July  4,  1855,  daughter  of  Henry  and 
Hannah  (Vickery)  Manchester.  Mr.  and 
Mrs.  Zuill  are  the  parents  of  an  only 
child,  Robert  Winfred,  whose  life  is  the 
mspiration  of  this  review. 

Robert  Winfred  Zuill  was  born  at  Fall 
River,  Massachusetts,  November  13,  1873, 
and  there  has  passed  his  years,  forty-four. 
He  passed  the  grammar  school  grades  of 
the  public  schools  and  completed  his  first 
year  in  high  school,  then  entered  business 
life.  In  December,  1891,  he  began  his 
long  connection  with  the  Cornell  Mills  as 
assistant  bookkeeper  under  Fred  E.  Wa- 
terman, then  treasurer  of  the  mills.  He 
continued  as  bookkeeper  at  the  Cornell 
Mills  for  ten  years,  until  May,  1901,  then 
Mr.  Waterman  having  been  elected  treas- 
urer of  the  Stafford  Mills,  transferred 
Mr.  Zuill  to  the  same  duty  at  the  Stafford 
Mills.  He  continued  in  that  position 
seven  years,  when  he  was  recalled  to  the 
Cornell  Mills  as  head  bookkeeper.  Mr. 
Waterman  died  May  14,  1909,  and 
the  board  of  directors  at  once  ap- 
pointed Mr.  Zuill  temporary  treasurer 
but  with  authority  to  act.  At  the 
regular  meeting  of  the  board,  IMay 
25,  1909,  he  was  elected  treasurer  of  the 
corporation,  his  ability,  energy  and  ef- 
ficiency having  been  fully  proven  during 


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the  years  he  had  been  connected  with  the 
mills  as  assistant  and  chief  accountant. 
While  he  had  the  advantage  of  training 
under  one  of  the  ablest  treasurers  the 
cotton  trade  of  Fall  River  has  ever  pro- 
duced, it  was  the  fact  that  he  possessed 
the  necessary  qualifications,  otherwise 
Mr.  Waterman  would  not  have  given 
him  the  opportunity  to  become  his  as- 
sociate, nor  have  bestowed  that  priceless 
mark  of  confidence  that  he  did  by  select- 
ing Mr.  Zuill  as  his  successor.  At  the 
same  time,  Mr.  Zuill  was  elected  treas- 
urer he  was  also  made  a  director  of  the 
Cornell  Mills  Corporation.  He  has  ably 
filled  his  dual  positions,  and  under  his 
financial  guidance  the  affairs  of  that  de- 
partment of  the  mills  has  kept  pace  with 
all  others. 

Mr.  Zuill  has  many  business  affiliations 
as  well  as  social  and  fraternal.  His  clubs 
are  the  Arkwright  of  Boston,  the  Que- 
quechan  and  Yacht  of  Fall  River.  He  is 
a  member  of  King  Philip  Lodge,  Free 
and  Accepted  Masons ;  Fall  River  Chap- 
ter, Royal  Arch  Masons ;  Fall  River 
Council,  Royal  and  Select  Masters ; 
and  Godfrey  de  Bouillon  Commandery, 
Knights  Templar.  In  religious  faith  he 
is  Methodist  Episcopal ;  in  politics  an  In- 
dependent Republican. 

He  married,  at  Fall  River,  February  29, 
191 6,  Margaret  Adams,  born  at  Fall 
River,  July  19,  1890,  daughter  of  Thomas 
and  Annie  (Grey)  Adams,  her  father  born 
in  Blackstone,  Rhode  Island,  a  loom  fixer 
and  councilman  of  Fall  River,  her  mother 
born  in  Glasgow,  Scotland. 

Yet  a  young  man,  the  future  holds 
nothing  but  promise  for  Mr.  Zuill.  He 
is  a  strong,  self  reliant  man,  he  believes  in 
the  Gospel  work,  and  deems  it  an  honor  to 
have  won  his  way  from  the  bottom  of 
the  ladder  through  his  own  efforts  rather 
than  by  luck  of  fortune's  wheel  or  through 
the    influence    of   friends.      He    is   kindly 


hearted,  genial  and  generous,  values  the 
friendship  of  his  fellowmen  and  possesses 
a  wealth  of  friends. 


WESTALL,  John,  M.  D., 

Physician. 

Dr.  John  Westall,  who  is  one  of  the 
most  successful  and  popular  physicians  of 
Fall  River,  Massachusetts,  is  not  himself 
a  native  of  this  country,  but  is  a  member 
of  that  other  branch  of  the  great  Anglo- 
Saxon  race  which  recent  events  in  the 
world's  history  have  been  drawing  so 
much  closer  together  and  overcoming 
whatever  prejudice  they  may  formerly 
have  felt  for  one  another.  Indeed  Dr. 
Westall  is  himself  an  example  of  how 
closely  related,  not  only  in  blood  but  in 
customs  and  institutions,  are  the  English 
and  American  peoples,  in  the  ease  and 
rapidity  with  which  he  became  identified 
with  the  customs  and  life  of  his  adopted 
country.  Dr.  Westall  is  a  native  of  Lan- 
cashire, England,  where  he  was  born  May 
10,  1861,  and  is  a  son  of  William  and 
Betsy  Alice  (Grimshaw)  Westall,  the 
former  being  a  native  of  London  and  the 
latter  of  Lancashire. 

The  childhood  of  Dr.  Westall  was 
passed  in  his  native  region  and  it  was 
there  that  he  gained  the  elementary  por- 
tion of  his  education,  attending  for  this 
purpose  a  local  public  school.  He  was  still 
little  more  than  a  lad  when  his  parents 
emigrated  from  England  to  America 
and  settled  in  Fall  River,  Massa- 
chusetts. It  was  the  ambition  of 
the  lad  to  study  medicine  and  make 
this  his  profession  in  life,  and  this 
desire  of  his  was  encouraged  by  his 
father,  a  steel  engraver  and  block  printer, 
who  assisted  his  son  to  such  educa- 
tional advantages  as  he  desired.  Accord- 
ingly, in  the  year  1889,  the  young  man 
matriculated  at  Dartmouth  College,  there 


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pursued  the  medical  course,  and  was 
graduated  with  the  class  of  1891  and  the 
degree  of  M.  D.  He  was  essentially  a 
student,  however,  and  felt  that  a  still 
further  familiarity  with  his  subject  was 
to  be  desired,  and  accordingly  he  entered 
Jefferson  Medical  College  at  Philadelphia, 
Pennsylvania,  and  here  had  six  months' 
practice  as  an  interne  at  the  Jefferson 
Hospital  connected  therewith.  As  a  youth 
Dr.  Westall  had  had  considerable  exper- 
ience in  the  business  world  in  his  native 
land,  having  for  some  time  held  a  clerical 
position  in  the  employ  of  the  British  Gov- 
ernment in  Lancashire,  which  position 
he  resigned  upon  coming  to  America.  In 
this  country,  after  living  for  a  time  in  Fall 
River,  he  went  to  Boston  where,  during 
the  intervals  of  his  education,  he  was  em- 
ployed in  several  different  capacities  for 
a  few  years.  He  then  returned  to  Fall 
River,  worked  for  a  while  in  a  cotton  mill 
and  there  learned  to  spin  cotton,  and 
later  spent  six  years  at  the  Flint  Mills. 
During  all  this  time  he  was  engaged  in 
privately  studying  works  on  medicine, 
and  eventually  entered  Dartmouth  Col- 
lege as  has  been  stated  above.  Upon 
completing  his  course  at  the  Jefferson 
Medical  College,  Dr.  Westall  returned  to 
Fall  River  and  opened  an  office  at  No. 
15 1 5  South  Main  street,  and  after  pros- 
pering for  a  number  of  years,  he  removed 
to  his  present  quarters.  No.  951  South 
Main  street.  This  property  Dr.  Westall 
purchased  prior  to  his  moving  there,  and 
he  now  enjoys  a  most  desirable  and  lu- 
crative practice,  which  is  still  rapidly 
growing,  and  he  has  become  a  prominent 
figure  in  medical  circles  in  the  com- 
munity. 

But  it  has  not  been  only  in  his  profes- 
sional capacity  that  Dr.  Westall  has  be- 
come well  known  in  Fall  River.  On  the 
contrary  he  has  interested  himself  in 
many  departments  of  the  city's  life.    He 


is  a  staunch  Republican  in  his  political 
faith,  and  was  elected  to  the  Common 
Council  of  the  city  from  Ward  Two  and 
reelected  without  opposition.  He  was 
chairman  of  the  Republican  Committee 
of  Ward  Two  in  1898,  during  the  ad- 
ministration of  Mayor  Jackson,  and  has 
in  many  ways  served  his  party  and  the 
community-at-large  in  connection  with 
public  affairs.  Dr.  Westall  is  a  member 
of  the  Fall  River  Medical  Society,  and 
has  for  a  number  of  years  been  physician 
to  the  local  court  of  the  Robinhood  So- 
ciety, and  of  the  Working  St.  George's 
Society.  He  is  also  a  member  of  Crom- 
well Lodge,  Daughters  of  St.  George, 
and  of  the  Juvenile  Court  of  Foresters  of 
Boston.  ■  In  addition  to  these  orders,  he 
is  also  a  member  of  the  local  lodge  An- 
cient Free  and  Accepted  Masons ;  Nara- 
gansett  Pocassett  Lodge,  Knights  of  Py- 
thias ;  Fall  River  Lodge,  Independent 
Order  of  Odd  Fellows ;  the  British  Club 
of  Fall  River,  and  the  Fall  River  Cham- 
ber of  Commerce.  Dr.  Westall  attends 
the  Episcopal  church,  and  has  been  active 
in  the  work  thereof  in  the  community. 

Dr.  John  Westall  was  united  in  mar- 
riage, July  7,  1884,  in  the  City  of  Boston, 
Massachusetts,  with  Elizabeth  Har- 
graves,  a  native  of  Lancashire,  England, 
a  daughter  of  Maxwell  and  Helen  Har- 
graves.  One  child  has  been  born  to 
Dr.  and  Mrs.  Westall,  Lillian  Gertrude, 
February  4,  1885,  who  is  now  the  wife 
of  Harold  A.  Horton,  who  is  manager  of 
Horton's  Garage,  of  Fall  River,  where 
they  reside.  The  other  members  of  Dr. 
Westall's  family  attend  the  Episcopal 
church. 


DOTEN,  Frederick  Bartlett, 

Civil    War  Veteran. 

The    American    advent   of   this    family 
was  in  the  "Mayflower."    It  has  produced 


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merchants  of  wealth  and  renown,  men 
high  in  finance ;  others  have  humbly 
sailed  the  seas,  penetrating  every  clime 
on  the  face  of  the  globe ;  but  the  vast 
majority  have  educated  their  children 
well  and  have  brought  them  up  to  lead 
useful  lives. 

In  the  Revolution  they  took  an  active 
part.  The  Dotens  were  in  the  Seminole 
War  in  Florida ;  in  the  war  for  sailors' 
rights,  they  were  at  Plattsburgh  and 
Sacketts  Harbor;  in  the  Mexican  War 
they  were  at  Chepultepec ;  in  the  fratri- 
cidal strife  in  1861  some  followed  the 
Stars  and  Stripes,  and  others  of  the  name 
the  Stars  and  Bars.  They  were  at  Fred- 
ericksburg, Chancellorsville  and  in  the 
Wilderness.  In  the  Spanish  War,  de- 
scendants of  the  name  were  with  Theo- 
dore Roosevelt  at  Kettle  Hill.  In  religion 
we  find  them  among  the  Quakers,  and 
even  among  the  Mormons,  as  well  as  all 
the  leading  denominations.  Among  those 
who  have  achieved  special  prominence 
have  been  Hon.  John  Lamb  Doty,  United 
States  consul  to  Bermuda,  under  Cleve- 
land ;  Hon.  Lakewood  L.  Doty,  private 
secretary  to  both  Governors  Morgan  and 
Seymour,  and  afterwards  United  States 
consul  to  Nassau ;  Professor  Frank  A. 
Sherman,  of  Dartmouth  College ;  and 
Hosea  Doten,  the  mathematician  and 
astronomer. 

(I)  Edward  Doten,  immigrant  ances- 
tor, was  a  London  youth,  who  came  over 
in  the  "Mayflower"  as  an  apprentice  of 
Stephen  Hopkins.  The  first  account  we 
have  of  Edward  Doten  is  in  Cape  Cod 
harbor,  where  he  signed  the  cabin  con- 
tract. Stephen  Hopkins  was  a  tanner  of 
London,  and  joined  the  Pilgrims  at 
Southampton.  The  "Mayflower"  arrived 
at  Cape  Cod,  November  11,  1620,  and  the 
first  duty  of  the  Pilgrims  was  to  find  a 
suitable  landing  spot.  The  shallop  they 
brought  with  them  for  shore  explorations 


was  out  of  commission,  and  a  few  hardy 
ones  volunteered  to,  make  an  inland  jour- 
ney. Sixteen  in  all  went  ashore,  and  they 
were  the  first  Englishmen  permanently 
to  land  in  New  England.  In  this  party 
was  Edward  Doten.  They  started  No- 
vember 15,  and  were  gone  several  days. 
A  few  Indians,  whom  they  met,  ran  away 
from  them,  and  they  found  some  Indian 
corn  which  they  brought  back  to  the 
ship,  the  first  they  had  ever  seen.  On 
December  6,  the  shallop  being  ready,  a 
party  of  ten  set  out  by  water,  and  of 
these  Edward  Doten  was  one.  The 
weather  was  extremely  cold,  the  seas 
rough  and  boisterous,  and  they  encount- 
ered much  hardship.  On  Friday,  Decem- 
ber 8,  in  a  terrible  snowstorm,  they 
reached  a  point  of  land  now  known  as 
Clark's  Island.  Here  they  remained  all 
day  of  the  9th,  Sunday,  as  became  men 
of  their  profession.  It  is  said  that  Ed- 
ward Doten  attempted  to  first  leap  on  the 
island,  but  was  checked,  and  the  master's 
mate  was  allowed  to  land  first,  after 
whom  the  island  was  named.  On  Mon- 
day, December  11  (our  21st,  Forefather's 
Day)  they  sounded  the  harbor,  and  sailed 
for  the  mainland,  mooring  at  Plymouth 
Rock.  It  was  a  hard  winter  for  the  Pil- 
grims that  first  winter  at  Plymouth. 
They  were  little  prepared  for  such  rig- 
orous climate,  and  their  suffering  was 
consequently  great.  Disease  attacked 
them  ;  death  thinned  their  numbers.  Ed- 
ward Doten  being  young  and  strong  of 
frame,  was  one  of  the  survivors.  He  was 
made  a  freeman  in  1633.  In  1624  Edward 
Doten  received  land  on  what  is  now  Wat- 
son's Hill.  In  1637  he  was  allotted  sixty 
acres  on  Mount  Hill ;  also,  he  owned 
land  in  Yarmouth,  Cohasset,  Dartmouth, 
Lakenham,  and  Punckquasett,  now  Ti- 
verton, Rhode  Island.  He  was  a  private 
in  the  militia,  and  lived  in  the  town  of 
Plymouth,    High    Cliff,    Plain    Dealing, 


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which  is  the  name  Theodore  Roosevelt 
adopted  for  his  Virginia  country  place. 

Edward  Doten  died  August  24,  1655, 
and  his  will  bears  the  date  of  May  20, 
of  that  year;  the  appraisement  was  one 
hundred  and  thirty-seven  pounds,  nine- 
teen shillings.  He  married  Faith,  daugh- 
ter of  Thurston  and  Faith  Clarke,  Janu- 
ary 6,  1634.  She  was  born  in  Ipswich, 
England,  in  1619.  Her  parents  came  to 
Plymouth  in  1634.  After  her  husband's 
decease  she  married  John  Phillips ;  she 
died  at  Marshfield  in  1675,  and  is  buried 
in  the  old  cemetery  there.  Children  of 
Edward  and  Faith  Doten :  Edward,  John, 
of  further  mention ;  Thomas,  Samuel, 
Desire,  Elizabeth,  Isaac,  Joseph  and 
Mary. 

(II)  John  Doten,  second  son  of  Ed- 
ward and  Faith  (Clarke)  Doten,  was  born 
in  Plymouth,  Massachusetts,  May  14, 
1639,  and  died  there.  May  8,  1701^.  He 
was  a  farmer  and  settled  in  Plymouth. 
He  received  a  share  of  the  patrimonial 
estate;  besides,  he  was  granted  by  the 
town,  January  8,  1665,  three  acres  of 
meadow  at  Turkey  Swamp;  January  31, 
1668,  thirty  acres  at  Island  Pond ;  in 
1694  was  given  a  piece  of  the  "gurnet,"  a 
headland  on  the  coast  near  Plymouth ; 
and  in  1701  a  valuable  lot  of  ground.  His 
mother  signed  over  to  him  all  of  her  right 
and  title  to  her  late  husband's  land  in 
Plymouth.  He  was  a  juryman  in  1675- 
76-79,  and  1680-83-84.  In  1671  he  was 
highway  surveyor,  and  again  in  1675,  and 
in  1680  was  constable.  His  will  was 
executed  April  15,  1701,  and  probated  in 
June  of  that  year.  His  descendants  still 
reside  in  Plymouth,  among  whom  are 
preserved  heirlooms  and  traditions  of  the 
family.  He  married  (first)  in  1667,  Eliz- 
abeth, daughter  of  Jacob  Cooke,  who  was 
a  native  of  Holland,  and  the  son  of  Fran- 
cis Cooke,  who  came  over  in  the  "May- 
flower," but  Jacob  and  his  mother  came 


in  the  "Ann,"  three  years  later.  Eliza- 
beth Doten  died  before  John  Doten,  and 
he  married  (second)  Sarah,  daughter  of 
Giles  Rickard.  Elizabeth  Doten,  the  first 
wife,  had  children :  John,  Edward,  Jacob, 
Elizabeth,  Isaac,  Samuel,  Elisha,  of  fur- 
ther mention ;  Josiah  and  Martha.  Sarah 
Doten,  the  second  wife,  had  children : 
Sarah,  Patience,  and  Desire.  Sarah 
(Rickard)  Doten  married,  after  her  hus- 
band's death,  Joseph  Peterson. 

(III)  Elisha  Doten,  sixth  son  of  John 
and  Elizabeth  (Cooke)  Doten,  was  born 
in  Plymouth,  July  13,  1686,  followed 
farming,  and  died  their  before  1756.  On 
March  11,  1711,  he  was  granted  a  house 
lot  provided  he  build  thereon  during  the 
year.  In  1716  he  united  with  his  broth- 
ers, Isaac,  Samuel  and  Joseph,  in  a  deed 
to  their  sister  Elizabeth,  as  they  knew 
it  was  their  father's  intention  to  do  so 
before    he    died.      Pie    married    Hannah 

,  and  their  children  were :     Elisha, 

Samuel,  Hannah,  died  young;  Edward, 
Hannah,  Paul,  Lois,  Stephen,  of  further 
mention  ;   and  James. 

(IV)  Stephen  Doten,  fifth  son  of 
Elisha  and  Hannah  Doten,  vvas  born  in 
Plymouth,  January  24,  1726,  and  spent 
his  life  there.  He  married  (first)  Anna, 
daughter  of  John  and  Sarah  (Cobb)  Bart- 
lett.  She  was  born  in  Plymouth  in  1727. 
He  married  (second)  the  widow  of  Josie 
Donham.  Children :  Mary,  Stephen, 
Sarah,  Mercy,  Hannah,  Esther,  Joseph, 
and  John  of  further  mention. 

(V)  John  (2)  Doten,  youngest  son  of 
Stephen  and  Hannah  (Bartlett)  Doten, 
was  born  in  Plymouth,  in  1766,  and  died 
in  Sheffield,  Massachusetts,  in  August, 
1825.  It  was  not  until  this  generation 
that  the  Dotens  drifted  from  the  family 
altars  and  firesides  of  their  forefathers. 
John  Doten  went  to  Sheffield  in  1814.  He 
married,  November  27,  1790,  Mary, 
daughter  of  Isaac  and  Faith  (Chandler) 


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Wright,  of  Plympton,  Massachusetts. 
Children :  James,  Mary,  Faith,  Chandler, 
John,  Bartlett,  of  further  mention ;  and 
Caleb. 

(VI)  Bartlett  Doten,  third  son  of  John 
(2)  and  Mary  (Wright)  Doten,  was  born 
in  Plymouth,  February  16,  1797,  and  died 
in  Bridgeport,  Connecticut,  August  16, 
1867.  He  was  a  merchant  and  manufac- 
turer, residing  in  Sheffield  and  Bridge- 
port. He  married,  November  14,  1833,  in 
Sheffield,  Augusta,  daughter  of  Colonel 
Darius  and  Sarah  (Root)  Mason.  Chil- 
dren :  Martha  Ellen ;  Frederick  Bart- 
lett, of  further  mention ;  Edward  Mason, 
who  was  cashier  of  the  First  National 
Bank,  of  Chicopee ;  Charles  A.,  educated 
at  Yale,  a  lawyer  and  judge  at  Bridge- 
port. 

(VII)  Captain  Frederick  Bartlett  Do- 
ten, eldest  son  of  Bartlett  and  Augusta 
(Mason)  Doten,  was  born  in  Sheffield, 
Massachusetts,  December  9,  1841,  and 
died  in  Chicopee,  Massachusetts,  April  9, 
1903.  He  was  educated  in  the  public 
schools  of  Sheffield  and  Bridgeport.  As 
a  young  man  he  went  to  New  York,  where 
he  took  a  position  as  clerk  in  a  carriage 
manufacturing  concern.  He  remained 
there  until  the  outbreak  of  the  Civil  War, 
when  he  returned  to  Bridgeport  and 
enlisted  as  a  corporal  in  the  Fourteenth 
Connecticut  Regiment.  For  his  bravery 
and  excellent  service  he  was  promoted  to 
first  lieutenant,  February  3,  1863,  a"d  to 
captain,  October  20,  1863,  and  he  served 
by  detail  on  the  staffs  of  General  Hays 
and  General  Barlow.  He  participated  in 
various  of  the  most  bloody  battles  of  the 
war.  At  the  battle  of  Fredericksburg  the 
State  flag,  borne  by  his  regiment,  was 
picked  up  by  Captain  Doten  and  Major 
Hicks,  after  the  color  bearer  had  been 
shot  down.  It  remained  in  their  keeping 
all  day,  and  they  brought  it  safely  from 
the  field  at  the  close  of  the  engagement. 


At  Morton's  Ford  he  was  captured  and 
sent  to  Libby  Prison.  This  was  the  most 
trying  experience  of  all,  but  by  his 
uncomplaining  submission  he  won  the 
respect  of  his  keepers,  and  was  conse- 
quently trusted  beyond  his  other  com- 
rades. After  three  months  he  was  ex- 
changed through  the  intervention  of 
Secretary  Mallory,  of  the  Confederate 
Cabinet,  who  knew  his  friends  in  Con- 
necticut. 

The  war  over,  he  returned  to  Bridge- 
port, remained  for  a  short  time,  and  then 
went  to  New  York,  where  he  entered  the 
employment  of  Wood  Brothers,  carriage 
manufacturers.  In  1871  he  went  to  Chic- 
opee, entering  the  firm  of  Jerome  Wells 
&  Company,  and  about  this  time  he  ac- 
cepted the  position  of  cashier  of  the  First 
National  Bank  of  Chicopee.  He  cared 
little  for  politics,  less  for  political  of- 
fice, being  in  no  sense  of  the  word 
a  politician.  He  discharged  his  du- 
ties as  a  citizen  at  the  polls.  Twice 
he  was  induced  to  hold  minor  offices  in 
the  municipality — alderman  and  school 
committeeman — and  he  brought  to  the 
discharge  of  those  duties  his  varied  busi- 
ness experience  and  uncompromising 
honesty.  He  was  a  consistent  member  of 
the  Unitarian  church ;  also  a  charter 
member  of  the  Nayasset  Club  of  Spring- 
field, and  a  companion  of  the  Military 
Order  of  the  Loyal  Legion,  Massachu- 
setts Commandery.  He  was  a  lover  of 
music,  and  sang  in  the  Unitarian  choir, 
and  was  a  member  of  the  Orpheus  Club, 
and  a  musical  atmosphere  prevaded  the 
home  circle.  He  was  conservative  in  bus- 
iness afifairs,  and  was  frequently  consulted 
by  those  in  need  of  advice  and  his  judg- 
ment was  rarely  wrong.  He  was  inti- 
mately connected  with  the  business 
growth  and  life  of  Chicopee,  and  saw  it 
grow  to  a  large  manufacturing  city. 
Somewhat  reticent  by  nature,  he  was  at 


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his    best    in    his    home,    among   those    he 
loved. 

A  comrade-in-arms  said  of  him  at  his 
death : 

It  is  with  a  sad  heart  that  I  note  in  the  Repub- 
lican of  the  loth  the  news  of  the  death  of  Captain 
Fred  B.  Doten,  of  Chicopee.  He  was  a  fellow 
officer  with  me  in  the  Old  Fourteenth  Connecticut 
Infantry  during  the  Civil  War,  and  was  one  of 
the  best  and  bravest  of  the  remarkable  and  dash- 
ing young  fellows  who  worked  their  way  up  from 
the  ranks  to  a  commission.  Death  got  in  its  work 
very  frequently  in  the  ranks  of  the  Fourteenth, 
and  hence  promotions  were  quick  and  recurring; 
but  in  Captain  Doten's  case,  at  least,  it  was  well 
deserved  and  acceptable  to  all  concerned.  At  the 
battle  of  Morton's  Ford,  in  1864,  when  a  staff 
officer  of  the  old  Second  Corps,  and  engaged  in 
carrying  orders,  I  stopped  for  a  chat  with  the  old 
Regiment.  I  especially  noted  his  gallant  bearing 
and  pleasing  greeting.  Our  ranks  are  thinning 
fast  of  late  years,  but  Fred  Doten  will  be  one  of 
the  most  missed,  for  he  was  not  only  a  brave  and 
efficient  soldier,  but  in  those  days,  and  since,  ever 
and  always  a  gentleman. 

Captain  Doten  married,  October  4, 
1866,  Georgiana  L.,  daughter  of  Jerome 
and  Louise  (Rice)  Wells,  of  Chicopee. 
Mrs.  Doten  is  a  member  of  the  Unitarian 
church,  and  has  served  on  the  parish 
committee.  She  belongs  to  the  Cosmo- 
politan Club,  a  woman's  club  of  Spring- 
field ;  the  Chicopee  Falls  Woman's  Club, 
and  the  Travelers'  Club  of  Chicopee; 
she  has  served  on  the  committee  on  aids 
and  charities  of  the  Springfield  Hospital. 
She  is  a  member  of  Mercy  Warren  Chap- 
ter, daughters  of  the  American  Revolu- 
tion, deriving  membership  therein  through 
her  ancestor.  Lieutenant  Seth  Rice. 
Children  of  Captain  and  Mrs.  Doten:  i. 
Jerome  Wells,  born  September  9,  1869, 
died  December  14,  1905 ;  married  (first) 
Mary  Whiting  Groce,  of  Roxbury,  Mas- 
sachusetts, (second)  Bessie  Henderson 
Taylor,  of  New  York  City.  2.  Florence 
E.,  married  Louis  Trask  Hawkins ;   their 


children  were :  Frederick  Doten,  born 
December  31,  1900;  Georgiana  Wells, 
born  August  11,  1903. 


LOVE,  Rev.,  George  Washington, 

Clergyman. 

Rev.  George  W.  Love,  former  pastor  of 
the  First  Congregational  Church  of  West 
Springfield,  and  as  representative  to  the 
General   Court  is  of  Scotch   ancestry. 

James  Love,  father  of  Rev.  George 
Washington  Love,  was  born  in  Edin- 
burgh, Scotland,  and  grew  to  manhood 
in  the  north  of  Ireland,  receiving  his  edu- 
cation in  public  schools  of  both  coun- 
tries. He  then  emigrated  to  the  United 
States,  settling  in  New  York  City.  The 
calling  which  he  had  followed  in  Ireland 
was  that  of  a  shoemaker.  Mr.  Love  mar- 
ried Lazaret  Regnault,  a  native  of  Pau, 
France,  and  they  were  the  parents  of 
three  sons :  James,  died  when  about  six 
years  old ;  William,  died  about  his_  fourth 
year ;  and  George  Washington,  of  fur- 
ther mention.  James  Love,  the  father, 
died  in  New  York  City,  and  Mrs.  Love 
resided  in  Schenectady,  New  York,  until 
her  death  in  February,  1918,  aged  eighty- 
four  years. 

Rev.  George  Washington  Love,  son 
of  James  and  Lazaret  (Regnault)  Love, 
was  born  May  28,  1858,  in  New  York 
City,  and  at  the  age  of  four  years  was 
taken  by  his  parents  to  Lanesboro,  Mas- 
sachusetts. When  he  was  thirteen  the 
family  moved  to  Pittsfield,  returning 
within  a  short  time  to  Lanesboro,  where 
they  remained  three  years.  He  attended 
the  public  schools  of  Lanesboro  and 
Pittsfield,  and  during  the  second  resi- 
dence of  the  family  at  Lanesboro  was  a 
pupil  at  a  private  school.  The  family 
next  moved  to  Lenox,  and  George  Wash- 
ington remained  with  them  until  the  age 
of  twenty-three,  meanwhile  attending  the 


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State  Normal  School  at  Westfield.  His 
health  failing,  he  lived  for  two  years  on  a 
Massachusetts  farm,  and  then  entered 
Troy  Theological  Seminary,  remaining 
there  through  his  early  ministry. 

The  pastorate  of  the  Methodist  Epis- 
copal church  in  Washington,  New  York, 
was   Mr.    Love's  first  charge,   which   he 
held  for  three  years.    Thence  he  went  to 
Eagle  Mills,  New  York,  remaining  here 
for  three  years,  then  receiving  a  call  to 
Nassau,  New,  York,  he  was  for  five  years 
pastor  of  the  Methodist  Episcopal  church 
in  that  place.     His  resignation  there  was 
followed  by  a  return  to  Lanesboro,  where 
for    five     years     he     ministered    to     the 
Methodist  Episcopal  and  Congregational 
churches.       A    brief    pastorate    of    nine 
months  at  Charlton,  New  York,  was  ter- 
minated by  a  call,  in  November,  1899,  to 
the  First  Congregational  Church  of  West 
Springfield,  where  he  remained  until  his 
resignation  in  October,  1913.     In  each  of 
these  pastorates  Mr.  Love  has  met  with 
results   which   assured   him   that  he   had 
ministered  successfully,  and  to  the  high- 
est interests  of  his  people.    He  has  taken 
an  active   interest  in  the   aflfairs   of   the 
town.    For  the  last  two  years  he  has  held 
the  office  of  representative  to  the  Legis- 
lature, where  he  served  on  the  commit- 
tees  of  agriculture   and   public   libraries, 
and  has  been  the  consistent  advocate  of 
measures  which  he  deemed  calculated  to 
promote  the  welfare  of  the  community. 
He  affiliates  with  Mount  Orthodox  Lodge 
of   Masons,   also   the   Eastern   Star,   and 
for    a    year    served    as    chaplain    to    the 
former  order.     During  another  year  he 
was  worthy  patron  in  the  Eastern  Star. 
He  and  his  wife  are  members  of  the  Con- 
gregational  church,   West   Springfield. 

Mr.  Love  married,  July  8,  1914,  Idella 
Allen  Hill,  born  January  16,  1876,  at  Hol- 
yoke,  Massachusetts,  daughter  of  Albert 
Henr)^  Hill,  who  was  born  at  Chateaugay, 


New  York,  and  engaged  in  the  grocery 
business.  He  married  Idella  Allen,  a 
native  of  Brooklin,  Maine,  and  their  chil- 
dren were:  Idella  Allen,  mentioned 
below ;  Blanche  Ruth,  wife  of  Frederick 
L.  Pierce,  of  Brooklin,  Maine;  Sarah 
Elizabeth,  married  Ralph  E.  Crane,  of 
Winter  Harbor,  Maine ;  Ethel  Gertrude, 
wife  of  Harry  G.  Moody,  of  Brooklin, 
Maine ;  Mahlon  Turner,  unmarried,  was 
at  Plattsburgh  training  camp,  from  which 
he  received  a  commission  as  lieutenant  in 
the  103rd  Regiment,  now  (1918)  serving 
in  France ;  and  Albert  Henry,  married 
Katie  Staples,  and  lives  in  Brooklin, 
Maine.  In  that  place  also  resides  Mrs. 
Hill,  who  has  now  been  a  widow  more 
than  twenty  years,  her  husband  having 
died  at  the  comparatively  early  age  of 
forty-two. 


TROWBRIDGE,  Edward  Henry, 

Surgeon. 

Among  the  successful  and  popular 
surgeons  of  Worcester,  Dr.  Trowbridge 
exemplifies  the  precepts  and  character 
brought  down  to  him  from  a  long  line  of 
worthy  American  ancestors.  The  sur- 
name Trowbridge  is  derived  from  the 
place  name.  Perhaps  the  oldest  town  of 
this  name  is  in  Wiltshire,  and  its  history 
dates  back  of  the  Conquest.  The  name 
has  been  in  use  in  England  as  a  surname 
from  the  very  beginning  of  the  use  of  sur- 
names. The  Trowbridge  coat-of-arms  is 
described : 

Or,  on  a  bridge  of  three  arches  embattled  in 
fess  gules,  masoned  sable,  as  many  streams 
transfluent  towards  the  base  proper  a  tower  of 
the  second  thereon  a  penant  argent. 

(I)  Thomas  Trowbridge  lived  at  Taun- 
ton, Somersetshire,  England,  where  his 
ancestors  had  undoubtedly  lived  for  sev- 
eral generations.     He  was  a  mercer  and 


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man  of  wealth,  and  left  in  trust  property 
for  the  benefit  of  the  poor  in  the  parishes 
of  St.  James  and  St.  Mary  Magdalen, 
which  trust  is  still  in  eflfect.  He  died  at 
Taunton,  February  20,  1620,  at  an  ad- 
vanced age. 

(II)  John  Trowbridge,  son  of  Thomas 
Trowbridge,  baptized  March  25,  1570,  at 
Taunton,  resided  there,  was  a  woolen 
'draper,  his  father's  chief  heir,  and  was 
wealthy  and  influential.  He  served  in 
■middle  life  as  mayor  of  the  town,  was 
many  years  warden  of  the  church  of  St. 
Mary  Magdalen,  a  member  of  the  board 
of  trustees  of  the  alms  house,  and  died  in 
July,  1649.  His  first  wife,  whose  name 
is  unknown,  was  buried  in  Taunton,  June 
6,  1622.     Their  eldest  child, 

(III)  Thomas  Trowbridge,  son  of  John 
Trowbridge,  engaged  in  business  as  a 
mercer  in  Exeter,  Devonshire,  England. 
There  he  married  Elizabeth,  daughter  of 
Mrs.  Alice  Marshall,  widow,  their  license 
dated  26th  March,  1627.  Four  children 
were  baptized  at  St.  Petrock's,  Exeter. 
His  wife  belonged  to  a  wealthy  and 
prominent  family  of  Exeter,  daughter  of 
John  Marshall,  the  younger,  bailiff  of 
Exeter  in  1601,  sheriff  in  1609,  mayor  in 
1615,  afterwards  alderman,  called  "the 
worshipful  Mr.  John  Marshall."  His  wife 
was  Alice  Bevys,  daughter  of  Richard 
and  Elizabeth  (Prouz)  Bevys,  both  of 
whom  came  from  old  and  prominent  fam- 
ilies of  Exeter.  Richard  Bevys  was 
sheriff  in  1591,  governor  of  the  guild  of 
merchant  adventurers  in  1602.  Thomas 
Trowbridge  came  to  America  as  early  as 
1636  with  his  wife  and  two  youngest 
sons,  settled  first  in  Dorchester,  removed 
to  New  Haven  in  1639,  was  one  of  the 
l)roprietors  of  that  town  in  1641,  when 
he  is  credited  with  five  heads  in  his  fam- 
ily, presumably  including  his  three  sons, 
Thomas,  William  and  James.  His  estate 
\/as  rated  at  five  hundred  pounds,  a  large 


sum  for  that  time  and  place.  He  was 
engaged  in  the  foreign  shipping  business, 
^vhh  extensive  trade  between  England, 
the  West  Indies  and  the  Colonies.  As 
early  as  1641  he  returned  to  England, 
|(;aving  his  estate  in  trust  and  his  sons  in 
the  care  of  his  steward,  Henry  Gibbons. 
Thomas  Trowbridge  died  in  Taunton, 
5iomersetshire,  England,  and  was  buried 
there  February  7,  1673.  His  wife  died  in 
New  Haven  before  his  return  to  Eng- 
l;.nd.  In  the  records  of  Dorchester  they 
y.re  referred  to  as  Mr.  and  Mrs.,  a  dis- 
tinction confined  in  those  days  to  people 
of  gentility.  The  wife  was  a  member  of 
the  Dorchester  church  in  1638. 

(IV)  James  Trowbridge,  son  of  Thomas 
(2)  Trowbridge,  was  baptized  in  Dor- 
chester in  1637-38.  He  was  probably 
born  in  1636,  and  died  May  22,  1717,  in 
Newton,  Massachusetts.  He  inherited 
lands  from  his  father  in  Dorchester, 
where  he  settled  on  attaining  his  major- 
ity, and  continued  until  1664,  when  he 
removed  to  Newton.  He  was  an  early 
member  of  the  Congregational  church 
there,  and  more  than  forty  years  a  dea- 
con ;  a  soldier  of  King  Philip's  War,  he 
was  a  lieutenant  under  Major  Daniel 
Gookin.  For  nine  years  from  the  organi- 
zation of  the  town  of  Newton  he  was  con- 
tinuously a  member  of  the  Board  of 
Selectmen,  was  clerk  of  the  writs  in  1692 
and  1693,  and  representative  in  1701-02-03. 
He  gave  most  of  his  estate  to  his  children 
during  his  life,  and  at  his  death  his  prop- 
erty was  valued  at  £240.  He  married 
(first)  Margaret  Atherton,  and  (second) 
January  30,  1674,  in  Newton,  Mary  Jack- 
son, born  there  June  20,  1649,  daughter  of 
Deacon  John  and  Margaret  Jackson. 

(V)  William  Trowbridge,  son  of  James 
Trowbridge,  was  born  November  19, 
1684,  in  Newton,  was  prominent  in  the 
town,  overseer  of  the  poor  in  1734,  select- 
man   1736   to    1739    inclusive,   lieutenant, 


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and  later  captain  of  the  local  military  com- 
pany ;  a  deacon  of  the  church  and  one  of  the 
donors  of  its  communion  service.  By  trade 
he  was  a  weaver,  was  occupied  some  years 
in  early  life  in  that  business,  was  also  a 
farmer,  owned  an  interest  in  a  grist  mill, 
and  died  in  Newton,  November  19,  1744. 
He  married  (first)  Sarah  Ward,  and 
(second)  May  30,  1721,  in  Weston,  Mas- 
sachusetts, Sarah  Fulham,  born  March  2, 
1695,  died  September  10,  1787,  in  New- 
ton, daughter  of  Judge  Francis  and  Sarah 
(Livermore)   Fulham. 

(VI)  Thaddeus  Trowbridge,  fourth  son 
and  tenth  child  of  William  Trowbridge, 
only  son  of  the  second  wife,  was  born 
November  20,  1728,  in  Newton,  where 
he  died  January  6,  1777.  He  inherited 
the  homestead  and  interest  in  the  grist 
mill,  and  followed  farming  as  an  occupa- 
tion. He  married,  November  20,  1749,  in 
Newton,  Mary  Craft,  born  there  April 
II,  1731,  daughter  of  Moses  and  Esther 
(Woodward)  Craft.  She  married  (sec- 
ond) Lieutenant  John  Rogers,  of  New- 
ton, and  died  April  9,  1813,  in  that  town. 

(VII)  Edmund  Trowbridge,  eldest  son 
of  Thaddeus  Trowbridge,  was  born  Oc- 
tober 3,  1752,  in  Newton,  where  he  was 
a  farmer,  and  died  June  30,  1812.  He 
inherited  the  interest  in  the  mill,  and  by 
will  of  his  paternal  grandmother  came 
into  possession  of  the  homestead  farm. 
In  1791-92  he  was  selectman  of  the  town. 
During  the  Revolution  he  served  through 
four  enlistments  as  a  soldier,  first  as  a 
corporal  in  Captain  Amariah  Fuller's 
company  of  minute-men  which  marched 
at  the  Lexington  Alarm,  April  19,  1775. 
With  the  same  rank  under  the  same  cap- 
tain he  was  a  member  of  Colonel  Samuel 
Thatcher's  regiment  which  defended  Dor- 
chester Heights.  As  a  sergeant  in  Cap- 
tain Abraham  Pierce's  company  of  Col- 
onel Eleazer  Brooks'  regiment,  he  served 
two  months  on  guard  duty  at  Cambridge. 


He  was  also  a  corporal  in  Captain  Ed- 
ward Fuller's  company  under  Colonel 
Thatcher,  which  guarded  English  pris- 
oners at  Boston.  He  probably  served 
later  in  the  militia,  as  he  was  known 
many  years  as  Captain  Trowbridge,  one 
of  the  wealthy  citizens  of  his  town  and 
highly  respected.  He  married,  Decem- 
ber 15,  1774,  in  Newton,  Elizabeth  Wis- 
wall,  born  March  20,  1753,  in  that  town, 
died  there  February  22,  1799,  daughter  of 
Captain  Jeremiah  and  Elizabeth  (Mur- 
dock)  Wiswall. 

(VIII)  Elisha  Trowbridge,  youngest 
child  of  Edmund  Trowbridge,  was  born 
August  3,  1797,  and  settled  early  in  life 
at  Portland,  Maine,  where  he  engaged 
in  the  chandlery  business,  retiring  ten 
years  before  his  death,  February  16,  1880. 
For  many  years  his  eldest  son  was  asso- 
ciated with  him,  and  they  enjoyed  a  very 
large  trade,  shipping  their  product  all 
over  the  United  States.  He  was  a  prom- 
inent member  of  the  Third  Congregational 
Church  of  Portland,  and  was  many  years 
a  member  of  the  Maine  Legislature.  He 
married,  June  13,  1822,  in  Boston,  Mar- 
garet Stimpson,  born  November  4,  1799, 
in  Charlestown,  Massachusetts,  died  Au- 
gust 10,  1885,  in  Portland,  daughter 
of  William  and  Catherine  (Rappalye) 
Stimpson. 

(IX)  William  Stimpson  Trowbridge, 
third  son  of  Elisha  Trowbridge,  born 
June  3,  1827,  in  Portland,  died  there  No- 
vember 30,  1894.  Through  most  of  his 
business  life  he  was  associated  with  the 
wholesale  paint  establishment  of  J.  B. 
Fickett  &  Company.  He  was  an  active 
and  prominent  member  of  the  Inde- 
pendent Order  of  Odd  Fellows,  affiliating 
with  Maine  Lodge,  No.  i,  of  Portland. 
He  married,  November  15,  1855,  in  Port- 
land, Elizabeth  Porter  Tukey,  born  Octo- 
ber 10,  1828,  daughter  of  Benjamin  and 
Sarah    (Chick)    Tukey.      They   had    two 


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sons,  of  whom  the  youngest  died  in  his 
third  year. 

(X)  Dr.  Edward  Henry  Trowbridge, 
eldest  child  of  William  Stimpson  and 
Elizabeth  Porter  (Tukey)  Trowbridge, 
was  born  October  i,  1856,  in  Portland. 
He  there  received  his  early  education, 
graduating  in  1875  from  the  Portland 
High  School  as  one  of  the  speakers  in 
the  graduation  exercises.  For  a  few 
months  he  engaged  in  the  study  of  law,  but 
found  this  distasteful  and  decided  to  pre- 
pare himself  for  the  practice  of  medicine. 
He  fitted  for  college,  and  in  1877  entered 
Dartmouth  College  at  Hanover,  New 
Hampshire.  Here  he  was  a  faithful  and 
efficient  student,  and  was  elected  a  mem- 
ber of  the  Alpha  Delta  Phi  fraternity,  and 
subsequently  admitted  to  the  Phi  Betta 
Kappa.  In  1881  he  was  graduated  with 
the  degree  of  A.  B.  and  was  one  of  the 
commencement  speakers.  In  July  of  the 
same  year  he  took  up  the  study  of  medi- 
cine at  the  Portland  Medical  School,  and 
subsequently  attended  lectures  at  the 
Medical  School  of  Maine,  a  branch  of 
Bowdoin  College  at  Brunswick.  After 
three  years  of  study  he  was  graduated 
from  this  institution  in  1884.  During 
the  last  two  years  of  his  attendance  at 
the  recitations  of  the  Portland  Medical 
School  he  was  associated  with  Dr.  S.  C. 
Gordon  in  the  latter's  office,  and  during 
the  year  from  August  i.  1884,  to  August 
I,  1885,  was  house  physician  and  surgeon 
at  the  Maine  General  Hospital  in  Port- 
land. After  graduation  he  spent  two 
months  in  study  in  the  hospitals  of  New 
York  City,  and  in  the  latter  part  of  Sep- 
tember, 1885,  located  at  Worcester,  Mas- 
sachusetts, where  he  has  since  been  con- 
tinuously and  successfully  engaged  in 
the  practice  of  his  profession.  In  1890 
Dr.  Trowbridge  was  appointed  surgeon 
to  the  out  department  of  the  Worcester 
City  Hospital,  and  in  1896  became  one  of 
its   visiting   surgeons,   in   which   position 


he  has  continued  to  the  present  time. 
During  the  summer  of  1905  he  made  a 
trip  abroad,  visiting  the  hospitals  of  Lon- 
don and  Paris,  and  took  a  course  in  sur- 
gery in  Vienna.  Again,  in  1907,  accom- 
panied by  his  wife,  he  visited  Europe  and 
devoted  some  time  to  further  study  at 
Vienna.  In  December  of  that  year  he 
was  elected  a  member  of  the  Worcester 
School  Board  for  a  term  of  three  years. 
Since  1885  he  has  been  a  valued  member 
of  the  Massachusetts  Medical  Society, 
and  is  a  member  of  the  American  Acad- 
emy of  Medicine.  While  in  Portland  he 
was  initiated  in  Maine  Lodge  No.  i,  Inde- 
pendent Order  of  Odd  Fellows,  in  which 
his  father  was  an  active  member,  and  was 
made  a  Mason  in  Quinsigamond  Lodge, 
Free  and  Accepted  Masons,  of  Worces- 
ter, in  1889.  For  several  years  he  was 
surgeon  of  the  Worcester  Continentals, 
a  well-known  military  organization,  from 
which  he  resigned  in  1901.  Dr.  Trow- 
bridge is  now  chairman  of  the  City  Board 
of  Health.  He  received  the  degree  of  F. 
A.  S.  C.  from  the  American  College  of 
Surgeons  in  1914. 

Dr.  Trowbridge  married,  September  5, 
1888,  in  Framingham,  Massachusetts,  Car- 
rie Louise  Parker,  born  February  19,  i860, 
in  Boston,  daughter  of  Charles  Webster 
and  Harriette  (Philbrock)  Parker.  Chil- 
dren: I.  Parker  Vincent,  born  August 
I,  1889,  died  August  6,  1889.  2.  Parker, 
born  October  31,  1890;  was  educated  in 
the  grammar  school  of  Worcester  and 
Worcester  Academy,  and  was  graduated 
from  Dartmouth  College,  Hanover,  New 
Hampshire,  class  of  1913;  he  is  manager 
of  the  Worcester  Branch  of  the  bond 
department  of  Paine,  Webber  &  Com- 
pany, Boston,  Massachusetts ;  he  was 
elected  to  the  Common  Council  from 
Ward  8,  Worcester,  for  the  years  1917 
and  1918,  and  is  serving  on  the  following 
committees:  Legislative  matters,  street 
lighting,    mayor's    inauguration    and    un- 


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finished  business ;  he  is  a  member  of 
Worcester  Club,  Commonwealth  Club, 
Worcester  Country  Club  and  Psi  Upsi- 
lon  Society.  3.  Gladys  Isabelle,  born 
June  3,  1893,  a  graduate  of  the  Emma 
Willard  School  for  Girls,  Troy,  New 
York.  4.  Louise,  born  February  4,  1896, 
also  a  graduate  of  the  same  school. 


WARREN,  Julius  Edgar, 

Educator. 

A  prominent  educator  of  the  State  of 
Massachusetts,  Mr.  Warren  was  known 
the  length  and  breadth  of  the  State,  par- 
ticularly in  the  county  districts,  his  posi- 
tion as  agent  for  the  State  Board  of  Edu- 
cation in  the  Department  of  Rural 
Schools  commending  him  especially  to  the 
rural  districts.  He  was  a  son  of  Hor- 
ace and  Mary  S.  (Gleason)  Warren,  of 
Leicester,  Massachusetts,  a  brother  of  S. 
Gleason  Warren,  yet  residing  there. 

Julius  Edgar  Warren  was  born  in 
Leicester,  Massachusetts,  November  28, 
1857,  and  died  at  Holyoke,  March  25, 
1914.  He  grew  to  manhood  in  his  native 
city,  and  later  in  life  entered  the  service 
of  the  State  as  agent  of  the  board  of  edu- 
cation in  the  department  of  rural  schools. 
He  was  peculiarly  well  fitted  for  the 
work  he  did,  and  was  held  in  high  regard. 
The  duties  of  his  position  required  him 
to  visit  the  smaller  schools,  and  during 
the  eight  years  he  was  in  office,  1906- 
1914,  he  made  many  acquaintances  and 
warm  friends.  He  left  a  widow  and  four 
children:  Marion,  wife  of  Luke  Stanton, 
of  Huntington,  Massachusetts  ;  Julius  E., 
Jr.,  a  teacher  in  Schenectady,  New  York ; 
Wesley  R. ;  and  Olive  M.,  of  Holyoke. 


ROBINSON,  James  Thomas, 
Expert   Accountant. 

James  Thomas  Robinson  came  to  the 
city  of  Holyoke,  Massachusetts,  in   1913, 


and  has  since  been  identified  with  the 
Japanese  Tissue  Mills  as  auditor  and 
treasurer.  He  is  of  the  ninth  generation 
in  New  England  of  the  family  founded 
by  Thomas  Robinson,  of  Scituate,  Mas- 
sachusetts, in  1640.  The  family  history 
from  Thomas  Robinson,  the  founder,  to 
the  twentieth  century  representative, 
James  Thomas  Robinson,  of  Holyoke, 
Massachusetts,  is  herein  traced. 

(I)  The  first  representative  of  this 
branch  of  the  family  was  Thomas  Robin- 
son, who  was  of  Scituate  as  early  as 
1640,  when  he  purchased  land  of  Wil- 
liam Gillson,  and  represented  that  town 
in  the  General  Court  of  Plymouth  at  its 
session  in  October,  1643.  He  was  also 
deacon  of  the  Second  Church  in  Scituate. 
In  August  and  September,  1654,  he  pur- 
chased two  estates  joining  each  other, 
directly  opposite  Old  South  Church  in 
Boston.  Here  he  resided  during  the 
remainder  of  his  life,  though  he  retained 
his  connection  with  the  church  at  Scitu- 
ate. Thomas  Robinson  was  a  stalwart 
citizen  and  wrought  out  a  good  name  for 
himself.  He  was  thrice  married,  his  sec- 
ond wife  having  been  Mary,  widow  of 
John  Woody,  and  daughter  of  John 
Cogan,  of  Boston.  They  were  married 
January  11,  1652-53,  and  she  died  October 
26,  1661.  Subsequently  he  married  Eliz- 
abeth Sherman.  John  Cogan  is  said 
by  Snow  (History  of  Boston)  to  have 
"opened  the  first  shop  in  Boston ;"  it  was 
on  the  northeast  corner  of  Washington 
and  State  streets.  Children :  John,  a 
merchant ;  Samuel,  a  merchant,  died 
unmarried,  January  16,  1661-62,  aged 
twenty-four  years ;  Josiah,  apprentice  to 
Joseph  Roecke,  died  April  17,  1660; 
Ephraim,  died  September  22,  1661 ; 
Thomas,  of  further  mention  ;  James,  born 
at  Boston,  March  14,  1654-55,  died  Sep- 
tember,   1676;    Joseph,    baptized    March 

8,    1656-57,    married    Sarah  ,    and 

died  in  April,  1703 ;   Mary,  baptized  Feb- 


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ruary  28,  1657-58,  died  young;  Mary, 
baptized  November  6,  1659,  married 
Jacob  Green,  Jr.,  of  Charlestown. 

(II)  Thomas  (2)  Robinson,  son  of 
Thomas  (i)  Robinson,  was  baptized  at 
Scituate,  Massachusetts,  March  5,  1653- 
54.  He  inherited  a  part  of  his  father's 
homestead,  where  he  resided ;  he  also 
inherited  from  his  Grandfather  Cogan  the 
house  and  store  on  the  northeasterly  cor- 
ner of  Washington  and  State  streets, 
Boston.  He  was  a  cordwainer  by  trade. 
He  died  in  June,  1700.  He  married 
Sarah,  daughter  of  Edward  Denison,  of 
Roxbury;  she  died  November  15,  1710, 
aged  fifty-three  years.  Edward  Denison 
was  the  son  of  William  Denison,  one  of 
the  earliest  inhabitants  of  Roxbury.  He 
had  two  brothers,  Daniel,  major-general 
of  the  Massachusetts  Colony  during  King 
Philip's  War ;  and  George,  a  successful 
and  distinguished  captain  of  Connecticut 
troops  during  the  war.  Both  rendered 
important  services  as  legislators  and  mag- 
istrates.   Edward  manifested  no  taste  for 

* 
military  affairs,  but  was  useful  as  select- 
man, town  clerk  and  representative.  Chil- 
dren :  Thomas,  born  November  5,  1677, 
married  Sarah  Beswick,  and  died  1729-30 ; 
Sarah,  baptized  December  28,  1679,  mar- 
ried (first)  John  Ingolsbury,  (second) 
John  Perry;  Joseph,  baptized  November 
20,  1681,  died  young;  Elizabeth,  born 
September  26,  1686,  died  young;  and 
James,  of  further  mention. 

(III)  James  Robinson,  son  of  Thomas 
(2)  and  Sarah  (Denison)  Robinson,  was 
born  March  15,  1689-90,  died  shortly 
before  March  11,  1762,  when  his  will  was 
approved.  He  was  a  housewright  by 
occupation.  He  inherited  from  his  father 
the  homestead  on  Washington  street, 
Boston,  which  he  sold  February  7,  171 1- 
12,  and  bought  a  house  on  the  southerly 
side  of  Boylston  street,  which  he  also 
sold,    April    12,    1714,    and    removed    to 


Rochester,  where  Rev.  Timothy  Ruggles, 
a  brother  of  his  wife,  resided.  He  re- 
mained at  Rochester  until  1757,  when  he 
exchanged  his  farm  in  Rochester  for 
another  in  Hardwick,  where  several  of 
his  children  had  already  settled.  Of  his 
eight  surviving  children  Dorothy  alone 
remained  in  Rochester,  all  the  others  hav- 
ing removed  to  Hardwick  and  Barre.  He 
married  Patience,  daughter  of  Captain 
Samuel  Ruggles,  of  Roxbury,  July  3, 
171 1.  She  died  in  January,  1768,  aged 
seventy-eight  years.  Captain  Ruggles 
married  Martha,  daughter  of  Rev.  John 
Woodbridge,  and  granddaughter  of  Gov- 
ernor Thomas  Dudley,  on  July  8,  1680. 
His  father  was  a  prominent  citizen  of 
Roxbury,  where  he  was  selectman  four- 
teen years,  assessor  during  the  same 
period,  and  representative  for  the  four 
critical  years  succeeding  the  revolution 
of  1689.  He  was  for  several  years  cap- 
tain of  militia,  and  when  Governor  An- 
dros  and  his  associates  were  seized  and 
imprisoned,  Joseph  Dudley  (afterwards 
Governor)  was  committed  to  his  especial 
charge,  while  temporarily  released  from 
prison.  His  preservation  from  death  by 
lightning  on  May  25, 1667,  was  so  remark- 
able that  an  account  of  it  was  entered  on 
the  church  record  by  Rev.  Samuel  Dan- 
forth.  "25  (3)  1667  There  was  a  dread- 
ful crack  of  thunder.  Samuel  Ruggles 
happened  at  that  instant  to  be  upon  the 
meetinghouse  hill,  with  oxen  and  horse, 
and  cart  loaded  with  corn.  The  horse 
and  one  ox  were  stricken  dead  with  the 
lightning,  the  other  ox  had  a  little  life  in 
it,  but  died  presently.  The  man  was 
singed  and  scorched  a  little  on  his  legs, 
one  shoe  torn  apieces,  and  the  heel  car- 
ried away ;  the  man  hurled  off  the  cart 
and  flung  on  the  off  side,  but  soon  recov- 
ered himself  and  felt  little  harm.  There 
was  a  chest  in  the  cart,  wherein  was 
pewter  and  linen ;    the  pewter  had  small 


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holes  melted  in  it,  and  the  linen  some  of 
it  singed  and  burnt."  Captain  Ruggles, 
father  of  Patience  (Ruggles)  Robinson, 
inherited  his  father's  military  spirit  and 
succeeded  him  in  many  offices;  he  was 
assessor,  1694;  representative,  1694;  cap- 
tain of  militia,  1702 ;  and  selectman  con- 
tinuously from  1693  to  1712,  except  in 
1701  and  1704,  nineteen  years.  His  death 
occurred  after  a  short  illness,  February 
25,  1714-16,  and  his  funeral  is  mentioned 
in  Sewall's  Diary,  "Feb.  28,  1715-16,  Cap- 
tain Samuel  Ruggles  was  buried  with 
arms.  He  is  much  lamented  at  Rox- 
bury."  Children  of  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Robin- 
son, of  whom  the  first  two  were  born  in 
Boston  and  the  remainder  in  Rochester: 
James,  born  March  i,  1711-12;  Thomas, 
born  September  15,  1713,  died  young; 
Samuel,  born  November  i,  1715;  Thomas, 
of  further  mention ;  Sarah,  born  July 
9,  1720,  married  Ebenezer  Spooner,  of 
Rochester;  Dorothy,  bom  March  10, 
1722-23,  married  (first)  David  Peckham, 
in  1743,  and  (second)  Major  Elnathan 
Haskell  in  1749,  and  died  at  Rochester, 
September  25,  1810;  Denison,  born  July 
16,  1725 ;  Joseph,  born  September  13, 
1727;  Hannah,  born  November  16,  1730, 
married  Benjamin  Green,  in   1764. 

(IV)  Thomas  (3)  Robinson,  son  of 
James  and  Patience  (Ruggles)  Robinson, 
was  born  April  20,  1718.  He  settled  at 
Hardwick,  as  a  young  man,  and  there 
engaged  in  farming.  Subsequently  he 
removed  to  Furnace  Village,  where  he 
kept  a  store  and  tavern,  and  also  man- 
aged a  saw  mill  and  grist  mill  on  Moose 
brook.  He  was  very  prosperous  in  busi- 
ness, and  was  one  of  the  wealthiest  men 
of  his  neighborhood  in  1776.  In  that  year 
the  assessment  of  the  town  of  Hardwick 
against  his  property  was  the  fourth 
largest  upon  the  town's  books,  but  he 
sacrificed  the  larger  part,  if  not  abso- 
lutely the  whole,  of  his  plentiful  estate. 


in  the  Revolutionary  War,  and  he  also 
served  as  a  distinguished  soldier  in  the 
conflict  from  the  beginning  to  the  end. 
He  was  elected  lieutenant  of  the  Alarm 
List,  January  9,  1775,  and  was  after- 
wards styled  captain.  He  was  a  select- 
man five  years,  a  member  of  the  com- 
mittee of  correspondence  five  years,  and 
served  on  various  important  committees 
during  that  troublous  period.  He  sold 
his  real  estate  in  and  near  Furnace  Vil- 
lage, and  subsequently  removed  to  Wind- 
sor, but  returned  again  in  a  few  years. 
About  1799,  his  mental  faculties  having 
become  impaired  and  both  his  sons  hav- 
ing left  town,  he  and  his  aged  wife 
became  inmates  of  their  daughter's  home, 
where  he  died  January  8,  1802,  aged 
nearly  eighty-four  years,  and  his  wife 
Mary  died  August  7,  1812,  aged  nearly 
eighty-eight  years.  Thomas  Robinson 
married  Mary,  daughter  of  Captain  Elea- 
zer  Warner,  November  23,  1744.  Cap- 
tain Warner  married  Prudence,  daughter 
of  Thomas  Barnes,  of  Brookfield,  Decem- 
ber 4,  1722.  He  devoted  several  years  of 
his  early  life  to  the  service  of  his  coun- 
try. A  brief  sketch  of  his  military  career 
and  his  single-handed  deadly  encounter 
with  an  Indian  is  given  in  the  "History 
of  Hardwick"  by  Lucius  R.  Paige. 
Acknowledgment  is  also  made  to  Mr. 
Paige  and  the  "History  of  Hardwick" 
for  this  genealogy.  This  branch  of 
the  Robinson  family  was  very  promi- 
nent in  the  early  history  of  Hardwick. 
Before  James  Robinson  moved  to  Hard- 
wick from  Rochester,  after  selling  the 
family  homestead  on  Washington  street, 
Boston,  opposite  the  Old  South  Church, 
several  of  his  children  had  already  set- 
tled in  Hardwick,  and  the  family  remained 
there  until  Denison  removed  to  Windsor 
about  1780.  Children  of  Mr.  and  Mrs. 
Robinson  :  Denison,  of  further  mention  ; 
Thomas,  born  February-  10,  1753;    Mary, 


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born  December  3,  1758,  married  Timothy 
Page,  January  20,  1780,  and  died  March 
21,  1836. 

(V)  Denison  Robinson,  son  of  Thomas 
(3)  and  Mary  (Warner)  Robinson,  was 
born  September  18,  1746.  He  was  a 
farmer  by  occupation.  He  was  sergeant 
of  Captain  Simeon  Hazeltine's  company 
of  minute-men,  which  marched  to  Cam- 
bridge on  the  Lexington  Alarm,  in  April, 
1775,  and  was  commissioned  captain  of 
the  Second  Company  of  Militia  in  Hard- 
wick,  Massachusetts,  June  11,  1778.  He 
was  a  member  of  the  Committee  of  Cor- 
respondence in  1778.  About  1780  he 
removed  to  Windsor,  and  resided  there 
for  several  years.  Late  in  life  he  fol- 
lowed his  son  Thomas  (see  below)  to 
Adams,  where  he  died  November  17, 
1827.  He  married  (first)  April  10,  1768, 
Millicent,  daughter  of  Rev.  Robert  Cut- 
ler. She  died  July  5,  1798.  He  married 
(second)  Elizabeth  Hyde,  of  Lenox, 
about  1801.  She  died  in  1829.  Children: 
Mary,  bom  October  18,  1769,  married 
Alpheus  Prince,  and  died  in  September, 
1829;  Alice,  born  July  i,  1772;  Hannah, 
born  June  10,  1773,  died  unmarried,  July 
7,  1796;  Josiah  Quincy,  born  July  21, 
1775)"  Sophia,  born  August  19,  1778,  died 
unmarried.  May  12,  1855 ;  Denison,  born 
December  29,  1780;  Robert  Cutler,  born 
March  12,  1785;  Thomas,  mentioned 
below. 

(VI)  Thomas  (4)  Robinson,  son  of 
Denison  and  Millicent  (Cutler)  Robin- 
son, was  born  December  20,  1787,  at 
Windsor,  Massachusetts.  He  received 
excellent  educational  advantages  in  his 
youth,  and  was  prepared  for  the  legal 
profession.  He  held  high  rank  at  the 
Berkshire  bar,  and  received  from  Wil- 
liams College  the  honorary  degree  of 
Master  of  Arts  in  1828.  In  the  spring  of 
1836  he  removed  from  the  South  to  North 
village  of  Adams,  residing  for  many  years 

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and  until  his  death,  October  3,  1867,  aged 
nearly  eighty  years,  in  the  stone  house 
on  Main  street,  later  a  portion  of  the 
estate  of  the  late  Dr.  N.  S.  Babbitt.  He 
married  (first)  May  13,  1812,  Nancy 
Wells,  who  died  in  March,  1827.  He 
married  (second)  in  September,  1829, 
Catherine  Susanna  McLeod,  who  died 
July  20,  1854.  Children:  Millicent  Cut- 
ler, born  April  12,  1813,  married  F.  O. 
Sayles,  and  died  January  31,  1852;  Ann 
Eliza,  bom  April  29,  1815,  deceased,  mar- 
ried Dr.  Nathan  Snell  Babbitt;  Mary 
Sophia,  born  May  16,  1817,  deceased, 
married  Jackson  Mason,  of  Richmond, 
Vermont ;  James  Thomas,  of  further 
mention ;  Nancy  W.,  born  June  20,  1826, 
died  October  13,  1826;  Alexander  Mc- 
Leod, born  September  8,  1830;  Margaret 
Maria,  born  March  14,  1833,  married 
Lyndon  Smith,  of  Terre  Haute,  Indiana; 
Elizabeth  Rupalee,  born  August  5,  1836, 
married  Albert  R.  Smith ;  John  Cutler, 
born  October  4,  1839,  was  captain  of  vol- 
unteers in  the  War  of  the  Rebellion; 
Charles  Henry,  born  September  2,  1841 ; 
William  Denison,  born  August  i,  1844. 

(VII)  James  Thomas  Robinson,  son 
of  Thomas  (4)  and  Nancy  (Wells)  Rob- 
inson, was  born  September  7,  1822,  died 
November  21,  1894.  He  attended  the 
town  schools  and  was  also  an  attendant 
at  a  Lenox  institution  of  learning  of  much 
repute  in  those  days,  having  for  a  fellow 
student  Hon.  Marshall  Wilcox,  of  Pitts- 
field.  Later  he  attended  schools  at  Shel- 
burne  Falls  and  Worthington,  and  at 
Bennington,  Vermont,  and  in  1840  entered 
Williams  College,  class  of  1844.  After 
remaining  one  year  in  that  institution, 
he  entered  the  law  oiifice  of  his  father  in 
North  Adams,  remaining  there  two  years, 
when  he  returned  to  take  the  senior  year 
with  his  class  in  Williams  College,  grad- 
uating with  his  class  in  1844,  and  imme- 
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of  law  in  North  Adams  with  his  father, 
the  partnership  name  being  Thomas 
Robinson  &  Son,  which  continued  until 
the  death  of  the  senior  Robinson,  after 
which  James  Thomas  Robinson  practiced 
his  profession  of  his  own  account.  The 
following  is  worthy  of  mention :  During 
these  many  years  of  business  connection 
there  was  never  an  accounting  between 
father  and  son,  and  in  the  subsequent 
co-partnership  between  James  Thomas 
and  his  son  Arthur,  there  was  never  an 
accounting.  Although  not  receiving  at 
his  graduation  the  degrees  of  Bachelor 
and  Master  of  Arts,  these  were  after- 
wards conferred  by  Williams  College 
upon  James  T.  Robinson. 

Mr.  Robinson  was  in  sympathy  with 
those  principles  which  found  organized 
expression  in  the  Free  Soil  movement  of 
1848.  His  speaking  for  this  cause  was 
supplemented  by  editorial  writing  for  the 
"Greylock  Sentinel."  In  1852  he  was 
elected  to  the  State  Senate  by  a  union  of 
Free  Soilers  and  Democrats.  In  1853  he 
was  appointed  one  of  the  secretaries  of  the 
Massachusetts  Constitutional  Conven- 
tion. In  1859  he  was  chosen  by  the 
Republicans  to  the  State  Senate  for  a 
second  term,  and  while  in  this  service 
was  appointed  by  Governor  N.  P.  Bank 
judge  of  probate  and  insolvency  for  Berk- 
shire county,  in  which  capacity  he  served 
for  over  thirty  years ;  his  decisions  were 
marked  for  their  fairness,  and  his  court 
was  renowned  for  the  protection  it 
offered  the  helpless ;  in  his  long  period 
of  service  as  a  judge  his  decisions  were 
hardly  ever  reversed.  Previous  to  this 
judgeship  he  had  been  elected  for  a  term 
of  five  years,  commencing  the  first  Wed- 
nesday of  January,  1857,  register  of 
insolvency  for  Berkshire.  He  was  dele- 
gate-at-large  from  Massachusetts  to  the 
Republican  National  Convention  that 
renominated   President  Lincoln.     In  the 


winter  of  1855-56  he  made  a  lecturing 
tour  through  the  West. 

In  1856  Mr.  Robinson  purchased,  in 
co-partnership  with  his  brother,  Major 
John  C.  Robinson,  and  John  Dalrymple, 
the  "Adams  Transcript,"  and  the  trench- 
ant writing  of  Mr.  Robinson  distinguished 
it  until  his  death  in  1894.  There  was  no 
more  brilliant  editorial  writing  done  on 
any  country  paper  in  the  United  States 
than  he  gave  this  Berkshire  weekly. 
This  co-partnership  continued  for  a  few 
years,  after  which  ]\Ir.  Robinson  formed 
another  with  his  son,  Arthur,  which  con- 
tinued until  considerations  for  his  health 
led  to  the  formation  of  the  Transcript 
Publishing  Company,  and  his  retirement 
from  a  property  interest  in  the  concern. 

Besides  the  opportunities  for  influence 
and  distinction  otherwise  afforded.  Judge 
Robinson  had  gifts  as  a  public  speaker 
that  brought  him  appreciation  and  prom- 
inence. This  was  his  strongest  and 
natural  endowment.  Of  fine  presence 
and  unusually  natural  and  graceful  bear- 
ing before  an  audience,  he  had  a  voice 
that  would  swell  without  breaking,  and 
his  gestures  were  natural  and  effective, 
the  expression  of  present  feeling  and 
never  the  result  of  premeditation.  Most 
of  his  speeches  were  unwritten,  but 
thought  out  beforehand  and  improved 
upon  with  repetition.  Of  his  more  impor- 
tant speeches,  not  upon  party  politics, 
were  the  National  Anniversary  Address 
delivered  at  the  Baptist  church,  North 
Adams,  July  4,  1865 ;  that  delivered  on 
July  4,  1878,  upon  the  dedication  of  the 
North  Adams  Soldiers'  Monument ;  and 
that  commemorative  of  the  death  of 
President  Garfield,  delivered  at  the  Meth- 
odist church,  September  26.  1881. 

Judge  Robinson  married  at  Marble- 
head,  May  6,  1846,  Clara,  daughter  of  Dr. 
Calvin  and  Rebecca  (Monroe)  Briggs,  of 
that  town.    Children :    Arthur,  mentioned 


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below  ;  Calvin,  died  young ;  and  Thomas, 
died  young. 

(VIII)  Arthur  Robinson,  son  of  James 
Thomas  and  Clara  (Briggs)  Robinson, 
was  born  at  North  Adams,  Massachu- 
setts, March  15,  1848,  and  died  there 
April  13,  1900.  He  studied  in  the  public 
schools  and  fitted  for  college  at  a  private 
school  in  Lanesboro,  conducted  by  Mr. 
Tolman,  and  at  Professor  Griffen's  Pre- 
paratory School  in  Williamstown.  He 
was  graduated  from  Williams  College  with 
the  class  of  1870,  with  the  degree  of 
Bachelor  of  Arts,  and  immediately 
entered  the  office  of  the  "North  Adams 
Transcript,"  owned  and  edited  by  his 
father,  and  mastered  the  mechanical  part 
of  the  printing  and  publishing  business. 
He  was  then  taken  into  partnership,  and 
the  firm  name  became  James  T.  Robin- 
son &  Son.  The  young  man  took  the 
business  management  of  the  office  and 
paper,  Judge  Robinson  retaining  control 
of  the  editorial  department.  This  was  in 
the  early  seventies,  and  the  business  was 
small  in  comparison  with  the  dimensions 
later  reached.  Father  and  son  worked 
together  in  perfect  harmony,  and  the  job 
department  soon  took  and  held  first  rank 
among  the  printing  establishments  of 
North  Berkshire,  while  the  "Transcript," 
under  able  direction,  reached  a  circula- 
tion and  a  position  of  influence  such  as 
came  to  but  few  country  weeklies.  Al- 
though the  business  management  took 
most  of  the  time  and  attention  of  Mr. 
Arthur  Robinson,  yet  he  was  a  frequent 
contributor  to  the  columns  of  the  paper, 
and  in  this  field  he  displayed  remarkable 
ability.  His  style  of  expression  was 
graceful  and  pleasing,  and  his  writings 
were  stamped  by  an  individuality  that 
made  his  work  in  that  line  almost  as 
recognizable  as  if  it  had  borne  his  name. 
As  the  director  of  others  who  worked  on 
the   "Transcript,"   he   exerted   a   master- 


ful influence  which  accrued  to  the  benefit 
of  the  men  and  the  paper,  and  gave  to 
the  latter  a  uniformity  of  style  which  was 
of  much  value  to  the  publication.  ]\Ir. 
Robinson's  connection  with  the  paper 
continued  until  after  the  death  of  his 
mother  in  the  fall  of  1895,  his  father  hav- 
ing died  a  year  before.  Owing  to 
unsound  health  and  the  increase  of  other 
cares,  he  sold  the  paper  and  retired  from 
business  life.  Mr.  Robinson  was  held  in 
the  highest  respect  by  all  classes.  He 
was  straightforward  and  upright  in  his 
business  dealings,  and  in  his  newspaper 
work  the  good  of  the  community  was 
always  uppermost  in  his  mind.  No  tem- 
porary gain  to  the  paper  could  induce 
him  to  publish  that  which  would  result 
in  needless  injury  to  others,  and  his 
career  as  a  managing  editor  is  gratefully 
remembered  by  all  who  are  familiar 
with  it. 

Mr.  Robinson  was  also  gifted  as  a  pub- 
lic speaker,  as  was  demonstrated  on  vari- 
ous occasions,  though  he  never  sought 
for  prominence  in  that  direction,  and 
never  aspired  to  political  honors  which 
would  have  come  to  him  readily  had  he 
so  desired.  In  politics  he  was  a  Repub- 
lican, though  not  fully  in  accord  with  the 
tendencies  of  the  party  in  these  later 
days.  At  the  time  of  his  death  he  was  a 
trustee  of  the  Drury  Academy,  the  North 
Adams  Savings  Bank  and  the  Public 
Library.  He  was  a  pleasing  conversa- 
tionalist, a  good  neighbor,  citizen  and 
friend,  and  his  death  was  universally 
mourned. 

Mr.  Robinson  married,  December  14, 
1 871,  Clara  Ellen  Sanford,  born  in  1854, 
daughter  of  Michael  .and  Caroline  (Mil- 
lard) Sanford.  She  is  still  living  and 
maintains  her  home  at  North  Adams. 
Children:  i.  Sanford,  born  at  North 
Adams,  Massachusetts,  July  8,  1873. 
2.  Arthur,   born   at   North   Adams,   July 


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7,  1875 ;  married  Bertha  Torrey,  of 
Williamston,  Massachusetts ;  they  re- 
side at  North  Adams.  3.  James  Thomas, 
of  further  mention.  4.  Mary,  born  at 
North  Adams,  February  i,  1884;  married 
Lawrence  Smith,  of  Holyoke,  Massachu- 
setts ;  they  reside  in  Holyoke.  Mrs. 
Arthur  Robinson  is  the  regent  of  Fort 
Massachusetts  Chapter,  Daughters  of  the 
American  Revolution. 

(IX)  James  Thomas  Robinson,  third 
son  of  Arthur  and  Clara  Ellen  (Sanford) 
Robinson,  was  born  at  North  Adams, 
Massachusetts,  April  i,  1879.  After 
attending  North  Adams  schools,  he  stud- 
ied under  a  private  tutor  at  Williamstown, 
Massachusetts,  for  one  year,  then  entered 
Harvard  University,  but  did  not  complete 
the  usual  course,  the  death  of  his  father 
in  1900  bringing  about  conditions  which 
compelled  the  abandonment  of  his  col- 
lege education.  In  choosing  an  occupa- 
tion he  decided  upon  the  profession  of 
expert  accountant,  and  served  his  appren- 
ticeship with  the  Marwick,  Mitchell  & 
Company,  of  New  York  City.  Having 
served  his  time  as  junior  accountant,  he 
accepted  a  position  with  Price,  Water- 
house  &  Company,  of  New  York,  as  a 
senior  accountant  and  remained  with 
them  about  three  years,  leaving  to  take  a 
position  as  auditor  and  business  manager 
of  the  David  Williams  Company,  pub- 
lishers of  the  "Iron  Age."  After  three 
years  with  the  David  Williams  Com- 
pany, Mr.  Robinson  left  to  take  a  posi- 
tion as  auditor  and  business  manager  of 
the  Christian  Herald  Publishing  Com- 
pany of  New  York.  In  191 1  the  call  of 
the  "Berkshires"  brought  Mr.  Robinson 
back  to  Massachusetts  and  he  became 
connected  with  the  New  England  Audit 
Company  of  Springfield,  Massachusetts, 
as  senior  accountant,  remaining  one  year, 
and  going  from  that  company  to  the  Jap- 
anese Tissue  Mills  of  Holyoke,  January, 


1913.  He  has  continued  with  the  latter 
company  as  auditor  and  assistant  treas- 
urer until  the  present  (1918),  and  is  also 
auditor  of  B.  F.  Perkins  &  Son,  Inc.,  and 
director  and  secretary  of  the  Utley  Com- 
pany of  Holyoke.  In  addition  to  busi- 
ness organizations,  he  holds  membership 
in  the  Harvard  Club  of  New  York  City, 
the  Mt.  Tom  Golf  and  Bay  State  clubs 
of  Holyoke,  attends  the  Congregational 
church,  and  in  politics  is  a  Republican. 

Mr  Robinson  married,  November  23, 
1908,  Mj'rtle  Zaring  Drayer,  born  in 
North  Carolina,  daughter  of  Frank  and 
Ella  (James)  Drayer.  Mr.  and  Mrs. 
Robinson  are  the  parents  of  a  daughter, 
Martha  Lee  Robinson,  born  September 
13,   1910,  in  Greenwich,  Connecticut. 


DENTON,  Henry  H., 

Representative  Citizen. 

The  Denton  family,  represented  in  the 
present  generation  by  Henry  H.  Denton, 
an  enterprising  and  progressive  citizen  of 
West  Springfield,  traces  back  to  the  six- 
teenth century,  to  the  Rev.  Richard  Den- 
ton, a  native  of  Yorkshire,  England,  born 
in  1586,  a  student  at  the  University  of 
Cambridge,  from  which  institution  he 
was  graduated  in  1602,  and  for  some  years 
was  minister  of  Coley  Chapel,  Halifax. 
In  1630  the  famous  Act  of  Uniformity 
forced  him  to  relinquish  his  church,  and 
in  search  of  religious  liberty  he  crossed 
the  Atlantic  ocean,  settling  first  in  Water- 
town,  Massachusetts,  where  he  followed 
his  holy  calling  until  1635,  when  he 
started  a  new  settlement  in  Connecticut, 
giving  it  the  name  of  Wethersfield.  There 
he  resided  until  1640,  when  he  removed 
to  Rippowams,  now  Stamford,  which  was 
purchased  of  New  Haven,  October  30, 
1640.  From  there,  in  1644,  Mr.  Denton, 
accompanied  by  a  number  of  the  princi- 
pal  settlers  of   Rippowams,   removed   to 


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Hempstead,  Long  Island,  where  Mr.  Den- 
ton established  Christ's  First  Presbyter- 
ian Church,  the  first  congregation  of  that 
denomination  in  this  country.  Accord- 
ing to  an  account  of  the  Hempstead 
church,  written  by  the  Rev.  Sylvester 
Woodbridge,  who  was  pastor  from  1838 
to  1848,  "It  was  not  until  1648  that  the 
congregation  was  able  to  move  into  its 
own  meeting-house.  It  stood  near  the 
pond,  in  the  northwest  part  of  the  village 
(northwest  corner  of  Fulton  and  Frank- 
lin streets),  and  was  surrounded  by,  or 
at  least  connected  with,  a  fort  or  stock- 
ade." Rev.  Mr.  Denton  continued  to  offi- 
ciate as  minister  until  1659,  when  he 
returned  to  England.  The  Rev.  Cotton 
Mather,  who  apparently  knew  Rev.  Mr. 
Denton  well,  gives  him  the  character  of 
being  an  excellent  man  and  an  able 
preacher,  and  mentions  that  he  wrote  a 
voluminous  work,  a  system  of  divinity, 
under  the  title  of  "Soliloquia  Sacra."  It 
may  be  said  in  passing  that  a  son  of  this 
clergyman,  Daniel  Denton,  wrote  a  work 
entitled  "A  Brief  Description  of  New 
York,  with  the  Customs  of  the  Indians," 
in  1670  (London),  which  is  said  to  have 
been  the  first  description  in  print  of  New 
York  and  New  Jersey.  The  Rev.  Mr. 
Denton  spent  the  remainder  of  his  days 
in  Essex,  England,  where  his  death 
occurred  in  1662,  at  the  advanced  age  of 
seventy-six  years.  He  had  at  least  three 
sons,  namely:  Nathaniel,  Daniel  and 
Samuel. 

(II)  Nathaniel  Denton,  son  of  the  Rev. 
Richard  Denton,  became  a  resident  of 
Jamaica,  Long  Island,  in  1656,  as  did  also 
his  brother  Daniel,  and  they  aided  in  the 
plantation  of  Elizabethtown,  New  Jersey, 

in  1664.     He  married  Sarah  ,  who 

bore  him  three  sons :  Nathaniel,  Richard 
and  Samuel.  Nathaniel  Denton  died 
prior  to  the  year  1695. 

(III)  Richard  (2)  Denton,  son  of  Na- 


thaniel and  Sarah  Denton,  was  a  resident 
of  Jamaica,  Long  Island,  and  on  April 
16,  1683,  he  purchased  fifty  acres  of  land 
from  William  Smith,  of  Foster's  Meadow, 
Hempstead,  Long  Island,  at  which  place 
his  death  occurred  in  the  year  1699.  He 
married  Mary,  daughter  of  Joseph  and  Ann 
(Foster)  Thurston,  who  bore  him  six  chil- 
dren :  Richard,  Mary,  Sarah,  Joseph, 
Hannah  and  Benjamin. 

CIV)  Richard  (3)  Denton,  son  of  Rich- 
ard (2)  and  Mary  (Thurston)  Denton, 
removed  from  his  native  place  to  Hunt- 
ington, Long  Island.  He  married  Tem- 
perance, daughter  of  Edmund  Titus,  of 
Westbury,  Long  Island,  who  bore  him 
four  children:  Richard,  Temperance, 
John  and  Benjamin.  Mrs.  Denton  died 
January  9,   1742,  aged  sixty-one  years. 

(V)  Benjamin  Denton,  son  of  Richard 
(3)  and  Temperance  (Titus)  Denton,  was 
born  in  Huntington,  Long  Island,  in 
1721,  and  died  May  12,  1789.  He  mar- 
ried. March  26,  1747,  Rebecca  Ketcham, 
born  in  1722,  and  died  May  23,  1783. 
They  were  the  parents  of  eight  children : 
Alexander,  Hannah,  Rebecca,  Benjamin, 
Esther,  Rebecca,  Mary  and  Martha. 

(YI)  Alexander  Denton,  son  of  Ben- 
jamin and  Rebecca  (Ketcham)  Denton, 
was  born  in  1748,  and  died  April  24,  1814. 
He  married,  February  20,  1770,  Rebecca 
Johnston,  who  died  May  2,  1814.  They 
were  the  parents  of  nine  children :  Ke- 
turah,  Mary,  Rebecca,  Phebe,  Elizabeth, 
Israel,  Samuel,  Benjamin  and  Amelia. 

(VII)  Benjamin  (2)  Denton,  son  of 
Alexander  and  Rebecca  (Johnston)  Den- 
ton, was  born  September  30,  1788,  and 
died  July  10,  1848.  He  was  a  contrac- 
tor and  builder,  and  among  the  houses 
that  he  built  was  that  of  John  Jacob 
Astor  on  Ninetieth  street.  New  York 
City,  all  the  work  being  done  by  hand. 
Henry  H.  Denton,  of  this  sketch,  has  his 
chest  of  tools  and  his  carpenter's  bench. 


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He  married  Anna  Maria  Lindsley,  born 
January  3,  1803,  who  died  April  26,  1881. 
They  were  the  parents  of  eleven  children : 
Lewis  B.,  born  October  7,  1820,  died  Au- 
gust II,  1833;  Mary  E.,  born  May  26, 
1822,  died  ]\Iay  25,  1824;  Emily  M.,  born 
February  25,  1824,  died  October  24,  1832; 
James  H.,  born  January  30,  1826,  died 
November  11,  1831 ;  Eliza  J.,  born  Au- 
gust 20,  1828;  Susan  A.,  born  January 
25,  1831,  died  March  31,  1837;  Joseph 
Berrian,  of  further  mention;  Sarah  M., 
born  August  22,  1834;  Mary  L.,  born 
May  31,  1836,  died  June  26,  1837;  Amelia 
A.,  born  September  3,  1838;  and  Benja- 
min L.,  born  June  10,  1840,  died  July  10, 
1848. 

(VHI)  Joseph  Berrian  Denton,  son  of 
Benjamin  (2)  and  Anna  Maria  (Linds- 
ley) Denton,  was  born  in  New  York  City, 
November  29,  1832,  and  died  March  27, 
1899.  At  fourteen  years  of  age,  he  was 
left  in  charge  of  a  farm  of  one  hundred 
and  thirty-five  acres  in  Newtown,  now 
Elmhurst,  Long  Island.  He  remained  on 
this  farm  until  1887,  when  he  removed 
to  another  farm  at  Huntington,  Long 
Island,  remaining  there  until  his  death. 
He  was  the  type  of  man  who  is  always  at 
the  head  of  affairs,  and  he  took  a  promi- 
nent part  in  all  that  pertained  to  the  town 
in  which  he  lived,  serving  for  three  terms 
as  county  assessor,  for  twelve  years  as  a 
member  of  the  Democratic  Commission, 
as  member  of  the  Agricultural  Society,  of 
the  Newtown  Fire,  Hook  &  Ladder  Com- 
pany, and  of  Wondowenock  Fire  Engine 
Company  for  eight  years.  Mr.  Denton 
married  Phoebe  Higbee,  born  in  North- 
port,  Long  Island,  died  in  Centerport, 
Long  Island,  daughter  of  Jonas  and 
Maria  Higbee.  She  was  one  of  six  chil- 
dren, twin  brothers  and  four  sisters.  Her 
father  and  mother  celebrated  their  golden 
wedding,  as  did  also  one  of  her  sisters  and 
one   of   her   twin   brothers,   all   of  whom 


are  now  (1918)  deceased.  Mrs.  Denton 
designed  a  memorial  quilt,  the  various 
blocks  being  originated  and  made  by 
friends  in  all  parts  of  the  United  States. 
This  quilt  is  now  in  the  possession  of  her 
son,  Henry  H.  Denton,  by  whom  it  is 
very  highly  prized.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Den- 
ton were  members  of  the  Presbyterian 
Church  in  Newtown,  Long  Island,  now 
Elmhurst,  in  which  Mr.  Denton  was  for 
many  years  a  trustee.  They  were  the 
parents  of  one  child,  Henry  H.,  whose 
sketch  follows. 

(IX)  Henrj^  H.  Denton,  son  of  Joseph 
Berrian  and  Phoebe  (Higbee)  Denton, 
was  born  in  Newtown,  Queens  county. 
Long  Island,  September  17,  1857.  His 
preparatory  education  was  acquired  in  the 
public  school  in  the  vicinity  of  his  home, 
and  was  supplemented  by  a  course  in 
Flushing  Institute.  He  was  reared  on  a 
farm,  and  assisted  in  the  worlc  thereof 
during  his  early  years,  thus  gaining  a 
thorough  knowledge  of  that  necessary 
branch  of  work,  and  he  continued  along 
the  same  line  in  his  native  town  until 
January  9,  1888,  when  he  left  the  farm 
and  removed  to  Centerport,  Huntington 
township,  Suffolk  county.  New  York, 
locating  on  a  farm  there  which  he  con- 
ducted for  two  years,  and  then  entered 
the  employ  of  James  Cockroff,  having 
charge  of  selling  the  publication  entitled 
"Encyclopedia  of  Forms,"  for  the  Ed- 
ward Denison  Law  Publishing  Company. 
Later,  for  one  year,  he  was  in  the  employ 
of  the  Northport  Steamboat  Company, 
discharging  his  duties  in  an  acceptable 
manner.  During  his  residence  in  North- 
port,  to  which  town  he  went  in  1896,  he  re- 
organized, equipped  and  uniformed  its  Fire 
Department  of  sixty  men,  of  which  he 
was  the  chief  for  four  years,  after  which, 
in  1900,  he  returned  to  Centerport,  fol- 
lowing farming  there  until  1901.  He 
gained    his    first    experience    in    the    Fire 


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Department  at  Newtown,  Long  Island, 
which  he  joined  in  1875  and  of  which 
he  became  foreman,  and  served  for  two 
years.  He  was  one  of  the  prime  factors 
in  the  organization  of  the  Centerport  Fire 
Department,  which  he  served  as  chief 
for  a  number  of  years.  While  chief  of 
the  Northport  Fire  Department,  it  took 
the  prize  at  the  County  Fair,  and  later, 
when  he  became  chief  of  the  Centerport 
Fire  Department,  it  took  the  first  prize 
over  the  Northport  Fire  Department. 
Probably  few  men  in  the  United  States 
have  taken  so  active  and  prominent  a 
part  in  fire  department  matters,  his  term 
of  active  service  extending  over  thirty 
years.  When  Mr.  Denton  retired  from 
the  position  of  chief  of  the  Centerport 
Fire  Department,  his  company  presented 
him  with  a  solid  gold  badge  in  token  of 
their  appreciation  of  his  efforts  in  their 
behalf. 

For  a  period  of  more  than  four  years, 
Mr.  Denton  represented  his  district  on 
the  Republican  county  committee,  took 
an  active  part  in  planning  campaigns  and 
in  advancing  the  work  of  the  Republican 
party,  the  principles  of  which  he  believes 
to  be  for  the  best  form  of  government. 
He  gave  up  farming  in  1901  to  enter  the 
Highway  Department  at  Centerport, 
town  of  Huntington,  as  commissioner  of 
highways  and  served  three  terms  of  two 
years  each.  He  had  two  hundred  and 
seventy-three  miles  of  road  to  supervise, 
and  during  his  term  of  office  he  built 
thirty  miles  of  stone  road.  At  the  two 
hundred  and  fiftieth  anniversary  of  the 
town  of  Huntington,  at  which  time  Pres- 
ident Roosevelt  was  a  guest,  Mr.  Den- 
ton's company  acted  as  the  body  guard  to 
President  Roosevelt,  and  Mr.  Denton 
was  grand  marshal  of  the  parade.  He 
was  also  the  grand  marshal  and  a  com- 
mittee of  one  at  the  opening  of  the  Cross 
Island  Trolley.     He  took  a  keen  interest 


in  the  Indian  History  of  New  York  State, 
and  sought  and  collected  many  relics  of 
that  once  great  race. 

In  1910,  Mr.  Denton  disposed  of  his 
property  at  Centerport,  Long  Island,  and 
removed  to  his  present  home  on  Park 
street,  West  Springfield,  Massachusetts. 
Immediately  upon  coming  here,  he  began 
to  take  an  active  part  in  political  affairs. 
It  soon  became  known  that  he  had  lived 
in  the  shadow  of  Sagamore  Hill,  the  home 
of  ex-President  Roosevelt,  who  at  that 
time  was  beginning  the  formation  of  the 
Progressive  party,  and  at  the  first  meet- 
ing of  that  party  in  Hampden  county, 
Mr.  Denton  was  elected  as  the  president 
of  the  organization,  and  during  the  entire 
campaign  he  took  a  very  active  part  in 
all  things  connected  with  the  activities 
of  that  party.  During  the  great  parade 
which  took  place  in  Springfield,  in  1912, 
Mr.  Denton  acted  as  grand  marshal  and 
his  first  aide  was  the  well-known  Indian 
Scout,  Jack  Crawford,  and  among  the 
guests  of  honor  was  Governor  Johnson, 
of  California,  well-known  as  one  of  the 
leading  Progressives  of  the  United  States. 

Mr.  Denton  also  assisted  in  the  organ- 
ization of  the  Board  of  Commerce  in 
West  Springfield.  Among  his  other  activ- 
ities, which  have  been  of  great  importance 
to  West  Springfield,  are  his  services  in 
connection  with  the  location  of  the  West 
Springfield  end  of  the  new  bridge  across 
the  Connecticut  River.  On  December 
15,  1914,  a  commission  was  appointed, 
consisting  of  Frank  L.  Worthy  (since 
deceased),  John  C.  Brickett,  L.  F.  Ivers, 
and  Henry  H.  Denton,  the  latter  being 
president.  After  three  years  of  strenuous 
work,  the  object  for  which  this  commis- 
sion was  formed  was  accomplished,  and 
when  the  new  bridge  is  completed  its 
termination  in  West  Springfield  will  be 
the  present  site  of  the  old  bridge  which 
was  built  more  than  one  hundred  years 

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ago.  He  is  a  member  of  the  Auto  Club, 
which  he  joined  in  1910,  and  in  whose 
affairs  he  has  since  taken  an  active  part. 
Upon  the  declaration  of  war  by  Presi- 
dent Wilson,  in  1917,  the  Home  Defense 
League  was  formed  and  Mr.  Denton  was 
elected  captain  of  the  flying  squadron, 
and  he  is  also  a  member  of  the  Committee 
of  Public  Safety,  which  acts  in  conjunc- 
tion with  the  Police  Department  and 
carries  with  it  the  power  of  constable. 
On  October  24,  1917,  he  was  appointed 
one  of  the  fuel  commissioners,  Massa- 
chusetts branch  of  the  United  States  Fuel 
Commission,  and  served  as  secretary  of 
this  committee.  He  is  also  chairman  of 
the  Soldiers'  Information  Committee  of 
West  Springfield,  the  object  of  this  com- 
mittee being  to  obtain  information  relat- 
ing to  the  men  at  the  front,  for  the  bene- 
fit of  their  relatives.  For  six  years  he 
was  a  member  of  the  National  Guard, 
having  enlisted  in  the  Seventeenth  Sepa- 
rate Company,  in  1882,  and  each  year 
received  a  bar  for  qualifying  as  a  sharp- 
shooter. Mr.  Denton  is  a  student  of  min- 
eralogy, and  has  spent  considerable  time 
in  getting  together  a  rare  collection  of 
minerals  from  all  over  the  world. 

Mr.  Denton  married,  October  13.  1880, 
Lillian  Terwilliger,  daughter  of  George 
and  Matilda  (Fowler)  Terwilliger,  the 
former  named  having  been  secretary  of 
the  State  Senate  of  Illinois  for  a  number 
of  years,  and  was  a  very  prominent  and 
influential  resident  there. 


READ,  Nathan  Gordon, 

Business  Man. 

Nathan  Gordon  Read,  vice-president  of 
the  Japanese  Tissue  Mills  of  Holyoke, 
comes  of  one  of  the  oldest  families  on 
record,  having  been  traced  back  twenty- 
three  generations  from  John  Read,  the 
founder  of  the  Reed-Read-Reid  family  in 


America,  to  Brianus  De  Rede,  in  Eng- 
land, who  flourished  in  the  twelfth  cen- 
tury, and  is  known  to  have  been  living 
in  1 139.  The  line  of  descent  from  Brianus 
De  Rede  to  John  Read,  the  American 
ancestor  of  Nathan  Gordon  Read,  of  Hol- 
yoke, is  through  William,  son  of  Brianus ; 
his  son  Robert ;  his  son  Golfinus ;  his 
son  Thomas ;  his  son  Thomas  (2) ;  his 
son  Thomas  (3),  married  Christina  La- 
pole  ;  their  son  John,  mayor  of  Norwich, 
England,  in  1388;  his  son  Edward,  mar- 
ried Isiod  Stanley;  their  son  William,  a 
Professor  of  Divinity ;  his  son  William 
(2),  married  Ann  Menis ;  their  son  Wil- 
liam (3)  ;  his  son  Matthew,  an  Esquire; 
his  son  William  (4),  married  Lucy  Hen- 
age;  their  son  John,  the  American  ances- 
tor. 

(I)  John  Read,  of  the  fifteenth  Eng- 
lish and  the  first  American  generation, 
came  from  England  to  New  England,  in 
1630,  and  settled  at  Rehoboth,  Massa- 
chusetts. His  wife  Sarah  Read,  bore  him 
the  following  children :  Samuel,  Wil- 
liam, Abigail,  John,  Thomas,  Ezekiel 
and  Zephaniah,  twins ;  Moses,  Mary, 
Elizabeth,  Daniel,  of  further  mention; 
Israel  and  Mehitable. 

(II)  Daniel  Read,  son  of  John  Read, 
was  born  in  Rehoboth,  Massachusetts,  in 
March,  1665.  He  married  Hannah  Peck. 
Children:  Hannah,  Daniel,  of  further 
mention ;  John,  Sarah,  Noah  and  Abigail. 

(III)  Daniel  (2)  Read,  son  of  Daniel 
(i)  Read,  was  born  in  Rehoboth,  Massa- 
chusetts, January  20,  1680.  He  married 
(first)  Elizabeth  Bosworth.  Children: 
Beriah,  Ichabod,  Hannah,  Abigail,  Esther, 
Daniel.  He  married  (second)  Elizabeth 
Ide.  Children :  Noah,  Elizabeth,  Sam- 
uel, Abigail,  Daniel,  of  further  mention ; 
Rachael,  Benjamin,  Ebenezer  and  Thank- 
ful. 

(IV)  Daniel  (3)  Read,  son  of  Daniel 
(2)  Read,  was  born  at  Attleboro,  Massa- 


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chusetts,  December  3,  1716.  He  married 
Mary  White.  They  had  issue :  Matthew, 
Hannah,  Mary,  Daniel,  died  young; 
Peter,  Joel,  Eunice,  Daniel,  of  further 
mention;  Ezra,  Levi  and  William. 

(V)  Daniel  (4)  Read,  son  of  Daniel 
(3)  Read,  was  born  at  Rehoboth,  Massa- 
chusetts, November  2,  1857.  He  mar- 
ried Jerusha  Sherman.  Children  :  George 
F.  Handall,  of  further  mention  ;  Nathan 
S.,  Eliza  and  Mary  W. 

(VI) George  F.  Handall  Read,  son  of 
Daniel  (4)  Read,  was  born  at  New 
Haven,  Connecticut,  May  21,  1788.  He 
married  (first)  a  Miss  Dummer.  Child, 
Henry  A.,  of  further  mention.  He  mar- 
ried (second)  Rebecca  Sherman.  Chil- 
dren: William  S.,  Frederick  Handall, 
George  and  Daniel  E. 

(VII)  Henry  A.  Read,  son  of  George 
F.  Handall  Read,  was  born  in  New 
Haven,  Connecticut,  December  6,  1812, 
and  died  in  1842.  He  married  Caroline 
Kinley.  Children :  Eunice  Dummer, 
Nathan  Sherman,  Henry  Augustus,  of 
further  mention,  Mary  M.  and  Cornelia. 

(VIII)  Henry  Augustus  Read,  son  of 
Henry  A.  Read,  was  born  in  New  Haven, 
Connecticut,  March  9,  1839,  and  died  in 
South  Deerfield,  New  Hampshire,  Octo- 
ber 16,  1914.  The  Military  Order  of  the 
Loyal  Legion  in  announcing  his  death 
to  the  members  of  the  Legion  did  so  in 
the  following  manner: 

IN  MEMORIAM 
HENRY  AUGUSTUS  READ. 

He  was  elected  a  Companion  of  the  First  Class 
(Original)  in  the  Military  Order  of  the  Loyal 
Legion  of  the  United  States  through  the  Com- 
mandery  of  the  State  of  California,  November  29, 
1892,  insignia  No.  9832. 

Record :  Captain,  Company  G,  32d  Regiment, 
Pennsylvania  Volunteer  Infantry  (afterward  the 
99th),  October  25,  1861 ;  major,  March  11,  1862; 
honorably  discharged  November  2,  1863. 

Service :  Doubleday's  Division,  Washington, 
D.  C. ;  Burney's  Second  Brigade,  Third  Army 
Corps ;  at  Harrison  Landing,  Virginia,  Battle  of 


Chantilly,  1862;  Fredericksburg,  1862;  and  other 
lesser  engagements. 

After  muster  out  he  was  for  some  years  a  mem- 
ber of  the  New  York  Stock  Exchange.  After- 
ward was  interested  in  mining  in  Arizona  and 
Mexico,  and  in  business  in  New  York  City  with 
his  son,  retiring  in  1902.  His  latter  years  were 
spent  with  his  sons,  a  fitting  closing  to  a  happy, 
contented  life.  He  was  of  a  genial,  cheerful 
nature,  endearing  himself  to  all  with  whom  he 
became  acquainted  in  business,  and  respected  by 
all. 

He  leaves  many  friends  and  four  manly  sons 
who  mourn  his  loss  in  which  his  Companions  sin- 
cerely join.    At  a  ripe  age  he  cheerfully  joined  his 
Companions  who  have  passed  away  before. 
commandery  of  the  state  of  california, 
William  C.  Alborgen, 
Brevet  Colonel  U.  S.  V. 

As  an  additional  item  in  his  business 
career  is  the  fact  that  Mr.  Read  was  asso- 
ciated with  John  H.  Dryden  in  the  found- 
ing of  the  Prudential  Life  Insurance 
Company,  but  industrial  underwriting 
went  slowly  and  did  not  at  all  suit  the 
energetic  Mr.  Read,  who  eventually 
withdrew  his  investment  and  assigned  his 
interest  to  Mr.  Dryden  who  later  reaped 
a  great  reward. 

Major  Read  married,  in  December, 
1863,  Marie  Antoinette  Brockway,  born 
in  Peterboro,  New  Hampshire,  Novem- 
ber II,  1841,  daughter  of  Thomas  B.  and 
Ann  Catherine  (Bailey)  Brockway.  Chil- 
dren :  I.  Harry  Augustus  Sherman,  born 
March  5,  1865 ;  general  manager  of  the 
Plymouth  Mills  at  Andover,  Massachu- 
setts ;  he  married  Elizabeth  Dean,  they 
the  parents  of  Harry  A.  J.  and  Elizabeth 
Mortimer  Read.  2.  Franklin  Brockway, 
born  March  13,  1867,  killed  in  an  automo- 
bile accident  in  1903 ;  was  a  wholesale 
paper  dealer  of  New  York  City ;  he  mar- 
ried Caroline  Littlefield,  they  the  parents 
of  Harry  Brockway  Read.  3.  Monroe 
Weeks,  born  December  25,  1868;  a 
banker  of  South  Dakota.  4.  Frederick 
Allerton,  born  December  15,  1870;  a 
wholesale  paper  merchant  of  New  York 


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City ;  he  married  Geraldine  Palmer,  and 
they  have  a  son,  Frederick  Allerton  (2). 
5.  Nathan  Gordon,  of  further  mention. 

(IX)  Nathan  Gordon  Read,  of  the 
ninth  American  and  the  twenty-third 
recorded  generation  of  his  family,  was 
born  in  Hopkinton,  New  Hampshire,  Au- 
gust 25,  1878,  youngest  son  of  Major 
Henry  Augustus  Read.  He  attended  the 
public  schools  of  Dunellen,  New  Jersey, 
until  fifteen  years  of  age,  then  entered  the 
employ  of  his  brother,  Franklin  B.  Read, 
a  wholesale  paper  dealer  of  New  York 
City,  remaining  there  ten  years.  During 
this  period  he  traveled  over  practically 
the  entire  United  States,  in  the  interest 
of  the  business,  his  mileage  record  in  one 
year  showing  that  he  had  traveled  268,- 
000  miles.  The  following  six  years 
were  spent  in  Jacksonville,  Florida,  where 
he  was  profitably  engaged  as  a  fruit 
broker.  He  then  came  to  Boston,  Massa- 
chusetts, where  for  two  years  he  was 
connected  with  a  wholesale  cotton  house 
specializing  in  cotton  yarns.  He  located 
in  Holyoke,  Massachusetts,  in  June,  191 1, 
forming  a  connection  in  that  city  with 
the  Holyoke  Carbon  Paper  Company  as 
general  manager.  The  concern  was  later 
merged  into  the  present  Japanese  Tissue 
Mills  Corporation,  through  the  consoli- 
dation of  several  small  plants.  Under  the 
management  of  Mr.  Read  the  business 
has  taken  a  commanding  position,  and 
the  mills  are  making  satisfactory  returns 
to  the  investors.  Mr.  Read  is  also  a 
director  and  vice-president  of  the  corpor- 
ation. He  is  a  member  of  the  Holyoke 
Chamber  of  Commerce,  member  of  the 
advisory  committee  appointed  by  the 
mayor,  member  of  Mt.  Tom  Golf  and  the 
Holyoke  clubs.  He  also  has  the  honored 
distinction  of  being  a  member  of  the 
Loyal  Legion,  possibly  the  only  one  in 
Holyoke. 

Mr.    Read   married,  June   26,    1901,  at 


Dunellen,  New  Jersey,  Jessie  Maltbie, 
daughter  of  John  Russell  and  Mary  Eliz- 
abeth (Galloway)  Maltbie.  Mr.  and  Mrs. 
Read  are  the  parents  of  fours  sons  and 
two  daughters :  Antoinette,  born  De- 
cember 23, 1903 ;  Gordon  Maltbie,  Novem- 
ber 13,  1908;  Russell  Davenport,  May  27, 
1912;  Franklin  Brockway,  November  21, 
1913;  John  Lewis,  December  11,  1915 ; 
Charlotte,  December  27,  191 7. 


WARREN,  William, 

Manufacturer. 

The  genealogy  of  the  ancient  Warren 
family  of  Massachusetts  is  traced  from 
the  Portland,  Maine,  branch  through 
Charles  Warren,  now  of  Westfield ;  Wil- 
liam Warren,  the  prominent  manufact- 
urer of  Worcester  and  later  Westfield, 
his  father,  George  (2)  Warren,  and  his 
grandfather,  George  (i)  Warren.  These 
were  all  important  business  men  of  Port- 
land, although  William  Warren  left 
Maine  and  returned  to  Massachusetts, 
becoming  one  of  the  prominent  thread 
manufacturers  of  the  State,  later  found- 
ig  the  William  Warren  Thread  Works,  of 
Westfield,  which  his  son,  Charles  Bart- 
lett  Warren,  continues. 

(I)  George  (i)  Warren  married  (first) 
Polly  Ilsley,  of  Pownal,  Maine,  (second) 
Almira  Cushman.  He  died  October  14, 
1819,  and  his  second  wife  survived  him 
until  May  19,  1821. 

(II)  George  (2)  Warren,  son  of  George 
(i)  Warren,  was  born  in  Portland, 
Maine,  September  15,  1792,  and  died 
there,  January  6,  1874.  He  became  one 
of  the  important  business  men  of  his 
native  city,  built  and  owned  ships,  and 
was  a  large  importer.  He  married,  No- 
vember 27,  1815,  Pamelia  Bradford  W^ash- 
burn,  born  in  Massachusetts,  September 
18,  1794,  and  died  in  Portland,  Maine, 
September  3,  1882,  a  descendant  of  Gov- 


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ernor  William  Bradford,  of  the  Ply- 
mouth Colony,  and  sister  of  Ichabod 
Washburn,  founder  of  the  Washburn 
&  Moen  Wire  Works  of  Worcester, 
Massachusetts.  They  were  the  par- 
ents of  the  following  named  children : 
George  Henry,  born  July  29,  1816,  died 
in  Worcester,  Massachusetts,  March  15, 
1872,  married  Jane  Sturgis,  of  New 
Gloucester,  Maine ;  Charles  Bradford, 
born  January  28,  1818,  died,  unmarried, 
at  Mantabzas,  Cuba,  September  4,  1839; 
Mary  Ilsley,  born  November  2,  1819,  died 
in  Newton,  Massachusetts,  October  29, 
1879,  married,  in  Portland,  Calvin  Cram ; 
John  Warren,  born  January  3,  1822,  died 
in  Portland,  unmarried,  January  17,  1845  ; 
Catherine  Bradford,  born  March  11,  1824, 
died  in  Portland,  April  30,  1892,  married, 
in  1848,  Charles  C.  Hall,  of  Portland; 
Pamelia  Ann,  born  April  15,  1826,  died 
in  Portland,  July  20,  1840 ;  Elizabeth, 
born  March  12,  1828,  died  in  Portland, 
December  18,  1832;  Sarah  Olsley,  born 
January  3,  1830,  died  in  Bridgton,  Maine, 
July  25,  191 1,  married,  in  Portland,  Sep- 
tember 13,  1855,  Edward  Preble  Oxnard ; 
Edward,  born  October  10,  1831,  died  in 
Portland,  May  15,  1842;  William,  of  fur- 
ther mention  ;  Alfred  D.,  born  October  3, 
1838,  died  in  Worcester,  Massachusetts, 
October  14,  1894,  married,  about  1863, 
Susan  Dicks. 

(Ill)  William  Warren,  tenth  child  of 
George  (2)  and  Pamelia  Bradford  (Wash- 
burn) Warren,  was  born  in  Portland, 
Maine,  June  29,  1833,  died  in  Cambridge, 
Massachusetts,  April  14,  1908.  He  was 
educated  in  the  public  schools,  and  until 
he  was  thirty  years  of  age  was  engaged 
in  business  in  Portland,  Maine,  with  the 
same  interests  with  which  his  father  was 
identified.  In  1863  he  was  engaged  in 
thread  manufacture,  becoming  a  partner 
with  his  youngest  brother,  Alfred  D. 
Warren,  who  had  been  in  the  business 


for  some  time.  The  brothers  continued 
in  business  in  Worcester,  Massachusetts, 
until  1876,  as  the  Warren  Thread  Com- 
pany, but  in  that  year  they  dissolved 
partnership,  Alfred  D.  going  to  Ashland, 
Massachusetts,  to  install  machinery  and 
manufacture  thread  in  a  group  of  build- 
ings built  and  owned  by  Jordan  &  Marsh, 
the  Boston  dry  goods  merchants,  and 
there  he  continued  the  manufacture  of 
spool  cotton  for  some  time.  William 
Warren,  after  the  dissolution,  went  to 
New  York  and  conducted  a  thread  manu- 
facturing business  for  two  years,  but  in 
1878  returned  to  Massachusetts,  selling 
his  machinery  to  Jordan  &  Marsh  for 
their  Ashland  plant.  Mr.  Warren  did  not 
resume  business  until  1881,  then  at  the 
solicitation  of  the  whip  manufacturers  of 
Westfield,  Massachusetts,  then,  as,  now, 
the  great  whip  manufacturing  center  of 
the  world,  he  located  in  that  city  and 
began  the  manufacture  of  thread  to  be 
used  in  making  whips.  That  line  of 
thread-making  being  new  to  him,  he  en- 
gaged the  services  of  George  L.  Manning, 
who  was  one  of  the  pioneer  thread  makers 
and  a  thoroughly  experienced  man ;  a 
plant  was  erected  in  the  northern  part  of 
the  town,  the  required  machinery  was 
installed,  and  with  Mr.  Manning  as  super- 
intendent they  began  business.  Pros- 
perity attended  the  enterprise  from  the 
beginning;  expansion  followed,  and  in 
1894  the  original  location  was  entirely 
outgrown  and  the  business  was  removed 
to  its  present  location  on  South  Broad 
street,  where  a  group  of  buildings, 
including  a  new  dye  house,  had  been 
erected.  In  1886,  W^illiam  P.  Warren, 
son  of  the  founder,  joined  his  father.  He 
had  been  agent  for  the  Ashland  Company 
in  New  York  City,  was  a  very  successful 
salesman,  and  with  his  youth,  enthusi- 
asm and  managerial  ability,  new  impetus 
was  given  the  industry. 


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On  November  25,  1893,  the  business 
was  incorporated  as  The  William  War- 
ren Thread  Works,  William  Warren 
became  president;  William  P.  Warren, 
vice-president,  and  that  management  con- 
tinued until  January,  1894,  when  Wil- 
liam P.  Warren  died.  At  this  time,  Ar- 
thur W.  Warren,  the  second  son,  and 
Edwin  L.  Smith,  the  son-in-law  of  Wil- 
liam Warren,  came  into  the  business. 
This  connection  continued  until  1897, 
when  Arthur  W.  Warren  retired,  selling 
his  interest  to  Edwin  L.  Smith.  In  1898, 
Charles  B.  Warren,  the  youngest  son  of 
William  Warren,  on  graduating  from 
Lehigh  University,  came  into  the  busi- 
ness, and  was  elected  secretary.  In  1899, 
William  Warren  retired  from  his  active 
duties  in  the  concern,  at  which  time  Mr. 
Frank  L.  Worthy,  of  Springfield,  pur- 
chased his  interest,  and  in  1902  Mr. 
Worthy  purchased  the  interest  of  Edwin 
L.  Smith.  In  1906,  Ray  M.  Sanford  pur- 
chased an  interest  in  the  business,  and 
in  1908  the  capital  stock  was  increased, 
and  the  business  continued  on  an  en- 
larged scale.  Upon  the  death  of  his 
father,  in  1908,  Charles  B.  Warren  suc- 
ceeded him  as  president  of  the  company, 
Frank  L.  Worthy  became  treasurer,  and 
Ray  M.  Sanford  became  secretary.  This 
organization  continued  until  the  death  of 
Mr.  Worthy  in  September,  1916,  when  Ray 
M.  Sanford  became  president,  Mrs.  Helen 
M.  Worthy,  widow  of  Frank  L.  Worthy, 
became  secretary,  and  Charles  B.  War- 
ren, treasurer,  which  offices  they  now 
(1918)  hold.  The  company  for  several 
years  made  only  whip  thread,  but  new 
lines  have  been  added  continually  until 
thread  and  spool  cotton  for  many  pur- 
poses are  included  in  the  product  of  the 
works.  The  machinery  employed  is 
thoroughly  modern,  the  plant  makes  its 
own  electricity,  a  private  fire  fighting 
system  furnishes  protection,  and  in  many 


ways  the  plant  is  a  model  worthy  of 
emulation.  The  example  of  the  honored 
founder  has  been  followed  by  his  sons 
and  successors,  and  the  company  is 
among  the  solid,  substantial  corporations 
of  the  State. 

William  Warren  married,  December 
21,  1853,  Ann  Rebecca  Bartlett,  born  in 
Stroudwater,  Maine,  October  15,  1835, 
died  in  Westfield,  Massachusetts,  De- 
cember 5,  1893,  daughter  of  Charles  and 
Eleanor  E.  (Sparrow)  Bartlett,  a  descend- 
ant of  Robert  Bartlett,  who  came  to  Ply- 
mouth in  the  ship  "Ann"  in  July,  1623, 
and  in  1628  married  Mary  Warren,  a 
daughter  of  Richard  Warren,  who  came 
in  the  "Mayflower."  Robert  Bartlett 
was  the  son  of  Edmund  Bartlett,  who 
traced  his  descent  to  Adam  Bartlett,  who 
came  to  England  with  William  the  Con- 
queror and  received  estates  in  Sussex 
which  in  a  large  degree  yet  remain  in 
the  family  name.  The  manor  house  is 
a  stone  structure,  three  stories  in  height, 
one  hundred  and  fifty  feet  long,  ap- 
proached by  a  stone  bridge  across  the 
river  Aran,  built  by  the  family  in  1309. 
[n  the  old  Norman  church,  built  by  the 
Barttelotts  in  the  twelfth  century,  there 
is  an  unbroken  succession  of  memorials, 
marble  slabs  and  brass  tablets  from  John 
Barttelott,  who  died  in  1428,  down  to  the 
present  generation.  John  Barttelott  added 
to  the  coat-of-arms  a  crest  awarded  him 
by  Edward  the  Black  Prince  for  his  gal- 
lantry in  taking  the  Castle  of  Fonteroy, 
France,  with  his  Sussex  men.  Bart- 
telotts fought  at  Poitiers  in  1356,  at 
Crecy  in  1348,  and  subscribed  liberally 
to  the  defeat  of  the  Spanish  Armada  in 
1588.  The  original  coat-of-arms  was  as 
follows :  Sable,  three  sinister  falconers 
gloves,  argent  arranged  triangularly  two 
above,  one  below,  pendent,  bands  around 
the  wrist,  tassels  golden.  John  Barttelott 
added  the  first  crest,  and  in  the  sixteenth 


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century  the  Swan  crest  was  introduced  to 
show  the  right  of  the  family  to  keep  swans 
on  the  river  Arun.  The  genealogy,  care- 
fully kept,  shows  Robert  Bartlett  to  have 
been  of  the  twelfth  generation,  beginning 
with  Adam  Barttelott.  Bartletts  have 
been  particularly  distinguished  in  the 
State  of  New  Hampshire,  seven  of  the 
name  having  been  judges  of  the  courts, 
Governor  Josiah  Bartlett  was  a  signer  of 
the  Declaration  of  Independence  and  Gov- 
ernor of  the  State,  1792-93,  and  the  Rev. 
Samuel  C.  Bartlett  was  president  of  Dart- 
mouth College,  1877-93.  Charles  Bart- 
lett was  a  shipbuilder  of  Stroudwater, 
Maine,  his  wife,  Eleanor  E.  (Spar- 
row) Bartlett,  born  in  Stroudwater, 
died  there  in  1849.  One  of  their  daugh- 
ters married  Charles  S  Fobes,  and  at  the 
present  time  (1918)  resides  in  Portland, 
Maine. 

William  and  Ann  Rebecca  (Bartlett) 
Warren  were  the  parents  of  three  sons, 
and  three  daughters,  one  of  whom  is  still 
(1918)  living  and  two  died  in  infancy. 
The  children  who  gfew  to  maturity  were  : 
I.  William  P.,  born  in  Portland,  Maine, 
September  2,  1854,  died  January  16,  1894, 
in  Westfield,  Massachusetts;  his  boy- 
hood was  spent  in  Portland,  and  at  the 
age  of  seventeen  he  entered  the  thread 
manufacturing  business  at  Worcester, 
Massachusetts,  with  his  father;  at  the 
age  of  twenty-three  he  became  sales 
agent  for  the  Ashland  Company  in  New 
York  City,  and  six  years  later,  after  a 
very  successful  experience,  joined  his 
father  in  Westfield,  continuing  in  the 
management  of  the  William  Warren 
Thread  Works  until  his  death,  being  then 
its  vice-president ;  he  was  a  potent  factor 
in  the  growth  of  the  business,  and  was 
also  the  active  promoter  of  the  Foster 
Machine  Company,  a  substantial,  success- 
ful Westfield  corporation,  of  which  he 
was  president.    He  was  a  member  of  the 


Home  Market  Club  of  Boston,  and  also 
served  five  years  in  the  famous  Seventh 
Regiment  of  New  York.  2.  Louise  W., 
became  the  wife  of  Edwin  L.  Smith,  and 
resides  in  West  Springfield,  Massachu- 
setts. 3.  Arthur  W.,  born  in  Worcester, 
Massachusetts,  now  residing  in  Spring- 
field. 4.  Charles  Bartlett,  of  further  men- 
tion. 

(IV)  Charles  Bartlett  Warren,  son  of 
William  and  Ann  Rebecca  (Bartlett) 
Warren,  was  born  in  Worcester,  Massa- 
chusetts, February  27,  1874.  He  came  to 
Westfield  in  1881,  passed  through  the 
various  grades  of  the  public  schools  and 
was  graduated  from  High  School,  class 
of  1893.  He  then  entered  Lehigh  Uni- 
versity, South  Bethlehem,  Pennsylvania, 
pursued  mechanical  engineering  courses, 
and  was  graduated  with  the  degree  of 
Mechanical  Engineer,  class  of  1898.  He 
returned  to  Westfield  and  became  asso- 
ciated with  his  father  and  brother  in  The 
William  Warren  Thread  Works,  was 
elected  president  in  1908,  and  treasurer 
in  1916,  in  which  capacity  he  is  serving  at 
the  present  time  (1918).  He  is  also  the 
owner  of  the  Austin-Warren  Company 
of  Westfield,  manufacturers  of  whip 
snaps,  and  a  director  of  the  First  National 
Bank.  He  is  a  member  of  the  Second 
Congregational  Church,  a  Republican  in 
politics,  a  Master  Mason  of  Mt.  Moriah 
Lodge,  the  Westfield,  Tekoa,  Men's,  Get 
Together  and  Second  Congregational 
clubs,  also  the  Kappa  Alpha  fraternity. 

Charles  Bartlett  Warren  married,  June 
22,  1899,  Jeanie  Rebecca  Austin,  born  in 
Suffield,  Connecticut,  October  15,  1873, 
daughter  of  Gamaliel  E.  and  Rebecca 
(Holmes)  Austin.  Gamaliel  E.  Austin,  a 
carriage  builder,  was  born  in  Suffield,  Con- 
necticut, died  in  Westfield,  about  1886 ;  Re- 
becca (Holmes)  Austin,  born  in  the  North 
of  Ireland,  died  in  Westfield,  June  17, 1915. 
Mr.  and  Mrs.  Charles  B.  Warren  are  the 


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parents  of  a  daughter  and  three  sons,  all 
born  in  Westfield :  Austin  Bartlett,  born 
September  27,  1900;  Eleanor  Sparrow, 
June  26,  1903 ;  William  Bradford,  May 
29,  1909;  Charles  Bartlett,  Jr.,  August  6, 
1913.  Mrs.  Warren  is  a  descendant  of 
Thomas  Austin,  who  was  born  in  Suf- 
field,  Connecticut,  in  1738,  and  died  in 
that  town,  August  28,  1816.  He  assisted 
in  establishing  American  Independence 
while  acting  in  the  capacity  of  sergeant 
in  Captain  Lee's  Company,  Fourth  Reg- 
iment, March  3,  1777. 


THOMPSON,  Frederick  Augustus, 

Paper  Manufacturer. 

When  a  lad  of  thirteen,  Frederick  A. 
Thompson  began  learning  paper  making, 
a  business  with  which  he  was  intimately 
and  prominently  connected  until  his  re- 
tirement. He  was  the  first  man  to  manu- 
facture an  all  linen  paper  in  this  country, 
and  has  many  medals  awarded  him  for 
the  superiority  of  the  products  of  his 
mills.  He  is  a  grandson  of  Thomas 
Thompson,  an  Englishman,  who  came  to 
this  country,  was  a  soldier  in  General 
Burgoyne's  army,  and  who,  at  the  sur- 
render of  the  British  army  at  Saratoga, 
fell  into  the  hands  of  the  Americans  and 
was  one  of  the  prisoners  who  marched  to 
Boston  and  was  there  confined.  After 
his  release  he  remained  in  Massachusetts, 
settled  at  Worcester,  and  with  that  town 
as  his  headquarters  traveled  the  old  Bay 
Path,  stopping  at  the  dififerent  towns  and 
making  clothing  for  all  who  would  em- 
ploy him,  for  he  was  an  expert  tailor.  He 
followed  this  itinerant  life  for  many 
years,  and  became  a  well-known  figure  in 
Springfield,  Westfield,  and  Pittsfield, 
where  he  finally  settled  and  continued  to 
reside  until  his  death  at  the  great  age 
of  one  hundred  and  four  years.  He  mar- 
ried   and    had    two    sons,    one,    Thomas 


Derby,  of  further  mention,  and  five 
daughters. 

Rev.  Thomas  Derby  Thompson,  son  of 
the  centenarian,  was  born  January  i, 
1795,  during  the  itinerant  life  of  his 
father,  at  one  of  the  towns  he  visited 
between  Worcester  and  Pittsfield.  He 
died  in  Dalton,  Massachusetts,  December 
21,  1888,  having  almost  reached  the  cen- 
tury mark.  He  attended  public  schools, 
and  in  youth  learned  the  carpenter's 
trade.  He  was  a  natural  student  and  a 
great  reader,  his  reading  being  of  a  relig- 
ious nature  largely.  He  finally  felt  that 
he  was  called  to  preach  the  Gospel,  and 
at  the  age  of  twenty-one  was  regularly 
ordained  a  minister  of  the  Methodist 
Episcopal  church.  Fie  was  first  assigned 
to  the  Cape  Cod  district,  and  after  the 
fashion  of  that  early  day  rode  that  cir- 
cuit for  many  more  years.  He  preached 
in  many  hamlets  and  towns,  often  in 
private  homes  held  prayer  meetings 
wherever  even  two  or  three  could  be 
gathered  together,  ministered  to  the  liv- 
ing, buried  the  dead,  performed  many 
marriage  ceremonies,  and  administered 
the  baptizmal  service.  While  on  the  cir- 
cuit he  first  met  his  wife,  and  after  his 
marriage  gradually  withdrew  from  active 
ministerial  work,  but  filled  the  pulpit  at 
Pittsfield  and  Dalton  on  many  Sunday 
occasions.  He  was  of  that  type  of  min- 
ister now  almost  extinct,  who  made  Meth- 
odism a  power  in  the  land,  poorly  paid 
in  salary,  but  richly  paid  in  the  love  of 
the  people  to  whom  they  brought  the  con- 
solation of  religion  in  their  out-of-the- 
way  homes.  The  old  circuit  rider  is 
gone,  but  his  memory  remains  and  the 
good  he  accomplished  is  recorded  in  the 
Great  Book. 

After  retiring  from  the  ministry,  Mr. 
Thompson  resumed  his  trade,  locating  in 
Pittsfield,  Massachusetts,  and  as  a  con- 
tractor and  builder  became  well-known. 


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Two  churches,  the  Methodist  and  the 
Episcopal,  are  monuments  to  his  skill 
and  integrity  as  a  builder,  and  many 
dwellings  in  Pittsfield  and  Dalton  also 
testify  to  the  energy  displayed  during 
that  period  of  his  life.  The  years  of  his 
wonderful  life  from  1836  were  spent  in 
Dalton.  He  was  an  ardent  Democrat, 
but  when  slavery  became  an  active  issue 
he  sided  with  the  Abolitionists  and  sup- 
ported President  Lincoln. 

Mr.  Thompson  married,  April  24,  1822, 
Abigail  Barlow,  born  at  Newport,  Rhode 
Island,  May  30,  1799,  her  father  a  sea 
captain,  as  were  several  of  her  brothers. 
She  died  in  Dalton,  Massachusetts,  De- 
cember 30,  1875,  the  mother  of  two  sons 
and  two  daughters.  The  eldest  daugh- 
ter, Mary,  born  February  26,  1824,  died 
at  the  age  of  five  years.  The  second 
daughter,  Eliza  B.,  born  March  16,  1826, 
married  James  B.  Crane,  and  died  in  Dal- 
ton, March  4,  1864;  Frederick  A.,  the 
eldest  son,  is  of  further  mention ;  George 
Whitfield,  the  last  child,  named  after  the 
famous  early  Methodist  preacher,  ac- 
quired prominence  in  the  business  world. 
He  was  born  February  12,  1830.  He 
enlisted  from  Herkimer,  New  York,  in 
the  Thirty-fourth  Regiment,  New  York 
Volunteers,  and  was  mustered  out  of  the 
service  with  the  rank  of  lieutenant- 
colonel.  In  company  with  Colonel  Fer- 
guson, also  of  the  Thirty-fourth  Regi- 
ment, he  recruited  the  One  Hundred  and 
Fifty-second  Regiment,  went  to  the  front 
again  as  lieutenant-colonel  of  that  regi- 
ment, and  later  succeeded  Colonel  Fer- 
guson as  its  commander.  At  the  battle 
of  the  Wilderness,  Colonel  Thompson 
was  severely  wounded  and  spent  a  long 
term  in  the  hospital,  never  returning  to 
field  service,  but  serving  on  special  duty 
as  member  of  the  military  commission  in 
Philadelphia,  Pennsylvania.  After  the 
war,  Colonel  Thompson  became  interested 


in  paper  manufacture  and  was  very 
prominent,  owning  mills  in  New  York 
State  and  in  New  Jersey.  He  resided  in 
Brooklyn,  New  York,  and  there  died  Jan- 
uary 16,  1910. 

Frederick  Augustus  Thompson,  eldest 
son  and  third  child  of  Rev.  Thomas  Derby 
and  Abigail  (Barlow)  Thompson,  was 
born  in  Pittsfield,  Massachusetts,  Feb- 
ruary 2,  1828.  He  was  eight  years  of  age 
when  his  parents  moved  to  Dalton,  Mas- 
sachusetts, and  there  he  attended  school 
until  thirteen,  when  he  began  learning 
paper  making  with  the  old  firm,  Zenas 
Crane  &  Son.  He  remained  in  Dalton 
until  1870,  becoming  an  expert  in  both 
paper  manufacture  and  mill  manage- 
ment. On  July  5,  1870,  he  came  to  West- 
field  as  superintendent  of  the  new  Crane 
mill,  the  old  mill  having  been  destroyed 
by  fire,  but  rebuilt  on  a  larger  scale  and 
equipped  with  the  most  improved  ma- 
chinery then  known.  On  taking  charge 
of  the  mill,  Mr.  Thompson  began  the 
manufacture  of  finer  grades  of  paper  and 
there  made  the  first  all  linen  paper  ever 
produced  in  this  country.  As  the  demand 
for  this  better  grade  of  ledger  and  linen 
paper  increased,  he  met  it  with  more  ma- 
chinery of  improved  type  and  kept  the 
mill  thoroughly  up-to-date  in  equipment 
and  method.  He  also  was  interested  in 
the  Crane  &  Thompson  Company  at 
Ballston  Springs,  New  York,  later  known 
as  the  Odell  &  Thompson  Company,  and 
in  the  Bemis  Paper  Company  of  Holyoke, 
Massachusetts.  He  became  well-known 
as  a  successful  manufacturer  of  paper  and 
had  many  ofi'ers  to  go  elsewhere,  but  he 
always  remained  with  the  Westfield  mill. 
He  continued  its  superintendent  until  the 
death  of  his  wife  in  191 2,  when  he  re- 
signed and  retired.  He  is  a  Republican 
in  politics,  a  member  of  lodge  and  chap- 
ter of  the  Masonic  order,  the  Knights  of 


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Malta,     and     the     Methodist     Episcopal 
church. 

Mr.  Thompson  married,  September  lo, 
1865,  Nancy  Augusta  Bailey,  born  in 
Lanesboro,  Massachusetts,  June  29,  1846, 
died  in  Westfield,  1912.  She  was  a 
daughter  of  Lorenzo  D.  Bailey,  born  in 
July,  1806,  killed  by  a  fall  from  a  tree 
in  Lanesboro,  October  9,  1855.  He  mar- 
ried, at  Lebanon,  New  York,  February 
8,  1841,  Mary  Carver,  daughter  of  Wil- 
liam S.  Carver,  of  Pittsfield,  Massachu- 
setts, a  direct  descendant  of  Governor 
William  Carver,  of  Plymouth.  Mary 
(Carver)  Bailey  died  in  Westfield,  Mas- 
sachusetts, at  the  home  of  Mr.  Thomp- 
son, January  6,  1866,  aged  sixty-eight 
years.  Lorenzo  D.  and  Mary  (Carver) 
Bailey  were  the  parents  of  two  daughters 
and  a  son,  all  born  in  Lanesboro,  Massa- 
chusetts: Emma  J.,  May  21,  1842; 
Dwight  R.,  December  30,  1843  >  Nancy 
A.,  June  29,  1846.  Frederick  A.  and 
Nancy  A.  (Bailey)  Thompson  were  the 
parents  of  two  sons :  Frederick  Herbert, 
born  at  Ballston  Springs,  New  York, 
July,  1866,  died  at  Reno,  Nevada,  in  May, 
1904;  Thomas  G.,  born  in  Westfield, 
Massachusetts,  in  1871,  married  Rita 
Bisette,  and  died  in  1917. 


CALDWELL,  Winford  Newman, 

Man  of  Affairs. 

Winford  Newman  Caldwell,  ex-presi- 
dent and  ex-general  manager  of  the 
American  Writing  Paper  Company,  one 
of  the  leading  industries  of  Holyoke,  is 
a  worthy  representative  of  a  family 
which  is  of  Scotch  descent,  although  the 
earliest  ancestor  of  the  branch  of  the  fam- 
ily herein  followed  came  from  the  north 
of  England  to  the  New  World.  Cald- 
well, as  given  in  Lower  (Patronymica 
Britanica)  signifies  the  Cold-well.  Armor- 
ial   bearings    of    the    name    are    Wells, 


Fountains,  Waves,  Fishes,  each  sugges- 
tive of  water.  In  the  Doomsday  Book 
the  name  is  spelled  Caldeuuelle,  but  the 
almost  invariable  spelling  of  the  town 
records  of  Ipswich,  Massachusetts,  for 
two  hundred  years  was  Caldwell.  The 
name  has  been  common  for  centuries  in 
England,  Scotland,  Ireland  and  France. 
In  Scotland,  the  Caldwells  of  Caldwell, 
Ayrshire,  were  prominent  as  early  as 
1349.  They  furnished,  at  that  date,  a 
Chancellor  to  Scotland.  Caldwells  mi- 
grated from  England,  Scotland  and  Ire- 
land to  America,  and  established  early 
homes  in  New  England,  New  Jersey  and 
the  South.  The  ancestor  of  this  branch, 
John  Caldwell,  of  Ipswich,  Massachu- 
setts, was  the  earliest  of  the  name  to 
establish  a  home  on  the  rugged  but  beau- 
tiful New  England  shores.  He  left  to  his 
descendants  the  memories  and  traditions 
of  a  worthy,   industrious   life. 

(I)  John  Caldwell,  immigrant  ances- 
tor, was  born  in  England,  in  1624,  was 
there  reared  and  educated,  and  in  1643, 
when  nineteen  years  of  age,  his  name 
occurs  in  the  records  of  the  General 
Court  of  Massachusetts.  He  made  Ips- 
wich his  home.  He  is  styled  husband- 
man in  legal  papers,  but  he  was  also 
familiar  with  weaving,  as  were  two  of 
his  sons,  Dillingham  and  Nathaniel,  and 
several  later  descendants.  In  1654,  John 
Caldwell  purchased  a  house,  which  be- 
came not  only  his  own  cherished  home, 
but  which  sheltered  his  descendants  for 
more  than  two  hundred  and  fifty  years, 
thus  making  of  it  a  worthy  memorial.  He 
married  Sarah  Dillingham,  born  in  Ips- 
wich, April,  1634,  a  woman  of  qualities 
that  caused  her  to  be  graciously  remem- 
bered by  her  descendants.  She  was  the 
daughter  of  John  and  Sarah  (Caly)  Dil- 
lingham. Her  father  died  less  than  a 
year  after  she  was  born,  and  her  mother 
died  two  years  later,  leaving  the  child  in 


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the  care  of  Mr.  Saltonstall  and  Mr.  Ap- 
pleton,  and  the  mother's  last  expressed 
wish  was  the  entreaty,  "in  the  bonds  of 
Christian  love,"  that  the  tiny  girl  should 
be  "religiously  educated,  if  God  gave  her 
life."  The  Dillinghams  were  respectable 
yeomen  of  Old  England,  John  Dilling- 
ham and  his  wife  coming  from  Leicester- 
shire, in  the  year  1630.  Children  of  Mr. 
and  Mrs.  Caldwell :  John,  of  further 
mention ;  Sarah,  born  April  2,  1658,  mar- 
ried Joseph  Ayres ;  Anna,  born  August 
23,  1661,  married  John  Roper;  William, 
died  February  19,  1695 ;  Dillingham, 
born  March  6,  1666,  died  May  3,  1745, 
married  (first)  Mary  Lord,  (second) 
Mary  Hart ;  Nathaniel,  born  October  18, 
1669,  died  December  13,  1738,  married 
Abigail  Wallingford ;  Mary,  born  Feb- 
ruary 26,  1671,  died  April  2,  1709,  married 
Jacob  Foster;  Elizabeth,  born  October 
15,  1675,  died  May,  1752.  John  Caldwell 
(father)  died  July  7,  1692,  and  his  will 
was  proved  September  28,  1692.  His 
wife  died  January  26,  1721-22.  Their 
remains  were  buried  in  the  ancient  High 
Street  Burying  Ground  in  Ipswich. 

(II)  John  (2)  Caldwell,  son  of  John 
(i)  and  Sarah  (Dillingham)  Caldwell, 
was  born  in  Ipswich,  ^Massachusetts,  in 
1656.  In  1697-98  he  served  as  field  driver 
and  hayward ;  on  January  16,  1700,  seat 
No.  8  in  the  New  Meeting  House  was 
assigned  to  him;  in  1707-08  his  name 
is  in  the  list  of  commons;  in  1708-09  he 
was  one  of  the  signers  to  a  petition  to  the 
General  Court;  in  1717  was  appointed 
surveyor.  He  purchased  what  was  orig- 
inally the  Knowlton  house,  beautifully 
located,  on  the  Town  Hill-top,  with  ex- 
tensive outlooks,  especially  to  the  east 
and  south.  It  is  described  as  two  stories, 
with  the  old-time  two-story  porch  in 
front.  On  May  day,  1689,  he  married 
Sarah  Foster,  daughter  of  Deacon  Jacob 
and    Martha    (Kinsman)    Foster.      Chil- 


dren :  Martha,  born  August  28,  1690, 
married  (first)  Stephen  Ayres,  (second) 
Daniel  Rindge,  (third)  John  Wood; 
John,  born  August  19,  1693,  married  Eliz- 
abeth Lull ;  Jacob,  of  further  mention ; 
Sarah,  born  July  16,  1696-97,  married 
Abraham  Knowlton ;  Abigail,  born  May 
14,  1700,  died  November  7,  1700;  Anna, 
born  January  18,  1702,  died  October  15, 
1720;  William,  born  January  17,  1708, 
married  Lydia  Lull.  John  Caldwell  died 
February  7,  1721-22,  survived  by  his 
wife,  who  passed  away  July  11,  1721-22. 

(III)  Deacon  Jacob  Caldwell,  son  of 
John  (2)  and  Sarah  (Foster)  Caldwell, 
was  born  February  26,  1695,  and  resided 
in  the  homestead  previously  mentioned. 
He  is  traditionally  remembered  as  a  man 
of  singularly  religious  devotion,  deeming 
it  not  merely  the  duty  of  his  office,  but  a 
privilege,  to  visit  and  pray  with  the  sick 
and  needy.  A  grandchild's  testimony 
was :  "He  was  careful  alike  of  the  tem- 
poral and  the  spiritual  wants."  He  mar- 
ried, October  18,  1718,  Rebekah  Lull, 
born  November  26,  1794,  daughter  of 
Thomas,  Jr.,  and  Rebekah  (Kimball) 
Lull.  She  married  (second)  Samuel 
Goodhue,  schoolmaster,  and  went  to  New 
Hampshire  to  reside.  Children  of  Dea- 
con Jacob  and  Rebekah  (Lull)  Caldwell: 
Jacob,  of  further  mention ;  Abraham, 
baptized  August  13,  1721,  married  Elisa- 
beth Collins;  James,  baptized  August  25, 
1723,  died  May  21,  1725;  James,  baptized 
July  II,  1725;  Rebekah,  baptized  May 
14,  1727,  died  May  2,  1736;  Samuel,  bap- 
tized April  6,  1729;  John,  baptized  De- 
cember 19,  1731 ;  Sarah,  baptized  Decem- 
ber 15,  1734,  died  August  26,  1735;  and 
Isaac,  baptized  August  12,  1739  died  in 
early  life.  Deacon  Jacob  Caldwell  died 
July  17,  1744,  aged  forty-nine  years. 

(IV)  Jacob  (2)  Caldwell,  son  of  Dea- 
con Jacob  (i)  and  Rebekah  (Lull)  Cald- 
well,  was   baptized   November  29,    1719. 


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He  resided  at  Cambridge  for  a  time,  and 
eventually  settled  at  Woburn  precinct, 
now  Watertown,  where  he  was  a  land 
owner  and  had  a  large  dairy.  He  mar- 
ried (first)  September  28,  1742,  Anna 
Hastings,  a  native  of  Watertown,  born 
December  22,  1718,  daughter  of  Nathaniel 
and  Mary  Hastings.  He  married  (sec- 
ond)        Perry.      Children    of    first 

wife :  John,  married,  and  lived  at  Bur- 
lington;  Rebekah,  born  October  16,  1744, 
married  a  Mr.  Hunt;  Anna,  born  De- 
cember 2,  1746,  unmarried;  Jacob,  of  fur- 
ther mention ;  Sarah,  born  November  19, 
1750,  married  (first)  Noah  Price,  (sec- 
ond)    Greene;  Enoch,  born  Janu- 
ary 20,  1753,  married  Ruth  Chase,  resided 
at  Haverhill ;  Lucy,  married  Justin  Kent, 
resided  at  Haverhill,  later  at  Portland, 
Maine;  Mary  born  in  April  1755  married 
Josiah  Fiske ;  an  infant,  died  early. 
There  were  eight  children  of  the  second 
marriage,  four  of  whom  are  as  follows : 
Joseph,  resided  in  Marblehead,  Massa- 
chusetts ;  Joshua,  resided  in  Marblehead, 
Massachusetts ;  Thomas,  resided  in  Man- 
chester, New  Hampshire ;  Benjamin,  re- 
sided in  Burlington,  Vermont.  The  death 
of  Jacob  Caldwell  occurred  in  1783. 

(V)  Jacob  (3)  Caldwell,  son  of  Jacob 
(2)  and  Anna  (Hastings)  Caldwell,  was 
born  at  Watertown,  now  Weston,  No- 
vember 4,  1748.  He  settled  in  Lunen- 
berg,  1777,  and  was  the  first  Caldwell  to 
make  his  home  in  that  town.  He  served 
as  collector,  1784,  and  as  constable,  1784, 
1796.  Both  he  and  his  wife  were  admit- 
ted to  full  communion  in  the  church.  He 
was  married  by  the  Rev.  Zabiel  Adams, 
June  5,  1777,  to  Patience  Sanderson,  who 
was  baptized  May  12,  1745,  daughter  of 
Abraham  and  Patience  (Smith)  Sander- 
son, and  a  descendant  of  Edward  and 
Mary  (Eggleston)  Sanderson,  who  came 
from  England,  1635,  and  settled  at 
Hampton.      Children:      Jacob,    baptized 


June  28,  1778,  married  (first)  Sarah 
Pierce,  (second)  Mrs.  Mary  Harrington ; 
Anna,  baptized  January  7,  1781,  died 
aged  two  years ;  John,  of  further  men- 
tion ;  Lucy,  baptized  September  5,  1784, 
married  Timothy  Snow ;  Enoch,  born  De- 
cember 22,  1788,  married  Betsey  Carter. 
Jacob  Caldwell  died  September  8,  1823, 
aged  seventy-five  years.  His  wife  died 
September  4,  1822,  aged  seventy-six 
years. 

(VI)  John  (3I   Caldwell,  son  of  Jacob 

(2)  and  Patience  (Sanderson)  Caldwell, 
was  baptized  June  9,  1782.  He  married, 
in  1801,  Mary  Greene,  born  April  9,  1785, 
who  bore  him  ten  children,  namely:  i. 
John,  of  further  mention.  2.  Oliver 
Greene,  born  January  7,  1805 ;  married 
(first)  Mary  U.  Ellis,  October  28,  1828; 
she  died  1833 ;  married  (second)  Martha 
Lincoln,  March  13,  1835 !  three  children 
3.  Lucy,  born  September  15,  1806,  mar- 
ried John  Adams.  4.  Mary,  born  June 
5,  1808,  married  Samuel  Woods,  son  of 
Professor  Woods,  of  Andover  Theologi- 
cal Seminary.  5.  Elizabeth,  twin,  born 
March  15,  1810,  married  Elbridge  Stim- 
son.  6.  Sarah,  twin,  born  March  15, 
1810,  died  February  23,  1871 ;  married 
Sylvester  Wheeler.  7.  Dorothy  H., 
born  April  30,  1812;  married  (first)  Jo- 
seph Miller,  (second)  John  Lawrence,  of 
Concord.  8.  Harriet  P.,  born  April  4, 
1817;  married  George  R.  Mansfield.  9. 
Frances,  born  January  i,  1820;  married 
Alfred  T.  Packard,  died  January  14, 
1843.  at  Ashburnham.  10.  Nancy,  bom 
January  10,  1822,  died  July  10,  1848,  at 
Ashburnham.  John  Caldwell  removed  to 
Ashburnham,  in  1810,  where  he  died,  Oc- 
tober 21,  1871.    His  wife  died  September 

14.  1843- 

(VII)  John  (4)  Caldwell,  son  of  John 

(3)  and  Mary  (Greene)  Caldwell,  was 
born  December  20,  1802,  and  died  Janu- 
ary 10,  1859.    He  married  (  first)  Septem- 


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ber  26,  1826,  Abigail  G.  Fuller,  born  in 
Lunenberg,  June  29,  1805,  daughter  of 
John,  Jr.,  and  Eunice  (Wetherbee)  Fuller. 
She  died  in  Fitchburg,  July  16,  1835.  He 
married  (second)  April  7,  1838,  Abigail 
C.  Garland,  of  Pittsfield,  New  Hamp- 
shire, born  July  27,  1806.  Children  of 
first  wife:  John  A.,  born  May  16,  1829, 
died  October  8,  1839 ;  Abigail  C,  born 
July  23,  1831,  died  June  21,  1844;  Charles 
Edmund,  of  further  mention;  Sarah 
Elizabeth,  born  June  30,  1835,  died  March 
19,  1867,  married  George  H.  Newman. 
Children  of  second  wife:  Mary  A.,  born 
September  6,  1839,  died  December  24, 
1841  ;  George,  born  December  18,  1841, 
married  Sarah  E.  Cummings. 

(VIII)  Charles  Edmund  Caldwell,  son 
of  John  (4)  and  Abigail  G.  (Fuller)  Cald- 
well, was  born  at  Ashburnham,  Massa- 
chusetts, July  9,  1833,  and  died  at  Mel- 
rose, Florida,  December  31,  1903.  He 
resided  in  his  native  town  until  1856, 
when  he  became  a  resident  of  Springfield, 
Massachusetts,  and  secured  a  position  as 
engineer  on  the  New  York,  New  Haven 
&  Hartford  Railroad,  in  which  capacity 
he  served  for  a  number  of  years.  About 
fifteen  years  prior  to  his  death,  he  retired 
to  his  orange  farm  at  Melrose,  Florida. 
He  married,  September  28,  1856,  Melissa 
Samantha  Morgan,  born  in  Putney,  Ver- 
mont, July  30,  1834.  She  was  a  descend- 
ant of  Miles  Morgan,  one  of  the  earliest 
settlers  (1656)  of  Springfield,  and  asso- 
ciated with  Governor  Pynchon  in  the 
early  development  of  the  town.  Their 
only  child  is  Winford  Newman,  of  fur- 
ther mention. 

(IX)  Winford  Newman  Caldwell,  son 
of  Charles  Edmund  and  Melissa  Saman- 
tha (Morgan)  Caldwell,  was  born  at 
Springfield,  Massachusetts,  July  26,  1857. 
He  was  educated  at  the  grammar  and 
high  schools  of  Springfield,  and  he  began 
his  business  career  at  the  Springfield  In- 


stitution for  Savings,  May,  1873.  He  ac- 
cepted a  position  as  bookkeeper  in  the 
office  of  the  Riverside  Paper  Company, 
of  Holyoke,  in  July,  1882,  and  was 
advanced  through  all  the  various  posi- 
tions until  he  became  the  treasurer  of  the 
company.  In  1899  there  was  a  consoli- 
dation by  purchase  by  a  concern  known 
as  the  American  Writing  Paper  Com- 
pany, of  about  eighty  per  cent,  of  the 
writing  paper  mills  in  Holyoke  and  vicin- 
ity, and  Mr.  Caldwell  was  made  the  gen- 
eral manager  of  the  mills  for  this  com- 
pany. This  concern  now  has  about  thirty 
mills,  employing  over  four  thousand 
hands,  being  not  only  the  largest  paper 
manufacturing  concern  in  the  United 
States,  but  in  the  world.  To  this  posi- 
tion, Mr.  Caldwell  brought  the  experience 
acquired  during  his  seventeen  years'  asso- 
ciation with  the  manufacture  of  paper. 
Such  satisfaction  did  he  give  to  the  direc- 
tors of  this  company  that  he  was  later 
elected  president,  thus  adding  more  duties 
and  greater  responsibilities  to  those 
already  incumbent  upon  him.  But  his 
masterful  mind  and  executive  ability 
were  equal  to  every  emergency  which 
arose  in  the  conduct  of  the  details  of  this 
enormous  business,  and  his  relationship 
with  not  only  the  company  but  all  the 
employees  continued  in  a  most  harmon- 
ious manner  until  he  reached  a  time  when 
he  preferred  to  lay  aside  the  arduous 
duties  of  his  positions,  and  in  1912  he 
resigned  the  presidency  and  the  general 
management  of  the  company,  but  he  still 
retains  his  interest  in  other  affairs.  He 
holds  the  position  of  president  and  direc- 
tor of  the  Springfield  Saving  Institute, 
and  is  a  director  in  the  Massachusetts 
Mutual  Life  Insurance  Company  of 
Springfield  and  of  the  Mutual  Fire  Assur- 
ance Company  of  Springfield.  He  is  a 
Republican  in  politics,  and  has  served  as 
a  member  of  the  Common  Council.     He 


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was  delegate  to  the  Republican  National 
Convention,  held  at  Chicago,  that  nom- 
inated Mr.  Taft  for  the  presidency,  in 
1908.  He  is  a  thirty-second  degree  Ma- 
son, holding  membership  in  Hampden 
Lodge,  Free  and  Accepted  Masons,  and 
all  the  York  Rite  bodies,  and  also  Melha 
Temple,  Ancient  Arabic  Order  Nobles  of 
the  Mystic  Shrine,  of  Springfield.  He 
also  holds  membership  in  the  Colony, 
Nayassett,  Winthrop  and  Country  clubs. 
Mr.  Caldwell  married,  May  22,  1883, 
Fannie  Louise  Houston,  born  in  Spring- 
field, Massachusetts,  July  9,  1863,  daugh- 
ter of  Osman  and  Louise  (Wildes) 
Houston.  Children:  i.  Ruth  Houston, 
born  at  Springfield,  July  2,  1889;  married 
Emmett  Hay  Naylor,  secretary-treasurer 
of  the  Writing  Paper  Manufacturers'  As- 
sociation of  New  York ;  children :  Gene- 
vieve Hay  and  Winford  Caldwell  Naylor. 
2.  Charles  Morgan,  born  at  Springfield, 
August  I,  1894:  mechanical  engineer, 
graduate  of  Sheffield  Scientific  School  of 
Yale  College ;  was  with  the  New  York 
&  Pennsylvania  Paper  Manufacturing 
Company,  located  at  Lock  Haven,  Penn- 
sylvania, but  in  1917  joined  the  ambu- 
lance unit  for  service  in  France  in  the 
present  World  War. 


LANE,  Loring  Parsons, 

Cashier  of  First  National  Bank,  Westfield. 

Loring  P.  Lane,  for  many  years  cashier 
of  the  First  National  Bank,  Westfield, 
comes,  on  the  paternal  side,  of  Scotch 
ancestry,  being  a  grandson  of  Loring  (i) 
Lane,  and  son  of  Loring  (2)  Lane,  both 
of  West  Granville,  Hampden  county, 
Massachusetts.  Loring  (i)  Lane  spent 
his  early  life  in  West  Granville,  later 
was  in  the  hotel  business  in  Westfield, 
his  hotel  occupying  the  present  site  of  the 
Second  Congregational  Church.  After 
many  years  in  business  in  Westfield,  he 


moved  to  Hartford,  Connecticut,  and 
there  continued  in  the  hotel  business  until 
his  death.  He  married  Laura  Goodwin, 
and  both  are  buried  in  Spring  Grove 
Cemetery,  Hartford.  They  were  the 
parents  of:  Loring  (2),  Adolphus.  Henry, 
Edward,  Abigail,  Laura,  Lucy  and  Har- 
riet. 

Loring  (2)  Lane,  born  July  23,  1822, 
in  West  Granville.  Massachusetts,  died  in 
Hartford,  Connecticut,  August,  1889.  He 
was  associated  with  his  father  in  the 
hotel  business  in  Westfield,  and  when 
about  twenty-two  years  of  age  went  with 
him  to  Hartford  where  he  continued  in 
that  business  until  his  death  in  1879.  For 
a  time  in  Westfield  he  was  engaged  in 
mercantile  business  with  Colonel  Hooker, 
their  store  being  in  the  Flint  block.  Lor- 
ing (2)  Lane  married,  in  1844,  Maryetta 
Parsons,  born  in  Granville,  Massachu- 
setts, August  27,  1819,  eldest  daughter  of 
Joseph  Parsons,  born  July  27,  1789,  died 
February  2,  1863,  and  Eliza  (Phelps) 
Parsons,  born  in  Granville,  Massachu- 
setts, January  4,  1793,  died  February  11, 
1863.  Joseph  Parsons  was  a  son  of  Israel 
Parsons,  the  family  of  old  Massachusetts 
lineage.  Loring  and  Maryetta  (Parsons) 
Lane  were  the  parents  of  a  daughter, 
Mary  E.,  who  died  young,  and  a  son  Lor- 
ing Parsons,  of  further  mention. 

Loring  Parsons  Lane,  son  of  Loring 
(2)  Lane,  was  born  in  Hartford,  Connec- 
ticut, July  9,  1854.  At  the  age  of  ten 
years  he  came  to  Westfield,  Massachu- 
setts, and  there  he  attended  the  graded 
and  high  schools  until  thirteen  years  of 
age.  He  then  entered  the  employ  of  the 
First  National  Bank  of  Westfield,  at  a 
very  small  wage.  He  acquitted  himself  so 
well  that  he  not  only  retained  his  posi- 
tion but  was  advanced  in  rank  and  salary, 
the  first  boy  in  the  history  of  the  insti- 
tution to  become  a  permanent  employee. 
He  was  later  made  bookkeeper  and  sub- 


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sequently  was  appointed  teller,  then 
assistant  cashier,  then  cashier,  his  present 
position.  He  is  also  a  member  of  the 
finance  committee  of  the  Westfield  Sav- 
ings Bank,  director  of  the  Westfield 
Power  Company,  director  of  Bryant  Box 
Company,  has  been  town  auditor  for 
thirty  years,  and  for  many  years  treasurer 
of  the  Board  of  Trade.  He  is  a  Republi- 
can in  politics,  an  attendant  of  the  First 
Congregational  Church,  and  a  Mason  of 
Mt.  Moriah  Lodge. 

Outside  of  his  business  and  his  home, 
Mr.  Lane  has  few  interests,  but  he  is  a 
great  lover  of  the  light  harness  horse,  a 
taste  handed  down  from  Grandfather 
Lane  to  his  son,  and  from  him  to  Loring 
P.  Lane.  He  thoroughly  understands  the 
light  driving  horse,  is  a  skillful  handler 
and  driver,  and  has  owned  some  notables 
of  the  racetrack. 

Mr.  Lane  married,  November  6,  1884, 
Sarah  E.  Stimson,  born  in  North 
Dana,  Massachusetts,  November  18,  1854, 
daughter  of  Charles  N.  Stimson,  now 
deceased,  was  a  manufacturer  of  piano 
legs  at  North  Dana  and  Westfield,  and 
his  wife,  Sarah  (Chamberlain)  Stimson, 
born  in  New  Salem,  Massachusetts,  died 
in  North  Dana,  in  September,  1855.  Mr. 
and  Mrs.  Lane  are  the  parents  of  two 
sons  and  a  daughter:  i.  Loring  Stim- 
son, born  July,  1886,  educated  in  the 
graded  and  public  schools  of  Westfield 
and  in  business  college  at  Albany,  New 
York ;  was  engaged  in  the  hotel  business 
in  Otis,  Massachusetts ;  he  married  Sarah 
Dunlap,  who  died  at  the  birth  of  her  son, 
Loring  Parsons  (2)  Lane,  born  December 
26,  1916.  2.  Robert  Phelps,  born  August 
19,  1888,  was  educated  in  the  graded  and 
high  schools  of  Westfield  and  in  Spring- 
field Business  College;  he  is  now  engaged 
in  the  coal  business  in  Westfield,  junior 
member  of  the  firm  of  Gladwin  &  Lane. 
3.  Lucy    Maryetta,    born    December    6, 


189S,  is  a  student  at  Abbott  Academy, 
Andover,  Massachusetts. 

Eliza  (Phelps)  Parsons,  wife  of  Joseph 
Parsons,  mother  of  Maryetta  (Parsons) 
Lane,  and  grandmother  of  Loring  Par- 
sons Lane,  was  a  daughter  of  John  (2) 
Phelps,  the  second  sheriff  of  Hampden 
county,  1814-31,  and  granddaughter  of 
Hon.  John  (i)  Phelps,  a  lawyer  and  leg- 
islator of  Hampden  county,  both  father 
and  son  college  graduates  and  men  of 
mark  in  their  community.  She  was  of 
the  sixth  American  generation  of  the 
family  founded  by  William  Phelps,  who 
was  baptized  in  Tewkesbury  Abbey 
Church,  Gloucestershire,  England,  Au- 
gust 19,  1599. 

William  Phelps  with  his  wife  and  six 
children  came  to  New  England  in  the 
ship  "Mary  and  John,"  and  arrived  at 
Nantasket,  now  Hull,  May  30,  1630.  He 
was  made  a  freeman,  October  19,  1630, 
was  one  of  the  founders  of  Dorchester, 
and  there  was  active  and  prominent  until 
1635,  serving  as  deputy  to  the  General 
Court  and  on  various  committees.  In 
1635  he  went  with  Rev.  Mr.  Warham  and 
his  parishioners  to  settle  in  Windsor,  Con- 
necticut, and  in  the  work  of  drafting  a 
constitution  which  united  the  several 
Connecticut  colonies  under  one  govern- 
ment bore  a  part.  He  was  a  magistrate 
in  Windsor  for  eighteen  years,  a  man  of 
upright,  godly  life,  helping  to  found 
two  commonwealths,  a  veritable  pillar  of 
church  and  State.  His  first  wife  died  in 
1635,  before  the  removal  from  Dorches- 
ter, and  he  married  (second)  in  1638, 
Mary  Dover,  who  came  from  England  on 
the  same  ship  with  the  Phelps  family. 
After  a  residence  of  thirty-six  years  in 
Windsor,  he  died  July  14,  1672,  his  wife 
surviving  him  three  years.  By  his  first 
marriage  he  had  children :  Richard,  Wil- 
liam,  Sarah,   Samuel,   Nathaniel,  of  fur- 


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ther  mention,  and  Joseph.  By  his  second 
marriage  :     Timothy  and  Mary. 

Nathaniel  Phelps,  born  in  Tewkesbury, 
England,  about  1627,  died  an  honored  and 
respected  resident  of  Northampton,  Mas- 
sachusetts, May  27,  1702.  He  came  to 
Dorchester  with  his  parents  in  1630, 
moved  with  them  to  Windsor,  Connecticut, 
in  1635-36,  thence  to  Northampton  in  1656- 
57,  a  first  settler  in  Dorchester,  Windsor 
and  Northampton.  He  was  a  pious 
man  of  good  intellect,  and  sound  judg- 
ment, highly  esteemed.  His  homestead 
in  Northampton,  upon  which  he  resided 
forty-three  years  and  which  was  owned 
by  his  descendants  until  1835,  was  for 
fifty  years  the  site  of  Margaret  Dwights 
School,  later  Dudley  College  Institute, 
now  Shady  Lawn.  He  took  the  oath  of 
allegiance,  February  8,  1679,  and  in  1685 
was  made  a  freeman  by  the  General  Court 
at  Boston.  He  married  at  Windsor,  Sep- 
tember 17,  1650,  Elizabeth  Copley,  of 
English  birth,  who  died  in  Northampton, 
December  6,  1712.  Children:  Mary,  Dea- 
con Nathaniel,  Abigail,  William,  Thomas, 
Mercy. 

Deacon  Nathaniel  (2)  Phelps,  born  at 
Windsor,  Connecticut,  June  2,  1653,  was 
taken  to  Northampton  by  his  parents  in 
1656,  and  there  married  Grace  Martin, 
who  died  August  2,  1727.  He  was  a  dea- 
con of  the  Northampton  church  for  many 
years,  and  a  man  of  prominence  in  his 
community.  Children :  Grace,  Nathan- 
iel, Samuel,  Lydia,  Grace,  Elizabeth,  Abi- 
gail, Nathaniel,  Sarah,  Timothy. 

Nathaniel  (3)  Phelps,  born  in  North- 
ampton, February  13,  1692,  died  there 
October  14,  1748.  He  married  (first)  in 
1716,  Abigail  Burnham,  born  1679,  died 
June  2,  1724  (or  August  27,  1727)  ; 
married  (second)  Catherine  Hickock,  a 
widow,  daughter  of  John  King.  Children 
by  second  wife :  Catherine,  Lydia,  Pome- 
roy,  John,  Mehitable. 


Hon.  John  Phelps,  son  of  Nathaniel 
Phelps  and  his  second  wife,  Catherine 
(King-Hickock)  Phelps,  was  born  in 
Northampton,  there  baptized  October  27, 
1734,  died  May  16,  1802.  He  was  a  grad- 
uate of  Yale  College,  class  of  1759,  became 
a  lawyer  of  Westfield,  Massachusetts, 
and  represented  the  town  in  the  General 
Court.  He  married  (first)  Jerusha  Ly- 
man, who  died  October  i,  1769.  He  mar- 
ried (second)  December  6,  1770,  Mercy 
Moseley.  Children  by  first  marriage : 
John,  died  young;  John  (2)  of  further 
mention.  Children  by  second  wife : 
Nancy,  Pamelia,  Matilda,  Jerusha,  Royal 
and  James. 

Sherifif  John  Phelps,  only  son  of  Hon. 
John  Phelps,  and  his  first  wife  Jerusha 
(Lyman)  Phelps,  was  born  in  Westfield, 
Massachusetts,  June  15,  1767.  He  was 
educated  at  Harvard  College,  whence  he 
was  graduated  class  of  1787,  and  for  sev- 
eral years  he  was  contemporary  with  his 
father  in  the  practice  of  law.  Hampden 
county  was  set  off  from  Hampshire  in 
1821,  and  in  1824  John  (2)  Phelps  was 
the  first  elected  sherifif  of  the  new  county, 
the  second  man  to  hold  that  office,  and 
he  continued  in  the  sheriff's  office  until 
1831;  in  1820  he  was  placed  on  a  com- 
mittee to  consider  the  propriety  of  new 
county  buildings.  The  first  court  house 
was  erected  in  1821,  under  the  supervi- 
sion of  Jonathan  Dwight,  Jr.,  John  (2) 
Phelps,  and  Daniel  Bontecon.  Sherifif 
Phelps  had  long  been  connected  with  the 
public  service  prior  to  his  election  as 
sherifif,  serving  as  town  clerk,  1797-99; 
1802-03,  1804-07,  1810-11  and  1812-13,  the 
fact  that  he  was  serving  as  town  clerk 
probably  the  reason  for  his  not  being  ap- 
pointed sheriff  of  Hampden  county.  Both 
he  and  his  father  were  men  of  scholarly 
attainment,  and  greatly  deferred  to  by 
their  neighbors.  John  (2)  Phelps  mar- 
ried  Betsey   Boies,   daughter  of   Deacon 


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Samuel  Boies,  of  Blanford,  Massachu- 
setts. They  were  the  parents  of  eight 
children :  Eliza,  William  Henry,  Melissa, 
Eli  Boies,  Nancy,  William  Henry  (2), 
Maria,  Martha  C. 

Eliza  Phelps,  eldest  child  of  Sheriff 
John  (2)  Phelps,  was  born  in  Granville, 
Hampden  county,  Massachusetts,  Janu- 
ary 4,  1793,  and  died  February  11,  1863. 
She  married  Joseph  Parsons,  born  July 
27,  1789,  died  February  2,  1863,  son  of 
Israel  Parsons.  Children :  John  Phelps, 
Joseph  M.,  Maryetta,  Eliza  Phelps,  Jane 
M.,  Israel,  Israel  M. 

Maryetta  Parsons,  daughter  of  Joseph 
and  Eliza  (Phelps)  Parsons,  was  born  in 
Granville,  Hampden  county,  Massachu- 
setts, August  27,  1819,  and  died  in  West- 
field  in  1892.  She  married,  in  1844,  Lor- 
ing  (2)  Lane,  born  July  23,  1822,  died 
August,  1889,  son  of  Loring  and  Laura 
(Goodwin)  Lane.  Children:  Mary  E., 
died  young;  Loring  Parsons,  afore-men- 
tioned. 


BLAISDELL,  Charles  Melville, 
Business  Man. 

In  1872,  Samuel,  Jr..  Charles  M.  and 
George  A.  Blaisdell,  under  the  firm  name, 
S.  Blaisdell,  Jr.,  &  Company,  established 
a  cotton  waste  business  at  Chicopee  Junc- 
tion, the  elder  brother,  Samuel,  having 
founded  the  business  in  1868.  The  busi- 
ness of  the  firm  was  first  cotton  waste, 
but  a  large  trade  was  built  up  by  the  new 
firm  in  supplying  raw  cotton  to  the  large 
manufacturing  companies  direct  from  the 
producer  through  agents  in  New  York. 
That  business  grew  to  be  the  largest  of 
its  kind  outside  New  York  City,  and  with 
it  Charles  M.  Blaisdell  was  connected  for 
forty  years  until  his  death  in  1918.  The 
business  plant  was  near  Chicopee  Junc- 
tion, and  Mr.  Blaisdell  was  one  of  the 
best  known  of  Chicopee's  business  men. 


His  home  at  No.  228  Springfield  street 
was  his  residence  from  1875  until  his 
death,  and  there  he  was  always  to  be 
found  when  in  the  city.  He  was  one  of 
the  most  genial  of  men,  very  fond  of  chil- 
dren, and  always  ready  with  a  kindly 
smile  and  a  cherry  word.  He  was  a  vet- 
eran of  the  Civil  War,  and  deeply  inter- 
ested in  the  present  conflict,  his  interest 
perhaps  greater  from  the  fact  that  he 
had  traveled  extensively  in  all  the  coun- 
tries involved  and  had  met  many  promi- 
nent officials  in  both  military  and  diplo- 
matic circles  during  his  journeyings.  Mr. 
Blaisdell  was  a  son  of  Samuel  and  Char- 
lotte (Sweet)  Blaisdell. 

The  first  American  ancestor,  Ralph 
Blaisdell,  was  born  in  England,  about 
1600,  came  to  New  England  soon  after 
his  marriage  and  received  a  grant  of  land 
in  1640.  He  died  about  1650.  Ralph  and 
Elizabeth  Blaisdell  were  the  parents  of 
two  sons,  but  the  line  of  descent  is 
through  the  first  born,  Henry,  the  young- 
est son,  Ralph  (2),  dying  in  1667,  and  it 
is  believed  without  issue. 

Henry  Blaisdell,  born  in  England, 
about  1632,  was  brought  to  New  Eng- 
land by  his  parents,  and  became  one  of 
the  first  settlers  of  Amesbury,  where  he 
was  admitted  a  freeman  in  1690.  He  was 
a  tailor  by  trade,  as  was  his  father.  He 
married  (first)  Mary  Haddon,  the  line  of 
descent  being  through  their  eldest  child 
Ebenezer. 

Ebenezer  Blaisdell  was  a  farmer  of 
Amesbury.  He  married  Sarah  Colby. 
They  were  the  parents  of  Ebenezer  (2) 
Blaisdell,  who  learned  the  cooper's  trade, 
and  moved  to  York,  Maine,  where  he  was 
living  in  1712,  and  later.  He  married 
Abigail  Ingersol,  widow  of  Joseph  Jen- 
kins, of  York,  and  among  their  children 
was  a  son,  Ephraim  Blaisdell,  bom  at 
York,  September  23,  1717.  He  married 
there  Thankful  Webber,  and  moved  to 


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Lebanon,  Maine,  where  all  their  chil- 
dren were  born  except  the  first.  From 
Ephraim  and  Thankful  the  line  of  descent 
is  through  their  son  Thomas,  his  son 
David,  his  son  Samuel  (i),  his  son 
Charles  M.,  to  whose  memory  this  review 
is  offered. 

Samuel  (i)  Blaisdell  married  Charlotte 
Sweet,  and  lived  in  Boston,  Massachu- 
setts, and  in  Somersworth,  New  Hamp- 
shire. They  were  the  parents  of  six 
sons :  Samuel,  Louis,  Henry,  Martin, 
Charles  M.  and  George  A.,  three  of  whom 
were  leading  business  men  of  Chicopee. 

Charles  Melville  Blaisdell,  fifth  son  of 
Samuel  and  Charlotte  (Sweet)  Blaisdell, 
was  born  at  Somersworth,  New  Hamp- 
shire, in  1843,  and  died  at  his  home  in 
Chicopee,  Massachusetts,  January  15, 
1918.  After  completing  his  school  years 
he  entered  business  life,  and  at  the  time 
war  broke  out  between  the  States  of  the 
Union  he  was  a  clerk  in  the  Boston  office 
of  the  Boston  &  Providence  Railroad. 
Mr.  Blaisdell  early  volunteered  for  service 
and  enlisted  from  Boston,  Massachusetts, 
December  9,  1861,  for  three  years  or  dur- 
ing the  war,  and  was  mustered  into  the 
naval  service  as  landsman,  serving  on  the 
United  States  ships,  "Ohio,"  "Pursuit" 
and  "North  Carolina."  He  was  honor- 
ably discharged,  February  24,  1862,  at  the 
Brooklyn  Navy  Yard  from  the  receiving 
ship,  by  reason  of  a  surgeon's  certificate 
of  disability.  He  reenlisted  at  Somers- 
worth, New  Hampshire,  July  13,  1862,  for 
three  years,  or  during  the  war,  and  was 
mustered  into  the  Army,  August  7,  1862, 
at  Concord,  New  Hampshire,  as  a  private 
in  Captain  Andrew  J.  Stone's  company, 
Ninth  Regiment,  New  Hampshire  Vol- 
unteer Infantry,  Colonel  Enoch  Q.  Fel- 
lows commanding.  The  Ninth  New 
Hampshire  Infantry  recruited  into  the 
service  in  May  and  June,  and  was  mus- 
tered into  the  service  from  July  3  to  Au- 


gust 23,  1862,  at  Camp  Colby,  Concord. 
It  arrived  in  Washington,  August  27,  and 
was  stationed  at  Camp  Chase,  where  it 
was  assigned  to  General  Whipple's  divi- 
sion, defending  Washington.  On  Sep- 
tember 6,  it  was  transferred  to  the  first 
Brigade,  Second  Division,  Ninth  Army 
Corps,  at  Leesboro,  Maryland,  and  moved 
forward  to  check  General  Lee's  advance. 
On  September  14,  within  twenty  days 
after  leaving  the  State,  it  was  engaged  in 
the  battle  of  South  Mountain.  Although 
it  was  a  new  regiment  and  under  fire  for 
the  first  time,  it  charged  the  enemy,  driv- 
ing men  from  the  crest  of  the  mountain. 
Three  days  later  it  fought  at  Antietam, 
December  13,  and  took  part  in  the  battle 
of  Fredericksburg,  returning  directly 
after  to  camp  where  the  reeiment  suf- 
fered greatly  from  sickness  and  privation. 
On  February  9,  1863,  the  Ninth  Corps 
was  ordered  to  Newport,  Virginia,  and 
on  March  25,  to  Kentucky,  where  it  was 
stationed  in  various  parts  of  the  State. 
In  June  it  joined  General  Grant's  army  at 
Vicksburg,  Mississippi,  pursued  John- 
son's retreating  army  to  Jackson,  Mis- 
sissippi, where  they  were  engaged,  then 
returned  to  camp  at  Milldale,  near 
Vicksburg,  and  in  August  returned  to 
Kentucky,  remaining  until  April  2,  1862, 
guarding  the  Kentucky  Central  Railroad 
until  January  15,  1864.  It  occupied  vari- 
ous camps,  notably  Nocholasville,  Burn- 
side  and  Nelson.  On  April  2,  it  moved 
to  Annapolis,  Maryland,  where  the 
Ninth  Army  Corps  was  reorganized  and 
assigned  to  the  First  Brigade,  Second  Di- 
vision. On  April  2,  it  moved  to  join  the 
Army  of  the  Potomac,  and  participated  in 
the  following  engagements :  Wilderness, 
Spottsylvania,  North  Anna,  Totopotomy, 
Bethesda  Church,  Cold  Harbor,  Peters- 
burg, Mine  Explosion,  Weldon  Railroad, 
Poplar  Spring  Church,  Hatcher's  Run, 
and    Fall    of    Petersburg.      The    Ninth 


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Regiment  also  took  part  in  the  grand 
review  in  Washington,  May  23,  1865,  and 
was  mustered  out  near  Alexandria,  Vir- 
ginia, June  10,  1865.  Mr.  Blaisdell  was 
with  his  regiment  through  all  the  fore- 
going service  with  the  exception  of  the 
march  from  Knoxville  to  Covington,  Ken- 
tucky, bore  well  his  part,  and  was  hon- 
orably discharged  at  Alexandria,  Vir- 
ginia, June  10,  1865,  with  the  regiment 
when  the  war  was  over. 

After  his  return  he  was  given  his  old 
position  in  Boston  with  the  Boston  & 
Providence  Railroad,  but  in  the  fall  of 
1865  he  resigned  and  went  to  Florida, 
where  he  engaged  in  cotton  growing  for 
three  years.  In  1868  he  came  North,  and 
in  1872  joined  with  his  brothers  in  form- 
ing the  firm,  S.  Blaisdell,  Jr.,  &  Company, 
cotton  and  wool  dealers.  The  business 
prospered,  and  a  very  large  trade  was 
transacted  in  home  markets,  the  business 
later  taking  on  international  importance 
through  its  large  export  trade.  In  188S 
Charles  M.  Blaisdell  became  head  of  the 
firm,  and  in  that  position  his  unusually 
fine  business  quality  and  ability  had  full 
scope.  He  made  many  trips  abroad, 
established  close  relations  with  reputable 
growers,  mills,  and  brokers,  both  at  home 
and  abroad,  conducting  a  very  large  bus- 
iness with  rare,  good  judgment  and  suc- 
cess. After  Samuel  Blaisdell  died,  Charles 
M.  and  George  A.  Blaisdell  continued, 
working  in  greatest  harmony  for  the 
good  of  the  business.  The  management 
now  devolves  upon  the  younger  brother, 
whose  entire  business  life  has  been  spent 
with  the  one  firm,  S.  Blaisdell,  Jr.,  & 
Company. 

While  he  was  one  of  the  most  approach- 
able of  men  and  numbered  his  friends 
everywhere,  Mr.  Blaisdell  was  not  par- 
tial to  political  life,  and  never  sought  nor 
desired  office.  He  had  risen  from  the 
foot  of  the  ladder  through  his  own  efforts, 
and  the  habits  of  industry  and  enterprise 


which  has  won  him  success  always  ruled 
his  life  and  held  him  to  his  legitimate 
business.  He  was  very  partial  to  social 
life,  however,  and  was  affiliated  with  both 
Masonic  Rites,  holding  all  degrees  of 
lodge,  chapter,  council  and  commandery 
of  the  York,  and  thirty-two  degrees  of 
the  Scottish  Rite ;  also  was  a  Noble  of 
Aleppo  Temple,  Ancient  Arabic  Order 
Nobles  of  the  Mystic  Shrine.  His  army 
comrades  always  had  a  warm  place  in  his 
heart,  and  he  was  long  a  member  of  Otis 
Chapman  Post,  No.  103,  Grand  Army  of 
the  Republic.  He  was  largely  responsi- 
ble for  compiling  and  publishing  the  His- 
tory of  the  Ninth  New  Hampshire  Regi- 
ment. Mr.  Blaisdell  was  a  member  of 
the  Ameteur  Fencing  League,  the  Lotos 
and  Colonial  clubs  of  New  York  City,  and 
the  Springfield  Turnverein.  He  was  a 
generous  friend  of  the  Young  Men's 
Christian  Association,  the  Boys'  Club, 
and  other  philanthropies  of  his  town. 
His  death  occurred  at  his  home.  No.  228 
Springfield  street,  Chicopee,  very  sud- 
denly. 

Charles  M.  Blaisdell  married  (first)  in 
1870,  Virginia  Allen,  of  Chicopee,  Mas- 
sachusetts, a  great-great-granddaughter 
of  Samuel  Allen,  who  died  defending  his 
children  from  the  Indians  in  an  attack  on 
Deerfield,  Massachusetts,  in  1746.  She 
died  February  i,  1882.  He  married  (sec- 
ond) April  30,  1884,  Mary  H.  Starr,  an 
artist  of  Boston,  born  in  Deerfield,  Mas- 
sachusetts, a  direct  descendant  of  Dr. 
Comfort  Starr,  of  Ashford,  Kent,  Eng- 
land, who  came  to  America  in  1635,  set- 
tled in  Boston,  and  was  one  of  the  found- 
ers of  Harvard  College. 


CHASE,  Charles  Prescott, 

Representative    Citizen. 

Perhaps  no  man  in  the  city  of  Spring- 
field more  fully  exemplified  the  spirit  of 
service  than  did  Charles  Prescott  Chase, 


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who  in  a  whole-hearted  way  aided  every 
Board  of  Trade  or  civic  enterprise,  bring- 
ing with  him  a  genial  spirit,  enthusiasm 
and  strong  common  sense.  It  passed  into 
a  proverb  almost  that  no  enterprise  could 
fail  if  he  was  interested  in  it.  He  was 
strongly  self-reliant,  had  a  boundless  faith 
in  humankind,  but  behind  all  was  the 
indomitable  will  and  untiring  industry 
which  knew  not  failure.  His  civic  work 
had  many  branches,  and  philanthropic 
institutions  will  miss  him.  No  finer, 
truer  tribute  can  be  paid  him  than  was 
uttered  in  an  "In  Memorian:" 

His  life  daily  demonstrated  his  inward  thought 
— that  he  came  not  to  be  ministered  unto,  but  to 
minister.  And  may  we  not  believe  of  such  a  soul 
that 

Something  starry,  something  bold, 
Eludes  the  clutch  of  earth  and  mold, 
Something  that  will  not  wholly  die, 
Out  ot  the  azure  of  the  sky. 

Charles  Prescott  Chase,  son  of  Edwin 
Chase,  was  born  in  Holyoke,  Massachu- 
setts, August  I,  1849,  and  died  at  his 
home,  No.  572  Belmont  avenue,  Spring- 
field, Massachusetts,  February  12,  1917. 
He  passed  all  grades  of  the  public  schools 
of  Holyoke,  finishing  with  graduation 
from  high  school.  He  then  at  once  began 
business  life,  spending  three  years  with 
his  father,  a  lumber  dealer  of  Holyoke. 
He  then  spent  three  years  in  Westfield, 
associated  with  Lyman  W.  Besse,  head 
of  the  Besse  system  stores,  and  in  the 
lumber  business,  going  thence  to  Lyn- 
donville,  Vermont,  there  continuing  lum- 
ber operations  with  D.  P.  Hall.  He 
remained  in  Vermont  a  successful  lumber 
merchant  and  operator  until  1895,  when 
he  located  in  Springfield,  Massachusetts, 
and  purchased  the  Marsh  &  Murray  lum- 
ber yard  on  Lyman  street.  Later  he 
bought  the  lumber  yard  of  Day  &  Jobson 
on  Liberty  street  and  consolidated  both 
under  the  name,  C.  P.  Chase  &  Company. 


In  1907  the  company  expanded  and  a 
new  yard  was  added,  "located  at  Birnie 
avenue  in  Brightwood,  and  the  largest 
retail  lumber  business  in  Western  Mas- 
sachusetts was  conducted  by  the  com- 
pany of  which  Mr.  Chase  was  the  active 
head  until  removed  by  death.  For  two 
years  he  was  president  of  the  Massachu- 
setts Retail  Lumber  Dealers'  Associa- 
tion, and  prominent  in  business,  social  and 
political  life. 

In  politics  a  Republican,  Mr.  Chase  was 
license  commissioner  three  years,  1908- 
09-10,  and  was  several  times  urged  to 
accept  nomination  for  mayor,  but  the 
pressure  of  private  business  prevented  his 
accepting.  For  two  years  he  was  presi- 
dent of  the  New  England  Inland  Water- 
ways Commission  ;  from  1904  to  1908  was 
president  of  the  Employers'  Association; 
and  during  the  last  eight  years  of  his  life 
he  was  deeply  interested  in  the  improve- 
ment of  the  Connecticut  river  as  a  nav- 
igable stream.  Although  not  generally 
known  for  his  philanthropic  work,  he  was 
one  of  the  city's  most  generous  men  and 
liberal  givers,  most  of  his  bequests  being 
made  anonymously.  One  of  his  last  phil- 
anthropies was  placing  the  Girls'  Club 
upon  a  firm,  financial  basis  and  in  enabling 
the  club  to  acquire  a  clubhouse.  At  the 
time  the  municipal  chimes  were  installed 
it  was  he  who  raised  the  greater  part  of 
the  fund  which  made  it  possible.  For 
three  years  he  was  president  of  the 
Springfield  Board  of  Trade,  and  at  the 
meeting  of  the  directors  of  the  board, 
called  immediately  after  his  death,  these 
resolutions  were  passed  voicing  the  feel- 
ings of  the  entire  organization: 

Resolved,  That  the  Directors  of  the  Springfield 
Board  of  Trade  have  learned  with  sorrow  of  the 
death  of  Mr.  Charles  P.  Chase,  who  was  Presi- 
dent of  the  Board  of  Trade  for  the  years  1910, 
191 1  and  1912. 

Resolved,  That  we  place  on  record  this  expres- 


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sion  of  our  appreciation  of  the  generous  and  un- 
selfish service  which  he  gave  to  this  organization 
during  his  term  of  office. 

Resolved,  That,  in  his  death,  the  city  has  lost 
one  of  its  most  useful  and  valuable  citizens. 

Resolved,  That  we  express  to  the  members  of 
his  family  the  sincere  sympathy  of  the  members 
of  tliis  Board. 

Mr.  Chase  married,  July  lo,  1877,  Jean 
E.  Bush,  who  survives  him,  daughter  of 
Frederick  Bush,  a  former  sheriff  of 
Hampden  county.  They  were  the  par- 
ents of  three  sons  and  a  daughter:  Jun- 
ius Bush,  of  Springfield,  Massachusetts ; 
Lyndon  Hall,  was  associated  with  his 
father  in  the  C.  P.  Chase  Lumber  Com- 
pany ;  Russell  Deming,  of  Boston,  with 
the  engineers  of  United  States  Regiment 
loist,  Company  C,  now  (1918)  in  France; 
Rachel  C,  married  Harold  A.  Bellows,  of 
Boston,  engaged  in  real  estate  business 
in  that  city. 


RIVERS,  Frank  Alexander, 
Contractor,  Builder. 

The  late  Frank  Alexander  Rivers,  of 
Chicopee,  could  well  be  called  one  of  the 
successful  self-made  men  of  this  section. 
Although  left  an  orphan,  he  had  by  per- 
sistent effort  risen  to  a  place  of  promi- 
nence among  the  contractors  and  builders 
of  Western  Massachusetts.  He  was  also 
prominent  in  public  life,  both  in  Holyoke 
and  Chicopee,  being  mayor  of  the  last 
named  city  for  three  terms  and  holding 
that  office  at  the  time  of  his  death.  He 
was  of  French  parentage,  his  father, 
Alexander  Rivers,  a  section  foreman  with 
the  Vermont  Central  Railroad,  located  at 
St.  Albans,  Vermont,  for  several  years 
prior  to  his  death  in  1855.  His  widow, 
Clemence,  survived  him  three  years,  leav- 
ing a  family  of  four  children  :  Matilda,  mar- 
ried Levi  DeMorris,  of  Manchester,  Con- 
necticut ;  Clemence,  married  John  Rich ; 
Mary,  married  Moses  Stone;  Frank  Alex- 


ander, to  whose  memory  this  review  is 
dedicated. 

Frank  Alexander  Rivers,  only  son  of 
Alexander  and  Clemence  Rivers,  was  born 
in  St.  Albans,  Vermont,  January  13,  1852, 
and  died  at  his  home.  No.  34  Adams  ave- 
nue, Willimansett,  Massachusetts,  Octo- 
ber 7,  1914.  After  the  death  of  his  mother 
in  1858,  he  lived  with  an  uncle  at  North 
Troy,  Vermont,  there  attending  night 
school,  also  being  employed  in  a  woolen 
mill.  In  1865  he  came  to  Holyoke  with 
an  uncle,  Peter  Beauregard,  with  whom 
he  spent  the  years,  1865-1870,  being  em- 
ployed during  that  period  in  a  woolen 
mill.  For  a  time  thereafter,  he  was  in 
East  Douglass  with  an  axe  manufactur- 
ing concern,  then  returned  to  Holyoke, 
spending  eight  years  with  D.  H.  &  J.  C. 
Newton,  contractors,  learning  the  trade 
of  millwright.  After  becoming  master 
of  his  trade,  Mr.  Rivers  continued  in  the 
employ  of  the  Newtons,  aiding  in  the 
erection  of  many  large  mills,  holding  the 
position  of  foreman  during  a  part  of  his 
engagement.  After  leaving  the  Newtons 
he  entered  the  employ  of  the  Holyoke 
Water  Power  Company,  continuing  with 
that  company  about  laine  years.  During 
that  period  he  supervised  the  raising  of 
the  Holyoke  dam  and  other  important 
work  of  this  company. 

In  1888,  Mr.  Rivers  first  engaged  in  the 
contracting  business  for  himself,  having 
associated  himself  with  Frank  Barber, 
under  the  firm  name  of  Rivers  &  Bar- 
ber. Their  first  contract  was  the  build- 
ing of  a  dam  and  a  paper  mill  at  Monroe 
Bridge,  Massachusetts,  for  the  James 
Ramage  Paper  Company.  That  was  the 
beginning  of  a  long  and  successful  career 
as  a  contractor,  his  record  showing  many 
important  contracts  executed,  and  a  par- 
ticularly successful  showing  in  complet- 
ing works  difficult  from  both  an  engi- 
neering    and     constructive     standpoint. 


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Among  the  latter  class  was  the  building 
of  a  coffer  dam  at  the  stone  dam  at  Birm- 
ingham, Connecticut,  in  order  to  repair 
the  dam  which  had  been  badly  damaged 
by  floods ;  the  repairing  from  his  own 
plans  of  the  South  Hadley  Falls  reservoir; 
the  lowering  of  a  raceway  at  the  plant  of 
the  Beebe  &  Holbrook  Paper  Company, 
a  feat  accomplished  in  four  days  without 
disturbing  mill  or  machinery;  the  sink- 
ing of  a  well  at  the  electric  light  station 
in  Springfield,  and  running  pipes  eighty 
feet  from  river  to  building,  six  feet  below 
low  water  mark. 

Rivers  &  Barber  continued  as  a  firm 
until  about  1890,  then  dissolved,  Mr. 
Rivers  continuing  the  business  alone. 
Among  the  plants  erected,  and  large  oper- 
ations conducted  in  various  parts  of  the 
country,  for  which  it  was  necessary  to 
keep  a  large  number  of  men  constantly 
employed  in  their  building,  are  the  fol- 
lowing: Mill  and  power  plant  of  the 
Connecticut  River  Paper  Company ;  ad- 
ditions, tenement  blocks,  and  difficult 
underground  work  at  Holyoke  and 
Springfield  for  the  Hampden  Paper 
Company,  the  building  of  the  National 
Papeterie  building  in  Springfield,  the 
quickest  building  operation  of  its  size 
ever  completed  in  the  city ;  the  A.  N. 
Mayo  warehouse ;  the  first  electric  light 
station  in  Springfield  and  its  subsequent 
enlargements;  the  Newell  button  shops; 
the  Forbes  &  Wallace  additions ;  and  a 
great  amount  of  work  for  E.  Morgan, 
including  his  summer  residence  at  Ash- 
field.  Later  buildings  erected  were :  The 
Phoenix  block  in  Springfield;  the  Besse 
block  in  the  same  city ;  the  plant  of  the 
Crane  Paper  Company  at  Dalton,  and  the 
American  Whip  Company  building,  both 
in  Westfield;  the  Russell  Paper  Mill; 
also  the  laying  of  pipes  and  the  erecting 
of  buildings  for  the  General  Electric 
Company  of  Pittsfield.     He  at  this  time 


built  a  house  in  nine  days  for  a  prize  of 
$500  in  gold,  the  entire  house  being  com- 
pleted and  furnished  in  that  time. 

Mr.  Rivers,  after  making  Chicopee  his 
residence,  took  an  active  part  in  public 
affairs,  serving  as  alderman  and  alder- 
man-at-large,  and  in  1912-1913  was  mayor 
of  the  city,  being  in  ofiice,  as  noted  above, 
at  the  time  of  his  death.  In  Holyoke,  he 
had  also  served  as  councilman  and  on  im- 
portant committees.  He  became  very 
popular  with  his  fellowmen,  and  from 
1899,  when  he  moved  to  Chicopee,  was 
constantly  in  the  public  eye.  His  service 
was  valuable  to  both  cities,  and  as  chief 
executive  three  terms  he  gave  Chicopee 
a  perfect  example  of  a  "business  admin- 
istration." He  owned  considerable  real 
estate  in  both  cities,  his  home  in  Hol- 
yoke located  in  the  Elmwood  section  and 
later  in  Chicopee.  He  was  an  Independ- 
ent in  politics,  a  Knight  of  Pythias,  a  For- 
ester, and  a  member  of  the  Roman  Cath- 
olic church. 

Mr.  Rivers  married  (first)  in  1872, 
Julia  Tart,  who  died  in  July,  1879,  leav- 
ing two  children :  Edward  F.,  who  was 
his  father's  business  associate,  later 
moved  to  New  Haven,  Connecticut,  mar- 
ried, and  has  one  child,  a  son  Frank,  now 
a  corporal  in  France;  also  a  daughter, 
Julia  J.,  who  married  David  H.  Young, 
who  was  in  the  contracting  business  with 
Mr.  Rivers,  and  has  children :  Ellen  and 
Frank.  Mr.  Rivers  married  (second)  in 
1880,  Julia  Lague,  of  Holyoke.  There 
were  two  children :  Frank  Napoleon,  died 
aged  one  year,  and  Rhea  B.,  married  Wil- 
fred J.  Denis,  a  piano  teacher,  and  has 
one    child,   Jeanette    Cecile. 


PARSONS,  George  Sanford, 

Representative  Citizen. 

As   paymaster   of   the    Parsons    Paper 
Company  of  Holyoke,  Mr.  Parsons  occu- 


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pies  a  position  of  trust  and  honor  in  the 
business  life  of  the  city  to  which  he  came 
in  1890,  then  a  young  man  of  thirty-five. 
He  is  of  the  seventh  generation  of  the 
family  founded  in  New  England  by  Ben- 
jamin Parsons,  fifth  son  of  Hugh  Par- 
sons, of  Great  Torrington,  Devonshire, 
England,  and  grandson  of  Thomas  Par- 
sons, of  Great  Milton  in  Oxfordshire,  a 
country  squire  and  gentleman.  The  sur- 
name Parsons  is  from  the  L.atin  personse, 
a  mask.  Actors  wore  a  wooden  mask  in 
early  times  to  throw  their  voices  out,  and 
eventually  the  actor  was  called  after  the 
mask  he  wore,  dramatis  persons,  the  pos- 
sessor being  called  by  the  thing  he  pos- 
sessed. In  ecclesiastical  language  the 
word  referred  to  a  man  of  dignity,  and 
was  bestowed  upon  one  whose  duties 
were  largely  those  of  a  vicar.  The  actors, 
ecclesiasticals  and  parsons  derived  their 
name  from  the  same  root,  the  name  com- 
ing through  varied  forms  to  the  present 
Parsons. 

Parsons  Arms — Gules,  two  chevronets  ermine 
between  three  eagles  displayed  or. 

Crest — An  eagle's  leg  erased  at  the  thigh  or, 
standing  on  a  leopard's  face  gules. 

According  to  heralds  visitations  the 
oldest  known  Parsons  of  record  was  John 
Parsons,  of  Cuddington,  1284.  In  the 
roll  of  possessions  in  the  Abbey  of 
Malmesbury,  however,  the  name  of  Wil- 
liam le  Parsons  is  found  under  date,  1307. 
The  name  was  largely  confined  to  the 
South  of  England  counties,  being  but 
infrequently   found  in   North   counties. 

(I)  Benjamin  Parsons,  the  American 
ancestor,  was  born  in  Great  Torrington, 
Devonshire,  England,  about  1627,  and 
died  in  Springfield,  Massachusetts,  Au- 
gust 24,  1689.  He  was  a  brother  of  "Cor- 
net" Joseph  Parsons,  the  founder  of  the 
Northampton  branch  of  the  Parsons  fam- 
ily,   and    it    is    believed    that    the    family 


came  in  1630  with  William  Pynchon. 
Benjamin  Parsons  was  in  Springfield  in 
1636,  among  the  first  settlers.  He  is 
described  as  a  gentleman  of  superior, 
intellectual  and  moral  worth,  eminent  in 
church  and  town,  an  earnest  worker  and 
exemplary  in  private  life.  His  pew  in 
the  church  was  fourth  from  the  deacon's 
seat,  and  later  he  was  elected  a  deacon. 
He  was  one  of  the  strong  men  of  the 
Springfield  church,  and  according  to 
his  correspondence  with  Rev.  Increase 
Mather,  foremost  in  its  upbuilding.  In 
the  town  he  held  many  offices,  and  in  all 
things  was  the  valued  citizen  and  upright 
man.  He  married  (first)  November  6, 
1 65 1,  Sarah  Vore,  who  died  at  Spring- 
field, Massachusetts,  January  i,  1676, 
daughter  of  Richard  Vore,  of  Windsor. 
He  married  (second)  February  21,  1677, 
Sarah  (Heald)  Leonard,  widow  of  John 
Leonard,  who  was  killed  by  the  Indians. 
She  survived  him  and  married  a  third 
husband,  Peter  Tilton,  of  Hadley.  Ben- 
jamin and  Sarah  (Vore)  Parsons  were 
the  parents  of  sons  and  daughters :  Sarah, 
Benjamin,  Mary,  Abigail,  Samuel,  Eben- 
ezer,  of  further  mention ;  Mary,  Heze- 
kiah  and  Joseph. 

(II)  Ebenezer  Parsons,  son  of  Benja- 
min Parsons,  was  born  in  Springfield, 
Massachusetts,  November  17,  1668,  and 
died  there,  September  23,  1752.  He  mar- 
ried Margaret  Marshfield,  who  died  June 
12.  1758,  daughter  of  Samuel  and  Cath- 
erine Marshfield,  of  Springfield,  and 
granddaughter  of  Thomas  Marshfield, 
who  came  from  Exeter,  England,  with 
Rev.  Mr.  Warham,  and  settled  in  Wind- 
sor, Connecticut.  Children :  Ebenezer, 
Margaret,  Jonathan,  Benjamin,  of  fur- 
ther mention ;  Caleb,  Sarah,  Jonathan 
(2).  Abigail  and  Catherine. 

(III)  Benjamin  (2)  Parsons,  son  of 
Ebenezer  Parsons,  was  born  in  Spring- 
field, Massachusetts,  December  15,  1696, 


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and  died  at  the  home  of  his  son  Aaron  at 
Swansea,  after  residing  in  Kingston  and 
Palmer.  He  married,  August  15,  1723, 
Martha  Bliss,  who  died  in  Palmer,  July 
17,  1760.  Their  children  were :  Eleanor, 
married  Ebenezer  Fitch  ;  David  ;  Tabitha, 
married  Robert  McMaster ;  Moses,  a 
soldier  of  the  French  War,  who  died  at 
Havana ;  Israel,  also  a  soldier  of  the 
French  War,  died  at  Fort  Harmer ; 
Aaron ;  Jonathan,  of  further  mention ; 
Joshua  ;  Abigail,  married  Ebenezer  Bliss  ; 
Martha,  married  Daniel  Worthington ; 
Benjamin,  who  also  died  in  the  Army 
during  the  French  War. 

(IV)  Jonathan  Parsons,  son  of  Ben- 
jamin (2)  Parsons,  was  born  in  Spring- 
field, in  1735,  and  died  in  West  Spring- 
field, Massachusetts,  May  2,  1810,  West 
Springfield  having  been  incorporated  a 
town  in  1774.  He  was  a  large  land 
owner  in  that  town,  the  library,  school 
house,  and  town  hall  being  on  land  he 
owned.  He  married  Mary  Merrick,  who 
died  March  15,  1817,  aged  eighty-four 
years,  daughter  of  Deacon  Joseph  Mer- 
rick. Children  :  Israel ;  Mary,  married 
Elihu  Stone ;  Martha,  married  Joseph  P. 
Sears ;  Rahama,  married  Levi  Hayes ; 
Mercy  ;  Jonathan,  of  further  mention  ;  and 
Joseph. 

(V)  Jonathan  (2)  Parsons,  son  of 
Jonathan  (i)  Parsons,  was  born  in  West 
Springfield,  Massachusetts,  September, 
19,  1770,  and  died  December  6,  1827.  He 
married,  June  24,  1797,  Grace  Leonard, 
born  August  8,  1777,  died  March  24,  1853, 
daughter  of  Elias  and  Susannah  Leon- 
ard, of  Feeding  Hills,  Massachusetts. 
Children:  Harriet,  died  young;  Francis; 
James  Merrick,  died  young;  Edward, 
Mary,  Henry,  James  Merrick  (2),  Har- 
riet (2),  Frances  Cornelia,  Samuel  Leon- 
ard, Jonathan,  of  further  mention ;  and 
Martha. 

(VI)  Jonathan     (3)     Parsons,    son    of 


Jonathan  (2)  Parsons,  was  born  in  West 
Springfield,  Massachusetts,  October  7, 
1820,  and  died  at  Saratoga  Springs,  New 
York,  August  16,  1892.  After  completing 
his  school  years,  at  about  the  age  of  six- 
teen, he  went  West  to  near  Marshall, 
Calhoun  county,  Michigan,  later  going  to 
Kalamazoo  in  the  same  State,  there  resid- 
ing for  the  remainder  of  his  life.  At 
Marshall  he  was  a  general  store  clerk, 
but  in  Kalamazoo  he  established  a  hard- 
ware business,  which  he  profitably  con- 
ducted until  1888,  when  he  sold  out  and 
retired.  He  was  one  of  the  leading  men 
of  his  adopted  city  and  aided  in  its  up- 
building. He  was  one  of  the  founders  of 
the  Presbyterian  church,  and  for  many 
years  was  one  of  the  deacons.  A  Repub- 
lican in  politics,  he  represented  Kalama- 
zoo in  the  State  Legislature,  and  was 
active  until  the  failure  of  his  health.  He 
lived  four  years  after  retiring  from  busi- 
ness, his  death  occurring  at  Saratoga 
Springs,  while  on  a  visit  there  for  the 
benefit  of  his  health.  He  married,  Octo- 
ber 4,  1847,  Mary  B.  Colt,  of  Hinsdale, 
Massachusetts.  Children :  Edward  Colt, 
born  January  24,  1848;  Jennie  Clark, 
August  31,  1850,  married  Charles  M. 
Phillips;  Mary  Adelle,  November  5, 1852; 
George  Sanford,  of  further  mention ; 
Eliza  Crane,  married  Edward  P.  Bagg, 
and  died  October,  1917;  Allen  Wood- 
bury, born  November  23,  1864,  died  June 

I,  1893- 

(VII)  George  Sanford  Parsons,  son  of 
Jonathan  (2)  Parsons,  was  born  in  Kal- 
amazoo, Michigan,  January  16,  1855.  He 
was  educated  in  the  graded  and  high 
schools  of  the  city,  finishing  with  courses 
at  Kalamazoo  College,  a  Baptist  Insti- 
tution. He  began  business  life  in  his 
father's  hardware  store  in  Kalamazoo,  and 
continued  his  trusted,  confidential  asso- 
ciate until  the  business  was  sold  out  in 
1888.      He   then    spent    two  years   asso- 


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ciated  with  his  brother,  they  handling  a 
line  of  mantels  and  grates.  In  1890 
George  S.  Parsons  returned  to  the  State 
which  had  so  long  been  the  home  of  his 
ancestors,  and  chose  a  location  nearby 
the  city  his  ancestor,  Benjamin  Parsons, 
had  aided  in  first  settling  Springfield.  He 
located  in  Holyoke,  there  entering  the 
employ  of  the  Parsons  Paper  Company 
as  an  office  clerk,  and  with  that  company 
he  has  continued  and  has  been  promoted 
from  time  to  time  as  a  reward  for  his 
fidelity  and  efficiency  up  to  his  present 
position  as  paymaster,  being  to-day  one 
of  the  oldest  in  point  of  service  of  its 
employees.  He  is  a  member  of  Holyoke 
Canoe  Club,  and  of  the  Second  Congrega- 
tional Church.  In  his  political  faith  he 
is  a  Republican. 

Mr.  Parsons  married,  October  3,  1894, 
Mary  Louise  Shumway,  daughter  of  Aus- 
tin L.  and  Mary  Louise  (Richard)  Shum- 
way, of  Holyoke.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Parsons 
are  the  parents  of  a  daughter,  Mary 
Louise,  born  July  25,  1900.  The  family 
home  is  at  No.  35  Waldo  street,  Holyoke. 


GAMAGE,  WUbur  S., 

Manufacturer. 

For  four  years  prior  to  his  death  in 
1913,  Mr.  Gamage  resided  in  Worcester, 
Massachusetts,  but  the  greater  part  of 
his  life  was  passed  in  Woodville,  a  vil- 
lage of  Middlesex  county,  sixteen  miles 
from  Worcester,  his  important  carriage 
manufactory  about  the  only  large  indus- 
try of  the  village.  All  his  business  life 
was  spent  in  the  carriage  business  as 
manufacturer  and  dealer,  the  destruction 
of  his  Woodville  plant  by  fire  causing 
him  to  change  to  a  dealer  instead  of  a 
builder.  He  was  the  son  of  Joseph  and 
Mary  (Taft)  Gamage,  his  mother  of  the 
ancient  Taft  family  of  New  England. 

Wilbur  S.  Gamage  was  born  in  Wood- 


ville, Middlesex  county,  Massachusetts, 
June  24,  1856,  and  died  in  Worcester, 
Massachusetts,  March  14,  1913.  After 
completing  his  school  years  he  entered 
the  employ  of  L.  E.  Coolidge,  carriage 
builder,  and  horse  supply  dealer,  and 
became  thoroughly  familiar  with  that 
line  of  business  in  its  every  phase.  He 
continued  a  trusted  employee  with  Mr. 
Coolidge  until  the  latter's  death,  then 
continued  the  business  as  proprietor  until 
about  1910,  when  his  plant  in  Woodville 
was  entirely  destroyed  by  fire.  Mr.  Gam- 
age did  not  rebuild,  but  removed  to  Wor- 
cester and  resumed  business  as  treasurer 
and  chief  owner  of  J.  W.  Sargent  &  Son, 
No.  24  Waldo  street,  dealers  in  carriages, 
wagons,  blankets,  whips,  and  other  sup- 
plies for  the  horse.  As  a  manufacturer 
he  made  only  goods  of  the  higher  grade, 
and  bore  a  most  excellent  reputation  as  a 
business  man  of  probity  and  enterprise. 
In  Worcester  he  was  at  one  time  part 
owner  of  the  Jewett,  Gamage  Auto  Com- 
pany, on  Shrewsbury  street,  but  he  dis- 
posed of  that  interest  and  until  his  death 
devoted  himself  exclusively  to  his  duties 
in  connection  with  J.  W.  Sargent  &  Son. 
He  had  property  interests  in  Milford  and 
elsewhere,  and  all  his  life  gave  close  at- 
tention to  his  private  affairs,  taking  little 
part  in  politics  or  public  life.  He  was  a 
member  of  the  Masonic  order,  holding 
the  thirty-second  degree,  Worcester  Con- 
sistory, Ancient  Accepted  Scottish  Rite. 
His  widow,  Elizabeth,  continues  her  res- 
idence in  Worcester. 


KING,  George  Gabriel, 
Merchant. 

With  an  inherited  aptitude  for  busi- 
ness, and  a  long  experience,  George  G. 
King  has  made  for  himself  a  place  in  the 
business  world.  His  father,  Samuel 
King,  was  for  fifty  years  a  successful  mer- 


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chant  in  Holyoke,  and  the  son  bids  fair 
to  equal  the  unexampled  record  of  the 
father  as  a  business  man. 

George  G.  King  was  born  June  22, 
1872,  in  Holyoke,  Massachusetts,  and  was 
educated  in  the  schools  of  that  city, 
including  the  high  school,  from  which  he 
was  graduated  in  1889.  On  leaving  school 
he  found  employment  in  the  offices  of 
the  New  York,  New  Haven  &  Hartford 
Railroad  Company  in  Holyoke,  where  he 
continued  ten  years,  rising  through  merit 
and  application  until  he  occupied  the 
position  of  cashier  at  the  time  of  his 
resignation.  On  the  organization  of  the 
American  Writing  Paper  Company  of 
Holyoke,  he  became  one  of  its  employees 
in  its  general  offices,  then  located  at 
Springfield,  Massachusetts,  and  for  two 
years  Mr.  King  was  reckoned  among  the 
most  active  and  useful  of  its  office  force. 
Succeeding  this,  for  a  short  time  he  was 
employed  in  New  York  City,  and  re- 
turned to  Holyoke,  where  he  entered  the 
office  of  John  H.  Lyons  &  Company, 
paper  stock  dealers,  and  continued  one 
and  one-half  years  in  this  service.  Since 
that  time  he  has  been  employed  by  P. 
Garvan,  Incorporated,  one  of  the  largest 
paper  stock  dealers  in  the  country,  with 
main  offices  in  Hartford,  Connecticut. 
Mr.  King  has  entire  charge  of  this  estab- 
lishment in  Holyoke,  buying  and  selling 
paper  stock.  His  experience  and  effici- 
ency have  contributed  much  to  the  suc- 
cess of  this  branch  of  the  business.  Mr. 
King  is  active  in  social  organizations  of 
his  native  city,  being  a  member  of  Wil- 
liam Whiting  Lodge,  Free  and  Accepted 
Masons,  of  Holyoke ;  of  the  Bay  State 
Club,  the  Mount  Tom  Gulf  Club  and  Hol- 
yoke Canoe  Club.  Of  social  and  genial 
instinct,  he  is  a  welcome  member  in  any 
circle,  and  contributes  his  share  to  the 
advancement  and  development  of  all 
interests  of  Holyoke.    While  he  does  not 


take  an  active  part  in  practical  politics, 
he  is  an  intelligent  observer  of  events, 
and  interested  in  the  growth,  prosperity 
and  happiness  of  the  people  of  the  United 
States,  allowing  no  one  to  surpass  him  in 
patriotism. 

Mr.  King  married,  May  3,  1900,  Jane 
Edmunds,  a  native  of  Rockville,  Connec- 
ticut, daughter  of  John  and  Jane  Ed- 
munds, of  English  antecedents.  John 
Edmunds  came  to  America  about  1861. 
Mr.  and  Mrs.  King  are  the  parents  of 
three  daughters,  Ruth  Ann,  Janet  and 
Barbara. 


COOK,  Frederick  Rodney, 
Business  Man. 

As  president  of  the  old-established 
William  F.  Cook  Company,  Frederick 
Rodney  Cook,  of  Mittineague,  Massachu- 
setts, is  the  head  of  a  business  that  ranks 
among  the  largest  of  its  kind  in  the  west- 
ern part  of  the  State.  He  comes  of  an 
old  Massachusetts  family. 

(I)  Ezekiel  Cook,  grandfather  of  Fred- 
erick R.  Cook,  was  a  native  of  Warwick, 
Massachusetts,  where  he  spent  his  life, 
and  he  died  at  an  advanced  age. 

(II)  William  Frederick  Cook,  son  of 
Ezekiel  Cook,  was  born  February  14, 
1847,  i"  Warwick.  He  received  his  edu- 
cation in  the  public  schools  of  that  town 
and  in  those  of  Barre,  in  the  same  State. 
At  the  age  of  twenty  he  went  to  Worces- 
ter, Massachusetts,  where  he  was  em- 
ployed as  a  machinist.  His  next  migra- 
tion was  to  Springfield,  where  he  was 
employed  by  the  firm  of  Smith  &  Wes- 
son, pistol  manufacturers,  and  later  was 
employed  in  the  United  States  Armory. 
In  1872  he  went  into  business  as  a  dealer 
in  coal  and  ice,  establishing  himself  at 
West  Springfield.  The  venture  pros- 
pered, and  in  the  course  of  time  he  found 
himself  at  the  head  of  a  flourishing  coal 


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and  trucking  business,  including  masons' 
supplies,  the  style  being  the  W.  F.  Cook 
Supply  Company.  In  1905  he  established 
a  branch  in  Springfield  under  the  man- 
agement of  his  son,  George  S.  Cook,  the 
Mittineague  business  being  supervised 
by  his  other  son,  Frederick  Rodney,  and 
he  continued  active  in  these  until  his 
death.  Mr.  Cook  was  also  interested  in 
West  Springfield  real  estate.  He  was  a 
Republican  and  took  an  active  part  in 
local  politics,  serving  fifteen  years  on  the 
town  committee,  and  from  1893  to  1898 
holding  the  office  of  water  commissioner 
as  West  Springfield.  In  1906  he  was 
elected  to  the  Legislature.  Mr.  Cook 
married  (first)  Florence,  daughter  of 
Rodney  and  Mary  B.  Steele,  the  former 
an  engineer  on  the  Boston  &  Albany  Rail- 
road. Mr.  Steele  died  in  Springfield, 
Massachusetts.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Cook  were 
the  parents  of  two  sons  and  one  daugh- 
ter: Frederick  Rodney,  of  further  men- 
tion ;  George  S. ;  and  Marion.  Mrs.  Cook 
died  in  1885,  and  Mr.  Cook  married  (sec- 
ond) Carrie  B.  Norton,  who  passed  away 
in  May,  191 3.  The  death  of  Mr.  Cook 
occurred  March  i,  191 5,  at  Mittineague. 
(HI)  Frederick  Rodney  Cook,  son  of 
William  Frederick  and  Florence  (Steele) 
Cook,  was  born  January  26,  1878,  at  Mit- 
tineague, Massachusetts.  He  attended 
the  common  schools  of  his  native  town, 
passing  thence  to  the  West  Springfield 
High  School,  and  later  taking  a  course  at 
the  Springfield  Business  College.  The 
first  business  position  obtained  by  Mr. 
Cook  was  with  his  cousin  in  a  shoe 
store  in  Springfield,  and  later  he  engaged 
for  two  years  in  the  grain  business.  After 
a  temporary  connection  with  the  Metro- 
politan Life  Insurance  Company  he  be- 
came shipping  clerk  for  Kibbee  Brothers, 
the  well-known  wholesale  manufacturers 
of  confectionery,  and  here  he  continued 
until  1903,  when  he  resigned  in  order  that 


he  might  be  free  to  associate  himself  with 
his  father  in  the  coal  and  wood  business. 
In  addition  to  this  they  engaged  in  truck- 
ing, having  to-day  all  the  trucking  for  the 
mills  in  Mittineague.  Upon  the  death  of 
his  father,  Mr.  Cook  became  manager  of 
the  estate,  acting  in  this  capacity  until 
September  i,  1915,  when  he  purchased  the 
entire  business,  which  he  has  since  con- 
ducted under  the  name  of  the  William  F. 
Cook  Supply  Company.  On  the  founda- 
tion laid  so  surely  and  successfully  by  his 
father  forty-five  years  ago  he  conducts 
an  extensive  and  flourishing  trade.  Dur- 
ing the  years  which  have  elapsed  since 
he  first  became  associated  with  the  busi- 
ness, Mr.  Cook  has  devoted  himself  to 
the  furtherance  of  its  interests  and  as  a 
result  has  seen  it  increase  to  its  present 
proportions.  To-day  it  is  the  largest  con- 
cern of  its  kind  in  the  town  of  West 
Springfield,  and  among  the  largest  in 
Western  Massachusetts,  and  its  proprie- 
tor is  among  the  leading  business  men  of 
his  community. 

As  a  staunch  Republican,  Mr.  Cook  has 
taken  an  active  interest  in  poltical  afifairs, 
having  been  for  many  years  a  member  of 
the  Republican  town  committee  of  West 
Springfield  and  having,  during  five  of 
these  years,  served  as  its  chairman.  He 
affiliates  with  Mount  Orthodox  Lodge, 
Free  and  Accepted  Masons,  of  West 
Springfield,  and  also  is  a  member  of  the 
Springfield  Automobile  Club.  He  is  a 
member  of  the  Methodist  Episcopal 
church  of  West  Springfield  and  serves  on 
its  board  of  stewards. 

Mr.  Cook  married,  April  10,  1907,  Ma- 
bel L.  Murphy,  bom  in  Springfield, 
daughter  of  Spencer  Murphy,  who  was 
for  many  years  employed  in  the  sash  and 
blind  factory  of  Gilbert  &  Company,  of 
Springfield.  Mr.  Murphy  is  also  the 
father  of  two  sons :  Frederick,  a  photo- 
grapher of  Springfield ;   and  Louis,  with 


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the  Potter  Lumber  Company.  Mr.  and 
Mrs.  Cook  have  one  son,  Frederick  R., 
born  March  25,  1908. 


FANNING,  David  Hale, 

Manufactiirer. 

That  a  man  is  the  "Architect  of  his  own 
fortune"  is  forcibly  illustrated  in  the 
wonderful  life  of  David  Hale  Fanning,  a 
man  now  nearing  the  age  at  which  one 
passes  from  the  octogenarian  into  the 
rare  nonagenarian  class.  In  his  early 
youth  he  was  deprived  of  both  father  and 
mother  and  at  the  age  of  sixteen,  with  his 
sister's  gift  of  a  pocket  Bible  which  was 
then  and  ever  his  source  of  inspiration, 
he  started  out  into  the  great  world  to 
seek  his  place.  His  cash  capital  was  two 
dollars  and  fifty  cents,  but  he  possessed 
unlimited  capital  represented  by  a  strong, 
vigorous  body,  a  clean  mind,  a  stout 
heart,  a  spirit  nothing  could  daunt,  sound 
morals  and  a  pledge,  faithfully  adhered 
to,  never  to  use  intoxicants  or  tobacco. 
With  that  capital  he  began  life  and  at  the 
age  of  thirty-one  had  so  added  to  it  in 
actual  cash  and  business  experience,  that 
he  was  able  to  start  a  small  manufactur- 
ing plant  of  his  own  and  from  that  begin- 
ning grew  the  great  business  conducted 
under  the  corporate  name  Royal  Worces- 
ter Corset  Company,  David  H.  Fanning, 
president,  then  and  now. 

To  review  such  a  life  of  achievement 
in  its  high  lights  only,  is  a  task  of  mag- 
nitude, but  there  is  so  much  in  that  life 
of  extraordinary  interest  that  it  iills  one 
with  a  desire  to  understand  from  whence 
came  his  strength — mental,  moral  and 
physical.  Why  has  he  succeeded  so 
grandly  where  others  have  failed  so  mis- 
erably? Why  has  he  lived  so  long  such 
a  strong,  strenuous,  healthful  life,  when 
the  average  life  of  the  business  man  is 
hardly  greater  than  half  the  years  this 


man  has  attained?  Above  all  one  would 
understand  how  an  unproved  country  lad 
could  pass  through  the  temptations  that 
assail  the  homeless,  and  retain  inviolate 
the  strict  moral  code  he  had  adopted  as 
his  standard  of  living. 

There  are  many  answers  which  could 
be  made  to  such  questions,  but  his  own 
answer  is :  "Temperance,  early  hours, 
good  company  and  hard  work."  Really 
that  covers  the  entire  ground,  but  with 
such  modesty  that  it  does  not  entirely 
satisfy.  Yet,  plus  experience  which  the 
passing  years  have  given  him,  heredity 
and  early  home  training,  his  answer  does 
reveal  the  secret  of  a  most  remarkable 
life. 

His  ancestry  is  traced  in  America  to 
Edmund  Fanning,  who  was  granted  land 
at  New  London,  Connecticut,  in  1664,  and 
was  one  of  the  original  proprietors  of 
Stonington,  Connecticut,  a  soldier  of 
King  Philip's  War,  and  in  England  to 
1066  when  the  Conqueror  came.  Edmund 
Fanning  brought  to  the  New  World  the 
best  attributes  of  his  English  and  Irish 
ancestors ;  and  these,  strengthened  by 
pioneer  life,  were  transmitted  to  Lieuten- 
ant John  Fanning,  born  about  1657,  also 
a  soldier  of  King  Philip's  War,  who 
received  a  grant  of  land  at  Groton,  Con- 
necticut. John  Fanning  left  a  son  John 
(2)  Fanning  born  in  1688,  whose  son 
Thomas  Fanning,  born  in  1719,  was  the 
father  of  Thomas  (2)  Fanning,  born  1755, 
a  ship  carpenter  who  served  six  years  as 
a  Revolutionary  soldier  and  was  wounded 
in  battle  so  seriously  that  in  after  years 
he  received  from  his  grateful  country  a 
pension  as  long  as  he  lived,  his  death 
occurring  in  1828.  This  brings  the  fam- 
ily history  through  the  Colonial  period  to 
the  establishment  of  the  Republic  and  a 
government  "of  the  people,  by  the  people, 
and  for  the  people."  Each  generation 
bore  well  their  part,  not  only  as  soldiers 


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but  in  the  civil  arts,  aiding  in  the  estab- 
lishment of  an  order  under  which  suc- 
ceeding generations  have  lived,  prospered 
and  helped  grandly  to  maintain. 

Thomas  Fanning,  the  Revolutionary 
soldier,  was  the  father  of  Henry  Willson 
Fanning,  who  was  born  in  1786,  died  in 
1836,  surviving  his  honored  father  but 
eight  years.  He  was  a  blacksmith  and 
followed  his  trade  in  Marlboro,  Norwich, 
and  Jewett  City,  Connecticut.  He  inher- 
ited the  military  ardor  of  his  sires  and 
when  a  second  war  was  waged  with 
Great  Britain  to  sustain  and  forever 
establish  those  principles  for  which  the 
first  was  fought,  he  entered  the  American 
army,  serving  as  corporal  of  the  company 
of  Connecticut  militia,  led  by  Captain 
Enos  H.  Buell.  He  married  Sarah  Hale, 
also  of  distinguished  Colonial  ancestry, 
daughter  of  David  and  Ruth  (Hale)  Hale, 
of  Glastonbury,  Connecticut.  She  was  a 
woman  of  strong  character,  reared  her 
children  in  strict  accordance  with  the 
religious  principles  she  professed  and 
gave  them  all  the  love  and  devotion  of 
her  great  mother  heart.  Henry  Willson 
and  Sarah  (Hale)  Fanning  were  the  par- 
ents of  David  Hale  Fanning  and  in  that 
Jewett  City  home,  under  the  influence  of 
his  honorable,  upright,  industrious  father 
and  tender,  devoted  solicitous  mother,  his 
early  character  was  formed.  With  the 
training  there  received  and  with  the  tradi- 
tions of  such  an  honorable  ancestry  to 
inspire  him,  he  prepared  for  the  battle  of 
life,  a  battle  he  has  so  bravely  fought  and 
so  grandly  won. 

David  Hale  Fanning  was  born  at  Jew- 
ett City,  town  of  Griswold,  Connecticut, 
August  4,  1830,  consequently  is  now  ap- 
proaching his  eighty-seventh  birthday. 
He  was  early  deprived  of  a  father's  care, 
but  the  influence  of  that  father  has  fol- 
lowed him  through  life  and  to  him  he 
owes  those  habits  of  industry  which  have 


ever  distinguished  him.  Until  he  was 
sixteen  he  remained  at  home,  and  under 
that  home  influence  was  laid  the  founda- 
tion upon  which  to  build  his  future 
career.  Too  much  importance  cannot  be 
given  those  boyhood  years,  during  which 
he  acquired  habits  of  frugality,  honesty, 
a  reverence  for  the  Bible  and  an  un- 
wavering determination  to  obstemiously 
avoid  tobacco  and  liquor. 

At  sixteen  he  left  home,  making  the 
first  stage  of  his  journey,  twenty  miles, 
on  foot,  his  chief  possessions  his  little 
Bible,  which  he  still  has,  and  two  dollars 
and  fifty  cents  in  money.  That  was  in 
1846  and  until  1861  he  had  no  settled  loca- 
tion and  no  definite  plan  of  action  decided 
upon,  except  that  he  must  work  and  save. 
During  that  time  he  had  worked  as  a 
factory  hand  in  Clinton  and  Worcester, 
Massachusetts,  had  learned  the  machin- 
ist's trade,  worked  as  a  journeyman,  been 
proprietor  of  a  general  store  at  Groton 
Junction,  Massachusetts,  sold  out  his 
business  and  moved  to  Cleveland,  Ohio, 
returned  to  Worcester  and  from  1857 
until  1861  been  employed  as  a  salesman. 
These  were  fifteen  busy  years  and  left 
the  young  man  with  a  good  trade,  fac- 
tory experience,  business  experience  and 
the  knowledge  that  is  only  gained  in 
travel  and  actual  contact  with  the  world 
under  hard  conditions.  The  years  had 
further  left  him  a  strong,  self-reliant  man, 
believing  in  himself  and  strengthened  and 
determined  in  his  resolution  to  find  the 
way  to  success. 

The  Civil  War  was  then  on  and  Mr. 
Fanning  was  desirous  to  aid  in  the  preser- 
vation of  the  Union  his  forefathers  had 
fought  to  establish,  but  the  recruiting 
officer  found  there  were  some  physical 
defects  which  unfitted  him  for  army  serv- 
ice. Balked  in  that  ambition  he  decided 
to  employ  his  small  capital  in  the  manu- 
facture of  that  then  fad,  hoop  skirts  for 


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woman's  wear.  He  established  a  plant 
in  Worcester  and  began  business  under 
the  firm  name  The  Worcester  Skirt  Com- 
pany. His  previous  factory  experience 
and  his  knowledge  of  salesmanship  now 
stood  him  in  good  stead  and  he  prospered, 
for  he  had  mastered  the  art  of  inanufac- 
turing  and  of  selling. 

About  this  time  considerable  interest 
in  corsets  had  developed,  and  Mr.  Tan- 
ning's far-sightedness  led  him  to  believe 
that  here  was  an  article  for  which  there 
would  be  a  world-wide  demand. 

So,  when  "hoops"  were  no  longer  con- 
sidered an  important  part  of  a  fashion- 
able costume  he  had  perfected  several 
models  of  corsets  and  with  them  was  able 
to  retain  the  hold  he  already  had  upon 
those  dealers  selling  woman's  wear. 

His  varied  experience  had  taught  him 
that  women  were  dependable  customers, 
but  subject  to  Fashion's  numerous  and 
rapid  changes.  Corsets  proved  to  be  an 
indispensable  item  of  feminine  attire  and 
became  immensely  popular. 

Mr.  Fanning  found  his  reasoning  good 
and  soon  his  plant  was  in  condition  of 
greater  prosperity  than  it  had  ever 
known.  He  was  virtually  a  pioneer  in  the 
American  manufacture  of  corsets,  and 
through  all  the  wonderful  expansion  of 
that  great  business  has  retained  that 
leadership.  He  continued  in  business 
under  the  original  style  and  title,  and  The 
Worcester  Skirt  Company  under  his  ex- 
ecutive management  flourished,  expanded 
and  prospered  until  1888,  when  it  was 
incorporated  as  the  Worcester  Corset 
Company.  In  1901  the  name  was  changed 
to  the  Royal  Worcester  Corset  Company 
with  David  Hale  Fanning  still  president, 
and  at  this  time  (1916)  no  other  man  has 
filled  that  office. 

Let  not  the  foregoing  record  lead  the 
reader  to  regard  Mr.  Fanning  as  one  who 
considers  money-making  the  chief  aim  of 


man.  A  visit  to  the  plant  wherein  are 
manufactured  Bon  Ton,  Royal  Worces- 
ter, and  Adjusto  Corsets  which  are  sold 
all  over  the  world,  reveals  the  fact  that 
Mr.  Fanning  values  the  health,  comfort 
and  welfare  of  his  two  thousand  em- 
ployees above  every  other  consideration. 
The  plant  is  the  largest  in  the  entire 
world  devoted  solely  to  the  manufacture 
of  corsets,  and  in  no  other  factory  do 
the  operatives  labor  under  more  com- 
fortable or  better  sanitary  conditions. 
While  the  most  healthful  environment 
and  every  precaution,  even  to  spe- 
cial water  supply,  cannot  prevent  sick- 
ness among  so  many  people,  it  can 
be  at  once  treated  in  this  plant  in  the 
hospital  ward  where  a  trained  nurse  and 
medical  treatment  are  constantly  at  hand 
during  the  hours  the  plant  is  in  opera- 
tion. In  short  the  factory  in  construction, 
equipment  and  operation  is  a  model,  a 
worthy  monument  to  the  man  responsible 
for  its  being — David  Hale  Fanning. 

Another  monument  to  his  public  spirit 
and  generosity  is  a  beautiful  park  in  his 
native  Jewett  City,  presented  by  Mr. 
Fanning,  and  in  honor  of  the  donor  named 
The  David  Hale  Fanning  Park.  In  the 
same  town  is  a  worthy  Sailors'  and  Sol- 
diers' monument  (  erected  largely  through 
his  generosity)  and  in  New  London  the 
new  Connecticut  College  for  Women, 
recently  completed.  The  town  which 
gave  him  birth  and  was  the  scene  of  his 
boyhood  life  has  ever  remained  dear  to 
him  and,  in  adding  to  its  attractiveness, 
he  has  taken  a  deep  pleasure  and  con- 
siders that  he  has  availed  himself  of  a 
privilege. 

In  his  relations  with  the  public  institu- 
tions of  his  adopted  city,  Worcester,  Mr. 
Fanning  has  manifested  a  spirit  of  liber- 
ality that  has  greatly  increased  their  use- 
fulness. Perhaps  the  institution  which 
lies   nearest  his   heart  and  has  benefited 


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most  through  his  interest  is  the  Hahne- 
mann Hospital  of  Worcester,  but  he  has 
remembered  all :  the  churches,  schools, 
Grand  Army  of  the  Republic  and  civic 
institutions,  all  claiming  his  munificence. 
He  donated  to  the  Hospital  the  land,  on 
Lincoln  street,  upon  which  the  beautiful 
building  is  erected,  and  is  especially  inter- 
ested in  those  Homes  provided  by  philan- 
thropy for  the  aged,  the  sick  and  the 
needy,  while  the  cause  of  education  is 
dear  to  his  heart. 

It  can  be  seen  from  the  foregoing  that 
the  wealth  Mr.  Fanning  has  acquired 
has  been  won  through  honest  efifort,  not 
through  governmental  favor,  syndicate 
methods  of  stifling  competition,  nor  trust 
methods  of  controlling  prices.  He  has 
made  and  sold  legitimately ;  the  superi- 
ority of  the  product  he  manufactured  the 
only  advantage  he  enjoyed  or  wanted.  It 
is  also  apparent  that  his  wealth  is  not 
employed  in  selfishly  gratifying  his  own 
desires,  but  that  it  is  being  as  wisely  used 
as  it  was  fairly  won.  He  lives  most  mod- 
estly at  his  not  pretentious  home  in 
Woodland  street,  but  he  does  take  a  keen 
delight  in  the  possession  of  rare  plants 
and  fiowers  and  their  cultivation ;  his 
chrysanthemums,  of  which  he  is  passion- 
ately fond,  being  unusually  fine  and  a 
rare  show  in  their  proper  season. 

Mr.  Fanning  is  a  Republican  in  poli- 
tics, and  in  religious  affiliations  an  active 
member  of  the  Church  of  the  Unity,  Wor- 
cester. In  youth  he  became  a  member  of 
that  then  prominent  order,  Sons  of  Tem- 
perance, and  was  very  active  during  the 
many  years  it  was  the  leading  temper- 
ance organization  of  the  United  States 
with  lodges  everywhere.  He  is  a  mem- 
ber of  the  Home  Market  Club  of  Boston, 
the  Worcester  Chamber  of  Commerce, 
the  Worcester  County  Mechanics'  Asso- 
ciation, and  the  Tatnuck  Country  Club. 

He   married   at   Worcester,   September 


28,  1859,  Rosamond  Hopkins  Dawless, 
who  died  December  14,  1901,  daughter  of 
Young  Simmons  and  Fidela  (Willard) 
Dawless,  of  Sterling,  Massachusetts.  The 
only  son  born  to  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Fanning, 
Frank  Everett,  died  August  21,  1869,  an 
infant :  their  eldest  daughter,  Agnes 
Maria,  is  the  widow  of  John  E.  Lancaster, 
of  Worcester;  their  second  daughter  and 
youngest  child,  Helen  Josephine,  is  the 
widow  of  W^illiam  C.  Supplee,  of  Phila- 
delphia, Pennsylvania. 

While  Mr.  Fanning  retains  the  presi- 
dency of  the  Royal  Worcester  Corset 
Company  and  each  day  sees  him  at  his 
desk  in  the  Company's  Worcester  offices, 
he  naturally  feels  the  weight  of  his 
years,  eighty-six,  and  has  surrendered  to 
younger  shoulders  the  heavier  burdens  of 
management.  A  lifetime  has  elapsed 
since  that  day,  seventy  years  ago,  when 
he  walked  away  from  the  Jewett  City 
home,  but  as  the  achievement  of  those 
years  is  understood,  it  seems  a  short  time 
in  which  to  accomplish  so  much.  Truly 
he  has  been  the  "Architect  of  his  own 
fortune." 


OTTO,  George  R., 

Representative  Citizen. 

This  is  the  name  of  one  who,  though 
not  born  in  West  Springfield,  was  an 
almost  life-long  resident  of  the  town  and 
was  numbered  among  its  most  respected 
citizens.  Mr.  Otto,  now  deceased,  was 
long  one  of  the  skilled  employees  at  the 
Springfield  Armory,  and  in  addition 
owned  and  superintended  the  running  of 
a  line  of  boats.  As  a  citizen  he  was  ever 
ready  to  do  his  part  toward  public  im- 
provements and  general  betterment  of 
conditions. 

(I)  Oscar  Otto,  grandfather  of  George 
R.  Otto,  was  born  in  Germany,  and  was 
the  owner  of  a  brewery.    He  and  his  wife 


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were  the  parents  of  three  children : 
George ;  John,  of  further  mention ;  and 
Emma.  All  these  are  now  deceased.  Mr. 
and  Mrs.  Otto  both  died  in  their  native 
land. 

(II)  John  Otto,  son  of  Oscar  Otto, 
was  born  in  Germany,  and  at  the  age  of 
twenty  emigrated  to  the  United  States, 
settling  in  Hartford,  Connecticut,  before 
that  city  was  connected  by  rail  with 
Springfield.  His  sojourn  in  Hartford, 
however,  was  brief,  and  after  making  the 
trip  to  Springfield  by  boat  he  arrived 
there  with  no  other  equipment  than  an 
education  acquired  in  the  public  schools 
of  his  native  land  and  a  thorough  knowl- 
edge of  his  trade,  which  was  that  of  a 
silver-plater.  That  trade  he  followed 
successfully  in  Springfield,  later  in  Hart- 
ford, and  then  again  in  Springfield,  dur- 
ing the  remainder  of  his  life.  In  poli- 
tics he  was  a  Democrat,  but  held  no 
office.  Air.  Otto  married  Catherine, 
adopted  daughter  of  Captain  Bunker.  She 
was  born  in  Germany,  and  as  a  girl  em- 
barked for  the  United  States  on  a  vessel 
which  suffered  total  destruction,  many 
of  its  passengers  being  lost,  Catherine 
being  the  only  one  of  her  family  to  sur- 
vive, being  picked  up  by  the  captain,  who 
subsequently  adopted  her.  Mr.'  and  Mrs. 
Otto  were  the  parents  of  two  children : 
George  R.,  of  further  mention ;  and  Rose, 
who  died  in  infancy.  Mrs.  Otto  died  in 
Hartford,  and  her  husband  in  Spring- 
field. 

.  (HI)  George  R.  Otto,  son  of  John  and 
Catherine  (Bunker)  Otto,  was  born  June 
25,  1846,  in  Chicopee,  Massachusetts,  and 
died  in  that  town,  September  13,  1901. 
He  received  his  education  in  the  public 
schools  of  Hartford,  Connecticut.  His 
trade  was  that  of  a  polisher,  and  upon  the 
death  of  his  mother,  he  went  to  Newark, 
New  Jersey,  and  at  the  age  of  seventeen 
came    to    Springfield,    obtaining   employ- 


ment in  the  Armory.  He  remained  there 
thirty-five  years,  a  fact  which  furnishes 
indisputable  proof  of  his  skill  and  fidel- 
ity. An  enterprising  spirit  caused  Mr. 
Otto,  while  thus  employed,  to  seek 
another  outlet  for  his  energies.  Con- 
structing a  boat-house  at  the  foot  of  Elm 
street,  he  purchased  about  seventy-five 
boats  which  he  rented  at  reasonable 
rates.  He  employed  a  man  to  attend  to 
the  work,  and  Mrs.  Otto,  who  was  as 
energetic  as  her  husband,  superintended 
the  conduct  of  the  establishment,  which 
was  successfully  continued  by  her  until 
1916,  when  it  was  disposed  of.  In  poli- 
tics, Mr.  Otto  was  a  Democrat.  He 
belonged  to  the  Turn  Verein  Society, 
serving  as  a  trustee  of  the  order. 

Mr.  Otto  married,  December  21,  1864, 
Elizabeth  Cardigan,  and  they  became  the 
parents  of  the  following  children:  i. 
George,  born  December  9,  1869;  married 
Bridget  Moriarty  ;  their  children  :  George, 
Frank,  Daniel  and  Mary,  now  living  in 
Springfield ;  Mrs.  George  Otto  died  in 
1909  and  her  husband  in  1912.  2.  Frank, 
died  at  the  age  of  two  years.  3.  Fred- 
erick, born  November  25,  1875 ;  gradu- 
ated from  the  Boston  Law  School,  but 
after  practising  a  short  time  became 
bookkeeper  for  the  Springfield  Gas  Com- 
pany, remaining  about  seven  years ;  in 
1916  he  was  appointed  revenue  oiificer  in 
Pittsfield,  Massachusetts,  which  position 
he  still  holds ;  he  married  Mary  Dennin, 
who  died  in  191 1,  leaving  one  daughter, 
Elizabeth,  who  was  born  in  1898,  and 
now  lives  with  her  grandmother  in  West 
Springfield.  4.  Edward,  born  in  1888, 
died  in  infancy. 

On  September  13,  1901,  being  then  only 
in  the  prime  of  life.  George  R.  Otto,  good 
citizen,  kind  neighbor,  affectionate  hus- 
band and  father,  passed  away.  His  line  of 
boats  which  he  had  operated  for  the  long 
period  of  forty  years  had  made  him  widely 


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known  in  the  community,  and  he  was  the 
possessor  of  many  warm  and  faithful 
friends.  The  life  of  Mr.  Otto  carries  its 
own  lesson  of  the  reward  of  duty  well 
performed — a  lesson  which  all  young  men 
who  have  their  way  to  make  in  the  world 
would  do  well  to  heed. 

Timothy  Cardigan,  father  of  Mrs.  Eliz- 
abeth (Cardigan)  Otto,  was  born  in  Ire- 
land and  emigrated  to  the  United  States, 
presumably  in  youth  or  early  manhood. 
He  settled  in  Springfield,  where  he  was 
employed  in  the  freight-house  of  the  Bos- 
ton &  Albany  Railroad.  He  married 
Ellen  Barry,  a  native  of  Ireland,  and  their 
children  were:  i.  Elizabeth,  born  in 
1847,  became  the  wife  of  George  R.  Otto, 
as  stated  above;  Mrs.  Otto  has  lived  all 
her  1142  in  her  native  city  of  Springfield, 
and  we  have  seen  what  an  admirable 
helpmate  her  husband  ever  found  in  her. 
2.  Anna,  born  in  1849,  married  Frank 
Paige,  who  died  in  1901 ;  their  children, 
who  all  live  in  Springfield,  are :  Frank, 
George,  Charles,  William,  Frederick  and 
Harry.  3.  and  4.  Lawrence  and  Timo- 
thy, twins,  never  married ;  Lawrence  died 
at  twenty-five  and  Timothy  now  lives  in 
Boston.  Mrs.  Cardigan  died  in  Spring- 
field at  the  early  age  of  twenty-six,  and 
the    death    of   her   husband   occurred    in 


GALLAGHER,  James  A., 

Business  Man,  Public  Official. 

Peter  Gallagher,  grandfather  of  James 
A.  Gallagher,  of  Worcester,  was  born  in 
the  North  of  Ireland,  settled  early  in  life 
in  New  Brunswick,  and  engaged  in  truck- 
ing, farming  and  lumbering.  He  also 
lived  for  a  few  years  at  Richmond,  Maine. 
He  married  Rhoda  Jackson,  who  was  also 
a  native  of  Ireland.  Children:  Francis, 
mentioned  below ;  Michael,  John,  James, 
Daniel,  George,  Jeremiah,  Peter,  William, 
Sarah,  Mary,  Kittie. 


Francis  Gallagher,  son  of  Peter  Gal- 
lagher, was  born  in  1830  at  Richmond, 
Maine,  and  went  with  his  parents  from 
his  native  town  to  New  Brunswick,  locat- 
ing in  the  town  of  Newbury.  He  died 
in  Worcester,  whither  he  came  in  1870, 
shortly  after  his  marriage.  He  was  a 
carpenter  by  trade,  and  for  forty  years 
he  was  in  business  as  a  contractor  and 
builder  in  Worcester,  Massachusetts.  He 
built  the  first  of  the  type  of  apartment 
house  known  as  the  three-decker,  and 
during  the  course  of  his  business  life  con- 
structed a  large  number  of  these  dwell- 
ing houses.  He  continued  in  active  busi- 
ness until  shortly  before  his  death  in  1914, 
at  the  age  of  eighty-four  years. 

He  married  Theresa  McElheny,  daugh- 
ter of  James  and  Ellen  (Burns)  Mc- 
Elheny, who  were  both  natives  of  Ire- 
land. Her  parents  came  to  Philadelphia, 
Pennsylvania,  but  moved  afterward  to 
New  Brunswick.  Her  mother  died  and  is 
buried  in  Boston,  Massachusetts.  Chil- 
dren of  James  and  Ellen  McElheny: 
Mary,  deceased ;  Ellen,  deceased ;  Julia, 
deceased ;  Hugh,  deceased ;  Theresa, 
mentioned  above,  now  living  in  Worces- 
ter. Children  of  Francis  and  Theresa 
(McElheny)  Gallagher:  i.  Annie.  2. 
Agnes,  married  William  H.  Brady,  a 
police  inspector  of  Worcester.  3.  Au- 
gusta, was  for  twenty  years  Superior  of 
Notre  Dame  Order  at  the  Star  of  the 
Sea  Convent,  East  Boston,  and  Notre 
Dame  Convent,  Chicopee;  died  in  1916 
at  Fond-du-Lac  Convent,  Worcester, 
where  she  spent  the  last  six  months  of 
her  life.  4.  Peter,  a  carpenter  by  trade ; 
was  for  two  years  a  member  of  the  Com- 
mon Council  of  the  City  of  Worcester 
from  Ward  Four ;  married  (first)  Nora 
Brady ;  (second)  Nellie  Brady.  5.  Louisa, 
unmarried.  6.  Mary,  unmarried.  7.  Sarah, 
a  grammar  school  teacher.  8.  Gertrude, 
married  Timothy  F.  Larkin,  lawyer,  of 
Worcester ;  she  is  an  accomplished  pian- 


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ist  and  teacher  of  music.  9.  Frank,  de- 
ceased. 10.  Julia,  deceased.  11.  James 
A.,  mentioned  below. 

James  A.  Gallagher,  son  of  Francis 
Gallagher,  was  born  at  Newbury,  New 
Brunswick,  July  22,  1868.  He  attended 
the  public  schools  of  Worcester,  but  in 
his  thirteenth  year,  when  in  the  seventh 
grade,  left  school  to  begin  work  as  errand 
boy  in  a  machine  shop.  He  served  an 
apprenticeship  of  four  years  in  the  ma- 
chinist trade,  but  abandoned  it  finally  in 
favor  of  his  father's  occupation.  For  the 
past  thirty  years  he  has  followed  the 
trade  and  business  of  carpentering.  For 
twelve  years  he  was  contract  superin- 
tendent for  J.  J.  Higgins  &  Company. 
During  the  past  twelve  years  he  has  been 
in  business  as  a  contractor  and  builder 
in  Worcester.  He  has  made  a  specialty 
of  the  three-decker  which  his  father  intro- 
duced and  made  popular.  It  is  said  that 
James  A.  Gallagher  has  built  more  of 
this  style  of  residence  than  any  other 
man  in  Worcester.  He  has  devoted 
much  attention  also  to  building  houses  to 
sell  and  developing  real  estate.  He  de- 
veloped nearly  all  the  side  of  the  hill  on 
Houghton  street.  At  times  he  has  fifty 
carpenters  in  his  employ.  In  addition  to 
his  extensive  real  estate  and  contracting 
business  he  has  given  much  time  to  pub- 
lic service.  In  politics  he  is  a  Democrat, 
one  of  the  local  leaders  of  his  party, 
keenly  interested  in  municipal  affairs. 
He  represented  Ward  Four  in  the  Com- 
mon Council  of  the  City  of  Worcester  in 
191 1  and  1912.  Since  1915  he  has  been  a 
member  of  the  Board  of  Aldermen  of  the 
city.  He  has  served  on  some  very 
important  committees,  including  streets, 
police,  public  buildings,  legislation,  street 
lighting,  mayor's  inaugural  and  unfin- 
ished business,  of  which  he  was  chair- 
man. He  was  also  on  the  Committee  on 
Assessments  for  Street  Betterments,  and 


chairman  of  the  Committee  on  Elections 
and  Election  Returns.  He  gave  his  sup- 
port to  the  pay-as-you-go  policy  of  the 
city,  established  in  191 5,  and  now  in  sat- 
isfactory operation.  He  was  a  member  of 
the  city  government  when  the  grade 
crossing  ordinance  was  passed  and  the 
Lake  Quinsigamond  Bridge  finally  voted. 
He  is  given  credit  for  having  acted  in 
good  faith  and  consistently  on  all  meas- 
ures in  the  interests  of  the  people  and 
municipality.  He  was  the  first  alderman 
elected  from  his  ward  without  opposition. 
He  has  been  chairman  of  the  Democratic 
City  Committee,  and  is  well-known  in 
business  and  political  circles  throughout 
the  State.  His  personality,  cordiality  and 
good  nature  have  won  a  host  of  friends 
for  him.  His  energy,  shrewdness  and 
ambition  have  won  him  success  in  busi- 
ness. As  a  public  officer  he  has  been  effi- 
cient, zealous  and  faithful.  Personally  he 
is  deservedly  popular  among  all  classes 
of  citizens.  He  is  a  member  of  the  local 
order  of  Knights  of  Columbus,  the  An- 
cient Order  of  Hibernians  and  the  Eagles. 
He  has  a  very  attractive  residence  at  No. 
69  May  street. 

Mr.  Gallagher  married,  October  28, 
1896,  Elizabeth  Leonard,  daughter  of  John 
and  Catharine  (Rooney)  Leonard,  of 
Worcester.  His  wife  is  a  native  of  Wor- 
cester, educated  there  in  the  parochial 
schools.  Children :  Marian,  graduate  of 
the  Worcester  Parochial  School,  1916; 
Loretta ;  Rhoda,  deceased ;  Leonard, 
Catharine,  Frank,  Elizabeth. 


HALL,  Percy  Newell, 

Druggist. 

Percy  N.  Hall,  the  well-known  drug- 
gist of  Westfield,  is  a  son  of  Newell  Bar- 
ney Hall,  and  grandson  of  Levi  Hall, 
born  in  Uxbridge,  Massachusetts,  Janu- 
ary 7,  1807,  died  in  Turners  Falls,  Massa- 


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chusetts,  January  9,  1891.  He  spent  the 
greater  part  of  his  life  in  Jacksonville, 
Vermont,  engaged  in  farming,  both  he 
and  his  wife  very  active  and  devoted 
members    of    the    Methodist    Episcopal 

church.     He  married  Lydia  ,  born 

at  Whitingham,  Vermont,  December  3, 
1804,  and  there  died  December  6,  1873. 

They  were  the  parents  of  an  only  child, 
Newell  Barney  Hall,  born  in  Jackson- 
ville, Vermont,  January  5,  1829.  He  grew 
to  manhood  at  Jacksonville,  became  inter- 
ested in  the  hotel  business,  but  about 
1869  moved  to  Turners  Falls,  Massachu- 
setts, where  he  became  foreman  of  the 
Montague  Paper  Mill,  continuing  in  that 
position  until  one  year  previous  to  his 
death,  which  occurred  December  4,  1904. 
He  married  at  Whitingham,  Vermont, 
November  20,  1856,  Rev.  Amherst  Lamb 
officiating,  Lucy  Melissa  Hull,  born  at 
Whitingham,  May  19,  1830,  now  residing 
with  her  daughter  Jennie  at  East  Provi- 
dence, Rhode  Island.  She  is  a  daughter 
of  Emery  Hull,  born  in  Whitingham, 
Vermont,  March,  1804,  died  there  March 
I,  1842,  son  of  Captain  William  Hull,  an 
officer  of  the  militia,  and  grandson  of 
Captain  Alonzo  Hull,  an  officer  of  the 
Revolution.  Emery  Hull  married  Lydia 
Chase,  born  in  Whitingham,  January  13, 
1808,  died  at  Susquehanna,  Pennsyl- 
vania, April  12,  1871.  They  were  the  par- 
ents of  Fannie  Hull,  married  Harvey  Hol- 
dredge,  and  resided  in  Susquehanna,  both 
deceased ;  Mary  Hull,  married  F.  D. 
Lyons,  and  lived  to  the  great  age  of 
ninety-seven ;  Lucy  Melissa  Hull,  mar- 
ried Newell  Barney  Hall.  Mr.  and  Mrs. 
Hall  were  the  parents  of  seven  children : 
Frank,  died  in  infancy ;  Jennie,  married 
Major  Samuel  C.  Waldron,  owner  of  the 
famous  Rumford  Chemical  Works  of  East 
Providence,  whom  she  survives,  residing 
in  East  Providence  and  caring  for  her 
aged   mother;    George,   died   at  Turners 


Falls  in  1910;  William,  a  paper  maker 
of  Lawrence,  Massachusetts ;  Frank  L., 
of  Uniontown,  Pennsylvania,  the  owner 
of  several  motion  picture  theatres  ;  Harry 
C,  a  paper  maker  of  Holyoke ;  Percy 
Newell,  of  further  mention.  All  but  the 
two  youngest  children  were  born  in  Jack- 
sonville, Vermont,  they  in  Turners  Falls, 
Massachusetts. 

Percy  Newell  Hall,  youngest  child  of 
Newell  Barney  and  Lucy  Melissa  (Hull) 
Hall,  was  born  July  11,  1877.  He  was 
educated  in  the  public  schools  of  Turn- 
ers Falls,  graduating  with  the  high  school 
class  of  1894.  He  began  learning  the  ma- 
chinist's trade  with  the  Deane  Steam 
Pump  Company,  but  he  did  not  find  the 
work  congenial  and  gave  it  up  in  favor 
of  a  mercantile  life.  He  accepted  the 
opportunity  olifered  him  to  learn  the  drug 
business  in  the  store  owned  by  John  F. 
Hood,  of  Turners  Falls,  and  there  re- 
mained until  coming  to  Holyoke  with  C. 
E.  Ball  at  his  High  street  store.  Later 
and  for  five  years  he  was  with  Edwin 
Baker,  of  Shelburne  Falls,  then  for  eigh- 
teen months  with  A.  E.  Lerche,  of  Spring- 
field, and  in  September,  1906,  located  in 
Westfield  and  purchased  the  well-known 
business  conducted  for  many  years  by 
the  late  Henry  Holland.  They  continued 
at  the  old  location  for  five  years  very  suc- 
cessfully, but  in  191 1,  the  business  de- 
manding enlarged  quarters,  he  moved  to 
his  present  location  at  the  corner  of 
School  and  Elm  streets. 

He  has  taken  an  active  part  in  public 
affairs  since  coming  to  Westfield,  is  a 
good  organizer  and  executive,  progres- 
sive and  energetic,  the  type  of  clear- 
visioned,  courageous,  high-principled  men 
that  are  so  useful  in  civic  afifairs.  He  is 
of  a  cheerful,  optimistic  nature,  has  the 
courage  of  his  convictions,  is  not  afraid 
of  responsibility  nor  disturbed  by  opposi- 
tion.    As  chairman  of  the  Board  of  Se- 


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lectmen  in  1914  and  1915  he  passed 
through  some  troubled  waters  which  were 
safely  navigated  with  skill  and  credit. 
He  believes  in  Westfield  and  is  always 
ready  to  lend  a  hand  to  advance  her  wel- 
fare. Politically  he  is  a  Republican.  He 
is  a  member  of  Mt.  Moriah  Lodge,  Free 
and    Accepted    Masons ;     Evening    Star 

Chapter,    Royal    Arch    Masons ;    

Lodge,  Order  of  the  Eastern  Star ;  the 
Massachusetts  State  Board  of  Pharmacy, 
in  which  he  takes  an  active  part  and 
interest ;  the  Hampden  County  Improve- 
ment Association ;  Westfield  Board  of 
Trade ;  is  an  ex-president  of  the  Men's 
Club,  and  a  member  of  the  Westfield  and 
Westfield  Country  clubs. 

Mr.  Hall  married,  December  31,  1902, 
Leal  M.  Fales,  born  in  Franklin,  Ohio, 
daughter  of  Lowell  Emerson  Fales,  born 
in  Walpole,  Massachusetts,  June  28,  1833, 
a  paper  maker  by  trade,  and  he  died  in 
August,  1905.  He  married  Martha  Ann 
Farwell,  born  in  New  York,  October  24, 
1843,  "ow  residing  with  her  daughter, 
Mrs.  Stoekell,  in  Norfolk,  Connecticut. 
Mrs.  Martha  A.  Fales  is  a  daughter  of 
John  H.  Farwell,  born  in  Fitchburg,  Mas- 
sachusets,  February  9,  1805,  died  Novem- 
ber 9,  1886.  He  was  at  one  time  a  cap- 
tain of  a  company  in  the  New  York  State 
Militia,  son  of  a  Revolutionary  soldier 
who  fought  at  Lexington.  John  H.  Far- 
well  married  Catherine  Adams  Putnam, 
born  at  Fitchburg,  December  25,  1810, 
died  December  7,  1875.  Lowell  Emer- 
son Fales,  previously  mentioned,  was  a 
son  of  W^arren  Fales,  born  at  Walpole, 
Massachusetts,  and  there  died  in  1883, 
his  father  and  grandfather  soldiers  of  the 
Revolution  engaged  at  Lexington.  Lowell 
E.  and  Martha  Ann  (Farwell)  Fales  were 
the  parents  of  four  children,  two  of  whom 
are  living.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Hall  are  the 
parents  of  John  Lowell,  born  January  19, 


1904;  Howard  Fales,  January  24,  1906; 
Jean,  November  2,  1908;  Percy  Newell 
(2),  February  6,  1915. 


ROLOFF,  Oscar  Theodore, 
Mercbant. 

Oscar  Theodore  Roloff,  merchant  of 
West  Springfield  and  president  of  the 
West  Side  Board  of  Commerce,  is  a  son 
of  Otto  Roloff,  and  a  grandson  of  Peter 
Roloff. 

(I)  Peter  Roloff  was  born  in  1818,  in 
Dusseldorf,  Germany,  and  about  1861 
emigrated  to  the  United  States,  where  he 
spent  the  remainder  of  his  life.  He  mar- 
ried, in  Germany,  and  he  and  his  wife 
were  the  parents  of  four  sons :  Henry, 
Herman,  Otto,  of  further  mention ;  and 
Ernest.  Of  these  the  youngest  is  the  only 
one  now  living.  Mr.  Roloff  died  in  1874, 
in  New  York  City. 

(II)  Otto  Roloff,  son  of  Peter  Roloff, 
was  born  in  1842,  in  Dusseldorf,  Ger- 
many, and  received  his  education  in  pub- 
lic schools  of  his  native  land.  He  was 
about  nineteen  years  old  when  he  accom- 
panied his  father  to  the  United  States. 
His  occupation  was  that  of  a  fresco 
painter,  and  his  political  principles  were 
those  of  the  Democratic  party.  Mr.  Ro- 
loff married  Fredericka,  born  in  Berlin, 
daughter  of  Henry  Schiller,  and  their 
children  were:  i.  Oscar  Theodore,  of 
further  mention.    2.  Herman,  died  young. 

3.  Flora,  died  at  the  age  of  eight  years. 

4.  Bertha,  died  at  three  years  old.  5. 
Ernest,  born  in  October,  1871,  died  in 
1895.  6.  Lillian,  born  in  1873,  married 
Charles  Neal,  and  lives  in  Hartford,  Con- 
necticut ;  they  have  twin  sons,  Ralph  and 
Raymond,  born  September  4,  1899.  Mr. 
Roloff  died  in  1889,  in  Springfield,  Massa- 
chusetts, and  his  widow  passed  away  in 
September,  1892,  at  the  home  of  her  eld- 
est son  in  West  Springfield. 


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(III)  Oscar  Theodore  Roloff,  son  of 
Otto  and  Fredericka  (Schiller)  Roloff, 
was  born  August  27,  1866,  in  Brooklyn, 
New  York,  and  was  nine  years  old  when 
the  family  removed  to  Springfield.  His 
education  was  received  in  public  schools, 
and  at  the  age  of  fifteen  he  began  to  learn 
photography  with  a  Mr.  Harvey  at  the 
corner  of  Main  and  Worthingfton  streets, 
Springfield.  At  the  end  of  two  years,  Mr. 
Roloff  left  Mr.  Harvey  and  went  to  New 
York,  where  he  spent  one  more  year  as 
an  apprentice,  after  which  he  followed 
his  trade  for  five  years.  At  the  expiration 
of  that  time  he  returned  to  Springfield, 
finding  employment  with  H.  C.  Moore, 
with  whom  he  remained  three  years.  He 
then  entered  the  service  of  the  National 
Chemical  Company,  whose  place  of  busi- 
ness was  situated  on  Wilbraham  road, 
Springfield.  For  two  years  Mr.  Roloff 
was  employed  there,  his  position  being 
that  of  photograph  tester,  and  he  then 
entered  the  old  Chauncey  L.  Moore  stu- 
dio, owned  by  Chauncey  Morrell.  He  had 
been  there  only  a  short  time,  however, 
when  Mr.  Morrell  sold  out  to  T.  C. 
Hawks ,  and  with  him  Mr.  Roloff  re- 
mained two  years. 

Feeling  attracted  to  another  sphere  of 
endeavor,  Mr.  Roloff  left  Mr.  Hawks  and 
the  photograph  business,  becoming  night 
engine  dispatcher  for  the  B.  and  A.  and 
N.  Y.  C.  Railroad  Company.  He  evi- 
dently found  himself  well  adapted  to  the 
different  conditions,  for  he  retained  the 
position  eight  years.  But  what  he  most 
desired  was  to  be  in  business  for  himself, 
and  when  an  opportunity  presented  itself 
he  purchased  the  meat  and  grocery  busi- 
ness conducted  by  H.  C.  Sanborne  on 
Main  street,  West  Springfield,  which  he 
has  since  carried  on  successfully.  In 
April,  191 7,  Mr.  Roloff  purchased  a  piece 
of  property  on  the  corner  of  Elm  and 
Garden    streets    and    erected    thereon    a 


block  consisting  of  two  stores  and  two 
tenements.  He  here  conducts  another 
meat  and  grocery  business  in  addition  to 
the  one  he  owns  on  Main  street. 

Mr.  Roloff,  many  years  ago,  became 
active  in  the  political  field.  For  three 
years  he  was  a  member  of  the  Board  of 
Fire  Engineers,  and  for  ten  years  has 
been  warden  of  Precinct  A.  He  was  later 
nominated  for  the  office  of  tax  collector. 
When  Mr.  Roloff  was  chosen  for  presi- 
dent of  the  West  Side  Board  of  Com- 
merce, the  announcement  was  greeted 
with  general  approval,  and  both  the  com- 
mittee and  the  townspeople  have  since 
had  ample  reason  to  congratulate  them- 
selves on  the  choice.  For  twenty-four 
years  Mr.  Roloff  has  affiliated  with  Tekoa 
Lodge,  No.  138,  Independent  Order  of 
Odd  Fellows,  having  passed  all  the  chairs 
and  being  now  a  past  grand.  He  is  also 
past  chief  patriarch  of  Agawam  Encamp- 
ment of  Springfield,  and  a  member  of 
Mount  Orthodox  Lodge,  Free  and  Ac- 
cepted Masons.  On  November  7,  1916, 
Mr.  Roloff  instituted  Acket  Lodge  of 
Rebeccas,  and  he  also  instituted  the 
Lodge  of  Past  Grands  of  Western  Mas- 
sachusetts, serving  in  1914  as  their  first 
president. 

Mr.  Roloff  married,  February  11,  1891, 
Aimee  L.  Mathews,  and  they  are  the  par- 
ents of  three  sons:  i.  Percy,  born  April 
22,  1892;  associated  with  his  father  in 
business;  married,  June  26,  1917,  Sidonia 
Beringer.  2.  Charles  F.,  born  March  25, 
1896;  employed  in  the  Springfield  Safe 
Deposit  and  Trust  Company.  3.  Harold 
M.,  born  August  24,  1901,  a  student  in 
high  school.  All  three  still  live  under  the 
parental  roof-tree. 

Mr.  Roloff  has  been  successful  as  a 
business  man,  and  has  so  conclusively 
proved  his  fitness  for  a  political  career 
that  it  is  highly  probable  his  townsmen 


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will  give  him  further  proofs  of  their  con- 
fidence in  his  ability  to  serve  them. 

Frank  J.  Mathews,  son  of  Richard 
Mathews,  the  father  of  Mrs.  Aimee  L. 
(Mathews)  Rolofif,  was  born  in  1843,  i" 
Amherst,  Massachusetts,  and  for  forty- 
seven  years  was  employed  as  a  yardmas- 
ter  by  the  B.  and  A.  and  N.  Y.  C.  rail- 
roads in  West  Springfield,  Massachu- 
setts. Mr.  Mathews  married  Angelina, 
daughter  of  Chester  Morgan,  and  their 
children  were:  i.  Frederick,  died  in  in- 
fancy. 2.  Harry,  born  in  May,  1867,  and 
now  living  in  Jacksonville,  Florida ;  mar- 
ried Clara  Pratt,  and  they  have  one  son, 
Harold,  born  in  1916.  3.  Bertha,  born  in 
June,  1870,  married  George  Ralzhauser, 
of  Springfield,  and  three  children  have 
been  born  to  them :  Beatrice,  married 
Harry  Fisher,  one  daughter,  Louise  Bar- 
bara ;  Theresia ;  and  George,  deceased. 
4.  Aimee  L.,  born  in  1871,  in  West 
Springfield,  and  became  the  wife  of  Oscar 
Theodore  RolofT,  as  stated  above;  Mrs. 
Rolofif  attends  the  Baptist  church.  5. 
Nellie,  born  in  1874,  died  at  the  age  of 
twenty.  In  191 1  Mr.  Mathews  was  acci- 
dentally killed  on  the  railroad,  and  his 
widow,  now  seventy-three  years  old, 
resides  in  Springfield.  On  the  Morgan 
side  Mrs.  Rolofif  traces  her  ancestry  to 
the  "Mayflower." 


RUSSELL,  WiUiam  Henry, 
Business    Man. 

One  of  the  most  prominent  among  the 
really  representative  men  of  afifairs  in 
Westfield,  whose  activities  have  been  ex- 
tended through  the  unusual  period  of 
nearly  a  half  century,  is  William  Henry 
Russell,  who  throughout  his  entire  busi- 
ness career  has  been  looked  upon  as  a 
model  of  integrity  and  honor,  never  mak- 
ing an  engagement  that  he  has  not  ful- 
filled and  standing  at  the  present  time 


(1917)  as  an  example  of  what  determina- 
tion and  force,  combined  with  the  high- 
est degree  of  business  integrity,  can 
accomplish  for  a  man  of  natural  ability 
and  strength  of  character.  He  is  re- 
spected by  the  community  at  large  and 
honored  by  his  business  associates. 

William  Henry  Russell  is  a  worthy 
representative  of  a  family  who  have  made 
their  home  for  many  years  in  the  vicin- 
ity of  Northampton  and  Greenfield,  Mas- 
sachusetts, performing  well  their  part  in 
the  advancement  and  upbuilding  of  those 
sections  of  the  State.  His  great-great- 
grandfather and  great-grandfather  bore 
the  Christian  name  of  Hezekiah,  and  his 
grandfather  that  of  Thaddeus.  The  lat- 
ter named  married  Mary  Wright,  of 
Northampton,  and  among  their  children 
was  Charles,  father  of  William  H.  Rus- 
sell. He  was  born  in  Northampton,  Mas- 
sachusetts, 1797,  and  his  death  occurred 
in  Colerain,  Massachusetts,  May  6,  1871. 
He  was  reared  in  his  native  town,  edu- 
cated in  the  common  schools,  and  upon 
attaining  a  suitable  age  learned  the  trade 
of  tailor,  and  shortly  after  completing  his 
apprenticeship  removed  to  Greenfield, 
Massachusetts,  where  he  established  a 
large  tailoring  shop,  manufacturing  for 
the  trade,  employing  at  times  twenty  peo- 
ple, and  this  proved  a  lucrative  means  of 
livelihood.  About  the  year  1835  he 
removed  to  Colerain,  Massachusetts,  and 
there  conducted  the  same  line  of  busi- 
ness, and  in  that  city  he  maintained  his 
residence  during  the  remainder  of  his 
days.  He  married  Adeline  Nash,  born  in 
Greenfield,  Massachusetts,  February  12, 
1805,  died  in  Colerain,  Massachusetts, 
September  23,  1882,  daughter  of  Daniel 
Nash,  a  farmer  of  Greenfield,  in  which 
city  his  death  occurred.  Mr.  and  Mrs. 
Russell  were  active  members  of  the  Meth- 
odist church.  Mr.  Russell  possessed  rare 
musical  ability  and  sang  in  the  choir  of 


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the  same  church  for  thirty  years.  They 
were  the  parents  of  eleven  children,  as 
follows:  Thomas  W.,  born  May  24,  1824, 
died  April  23,  1901 ;  Charles  N.,  born 
February  3,  1826,  died  March  3,  1910; 
George  A.,  born  July  8,  1829,  died  July 
19,  1888;  Mary  Jane,  born  March  21, 
183 1,  died  November  25,  1907;  Frank  C, 
born  June  10,  1834,  died  March  27,  1905 ; 
Susan  E.,  born  1837,  died  1838;  John  J., 
born  March  20,  1839,  died  April  11,  1901 ; 
William  Henry,  of  whom  further;  Rol- 
lin  R.,  born  March  23,  1844,  died  July  7, 
1905 ;  Leroy  C,  born  June  30,  1846,  resi- 
dent of  Westfield,  proprietor  of  a  large 
grocery  business;  Henry  E.,  born  July 
II,  1849,  a  resident  of  Carroll,  Iowa. 

William  Henry  Russell  was  born  in 
Colerain,  Massachusetts,  October  31, 
1841.  He  remained  in  the  place  of  his 
birth  until  about  fifteen  years  of  age,  in 
the  meantime  attending  the  schools  adja- 
cent to  his  home.  He  then  went  to 
Greenfield,  and  for  the  following  six  years 
served  in  the  capacity  of  helper  with  a 
farmer.  He  then  secured  employment  in 
the  office  of  the  Cutlery  Company  in 
Northampton,  Massachusetts,  who  were 
then  engaged  in  making  guns  and  bay- 
onets for  the  government.  His  connec- 
tion with  this  company  was  of  short  dura- 
tion, as  in  September,  1862,  in  the  early 
part  of  the  Civil  War  period,  he  enlisted 
in  Company  A,  Fifty-second  Massachu- 
setts Volunteer  Infantry,  trained  at 
Greenfield  until  November  of  that  year, 
and  then  went  to  New  York  and  from 
thence  to  Baton  Rouge,  Louisiana,  to 
engage  in  the  Red  River  campaign  under 
General  Banks.  During  the  advance  up 
the  river  the  company  participated  and 
saw  much  hard  service  and  several  sharp 
fights — notably  at  Indian  Bend.  They 
followed  the  enemy  up  the  river  and  took 
part  in  the  disastrous  retreat  made  neces- 
sary by  the  low  water  in  the  Red  river. 


They  went  back  to  New  Orleans  and 
then  were  transferred  to  the  forces  be- 
sieging Port  Hudson  on  the  Mississippi 
river.  They  saw  much  hard  service  there, 
and  during  the  greater  part  of  the  siege 
was  so  near  the  enemy  trenches  that  they 
could  throw  the  smallest  article  in  to  the 
enemy  lines.  They  were  in  the  assault 
of  June  14,  1863,  which  began  at  4.  A.  M., 
Sunday,  the  charge  was  up  a  steep  slope 
defended  by  abattis  in  which  many  were 
entangled  and  killed — comrades  to  the 
right  and  left  of  Mr.  Russell  were  killed — 
but  he  came  through  unhurt ;  the  charge 
captured  many  trenches,  but  did  not 
bring  the  surrender  of  the  fort ;  the  regi- 
ment fell  back  a  short  distance  to  a  shel- 
tered and  partially  entrenched  camp 
where  it  was  under  continuous  fire  until 
the  final  surrender  of  the  fort,  July  6, 
1863.  After  the  surrender  the  regiment 
returned  to  Westfield,  the  time  of  enlist- 
ment having  expired ;  this  was  the  first 
regiment  to  leave  Port  Hudson ;  they  pro- 
ceeded up  the  river  to  Cairo,  and  then  by 
rail  to  Westfield,  mostly  in  freight  cars ; 
they  were  cordially  received  along  the 
road,  notably  in  Buffalo,  New  York, 
where  a  dinner  and  reception  was  given 
in  their  honor. 

For  several  months  after  the  return  of 
Mr.  Russell  from  the  seat  of  war,  owing 
to  his  weakened  condition,  he  was  inca- 
pacitated for  active  pursuits,  but  after 
regaining  his  usual  strength  he  took  up 
the  work  of  canvassing,  this  being  out- 
door employment,  and  at  the  expiration 
of  one  year  his  health  was  completely 
restored.  In  1868  he  engaged  in  the  gro- 
cery business  in  Westfield,  and  for  a  long 
period  of  three  decades  continued  in  that 
line  of  business  in  various  locations  in 
the  town.  In  1895  he  was  one  of  the 
organizers  of  the  Independent  Whip 
Company  of  Westfield,  and  acted  as 
treasurer   of  the   corporation   until   retir- 


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ing,  devoting  his  entire  time  to  the  fi- 
nances of  the  business  which  ranks  among 
the  extensive  and  lucrative  enterprises  of 
Westfield,  giving  employment  to  many 
people.  In  addition  to  this  he  served  for 
a  number  of  years  as  vice-president  of 
the  Woronoco  Savings  Bank  and  as 
director  of  the  First  National  Bank,  in 
which  capacities  he  rendered  faithful  and 
efficient  service.  He  is  a  member  of  Mt. 
Moriah  Lodge,  Free  and  Accepted  Ma- 
sons, and  takes  an  active  interest  in  the 
work  of  the  Grand  Army  of  the  Repub- 
lic. He  has  served  as  deacon  in  the  Bap- 
tist church  of  Westfield  for  thirty  years. 
Owing  to  advancing  age  he  desired  to 
retire  from  the  deaconship,  but  the  mem- 
bers of  the  church,  being  unwilling  to  lose 
his  assistance  and  influence,  voted  to 
make  him  an  honorary  deacon  for  life,  a 
very  unusual  honor.  He  was  also  an 
active  worker  in  other  church  channels, 
especially  in  the  Sunday  school,  acting  as 
teacher  of  a  large  class  for  many  years, 
and  many  people  prize  as  their  pleasant- 
est  recollections  their  acquaintance  with 
Deacon  Russell  and  the  inspiration  they 
received  from ,  his  teaching.  He  rarely 
missed  a  Sunday  service  in  thirty  years, 
and  his  activity  is  the  more  remarkable 
owing  to  the  fact  that  he  has  been  a  crip- 
ple for  many  years,  not  being  able  to  get 
about  without  the  aid  of  crutches.  He 
is  hardly  ever  free  from  physical  pain, 
yet  is  always  happy,  good  natured  and 
kindly,  traits  of  character  which  is  indeed 
wonderful  in  one  so  afflicted.  He  is 
always  ready  to  relieve  distress  and  mis- 
fortune ;  was  a  member  of  the  relief 
committee  at  the  time  of  the  great  flood, 
doing  all  in  his  power  to  aid  the  starving 
and  homeless,  and  at  all  times  he  is  kind 
and  sympathetic  to  the  aged  and  infirm, 
and  has  also  assisted  many  young  men 
starting  out  in  business  life  with  both 
advice  and  pecuniary  aid. 


Mr.  Russell  married,  August  12,  1889, 
Clara  Day,  born  in  Greenfield,  Massachu- 
setts, April  12,  1848,  died  at  Westfield, 
February  16,  1913,  a  member  of  the  num- 
erous Day  family  of  that  section.  She 
was  a  daughter  of  James  Day,  born  in 
Gill,  Massachusetts,  August  19,  1805,  a 
farmer  by  occupation,  died  in  Providence, 
Rhode  Island.  He  married,  November 
14,  1824,  Merceline  Sprague,  born  in  Gill, 
Massachusetts,  ]\Iarch  14,  1804,  died  in 
Providence,  Rhode  Island.  Children  of 
Mr.  and  Mrs.  Day:  i.  Edwin  Ely,  born 
September  3,  1825 ;  was  captain  of  the 
Greenfield  Company  of  the  Tenth  Massa- 
chusetts Infantry,  and  was  killed  at  the 
battle  of  Fair  Oaks,  Virginia,  May  31, 
1862 ;  married  (first)  Mary  Blaisdell,  and 
(second)  November  2,  1854,  Aura  C. 
Wood.  2.  Joseph  Sprague,  born  Janu- 
ary 30,  1827,  died  in  Peoria,  Illinois ; 
married  Silvia  Field.  3.  Robert  D.,  born 
October  i,  1828,  died  in  Greenfield,  March 
21,  1913;  married,  January  15,  1867, 
Abby  H.  Wood.  4.  Ann  Maria,  born  No- 
vember 10,  1830,  died  in  Gainsville,  Flor- 
ida, August,  1913;  married  (first)  Charles 
Day,  (second)  Rollin  Witt.  5.  Charles 
Wright,  born  February  19,  1833 !  married 
(first)  Esther  Sprague,  (second)  Jennie 
Field.  6.  Cornelia  Merceline,  born  April 
14,  1839,  died  in  Hingham,  Massachu- 
setts, June,  1916;  married  Edward  Birge. 
7.  James  Perkins,  born  April  27,  1842, 
died  in  Texas,  September,  1893.  8.  Sarah 
Jane,  born  October  17,  1845  ;  married  L. 
F.  Rogers.  9.  Clara,  aforementioned  as 
the  wife  of  William  H.  Russell.  All  of 
these  children  were  born  in  Gill,  Massa- 
chusetts. James  Day  was  a  son  of  James 
Day,  a  resident  of  Gill,  Massachusetts, 
born  1769,  died  there,  January  5,  1841. 
He  married,  May  20,  1790,  Asenath  Ely, 
who  died  in  Gill,  November  8,  1827.  Mer- 
celine (Sprague)  Day  was  the  daughter 
of  Joseph  Sprague,  born  in  Gill,  Massa- 


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chusetts,  1771,  lived  there  most  of  his 
active  life,  and  died  there,  1843.  He  mar- 
ried, September  3,  1795,  Anne  Wrisley.     . 


HULL,  Ernest  L., 

Manufacturer. 

Ernest  L.  Hull,  for  several  years  con- 
nected with  the  United  States  Whip 
Company  of  Westfield,  comes  of  an  Eng- 
lish family.  The  business  of  whip-making 
which  has  given  Westfield  a  distinction 
above  all  other  New  England  cities,  and 
in  which  he  is  engaged,  was  founded  by 
his  grandfather,  Hiram  Hull,  a  whip- 
maker,  who  came  to  Westfield  from  Con- 
necticut and  established  a  small  whip 
manufacturing  business,  later  conducted 
under  the  firm  name,  H.  Hull  &  Son.  He 
was  the  first  whip-maker  to  settle  in 
Westfield,  and  to  his  son,  David  C.  Hull, 
transmitted  his  mechanical  and  inventive 
genius.  David  C.  Hull  was  associated 
with  the  whip  business  for  seventy  years, 
then  in  turn  was  succeeded  by  his  son, 
Ernest  L.  Hull. 

This  branch  of  the  Hull  family  descends 
from  Rev.  Joseph  Hull,  of  England,  who 
was  the  first  minister  legally  authorized 
to  preach  in  the  incorporated  town  of 
Weymouth.  The  original  name  of  the 
family  was  De  la  Hulle,  the  family  seated 
in  Shropshire,  England,  and  believed  to 
originally  have  come  from  Normandy. 
They  are  recorded  in  the  Heralds  Dis- 
tinction of  Devonshire  and  credited  with 
arms : 

Arms — Argent  a  chevron  ermine,  between  three 
lions  or  talbots  heads  erased. 

(I)  Rev.  Joseph  Hull,  founder  of  this 
branch  in  New  England,  was  born  in  Eng- 
land in  1595,  died  at  the  Isle  of  Shoals,  in 
1665.  He  was  only  seventeen  years  of 
age  when  he  matriculated  at  St.  Mary's 
Hall,   Oxford,   May   22,    1612,   and   when 


but  nineteen,  two  years  later,  he  received 
his  A.  B.,  November  14,  1614.  He  re- 
ceived holy  orders,  and  on  April  4, 
1 62 1,  was  instituted  rector  at  North- 
leigh,  Devonshire,  on  the  presentation  of 
Thomas  Hull,  of  Crewkerne,  Somerset- 
shire, England.  He  resigned  in  1632,  and 
soon  afterward  set  sail  for  America  ac- 
companied by  his  wife,  seven  children  and 
three  servants,  together  with  a  company 
which  he  had  gathered  chiefly  in  Devon 
and  Somersetshire,  numbering  in  all  one 
hundred  and  six  people,  who  were  known 
as  "Hull's  Colony."  They  settled  in  Was- 
saguscus,  later  named  Weymouth,  but 
there  was  religious  dissension  in  the  set- 
tlement, and  after  about  one  year  he  left 
Weymouth  and  went  to  Hingham,  Mas- 
sachusetts. There  he  was  representative  in 
1638,  served  on  important  committees, 
and  was  created  one  of  the  local  magis- 
trates. In  1639  he  founded  Barnstable, 
Massachusetts,  and  later  was  minister  at 
the  Isle  of  Shoals,  York  and  Oyster  Bay. 
Later  he  returned  to  the  Isle  of  Shoals  as 
minister  and  there  died.  He  had  chil- 
dren :  Joane,  Joseph,  Elizabeth,  Temper- 
ance, Grissell,  Dorothy,  and  Tristram,  of 
further  mention. 

(II)  Captain  Tristram  Hull,  son  of 
Rev.  Joseph  Hull,  was  born  in  1624, 
at  the  rectory  in  Northleigh,  England, 
and  was  brought  to  New  England  with 
Hull's  colony.  He  became  a  man  of 
prominence  in  Barnstable,  Massachusetts, 
a  land  and  vessel  owner,  sailing  his  own 
vessels,  thus  obtaining  his  title  ''Cap- 
tain." He  was  selectman  of  the  town, 
served  on  many  committees,  and  at  his 
death  left  an  estate  inventoried  at  about 
1200  pounds.  Colonel  Hull,  a  descend- 
ant, tells  in  a  pamphlet  of  how  Captain 
Hull  once  in  direct  violation  of  the  law 
helped  an  old  church  member  who  had 
been  banished  and  fined  for  "raising  his 
voice"    against    the    persecution    of    the 


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Quakers.  To  help  him  out  of  his  trou- 
ble and  get  him  out  of  the  way  of  the 
authorities,  Captain  Hull  took  the  old 
man  by  force  on  board  his  vessel,  carried 
him  to  Sandwich,  Massachusetts,  and 
there  left  him.  He  and  his  wife  Blanche 
had  the  following  children :  Joseph,  of 
further  mention,  and  John,  who  settled  in 
Rhode  Island. 

(III)  Joseph  (2)  Hull,  son  of  Captain 
Tristram  Hull,  was  born  in  1652,  and 
died  in  1709.  He  lived  in  South  Kings- 
ton, Rhode  Island,  and  in  Barnstable, 
Massachusetts,  and  was  assistant  in 
1699-1701-1703.  He  married  Experience, 
daughter  of  Robert  and  Deborah  (Perry) 
Harper,  of  Sandwich,  Massachusetts.  She 
died  August  23,  1715,  leaving  daughters, 
Mary  and  Ann,  and  a  son  Tristram. 

(IV)  Tristram  (2)  Hull,  son  of  Joseph 
(2)  and  Experience  (Harper)  Hull,  was 
born  October  8,  1677,  ^"d  died  in  1718. 
He  married,  February  9,  1698,  Elizabeth 
Dyer,  a  Quakeress,  daughter  of  Charles 
and  Mary  Dyer,  and  granddaughter  of 
William  and  Mary  Dyer,  the  founders  of 
the  family  in  New  England.  They  were 
members  of  the  Society  of  Friends,  and 
Mary  Dyer  was  one  of  the  first  martyrs 
to  Puritan  intolerance,  being  put  to  death 
by  hanging  on  Boston  Common,  January 
I,  1660,  the  charge  being  preaching  the 
Friend's  doctrine.  Elizabeth  (Dyer) 
Hull's  will  was  dated  and  proved  in  1719. 
In  this  will  and  in  that  of  her  husband, 
Tristram  Hull,  the  following  children 
are  named :  Mary,  Samuel,  Joseph,  of 
further  mention ;  Hannah,  Bathsheba, 
Charles,  Stephen,  Elizabeth  and  Sarah. 

(V)  Joseph  (3)  Hull,  son  of  Tristram 
(2)  and  Elizabeth  (Dyer)  Hull,  was  born 
at  Westerly  or  Kingston,  Rhode  Island, 
October  i,  1706.  Third  in  his  line  to 
bear  the  name  Joseph,  he  named  one  of 
his  sons  Tristram,  who  was  likewise  the 
third  to  bear  the  name  Tristram. 


(VI)  Tristram  (3)  Hull,  son  of  Joseph 
(3)  Hull,  was  the  father  of  Hiram  Hull, 
the  pioneer  whip-maker  of  Westfield, 
Massachusetts.  He  was  a  resident  of 
Middletown,  Connecticut. 

(VII)  Hiram  Hull,  son  of  Tristram 
(3)  Hull,  was  born  in  Middletown,  Con- 
necticut, where  he  resided  until  coming 
to  Westfield,  where  he  spent  the  remain- 
der of  his  life  and  died.  He  married  Lucy 
Johnson,  and  both  were  active  church 
members.  They  were  the  parents  of  Wil- 
liam, Lucy,  Carrie,  Luvinus,  Daniel,  Mar- 
ion, and  David  C.  The  eldest  of  these 
children  was  born  in  Middletown,  Con- 
necticut. 

(VIII)  David  C.  Hull,  son  of  Hiram 
and  Lucy  (Johnson)  Hull,  was  born  at 
the  Hull  homestead  on  Franklin  street, 
Westfield,  Massachusetts,  now  (1917)  the 
home  of  Richard  J.  Morrissey,  December 
24,  1828,  and  died  in  Westfield,  February 
8,  1916.  After  completing  his  studies  in 
the  public  schools  and  Westfield  Acad- 
emy, he  became  associated  in  the  whip 
business  with  his  father  who  had  long 
been  in  the  business  as  H.  Hull  &  Son. 
He  remained  at  the  factory  with  his 
father  until  about  1848,  then  went  to 
Charlestown,  Massachusetts,  to  join  his 
elder  brother  who  was  in  charge  of  the 
whip-making  room  at  the  Charlestown 
State  Prison.  There  he  remained  several 
years,  becoming  superintendent  of  the 
prison  factory,  resigning  finally  to  take 
a  position  with  what  was  then  the  Boston 
Elastic  Fabric  Company,  now  with  the 
Revere  Rubber  Company,  of  Revere, 
Massachusetts.  There  his  inventive  gen- 
ius and  mechanical  ability  was  given  full 
rein,  and  to  his  credit  is  placed  the  inven- 
tion of  several  machines  which  have 
solved  the  problems  of  reducing  to  sub- 
jection, perhaps  the  most  refactory  of  all 
raw  materials,  crude  rubber.  One  of 
these,  the  steam  calender,  is  most  valu- 


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able  for  rolling  the  rubber  into  sheets, 
that  being  his  own  invention.  He  was 
also  the  inventor  of  the  friction  grinder 
and  the  rubber  washer.  He  continued 
in  Eastern  Massachusetts  until  about 
1869,  then  returned  to  his  native  West- 
field  and  to  his  first  business,  whip  manu- 
facturing. He  was  then  rated  an  expert, 
and  in  the  mechanical  department  of  the 
American  Whip  Company  and  of  its  suc- 
cessor, the  United  States  Whip  Company, 
he  continued  his  success  up  to  his  death. 
He  became  an  authority  in  the  whip 
trade,  invented  and  improved  many  ma- 
chines used  in  whip  factories,  perfected 
many  devices  and  attachments,  thus  keep- 
ing in  touch  with  the  business.  He  was 
for  many  years  superintendent  of  the  fac- 
tory, and  had  a  large  financial  interest  in 
it,  and  was  a  director  of  the  United  States 
Whip  Company. 

With  his  mechanical  and  business  abil- 
ity as  demonstrated  in  a  successful  busi- 
ness life  of  seventy  years,  nearly  all  of 
which  he  spent  in  the  whip  manufactur- 
ing business,  Mr.  Hull  combined  a  totally 
different  talent,  a  rare  musical  gift.  He 
was  a  lover  of  music  and  a  pipe  organ 
player.  While  he  made  the  pipe  organ 
his  specialty,  he  was  also  an  expert 
performer  on  the  piano,  and  in  Boston 
and  Westfield  gave  lessons  on  that  instru- 
ment. He  continued  his  interest  in 
music  for  many  years,  played  the  organ 
in  churches  in  Boston,  Charlestown, 
Brighton,  Everett,  Chelsea,  and  in  West- 
field.  He  was  also  an  accomplished  per- 
former on  the  B-flat  cornet,  played  in  the 
Old  Gilmore  Regimental  Band,  well- 
known  throughout  the  country,  and  for  a 
time  was  also  leader  of  the  Charlestown 
Brass  Band.  He  lived  to  the  age  of  eighty- 
eight,  and  never  lost  his  interest  in  out- 
of-door  sports,  hunting  and  fishing.  He 
was  a  lover  of  the  light  harness  horse ; 
enjoyed  seeing  them  race  and  at  times 
owned  some  very  good  performers,  over 

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which  he  loved  to  hold  the  reins.  With 
the  advent  of  the  automobile  he  adopted 
that  form  of  locomotion  and  became  an 
enthusiast.  He  never  grew  old  in  spirit, 
and  even  when  the  shadows  lengthened 
to  almost  their  limit,  business  matters 
interested  him,  music  charmed  and 
soothed  him,  sports  invigorated  him  and 
he  made  a  welcome  addition  to  any 
group.  His  was  a  strong,  well-developed, 
beautifully-blended  character,  and  he  was 
universally  beloved.  He  was  a  charter 
members  of  the  Westfield  Club,  also  ot 
Woronco  Lodge,  Independent  Order  of 
Odd  Fellows. 

David  C.  Hull  married,  December  17, 
1849,  Henrietta  M.  Wheaton,  born  in 
Blanford,  Massachusetts,  September  7, 
1829.  They  were  the  parents  of  three 
sons :  Fred  and  Willard,  both  of  whom 
died  in  infancy,  and  Ernest  L.,  of  further 
mention. 

(IX)  Ernest  L.  Hull,  son  of  David  C. 
and  Henrietta  M.  (Wheaton)  Hull,  was 
born  in  Charlestown,  Massachusetts,  June 
8,  i860.  After  passing  through  the  graded 
and  high  schools,  he  began  the  study  of 
medicine,  receiving  his  degree  M.  D.  from 
Bellevue  Medical  College,  New  York 
City.  For  two  years  following  gradua- 
tion he  was  physician  to  the  out-of-door 
health  department  of  the  City  of  New 
York,  specializing  in  diseases  of  the  nose 
and  throat  and  in  minor  surgery.  He  was 
at  this  time  taken  ill,  and  for  one  year 
was  physically  unfit  to  resume  practice. 
He  then  yielded  to  the  persuasion  of  his 
father,  who  desired  his  only  son  to  be 
associated  with  him  in  business,  and  from 
that  time  has  been  connected  with  the 
United  States  Whip  Company.  He  is  a 
member  of  Westfield  Club  and  Holyoke 
Lodge,  Benevolent  and  Protective  Order 
of  Elks. 

Air.  Hull  married  Larinda  N.  Blakes- 
lee.    Their  twin  sons  died  in  infancy. 


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SHARP,  George  Hiram, 

Business  Man. 

Many  spellings  of  this  name  are  found 
among  the  Dutch  as  well  as  the  English, 
and  the  spelling  seemed  to  depend  upon 
the  whim  of  the  user  or  writer.  It  is 
found  as  Sharp,  Scharp,  Schup,  Schaap, 
Scarup,  Sharps  and  Sharpenstine.  An- 
driese  Hanse  Scharp  was  in  Beverwyck 
(Albany)  as  early  as  1660,  and  in  1670 
he  bought  a  farm  "behind  Kinderhook." 
He  had  sons,  Johannes,  Gysbert  and 
Laurens.  The  inference  is  very  plain 
that  this  Johannes  Scharp  was  the  father 
of  that  Jacob  Sharp  to  whom  and  others 
was  conveyed  in  1724  the  six  thou- 
sand acres  (now  Germantown,  Columbia 
county,  New  York)  bought  by  Governor 
Hunter  from  Robert  Livingston  in  1710. 

(I)  A  descendant  of  Jacob  Sharp,  prob- 
ably a  great-grandson,  was  John  Sharp, 
who  owned  a  large  and  well  cultivated 
farm  at  Kinderhook,  on  Kinderhook 
creek,  four  miles  east  of  the  Hudson  river 
and  twenty  miles  from  Albany,  the  vil- 
lage lying  in  the  town  of  Kinderhook, 
Columbia  county.  New  York,  now  being 
known  as  Stuyvesant  Landing.  He  was 
a  most  noted  farmer,  and  as  was  not 
then  uncommon,  owned  slaves  which  he 
freed  during  his  lifetime.  One  of  them 
refused  to  leave  her  master,  but  served 
him  faithfully  until  her  death.  It  was  of 
this  old  slave  that  the  story  is  told,  that 
when  she  saw  the  first  steamboat  on  the 
Hudson  she  ran  home  with  the  news : 
"Massa,  Massa,  thar  am  a  saw  mill  comin' 
up  de  ribber." 

(II)  Jacob  I.  Sharp,  one  of  the  nine 
children  of  John  Sharp,  of  Kinderhook, 
spent  his  early  life  at  the  home  farm, 
later  passed  about  thirty  years  at  Glenn- 
ville,  New  York,  finally  settling  at  Rich- 
mond, Massachusetts,  where  he  died 
about  1883,  aged  eighty-eight  years.     He 


married  a  distant  relative,  Caroline 
Sharp,  who  was  born  at  Kinderhook  in 
1793,  died  in  Richmond,  aged  eighty-six. 
She  was  a  lifelong  church  member,  Jacob 
I.  Sharp  also  joining  the  Congregational 
church  after  settling  in  Richmond.  It 
was  on  their  farm  in  Richmond  that  the 
Haystack  Mission  was  founded  by  col- 
lege students,  the  first  meeting  being 
held  near  a  haystack  which  suggested  the 
name.  They  were  the  parents  of  ten  chil- 
dren:  Eliza,  born  in  January,  1815  ;  John 
Aaron,  of  further  mention ;  Lawrence, 
Catherine,  Helen,  William  Franklin, 
Isaac  Edwin,  Martin,  Lydia  Caroline, 
Margaret,  born  February  2,  1835,  she  the 
only  living  member  of  this  family  in 
1918. 

(Ill)  John  Aaron  Sharp,  eldest  son  of 
Jacob  I.  and  Caroline  (Sharp)  Sharp,  was 
born  at  Kinderhook,  New  York  (now 
Stuyvesant  Landing)  about  1818,  and 
died  at  Richmond,  Massachusetts,  aged 
sixty-one.  He  grew  to  youthful  man- 
hood at  the  Kinderhook  farm,  married 
young,  and  joined  his  parents  at  Glenn- 
ville,  New  York,  where  he  resided  until 
thirty  years  of  age,  three  of  his  children 
being  born  during  his  residence  there. 
He  then  came  to  Richmond,  Massachu- 
setts, his  wife's  birthplace,  settled  on  the 
farm  owned  by  his  father-in-law,  who 
was  an  invalid,  and  there  resided  the 
remainder  of  his  life.  He  was  a  deacon 
of  the  Congregational  church  in  Rich- 
mond for  nineteen  years,  and  took  an 
active  part  in  community  affairs.  He 
was  a  natural  student,  a  wide  reader  and 
deep  thinker,  greatly  respected.  His  up- 
right life  and  sterling  integrity  com- 
mended him  to  his  neighbors  who  sought 
him  for  counsel  and  advice  on  all  unusual 
matters. 

He  married  in  Richmond,  Massachu- 
setts, Susan  Grififing,  daughter  of  Martin 
Grififing,  of  a  Connecticut  family,  and  his 


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wife,  Susan  (Chase)  Grifflng,  born  in 
Otis,  Massachusetts.  Martin  and  Susan 
Grifflng  had  a  son,  Martin  H.,  in  the  hat 
manufacturing  business  in  Danbury,  Con- 
necticut, and  two  daughters :  Mary  G., 
married  Isaac  Sharp,  a  brother  of  John 
Aaron  Sharp,  and  died  in  Hornell,  New 
York  ;  Susan,  married  John  Aaron  Sharp, 
and  died  in  Richmond,  Massachusetts,  in 
1880,  aged  fifty-nine  years.  John  A.  and 
Susan  (Grifflng)  Sharp  were  the  parents 
of  eight  children,  three  dying  in  infancy. 
Two  only  of  the  five  who  reached  mature 
years  are  now  living:  Julia  G.,  married 
E.  R.  Meyers,  and  resides  in  South  Da- 
kota ;  George  Hiram,  of  further  men- 
tioned ;  Susan  Elizabeth,  A.  Granville 
and  Mary  A.  Sharp  are  deceased. 

(IV)  George  Hiram  Sharp,  son  of  John 
Aaron  and  Susan  (Grifflng)  Sharp,  was 
born  in  Richmond,  Berkshire  county, 
Massachusetts,  May  19,  1856.  He  was 
educated  in  the  public  schools,  and  re- 
mained at  the  home  farm  until  twenty- 
three  years  of  age,  following  the  occupa- 
tion that  came  to  him  from  an  unbroken 
line  of  forebears,  that  of  agriculture.  But 
he  had  a  keen  desire  for  a  business  career, 
and  in  1879  came  to  Westfield  and  for 
a  time  conducted  an  express  business.  In 
1895  he  made  a  new  departure,  and  in  a 
small  way  opened  a  store  for  the  sale  of 
musical  instruments.  The  venture  proved 
successful,  and  with  the  years  he  has 
expanded,  until  now  (1918)  his  music 
store  is  the  leading  one  in  the  city.  A 
complete  line  of  musical  instruments, 
sheet  music,  musical  accessories  and 
modern  musical  specialities  is  carried.  As 
a  business  man  Mr.  Sharp  is  one  of  the 
substantial  men  of  the  city.  He  is  a 
member  and  ex-president  of  the  Board  of 
Trade ;  vice-president  of  the  Independent 
Whip  Company ;  director  of  various 
other  companies ;  charter  member  of 
Metacomet    Tribe,    Improved    Order    of 


Red  Men;  member  of  the  Westfield  Club 
and  its  treasurer  four  years ;  member  of 
the  Westfield  Country  Club ;  an  Inde- 
pendent Republican  in  politics,  and  an 
attendant  of  the  Baptist  church. 

Mr.  Sharp  married,  in  1882,  Mrs.  Sarah 
L.  (Beals)  Sizer,  born  in  Nova  Scotia, 
widow  of  Emerson  Sizer.  Mr.  and  Mrs. 
Sharp  are  the  parents  of  a  son,  George 
Aaron,  born  at  Westfield,  February  8, 
1884.  Until  1908  he  was  engaged  in 
acquiring  an  education  and  in  business 
with  his  father,  then  began  the  study  of 
medicine.  After  four  years  at  Albany 
Medical  College  (Union  University)  Al- 
bany, New  York,  he  was  graduated  M. 
D.,  class  of  1912.  He  then  spent  a  year 
as  resident  physician  at  Ellis  Hospital, 
Schenectady,  New  York,  after  which  he 
became  a  member  of  the  staff  of  the  State 
Hospital  for  the  Insane  at  Matteawan, 
New  York.  Dr.  Sharp  is  a  specialist  on 
mental  diseases,  and  has  appeared  in 
court  as  an  expert  authority.  He  enlisted 
in  the  United  States  army  in  1917,  re- 
ceived a  commission  as  captain,  and  is 
now  (1918)  at  Camp  Devens  as  a  special- 
ist in  nervous  and  mental  diseases.  He 
married  Florence  Marshall,  of  Newburgh, 
New  York. 


LYON,  Lucian  N., 

Bnsiness  Man. 

A  twentieth  century  representative  of 
the  family  founded  in  New  England  by 
William  Lyon  in  1635,  Lucian  N.  Lyon, 
of  Chicopee  Falls,  Massachusetts,  traces 
through  seven  generations  of  the  Lyon 
family  in  America. 

(I)  William  Lyon  is  among  those 
listed  as  passengers  on  the  "Hopewell," 
September  11,  1635,  when  that  ship  sailed 
for  New  England,  he  being  entered  as 
"fourteen  yeres."  It  is  supposed  that  he 
was    an    orphan,    and    that    in    Roxbury, 


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Massachusetts,  was  placed  in  charge  of 
Isaac  Heath.  According  to  Welles  this 
was  the  William  Lyon  who  was  baptized 
at  Heston,  now  London,  December  23, 
1620,  youngest  son  of  William  and  Anne 
(Carter)  Lyon.  William  Lyon  lived  in 
Roxbury,  Massachusetts,  until  he  was 
seventy-two  years  of  age,  was  a  land 
owner,  member  of  John  Eliot's  church, 
admitted  to  full  communion  in  1655,  made 
a  freeman  in  1666,  signed  the  petition, 
October  25,  1664,  to  the  General  Court, 
praying  it  to  "Stand  fast  in  our  present 
Liberties ;"  became  a  member  of  the 
Ancient  and  Honorable  Artillery  Com- 
pany of  Roxbury  in  1645,  and  was  one  of 
the  founders  of  Woodstock,  Connecticut, 
although  he  did  not  actually  occupy  the 
land  he  was  assigned.  The  Lyon  home- 
stead in  Roxbury  was  located  on  what 
was  once  Lyon  street,  now  Bellevue  ave- 
nue, on  the  east  side  of  the  street  south- 
west of  Atwood  street.  Although  there 
is  no  stone  to  mark  the  spot,  it  is  sup- 
posed that  he  was  buried  in  West  Rox- 
bury Cemetery,  May  21,  1692.  He  mar- 
ried, June  17,  1646,  Sarah,  daughter  of 
John  and  Mary  (Curtis)  Ruggles,  of 
Nazing,  England.  She  was  born  April 
19,  1629,  and  while  yet  an  infant  was 
brought  to  New  England  by  her  parents. 
She  died  "about"  August,  1694.  He 
signed  his  will  William  Lion.  William 
and  Sarah  Lyon  were  the  parents  of: 
John,  Samuel,  Joseph,  Jonathan,  died 
young;  Thomas,  William  (2),  of  fur- 
ther mention;   Sarah;   Jonathan  (2). 

(II)  William  (2)  Lyon,  son  of  the 
founder,  William  (i)  Lyon,  was  born  in 
Roxbury,  Massachusetts,  baptized  July 
18,  1652,  and  there  died  August  10,  1714, 
his  burial  place  West  Roxbury  Cemetery, 
where  a  stone  in  good  preservation  marks 
the  spot.  He  lived  in  Roxbury  all  his 
life,  although  like  his  father  he  owned 
land  in  New  Roxbury  (Woodstock)  Con- 


necticut, but  did  not  live  on  it.  He  mar- 
ried (first)  September  i,  1675,  in  Rox- 
bury, Sarah  Dunkin  (Durican),  who  died 
February  9,  1689.     He  married  (second) 

November  18,  1690,  Deborah ,  who 

survived  him  until  March  12,  1717.  Chil- 
dren of  William  (2)  and  Sarah  (Dunkin) 
Lyon:  William  (3),  Samuel,  Hannah, 
Benjamin,  Mehitable.  Children  of  Wil- 
liam (2)  and  Deborah  Lyon :  Deborah, 
David,  Martha,  Jacob,  of  further  men- 
tion. 

(III)  Jacob  Lyon,  youngest  son  of 
William  (2)  and  Deborah  Lyon,  was  born 
in  Roxbury,  Massachusetts,  June  i,  1696, 
died  in  Woodstock,  Connecticut,  June  7. 
1721,  and  was  buried  in  Woodstock  Hill 
Cemetery.  His  father  and  grandfather 
were  concerned  in  the  founding  of  Wood- 
stock and  owned  land  there,  but  Jacob 
was  the  first  of  his  family  to  live  there. 
In  1736  he  signed  a  petition  for  preach- 
ing in  West  Woodstock,  and  in  1749  he 
took  the  freeman's  oath.  He  married, 
June  20,  1728,  Mehitable  Bugbee,  who 
died  May  25,  1790,  in  her  eighty-fourth 
year.  Children:  Philip,  Elizabeth,  a  son 
died  young,  David,  of  further  mention ; 
Motley,  Jacob,  died  in  the  Revolutionary 
army ;  Mehitable,  William,  Nathaniel, 
Zebulon. 

(IV)  David  Lyon,  son  of  Jacob  and 
Mehitable  (Bugbee)  Lyon,  was  born  in 
Woodstock,  Connecticut,  January  23, 
1736,  and  died  in  Ludlow,  Massachusetts, 
September  20,  1804.  He  was  one  of  the 
early  settlers  of  Ludlow,  a  deacon  of  the 
First  Congregational  Church  organized 
in  1789,  was  selectman  in  1786  and  1791. 
He  married  Eunice,  daughter  of  Stephen 
Stebbins,  who  died  about  1795.  The  birth 
of  their  son  Stephen,  in  1775,  is  recorded 
in  Ludlow,  but  that  of  their  son  Nathaniel 
is  found  in  the  vital  records  of  Wilbra- 
ham. 

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Eunice  (Stebbins)  Lyon,  was  born  Janu- 
ary 24,  1772,  in  Wilbraham,  and  died  in 
Ludlow,     Massachusetts,     February     11, 

1839.  He  was  a  selectman  of  Ludlow  in 
1816,  and  there  spent  the  mature  years  of 
his  life.  He  owned  a  farm  of  three  hun- 
dred acres  at  Ludlow,  and  was  one  of  the 
substantial  men  of  his  town.  He  was  a 
Whig  in  politics,  and  in  religious  faith  a 
Congregationalist.  He  married  (first) 
Hannah  Kendall,  who  died  January  17, 
181 1,  aged  thirty-five  years.  The  two 
children  of  Nathaniel  and  Hannah  Lyon 
died  in  infancy.  He  married  (second) 
May  8,  1814,  Sophia  Root,  born  at  Lud- 
low, December  20,  1786,  died  January  9, 

1840.  Children,  all  born  at  Ludlow:  i. 
Hannah,  born  February  25,  1815,  died 
May  9,  1856;  married,  April,  1839,  Ur- 
bane Carter.  At  the  time  of  her  death 
Mrs.  Carter  weighed  27  pounds,  and  had 
been  an  invalid  fourteen  years.  2.  Sophia, 
born  March  11,  1817;  married,  Novem- 
ber 8,  1837,  George  Taylor,  a  farmer  of 
Cranby,  Massachusetts.  They  were  the 
parents  of  four  children :  Rachel  S.  Tay- 
lor, born  August  17,  1838,  died  in  1916, 
married  George  Carver,  of  Granby,  Mas- 
sachusetts, July  I,  i860;  Olive  W.  Tay- 
lor, born  May  15,  1842,  died  November, 
191 6.  married  Charles  Lyman,  of  Granby; 
Vienna  P..  Taylor,  born  April  11,  1846, 
married  J.  D.  Rich,  of  Chicopee  Falls; 
John  G.  Taylor,  born  March  12,  1848,  died 
March  11,  1870.  3.  Norman,  of  further 
mention.  4.  Olive,  born  January  27, 
1821,  died  November  20,  1839.  5-  Albert, 
born  August  8,  1825,  died  April  11,  1858, 
unmarried.  6.  David,  born  September 
21,  1827;  married,  May  16,  1849,  J^ne 
State,  and  resided  in  Greenfield,  Massa- 
chusetts, a  carriage  painter.  They  had 
no  children. 

(VI)  Norman  Lyon,  son  of  Nathaniel 
Lyon  and  his  second  wife,  Sophia  (Root) 
Lyon,   was  born  at   Ludlow,   Massachu- 


setts, December  12,  1818,  there  spent  his 
life  and  there  died  March  11,  1870.  He 
attended  public  school  and  grew  up  at 
the  home  farm,  and  all  his  life  was 
engaged  in  agriculture  as  a  business.  He 
was  a  Republican  in  politics,  and  at  one 
time  was  town  assessor.  In  religious 
faith  he  was  a  Congregationalist.  He 
married,  December  22,  1842,  Lydia  W. 
Cooley,  born  in  Springfield.  Massachu- 
setts, now  Chicopee,  August  21,  1821,  died 
September  19,  1891,  daughter  of  Calvin 
Cooley,  born  August  18,  1772,  died  June 
26,  1827,  a  substantial  farmer  of  Chico- 
pee, and  his  wife,  Chloe  (Bliss)  Cooley, 
born  December  19,  1787,  died  November 
7,  1857.  Norman  and  Lydia  W.  Lyon 
were  the  parents  of  three  sons  :  i.  Henry, 
born  April  5,  1844,  died  October  19,  1894; 
for  many  years  he  was  paymaster  for  the 
Lamb  Knitting  Company  of  Chicopee 
Falls ;  he  married,  in  1870.  Ella  Taylor, 
and  resided  at  Chicopee  Falls;  children: 
Grace  T.,  born  in  1875;  Howard,  1878; 
George  N.,  died  aged  two  years.  2. 
Lucian  N.,  of  further  mention.  3.  Al- 
bert B.,  born  February  19,  1865;  chief 
draughtsman  for  twenty-five  years  for 
the  Knox  Auto  Company  of  Spring- 
field, Massachusetts ;  he  married  Minnie 
Adams,  and  has  a  son,  Norman. 

(VII)  Lucian  N.  Lyon,  second  son  of 
Norman  and  Lydia  W.  (Cooley)  Lyon, 
was  born  at  Ludlow,  Massachusetts. 
March  30,  1846,  and  there  resided  until 
1886.  He  was  educated  in  the  public 
schools  and  Wilbraham  Academy,  and 
until  the  age  of  twenty-four  was  engaged 
as  farmer.  He  then  spent  several  years 
in  the  lumber  business,  clearing  a  timber 
tract  of  one  hundred  and  fifty  acres  which 
he  owned,  converted  the  timber  into  man- 
ufactured lumber  in  his  own  saw  mill, 
and  sold  it  to  the  trade.  During  this 
period  he  also  built  several  houses  in 
Ludlow  and  Indian  Orchard,  Massachu- 


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setts,  continuing  that  line  of  activity  in 
Ludlow  until  1886,  when  he  moved  to 
Chicopee  Falls  and  established  a  real 
estate  business  which  he  vigorously 
prosecuted  until  his  retirement.  During 
the  years  he  was  so  engaged  he  erected 
several  apartment  houses  for  either  two, 
three,  six,  eight  or  ten  families,  also  busi- 
ness blocks  and  other  buildings,  his  busi- 
ness being  large  and  profitable.  He  is  a 
Republican  in  politics,  served  in  Ludlow 
as  assessor  for  two  years,  has  been  a 
director  of  the  Chicopee  Falls  Savings 
Bank,  is  a  member  and  for  the  past 
twenty  years  a  deacon  of  the  Second  Con- 
gregational Church. 

Mr.  Lyon  married,  April  25,  1877,  M. 
Martha  Munsing,  born  in  Brooklyn,  New 
York,  January  25,  1853,  daughter  of 
Michael  and  Elizabeth  (Swan)  Munsing. 
Michael  Munsing  was  born  in  Germany 
in  1821,  and  when  a  small  boy  came  to 
the  United  States.  He  enlisted  in  the 
Thirty-seventh  Regiment,  Massachusetts 
Infantry,  in  1862,  and  served  until  the 
close  of  the  war  in  1865,  losing  part  of 
one  hand.  This  disqualified  him  from  fol- 
lowing the  trade  he  had  learned  in  youth, 
tailoring,  and  until  his  death,  June  6, 
1901,  he  was  a  farmer  of  Ludlow.  He 
married  Elizabeth  Swan,  born  in  Ger- 
many, in  1823,  died  April  13,  1901.  They 
were  the  parents  of:  i.  Elizabeth,  born 
September  29,  1844,  died  September  29, 
1900;  married  H.  S.  Fuller,  of  Ludlow, 
and  had  a  daughter  who  died  aged  seven 
months.  2.  Caroline  M.,  born  January  7, 
1847,  died  September  22,  1875  >  married 
Thomas  Jarrold,  of  Westfield  ;  children  : 
Harriet  and  Elizabeth  Jarrold.  3.  Jacob, 
died  aged  two  years.  4.  M.  Martha,  mar- 
ried Lucian  N.  Lyon.  5.  Henry  A.,  born 
in  Ludlow,  April  16,  1856;  married.  May 
19,  1882,  Lillian  Brewer;  children:  Car- 
rie J.,  Robert  B.,  and  Ruby  L.  Munsing. 
6.  George    D.,    born    March    8,    1858 ;    a 


noted  inventor  of  New  York  City ;  mar- 
ried Effie  MacDonald,  and  had  a  daugh- 
ter Ruth.  7.  Frank,  born  June  8,  i860, 
died  July,  1887,  unmarried.  8.  Charles, 
born  February,  1863,  died  in  infancy. 
Lucian  N.  and  M.  Martha  (Munsing) 
Lyon  are  the  parents  of  a  daughter  and 
two  sons:  i.  Georgia  Elizabeth,  born 
July  31,  1881  ;  now  a  teacher  in  Central 
High  School,  Springfield,  Massachusetts. 
2.  Norman  Bliss,  born  December  15, 
1884,  died  March  15,  1885.  3.  Irving 
Root,  born  April  29,  1887;  married  Cath- 
erine H.  Page ;  they  have  an  adopted 
daughter,  Elinor,  born  in  1915. 


McKEAN,  John  Oliphant, 

Representative   Citizen. 

John  O.  AlcKean,  who  for  the  past  two 
decades  has  been  and  is  now  (1918)  gen- 
eral superintendent  of  the  Foster  Ma- 
chine Company,  is  a  son  of  Robert 
McKean,  who  was  born  in  Fraserburg, 
Scotland,  thirty-seven  miles  north  of 
Aberdeen,  which  is  noted  for  its  fine  har- 
bor and  great  herring  fisheries.  Robert 
McKean  came  to  America,  accompanied 
by  his  wife  and  sons,  Robert  (2)  aged 
twenty,  and  John  O.,  who  was  approach- 
ing sixteen.  Robert  McKean,  Sr.,  was  a 
farmer,  and  passed  his  youthful  manhood 
at  the  home  farm,  there  remaining  some 
years  after  his  father's  death,  his  spe- 
cialty raising  sheep  for  the  London  mar- 
ket. Later  he  leased  a  farm  for  himself, 
continuing  in  the  same  business,  breed- 
ing his  sheep  upon  his  own  land,  and  then 
pasturing  them  on  the  unoccupied  areas 
surrounding  Fraserburg.  While  he  raised 
sheep  principally  for  the  market,  some 
wool  was  also  produced,  which  added  to 
the  income  of  the  farm.  He  remained 
in  this  business  until  1888,  when  he  came 
to  the  United  States  with  his  family,  set- 
tling on  a  leased  farm  at  Easton,  Massa- 


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chusetts.  Two  years  later  he  purchased 
the  farm,  and  there  conducted  general 
farming  and  dairying  very  successfully 
for  several  years.  Later  he  sold  his  Eas- 
ton  farm  and  purchased  another  at  Tuf- 
tonboro,  Carroll  county,  New  Hamp- 
shire, where  he  yet  resides.  His  New 
Hampshire  farm  is  a  fine  property,  with 
sugar  maple  orchards,  dairy  herds,  fertile 
fields  and  good  buildings.  Robert  Mc- 
Kean  married  Margaret  Oliphant,  born 
in  Fraserburg,  Scotland.  They  are  the 
parents  of  two  sons,  Robert  (2)  and 
John  O. 

Robert  (2)  McKean,  eldest  son  of  Rob- 
ert and  Margaret  (Oliphant)  McKean, 
was  born  in  Fraserburg,  Scotland,  April 
7,  1868,  and  came  to  the  United  States 
with  the  family  in  1888.  He  was  in  the 
monumental  and  granite  business  in 
Hardwick,  Vermont,  for  several  years, 
and  is  now  an  expert  gardener  at  West- 
boro,  Massachusetts.  He  married  Lena 
Deacon,  of  Quincy,  Massachusetts,  and 
has  three  children. 

John  Oliphant  McKean,  second  son  of 
Robert  and  Margaret  (Oliphant)  Mc- 
Kean, was  born  in  Fraserburg,  Scotland, 
July  21,  1871,  and  there  resided  until  al- 
most sixteen  years  of  age,  attending 
school  and  assisting  his  father.  He  came 
to  Easton,  Massachusetts,  with  the  family 
in  1888,  remained  with  his  father  as  his 
farm  assistant  until  1892,  then  entered  the 
employ  of  the  E.  J.  W.  Morse  Thread 
Company  at  Easton.  The  company  main- 
tained a  mechanical  department,  in  which 
they  built  many  experimental  machines 
for  their  own  use,  which  finally  became 
so  important  a  branch  that  the  Morse 
Machine  Company  was  organized  to 
manufacture  the  special  machines  used  in 
thread  manufacture.  It  was  in  this  ex- 
perimental department  that  Mr.  McKean 
began,  and  under  the  special  opportunity 


for  original  thought  his  natural  mechani- 
cal genius  had  free  opportunity  to 
expand.  During  the  five  years  that  he 
was  with  the  Morse  Company  in  Easton 
he  developed  rapidly,  and  when  the  shops 
and  plant  at  Easton  were  destroyed  by 
fire,  he  was  selected  as  manager  of  the 
new  plant  erected  at  Boston. 

From  Boston,  Mr.  McKean  went  to 
Newark,  New  Jersey,  in  response  to  an 
attractive  offer  made  him  by  the  Clark 
Thread  Company,  and  at  their  O.  N.  T. 
mill  there  he  built  and  installed  much 
special  machinery.  In  1899  he  came  to 
Westfield  with  the  Foster  Machine  Com- 
pany, manufacturers  of  patented  cone 
and  tube  winders  for  yarns  used  by  knit- 
ting machines.  He  still  remains  with  the 
Foster  Company,  in  charge  of  the  engi- 
neering, mechanical  and  experimental  de- 
partments, one  of  the  directors  of  the 
company,  in  fact  superintendent  of  the 
plant. 

In  addition  to  his  other  business,  he 
has  for  the  past  eight  years  been  asso- 
ciated with  Thomas  Holt  &  Company  in 
Rockdale,  England,  who  are  manufac- 
turers of  machinery  under  Mr.  McKean's 
patents,  and  during  this  time  he  has  made 
several  trips  abroad.  He  is  vice-presi- 
dent of  the  Westfield  Board  of  Trade,  Mt. 
Moriah  Lodge,  Free  and  Accepted  Ma- 
sons ;  Evening  Star  Chapter,  Royal  Arch 
Masons ;  Westfield  Council,  Royal  and 
Select  Masters ;  the  First  Congregational 
Church ;  is  a  Republican  in  politics,  and 
a  member  of  the  town  committee  of 
Westfield,  member  of  the  Westfield 
Country  Club,  and  a  member  of  the  West- 
field  Business  Club. 

Mr.  McKean  married,  December  16, 
1896,  Mabelle  E.  Mack,  born  in  North 
Easton,  Massachusetts,  daughter  of  Alex- 
ander Mack,  a  lumber  dealer,  contractor 
and  builder. 


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BRIGHT,  James  Cooper,  M.  D., 
Physician. 

A  physician  well  established  in  general 
practice  in  Fall  River,  Massachusetts, 
since  the  year  1907,  Dr.  Bright  has  since 
the  year  1873  lived  in  that  city,  being  but 
nine  months  old  when  brought  from  Eng- 
land by  his  parents.  Bright  is  an  ancient 
Anglo-Saxon  name  evolved  from  Beorht, 
Dr.  Bright  tracing  to  Abraham  Bright, 
who  founded  the  family  which  settled  in 
and  around  Manchester,  and  later  at 
Rochdale  and  Stockport.  John  Bright, 
the  greatest  English  orator  of  modern 
times,  a  contemporary  of  Richard  Cob- 
den,  and  credited  with  having  exercised 
a  greater  influence  upon  the  conduct  of 
public  affairs  in  England  and  abroad  than 
perhaps  any  other  man,  was  a  descendant 
of  this  Abraham  Bright,  and  the  great- 
great-uncle  of  Dr.  Bright,  of  Fall  River. 

Abraham  Bright  married  (first)  in 
1684,  Martha  Bright,  of  Lyneham,  Wilt- 
shire, England,  and  had  children :  John, 
born  December  26,  1689;  Mary,  1692; 
William,  1696;  Jacob,  1699;  Thomas, 
1703;  Elizabeth,  1706.  This  family  were 
first  members  of  the  Established  Church, 
but  later  joined  the  Society  of  Friends, 
and  were  buried  in  Friends  Burying 
Ground. 

Another  Abraham  Bright,  a  wool 
grower,  living  a  few  miles  from  Lyne- 
ham, married,  April  16,  171 1,  at  Lyneham, 
Dinah,  daughter  of  Abraham  Bright,  a 
serge  weaver.  Their  son  John  was  born 
in  January,  1713,  they  also  being  the  par- 
ents of  William,  Martha,  Mary,  Jacob  and 
Thomas.  In  the  year  1714,  Abraham 
Bright,  a  relative  of  the  first  Abraham 
Bright,  married  a  beautiful  Jewess,  named 
Martha  Jacobs,  and  resided  at  their  one 
and  one-quarter  acres  of  land  at  Lyneham, 
where  they  lived  for  many  years.  Their 
cottage  was  surrounded  by  apple  trees, 


and  the  little  tract  still  bears  the  name, 
"Bright's  Orchard."  From  Lyneham  they 
moved  to  Coventry,  and  there  William 
Bright,  their  son,  married,  and  probably 
was  born  there.  The  line  of  descent  is 
through  William  Bright,  son  of  Abra- 
ham and  Martha  (Jacobs)  Bright.  The 
connection  between  these  several  men 
named  Abraham  Bright  is  not  shown,  but 
there  was  a  close  family  relation  no 
doubt. 

William  Bright,  son  of  Abraham  and 
Martha  (Jacobs)  Bright,  married  (first) 
Mary  Goode,  who  was  the  mother  of 
Jacob  Bright,  head  of  the  next  generation. 

Jacob  Bright  married  Martha  Lucas, 
they  the  parents  of  eight  children,  the 
line  of  descent  being  through  Jacob  (2) 
Bright,  their  youngest  child. 

Jacob  (2)  Bright  was  born  at  Coven- 
try, England,  August  24,  1775.  He  was 
early  doubly  orphaned,  and  being  left 
without  means  was  placed  in  a  Friends 
School  at  Ackworth,  in  Yorkshire,  he 
being  a  birthright  Friend.  From  school 
he  was  apprenticed  to  a  farmer,  named 
Holme,  who  was  a  weaver,  having  four 
looms  in  operation  at  his  home.  He 
taught  the  lad  hand  loom  weaving,  and 
after  completing  his  apprenticeship  he 
joined  fortunes  with  a  friend,  William 
Few,  and  together  they  started  out  in  the 
world,  their  joint  purse  amounting  to  ten 
shillings.  In  1802,  Jacob  (2)  Bright, 
John  Taylor,  James  Bulleworth  and  Wil- 
liam Midgley  built  a  mill  at  Rochdale 
called  the  "Hanging  Room  Factory," 
which  was  the  second  factory  in  the 
town.  Jacob  Bright  ran  this  mill  until 
1809,  then  took  an  old  mill  at  Cronkey- 
shaw,  named  the  Greenbank  Mill,  and 
with  financial  assistance  from  Manches- 
ter commission  men,  rebuilt  and  restored 
the  mill,  using  the  old  engine  put  in 
by  Boulton  &  Wail,  of  Birmingham,  and 
compelling   it    to   turn    cotton   mill   ma- 


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chines.  For  fifty-eight  years,  1809  to 
1867,  with  but  one  brief  period  of  short 
duration,  he  operated  the  old  mill.  Jacob 
Bright  acted  for  a  time  as  bookkeeper  for 
William  and  John  Holme,  and  married 
their  sister  Sophia,  at  No.  71  Road 
lane,  Rochdale,  England,  who  died  aged 
twenty-eight  years,  May  10,  1806.  He 
married  (second)  a  Quakeress,  Martha 
Wood,  daughter  of  a  tradesman  of  Bol- 
ton-le-Moor,  July  21,  1809.  They  lived 
first  at  No.  28  High  street,  but  in  1810 
moved  to  Greenbank.  There  their  first 
son  was  born,  March  19,  181Q,  died  in 
1814.  Their  second  son  was  John  Bright, 
destined  to  be  a  leader  in  thought  and 
action  for  the  betterment  of  working  peo- 
ple for  all  times.  Many  children  were 
born  to  them  and  over  all,  the  mother,  a 
lady  of  fine  character,  exercised  a  strong 
influence.  Jacob  Bright,  the  father,  was 
a  leader  and  made  Greenbank  a  thriving, 
prosperous  town.  Workmen  were  kindly 
treated,  and  encouraged  to  cheerfulness 
at  their  work.  With  his  wife,  who  super- 
intended her  own  domestic  afifairs  and 
aided  her  husband  in  his  bookkeeping,  he 
maintained  a  school  which  he  taught  him- 
self, and  when  his  daughters  were  old 
enough  they  also  assisted  in  the  school. 
In  such  a  home  atmosphere  John  Bright, 
head  of  the  next  generation,  was  reared. 
Jacob  Bright  outgrew  his  small  mill  at 
Greenbank,  and  in  1823  built  a  larger 
one  on  the  other  side  of  the  Common,  and 
in  that  mill  John  Bright  learned  the 
weaver's  trade.  Jacob  Bright  built  other 
and  larger  mills  in  1842,  and  in  1845  ^^^ 
and  improved  machinery  was  installed, 
and  when,  in  1849,  he  retired,  his  sons 
succeeded  him  in  business,  operating  as 
John  Bright  &  Brothers,  the  mills  being 
known  as  the  Fieldhouse  Mills.  In  1845 
Jacob  (2)  Bright  married  a  third  wife. 
Mary  Metcalf,  a  farmer's  daughter  of 
Wensley  Dale,  in  Yorkshire.     Jacob  (2) 


Bright  died  July  7,  185 1,  at  Rose  Hill, 
Rochdale,  aged  seventy-six,  his  wife  sur- 
viving him.  The  marriages  of  Jacob 
Bright's  children  are  as  follows :  Pris- 
cilla,  married  Duncan  McLaren,  a  mem- 
ber of  Parliament  for  Edinburgh,  Scot- 
land ;  Esther,  died  in  1850,  married  a 
McVaugh,  a  barrister,  later  a  magistrate 
at  Bow  street,  London ;  Sophia,  died  May 
4,  1844,  married  Thomas  Ashworth,  of 
Poynton ;  Margaret,  married  William  S. 
Lucas ;  Benjamin,  died  March  16,  1845, 
aged  twenty-eight  years ;  Grallton,  died 
at  Bologna,  Italy,  October  27,  1853,  aged 
thirty  years;  Samuel,  died  at  Geneva, 
Switzerland,  March  27,  1873;  and  the 
three  brothers,  Thomas,  Jacob  and  John, 
who  formed  the  firm  John  Bright  & 
Brothers. 

John  Bright,  son  of  Jacob  and  Martha 
(Wood)  Bright,  was  born  at  Greenbank, 
near  Cronkeyshaw  Common,  England, 
November  16,  181 1,  died  March  27,  1889. 
From  the  day  John  Bright  made  his 
maiden  speech  in  Parliament,  August  7, 
1843,  until  he  closed  his  earthly  career, 
March  27,  1889,  he  continuously  advo- 
cated the  rights  of  man,  and  he  will  live 
in  the  memory  of  his  fellowmen  as  the 
greatest  moral  force  which  appeared  in 
English  politics  during  his  generation. 
He  was  first  brought  into  notice  by  the 
Anti-Corn  Law  agitation.  When  the  Anti- 
Corn  Law  League  was  formed  in  1839, 
he  was  one  of  its  leading  members,  and 
with  Richard  Cobden  engaged  in  an  ex- 
tensive free  trade  agitation  throughout 
the  Kingdom.  The  greatest  English 
orator  of  his  day,  he  was  incessant,  both 
at  public  meetings  and  in  Parliament,  in 
his  opposition  to  the  corn  laws,  until  they 
were  finally  repealed.  In  1845  he  ob- 
tained the  appointment  of  a  select  com- 
mittee of  the  House  of  Commons  on  the 
game  laws,  and  also  on  the  subject  of  the 
cultivation  of  cotton  in  India.    Elected  to 


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Parliament  in  1857,  ^oi"  Birmingham,  he 
seconded  the  second  reading  of  the  Con- 
spiracy Bill  which  led  to  the  overthrow 
of  Lord  Palmerston's  Government.  A 
member  of  the  Society  of  Friends,  he 
strenuously  opposed  war  with  Russia  in 
1854,  was  one  of  the  meeting  of  Friends 
which  sent  a  deputation  to  the  Czar 
Nicholas,  urging  upon  him  the  mainte- 
nance of  peace,  and  in  1855  energetically 
denounced  the  Crimean  War. 

John  Bright  married,  in  November, 
1839,  the  eldest  daughter  of  Jonathan 
Priestman,  of  Newcastle-on-Tyne.  She 
died  September  15,  1841,  leaving  a  daugh- 
ter, Helen  Priestman  Bright,  born  Octo- 
ber 10,  1840,  who  in  later  years  acted  as 
amanuensis  to  her  distinguished  father. 
For  several  years  after  his  wife's  death, 
Mr.  Bright  remained  single,  his  home 
being  under  the  management  of  his  sis- 
ter, Priscilla  Bright.  He  married  (sec- 
ond) Margaret  Elizabeth  Leatham,  daugh- 
ter of  William  Leatham,  the  banker  of 
Wakefield,  and  other  towns.  They  were 
married  at  Heath  House,  according  to 
Friends  ceremonies,  June  10,  1847.  Chil- 
dren born  to  them  were  as  follows :  John 
Albert,  Mary  Harriet,  William  Leatham, 
Anna  Elizabeth,  Margaret  Sophia,  Leon- 
ard and  Philip. 

Jacob  Bright,  born  at  Greenbank  in 
1812,  son  of  Jacob  and  Martha  (Wood) 
Bright,  and  brother  of  the  famous  Eng- 
lish orator,  John  Bright,  married  and 
had  children,  one  of  whom  was  named 
John. 

John  Bright,  born  about  1833,  son  of 
Jacob  Bright,  and  seventh  in  descent 
from  Abraham  Bright,  the  first,  married 
and  had  sons:  Richard,  William,  and 
John,  who  became  a  soldier  in  the  Eng- 
lish army. 

Richard  Bright,  son  of  John  Bright, 
was  born  at  Stockport,  England,  April  3, 
1852.      Here    he    hired    and    learned    the 


trade  of  spinning,  becoming  very  profi- 
cient in  the  art.  He  married,  early  in  life, 
Mary  Cooper,  and  resided  at  Oldham, 
where  James  Cooper  Bright,  a  son,  was 
born  December  14,  1872,  from  which 
place  the  family  removed  in  Septem- 
ber, 1873,  to  Fall  River,  Massachusetts. 
Because  of  his  knowledge  of  textile  man- 
ufacturing, Richard  Bright  quickly  found 
employment  as  a  spinner  in  the  Fall 
River  Mill,  where  he  remained  a  num- 
ber of  years,  later  in  life  purchasing  a 
homestead  at  Tiverton,  Rhode  Island, 
where  he  now  resides  and  is  engaged  in 
dairying  and  farming. 

Richard  and  Mary  Bright  were  the  par- 
ents of  three  sons  and  four  daughters : 
James  Cooper,  of  further  mention ;  John, 
born  May  18,  1874 ;  Richard,  born  De- 
cember 14,  1879;  Esther;  Lucy,  who 
married  George  Stratton,  of  the  Bowne 
Mills ;  May,  now  an  enlisted  Red  Cross 
nurse;  and  Jennie. 

James  Cooper  Bright,  eldest  child  of 
Richard  and  Mary  (Cooper)  Bright,  was 
born  December  14,  1872,  in  Oldham,  a 
municipal  parliamentary  and  county  bor- 
ough of  England,  located  within  the  con- 
fines of  Lancashire,  seven  miles  from 
Manchester,  a  centre  of  the  cotton  spin- 
ning industry  in  England.  The  follow- 
ing September,  1873,  the  family  came  to 
Fall  River,  Massachusetts,  and  in  the 
public  schools  of  that  city  and  Tiverton, 
Rhode  Island,  James  C.  obtained  his  pre- 
paratory education.  He  next  entered 
Thibedeau  Commercial  College,  teaching 
classes  in  that  institution  in  order  to 
finance  his  own  course.  The  two  years 
following  business  college  study  were 
spent  at  Colby  Academy,  and  another 
year  was  spent  as  student  at  Brown  Uni- 
versity. The  decision  to  prepare  for  the 
practice  of  medicine  was  arrived  at  while 
a  student  at  Brown's,  and  at  the  close  of 
the   University  year  he   matriculated  at 


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Baltimore  Medical  College  and  there 
spent  two  years.  He  then  entered  Jeffer- 
son Medical  College  at  Philadelphia, 
Pennsylvania,  and  was  graduated  an  M. 
D.,  class  of  1907. 

Thus  prepared,  Dr.  Bright  established 
in  practice  at  Fall  River,  in  1907,  and 
there  continues.  He  has  served  on  the 
staff  of  the  City  Hospital,  but  his  private 
practice  now  occupies  his  entire  time.  He 
is  a  member  of  the  District  Medical  and 
the  Massachusetts  State  Medical  associa- 
tions ;  is  deeply  interested  in  all  advanced 
theories  in  prevention  or  treatment  of  dis- 
eases, and  has  been  uniformly  successful 
in  his  practice  of  minor  surgery.  He  is 
a  member  of  Eureka  Lodge,  Free  and 
Accepted  Masons,  Portsmouth,  Rhode 
Island;  Royal  Arch  Masons;  DeBlois 
Council,  Royal  and  Select  Masters ;  the 
Sons  of  St.  George ;  the  Young  !\Ien's 
Benevolent  and  Protective  Society ;  and 
of  the  Baptist  church.  In  politics  he  is  a 
Republican. 

Dr.  Bright  married  at  Fall  River,  June 
9,  1909,  Mary  Jane  Tripp,  daughter  of 
John  Henry  and  Esther  W.  (Pinkham) 
Tripp,  of  Fall  River,  Massachusetts. 
John  Tripp  was  born  at  Newport.  Rhode 
Island,  a  descendant  of  John  Tripp,  from 
whom  sprang  the  many  families  of  the 
name  in  Rhode  Island  and  Southeastern 
Massachusetts.  Esther  W.  Pinkham  was 
born  on  the  Island  of  Nantucket,  daugh- 
ter of  Edward  S.  and  Mary  (Pollard) 
Pinkham.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Tripp  were  the 
parents  of  a  son,  George  Albert  Tripp, 
now  an  overseer  at  the  Bowne  Mill  at 
Fall  River,  and  of  a  daughter  Mary  J., 
wife  of  Dr.  James  C.  Bright.  Dr.  and 
Mrs.  Bright  have  no  children. 


CLARK,  James  Henry, 

Active  Business  Man. 

Three  generations  of  Clarks  have  lived 
at    Granville,    Hampden    county,   Massa- 


chusetts, Cornwall  W.  Clark,  his  son, 
Charles  Bates  Clark,  and  his  grandson, 
James  Henry  Clark,  the  former  coming 
to  Granville  from  Hartland,  Connecticut, 
where  he  resided  until  after  the  birth  of 
his  son,  Charles  B.  At  Granville  and 
Granville  Corners  the  family  resided 
many  years,  James  H.  Clark  coming  to 
Westfield  in  1876.  Cornwall  W.  Clark, 
a  farmer,  died  in  Granville,  aged  about 
seventy.  He  married  (first)  Harriet 
Bates,  an  active  member  of  the  Congre- 
gational church,  who  died  prior  to  1840. 
They  were  the  parents  of  James  Francis, 
deceased;  Charles  Bates,  of  further  men- 
tion ;  Susan,  married  George  Trask,  a 
veteran  of  the  Civil  War,  wounded  at 
Fort  Fisher,  whom  she  survives,  a  resi- 
dent of  Buffalo,  New  York ;  Henry  Corn- 
wall, deceased. 

Charles  Bates  Clark  was  born  in  Hart- 
land,  Connecticut,  January  5,  1833,  and 
still  resides  at  the  old  home  in  Granville. 
He  spent  his  very  early  years  in  Hart- 
land,  then  came  to  Granville  with  his 
father,  and  as  boy  and  man  worked  at 
farming  until  four  years  after  his  mar- 
riage. He  then  entered  the  employ  of 
Noble  &  Cooley,  the  well-known  drum 
makers  at  Granville  Corners,  remaining 
with  that  firm  for  forty-nine  years.  The 
firm  were  makers  of  other  musical  instru- 
ments, and  for  many  years  Mr.  Clark 
contracted  the  making  of  certain  parts. 
When  he  finally  retired  he  was  still 
strong  and  hearty,  and  is  yet  (1918)  in 
good  health  although  an  octogenarian. 
He  cast  his  first  presidential  vote  for 
Abraham  Lincoln,  and  has  ever  since 
acted  with  the  Republican  party.  He 
has  been  a  member  of  the  Baptist  church, 
has  served  on  the  presidential  committee, 
and  both  he  and  his  wife  are  active 
workers. 

Mr.  Clark  married,  July  4,  1858,  Caro- 
line E.  Root,  born  in  Southwick,  Massa- 
chusetts, daughter  of  Enoch  and  Marilla 


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(Sacket)  Root,  her  father  a  lumber 
dealer,  saw  mill  owner  and  manufacturer 
of  wooden  ware.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Clar.k  are 
the  parents  of  two  sons  and  a  daughter, 
and  now  (1918)  after  nearly  sixty  years 
of  wedded  life,  reside  at  the  old  Granville 
home.  Children:  i.  James  Henry,  of 
further  mention.  2.  Harriet  M.,  born 
February  14,  1863,  married  Arthur  A. 
Tubbs,  who  is  employed  in  a  market,  and 
resides  in  Springfield,  Massachusetts ; 
they  have  two  sons,  Robert  J.  Tubbs, 
born  January  23,  1888,  at  Holyoke,  Mas- 
sachusetts, cashier  of  the  Westfield  Co- 
operative Bank,  married,  September  25, 
1913,  Lucile  V.  Carter,  and  has  a  son, 
Roger  Carter  Tubbs,  born  July  30,  1914; 
Clarence  Raymond  Tubbs,  born  August 
17,  1896,  at  Holyoke,  is  a  graduate  of 
Springfield  High  School,  class  of  1914, 
specialized  in  mechanical  drawing,  and 
is  now  a  draughtsman  in  the  employ  of 
McClintock  &  Craig,  architects  and  engi- 
neers of  Springfield  ;  also  a  daughter,  died 
in  infancy.  3.  Charles  A.,  born  at  Gran- 
ville, November,  1874,  now  with  the 
Rackliffe  Hardware  Company  of  Spring- 
field ;  he  married  Louise  Swartz,  of  Al- 
bany, New  York,  and  has  a  daughter, 
Edith  Louise  Clark,  born  September, 
1899,  now  residing  in  Westfield. 

James  Henry  Clark,  eldest  son  of 
Charles  Bates  and  Caroline  E.  (Root) 
Clark,  was  born  in  Granville,  Massachu- 
setts, June  I,  1859,  and  there  attended  the 
public  schools  until  seventeen  years  of 
age.  In  1876  he  came  to  Westfield,  enter- 
ing the  employ  of  O.  A.  Granger,  dealer 
in  groceries  and  farming  implements, 
with  whom  he  remained  twelve  years. 
During  the  years,  1888-89,  he  was  book- 
keeper for  Snow  &  Hayes,  and  in  1899 
formed  a  partnership  with  James  Savery 
to  conduct  a  general  insurance  business. 
They  operated  together  for  several  years, 
Mr.  Clark  then  purchasing  his  partner's 


interest  and  has  since  continued  the  bus- 
iness alone.  He  has  also  been  treasurer 
of  the  Westfield  Co-operative  Bank  since 
1900.  A  Republican  in  politics,  Mr. 
Clark  served  two  years  as  selectman  and 
chairman  of  the  board.  He  has  been  a 
member  of  the  First  Methodist  Episcopal 
Church  for  thirty-five  years,  a  member 
and  treasurer  of  the  board  of  trustees.  He 
is  a  member  of  Mt.  Moriah  Lodge,  Free 
and  Accepted  Masons  ;  Metacomet  Tribe, 
Improved  Order  of  Red  Men ;  the  West- 
field  and  Tekoa  clubs. 

Mr.  Clark  married,  June  i,  1882,  Caro- 
line Elizabeth  Tobey,  born  in  Westfield, 
August  23,  1861,  daughter  of  Elisha  and 
Melissa  (Shepard)  Tobey,  her  father  born 
in  Amenia,  New  York,  coming  to  West- 
field,  a  railroad  contractor.  Melissa  Shep- 
ard was  a  daughter  of  Russel  Shepard, 
and  a  great-granddaughter  of  General 
William  Shepard,  elsewhere  mentioned  in 
this  work. 


CARON,  Amable  Berthelot,  M.  D., 

Physician,  Surgeon. 

Among  the  physicians  of  Fall  River 
the  name  of  Amable  Berthelot  Caron 
stands  high,  he  having  identified  himself 
most  closely  with  the  life  of  that  city 
since  the  year  1900.  He  now  enjoys  a 
reputation  as  a  profound  student  and 
able  practitioner,  and  is  a  man  whose 
qualifications  for  the  profession  which  he 
practices  are  of  the  most  eminent  kind. 
Dr.  Caron  is  a  member  of  an  old,  hon- 
ored and  renowned  French  family,  which 
has  resided  for  a  number  of  years  in  the 
Province  of  Quebec,  Canada,  to  which 
place  it  came  in  the  person  of  his  grand- 
father, Dr.  Amable  Berthelot,  a  native  of 
France,  who  emigrated  thence  to  the  new 
world  as  a  young  man,  settling  in  Que- 
bec. He  was  a  physician  and  built  up  an 
excellent   practice   in   his   adopted   home. 


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He  was  a  Patriot  in  1837.  He  was  a  son 
of  Amable  Berthelot,  of  France,  who  was 
a  branch  of  the  family  tree  of  Amable 
Berthelot  d'  Artigny,  book  lover  and  lit- 
erary man  of  high  renown.  Amable  Ber- 
thelot d'  Artigny  and  his  wife  were  the 
parents  of  three  daughters,  the  yotingest 
daughter,  Marie  Berthelot  d'  Artigny, 
also  of  Quebec,  married  Onesime  Caron, 
who  was  a  well-known  attorney  in  Can- 
ada, an  earnest  advocate  at  the  bar  of 
that  country,  took  an  active  part  and  was 
a  conspicuous  figure  in  the  life  of  the 
community  generally.  They  were  the 
parents  of  Dr.  Amable  Berthelot  Caron, 
last  descendant  of  that  branch,  taking  the 
family  name  of  Berthelot-Caron,  of  this 
review. 

Dr.  Amable  Berthelot  Caron  is  related 
to  Judge  Berthelot,  of  Montreal,  Canada, 
and  is  a  descendant,  as  above  stated,  of 
the  Berthelot  d'Artigny  family,  and  the 
last  heir  direct  of  a  right  to  royalty  in 
land  which  has  been  in  the  family  for 
many  generations.  He  is  also  related  to 
Sir  Hippolite  LaFontaine,  his  great- 
uncle.  Prime  Minister  of  Canada;  to  Hon. 
Pierre  Antoine  de  Blois,  Senator;  Sir  L. 
H.  Mercier,  distant  relative.  Prime  Min- 
ister of  Quebec ;  Sir  A.  P.  Caron ; 
Faucher  de  St.  Maurice,  Des  Alps  Meri- 
tines,  a  deputy  and  literary  man,  an  hon- 
orary president  of  the  Press  of  the  Prov- 
ince of  Quebec;  N.  H.  E.  Faucher  de  St. 
Maurice,  his  uncle,  captain  of  the  Second 
Battalion  of  Infantry  in  Africa,  in  the 
French  army,  a  chevalier  of  the  Legion  of 
Honor ;  he  was  a  follower  of  the  Em- 
peror Maximillian  in  Mexico  and  received 
a  decoration  from  Napoleon  HI.  and 
Guadeloupe  Medal,  "Merit  and  Forti- 
tude," decorated  Chevalier  No.  II. 

Dr.  Amable  Verthelot  Caron  was  born 
at  St.  Francois  du  Lac  Comte  d'Yamaska, 
Province  of  Quebec,  Canada,  June  25, 
1876.    He  was  very  young  when  he  began 


his  studies  at  home  with  private  teachers, 
under  the  guidance  of  his  uncle,  afore- 
mentioned. At  the  age  of  five  years  the 
Honorable  Chapleau,  a  friend  of  the  fam- 
ily, gave  him  his  first  lesson  in  declama- 
tion. After  a  complete  commercial  course 
he  went  to  the  Quebec  Seminary  to  take 
his  classic  course.  He  studied  music 
under  Professor  Desrochers ;  drawing, 
oil  painting,  water  colors  under  Profes- 
sor Lefebvre  and  Roullet ;  singing  under 
Professor  Gierke ;  pen  drawing  and 
sculpture  under  Professor  Ledieu ;  litera- 
ture under  S.  G.  Mgr.  Begin,  Archbishop 
of  Quebec.  He  pursued  his  medical  stud- 
ies at  the  Laval  University  of  Quebec  and 
Montreal.  He  followed  private  courses 
under  Drs.  Jeanotte,  Breman,  and  Sir 
William  Kingston.  He  studied  practical 
chemistry  under  Professor  Levesque.  In 
public  speaking  and  oratory  he  received 
first  prize  from  the  Lieutenant  Governor 
Chapleau,  and  he  graduated  in  dramatic 
art  under  Professor  Rivard.  After  grad- 
uation in  these  studies  and  in  medicine  in 
Montreal,  he  came  to  Fall  River,  Massa- 
chusetts, in  1900,  and  began  the  general 
practice  of  medicine  and  surgery,  spe- 
cializing in  diseases  of  women  and  chil- 
dren. He  is  now  one  of  the  leaders  of  his 
profession  in  the  city,  and  is  looked  upon 
as  an  authority  on  many  medical  subjects 
and  as  a  diagnostician  of  the  first  rank. 
He  is  also  an  author,  having  composed 
many  musical  poems  which  have  been 
published. 

The  demands  upon  his  time  and  energy 
made  by  his  profession  render  it  impos- 
sible for  Dr.  Caron  to  take  as  active  a 
part  in  the  general  life  of  the  community 
as  his  inclinations  would  otherwise  urge 
and  his  abilities  and  talents  would  seem 
to  fit  him  for.  He  is  a  member  of  the  Fall 
River  Medical  Society  and  the  American 
Medical  Association.  As  a  young  man 
in   Canada,   Dr.   Caron   served   for  three 


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years  in  the  Ninth  Battery  of  Artillery  in 
Quebec,  but  since  coming  to  this  coun- 
try has  not  joined  any  military  organi- 
zation. He  manifests  a  keen  interest  in 
all  matters  concerning  public  afifairs,  and 
is  an  original  thinker  on  questions  con- 
cerning large  political  issues.  He  may 
be  classed  as  an  independent  Republican 
in  politics,  but  does  not  allow  partisan 
considerations  to  influence  him  where 
the  welfare  of  the  community  is  con- 
cerned. He  attends  the  Church  of  Notre 
Dame    (Roman   Catholic)   in  Fall  River. 

Dr.  Caron  married,  June  lo,  1900,  Jo- 
sephine Lynch,  a  native  of  Canada,  born 
in  1882,  a  daughter  of  Owen  and  Vital- 
line  Lynch,  old  and  highly  respected  res- 
idents of  Quebec,  where  her  father  was 
the  head  of  a  large  business  firm.  Their 
eldest  son,  Amable  Berthelot  Caron,  Jr., 
will  become  a  physician,  keeping  up  the 
traditions  of  this  very  distinguished  line 
of  ancestors.  The  other  children  are  of 
tender  age. 

The  place  held  by  Dr.  Caron  in  the 
community  is  one  that  any  man  might 
desire,  but  it  is  one  that  he  deserves  in 
every  particular,  one  that  he  gained  by  no 
chance  fortune  but  by  hard  and  industri- 
ous work,  and  a  most  liberal  treatment 
of  his  fellow-men.  Dr.  Caron  performs  a 
large  amount  of  philanthropic  work  in 
the  city,  and  is  greatly  beloved  by  the 
poorer  classes  there.  It  is  the  function  of 
the  physician  to  bring  good  cheer  and 
encouragement  almost  as  much  as  the 
more  material  assistance  generally  asso- 
ciated with  his  profession,  and  often  it 
forms  the  major  part  of  his  treatment, 
and  for  this  office  Dr.  Caron  is  peculiarly 
fitted  both  by  temperament  and  phil- 
osophy. There  is  much  that  is  depress- 
ing about  the  practice  of  medicine,  the 
constant  contact  with  sufifering  and 
death,  yet  the  fundamental  cheerfulness 
of  Dr.  Caron  never  suflfers  eclipse  and  is 


noticeable  in  every  relation  of  his  life. 
In  his  home  life  Dr.  Caron  is  the  most 
exemplary  of  men,  a  loving  husband  and 
a  hospitable  and  charming  host.  In  Dr. 
Caron's  cemetery  lot  in  Quebec  there  is 
a  place  given  to  France — a  place  in  the 
English  Dominion  where  the  French 
flag  may  be  seen — it  is  a  corner  given  to 
sailors  of  France  who  died  in  front  of 
Quebec  in  a  man-of-war — they  were  bur- 
ied with  military  honors  near  his  uncle, 
Faucher  de  St.  Maurice,  who  was  buried 
in  a  French  flag. 


PALMER,  Percy  Silliman, 

Representative   Citizen. 

Percy  Silliman  Palmer,  agent  and 
treasurer  of  the  Massasoit  Manufacturing 
Company  of  Fall  River,  Massachusetts,  is 
a  scion  of  a  family  whose  members  have 
long  been  distinguished  in  the  business 
and  professional  life  of  that  State,  and 
also  of  the  State  of  Connecticut. 

(I)  Walter  Palmer,  the  ancestor  of  the 
family  in  America,  was  born  in  England 
as  early  as  1598.  He  came  to  the  Ameri- 
can Colonies  in  1629,  accompanied  by  his 
brother  who  was  a  merchant.  Walter 
Palmer  settled  at  Salem,  and  was  a 
founder  of  Charlestown,  Massachusetts, 
where  it  is  said  he  built  the  first  dwelling 
house  in  the  town.  In  1643  ^^  removed 
to  Plymouth  Colony  and  with  others 
joined  in  the  organization  of  the  town 
of  Rehoboth,  Massachusetts.  In  1653  he 
located  in  Stonington,  Connecticut,  and 
there  died  November  10,  1661.  He  mar- 
ried (first)  June  i,  1633,  Rebecca  Short. 

(II)  Gershom  Palmer,  son  of  Walter 
and  Rebecca  (Short)  Palmer,  was  born 
in  Rehoboth,  and  died  in  Stonington, 
where  he  had  located,  in  1719.  He  served 
in  the  Colonial  Wars.  He  married  (first) 
November  28,  1667,  Ann,  daughter  of 
Captain    George    and    Ann     (Bardwell) 


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Denison,  and  she  died  in  1694;  he  mar- 
ried (second)  November  11,  1707,  Mrs. 
Elizabeth  Mason,  whose  maiden  name 
was  Peck. 

(III)  George  Palmer,  fourth  son  of 
Gershom  and  Ann  (Denison)  Palmer, 
was  born  May  29,  1681.  He  married, 
March  24,  171 1,  Hannah  Palmer. 

(IV)  Gershom  (2)  Palmer,  youngest 
son  of  George  and  Hannah  Palmer,  was 
born  October  13,  1722,  and  lived  in  Pres- 
ton, Connecticut,  where  he  married,  No- 
vember 5,  1747,  Dorothy  Brown,  of  that 
town. 

(V)  Elder  Reuben  Palmer,  eldest  son 
and  fourth  child  of  Gershom  (2)  and 
Dorothy  (Brown)  Palmer,  was  born  June 
12,  1759.  He  was  ordained  a  Baptist 
elder  in  North  Stonington,  and  while 
pastor  there  received  a  call  to  the  old 
Baptist  church  at  Montville,  Connecticut, 
which  he  accepted.  He  was  the  active 
pastor  of  that  church  from  May  3,  1788, 
to  December  25,  1793.  On  the  latter  date 
he  was  publicly  installed  pastor  of  the 
church,  which  office  he  held  until  he  died, 
April  22,  1822,  at  the  age  of  sixty-three 
years.  He  married,  November  16,  1780, 
Lucretia  Tyler,  daughter  of  Caleb  and 
Hannah  (Barnes)  Tyler,  of  Preston,  who 
survived  him,  and  died  August  15,  1852, 
aged  ninety-one  years. 

(VI)  Gideon  Palmer,  fourth  son  and 
sixth  child  of  Elder  Reuben  and  Lucre- 
tia (Tyler)  Palmer,  was  born  October 
23,  1793,  in  Montville,  and  died  there  July 
12,  1854,  one  of  its  most  respected  and 
leading  citizens.  He  was  the  owner  of 
large  tracts  of  land  in  Montville  on  both 
sides  of  the  Oxoboxo  river,  where  he 
installed  several  water  powers.  In  his 
younger  years  he  was  associated  in  vari- 
ous capacities  with  his  father,  among 
them  being  the  occupation  of  extracting 
oil  from  flax  seed.  Mr.  Palmer  developed 
and  obtained  a  patent  for  extracting  oil 


from  cotton  seed  and  this  original  docu- 
ment is  now  in  the  possession  of  I.  E. 
Palmer,  of  Middletown,  Connecticut.  His 
son,  Elisha  H.  Palmer,  became  associated 
with  him  in  the  business  and  branches 
were  established  in  several  parts  of  the 
South ;  cotton  gins  were  manufactured  in 
Connecticut.  Mr.  Palmer  was  a  public- 
spirited  man  who  favored  whatever  en- 
terprise would  enchance  the  general  wel- 
fare of  the  public.  He  was  ever  striving 
to  further  public  improvements,  and  it 
was  mainly  through  his  efforts  that  the 
highway  along  the  north  side  of  the  Oxo- 
boxo river  was  built.  He  was  a  most 
ardent  opponent  of  the  liquor  interests, 
and  an  advocate  of  temperance  and  the 
abolition  of  slaves.  He  fought  for  both 
of  these  measures  with  great  ardor  and 
zeal  at  every  opportunity  throughout  his 
active  life.  Mr.  Palmer  married,  June  11, 
1813,  Mercy  Maria  Turner,  born  in  Mont- 
ville, June  29,  1795,  died  there  Septem- 
ber 17,  1870,  daughter  of  Isaac  and  Anna 
(Comstock)  Turner. 

(VII)  Elisha  H.  Palmer,  son  of  Gideon 
and  Mercy  Maria  (Turner)  Palmer,  was 
born  in  Montville,  June  23,  1814,  and 
there  died,  January  9,  1893.  Very  early 
in  life  he  entered  upon  a  business  career 
that  was  destined  to  be  a  brilliant  one  in 
many  respects.  Like  his  father  he  never 
lost  sight  of  the  needs  of  his  native  town, 
and  was  ever  foremost  in  the  promotion 
of  any  reform.  He  was  also  an  enthusias- 
tic advocate  of  Prohibition,  and  in  its 
behalf  devoted  considerable  of  his  time 
to  public  speaking.  He  lived  to  see  the 
abolition  of  slavery  become  a  reality,  a 
measure  both  he  and  his  honored  father 
had  ever  upheld  and  did  much  to  bring 
about.  In  1854  Mr.  Palmer  was  a  repre- 
sentative to  the  Legislature  and  fought 
for  the  Maine  Law.  So  well  did  he  per- 
form the  duties  incumbent  upon  that 
office  that  he  was  again  the  choice  of  his 


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constituents  in  1864  and  yet  a  third  time 
in  1866.  The  latter  year  he  was  the  rep- 
resentative of  the  Ninth  Senatorial  Dis- 
trict in  the  Senate.  For  four  years  he 
was  town  clerk,  and  selectman  for  a  simi- 
lar period.  At  one  time  he  held  the  office 
of  president  of  the  Palmer  Re-Union 
Association.  He  married,  November  30, 
1837,  Ellis  Loomis,  born  January  26,  1814, 
daughter  of  Joel  and  Ellis  (Chappell) 
Loomis,  of  Lyme,  Connecticut.  She  died 
January  9,  1893. 

(VIII)  Edward  A.  Palmer,  son  of 
Elisha  H.  and  Ellis  (Loomis)  Palmer, 
was  born  in  Montville,  May  28,  1843,  '^''"^ 
died  there,  January  13,  1899.  He  was  a 
member  and  one  of  the  founders  of  the 
Palmer  Brothers  Company,  manufactur- 
ers of  bed  quilts,  and  had  charge  of  their 
New  York  office.  He  was  a  most  capable 
business  executive.  A  man  greatly 
beloved  by  his  towns-people  and  fellow- 
citizens,  he  gave  generously  to  the  needy, 
but  in  a  most  unostentatious  manner.  He 
was  ever  ready  to  help  in  those  move- 
ments which  were  of  benefit  to  the  public- 
at-large.  He  contributed  generously  to 
help  build  the  highway  in  Montville,  and 
also  helped  build  the  school  at  Palmer- 
town,  Connecticut.  Mr.  Palmer  served  in 
the  Civil  War;  he  was  attending  the 
Greenwich  Academy  when  the  war  broke 
out  in  1861,  and  enlisted  in  a  Rhode  Island 
Regiment.  He  married,  May  28,  1870, 
Isabelle  Mitchell,  daughter  of  William 
Minott  and  Delia  (Silliman)  Mitchell. 
William  Minott  Mitchell  was  a  prominent 
attorney  of  New  York  City,  while  his 
wife,  Delia  (Silliman)  Mitchell,  was  a 
descendant  of  Benjamin  Silliman,  who 
was  called  "The  Father  of  Natural  Sci- 
ence" at  Yale  University.  Mr.  and  Mrs. 
Palmer  were  the  parents  of  two  sons  and 
a  daughter:  Edward  Augustus,  Grace 
Estelle,  and  Percy  Silliman,  of  further 
mention. 


(IX)  Percy  Silliman  Palmer,  youngest 
child  of  Edward  A.  and  Isabelle  (Mit- 
chell) Palmer,  was  born  in  Montville, 
Connecticut,  November  28,  1882.  He 
attended  the  local  schools  of  his  native 
town  and  of  New  London.  He  prepared 
for  college  at  the  Thatcher  School  of 
New  York  City,  graduating  from  Phil- 
lips Andover  in  the  class  of  1898.  Sub- 
sequently, Mr.  Palmer  engaged  in  busi- 
ness in  the  office  of  Palmer  Brothers  at 
New  London,  Connecticut,  and  through 
his  inherent  ability  rapidly  rose  until  he 
was  appointed  manager  of  the  Massa- 
soit  Manufacturing  Company's  Connec- 
ticut Plant  in  1907.  He  brought  to  this 
position  those  qualities  of  executive  abil- 
ity which  were  early  discerned  in  his 
character,  and  under  his  capable  and  judi- 
cious management  the  concern  flourished, 
and  the  output  of  business  was  very 
large.  Mr.  Palmer  continued  to  manage 
this  plant  until  1917,  in  which  year  he 
came  to  Fall  River,  where  he  entered  the 
employ  of  the  same  concern  in  their  Mas- 
sachusetts plant,  in  a  clerical  capacity. 
The  Massasoit  Manufacturing  Company 
is  one  of  the  most  prosperous  industrial 
establishments  of  Fall  River,  and  one  of 
the  largest  waste  converting  concerns  in 
the  world.  Mr.  Palmer  continued  in  the 
office  at  Fall  River,  performing  his  duties 
in  the  same  competent  manner  that  has 
marked  his  entire  business  career,  and  in 
1918,  upon  the  death  of  Wendell  E. 
Turner,  who  was  the  founder  of  this 
company,  and  also  its  treasurer  and  man- 
ager, Mr.  Palmer  was  made  agent  and 
treasurer  by  the  new  board.  He  is  a  Re- 
publican in  politics,  and  like  his  worthy 
forefathers  an  earnest  advocate  of  all 
public  measures  for  the  uplift  and  general 
good  of  the  community.  He  is  not  a 
seeker  in  any  way  for  public  ofifice.  So- 
cially, Mr.  Palmer  is  a  member  of  the 
Quepuechan   Club  of  Fall  River,  Rhode 


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Island  Country  Club,  Fall  River  Country- 
Club,  and  Thames  Club  of  New  London, 
Connecticut. 

Mr.  Palmer  married  at  Providence, 
Rhode  Island,  March  23,  1901,  Edna 
Pratt,  daughter  of  George  and  Emily 
(Comstock)  Pratt,  of  Norwich,  Connecti- 
cut. Mr.  and  Mrs.  Palmer  are  the  par- 
ents of  three  children:  Walter  Everett, 
born  October  20,  1904;  Wendell  Turner, 
April  21,  1912;  Isabelle  Mitchell,  May 
20,  1914.  The  family  are  members  of  the 
First  Congregational  Church  of  Fall 
River,  Massachusetts. 


SIMMONS,  Ralph  Hayward,  M.  D., 

Physician. 

Moses  Simmons,  the  first  of  the  family, 
came  to  the  Plymouth  Colony  in  the  ship 
"Fortune"  in  1621.  His  name  was  also 
spelled  Simonson,  Synomnson  and  Sy- 
mondson,  but  most  of  his  descendants 
have  followed  the  spelling  Simmons.  He 
was  one  of  the  Pilgrims  in  Holland  and 
Governor  Winslow  called  him  "a  child  of 
one  that  was  in  communion  with  the 
Dutch  church  at  Leyden,"  and  as  being 
"admitted  also  to  baptism  as  well  as  our 
own."  He  shared  in  the  division  of  com- 
mon lands  in  Plymouth  in  1623  and  again 
in  the  division  of  cattle  in  1627.  Before 
1637  he  located  in  Duxbury,  and  in  1638- 
39  was  granted  forty  acres  in  that  town. 
He  was  one  of  the  original  proprietors  of 
Bridgewater,  but  sold  his  share  and  did 
not  settle  there.  In  1662  he  was  one 
of  the  proprietors  of  Middleborough. 
Through  his  two  sons,  Moses  and  Thomas, 
are  descended  the  Colonial  Simmons 
families  of  Southeastern  Massachusetts. 
Thomas  Simmons,  a  householder  in  Scit- 
uate  before  1647,  had  sons,  Moses  and 
Aaron. 

(II)  Moses  (2)  Simmons,  son  of  Moses 
(i)  Simmons,  lived  in  Duxbury  and  died 

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there  in  1689.  Several  of  his  children 
married  into  Mayflower  stock.  By  his 
wife  Sarah  he  had :  John,  married  Mercy 
Peabody ;  Aaron,  mentioned  below  ;  Mary, 
married  Joseph  Alden ;  Elizabeth,  mar- 
ried Richard  Dwelley ;  Sarah,  married 
James  Nash. 

(HI)  Aaron  Simmons,  son  of  Moses 
(2)  Simmons,  lived  in  Duxbury.  Chldren, 
according  to  Windsor  History ;  John, 
mentioned  below ;  Benjamin,  married 
(first)  Sarah  Sampson,  and  (second) 
Priscilla  Delano ;  Joseph,  born  in  1683, 
married  Mary  Weston ;  Joshua,  born 
1688,  married  Sarah  Delano ;  Rebecca, 
married  Constant  Southworth. 

(IV)  John  Simmons,  son  of  Aaron 
Simmons,  married,  November  4,  1715, 
Susanna  Tracy,  who  died  September  12, 
1756,  aged  eighty-two  years.  Children, 
born  at  Duxbury :  John,  mentioned 
below;  Ruth,  born  April  26,  1719;  Joel, 
February  5,  1723;  Leah,  September  7, 
1728. 

(V)  John  (2)  Simmons,  son  of  John 
(i)  Simmons,  was  born  at  Duxbury,  Au- 
gust 22,  1716.  He  married,  October  21, 
1736,  Hopestill  Stetson,  daughter  of 
Elisha  Stetson,  of  Plymouth.  She  lived 
in  that  part  of  Plymouth  set  off  as  Kings- 
ton, and  was  baptized  with  her  brothers 
and  sisters,  March  19,  1721.  Children  of 
John  Simmons,  born  at  Kingston :  Faith, 
June  2^,  1738;  Noah,  mentioned  below; 
Eunice,  March  8,  1742-43 ;  John,  August 
29,  1746. 

(VI)  Noah  Simmons,  son  of  John  (2) 
Simmons,  was  born  in  Kingston,  Janu- 
ary 15,  1739-40.  He  was  a  bloomer  by 
trade,  also  a  farmer.  He  died  at  Kings- 
ton, May  30,  1824,  aged  eighty-four  years, 
but  one  record  gives  his  age  as  eighty- 
eight  years.  He  was  a  soldier  in  the 
Revolution,  a  private  in  Captain  Samuel 
Nelson's  company,  Colonel  Willard's  reg- 
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lieutenant  in  Captain  Ebenezer  Wash- 
burn's company,  Colonel  Theophilus  Cot- 
ton's regiment,  in  1778.  (See  Mass.  Sol- 
diers and  Sailors  of  the  Revolutionary 
War,  Vol.  2,  p.  250).  He  married  (first) 
(intentions  dated  May  25,  1763)  Lydia 
Howland ;  (second)  (intentions  dated 
August  17,  1771)  Diana  Keene,  but  by 
somebody's  error  all  his  children  are 
recorded  to  wife  Molly  except  Hezekiah. 
Molly  may  have  been  his  third  wife. 
Children,  born  at  Kingston :  Elizabeth, 
born  September  15,  1764;  Silvester,  June 
28,  1768;  Hezekiah,  mentioned  below; 
Diana,  July  i,  1774;  Noah,  November  22, 
1775;  William,  May  7,  1777;  Noah,  De- 
cember 25,  1778;  James,  March  12,  1781 ; 
Oliver,  December  19,  1782 ;  Joseph, 
March  29,  1785 ;  Peleg,  December  30, 
1788;  Lydia,  September  17,  1791 ;  Mar- 
tin, January  26,  1794. 

(VII)  Hezekiah  Simmons,  son  of  Noah 
and  Diana  (Keene)  Simmons,  was  born 
at  Kingston,  January  17,  1772.  He  was 
master  of  a  coasting  vessel  which  plied 
between  Kingston  and  ports  of  the 
Southern  States,  and  in  1816  was  lost  at 
sea  with  his  vessel  and  entire  crew.  He 
married  Lydia  Weston,  of  Duxbury,  who 
married  (second)  Captain  John  McLauth- 
lin  or  McLaughlin,  of  Kingston,  and  she 
died  there  in  1850.  Children  of  Captain 
Hezekiah  Simmons:  i.  Charles,  born  in 
1803,  died  1863;  a  shoemaker;  married 
Almira  Bisbee.  2.  Lydia,  married  (first) 
Elijah  Witherell,  and  (second)  Nathan- 
iel Waterman.  3.  Hezekiah,  Jr.,  settled 
in  Monmouth  county,  Illinois,  became  a 
leading  citizen,  and  died  there ;  married 
Zoa  Dudley,  of  Easton,  Massachusetts. 
4.  Diana,  an  invalid,  died  at  Kingston, 
unmarried,  aged  forty-two  years.  5. 
Maria,  married  George  Croome,  of  Bos- 
ton ;  died  at  Arlington,  aged  eighty 
years.  6.  Weston,  mentioned  below.  7. 
Levi,  died  in  the  West;    married   (first) 


Sarah    Shepardson,    and    (second)    Lucy 
Shepardson,  her  sister. 

(VIII)  Weston  Simmons,  son  of  Heze- 
kiah Simmons,  was  born  in  Kingston, 
July  15,  181 1,  died  January  20,  1883.  In 
early  life  he  learned  the  trade  of  black- 
smith and  followed  it  for  a  number  of 
years.  He  was  afterward  associated  with 
his  elder  brother  Hezekiah  in  the  manu- 
facture of  hayforks  and  continued  the 
business  after  his  partner  went  West. 
About  1828  he  came  to  North  Bridge- 
water,  now  Brockton,  and  followed  his 
trade  in  the  employ  of  Tyler  Cobb,  Silas 
V.  Tuck  and  others,  in  the  manufacture 
of  tools  for  shoemaking.  He  was  a  skill- 
ful mechanic.  In  April,  1855,  he  was 
appointed  warden  of  the  almshouse  and 
had  charge  of  it  for  the  next  ten  years. 
In  early  life  he  was  a  Whig,  later  a  Re- 
publican to  the  end  of  his  life.  He  served 
on  the  school  committee  of  district  No. 
10  for  a  number  of  years.  In  early  life 
he  attended  the  Church  of  the  New  Jeru- 
salem, but  was  afterward  a  Congrega- 
tionalist.  He  married,  October  12,  1842, 
Esther  Hayward,  daughter  of  Joseph  and 
Esther  (Ripley)  Hayward,  and  a  descend- 
ant in  the  fifth  generation  from  Thomas 
Hayward,  who  came  from  England  in 
1638  and  settled  in  Duxbury,  later  in 
Bridgewater.  Children :  Weston  Hay- 
ward, born  August  21,  1843,  "^'^d  Sep- 
tember 3,  1843 ;  George  Weston,  men- 
tioned below ;  Esther  Minerva,  born  No- 
vember 4,  1846,  married  Thomas  A.  Bax- 
endale,  of  Brockton ;  John,  born  April 
29,  1850;  Joseph  Lyman,  born  March  29, 
1859,  died  September  18,  1859. 

(IX)  George  Weston  Simmons,  son  of 
Weston  Simmons,  was  born  July  28,  1844, 
and  died  at  Brockton,  March,  1896.  He 
was  a  carpenter  and  builder  in  Somerset, 
Massachusetts.  In  religion  he  was  a 
Methodist. 

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of  George  Weston  Simmons,  was  a 
contractor  and  builder.  He  married  Hat- 
tie  Alice  Hayward,  a  native  of  Brockton. 
(XI)  Dr.  Ralph  Hayward  Simmons, 
son  of  William  Wallace  Simmons,  was 
born  in  Brockton,  December  17,  1889.  He 
received  his  education  in  the  public 
schools  of  his  native  town,  graduating 
from  the  Brockton  High  School  in  1909, 
and  at  Tufts  College,  from  which  he  was 
graduated  with  the  degree  of  M.  D.,  in 
1913.  For  three  years  and  a  half  Dr. 
Simmons  was  on  the  staff  of  the  Fall 
River  Hospital.  He  is  now  in  private 
practice  in  Fall  River.  He  is  a  member 
of  the  Bristol  County  Medical  Society, 
the  Massachusetts  State  Medical  Society, 
the  American  Medical  Association  and 
the  Tufts  Alumni  Association.     He  is  a 

member  also  of  Lodge,  Ancient 

Free  and  Accepted  Masons ;  of  Fall  River 
Chapter,  Royal  Arch  Masons ;  of  Fall 
River  Council,  Royal  and  Select  Masters ; 
and  of  Godfrey  de  Bouillon  Command- 
ery.  Knights  Templar,  of  Fall  River.  In 
politics  he  is  a  Republican.  He  has 
served  for  a  number  of  years  in  the  Re- 
serve Corps  of  the  United  States  and  has 
the  rank  of  first  lieutenant. 


PARKER,  Josiah  Alden, 

Manufacturer. 

From  boyhood  until  within  a  few 
years  of  his  death,  Josiah  Alden  Parker 
was  engaged  in  shoe  manufacture,  con- 
tinuing a  business  founded  by  his  father 
in  Chicopee,  Massachvisetts,  the  birth- 
place and  lifelong  residence  of  the  son. 

Josiah  A.  Parker  was  a  grandson  of 
Josiah  Parker,  born  in  Sutton,  Massachu- 
setts, January  31,  1771,  and  died  in  Chico- 
pee, Massachusetts,  November  25,  1851, 
a  carpenter  by  trade.  After  his  marriage 
he  lived  in  North  Brookfield,  Massachu- 
setts, and  there  his  children  were  born. 


He  married,  January  6,  1796,  Mary 
Haskell,  born  September  2,  1774,  died  in 
Brookfield,  Massachusetts,  December  14, 
1832.  Children:  Mary,  born  August  27, 
1797,  married  Samuel  Jennings;  Adol- 
phus  Gustavus,  of  further  mention ;  Re- 
bekah,  born  October  3,  1803,  married 
Dwight  Combs ;  Hiram,  married  Sarah 
P.  Craft,  and  moved  to  Pottsville,  Penn- 
sylvania ;  Erasmus,  born  June  4,  1808, 
married  Matilda  Humphrey;  Israel,  born 
January  22,  1813,  married  Dorcas  Gil- 
bert; Ruth  M.,  born  January  27,  181 5, 
married  Elias  Dorr. 

Adolphus  Gustavus  Parker,  eldest  son 
of  Josiah  and  Mary  (Haskell)  Parker, 
was  born  in  North  Brookfield,  Massachu- 
setts, June  23,  1801,  and  died  in  Chicopee, 
Massachusetts,  May  31,  1883.  He  learned 
the  shoemaker's  trade  in  Brookfield,  and 
prior  to  1833  moved  to  Chicopee,  later 
becoming  a  shoe  manufacturer,  a  business 
he  conducted  until  his  death,  at  the  age 
of  eighty-two  years.  He  was  a  man  of 
prominence  in  his  town,  and  in  his 
younger  years  influential  in  public  affairs. 
He  was  a  member  of  the  Massachusetts 
Constitutional  Convention  of  1853,  and 
held  responsible  position  in  the  town  for 
many  years.  He  married  Louisa  Chapin, 
and  they  were  the  parents  of  a  daughter, 
Eleanor,  who  died  in  infancy ;  and  a  son, 
Josiah  Alden,  whose  career  is  herein 
traced. 

Josiah  Alden  Parker,  only  son  of  Adol- 
phus Gustavus  and  Louisa  (Chapin) 
Parker,  was  born  in  Chicopee,  Massachu- 
setts, in  1832,  and  died  at  his  home  on 
Chicopee  street  in  his  native  city,  Sep- 
tember 3,  1900.  He  was  educated  in  the 
grade  and  high  schools  of  Chicopee,  and 
when  school  years  were  over  became 
associated  with  his  father  in  the  shoe 
manufacturing  business.  This  associa- 
tion continued  unbroken  until  the  death 
of  the   senior  partner  in   1883,   the  busi- 


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ness  being  continued  by  Josiah  A.  Parker 
alone  until  a  few  years  prior  to  his  own 
death,  at  the  age  of  sixty-seven  years.  He 
was  a  man  of  fifty  when  left  in  full 
charge,  but  he  had  long  been  the  virtual 
head  of  the  business,  his  father,  a  man 
of  great  age,  having  surrendered  its  bur- 
dens to  the  son  years  before  his  final  re- 
tirement. In  addition  to  his  manufactur- 
ing business,  Mr.  Parker  owned  and  man- 
aged a  farm  of  twenty  acres,  located  on 
Chicopee  street,  and  after  retiring  from 
the  shoe  business  he  gave  it  his  full  atten- 
tion, and  it  is  there  his  widow  now 
resides.  He  was  a  selectman  of  the  town, 
served  on  the  Board  of  Health,  was  a 
member  of  the  First  Congregational 
Church,  and  for  twenty-five  years  served 
the  society  as  secretary-treasurer.  He 
was  a  man  of  strong  character,  upright 
and  honorable  in  business,  and  most 
highly  esteemed  where  best  known. 

Mr.  Parker  married,  December  25, 
1872,  Minerva  Bragg  Walker,  born  in 
Warren,  but  married  in  Brookfield,  Mas- 
sachusetts, daughter  of  Jarius  and  Lucy 
(Woods)  Walker.  Having  no  children  of 
their  own,  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Josiah  Alden 
Parker  adopted  two  daughters :  Lucille, 
married  Rhodes  Farman,  and  has  chil- 
dren :  Dorothy,  Chandler,  and  Robert 
Burton ;  Jessie  May,  married  Hubert  H. 
Swartz,  and  has  children:  Helen  Mi- 
nerva, Harold  Parker,  and  Elwood  Day- 
ton Swartz. 


KENNEDY,  William  Francis, 

Journalist, 

Mr.  Kennedy  is  a  native  of  Fall  River, 
was  reared  in  Taunton,  and  has  been  very 
active  in  political  affairs  and  newspaper 
work  for  many  years,  in  which  he  has 
gained  distinction.  He  is  a  grandson  of 
Patrick  Kennedy,  who  came  from  Limer- 
ick, Ireland,  and  was  the  first  Irishman  to 


settle  in  Fall  River.  He  was  a  textile 
worker,  came  to  Fall  River  in  1822,  and 
was  employed  in  the  Anawan  mills  at  Fall 
River  until  killed  by  an  accident  in  the 
wheel  pit,  at  the  age  of  sixty-eight  years. 
He  left  two  sons,  Matthew  and  John  Ken- 
nedy. Matthew  Kennedy  was  born  in 
Limerick  (Ireland),  and  spent  his  active 
life  in  the  cotton  manufacturing  indus- 
tries of  Fall  River  until  his  death,  at  the 
age  of  about  seventy  years.  He  married 
Margaret  Donovan,  also  a  native  of  Ire- 
land. 

William  Francis  Kennedy,  son  of  Mat- 
thew and  Margaret  (Donovan)  Kennedy, 
was  born  December  5,  1850,  in  Fall  River, 
and  was  educated  in  the  schools  of  Taun- 
ton, Massachusetts.  When  about  seven- 
teen years  old  he  entered  the  mills  of  the 
Whittenton  Manufacturing  Company  of 
Taunton,  where  he  continued  fifteen  years 
as  paymaster,  becoming  thoroughly  con- 
versant with  the  art  of  manufacturing 
cotton  cloth.  In  1885  he  was  appointed 
postmaster  of  Taunton,  and  filled  that 
office  for  the  term  of  four  years.  During 
this  time  he  acted  as  correspondent  of 
the  Boston  "Globe,"  and  in  1889  joined 
the  stafif  of  the  Fall  River  "Globe,"  occu- 
pied the  position  of  managing  editor  up 
to  October,  1917,  when  he  retired  for  a 
well-earned  rest.  Mr.  Kennedy  is  an 
enthusiastic  Democrat,  and  exercises 
large  influence  in  the  councils  of  his 
party.  He  is  a  ready  writer,  a  man  of 
keen  insight,  with  broad  views,  and  is 
"doing  his  bit,"  in  the  parlance  of  the 
present  day,  in  promoting  progress  and 
the  spread  of  enlightenment  in  his  native 
land.  While  a  resident  of  Taunton  he 
served  five  years  in  the  City  Council,  act- 
ing one  year  as  president  of  that  body. 
He  is  a  member  of  St.  Patrick's  (Roman 
Catholic)  Church  of  Fall  River,  is  a  mem- 
ber of  the  Clover  Club  of  Boston,  of  the 
Knights    of    Columbus,    and   the    United 


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Order  of  Foresters.  He  is  a  man  of  pleas- 
ing personality  and  good  address,  of  gen- 
ial nature  and  kindly  manner,  and  has 
drawn  about  himself  a  large  circle  of 
admiring  and  appreciative  friends. 

Mr.  Kennedy  married,  November  9, 
1887,  in  Boston,  Clementine  Star  McAlis- 
ter,  born  December  13,  1853,  ™  Rockland, 
Maine,  daughter  of  Edwin  S.  and  Sarah 
(Thompson)  McAlister,  both  natives  of 
Maine.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Kennedy  are  the 
parents  of  two  sons :  i.  Paul  Stuart,  born 
September  26,  1888;  is  a  chemist  and 
technical  engineer,  employed  by  the  Mur- 
phy Varnish  Company  of  Newark,  New 
Jersey.  2.  Clement  Edwin,  born  August 
16,  1893 ;  graduated  from  Harvard  Uni- 
versity, and  is  now  employed  by  the  E. 
R.  Grafot  Hotel  Company,  of  Boston. 


KAY,  James  H., 

Efficient  Public  Official. 

With  his  calling  to  the  Mayoralty  in 
1913,  Mayor  Kay  dispelled  several  illu- 
sions that  were  rapidly  becoming  realities 
in  Fall  River  politics.  With  many  it  had 
become  a  truism  that  none  but  a  profes- 
sional man  could  win  the  mayor's  chair, 
and  this  belief  was  strengthened  by  the 
fact  that  for  thirty-three  years,  1880- 
1913,  every  mayor  of  the  city  with  one 
exception  had  been  either  a  physician  or 
lawyer.  Another  myth  which  vanished 
with  his  election  was  that  no  alderman 
could  become  mayor.  But  in  spite  of  the 
two  supposed  handicaps,  Mr.  Kay  was 
elected  by  the  record  majority  of  1820 
votes.  Each  recurring  election  has  re- 
turned him  to  the  office  of  chief  executive 
of  the  city  of  his  birth,  and  no  finer 
endorsement  of  a  man's  fitness  for  office 
can  be  conceived  than  this  continued  sup- 
port from  men  who  have  known  him  from 
boyhood,  to  whom  he  is  not  known  as 
Mayor  Kay  but  "Jim  Kay."    But  the  per- 


sonal equation  does  not  account  for  the 
great  strength  shown  by  Mr.  Kay  at  the 
polls,  important  as  it  is.  He  has  won  the 
support  of  men  who  have  judged  him 
solely  from  his  service  to  the  city,  and 
it  is  by  that  record  he  stands  or  falls 
in  their  estimation.  This  is  the  source  of 
his  greatest  strength,  and  he  deserves 
the  heartiest  congratulations  upon  the 
decided,  emphatic,  and  oft-repeated  en- 
dorsements of  his  preceding  administra- 
tions. Free  from  political  obligation,  he 
shapes  his  course  independently,  his  slo- 
gan, "the  public  good." 

An  experienced  business  man.  Mayor 
Kay  has  administered  municipal  affairs  as 
a  business  proposition.  The  widening  of 
South  Main  street  after  the  great  fire  of 
February  15,  1916,  in  the  heart  of  the 
business  district,  is  an  instance  of  the 
soundness  of  his  views  and  the  clearness 
of  his  vision,  the  city  benefitting  in  every 
way  by  his  great  interest  in  having  this 
improvement  put  through  the  city  gov- 
ernment. Another  instance  is  the  acquir- 
ing of  the  county  building  as  a  City  Home 
for  the  Poor  of  the  City,  he  conducting  a 
long  and  persistent  campaign,  finally  suc- 
ceeding in  carrying  his  plans  into  effect 
and  saving  the  city  perhaps  two  hundred 
thousand  dollars.  At  a  banquet  given  not 
long  ago.  Mayor  Kay  discussed  some  of 
the  things  which  the  city  wants,  and  some 
of  the  things  it  needs.  He  said  there 
were  a  number  of  things  which  he  might 
have  recommended  in  his  inaugural,  pro- 
jects excellent  in  themselves,  but  he  pre- 
ferred to  confine  his  wishes  to  those  im- 
provements which  could  be  put  through. 
Consequently,  all  his  recommendations 
have  been  ordered  by  councils,  they  find- 
ing that  they  had  been  carefully  consid- 
ered in  the  light  of  the  city's  financial 
ability.  There  is  but  one  exception  to 
this  statement,  the  Cory  Street  Under- 
pass, which  he  tried  to  bring  about,  but 


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that  improvement  was  held  up  on  account 
of  cost. 

According  to  Burke's  Dictionary  of 
Peerage  and  Baronetage,  the  name  inter- 
changeably Kaye,  Key  and  Kay,  is  of 
early  record,  the  first  of  the  name  in 
America  being  Brook  Watson  Kay,  Es- 
quire, who  served  in  the  English  army  in 
America  in  1782,  holding  the  rank  of  com- 
missary general.  Upon  his  return  to 
England  in  1784,  he  was  elected  a  repre- 
sentative of  the  city  of  London,  later  was 
elected  an  alderman,  and  in  1785  served 
as  sheriff.  In  1796  he  was  elected  Lord 
Mayor  of  London,  and  on  December  5, 
1803,  was  created  a  baronet.  Sir  Brook 
Watson  Kay  died  October  2,  1807,  and 
was  succeeded  by  his  nephew,  also  Sir 
Brook  Kay,  born  July  10,  1780.  This  Sir 
Brook  had  a  son  Sir  Brook,  born  August 
8,  1820,  who,  on  the  death  of  his  father, 
May  16,  1866,  succeeded  to  his  estate  and 
title.  William  Kay,  nephew,  married 
Ellen  Entwistle,  also  born  in  England, 
and  about  1825  came  to  New  England. 
They  were  the  parents  of  several  chil- 
dren, the  youngest  being  Henry  Edwin, 
of  further  mention. 

Henry  Edwin  Kay  was  born  at  Fall 
River,  Massachusetts,  May  21,  1836.  He 
was  a  soldier  of  the  Union,  wounded  at 
the  battle  of  Fredericksburg,  and  the  bat- 
tle of  the  Wilderness,  serving  in  Com- 
pany A,  Seventh  Regiment,  Massachu- 
setts Volunteer  Infantry,  from  1861  to 
1864,  holding  the  rank  of  sergeant.  In 
business  he  was  a  manufacturer  of  Fall 
River,  he  and  his  son,  James  H.,  being 
associated  in  the  manufacture  of  spool 
and  thread  machinery.  He  was  a  member 
of  the  Grand  Army  of  the  Republic,  a 
man  highly  esteemed  wherever  known. 
He  died  at  Fall  River,  May  24,  1902,  aged 
sixty-six.  He  married  Susan  Adelaide 
Palmer,  of  Fall  River,  Bristol  county, 
Massachusetts,    a    direct    descendant    of 


John  and  Priscilla  Alden,  and  they  were 
the  parents  of  two  sons  and  three  daugh- 
ters :  Annie  C. ;  Lois  E.,  married  John 
Brightman  ;  Bertha  E. ;  James  H.,  of  fur- 
ther mention ;   and  Henry. 

James  H.  Kay,  son  of  Henry  Edwin 
and  Susan  Adelaide  (Palmer)  Kay,  was 
born  at  Fall  River,  Massachusetts,  March 
28,  1873,  and  has  ever  resided  in  the  city 
of  his  birth.  He  attended  the  graded  and 
high  schools  of  the  city,  then  entered 
business  life  with  his  father,  a  manufac- 
turer of  spool  and  thread  machinery  at 
No.  57  Kay  street.  Fall  River,  father  and 
son  continuing  until  the  death  of  the  sen- 
ior partner  in  1902,  James  H.  Kay  then 
becoming  manager  of  the  business  to 
which  he  has  added  roll  covering  ma- 
chinery. He  is  an  able  business  man,  and 
has  successfully  developed  the  business 
founded  by  his  father. 

From  youth  he  has  been  interested  in 
city  politics,  and  in  1905  was  elected 
alderman,  taking  his  seat  in  1906,  and 
serving  under  successive  reelections  for 
seven  years.  He  served  principally  on 
committees,  finance  and  highways,  and 
during  191 1  and  1912  was  president  of  the 
board.  In  1912  he  was  the  choice  of  the 
Republican  primaries  for  mayor,  having 
two  opponents.  He  conducted  a  novel 
campaign,  refused  to  utter  a  word  reflect- 
ing upon  the  character  of  his  opponents 
or  their  fitness,  made  no  reply  to  person- 
alities, his  only  argument  being:  "Give 
me  a  chance  to  prove  how  well  I  can  fill 
the  ofifice  of  Mayor."  The  people  liked 
the  idea,  and  they  liked  the  candidate,  the 
result  being  that  he  polled  iioo  more 
votes  than  the  combined  opposition.  Dur- 
ing the  campaign  which  followed  his 
nomination,  he  pursued  the  same  policy, 
and  again  the  people  agreed  to  "give  him 
a  chance,"  his  vote  exceeding  that  of  his 
Democratic  rival  by  1820  ballots.  Mr. 
Kay    was    inaugurated   January    5,    1913, 


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and  from  that  day  Fall  River  has  had  no 
other  mayor,  he  having  been  reelected 
twice.  In  1914  he  was  renominated  with- 
out opposition,  and  was  reelected  at  the 
polls  by  an  increased  majority.  In  1916 
Mayor  Kay  was  again  renominated  by  the 
Republicans  and  reelected  by  an  increased 
majority,  polling  9743  votes.  This  en- 
dorsement of  his  administration  was  most 
gratifying  to  Mayor  Kay,  and  gave  him 
renewed  determination  to  follow  the  lines 
of  government  evidently  so  satisfactory 
to  the  governed.  Mayor  Kay  is  a  mem- 
ber of  a  number  of  leading  fraternal  so- 
cieties, a  Methodist  in  religious  prefer- 
ence, but  attends  the  Episcopal  church 
with  his  wife,  that  being  her  favored 
denomination.  He  is  a  member  of  some 
local  clubs. 

Mayor  Kay  married,  October  10,  1893, 
Mary  Robertson  Borden,  daughter  of 
Jonathan  and  Mary  Small  (Estes)  Bor- 
den, of  Westport,  Massachusetts.  Mr. 
and  Mrs.  Kay  are  the  parents  of  three 
sons  and  three  daughters,  all  born  at  Fall 
River,  Massachusetts :  Harold  Borden, 
Henry  Edwin,  Bernice  Robertson,  Doro- 
thy Allyn,  Althea  Palmer,  James  H.  (2), 
who  died  May  18,  1915. 


BURNS,  Thomas  Francis,  M.  D., 

Physician. 

Dr.  Thomas  Francis  Burns,  one  of  Fall 
River's  successful  physicians  and  a  prom- 
inent and  public-spirited  citizen,  is  him- 
self a  native  of  this  place,  though  by  par- 
entage he  is  an  Irishman  and  displays 
the  characteristics,  talents  and  abilities  of 
his  race.  He  is  a  son  of  Patrick  Joseph 
and  Elizabeth  (McDermott)  Burns,  the 
former  a  native  of  Ireland  and  the  latter 
of  England.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Burns,  St., 
came  to  the  United  States  at  an  early  age 
and  have  since  come  to  be  prominent  and 
influential   residents   in  the   city  of  their 


adoption.  They  are  the  parents  of  a 
number  of  children,  most  of  whom  have 
made  their  mark  in  the  world  and  have 
come  to  occupy  positions  of  importance 
in  the  various  communities  where  they 
have  made  their  homes.  Patrick  Joseph 
Burns  has  been  a  member  of  the  police 
force  of  Fall  River  for  the  past  thirty-five 
years  and  is  one  of  the  oldest  on  the  force. 
He  has  also  held  a  position  as  court  offi- 
cer, and  is  well  known  and  highly  thought 
of  throughout  the  community. 

Born  July  22,  1891,  in  the  City  of  Fall 
River,  Dr.  Thomas  Francis  Burns  has 
always  made  this  place  his  home.  Here  it 
was  that  he  obtained  the  elementary  por- 
tion of  his  education,  attending  the  local 
public  schools  for  this  purpose.  He  later 
attended  the  B.  M.  C.  Durfee  High 
School,  where  he  was  prepared  for  col- 
lege, and  from  which  he  was  graduated  in 
the  year  1908.  He  then  entered  the  Jef- 
ferson Medical  School,  having  made  up 
his  mind  to  a  professional  career,  and 
after  establishing  an  excellent  reputation 
as  a  scholar  was  graduated  therefrom 
with  the  class  of  1912  and  the  degree  of 
M.  D.  For  the  two  years  following.  Dr. 
Burns  was  an  interne  at  the  Hospital, 
where  he  added  to  the  theoretical  knowl- 
edge he  had  gained  at  college  the  requis- 
ite practical  experience,  and  then,  in  the 
year  1915,  he  began  the  general  practice 
of  his  profession  at  Fall  River,  where  he 
has  remained  ever  since.  From  the  out- 
set Dr.  Burns  has  specialized  more  and 
more  in  the  department  of  diseases  of 
children  and  is  now  looked  upon  as  some- 
thing of  an  authority  in  this  branch  of  his 
science  and  is  working  up  a  practice 
therein  that  has  already  gained  remark- 
able proportions  considering  the  short 
period  that  he  has  practiced  here.  The 
demands  made  upon  the  time  and  ener- 
gies of  Dr.  Burns  by  his  professional 
activities  are  so  great  that  it  is  quite  im- 


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possible  for  him  to  take  the  active  part  in 
the  general  life  of  the  community  that 
he  would  otherwise  do.  At  the  same  time 
he  has  never  lost  his  keen  interest  in  all 
matters  pertaining  tothe  welfare  of  the 
community,  especially  in  the  realm  of 
politics,  to  which  he  gives  considerable 
thought.  He  may  be  classed  as  an  Inde- 
pendent Democrat  who,  while  sincerely 
interested  in  the  welfare  of  the  party 
whose  principles  and  policies  he  upholds, 
yet  never  allows  partisan  considerations 
to  weigh  in  the  balance  with  what  he  con- 
siders the  best  interests  of  the  community 
generally. 

When  the  United  States  at  length  threw 
the  weight  of  its  power  into  the  great 
World  War  that  is  now  raging,  the  patri- 
otism of  Dr.  Burns  was  kindled  and  he 
enlisted  in  the  army  and  has  been  raised 
to  the  rank  of  first  lieutenant.  Dr.  Burns 
is  not  a  member  of  any  clubs,  although  he 
keenly  enjoys  society  of  the  spontaneous 
and  informal  type.  In  his  religious  belief 
he  is  a  Roman  Catholic  and  is  a  member 
of  St.  Mary's  Church  of  that  denomina- 
tion at  Fall  River.  He  is  a  man  of  un- 
usual ability  and  a  large  knowledge  of 
his  subject,  and  whether  in  the  realm  of 
military  service  or  of  his  private  practice, 
a  brilliant  future  may  be  predicted  for 
him.     Dr.  Burns  is  unmarried. 


SLAUTER,  George  Tyler, 

Retired   Resident   of   'Westfleld. 

George  Tyler  Slauter,  of  Westfield,  is 
a  great-grandson  of  Ephraim  Slauter, 
who  was  born  April  23,  1758.  He  resided 
for  a  time  in  Oblong,  a  territory  in  dis- 
pute between  New  York  and  Connecti- 
cut, and  later  settled  in  West  Stock- 
bridge,  Massachusetts,  on  Road  19.  He 
was  then  a  young  man  and  there  mar- 
ried and  reared  a  family  of  ten  children : 
Anna,  Jared,  Zeruah,  Vashti,  Amy,  Syl- 


vanus  Fuller,  Hannah,  Melinda,  Hiram 
and  Lydia.  His  son,  Sylvanus  Fuller,  lo- 
cated in  Westfield,  Massachusetts,  about 
1845,  he  the  father  of  Piatt  Tyler  Slauter, 
father  of  George  Tyler  Slauter,  whose 
business  career  has  been  pursued  in  Cali- 
fornia, Connecticut,  and  Massachusetts, 
and  since  1902  in  Westfield. 

Sylvanus  Fuller  Slauter  was  born  in 
West  Stockbridge,  Massachusetts,  Au- 
gust 22,  1790,  there  resided  until  1845,  died 
in  Westfield,  March  17,  1852.  He  was  a 
foreman  of  quarrymen  in  West  Stock- 
bridge  for  many  years,  but  after  locating 
in  Westfield  cultivated  a  small  farm  until 
his  death.  He  married  Lurena  French, 
born  June  3,  1790,  died  in  Westfield,  No- 
vember 5,  1848.  Both  were  active  mem- 
bers of  the  Methodist  Episcopal  church. 
They  were  the  parents  of  three  sons  and 
three  daughters:  Polly,  born  November 
12,  1812,  died  at  Amboy,  Illinois,  No- 
vember 19,  1893;  Louisa,  born  Septem- 
ber 22,  1814,  died  July  16,  1815  ;  Ambrose 
Ephraim,  born  August  12,  1817,  died  at 
Amboy,  Illinois,  March  i,  1901  ;  Zuruah, 
born  March  21,  1819,  married  a  Mr.  Bris- 
tol, died  at  Amboy,  Illinois,  October  3, 
1904;  George,  of  further  mention;  Piatt 
Tyler,  of  further  mention. 

George  Slauter  was  born  in  West 
Stockbridge,  March  20,  1821,  was  killed 
by  a  motorcycle  in  Westfield,  June  11, 
1916,  one  of  the  oldest  and  best  known 
residents  of  the  town  which  had  been  his 
home  for  seventy-seven  years.  From  the 
age  of  five  until  eighteen  years  of  age  he 
lived  with  an  uncle,  Hiram  Slauter,  then, 
although  within  three  years  of  a  prom- 
ised "freedom"  suit  of  clothes,  colt,  sad- 
dle and  bridle,  he  left  his  uncle  and  moved 
to  Westfield.  He  was  first  employed  in 
Westfield  with  Squire  James  Fowler, 
where  he  remained  three  years,  then  went 
with  George  Dwight,  of  Springfield,  who 
was  interested  in  the  old  toll  bridge.    He 


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persuaded  Mr.  Slauter  to  move  to  Spring- 
field and  become  toll  collector  on  the 
bridge,  but  after  one  and  a  half  years,  in 
April,  1864,  gave  him  a  position  with  the 
Westfield  Gas  Company,  which  he  held 
for  twenty-eight  years.  The  greater  part 
of  that  time  he  was  foreman,  but  two 
years  was  superintendent.  He  was  a 
very  industrious  man ;  in  the  old  days 
he  took  the  meter  readings  and  corrected 
the  bills.  He  was  remarkably  well  pre- 
served, and  even  after  reaching  nonagen- 
arian honors  worked  constantly  around 
the  yard  of  his  home,  shoveled  the  snow 
from  his  sidewalks,  and  until  the  last 
walked  about  the  town  alone.  On  the 
day  preceding  his  death  (Sunday)  he  was 
on  his  way  from  services  at  the  Central 
Baptist  Church,  and  when  crossing  Elm 
street  he  was  struck  by  a  motorcycle.  He 
was  at  once  taken  to  Noble  Hospital, 
where  it  was  found  he  was  cut  and 
bruised  and  suffering  from  concussion  of 
the  brain.  He  died  that  night.  He  mar- 
ried, November  4,  1844,  Mary  J.  Atkins, 
who  died  August  8,  1902.  Mr.  Slauter 
was  aged  ninety-five  years,  two  months, 
twenty-one  days,  and  had  been  a  mem- 
ber of  Central  Baptist  Church  for  sixty- 
seven  years,  joining  in  1849.  He  cele- 
brated his  golden  wedding  day  in  1894, 
and  together  the  aged  couple  walked  eight 
years  more  ere  the  bond  was  broken.  He 
survived  his  wife  fourteen  years,  being 
the  care  of  his  nephew,  George  Tyler 
Slauter,  during  that  period. 

Piatt  Tyler  Slauter,  youngest  child  of 
Sylvanus  Fuller  .  and  Lurena  (French) 
Slauter,  was  born  at  West  Stockbridge, 
Massachusetts,  May  6,  1828,  and  died  at 
Belchertown,  Massachusetts,  November 
28,  1916.  He  was  about  eighteen  years  of 
age  when  his  parents  moved  to  Westfield, 
but  he  only  remained  there  about  one 
year,  then  went  to  Belchertown,  where 
he   learned   the   carriage   builder's  trade. 


that  branch  of  industry  then  being  a  very 
important  one  in  the  town.  He  became 
an  expert  workman,  and  during  the 
twenty  years  he  spent  at  the  business 
was  for  the  greater  part  foreman  for  S. 
Sc  T.  Cowles,  one  of  the  large  carriage 
manufacturing  firms  of  the  town.  He 
was  employed  on  much  special  work, 
fancy  sleighs  and  expensive  carriages  of 
fashionable  style,  and  under  his  direction 
a  hearse  was  built  and  shipped  to  Aus- 
tralia, said  to  have  been  the  first  ever  sent 
to  that  country.  When  finally  carriage 
manufacturing  centered  elsewhere  and 
could  not  be  profitably  conducted  at 
Belchertown,  he  took  up  carpenter's  work 
along  the  usual  lines. 

He  was  an  active  member  of  the  Con- 
gregational church,  a  faithful  worker,  and 
during  his  residence  in  Belchertown  was 
rarely  absent  from  a  regular  service.  He 
was  devoted  to  every  church  interest,  but 
entirely  as  a  layman,  holding  no  offices. 
He  stood  high  in  the  estimation  of  his 
townsmen,  an  upright,  manly  citizen,  his 
character  above  reproach.  He  also  took 
an  active  interest  in  political  affairs,  but 
never  accepted  office  for  himself.  He 
supported  the  Republican  party. 

Piatt  Tyler  Slauter  married,  Decem- 
ber 22,  1850,  at  Belchertown,  Emmeline 
Goodale,  born  there,  and  there  died  in 
July,  191 5,  daughter  of  Moses  Goodale, 
who  died  at  Belchertown,  aged  seventy- 
three,  and  his  wife,  Millicent  Woods,  who 
there  lived  all  her  life  and  died  aged 
seventy-eight  years.  Moses  Goodale  had 
a  son  Moses  and  daughters  Lydia ;  Ange- 
line,  married  Mr.  Southwick ;  and  Emme- 
line,  twin  with  Angeline,  all  deceased. 
Mr.  and  Mrs.  Piatt  Tyler  Slauter  were 
the  parents  of  two  sons :  George  Tyler, 
of  further  mention,  and  Frank  Stillman, 
born  at  Belchertown,  September  i,  1863, 
now  treasurer  of  the  Sterling  Pin  Com- 
pany at  Derby,  Connecticut ;   he  married 


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Lillian  Carrington,  and  resides  at  Derby, 
Connecticut. 

George  Tyler  Slauter  was  born  at 
Belchertown,  Massachusetts,  April  27, 
1858,  and  there  resided  until  his  nine- 
teenth year,  obtaining  his  education  in 
the  graded  and  high  schools.  In  1877  he 
went  to  California,  spent  a  year  in  the  ice 
business,  then  for  a  time  was  employed 
on  the  ranch  of  General  Bidwell  at  Chico, 
California,  containing  23,000  acres.  Mr. 
Slauter  left  California  in  1878,  returning 
to  Massachusetts,  where  until  1892  he 
was  clerk  in  a  gentleman's  furnishing 
store  at  Amherst.  In  October,  1892,  he 
located  in  Middletown,  Connecticut,  there 
had  charge  of  a  crockery  business  until 
1900,  then  spent  two  years  in  Bridgeport, 
Connecticut,  in  the  grocery  business  with 
his  brother-in-law.  In  October,  1902,  he 
came  to  Westfield  to  care  for  his  aged 
uncle,  George  Slauter,  and  here  has  since 
made  his  home.  In  January,  1903,  Mr. 
Slauter  entered  the  employ  of  the  O.  B. 
Parks  Company,  grocers  of  Westfield, 
North  End,  and  continued  with  them 
until  October,  1917,  at  which  time  he 
retired. 

On  January  i,  1905,  Mr.  Slauter  was 
elected  a  deacon  of  the  Second  Congre- 
gational Church  of  Westfield,  and  in 
March,  1905,  treasurer,  he  yet  holding 
both  offices.  He  became  a  member  of 
Nonotuck  Lodge,  Independent  Order  of 
Odd  Fellows,  Northampton,  Massachu- 
setts, August  27,  1885 ;  was  elected  noble 
grand,  July,  1892 ;  on  November  27, 
1887,  he  became  a  member  of  Mt.  Hol- 
yoke  Encampment,  and  is  also  a  member 
of  Canton  Patriarchs  Militant.  He  was 
"made  a  Mason"  in  Pacific  Lodge,  Am- 
herst, December  14,  1885,  and  was  elected 
worshipful  master  in  1891  ;  he  later  took 
a  demit  to  St.  John's  Lodge,  Middletown, 
and  from  that  lodge  demitted  to  Mt. 
Moriah   Lodge,   Free  and  Accepted  Ma- 


sons, of  Westfield.  He  is  a  companion  of 
Evening  Star  Chapter,  Royal  Arch  Ma- 
sons ;  a  member  of  Westfield  Council ;  a 
Sir  Knight  of  Springfield  Commandery, 
Knights  Templar;  and  a  noble  of  Melha 
Temple,  Nobles  of  the  Mystic  Shrine ; 
and  has  held  some  office  in  all  but  the  two 
latter  named.  In  political  faith  he  is  a 
Republican,  but  takes  little  active  part  in 
public  affairs. 

Mr.  Slauter  married,  June  13,  1894. 
Edith  Delia  Smith,  born  at  East  Hamp- 
ton, Connecticut,  daughter  of  William 
Elliott  Smith,  and  his  wife,  Julia  Cornelia 
(Havens)  Smith.  William  Elliott  Smith, 
born  at  East  Hampton,  Connecticut,  was 
a  machinist  with  the  Wheeler  &  Wilson 
Sewing  Machine  Company  at  Bridgeport, 
and  there  died.  His  wife,  Julia  Cornelia 
(Havens)  Smith,  born  at  Somers,  Con- 
necticut, died  at  East  Hampton.  Mrs. 
Slauter  has  a  brother,  Clayton  L.  Smith, 
clerk  of  the  Bridgeport  police  depart- 
ment. Mr.  and  Mrs.  Slauter  have  no 
children. 


JACKSON,  John  Patrick,  M.  D., 

Physician. 

Although  a  resident  of  Fall  River, 
Massachusetts,  since  boyhood,  Dr.  Jack- 
son is  a  native  son  of  Rhode  Island,  and  in 
professional  education  his  Alma  Mater  is 
the  College  of  Physicians  and  Surgeons, 
Baltimore,  Maryland.  But  Fall  River  has 
ever  been  the  seat  of  his  medical  practice, 
and  in  the  years  since  he  first  began  that 
practice  he  has  grown  in  public  esteem 
until  his  position  is  an  honorable  one,  in 
his,  the  oldest  of  all  professions.  He  is  a 
grandson  of  Thomas  Jackson,  of  County 
Galway,  Ireland,  and  a  son  of  Patrick 
John  Jackson,  born  in  Galway,  Ireland,  a 
farmer  and  successful  merchant  of  Tiver- 
ton, Rhode  Island.  Patrick  J.  Jackson 
married  Sarah   Rogers,  born  in  Preston, 


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England,  of  the  same  ancient  family 
from  which  the  Martyr  Rogers  sprang. 
Mr.  and  Mrs.  Jackson  were  the  parents  of 
seven  sons  and  daughters,  including  a 
son,  John  Patrick,  whose  career  is  the  in- 
spiration of  this  review. 

John  Patrick  Jackson  was  bon.  in  Tiv- 
erton, Rhode  Island,  December  29,  1879, 
and  there  resided  until  he  was  ten  years  of 
age,  then  came  to  Fall  River,  where  he 
has  since  resided.  He  completed  the 
grammar  school  grades ;  spent  two  years 
in  the  B.  M.  C.  Durfee  High  School ;  then 
for  three  years  was  a  student  at  Holy 
Cross  College.  Deciding  upon  the  pro- 
fession of  medicine,  he  entered  the  Col- 
lege of  Physicians  and  Surgeons,  Balti- 
more, Maryland,  whence  he  was  gradu- 
ated M.  D.,  class  of  1903.  The  following 
year  was  spent  in  hospital  work  and  at 
Maryland  Asylum,  as  resident  physician, 
the  latter  position  being  resigned  after 
eight  months'  service.  In  1904  Dr.  Jack- 
son returned  to  Fall  River,  began  general 
practice  and  is  now  well  established  as  a 
physician  of  skill  and  honor.  He  is  also 
a  capable  surgeon  and  has  offered  his 
services  to  the  military  service  of  his 
country  at  home  or  abroad.  Dr.  Jackson 
is  a  member  of  the  various  medical  socie- 
ties, the  Knights  of  Columbus,  Benevo- 
lent and  Protective  Order  of  Elks,  Fra- 
ternal Order  of  Eagles,  Independent 
Order  of  Foresters,  the  Ancient  Order  of 
Hibernians,  and  St.  Mary's  Roman  Cath- 
olic Church.  In  politics  he  is  a  Progres- 
sive Republican  and  an  ardent  admirer  of 
ex-President  Roosevelt. 


HAWES,  Oliver  Snow, 

Business  Man. 

The  Hawes  family,  a  worthy  member 
of  which  is  Oliver  Snow  Hawes,  one  of 
the  prominent  business  men  of  Fall  River, 
Massachusetts,  has  been  for  many  gen- 


erations identified  with  the  life  of  this 
State.  From  the  early  Colonial  period,  in 
fact,  Mr.  Hawes'  ancestors  have  resided 
at  Wrentham,  Massachusetts,  where  they 
settled  about  1640,  the  first  one  to  come 
to  the  New  World  having  arrived  in  New 
England  in  1635. 

(I)  Edward  Hawes,  of  Dedham,  Mas- 
sachusetts, born  probably  about  1620, 
died  in  1686.  He  married,  April  15,  1648, 
Eliony  Lombard,  and  their  children 
were :  Lydia,  born  January  26,  1649 ; 
Mary,  November  4,  1650;  Daniel,  of 
whom  further;  Nathaniel,  August  14, 
1660;  Abigail,  October  2,  1662;  Joseph, 
August  9,  1664;  and  Deborah,  September 
I,  1666. 

(II)  Daniel  Hawes,  son  of  Edward 
Hawes,  born  February  10,  1653,  died 
March  16,  1738.  Mr.  Hawes  lived  in 
Wrentham,  Massachusetts,  and  followed 
the  occupation  of  husbandman.  He  mar- 
ried (first),  January  23,  1678,  Abiel  Gay, 
born  April  23,  1649,  daughter  of  John 
and  Joanna  Gay.  She  died  June  17, 
1718,  and  he  married  (second)  Bridget 
Hawes.  Bridget  Hawes  married,  April 
24,  1739,  William  Man.  She  died  Jan- 
uary I,  1747.  Daniel  Hawes'  children, 
born  to  the  first  marriage,  were:  Mary, 
born  September  17,  1679;  Abigail,  No- 
vember 15,  1681  ;  Daniel,  of  whom  fur- 
ther;  Josiah,  April  6,  1686;  Hezekiah, 
November  22,  1688 ;  Ruth,  July  9,  1691 ; 
and  Benjamin,  March  14,  1696. 

(III)  Daniel  (2)  Hawes,  son  of  Daniel 
(i)  Hawes,  born  March  30,  1684,  married 
(first)  December  20,  1710,  Beriah  Man, 
born  March  30,  1687,  daughter  of  Samuel 
and  Esther  (Ware)  Man.  She  died  Feb- 
ruary 28,  1734,  and  he  married  (second) 
December  2,  1734,  Jane  Ware,  widow  of 
Michael  Ware,  and  a  daughter  of  Jona- 
than and  Elizabeth  (Hawes)  Wight.  She 
was  bom  September  6,  1688,  and  died 
April    26,     1754.      Mr.    Hawes    married 

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(third)  December  ii,  1754,  Hannah 
Fisher.  He  lived  in  Wrentham,  Massa- 
chusetts. His  death  occurred  January 
I5>  1763-  The  children  of  Daniel  and 
Beriah  Hawes  were:  Daniel,  born  Octo- 
ber 24,  1711;  Samuel,  January  7,  1713; 
Peletiah,  October  8,  1714;  Moses,  August 
28,  1716;  Aaron,  of  whom  further;  Icha- 
bod,  September  12,  1720;  Timothy,  June 
21,  1722;  Beriah  (son),  March  20,  1724; 
Josiah,  March  20,  1724;  Mary,  February 
II,  1726;   and  Joseph,  March  21,  1728. 

(IV)  Aaron  Hawes,  son  of  Daniel  (2) 
Hawes,  born  April  13,  1718,  married,  De- 
cember 19,  1759,  Mary  Snow,  and  among 
their  children  was  James,  of  whom  fur- 
ther. 

(V)  Lieutenant  James  Hawes,  son  of 
Aaron  Hawes,  born  January  21,  1761, 
married,  February  12,  1788,  Jemima  Far- 
rington,  and  their  children,  of  Wrentham 
town  record,  were :  Cordelia,  born  Feb- 
ruary 12,  1789;  Oliver  Snow,  of  whom 
further;  George,  born  August  22,  1793, 
and  Edwin,  born  April  14,  1799. 

(VI)  Oliver  Snow  Hawes,  son  of  Lieu- 
tenant James  Hawes,  was  born  in  Wren- 
tham, Massachusetts,  June  2,  1791.  His 
parents  were  very  religious  and  he  was 
baptized  in  childhood.  The  greater  part 
of  his  schooling  was  received  before  he 
was  ten  years  old,  at  which  age  he  was 
sent  to  work  on  a  farm,  continuing  thus 
until  his  sixteenth  year.  He  then  became 
apprenticed  to  the  trade  of  wheelwright, 
in  Boston,  but  after  one  year  there  went 
to  Medway,  where  he  spent  four  years, 
learning  the  machinist's  trade.  When  he 
was  twenty-one  he  removed  to  Thomas- 
ton,  Maine,  and  finding  work  at  his  trade 
there  was  so  industrious  and  thrifty  that 
in  the  course  of  some  two  years  he  ac- 
cumulated a  substantial  little  sum.  Re- 
turning to  the  then  developing  manufac- 
turing locality  of  Waltham,  Massachu- 
setts, he  remained  there  some  six  or  seven 


years,  gaining  the  experience  and  form- 
ing the  acquaintances  which  proved  to  be 
the  basis  of  his  successful  career.  In 
1 82 1,  during  his  residence  in  Waltham, 
the  old  original  Troy  mill  on  the  dam 
(near  the  site  occupied  by  the  present 
Troy  mill)  in  Fall  River,  was  burned, 
and  by  a  rather  singular  coincidence  Mr. 
Hawes  and  three  of  his  fellow  workmen 
from  Waltham,  Mr.  Harris,  Mr.  Brownell 
and  Mr.  Fillebrown,  started  together  on 
an  expedition  from  Waltham  to  Fall 
River  to  secure  the  job  of  constructing 
the  machinery  that  was  to  equip  the  mill 
to  be  erected  in  the  place  of  the  one 
destroyed.  On  the  same  day  Oliver  Chace 
and  Nathaniel  Wheeler,  owner  and  agent 
of  the  mill,  set  out  for  Waltham  to  look 
after  the  construction  of  the  machinery, 
and  these  parties  met  and  spent  the  night 
together  at  Taunton.  When  it  became 
known  that  all  were  bent  on  the  same 
errand  an  arrangement  was  speedily 
entered  into,  and  the  machine  shop  enter- 
prise of  Fall  River  conducted  under  the 
name  of  Harris,  Hawes  &  Company  thus 
originated.  The  machinery  of  the  old 
Troy  factory  was  constructed  by  them. 
They  were  the  first  to  practice  the  cus- 
tom of  paying  cash  to  their  employees 
instead  of  barter,  a  custom  which  caused 
considerable  annoyance  to  those  who  had 
been  accustomed  to  paying  ofif  their  help 
from  their  stores — then  the  general  prac- 
tice, but  soon  afterward  entirely  abol- 
ished. 

Mr.  Hawes  continued  to  reside  at  Fall 
River  from  that  time,  a  period  of  over 
thirty-five  years,  during  which  he  made 
a  record  of  enterprise  and  successful 
endeavor  in  spite  of  many  vicissitudes 
and  chances.  He  was  identified  with  the 
development  of  nearly  every  movement 
which  characterized  and  distinguished  the 
place,  which  is  saying  a  great  deal,  for  Fall 
River  passed  through  a  notable  period  of 
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her  advancement  at  that  time.  After  the 
death  of  one  of  his  early  partners,  and  the 
removal  of  another,  Mr.  Hawes  carried 
on  the  business  on  his  own  account  for 
a  year  or  two  until  the  organization  of 
the  firm  of  O.  S.  Hawes  &  Company,  con- 
sisting of  himself,  William  Marvel  and 
Joseph  Rice.  In  the  year  1839  this  name 
was  changed  to  Hawes,  Marvel  &  Davol, 
a  skillful  designer  and  inventor  being 
William  C.  Davol,  who  had  previously 
been  superintendent  of  the  Troy  Mill. 
This  association  lasted  until  Mr.  Hawes' 
death.  After  that  event  the  firm  became 
Marvel,  Davol  &  Company,  which  was 
the  style  when  it  was  absorbed  in  1879 
by  the  Fall  River  Iron  Works. 

In  his  day  Mr.  Hawes  was  one  of  the 
leading  business  men  of  Fall  River, 
where  he  had  the  reputation  of  being  a 
most  able  financier  as  well  as  a  practical 
machinist  and  a  man  of  unusual  execu- 
tive powers.  He  was  a  man  of  very 
large  physique  and  had  a  commanding 
presence,  all  of  which  contributed  to  the 
impression  he  made  wherever  he  was 
known.  He  became  connected  with  other 
important  enterprises  in  the  city  besides 
the  one  mentioned,  and  was  one  of  the 
promoters  of  the  American  Linen  Manu- 
facturing Company.  "He  was  one  of  the 
bold,  self-reliant,  clear-minded,  strong- 
willed,  iron-nerved  and  unyielding  men 
who  laid  the  foundations  and  reared  the 
superstructure  of  this  thriving  city,  and  his 
memory  should  and  ever  will  be  held 
sacred  among  the  citizens.  *  *  *  He 
was  a  man  of  genial  temper,  with  a  large 
and  kind  heart,  wishing  everybody  well 
and  treating  them  well.  He  was  gener- 
ous and  constant  in  his  attachments,  a 
kind  husband,  and  an  indulgent  father 
and  good  citizen." 

Mr.  Hawes  married  (first)  at  Wal- 
tham,  Mary  (Polly)  Dean,  who  died 
there.     She  was  the  mother  of  two  chil- 


dren, both  of  whom  died  young.  On 
July  21,  1828,  he  married  (second)  Pati- 
ence Borden  Cook,  a  native  of  Tiverton, 
Rhode  Island,  who  survived  him,  dying 
January  11,  1867.  To  this  union  were 
born  ten  children,  four  of  whom  died  in 
infancy,  those  who  reached  maturity 
being  James  M.,  William  M.,  Jane  F. 
(who  died  unmarried),  George  H.,  Eliza- 
beth S.  (who  died  unmarried)  and  Oliver 
F.  Of  these  James  M.  Hawes  resided 
the  greater  part  of  his  life  at  Delaware, 
Ohio,  where  he  was  engaged  in  the  jute 
manufacturing  business,  but  he  later 
moved  to  Fall  River,  where  he  died.  He 
married  Matilda  H.  Haven,  and  they  had 
two  daughters,  Mary  K.  (who  married 
Edward  L.  Anthony)  and  Elizabeth  S. 
(who  is  librarian  of  the  children's  depart- 
ment of  the  Fall  River  public  library). 
Another  of  the  sons,  Oliver  F.  Hawes, 
died  in  Brooklyn,  New  York,  which  place 
had  been  his  home  for  a  number  of  years ; 
he  married  Fanny  Earl,  but  they  left  no 
children. 

(VII)  William  M.  Hawes,  son  of 
Oliver  Snow  Hawes,  was  born  in  Fall 
River,  March  i,  1833,  and  spent  his  entire 
life  in  his  native  place.  After  attending 
the  public  schools  he  entered  early  in  his 
teens  the  machine  shop  of  Hawes,  Mar- 
vel &  Davol,  where  he  learned  the  trade 
of  machinist,  remaining  in  that  establish- 
ment until  1857.  At  that  time  he  began 
the  manufacture  of  machinery  on  his 
own  account,  as  a  member  of  the  firm  of 
William  M.  Hawes  &  Company,  which  a 
few  years  later  became  the  Hawes  Ma- 
chine Company.  In  time  he  became  en- 
gaged in  the  machinery  brokerage  busi- 
ness, buying  and  selling  all  kinds  of  ma- 
chinery, and  so  continued  to  the  end  of 
his  active  life,  disposing  of  his  interests 
in  this  line  in  August,  1892,  when  he 
retired. 

Not  content  with  being  merely  a  suc- 

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cessful  business  man,  Mr.  Hawes  took  an 
interest  in  various  other  matters,  serving 
his  city  as  member  of  the  Common  Coun- 
cil in  1861-63  and  in  1880-81,  and  being 
president  of  that  body  in  1880;  he  was 
also  at  one  time  a  member  of  the  Board 
of  Water  Commissioners.  In  political 
sentiment  he  was  originally  a  Whig,  later 
becoming  a  Republican.  From  the  time 
of  his  boyhood  he  was  a  member  of  the 
First  Congregational  Church  and  took  an 
active  interest  in  its  affairs.  He  served 
as  superintendent  of  the  Sunday  school 
for  many  years.  He  was  one  of  the 
founders  and  first  officers  of  the  Young 
Men's  Christian  Association,  and  of  the 
Children's  Friend  Society,  which  latter 
was  eventually  consolidated  with  the 
Orphan's  Home,  under  the  title  of  the 
Children's  Home,  now  one  of  the  most 
prosperous.  His  support  of  all  these  in- 
stitutions and  similar  enterprises  was 
constant  and  liberal.  Nothing  could  bet- 
ter illustrate  his  sense  of  responsibility 
toward  his  fellows  than  his  generosity  to 
all  worthy  benevolent  projects  and  his 
interest  in  their  promotion.  He  died  Feb- 
ruary 16,  1898,  and  was  buried  in  Oak 
Grove  Cemetery. 

On  May  5,  1858,  Mr.  Hawes  married 
in  North  Berwick,  Maine,  Louisa  Buf- 
fum,  who  was  born  there  February  6, 
1838,  daughter  of  Cyrus  and  Lydia 
(Estes)  Bufifum,  the  father  born  in  North 
Berwick,  Maine,  the  mother  in  Sandwich, 
New  Hampshire.  They  were  members  of 
the  Society  of  Friends.  This  branch  of 
the  Bufifum  family  has  been  resident  in 
North  Berwick  for  six  generations,  and 
the  house  in  which  Mrs.  Hawes  was  born 
is  still  in  the  family,  though  built  in  1764 
by  her  great-grandfather.  Six  children 
were  born  to  William  M.  and  Louisa 
(BufJum)  Hawes:  Oliver  Snow,  of 
whom  further;  William  BuiTum,  born 
November  20,   1862,  is  a  member  of  the 


firm  of  Oliver  S.  Hawes  &  Brother  (he  is 
unmarried)  ;  Jennie,  born  March  5,  1868, 
died  November  23,  1879;  Edward,  born 
August  27,  1869,  died  August  29,  1869; 
Louise  Bufifum,  born  May  21,  1871,  is  the 
wife  of  Willard  H.  Poole,  of  Fall  River, 
and  has  two  children :  (Phebe,  born 
March  23,  1899,  and  Hulda,  born  July  13, 
1904)  ;  and  Edith  Kingsley,  born  Sep^ 
tember  5,  1882,  wife  of  Harold  R.  Barker, 
of  Fall  River. 

(VIII)  Oliver  Snow  (2)  Hawes,  eldest 
child  of  William  M.  and  Louisa  (Bufifum) 
Hawes,  was  born  May  17,  i860,  at  his 
father's  home  in  Fall  River.  He  enjoyed 
average  educational  opportunities,  attend- 
ing the  local  public  schools,  and  after  a 
partial  course  in  the  Fall  River  High 
School,  commenced  his  business  career. 
His  first  work  was  as  an  employee  of 
the  Clyde  Steamship  Company,  where  he 
secured  a  clerical  position  in  the  office 
and  where  he  remained  for  some  three 
years,  but  soon  became  greatly  interested 
in  the  subjct  of  electricity  and  the  appli- 
cation of  this  mysterious  force  to  the 
practical  problems  of  life.  He  devoted 
himself  during  such  spare  hours  as  he 
could  to  the  study  of  this,  his  favorite 
subject,  and  after  some  eighteen  months 
as  an  apprentice  electrical  workman,  he 
became  a  local  contractor  in  electrical 
work  for  the  Edison  Company  and  con- 
tinued to  engage  therein  until  the  month 
of  September,  1885.  In  the  meantime, 
however,  the  great  opportunities  await- 
ing men  of  enterprise  in  the  cotton  busi- 
ness appealed  to  him,  and  at  the  time 
above  mentioned  he  established  his  pres- 
ent business  as  a  cotton  yarn  broker  in 
Fall  River.  He  continued  by  himself  in 
this  line  until  the  year  1888  and  then  ad- 
mitted his  brother,  William  B.  Hawes, 
into  partnership  with  him,  since  which 
time  the  business  has  been  conducted 
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The  event  has  proven  the  wisdom  of  Mr. 
Hawes'  judgment  and  his  interests  in 
this  line  have  increased  greatly  so  that 
he  is  now  a  prominent  figure  in  the  indus- 
trial world  of  the  region.  He  has  become 
associated  with  a  large  number  of  manu- 
facturing concerns  in  prominent  capaci- 
ties, and  has  done  much  to  develop  this 
particular  industry  in  Fall  River  and  the 
surrounding  country.  He  is  the  presi- 
dent of  the  American  Linen  Company 
and  a  director  of  the  King  Philip  Mills, 
the  Troy  Cotton  &  Woolen  Manufactory 
and  other  similar  concerns.  Mr.  Hawes 
has  also  interested  himself  in  many  other 
enterprises  in  and  about  the  city,  and  is 
a  director  of  the  Fall  River  Electric  Light 
Company,  president  of  the  Fall  River  Na- 
tional Bank  and  a  member  of  the  Board 
of  Investment  of  the  Five  Cent  Savings 
Bank  of  Fall  River.  At  the  present  time 
there  are  few  men  better  known  in  the 
business  world  of  the  city  than  he,  few 
that  exert  so  strong  an  influence  upon 
the  progress  of  industrial  and  commercial 
events  and  few  who  use  their  influence 
so  disinterestedly  and  for  what  they  be- 
lieve the  best  good  of  the  community. 

Oliver  Snow  Hawes  was  united  in  mar- 
riage, November  i8,  1886,  at  Fall  River, 
Massachusetts,  with  Mary  E.  Tripp,  a 
native  of  this  city,  born  September  27, 
1861,  a  daughter  of  the  late  Azariah  S. 
Tripp,  who  for  many  years  was  a  prom- 
inent banker  here.  To  Mr.  and  Mrs. 
Hawes  the  following  children  have  been 
born:  Richard  Kingsley,  July  21,  1888; 
Lieutenant  Lincoln  Tripp,  March  18, 1895, 
now  in  France  with  the  U.  S.  army, 
and  Oliver  Snow,  Jr.,  and  Philip  Tripp 
(twins),  born  July  4,  1897.  Richard 
Kingsley  Hawes  graduated  from  Yale 
University  with  the  class  of  1910,  from 
the  Harvard  Law  School  in  1913,  and  is 
now  a  practicing  attorney  at  Fall  River, 
Massachusetts,   being  a   member  of  the 


law  firm  of  Borden,  Kenyon  &  Hawes. 
He  married,  November  5,  1914,  Gene- 
vieve Chase,  daughter  of  Mr.  and  Mrs. 
Simeon  Borden  Chase,  of  Fall  River,  and 
has  one  child,  Richard  Kingsley,  Jr.,  born 
April  14,  1916. 


BEATTIE,  Roy  Hamilton, 

Contractor,  Public  Official. 

The  name  of  Beattie  or  Beatty  has 
been  borne  from  very  remote  times  by 
a  distinguished  Scottish  family,  which, 
during  the  many  centuries  in  which  it  has 
flourished,  has  spread  itself  very  gener- 
ally, not  only  over  that  northern  king- 
dom, but  over  the  remainder  of  the  Brit- 
ish Isles  as  well.  The  Beattie  coat-of- 
arms  is  as  follows : 

Arms — Sable,  a  chevron  between  three  goats 
passant  argent  attired  or,  each  charged  with  two 
pellets  gules,  on  a  chief  of  the  third  a  demi-wood- 
man  holding  in  his  right  hand  a  club  between  two 
cinquefoils  all  of  the  fourth. 

Crest — A  stork  with  a  fish  in  its  beak,  all 
proper. 

The  members  of  the  Beattie  or  Beatty 
family  trace  their  descent  from  one  Geof- 
frey or  Jeflfrey,  an  early  prince  of  Scot- 
land who,  according  to  tradition,  was 
himself  descended  from  Heremon,  the 
first  King  of  Ireland.  This  Geoffrey  was 
hiinself  in  Ireland  and  fought  with  the 
famous  chief,  Brian  Boru,  at  the  battle 
of  Clontarf,  in  the  year  1014,  Anno 
Domini.  While  it  is,  of  course,  impos- 
sible to  trace  all  the  many  branches  of 
the  Beatty  or  Beattie  family  in  an  un- 
broken line  back  to  this  parent  stock, 
there  is,  nevertheless,  every  reason  to 
believe  that  such  a  relationship  actually 
exists  between  them  and  that  there  was 
in  the  first  place  only  one  family  to  bear 
this  name.  And  there  have  been  many 
individuals  who  have  borne  it  with  great 
distinction  throughout  the  centuries,  but 


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none  more  worthily  and  with  a  fairer  re- 
nown than  Admiral  Sir  David  Beatty  in 
the  present  day,  who  is  now  the  officer  in 
command  of  his  Majesty's  High  Seas 
Fleet.  One  of  the  lines  of  the  Beattie 
family  was  represented  in  the  early  part 
of  the  nineteenth  century  in  the  city  of 
Edinburgh,  Scotland,  by  one  John  Beat- 
tie,  a  direct  descendant  of  the  distin- 
guished Beatty  family  of  Esdale  Moore 
in  Dumfriesshire,  Scotland,  whose  ances- 
try can  be  tracked  back  to  the  original 
progenitor.  He  was  a  stone  mason  and 
contractor,  at  first  in  Edinburgh  and  later 
in  Halifax,  Nova  Scotia,  to  which  place 
he  came  in  the  year  1828.  He  was  a 
man  of  unusual  ability  and  was  con- 
nected with  many  large  engineering 
works,  which  involve  stone  construc- 
tion. Among  these  was  the  famous 
Shubenacadie  canal  between  Halifax  and 
Pictou,  Nova  Scotia,  in  which  he  was  the 
contractor.  He  married  Catherine  Tate 
Richardson,  like  himself  a  native  of  Scot- 
land, where  she  was  born  in  the  town  of 
Haddington.  They  were  the  parents  of 
three  children,  as  follows :  John  George, 
born  in  Scotland  in  1822 ;  William,  men- 
tioned below;  and  a  daughter  Chris- 
tiana. 

William  Beattie,  second  son  of  John 
and  Catherine  Tate  (Richardson)  Beat- 
tie,  was  born  October  4,  1829,  at  his 
father's  home  in  Halifax.  His  brother, 
John  G.  Beattie,  engaged  in  business  as 
a  quarryman  and  contractor  on  Leete 
Island,  at  Guilford,  and  as  William  Beat- 
tie  grew  to  manhood,  he  also  followed  in 
the  footsteps  of  his  father  and  brother, 
and  became  a  quarryman  and  stone  con- 
tractor. He  removed  as  a  young  man  to 
Southern  Massachusetts  and  eventually 
settled  in  the  city  of  Fall  River,  where  he 
carried  on  a  most  successful  business  in 
this  line.  William  Beattie  married  Mary 
Hamilton,  a  native  of  the  North  of  Eng- 


land, and  a  daughter  of  Thomas  Hamil- 
ton, who  came  to  this  country  and 
brought  her  with  him  when  she  was  but 
two  years  old.  Her  father  was  a  member 
of  the  famous  old  Hamilton  family,  which 
is  one  of  the  most  distinguished  in  the 
history  of  Scotland,  and  at  one  time  came 
very  near  to  royalty  itself.  The  name  is 
derived  from  Hambleton  Manor  in  Buck- 
inghamshire, and  originally  was  thus 
spelled.  It  is  said  that  the  place  name  in 
turn  was  derived  from  the  old  Anglo- 
Saxon  words,  "Hamell,"  meaning  a  man- 
sion or  family  seat,  and  "Dun,"  an 
enclosed  or  fortified  place.  The  ancient 
arms  of  the  Hamilton  family  are  as  fol- 
lows : 

Arms — Quarterly  one  and  four,  gules  three 
cinquefoils  ermine;  two  and  three  argent  a 
lymphad  with  her  sails  furled  sable. 

Crest — Out  of  a  ducal  coronet  or  an  oak  tree 
proper,  fructed  or  and  penetrated  transversely  in 
the  main  stem  by  a  frame  saw  proper,  the  frame 
or  and  the  blade  inscribed  with  the  word 
"through." 

Motto— Through. 

To  William  and  Mary  (Hamilton) 
Beattie  the  following  children  were  born : 
David,  who  is  now  a  member  of  the  firm 
of  Beattie  &  Wilcox,  of  Fall  River;  Wil- 
liam Henry,  now  of  the  firm  of  Beattie  & 
Cornell,  of  Fall  River ;  and  Roy  Hamil- 
ton, with  whose  career  we  are  here  espe- 
cially concerned. 

Roy  Hamilton  Beattie,  born  December 
4,  1870,  at  Fall  River,  Massachusetts,  was 
the  third  and  youngest  son  of  William 
and  Mary  (Hamilton)  Beattie.  He  has 
made  his  native  city  his  permanent  home 
throughout  life,  and  is  now  regarded  as 
one  of  the  most  successful  and  public- 
spirited  citizens  in  the  place.  His  educa- 
tion was  received  at  the  local  public 
schools  of  Fall  River,  and  he  afterwards 
attended  the  Bradford  Matthew  Chaloner 
Durfee  High  School,  from  which  he  was 


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graduated  in  the  year  iS88,  and  entered 
Phillips  Exeter  Academy,  from  which  he 
graduated.  Later  he  entered  the  Massa- 
chusetts Institute  of  Technology  in  Bos- 
ton, taking  the  civil  engineering  course, 
and  was  graduated  from  this  institution 
with  the  class  of  1893.  He  had  decided 
to  take  up  the  same  business  that  his 
father  and  grandfather  had  followed 
before  him,  and  with  which  most  of  the 
Beatties  had  been  associated  for  a  num- 
ber of  generations.  Upon  completing  his 
studies,  accordingly,  he  entered  his  fath- 
er's establishment,  and  had  his  early 
training  in  the  practical  work  of  building 
sea  walls.  Eventually  he  embarked  in 
the  same  business  on  his  own  account, 
and  rapidly  made  for  himself  a  place 
among  the  contractors  and  business  men 
of  Fall  River,  until  he  is  now  regarded  as 
among  the  most  successful  and  able  there. 
Much  of  his  most  important  work  has 
been  in  connection  with  harbor  improve- 
ments. In  1900  he  incorporated  his  busi- 
ness under  the  firm  name  of  Roy  H.  Beat- 
tie,  Inc.  He  has  carried  on  government, 
municipal  and  private  contracts  of  great 
size  and  importance,  and  is  considered 
one  of  the  most  capable  and  successful 
men  now  in  this  line  of  work.  He  is  also 
a  director  of  the  Metacomet  Bank,  and  is 
an  influential  figure  in  the  financial  cir- 
cles of  this  region. 

Mr.  Beattie  has  turned  his  knowledge 
and  experience  to  the  use  of  the  commun- 
ity in  other  ways  than  by  the  actual  con- 
struction of  engineering  works,  and  has 
served  as  bridge  commissioner  of  Rhode 
Island  for  one  year,  and  was  president  of 
the  Tiverton  Town  Council  for  two 
years.  In  politics  he  is  an  Independent 
Republican,  and  although  quite  unambi- 
tious of  political  preferment,  is  keenly 
interested  in  the  public  affairs  of  the 
community,  taking  a  leading  part  in  their 
direction.    He  is  also  a  conspicuous  figure 

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in  social  and  club  circles  of  the  city,  and 
is  a  member  of  the  Quequechan,  Mian- 
tonomoh,  Squantum,  Country  and  St. 
Anthony  clubs.  He  is  also  a  member  of 
the  American  Society  of  Civil  Engineers. 
In  his  religious  belief,  Mr.  Beattie  is  an 
Episcopalian  and  attends  the  Holy  Trin- 
ity Church  of  that  denomination  at  Tiv- 
erton, Rhode  Island,  where  he  resides. 

Roy  Hamilton  Beattie  was  united  in 
marriage,  December  2,  1896,  at  Dubuque, 
Iowa,  with  Helen  Burch,  a  native  of  that 
city,  born  in  1875,  a  daughter  of  George 
B.  and  Ellen  (Merrill)  Burch,  old  and 
highly  respected  residents  of  Dubuque, 
of  which  Mr.  Burch  was  mayor  for  a 
time.  To  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Beattie  four  chil- 
dren have  been  born,  as  follows :  Hamil- 
ton, born  March  16,  1899;  Malcolm 
Burch,  born  July  3,  1900;  Helen,  born 
May  29,  1904;  and  Alan  Sinclair,  born 
December   18,   1905. 


BLANCHETTE,  William  Henry,  M.  D., 

Physician. 

Dr.  Blanchette  has  been  established  in 
the  practice  of  medicine  at  Fall  River 
since  May,  1896,  is  a  member  of  the  staff 
of  the  Union  Hospital,  and  has  proven 
himself  a  skillful  healer,  a  good  citizen 
and  a  friend  of  progress.  He  is  descended 
from  an  ancient  French-Canadian  family, 
and  is  a  grandson  of  Valentine  Blanch- 
ette, who  was  born  in  Southbridge,  Mas- 
sachusetts, where  he  was  a  farmer,  and 
died  from  the  effects  of  injuries  received 
in  falling  ofif  a  load  of  wood.  He  was 
the  father  of  Alexander  Blanchette,  a  car- 
penter and  builder,  who  resided  in  Woon- 
socket,  Rhode  Island,  and  Fall  River, 
Massachusetts,  and  died  August  10,  1900. 
He  married  Mattie  Gordon,  the  daughter 
of  an  iron  moulder  of  Woonsocket.  She 
survived  her  husband  more  than  five 
years,  and  died  September  i,  1905. 

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Dr.  William  Henry  Blanchette,  son  of 
Alexander  and  Mattie  (Gordon)  Blanch- 
ette, was  born  February  9,  1874,  in  Woon- 
socket,  and  removed  with  his  parents  to 
Fall  River,  where  he  attended  the  public 
schools.  After  five  years  in  a  classical 
school  at  Montreal,  Canada,  where  he 
received  also  military  training,  he  at- 
tended McGill  University  of  Montreal 
one  year.  Subsequently  he  spent  three 
years  in  the  University  of  Maryland, 
where  he  served  as  a  hospital  interne, 
and  received  his  degree  of  M.  D.  Imme- 
diately after  graduating,  in  May,  1896, 
at  the  age  of  twenty-two  years,  he  en- 
gaged in  practice  at  Fall  River,  where  he 
has  continued  to  the  present  time,  and 
has  served  on  the  staffs  of  the  Fall  River 
Hospital,  City  Hospital,  Union  and  St. 
Ann's  hospitals.  Dr.  Blanchette's  suc- 
cess has  warranted  him  in  taking  an 
interest  in  business  afifairs,  and  he  is  now 
a  director  of  the  People's  Co-Operative 
Bank  of  Fall  River.  While  he  is  a 
devoted  physician,  giving  constant  study 
and  care  to  the  progress  made  in  the  heal- 
ing art,  he  takes  an  interest  in  the  prog- 
ress of  practical  afifairs  about  him,  acts 
in  political  movements  with  the  Republi- 
can party,  and  endeavors  to  promote  good 
government  and  all  undertakings  for  the 
promotion  of  the  general  welfare.  He 
is  associated  with  numerous  social  and 
fraternal  organizations,  being  a  member 
of  the  Canadian  Club  of  Boston,  the  Calu- 
met Club,  Laureate  Club,  LaFayette 
Club,  Jacques  Cartier  Club  of  Fall  River, 
and  the  Union  of  St.  John  of  America. 
He  is  also  affiliated  with  numerous  medi- 
cal associations,  including  the  Union  Med- 
ical Society,  Baltimore  Medical  Society, 
Fall  River  Medical  Society,  the  Amer- 
ican Medical  Association,  and  the  Massa- 
chusetts Medical  Society.  He  is  a  commun- 
icant of  St.  Matthew's  Roman  Catholic 
Church,  in  whose  work  he  is  an  active 
factor. 


Dr.    Blanchette    was    married,   August 
31,  1913,  in  Fall  River,  to  Eva  W.  Hyde, 

a  native  of  that  city,  daughter  of  

Hyde,    superintendent    of    the    Provident 
Loan  and  Insurance  Company. 


HICKSON,  Charles  Augustus, 
Business  Man. 

Charles  A.  Hickson,  treasurer  of  the 
Planet  Manufacturing  Company  of  West- 
field,  one  of  the  leading  citizens  of  West- 
field  in  business  circles,  and  in  social  life, 
is  a  son  of  George  J.  Hickson,  who  was 
born  in  Dingle,  County  Kerry,  Ireland, 
December  25,  i860,  and  there  remained 
until  he  was  about  eighteen  years  of  age, 
when  he  came  to  the  United  States,  unac- 
companied, joining  his  brothers  and  sis- 
ter in  Chicopee  Falls,  Massachusetts, 
they  having  previously  emigrated.  He 
remained  there  for  a  few  months,  then 
removed  to  Westfield  and  there  learned 
the  trade  of  moulder  with  the  H.  B. 
Smith  Company,  and  this  line  of  work 
he  followed  throughout  the  active  years 
of  his  life,  being  all  that  period  in  the 
employ  of  this  one  company,  a  most  un- 
usual record  and  one  that  testified  to  his 
efficiency  and  thoroughness  in  the  per- 
formance of  duty.  He  was  a  man  who 
had  always  enjoyed  robust  health  and 
was  active  to  the  day  of  his  death,  start- 
ing to  work  as  usual  that  day,  but  being 
taken  with  an  attack  of  heart  failure,  his 
death  ensued  in  one  hour.  He  was  the 
oldest  employee  in  point  of  service  at  the 
north-side  foundry  of  the  H.  B.  Smith 
Company,  a  most  conscientious  worker. 
He  married,  at  Westfield,  in  1881,  Anna 
English,  born  in  Ireland,  in  1861,  and 
their  children,  born  in  Westfield,  are  as 
follows:  I.  Mary,  who  became  the  wife 
of  Frank  Blair,  now  deceased ;  she 
resides  with  her  mother.  2.  Anna,  became 
the  wife  of  Benjamin  Day;  resides  in 
Hartford,  Connecticut.    3.  George  T.  H., 

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member  of  the  police  force  of  Westfield, 
and  resides  there ;  married  Nora  Lynch. 
4.  Charles  Augustus,  of  whom  further. 
The  family  are  members  of  St.  Mary's 
Roman  Catholic  Church.  The  death  of 
Mr.  Hickson  occurred  in  Westfield,  July 
12,  1916,  and  in  addition  to  his  widow 
and  children,  above  mentioned,  he  was 
survived  by  a  sister,  Mrs.  Thomas  Mur- 
phy, of  Chicopee  Falls,  and  two  brothers, 
Samuel  Hickson,  of  Chicopee  Falls,  and 
John  Hickson,  of  London,  England. 

Charles  A.  Hickson  was  born  in  West- 
field,  Massachusetts,  February  8,  1883. 
He  gained  a  practical  education  by  at- 
tendance at  the  public  schools  of  West- 
field,  including  the  High  School,  pursued 
a  commercial  course,  graduating  in  1900. 
He  began  his  active  business  career  as 
bookkeeper  and  office  manager  of  the 
Planet  Manufacturing  Company,  mas- 
tered the  details  of  the  business  from  a 
manufacturing  and  financial  standpoint, 
and  made  himself  an  extremely  useful 
and  valuable  adjunct  to  the  working  force 
of  the  company.  This  company  was  re- 
organized in  1905,  at  which  time  Mr. 
Hickson  was  made  manager  and  super- 
intendent of  manufacturing,  also  treas- 
urer of  the  corporation.  The  company 
manufacture  a  line  of  canvas  specialties 
for  outing  and  camping  purposes — for 
automobiles — consisting  of  waterproof 
folding  pails,  lunch  baskets,  also  game 
baskets,  emergency  folding  pails,  etc.  In 
addition  to  these  they  also  make  some 
leather  specialties  for  liverymen.  Under 
the  capable  management  of  Mr.  Hickson, 
the  business  has  increased  to  an  appreci- 
able extent,  the  line  has  been  greatly 
enlarged  and  improved,  and  the  factory 
equipment  has  been  added  to,  making  it 
a  model  plant,  and  a  general  progressive 
policy  has  been  followed  with  good 
results.  Since  attaining  his  majority  Mr. 
Hickson  has  taken  an  active  interest  in 


politics,  giving  his  allegiance  to  the 
Democratic  party,  but  has  held  no  elec- 
tive office,  although  he  served  as  a  mem- 
ber of  the  Democratic  town  committee 
for  ten  years,  and  as  a  member  of  the 
Board  of  Registrars,  and  on  the  play- 
ground commission.  He  takes  a  special 
interest  in  the  cause  of  temperance,  being 
a  member  and  treasurer  of  The  Father 
Mathew  Temperance  Society,  and  active 
in  the  work  performed  by  it  for  the  sav- 
ing of  boys  and  young  men,  working 
largely  in  connection  with  the  court  pro- 
bation officer,  and  is  well  known  and 
highly  esteemed  by  social  workers.  He 
also  holds  membership  in  the  Knights  of 
Columbus,  of  which  he  was  grand  knight 
in  1916,  the  Fraternal  Order  of  Eagles, 
the  Improved  Order  of  Red  Men,  the 
Ancient  Order  of  Hibernians,  and  the 
Never  Worry  Club,  a  local  social  organi- 
zation. 

Mr.  Hickson  married,  June  5,  1907, 
Mary  Crane,  born  in  Huntington,  Massa- 
chusets,  May  20,  1884,  daughter  of  John 
F.  and  Mary  (Powers)  Crane,  who  are 
the  parents  of  three  other  children, 
namely:  William,  who  is  serving  in  the 
United  States  army  at  Panama ;  Alice 
and  Clara.  The  family  reside  in  Spring- 
field, Massachusetts ;  in  early  life  Mr. 
Crane  was  engaged  in  the  making  of 
paper,  but  at  the  present  time  (1917)  is 
engaged  in  the  provision  business  in 
Westfield.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Hickson  are 
the  parents  of  two  sons :  Edward  Charles, 
born  February  5,  1909,  and  Howard  Fran- 
cis, born  September  9,  191 1.  The  family 
are  communicants  of  St.  Mary's  Roman 
Catholic  Church. 


SLADE,  Abbott  Everett, 

Business  Man. 


The    name    Slade    has    an    interesting 
origin.    Its  meaning  as  a  common  noun  is 


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"a  small  strip  of  green  plain  within  a 
woodland."  One  of  the  rhymes  about 
Robin  Hood  runs: 

It  had  been  better  of  William  a  Trent 
To  have  been  abed  with  sorrowe, 

Than  to  be  that  day  in  greenwood  slade 
To  meet  with  Little  John's  arrowe. 

In  England  we  have  the  de  la  Slades 
of  the  Hundred  Rolls.  The  word  is  seen 
in  many  compounds  like :  Robert  de 
Greneslade  (of  the  greenslades) ;  Wil- 
liam de  la  Morslade  (the  moorland- 
slade) ;  Michael  de  Ocslade  (theOakslade). 
Sladen,  that  is  slade-den,  implies  a  wood- 
land hollow.  The  name  Slade  in  this 
country  has  sometimes  been  written  Sled 
and  Sleed.  During  the  period  which  has 
witnessed  the  growth  and  development 
of  the  city  of  Fall  River  as  an  industrial 
center,  the  name  of  Slade  has  been  prom- 
inently identified  with  its  affairs. 

(I)  William  Slade,  founder  of  the  fam- 
ily in  this  country,  is  said  to  have  been 
born  in  Wales,  and  was  the  son  of  Ed- 
ward Slade.  The  family  appears  to.  have 
been  but  temporarily  located  in  Wales, 
as  it  was  long  identified  with  Somerset- 
shire, England.  William  Slade  appears 
at  Newport,  Rhode  Island,  in  1659,  when 
he  was  admitted  a  freeman  of  the  colony, 
and  became  an  early  settler  in  the  Shawo- 
met  purchase,  included  in  that  part  of 
Swansea,  Massachusetts,  which  became 
the  town  of  Somerset,  in  1790.  As  early 
as  1680,  when  the  first  record  book  of  the 
town  begins,  Mr.  Slade  was  a  resident  of 
Swansea,  and  the  meetings  of  the  pro- 
prietors were  held  at  his  house  after  their 
discontinuance  at  Plymouth,  in  1677.  He 
was  a  large  land  holder,  his  domain  in- 
cluding the  ferry  across  Taunton  river, 
which  has  ever  been  known  as  Slade's 
Ferry,  and  this  ferry  remained  in  posses- 
sion of  the  family  until  the  river  was 
bridged   in    1876,   at  which   time   it   was 


operated  by  William  L.  and  Jonathan 
Slade.  William  Slade  married  Sarah, 
daughter  of  Rev.  Obadiah  Holmes,  of  Re- 
hoboth.  Children:  Mary,  born  May, 
1689;  William,  1692;  Edward,  mentioned 
below ;  Elizabeth,  December  2,  1695 ; 
Hannah,  July  15,  1697;  Martha,  Febru- 
ary 27,  1699;  Sarah;  Phebe,  September 
25,  1701  ;  Jonathan,  August  3,  1703,  died 
aged  about  eighteen ;  Lydia,  October  8, 
1706. 

(II)  Edward  Slade,  second  son  of  Wil- 
liam and  Sarah  (Holmes)  Slade,  was  born 
June  14,  1694,  in  Swansea,  and  was  a 
member  of  the  Society  of  Friends.  He 
married  (first)  in  1717,  Elizabeth  An- 
thony, who  bore  him  one  son,  William, 
born  September  25,  1718.  He  married 
(second)  December  6,  1720,  Phebe, 
daughter  of  Samuel  and  Sarah  (Sher- 
man) Chase,  and  (third)  Deborah  Buf- 
fam.  Children  of  the  second  marriage: 
Samuel,  born  November  26,  1721 ;  Eliza- 
beth, April  29,  1723;  Joseph,  November 
16,  1724;  Sarah,  February,  1726;  by  the 
third:  Edward,  mentioned  below;  Philip, 
April  19,  1730;  Phebe,  July  4,  1737; 
Mercy,  1744. 

(III)  Edward  (2)  Slade,  son  of  Ed- 
ward (i)  and  Deborah  (Buffam)  Slade, 
was  born  November  11,  1728,  and  mar- 
ried, June  4,  1756,  Lydia  Baker,  his  cou- 
sin, daughter  of  Ebenezer  and  Lydia 
(Slade)  Baker.  Children:  Baker,  men- 
tioned below ;  John  ;  Edward  ;  Sarah  ; 
Phebe. 

(IV)  Baker  Slade,  eldest  child  of  Ed- 
ward (2)  and  Lydia  (Baker)  Slade,  born 
September  20,  1759,  was  a  farmer  of 
Somerset,  and  married,  March  18,  1784, 
Hannah,  daughter  of  Captain  Mial  and 
Hepsibeth  (Mason)  Pierce,  of  Swansea 
and  Somerset.  Children :  Lydia,  born 
April  I,  1785;  Edward,  January  8,  1787; 
John,  mentioned  below ;  Jonathan,  Octo- 
ber 27,  1791 ;  Mial,  April  13,  1793;  Eliza- 


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beth,  March  8,  1795;  Philip,  March  17, 
1797;  Plannah,  February  15,  1799;  Sarah, 
April,  1801  ;    Levi,  August  29,  1804. 

(V)  John  Slade,  second  son  of  Baker 
and  Hannah  (Pierce)  Slade,  died  at  the 
early  age  of  twenty-seven  years.  He  was 
a  farmer  of  Swansea,  married  Phebe 
Pierce,  of  the  latter  town,  and  had  chil- 
dren :  Pierce,  John,  mentioned  below ; 
and  Edmund.  She  married  (second) 
Wing  Eddy,  by  whom  she  had  several 
children,  and  lived  to  an  advanced  age. 

(VI)  John  (2)  Slade,  second  son  of 
John  (i)  and  Phebe  (Pierce)  Slade,  was 
a  farmer  in  Somerset,  and  married  his 
cousin,  Mary,  daughter  of  Edward  Slade. 
Both  he  and  his  wife  died  comparatively 
young,  Mr.  Slade  when  twenty-seven,  and 
Mrs.  Slade  at  the  age  of  thirty-nine  years. 
They  had  children :  Winslow,  who  was 
lost  at  sea ;  John  Palmer,  mentioned 
below;  Edward  and  Mary  (twins),  died 
in  infancy. 

(VII)  John  Palmer  Slade,  son  of  John 
(2)  and  Mary  (Slade)  Slade,  was  born 
November  13,  1824,  in  Somerset,  and  was 
but  three  years  of  age  at  the  time  of  his 
father's  death.  He  was  fourteen  years 
old  when  his  mother  died,  and  subse- 
quently made  his  home  in  the  family  of 
Captain  Robert  Gibbs,  a  farmer,  of  Som- 
erset. He  had  a  fair  opportunity  for 
attendance  at  the  common  schools,  and 
was  a  short  time  a  student  at  Myer's 
Academy,  in  Warren,  Rhode  Island.  His 
situation  naturally  developed  in  him  a 
spirit  of  self-reliance,  and  this,  no  doubt, 
was  responsible  for  much  of  his  success 
in  life.  He  was  resourceful  and  inde- 
pendent, full  of  energy  and  perseverance, 
and  rapidly  acquired  a  reputation  among 
his  associates  as  a  man  of  ability  and 
worth.  In  1841  he  began  his  business 
career  as  clerk  in  a  grocery  and  drug 
store,  in  Fail  River,  where  he  continued 
a  little  less  than  a  year.     He  was  subse- 


quently employed  as  clerk  by  his  cousin, 
Mr.  F.  P.  Cummings,  who  conducted  a 
general  merchandise  and  cotton  business 
in  the  South  and  within  a  few  months 
young  Slade  was  admitted  to  partnership. 
After  two  years  of  this  association,  Mr. 
Slade  purchased  the  interest  of  his  part- 
ner, closed  up  the  business,  and  returned 
to  Fall  River,  where  he  thenceforward 
made  his  home,  and  where  he  attained  a 
leading  position  as  a  business  man.  For 
a  period  of  seven  years,  beginning  previ- 
ous to  1850,  he  was  clerk  and  afterward 
conductor  in  the  employ  of  the  Fall  River 
Railroad  Company,  which  was  in  time 
merged  in  the  Old  Colony  Railroad  Com- 
pany. From  1855  to  1858  Mr.  Slade  was 
clerk  and  salesman  in  the  general  com- 
mission establishment  of  Hale  Reming- 
ton. In  1858  Mr.  Slade  embarked  as  a 
general  commission  merchant  on  his  own 
account,  and  included  insurance,  meeting 
with  continued  success.  After  twenty- 
one  years  his  son,  Leonard  N.  Slade, 
became  associated  with  him,  under  the 
firm  name  of  John  P.  Slade  &  Son.  With 
the  development  of  the  cotton  manufac- 
turing industry  in  New  England,  Mr. 
Slade  was  intimately  associated  from  the 
beginning.  He  was  instrumental  in  the 
adaptation  of  the  great  water  power  at 
Fall  River  in  furthering  this  industry.  He 
was  ever  ready  to  support  any  promising 
enterprise  that  was  likely  to  add  to  the 
progress  of  the  town.  He  was  one  of  the 
original  subscribers  to  the  Granite  Mills 
Corporation  in  1863,  and  its  organization 
took  place  in  his  office,  at  which  time  he 
was  made  a  director.  Four  years  later, 
upon  the  organization  of  the  Davol  Mills, 
Mr.  Slade  became  a  director  in  that  cor- 
poration, and  five  years  later  assisted  in 
the  establishment  of  the  Shove  Mills,  of 
which  he  became  a  director  and  the  first 
treasurer.  From  1875  to  1880  he  was 
president  of  this  corporation.     For  a  long 


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period  he  was  a  director  of  the  Weetamoe 
Mills,  and  from  1881  to  the  time  of  his 
death  was  president  of  the  Laurel  Lake 
Mills  Corporation.  His  excellent  busi- 
ness qualifications  were  made  manifest  in 
these  great  enterprises,  where  he  showed 
marked  executive  ability.  For  more  than 
forty-five  years  he  was  secretary  of  the 
Five  Cents  Savings  Bank,  and  was  its 
vice-president  at  the  time  of  his  death. 
This  institution,  beginning  in  a  humble 
way,  grew  to  be  one  of  great  importance 
to  the  city,  and  now  carries  deposits 
approximating'  five  million  dollars  in 
amount.  Beginning  with  1865,  and  con- 
tinuing until  his  death,  Mr.  Slade  was  a 
director  of  the  Fall  River  National  Bank, 
the  oldest  financial  institution  in  the  city. 
One  year  after  the  establishment  of  Fall 
River  as  a  city  (in  1855),  Mr.  Slade  was 
a  member  of  its  Common  Council,  and 
from  1856  to  1857  he  served  as  a  member 
of  the  Board  of  Aldermen,  having  been 
elected  as  a  Republican.  He  was  again 
an  alderman  in  i860,  and  in  1866-67  and 
1877-78  was  again  a  member  of  the  Com- 
mon Council.  He  was  a  charter  member 
of  King  Philip  Lodge,  Free  and  Accepted 
Masons ;  a  member  of  Fall  River  Chap- 
ter, Royal  Arch  Masons ;  Fall  River 
Council,  Royal  and  Select  Masters,  and 
a  charter  member  of  Godfrey  de  Bouillon 
Commandery,  Knights  Templar.  He  was 
a  faithful  member  of  the  First  Congrega- 
tional Parish,  and  died  June  12,  1902, 
nearly  seventy-eight  years  of  age.  He 
married  (first)  Sarah  L.,  daughter  of 
Martin  and  Mary  Lewin,  of  Somerset, 
who  died  soon  thereafter.  He  subse- 
quently married  (second)  Ruth  Ann 
Gardner,  daughter  of  Preserved  S.  and 
Ann  Maria  Gardner,  of  Swansea,  and 
soon  after  her  death  he  married  (third) 
January  28,  1858,  Lois  A.,  daughter  of 
Moses  and  Ruth  B.  (Slade)  Buffington, 
of    Swansea.      Children    of   second    mar- 


riage: Leonard  N.,  born  February  11, 
1852,  married  Emma  F.  Peckham ;  Ab- 
bott E.,  mentioned  below.  Children  by 
third  marriage :  Mary  E.,  born  Septem- 
ber 26,  1859;  Benjamin,  December  10, 
i860,  died  October  7,  1861 ;  John  Milton, 
June  12,  1864,  died  March  2^,  1868;  Louis 
Palmer,  March  14,  1873. 

(VIII)  Abbott  E.  Slade,  second  son  of 
John  Palmer  and  Ruth  Ann  (Gardner) 
Slade,  was  born  December  14,  1853,  on 
Bank  street.  Fall  River,  and  was  edu- 
cated in  the  public  schools  of  that  town, 
where  he  prepared  for  entrance  to  the 
Massachusetts  Institute  of  Technology, 
at  Boston.  He  matriculated  at  that  insti- 
tution in  the  fall  of  1871,  and  continued 
the  regular  course  of  study  of  the  insti- 
tute for  three  years,  up  to  within  one-half 
year  of  graduation,  when  a  severe  attack 
of  typhoid  fever  made  it  seem  inadvisable 
to  continue  his,  studies.  He  then  engaged 
in  work  as  a  civil  engineer,  being  for 
about  one  year  with  two  or  three  engi- 
neers of  the  city,  and  for  a  few  months  in 
the  city  engineer's  office.  From  this  em- 
ployment he  went  into  the  engineering 
department  of  the  Fall  River  waterworks, 
being  there  part  of  the  time  employed  as 
general  service  man.  He  then  became 
clerk  to  the  city  treasurer,  and  continued 
thus  until  the  fall  of  1881,  when  he  was 
elected  treasurer  of  the  Laurel  Lake 
Mills,  his  father  at  that  time  being  pres- 
ident of  the  company.  With  the  excep- 
tion of  two  years,  1899  ^"<i  1900,  he  has 
continued  in  that  position  to  the  present 
time.  During  the  two  years,  1899-1900, 
he  was  engaged  in  the  cotton  brokerage 
business.  Mr.  Slade  is  a  director  of  the 
Laurel  Lake  Mills.  He  has  been  a  Re- 
publican in  politics,  but  not  active  in 
such  matters.  He  is  a  member  of  King 
Philip  Lodge,  Free  and  Accepted  Ma- 
sons, of  Fall  River,  of  which  he  was  sec- 
retary  for  a   number  of  years ;    of   Fall 


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River  Chapter,  Royal  Arch  Masons ;  of 
Fall  River  Council,  Royal  and  Select 
Masters,  and  of  Godfrey  de  Bouillon 
Commandery,  Knights  Templar,  Fall 
River,  of  which  he  is  a  past  commander. 
He  is  very  prominent  in  the  order,  in 
which  he  has  attained  the  thirty-second 
degree.  He  belongs  to  the  First  Con- 
gregational Church  Society  of  Fall  River. 
Mr.  Slade  married  Cora  Lynn  Chase, 
daughter  of  George  Dexter  and  Sarah 
Melonia  Chase,  of  Providence  (see  Chase, 
IX).  They  have  one  son,  Harold  Chapin, 
born  April  26,  1885,  in  Fall  River.  He 
graduated  from  Phillips  Andover  Acad- 
emy, 1904,  and  was  a  student  at  Harvard 
University,  class  of  1908;  member  of  Pi 
Eta  Society.  For  five  years  he  was  en- 
gaged in  the  cotton  business  in  the  South, 
now  connected  with  the  office  of  markets 
of  the  Agricultural  Department  at  Wash- 
ington, D.  C.  He  married  Mary  Venetia 
Mason,  of  Cambridge,  Massachusetts, 
July  28,  1906,  and  they  have  one  son, 
Abbott  Whitney,  bom  May  26,  1908,  in 
Cambridge. 

(The  Chase  Line). 

The  surname  Chase  is  derived  from  the 
French  "chasser,"  to  hunt,  and  the  fam- 
ily has  been  prominent  in  England  since 
the  first  use  of  surnames.  The  seat  of 
the  family  in  England  was  at  Chesham, 
in  Buckinghamshire,  through  which  runs 
a  rapidly  flowing  river  called  the  Chess, 
whence  the  name  of  the  town  and  per- 
haps also  of  the  family.  Thomas  and 
Aquila  Chase,  brothers,  whose  English 
ancestry  is  traced  to  remote  antiquity, 
are  believed  tO'  be  cousins  of  William 
Chase,  mentioned  below. 

(I)  William  Chase  was  born  1595,  in 
England,  and  died  May  4-13,  1659.  He 
settled  in  Roxbury,  Massachusetts,  where 
he  became  a  member  of  the  First  Church. 
The  record  of  Rev.  John  Eliot,  the  Indian 


Apostle,  and  pastor  of  this  church,  has 
the  following  entry:  "William  Chase,  he 
came  with  the  first  company  in  1630;  he 
brought  one  child,  his  son.  He  later  had 
a  daughter,  which  they  named  Mary, 
born  about  the  middle  of  the  3rd  month, 
1637,  after  which  date  he  removed  to 
Scituate,  but  went  with  a  company  who 
made  a  new  plantation  at  Yarmouth." 
William  Chase  came  in  the  ship  which 
brought  Governor  Winthrop  over,  and  in 
1634  he  was  made  freeman  at  Boston ;  in 
1639  he  was  constable  at  Yarmouth,  Mas- 
sachusetts. His  will  was  dated  May  4, 
1659,  and  proved  May  13,  1659,  and  the 
court  ordered  Robert  Dennis  to  divide 
the  estate  as  he  ordered.  Benjamin,  his 
son,  received  two  parts  of  three,  and  Wil- 
liam, eldest  son,  received  the  third  part. 
In  October,  1659,  his  widow  Mary  was 
found  dead,  and  a  coroner's  inquest 
decided  that  she  died  a  natural  death.  In 
1645  William  Chase  served  against  the 
Narragansett  Indians.  In  1643  his  name 
as  well  as  that  of  his  son  was  on  the  list 
of  males  able  to  bear  arms,  between  the 
ages  of  sixteen  and  sixty.  In  1645  he 
was  a  drummer  in  Myles  Standish's  com- 
pany that  went  to  the  banks  opposite 
Providence.  Children :  William,  men- 
tioned below ;  Mary,  born  May,  1637,  in 
Roxbury,  died  young;  Mary,  1639,  in 
Yarmouth ;    Benjamin,  1640. 

(II)  William  (2)  Chase,  son  of  Wil- 
liam (i)  and  Mary  Chase,  born  about 
1622,  in  England,  came  to  America  with 
his  parents  and  to  Yarmouth  in  1638.  He 
died  there  February  27,  1685.  His  chil- 
dren, born  in  Yarmouth,  were :  William, 
mentioned  below ;  Jacob  ;  John  ;  Eliza- 
beth, married.  May  27,  1674,  Daniel 
Baker;  Abraham;  Joseph,  married,  Feb- 
ruary 28,  1694,  Sarah,  daughter  of  Samp- 
son Sherman ;  Benjamin,  married,  Sep- 
tember 21,  1696,  Amey  Borden;   Samuel, 


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married,  1699,  Sarah  Sherman,  daughter 
of  Samuel  and  Martha  (Tripp)  Sherman. 

(III)  William  (3)  Chase,  eldest  child 
of  William  (2)  Chase,  born  about  1645, 
married  (first)  Hannah,  daughter  of 
Philip  and  Sarah  (Odding)  Sherman,  and 
(second)  Priscilla  Perry.  His  will  was 
proved  August  16,  1737.  Children:  Wil- 
liam, Eber,  Isaac,  Nathaniel,  Joseph  and 
Hezekiah. 

(IV)  Isaac  Chase,  third  son  of  Wil- 
liam (3)  Chase,  was  a  resident  of  Swan- 
sea, Massachusetts,  died  in  1760,  and  his 
will  was  proved  April  i  of  that  year.  He 
married  (first)  February  10,  1704,  Eliza- 
beth, daughter  of  John  and  Jane  (Marks) 
Blethen,  of  Salem,  Massachusetts,  and 
(second)  November  2,  1720,  Mary,  daugh- 
ter of  Samuel  Fowler.  Children  by 
first  marriage :  James,  mentioned  below ; 
Waitstill,  born  April  24,  1708;  Isaac,  May 
19,  1710;  William,  October  21,  1712. 
Children  by  second  marriage :  Ezekiel, 
Mary,  Robert,  David,  Lydia,  Susanna, 
Benjamin. 

(V)  James  Shade,  eldest  child  of  Isaac 
and  Elizabeth  (Blethen)  Chase,  was  born 
February  12,  1706,  in  Swansea,  and  died 
April  20,  1782,  in  Middletown,  Rhode 
Island,  to  which  town  he  removed  about 
1740.  He  married  (first)  May  11,  1727, 
Alice,  daughter  of  William  and  Mary 
(Coggeshall)  Anthony  (see  Anthony  V). 
She  died  in  March,  1762,  in  the  fifty- 
seventh  year  of  her  age,  and  he  married 
(second)  June  30,  1763,  Lydia,  widow  of 
Jonathan  Thurston,  she  being  formerly  a 
Goddard.  She  died  June  16,  1784.  Chil- 
dren :  Elizabeth,  born  March  20,  1728,  in 
Swansea;  Aaron,  mentioned  below ;  Alice, 
October  8,  1732,  in  Freetown,  Massachu- 
setts; Zaccheus,  November  4,  1737; 
Mary,  July  6,  1739;  Daniel,  1741  ;  James; 
Peter ;   Paul ;   Isaac. 

(VI)  Aaron  Chase,  fourth  son  of  James 
and  Alice  (Anthony)  Chase,  was  a  resi- 


dent of  Portsmouth,  Rhode  Island.  Dur- 
ing the  War  of  the  Revolution,  while 
Rhode  Island  was  occupied  by  the  Brit- 
ish troops,  Mr.  Chase's  family  and  others 
were  driven  back  from  their  homes  by  the 
British  soldiers,  their  houses  and  farm 
buildings  burned  and  property  destroyed. 
One  of  Mr.  Chase's  sons,  a  lad  of  only 
twelve  or  fourteen  years,  was  killed. 
Aaron  Chase  married  Elizabeth  Perry, 
and  had  children ;  Elizabeth,  born  De- 
cember 8,  1755;  Darius,  May  8,  1757; 
Daniel,  mentioned  below;  Martha,  Au- 
gust 2,  1760,  died  young;  Alice,  Septem- 
ber 19,  1762;  Perry,  January  23,  1764; 
Martha,  September  11,  1765;  Sarah,  De- 
cember 7,  1767;  Royal,  October  9,  1769; 
Lydia,  May  20,  1771 ;  Ruth,  October  7, 
1774;   May,  September  22,  1779. 

(VII)  Daniel  Chase,  second  son  of 
Aaron  and  Elizabeth  (Perry)  Chase,  was 
born  February  2,  1759,  and  was  a  sub- 
stantial man  and  farmer  of  Portsmouth, 
prominently  identified  with  the  public 
affairs  of  his  town  and  section.  He  rep- 
resented Portsmouth  for  fourteen  years 
in  the  General  Assembly  of  the  State, 
where  he  was  given  the  sobriquet  of  the 
"Quaker  member."  In  1805  he  built  a 
large  brick  mansion  near  the  south  end 
of  the  island.  It  was  burned  August  26, 
1909.  Mr.  Chase  was  an  influential  citi- 
zen, respected  and  esteemed  by  his  many 
associates  and  acquaintances.  He  mar- 
ried (first)  Hannah  Lawton,  born  April 
15,  1759,  in  Portsmouth,  daughter  of 
Isaac  and  Mary  Lawton ;  and  (second) 
Joanna  Mott.  Children  by  first  wife: 
Hannah;  Darius,  born  April  10,  1782; 
George,  mentioned  below;  Sarah,  Eliza- 
beth, Daniel,  Mary,  Ruth. 

(VIII)  George  Chase,  second  son  of 
Daniel  and  Hannah  (Lawton)  Chase, 
was  born  March  31,  1784,  in  Portsmouth, 
died  in  Westerly,  Rhode  Island,  at  the 
home  of  his  daughter,  Sarah  E.  Nye,  Jan- 

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uary,  1873.  He  made  his  home  on  Pru- 
dence Island,  where  he  engaged  quite 
extensively  in  farming  and  stock  raising, 
making  a  specialty  of  sheep.  He  made 
extensive  improvements  on  his  farm.  He 
married  Eunice  Albro,  born  November 
24, 1790,  in  South  Kingston,  Rhode  Island, 
died  on  Prudence  Island,  October  20, 
1848.  Children :  Sarah  E.,  born  April  7, 
1814,  married,  in  1855,  Samuel  R.  Nye,  of 
Westerly,  Rhode  Island ;  Nicholas  E., 
October  8,  1815 ;  Harriet,  November  9, 
1817;  Abby  Frances,  February  13,  1820; 
Collins,  November  25,  1824;  George,  Sep- 
tember 20,  1825,  died  young;  Stephen  D., 
October  3,  1827;  George  Dexter,  men- 
tioned below ;  Mary  Eunice,  March  30, 
1831,  married  Robinson  Dennis,  of  See- 
konk,  Massachusetts. 

(IX)  George  Dexter  Chase,  fifth  son 
of  George  and  Eunice  (Albro)  Chase,  was 
born  May  20,  1829,  on  Prudence  Island, 
where  he  grew  to  manhood,  and  received 
his  primary  education.  He  also  attended 
school  in  Greenwich,  Rhode  Island,  and 
made  farming  his  occupation,  continuing 
for  some  time  on  Prudence  Island,  later 
removing  to  Seekonk.  At  the  time  of  the 
publishment  of  his  marriage  bans,  July, 
1854,  he  was  described  as  a  resident  of 
Seekonk.  He  was  married  in  Providence, 
by  Rev.  Albert  G.  Morton,  July  23,  1854, 
to  Sarah  Melonia  Blake,  born  July  14, 
1829,  in  Wrentham,  Massachusetts.  She 
died  in  Fall  River,  Massachusetts,  May 
6,  1893.  She  was  survived  by  her  hus- 
band more  than  ten  years.  He  died  July 
26,  1903,  at  the  home  of  his  daughter, 
Mrs.  A.  E.  Slade,  and  was  buried  in  Oak 
Grove  Cemetery  of  Fall  River.  There  was 
but  one  child  of  this  marriage. 

(X)  Cora  Lynn  Chase,  daughter  of 
George  Dexter  and  Sa'rah  Melonia  (Blake) 
Chase,  was  born  at  Seekonk,  and  edu- 
cated in  public  and  private  schools.  In 
early  life  she  was  a  teacher  for  some  years 


at  Somerset,  Massachusets,  and  Provi- 
dence, Rhode  Island.  She  was  married, 
June  5,  1884,  to  Abbott  E.  Slade,  son  of 
the  late  John  Palmer  Slade  (see  Slade 
VIII).  She  is  the  mother  of  one  son, 
Harold  Chapin  Slade.  Mrs.  Slade  is  inter- 
ested in  art  and  music,  and  takes  a  deep 
interest  in  the  progress  and  prosperity  of 
her  home  city. 

(The  Anthony  Line). 

(I)  Dr.  Francis  Anthony  was  born  in 
London,  England,  April  16,  1550.  He 
was  a  very  learned  physician  and  chem- 
ist, according  to  the  "Biographa  Britan- 
nia," and  was  son  of  an  eminent  gold- 
smith of  London,  who  had  had  a  respon- 
sible position  in  the  jewel  office  under 
Queen  Elizabeth.  About  1569  Francis 
Anthony  entered  Cambridge  University, 
receiving  the  degree  of  Master  of  Arts  in 
1574.  He  left  Cambridge  when  forty 
years  of  age,  and  soon  after  began  to  pub- 
lish to  the  world  the  effects  of  his  chemi- 
cal studies.  In  1598  he  sent  abroad  his 
first  treatise  concerning  the  excellency  of 
a  medicine  drawn  from  gold.  He  began 
medical  practice  without  a  certificate 
from  the  College  of  Physicians,  and  in 
1600,  after  a  half  year  of  practice,  was 
called  before  the  president  and  censors  of 
the  college.  For  disregarding  the  injunc- 
tion from  them  to  cease  practice,  he  was 
fined  five  pounds  and  sent  to  prison, 
being  released  by  a  warrant  of  the  Lord 
Chief  Justice.  He  continued  to  practice 
and  cured  several  distinguished  persons, 
so  that  he  was  no  longer  interfered  with, 
although  proceedings  were  threatened. 
His  practice  consisted  chiefly,  if  not  en- 
tirely, in  the  prescription  and  sale  of  a 
secret  remedy  called  Aurum  Potable,  or 
potable  gold,  and  he  made  a  fortune  from 
the  sale  of  this  remedy.  He  was  a  man  of 
fine  character,  very  liberal  to  the  poor, 
died  in  his  seventy-fourth  year,  and  was 
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buried  in  the  Church  of  St.  Bartholomew, 
the  Great,  where  a  handsome  monument 
was  erected  to  his  memory.  No  record  of 
his  first  marriage  appears,  and  he  married 
(second)  September  23,  1609,  Elizabeth 
Lante,  of  Trinity  Menaries,  London, 
widow  of  Thomas  Lante.  Children  of 
first  wife:  John,  mentioned  below; 
Charles ;    Frances. 

(II)  John  Anthony,  son  of  Dr.  Francis 
Anthony,  was  born  in  1585,  and  died  in 
1655.  In  1613  he  was  graduated  from 
Pembroke  College,  Bachelor  of  Medicine ; 
Doctor  of  Medicine,  1619;  was  admitted 
licentiate  of  the  College  of  Physicians  of 
London,  1625;  served  in  the  civil  war  on 
the  Parliamentary  side  as  surgeon  to  Col- 
onel Sandays,  was  author  of  "The  Com- 
fort of  the  Soul,  laid  down  by  way  of 
Meditation." 

(III)  John  (2)  Anthony,  son  of  John 
(i)  Anthony,  was  born  in  1607,  was  a  res- 
ident of  the  village  of  Hampstead,  near 
London,  and  came  to  New  England  in  the 
ship  "Hercules,"  April  16,  1634.  He  was 
in  Portsmouth,  Rhode  Island,  September 
14,  1640,  when  he  was  made  freeman.  He 
was  corporal  of  a  military  company,  and 
May  25,  1655,  was  authorized  to  keep  an 
ordinary  in  Portsmouth ;  commissioner, 
1661 ;  deputy  in  1666-72.  He  married 
Susanna  Potter,  and  both  he  and  his  wife 
died  in  1675.  Children:  John,  born 
1642;  Susanna,  1644;  Elizabeth,  1646; 
Joseph,  1648;  Abraham,  mentioned  below. 

(IV)  Abraham  Anthony,  youngest  child 
of  John  (2)  and  Susanna  (Potter)  An- 
thony, was  born  1650,  and  died  October 
10,  1727.  He  was  made  freeman,  1672 ; 
deputy  much  of  the  time  from  1703  to 
171 1,  and  in  1709-10  was  speaker  of  the 
house.  He  married,  December  26,  1671, 
Alice  Woodell,  born  February  10,  1650, 
died  1734,  daughter  of  William  and  Mary 
Woodell,  of  Portsmouth.  Children:  John, 
born    November   7,    1672 ;    Susanna   and 


Mary  (twins),  August  29,  1674,  both  died 
young;  William,  mentioned  below;  Sus- 
anna, October  14,  1677;  Mary  and  Amey 
(twins,  Amey  died  young),  January  2, 
1680;  Abraham,  April  21,  1682;  Thomas, 
June  30,  1684;  Alice  and  James  (twins), 
January  22,  1686;  Amey,  June  30,  1688; 
Isaac,  April   10,  1690;    Jacob,  November 

15-  1693- 

(V)  William  Anthony,  second  son  of 
Abraham  and  Alice  (Woodell)  Anthony, 
was  born  October  31,  1675,  and  died  De- 
cember 28,  1744.  He  was  of  Portsmouth, 
Rhode  Island,  and  Swansea,  Massachu- 
setts. He  married,  March  14,  1694,  Mary 
Coggeshall,  born  September  18,  1675,  died 
after  1739,  daughter  of  John  and  Eliza- 
beth (Timberlake)  Coggeshall,  grand- 
daughter of  Major  John  and  Eliza- 
beth (Baulstone)  Coggeshall,  and  great- 
granddaughter  of  John  Coggeshall,  who 
came  from  Essex,  England.  Children : 
William,  born  May  14,  1695 ;  Abraham, 
September  25,  1696;  Elizabeth,  May  2, 
1698;  Mary,  December  8,  1699;  John, 
September  12,  1702,  died  young;  Alice, 
mentioned  below;  Ann,  March  17,  1707; 
John  and  Amy  (twins),  November  16, 
1708;  William,  October  26,  1709;  James, 
November  9,  1712;  Job,  April  10,  1714; 
Benjamin,  June  10,  1716;  Daniel,  May 
19,  1720. 

(VI)  Alice  Anthony,  third  daughter  of 
William  and  Mary  (Coggeshall)  An- 
thony, was  born  May  22,  1705,  and  be- 
came the  wife  of  James  Chase,  of  Middle- 
town  (see  Chase  V). 


ALLARD,  Joseph,  M.  D., 
Physician. 

Joseph  Allard,  M.  D.,  one  of  the  most 
successful  and  capable  physicians  in  Fall 
River,  Massachusetts,  is  the  third  in  the 
direct  line  of  his  paternal  ancestry  to  bear 
his  name.     His  grandfather,  Joseph  Al- 


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lard,  was  a  native  of  Chamblay,  Canada, 
and  of  fine  old  French-Canadian  stock. 
He  left  his  native  country  and  came  to 
the  United  States  while  quite  a  young 
man,  married,  and  it  was  here  that  his 
children  were  born.  One  of  his  sons, 
Joseph  Allard,  father  of  Dr.  Joseph  Al- 
lard,  was  born  at  Bourbonnais  Grove, 
Illinois.  He  lived  in  many  dififerent  parts 
of  the  country  during  his  life,  and  was 
an  active  and  capable  man.  His  brother, 
Simon  Allard,  served  the  Union  as  a  sol- 
dier in  the  United  States  army  during  the 
Civil  War  and  saw  considerable  active 
service  therein.  Joseph  Allard  married 
Adeline  Berthiume,  and  they  were  the 
parents  of  twelve  children,  five  of  whom 
survive,  namely :  Joseph,  of  further  men- 
tion ;  Docite ;  George,  now  resides  at 
Sioux  City,  Iowa;  Josephine,  who  resides 
in  South  Dakota ;  and  Appoline,  who  is 
married  and  resides  in  Chicago. 

Dr.  Joseph  Allard  was  born  in  the  town 
of  St.  Anne,  Illinois,  March  8,  1856.  After 
two  years  as  clerk  and  student  in  medi- 
cine in  St.  Anne,  he  went  to  Indianapolis, 
Indiana,  where  he  took  a  two  years' 
course,  then  went  to  Montreal,  Canada, 
and  studied  for  the  ministry  at  McGill 
University.  He  was  ordained  a  Presby- 
terian minister  in  1881,  and  having  re- 
ceived an  appointment  as  pastor  he  went 
to  Quebec,  where  he  remained  for  five 
years.  At  the  expiration  of  that  period 
of  time  he  returned  to  the  United  States, 
changed  his  vocation  to  that  of  medicine, 
located  in  Fall  River,  Massachusetts,  and 
for  the  following  thirty-seven  years  en- 
gaged in  the  active  practice  of  that  pro- 
fession in  that  city.  Dr.  Allard  is  a  man 
of  wide  interests  and  sympathies,  and  has 
always  played  an  active  part  in  the  gen- 
eral life  of  the  community,  particularly 
in  connection  with  politics,  and  he  is  a 
strong  advocate  of  the  principles  and 
policies  for  which   the  Republican  party 


stand.  In  his  religious  belief  Dr.  Allard 
is  a  Congregationalist,  and  was  one  of 
that  group  of  men  who  were  mainly  in- 
strumental in  securing  the  erection  of 
the  French  Congregational  Church  in  Fall 
River.  This  edifice  is  situated  on  Harri- 
son street,  and  the  success  with  which 
its  construction  was  carried  out  is  due  in 
a  large  measure  to  the  efforts  of  Dr.  and 
Mrs.  Allard. 

Dr.  Allard  married  (first)  1880,  Mi- 
nerva Kertson,  of  New  Brunswick,  Can- 
ada, born  in  Grand  Falls,  Canada,  and 
they  were  the  parents  of  four  children : 
Gertrude  Mary,  Maude,  Karl  and  Ches- 
ter. Dr.  Allard  married  (second)  March 
23,  1913,  Alcina  Robilliard,  born  in  New 
Market,  New  Hampshire,  1881,  a  daugh- 
ter of  Maxim  and  Mary  E.  (Bellefleur) 
Robilliard,  of  New  Hampshire  and  Fall 
River,  Massachusetts,  removing  to  the 
latter  city  in  later  life.  He  was  a  speeder 
tester,  serving  for  many  years  in  the 
Bealmont  Mill,  Fall  River. 

Dr.  Allard  is  a  man  in  whom  the  pub- 
lic and  private  virtues  are  admirably  bal- 
anced. He  is  regarded  in  the  professional 
world,  and  in  all  his  public  relations,  as 
one  whose  principles  are  above  reproach 
and  whose  strict  ideals  of  honor  and  jus- 
tice are  applied  to  every  detail  of  his  pro- 
fessional conduct.  It  is  not  only  in  asso- 
ciation with  his  patients  that  these  char- 
acteristics are  displayed,  but  with  all 
those  with  whom  he  comes  in  contact  in 
his  professional  career  and  in  every  other 
department  of  life.  His  courtesy  and  un- 
failing concern  for  the  welfare  of  all 
makes  him  a  highly  popular  figure  in 
every  circle  and  has  established  the 
esteem  in  which  he  is  held  upon  the  firm- 
est kind  of  basis.  In  his  private  life  these 
virtues  have  their  analogues.  A  quiet 
and  retiring  character  makes  him  a  great 
lover  of  home  and  the  domestic  ties,  and 
his  never  failing  geniality  endears  him  to 


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the  members  of  his  family  and  to  the 
friends  of  whom  he  possesses  so  many. 
Dr.  AUard  is  a  man  of  great  sagacity, 
quick  perceptions,  sound  judgment,  noble 
impulses  and  remarkable  force.  Of  un- 
blemished reputation,  he  commands  the 
respect  and  confidence  of  the  entire  com- 
munity. He  devotes  his  life  to  a  noble 
calling  and  is  crowned  with  the  choicest 
reward.  The  true  physician,  in  the  exer- 
cise of  his  beneficent  calling,  heeds  neither 
nationality  nor  distinction  of  class.  Alike 
to  him  are  the  prince  and  the  pauper,  and 
into  both  the  palace  and  the  hovel  he 
comes  as  a  messenger  of  hope  and  heal- 
ing. The  acquisition  is  nothing  to  him 
save  as  a  means  of  giving  a  material  form 
and  practical  force  to  his  projects  for  the 
uplifting  of  humanity.  Many  there  are 
in  the  ranks  of  this  illustratious  profes- 
sion, to  the  honor  of  human  nature  be  it 
said,  to  whom  the  above  description 
would  apply,  but  of  none  can  it  be  said 
with  greater  truthfulness  than  of  Dr. 
Allard. 


BRIEN,  Theodore  Robert, 

Manufacturer. 

When  Thomas  Brien,  father  of  Theo- 
dore Robert  Brien,  of  Westfield,  came  to 
this  country  from  his  native  Ireland,  a 
lad  of  seventeen  years,  he  brought  with 
him  a  knowledge  of  the  manufacture  of 
musical  instruments  gained  with  his 
uncle,  Richard  O'Reilly,  at  whose  factory 
in  Dublin  all  the  Band  League  instru- 
ments of  the  long  ago  were  made.  The 
business,  now  in  the  hands  of  the  fourth 
generation  of  the  family,  is  still  located 
in  a  factory  standing  on  the  old  site,  Nos. 
16-17  Wellington  Quay,  Dublin,  and 
there  musical  instruments,  famous  for 
their  tone  and  quality,  are  yet  made. 
Thomas  Brien  was  born  in  Dublin,  in 
1830,    and    after    leaving    school    entered 


this  famous  factory,  and  being  a  nephew 
of  the  proprietor  as  well  as  having  a 
natural  aptitude  for  that  business,  his 
advance  was  rapid  and  he  acquired  a 
knowledge  and  skill  beyond  his  years. 
When  he  came  to  the  United  States  he 
located  in  Cherry  Valley,  New  York, 
where  there  was  a  factory  making  that 
now  little  known  but  once  popular  musi- 
cal instrument,  the  "Melodeon,"  which 
was  superseded  by  the  parlor  organ. 
There  he  secured  employment  and  turned 
to  good  account  the  skill  he  had  acquired 
in  the  Dublin  factory.  His  particular 
work  was  the  important  duty  of  voicing 
the  reeds,  the  skillful  performance  of  his 
department  determining  the  quality  and 
tone  for  the  Melodeon,  which  was  a  wind 
instrument. 

After  a  few  years  he  added  to  his  ac- 
complishments cabinet  making,  and  soon 
became  an  expert  workman.  For  some 
time  he  was  engaged  in  making  fine  fur- 
niture and  cabinets  under  his  own  name 
and  executed  many  pieces  under  special 
order.  He  was  also  a  skilled  carver  and 
did  wonderful  work  in  that  line,  both  in 
wood  and  ivory.  During  the  Civil  War 
he  spent  two  years  in  the  United  States 
naval  service  on  the  gunboat,  "Grand 
Gulf,"  a  vessel  used  in  conveying  mail 
and  passenger  boats  from  Aspinwall 
(now  Colon)  a  seaport  of  Panama,  to 
New  York  City.  After  his  return  from 
the  navy,  he  closed  out  his  cabinet  mak- 
ing business  in  Cherry  Valley  and  estab- 
lished a  hardware  store  there  which  he 
successfully  conducted  until  his  death  in 
1877.  He  was  an  active  Republican,  and 
was  postmaster  at  Cherry  Valley  for  sev- 
eral years,  his  widow  succeeding  him  in 
that  office.  He  was  a  Presbyterian  in 
religious  faith,  his  sons  all  following  the 
father's  example  in  politics,  religion  and 
business,  all  working  in  the  hardware 
store  and  for  many  years  being  engaged 


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in  some  form  of  the  heating  and  ventil- 
ating business. 

Thomas  Brien  married,  in  1855,  at 
Cherry  Valley,  Elizabeth  Young,  born  at 
Castle  Derg  in  the  north  of  Ireland,  De- 
cember 22.  1839,  who  is  now  residing 
with  her  daughter,  Jennie,  in  Dayton, 
Ohio.  Elizabeth  Young  came  to  the 
United  States  a  child  of  six  years  with 
her  uncle,  her  parents  having  come  over 
earlier,  settling  at  Albany,  New  York. 
When  still  young  she  went  to  Cherry 
Valley  in  the  family  of  a  Presbyterian 
minister.  There  she  met  Thomas  Brien 
whom  she  married  when  but  sixteen.  She 
had  four  sisters,  only  one  now  (1918) 
living  in  Albany,  and  a  brother,  James 
Young,  who  was  a  private  in  the  Forty- 
fourth  Regiment,  New  York  Volunteer 
Infantry,  known  as  "Ellsworth's  Aven- 
gers." At  the  second  battle  of  Bull  Run, 
when  the  Union  forces  were  falling  back, 
the  color  bearer  of  the  company  was  shot 
down.  Mr.  Young,  already  wounded, 
grasped  the  flag  and  waved  it  aloft  only 
to  be  shot  down  the  next  moment,  dying 
instantly.  At  the  War  Museum  in  the 
State  Capital  at  Albany  his  heroic  deed  is 
recorded,  and  part  of  the  uniform  he  wore 
on  the  fatal  day,  August  30,  1862,  is 
there  preserved.  Thomas  and  Elizabeth 
(Young)  Brien  were  the  parents  of  five 
sons  and  two  daughters :  James  T.,  born 
July,  1857,  married,  and  resided  at  Hoo- 
sick  Falls,  New  York ;  Frederick  S.,  born 
September,  1859,  married,  and  resides  at 
Cherry  Valley,  New  York ;  Theodore 
Robert,  of  further  mention ;  IVIary  E., 
born  March,  1864,  married,  and  resides 
at  Cherry  Valley ;  Louis  J.,  born  Febru- 
ary, 1867,  married,  and  resides  at  Hart, 
Michigan;  Jennie,  born  November,  1868, 
married,  and  resides  at  Dayton,  Ohio ; 
William  F.,  born  March,  1870,  married, 
and  resides  in  Indianapolis,  Indiana. 

Theodore    Robert    Brien    was    born    at 


Cherry  Valley,  Otsego  county.  New 
York,  November  27,  1862.  He  was  edu- 
cated in  the  public  schools,  and  remained 
at  home  until  seventeen  years  of  age ; 
employed  in  the  hardware  store  with  his 
father  until  the  latter's  death  and  with 
his  elder  brother  until  1879,  when  he 
went  to  Hoosick  Falls,  New  York,  and 
there  learned  the  moulder's  trade.  He 
followed  that  until  1886,  when  he  aban- 
doned it  and  for  eleven  years  was  en- 
gaged in  the  insurance  business.  During 
that  period  an  elder  brother,  James  T. 
Brien,  had  conceived  the  idea  of  an 
improved  heater  along  new  lines,  and 
together  the  brothers  perfected  the  idea 
and  evolved  the  Brien  heater  which  they 
patented.  In  1897  they  began  its  manu- 
facture in  Hoosick  Falls,  and  were  suc- 
cessful in  introducing  it  to  the  trade  and 
there  continued  until  1907.  Theodore  R. 
Brien  then  came  to  Westfield,  and  inter- 
esting local  capital  he  organized  the  Brien 
Heater  Company,  Inc.,  and  brought  the 
business  formerly  conducted  at  Hoosick 
Falls  to  Westfield.  The  company  has 
just  completed,  June  18,  1918,  a  hand- 
some new  building,  50X200  feet,  equipped 
with  the  latest  appliances  for  manufac- 
turing the  heater.  Later  the  Bay  State 
Foundry  Company  was  incorporated  to 
make  the  castings  for  the  Brien  Heater 
Company  and  to  transact  a  general  job- 
bing foundry  business.  These  he  con- 
tinues, both  concerns  having  prospered, 
each  in  their  special  line.  Mr.  Brien  is 
president  of  the  Brien  Heater  Company, 
and  secretary-treasurer  of  the  Bay  State 
Foundry  Company,  and  under  his  capable 
executive  and  financial  control  both  have 
attained  high  position  in  manufacturing 
and  business  circles.  He  is  a  Republican 
in  politics,  member  of  the  town  commit- 
tee. He  is  a  member  of  Mt.  Moriah 
Lodge,  Free  and  Accepted  Masons,  and 
Evening  Star  Chapter,   Royal  Arch  Ma- 


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sons,  both  of  Westfield ;  Independent 
Order  of  Odd  Fellows,  and  past  noble 
grand  of  this  lodge;  and  the  Benevolent 
and  Protective  Order  of  Elks,  of  Hoosick 
Falls,  New  York ;  also  an  attendant  of 
the  Baptist  church,  and  member  of  the 
Westfield  Club. 

Mr.  Brien  married,  at  Hoosick  Falls, 
April  19,  1882,  Mida  M.  Rising,  born 
there  February  22,  1858,  daughter  of  Wil- 
liam and  Isabelle  (Allen)  Rising.  Wil- 
liam Rising,  a  machinist,  was  born  at 
Buskirk  Bridge,  in  1835,  and  Isabelle 
Allen,  born  at  Bennington,  Vermont, 
resides  with  her  daughter,  Mida  M.,  at 
Westfield.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Brien  are  the 
parents  of  a  daughter :  Elsie  R.,  born  at 
Hoosick  Falls,  January  12,  1885,  married, 
April  19,  191 1,  William  C.  Waldron,  for 
some  years  secretary-treasurer  of  the 
Brien  Heater  Company,  now  advertising 
manager  with  the  William  S.  Merrill 
Company  of  Cincinnati,  Ohio.  They 
have  a  son,  William  C.  (2)  Waldron,  born 
in  July,  1915. 


SHEA,  Michael  Henry,  M.  D., 

Physician. 

There  is  a  wealth  of  satisfaction  in  the 
contemplation  of  a  duty  well  performed, 
and  in  reviewing  his  past,  Dr.  Michael 
Henry  Shea  can  indulge  himself  to  the 
limit,  for  he  has  reached  the  position  he 
holds  in  the  regard  of  his  fellow  men  by 
a  course  of  right  living  and  adherence  to 
the  line  of  self-imposed  duty.  It  was  his 
ambition  to  become  a  physician,  and  to 
effect  his  purpose  he  entered  the  cotton 
mill  employ  after  graduating  from  Holy 
Cross  College,  at  Worcester,  Massachu- 
setts, in  1886.  During  the  ensuing  six 
years  every  dollar  was  carefully  con- 
served and  added  to  the  fund  which  was 
to  carry  him  through  medical  college.  He 
entered    the    College    of    Physicians    and 


Surgeons  at  Baltimore,  Maryland.  Noth- 
ing could  daunt  him,  and  when  finally  all 
obstacles  were  surmounted  and  his  M.  D. 
secured,  he  returned  to  his  native  city, 
and  among  his  friends  of  a  lifetime,  set- 
tled and  practiced  his  healing  art.  That 
the  years  have  brought  him  success  and 
professional  honor  is  a  result  which  could 
have  been  prophesied  by  all  who  had 
knowledge  of  his  peculiar  fitness  for  the 
important  position  he  fills  in  community 
life. 

Dr.  Shea  is  a  son  of  Patrick  and  Han- 
nah (Hanley)  Shea,  both  born  in  Ireland, 
and  both  residents  of  Fall  River  many 
years  prior  to  the  death  of  Patrick  Shea 
in  1887,  his  widow  surviving  him  until 
1892.  Patrick  Shea  was  a  saddler  and 
harness  maker,  a  Democrat  in  politics,  and 
a  member  of  the  Roman  Catholic  church. 

Dr.  Michael  Henry  Shea  was  born  in 
Fall  River,  Massachusetts,  August  18, 
1861.  He  attended  the  public  school, 
completing  the  grammar  grades,  gradu- 
ating from  the  high  school  in  the  class  of 
1883.  He  then  entered  Holy  Cross  Col- 
lege, Worcester,  Massachusetts,  gradu- 
ating with  the  degree  of  A.  B.  in  1886. 
While  engaged  as  a  cotton  mill  worker, 
he  was  in  charge  of  a  section  of  the  Har- 
greaves  Mill  as  overseer,  under  J.  P. 
Bodge,  who  was  superintendent,  Seth 
Borden  being  treasurer.  The  savings  of 
those  years  were  sacred  to  one  purpose, 
the  financing  of  a  medical  school  educa- 
tion ;  and  in  1896  he  matriculated  at  the 
College  of  Physicians  and  Surgeons,  Bal- 
timore. He  thoroughly  prepared  for  the 
profession  he  was  to  follow,  took  special, 
as  well  as  regular  courses  of  study,  re- 
mained four  years,  and  in  1900  was 
awarded  his  M.  D.  with  the  graduating 
class  of  that  year. 

After  graduation  he  returned  to  Fall 
River,  and  after  a  short  term  in  hospital 
work  began  private  practice.     Eighteen 


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years  have  since  intervened  and  he  now 
occupies  an  established  position  in  pub- 
lic regard.  His  practice  is  large  and  he 
ranks  as  one  of  the  city's  skilled,  success- 
ful and  honorable  physicians.  Profes- 
sional honor  and  material  prosperity  are 
his  reward  for  the  years  he  spent  in  prep- 
aration, and  to  this  must  be  added  the 
love  and  respect  of  many  personal  friends. 
He  is  a  member  of  the  medical  societies, 
the  Cathedral  Parish  of  the  Roman  Cath- 
olic Church,  and  in  politics  he  is  a  Demo- 
crat. Dr.  Shea  was  a  member  of  the 
Common  Council  of  Fall  River  for  the 
year  1892. 

Dr.  Shea  married,  in  1907,  Ann  Fran- 
ces White,  who  died  at  Fall  River,  March 
4,  191 1,  daughter  of  Walter  and  Ann 
White. 


COVEL,  Thomas  Dennis, 

Business    Man,   Financier. 

Thomas  Dennis  Covel  is  a  member  of 
one  of  those  old  families  which  have 
played  a  part  in  New  England  aflfairs 
from  the  early  Colonial  period  down  to 
the  present  day,  and  whose  members 
throughout  the  whole  of  this  long  time 
have  always  stood  for  what  is  best  in 
American  citizenship.  The  name  is 
found  spelled  in  England  in  many  ways, 
and  we  have  it  in  America  as  Covel, 
Covell,  Covelle,  and  Cowell,  the  immi- 
grant ancestor  having  spelled  his  name 
in  the  latter  manner.  It  is  found  on  the 
famous  Battle  Abbey  Roll  of  William  the 
Conqueror  as  De  Covelle,  and  a  Thomas 
Covell  was  coroner  and  keeper  of  the 
castle  of  Lancaster,  England,  and  elected 
mayor  of  that  city  six  times.  The  Covell 
Cross  still  stands  in  the  City  Square  of 
Lancaster.  We  find  the  name,  however, 
in  America  in  its  present  form,  even  at 
the  earliest  period,  and  among  those  who 
bore  it  was  Nathaniel  Covel,  of  Chatham, 


Barnstable  county,  Massachusetts,  where 
he  was  living  in  1667,  and  who  married  a 
daughter  of  William  Nickerson.  It  was 
in  this  town  also  that  one  John  Covel  was 
chosen  schoolmaster  in  June,  1723.  There 
was  also  a  Nathaniel  Covel,  the  son  of 
the  latter  and  his  wife,  Thankful  (Bangs) 
Covel,  who  resided  in  the  same  locality. 

(I)  Captain  Edward  Cowell  was  liv- 
ing in  Boston  as  early  as  1645,  where  he 
was  engaged  in  business  as  a  cordwainer. 
He  was  a  participant  in  King  Philip's 
W^ar,  and  was  in  command  of  a  squad  or 
company  of  eighteen  men  which,  in 
April,  1675,  were  surprised  en  route  from 
Marlboro  to  Boston,  when  some  three 
miles  from  Sudbury,  by  the  Indians  and 
four  of  them  killed.  From  the  early  rec- 
ords it  appears  that  the  English  had  no 
suspicion  of  the  great  number  of  Indians 
that  had  gathered  about  Sudbury  or, 
indeed,  that  there  were  any  in  the  vicin- 
ity until  the  morning  of  April  21,  when 
several  deserted  houses  were  burned.  In 
the  fight  which  followed  a  large  number 
of  Europeans  met  their  death,  but  still 
greater  numbers  of  the  Indians  were 
slain  and  the  fight  turned  out  to  the 
advantage  of  the  settlers.  Edward  Co- 
well  and  his  wife  Margaret,  of  whom  we 
do  not  know  the  maiden  name,  were  the 
parents  of  the  following  children  :  John  ; 
Joseph,  mentioned  below ;  Elizabeth, 
born  August  17,  1653 ;  and  William,  born 
June  28,  1655.  After  the  death  of  his 
first  wife,  Edward  Cowell  married  in 
Hingham,  June  25,  1668,  Sarah  Hobart, 
a  daughter  of  Captain  Joshua  and  Ellen 
(Ibrook)  Hobart,  of  that  place,  where 
she  was  born  November  19,  1644.  Oi  this 
second  union  two  children  were  born, 
Sarah,  April  2,  1669,  and  Edward,  August 
12,  1672. 

(II)  Joseph  Cowell,  or  Covel,  son  of 
Captain  Edward  Cowell,  was  a  cooper  of 
Boston.     He  married  (first)  about  1673, 


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Mary,  daughter  of  Richard  Carter,  and 
widow  of  WilHam  Hunter.  Later  he 
married  (second)  Alice  Palmer. 

(III)  Joseph  (2)  Covel,  son  of  Joseph 
(i)  Cowell,  or  Covel,  was  born  in  1694,  and 
died  in  1733.  He  was  of  Chatham,  Mas- 
sachusetts, and  Killingly,  Connecticut. 
The  Christian  name  of  his  wife  was 
Hannah. 

(IV)  Ebenezer  Covel,  son  of  Joseph 
(2)  and  Hannah  Covel,  born  November 
7,  1727,  was  a  resident  of  the  eastern  part 
of  Killingly,  Connecticut.  The  Christian 
name  of  his  wife  was  Martha.  He  died 
August  23,  1805,  and  she  June  20,  1803. 
Their  children  were :  Samuel,  mentioned 
below;  Sampson,  born  April  4,  1754; 
Mary,  September  15,  1756;  Ebenezer, 
January  11,  1759;  Tamar,  March  8,  1761 ; 
Keziah,  November  8,  1764;  Martha,  Jan- 
uary 26,  1766;  James,  April  10,  1768;  and 
Hannah,  August  2"],  1770. 

(V)  Samuel  Covel,  son  of  Ebenezer 
and  Martha  Covel,  born  January  13,  1752, 
married  Judith   Bloss. 

(VI)  Benjamin  Covel,  son  of  Samuel 
and  Judith  (Bloss)  Covel,  was  born  Jan- 
uary 15,  1775,  in  Killingly,  Connecticut, 
and  leaving  there  settled  in  Berkley,  Mas- 
sachusetts, before  marriage.  He  married 
(first)  Polly  Newell,  by  whom  he  had 
Samuel  and  Benjamin;  married  (second) 
Susan  Tinkham,  of  Providence.  He  died 
at  Berkley,  March  15,  1843,  at  the  age  of 
sixty-four  years.  By  occupation  he  was 
a  farmer  and  ship  carpenter,  and  was 
well-known  and  highly  respected  in  the 
community. 

(VII)  Benjamin  (2)  Covel.  son  of 
Benjamin  (i)  and  Polly  (Newell)  Covel, 
was  born  March  2,  1818,  at  Berkley,  Mas- 
sachusetts. He  was  reared  to  a  country 
life  and  had  such  educational  advan- 
tages as  the  local  schools  afforded.  His 
father  being  a  ship  carpenter  as  well  as 
farmer,  it  was  but  natural  that  the  son 


should  evince  a  taste  in  mechanical  lines, 
and  at  the  age  of  eighteen  he  went  to 
Fall  River  and  began  there  an  apprentice- 
ship in  the  establishment  of  Melville  Bor- 
den, a  contractor  and  builder  in  wood, 
and  there  learned  the  carpenter's  and 
joiner's  trade.  He  remained  with  Mr. 
Borden  for  about  eighteen  months,  and 
then  finished  his  apprenticeship  with 
Pierce  Mason  &  Company,  continuing  in 
their  employ  until  the  summer  of  1842. 
For  a  short  time  thereafter,  from  Sep- 
tember until  November  in  the  same  year, 
he  was  in  the  employ  of  Samuel  Sanford, 
of  Boston,  as  boss  carpenter,  and  had 
general  oversight  of  all  the  repairing  and 
erection  of  the  new  tenement  houses  put 
up  by  Mr.  Sanford.  Returning  to  his 
native  town  of  Berkley  in  November, 
1842,  he  remained  there  until  the  spring 
of  1843;  hs  then  located  at  Fall  River 
once  more  and  became  associated  with 
James  Smith  as  partner  and  thus  began 
business  on  his  own  account  and  opened 
his  successful  career.  Among  some  of 
the  early  structures  built  in  Fall  River  by 
Mr.  Covel  and  his  partner  should  be  men- 
tioned the  Pearl  Street  Church  edifice  and 
the  "Richardson"  house  and  "Wilbur" 
house ;  and  for  the  following  forty  years 
or  more,  during  the  active  period  of  Mr. 
Covel's  life,  he  was  constantly  occupied 
as  a  contractor  and  builder  of  wood,  not 
only  in  Fall  River,  but  in  all  the  Fall 
River  region,  his  field  of  operation  some- 
times extending  to  the  cities  of  Boston 
and  Newport.  Among  some  of  the  Fall 
River  buildings  that  have  stood  as  monu- 
ments to  his  workmanship  were  the  Troy 
buildings,  the  Durfee  block,  the  residence 
of  William  C.  Davol,  Jr.,  and  the  resi- 
dence of  Alphonso  S.  Covel.  At  the  time 
of  the  extension  of  the  Old  Colony  Rail- 
road from  Fall  River  to  Newport,  Mr. 
Covel  constructed  all  the  bridges  and 
depots  on  the  line  for  this  company;  he 
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also  erected  at  Boston  one  of  its  largest 
freight  houses. 

On  December  14,  1841,  Mr.  Covel  mar- 
ried Angeline  Baker,  a  native  of  Dart- 
mouth, Massachusetts,  born  January  3, 
1821,  a  daughter  of  Halsey  and  Mercy 
(Allen)  Baker,  of  that  place.  To  Mr.  and 
Mrs.  Covel  the  following  children  were 
born:  Alphonso  S.,  born  November  22, 
1842;  Benjamin  P.,  born  August  7,  1844; 
Thomas  Dennis,  mentioned  below ;  and 
Ina  P.,  born  in  the  year  i860,  and  died  at 
the  age  of  two  years. 

(VIII)  Thomas  Dennis  Covel,  third 
son  of  Benjamin  (2)  and  Angeline  (Baker) 
Covel,  was  born  June  21,  1850,  at  his 
father's  home  in  Pall  River.  At  an  early 
age  he  began  to  attend  the  local  public 
schools,  and  after  completing  his  general 
education  here  he  entered  Schofield's 
Business  College  of  Providence,  Rhode 
Island,  where  he  took  a  commercial 
course.  He  graduated  from  this  institu- 
tion with  the  class  of  1869,  being  at  that 
time  nineteen  years  of  age.  Upon  com- 
pleting his  studies  Mr.  Covel  began  his 
long  and  successful  career  by  entering 
the  employ  of  his  brother  as  clerk  in  a 
grocery  store.  After  a  year  in  the  gro- 
cery store,  he  entered  the  office  of  the 
Troy  Mill  as  a  runner  and  clerk.  Here 
he  continued  until  the  year  1873,  when  he 
became  associated  with  Arnold  B.  San- 
ford,  in  the  hardware  business,  under  the 
firm  name  of  Sanford  &  Covel.  It  con- 
tinued to  be  thus  named  until  the  year  1884, 
when  Mr.  Osborn  purchased  Mr.  San- 
ford's  interest  and  the  firm  became  known 
as  Covel  &  Osborn.  In  the  year  1898 
another  partner  was  admitted  and  the 
name  was  changed  to  the  Covel  &  Osborn 
Company,  it  being  at  the  same  time  incor- 
porated. Mr.  Covel  at  this  time  became 
treasurer  of  the  concern,  and  held  this 
office  until  the  time  of  his  retirement. 
This    event    occurred    in    the    year    1914, 

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when  he  withdrew  from  active  manage- 
ment of  affairs,  although  he  still  holds  his 
interest  in  the  business.  In  the  mean- 
time the  concern  has  grown  greatly  in 
size,  and  one  of  the  largest  trades  of  its 
kind  in  the  community  is  now  conducted. 
Por  a  number  of  years  Mr.  Covel  served 
as  president  of  the  National  Union  Bank 
of  Pall  River  and  also  was  a  member  of 
its  board  of  directors.  At  the  time  that 
this  institution  became  consolidated  with 
the  Massasoit  National  Bank  and  the  Po- 
casset  National  Bank  to  form  the  Massa- 
soit-Pocasset  National  Bank,  he  became  a 
director  of  the  new  institution,  and  was 
later  elected  to  the  office  of  vice-president, 
which  he  still  holds.  He  is  also  a  mem- 
ber of  the  discount  committee.  Among 
other  important  financial  concerns  with 
which  he  is  concerned  there  should  be 
mentioned  the  Union  Savings  Bank,  of 
which  he  is  a  trustee  and  a  member  of  the 
board  of  investment.  Mr.  Covel  is  also 
deeply  interested  in  many  of  the  large 
industrial  concerns  of  this  region  and  is  a 
director  and  vice-president  of  the  Davis 
Mills,  vice-president  and  director  of  the 
Arkwright  Mills,  and  a  director  and  a 
member  of  the  security  committee  of  the 
Troy  Co-Operative  Bank.  In  his  politics 
Mr.  Covel  is  a  Republican,  but  he  has 
never  had  any  ambition  to  hold  office.  He 
is,  however,  conspicuous  in  social  and 
fraternal  circles  here  and  especially  in 
connection  with  the  Masonic  order,  in 
which  he  has  taken  the  thirty-second 
degree.  He  is  a  member  of  King  Philip 
Lodge,  Ancient  Pree  and  Accepted  Ma- 
sons ;  Fall  River  Chapter,  Royal  Arch 
Masons ;  Pall  River  Council,  Royal  and 
Select  Masters ;  Godfrey  de  Bouillon 
Commandery,  Knights  Templar,  and  the 
Aleppo  Temple,  Ancient  Arabic  Order 
Nobles  of  the  Mystic  Shrine. 

Thomas    Dennis    Covel   was   united   in 
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Paine  Gray,  a  daughter  of  Franklin  and 
Irene  (Gardner)  Gray,  of  Fall  River. 
Franklin  Gray  was  a  conspicuous  figure 
in  the  business  life  of  Fall  River,  where 
he  had  been  an  early  settler.  He  was  a 
son  of  David  and  Betsey  Paine  (Wins- 
low)  Gray,  and  was  born  at  Somerset, 
May  29,  1824.  His  mother  was  a  daugh- 
ter of  Dr.  John  Winslow. 


BEEDE,  John  Towle, 

Business  Man. 

The  original  home  of  the  Beedes  after 
coming  from  England  was  in  New  Hamp- 
shire, but  later  Vermont  became  the  fam- 
ily seat,  and  there  two  of  the  sons  of  the 
emigrant  remained,  Nathan  Beede,  at 
Albany,  Vermont,  John  Beede,  at  Dan- 
ville. Another  son,  David  Beede,  went 
West  and  was  never  again  heard  from. 
Mrs.  Weeks,  of  Wheelock,  Vermont,  Mrs. 
Pearl,  of  Albany,  Vermont,  and  Mrs. 
Rollins,  were  daughters  of  the  original 
family. 

John  Beede,  son  of  the  founder,  was 
born  in  Danville,  Vermont,  in  1802,  and 
died  there  in  1876.  He  followed  farming 
all  his  life  and  resided  in  Danville,  Iras- 
burg  and  Wheelock  during  his  active 
lifetime.  He  was  a  Democrat  in  politics, 
served  as  surveyor  of  highways,  and  lived 
an  honorable,  industrious  life.  He  mar- 
ried Sarah  Langmaid,  who  died  in  Iras- 
burg,  Vermont,  about  1872,  sister  of  Sam- 
uel and  Solomon  (2)  Langmaid,  daughter 
of  Solomon  (i)  Langmaid,  who  had  five 
other  daughters.  Solomon  (i)  Langmaid 
died  in  Danville,  Vermont,  about  1845. 
Mr.  and  Mrs.  John  Beede  were  the  par- 
ents of  eleven  children,  all  born  in  Dan- 
ville :  Joshua,  born  about  1827,  deceased ; 
Abigail,  deceased ;  Augusta ;  Pamelia, 
died  in  infancy;  Pamelia  (2);  Lucy; 
John  Towle,  of  further  mention ;  Mary, 
born    September    i,    1841,   married   John 


Hammond,  whom  she  still  survives,  a 
resident  of  Gibson,  New  Hampshire; 
Susan ;  Solomon ;  George,  now  living  in 
Burlington,  Vermont. 

John  Towle  Beede,  second  son  of  John 
and  Sarah  (Langmaid)  Beede,  was  born  in 
Danville,  Vermont,  June  i,  1839,  and  there 
spent  the  first  sixteen  years  of  his  life, 
attending  school,  and  engaged  in  farm 
labor.  At  the  age  of  sixteen  he  began 
learning  the  carpenter's  trade,  became  an 
expert  workman  and  spent  several  years 
as  a  house  builder.  He  then  became 
a  shop  worker,  especially  on  sash,  doors 
and  blinds.  After  making  mill  work  a 
specialty,  he  left  Danville  and  established 
a  sash  and  blind  factory  at  Newport,  Ver- 
mont, which  he  operated  under  his  own 
name  until  about  1884,  when  he  located 
in  Westfield,  Massachusetts.  He  was  for 
six  years  in  the  employ  of  the  Simpson 
Company,  manufacturers  of  piano  legs 
for  the  olden  style  square  piano.  From 
the  Simpson  Company  he  went  to  Wor- 
onoco,  a  small  village  of  Hampden 
county,  near  Westfield,  and  there  opened 
a  general  store  which  he  operated  very 
successfully  for  many  years.  His  store, 
nicely  fitted  up,  was  also  the  village  post 
office,  and  he  the  postmaster.  He  did  a 
large  business,  but  as  the  years  began  to 
assert  themselves  he  sold  his  Woronoco 
store  and  returned  to  Westfield.  He 
there  opened  a  small  news  and  variety 
store,  but  after  four  years  sold  that  busi- 
ness and  retired  to  the  quiet  management 
of  his  own  private  estate.  He  is  a  Re- 
publican in  politics. 

Mr.  Beede  married,  December  4,  1866, 
Julia  A.  Eldridge,  born  at  Albany,  Ver- 
mont, September  28,  1847,  daughter  of 
John  and  Mary  Ann  (Lyon)  Eldridge. 
John  Eldridge,  a  farmer,  was  born  at 
Burke,  Vermont,  about  1812,  died  at  Al- 
bany, Vermont,  in  March,  1867.  Mary 
Ann  Lyon  was  born  at  Craftsbury,  Ver- 


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mcnt,  about  1822,  died  in  1900.  They 
were  the  parents  of  four  sons  and  four 
daughters.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Beede  are  the 
parents  of  three  daughters ;  Ida  Mary, 
born  December  2,  1868,  married  Harvey 
J.  Cleveland,  of  Westfield,  and  has  a 
daughter  Mildred,  born  July  3,  1895 ; 
Stella  Clinton,  born  October  29,  1870, 
now  residing  in  California;  Ada  Eldridge, 
born  January  7,  1872,  married  Merrill  H. 
Moore,  and  resides  in  Westfield. 


POPE,  Archibald  Edwin,  M.  D., 

Physician,    Surgeon. 

Dr.  Archibald  Edwin  Pope,  of  Fall 
River,  Massachusetts,  was  born  at  Ken- 
nedy, Iowa,  June  i,  1881,  son  of  Justus 
and  Alice  Elnora  (Lehr)  Pope,  and 
grandson  of  William  Justus  Pope.  His 
father  was  a  lumber  dealer,  in  which  oc- 
cupation he  achieved  a  large  degree  of 
success. 

Dr.  Pope  attended  the  public  schools  of 
his  native  town,  and  the  high  school  at 
Redfield,  Iowa,  where  the  family  after- 
ward resided.  The  knowledge  thus  gained 
was  supplemented  by  a  course  in  High- 
land Park  College  at  Des  Moines,  Iowa, 
after  which  he  matriculated  in  the  Ens- 
worth  Medical  College  at  St.  Joseph,  Mis- 
souri. While  a  medical  student  he  was 
also  an  interne  in  the  Maternity  Hospital 
at  St.  Joseph.  His  medical  education  was 
completed  in  the  Medical  School  of  Tufts 
College,  Massachusetts,  in  191 1  and  1912, 
and  since  then  he  has  been  in  general 
practice  in  Fall  River.  He  has  won  dis- 
tinction and  an  excellent  practice  by  close 
application  to  his  profession.  Dr.  Pope 
is  a  member  of  the  St.  Joseph  Medical 
Society,  the  Fall  River  Medical  Society, 
the  Massachusetts  Medical  Society,  the 
Missouri  State  Medical  Society,  the 
American  Medical  Association,  the  Na- 
tional Society  of  Anesthetists,  the  Kappa 


Alpha  Fraternity,  the  Men's  Club  of  the 
First  Baptist  Church  of  Fall  River,  and 
of  the  Baptist  Bible  School  connected 
with  that  church,  which  is  the  largest  in 
the  State  of  Massachusets,  in  which  he 
takes  an  active  interest.  He  is  a  Baptist 
in  religion,  and  a  Republican  in  politics. 
Dr.  Pope  was  among  the  first  to  enlist 
his  services  in  the  present  war,  now 
(1918)  serving  his  country  with  thou- 
sands of  other  young  physicians  with  the 
rank  of  first  lieutenant. 

Dr.  Pope  married,  September  24,  191 1, 
at  St.  Joseph,  Missouri,  Mary  Dorothea 
John,  daughter  of  Thomas  S.  Jolin.  They 
have  two  children :  Archibald  Edwin, 
Ir.,  and . 


SWEENEY,  Michael, 

Business  Man,  Financier. 

Much  of  the  business  of  the  New  Eng- 
land States  is  now  in  the  hands  of  people 
of  Irish  birth  or  decent,  whose  energy, 
enterprise  and  industry  have  built  up 
many  lines  of  endeavor  and  brought  to 
themselves  prosperity  and  high  standing. 
The  city  of  Fall  River  is  fortunate  in  hav- 
ing among  its  citizens  the  enterprising 
gentleman  whose  name  heads  this  biog- 
raphy. He  was  born  April  13,  1856,  in 
Fall  River,  the  son  of  Patrick  Sweeney, 
who  was  born  in  Bandon,  County  Cork, 
Ireland,  and  died  in  Fall  River,  in  1883. 
He  left  his  native  land  in  order  to  enjoy 
the  opportunities  for  advancement  and 
the  liberty  which  the  United  States 
affords.  He  married,  in  Ireland,  Ellen 
Mahoney,  who  was  a  native  of  the  same 
place  as  himself,  and  who  accompanied 
him  to  this  country. 

Michael  Sweeney  was  an  ambitious 
youth  and  endeavored  to  make  the  most 
of  the  blessings  and  opportunities  which 
came  his  way.  He  was  an  attentive  stu- 
dent at  the  Fall  River  grammar  schools. 


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but  was  compelled  at  an  early  age  to 
engage  in  some  occupation  which  would 
contribute  to  his  support.  About  1872  he 
began  doing  a  trucking  business  in  Fall 
River,  and  in  forty-five  years  has  built 
up  the  largest  business  of  its  kind  in  the 
city.  He  may  justly  be  proud  of  the  fact 
that  the  capital  for  this  undertaking  was 
earned  by  his  own  labor  and  careful  con- 
servation of  his  earnings.  He  was  ever 
faithful  to  the  wishes  of  his  customers, 
was  always  prompt  in  making  deliveries, 
and  has  accumulated  a  property  worth 
well  toward  a  quarter  of  a  million  dol- 
lars. For  twenty-one  years  he  has  been 
treasurer  and  general  manager  of  the  Fall 
River  Laundry.  He  was  one  of  the 
founders  of  the  Fall  River  "Globe,"  which 
has  been  for  thirty  years  the  most  influ- 
ential Democratic  paper  of  the  section, 
has  been  one  of  its  directors  from  the 
founding,  and  is  now  president,  treasurer 
and  general  manager  of  the  establish- 
ment, a  potent  influence  in  political  mat- 
ters at  Fall  River.  Mr.  Sweeney  is  also 
a  director  of  the  People's  Co-operative 
Bank.  The  success  of  these  various  en- 
terprises has  not  been  the  result  of 
chance,  but  has  been  achieved  through 
the  energy,  wise  management  and  faith- 
ful effort  of  Mr.  Sweeney.  He  is  a  man 
of  democratic  character,  of  genial  nature, 
ever  affable  and  courteous,  and  enjoys  the 
esteem  and  confidence  of  a  very  large 
circle  of  acquaintances.  While  sound  in 
his  Democratic  principles,  he  is  somewhat 
independent  of  party  dictation,  and  has 
gained  the  good  will  and  confidence  of  his 
political  associates  by  his  consistent,  up- 
right course  and  adherence  to  principle. 
He  has  served  as  a  member  of  the  Com- 
mon Council  and  the  Board  of  Alder- 
men of  the  city,  was  five  years  a  member 
of  the  Reservoir  Commission,  and  was  at 
one  time  the  candidate  of  his  party  for 
mayor  of  the  city.    He  is  a  member  of  the 


Knights  of  Columbus  and  a  conscientious 
Catholic,  a  member  of  the  Roman  Catho- 
lic church,  but  is  broad  in  his  liberality, 
and  believes  in  sustaining  the  truth 
wherever  it  may  be  found.  Every  move- 
ment calculated  to  benefit  the  city  of  Fall 
River  and  uplift  its  people  finds  in  Mr. 
Sweeney  a  warm  friend  and  assistant. 

Mr.  Sweeney  married  in  June,  1913,  in 
Tiverton,  Rhode  Island,  Helen  Regan,  a 
native  of  Fall  River,  and  they  are  the 
parents  of  two  daughters :  Helen  Regan, 
born  December  9,  1914,  and  Dorothy 
Louise,  December  29,  1916. 


DEAN,  Robert  Augustus, 

Attorney. 

The  first  of  the  name  in  England  of 
which  there  is  record  is  Robert  de  Den, 
a  member  of  the  household  of  the  Eng- 
lish King,  Edward  the  Confessor.  Early 
records  I'eveal  the  name  in  the  shires  of 
Essex,  Northampton,  Huntingdon  and 
Oxford,  many  of  the  name  being  of  the 
nobility.  After  the  reign  of  Henry  VII. 
the  prefix  "de"  was  dropped,  and  during 
the  reign  of  Queen  Elizabeth,  the  spell- 
ing became  Dean  and  Deane.  For  cen- 
turies Deanes  resided  at  and  in  the  vicin- 
ity of  Taunton,  Somersetshire,  England, 
and  from  thence  came  most  of  the  Deans, 
early  emigrating  to  New  England,  one 
Stephen  Dean  being  the  first  to  come,  he 
arriving  in  the  "Fortune"  in  1621.  It 
was  not  until  1637  that  Walter  and  John 
Deane,  brothers,  arrived,  they  coming 
from  the  Taunton,  England,  section,  and 
settling  at  Taunton,  Massachusetts,  then 
known  as  Cohannet.  They  were  both 
original  purchasers  of  the  town  and  both 
took  up  farms  on  the  west  bank  of  "Taun- 
ton Great  River,"  about  a  mile  from  the 
"Green."  The  open  traveled  way  from 
Taunton  through  these  lands  soon  gained 
the  name  of  Dean  road,  and  Dean  street 


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it  is  to  this  day.  Walter  Dean  was  a 
tanner  by  trade,  and  was  a  man  of  im- 
portance in  his  day. 

Robert  Augustus  Dean,  of  Fall  River, 
an  eminent  member  of  the  Massachusetts 
bar,  is  of  the  eighth  generation  in  Amer- 
ica, he  descending  from  Walter  Deane. 
Like  his  ancestors  he  possesses  the  will 
power,  earnestness  of  purpose,  energy 
and  integrity,  which  distinguished  them, 
and  in  the  keeping  of  this  son  of  the 
twentieth  century  the  family  name  is 
safe. 

Walter  Deane,  born  in  Chard,  ten  miles 
from  Taunton,  England,  about  1618,  came 
to  New  England  in  1637,  and  became  one 
of  the  esteemed  residents  of  Taunton, 
Massachusetts.  He  married  Eleanor 
Strong,  daughter  of  Richard  Strong, 
of  Taunton,  England,  who,  with  her 
brother.  Elder  John  Strong,  came  to 
New  England,  in  the  ship  "Mary  and 
John"  in  1630. 

The  line  of  descent  is  through  their  eld- 
est son,  Joseph  Dean,  who  is  of  record  in 
1684,  as  a  cordwainer  in  Taunton,  Mas- 
sachusetts, and  as  of  Dighton  in  1728.  He 
died  not  later  than  February  11,  1729, 
leaving  a  widow  Mary.  He  was  a  deacon 
of  the  church  and  the  first  town  clerk  of 
Dighton,  although  his  home  was  on  As- 
sonet  Neck.  By  will  dated  December  23, 
1728,  he  made  bequests  to  his  wife  Mary, 
to  sons  Joseph  (2),  James  and  Samuel; 
to  his  grandson,  Joseph  (3)  ;  to  his 
daughter  Sarah  (Dean)  Read  and  to  her 
children.  Sarah  Dean  married  Joseph 
Read,  of  Freetown  (Fall  River),  and  her 
only  sister  Esther,  born  in  1694,  died  in 
1707. 

Joseph  (2)  Dean,  born  in  1688,  and 
mentioned  in  his  father's  will,  December 
23,  1728,  died  August  11,  1773.  His  wife 
Sarah  died  March  26,  1775. 

Among  their  six  children  was  a  son, 
Benjamin    Dean,    born     May    26,    1736, 


who  married,  December  22,  1757,  Mary 
Turner,  of  Freetown,  now  that  part  of 
Fall  River  known  as  Bowenville.  Ben- 
jamin and  Mary  (Turner)  Dean  were  the 
parents  of:  John,  who  was  lost  at  sea; 
Gamaliel,  born  in  1762,  died  May  23, 
1800;  Sally,  born  in  1763,  died  April  i, 
1850,  married  Philip  Hathaway,  of  Taun- 
ton;  Benjamin  (2)  born  April  i,  1765,  died 
August  24,  1842,  married  Howard  Nich- 
ols, who  died  May  17,  1837;  Aaron  Reed, 
born  in  1766,  died  January  17,  1805,  mar- 
ried Elizabeth  Weaver,  of  Freetown, 
who  died  August  13,  1855;  Moses,  born 
in  1769,  died  November  5,  1819;  Pati- 
ence, born  in  1773,  died  unmarried,  June 
20,  1824;  Susan,  born  in  1774,  married  J. 
Philip,  of  Berkeley,  Massachusetts  ;  Sam- 
uel, married  Hannah  Hinds;  Joseph, 
born  in  1780,  married  Elizabeth  Few; 
Ebenezer,  twin  with  Joseph. 

Ebenezer  Dean,  son  of  Benjamin  and 
Mary  (Turner)  Dean,  was  born  in  1780, 
died  October  20,  1825,  and  was  buried  at 
Fall  River,  his  widow  being  laid  by  his 
side  forty  years  later.  He  was  a  hatter 
by  trade  and  manufactured  hats  at  As- 
sonet  Village,  Freetown,  his  shop  being 
on  the  north  side  of  Water  street,  stand- 
ing between  the  later  residences  of  Mrs. 
Lydia  and  Mrs.  Rosamond  Dean.  Ebene- 
zer Dean  married.  October  25,  1810,  Eliz- 
abeth Chace,  of  Freetown,  who  died  in 
December,  1865,  daughter  of  Gilbert  and 
Charity  (Pierce)  Chace.  They  were  the 
parents  of:  Ebenezer  (2),  born  August 
29,  1812;  Gilbert,  born  May  15,  1814,  mar- 
ried Jerusha  Carpenter,  of  Fall  River; 
Gardiner  Turner,  of  further  mention; 
Eliza,  born  September  21,  1817;  Clarissa, 
born  April  6,  1819,  married  William 
Shaw,  of  Newport,  Rhode  Island. 

Gardiner  Turner  Dean,  son  of  Ebene- 
zer and  Elizabeth  (Chace)  Dean,  was 
born  March  19,  1816,  died  at  Fall  River, 
December  29,  1889.    He  was  a  successful 

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man  of  affairs,  engaged  in  the  grocery 
business  in  Fall  River,  and  was  one  of 
the  incorporators  of  both  the  Union  Sav- 
ings Bank  and  of  the  Flint  Mills.  He 
was  an  influential  member  of  the  Metho- 
dist Episcopal  church,  serving  for  many 
years  in  an  official  relation.  In  politics 
he  was  a  Republican.  Gardiner  T.  Dean 
married  (first)  at  Little  Compton,  Rhode 
Island,  December  26,  1840,  Alice  B.  West- 
gate,  who  died  February  25,  1863.  He 
married  (second)  April  22,  1874,  Rachael 
Allen  Pearce,  of  Fall  River,  daughter  of 
Nathaniel  and  Bethany  (Brightman) 
Pearce,  of  New  Bedford,  Massachusetts. 
Children :  Frank,  long  deceased ;  Ar- 
delia ;  Charles  E. ;  Robert  Augustus,  of 
further  mention. 

Robert  Augustus  Dean,  youngest  son 
of  Gardiner  Turner  and  his  second  wife, 
Rachael  Allen  (Pearce)  Dean,  was  born 
at  the  Dean  home.  No.  263  Pine  street. 
Fall  River,  Massachusetts,  October  19, 
1881.  He  completed  a  full  public  school 
course  with  graduation  from  the  B.  M. 
C.  Durfee  High  School,  class  of  1899. 
From  high  school  he  passed  to  the  Fresh- 
man class.  Harvard  University,  completed 
a  four  years'  course  and  was  graduated 
A.  B.,  class  of  "03."  He  chose  the  law 
as  his  profession,  prepared  at  Harvard 
Law  School,  receiving  his  degree  LL.  B. 
from  the  Law  School  with  the  class  of 
1905.  Immediately  after  graduation,  Mr. 
Dean  began  the  practice  of  his  profes- 
sion at  Fall  River  in  the  office  of  Jen- 
nings, Morton  &  Brayton,  and  has  built 
up  a  lucrative  legal  business  along  gen- 
eral lines  of  practice.  He  is  a  member  of 
the  County,  State  and  National  Law  as- 
sociations, and  is  held  in  high  esteem  by 
his  professional  brethren.  He  is  learned 
in  the  law,  skillful  in  its  application  to  the 
cause  in  hand,  and  while  a  formidable 
legal  opponent  is  most  courteous  to  court 
and  opposing  council,  holding  closely  to 


the  strictest  ethics  of  his  honored  pro- 
fession. He  is  an  Independent  Repub- 
lican in  his  political  faith,  has  been  called 
as  special  counsel  by  legislative  commit- 
tees, and  is  a  member  of  the  Massachu- 
setts Constitutional  Convention,  whose 
duties  are  not  yet  ended.  He  is  a  mem- 
ber of  King  Philip  Lodge,  Free  and  Ac- 
cepted Masons ;  the  Fall  River  Country 
Club ;  and  the  First  Congregational 
Church. 

Mr.  Dean  married  in  West  Newton, 
Massachusetts,  October  17,  1907,  Marian 
Eddy,  born  in  West  Newton,  September 
29,  1881,  daughter  of  Caleb  Francis  and 
Georgianna  (Winslow)  Eddy,  the  latter 
a  descendant  of  Colonial  Governor  Wins- 
low,  the  Eddy  family  being  equally  an- 
cient and  honorable.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Dean 
are  the  parents  of  a  daughter,  Georgianna 
Winslow,  born  February  22,  1910. 


SULLIVAN,  Arthur  James, 

Physician. 

We  Americans  as  a  people  are  not  suf- 
ficiently grateful  to  the  many  foreign 
sources  that  have  contributed,  and  are 
still  contributing  so  large  a  portion  of 
our  national  characteristics ;  we  do  not  in 
fact  realize  the  significance  of  the  streams 
of  immigrants  entering  at  our  ports  an- 
nually in  the  formation  and  modification 
of  our  racial  character,  or  our  debt  to 
them  therefore.  Yet  there  is  nothing 
more  certain,  if  we  may  judge  from  the 
past  that  history  discloses,  than  that 
those  peoples  that  have  had  a  composite 
origin  have  been  the  strongest  and  most 
dominating,  and  have  in  some  manner 
prevailed  over  their  fellows  in  the  univer- 
sal struggle  for  existence.  The  principle 
would  appear  to  be  that  to  some  extent 
in  the  union  of  several  stocks,  the  virtues 
of  each  are  preserved  and  the  weaknesses 
and  vices  discarded.     But  if  this  be  so, 


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surely  it  should  be  apparent  to  all  what 
we  owe  to  the  nations  that  are  pouring 
the  best  and  most  enterprising  of  their 
peoples  upon  our  shores.  With  each 
comes  some  virtue,  peculiarly  character- 
istic of  the  great  stock  which  brings  it  to 
be  preserved  and  entered  into  the  fabric  of 
our  still  but  half  formed  social  life,  and 
if  there  be  any  vices  also,  we  may  confi- 
dently expect  them  to  be  finally  swallowed 
up  and  forgotten.  There  is  no  race  that 
has  placed  us  in  the  past,  or  continuing 
in  the  present  to  place  us  more  strikingly 
under  obligation  than  that  of  the  Irish, 
who  have  come  here  in  such  great  num- 
bers and  identified  themselves  so  readily 
with  our  national  life.  The  virtues  that 
they  bring  with  them  are  extremely  typi- 
cal of  their  character  and  shall  doubtless 
form  a  very  important  factor  in  the  com- 
ing American  race.  For  the  Irish  possess 
a  very  happy  union  of  qualities,  an  almost 
cold  grasp  of  practical  afTairs  and  a 
strong  romantic  bias,  that  is  perhaps  the 
most  effective  combination  in  the  world. 
This  the  Irishman  brings  with  him  into 
our  midst  along  with  those  more  obvious 
virtues  that  are  the  basis  of  all  sound 
character,  such  as  honor  and  courage,  and 
a  fiery  impatience  with  cant.  So  it  is 
that  we  see  the  Irishman  in  so  many 
positions  of  power  and  influence,  why  he 
so  strongly  appeals  to  the  popular  imag- 
ination and  is  generally  conspicuous  in 
our  national  aft'airs. 

Dr.  Arthur  James  Sullivan,  while  him- 
self a  native  of  this  country,  is  by  blood 
and  parentage  an  Irishman  on  the  pater- 
nal side  of  the  house,  while  on  the 
maternal  side  he  is  a  member  of  a  race  no 
less  virtuous  and  capable,  although  its 
sons  do  not  find  their  way  to  our  shores 
in  such  great  numbers.  His  father  was 
James  Kennett  Sullivan,  a  native  of  Dub- 
lin, and  his  mother  Jennie  Theresa  (Laf- 
ferty)    Sullivan,    a    native    of    Glasgow, 


Scotland.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Sullivan,  Sr., 
came  to  this  country  while  still  young 
and  settled  in  Fall  River.  They  were  the 
parents  of  three  children,  as  follows : 
Arthur  James,  with  whose  career  we  are 
here  especially  concerned ;  Clarence  P., 
and  Jennie  Helena.  After  coming  to  this 
country  Mr.  Sullivan,  Sr.,  was  employed 
as  a  reed  maker  in  the  mills  of  Fall  River. 
He  was  a  Democrat  in  politics,  and  a 
staunch  member  of  the  Catholic  Church 
of  the  Immaculate  Conception.. 

Born  September  12,  1889,  at  Fall  River, 
Arthur  James  Sullivan  has  made  that 
city  his  home  ever  since.  He  received  the 
preliminary  portion  of  his  education  in 
the  local  grammar  school  and  afterwards 
attended  the  B.  M.  C.  Durfee  High 
School,  from  which  he  was  graduated  in 
1908  and  where  he  was  prepared  for  col- 
lege. He  had  in  the  meantime  determined 
upon  medicine  as  his  career  in  life,  and 
with  this  end  in  view  went  to  Philadel- 
phia, Pennsylvania,  where  he  matricu- 
lated at  the  Jefferson  Medical  College, 
one  of  the  best  known  institutions  of  its 
kind  in  the  country.  Here  he  took  a  four 
years'  course  and  was  graduated  with  the 
class  of  1912,  taking  the  degree  of  Medi- 
cal Doctor.  After  the  completion  of  his 
theoretical  studies,  he  gained  the  requis- 
ite practical  experience  by  a  year  spent 
in  the  Philadelphia  General  Hospital, 
after  which,  in  1913,  he  returned  to  Fall 
River  and  there  established  himself  in 
the  general  practice  of  his  chosen  profes- 
sion. He  has  met  with  great  success  as 
a  practitioner  and  is  now  regarded  as  one 
of  the  leaders  in  his  profession  there  and 
a  man  who  devotes  himself  to  his  chosen 
work  with  the  utmost  singleness  of  pur- 
pose. In  1913  he  was  chosen  a  member 
of  the  staff  of  the  city  hospital  and  con- 
tinues to  hold  this  position  to-day,  adding 
the  duties  involved  in  it  to  those  which 
are  the  outcome  of  his  private  practice. 

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Dr.  Sullivan,  while  of  course  he  finds  it 
impossible  to  engage  actively  in  any 
other  form  of  activity  outside  of  his  pro- 
fessional work,  nevertheless  preserves  a 
keen  and  intelligent  interest  in  the  gen- 
eral life  of  the  community  and  especially 
in  connection  with  political  matters  gen- 
erally. He  is  what  might  be  called  a 
neutral  Democrat,  who,  while  supporting 
the  principles  and  policies  for  which  that 
party  stands,  nevertheless  holds  himself 
free  of  all  partisan  considerations  in  his 
selection  of  a  candidate  for  whom  to  cast 
his  ballot  or  in  his  decision  as  to  the 
rights  and  wrongs  of  any  political  issues. 
Dr.  Sullivan  is  in  his  religious  belief  a 
Roman  Catholic,  as  his  ancestors  have 
been  before  him  for  many  generations, 
and  attends  the  Church  of  the  Immacu- 
late Conception  in  Fall  River,  and  is  gen- 
erally active  in  the  work  of  this  parish. 
He  is  a  member  of  the  local  body  of  the 
Knights  of  Columbus. 

Beyond  doubt  one  of  the  most  remark- 
able and  characteristic  changes  wrought 
in  this  epoch  of  change  and  progress  has 
been  that  which  has  occurred  in  the  gen- 
eral attitude  of  the  learned  professions 
toward  their  own  subject  matters  and 
scientific  knowledge  generally.  In  the 
past  they  were  considered  the  conserva- 
tors of  old  knowledge  and  those  who  have 
been  their  most  authoritive  spokesmen 
have  multiplied  proofs  indefinitely  that 
new  theories,  and  even  new  facts,  how- 
ever well  substantiated,  were  unwelcome 
and  need  expect  no  recognition  by  the 
learned  fraternities.  The  hardships  and 
persecutions  of  the  pioneers  in  the  realm 
of  thought  and  knowledge  in  days  gone 
by  bear  ample  witness  to  this  intolerance, 
an  intolerance  so  universally  associated 
with  formal  learning  as  to  have  often 
called  down  upon  it  no  little  popular 
ridicule  and  to  have  converted  such  a 
word  as  pedant  into  a  term  of  reproach. 


But  to-day  all  this  is  changed  and  it 
might  even  be  urged  that  in  some  quar- 
ters there  is  even  a  too  ready  acceptance 
of  hypotheses  unconfirmed  and  state- 
ments of  what  may  prove  to  be  pseudo 
facts.  But  this  is  only  in  certain  irre- 
sponsible quarters  and  the  professions  in 
general  now  occupy  a  most  praiseworthy 
attitude  towards  knowledge,  new  or  old, 
subjecting  both  to  the  searching  scrutiny 
of  modern  scientific  methods  and  retain- 
ing or  rejecting  each  partially  as  it 
endures  this  test.  Take,  for  example,  the 
profession  of  medicine  and  note  the  lead- 
ers and  recognized  authorities  therein. 
They  are  in  nine  cases  out  of  ten  the  very 
pioneers  who  might  have  suffered  for 
their  progressive  views  if  the  old  intol- 
erance had  remained.  It  may  with  truth 
be  said  that  in  two  senses  evolution  has 
had  to  do  with  this  great  change.  In  the 
first  sense  it  has,  of  course,  played  the 
same  role  in  the  development  of  scientific 
thought  as  it  does  with  all  living,  growing 
things,  bringing  it  into  closer  correspond- 
ence with  its  environment ;  and  in  the 
second  sense  the  doctrine  of  evolution 
has  made  a  direct  alteration  in  our  atti- 
tude towards  all  knowledge,  destroying 
the  old  notion  that  it  was  a  thing  that 
had  been  revealed  once  and  for  all  from 
a  supernatural  source  and  supplying  the 
more  rational  idea  that  it  is  something 
that  we  achieve  for  ourselves  with  pains- 
taking effort,  and  thus  making  us  the 
more  willing  to  accept  discoveries  and 
innovations.  Although  there  are  doubt- 
less members  of  the  medical  profession 
that  still  incline  to  the  old  standpoint,  yet 
their  voice  is  drowned  in  that  of  the  great 
majority  of  their  fellows,  for  there  are 
but  few  in  these  ranks  who  do  not  accept 
the  doctrine  of  evolution  and  all  that  this 
revolutionary  belief  involves.  A  good 
example  of  the  type  of  physician  now 
dominant  in  the  profession  may  be  found 


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in  Dr.  Sullivan,  of  Fall  River,  Massachu- 
setts, a  man  at  the  head  of  his  profession 
and  a  recognized  authority  on  all  derma- 
tological  questions  throughout  the  State. 


BIGELOW,  James  Bernard,  M.  D., 

Physician,  Health  Officer. 

Bigelow  is  a  name  frequently  found  in 
Massachusetts  records ;  many  descend- 
ants of  the  English  family  settled  in  that 
State,  coming  here  direct  from  England 
or  from  Ireland,  where  one  early  branch 
of  the  family  located.  Although  spelled 
in  a  variety  of  ways,  it  can  always  be 
traced  to  the  Anglo-Saxon  Biggan  (big) 
and  bleaw  (hill  or  barrow)  and  was  prob- 
ably adopted  as  a  surname  by  a  resident 
of  some  such  locality. 

John  Bigelow,  the  first  ancestor  of 
Dr.  James  Bernard  Bigelow  to  leave  Ire- 
land, was  born  in  County  Tyrone,  Prov- 
ince of  Ulster.  The  stories  which  reached 
him  telling  him  of  the  free  democratic 
life  in  the  United  States  so  fired  his  imag- 
ination that,  in  spite  of  the  long  voyage 
of  about  the  year  1840,  he  left  home  to 
see  for  himself  what  his  chances  would 
be  in  this  new  and  prosperous  country. 
The  date  of  his  arrival  is  not  known,  but 
it  is  reasonably  certain  that  he  arrived  at 
an  eastern  port  and  located  at  once  in 
Massachusetts.  Conditions  were  prob- 
ably not  as  he  expected  to  find  them,  but 
the  same  courage  which  prompted  him  to 
leave  his  native  land  also  helped  him 
overcome  the  obstacles  against  which 
any  foreigner  must  struggle.  His  brother, 
C.  H.  Bigelow,  a  well-known  watchmaker 
of  the  day  in  New  York,  gave  him  an 
opportunity  to  enter  his  watch  business, 
and  he  remained  in  that  city  several 
years.  He  then  went  to  Granby,  Con- 
necticut, for  a  few  years  before  settling 
permanently  in  Holyoke,  Massachusetts, 
in  1867,  where  he  resided  until  his  death 


in  1880,  at  sixty  years  of  age.  In  1857  he 
took  out  citizenship  papers  and  was 
always  interested  in  all  that  made  for  the 
best  in  good  government,  whether  locally 
or  nationally.  He  married  Margaret  El- 
liott, also  a  native  of  Ireland,  but  who 
had  resided  in  this  country  since  being 
brought  here  by  her  parents  when  she 
was  but  two  years  old.  Her  brother, 
William  Elliott,  was  one  of  the  largest 
and  most  successful  cattle  dealers  of  his 
generation  in  New  York  State.  Mr.  and 
Mrs.  Bigelow  were  the  parents  of  the 
following  children  :  William  J.,  Bernard 
Francis,  of  whom  later  mention  will  be 
made ;  Eliza,  became  the  wife  of  John 
Splan ;  Margaret,  became  the  wife  of 
John  Keough ;  Alice,  James,  William, 
Joseph. 

Bernard  Francis  Bigelow,  second  child 
of  John  and  Margaret  (Elliott)  Bigelow, 
was  born  February  7,  1853,  in  Granby, 
Connecticut.  The  father  had  not  been  in 
America  long  enough  to  be  able  to  give 
his  children  the  educational  advantages 
the  next  generation  were  to  receive,  and 
at  the  early  age  of  eight  and  one-half 
years  the  son  was  forced  to  begin  work 
in  the  mills  in  order  to  assist  in  support- 
ing the  family.  Subsequently  he  spent  a 
few  years  in  the  elementary  schools  of 
Terryville  and  West  Hartford.  A  better 
instance  to  show  the  high  value  of  labor 
of  the  present  day  could  not  be  found 
than  to  compare  the  wages  this  youth 
received  even  after  working  several  years, 
with  the  wages  being  paid  at  present. 
His  wages  were  thirty-three  and  one- 
third  cents  per  day,  and  at  the  present 
time  (1918)  the  most  unskilled  labor  is 
receiving  more  than  ten  times  that 
amount  for  a  shorter  working  day.  In 
1867  he  came  to  Holyoke  with  his  par- 
ents, and  for  the  following  seven  years 
he  was  employed  in  different  positions, 


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trying  to  find  something  which  would 
prove  sufficiently  remunerative  to  enable 
him  to  engage  in  business  for  himself. 
For  one  year  he  was  a  teamster,  and  for 
the  following  two  years  he  was  em- 
ployed in  the  Hampden  Cotton  Mills.  In 
1870  he  took  a  position  in  a  meat  market, 
where  he  remained  for  four  years.  He 
then  purchased  a  business  for  himself  in 
which  he  was  successfully  engaged  until 
1915,  a  period  of  over  forty  years,  during 
which  time  he  built  up  a  large  patronage. 
For  several  years  he  was  chief  engineer 
of  the  Holyoke  Fire  Department  and 
many  improvements  were  made  at  his 
suggestion.  One  of  the  principal  benefits 
Holyoke  received  from  him  while  in  that 
position  is  the  present  fire  alarm  system. 
In  politics  he  gave  his  support  to  the 
Democratic  party,  and  for  two  years  he 
was  a  member  of  the  city  government. 
He  also  held  membership  in  the  Ancient 
Order  of  United  Workmen,  and  was  a 
member  of  the  Roman  Catholic  church. 
He  died  February  21,  1918.  In  1875  Mr. 
Bigelow  married  Elizabeth  Shine,  a  na- 
tive of  Ireland,  and  the  daughter  of  John 
and  Catherine  (Scanlon)  Shine.  Mr.  and 
Mrs.  Bigelow  were  the  parents  of  the 
following  children :  John,  whose  death 
occurred  at  the  age  of  fourteen  years ; 
Mary,  Elizabeth,  James  Bernard,  of  whom 
later  mention  is  made ;  Marguerite,  who 
died  when  twenty-one  years  of  age. 

Dr.  James  Bernard  Bigelow,  second 
son  of  Francis  Bernard  Bigelow,  was 
born  in  Holyoke,  Massachusetts,  August 
13,  1886.  After  completing  the  regular 
courses  given  in  the  elementary  grammar 
and  high  schools  of  the  city,  he  entered 
Dean  Academy  in  the  fall  of  1905,  and 
graduated  from  that  institution  in  1906; 
he  then  entered  Tufts  College  and 
two  years  later  completed  his  academic 
course  in  that  institution.     The  choice  of 


a  profession  had  already  been  decided 
upon,  and  he  took  up  the  study  of  medi- 
cine in  Tufts  Medical  College  and  re- 
mained until  he  received  his  degree  in 
191 1.  In  order  that  he  might  be  more 
fully  qualified  for  the  duties  in  hospital 
training,  the  first  two  years  of  this  time 
were  spent  at  St.  Vincent's  Hospital  of 
New  York  City,  then  one  year  at  the  New 
York  Institution  for  Foundlings,  and 
three  months  at  the  Manhattan  Maternity 
Hospital.  This  gave  him  a  thorough 
training  and  acquainted  him  with  modern 
facilities  and  the  most  successful  clinical 
practices.  In  1914  he  opened  an  office  in 
Holyoke,  where  he  has  since  been  suc- 
cessfully engaged  in  the  practice  of  his 
profession,  and  is  highly  regarded  by  the 
medical  fraternity  of  the  city.  As  an 
indication  of  his  ability,  he  has  for  the 
past  two  years  been  city  physician  of 
Holyoke,  filling  this  position  with  credit 
to  himself  and  the  entire  satisfaction  of 
the  citizens.  He  is  a  member  of  the  sur- 
gical staff  of  the  Providence  Hospital.  A 
still  further  proof  of  his  popularity  and 
ability  is  demonstrated  in  the  fact  that  on 
July  19,  1918,  Dr.  Bigelow  received  a 
commission  as  first  lieutenant  in  the  Med- 
ical Corps  in  the  United  States  army.  He 
is  a  member  of  all  the  local  medical  asso- 
ciations, and  a  fellow  of  the  American 
Medical  Association,  in  which  societies 
he  constantly  keeps  himself  cognizant  of 
the  proceedings  and  discoveries.  The 
esteem  in  which  he  was  held  while  at  col- 
lege is  shown  in  his  membership  in  the 
Alpha  Kappa  and  the  Phi  Chi  Beta  fra- 
ternities. He  is  also  a  member  of  the 
Knights  of  Columbus  and  the  Benevolent 
and  Protective  Order  of  Elks. 

Dr.  Bigelow  married,  October  18,  1917, 
Katherine  M.  Doyle,  of  Holyoke,  daugh- 
ter of  James  Michael  and  Mary  (Mc- 
Carthy)  Doyle. 


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McLANE,  Frederick  Alexander, 


Mannfacturer. 

The  branch  of  this  family,  now  repre- 
sented in  Holyoke  by  Frederick  Alexan- 
der McLane,  was  founded  in  Canada  in 

1833  by  Joseph  H.  McLean,  and  in  the 

United  States  by  his  son,  Joseph  H.  (2) 

McLane,  father  of  Frederick  A.  McLane, 

of  Holyoke. 

Joseph   H.   McLean,  born  in  Scotland, 

died   in   the   city   of   Quebec,   Canada,   in 

1833,   not   long  after   his   arrival   in   that 

city.     He  was  a  carpenter  and  joiner,  as 

were  his  two  brothers,  who  in  the  above 

year    had    accompanied    him    to    Canada. 

Joseph  H.  McLean  married,  in  Scotland, 

Eliza  Honers,  and  with  her  and  their  two 

daughters,     Ann,    who    married    a     Mr. 

Frazier,  and   Eliza,  who  married  a  Mr. 

Stevens,  he   sought  a  home  in  America, 

locating    in    Quebec,    Canada.      Shortly 

after  the  arrival  in  Quebec  the  only  son  of 

the  family,  Joseph  H.  (2)  was  born,  and 

the    same    year,    1833,    the    father    sue-     Joseph    H.    and    Rezina    (Thurber)    Mc- 

cumbed   to   the   rigors   of'ithe    Canadian      Lane,   was   born   in   Shiptown,   Province 

climate.  of  Quebec,  Canada,  June   11,   1865.     He 

Joseph    H.    (2)    IMcLane,    only    son   of      was  educated  in  the  town  of  Trout  Brook, 

Joseph   H.    (i)   and   Eliza   McLean,  was     Quebec,  and  West  Fairlee,  Vermont,  his 

born   in   the  city  of  Quebec,   Canada,   in      parents   removing  to   the  latter  place   in 

1877.  After  school  days  were  over  he 
learned  the  carpenter's  trade  under  the 
instruction  of  his  father,  and  continued  at 
that  trade  in  West  Fairlee  until  his  re- 
moval to  Manchester,  New  Hampshire, 
in  1884,  his  parents  following  in  1885.  He 
followed  his  trade  in  Manchester  for  a 
time  also,  improving  his  education  by  at- 
tendance at  night  school  and  self-study. 
He  later  entered  the  employ  of  the  Amos- 
keag  Manufacturing  Company  in  the  me- 
chanical department,  remaining  there  for 
seven  years.  In  1891  he  located  in  Hol- 
yoke, Massachusetts,  as  a  master  me- 
chanic and  mechanical  engineer  at  the 
Lyman  Mills.     He  remained  in  the  serv- 


he  located  at  Manchester,  New  Hamp- 
shire, there  entering  the  employ  of  the 
Amoskeag  Manufacturing  Company  in 
the  mechanical  department,  so  con- 
tinuing until  his  death  fourteen  years 
later.  He  was  a  man  of  good  char- 
acter and  upright  life,  and  a  communi- 
cant of  the  Protestant  Episcopal  church. 
He  married  Rezina  Thurber,  born  in 
Shiptown,  Quebec,  May  29,  1835,  now 
residing  in  Manchester,  New  Hamp- 
shire, daughter  of  Johnson  and  Fannie 
(Lee)  Thurber.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  McL.ane 
were  the  parents  of  the  following  chil- 
dren: Alvin  M.,  born  November  i,  1856; 
Eleanor  E.,  born  March  2,  i860,  married 
Fred  Hutchins,  and  resides  in  Manches- 
ter, New  Hampshire ;  Frederick  Alexan- 
der, of  further  mention ;  Annie  R.,  born 
September  4,  1867,  married  Stephen 
Read,  of  Manchester ;  Clara  F.,  born  Au- 
gust 14,  1874,  married  Eugene  Burdick, 
of  Manchester. 

Frederick   Alexander    McLane,    son   of 


1833,  and  died  in  Manchester,  New 
Hampshire,  January  22,  1896.  His  father 
died  the  same  year  Joseph  H.  was  born, 
and  later  his  mother  married  again,  and 
these  circumstances  combined  to  early 
force  him  into  the  ranks  of  the  wage 
earners,  but  not  before  he  had  acquired 
a  good  public  school  education,  after 
which  he  learned  the  carpenter's  trade, 
and  this  he  followed  in  Canada  and  the 
United  States  until  1885.  He  remained 
in  Canada  until  1877,  then  came  to  the 
United  States,  locating  in  West  Fairlee, 
Vermont,  there  becoming  well  known  as 
a  reliable  carpenter  and  building  con- 
tractor, remaining  eight  years.     In  1885 


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ice  of  that  corporation  seven  years,  then 
going  to  the  great  silk  mill  of  William 
Skinner  &  Sons,  as  general  superintend- 
ent, a  position  of  importance  which  he 
held  for  thirteen  years.  Ending  his  con- 
nection with  the  Skinner  silk  mill  in  1914, 
he  organized  the  McLane  Silk  Company, 
with  a  mill  at  Turners  Falls,  Massachu- 
setts, and  in  January,  1917,  another  mill 
under  the  same  name  was  put  into  com- 
mission at  Scranton,  Pennsylvania,  these 
mills  employing  many  hands,  Mr.  Mc- 
Lane being  president  and  general  man- 
ager of  the  company,  and  giving  both 
mills  his  personal  care  and  supervision. 
These  mills  manufacture  a  high  grade  of 
satin  known  as  Beaver  satin,  the  beaver 
being  used  as  the  trade  mark.  He  re- 
tains his  residence  in  Holyoke,  where  he 
takes  an  active  part  in  affairs  of  the  city. 
For  a  period  of  four  years  he  was  a  mem- 
ber of  the  park  commissioners,  and  for 
two  years  of  his  term  was  chairman  of 
the  board.  He  has  also  served  on  the 
financial  committee  of  the  Hampden 
County  Improvement  League.  At  Turn- 
ers Falls  he  is  a  director  of  the  Crocker 
National  Bank,  and  there  organized  and 
installed  the  Farm  Bureau,  of  which  he 
is  a  director.  While  living  in  Manches- 
ter he  became  a  member  of  the  Inde- 
pent  Order  of  Odd  Fellows,  and  in  religi- 
ous preference  is  a  Congregationalist, 
attending  the  First  Church  of  Holyoke. 

Mr.  McLane  married,  July  13,  1888, 
Etta  Gamsby,  of  Canada,  daughter  of 
John  and  Mary  (Foster)  Gamsby.  They 
are  the  parents  of  two  children:  i.  Sheila 
B.,  born  June  3,  1889,  in  Manchester, 
New  Hampshire,  now  the  wife  of  Elwin 
Lowell  Tabor,  of  Turners  Falls,  Massa- 
chusetts, superintendent  and  assistant 
treasurer  of  the  McLane  Silk  Company ; 
Mr.  and  Mrs.  Tabor  are  the  parents  of 
two  children:     Elwin  Lowell  Tabor  (2), 


born  May  i,  1916,  and  Donald  McLane, 
born  March  26,  1918.  2.  Clyde  Thurber, 
born  April  8,  1893. 


WHITE,  Luther, 

Iianyer,   Jurist. 

During  a  residence  of  about  half  a  cen- 
tury in  Chicopee,  Massachusetts,  during 
which  time  he  was  continually  engaged 
in  his  professional  work.  Judge  White 
became  one  of  the  best  known  and  most 
honored  men  of  his  city.  He  was  very 
successful  in  the  practice  of  his  profes- 
sion, conducting  a  general  business  cov- 
ering all  branches  of  the  law,  but  making 
a  specialty  of  probate  work  during  his 
later  years.  For  many  years  an  associate 
district  court  judge,  he  was  appointed 
judge  and  also  city  solicitor  in  1903,  and 
until  1912  held  both  these  offices.  After 
Chicopee  became  a  city  in  1891,  he  took 
a  prominent  part  in  public  affairs  and 
held  important  city  offices  other  than 
those  mentioned.  He  was  also  active  in 
business  life,  holding  official  relation  with 
important  Chicopee  corporations. 

Judge  White  came  from  an  early  New 
England  family,  being  of  the  ninth  gen- 
eration of  the  family  founded  by  Elder 
John  White,  who  sailed  from  England  in 
the  ship,  "Lion,"  in  June,  1632,  and  landed 
in  Boston,  September  16,  accompanied  by 
his  wife  Mary  and  two  children.  John 
White  settled  at  Cambridge,  where  he  was 
allotted  lands,  and  became  a  leading  man 
in  the  settlement.  In  1636  he  joined  the 
company  which  settled  Hartford,  Con- 
necticut, and  remained  there  until  April 
18,  1659,  when  with  about  sixty  others 
he  helped  to  found  a  new  settlement  at 
Hadley,  Massachusetts.  About  1670  he 
returned  to  Hartford  and  was  elected 
elder  in  the  South  Church,  which  had 
shortly  before  been  formed  by  readers  of 


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the  First  Church.  He  died  January  i, 
1684. 

The  line  of  descent  from  Elder  John 
and  Mary  White  is  through  their  eldest 
son,  Captain  Nathaniel  White,  born  in 
England,  an  original  proprietor  and  a 
first  settler  of  Middletown,  Connecticut, 
elected  to  the  Connecticut  Legislature 
eighty-five  times,  there  being  two  elec- 
tions yearly,  and  at  his  last  election  he 
was  eighty-five  years  old. 

From  Captain  Nathaniel  White  the 
line  follows  through  his  son,  Deacon  Na- 
thaniel White,  of  Middletown,  Connecti- 
cut, prominent  in  church  and  town  affairs, 
and  a  large  land  owner;  his  son,  Daniel 
White,  of  Middletown,  who  died  at  the 
early  age  of  thirty-one,  his  wife,  Hannah 
(Baggs)  White,  surviving  him  forty- 
three  years ;  their  son,  Jacob  White,  who 
lived  in  Springfield,  Massachusetts ;  his 
son,  Luther  White,  born  in  Springfield,  a 
soldier  of  the  Revolution ;  his  son,  Luther 
(2)  White,  who  settled  at  Granby,  Mas- 
sachusetts ;  his  son,  Andrew  White,  born 
in  Granby ;  his  son.  Judge  Luther  White, 
in  whose  memory  this  review  is  compiled. 

Andrew  White,  of  the  eighth  genera- 
tion, was  born  at  Granby,  Massachu- 
setts, August  I,  1802,  and  remained 
there  until  1872,  when  he  went  to 
Chicopee,  Massachusetts,  where  he  died 
October  15,  1882.  He  married,  in 
Granby,  September  9,  1835,  Philena 
Stebbins,  born  April  21,  1806,  died  June 
2,  1877,  daughter  of  John  and  Jerusha 
(Clark)  Stebbins.  Mrs.  White  was  a 
lineal  descendant  of  Rowland  and  Sarah 
Stebbins,  the  founder  of  the  family  in 
New  England,  descent  being  traced 
through  their  son,  Thomas,  and  his  wife, 
Hannah  (Wright)  Stebbins ;  their  son, 
Joseph,  and  his  wife,  Sarah  (Dorchester) 
Stebbins ;  their  son,  John,  and  his  wife, 
Sarah  Stebbins ;  their  son,  Asaph,  and 
his     wife,     Lucy     (Bardwell)     Stebbins; 


their  son,  John,  and  his  wife,  Jerusha 
(Clark)  Stebbins ;  their  daughter,  Phi- 
lena, wife  of  Andrew  White,  they  the 
parents  of  Judge  Luther  White,  their 
only  child. 

Judge  Luther  White  was  born  in 
Granby,  Massachusetts,  September  2, 
1841,  and  died  in  Chicopee,  Massachu- 
setts, March  15,  1914.  He  began  his 
studies  in  the  Granby  public  schools,  con- 
tinuing in  Chicopee  High  School  until 
graduation,  class  of  1856,  then  pursuing 
a  two  years'  course  at  Williston  Semin- 
ary, Easthampton,  Massachusetts,  pre- 
paratory to  entering  Brown  University, 
whence  he  was  graduated  Ph.  D.,  class 
of  1864.  After  completing  his  classical 
education,  he  began  the  study  of  law 
under  the  direction  of  Charles  D.  Robin- 
son, of  Charlestown,  a  brother  of  ex- 
Governor  Robinson,  and  later  was  admit- 
ted to  the  Middlesex  county  bar.  He 
began  practice  with  Wells  and  Soule.  In 
1870  he  moved  his  office  and  practice  to 
Chicopee,  there  continuing  until  his 
death,  forty-four  years  later.  As  a  law- 
yer he  was  learned  and  skillful,  devoted 
to  a  client's  interests,  and  punctilious  in 
his  observance  of  the  ethics  of  the  pro- 
fession he  loved  and  which  he  adorned. 
He  practiced  in  all  branches  of  the  law, 
hence  his  learning  was  wide  and  deep, 
extending  through  doctrine  and  prece- 
dent to  the  very  foundation.  He  filled 
many  city  offices,  from  school  committee- 
man for  a  few  years  to  associate  judge  of 
the  district  court  at  Chicopee,  serving 
many  years,  and  appointed  judge  in  1903, 
and  city  solicitor  from  1903  to  1912.  He 
was  president  of  the  Common  Council, 
1891,  and  trustee  of  the  public  library, 
offices  one  and  all  which  he  held  for 
many  years. 

In  the  business  world  Judge  White 
was  equally  well  known,  having  been  a 
director  of  the   Chicopee   First   National 


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Bank ;  a  trustee  of  Chicopee  Savings 
Bank,  and  secretary  of  the  corporation 
for  many  years ;  treasurer  and  director 
of  the  Ames  Manufacturing  Company, 
later  the  Ames  Sword  Company,  five 
years,  and  secretary  two  years ;  vice- 
president  of  the  Overman  Wheel  Com- 
pany for  ten  years ;  and  for  many  years 
was  associated  with  Lewis  M.  Ferry  in 
the  fire  insurance  business ;  was  a  direc- 
tor in  the  Chicopee  Gas  Light  Company. 
He  was  a  Republican  in  politics,  and  an 
attendant  of  the  Third  Congregational 
Church.  He  was  a  long  time  member  of 
the  American  Bar,  Massachusetts  State 
Bar,  and  the  Hampden  County  Bar  asso- 
ciations ;  his  club,  the  Brown  University 
of  Springfield. 

Judge  White  married,  October  12, 
1871,  at  Chicopee,  Mary  J.  Hadley,  born 
at  Worcester,  Massachusetts,  August  29, 
1846,  died  at  Chicopee,  October  6,  1912, 
daughter  of  Moses  C.  and  Adeline 
(Wells)  Hadley,  of  Chicopee,  Massachu- 
setts. Judge  and  Mrs.  White  were  the 
parents  of  a  daughter,  Mabel  Adeline 
White,  who  survives  her  parents,  now 
(1918)  a  resident  of  Chicopee. 


DRISCOLL,  John  Henry,  M.  D., 
Physician. 

As  an  exponent  of  the  drugless  treat- 
ment of  disease.  Dr.  Driscoll  has  been 
very  successful.  His  practice  at  Fall 
River  is  very  satisfactory,  and  those  who 
are  treated  by  the  method  of  scientific 
manipulation  he  employs  are  the  warm 
friends  of  both  the  treatment  and  the 
manipulator.  He  holds  his  authority 
from  the  American  College  of  Mechano 
Therapy,  presided  over  by  William  L. 
LeBoy,  M.  D.,  Dean.  He  has  been  a 
resident  of  Fall  River  practically  his 
entire  life,  and  those  who  have  been  his 
life  long  friends  and  know  him  best  are 


ardent  champions  of  his  form  of  drug- 
less  treatment  for  disease.  He  is  a  son 
of  John  H.  Driscoll,  a  loom  fixer,  and  his 
wife,  Mary  (Colbert)  Driscoll,  both  born 
in  County  Waterford,  Ireland. 

John  Henry  Driscoll  was  born  in  Ire- 
land, May  2,  1864,  and  in  early  life  was 
brought  to  the  United  States.  He  was 
educated  in  the  public  schools  of  Fall 
River,  Massachusetts,  finishing  his  stud- 
ies with  high  school  courses.  For  one 
year  he  was  connected  with  Boston  City 
Hospital,  and  later  was  a  student  at  Dr. 
H.  Libby's  classes  at  the  American  Col- 
lege of  Mechano  Therapy.  He  completed 
a  full  course  at  the  college,  receiving  his 
diploma  upon  graduation,  which  is  his 
authority  to  practice  the  drugless  treat- 
ment. His  method  of  scientific  manipu- 
lation, known  as  mechano-therapy,  or 
osteopathic  circulation  massage,  is  a 
treatment  becoming  in  greater  favor  as 
its  merit  is  understood,  and  in  his  prac- 
tice Dr.  Driscoll  has  been  very  successful. 
His  offices  are  at  No.  154  Main  street. 
Fall  River,  Massachusetts.  He  is  a  mem- 
ber of  Cathedral  Roman  Catholic  Church 
Parish,  and  in  politics  an  Independent 
Democrat. 

Dr.  Driscoll  married  at  Fall  River, 
May  8,  1885,  Stella  Abbott,  who  died  in 
191 5,  daughter  of  Robert  and  Emeline 
(Manchester)  Abbott.  Their  only  child, 
Dorothea  Emeline  Driscoll,  was  born  at 
Fall  River,  September  24,  1887. 


MOSHER,  Peter, 

Real  Estate  Operator, 

When  an  infant  Peter  Mosher  was 
brought  by  his  parents  from  his  native 
Canada,  and  when  a  lad  of  fourteen  years 
he  began  a  long  term  of  railroad  service 
that  only  terminated  thirty-five  years 
later.  He  then  retired  and  has  since  con- 
ducted   a    profitable    business    in    West 


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Springfield,  where  he  is  highly  respected. 
He  is  a  son  of  Amos  Mosher,  born  in 
Farnam,  Canada,  in  i8i5,died  at  Agawam, 
Massachusetts,  in  1895.  Amos  Mosher 
was  a  general  merchant  in  Farnam  until 
coming  to  the  United  States  in  1855, 
being  a  merchant  there  for  twenty  years. 
He  married  Julia  Laravel,  who  died  at 
Agawam,  Massachusetts,  aged  sixty-five 
years.  Both  were  members  of  the  Roman 
Catholic  church,  which  Amos  Mosher 
served  as  a  sexton.  Amos  and  Julia 
Mosher  were  the  parents  of  four  sons 
and  five  daughters:  i.  Julia,  married 
Caleis  Duclo,  both  deceased,  she  at  age 
of  sixty-five,  he  at  age  of  sixty-six.  2. 
Amos,  married  Mary  Freeman,  and  re- 
sides in  West  Springfield.  3.  Delphine. 
4.  Ellen,  resides  in  Worcester.  5.  Peter, 
of  further  mention.  6.  Mary,  married 
Louis  Bascom,  of  West  Springfield.  7. 
Emma,  married  A.  T.  Paradise,  of  Woon- 
socket,  Rhode  Island.  8.  Clarence,  mar- 
ried Lena  Lenavill,  and  lives  in  West 
Springfield.  9.  Arthur,  married  Jennie 
Chevalier. 

Peter  Mosher,  son  of  Amos  and  Julia 
(Lavarel)  Mosher,  was  born  at  Farnam. 
Canada,  February  8,  1855,  and  when  a 
babe  was  brought  to  the  United  States 
by  his  parents.  He  attended  the  public 
schools  of  Mitteneague,  Massachusetts, 
until  fourteen  years  of  age.  then  entered 
railroad  employ,  and  as  a  brakeman  and 
fireman  passed  thirty-five  years  of  his 
life,  then  retired  to  a  life  of  business  activ- 
ity in  West  Springfield,  Massachusetts, 
his  present  home.  He  is  a  dealer  in  real 
estate,  conducts  a  transfer  business  and 
acts  as  banker's  agent  in  the  making  of 
loans.  He  is  president  of  Peter  Mosher, 
Incorporated,  Real  Estate  and  Loans.  He 
is  a  Democrat  in  politics,  member  of  the 
high  school  committee,  and  member  of 
the    Brotherhood    of   Railroad    trainmen, 


Lodge  No.  238,  and  in  religious  faith  a 
Catholic. 

Mr.  Mosher  married,  March  3,  1875, 
Elizabeth  Frances  Ray,  born  May  18, 
1857,  in  Goshen,  Massachusetts,  her 
birthplace  the  old  Dresser  farm.  She  is 
a  daughter  of  Matthew  Ray,  born  in  Bal- 
lentubber.  County  Limerick,  Ireland,  edu- 
cated in  Dublin  College,  became  a  skilled 
landscape  and  practical  gardener,  em- 
ployed on  the  James  H.  Morton  estate  in 
Springfield,  Massachusetts,  for  forty  years, 
and  died  in  Springfield  at  the  age  of 
eighty  years.  Matthew  Ray  married 
Mary  E.  Burke,  born  in  Bantry,  County 
Cork,  Ireland,  died  in  West  Springfield, 
in  1900.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Mosher  are  the 
parents  of  five  sons  and  seven  daughters, 
three  sons  and  one  daughter  now  living. 
Frank,  Edward  L.,  Albert,  all  the  sons 
employed  by  their  father ;  Marion,  mar- 
ried Franklin  J.  Wheeler;  Bessie,  died  in 
1913,  at  age  of  twelve,  and  the  others  died 
in  infancy.  The  family  home  is  No.  225 
Union  street.  West  Springfield,  the  par- 
ents now  passing  the  forty-second  year 
of  their  married  life,  both  in  excellent 
health. 


McLANE,  William  Nelson, 
Mannfactnrer. 

This  is  the  name  borne  by  an  ancient 
Scotch  family,  branches  of  which  have 
been  from  time  immemorial  in  Ayrshire, 
Moray  and  Mull,  and  another  branch  in 
Argyll  and  Mull  prior  to  the  year  1300. 
This  surname  McLane  is  also  spelled 
McClain,  McClane,  McLean,  Macilean 
and  the  preface  Mc  is  often  dropped,  and 
many  of  the  Lane  families  belong  to  the 
Scotch  McLane  clan,  especially  in  the 
State  of  Maine.  The  history  of  the  clan 
is  interesting.  A  large  volume  has  been 
written  by  J.  P.  MacLean,  of  Cincinnati, 


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Ohio,  published  by  Robert  Clarke  & 
Company,  1889.  The  edition  is  limited. 
There  have  been  other  McLane  publica- 
tions, but  this  is  the  most  complete. 

The  lineage  of  this  family  begins  with 
Gilleon,  called  Ni-tuoidh,  from  his  favor- 
ite weapon,  the  battle  axe.  He  is  said  to 
have  fought  at  the  battle  of  Largs  in 
1263. 

Gillemore  Macilean,  who  signed  the 
Ragman  Roll  of  1296,  was  a  son  of  Gil- 
leon. He  had  three  sons,  John,  Niel  and 
Donald.  These  are  frequently  mentioned 
in  the  reign  of  Robert  Bruce. 

John  Macilean,  eldest  son  of  Gillemore 
Macilean,  had  two  sons,  of  whom  the 
younger,  Eachin-Reganich,  was  ancestor 
of  the  Maclaines  of  Loch  Buy. 

Lachlan-Lubanich  Macilean,  eldest  son 
of  John  Macilean,  married  Margaret, 
daughter  of  John,  Lord  of  the  Isles,  from 
whom  he  obtained  the  lands  in  Mull, 
which  the  clan  Maclean  have  since  pos- 
sessed. 

His  son  was  Eachin-Ruoidh-ni-Cath 
Maclean  (Red  Hector  of  the  Battles). 

Third  in  descent  from  him  was  Lachlan- 
Cattanach  Maclean. 

His  son,  Hector-Nidre  Maclean. 

His  son,  Hector-Oig  Maclean,  was  suc- 
ceeded by  Sir  Lachlan-Moremaclean. 

His  son.  Hector  Maclean,  of  Dowart, 
married  (first)  Jeanette,  second  daughter 
of  Colin,  eleventh  Laird  of  Kintail,  by 
whom  he  had  a  son,  Lachlan,  the  first 
Baronet,  and  (second)  Isabelle,  daughter 
of  Acheson,  of  Gosford,  by  whom  he  had 
two  sons. 

The  line  is  continued  through  Lachlan 
Maclean,  Esquire  of  Moraven,  who  was 
created  a  Baronet  of  Nova  Scotia,  and  the 
first  Baron  in  this  line,  February  13, 
1632.  Sir  Lachlan,  who  was  zealously 
attached  to  Charles  the  First,  partici- 
pated in  all  the  triumphs  of  the  Great 
Marquis  of  Montrose.     He  died  in   1649, 


and  was  succeeded  by  his  eldest  son,  Sir 
Hector,  through  whom  the  line  continues. 
Sir  Allan,  through  whom  the  line  contin- 
ues. Sir  John,  through  whom  the  line  con- 
tinues. Sir  Hector,  through  whom  the 
line  continues.  Sir  Allan,  through  whom 
the  line  continues.  Sir  Hector,  through 
whom  the  line  continues.  Sir  Fitzroy 
Jeffries  Grafton,  through  whom  the  line 
continues.  Sir  Charles  Fitzroy,  through 
whom  the  line  continues. 

Sir  Fitzroy  Donald  MacLane,  Baronet, 
C.  B.,  of  Moraven,  County  Argyle,  col- 
onel of  West  Kent  Yoemanry  Cavalry, 
late  lieutenant-colonel  of  the  Thirteenth 
Hussars,  was  born  May  18,  1835,  and 
succeeded  his  father  as  tenth  baronet  in 
1883.  He  married,  January  17,  1872,  Con- 
stance Marianne,  youngest  daughter  of 
George  Holland  Ackers,  Esquire,  of 
Moreton  Hall,  Cheshire,  and  has  children, 
as  follows:  i.  Hector  Fitzroy,  born  Feb- 
ruary 17,  1873,  lieutenant  of  the  Scots 
Guard.  2.  Charles  Lachlan,  R.  N.,  born 
September  20,  1874.  3.  Fitzroy  Holland, 
born   May   10,   1876,  died  April   13,   1881. 

4.  John  Marsham,  born  October  23,  1879. 

5.  Finorola-Marianne-Eleanor,  born  Feb- 
ruary 14,  1887. 

The  arms  of  the  McLane,  Macilean, 
Machlachlan,  M'Lean,  Maclean  and  Mac- 
laine  families  is  as  follows: 

Anns — Quarterly,  ist,  argent,  a  rock  gules. 
2nd,  argent,  a  dexter  hand  fessewise,  couped, 
gules,  holding  a  cross  crosslet  fitchee  in  pale 
azure.  3rd,  or,  a  lymphad  sable.  4th,  argent,  a 
salmon  naiant  proper,  in  chief  two  eagles'  heads 
erased  affrontee  gules. 

Crest — 1st,  a  tower  embattled  argent.  2nd,  a 
battle  a.xe  betwixt  a  laurel  and  a  cypress  branch, 
above  this  the  motto. 

Motto — Altera  Merces.     (Another  reward). 

Supporters — Two  ostriches  proper,  with  horse- 
shoes in  their  beaks.  Motto  in  scroll  at  bottom: 
Virtue  Mine  Honor. 

Hugh  McLane,  grandfather  of  Wil- 
liam Nelson  McLane,  came  from  County 


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Argyle  and  settled  in  Wrentham,  Massa- 
chusetts, where  he  married  a  Miss 
Knapp,  daughter  of  the  famous  Wren- 
tham founder  of  that  name.  He  was  a 
direct  descendant  of  the  Clan  McLane. 
He  had  a  son  James,  mentioned  below. 

James  McLane,  son  of  Hugh  McLane, 
was  for  many  years  a  sea  captain,  going 
out  on  voyages  all  over  the  world  from 
Fall  River.  He  died  at  the  age  of  forty- 
seven  years.  He  married  Mary  J.  Hur- 
ley, and  their  children  were :  Walter, 
William  Nelson,  mentioned  below,  Fred, 
and  James  A. 

William  Nelson  McLane,  son  of  James 
and  Mary  J.  (Hurley)  McLane,  was 
born  at  Fall  River,  Massachusetts,  April 
6,  1867,  and  has  made  that  city  his  home 
and  the  headquarters  of  his  successful 
business  career.  During  his  childhood  he 
attended  the  local  public  schools  of  the 
city,  and  later  the  well-known  Bryant  & 
Stratton  Business  College,  at  Providence, 
Rhode  Island,  from  which  institution  he 
graduated  with  the  class  of  1884,  having 
taken  there  a  commercial  course  which 
well  fitted  him  for  his  business  career. 
He  first  engaged  in  a  mill  supply  busi- 
ness and  continued  in  this  line  for  a  num- 
ber of  years.  In  1905  he  became  asso- 
ciated with  the  Seaconnet  Mill  as  treas- 
urer, and  has  so  continued  for  thirteen 
years,  up  to  the  present  time  (igi8).  He 
is  thus  brought  into  prominent  connec- 
tion with  the  industrial  interests  of  the 
city  and  is  a  well-known  figure  in  general 
business  circles,  where  he  is  respected  at 
once  for  his  ability  and  far-sighted  busi- 
ness judgment  and  for  the  absolutely 
strict  integrity  with  which  he  carries  on 
all  his  aiYairs.  Mr.  McLane  is  a  Repub- 
lican in  politics,  but  is  too  much  occupied 
with  the  conduct  of  his  business  to  take 
an  active  part  in  public  affairs.  He  is, 
however,  a  conspicuous  figure  in  social, 
fraternal  and  club  circles.  He  is  a  mem- 
ber of  the  Arkwright  Club,  Boston  ;  Que- 

llats— 8— 10 


quechan  Club,  Fall  River ;  Burns  Club, 
Fall  River ;  Rhode  Island  Country  Club  ; 
Corporation  of  Union  Savings  Bank ; 
executive  committee  of  Fall  River  Cotton 
Manufacturers'  Association ;  of  King 
Philip  Lodge,  Free  and  Accepted  Masons, 
of  which  he  is  past  master ;  of  Fall  River 
Chapter,  Royal  Arch  Masons;  of  Fall 
River  Council,  Royal  and  Select  Masters ; 
of  Godfrey  De  Bouillon  Commandery, 
Knights  Templar ;  a  life  member  of  the 
different  Scottish  Rite  Bodies  of  Boston, 
and  at  the  head  of  the  Samuel  C.  Law- 
rence Council,  Princes  of  Jerusalem;  also 
district  deputy  grand  master  of  the  Thir- 
tieth Masonic  District  of  the  Grand  Lodge 
of  Masons  in  Massachusetts,  also  a  mem- 
ber of  the  Sons  of  the  American  Revolu- 
tion. In  his  religious  belief  Mr.  Mc- 
Lane is  a  Methodist  and  attends  Union 
Methodist  Church  of  Fall  River. 

Mr.  McLane  married,  November  6, 
1895,  at  Fall  River,  Mabel  J.  Hargraves, 
a  native  of  Fall  River,  a  daughter  of 
Thomas  and  Josephine  (Field)  Har- 
graves. Mr.  Hargraves  was  a  prominent 
manufacturer  in  Fall  River,  and  was  one 
of  the  builders  of  the  well-known  Har- 
graves Mill  in  Fall  River.  He  was  a 
native  of  England,  from  which  country  he 
came  to  the  United  States,  locating  in 
Fall  River.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  McLane  are 
the  parents  of  two  children:  i.  William 
Nelson,  Jr.,  born  April  18,  1897,  gradu- 
ated from  Wilbraham  Academy  in  191 7, 
and  is  now  (1918)  in  the  service  of  the 
United  States  navy,  connected  with  the 
Hospital  Corps.  2.  Gordon  H.,  born  Au- 
gust 20,  1900,  a  student  at  Wilbraham 
Academy. 


DARCY,  Frank  P., 

Business  Man. 

The  late  Frank  P.  Darcy,  who  for  many 
years  was  a  successful  and  popular  man 
of    Chicopee    Falls,    active    and    public- 


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spirited  in  coinmimity  affairs,  was  a  na- 
tive of  Rougemont,  Province  of  Quebec, 
Canada,  born  January  29,  1875,  a  son  of 
Francis    and    Adele     (Traham)     Darcyj 

grandson  of   Francis  and  (Chou- 

quett)  Darcy,  and  a  lineal  descendant  of 
a  French  ancestry. 

Francis  Darcy,  Sr.,  a  native  of  Canada, 
where  he  spent  his  entire  lifetime,  fol- 
lowed the  occupation  of  contractor,  ma- 
son and  plasterer,  and  was  a  Republican 
in  politics,  belonging  to  the  party  in  Can- 
ada called  the  "Reds,"  and  a  Roman 
Catholic  in  religion.  He  married  (first) 
a  Miss  Chouqett,  who  bore  him  two  chil- 
dren :  Francis,  of  whom  further,  and  one 
who  died  in  infancy.  He  married  (sec- 
ond) Amelia  Amelin,  who  also  bore  him 
two  children :  Alphonse,  and  a  child  who 
died  aged  three  years.  Francis  Darcy, 
Sr.,  died  in  Rougemont,  Canada,  at  the 
age  of  sixty-two  years,  and  the  deaths  of 
both  of  his  wives  occurred  in  Canada. 

Francis  Darcy,  Jr.,  was  a  native  of  Can- 
ada, born  July  25,  1840.  He  was  reared 
in  his  native  land,  attended  the  public 
schools,  and  began  his  business  career  as 
an  agriculturist,  later  was  an  agent  for 
the  Singer  Sewing  Machine  Company, 
and  subsequently  became  proprietor  of  a 
nursery,  carrying  a  line  of  roses,  etc.  In 
1880  he  came  to  the  United  States, 
located  in  Chicopee  Falls,  Massachusetts, 
and  secured  employment  in  the  Chicopee 
Manufacturing  Company,  and  when  the 
Overman  Bicycle  Works  was  established 
there,  he  became  their  first  brazer  and 
continued  in  that  capacity  until  his  death, 
which  occurred  in  Chicopee  Falls,  Massa- 
chusetts, in  1891,  aged  fifty-two  years. 
He  was  a  Republican  in  politics,  and  dur- 
ing his  residence  in  Canada  the  election 
was  always  held  at  his  house  in  Rouge- 
mont, Province  of  Quebec.  Mr.  Darcy 
married  Adele  Traham,  born  June  3,  1841, 
in  Marysville,  Province  of  Quebec,  Can- 


ada, daughter  of  Etinan  and  Marie 
(Mailloux)  Traham,  the  former  named  a 
farmer  in  Canada,  where  he  died  Decem- 
ber 22,  1870,  aged  sixty-two  years,  and 
the  latter  named  died  in  Canada,  aged 
eighty-five  years.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Traham 
were  the  parents  of  the  following  chil- 
dren :  Marie,  Sophia,  Rose,  Etiene,  Eme- 
line,  Etelrise,  Joseph,  Alfred,  and  Adele, 
all  of  whom  are  deceased  but  Rose,  aged 
at  the  present  time  (1918)  eighty-four, 
Etelrise,  aged  seventy-eight,  and  Adele, 
aged  seventy-six,  a  resident  of  Chicopee 
Falls,  and  an  attendant  of  St.  Joachim's 
Church,  Chicopee  Falls,  as  was  also  her 
husband,  Mr.  Darcy.  Francis  and  Adele 
(Traham)  Darcy  were  the  parents  of  ten 
children,  namely:  i.  Mary  Louise,  born 
July  25,  1871,  died  aged  fifteen  years.  2. 
Georgeanna,  born  July  24,  1873;  became 
the  wife  of  Henry  Lansone,  and  they  are 
the  parents  of  three  children :  Mary  D., 
William,  and  Mary  Louise,  deceased.  3. 
Frank  P.,  of  whom  further.  4.  Rose  D., 
born  July  11,  1877;  became  the  wife  of 
Edward  P.  Huling,  and  they  had  nine 
children:  Blanche;  Arthur,  died  aged 
two  years ;  Lela  May ;  Elsie  L. ;  Ray- 
mond F. ;  Alfred  E.,  died  aged  five 
months ;  Leonel  E.  and  Leona  D.,  twins, 
both  died  at  age  of  four  months ;  and 
Thelma  G.  5.  Emile  J.,  whose  sketch  fol- 
lows. 6.  Arthur  J.,  married  Lena  Del- 
meure,  and  they  have  two  children :  Ar- 
mond  F.  and  Gladys  D.  7.  Alfred  J., 
unmarried.  8.  Charles  J.,  married  Evon 
Levrault,  and  they  have  four  children: 
Lillian,  Loretta,  Edgar  and  Viola.  9. 
George,  died  aged  one  year.  10.  Maria, 
died  aged  three  years.  All  of  the  chil- 
dren with  the  exception  of  the  two  young- 
est were  born  in  Canada.  On  September 
12,  1900,  Adele  (Traham)  Darcy  became 
the  second  wife  of  John  Roberts. 

Frank  P.  Darcy  resided  in  his  native 
town,  Rougemont,  Canada,  until  he  was 


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seven  years  old,  then  was  brought  to 
Chicopee  Falls,  Massachusetts,  and  at- 
tended the  public  schools  of  that  place, 
becoming  proficient  in  French  and  Eng- 
lish. His  first  experience  in  business  life 
was  gained  in  the  management  and  oper- 
ation of  a  restaurant  in  Chicopee  Falls 
known  as  the  "Eagle  Lunch,"  which  was 
a  well  paying  enterprise.  In  1912  he  also 
became  the  owner  of  a  Moving  Pic- 
ture House  in  Holyoke,  Massachusetts, 
located  on  Main  street,  known  as  "Won- 
derland," which  was  well  patronized 
owing  to  the  excellent  productions  placed 
upon  the  screen.  He  was  a  capable  man 
of  affairs,  progressive  in  his  ideas,  trust- 
worthy in  his  business  methods,  and  en- 
joyed the  respect  and  confidence  of  all 
with  whom  he  had  business  transactions. 
He  held  membership  in  St.  Joachim's 
Church,  Chicopee  Falls,  St.  Jean  the  Bap- 
tiste  Society,  Foresters  of  America,  Fra- 
ternal Order  of  Eagles,  Improved  Order 
of  Red  Men,  Auto  Club  of  Springfield, 
Massachusetts,  and  Club  Losyea  of  Chico- 
pee Falls,  Massachusetts.  He  was  a  Re- 
publican in  politics,  but  never  sought  nor 
held  public  office. 

Mr.  Darcy  married,  December  29, 
1902,  Delia  Therrien,  born  in  Mooers, 
New  York,  daughter  of  Moses  and  Mary 
Louise  (Senickel)  Therrien,  who  were 
the  parents  of  thirteen  children,  namely: 
Moses,  Joseph,  George,  John,  Alfred,  So- 
phia, Selina,  Delia,  Nettie,  Mary  Louise, 
Rose,  Margaret  and  Emma.  Moses  Ther- 
rien was  born  in  Canada,  was  brought  to 
the  United  States  at  the  age  of  five  years, 
and  during  the  active  years  of  his  life 
followed  agricultural  pursuits  in  Mooers, 
New  York,  and  died  there,  March  3, 
1910.  His  wife,  Mary  Louise  (Senickel) 
Therrien,  was  also  a  native  of  Canada, 
was  brought  to  the  United  States  at  the 
age  of  three  years,  and  died  December 
30,  191 5.    The  death  of  Mr.  Darcy,  as  the 


result  of  an  auto  accident  in  Chicopee, 
Massachusetts,  May  15,  1916,  was  a  ter- 
rible shock,  not  only  to  his  immediate 
family,  but  to  a  large  circle  of  friends  by 
whom  he  was  held  in  the  highest  esteem. 
His  widow,  who  resides  in  Chicopee 
Falls,  is  a  member  and  regular  attendant 
of  St.  Joachim's  Church,  and  is  highly 
regarded   in   the   community. 


DARCY,  Emile  J., 

Basiness  Man. 

Among  the  men  who  are  active  and 
prominent  in  business,  social  and  fra- 
ternal circles  in  Chicopee  Falls,  and  who 
have  gained  a  competence  as  the  result  of 
ability,  energy,  perseverance  and  trust- 
worthiness must  be  mentioned  Emile  J. 
Darcy,  a  native  of  Rougemont,  Province 
of  Quebec,  Canada,  July  20,  1879,  a  son 
of  Francis  and  Adele  (Traham)  Darcy. 
A  full  account  of  his  ancestors  appears 
in  the  preceding  sketch  of  his  brother, 
Frank  P.  Darcy. 

Emile  J.  Darcy  was  brought  to  this 
country  when  a  young  child,  and  the 
public  schools  of  Chicopee  Falls,  Massa- 
chusetts, where  his  parents  located,  af- 
forded him  the  means  of  obtaining  a 
practical  education.  After  leaving  school, 
he  served  an  apprenticeship  at  the 
machinist  trade,  in  which  he  became  skill- 
ful, in  due  time  becoming  a  thorough 
mechanic,  in  all  the  varied  branches,  and 
he  worked  along  that  line  until  the  year 
1915,  when  he  purchased  the  restaurant 
known  as  the  "Eagle  Lunch,"  of  which 
his  brother,  Frank  P.,  was  the  proprietor, 
and  is  conducting  the  same  at  the  pres- 
ent time,  it  being  a  lucrative  means  of 
livelihood.  He  gives  his  support  to  the 
enterprises  and  measures  which  he  be- 
lieves to  be  for  the  public  good,  and  his 
influence  has  been  marked  in  promoting 
the  best  interests  of  his  adopted  city.    He 


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was  one  of  the  organizers  of  the  Franco- 
American  Association,  of  which  he  is  one 
of  the  stockholders,  and  was  the  prime 
factor  in  the  organization  of  the  Lourier 
Club  of  Chicopee,  which  he  has  served  in 
the  capacity  of  vice-president  for  the  past 
two  years.  He  is  also  a  member  of  the 
Benevolent  and  Protective  Order  of  Elks, 
Knights  of  Columbus,  Improved  Order 
of  Red  Men,  Foresters  of  America,  St. 
Jean  the  Baptist  Society,  Loyal  Order  of 
Moose,  French  Union  and  the  American 
Auto  Club  of  Springfield,  Massachusetts. 
He  is  a  Republican  in  politics. 

Mr.  Darcy  married,  June  ii,  1912, 
Eliza  Roberts,  born  in  Chicopee  Falls, 
Massachusetts,  daughter  of  John  and 
Etelsise  (Barroloux)  Roberts,  who  were 
the  parents  of  two  other  children :  Donat, 
born  March  20,  1880,  became  the  wife  of 
Antonet  Leveral,  and  they  had  two  chil- 
dren, one  died  at  birth,  and  Paul  B.,  born 
1913;  and  Aledore,  born  1894,  married 
Helen  Monat,  born  1894,  no  children. 
John  Roberts  was  born  in  1859,  followed 
the  occupation  of  farming,  and  now,  with 
his  second  wife,  Adele  (Traham-Darcy) 
Roberts,  resides  in  Chicopee  Falls,  Mas- 
sachusetts. His  first  wife,  the  mother  of 
Mrs.  Darcy,  died  July  25,  1899.  ^^s. 
Eliza  (Roberts)  Darcy  did  not  long  sur- 
vive her  marriage,  her  death  occurring 
December  22,  1912. 


BONNEVILLE.  Frederick,  Rev. 

Clergyman. 

Rev.  Frederick  Bonneville,  who  for  the 
past  twenty-five  years,  or  since  1893,  has 
been  the  pastor  of  the  Church  of  the 
Assumption,  in  Chicopee,  Massachusetts, 
is  a  man  much  beloved  by  his  congrega- 
tion and  highly  respected  by  all  who 
know  him.  He  is  a  descendant  of  those 
Bonnevilles  who  came  from  Normandie 
in  France  to  Canada,  in  1656,  the  original 


name  Bonneville  De  La  Boutellier.  The 
Rev.  Father's  ancestors  located  at  La 
Prairie,  capital  of  the  County  of  La 
Prairie,  Quebec,  Canada,  situated  on  the 
shore  of  the  St.  Lawrence,  seven  miles 
south  of  Montreal.  There  his  grand- 
father, Antoine  Bonneville,  was  born 
about  1792,  and  died  in  1867,  ^  farmer. 
He  married  a  Miss  Brosseau,  and  they 
were  the  parents  of  six  children  :  Cyrille, 
Francis,  Guillaume,  Sylvestre,  Odile  and 
Emile. 

Guillaume  Bonneville  was  born  in  La 
Prairie,  Quebec,  Canada,  about  1853,  and 
died  in  Montreal,  Canada,  in  1893.  At 
the  age  of  sixteen  he  left  Canada,  came 
to  the  United  States,  married  at  the  age 
of  eighteen,  then  returned  to  Canada,  and 
became  associated  with  the  Grand  Trunk 
Railroad,  serving  as  freight  agent  for  a 
half  century  until  his  death.  He  was  a 
man  of  ability,  held  in  esteem  by  his 
fellow-citizens.  He  was  a  Conservative 
in  politics,  and  for  some  time  mayor  of 
the  city  in  which  he  lived  near  Montreal. 
He  married  (first)  Rosalie  Stone,  of  Pitts- 
field,  Massachusetts,  who  died  in  1866. 
He  married  (second)  Victorine  Courte- 
mauche.  Children  by  first  marriage : 
Albert,  deceased  :  Malvina,  deceased ;  and 
Frederick,  of  further  mention.  By  second 
marriage :  Cecile,  married  Eugene  La- 
moureux ;    Rene   and  Yvonne. 

Rev.  Frederick  Bonneville,  only  son  of 
Guillaume  Bonneville  and  his  first  wife, 
Rosalie  (Stone)  Bonneville,  was  born  at 
Longuiel,  Quebec,  Canada,  July  18,  1862. 
A  few  years  later  his  parents  moved  to 
Montreal,  Canada,  where  he  was  edu- 
cated in  Montreal  College,  later  became  a 
member  of  the  college  faculty,  and  event- 
ually studied  for  the  priesthood  in  the 
same  institution,  and  in  1887  was  ordained 
a  priest  of  the  Roman  Catholic  church. 
Immediately  after  ordination  he  was  sent 
to  the  Church  of  the  Precious  Blood  in 


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Holyoke,  Massachusetts,  as  curate,  re- 
maining there  two  years,  going  thence  to 
a  Mission  in  the  towns  of  Mittineague 
and  Long  Meadow,  continuing  with  the 
Mission  three  years.  On  May  20,  1893, 
he  came  to  the  Church  of  the  Assumption 
in  Chicopee,  Massachusetts,  and  has  since 
continuously  served  that  congregation. 
In  191 1  the  church  edifice  and  parsonage 
were  destroyed  by  fire.  He  has  since  pur- 
chased the  Governor  Robinson  Mansion 
and  grounds  on  Springfield  street,  Chico- 
pee ;  resides  there  and  nearby  is  build- 
ing a  beautiful  new  church. 


CRISPO,  Pierre  Timothee,  M.  D., 
Fhrsician. 

For  eighteen  years  Dr.  Crispo  has 
practiced  the  healing  art  at  Fall  River, 
Massachusetts,  coming  to  that  city  from 
Sandy  Bay,  Quebec,  Canada,  where  he 
had  located  immediately  after  receiving 
his  degree  from  Laval  University.  These 
years  at  Fall  River  have  brought  him 
honors  in  his  profession  and  the  respect 
of  his  fellowmen,  his  position  as  physi- 
cian and  citizen  being  with  the  most  hon- 
ored. He  is  of  Nova  Scotian  birth  and 
parentage,  a  son  of  Timothee  Crispo.  who 
is  now  living  a  retired  life  at  Sandy  Bay, 
Quebec,  after  an  active  life  in  connection 
with  the  fisheries  of  his  native  island, 
and  as  a  general  merchant.  Timothee 
Crispo  was  a  son  of  Timothee  Crispo,  a 
Nova  Scotian  fisherman  and  farmer,  the 
family  being  one  of  the  hardiest  and 
bravest  among  those  men  who  each  day 
fought  with  the  elements  for  their  daily 
substance.  Timothee  Crispo  married 
Louise  Fiset,  now  deceased,  they  the  par- 
ents of  eight  sons  and  daughters  :  Joseph, 
Michel,  Louis,  Pierre  Timothee,  of  fur- 
ther mention  ;  Leo,  Malvina,  Virginia  and 
Adelaide. 

Dr.    Pierre    Timothee    Crispo,    son    of 


Timothee  and  Louise  (Fiset)  Crispo,  was 
born  at  Havre  au  Boucher,  Antigounish 
county.  Nova  Scotia,  Canada,  November 
19,  1871.  His  early  life  was  spent  in 
Nova  Scotia,  his  early  education  secured 
through  the  medium  of  the  parish  schools. 
He  was  ambitious  to  secure  a  profes- 
sional education,  and  in  time  was  able  to 
realize  his  hope.  He  completed  courses 
at  Little  Seminary,  Quebec,  Canada,  and 
then  entered  the  medical  department  of 
Laval  University,  whence  he  was  gradu- 
ated M.  D.,  class  of  1895,  receiving  his 
degree,  April  15th  of  that  year.  With  his 
newly  acquired  honors  he  chose  Sandy 
Bay,  Quebec,  as  a  location,  and  there 
practiced  his  profession  four  years.  In 
1899  he  came  to  the  United  States,  locat- 
ing at  Fall  River,  Massachusetts,  his 
practice  there  being  general  in  its  char- 
acter and  continuous  until  the  present 
(1918).  He  ministers  to  a  large  clientele, 
and  in  addition  to  the  cares  of  his  pri- 
vate practice  has  for  the  past  six  years 
been  a  member  of  the  medical  stafif  of  St. 
Anne's  Hospital,  Fall  River.  He  has 
won  special  notice  for  his  success  in 
orthopedic  cases,  and  is  highly  regarded 
by  his  brethren  of  the  profession.  His 
residence  and  offices  are  at  No.  439  Bed- 
ford street.  Fall  River,  Massachusetts. 

For  six  years  Dr.  Crispo  has  served 
upon  the  city  Board  of  Health,  and  in  his 
practice  preaches  ardently  the  doctrine 
of  prevention  of  disease  through  sanitary 
surroundings  and  living.  His  profes- 
sional societies  are  the  Fall  River  Medi- 
cal Society,  Massachusetts  Medical  So- 
ciety, American  Medical  Association,  and 
the  French  Physicians  Society,  L'Union 
Medicale  de  Fall  River.  He  is  a  mem- 
ber of  the  Ligue  des  Patriots,  Catholic 
Foresters,  Union  St.  Jean  Baptiste  d' 
Amerique,  the  Calumet  Club,  and  St. 
Roche  Roman  Catholic  Church. 

Dr.  Crispo  married  at  Sandy  Bay,  Que- 

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bee,  July  20,  1896,  Marie  Hermine  Caron, 
born  at  Sandy  Bay,  Quebec,  May  10, 
1872,  daughter  of  Ambroise  Caron,  a 
hotel  proprietor,  and  his  wife,  Clarisse 
(Labrie)  Caron,  the  last  named  being 
deceased.  Dr.  and  Mrs.  Crispo  are  the 
parents  of:  Ronald,  born  June  12,  1897; 
Angelina  B.,  December  8,  1900;  Juliette 
Y.,  June  ID,  1903 ;  Charles  E.,  September 
4,  1904 ;  Blanche  A.,  July  20,  1906. 


ASHLEY,  Edmund  Aaron, 

Expert    Salesman. 

Since  March,  1903,  Mr.  Ashley  has 
been  identified  with  the  Japanese  Tissue 
Mills  of  Holyoke,  Massachusetts.  He 
is  of  the  seventh  generation  of  the  fam- 
ily founded  by  Robert  Ashley.  He  has 
lived  at  West  Springfield,  Syracuse  and 
Holyoke,  the  former  being  his  birthplace. 

Robert  Ashley,  the  founder,  was  an 
early  resident  of  Springfield,  then  called 
Nayasett,  having  located  in  that  town 
three  years  after  William  Pyncheon  had 
made  his  settlement  there.  The  lands 
that  he  had  alloted  to  him,  January  5, 
1640,  comprised  the  four  acres  upon  a 
part  of  which  his  homestead  stood,  on 
what  is  now  the  northwest  corner  of  Main 
and  State  streets,  extending  back  to 
Spring  street,  his  planting  lot  being  an 
additional  tract  of  seventy  acres  on  the 
west  bank  of  the  Connecticut  river.  Only 
four  men  in  the  settlement  had  so  large 
an  allottment,  one  of  them  being  Major 
Pyncheon.  Robert  Ashley  later  had 
other  grants,  among  them  being  land  on 
Mill  river,  in  1646,  on  the  condition  that 
he  would  "keep  an  ordinary."  But  at  this 
time  the  first  prohibitory  law  in  America 
regarding  the  sale  of  liquor  was  passed 
and  immediately  affected  him.  It  read  as 
follows:  "Require  you  upon  your  perill 
that  ye  henceforth  forbear  to  sell  eyther 
wine  or  strong  waters  to  any  Indian."  He 


resigned  the  ordinary  in  1660.  He  was  a 
man  much  called  into  public  service  and 
was  a  strong  and  masterful  personality. 
He  was  frequently  called  to  act  as  jury- 
man, and  in  many  other  transactions  of 
the  town  the  records  give  his  name  a 
prominent  place.  In  1653,  at  the  reorgan- 
ization of  the  town  of  Springfield  by  the 
younger  men,  Robert  Ashley  was  chosen 
first  selectman  in  1657,  and  was  annually 
elected  until  1659,  and  also  in  1660,  1662, 
and  1665.  He  took  the  oath  of  fidelity, 
March  23,  1655-56,  and  was  chosen,  Feb- 
ruary 7,  1659,  the  town  constable,  and 
March  5,  1659,  was  chosen  sealer  of 
weights  and  measures.  He  seems  to  have 
felt  much  interest  in  the  welfare  of  the 
village  church,  and  always  paid  promptly 
his  proportion  of  the  tax  for  it  mainte- 
nance. He  was  a  man  of  strong  character 
and  bore  well  his  part  in  the  building  of 
the  town.  He  died  November  25,  1682, 
leaving  a  family  including  a  son,  Joseph 
Ashley,  through  whom  the  descent  of  this 
line  is  traced.  He  married  (intention 
published  August  7,  1641)  the  "widow 
Horton"  (first  name  Mary),  who  died 
September  19,  1683.  Their  children  were: 
I  and  2.  David  and  a  daughter  (died  at 
birth)  twins,  born  June  3,  1642.  3.  Mary, 
born  April  6,  1644,  married  John  Root,  of 
Westfield.  4.  Jonathan,  born  February 
25,  1645-46.  5.  Sarah,  born  August  23, 
1648.    6.  Joseph,  of  whom  further. 

(II)  Joseph  Ashley,  youngest  son  of 
Robert  and  Mary  (Horton)  Ashley,  was 
born  in  Springfield,  July  6.  1652,  and  died 
in  West  Springfield,  Massachusetts,  May 
18,  1698.  Joseph  Ashley  took  up  his  set- 
tlement on  the  west  side  of  the  Connecti- 
cut river  in  the  region  that  is  now  West 
Springfield.  Having  inherited  all  his 
father's  land,  he  was  a  large  land  owner 
in  that  part  of  the  country.  His  home- 
stead was  in  the  River  Dale  district  of 
West   Springfield.      His   descendants   be- 


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came  so  numerous  that  that  part  of  the 
town  where  most  of  them  lived  was  called 
Ashleyville.  It  is  stated  in  the  "History 
of  the  Connecticut  Valley,"  vol.  2,  p.  907: 
"It  is  a  fact  worthy  of  note  that  the 
Ashleys  as  a  family,  during  the  entire  long 
period  they  have  lived  in  West  Spring- 
field, have  been  among  the  first  in  thrift, 
respectability  and  in  all  interests  tending 
to  advance  the  well-being  of  society."  Jo- 
seph Ashley  was  chosen  surveyor  of  the 
highways  in  the  east  side  of  the  town  in 
1676  and  1677.  On  January  i,  1678-79, 
he  took  the  oath  of  allegiance  to  the  col- 
ony, and  in  1682  he  was  made  the  town 
constable,  serving  until  1684.  He  mar- 
ried, October  16,  1685,  in  Springfield, 
Mary  Parsons,  daughter  of  Cornet  Joseph 
and  Mary  (Bliss)  Parsons,  who  was  born 
June  27,  1661,  in  Northampton,  Massa- 
chusetts. Their  children  were:  i.  Jo- 
seph, born  July  27,  1686.  2.  Ebenezer, 
born  about  1688.  3.  Benjamin,  of  whom 
further.  4.  Mary,  born  February  4,  1692  ; 
married  William  Parsons,  of  Northamp- 
ton, Massachusetts.  5.  Abigail,  born  July 
13'  1695;   married  Ebenezer  Morgan. 

(Ill)  Benjamin  Ashley,  youngest  son 
of  Joseph  and  Mary  (Parsons)  Ashley, 
was  born  February  20,  1691,  in  W^est 
Springfield,  Massachusetts,  and  died  May 
II,  1772,  at  the  age  of  eighty-three.  He 
was  brought  up  by  his  stepfather,  Joseph 
Alliston,  and  learned,  when  he  came  to 
man's  estate,  the  trade  of  carpenter  and 
housewright.  Fie  accumulated  consider- 
able property,  which  at  his  death  included 
among  other  things  a  wharf,  a  mill-pond 
and  mills  and  a  large  amount  of  land.  He 
was  town  constable  in  1742.  He  married, 
December  31,  1726,  Jane  Shaw,  a  native 
of  Ireland,  who  died  in  1788,  at  the  age 
of  eighty-seven.  Their  children  were :  i. 
Mary,  born  December  21,  1727;  married 
Asahel  Taylor.  2.  Aaron,  born  April  14, 
1729.     3.  Moses,  born  July  23,   1731.     4. 


David,  of  whom  further.  5.  Benjamin, 
born  November  14,  1736.  6.  John,  born 
June  20,  1740. 

(IV)  David  Ashley,  son  of  Benjamin 
and  Jane  (Shaw)  Ashley,  was  born  July 
19.  1735'  and  died  March  28,  1813.  He 
was  a  prosperous  farmer  and  owned  large 
tracts  of  land  in  West  Springfield.  He 
was  constable  in  1775,  and  held  other 
offices  in  the  service  of  the  community. 
He  was  a  soldier  in  the  Revolution,  and 
his  name  appears  in  the  roll  of  Captain 
Reuben  Munn's  company.  Colonel  Nicho- 
las Dike's  regiment,  dated,  Roxbury, 
Massachusetts,  September  17,  1776.  He 
was  commissioned  second  lieutenant  of 
the  Fourteenth  Company  (Captain  John 
Morgan)  Third  Hampshire  Company 
County  Regiment  (Colonel  John  Mose- 
ley)  in  the  Massachusetts  militia,  on  Sep- 
tember 18,  1777.  Three  days  later  he 
enlisted  as  lieutenant  in  Captain  Levi 
Ely's  company,  and  served  in  the  "expe- 
dition to  the  northward."  He  married,  in 
South  Hadley,  Massachusetts,  Meribah 
Gaylord,  daughter  of  William  and  Eliza- 
beth (Scoville)  Gaylord,  who  was  born 
July  3,  1746,  and  died  February  7,  1810, 
in  Ashleyville.  Their  children  were:  I. 
David,  born  May  15,  1769.  2.  Solomon, 
June  15,  1770.  3.  Josiah,  born  October  6, 
1772,  died  1773.  4.  Noah,  born  Novem- 
ber 7,  1775.  5.  Eunice,  born  in  1777; 
married  Eli  Ashley,  in  1802.  6.  Justin, 
born  1780.  7.  Lucretia,  May  i,  1782; 
married  Genubath  Bliss.  8.  Enoch,  born 
September  29,  1784.  9.  Aaron,  of  whom 
further. 

(V)  Aaron  Ashley,  son  of  Lieutenant 
David  and  Meribah  (Gaylord)  Ashley, 
was  born  in  West  Springfield,  Massachu- 
setts, April  19,  1786,  and  died  there,  Feb- 
ruary II,  1867.  He  passed  his  life  in  Ash- 
leyville, where  he  owned  an  excellent 
farm.  His  old  house  was  burned  and  he 
built  one  of  brick  in  its  place  which  still 


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stands  on  the  river  road.  He  was  the 
most  conspicuous  Ashley  of  his  time,  and 
was  a  very  public-spirited  citizen.  He 
was  an  active  member  of  the  Hampden 
County  Agricultural  Society,  and  helped 
in  the  laying  out  of  Hampden  Park.  He 
figured  prominently  in  the  affairs  of  the 
town,  and  was  moderator  in  1857  and 
1858.  His  name  is  found  in  all  the  rec- 
ords which  tell  of  movements  for  public 
improvement  of  any  kind.  He  married 
(first)  November  7,  181 1,  Almira  Smith, 
and  (second)  Charlotte  Ashley,  daughter 
of  Captain  Moses  and  Mary  (Ashley) 
Ashley.  Children  of  Aaron  Ashley:  i. 
Edmund,  born  in  1813,  died  unmarried  in 
1862.  2.  Jennette  Sophia,  born  in  1816; 
married  Albert  A.  Hudson,  of  Syracuse, 
New  York.  3.  Charles  Aaron,  of  whom 
further. 

(VI)  Charles  Aaron  Ashley,  son  of 
Aaron  Ashley,  was  born  in  1829,  and  died 
August  17,  1880,  in  West  Springfield.  He 
owned  a  hundred  acre  farm  near  Spring- 
field, which  he  cultivated  all  his  life,  and 
was  one  of  the  substantial  farmers  of  the 
district.  He  maintained  a  dairy  at  the 
farm,  keeping  about  twenty  cows,  and 
selling  their  product  in  the  nearby  city  of 
Springfield.  He  was  accounted  a  pro- 
gressive and  up-to-date  farmer  by  all  his 
colleagues,  and  he  died  a  wealthy  man. 
He  married,  February  11,  1862,  Sarah 
Maria  Ashley,  daughter  of  David  and 
Diadema  (Day)  Ashley,  of  West  Spring- 
field. Their  children  were:  i.  Mary 
Estella,  born  in  1863,  died  in  1864.  2. 
Edmund  Aaron,  of  whom  further.  3. 
Charles  Daniel,  born  August  24,  1868, 
died  1869.  4.  Fannie  Maria,  born  March 
27,  1870;  married  Louis  L.  Moore,  and 
resides  in  Holyoke,  Massachusetts.  5. 
Jennette  Hudson,  born  December  2,  1873, 
died  April  8,  1876. 

(VII)  Edmund  Aaron  Ashley,  eldest 
son  of  Charles  Aaron  and  Sarah  Maria 


(Ashley)  Ashley,  was  born  in  West 
Springfield,  Massachusetts,  February  17, 
1865.  He  was  educated  in  the  public 
schools  of  West  Springfield,  and  also  at- 
tended private  schools  for  a  time.  After  the 
death  of  his  mother  he  made  his  home  with 
a  cousin  in  Syracuse,  New  York,  for  a  time, 
and  in  that  city  held  his  first  position, 
spending  four  years  in  a  wholesale  gro- 
cery house.  He  then  returned  to  Massa- 
chusetts, and  for  a  time  conducted  a  liv- 
ery business  in  Holyoke,  and  after  selling 
his  interest  in  that  venture  was  selling 
agent  for  the  Holyoke  Spring  Water 
Company.  He  then,  in  1903,  formed  an 
association  with  the  Japanese  Tissue 
Mills  as  a  traveling  salesman  in  the  East- 
ern and  Middle  States,  his  territory  in- 
cluding the  cities  of  New  York,  Philadel- 
phia, Baltimore  and  Washington.  He  has 
continued  with  these  mills  in  this  capac- 
ity until  the  present  (1918),  and  is  one  of 
the  corporation's  valued  salesmen.  He  is 
a  member  of  the  Holyoke  Canoe  Club,  and 
with  his  wife,  of  the  Baptist  church. 

Mr.  Ashley  married,  November  17, 
1906,  Daisy  Wilson,  daughter  of  William 
H.  and  Kate  B.  (Smith)  Wilson.  Mr. 
and  Mrs.  Ashley  are  the  parents  of  a 
daughter,  Sarah  Hudson,  born  December 
29,  1909. 


BOND,  George  Whitfield, 

General  Secretary,  Y.  M,  C.  A. 

A  resident  of  West  Springfield  for  the 
past  ten  years,  Mr.  Bond  has  been  during 
that  time  connected  with  the  rail- 
road department  of  the  Young  Men's 
Christian  Association.  Mr.  Bond  is  also 
officially  identified  with  town  affairs,  and 
is  well  known  as  a  local  preacher  of  the 
Methodist  Episcopal  church. 

Luke  William  Bond,  father  of  George 
Whitfield  Bond,  was  born  in  Cornwall, 
England,  as  was  his  father  before  him. 


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and  at  the  age  of  five  years  was  brought 
to  Canada,  receiving  his  education  in  the 
pubHc  schools  of  Oshua,  Ontario.  As  a 
young  man  he  had  some  military  train- 
ing at  St.  Catherine's,  Canada,  and  later 
he  went  to  Port  Henry,  New  York,  where 
he  engaged  in  business  as  a  contractor 
and  builder.  Politically  he  was  a  Re- 
publican. Mr.  Bond  married  Margaret, 
daughter  of  William  Hall,  a  farmer  of 
Oshua,  Ontario,  who  died  at  that  place. 
Mr.  and  Mrs.  Bond  were  the  parents  of 
the  following  children:  James  H.,  mar- 
ried Mary  Ormsbee  ;  William  J.,  married 
Delia  Hardwick;  Frederick  W.,  married 
Elizabeth  Bouchard ;  Albert  L.,  married 
Marie  Porter;  George  Whitfield,  men- 
tioned below ;  Catherine  May,  wife  of 
Arthur  Simmons ;  and  Maud  Ella,  wife  of 
James  Beaubiah.  The  death  of  Mr.  Bond 
occurred  in  October,  1908,  in  Troy,  New 
York,  and  his  widow  is  still  living  in 
Schenectady,  New  York,  at  the  age  of 
eighty-one.  She  and  her  husband  were 
(and  Mrs.  Bond  is)  of  the  same  religious 
communion,  holding  membership  in  the 
Redding  Methodist  Episcopal  Church  of 
Troy,  New  York,  in  which  Mr.  Bond 
served  on  the  official  board.  It  should  be 
stated  that  the  children  are  all  living  with 
the  exception  of  Albert  L.,  who  died  June 
17,  1917,  at  the  age  of  forty-eight.  James 
H.  is  of  Port  Henry,  New  York,  William 
J.,  of  Schenectady,  New  York,  Frederick 
W.,  of  Springfield,  Massachusetts,  and 
Mrs.  Simmons  and  Mrs.  Beaubiah  reside, 
respectively,  at  Walker,  Washington,  D. 
C,  and  Syracuse,  New  York. 

George  Whitfield  Bond,  son  of  Luke 
William  and  Margaret  (Hall)  Bond,  was 
born  November  5,  1872,  at  East  Middle- 
bury,  Vermont,  and  grew  to  manhood  at 
Port  Henry,  New  York,  receiving  his 
education  at  the  high  school.  For  twenty- 
one  years  Mr.  Bond  was  engaged  in  the 
shirt  manufacturing  business,  first  for  the 


Port  Henry  Shirt  Company  and  later  for 
George  P.  Ide  &  Company.  He  was  em- 
ployed in  both  Port  Henry  and  Troy,  and 
for  a  long  period  held  the  position  of 
manager.  Feeling  a  decided  inclination 
for  religious  and  benevolent  work,  and 
having  developed  an  exceptional  aptitude 
for  it,  Mr.  Bond,  on  January  i,  1907,  went 
to  New  York  City,  where  he  associated 
himself  with  the  railroad  work  of  the 
Young  Men's  Christian  Association.  After 
three  and  a  half  years'  steady  employ- 
ment in  the  metropolis  he  left  there,  on 
July  I,  1910,  for  a  new  field  of  labor,  com- 
ing to  the  Railroad  Young  Men's  Chris- 
tian Association  of  West  Springfield, 
Massachusetts,  where  he  took  the  posi- 
tion of  general  secretary  and  in  which  he 
is  still  actively  and  fruitfully  occupied. 
Upon  coming  here,  Mr.  Bond  found  the 
conveniences  very  meager,  the  office  of 
the  secretary,  and  in  fact  the  only  head- 
quarters of  the  organization  were  in  six 
disused  old  passenger  coaches.  He  im- 
mediately took  steps  to  better  these  con- 
ditions, and  after  five  years  of  hard  work, 
during  which  time  he  drew  the  plans,  on 
January  25,  1915,  he  had  the  pleasure  of 
opening  a  completed  building  ranking 
third  in  size  in  North  America  of  build- 
ings of  this  class.  It  has  a  beautiful 
assembly  hall,  a  dining  hall  seating  one 
hundred  people  and  one  hundred  and 
eight  sleeping  rooms,  an  ornament  to  the 
town  of  West  Springfield  and  a  great  con- 
venience to  the  large  number  of  railroad 
men  employed  there,  and  an  honor  to  Mr. 
Bond.  Since  1912  he  has  held  a  license 
as  a  local  preacher  of  the  Methodist  Epis- 
copal church,  his  ministrations  having 
proved  very  acceptable  and  productive  of 
good  results.  In  community  afifairs  Mr. 
Bond  has  always  taken  a  public-spirited 
interest,  and  for  the  last  year  has  served 
on  the  Republican  town  committee.     He 


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belongs  to  Teco  Lodge,  Independent 
Order  of  Odd  Fellows. 

Mr.  Bond  married,  September  i,  1909, 
Jessie  A.  Ives,  and  they  are  the  parents 
of  four  children :  Donald  Harrison,  born 
June  8,  1910;  Howard  Whitfield,  born 
August  8,  191 1 ;  Lillian  Estella,  born  Oc- 
tober 19,  1912;  and  Raymond  Ives,  born 
February  19,  1914. 

The  life  of  George  Whitfield  Bond  may 
be  said  to  have  been  divided  into  two 
periods ;  the  former  that  of  a  business 
man  and  the  latter  that  of  a  religious 
worker.  In  both  he  has  an  exemplary 
record — that  of  one  who  has  been  useful 
to  his  fellow-men. 

William  Harrison  Ives,  father  of  Mrs. 
Jessie  A.  (Ives)  Bond,  was  a  farmer  of 
East  Poestenkill,  New  York,  and  Bruns- 
wick, a  suburb  of  Troy,  New  York.  He 
married  Arvilla  Randall,  a  native  of  East 
Poestenkill,  and  their  children  were : 
Frederick  H.,  married  Emma  Heddon, 
and  lives  in  Troy,  New  York ;  Frank  D., 
married  Delia  Bawcus,  and  died  in  1901, 
in  Brunswick,  New  York;  Albert  H., 
married  Jennie  Williams,  and  lives  at  Los 
Angeles,  California ;  Adella  M.,  wife  of 
Edward  J.  Paul,  of  Hartford,  Connecti- 
cut; Grace  E.,  died  in  infancy;  and  Jessie 
A.,  born  in  1880,  in  Brunswick,  New 
York,  became  the  wife  of  George  Whit- 
field Bond,  as  stated  above.  Mr.  and  Mrs. 
Ives  died  in  Brunswick,  New  York. 


VEZINA,  Stanislas, 

Contractor,    Builder. 

This  is  the  name  of  one  of  the  well- 
known  .contractors  and  builders  of  the 
town  of  West  Springfield,  a  citizen  who 
always  manifests  a  helpful  interest  in 
community  affairs  and  takes  a  prominent 
part  in  the  promotion  of  the  fraternal 
interests  and  religious  work  of  his  home 
town. 


Nicholas  Vezina,  grandfather  of  Stanis- 
las Vezina,  was  born  in  Canada  and  there 
spent  his  entire  life.  He  owned  and  cul- 
tivated a  large  farm,  was  an  Independent 
in  politics,  and  a  member  of  the  Roman 
Catholic    church.      Mr.    Vezina    married 

Tuote,  and  they  were  the  parents 

of  seven  children,  all  of  whom  lived  to  a 
good  old  age.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Vezina  both 
passed  away  in  Canada,  the  death  of  the 
former  occurring  in  1864. 

Moise    Vezina,    son    of    Nicholas    and 

(Tuote)  Vezina,  was  born  in  1826, 

in  Canada,  and  attended  the  public  schools 
of  his  neighborhood.  Like  his  father  he 
was  a  farmer,  and  in  politics  an  Inde- 
pendent. He  married  Marcellin  Marien, 
and  their  children  were :  Thomas,  Ovila, 
Stanislas,  mentioned  below ;  Ferdenant, 
Celina,  Damas,  died  at  the  age  of  fifty- 
three  ;  Euphasie,  died  at  the  age  of  fifty- 
two  ;  Fabien,  died  at  the  age  of  seven 
years ;  Atala,  died  at  the  age  of  five ; 
Marie  Louise,  died  at  the  age  of  three ; 
and  two  other  daughters  died  in  infancy. 
Mr.  Vezina  died  in  Canada,  in  February, 
1903,  and  his  wife  also  passed  away  in 
her  native  country  at  the  advanced  age 
of  eighty-six.  Both  were  members  of  the 
Roman  Catholic  church. 

Stanislas  Vezina,  son  of  Moise  and  Mar- 
cellin (Marien)  Vezina,  was  born  August 
18,  1859,  in  Canada,  where  he  received  his 
education  in  public  schools.  In  1880, 
being  then  twenty-one  years  old,  he  came 
to  the  United  States,  settling  in  Michi- 
gan, where  for  twelve  years  he  followed 
the  carpenter's  trade.  During  a  portion 
of  this  time  he  was  employed  by  Thomas 
A.  Edison  and  he  proved  that  he  was  a 
superior  workman,  so  much  so  that  when, 
about  1892,  Mr.  Edison  went  to  Newark, 
New  Jersey,  for  the  purpose  of  erecting 
some  large  buildings  in  that  city  he  took 
Mr.  Vezina  with  him  for  the  purpose  of 
placing  him  in  charge  of  the  millwright 


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and  carpentry  department.  He  had  under 
his  direction  one  hundred  and  thirty-five 
carpenters  and  sixty  mechanics  represent- 
ing other  lines  of  industry,  and  for  the 
following  three  years  he  was  steadily 
employed  on  Mr.  Edison's  buildings  in 
Newark. 

At  the  end  of  that  time  Mr.  Vezina 
came  to  Springfield,  where  he  was  em- 
ployed on  the  magnificent  group  of 
municipal  buildings  of  that  city,  among 
the  finest  of  any  city  of  its  size  in  the 
world,  afterward  establishing  himself  in 
business  as  a  contractor  and  builder.  His 
enterprise  was  crowned  with  success  and 
he  has  done  a  large  amount  of  building. 
Recently  he  built  for  himself  a  house  on 
Worcester  street.  West  Springfield,  and 
here  has  since  made  his  home. 

In  politics  Mr.  Vezina  is  an  Independ- 
ent, and  from  1883  to  1890  was  highway 
commissioner  in  Baraga  county,  Michi- 
gan, having  charge  of  all  the  highway 
work  in  the  county.  He  is  a  charter  mem- 
ber of  Merrick  Lodge,  No.  180,  Ancient 
Order  of  United  Workmen,  of  West 
Springfield,  having  been  connected  with 
it  ever  since  it  was  founded  twenty-four 
years  ago,  and  since  1898  has  been  a  mem- 
ber of  Branch  No.  14  of  the  Catholic  Mu- 
tual Benefit  Association.  Since  1897  he 
has  belonged  to  what  is  now  the  Franco- 
American  Order  of  Foresters,  having 
passed  all  the  chairs  in  these  orders.  On 
September  3,  4  and  5,  1917,  he  attended 
the  convention  held  by  the  society  in 
Woonsocket,  Rhode  Island,  this  being  the 
thirty-third  convention  tO'  which  he  has 
been  a  delegate  of  the  different  bodies  of 
which  he  is  a  member.  He  and  his  wife 
are  members  of  the  Roman  Catholic 
church. 

Mr.  Vezina  married,  August  25,  1879, 
Delvina,  born  in  1858,  in  Canada,  daugh- 
ter of  Joseph  and  Victoria  (Ethiel)  Pleau, 
who  were  the  parents  of  thirteen  children. 


Mr.  Pleau  was  a  farmer  in  Canada,  and 
died  at  the  age  of  seventy-six,  his  wife 
having  passed  away  in  1880  when  fifty- 
seven  years  old.  Following  are  the  ten 
children  of  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Vezina,  eight  of 
whom  are  living:  i.  Eutidiene,  born  in 
1880;  married  Philip  La  Brenche,  of 
West  Springfield ;  of  the  fourteen  chil- 
dren born  to  them  twelve  are  now  living. 
2.  Ermandienna,  born  in  1882;  married 
Alphonse  Cote,  of  Springfield ;  they  have 
six  children.  3.  Armeline,  born  in  1884; 
married  Charles  Swift,  of  Springfield ; 
they  have  one  child.  4.  Clementine,  born 
in  1887;  married  Asker  Roy  Butler,  of 
Springfield;  they  have  five  children.  5. 
Malenie,  born  in  1890,  unmarried,  and 
keeps  house  for  her  father.  6.  and  7. 
Amery  and  Amelle,  twins,  born  in  1892. 
8.  Henry,  born  in  1897.  9.  Alfred,  born 
in  1899.  10.  Etienne,  died  at  the  age  of 
three  weeks.  Of  the  above  eight  chil- 
dren and  twenty-four  grandchildren,  all 
are  residing  in  Springfield  and  West 
Springfield,  and  it  is  customary  on  Christ- 
mas for  the  entire  forty  to  gather  at  the 
home  of  the  father  and  grandfather. 

Stanislas  Vezina  is  a  fine  type  of  the 
self-made  man  who  has  built  up  for  him- 
self in  a  new  country  a  lucrative  business 
and  a  place  in  society,  winning  for  him- 
self at  the  same  time  the  esteem  and  con- 
fidence of  his  fellow-citizens. 

Francois  Marien,  father  of  Mrs.  Mar- 
cellin  (Marien)  Vezina,  was  a  farmer  in 
Canada,  and  married  Catherine,  daughter 
of  Auguste  H.  Maloin,  who  died  at  the 
age  of  ninety-eight,  and  whose  other  chil- 
dren were :  Auguste,  Matteley  and 
Adella.  Auguste  H.  Maloin  was  a  son 
of  Auguste  Maloin,  who  lived  to  the  ex- 
traordinary age  of  one  hundred  and 
three.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Marien  were  the 
parents  of  twenty-six  children,  among 
whom  were  the  following:  Matihas, 
deceased;     Narcisse,    deceased;     Damas, 


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deceased ;  George,  deceased ;  Zenobe, 
deceased ;  Joseph,  deceased ;  Auguste, 
deceased  ;  Francois,  deceased  ;  Allise,  de- 
ceased ;  Marcellin,  died  aged  eighty-six; 
Odille  ;  Dometille  ;  Aglae,  deceased;  Phil- 
omenne.  Mr.  Marien  died  in  Canada  at 
the  age  of  ninety-seven. 


SULLIVAN,  Leo  Jeremiah, 
Physician. 

Leo  Jeremiah  Sullivan,  one  of  the  most 
active  and  successful  among  the  rising 
physicians  of  Fall  River,  Massachusetts, 
is  himself  a  native  of  this  city,  but  by 
parentage  is  an  Irishman  and  displays  in 
his  person  and  character  the  peculiar  abil- 
ities and  talents  of  his  race.  He  is  a  son 
of  Cornelius  Sullivan,  who  was  born  at 
Castleton,  Ireland,  and  of  Julia  Frances 
(Kelley)  Sullivan,  his  wife,  who  is  also 
a  native  of  that  place.  Mr.  Sullivan,  Sr., 
came  to  this  country  as  a  young  man  and 
engaged  in  Fall  River,  Massachusetts,  in 
a  general  grocery  and  meat  business  in 
which  he  met  with  notable  success.  He 
was  a  Roman  Catholic  in  his  religious 
belief  and  attended  St.  Mary's  Church  in 
this  city,  while  in  politics  he  was  an  In- 
dependent Democrat. 

Born  July  27,  1884,  in  the  city  of  Fall 
River,  Leo  Jeremiah  Sullivan  has  made 
this  place  his  home  and  the  headquarters 
of  his  active  professional  career.  For  his 
education  he  attended  the  schools  of  his 
native  city,  studying  both  in  the  public 
schools  and  at  St.  Mary's  Parochial 
School.  He  was  then  sent  by  his  father 
to  the  Bradford  Matthew  Chaloner  Durfee 
High  School  of  Fall  River  and  studied  at 
this  well-known  institution  for  two  years. 
Upon  completing  his  course  here  he  aban- 
doned his  studies  for  a  time  and  entered 
the  drug  business,  where  he  gained  a  keen 
insight  into  the  subject  of  medicine,  to 
say  nothing  of  a  wide  knowledge  thereof. 
Eventually  he  decided  to  make  medicine 


his  profession,  and  accordingly  entered 
the  College  of  Physicians  and  Surgeons  of 
Baltimore,  Maryland,  from  which  he  was 
graduated  with  the  class  of  1912,  taking 
his  degree  of  medical  doctor.  For  the 
eighteen  months  following  his  gradua- 
tion, he  filled  the  post  of  interne  in  the 
Fall  River  City  Hospital  at  Fall  River, 
thus  supplementing  his  theoretical  knowl- 
edge with  the  requisite  practical  experi- 
ence. Toward  the  latter  part  of  191 3  he 
established  himself  in  practice  in  Fall 
River  and  has  here  built  up  a  most  satis- 
factory and  high  class  clientele  in  spite 
of  the  comparatively  few  years  in  which 
he  has  been  known  here  in  this  capacity. 
His  professional  colleagues  and  the  gen- 
eral public  are  at  one  in  holding  him  to 
be  possessed  of  remarkable  judgment  and 
skill  in  one  so  young  and  he  enjoys  the 
confidence  of  the  community  in  general. 
He  is  a  profound  student  of  his  subject 
and  keeps  himself  well  abreast  of  the 
most  modern  advances  in  his  science. 

Like  his  father  before  him,  Dr.  Sulli- 
van is  an  Independent  Democrat  in  his 
political  affiliations,  but  the  demands  of 
his  profession  are  such  that  it  is  quite 
impossible  to  do  more  in  the  political  life 
of  the  community  than  is  required  of  all 
good  citizens,  namely  to  interest  himself 
in  the  local  and  general  issues  of  the  time 
and  to  cast  his  ballot  as  his  conscience 
and  best  judgment  dictate.  Nor  is  he 
more  active  in  the  social  or  club  life  of 
Fall  River  than  in  the  political,  and  is  a 
member  of  no  organizations  save  those 
connected  with  his  profession,  namely, 
the  Fall  River  Medical  Society  and  the 
Massachusetts  State  Medical  Society.  He 
attends  strictly  to  his  professional  tasks 
and  although  he  is  thus  debarred  from 
taking  part  in  many  departments  for 
which  his  talents  and  abilities  well  fit 
him,  his  practice  is  certainly  the  better 
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PERKINS,  John  Lewis, 

Business  Man. 

John  Lewis  Perkins,  president  of  the 
B.  F.  Perkins  &  Son  Company,  of  Hol- 
yoke,  Massachusetts,  comes  of  an  old 
New  England  family  dating  back  to  the 
early  part  of  the  sixteenth  century  when 
two  brothers  joined  the  community  of 
Hampton,  New  Hampshire,  and  were 
assigned  adjoining  house  lots  of  five  acres 
each.  The  men  were  Abraham  and  Isaac 
Perkins. 

(I)  The  lot  assigned  to  Isaac  Perkins 
was  near  the  site  of  the  present  Baptist 
parsonage  in  Hampton,  New  Hampshire, 
and  there  he  resided  ten  years.  In  June, 
1652,  he  purchased  from  the  Rev.  Timothy 
Dalton  for  fifty  pounds  a  farm  adjoining 
the  Salisbury  line,  now  in  Seabrook, 
where  he  resided  until  his  death  in  No- 
vember, 1685.  His  wife,  Susannah  Per- 
kins, was  the  mother  of  the  following 
children :  Lydia,  Rebecca,  Isaac,  Jacob, 
Daniel,  Caleb,  of  further  mention  ;  Susan- 
nah, Ebenezer,  Benjamin,  Joseph,  Hannah 
and  Mary. 

(II)  Caleb  Perkins,  fourth  son  of  Isaac 
and  Susannah  Perkins,  resided  in  Hamp- 
ton, New  Hampshire.  He  married,  April 
24,  1677,  Bertha  Phillbrick,  born  Septem- 
ber II,  1651,  daughter  of  Thomas  and  Ann 
(Knapp)  Phillbrick,  of  Hampton.  They 
were  the  parents  of  one  son,  Benjamin,  of 
further  mention. 

(HI)  Benjamin  Perkins,  only  son  of 
Caleb  and  Bertha  (Phillbrick)  Perkins, 
was  born  in  Hampton,  New  Hampshire, 
May  II,  1680,  but  passed  his  life  at 
Hampton  Falls.  He  married,  March  i, 
1710,  Lydia  McCrease,  and  they  were  the 
parents  of  three  sons :  Joseph,  of  further 
mention  ;  Daniel  and  Jonathan. 

(IV)  Joseph  Perkins,  eldest  son  of 
Benjamin  and  Lydia  (McCrease)  Per- 
kins, was  born  at  Hampton   Falls,   New 


Hampshire,  May  5,  1712,  and  there  passed 
his  life.  He  married,  October  31,  1734, 
Elizabeth  Dow,  and  they  were  the  par- 
ents of  three  sons :  David,  Daniel,  and 
Benjamin,  of  further  mention. 

(V)  Benjamin  Perkins,  third  son  of 
Joseph  and  Elizabeth  (Dow)  Perkins,  was 
born  at  Hampton  Falls,  New  Hampshire, 
October  17,  1746,  and  settled  at  Wake- 
field, New  Hampshire.  He  and  his  wife 
Abigail  had  the  following  children  :  Ben- 
jamin, of  further  mention ;  John,  Wil- 
liam, David,  Isaiah,  Joseph,  Caleb,  Brad- 
bury and  Ruth. 

(VI)  Benjamin  (2)  Perkins,  eldest  son 
of  Benjamin  (i)  and  Abigail  Perkins,  was 
born  at  Wakefield,  New  Hampshire,  No- 
vember 12,  1774.  He  married  Ruth 
Worthen,  and  they  were  the  parents  of 
the  following  children :  Joseph,  of  fur- 
ther mention ;  Enoch,  Mary,  Lydia  and 
Ruth. 

(VII)  Joseph  Perkins,  eldest  son  of 
Benjamin  (2)  and  Ruth  (Worthen)  Per- 
kins, was  born  in  1804,  and  died  in  Graf- 
ton, New  Hampshire,  in  1842.  He  mar- 
ried Susan  Colby,  and  they  were  the  par- 
ents of  the  following  children  :  Frank  S., 
who  died  in  1900,  and  who  was  a  manu- 
facturer of  machine  tools  in  Lowell,  Mas- 
sachusetts, having  a  record  of  building 
seven  hundred  engine  lathes ;  he  married 
and  had  two  sons,  George  and  Frank, 
both  deceased,  and  two  daughters,  Laura 
and  Susan ;  Joseph,  who  was  killed  in 
battle  during  the  Civil  War;  Cyrus,  who 
enlisted  with  his  brother  Joseph,  but 
safely  passed  the  perils  of  war,  later  being 
a  partner  with  his  brother  Frank  S.  in 
the  manufacturing  of  machine  tools  in 
Lowell,  Massachusetts ;  he  married  and 
left  children :  Frank,  Joseph,  Mabel, 
Maud,  Susan  and  Laura ;  Benjamin 
Franklin,  of  further  mention. 

(VIII)  Benjamin  Franklin  Perkins,  son 
of   Joseph    and    Susan    (Colby)    Perkins, 

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was  born  at  Sunapee,  Sullivan  county, 
New  Hampshire,  July  21,  1826,  and  died 
in  Holyoke,  Massachusetts,  October  21, 
1900.  His  parents  moved  to  Lebanon, 
New  Hampshire,  in  1833,  and  in  1839  to 
Grafton  in  the  same  State.  He  attended 
school  in  both  towns,  but  after  the  death 
of  his  father  in  1842  he  entered  the  em- 
ploy of  Fifield  &  Choate  as  an  apprentice 
to  learn  the  trade  of  locksmith.  He 
remained  with  them  for  three  years,  then 
spent  about  a  year  in  Nashua,  New 
Hampshire,  in  the  employ  of  the  Nashua 
Lock  Company.  Later  he  went  with 
John  H.  Gage  as  apprentice  to  the  trade 
of  machinist,  working  under  his  instruc- 
tion for  one  year.  He  then  spent  five 
years  in  Manchester,  New  Hampshire,  in 
the  employ  of  the  Amoskeag  Corporation 
in  their  machine  repairing  department, 
leaving  in  1851  to  go  to  Selma,  Alabama, 
where  he  spent  a  year  with  the  Selma 
Manufacturing  Company.  For  a  short 
time  after  his  return  from  the  South  he 
was  with  the  Agawam  Cotton  Manufac- 
turing Company,  of  Mitteneaque,  going 
next  to  the  Hadley  Mills  Company,  of 
Holyoke,  now  the  Lyman  Mills  Com- 
pany, of  that  city,  as  a  machine  repairer, 
remaining  here  five  years.  In  1857  he 
went  to  the  Hampden  Mills  as  master 
mechanic,  and  superintendent,  having  full 
charge  of  the  mechanical  department 
until  1865.  In  that  year  he  resigned  and 
went  to  North  Adams,  Massachusetts,  as 
superintendent  of  the  Freeman  Manufac- 
turing Company,  remaining  there  five 
years.  In  1867  he  was  induced  to  return 
to  the  Hampden  Mills  Company,  of  Hol- 
yoke, continuing  with  that  corporation 
until  1873.  In  November,  1873,  he  estab- 
lished a  general  jobbing  and  machine 
shop  business  on  Front  street,  Holyoke, 
removing  in  1879  to  No.  12  Appleton 
street.  This  venture  proved  a  very  suc- 
cessful one,  and   in   1883  he  sought  still 


more  commodious  quarters  on  Cabot 
street.  Here  he  continued  until  1888, 
when  his  plant  with  all  its  contents  was 
totally  destroyed  by  fire,  causing  a  loss 
of  $22,000  worth  of  property  on  which  he 
had  but  $5,000  insurance.  But  with  un- 
daunted courage  he  began  again,  serving 
his  customers  at  the  old  Appleton  street 
shop  and  there  beginning  the  rebuilding 
of  his  fortune.  In  March,  1888,  he  admit- 
ted his  son,  John  Lewis  Perkins,  as  a 
partner,  and  for  a  number  of  years  they 
conducted  the  business  as  B.  F.  Perkins  & 
Son.  They  prospered  and  later  built 
a  large  and  adequate  plant  modernly 
equipped,  for  the  manufacture  of  various 
machines,  the  quality  of  machine  work 
done  by  this  firm  ranking  as  the  very  best. 
In  addition  to  their  other  business,  in 
1889,  the  firm  purchased  a  half  interest 
in  the  paper  mill  at  South  Hadley,  Massa- 
chusetts, owned  by  J.  H.  Shannon,  oper- 
ating on  this  basis  until  1893,  when  they 
became  sole  owners  of  both  plant  and 
business.  This  start  in  the  paper  busi- 
ness was  the  nucleus  of  all  the  present 
Perkins  activites  and  which  have  been 
consolidated  in  the  Japanese  Tissue  Mills, 
a  corporation  incorporated  under  Massa- 
chusetts Laws  with  one  million  dollars 
capital.  Mr.  Perkins,  Sr.,  continued  active 
in  the  business  until  his  death  in  1900, 
since  which  time  it  has  been  conducted  by 
his  son,  John  Lewis  Perkins.  Mr.  Per- 
kins, Sr.,  was  of  an  inventive  turn  of 
mind  and  perfected  a  number  of  inven- 
tions, which  proved  of  great  value.  The 
first  telephone  invented  by  Mr.  Bell,  one 
of  the  present  marvels  of  the  age,  was 
first  brought  to  perfection  by  him  and 
demonstrated  to  a  number  of  his  intimate 
friends  in  Mr.  Perkins'  machine  shop  on 
Front  street,  Holyoke,  Massachusetts. 
These  telephones,  together  with  switch- 
board, were  later  sent  to  the  original  Bell 

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Telephone  Company,  then  located  at  New 
Haven,  Connecticut. 

Benjamin  Franklin  Perkins  married 
(first)  in  1848,  Ruth  Cross  Hartwell,  who 
died  in  1862,  leaving  children:  George, 
Clayton  Hartwell  (whose  sketch  follows), 
Frederick,  Charles,  Edward  and  William. 
He  married  (second)  December  24,  1862, 
Ellen  M.  Cross,  a  cousin  of  his  first  wife, 
daughter  of  Ephraim  and  Susan  C.  (Cor- 
liss) Cross.  They  were  the  parents  of  a 
son,  John  Lewis,  of  further  mention. 

(IX)  John  Lewis  Perkins,  only  son  of 
Benjamin  Franklin  and  Ellen  M.  (Cross) 
Perkins,  was  born  in  Holyoke,  Massachu- 
setts, November  12,  1865.  He  was  edu- 
cated in  the  public  schools,  and  in  1884 
finished  his  high  school  course  with  grad- 
uation. During  his  later  school  years  he 
kept  his  father's  books,  and  at  the  same 
time  was  employed  as  night  operator  in 
the  Bell  Telephone  Central  Ofifice.  He 
was  associated  in  business  with  his  father 
as  an  assistant  until  1888,  being  then 
admitted  to  partnership.  In  1900,  after 
the  death  of  his  father,  he  succeeded  him 
as  head  of  the  firm  of  B.  F.  Perkins  & 
Son,  so  continuing  until  1906,  when  the 
business  was  incorporated  as  B.  F.  Per- 
kins &  Son,  Inc.,  John  Lewis  Perkins, 
president,  the  company's  products  being 
well  and  favorably  known  throughout  the 
world.  In  addition  to  the  above,  Mr.  Per- 
kins is  the  founder  and  president  of  the 
Japanese  Tissue  Mills,  a  consolidation  of 
several  paper  interests,  in  which  he  has 
large  interests.  He  is  also  a  director  of 
the  Park  National  Bank,  of  Holyoke,  and 
is  a  member  of  several  of  the  city  clubs, 
but  is  emphatically  the  business  man  and 
as  such  ranks  very  high  in  quality  and  ca- 
pacity. 

Mr.  Perkins  married,  October  14,  1895, 
Malvena  Perron,  of  Holyoke,  and  they 
are  the  parents  of  the  following  children : 
Benjamin  Franklin  (2),  now  a  student  at 


Rensselaer  Polytechnic  School  at  Troy, 
New  York;  John  Lewis,  Jr.,  now  a  stu- 
dent at  St.  Johns  Military  School,  Man- 
lius.  New  York ;  and  an  only  daughter, 
Marion  E.,  now  attending  a  private 
school. 


PERKINS,  Clayton  Hartwell, 

Inspection    Official. 

Clayton  Hartwell  Perkins,  of  Holyoke, 
Massachusetts,  who  has  for  many  years 
been  connected  with  the  inspection  de- 
partment of  the  Associated  Factories 
Mutual  Insurance  Company,  with  offices 
at  No.  31  Milk  street,  Boston,  Massa- 
chusetts, is  the  son  of  Benjamin  Franklin 
Perkins,  whose  sketch  precedes  this. 

Clayton  H.  Perkins  was  born  in  Man- 
chester, New  Hampshire,  December  12, 
1849,  but  in  1853  his  parents  moved  to 
Holyoke,  Massachusetts  where  he  at- 
tended public  schools  until  he  was  fifteen 
years  old.  The  following  five  years  were 
spent  in  Lowell,  Massachusetts,  with  his 
uncle,  Frank  E.  Perkins,  a  manufacturer 
of  machine  tools.  In  Lowell  he  attended 
school,  and  under  his  uncle's  instruction 
learned  the  tool  making  business  from  its 
mechanical  side.  In  1868  he  returned  to 
Holyoke  and  was  employed  there  for  a 
time  in  the  Hampden  Gotten  Mills,  going 
thence  to  the  Farr  Alpaca  Company  as 
master  mechanic,  and  later  becoming 
mechanical  superintendent.  He  continued 
in  this  position  until  1890,  when  he  began 
his  long  connection  with  the  inspection 
department  of  the  Factory  Mutual  Fire 
Insurance  Companies,  the  work  of  this 
department  being  to  inspect  thoroughly 
all  plants  insured  by  either  or  all  of  the 
nineteen  companies  contributing  to  the 
upkeep  of  the  department,  prepare  plans, 
make  adjustment  of  fire  losses,  value 
property,  and  furnish  fire  protection  engi- 
neering.    Twenty-eight  years  have  since 

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elapsed  and  he  is  still  in  the  same  employ, 
inspecting  plants  from  the  Atlantic  to 
Kansas  City,  and  from  the  Southern 
States  northward  into  Canada,  and 
throughout  the  Provinces.  Seven  years 
are  required  to  cover  his  territory,  neces- 
sitating the  traveling  of  about  forty  thou- 
sand miles  annually,  and  during  this  time 
he  inspects  the  following  fire  insur- 
ance companies  :  Manufacturers  of  Provi- 
dence ;  Rhode  Island  of  Providence ;  Bos- 
ton Manufacturers,  Boston ;  Firemen's, 
Providence ;  State,  Providence ;  Wor- 
cester Manufacturers,  Worcester;  Ark- 
wright,  Boston  ;  Blackstone,  Providence  ; 
Fall  River  Manufacturers,  Fall  River  ;  Me- 
chanics, Providence  ;  What  Cheer,  Prov- 
idence ;  Enterprise,  Providence;  Mer- 
chants, Providence  ;  Hope,  Providence  ; 
Cotton  and  Woolen  Manufacturers,  Bos- 
ton ;  American,  Providence ;  Philadel- 
phia Manufacturers,  Philadelphia ;  Rub- 
ber Manufacturers,  Boston;  Paper  Mill 
Manufacturers,  Boston. 

In  addition  to  the  inspection  he  has 
made  and  the  forty  thousand  miles  trav- 
eled annually,  he  has  adjusted  one  hun- 
dred and  five  fire  losses  during  his 
twenty-eight  years  with  the  department, 
and  is  now  compelled  to  devote  himself 
entirely  to  the  duties  of  his  position,  but 
formerly  he  was  director  of  the  Holyoke 
Co-operative  Bank,  and  for  many  years  a 
member  of  the  Republican  City  Commit- 
tee. He  is  a  member  of  the  Independent 
Order  of  Odd  Fellows,  and  attends  the 
Second  Congregational  Church. 

Mr.  Perkins  married,  December  21, 
1870,  Ellen  Lee,  of  Kilbane,  Quebec,  Can- 
ada, daughter  of  James  and  Mary  Lee. 
Mr.  and  Mrs.  Perkins  are  the  parents  of 
two  daughters :  Gertrude,  married  Ed- 
ward D.  Lamb,  and  they  have  a  son,  Clay- 
ton Hartwell ;  and  Mabel,  married  Roger 
William  McCorkindale,  and  they  have  a 
son,  Leslie  Jean  McCorkindale,  born  De- 
cember 29,  1907. 


ROSA,  Henry  Antonia,  M.  D., 

Physician, 

The  Rosa  family  is  of  Portugese  origin, 
and  a  branch  thereof  was  long  established 
in  Brazil,  South  America,  where  it  par- 
ticipated in  the  development  of  the  nation 
which  is  among  the  most  progressive  of 
the  Latin-American  countries.  It  is 
to-day  a  great  republic,  and  to  its  ad- 
vancement to  that  condition  the  Rosa 
family  contributed  in  no  small  degree. 
The  first  known  to  the  present  writer  was 
Manuel  Rosa,  who  died  in  Brazil.  Noth- 
ing is  known  of  his  wife,  and  the  name  of 
only  one  of  his  two  sons  has  been  pre- 
served. He  was  a  ship  builder  by  occu- 
pation. 

Antonio  Martin  Rosa,  son  of  Manuel 
Rosa,  was  born  in  1827,  in  Fayol,  Azore 
Islands,  and  died  in  1909,  at  the  age  of 
eighty-two  years,  in  Fall  River,  Massa- 
chusetts. By  occupation  he  was  a  whaler. 
He  was  a  man  of  liberal  mind  and  prin- 
ciples, a  liberal  in  religion,  and  not  bound 
by  party  dictates  in  political  action.  He 
married  Mary  Nunes,  born  in  1838,  in 
the  Azore  Islands,  of  an  ancient  family 
there. 

Henry  Antonio  Rosa,  son  of  Antonio 
Martin  and  Alary  (Nunes)  Rosa,  was 
born  February  22,  1875,  in  New  Bedford, 
Massachusetts.  He  was  early  actuated 
by  a  desire  for  education,  and  after  pass- 
ing through  the  public  schools  of  New 
Bedford  he  entered  a  Boston  high  school, 
where  he  prepared  for  college.  In  1899  he 
received  the  degree  of  M.  D.  from  the 
University  of  Maryland,  and  supple- 
mented his  medical  education  by  experi- 
ence in  the  hospitals  of  Baltimore.  In 
1900  he  settled  in  the  practice  of  his  pro- 
fession in  Fall  River,  Massachusetts,  and 
is  now  in  the  midst  of  a  large  general 
practice  in  that  city,  with  office  on  Co- 
lumbia street.  Dr.  Rosa  is  an  earnest 
student,  a  man  of  broad  mind  and  sympa- 


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thetic  nature,  and  is  eminently  fitted  by 
nature  and  by  training  for  the  practice 
of  his  profession,  in  which  he  has  already 
achieved  a  marked  success.  He  is  a  trus- 
tee of  the  Municipal  Hospital,  and  has 
been  president  of  most  of  the  Portugese 
fraternal  societies  of  Fall  River.  In  poli- 
tics he  styles  himself  a  Roosevelt  Repub- 
lican. He  is  a  man  of  progressive  spirit, 
ardently  interested  in  the  American  sys- 
tem of  freedom  for  all  and  liberal  gov- 
ernment, and  is  a  true  American  citizen, 
esteemed  as  such  by  his  contemporaries, 
and  respected  everywhere  as  a  citizen. 
In  1898,  during  the  Spanish-American 
war,  he  served  three  months  in  the  hospi- 
tal corps  of  the  United  States  forces.  Dr. 
Rosa  does  not  accept  any  of  the  old  estab- 
lished religions  as  suited  to  the  needs  of 
modern  life.  As  a  believer  in  universal 
brotherhood  and  manhood,  he  is  a  social- 
ist of  modern  type,  and  endeavors  by  all 
means  within  his  power  to  promote  the 
general  welfare  of  the  human  race. 


WILLIAMS,  Frederick  Charles, 

Efficiency  Expert. 

Frederick  Charles  Williams,  of  West- 
field,  general  manager  and  treasurer  of 
the  Textile  Manufacturing  Company  of 
that  city,  is  a  son  of  Frederick  Williams, 
who  was  born  in  London,  England,  and 
there  died  aged  40  years. 

Frederick  Williams  grew  to  youthful 
manhood  in  London,  becoming  thor- 
oughly educated  along  engineering  and 
technical  lines.  When  a  young  man  he 
became  attached  to  the  staff  of  Governor 
General  Sir  Bartle  Freere  in  South  Africa, 
there  remaining  many  years  until,  broken 
in  health,  he  returned  to  England.  Dur- 
ing this  time  he  was  engaged  as  an  engi- 
neer in  the  construction  of  the  railroad 
from  Port  Elizabeth  to  the  Kimberly  dia- 
mond field,  and  at  one  time  held  the  peril- 
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ous  position  of  paymaster-in-chief  to  the 
construction  force.  The  workmen  em- 
ployed were  mostly  natives  and  so  little 
confidence  could  be  placed  in  them  that 
whenever  traveling,  from  point  to  point 
with  the  company's  funds,  Mr.  Williams 
required  a  company  of  Cape  mounted 
police  as  a  guard.  He  married  Mary 
Alice  Paine,  who  accompanied  him  to 
South  Africa,  and  survives  him,  residing 
in  England.  The  family  were  all  mem- 
bers of  the  Church  of  England.  Mr.  and 
Mrs.  Williams  were  the  parents  of  an 
only  son,  Frederick  C,  of  further  men- 
tion, and  four  daughters,  all  but  the  son 
born  in  South  Africa.  The  daughters  are : 
Kate ;  Maude,  died  in  infancy ;  Alice, 
twin  with  Maude,  both  christened  in 
South  Africa,  Lady  Freere  standing  as 
sponsor;  and  Ethel,  who  died  in  infancy. 
Frederick  C.  Williams  was  born  in 
London,  England,  August  20,  1871,  but 
was  taken  to  South  Africa  with  his  par- 
ents the  following  year.  There  his  early 
life  was  spent,  but  at  about  the  age  of  ten 
years  he  was  sent  back  to  England  to  be 
educated.  He  attended  the  public  schools 
until  the  age  of  fourteen,  then  entered 
Dulwich  College,  founded  in  the  year 
1619  by  the  actor,  Edward  Alleyn.  At 
that  college,  located  in  Surrey,  a  suburban 
quarter  of  London,  four  and  a  half  miles 
from  St.  Paul's,  he  remained  four  years, 
there  completing  his  classical  study. 
After  leaving  college  he  was  apprenticed 
for  four  years  to  the  F.  H.  Berry  Com- 
pany of  Clerkenwell,  London,  to  learn 
electrical  engineering.  In  connection 
with  that  work,  in  accordance  with  the 
English  system  of  combining  theoretical 
instruction  with  practical  work,  he  pur- 
sued a  course  in  the  City  Guild's  Tech- 
nical School,  Finsbury,  London.  At  the 
close  of  his  apprenticeship  he  remained 
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gaged  in  special  and  important  electrical 
engineering  work,  notably  in  France 
where  the  company  had  large  contracts. 

At  the  age  of  twenty-four,  in  1895,  Mr. 
Williams  thoroughly  furnished  with  theo- 
retical scientific  knowledge,  mechanical 
and  technical  ability  and  practical  experi- 
ence, came  to  the  United  States,  going  at 
once  to  the  private  experimental  labora- 
tories of  George  Westinghouse  in  the 
Pittsburgh  district.  There  his  attain- 
ments were  greatly  appreciated  and  he 
remained  ten  years,  assisting  Mr.  West- 
inghouse in  developing  many  of  his  in- 
ventions. One  of  these,  the  Nernst 
Lamp,  came  especially  under  his  charge, 
and  he  was  so  conversant  with  its  every 
detail  that  when  it  was  ready  to  give  to 
the  world,  Mr.  Williams  was  placed  in 
charge  of  the  factory  in  Pittsburgh,  North 
Side,  devoted  to  the  manufacture  of  the 
lamp,  which  was  a  success  in  every  way. 

After  leaving  the  Westinghouse  inter- 
ests, Mr.  Williams  became  associated 
with  Professor  Reginald  E.  Fessenden, 
who  had  perfected  his  wireless  apparatus 
to  where  it  was  a  scientific  and  commer- 
cial fact  and  needed  men  to  manufacture 
and  install  it.  The  ofifer  he  made  Mr. 
Williams  was  an  attractive  one,  and  a 
factory,  with  Mr.  Williams  in  charge,  was 
soon  in  operation  for  manufacturing  the 
wireless  equipment.  Professor  Fessen- 
den was  a  genius  in  his  line,  and  during 
his  association  with  him  Mr.  Williams 
had  some  of  his  most  interesting  and 
profitable  experiences.  Many  notable 
wireless  installations  were  made,  notably 
those  at  the  Washington  Navy  Yard,  on 
United  States  battleships,  at  Brant  Rock, 
Massachusetts,  in  Scotland,  and  many 
other  places. 

From  that  work,  Mr.  Williams  went  to 
the  General  Electric  Company  at  Lynn, 
Massachusetts,    remaining    there    about 


one  year.  His  experiences  in  London, 
France,  and  the  United  States,  as  an 
organizer  of  new  industries  and  general 
work,  had  added  to  his  mechanical  skill 
and  scientific  tastes  an  executive  and 
managerial  ability  which  was  so  appre- 
ciated by  the  New  England  Audit  Com- 
pany of  Springfield,  Massachusetts,  that 
he  was  induced  to  enter  their  service  and 
develop  another  new  enterprise,  a  de- 
partment of  factory  efficiency.  After  the 
department  was  in  working  order,  Mr. 
Williams,  as  his  first  assignment,  came  to 
the  Textile  Manufacturing  Company  of 
Westfield.  There  his  work,  that  of  an 
organizing  efficiency  expert,  was  of  so 
impressive  a  character  that  the  company 
persuaded  him  to  remain  with  them  per- 
manently as  superintendent,  which  he 
did,  serving  as  such  four  years.  The  com- 
pany was  then  reorganized  and  Mr.  Wil- 
liams was  made  general  manager  and 
treasurer,  and  in  those  positions  of  re- 
sponsible trust  continues  his  usefulness. 
He  is  a  member  of  various  scientific  and 
technical  organizations,  is  a  member  of 
the  Knights  of  Pythias,  and  a  communi- 
cant of  the  Protestant  Episcopal  church. 

Mr.  Williams  married  Mary  Alice 
Wright,  born  in  Norwood,  England,  her 
father  a  large  contractor  of  London,  Eng- 
land. Mr.  and  Mrs.  Williams  are  the  par- 
ents of  two  daughters  and  a  son:  Doro- 
thy, born  in  Norwood,  England,  married 
Herbert  Dalton,  manager  of  the  Kneill 
Coal  Company,  Westfield,  Massachusetts, 
and  has  a  son,  Fred ;  Frederick,  born  in 
Pittsburgh,  Pennsylvania,  a  graduate  of 
Westfield  High  School,  and  a  student  for 
some  time  with  the  General  Electric 
Company  at  Lynn,  Massachusetts,  taking 
the  engineering  and  electrical  course, 
now,  assistant  mechanical  engineer  of  the 
Fiberoid  Company,  of  Indian  Orchard ; 
Marjorie,  born  in  Washington,  D.  C. 


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CASSIDY,  Edward  Isadore, 

Expert  Paper  Manufacturer. 

Descending  from  a  family  of  paper 
makers  and  paper  mill  officials,  Edward  I. 
Cassidy,  now  superintendent  of  the  Val- 
ley Paper  Company,  comes  honestly  by 
his  sj<ill  and  ability  in  a  business  with 
which  he  has  been  connected  since  boy- 
hood, thirty-five  years  having  been  spent 
with  one  concern,  the  Keith  Paper  Com- 
pany of  Turner  Falls,  Massachusetts. 
For  three  generations  his  family  have 
been  engaged  in  paper  making.  His 
grandfather  Cassidy  learned  the  paper 
maker's  trade  in  his  native  Ireland,  and 
after  coming  to  the  United  States  located 
at  Lee,  Massachusetts,  and  there  resided 
until  his  death.  He  had  sons :  Edward, 
William,  Thomas,  Michael,  of  further 
mention ;  Joseph ;  all  of  whom  became 
paper  makers  ;  and  daughters  :  Mary  and 
Margaret. 

Michael  Cassidy  was  born  in  Dublin, 
Ireland,  about  1826,  and  died  at  Turners 
Falls,  Massachusetts,  October  23,  1874. 
He  was  educated  in  the  National  schools, 
and  in  Ireland  learned  his  father's  trade, 
paper  making,  serving  an  apprenticeship 
of  seven  years,  according  to  the  custom 
there.  About  1852  he  came  to  the  United 
States,  going  first  to  Lee,  Massachusetts, 
later  to  Burnside,  Connecticut,  and  Niag- 
ara Falls,  New  York,  and  in  each  of  these 
places  was  employed  in  the  paper  mills. 
From  Niagara  he  went  to  the  Rochester 
Paper  Company  of  Rochester,  New  York, 
returning  later  to  Massachusetts.  In 
1867,  in  company  with  his  brother  Ed- 
ward, and  William  Watkins,  he  organ- 
ized the  partnership  of  Watkins,  Cassidy 
&  Brother,  and  started  a  paper  mill  at 
Tryingham,  Massachusetts.  They  con- 
tinued in  business  until  the  destruction  of 
their  mill  by  fire,  February  28,  1868. 
Michael  Cassidy  at  that  time  was  on  his 


way  to  New  York  State  to  take  charge  of 
a  mill,  but  before  he  reached  his  destina- 
tion he  received  word  that  the  mill  he 
was  going  to  had  burned  to  the  ground. 
This  changed  his  plans  and  he  went  to 
Lee,  Massachusetts,  instead,  and  was  in 
the  employ  of  the  Smith  Paper  Company 
for  six  months,  going  thence  to  Adams, 
Massachusetts,  there  being  in  the  employ 
of  the  Adams  Massachusetts  Paper  Com- 
pany, and  the  Richardson-Upton  Com- 
pany. Eventually  he  settled  at  Turners 
Falls,  there  being  an  assistant  foreman  in 
the  Keith  Paper  Mill  for  several  years. 
He  set  up  the  machinery  for  the  mills  of 
Turners  Falls,  and  was  there  residing  at 
the  time  of  his  accidental  death  in   1874. 

Michael  Cassidy  married  in  Rochester. 
New  York,  Ann  Melroy,  born  in  West- 
port,  county  Mayo,  Ireland,  in  1834,  and 
died  at  Turners  Falls,  Massachusetts, 
May  25,  191 1.  Children:  Edward  I.,  of 
further  mention  ;  William  M.,  Frederick 
J.,  Francis  P.,  Walter  S.,  George  H.,  Mary 
A.,  and  Michael  M. 

Edward  I.  Cassidy  was  born  in  Roches- 
ter, New  York,  April  4,  1858,  there  at- 
tending public  school  for  a  short  time 
prior  to  the  return  of  the  family  to  Try- 
ingham, Massachusetts.  His  education 
was  completed  in  the  public  schools  at 
Tryingham,  Lee,  Adams,  and  Turners 
Falls,  his  school  years  ending  at  the  age 
of  fifteen.  His  first  position  was  as  office 
boy  with  the  Keith  Paper  Company,  of 
Turners  Falls,  his  connection  with  that 
company  extending  over  a  period  of 
thirty-five  years.  Eleven  of  those  years 
just  preceding  1909  were  spent  as  super- 
intendent. He  rose  from  the  bottom  to 
the  top,  filling  many  different  positions 
so  well  that  in  each  case  promotion  fol- 
lowed. In  July,  1909,  he  came  to  Hol- 
yoke  as  superintendent  of  the  Valley 
Paper  Company,  his  present  position,  his 
residence,   however,   still   being  Turners 


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Falls.  He  is  a  member  of  the  Knights  of 
Columbus  and  the  Benevolent  and  Pro- 
tective Order  of  Elks. 

Mr.  Cassidy  married  (first)  in  1895, 
Catherine  Rockford,  of  Turners  Falls, 
they  the  parents  of  a  son,  Walter  M.,  born 
February  28,  1896.  He  married  (second) 
in  1900,  Margaret  Donovan,  of  Turners 
Falls,  daughter  of  John  and  Ellen  (Mc- 
Carthy) Donovan.  They  have  a  son, 
James  L.,  born  December  23,  1903. 


LOOMIS,  Oliver  Bush, 

Agriculturist. 

For  sixty  years,  1833-1893,  Oliver  Bush 
Loomis  resided  at  the  homestead  jointly 
owned  after  the  death  of  Walter  Loomis 
by  his  sons,  Oliver  B.  and  George  B. 
Loomis.  From  1893  until  his  death, 
Oliver  B.  Loomis  resided  in  Westfield, 
living  a  quiet,  retired  life  at  the  home  he 
purchased  on  Bush  street.  In  fact,  home 
was  always  the  great  center  of  his 
life  and  there  hospitality  abounded. 
A  man  of  quiet  life  and  conserva- 
tive tastes,  he  took  little  part  in  outside 
afifairs,  but  in  his  modest,  unassuming 
way  passed  a  life  of  usefulness  and  he 
left  an  honored  name.  He  was  a  descend- 
ant of  Joseph  Loomis,  a  woolen  draper, 
who  wrote  his  name  Lomas. 

(I)  Joseph  Loomis,  son  of  John  and 
Agnes  Loomis.  was  born  in  Braintree, 
England,  prior  to  1590,  arrived  in  Boston 
from  London,  England,  on  the  ship, 
"Susan  and  Ellen,"  July  17,  1638,  accom- 
panied by  his  wife  Mary,  five  sons  and 
three  daughters.  After  about  a  year  spent 
in  Dorchester,  the  family  moved  with  the 
Rev.  Ephraim  Huet  party  to  Windsor, 
Connecticut,  there  arriving  August  17, 
1639.  He  was  granted  twenty-one  acres 
by  the  Massachusetts  Bay  Colony  who 
then  had  jurisdiction,  and  he  also  became 
owner  of  several   other  tracts  which   he 


purchased.  He  died  at  Windsor,  Novem- 
ber 25,  1658.  He  married  in  Messing,  Es- 
sex county,  England,  June  30,  1614,  Mary 
White,  baptized  August  24,  1590,  died  in 
Windsor,  August  23,  1652,  daughter  of 
Robert  and  Bridget  (Allgar)  White. 
Their  eight  children  were  all  born  in 
England. 

(II)  Lieutenant  Samuel  Loomis,  young- 
est child  of  Joseph  and  Mary  (White) 
Loomis,  was  born  in  Essex  county,  Eng- 
land, in  1628,  and  came  to  New  England 
with  the  family,  in  1638,  died  in  West- 
field,  Massachusetts,  October  i,  1689.  He 
spent  his  early  years  in  Windsor,  Connec- 
ticut, where  he  was  made  a  freeman  in 
1654,  and  joined  the  church,  November 
26,  1661.  He  moved  to  Westfield  between 
1672-75,  was  ensign  of  the  first  Westfield 
company,  commanded  by  Major  John 
Pynchon  in  1674,  and  served  in  the  Indian 
War  of  1677.  He  took  an  active  part  in 
church  matters,  bringing  his  letter  from 
the  church  in  Windsor  and  becoming  one 
of  the  seven  original  incorporators  of  the 
First  Congregational  Church  in  West- 
field.  He  married,  December  27,  1653, 
Elizabeth,  daughter  of  Thomas  Judd,  who 
survived  him  and  was  living  in  Westfield 
in  1716.  All  but  the  two  youngest  chil- 
dren of  Lieutenant  Samuel  Loomis  were 
born  in  Windsor,  they  in  Westfield.  Chil- 
dren :  Samuel,  Elizabeth,  Ruth,  Sarah, 
Joanna,  Benjamin,  Nehemiah,  William,  of 
further  mention,  Philip  and  Mary. 

(III)  William  Loomis,  son  of  Lieuten- 
ant Samuel  Loomis,  was  born  in  Wind- 
sor, Connecticut,  March  18,  1672,  and  died 
in  Westfield  in  1838.  He  married,  Janu- 
ary 13,  1703,  Martha  Morley,  born  Sep- 
tember 7,  1682,  died  February  22,  1753, 
daughter  of  Thomas  and  Martha  (Wright) 
Morley.  Their  ten  children  were  all  born 
in  Westfield  :  Martha,  Joshua,  Benjamin, 
Ann,  William,  James,  Thankful,  Jona- 
than, Hezekiah,  Noah. 

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(IV)  Captain  Noah  Loomis,  youngest 
child  of  William  and  Martha  (Morley) 
Loomis,  was  born  in  Westfield,  May  12, 
1724,  and  died  at  Southwick,  Massachu- 
setts, August  9,  1808.  He  is  credited 
with  being  Southwick's  second  settler, 
was  selectman  many  times,  commanded  a 
company  of  minute-men  at  Lexington, 
and  later  enlisted  in  Captain  Lebbens 
Ball's  company,  Colonel  Timothy  Daniel- 
son's  regiment.  He  married,  November 
5,  1747,  Rhoda  L.  Clark,  died  November 
30,  1806,  aged  eighty-one  years,  daughter 
of  William  and  Abigail  (Bush)  Clark. 
Their  children  were  all  born  in  Westfield : 
Rhoda,  Mercy,  Tirzah,  Noah,  of  further 
mention,  Shem,  Ham,  Japhet  and  Grace. 

(V)  Noah  (2)  Loomis,  eldest  son  of 
Captain  Noah  (i)  Loomis,  was  born  in 
Westfield,  April  11,  1754,  and  died  in 
Southwick,  Massachusetts,  July  3,  1819, 
at  his  home  on  Loomis  street.  He  mar- 
ried (first)  in  November,  1775,  Rhoda 
Dewey,  born  in  Westfield,  June  23,  1753, 
died  July  2,  1813,  daughter  of  Joseph  and 
Beulah  (Sackett)  Dewey.  He  married 
(second)  August  7,  1814,  Eunice  Nol)le. 
born  April  5,  1754,  died  March  9,  1848, 
aged  ninety-five  years.  Children  of  first 
wife,  all  born  in  Southwick:  Lionel, 
Molly,  Nodiah  Norman  Holcomb,  Noah. 
married  Lydia  Rexford ;  Walter,  of  fur- 
ther mention ;  Rhoda,  married  William 
Mather;  Russel,  married  (first)  Eliza- 
beth Viets,  (second)  Rhoda  Stiles. 

(VI)  Walter  Loomis,  third  son  of 
Noah  (2)  and  Rhoda  (Dewey)  Loomis, 
was  born  October  8,  1785,  in  Southwick, 
Massachusetts,  and  died  there  August  13, 
1866.  He  grew  to  manhood  as  his  fath- 
er's farm  assistant,  but  one  year  after  his 
marriage  bought  the  farm  on  Loomis 
street,  long  known  as  the  Loomis  home- 
stead, which  was  in  the  Loomis  name  for 
many  years,  but  upon  the  death  of  George 
Bush  Loomis  it  passed  out  of  the  family. 


There  he  spent  his  life  a  prosperous 
farmer.  He  married,  December  28,  1814, 
Clarissa  Dewey  Bush,  bom  in  Westfield, 
August  4,  1795,  daughter  of  Edward  and 
Phoebe  (Dewey)  Bush,  who  were  mar- 
ried May  I,  1794.  She  was  born  at  the 
Bush  homestead  on  Main  street,  later  the 
residence  of  Thomas  A.  Lewis,  and  after 
her  husband's  death  continued  her  resi- 
dence in  Southwick,  where  she  died  May 
21,  1891.  Her  wedding  dress  is  yet  pre- 
served, one  of  the  treasured  heirlooms  of 
the  family.  Children :  Mary  C,  born 
July  12,  1816,  married,  June  8,  1837, 
Charles  M.  Phelps;  Bennett  B.,  born 
April  4,  1818,  married  (first)  July  2,  1840, 
Oliva  Tuttle,  married  (second)  February 
2.  1851,  Eunice  A.  Gillett,  married  (third) 
Mrs.  Almira  Goodrich ;  Louisa  Melissa, 
born  February  7,  1822,  married,  February 
2,  1843,  Robert  Hosmer;  Frances  Elvira, 
born  February  7,  1824,  died  March  24, 
1888,  married  (first)  Eber  Foot,  (second) 
Henry  J.  Hamilton  ;  George  B.,  born  Sep- 
tember 9,  1827,  married  Cecilia  Celesta 
Hoag;  Edward  Bush,  born  June  3,  1830, 
married  Harriet  M.  Phelon  ;  Oliver  Bush, 
of  further  mention ;  Clarissa,  born  May 
12,  1838,  died  unmarried,  November  13, 
1873,  in  Southwick. 

(VII)  Oliver  Bush  Loomis,  youngest 
son  of  Walter  and  Clarissa  Dewey  (Bush) 
Loomis,  was  born  in  Southwick,  Febru- 
ary 23,  1833,  ^"d  died  in  Westfield,  Mas- 
sachiisetts,  August  29,  1915.  He  was 
educated  in  Southwick  public  schools  and 
Westfield  Academy,  and  grew  up  on  the 
paternal  farm  which  he  assisted  his  father 
in  operating.  After  the  death  of  his 
father,  in  1866,  the  farm  passed  to  the 
ownership  of  Oliver  B.  and  George  B. 
Loomis,  who  together  operated  it  until 
1893,  when  Oliver  B.  sold  his  interest  to 
his  brother,  built  a  residence  on  Bush 
street,  Westfield,  and  there  resided  until 
his  death,  engaged  in  the  care  of  his  pri- 


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vate  properties.  He  was  a  member  of 
the  Men's  Club  of  the  First  Congrega- 
tional Church,  and  of  the  Improved  Order 
of  Red  Men,  and  in  political  faith  an  In- 
dependent. He  served  as  deputy  sherift" 
in  Southwick  for  many  years,  and  often 
related  many  interesting,  exciting  and 
pathetic  stories  of  his  experiences.  He 
took  no  active  part  in  political  affairs,  and 
with  the  exception  of  the  office  noted  held 
no  public  position. 

Mr.  Bush  married  (first)  November  17, 
1892,  Belle  C.  Palmer,  born  in  Palmer, 
New  York,  December  9,  1849,  died  July 
14,  1907.  He  married  (second)  August 
25,  1908,  Frances  A.  Parsons,  born  in 
Westfield,  daughter  of  Henry  A.  Parsons, 
the  latter  being  born  in  Granby,  Massa- 
chusetts, May  27,  1832,  died  in  Westfield, 
February  3,  1901.  He  was  an  expert  car- 
riage builder,  fully  understood  every  part 
of  the  business  from  the  blacksmithing 
to  the  painting,  and  by  his  own  hands 
could  turn  out  a  fine  carriage  or  heavy 
wagon.  His  first  shop  in  Westfield,  then 
owned  by  Westfield  Academy,  is  now  the 
site  of  the  First  Church  parish  house. 
The  building  was  first  used  as  the  First 
Church  and  it  was  later  moved  back  to 
the  site  which  it  occupied  and  where  Mr. 
Parsons  carried  on  business  in  it  until  it 
was  destroyed  by  fire.  He  married.  May 
22,  1859,  Betsey  Frances  Goodrich,  born 
in  North  Chester,  Massachusetts,  March 
13,  1836,  died  in  Westfield,  March  17, 
1888.  She  was  the  youngest  of  the  thir- 
teen children  of  Warren  and  Ann  (Bow- 
ers) Goodrich.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Henry  A. 
Parsons  were  the  parents  of  one  child, 
Frances  A.,  now  the  widow  of  Oliver  Bush 
Loomis,  previously  mentioned.  Henry 
A.  Parsons  was  a  son  of  Russell  and 
Loamis  (Hathaway)  Parsons,  grandson 
of  Daniel  Parsons,  who  was  a  son  of 
Moses  (2)  Parsons,  son  of  Moses  (i) 
Parsons,  son  of  Lieutenant  John  Parsons, 


son  of  Joseph  Parsons,  son  of  Cornet  Jo- 
seph Parsons.  Mrs.  Frances  A.  (Parsons) 
Loomis  was  educated  in  Westfield  graded 
and  high  schools,  and  in  other  schools, 
taught  for  a  few  years,  then  became  an 
instructor  in  Westfield  Normal  Training 
School.  To  the  culture  of  education,  she 
has  added  the  broadening  influence  of  ex- 
tensive home  and  foreign  travel.  She  is 
deeply  interested  in  educational,  literary 
and  welfare  work,  is  a  member  of  the 
Tuesday  Morning  and  Woman's  clubs, 
and  takes  a  part  in  those  movements 
tending  to  promote  the  general  good  of 
the   community. 


SEARLE,  Myron  Eggleston, 

Man   of  Enterprise. 

The  Searle  family,  which  was  worthily 
represented  in  the  present  generation  by 
the  late  Myron  E.  Searle,  late  of  West- 
field,  a  man  of  good  business  principles, 
whose  main  characteristics  were  integ- 
rity, fairness,  prudence,  sagacity  and 
foresight,  is  of  English  origin,  but  its 
members  for  many  generations  have 
made  their  home  in  the  State  of  Massa- 
chusetts, to  the  interests  of  which  they 
have  ever  been  faithful  and  loyal,  and  the 
communities  in  which  they  resided  were 
greatly  benefited  by  their  services,  which 
were  freely  given  in  furthering  every  en- 
terprise which  promised  for  the  public 
welfare.  The  name  was  spelled  in  vari- 
ous ways,  such  as  Surles,  Searles,  Sale. 

(I)  The  first  representative  of  the  line 
herein  followed  was  John  Searle,  a  native 
of  England,  from  whence  he  removed  to 
this  country,  locating  in  Springfield,  Mas- 
sachusetts, where  he  spent  the  remainder 
of  his  days,  his  death  occurring  in  Sep- 
tember, 1641,  his  will  being  dated  Decem- 
ber 21,  1640.  He  was  on  the  list  of 
proprietors  and  taxpayers  of  Springfield 
in  1638,  and  the  year  prior  to  that  he 
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served  in  the  capacity  of  lot  measurer  for 
the  proprietors.  He  married,  March  19, 
1639,  Sarah  Baldwin,  who  survived  him, 
marrying  for  her  second  husband,  Alex- 
ander Edwards.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Searle  had 
one  child,  John,  of  whom  further. 

(II)  John  Searle,  Jr.,  was  born  in 
Springfield,  Massachusetts,  May  30,  1641, 
and  died  in  Northampton,  Massachusetts, 
October  31,  1718,  he  having  removed 
thither  during  his  manhood  years.  He 
was  admitted  a  freeman  in  1690.  He 
devoted  his  attention  to  the  tilling  of  the 
soil,  his  labor  being  rewarded  with  a 
large  degree  of  success.  He  was  a  sub- 
scriber to  the  Harvard  College  fund, 
which  fact  testified  to  the  interest  he  took 
in  educational  affairs.  He  married  (first) 
July  3,  1667,  Ruth,  daughter  of  William 
Jones,  who  died  November  20,  1672.  She 
bore  him  four  children,  as  follows :  Un- 
named child,  born  and  died  in  March, 
1668;  John,  born  March  11,  1669,  died 
young;  John,  born  August  6,  1670;  Child, 
died  November  20,  1672.  He  married 
(second)  May  10  or  30,  1675,  Mary  North, 
who  survived  him,  her  death  occurring 
November  5,  1726.  She  bore  him  seven 
children,  as  follows :  James,  February 
12,  1676;  Mary,  1678;  Ebenezer,  Janu- 
ary 9,  1680;  Ruth,  December  17,  1681 ; 
Sarah,  February  28,  1684;  Nathaniel,  of 
whom  further;   Lydia,  August  22,  1688. 

(III)  Nathaniel  Searle  was  born  at 
Northampton,  Massachusetts,  May  3, 
1686.  He  spent  his  childhood  and  young 
manhood  in  his  native  town,  attending 
the  district  school  and  assisting  with  the 
work  of  his  father's  farm.  Later  he 
located  in  Southampton,  Massachusetts, 
drew  his  first  lot  in  the  year  1730,  built  a 
house  of  two  rooms  about  the  year  1732, 
this  being  the  largest  house  in  the  town 
at  that  time,  and  used  as  a  place  of  wor- 
ship before  the  meeting  house  was 
erected,  and  in   1748  he  had  a  grant  of 


three  acres  and  a  half.  He  was  a  man  of 
prominence,  active  in  town  affairs,  and  he 
entertained  the  council  when  the  Rev. 
Mr.  Judd  was  ordained.  He  married  and 
was  the  father  of  nine  sons,  among  whom 
were  Nathaniel,  of  whom  further,  James 
and  Eliphaz. 

(IV)  Nathaniel  Searle,  Jr.,  was  born  in 
Northampton,  Massachusetts,  about  the 
year  1720.  He  was  reared  and  educated 
in  his  native  town,  and  accompanied  his 
parents  upon  their  removal  to  Southamp- 
tion,  where  he  spent  the  remainder  of  his 
days,  honored  and  respected.  He  re- 
ceived a  grant  of  land  there  in  1748,  that 
being  the  first  time  his  name  is  mentioned 
in  town  records.  He  was  public-spirited 
and  patriotic,  ofifering  his  services  in  the 
French  and  Indian  War,  1755,  serving  as 
an  ensign  in  the  company  of  Captain 
Elisha  Hawley.  During  the  Revolution- 
ary War  there  were  eight  of  the  name 
from  Southampton  who  served,  namely: 
Zophar,  Abijah,  Simeon,  Darius,  Bildad, 
Moses,  Aaron  and  Nathaniel,  presumably 
sons  or  nephews  of  Nathaniel  Searle,  Jr. 
He  married  and  among  their  children  was 
Moses,  of  whom  further. 

(V)  Moses  Searle  was  born  at  South- 
ampton, Massachusetts.  He  married  Dolly 
Eggleston,  who  bore  him  five  children, 
namely:  Moses,  Asa,  Jarad,  Nathaniel 
Eggleston.  of  whom  further,  and  Dolly. 

(VI)  Nathaniel  Eggleston  Searle  was 
born  in  Southampton,  Massachusetts, 
about  1775.  He  attended  the  school  in 
the  neighborhood  of  his  home,  receiving 
a  practical  education,  and  for  his  active 
business  career  chose  the  occupation  of 
farming,  which  he  conducted  in  such  a 
manner  as  to  bring  him  large  returns  for 
labor  expended.  He  was  active  in  com- 
munity affairs,  and  won  and  retained  the 
respect  and  esteem  of  all  with  whom  he 
was  brought  in  contact.  He  was  a  life- 
long resident  of  Southampton,  where  he 

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died  at  an  advanced  age.  Ht  married 
(first)  1808,  Zilpha  Searle,  who  died  in 
April,  1832,  aged  forty-seven  years.  They 
were  the  parents  of  five  children:  Mer- 
rick S.,  born  May  13,  1812  ;  Zilpha  Maria, 
November  23,  1814;  Julia,  September  14, 
1817;  Lucy  A.,  March  18,  1820,  died  Oc- 
tober 6,  1893,  and  James  Hervey,  Sep- 
tember 18,  1822.  He  married  (second) 
Polly  Taylor,  a  native  of  Ashfield,  Massa- 
chusetts. They  were  the  parents  of  two 
children:  Enos  E.,  born  June  5,  1834; 
Myron  Eggleston,  of  whom  further. 

(VII)  Myron  Eggleston  Searle  was 
born  in  Southampton,  Massachusetts, 
June  27,  1837,  and  died  at  Westfield,  Mas- 
sachusetts, November  11,  1905.  His  pre- 
paratory education  was  acquired  in  the 
public  schools  of  Southampton,  and  was 
supplemented  by  a  course  in  Williston 
Seminary,  Easthampton,  Massachusetts, 
and  by  a  course  in  a  business  college  in 
Poughkeepsie,  New  York,  and  in  the 
intervals  between  his  literary  and  busi- 
ness courses  he  served  in  the  capacity  of 
teacher  for  a  short  period  of  time.  After 
his  graduation  from  the  latter  named 
institution,  in  company  with  a  classmate, 
he  founded  a  business  college  in  London, 
Canada,  but  shortly  afterward  they  aban- 
doned that  project,  Mr.  Searle  returning 
to  the  United  States  at  the  urgent  request 
of  his  widowed  mother,  he  being  her  sole 
support.  He  located  in  Westfield  and 
turned  his  attention  to  the  railroad  busi- 
ness, accepting  a  position  as  station  agent 
on  the  Canal  Railroad,  now  the  New 
York,  New  Haven  &  Hartford  Railroad, 
but  this  not  proving  to  his  liking  he  re- 
signed after  serving  a  short  time.  He 
then  entered  into  business  relations  with 
Lemuel  Bryant  Blood,  establishing  a 
retail  coal,  wood,  flour  and  cement  busi- 
ness, under  the  firm  name  of  Blood  & 
Searle,  but  shortly  afterward  Mr.  Blood 
severed    his    connection    and    Mr.    Searle 


took  into  partnership  Llewellyn  Gladwin, 
who  had  been  associated  with  the  firm 
for  several  years  as  accountant,  and  this 
connection  continued  for  over  thirty 
years,  until  1900,  when  Mr.  Searle,  owing 
to  his  impaired  state  of  health,  sold  his 
interest  in  the  business  to  his  partner.  In 
addition  to  the  above  named  concern,  Mr. 
Searle  also  served  as  secretary  and 
treasurer  of  the  Westfield  Power  Com- 
pany for  a  quarter  of  a  century,  and  was 
a  stockholder  and  prime  mover  in  organ- 
izing the  Woronoco  Savings  Bank,  serv- 
ing on  its  finance  committee  at  the  time 
of  his  decease.  He  was  an  active  and 
consistent  member  of  the  First  Congrega- 
tional Church  of  Westfield,  served  as 
treasurer  for  thirty-three  years,  as  deacon 
for  thirty-five  years,  as  teacher  in  the 
Sunday  school  for  many  years,  and  he 
also  evinced  a  deep  interest  in  the  Young 
Men's  Christian  Association.  He  was  a 
Republican  in  politics,  and  was  chosen  by 
his  fellow-citizens  to  fill  the  office  of 
assessor,  in  which  capacity  he  served  for 
one  year.  He  was  a  member  of  Westfield 
Lodge,  Independent  Order  of  Odd  Fel- 
lows, and  of  the  Royal  Arcanum.  In  all 
the  relations  of  life,  as  business  man, 
churchman,  son,  husband  and  father,  Mr. 
Searle  performed  his  duties  well  and 
faithfully,  and  in  his  death  the  commun- 
ity lost  one  of  its  representative  men,  a 
man  whose  place  it  is  indeed  difficult  to 
fill,  and  his  career  stands  as  a  worthy  ex- 
ample for  young  men  to  follow. 

Mr.  Searle  married,  October  21,  1868, 
Augusta  Luanna  Blood,  born  in  West- 
field,  Massachusetts,  March  13,  1844, 
daughter  of  Lemuel  Bryant  and  Luanna 
(Allen)  Blood,  who  were  the  parents  of 
two  other  children :  Gustavus,  deceased ; 
and  Lucelia,  who  became  the  wife  of  W. 
W.  Clapp,  and  resides  in  Holyoke,  Mas- 
sachusetts. Lemuel  B.  Blood  was  born 
at  Ashfield,  Massachusetts,  1809,  and  died 


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at  Westfield,  April  ii,  1891.  He  removed 
to  Westfield  about  the  year  1842,  erected 
a  house  and  store  building,  and  was  a 
general  merchant  throughout  the  active 
years  of  his  life,  having  been  in  partner- 
ship with  his  son-in-law  as  aforemen- 
tioned. He  was  one  of  the  incorporators 
of  the  Woronoco  Savings  Bank.  He  was 
a  Republican  in  politics,  and  filled  the 
office  of  selectman  for  a  number  of  years. 
He  was  a  sturdy,  rugged,  upright  char- 
acter, unselfish,  interested  in  all  efforts 
for  the  improvement  and  betterment  of 
conditions.  He  was  a  liberal  and  active 
member  of  the  Baptist  church.  He  was 
a  son  of  Ebenezer  Blood,  a  resident  of 
Westfield,  where  his  death  occurred. 
Luanna  (Allen)  Blood  was  born  in  Wy- 
ben,  1810,  died  in  Westfield,  1897.  Mr. 
and  Mrs.  Searle  were  the  parents  of  one 
daughter,  Edith  Lucelia,  born  in  West- 
field,  Massachusetts,  August  20,  1869, 
died  February  23,  1895.  She  attended  the 
public  schools  of  Westfield,  graduating 
from  the  High  School  in  1887,  and  the 
following  year  entered  Smith  College, 
from  which  she  was  graduated  in  1892. 
On  account  of  impaired  health  she  made 
a  trip  across  the  ocean  and  traveled 
abroad,  but  this  did  not  have  the  desired 
effect,  her  death  occurring  at  the  early 
age  of  twenty-five,  but  at  the  beginning  of 
a  career  full  of  promise.  She  was  a 
woman  of  fine  character,  a  great  worker 
in  the  Sunday  school,  active  in  all  worthy 
enterprises,  and  beloved  by  all  with 
whom  she  associated. 


KENT,  Georgia  Tyler, 

Actress,  Writer, 

Georgia  Tyler  Kent  was  born  July  20, 
1853,  at  La  Grange,  Georgia,  eldest 
daughter  of  Nelson  Franklin  Tyler,  of 
Massachusetts,  and  Henrietta  (Snowden) 
Tyler,  his  wife,  and  died  July  24,  1914,  at 


Worcester,  Massachusetts.  She  married, 
July  2,  1878,  Daniel  Kent,  a  graduate  of 
Amherst  College,  law  student  of  Boston 
University,  and  later  admitted  to  the  In- 
diana bar,  son  of  Daniel  Waldo  and  Har- 
riet Newell  (Grosvenor)  Kent,  of  Leices- 
ter, Massachusetts. 

Mrs.  Kent,  in  her  school  days,  was 
thought  by  her  teachers  and  others  to 
have  unusual  talent  as  a  writer.  Her  edu- 
cation was  especially  directed  toward 
developing  any  latent  ability  of  this  kind, 
with  the  hope  that  she  would  make  litera- 
ture her  life  work.  This,  at  the  time,  did 
not  appeal  to  her,  and  in  the  autumn  of 
1875  she  entered  upon  her  chosen  career 
as  a  member  of  the  Boston  Museum  Com- 
pany, using  her  own  name,  Georgia  Tyler. 
It  was  with  a  heavy  heart,  on  account  of 
the  bitter  opposition  of  her  family.  Her 
rapid  rise  from  unimportant  to  leading 
roles  proved  she  had  not  mistaken  her 
vocation.  During  her  second  season  she 
made  a  vivid  impression  in  the  short  part 
of  Servia  to  the  Virginius  of  John  Mc- 
Cullough  and  the  Virginia  of  Mary  Gary. 
The  critics  united  in  her  praise,  saying 
she  "showed  powers  which  will  with  care 
develop  into  something  suited  for  the  best 
roles  in  tragedy."  Mr.  McCullough  was 
so  impressed  with  her  work  he  personally 
requested  she  might  be  cast  for  the  lead- 
ing Indian  role  of  Nameokee  to  his 
Metamora.  Her  success  in  this  led  Mr. 
McCullough  to  invite  her  to  become  a 
member  of  his  own  company  the  follow- 
ing season,  but  the  Museum  management 
induced  her  to  remain.  Immediately  fol- 
lowing Mr.  McCullough,  Harry  J.  Mon- 
tague, leading  man  at  Wallack's  Theatre, 
filled  an  engagement  as  star  at  the  Mus- 
eum. Mrs.  Kent's  acting  in  various  roles 
won  his  attention  to  such  an  extent  that, 
with  the  consent  of  the  management,  she 
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England,  supporting  him  in  many  of  the 
leading  roles  of  his  repertoire. 

Upon  her  return  to  the  Museum  she 
appeared  in  a  large  number  of  important 
parts,  and  as  Valentine  de  Mornas,  in  "A 
Celebrated  Case,"  made  a  pronounced  hit. 
The  Museum  of  those  days  was  a  busy 
place,  and  its  superb  company  found  the 
hours  available  for  preparation  barely 
sufficient.  Frequently,  for  weeks  at  a 
time,  there  would  be  a  run  of  the  glorious 
Shakespearean  tragedies  and  the  stand- 
ard comedies,  with  almost  nightly  changes 
in  the  bill.  There  were  but  few  of  these 
in  which  Mrs.  Kent  did  not  appear,  first 
in  small  roles,  and,  as  her  standing  in  the 
company  advanced,  in  higher  ones.  She 
had  a  remarkable  capacity  for  "quick 
study."  Harry  Murdoch  was  said  to  be 
her  only  equal  in  this  exhausting  but 
often  necessary  eiTort.  Many  times,  with 
but  two  or  three  hours'  notice,  she  came 
to  the  aid  of  the  management  and  played, 
letter  perfect,  long  and  sometimes  leading 
parts.  In  her  third  season  the  manage- 
ment recognized  her  ability  by  engaging 
her  for  the  leading  heavy — that  is,  the 
leading  tragic-roles,  but  in  addition  she 
was  frequently  called  upon  to  appear  in 
juvenile,  ingenue  and  even  soubrette 
characters.  When  Madame  Modjeska 
came  to  the  Museum,  in  1878,  Mrs.  Kent 
was  cast  for  the  Princess  de  Bouillon,  a 
part  hardly  second  to  that  of  Adrienne 
Lecouvreur  itself.  At  the  end  of  the 
great  scene  between  the  two  women, 
Madame  Modjeska,  at  the  final  fall  of  the 
curtain,  taking  both  her  hands,  thanked 
her  for  "such  splendid  work."  "Perhaps 
nothing,"  says  Mrs.  Kent,  "gave  me  more 
happiness  than  when  Mr.  Longfellow 
asked  to  meet  me,  and  complimented  me 
in  his  gracious  and  beautiful  way." 
Madame  Modjeska,  her  husband.  Count 
Bozenta,  and  their  son  had  but  just  bade 
the    company   farewell,    when    Mr.    Law- 


rence Barrett  began  a  four  weeks' engage- 
ment, Mrs.  Kent  appearing  in  the  cast 
of  nearly  every  play.  In  1879  he  again 
filled  a  fortnights'  engagement,  and  Mrs. 
Kent,  whose  work  the  year  before  had 
attracted  his  attention,  was  again  found 
in  his  support.  As  Emilia  to  his  lago 
(Mr.  Barron  as  Othello  and  Miss  Clarke 
as  Desdemona)  Mrs.  Kent  made  the  most 
brilliant  success  of  her  career  thus  far. 
Mr.  Barrett  had  himself  coached  her.  He 
showered  congratulations  upon  her,  and, 
with  the  consent  of  the  management,  se- 
cured her  as  leading  lady  for  his  New 
England  tour.  She  had,  therefore,  at  this 
early  stage  in  her  career  the  privilege  and 
distinction  of  appearing  in  most  of  the 
leading  female  roles  of  his  extensive 
repertoire.  Upon  returning  from  this 
tour  she  supported  Mr.  Warren  as  Clara 
Weigel  in  "My  Son"  and  in  many  other 
plays.  When  the  Union  Square  Thea- 
tres  great  success,  "The  Danicheffs," was 
produced  at  the  Museum,  to  Mrs.  Kent 
was  apportioned  the  part  of  the  sixty- 
years-old  Countess  Danichefif,  created  in 
New  York  by  Miss  Fanny  Morant.  It 
seemed  almost  cruel  to  ask  so  young  a 
girl  to  impersonate  this  magnificent  and 
imperious  elderly  woman,  but  the  critics 
accorded  her  high  praise,  saying  her 
"signally  powerful  and  effective  work 
augurs  for  her  a  brilliant  future." 

During  her  long  engagement  at  the 
Museum,  Mrs.  Kent  studied  elocution  at 
the  Boston  School  of  Oratory.  For  five 
years  she  continued  a  member  of  the 
Museum  Company,  and  then  Mr.  Bartley 
Campbell,  who,  unknown  to  her,  had  for  a 
week  been  watching  her  work  on  the 
Museum  stage,  offered  her  the  position  of 
leading  lady  in  his  "Galley  Slave"  com- 
pany, to  succeed  Miss  Lillie  Glover  as 
Cicely  Blaine.  It  was  a  company  of  great 
strength,  including  Joseph  Wheelock, 
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Frank  E.  Aiken,  Owen  Fawcett,  and  other 
talented  people.  At  the  end  of  this  sea- 
son Mrs.  Kent  was  especially  engaged  by 
Mrs.  John  Drew  for  the  leading  part  of 
Jeanne  Guerin  to  Joseph  Wheelock's 
Jagon.  While  at  Mrs.  Drew's  theatre  she 
accepted  an  offer  from  John  Sleeper 
Clarke,  Edwin  Booth's  brother-in-law, 
and  became  leading  lady  of  his  company. 
With  him,  as  leading  man,  were  W.  H. 
Vernon,  the  distinguished  English  actor, 
and  Mrs.  Farren.  When  John  T.  Ray- 
mond produced  "Colonel  Sellers"  in  Lon- 
don, he  engaged  Mrs.  Kent  for  Laura 
Hawkins,  but  her  husband  and  father 
objected  to  her  going,  and  she  was 
obliged  to  relinquish  also  an  ofifer  from 
Mr.  Clarke  for  a  London  appearance. 
They  were  opportunities  which  would 
have  meant  much  to  a  young  actress.  The 
following  season  she  became  leading 
woman  with  Thomas  W.  Keene,  being 
featured  in  the  bills,  and  for  two  years 
continued  in  this  arduous  position,  con- 
stantly traveling,  and  appearing  in  all  the 
principal  cities  in  the  United  States  and 
Canada  in  a  round  of  impersonations, 
largely  Shakespearean,  among  them  being 
Ophelia  in  "Hamlet,''  Portia  in  "The 
Merchant  of  Venice,"  Desdemona  in 
"Othello,"  Queen  Elizabeth  in  "Richard 
III.,"  Julie  de  Mortimer  in  "Richelieu," 
Fiordelisa  in  "The  Fool's  Revenge." 
During  this  engagement  she  also  pre- 
pared for  appearing  as  Mariana  in  "The 
Wife,"  and  Juliet  in  "Romeo  and  Juliet." 
When  Mr.  John  Stetson's  New  York 
Fifth  Avenue  Theatre  Company  produced 
"Divorce,"  Mrs.  Kent  was  selected  for 
Fanny  Davenport's  old  part  of  Lou  Ten 
Eyck.  The  play  had  a  great  cast,  with 
Sarah  Jewett  as  Fanny  Ten  Eyck  (for- 
merly Clara  Morris's  role),  Annie  Rus- 
sell, Herbert  Kelcey,  and  other  New  York 
favorites  equally  distinguished.  This  was 
succeeded     by     "Confusion,''     simultane- 


ously produced  by  two  of  Mr.  Stetson's 
companies,  Mrs.  Kent  and  Mr.  Kelcey 
heading  one.  Mrs.  Kent  starred  for  a 
season,  appearing  as  Pauline  in  "The 
Lady  of  Lyons,"  Nancy  Sikes  in  "Oliver 
Twist,"  and  in  other  standard  plays. 
Among  the  hundreds  of  characters  por- 
trayed by  her  have  been  Camille,  Lady 
Macbeth,  Mariana  in  "The  Wife,"  Galatea 
in  "Pygmalion  and  Galatea,"  Lady  Isabel 
in  "East  Lynne,"  Armande  in  "Led 
Astray,"  the  title  roles  in  "Leah  the  For- 
saken," "Lucretia  Borgia,"  "Medea," 
"Evadne,"  and  "Satan  in  Paris."  She  was 
also  leading  lady  and  stock  star  of  sev- 
eral companies  producing  Paris,  London, 
and  New  York  successes.  Although  ex- 
ceedingly versatile,  her  temperament 
especially  fitted  her  for  tragic  and  emo- 
tional roles,  and  it  was  in  these  she  won 
her  greatest  successes.  Mr.  Henry  Aus- 
tin Clapp,  in  passing  judgment  upon  her 
work,  frequently  spoke  of  her  "personal 
distinction  and  nobility  of  manner ;"  her 
"rare  temperament,  distinguished  beauty, 
and  the  depth,  range,  and  expressiveness 
of  her  voice."  Another  eminent  critic 
said  of  her  work:  "Entirely  unaffected 
and  natural,  it  is  of  commanding  char- 
acter. This  young  woman  possesses  mag- 
netism, tremendous  underlying  power, 
rare  intelligence,  and  great  personal 
beauty.  Few  will  forget  that  mobile  and 
sensitive  face  or  that  picture  of  passion, 
tenderness  and  despair." 

After  twelve  years  of  successful  and 
often  brilliant  work  her  health  failed,  just 
as  she  had  signed  a  three  years'  contract 
to  appear  as  a  star.  She  was  obliged  to 
retire,  and  for  some  years  was  an  invalid. 
On  the  partial  recovery  of  her  health  she 
devoted  her  time,  as  far  as  her  strength 
would  permit,  to  literary  and  patriotic 
work.  She  prepared  and  delivered  many 
addresses  before  various  organizations 
throughout  the  State.    She  was  especially 


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interested  in  the  Indians  and  made  an 
exhaustive  study  of  the  Indian  question. 
One  of  her  strongest  addresses  was  on 
this  subject. 

A  charter  member  of  the  Colonel  Tim- 
othy Bigelow  Chapter  of  Worcester, 
Daughters  of  the  American  Revolution, 
she  labored  for  its  success  from  its  incep- 
tion. On  her  retirement  from  the  Re- 
gency after  two  years  of  service,  she  was 
elected  honorary  Regent  for  life.  The 
work  which  she  accomplished  and  the  in- 
fluence which  she  exerted  cannot  be  bet- 
ter expressed  than  by  quoting  from  the 
Memorial  adopted  by  the  Chapter  on  her 
death. 

In  1898,  a  small  body  of  Worcester  women  came 
together  to  found  a  new  Chapter  of  the  Daughters 
of  the  American  Revolution.  They  were  all  enthu- 
siastic and  inspired  by  high  ideals  of  work  which 
could  be  done  in  historic  and  patriotic  fields. 
There  was  no  one  among  them  more  easily  a 
leader  in  these  almost  untrodden  paths  than  Mrs. 
Georgia  Tyler  Kent. 

It  was  well  for  the  Chapter  to  have  such  a 
leader.  Through  her  influence  many  of  our  most 
valuable  members  came  to  us,  and  by  her  bril- 
liant mind  our  work  was  planned  on  broad  foun- 
dations, that  it  might  not  only  be  a  pleasure  and 
help  to  ourselves,  but  an  inspiration  and  a  help 
to  all  whom  in  any  way  our  Chapter  life  should 
touch. 

She  was  our  second  Regent.  She  took  the 
Chapter  when  it  was  a  small  organization,  meet- 
ing in  a  little  room  in  the  building  of  the  Society 
of  Antiquity,  and  scarcely  known  in  our  own 
city  and  not  at  all  beyond  the  Society  itself  in 
other  cities.  In  the  two  years  of  her  service  as 
Regent,  we  became  one  of  the  influential  organi- 
zations of  the  city.  Through  her,  prizes  were 
offered  for  the  best  essays  on  patriotic  subjects 
to  the  young  people  of  the  High  Schools  through- 
out Worcester  County.  It  was  during  her  regency 
that  most  of  the  graves  of  the  Revolutionary  sol- 
diers were  discovered  and  marked  with  the 
bronze  markers  of  the  Sons  of  the  American 
Revolution,  and  a  fund  was  commenced  for  the 
perpetual  care  of  these  graves.  It  was  also 
during  her  regency  that  Mrs.  Dodge,  with  infinite 
care  and  work,  prepared  the  list  of  the  men  who 
went   to  the   Revolution   from   Worcester,  which 


was  printed  by  the  Chapter  and  placed  in  most 
of  the  large  libraries  of  the  State.  It  was  also 
during  her  regency  that  the  exact  place  where 
stood  the  first  schoolhouse  of  Worcester  was  dis- 
covered, and  a  bronze  tablet  placed  on  the  near- 
est possible  spot,  recalling  that  fact  to  the  passer- 
by, and  also  the  fact  that  it  was  in  this  building 
that  John  Adams,  the  second  President  of  the 
United  States,  taught  the  town  school. 

She  was  also  the  founder  of  our  Junior 
Daughters,  an  organization  to  which,  at  that  time, 
every  child  of  a  member  of  the  Chapter  was 
immediately  united  by  its  ambitious  mother,  our 
youngest  members  counting  their  lives  by  months 
only.  She  also  established  the  yearly  custom  for 
the  Chapter,  of  giving  five  dollars  to  the  Society 
for  the  Prevention  of  Cruelty  to  Animals,  in 
memory  of  the  terrible  sufferings  of  the  horses 
and  mules  of  the  Revolution.  She  inspired  the 
members  of  her  Chapter  with  a  desire  to  work. 
The  papers  read  at  the  regular  meetings  were 
almost  invariably  written  by  them,  and  were 
along  the  lines  of  local  work.  At  the  end  of 
her  regency  we  found  ourselves  not  only  a  well- 
known  and  strong  club  in  Worcester,  but  a  well- 
known  organization  throughout  the  State  and  in 
the  National  Society.  Her  splendid  mind  and  her 
beautiful  voice  made  her  a  power  in  the  Conti- 
nental Congress,  and  brought  her  into  intimate 
relations  with  the  most  brilliant  women  in  Wash- 
ington. She  was  pleased  with  this  recognition, 
not  for  herself  but  for  her  Chapter.  It  was  her 
greatest  ambition  to  have  the  Colonel  Timothy 
Bigelow  Chapter  a  recognized  leader  in  strong, 
brilliant,  helpful  work,  and  such  she  made  it. 
After  two  years  of  very  strenuous  but  very  suc- 
cessful work,  she  laid  down  the  regency  and  was 
chosen  by  the  members  of  the  Chapter  Honorary 
Regent  for  life,  as  a  slight  acknowledgment  of  her 
splendid  service. 

After  this,  whenever  her  health  permitted,  she 
gave  us  freely  of  her  time  and  strength.  She 
conducted  for  the  Chapter  the  play  of  "London 
Assurance,"  coaching  all  the  players  herself  and 
bringing  each  one  to  a  degree  of  perfection  which 
they  themselves  had  not  dared  to  expect.  One  of 
them  voiced  the  feelings  of  all  when  the  play  was 
over,  by  saying,  to  be  coached  as  they  had  been 
by  Mrs.  Kent  was  an  education  which  would  be 
a  help  to  them  all  their  lives.  It  was  with  great 
regret,  that  gradually  she  was  obliged  to  do  less 
for  the  Chapter,  as  her  strength  for  active  work 
grew  less.  The  last  time  she  took  an  active  part 
in  our  work  was  at  the  time  of  the  Bazaar  in  the 


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Salisbury  Mansion,  two  years  ago.  You  all  can 
see  her,  as  she  was  that  day — in  her  beautiful 
white  brocaded  gown,  with  the  snow-white  wig, 
the  brilliant  dark  eyes,  and  the  flush  of  color  on 
her  cheeks.  It  is  a  picture  we  cannot  forget,  and 
we  shall  always  remember  her,  standing  by  the 
old-fashioned  miniatures,  in  the  lovely  colonial 
parlor,  welcoming  our  guests  with  the  charm  and 
graciousness  which  were  so  much  a  part  of  her, 
and  yet  which  fitted  so  well  the  stately  hospitality 
we  were  trying  to  portray. 

Surely  with  the  deep  regret  that  we  have  lost 
such  a  wonderful  personality  from  our  member- 
ship, must  be  mingled  the  feeling  of  thankful- 
ness that  we  had  her  so  many  years,  to  shape  and 
to  inspire,  to  set  before  us  high  aims  and  true 
ideals,  to  encourage  us  to  make  the  most  of  our- 
selves, to  value  ourselves  at  our  true  worth,  and 
to  help  those  less   fortunately   placed. 

It  was  through  her  effort  and  personal 
presentation  of  the  needs  before  the  Leg- 
islative Committee  that  a  law  was  enacted 
in  Massachusetts  authorizing  towns  and 
cities  to  appropriate  money  for  the  erec- 
tion of  memorials  to  the  Revolutionary 
soldiers.  She  was  a  member  of  the  Wor- 
cester Woman's  Club  and  of  the  Club 
House  Corporation,  president  of  the  Wor- 
cester Revolutionary  Memorial  Associa- 
tion, and  for  many  years  vice-president  of 
the  Worcester  Society  of  Antiquity ; 
vice-president  at  her  death  of  the  Com- 
monwealth Chapter  of  the  Daughters  of 
the  Founders  and  Patriots  of  America, 
and  a  devoted  member  of  the  Society  for 
the  Prevention  of  Cruelty  to  Animals. 

More  than  sixty  of  her  New  England 
ancestors  in  the  Colonial  period  served  as 
military  officers,  magistrates,  representa- 
tives, deputies,  and  founders  of  towns. 
Among  them  (to  note  but  a  few)  may 
here  be  mentioned  Major  (also  Colonel  and 
Chief  Justice)  Francis  Fulham,  the  Rev. 
Joseph  Emerson,  Lieutenant  John  Sharpe, 
Lieutenant  Stephen  Hall,  Lieutenant  Grif- 
fin Craft,  Lieutenant  Moses  Crafts,  the 
Rev.  Peter  Bulkeley,  the  Rev.  Edward  Bul- 
keley,  Captain  Christopher  Hussey,  Robert 


Vose,  Lieutenant  Jaines  Trowbridge, 
Robert  Taft,  and  Thomas  Gregson,  as- 
sistant of  the  Colony,  first  treasurer,  and 
first  commissioner  for  the  Union  with 
other  New  England  Colonies.  There 
were  in  the  Revolution,  Captain  Joseph 
Hall  serving  throughout  the  war.  Cap- 
tain Christopher  Hussey,  above  men- 
tioned, was  appointed  by  the  King 
(Charles  II.)  September  i8,  1679,  a  mem- 
ber of  the  King's  Council  and  Court  of 
Judicature  of  New  Hampshire,  and  so 
served  until  the  appointment  of  Cranfield 
as  lieutenant-governor  in  1682.  Through 
her  Bulkeley  ancestry,  she  had  royal 
descent  from  the  Saxon  Kings,  Scottish 
Kings  and  through  the  line  of  French 
Kings  back  to  Charlemagne.  This  descent 
includes  Saher  de  Quincy,  Richard  de 
Clare  and  John  de  Lacy,  Magna  Charta 
Sureties. 

(The  Leland   Line). 

(I)  Hopestill  Layland,  the  common 
ancestor  of  the  New  England  "Lelands," 
was  from  Yorkshire,  England,  where  he 
was  born  in  1580.  He  settled  first  at 
Weymouth.  When  the  removal  of  the  Rev. 
Mr.  Newman  and  the  majority  of  the 
planters  from  Weymouth  to  Rehoboth 
occurred  in  1644,  Hopestill  Layland  seems 
to  have  removed  to  that  part  of  the  Dor- 
chester which  afterwards  became  Milton. 
He  is  believed  to  have  had  daughters 
married  to  some  of  the  first  planters  in 
Medfield,  Bogistow  (Sherborn),  many  of 
whom  were  from  Weymouth,  Braintree 
and  Dorchester.  When  upwards  of  sev- 
enty years  of  age,  he  seems  to  have  re- 
moved to  Bogistow  to  reside  with  his 
children,  where  he  died  in  1655.  He  had, 
at  least,  one  son  Henry,  mentioned  below. 

(II)  Henry  Layland,  son  of  Hopestill 
Layland  (i),  was  born  in  1625.  He  grew 
up  in  Dorchester,  and  in  company  with 
his  brother-in-law,  Thomas  Holbrook, 
began  the  settlement  of  Bogistow  in  1654. 


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He  was  received  into  the  church  at  Dor- 
chester, May  22,  1653.  In  1660  he  gave 
his  bond  for  £40  to  Henry  Lane  for  two 
hundred  acres  of  land.  This  bond  he  dis- 
charged three  years  afterwards,  but  he 
did  not  obtain  the  deed  until  1667,  when 
Governor  Danforth  and  Secretary  Raw- 
son  made  oath  to  the  purchase  and  pay- 
ment. Henry  Layland  signed  both  peti- 
tions for  the  organization  of  Sherborn, 
was  chosen  on  the  committee  to  provide 
a  minister,  and  was  associated  with  the 
Selectmen  "to  grant  town  lots  to  those 
who  were  known  among  the  inhabitants." 
He  died  at  Sherborn,  April  4,  1680,  aged 
fifty-five  years,  and  was  buried  one  hun- 
dred rods  southeast  of  his  dwelling.  His 
will  is  dated  March  27,  1680,  and  pro- 
bated June  8,  1680.  He  married  Mar- 
garet Badcock.  She  died  at  her  son 
Hopestill's  home.  May  25,  1705,  having 
that  year  conveyed  her  property  to  him 
for  having  taken  care  of  her  and  for  her 
future  support.  The  children  of  Henry 
and  Margaret  (Badcock)  Layland  weref' 
I.  Hopestill,  born  May,  1653,  died  at  Dor- 
chester, 1653.  2.  Experience,  born  May 
16,  1654,  married  John  Colburn,  died  at 
Dedham,  1708.  3.  Hopestill,  mentioned 
below.      4.  Ebenezer,    born    January    25, 

1657,   married    Deborah  ,    died   at 

Sherborn,  June  30,  1742.  5.  Eleazer,  born 
July  16,  1660,  married  (first)  Mary  Hunt, 
(second)  Sarah  ,  died  at  Sherborn, 

1703- 

(III)  Hopestill  (2)  Lealand,  son  of 
Henry  Layland  (2)  (Hopestill  (i))  was 
born  November  15,  1655.  He  married 
(first)  at  Medfield,  November  5,  1678, 
Abigail  Hill,  daughter  of  John  and  Abi- 
gail Hill,  born  at  Medfield,  February  2, 
1657-58.  She  died  at  Sherborn,  October 
5,  1689.  Hopestill  Lealand  married  (sec- 
ond) February  12,  1691,  his  cousin.  Pa- 
tience Holbrook,  who  died  October  5, 
1740.     He  died  at  Sherborn,  August  19, 


1729.  His  will  is  dated  August  18,  1729, 
probated  October  13,  1729.  He  signed 
"Henry  Lealand."  He  was  deacon  of  the 
church,  and  served  ten  years  as  select- 
man. He  occupied  the  same  homestead 
which  his  father  purchased  from  Thomas 
Holbrook.  The  children  of  Hopestill  and 
Abigail  (Hill)  Lealand,  all  born  at 
Sherborn,  were:  i.  Henry,  born  Febru- 
ary 22,   1679,  married  Mary  ,  died 

at  Sherborn,  October  29,  1732.  2.  Hope- 
still, mentioned  below.  3.  Abigail,  born 
February  17,  1683,  married  John  Bullard. 

4.  John,  born  October  11,  1687,  married 
Abigail  Babcock,  died  at  Holliston,  Janu- 
ary 7,  1759.  The  children  of  Hopestill 
and  Patience   (Holbrook)    Lealand  were: 

5.  William,  born  February  11,  1692,  mar- 
ried Mehitable  Breck,  died  at  Sherborn, 
March  18,  1742-43.  6.  Eleazer,  born 
April  8,  1695,  died  May  6,  1717.  7.  Jo- 
seph, born  May  9,  1698,  married  Esther 
Thurston,  died  at  Sherborn,  February  15, 
1786.  8.  Isaac,  born  June  2,  1701,  mar- 
ried (first)  Mary  ,  married  (sec- 
ond) Abigail  Mason,  died  at  Sherborn, 
April  29,  1766.  9.  Joshua,  born  May  5, 
1705,  married  Ruth  Morse,  died  at  Sher- 
born, May  17,  1772.  10.  Margaret,  born 
December  27,  1708,  married  John  Car- 
penter. 

(IV)  Hopestill  (3)  Leland,  son  of 
Hopestill  (2)  Lealand  (3)  (Henry  (2), 
Hopestill  (i))  was  born  at  Sherborn, 
August  4,  1681,  and  died  there  June  7, 
1760.  On  his  father's  death  he  came  into 
the  possession  of  the  "middle  division" 
of  the  Leland  Farm.  He  engaged  in 
raising  hemp  and  making  ropes  and  halt- 
ers, which  he  annually  carried  to  Rhode 
Island  and  exchanged  for  wool.  He 
married,  at  Sherborn,  February  24,  1701, 
Mary,  daughter  of  Benjamin  Bullard 
(Robert  (i))  and  his  wife,  Elizabeth 
(Thorpe)  Bullard.  She  was  born  at 
Sherborn,    February    20,    1683,    and    died 


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there  May  8,  1758.  The  children  of  Hope- 
still  and  Mary  (BuUard)  Leland,  all  born 
at  Sherborn,  were:  i.  Daniel,  born  April 
24,  1702,  died  young.  2.  Abigail,  born 
May  3,  1704,  married  John  Fiske.  3. 
Daniel,  mentioned  below.  4.  Ruth,  born 
September  12,  1712,  married  (first)  Sam- 
uel Perry,  (second)  David  Leland,  (third) 

Ryder;  she  died  at  Natick,  1799.  5. 

Rachael,  born  May  28,  1715,  married 
Henry  Death.  6.  Esther,  born  June  2, 
1717,  died  at  Sherborn,  October  25,  1759. 
7.  Mary,  born  May  7, 1720,  married  James 
Marshall.  8.  Silence,  born  May  31,  1722, 
married  Daniel  Fames.  9.  Experience, 
born  June  21,  1725,  married  Jonas  Fair- 
banks. 10.  Sarah,  born  August  19,  1728. 
(V)  Daniel  Leland,  son  of  Hopestill  (3) 
Leland  (4)  (Hopestill  (3),  Henry  (2), 
Hopestill  (i)),  was  born  at  Sherborn, 
October  24,  1707,  and  died  at  Sherborn, 
November  4,  1764,  aged  fifty-seven  years. 
He  married  at  Sherborn,  May  25,  1737, 
Mary,  daughter  of  John  Death  (John  (i)) 
and  his  wife,  Waitstill  (Vose)  Death. 
She  was  born  at  Sherborn,  October  10, 
1716,  and  died  there  May  27,  1795,  aged 
seventy-nine  years.  The  children  of  Dan- 
iel and  Mary  (Death)  Leland,  all  born  at 
Sherborn,  were:  i.  Rachael,  born  Feb- 
ruary 26,  1737-38,  married  Moses  Adams, 
died  at  Medway,  July,  1826.  2.  Mirriam, 
born  September  i,  1740,  married  Hon. 
Daniel  Whitney,  died  at  Sherborn,  De- 
cember 31,  1817.  3.  Daniel,  born  Janu- 
ary 8,  1742-43,  married  Sibella  Fames, 
died  at  HoUiston,  December  14,  1835.  4. 
Adam,  born  April  16,  1745,  married  Pru- 
dence Leland,  died  at  Sherborn,  March 
10,  1827.  5.  Hepzibah,  born  March  12, 
1747,  married  Rev.  John  Leland,  died  at 
Peru,  June  5,  1805.  6.  Mary,  born  Octo- 
ber 10,  1748,  married  Jonathan  Leland, 
died  at  Sherborn,  December  3,  1839.  7. 
Aaron,  born  July  18,  1751,  married  (first) 
Deborah  Leland,  (second)  Keturah  Perry. 


died  at  Sherborn,  September  17,  1846.    8. 
Moses,  mentioned  below. 

(VI)  Moses  Leland,  son  of  Daniel  Le- 
land (5)  (Hopestill  (4),  Hopestill  (3), 
Henry  (2),  Hopestill  (l)),  was  born  at 
Sherborn,  July  18,  1751,  and  died  there 
April  4,  1835.  He  was  a  private  in  Cap- 
tain Henry  Leland's  company  of  militia, 
Colonel  John  Bullard's  regiment,  which 
marched  on  the  Alarm  of  April  19,  1775, 
and  also  served  in  other  companies  on 
various  alarms  during  the  Revolution. 
He  married,  at  Sherborn,  May  26,  1774, 
Mercy,  daughter  of  Ebenezer  Twitchell 
(Ebenezer  (3),  Benjamin  (2),  Joseph  (i)) 
and  his  wife,  Mercy  (Sawin)  Twitchell. 
She  was  born  at  Sherborn,  March  4, 
1755,  and  died  there  May  29,  1842.  The 
children  of  Moses  and  Mercy  (Twitchell) 
Leland,  all  born  at  Sherborn,  were:  i. 
Eli,  born  July  2,  1775,  married  Rebecca 
Sawyer,  died  at  Sherborn,  May  27,  1847. 
2.  Betsey,  born  March  17,  1777,  married 
Simon  H.  Mason.  3.  Lois,  born  July  17, 
1779,  married  Micah  Leland.  4.  Daniel, 
mentioned  below.  5.  Moses,  born  Feb- 
ruary 7,  1784,  married  Patience  Babcock. 

6.  Lemuel,   born   April   4,    1786,    married 
(first)  Polly  Clark,  (second)  Chloe  Morse. 

7.  Nancy,  born   March   10,   1788,  married 
Alpheus  Clark. 

(VII)  Colonel  Daniel  (2)  Leland,  son  of 
Moses  Leland  (6)  (Daniel  (5),  Hopestill 
(4),  Hopestill  (3),  Henry  (2),  Hopestill 
(i)),  was  born  at  Sherborn,  December  28, 
1781,  and  died  at  HoUiston,  January  21, 
1868.  He  held  the  ofiice  of  colonel  in  the 
militia  for  several  years.  He  was  select- 
man for  seven  years,  and  town  clerk  and 
treasurer  of  Sherborn  for  four  years.  He 
was  chosen  deacon  of  the  Congregational 
church  and  continued  in  that  office  until 
the  separation  of  the  Evangelical  church 
and  society.  He  cast  his  lot  with  the  new 
society  and  continued  as  one  of  its  dea- 
cons   until    he    removed    to    Saxonville, 


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Framingham,  in  1852.  He  lived  at  Saxon- 
ville  until  1857,  when  he  removed  to  Hol- 
liston,  where  he  died.  He  married,  at 
Wayland,  January  21,  1806,  Elizabeth, 
daughter  of  Thomas  Heard  (Richard  (2), 
Zachariah  (i))  and  his  wife,  Elizabeth 
(Reeves)  Heard.  She  was  born  at  Way- 
land,  January  8,  1781,  and  died  at  Sher- 
born,  August  5,  1847.  The  children  of 
Colonel  Daniel  and  Elizabeth  (Heard) 
Leland,  all  born  at  Sherborn,  were:  i. 
Augustus  Heard,  born  February  15,  1807, 
died  April  i,  1807.  2.  Augustus  Heard, 
born  November  18,  1808,  married  Lois  W. 
Whitney,  died  at  Sherborn,  1886.  3. 
Elizabeth  Reeves,  born  January  18,  181 1, 
married  the  Rev.  Edmund  Dowse,  died  at 
Sherborn,  June  16,  1842.  4.  Frederick, 
born  August  30,  181 3,  married  Mary  A. 
Battelle,  died  at  Sherborn,  1890.  5.  Dan- 
iel, born  July  17,  1815,  married  Julia  A. 
Bigelow.  6.  Samuel  Reeves,  mentioned 
below.  7.  Mercy,  born  March  18.  1819, 
married  Newell  Clark.  8.  Sophronia, 
born  November  25,  1822. 

(VIII)  Samuel  Reeves  Leland,  son  of 
Colonel  Daniel  (2)  Leland  (7)  (Moses  (6), 
Daniel  (5),  Hopestill  (4),  Hopestill  (3), 
Henry  (2),  Hopestill  (i)),  was  born  at 
Sherborn,  May  12,  1817,  and  died  at  Wor- 
cester, January  14,  1885,  aged  sixty-seven 
years,  eight  months  and  two  days.  On 
becoming  of  age  he  removed  to  Worces- 
ter, and  devoted  his  time  as  a  teacher  of 
music  and  dealer  in  musical  instruments 
and  merchandise.  For  many  years  he 
was  recognized  as  a  leader  in  the  musical 
trade  in  New  England.  He  held  the  posi- 
tion of  Professor  of  Music  at  Holy  Cross 
College  for  twenty-one  years,  conducting 
the  college  choir  a  large  portion  of  the 
time.  As  a  band  master  he  stood  for 
years  at  the  head  of  the  profession  in  New 
England,  and  as  an  organist  he  had  few 
superiors.  On  band  and  orchestral  in- 
struments   he    was    always    an    admitted 


authority.  He  had  engagements  as 
church  organist  in  his  native  town,  at 
Holy  Cross  College,  the  First  Unitarian 
Church,  the  Church  of  the  Unity  and  the 
Central  Church  in  Worcester  for  a  con- 
secutive period  of  fifty-one  years.  His 
industry  and  application  is  illustrated  and 
emphasized  in  the  fact  that  in  this  long 
service  he  was  never  absent  from  his  post. 
He  devoted  some  attention  to  musical 
composition,  and  some  of  his  works  for 
church  choirs  have  become  standard.  He 
was  one  of  the  founders  of  the  Worcester 
County  Musical  Convention,  October  2, 
1863,  being  for  several  years  one  of  the 
directors."  The  name  of  this  organization 
has  since  been  changed  to  Worcester 
County  Musical  Association.  His  will 
was  dated  February  14,  1883,  and  allowed 
February  17,  1885.  He  married,  at  Wor- 
cester, May  26,  1844,  Mary,  daughter  of 
Joseph  Draper  (Daniel  (5),  John  (4), 
John  (3),  John  (2),  James  (i))  and  his 
wife,  Polly  (Colburn)  Draper.  She  was 
born  at  Medfield,  February  28,  1821,  and 
died  at  Worcester,  September  29,  1910. 
Her  will  was  dated  September  9,  1907, 
and  allowed  October  25,  1910.  The 
children  of  Samuel  Reeves  and  Mary 
(Draper)  Leland,  all  born  at  Worcester, 
were:  i.  Francis  Augustus,  mentioned 
below.  2.  Julietta,  born  November  8, 
1848,  died  1851. 

(IX)  Francis  Augustus  Leland,  son  of 
Samuel  Reeves  Leland  (8)  (Daniel  (7), 
Moses  (6),  Daniel  (5),  Hopestill  (4), 
Hopestill  (3),  Henry  (2),  Hopestill  (i)), 
was  born  at  Worcester,  April  22,  1846, 
and  died  there  May  12,  1915.  He  was 
educated  in  the  public  schools,  and  at 
Worcester  Highland  Military  Academy, 
where  he  had  a  captain's  commission.  He 
was  associated  with  his  father  in  the 
music  and  piano  business  under  the  firm 
name  of  S.  R.  Leland  &  Son.  He  invented 
and  manufactured  the  Eclipse  Cornet, 
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which  he  had  patented.  He  always  took 
an  active  part  in  the  musical  affairs  in  his 
native  city.  For  several  years  he  was  an 
officer  of  the  Piano  Dealers'  Association 
of  America.  His  will  was  dated  Decem- 
ber 30,  1907,  and  allowed  June  2,  191 5. 
He  married,  at  Worcester,  November  3, 
1873,  Harriet  Mowry,  daughter  of  Mowry 
Lapham  (Arad  (5),  William  (4),  Solo- 
mon (3),  Nicholas  (2),  John  (i))  and  his 
wife,  Harriet  (Thayer)  Lapham.  (See 
Lapham  Family).  She  was  born  at 
Blackstone,  October  16,  1853,  and  died  at 
Worcester,  August  29,  191 1.  Their  only 
child,  Hattie  May,  mentioned  below. 

(X)  Hattie  May  Leland,  daughter  of 
Francis  Augustus  Leland  (9)  (Samuel  (8), 
Daniel  (7),  Moses  (6),  Daniel  (5),  Hope- 
still  (4),  Hopestill  (3),  Henry  (2),  Hope- 
still  (i)),  was  born  at  Worcester,  Feb- 
ruary 27,  1879.  She  was  educated  at  pri- 
vate schools  in  Worcester,  and  for  two 
years  attended  Miss  Hersey's  Private 
School  at  Boston.  She  married,  at  Wor- 
cester, December  i,  1915,  Daniel  Kent. 
Her  residence  is  at  No.  653  Main  street, 
Worcester,  which  her  grandfather,  Mowry 
Lapham,  purchased  from  Hon.  Charles  B. 
Pratt,  August  i,  1865. 

(The  Lapham  Line). 

(I)  The  pioneer  ancestor  of  Harriet 
Mowry  Lapham,  of  Worcester,  was  John 
Lapham,  born  in  Devonshire,  England, 
1635,  and  died  at  Dartmouth,  Massachu- 
setts, 1710.  He  married,  at  Providence, 
Rhode  Island,  April  6,  1673,  Mary,  daugh- 
ter of  William  Mann  and  his  wife  Fran- 
ces (Hopkins)  Mann.  He  settled  first  at 
Providence  and  later  at  Newport,  Rhode 
Island.  He  was  freeman,  1673 ;  deputy, 
1673;  constable,  1675.  In  1676  his  house 
was  burned  in  the  Indian  War.  He  re- 
moved to  Dartmouth,  Massachusetts, 
about  1682.  On  January  6,  1699,  at  a 
meeting  held  at  John  Lapham's  house  in 


Dartmouth  he,  with  others,  undertook 
"to  build  a  meeting  house  for  the  people 
of  God,  in  scorn  called  Quakers,  35  feet 
long,  30  feet  wide  and  14  feet  stud."  His 
will  was  dated  December  5,  1709,  proved 
April  5,  1710.  '  His  wife  Mary  was  execu- 
trix, and  he  gave  his  son  Nicholas  one- 
half  of  all  the  land  in  Dartmouth.  His 
inventory,  made  April  5,  1710,  was  £363 
15s.  id.  The  children  of  John  and  Mary 
(Mann)  Lapham,  born  in  Rhode  Island, 
were:  i.  Mary,  born  March  i,  1674,  died 
July  10,  1675.  2.  John,  born  December 
13,  1677,  married,  April  3,  1700,  Mary 
Russell,  died  about  1734.  3.  William, 
born  November  29,  1679,  died  unmarried, 
August  8,  1702.  The  children  born  at 
Dartmouth  were :  4.  Thomas,  born  Sep- 
tember 30,  1682,  died  May  8,  1754.  5. 
Mary,  born  October  5,  1686,  married 
(first)  August  26,  1709,  Charles  Dyer, 
married  (second)  November  21,  1734, 
John  Colvin.  6.  Nicholas,  mentioned 
below. 

(II)  Nicholas  Lapham,  son  of  John 
Lapham  (i),  was  born  at  Dartmouth, 
Massachusetts,  April  i,  1689,  died  there, 
1758.  He  married  (first)  1726,  Mercy, 
daughter  of  John  Arnold  (Richard  (2), 
Thomas  (i) )  and  his  wife,  Mary  (Mowry) 
Arnold.  His  will  was  dated  March  8, 
1758,  proved  July  11.  1758.  He  gave  to 
his  sons,  Solomon  and  Nicholas,  his 
homestead  farm  in  Dartmouth,  the  farm 
to  be  divided  so  that  Solomon  should 
have  the  south  part  with  the  buildings 
thereon.  The  children  of  Nicholas  and 
Mercy  (Arnold)  Lapham,  all  born  at 
Dartmouth,  were :  Solomon,  mentioned 
below  ;   Nicholas  and  Arnold. 

(HI)  Solomon  Lapham,  son  of  Nicho- 
las Lapham  (2)  (John  (i))  was  born  at 
Dartmouth,  Massachusetts,  August  i, 
1730,  and  died  at  Gloucester,  Rhode 
Island,  June  24,  1800.  He  married,  Feb- 
ruary    28,     1756,     Sylvia,     daughter     of 


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Thomas  Lapham  (John  (2),  John  (i)) 
and  his  wife,  Abigail  (Wilbur)  Lapham. 
She  was  formerly  the  wife  of  Ephraim 
Whipple.  She  had  four  children  by  her 
first  marriage.  The  children  of  Solomon 
and  Sylvia  (Lapham- Whipple)  Lapham 
were :  Rebecca,  Thomas,  Rhoda,  Wil- 
liam, mentioned  below,  Dutee  and  Ruth. 

(IV)  William  Lapham,  son  of  Solo- 
mon Lapham  (3)  (Nicholas  (2),  John 
(i))  was  born  November  24,  1766,  and 
died  at  Burrillville,  Rhode  Island.  Decem- 
ber 15,  1841.  He  married,  at  Gloucester, 
Rhode  Island,  January  5,  1785,  Susannah, 
daughter  of  Seth  Ballou  (Nehemiah  (3), 
James  (2)  Maturin  (i))  and  his  wife, 
Hannah  (Cowen)  Ballou.  She  was  born 
at  Gloucester,  July  13,  1767,  and  died  at 
Burrillville,  September  5,  1851.  The  chil- 
dren of  William  and  Susannah  (Ballou) 
Lapham  were:   i.  Arad,  mentioned  below. 

2.  Matilda,  born  August  13,  1788,  died 
December  22,  1873.  3.  Aretus,  born  Oc- 
tober 8,  1789,  died  October,  1869.  4.  Al- 
fred, born  June  11,  1791,  died  August  25, 
1867.  5.  Duty,  born  October  28,  1792, 
died  December  24,  1879.  6.  Almon,  born 
June  8,  1794.  7.  Marietta,  born  Decem- 
ber 3,  1796,  died  October  16,  1889.  8. 
Arnon,  born  July  i,  1798,  died  February 

3,  1877.  9.  Miranda,  born  September  5, 
1800,  died  November  i,  1879.  10.  Pati- 
ence, born  January  30,  1803,  died  January 
30,  1889.  II.  Julia  Ann,  born  October  6, 
1805,  died  1805.  12.  Marvin,  born  Janu- 
ary II,  1807,  died  1836.  13.  James,  born 
May  6,  1808,  died  1808.  14.  Louis,  born 
May  24,  1810,  died  March  14,  1881. 

(V)  Arad  Lapham,  son  of  William 
Lapham  (4)  (Solomon  (3),  Nicholas  (2), 
John  (i)),  born  at  Burrillville,  Rhode 
Island,  July  31,  1786,  died  there  in  1849. 
He  married  (first)  April  19,  1808,  Lydia 
Esten.  He  married  (second)  at  Smith- 
field,  Rhode  Island,  August  10,  1817, 
Nancy,  daughter  of  John  Mowry  (John 
(6),  Joseph   (5),  Captain  Daniel   (4),  Jo- 


seph (3),  Nathaniel  (2),  Roger  (i))  and 

his     wife     (Hamilton)     Mowry. 

Among  the  children  of  Arad  and  Nancy 
(Mowry)  Lapham,  all  born  at  Burrill- 
ville, Rhode  Island,  where:  i.  Mowry, 
mentioned  below.  2.  Smith,  died  March 
6,  1870,  at  Millbury.  3.  George  B.,  of 
Woonsocket.  4.  Lydia,  who  married  a 
Mr.  Andrews,  of  Washington,  D.  C. 

(VI)  Mowry  Lapham,  son  of  Arad 
Lapham  (5)  (William  (4),  Solomon  (3), 
Nicholas  (2),  John  (i)),  was  born  at  Bur- 
rillville, Rhode  Island,  in  1819.  He  at- 
tended the  common  schools  in  the  vicin- 
ity of  his  home  until  he  was  sixteen  years 
of  age,  when  he  began  working  for  his 
father  and  learned  the  carpenter  trade. 
After  continuing  in  this  line  for  four 
years,  he  entered  the  machine  shop  of  W. 
D.  E.  Farnum,  at  Waterford,  there  re- 
maining two  years.  He  then  became 
employed  in  the  machine  shop  of  South- 
wich  &  Brown  in  Millville,  in  the  town 
of  Blackstone.  He  continued  to  work  as 
a  machinist  in  Millville  and  Fall  River 
until  at  last  he  became  superintendent  of 
the  iron  and  wood  works  of  Farnum  & 
Harding  at  Millville.  His  career  as  a 
woolen  manufacturer  may  be  said  to  have 
begun  in  i860,  when  he  went  to  Cherry 
Valley,  Leicester,  and  began  the  manu- 
facture of  woolen  cloth  under  the  firm 
name  of  Lapham  &  Smith.  After  two 
years  Mr.  Smith  severed  his  connection 
with  the  firm,  and  Mr.  Lapham  conducted 
the  business  alone  until  the  mill  was  de- 
stroyed by  fire.  In  1863  he  purchased  the 
old  paper  mill  privilege  owned  by  General 
Burbank  at  Millbury,  Massachusetts. 
Here  he  associated  himself  with  his 
brother  Smith.  They  erected  extensive 
mill  buildings  which  were  equipped  with 
the  most  improved  machinery  of  the  time. 
This  partnership  continued  until  Smith 
Lapham  died  in  1870,  when  Mowry  Lap- 
ham continued  the  business  under  his 
own   name.     He   was   a  very  successful 


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manufacturer,  and  the  product  of  his  milh 
gained  a  wide  reputation.  In  i860  he 
removed  to  Worcester,  where  he  resided 
until  his  death.  Mr.  Lapham  served  as 
selectman  and  as  overseer  of  the  poor  at 
Blackstone  for  two  years,  and  was  a 
member  of  the  Board  of  Aldermen  of 
Worcester  for  six  years.  He  was  a  direc- 
tor of  the  Manufacturers  Mutual  Insur- 
ance Company  for  sixteen  years.  He 
died  at  Worcester,  October  12,  1893.  His 
will  was  dated  February  6,  1890,  and  pro- 
bated November  8,  1893.  He  married, 
at  Millville,  Blackstone,  November  20, 
1845,  Harriet  Thayer,  daughter  of  Henry 
Thayer  (Lieutenant  Palatiah  (5),  John 
(4),  Captain  Thomas  (3),  Ferdinando  (2), 
Thomas  (i))  and  his  wife,  Uranah  (Tom- 
son)  Thayer.  She  was  born  in  that 
part  of  Mendon  which  afterward  became 
Blackstone,  February  7,  1819,  and  died  at 
Worcester,  February  i,  1884.  Her  will 
was  dated  October  10,  1877,  ^^d  probated 
April  15,  1884.  The  children  of  Mowry 
and  Harriet  (Thayer)  Lapham,  born  at 
Millville,  Blackstone,  were:  i.  Harriet 
Mowry,  mentioned  below.  2.  Frederick 
Adelbert,  born  June  28,  1856,  who  mar- 
ried Mary  Percival  Mattoon. 

(VII)  Harriet  Mowry  Lapham,  daugh- 
ter of  Mowry  Lapham  (6)  (Arad  (5), 
William  (4),  Solomon  (3),  Nicholas  (2), 
John  (i))  was  born  at  Millville,  Black- 
stone, October  16,  1853.  She  married,  at 
Worcester,  November  3,  1873,  Francis 
Augustus  Leland.  She  died  at  Worces- 
ter, August  29,  191 1.  The  only  child  of 
Francis  Augustus  and  Harriet  Mowry 
(Lapham)  Leland  was  Hattie  May.  (See 
Leland  Family). 


OLMSTEAD,  Chauncey  Lockhardt, 
Manufacturer, 

When    forced    by    ill    health    to    retire 
from    the    profession    for    which    he    had 


filled  himself,  and  in  which  he  had  gained 
honorable  standing,  Mr.  Olmstead  entered 
the  manufacturing  field.  After  periods  of 
activity  in  other  lines  he  finally,  in  1875, 
became  interested  in  corset  manufacture, 
and  from  that  year  until  his  lamented 
death,  in  1915,  was  prominently  identified 
with  that  industry,  being  at  the  time  of 
his  death  president  of  the  Olmstead- 
Quaboag  Corset  Company,  of  West 
Brookfield,  Massachusetts,  one  of  the 
largest  and  most  prosperous  corporations 
of  its  kind  in  that  section  of  Massachu- 
setts. He  was  of  Dutch  ancestry  on  the 
paternal  side,  but  through  the  maternal 
line  came  from  pure  Scotch  blood.  He 
inherited  the  fine  character  traits  peculiar 
to  these  races,  and  was  not  only  rated  one 
of  the  successful  business  men  of  his  day, 
but  in  his  private  life  and  social  relations 
was  most  popular  and  highly  esteemed. 
He  was  a  son  of  Chauncey  and  Ruth 
(Scott)  Olmstead  of  Fairfield  county, 
Connecticut,  his  father  a  soldier  of  the 
War  of  1812. 

Chauncey  L.  Olmstead  was  born  in 
Ridgefield,  Fairfield  county,  Connecticut, 
August  18,  1829,  died  in  West  Brookfield, 
Massachusetts,  December  30,  1915.  He 
attended  the  public  schools  until  sixteen 
years  of  age,  finishing  his  school  career 
with  graduation  from  the  high  school  in 
Wilton,  Connecticut.  From  the  age  of 
sixteen  until  attaining  his  majority,  he 
was  an  apprentice  to  the  coach  builder's 
trade  under  his  father,  a  noted  coach 
builder  and  eminent  citizen  of  Ridgefield, 
Connecticut.  Shortly  after  completing 
his  years  of  apprenticeship  he  was  made 
foreman  of  the  coach  factory,  but  the  bus- 
iness did  not  appeal  to  him  and  he  with- 
drew to  pursue  special  courses  of  study  in 
civil  engineering.  He  became  well  versed 
in  his  profession,  and  then  went  West, 
locating  in  Toledo,  Ohio,  where  he  be- 
came a  member  of  the  firm,  B.  S.  &  C.  L. 


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Olmstead,  civil  engineers,  and  in  that 
association  spent  tliree  successful  years 
of  professional  work.  Ill  health  then 
forced  his  retirement  and  he  returned 
East  to  his  Connecticut  home.  After 
recovering  his  health  he  entered  the  man- 
ufacturing field,  locating  in  Meriden,  Con- 
necticut, as  a  partner  of  the  firm,  J.  Wil- 
cox &  Company,  that  firm  engaging  in 
the  manufacture  of  that  then  fashionable 
article  of  woman's  attire,  crinoline,  bet- 
ter known  as  the  hoop  skirt.  For  eight 
years  Mr.  Olmstead  acted  as  the  com- 
pany's agent  for  the  sale  of  their  product 
in  New  York  City,  closing  his  connection 
with  the  Wilcox  Company  in  1875,  and 
entering  upon  the  permanent  phase  of 
life  as  a  manufacturer  the  same  year. 

The  firm.  Waterman  &  Meyer,  was, 
in  1875,  manufacturing  corsets  in  its  fac- 
tory at  West  Brookfield,  Massachusetts. 
Mr.  Olmstead  was  admitted  as  a  partner 
in  the  business  that  year,  and  he  con- 
tinued a  member  of  the  firm  until  later 
the  Bay  State  Corset  Company  was  or- 
ganized with  a  manufacturing  plant  at 
Springfield.  He  was  president  of  that 
company,  a  post  he  ably  filled  until  1894, 
these  years  wonderfully  developing  his 
business  ability  and  executive  quality. 
On  December  i,  1894,  Chauncey  L.  Olm- 
stead began  business  as  the  Olmstead- 
Quaboag  Corset  Company  of  West 
Brookfield,  and  continued  corset  manu- 
facture very  successfully  until  1902.  In 
that  year  the  business  was  incorporated, 
Chauncey  L.  Olmstead  becoming  presi- 
dent. For  thirteen  years  Mr.  Olmstead 
lived  to  guide  the  destinies  of  the  corpor- 
ation his  genius  created,  and  at  their 
manufacturing  center,  foot  of  Pleasant 
street.  West  Brookfield,  one  of  the  coun- 
try's most  modernly  equipped  and  pros- 
perous plants  was  in  fullest  operation. 
The  business  interests  of  the  company 
in    time   demanded   a   branch    factory   at 


Springfield,  and  a  business  office  in  New 
York  City,  both  of  which  were  useful 
cogs  in  a  great  business  machine.  For 
forty  years,  1875-1915,  Mr.  Olmstead  was 
engaged  in  the  manufacture  of  corsets, 
and  during  that  period  saw  the  wonder- 
ful growth  and  expansion  of  the  business, 
not  alone  in  West  Brookfield,  but  in  the 
entire  country,  until  its  volume  is  stu- 
pendous. He  measured  up  to  the  full 
demands  of  his  greatly  enlarged  business, 
and  was  rated  one  of  the  strong,  progres- 
sive, executives  of  the  corset  business, 
and  there  have  been  giants  of  business 
sagacity  among  them. 

For  forty-four  years  Mr.  Olmstead  was 
a  resident  of  West  Brookfield,  Massachu- 
setts, and  there  was  never  a  time  during 
that  period  in  which  he  was  not  deeply 
interested  in  the  welfare  of  his  commun- 
ity, although  he  held  no  public  offices. 
He  was  Independent  in  his  political 
action,  and  served  as  an  interested  citizen 
through  the  medium  of  the  town  and  vil- 
lage improvement  societies.  The  one 
break  in  his  non-official  record  was  in 
1908  and  1909,  when  he  served  on  a  com- 
mittee to  investigate  and  report  upon  a 
water  supply  for  West  Brookfield.  In 
religious  faith  he  was  a  Congregational- 
ist,  affiliated  with  the  West  Brookfield 
church.  The  years  of  his  life  numbered 
eighty-six,  and  until  the  November  pre- 
ceding his  death  in  December,  he  con- 
tinued the  active  head  of  the  corporation 
which  he  founded,  and  was  daily  to  be 
found  at  his  desk.  The  end  came  through 
an  attack  of  bronchitis,  and  he  passed 
peacefully  away.  He  is  buried  in  Pine 
Grove  Cemetery. 

Mr.  Olmstead  married  (first)  June  22, 
1859,  Anna  Elizabeth  Olmstead,  of  Dan- 
bury,  Connecticut,  who  died  October  26, 
1894.  He  married  (second)  March  18, 
1897,  Mary  Elizabeth  Temple,  who  sur- 
vives him  with  an  only  child,  Chauncey 
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Lockhardt;  also  two  daughters  by  her 
first  marriage,  Mary  E.,  wife  of  David 
Landon  Johnson,  of  Cleveland,  Ohio,  and 
Grace  H.  T.  Olmstead,  who,  at  the  time 
of  her  stepfather's  death,  was  an  art  stu- 
dent in  Paris,  France. 


DICKINSON,  Herbert  Samuel, 

Business  Man, 

As  a  descendant  of  Nathaniel  Dickin- 
son of  Wethersfield,  Connecticut.  Herbert 
S.  Dickinson  can  claim  most  ancient  line- 
age. Nathaniel  Dickinson,  the  first  an- 
cestor of  this  family,  settled  with  his 
wife,  Anna  Gull,  in  Wethersfield,  Con- 
necticut, in  1636.  He  took  a  leading  posi- 
tion in  the  town,  becoming  a  member  of 
the  first  board  of  selectmen,  representa- 
tive to  the  State  Legislature  1645-1656, 
recorder  for  twenty  years,  and  through- 
out his  life  a  deacon  of  the  Congrega- 
tional church.  In  1659  he  removed  with 
his  family  to  Hadley,  Massachusetts; 
aided  in  laying  out  the  town  as  a  member 
of  the  first  committee  selected  for  that 
purpose ;  was  the  first  recorder  there ; 
assessor  magistrate ;  member  of  the 
Hampshire  Troop  and  of  the  first  board 
of  trustees  of  Hopkins  Academy.  He 
owned  east  of  the  "great  river"  at  Hart- 
ford, one  hundred  acres  in  the  Naubuc 
Farms'  tract,  this  being  sold  prior  to  his 
removal  to  Hadley.  He  was  born  in  Ely, 
Cambridge,  England,  in  1600,  and  in  Jan- 
uary, 1630,  at  East  Bergholat,  Sufifolk, 
England,  married  Anna,  widow  of  Wil- 
liam Gull.  Tradition  carries  his  descent 
back  to  the  Court  of  King  of  Norway,  and 
the  year  700,  when  Ivar,  a  soldier  of  for- 
tune first  appeared.  From  Ivar  came 
Walter  de  Caen,  later  Walter  de  Ken- 
son,  the  ancestor  of  Johnne  Dykonson,  a 
freeholder  of  Kingston-Upon-Hull,  Eng- 
land, who,  in  1260,  married  Margaret 
Lambert,     the     line     of     descent     being 


through  their  son  William  Dykenson ;  his 
son  Hugh  Dykensonne ;  his  son  An- 
thonyne  Dickensonne ;  his  son  Richard 
Dickenson  ;  his  son  Thomas  Dickinson  ; 
his  son  Hugh  Dickinson ;  all  the  preced- 
ing being  of  Kingston-Upon-Hull,  and  all 
freeholders.  Hugh  Dickinson  was  the 
father  of  William  Dickinson,  of  Kenson 
Manor,  he  the  father  of  John  Dickinson, 
of  Leeds,  England,  he  of  William  Dick- 
inson, of  Bradley  Hall,  Staffordshire,  he 
of  Richard  Dickinson,  who  succeeded  his 
father,  he  of  Thomas  Dickinson,  a  clerk 
of  the  Portsmouth,  England,  Navy  Yard, 
1 567-1 587,  he  of  William  Dickinson, 
of  Ely,  Cambridge,  England,  who  mar- 
ried, in  1 59-,  Sarah  Stacey,  they  the 
parents  of  Nathaniel  Dickinson,  founder 
of  the  family  in  New  England,  and 
of  the  fourteenth  recorded  generation 
of  his  family  in  England,  1260-1630. 

(I)  Nathaniel  and  Anna  (Gull)  Dick- 
inson came  to  New  England,  the  year  of 
their  marriage,  1630,  settled  first  in  Wa- 
tertown,  there  remaining  until  going  to 
Wethersfield,  Connecticut,  in  1635-36. 
They  were  the  parents  of  nine  sons  and 
two  daughters,  all  of  whom  grew  to  adult 
years,  married,  and  reared  families,  ex- 
cept Frances.  All  of  the  sons  took  an 
active  part  in  King  Philip's  War,  John, 
Joseph  and  Azariah  all  losing  their  lives, 
they  being  the  two  eldest  and  youngest 
of  their  sons.  Nathaniel  Dickinson,  borne 
down  with  affliction  and  weight  of  years, 
died  in  Hadley,  Massachusetts,  June  16, 
1676. 

(II)  Samuel  Dickinson,  fourth  son  of 
Nathaniel  and  Anna  (Gull)  Dickinson, 
was  born  in  Wethersfield,  Connecticut, 
July,  1638,  died  November  30,  171 1.  He 
was  made  a  freeman  in  1690,  but  is  not 
recorded  as  taking  active  part  in  public 
aflfairs.  He  married,  January  4,  1668, 
Martha  Bridgman,  born  November  20, 
1649,    died    July    16,    171 1,    daughter    of 


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James  Bridgman.  Children :  Samuel, 
Nathaniel,  Sarah,  Azariah,  Ebenezer,  of 
further  mention ;  Ann,  Joseph,  and  Han- 
nah. 

(III)  Ebenezer  Dickinson,  fourth  son  of 
Samuel  and  Martha  (Bridgman)  Dickin- 
son, was  born  on  February  2,  1681,  died 
March  16,  1730.  He  married,  June  27, 
1706,  Hannah  Frary  (or  Tracy),  they  the 
parents  of:  Edith,  Elizabeth,  Nathan, 
of  further  mention ;  Hannah,  Reuben, 
Samuel,  Mary,  and  Abner. 

(IV)  Nathan  Dickinson,  eldest  son  of 
Ebenezer  and  Hannah  Dickinson,  was 
born  May  30.  1712,  died  in  Amherst,  Mas- 
sachusetts, August  7,  1796.  He  removed 
from  Hatfield  to  Amherst  in  1742,  and 
there  resided  until  his  death.  He  mar- 
ried (first)  Thankful  Warner;  (second) 
Joanna  Leonard ;  (third)  Judith  Hosmer. 
Children  of  Nathan  and  Thankful  (War- 
ner) Dickinson  :  Nathan,  and  Ebenezer, 
of  further  mention ;  children  of  Nathan 
and  Joanna  (Leonard)  Dickinson:  Aza- 
riah, Elihu,  Shelah,  Thankful,  Lois,  Levi, 
and  Joanna ;  children  of  Nathan  and  Ju- 
dith (Hosmer)  Dickinson:  Stephen  and 
Judith. 

(V)  Ebenezer  Dickinson,  second  son 
of  Nathan  and  Thankful  (Warner)  Dick- 
inson, born  January  3,  1741,  married,  Oc- 
tober 30,  1765,  Ruth  Eastman,  who  died 
January  3,  1833.  They  were  the  parents 
of  William,  Lucinda,  Edith,  Sylvanus, 
Ebenezer,  and  Abijah,  of  further  mention. 

(VI)  Abijah  Dickinson,  youngest  son 
of  Ebenezer  and  Ruth  (Eastman)  Dickin- 
son, was  born  December  7,  1781,  died 
April  II,  1824,  a  farmer  of  Amherst,  Mas- 
sachusetts. He  married,  October  26,  1806, 
Mary  Stetson.  They  were  the  parents  of 
a  daughter  and  four  sons,  all  born  in 
Amherst,  Massachusetts :  Charlotte,  born 
October  24,  1807;  William,  born  October 
24,  1809;  Franklin,  born  August  26,  1812; 
Samuel  Storrs,  of  further  mention  ;  Eben- 
ezer Porter,  born  August  12,  1819. 


(VII)  Samuel  Storrs  Dickinson,  third 
son  of  Abijah  and  Mary  (Stetson)  Dick- 
inson, was  born  in  Amherst,  Massachu- 
setts, February  12,  1815,  and  there  died 
in  January,  1874,  his  whole  life  having 
been  spent  on  the  old  homestead,  a  farmer 
and  lumberman.  He  married  Alzina 
Towne,  born  in  18 12,  died  in  1907,  daugh- 
ter of  Ichabod  and  Lydia  (Whipple) 
Towne.  They  were  the  parents  of:  .Abbie 
Jeannette,  married  Lewis  Bartlett,  and 
had  two  children :  Cora  (deceased)  and 
Clayton ;  Mary  M.,  married  Isaac  King, 
and  had  two  children:  Homer  (deceased) 
and  Delta;  Storrs,  died  young;  Emily 
Etta,  married  Edward  King,  and  had  two 
children:  Carrie  (deceased)  and  Ed- 
ward ;  Alice,  married  John  Chandler,  and 
has  two  children :  Nellie  and  Edith ; 
Edith,  married  Myron  Pettingill,  and  has 
a  daughter,  Edna;  John,  died  young; 
Herbert  Samuel,  of  further  mention. 

(VIII)  Herbert  Samuel  Dickinson, 
youngest  child  and  only  son  of  Samuel 
Storrs  and  Alzina  (Towne)  Dickinson  to 
survive  childhood,  was  born  at  the  Dick- 
inson homestead  in  Amherst,  Massachu- 
setts, November  25,  1867,  his  ancestor, 
Nathan  Dickinson,  having  settled  on  the 
homestead  in  1742,  coming  there  from 
Hatfield.  He  attended  the  public  schools 
in  his  boyhood,  but  at  the  age  of  fifteen 
he  assumed  the  management  of  the  home- 
stead, his  father  having  died  when  Her- 
bert S.  was  but  six  years  of  age,  and  he 
the  only  son.  There  his  life  has  been 
spent,  the  acres  he  tills  hallowed  by  the 
lives  of  Dickinsons  for  a  century  and  a 
quarter.  He  owns  several  tracts  in  other 
towns,  totaling  with  the  home  farm  two 
hundred  and  twenty-five  acres.  He  de- 
votes a  part  of  his  time  to  dairy  farming, 
selling  the  milk  of  his  herds,  and  part  to 
general  farming.  He  holds  to  the  politi- 
cal faith  of  his  father,  Republican,  but 
takes  no  active  part  in  public  afifairs.  He 
is  a  member  of  the  Cushman  Methodist 


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Episcopal  Church,  serving  as  a  trustee 
and  active  member  of  the  official  board. 
Mr.  Dickinson  married,  September  25, 
1912,  Mrs.  Emma  (Clark)  Parker,  daugh- 
ter of  William  and  Martha  (Mullett) 
Clark.  By  her  first  marriage  Mrs.  Dick- 
inson has  two  daughters,  Edith  and  Ha- 
zel Parker. 


DICKINSON,  George  Sherman, 

Business  Man,  Agriculturist. 

George  Sherman  Dickinson,  now  re- 
siding at  South  Amherst,  traces  his 
descent  for  seven  generations  to  Na- 
thaniel Dickinson,  who  originally  settled 
in  Connecticut,  but  later  in  Massachu- 
setts, this  branch  being  long  seated  in 
Hatfield  and  Whately,   Massachusetts. 

(HI)  Nathaniel  Dickinson,  second  son 
of  Samuel  and  Martha  (Bridgman)  Dick- 
inson (q.  v.),  was  born  in  Hatfield,  Mas- 
sachusetts, February  10,  1672,  and  died 
November  29,  1741.  He  married,  May  25, 
1713,  Esther  Cowles,  born  April  14,  1686, 
died  in  1750,  daughter  of  John  and  De- 
borah Cowles.  They  were  the  parents  of 
four  children:  Eunice,  married  Thomas 
Baker;  Gideon,  of  further  mention;  Jo- 
seph ;   Miriam,  married  Simon  Morton. 

(IV)  Gideon  Dickinson,  eldest  son  of 
Nathaniel  and  Esther  (Cowles)  Dickin- 
son, was  born  in  Hatfield,  Massachusetts, 
April  27,  1716,  and  died  April  13,  1781. 
He  married,  in  1742,  Rebecca  Crafts,  born 
October  12,  1721,  died  August  27,  1788, 
daughter  of  John  and  Martha  (Graves) 
Crafts.  Their  children  were  :  Lois,  mar- 
ried Daniel  Dickinson ;  Gideon  (2)  of 
further  mention  ;   Joseph  ;    Beulah. 

(V)  Gideon  (2)  Dickinson,  eldest  son 
of  Gideon  (i)  and  Rebecca  (Crafts)  Dick- 
inson, was  born  in  Hatfield,  Massachu- 
setts, December  29,  1744,  and  died  in 
Whately,  Massachusetts,  September  2, 
181 1.     He  was  for  many  years  the  lead- 


ing citizen  of  Whately,  a  large  landowner 
and  substantial  farmer,  prominent  in 
town  affairs.  He  married  Lydia  Dickin- 
son, born  November  21,  1716,  died  Au- 
gust 8,  1812,  daughter  of  Daniel  and  Ly- 
dia (Allis)  Dickinson.  Children:  Lydia, 
Asa,  Daniel,  Gideon  (3),  Ruth,  Dexter, 
of  further  mention ;   and  Giles. 

(VI)  Dexter  Dickinson,  son  of  Gideon 
(2)  and  Lydia  (Dickinson)  Dickinson, 
was  born  in  Whately,  Massachusetts, 
June  12,  1788,  and  died  there,  March  14, 
1868,  a  farmer.  He  married  Nancy  Whit- 
ney, born  August  6,  1796,  died  August  23, 
1 85 1,  daughter  of  Jonathan  Whitney. 
Children :  Lucy  W.,  born  November  30, 
1818,  married  Charles  B.  Stearns ;  Jona- 
than Whitney,  of  further  mention ;  Lor- 
enzo, born  March  14,  1827,  died  July  19, 
1850. 

(VII)  Jonathan  Whitney  Dickinson, 
eldest  son  of  Dexter  and  Nancy  (Whitney) 
Dickinson,  was  born  in  Whately,  Massa- 
chusetts, March  23,  1823,  and  died  in 
South  Deerfield,  Massachusetts,  1905.  He 
was  a  large  landowner  and  successful 
farmer  of  Whately  for  many  years,  later 
moving  to  Conway,  and  finally  to  South 
Deerfield.  His  farm  in  the  town  of  Con- 
way contained  three  hundred  acres,  and 
he  was  extensively  engaged  in  stock 
raising.  He  was  a  Republican  in  poli- 
tics, and  a  member  of  the  Whately  Con- 
gregational Church.  Mr.  Dickinson  mar- 
ried (first)  in  1850,  Ophelia  E.  Bart- 
lett,  born  October  27,  1830,  died  March, 
1872,  daughter  of  Dexter  Bartlett.  Mr. 
and  Mrs.  Dickinson  were  the  parents  of 
two  sons  and  two  daughters:  i.  Lucy, 
born  1852,  deceased ;  married  John  Canon, 
deceased;  four  children:  Bertram,  George, 
Bertha  and  Mabel.  2.  John  W.,  born  Oc- 
tober II,  1854;  married  Anna  Elder;  four 
children :  Albert,  deceased  ;  Carrie  O., 
married  Ralph  Darvel,  and  has  two  chil- 
dren:    Mildred  and  Milton,  twins;  Lena, 


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married  Ralph  Ripley,  of  Greenfield ; 
Mildred,  resides  at  Greenfield.  3.  Lizzie 
Josephine,  born  May  15,  1859;  married 
Lewis  Kingsley;  two  children:  William 
George  and  Harry.  4.  George  Sherman, 
of  further  mention.  Mr.  Dickinson  mar- 
ried (second)  Judith  L.  Graves,  born  Jan- 
uary I,  1834,  daughter  of  Randall  and 
Martha  (Scott)  Graves.  They  were  the 
parents  of:  5.  Martha  Malista,  born  Feb- 
ruary 17,  1874,  deceased.  6.  Gideon,  born 
January  21,  1876;  married  Louisa  Smith; 
three  children :  Stanley,  Ruth,  Ellen.  7. 
Edith  Lydia,  born  March  13,  1881. 

(VIII)  George  Sherman  Dickinson,  of 
the  eighth  American  generation  of  his 
family,  youngest  son  of  Jonathan  Whit- 
ney Dickinson,  and  his  first  wife,  Ophelia 
E.  (Bartlett)  Dickinson,  was  born  in 
Whatley,  Massachusetts,  July  29,  1863. 
He  was  educated  in  the  public  schools  of 
Whately  and  Orange,  Massachusetts.  He 
was  always  a  lover  of  horses,  and  for  sev- 
eral years  after  leaving  school  he  drove  a 
team  in  North  Leverett,  going  thence  to 
North  Amherst,  where  he  continued  in 
the  same  occupation  with  Cowles  &  How- 
ard. He  had  saved  his  money,  and  on 
December  28,  1893,  opened  a  livery  barn 
at  Amherst  under  his  own  name.  He 
began  with  a  small  equipment,  having  but 
five  horses,  but  he  ran  the  business  sat- 
isfa,ctorily  to  the  public,  and  at  the 
height  of  his  success  had  twenty-nine 
good  horses  in  constant  use  in  his  busi- 
ness. Nine  of  these  were  killed  in  a  dis- 
astrous fire,  which  caused  him  other  loss, 
but  he  continued  in  successful  business  at 
Amherst  until  1916,  when  he  sold  out  and 
retired  to  his  little  farm  of  twelve  acres 
at  South  Amherst,  which  he  had  bought 
and  made  his  home  on  since  1912.  There 
he  now  employs  himself  in  cultivating 
these  acres  and  in  happy  contentment 
passes  his  time. 

Mr.   Dickinson   married,   November  6, 


1907,  Flora  (Pelletier)  Perry,  born  in  the 
Province  of  Quebec,  Canada,  daughter  of 
Joseph  Pelletier. 


DUFAULT,  Louis  Misael, 

Business   Man,    Public    Official. 

This  family,  established  in  the  United 
States  by  Misael  Dufault,  in  1874,  was 
founded  in  Canada  by  four  Dufault  broth- 
ers, who  came  from  France  in  early  days. 
From  one  of  these  descended  Pierre  Du- 
fault, great-grandfather  of  Louis  Misael 
Dufault,  of  Chicopee,  Massachusetts. 

Pierre  Dufault  was  succeeded  by  a 
son,  Joseph  Dufault,  a  farmer  of  Canada, 
who  died  July  15,  1894.  He  ^  married 
(first)  Christine  Harpin,  who  bore  him 
four  children :  Azarie,  Joseph,  Misael, 
and  Delina,  who  married  Edward  Du- 
fault; the  third  child,  Misael,  the  father 
of  Louis  M.  Dufault.  He  married  (sec- 
ond) Caroline  Papillon,  and  they  were 
the  parents  of:  Maxim,  Napoleon,  Odille, 
Emelie,  Georgianna,  deceased ;  Clem- 
ent, deceased;  Louise,  Eliza, Ulric,  Philip, 
and  Olympe. 

Misael  Dufault  was  born  in  St.  Ours, 
Province  of  Quebec,  Canada,  March  6, 
1850,  and  there  passed  the  first  twenty- 
four  years  of  his  life.  He  obtained  a 
good  education  in  the  schools  of  his  native 
town,  and  aided  his  father  in  the  culti- 
vation of  the  farm  at  St.  Ours.  He  con- 
tinued farming  in  Canada,  until  1874,  then 
came  to  the  United  States,  locating  at 
East  Brookfield,  Massachusetts,  there 
purchasing  a  small  farm  upon  which  he 
resided  for  some  years.  Later  he  was 
employed  in  a  shoe  factory  in  Spencer, 
Massachusetts,  continuing  until  1891, 
when  he  moved  to  Chicopee,  Massachu- 
setts, which  is  yet  his  home,  twenty- 
seven  years  having  elapsed  since  he  first 
came  there.  His  business  in  Chicopee 
has  ever  been  shoe  repairing,  and  he  is 


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well  and  favorably  known  to  a  very  large 
number  of  customers  and  friends.  He 
became  a  naturalized  citizen  in  Boston, 
and  has  always  been  interested  in  the 
political  affairs  of  his  community,  observ- 
ing all  his  duties  and  privileges  as  a  citi- 
zen, but  never  holding  any  public  office. 
Misael  Dufault  married  Mary  Giard,  born 
September  13,  1849,  in  Contrecoeur,  Can- 
ada, daughter  of  Alexis  and  Noflet  (Lari- 
viere)  Giard.  They  were  the  parents  of 
a  daughter,  AUizia,  who  married  Fred- 
erick Greenough ;  and  a  son,  Louis  Misael, 
of  further  mention.  The  mother  of  these 
children  died  September  19,  1918. 

Louis  M.  Dufault  was  born  at  St.  Ours, 
Province  of  Quebec,  Canada,  November 
28,  1873,  but  the  following  year  was 
brought  to  East  Brookfield,  Massachu- 
setts, by  his  parents.  He  attended  the 
public  schools  of  East  Brookfield  and 
Spencer,  Massachusetts,  the  College  of 
St.  Mary's  at  Marysville,  and  Springfield 
Business  College,  being  graduated  from 
the  last  named  institution.  After  com- 
pleting his  studies,  Mr.  Dufault  began 
learning  the  printer's  trade  on  a  French 
newspaper  in  Holyoke,  and  later  was 
employed  for  several  years  in  the  job 
department  of  the  Holyoke  "Daily  Trans- 
script,"  also  working  on  the  paper,  be- 
coming an  expert  on  a  Hnotype  machine. 
During  the  time  employed  in  Holyoke, 
he  resided  in  Chicopee,  and  was  inter- 
ested in  city  affairs.  For  four  years, 
1905-06-07-08,  he  served  on  the  Board  of 
Aldermen.  He  was  elected  in  1904  for 
two  years,  served  1905-06,  elected  again 
in  1906,  served  1907-08.  He  was  ap- 
pointed by  Mayor  WiUiam  Dunn  as  reg- 
ister of  voters  in  1915  and  served  until 
1916,  when  the  Board  of  Aldermen  elected 
him  to  the  office  of  city  treasurer  to  fill  out 
the  unexpired  term  of  William  C.  O'Neil. 
In  1916,  at  the  expiration  of  his  appointive 
term,  he  was  elected  by  the  people  for  a 


term  of  two  years.  "He  has  ever  been  one 
of  the  public-spirited  men  of  Chicopee, 
who  have  always  held  paramount  the 
interests  committed  to  their  care.  He 
is  a  member  of  the  Union  Canadian,  the 
Order  of  French  Foresters,  the  Order  of 
Artisans,  and  is  a  trustee  and  treasurer  of 
the  Union  Canadian  Building. 

Mr.  Dufault  married,  October  27,  1903, 
Mary  Bouvier,  of  Southbridge,  Massa- 
chusetts, daughter  of  William  and  Philo- 
mene  (Lucier)  Bouvier. 


SMITH,  Joseph  Mather, 

Business  Man. 

Joseph  Mather  Smith,  the  well-known 
market  gardener  of  West  Springfield, 
Massachusetts,  is  a  descendant  of  Ben- 
jamin Smith,  who  came  from  England, 
about  1723,  and  who  resided  in  East 
Lynn.  He  married  Sarah  Way,  who  died 
in  1769.  They  were  the  parents  of  Na- 
than Smith,  born  at  Lyme,  1725,  died  Jan- 
uary 7,  1809.  About  1759  he  became  an 
inhabitant  of  New  London,  and  pur- 
chased a  tract  of  land  of  Noah  Hammond, 
later  owned  by  his  son,  John  Smith,  and 
afterward  by  John  Fellowes.  Nathan 
Smith  was  a  tanner  and  currier  by  trade, 
and  was  a  member  of  Rev.  David  Jew- 
ett's  church,  formerly  of  Rev.  Mr.  Gris- 
wold's  church.  He  was  a  Revolutionary 
soldier  and  a  pensioner.  He  married 
(first)  Elizabeth  Sterling,  and  they  were 
the  parents  of  Simon  Smith,  who  was  born 
in  1759.  He  removed  from  Montville, 
formerly  New  London,  to  Westfield, 
Massachusetts ;  was  a  soldier  in  the  Rev- 
olution, in  Captain  Moses  Harvey's  Com- 
pany, Colonel  Jonathan  Brewer's  Regi- 
ment, in  Massachusetts,  1775,  and  appears 
to  have  been  in  the  service  often  from 
1776  to  1782,  in  a  company  from  North- 
ampton, Massachusetts,  and  vicinity.  He 
was  a  tanner  and  shoemaker,  and  in  later 


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life  was  a  pensioner.  He  married,  Janu- 
ary I,  1784,  Abigail  Fowler,  born  Decem- 
ber 3,  1758,  died  1835.  They  were  the  par- 
ents of  Horace  Smith,  a  farmer,  who  was 
born  in  Westfield,  August  15,  1792,  and 
died  in  West  Springfield,  October  8,  1869. 
aged  seventy-two.  He  married  Gratia 
Bagg,  born  in  West  Springfield,  in  1795, 
died  there  in  1864,  and  they  were  the  par- 
ents of  the  following  children,  all  deceased : 
I.  Henry  Bagg,  a  graduate  of  Amherst  Col- 
lege, a  minister  of  the  gospel,  married 
Sarah  Hazen.  2.  Joseph  Addison,  of  fur- 
ther mention.  3.  Franklin  F.,  married 
Sarah  Frisbee.  4.  Margaret,  married 
Addison  Day.  5.  Harriet  A.,  never  mar- 
ried. 6.  William  H.  7.  Samuel  D.,  a 
veteran  of  the  Civil  War.  8.  Carolina  T., 
never  married.  9.  Lyman  C,  never  mar- 
ried. The  parents  were  members  of  the 
First  Congregational  Church  of  West 
Springfield.  Horace  Smith  served  for 
many  years  as  a  deacon,  and  for  twenty- 
five  years  as  a  superintendent  of  the  Sun- 
days schools. 

Joseph  Addison  Smith  was  born  in 
Westfield,  Massachusetts,  July  5,  1821, 
died  in  West  Springfield,  May  12,  1877. 
He  was  educated  in  West  Spring- 
field public  schools,  and  in  1840  estab- 
lished a  market  gardening  business,  being 
one  of  the  first  to  raise  produce  exclu- 
sively for  the  market.  He  continued  a 
market-gardener  all  his  life,  and  the  bus- 
iness he  developed  is  still  conducted  by 
Joseph  and  Addison  Smith.  He  was  a 
Republican  in  politics,  and  held  several 
minor  town  offices,  was  a  superintendent 
of  the  Sunday  school,  and  an  active 
worker  in  the  First  Congregationalist 
Church.  He  married  Frances  Olcott 
Mather,  born  at  Windsor  Locks,  Connec- 
ticut, December  20,  1823,  and  died  in 
West  Springfield,  in  1895,  daughter  of 
Timothy  Mather,  farmer,  merchant,  and 
capitalist,  who  died  in  Suffield,  Connecti- 


cut, April  29,  1864,  aged  seventy-six  years. 
Timothy  Mather  married  Frances  Olcott, 
born  in  Windsor  Locks,  Connecticut. 
Joseph  Addison  and  Frances  Olcott 
(Mather)  Smith  were  the  parents  of  six 
children,  three  of  whom  died  in  infancy, 
two  daughters  and  a  son  surviving: 
Joseph  M.,  born  October  11,  1851,  mar- 
ried, in  1875,  Ellen  Moody;  Addison 
Henry  ;  Harriet  Amanda,  residing  in  West 
Springfield. 

Joseph  Mather  Smith  was  born  in  West 
Springfield,  October  11,  185 1,  and  at- 
tended public  schools,  being  a  student  in 
the  Chicopee  High  School  for  two  years 
when  Governor  George  D.  Robinson  was 
principal.  Later  he  attended  school  in 
Suffield,  Connecticut,  and  in  the  Wes- 
leyan  Seminary,  at  Wilbraham.  He  then 
entered  the  market  gardening  business, 
which  he  has  since  followed.  In  associa- 
tion with  his  brother,  Addison  Henry 
Smith,  he  conducts  a  large  business  on 
the  old  homestead,  under  the  firm  name 
of  J.  M.  &  A.  H.  Smith,  having  about 
seventy-five  acres  under  cultivation.  Ac- 
cording to  the  season  they  employ  from 
twenty  to  one  hundred  hands,  and  three 
teams  are  necessary  to  conduct  their  bus- 
iness in  a  proper  manner.  They  dispose 
of  their  products  in  Springfield,  Chicopee, 
Ludlow  and  Holyoke,  theirs  being  one  of 
the  most  extensive  and  successful  market 
gardening  farms  in  this  section  of  the 
State,  and  throughout  the  winter  they 
raise  quantities  of  vegetables  under  glass. 
In  political  affiliation  Mr.  Smith  is  a  Re- 
publican. He  is  a  prominent  member  of 
the  First  Congregational  Church,  deacon 
and  treasurer  since  1876,  clerk  from  1878 
to  1915.  In  1908  he  was  president  of  the 
No-license  League,  when,  for  the  first 
time  in  fifteen  years,  the  town  voted  no- 
license.  He  is  a  member  of  the  Massa- 
chusetts Society,  Sons  of  the  American 
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Mr.  Smith  married,  March  ii,  1875, 
Ellen  C,  daughter  of  Levi  Moody.  Chil- 
dren: I.  Ida  Frances,  born  April  24, 
1878;  graduate  of  West  Springfield  High 
School ;  student  one  year  at  Mt.  Holyoke 
College ;  married  Llewellyn  Goodwin, 
now  a  farmer  in  Westfield,  Massachu- 
setts. Seven  children :  Gladys,  Ralph, 
Ruth,  Louise,  Dorothy,  Carl  and  Arleen. 
2.  Dwight  Moody,  born  September  7, 
1880;  now  an  electrician;  married  Helen 
J.  Bliss;  child:  Florence  Bliss.  3. 
Clara  Pease,  born  July  8,  1884;  graduate 
of  high  school,  and  attended  Simmons 
College,  Boston  ;  ten  years  a  teacher  of 
domestic  science. 


HOWES,  William  James, 

Architect. 

Identified  for  many  years  with  the  pub- 
lic utilities  of  the  town,  and  as  an  archi- 
tect responsible  for  the  beauty  and  serv- 
ice of  many  of  the  most  notable  buildings 
in  Holyoke,  William  James  Howes  has 
filled  a  prominent  place  in  public  affairs. 

He  comes  of  old  New  England  stock, 
he  himself  being  of  the  tenth  generation 
of  his  father's  family,  and  through  his 
female  ancestors  deriving  his  descent 
from  John  Alden  and  his  wife,  Priscilla 
(Mullens)  Alden. 

The  first  American  ancestor  was 
Thomas  Howes,  who  was  born  in  Eng- 
land in  1590  and  came  to  America  in 
1637.  He  married  Mary  Burr,  and  it  is 
through  her  that  the  descent  to  the  Al- 
dens  is  to  be  traced.  Joseph  Howes,  son 
of  Thomas  and  Mary  (Burr)  Howes, 
married  Elizabeth  Mayo,  and  they  had  a 
son,  Samuel,  who  had  a  son  Joseph,  who 
married  Elizabeth  Paddock,  and  they  had 

a  son,  Samuel,  who  married  Mary , 

and  they  had  a  son,  Samuel,  who  married 

Bathsheba  ,   and   they  had   a   son, 

Heman,  who  married  Phoebe  Lilly, 
daughter  of  Jonathan  Lilly,  her  brother. 


Eliakim  Lilly,  marrying  Heman's  sister. 
Heman  and  Phoebe  (Lilly)  Howes  had 
seven  sons,  of  whom  one  was  Samuel. 

Samuel  Howes,  son  of  Heman  and 
Phoebe  (Lilly)  Howes,  was  born  in  Ash- 
field,  Massachusetts,  March  29,  1797,  and 
died  June  7,  1877.  He  was  a  farmer  by 
occupation,  and  was  a  man  of  keen  wit 
and  an  able  public  speakep.  He  took  an 
active  part  in  town  affairs,  but  was  not 
an  office  seeker.  His  family  occupied  a 
prominent  place  in  the  town,  and  Samuel 
Howes  was  a  man  of  substance,  and  had 
an  extensive  farm  that  is  still  in  the  pos- 
session of  his  descendants.  The  house 
which  he  lived  in  was  built  in  1700.  He 
married  Pamelia  Belden  Swift,  daugh- 
ter of  Augustus  and  Kate  Weeks,  and 
through  the  Weeks  and  Belden  line  Wil- 
liam James  Howes  traces  his  ancestry  to 
three  governors  of  Massachusetts  Bay 
Colony,  Bradford,  Dudley  and  Tufts. 

James  Root  Howes,  son  of  Samuel  and 
Pamelia  Belden  (Swift)  Howes,  was  born 
in  Ashfield,  Massachusetts,  September  17, 
1873.  He  was  educated  in  the  town 
schools  and  in  the  well-known  Sanderson 
Academy.  He  left  the  home  farm  when 
he  was  sixteen  years  of  age,  and  learned 
the  carpenter's  trade,  and  for  a  time 
worked  in  Whately.  After  a  few  years 
there,  he  came  to  Holyoke,  Massachu- 
setts, and  worked  in  the  contracting  busi- 
ness for  several  years.  As  an  outgrowth 
of  his  experience  in  this  type  of  work,  he 
was  appointed  to  the  Board  of  District 
Police  of  the  State  of  Massachusetts,  and 
had  charge  of  the  section  covered  by 
Franklin  and  Berkshire  counties.  His 
duties  were  the  inspection  of  mills  and 
factories,  and  of  safety  devices  in  fac- 
tories, hotels,  etc.  He  was  later  trans- 
ferred to  the  Hampden  District  and  was 
active  in  this  work  for  twenty-seven 
years.  In  1915  a  reorganization  was 
affected  and  his  department  was  put 
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under  the  control  of  the  Department  of 
Labor  and  Industries^  in  which  he  did  his 
part  until  his  retirement  on  a  pension  in 
1917.  He  acted  while  in  Holyoke  as  city 
messenger  for  three  years.  At  the  break- 
ing out  of  the  Civil  War  he  enlisted  in 
Company  C,  Tenth  Massachusetts  Vol- 
unteer Militia.  He  was  the  first  and  the 
youngest  enlisted  man  from  the  town  of 
Ashfield.  At  the  battle  of  Fair  Oaks, 
May  31,  1862,  he  was  wounded,  and  was 
discharged  on  account  of  disability  caused 
by  wounds,  January  31,  1863.  He  was  a 
member  of  Kilpatrick  Post,  Grand  Army 
of  the  Republic,  and  was  a  member  of  the 
First  Congregational  Church.  In  1914  he 
went  to  reside  in  Springfield.  He 
married  (first)  Angelina  Marilla  Samp- 
son, daughter  of  Ansel  S.  and  Hannah 
(Towne)  Sampson,  born  September  6, 
1855,  died  July  9,  1902.  He  married  (sec- 
ond) Elizabeth  Rice,  and  (third)  Mrs. 
Leah  Bishop. 

William  James  Howes,  son  of  James 
Root  Howes,  and  his  first  wife,  Angelina 
Marilla  (Sampson)  Howes,  was  born  in 
Holyoke,  Massachusetts,  October  22, 
1865.  He  was  educated  in  the  local 
schools,  and  when  through  his  school 
studies  tried  his  hand  at  a  number  of 
things,  doing  printing  and  carpentry,  and 
worked  for  four  years  and  a  half  in  the 
office  and  factory  of  a  paper  mill.  In  1888 
he  made  up  his  mind  that  he  wished  to 
devote  his  life  to  architecture,  and  to  this 
end  he  went  to  New  York  and  began  the 
study  of  the  art  in  the  offices  of  the  most 
noted  architects.  Here  he  remained  at 
work  for  a  year,  after  which  time  he  re- 
turned to  Holyoke  and  opened  offices 
there  and  at  Springfield.  During  the 
years  that  have  elapsed  since  then  he  has 
done  notable  work  in  his  line,  designing 
some  of  the  most  important  buildings  put 
up  in  his  time.  Among  these  are  the 
Pittsfield  Armory,  the  Holyoke  Armory, 
the  beautiful  Club  House  of  the  Holyoke 


Canoe  Club,  the  Mt.  Tom  Golf  Club,  the 
Shelburne  Memorial  Hall,  at  Shelburne 
Falls,  the  John  Jones  Memorial  Building, 
at  Goshen,  Massachusetts,  the  building 
at  Mountain  Park,  Holyoke,  several 
churches,  and  numerous  library  build- 
ings. He  was  the  architect  of  the  Li- 
brary at  Shelburne  and  of  the  Greenfield 
Memorial  Building.  Mr.  Howes  has  also 
been  identified  with  Messrs.  Bliss  and 
Lavelle  in  the  location  of  the  proposed 
new  bridge  at  Springfield,  across  the  Con- 
necticut river.  He  has  always  been 
actively  identified  with  the  public  utili- 
ties of  Holyoke,  and  was  one  of  the  lead- 
ing men  instrumental  in  the  establish- 
ment of  the  park  system  and  the  system 
of  childrens'  play-grounds.  Of  the  latter 
the  experts  declare  that  there  is  no  better 
in  any  part  of  the  country.  He  was  for 
nine  years  the  Park  Commissioner,  and 
during  that  time  he  was  instrumental  in 
the  purchase  of  the  park  on  Main  street 
for  a  playground  and  of  Highland  Park 
for  a  Boulevard  system.  The  Holyoke 
"Daily  Transcript"  has  recently  had  an 
important  article  by  him  on  the  parks  of 
the  city,  which  it  issued  as  a  souvenir 
number.  He  has  been  consulted  by  the 
City  Planning  Board,  and  has  had  much 
to  do  with  the  planning  of  the  new  ap- 
proaches to  the  city.  One  of  his  great 
interests  outside  of  the  strict  limits  of  his 
profession  is  archeology,  and  he  has 
charge  of  valuable  collections  of  archeo- 
logical  interest.  For  twenty  years  he  was 
secretary  of  the  Holyoke  Board  of  Fire 
Underwriters.  He  is  chairman  of  the 
Playground  Commission.  He  is  a  mem- 
ber of  the  Society  of  the  Sons  of  Vet- 
erans, and  of  that  of  the  Sons  of  the 
American  Revolution.  He  is  a  member 
of  Mt.  Tom  Golf  Club,  of  the  Holyoke 
Canoe  Club,  and  of  the  First  Congrega- 
tional Church,  having  served  the  latter 
as  trustee  for  eleven  years. 

Mr.  Howes  married   (first)   September 


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I,  1891,  Ruth  Ella  Cain,  daughter  of  Ar- 
thur M.  and  Ellen  (White)  Cain,  of  Ches- 
shire,  Massachusetts.  She  died  July  27, 
1898,  leaving  two  sons:  i.  Paul  Samp- 
son, who  was  born  in  Holyoke,  June  28, 
1892;  he  was  educated  in  Holyoke 
schools;  for  two  years,  1911-12,  was  a 
student  in  Dartmouth  College ;  for  the 
years  1913-14-15  he  attended  the  Insti- 
tute of  Technology,  receiving  a  Master's 
degree,  and  then  pursued  a  special  course 
in  architecture  at  Harvard.  Since  then 
he  has  been  identified  with  some  of  the 
largest  construction  concerns  in  the  coun- 
try. He  was  with  the  Carmichael  Con- 
struction Company,  of  Akron,  Ohio,  and 
with  Harpster  &  Bliss  of  the  same  place. 
Until  December,  1917,  he  was  a  member 
of  the  firm  of  Howes  &  Howes,  of  Spring- 
field and  Holyoke.  Since  then  he  has 
been  identified  with  Stone  &  Webster, 
Forces  of  the  Ordnance  Department  in 
Washington.  In  February,  1918,  he  be- 
came connected  with  the  Fred  T.  Ley 
Company,  of  Springfield,  as  superintend- 
ent of  construction  in  Perryville,  Mary- 
land, on  work  for  the  Atlas  Powder  Com- 
pany, and  so  remained  until  June,  igi8, 
when  he  accepted  a  position  with  the  Lib- 
erty Ship  Building  Company  in  building 
concrete  ships.  He  married,  October  21, 
1916,  Constance  Fuller,  of  Exeter,  New 
Hampshire,  and  they  have  one  child, 
Ruth  Ellen,  born  August  15,  1917.  2. 
Ralph  Arthur,  born  March  3,  1896,  died 
August  8,  1897.  Mr.  Howes  married 
(second)  October  7,  1903,  Lillian  B.  Rich- 
ards, of  Holyoke,  daughter  of  George  W. 
and  Helen  M.  (Cooly)  Richards,  and  of 
this  marriage  there  is  one  son,  William 
Richards,  born  February  2"],  1907. 


GOWDY,  Robert, 

Man    of   Affairs. 

Robert  Gowdy,  of  Westfield,  secretary 
and  treasurer  of  the  Red  Men's  Fraternal 


Accident  Association,  is  of  Scotch  ances- 
try. The  first  of  this  branch  of  the  fam- 
ily settled  in  Eastern  Massachusetts, 
going  thence  to  Connecticut  and  locating 
near  Somersville,  Tolland  county.  The 
original  spelling  of  the  name  was  Goudie. 

Robert  Gowdy  is  a  son  of  Charles 
Henry  Gowdy,  son  of  Tudor,  son  of  Rob- 
ert, son  of  Samuel,  son  of  James  Gowdy. 
Robert  Gowdy,  born  July  24,  1765,  was  a 
farmer  of  Somersville,  and  there  his  son, 
Tudor  Gowdy,  was  born  May  22,  1800, 
and  died  December  7,  1879,  also  a  farmer 
and  prominent  in  town  affairs.  He  mar- 
ried, November  7,  1822,  Melinda  Henry, 
born  January  15,  1802,  died  in  August, 
1873,  daughter  of  Gager  Henry.  They 
were  the  parents  of  Maria  Annunciate, 
born  April  27,  1823 ;  Charles  Henry,  of 
further  mention ;  Cornelia,  died  in  in- 
fancy; Myron  Fifield,  born  December  31, 
1828;  Sarah  Melinda,  February  28,  1831  ; 
Emily  Cordelia,  January  15,  1833;  Revilo 
Tudor,  July  13,  1835 ;  Ellen  Sophronia, 
October  4,  1845,  she  the  last  survivor, 
now  residing  in  New  Haven,  Connecticut, 
widow  of  the  Rev.  J.  H.  Farnsworth. 

Charles  Henry  Gowdy,  eldest  son  of 
Tudor  and  Melinda  (Henry)  Gowdy,  was 
born  in  Somersville,  Tolland  county,  Con- 
necticut, January  20,  1825,  and  died  in 
Westfield,  Massachusetts,  November  18, 
1899.  His  education  began  in  the  dis- 
trict school  in  the  intervals  of  farm  labor, 
and  was  completed  in  Wilbraham  Acad- 
emy, Wilbraham,  Massachusetts,  after 
which  he  began  teaching.  He  followed 
his  profession  in  different  localities,  and 
while  principal  of  the  Thompsonville, 
Connecticut,  school,  married  Cynthia  I. 
Upson,  a  teacher  in  the  same  school. 
About  i860  Mr.  Gowdy  located  in  West- 
field,  the  home  of  his  wife,  and  estab- 
lished a  coal  business,  bringing  the  first 
carload  of  coal  ever  brought  to  the  town. 
Later  he  opened  a  hardware  and  tin 
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until  his  retirement  from  business  about 
1890.  He  took  an  active  part  in  town 
affairs,  and  on  account  of  his  rare  judg- 
ment and  business  experience  was  often 
consulted  by  his  townsmen.  He  served 
at  one  time  as  assessor  and  on  important 
committees  at  various  times,  but  he  never 
sought  office,  being  a  man  of  quiet  tastes, 
devoted  to  his  home  and  family,  neither 
political,  fraternal,  nor  club  life  having 
any  attractions  for  him.  He  was  a  capa- 
ble business  man,  prospered  in  his  under- 
takings, and  left  behind  him  a  name  hon- 
ored and  respected.  He  married,  October 
20,  1853,  Cynthia  Irene  Upson,  who  died 
December  22,  1883,  aged  fifty-four  years. 
They  were  the  parents  of  four  sons,  all 
of  whom  bore  but  a  single  name:  Charles, 
born  June  22,  1855;  Tudor,  July  9,  1857; 
Willis,  July  17,  1859;  Robert,  of  further 
mention. 

Robert  Gowdy,  youngest  of  the  four 
sons  of  Tudor  and  Cynthia  Irene  (Upson) 
Gowdy,  was  born  in  Westfield,  Massa- 
chusetts, January  5,  1864,  and  still  resides 
there.  He  was  educated  in  the  graded 
and  high  schools  of  the  city,  finishing 
with  the  high  school  graduating  class  of 
1881.  Immediately  after  graduation,  he 
entered^  the  employ  of  the  First  National 
Bank  of  Westfield,  resigning  his  position 
in  1884  to  go  with  the  Bay  State  Bene- 
ficiary Association,  a  leading  fraternal 
insurance  concern.  He  remained  with 
the  Bay  State  four  years,  gaining  an  inti- 
mate knowledge  of  fraternal  insurance 
to  supplement  the  banking  training  he 
had  received  with  the  First  National.  In 
1888  he  was  elected  secretary  and  treas- 
urer of  the  Red  Men's  Fraternal  Acci- 
dent Association  of  Westfield,  a  position 
he  yet  holds,  although  in  1915  the  Asso- 
ciation legally  became  a  stock  company. 
His  early  training  in  banking  and  insur- 
ance peculiarly  fitted  him  for  the  posi- 
tion, and  as  his  company  has  grown   in 


strength,  so  too  he  has  expanded,  until 
he  is  one  of  the  acknowledged  leaders  of 
fraternal  accident  insurance.  He  has  not 
confined  himself  to  insurance,  however, 
but  is  a  director  and  an  official  of  many 
enterprises,  manufacturing,  mercantile  and 
financial.  He  is  a  member  of  the  Im- 
proved Order  of  Red  Men,  lodge,  chapter, 
council  and  commandery  of  the  Masonic 
order,  a  noble  of  the  Mystic  Shrine, 
belongs  to  several  clubs  and  social  organ- 
izations, was  president  of  the  Board  of 
Trade  for  two  years,  has  served  on  many 
town  committees,  and  has  borne  his  full 
share  in  town  development,  but  never  has 
sought  nor  accepted  public  office. 

Mr.  Gowdy  married.  May  4,  1887,  Har- 
riet Maria  Jarrold,  daughter  of  Thomas 
and  Carrie  (Munsing)  Jarrold.  Mr.  and 
Mrs.  Gowdy  are  the  parents  of  a  son  and 
two  daughters,  of  whom  the  son  and  one 
daughter  are  now  living:  i.  Rebecca 
Louise,  born  March  28,  1888;  married, 
October  17,  1908,  Addison  Sprague  Nick- 
ham,  manager  of  the  Philadelphia  office 
of  the  Hartford  Steam  Boiler  Insurance 
Company  ;  they  have  two  children  :  Cyn- 
thia Gowdy  and  John  Gowdy,  twins,  born 
January  17,  1917.  2.  Robert  Allyn,  born 
April  23,  1893;  at  the  present  time  (1918) 
in  France,  at  General  headquarters,  as 
first  sergeant,  first  class;  enlisted  in  June, 
1917,  in  ordnance  department.  3.  Marion 
Jarrold,  born  August  7,  1897,  died  Feb- 
ruary 6,  1904. 


KERSHAW,  James  Edward, 
Traveling  Salesman. 

This  branch  of  the  Kershaw  family 
went  to  Scotland  from  England,  the  mi- 
grating family  head,  a  mill  worker.  In 
Hawick,  Scotland,  James  Kershaw  was 
born  in  1847,  and  there  resided  until  1881, 
his  son,  James  Edward  Kershaw,  of 
Chicopee,  Massachusetts,  also  being  born 


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there.  With  James  Kershaw  and  his 
family  the  American  residence  began, 
they  leaving  the  Scottish  home  in  1881, 
and  coming  to  the  United  States.  Adams, 
Massachusetts,  was  the  home  of  James 
Kershaw  until  his  death,  but  the  present 
home  of  James  E.  Kershaw  is  Williman- 
sett,  a  part  of  the  city  of  Chicopee,  Mas- 
sachusetts, his  business  connection  being 
with  the  Springfield  Facing  Company,  of 
Springfield,  as  traveling  salesman. 

James  Kershaw,  born  in  Hawick,  Scot- 
land, in  1847,  died  in  Adams,  Massachu- 
setts, in  the  autumn  of  1909.  He  attended 
the  public  school  until  ten  years  of  age, 
but  from  that  time  forward  his  life  was 
one  of  activity,  a  mill  worker.  From  the 
boys'  department  he  advanced  through 
several  branches  of  woolen  mill  manufac- 
turing, until  he  became  one  of  the  experts 
of  the  scouring  department  in  full  charge 
of  that  branch  in  the  mill  in  which  he  was 
employed  in  Hawick.  He  retained  that 
position  until  1881,  when  he  sailed  for 
the  United  States,  locating  at  Cohoes, 
New  York,  there  finding  a  position  with 
the  Lamb  Cotton  Mill.  He  only  remained 
in  Cohoes  a  short  time,  then  removed  to 
Adams,  Massachusetts,  there  forming  a 
connection  with  the  Renfrew  Manufac- 
turing Company,  which  continued  until 
a  short  time  prior  to  his  death  in  1909. 
He  continued  active  until  the  summer  of 
1909,  his  position  that  of  inspector  and 
booking  clerk  in  charge  of  all  cloth  com- 
ing from  the  weavers.  He  was  a  man  of 
faithfulness  and  honor,  true  to  his  obli- 
gations and  very  industrious.  He  was  a 
member  of  the  Church  of  England,  and 
in  Scotland  acted  politically  with  the  Lib- 
erals. In  his  later  years  he  affiliated  with 
the  Congregational  church. 

James  Kershaw  married  Christina  Turn- 
bull,  of  Hawick,  Scotland,  born  there  in 
1847,  came  to  the  United  States  with  her 
husband     in     1881,     survived     him,     and 


passed  away  in  July,  1917.  They  were 
the  parents  of  six  children :  Christina 
Scot,  married  Andrew  B.  Webster,  now 
in  Ruby,  Alaska,  engaged  in  mining; 
Elizabeth  McBirnie,  married  James  A. 
Hewitt,  of  Adams,  Massachusetts;  James 
Edward,  of  whom  further ;  Janet,  de- 
ceased ;  Euphemia ;  Abraham  Malcolm, 
D.  D.  S.,  practicing  in  Columbus,  Ohio. 

James  Edward  Kershaw,  eldest  son  of 
James  and  Christina  (TurnbuU)  Ker- 
shaw, was  born  in  Hawick,  Scotland. 
March  9,  1873,  and  there  attended  his 
first  school.  He  was  brought  to  the 
United  States  by  his  parents  in  1881,  and 
after  the  family  finally  located  in  Adams, 
Massachusetts,  resumed  school  attend- 
ance. Until  eleven  years  of  age  he  was 
constant  in  his  school  attendance,  then 
until  well  into  his  teens  divided  part  of 
the  time  in  mill  work.  He  was  employed 
in  an  Adams  cotton  mill  until  1898,  then 
for  a  short  time,  in  the  winter  of  1898-99, 
was  employed  as  clerk  in  a  shoe  store 
in  Adams.  This  brought  him  to  the  Span- 
ish War  period,  and  when  the  call  was 
made  for  men  he  enlisted  in  the  Second 
Massachusetts  Regiment  of  Volunteers, 
and  in  course  of  time  reached  Cuba.  He 
was  with  the  American  forces  at  El 
Caney  and  in  the  night  attack  on  San 
Juan  Hill,  seeing  five  months  of  hard 
service  before  finally  being  honorably  dis- 
charged and  mustered  out  at  Springfield, 
Massachusetts. 

For  a  short  time  after  the  war  ended 
he  was  clerk  in  the  store  of  Jenks  & 
Mooney,  shoe  merchants  of  Adams,  Mas- 
sachusetts, then  for  another  brief  period 
was  employed  by  the  Berkshire  Cotton 
Manufacturing  Company.  In  April,  1899, 
he  entered  the  employ  of  the  American 
Express  Company  at  Springfield,  Massa- 
chusetts, remaining  in  that  employ  until 
1907,  when  he  transferred  his  services  to 
the  Springfield  Gas  Light  Company  as  a 


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salesman,  continuing  with  that  company 
until  1909.  In  the  latter  year  he  located 
in  Willimansett,  Massachusetts,  accept- 
ing a  position  with  The  Springfield  Fac- 
ing Company,  whose  plant  was  located  in 
Willimansett.  The  company  output  is 
foundry  facings  and  was  in  his  care  as 
foreman  of  the  plant  until  January,  1917, 
when  he  was  transferred  to  the  selling 
department  and  assigned  all  of  New  Eng- 
land and  part  of  New  York  State  as  ter- 
ritory to  cover  in  the  company's  interest, 
as  their  traveling  representative.  He  is 
a  member  of  De  Soto  Lodge,  No.  155, 
Springfield;  Clan  Murray,  Order  of  Scot- 
tish Clans;  the  First  Congregational 
Church,  Springfield ;  his  political  faith. 
Republican. 

Mr.  Kershaw  married,  August  28,  1901, 
Mabel  Edna  Fairfield,  of  Adams,  Massa- 
chusetts, daughter  of  Edward  W.  and  Ida 
(White)  Fairfield.  Mrs.  Kershaw  is  a 
maternal  granddaughter  of  Henry  and 
Roxy  (Leach)  White,  and  great-grand- 
daughter of  Henry  and  Nancy  (White) 
Henry,  a  descendant  of  William  White, 
who  bears  the  distinction  of  being  the 
father  of  Peregrine  White,  whose  peculiar 
name  suggests  the  peregrinations  of  the 
family  from  their  experiences  in  Leyden, 
Holland,  to  that  quiet  New  England  har- 
bor which  was  the  birthplace  of  their  son, 
William  White,  who  came  in  the  "May- 
flower," and  his  wife,  Susannah,  were  the 
parents  of  Peregrine  White,  who  was  born 
in  the  cabin  of  the  "Mayflower,"  while 
she  lay  at  anchor  in  Cape  Cod  harbor,  he 
the  first  child  of  English  parents  born  in 
New  England.  His  mother  married  (sec- 
ond) Governor  Edward  Winslow,  in  May. 
1621,  the  year  of  her  first  husband's  death, 
and  the  child  Peregrine  was  taken  to 
Mansfield  with  the  family  of  Governor 
Winslow  about  1638,  and  later  married 
Sarah  Bassett.  He  died  July  20,  1704,  his 
wife    in     171 1.      William    White's    wife, 


Susannah  Fuller,  was  a  sister  of  Samuel 
Fuller,  the  "Mayflower"  passenger  and 
founder  of  one  branch  of  the  Fuller  fam- 
ily of  New  England.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Ker- 
shaw are  the  parents  of  two  sons  and  two 
daughters:  Elizabeth,  died  in  childhood; 
James  Douglas,  born  March  4,  1904;  Ruth 
Agnes,  born  in  November,  1908 ;  and  Ed- 
ward Fairfield,  born  May  14,  1913. 


HARVEY,  WUliam  Ruby, 

Representative  Citizen. 

The  late  William  Ruby  Harvey,  of 
West  Springfield,  was  prominent  in  fra- 
ternal circles,  and  enjoyed  much  personal 
popularity  among  the  many  to  whom  he 
was  known.  He  was  the  son  of  William 
Harvey,  who  was  the  son  of  Ebenezer 
Harvey,  and  the  grandson  of  Peter  Har- 
vey, a  resident  of  New  York,  born  in  1765, 
married  Elizabeth  Pierce.  Children  of 
Peter  and  Elizabeth  (Pierce)  Harvey:  i. 
Ebenezer.  2.  James,  settled  in  Brim- 
field  ;  married  Lucy  Ray.  3.  Peter.  4. 
Hannah,  married  Ambrose  Whiting.  5. 
Betsey,    married     Ambrose    Tourtelotte. 

6.  Rachel,  married  John  W.  Warren. 
Ebenezer  Harvey  was  born  November 
I,  1789,  settled  in  Palmer,  Massachusetts, 
and  died  March  12,  1871.  He  married 
Margaret  McMitchell,  who  died  March 
30,  1863.  Children  of  Ebenezer  and  Mar- 
garet (McMitchell)  Harvey':-  i.  William, 
of  further  mention.  2.  Erasmus,  married 
Mary  Kendall.  3.  Edwin,  married  (first) 
Lucinda  Ladd ;  married  (second)  Betsey 
Hudson.  4.  Elisabeth,  married  Carlos 
Parsons.  5.  Asel,  married  Mary  Nettle- 
ton.    6.  Sarah,  married  Joseph  Bumstead. 

7.  Emilus,  married   Sarah  Johnson. 
William  Harvey,  son  of  Ebenezer  and 

Margaret  (McMitchell)  Harvey,  was  bom 
May  18,  1810,  and  died  in  Springfield, 
Massachusetts,  in  1893.  He  was  a  farmer 
in   Palmer,   Massachusetts.     He  married. 


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May  22,  1834,  Achsah  Ruby,  and  their 
children  were:  i.  William,  died  in  1835. 
2.  Jane,  born  November  11,  1836,  married 
(first)  Luther  Snow,  in  1858,  and  (sec- 
ond) Wesley  Dimock  ;  resides  at  Stafford 
Springs,  Connecticut.  3.  Angeline  A., 
born  July  17,  1840,  married,  December  15, 

1856,  Luther   Snow,   and   died    May    17, 

1857.  4.  William  Ruby,  of  further  men- 
tion. 5.  Estella  A.,  born  November  2, 
1852,  married  Thomas  Cartwright,  Feb- 
ruary 24,  1883 ;  resides  in  Springfield, 
Massachusetts.  Mrs.  Harvey,  the  mother 
of  these  children,  died  in  Palmer,  Massa- 
chusetts, September  6,  1902. 

William  Ruby  Harvey,  son  of  William 
and  Achsah  (Ruby)  Harvey,  was  born 
in  Palmer,  Massachusetts,  September  9, 
1845.  He  grew  to  manhood  on  his  fath- 
er's farm,  acquiring  his  education  in  local 
public  schools.  As  a  comparatively  young 
man,  he  rose  to  the  position  of  superin- 
tendent of  the  Norfolk  Mill,  of  South 
Wrentham,  and  later  became  a  travelling 
salesman  for  the  well-known  firm  of  J.  S. 
Carr  &  Company,  cracker  manufacturers, 
of  Springfield.  He  next  became  traveling 
salesman  for  C.  D.  Boss  &  Son,  cracker 
manufacturers,  of  New  London,  Connec- 
ticut, and  this  position  he  retained  until 
his  resignation  on  retiring  from  business, 
in  1907.  In  1885,  Mr.  Harvey  opened  For- 
est Lake  Amusement  Park,  between  Pal- 
mer and  Ware,  Massachusetts,  which  has 
since  become  well  known.  In  politics, 
Mr.  Harvey  was  an  adherent  of  the 
Republican  party.  He  was  a  member 
of  Hampden  Lodge,  Springfield ;  was  a 
member  of  Springfield  Commandery, 
Knights  Templar;  also  Melha  Temple, 
Nobles  of  the  Mystic  Shrine ;  was  a  char- 
ter member  of  Mount  Orthodox  Lodge, 
Free  and  Accepted  Masons,  of  West 
Springfield,  holding  the  office  of  treasurer 
from   the   time   of   its   organization   until 


his  death ;  also  a  member  of  De  Soto 
Lodge,  Independent  Order  of  Odd  Fel- 
lows, of  West  Springfield,  and  was  one  of 
the  charter  members  of  the  order  of  the 
Eastern  Star,  of  West  Springfield,  of 
which  Mrs.  Harvey  likewise  became  a 
member  at  the  same  time,  and  has  ever 
since  been  its  chaplain.  Since  Mr.  Har- 
vey's death,  Mount  Orthodox  Lodge,  of 
West  Springfield,  has  formed  an  organi- 
zation called  the  William  R.  Harvey  Ma- 
sonic Building  Association,  named  in  his 
honor,  and  this  organization  has  pur- 
chased the  historic  old  white  church, 
located  on  "Meeting  House  Hill,"  which 
is  now  used  for  the  lodge  rooms. 

Mr.  Harvey  married,  June  13,  1867, 
Jenette  E.  Millard,  and  their  long  union 
was  a  very  happy  one.  The  death  of  Mr. 
Harvey,  which  occurred  October  30,  1914, 
deprived  the  community  of  one  who  was 
cordially  liked  by  many  and  thoroughly 
respected  by  all,  a  man  of  strong  princi- 
ples, exemplary  life,  and  kindly  and  sym- 
pathetic feelings.  Such  a  man  is  always 
sincerely  regretted  and  greatly  missed. 
William  Ruby  Harvey  will  be  long  re- 
membered as  a  useful  citizen,  a  kind 
neighbor  and  a  true  friend. 

Warren  Millard,  father  of  Jenette  E. 
(Millard)  Harvey,  was  a  resident  of 
Becket,  Massachusetts,  where  he  followed 
the  occupation  of  a  general  farmer,  and 
later  removed  to  a  farm  in  Agawam, 
whereon  he  spent  the  remainder  of  his 
life.  He  married  Philema  Foster,  a  native 
of  Becket,  and  they  became  the  parents  of 
four  sons  and  three  daughters,  all  of 
whom  are  deceased,  with  the  exception 
of  Jenette  E.,  whose  birth  occurred  in 
Becket,  Massachusetts,  November  25, 
1846,  the  widow  of  William  R.  Harvey. 
Mr.  Millard  died  in  1875,  and  his  wife 
passed  away,  November  2,  1884. 


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COAKLEY,  Hon.  Daniel  Joseph, 
Public    Official. 

In  the  year  1870,  Daniel  J.  Coakley, 
grandfather  of  Daniel  J.  Coakley,  mayor 
of  Chicopee,  Massachusetts,  left  Wales, 
Great  Britain,  and  came  to  the  United 
States,  locating  in  Springfield,  Massachu- 
setts. This  was  the  beginning  of  this 
branch  of  the  family  in  Massachusetts,  a 
family  well  known  in  that  section  of  Mas- 
sachusetts of  which  Springfield  is  a  cen- 
ter. Since  1916  Daniel  J.  Coakley,  of  the 
third  generation  in  Massachusetts,  has 
been  mayor  of  Chicopee,  he  now  serving 
his  third  term  as  chief  executive  of  that 
prosperous  Massachusetts  city. 

Daniel  J.  Coakley,  the  founder,  was 
born  in  County  Cork,  Ireland,  in  1830, 
later  moved  to  Wales,  and  there  resided 
until  forty  years  of  age  when  he  came  to 
Springfield,  Massachusetts,  where  he 
died,  July  3,  1904.  He  was  a  mason  by 
trade,  became  a  contractor  in  Springfield, 
and  was  an  employer  of  labor  for  many 
years.  He  married  (first)  Johanna  Dau- 
son  ;  (second)  Mary  Danaey.  Daniel  and 
Johanna  (Dauson)  Coakley  were  the  par- 
ents of:  John,  born  March  29,  1855; 
Catherine,  June  18,  1856,  married  Walter 
Tilley;  Joseph,  born  March  18,  1858; 
Andrew  J.,  of  further  mention ;  Mary  R., 
born  February  2,  1870,  married  Austin 
Knowles ;  and  two  children,  who  died  in 
infancy. 

Andrew  J.  Coakley  was  born  in  Wales, 
Great  Britain,  November  2,  1859,  and 
there  attended  school  in  his  early  boy- 
hood. In  1868  he  began  working  in  a 
government  printing  office  in  England, 
there  continuing  until  the  family  come  to 
the  United  States  in  1870.  He  was  a 
faithful  lad,  so  pleasing  his  employers 
that  they  gave  him  a  good  recommenda- 
tion. He  was  eleven  years  of  age  when 
Springfield,    Massachusetts,    became    the 


family  home,  and  there  he  has  ever  since 
made  his  home.  His  first  position  was 
as  bell  boy  in  the  old  Haynes  Hotel,  soon 
leaving  there  to  enter  the  employ  of 
Smith  &  Wesson  Company,  manufactur- 
ers of  fire  arms  in  Springffield.  He  con- 
tinued with  that  company  for  several 
years,  and  during  that  period  increased 
his  educational  equipment  by  attendance 
at  the  city's  evening  schools.  He  was 
next  engaged  with  the  George  Hendee 
Company  in  the  manufacture  of  bicycles, 
as  an  employee  in  the  plating,  buffing  and 
polishing  departments,  remaining  with 
that  company  many  years.  His  next  posi- 
tion was  with  the  Cheney-Bigelow  Wire 
Works,  of  Springfield,  there  remaining 
twenty-three  years  until  the  present, 
1918.  He  has  won  many  promotions  dur- 
ing these  years  of  faithful,  intelligent 
service,  and  is  now  head  of  the  buffing, 
plating  and  polishing  department  of  that 
company.  He  is  a  member  of  the  New 
England  Order  of  Protection,  serving  on 
an  important  State  committee;  is  a  past 
chief  ranger  of  the  American  Order  of 
Foresters ;  has  served  on  elective  boards 
in  city  election  ;  is  a  Democrat  in  politics ; 
and  in  religious  faith  a  member  of  the 
Roman  Catholic  church.  Andrew  J. 
Coakley  married,  September  11,  1879, 
Mary  A.  Joyce,  born  in  County  Kerry, 
Ireland,  April  4,  1865,  daughter  of  Ed- 
ward E.  and  Mary  (Sullivan)  Joyce.  She 
was  brought  to  the  United  States  by  her 
parents  in  1868,  they  settling  in  Massa- 
chusetts. Mr.  and  Mrs.  Coakley  are  the 
parents  of  an  only  child,  Daniel  J.  (2) 
Coakley. 

Daniel  Joseph  Coakley,  second  to  bear 
that  name,  and  of  the  third  generation, 
was  born  in  Springfield,  Massachusetts, 
November  18,  1880.  He  was  educated  in 
the  public  schools  of  the  city,  and  when 
school  years  were  ended  he  became  a 
worker    in    the    Cheney-Bigelow    Wire 


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Works,  there  remaining  about  three  and 
a  half  years,  where  he  learned  the  wire 
weaver's  trade.  From  the  wire  works  he 
changed  to  commercial  lines,  becoming 
an  ice  dealer,  operating  under  his  own 
name  and  continuing  for  about  two  years. 
This  brought  him  to  the  year  1899,  when 
he  became  associated  with  Swift  &  Com- 
pany, meat  packers  of  Chicago,  the  branch 
with  which  Mr.  Coakley  is  connected 
being  known  as  the  Springfield  Render- 
ing Company.  For  nineteen  years  he  has 
been  associated  with  that  company,  his 
present  position  that  of  superintendent, 
with  an  ofifice  in  Springfield.  He  has  won 
his  way  to  responsible  business  station, 
and  is  highly  regarded  as  a  managing 
executive. 

A  Democrat  in  politics,  Mr.  Coakley 
has  always  been  interested  in  public 
afTairs,  and  since  September  12,  1902, 
when  he  moved  his  residence  to  Chicopee, 
Massachusetts,  he  has  been  intimately 
connected  with  the  politics  of  that  city  as 
citizen  and  official.  His  first  public  office 
was  as  member  of  the  Board  of  Alder- 
men, he  being  elected  Alderman-at-large 
in  1912.  He  served  a  term  of  two  years, 
then  was  reelected,  but  after  serving  one 
year  of  the  second  term,  resigned  in  1914, 
to  become  a  member  of  the  License  Com- 
mission to  which  he  had  been  appointed 
by  Mayor  Rivers,  and  held  this  office 
until  1916,  when  he  was  elected  mayor  of 
Chicopee.  He  was  reelected  in  1917,  and 
again  in  1918,  the  term  of  office  now  hav- 
ing been  extended  to  two  years,  he  being 
the  first  mayor  to  serve  under  the  two 
years'  law.  He  has  won  public  confi- 
dence and  approval,  his  reelections  being 
ample  proof  of  his  popularity.  He  is  a 
member  of  the  Improved  Order  of  Red 
Men,  and  the  Knights  of  Columbus,  also 
is  affiliated  with  business,  political,  and 
social  organizations,  including  the  Oxford 
Country  Club  of  Chicopee. 


Mayor  Coakley  married  (first)  Novem- 
ber 29,  1903,  Elizabeth  Moore,  daughter 
of  Patrick  J.  and  Ellen  (Donahue) 
Moore,  of  Springfield,  Massachusetts. 
Mrs.  Coakley  died  March  13,  1916,  and  he 
married  (second)  June  6,  1917.  Julia  A. 
Moore,  sister  of  his  first  wife.  Children : 
May,  born  October  8,  1904;  Andrew  J. 
(2),  November  6,  1906;  Daniel  J.  (3), 
September  8,  1908 ;  Anna,  October  18, 
1910;  William,  April  30,  1913;  and  Eliz- 
abeth, born  March  8,  1916,  died  October 
3,  1917.  Child  by  his  second  wife,  John 
Francis,  born  September  6,  1918. 


CLARK,  Charles  Dallas, 

Real  Estate  Operator. 

Charles  Dallas  Clark  is  an  enterprising 
citizen  of  West  Springfield,  Massachu- 
setts, who  has  had  no  small  part  to  play 
in  the  development  and  growth  of  real 
estate  in  the  town.  His  public  services, 
which  have  covered  a  period  of  more  than 
a  quarter  of  a  century,  are  evidence  of  the 
spirit  and  energy  which  he  is  always 
ready  to  spend  in  behalf  of  interests  other 
than  his  own. 

The  parents  of  Mr.  Clark  were  Lyman 
Thomas  and  Sarah  Ann  (Andrews)  Clark. 
The  former,  born  in  New  York  State, 
was  in  the  hotel  business  during  his  active 
life.  The  latter  was  born  in  Cheshire, 
Massachusetts,  April  14,  1827,  and  died 
February  18,  1905.  There  were  four  chil- 
dren born  to  them  other  than  Charles 
Dallas  Clark:  i.  Abel,  married  Endora 
Gray,  lived  in  Adams,  Massachusetts,  and 
died  in  1899.  2.  Georgeanna,  married 
Jerome  Perkins,  now  of  Springfield,  Mas- 
sachusetts, and  to  them  were  born  three 
children  :  Fannie,  Newell  and  Mildred.  3. 
William  Henry,  married  Augusta  Hintz ; 
he  served  in  the  standing  army  some 
forty  years  ago,  and  after  his  marriage 
engaged   in   the  hotel   business   near   the 


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petrified  forests  of  Arizona ;  he  lives  in 
Holbrook.  Arizona,  and  is  president  of 
the  Navajo  County  Improvement  Com- 
pany ;  the  company  has  a  franchise  to 
build  all  railroad  hotels  of  a  certain  desig- 
nated section  ;  he  is  an  ardent  Republican 
in  politics,  and  holds  some  political  office. 
4.  Lena,  married  George  Newton,  of 
Northfield,  Massachusetts;  both  are  de- 
ceased. 

Charles  Dallas  Clark,  who  was  born  in 
Cheshire,  Massachusetts,  June  15,  i8y, 
received  a  public  school  education.  He 
began  work  in  the  cotton  mills  in 
Adams,  Massachusetts,  and  here  advanced 
to  the  position  of  foreman.  In  1876  he 
became  foreman  of  the  spinning  depart- 
ment of  the  Zanesville  Manufacturing 
Company,  in  Zanesville,  Ohio,  remaining 
there  until  1880,  wh^n  he  accepted  the 
position  of  foreman  of  the  spinning  de- 
partment of  the  Arnold  Manufacturing 
Company,  in  Williamstown,  Massachu- 
setts, remaining  there  until  he  removed  to 
West  Springfield,  in  1881,  in  the  afifairs 
of  which  place  he  took  an  active  part.  He 
was  first  employed  by  the  Blair  Manu- 
facturing Company,  manufacturers  of 
lawn  mowers,  from  1881  to  1892,  and 
from  that  year  to  date  has  taken  charge  of 
the  Main  street  and  Meadow  street  school 
houses,  in  addition  to  other  enterprises. 
He  bought  his  first  piece  of  property  of 
Taylor  Parsons  on  Main  street.  He  then 
started  into  the  real  estate  business.  He 
bought  the  White  estate,  consisting  of 
about  five  acres,  which  is  now  known  as 
Burford  avenue,  which  street  he  built 
and  divided  independent  of  the  city.  On 
this  avenue,  Mr.  Clark  built  three  three- 
family  houses,  two  two-family  houses  and 
two  garages.  Later  he  built  on  Main 
street  two  two-family  houses.  Among 
the  public  services  of  mention,  Mr.  Clark 
has  been  a  special  policeman  in  West 
Springfield  for  the  past  seven  years,  and 


a  truant  officer  for  the  past  twenty  years. 
He  is  a  director  of  the  West  Springfield 
Co-operative  Bank,  a  member  of  Tekoa 
Lodge  of  Odd  Fellows  of  West  Spring- 
field, and  a  member  of  the  Merrick  Meth- 
odist Episcopal  Church. 

On  November  2,  1872,  Charles  Dal- 
las Clark  was  married  to  Emma  Elnora 
Bowers,  born  in  Chester,  Massachusetts, 
January  27,  1852.  Her  father,  Joel  L. 
Bowers,  born  in  Penacook,  New  Hamp- 
shire, in  1818,  was  the  seventh  of  ten  chil- 
dren born  to  Russell  and (Farmer) 

Bowers.  The  other  children  were :  Ben- 
jamin, Joseph  R.,  John  F.,  Jane,  Eliza, 
Altmont  Dwight,  Reuben,  Fannie,  and 
Groevener  Blodget.  Joel  L.  Bowers  was 
reared  in  the  town  of  his  birth,  where  he 
received  a  public  school  education,  with 
which  he  was  able  to  accomplish  much. 
He  was  a  millwright.  In  politics  he  was 
a  Republican.  He  died  in  Springfield, 
Massachusetts,  October  24,  1901,  at  the 
age  of  eighty-three.  He  married  (first) 
Sarah  Augusta  Kilbourn,  mother  of  Emma 
Elnora  (Bowers)  Clark  and  Benjamin 
Bowers.  The  death  of  his  first  wife 
occurred  in  1855.  He  married  (second) 
Malvina  Sumner,  who  died  March  30, 
1889.  His  first  wife  was  born  in  Ashfield, 
Massachusetts,  the  daughter  of  Jonathan 
and  Eunice  (Mather)  Kilbourn.  The 
former  owned  a  tannery  in  Ashfield,  and 
about  1840  moved  to  Stamford,  Vermont, 
where  he  bought  a  farm.  He  died  in 
Clarksburg,  Massachusetts,  in  October, 
1869,  at  the  age  of  eighty-two  years. 
There  were  twelve  children  born  by  this 
marriage:  Julia,  Hannah,  Ebenezer, Jona- 
than, Mary,  Eliza,  Samuel,  Jerusha, 
George,  Horatio,  Sarah,  Augusta,  and 
Henry,  all  of  whom  are  dead.  Emma 
Elnora  (Bowers)  Clark,  daughter  of  Joel 
L.  and  Sarah  Augusta  (Kilbourn)  Bow- 
ers,   spent   her   early   years   in    Stamford 


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and  Bennington,  Vermont,  and  in  North 
Adams.  Massachusetts. 

The  children  of  Charles  D.  and  Emma 
EInora  (Bowers)  Clark  are:  i.  Sidnie 
Estelia,  who  was  graduated  from  the 
West  Springfield  High  School  in  the 
class  of  1896 ;  she  then  secured  employ- 
ment in  the  West  Springfield  post  office, 
where  she  remained  for  two  years,  and 
following  this  she  was  employed  in  the 
Union  Railroad  Station  of  Springfield, 
where  she  had  charge  of  the  parcel  room ; 
her  next  employment  was  with  E.  L. 
Leonard  &  Company,  wholesale  and  retail 
druggists,  as  their  bookkeeper ;  on  July 
18,  1905,  she  became  the  wife  of  William 
M.  Canary,  of  Amsterdam,  New  York ; 
children :  Clark  William,  born  July  6, 
1907,  and  Alson,  born  November  9,  1909 ; 
their  home  is  in  West  Springfield,  Massa- 
chusetts. 2.  Charles  Dallas,  Jr.,  who  was 
educated  in  the  business  schools  of 
Springfield,  Massachusetts ;  his  first  em- 
ployment was  as  bookkeeper  for  the 
Springfield  Knitting  Company ;  he  then 
held  a  similar  position  with  Ennis  & 
Sopanni,  bankers  and  brokers,  Spring- 
field, after  which  he  was  employed  by  the 
Gilbert  and  Barker  Manufacturing  Com- 
pany ;  his  health  failed,  and  when  fully 
recovered  he  became  interested  in  the  real 
estate  business  and  now  owns  several 
houses  and  lots  in  West  Springfield  and 
a  large  farm  near  West  Stockbridge,  Mas- 
sachusetts ;  about  the  year  1912  he  or- 
ganized the  Clark  Independent  Oil  Com- 
pany in  West  Springfield ;  he  is  now  the 
owner  and  manager  of  that  organization, 
his  father,  Charles  D.  Clark,  Sr.,  being 
president;  this  concern,  owing  to  the 
excellent  management  of  Charles  D. 
Clark,  Jr.,  has  grown  very  rapidly  and  is 
in  a  highly  prosperous  condition ;  Mr. 
Clark  married,  June  11,  1901,  Ollie  Eliza- 
beth Lewis.  3.  Louis  B.,  born  February 
28,  1882;  unmarried,  resides  at  home;  he 


received  his  education  in  the  business 
schools  of  West  Springfield ;  he  is  a  ma- 
chinist by  trade ;  during  the  Spanish- 
American  War  he  served  on  the  United 
States  steamship,  "Prairie."  where  he 
proved  himself  an  able  seaman  and  excel- 
lent marksman ;  he  js  commander  of  the 
General  H.  W.  Lawton  Camp  of  Span- 
ish War  Veterans  of  Springfield,  and  is 
vice-chancellor  of  the  Knights  of  Pythias, 
a  fraternal  organization  of  Springfield. 


IVERS,  Louis  Fergus, 

Representative  Citizen, 

Louis  Fergus  Ivers,  head  of  the  Ivers 
Express  Company,  with  offices  in  Spring- 
field and  West  Springfield,  can  well  be 
called  one  of  the  representative  men 
of  both  cities.  He  comes  of  an  Irish 
ancestry,  his  great-grandfather,  Richard 
Ivers,  having  been  born  in  Ireland,  where 
he  spent  his  entire  life.  John  Ivers, 
grandfather  of  Louis  F.  Ivers,  was  a 
native  of  Ireland,  in  which  country  he 
spent  his  entire  lifetime,  and  there  his 
son,  John  (2)  Ivers,  the  father  of  Louis 
F.  Ivers,  was  born  February  2,  1846. 

John  (2)  Ivers  resided  there  until  he 
was  eighteen  years  of  age,  attending  the 
schools  in  the  neighborhood  of  his  home, 
and  performing  well  the  tasks  allotted 
to  him.  In  1864  he  emigrated  to  the 
United  States,  and  in  1871  engaged  in 
the  express  business  in  Springfield,  hav- 
ing then  only  one  horse,  but  in  due  course 
of  time,  by  the  exercise  of  prudence  and 
thrift,  he  built  up  an  extensive  business 
which  was  conducted  under  the  name  of 
John  Ivers'  Express,  which  proved  to  be 
a  profitable  source  of  income,  and  this  he 
continued  until  his  death,  and  it  is  still 
carried  on  by  his  son,  Louis  F.  Ivers. 

John  (2)  Ivers  married  Ann  A.  Mad- 
den, a  native  of  Ireland,  who  came  to 
this  country  with  her  parents  who  located 


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when  she  was  a  small  child  in  Northamp- 
ton, Massachusetts,  in  the  early  seventies. 
She  was  a  daughter  of  Timothy  and 
Bridget  (Stewart)  Madden,  natives  of 
Ireland,  the  former  named  conducting  a 
prosperous  business  as  a  truckman  in  his 
native  country,  and,  the  latter  named  a 
representative  of  a  prominent  family.  Mr. 
and  Mrs.  Ivers  were  attendants  of  the 
Roman  Catholic  church  in  West  Spring- 
field, of  which  Mr.  Ivers  was  one  of  the 
founders.  Mr.  Ivers  died  in  West 
Springfield,  January  lo,  1903,  aged  fifty- 
seven  years,  survived  by  his  wife,  who 
passed  away  in  West  Springfield,  Janu- 
ary 25,  1910,  aged  fifty-five  years,  both 
in  the  prime  of  life.  They  were  the  par- 
ents of  one  child,  Louis  Fergus  Ivers. 

Louis  Fergus  Ivers  was  born  in  West 
Springfield,  Massachusetts,  August  20, 
1876.  He  attended  the  public  schools  of 
his  native  city,  graduating  from  the  high 
school  in  the  class  of  1894.  His  first  em- 
ployment was  with  the  Wason  Manufac- 
turing Company,  one  of  the  principal 
industries  in  Springfield.  Being  a  man  of 
good  judgment,  tact  and  ability,  which 
qualities  were  recognized  and  appreciated 
by  his  employers,  he  was,  after  being  in 
their  employ  for  a  short  time,  promoted 
and  made  their  traffic  manager,  in  which 
capacity  he  served  for  fourteen  years. 
This  gave  him  a  vast  amount  of  informa- 
tion that  has  since  been  very  useful.  This 
brought  him  to  the  time  of  his  father's 
death,  and  he  then  assumed  management 
of  the  express  business,  which  has  grown 
under  his  efficient  direction  until  at  the 
present  time  (1918)  it  is  the  largest  ex- 
press concern  in  the  city  of  Springfield, 
in  fact  in  Western  Massachusetts.  In 
addition  to  his  large  local  business  by 
horses,  he  covers  all  parts  of  New  Eng- 
land, also  going  to  other  States.  In  fact 
there  is  no  limit  to  the  distance  over 
which    Mr.    Ivers    is   prepared    to   accept 


contracts.  This  special  branch  of  his 
already  large  business  is  growing  larger 
every  day.  In  the  prosecution  of  it  he  at 
present  (1918)  employs  ten  extra  large, 
especially  constructed  covered  padded 
automobile  vans,  in  which  he  transports 
any  commodity,  although  specializing 
more  particularljl  in  the  moving  of  fur- 
niture, pianos  and  choice  bric-a-brac, 
which  being  carefully  packed  by  experts, 
he  guarantees  to  reach  their  destination 
in  perfect  condition.  It  is  along  these 
lines  that  he  is  rapidly  building  up  an 
ever-widening  reputation.  In  addition  to 
his  vans,  as  previously  noted,  he  also  has 
fifteen  horses,  and  a  number  of  trucks, 
which  he  uses  for  local  work,  having  con- 
tracts with  many  of  the  largest  firms 
in  Springfield  and  nearby  towns.  His 
Springfield  office  is  at  No.  44  Pyncheon 
street,  and  his  West  Springfield  office  and 
stables  are  at  No.  46  New  Bridge  street, 
in  which  town  Mr.  Ivers,  who  is  unmar- 
ried, also  makes  his  home,  and  where  he 
has  hosts  of  friends. 

Mr.  Ivers  is  a  Republican  in  politics, 
and  has  served  the  town  of  West  Spring- 
field as  a  member  of  its  water  board  for 
six  years,  and  during  his  term  of  office 
the  building  of  the  great  Bear  Hole  Reser- 
voir was  accomplished.  He  is  an  attend- 
ant of  the  Catholic  church  of  West 
Springfield,  and  is  a  member  of  the  Benev- 
olent and  Protective  Order  of  Elks,  of 
the  New  England  Traffic  Club,  and  of 
the  Springfield  Auto  Club. 


BUSH,  Homer. 

Agricnltarist. 

Choosing  agriculture  as  his  life  work, 
and  tobacco  growing  as  his  specialty, 
Homer  Bush,  of  Westfield,  Massachu- 
setts, by  diligence  and  thorough  under- 
standing of  his  business,  has  become 
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men  of  the  Westfield  valley.  He  is  a 
descendant  of  Samuel  Bush,  of  Suffield, 
Connecticut,  the  line  of  descent  being 
through  Ebenezer  Bush,  his  son  Aaron 
Bush,  his  son  Aaron  Bush,  his  son  Asahel 
Bush,  his  son  Seth  Bush,  his  son  Homer 
Bush. 

Samuel  Bush,  of  Suffield,  Connecticut, 
married    (first)    Mary,   who  died   August 

2,  1687.  They  had  a  son,  Ebenezer  Bush, 
born  July  24,  1687.  He  married  (second) 
Abigail,  and  their  children  were:  Samuel 
(2)  and  Abigail.  Samuel  Bush,  the 
father,  died  May  7,  1733.  Ebenezer  Bush, 
born  July  24,  1687,  died  November  10, 
1757.  He  married  (first)  Miriam,  who 
died  July  13,  1752,  and  he  married 
(second)  November  30,  1752,  Thankful 
Phelps.  Ebenezer  and  Miriam  Bush  were 
the  parents  of  the  following  children:  i. 
Lydia,  born  March  5,  171 1 ;  married  a  Mr. 
Noble.  2.  Ebenezer  (2)  born  June  2, 
1713;  married  a  Miss  Noble.  3.  Huldah, 
born  February  2,  1715.  4.  Zechariah,  No- 
vember II,  1718.  5.  David,  born  Decem- 
ber 7,  1721.  6.  Aaron,  of  further  men- 
tion. 7.  Hannah,  born  July  25,  1729,  died 
in  infancy.  8.  Hannah  (2)  born  Septem- 
ber 26,  1 73 1. 

Aaron  Bush,  born  May  26,  1725,  son 
of  Ebenezer  and  Miriam  Bush,  married 
Mary  Ashley,  of  Westfield  (intentions 
dated  August  18, 1750),  the  Rev.  John  Bal- 
lantyne  performing  the  ceremony.  She 
died  March  28,  1768,  the  mother  of  nine 
children  :  Gideon  Jared,  born  July  22, 1752 ; 
Amos,  born  April  i,  1754;  Aaron,  twin 
with  Moses,  born  May  23,  1756,  Moses 
only  living;  Mary,  born  June  23,  1758; 
Aaron,  died  in  infancy ;  Elizah,  born  Au- 
gust II,  1761  ;  Aaron,  of  further  men- 
tion. 

Aaron  (2)  Bush,  the  third  child  of 
Aaron  and  Mary  (Ashley)  Bush  to  be 
given  his  father's  name,  was  born  March 

3,  1764.     He  married  (first)   Patty  Judd, 


(second)  a  Miss  Goodrich.  Children: 
Asahel,  of  further  mention ;  Aaron,  moved 
to  Jamestown,  New  York  ;  Mary,  married 
a  Stiles;  Leonard,  married  a  Sackett; 
Robert,  married  a  Taylor ;  Daniel,  mar- 
ried a  Pease ;  William,  died  at  sea. 

Asahel  Bush,  eldest  son  of  Aaron  (2) 
and  Patty  (Judd)  Bush,  was  born  in 
Westfield,  May  26,  1788,  died  there  June 
16,  1839.  His  home  was  the  old  Bush 
homestead  on  West  Silver  street,  and  all 
his  life  he  was  engaged  in  farming  and 
kindred  activities.  He  married  Sarah 
(Sally)  Noble  (see  forward).  Children: 
Luke,  Mary,  Pamelia,  Seth,  of  further 
mention ;   Asahel,  Edmund. 

Sarah  (Noble)  Bush  was  a  daughter  of 
Asa  Noble,  granddaughter  of  Captain 
Asa  Noble,  a  great-granddaughter  of  Ser- 
geant Luke  and  Ruth  (Wright)  Noble, 
and  great-great-granddaughter  of  Thomas 
Noble,  the  American  ancestor,  an  early 
settler  of  Springfield,  Massachusetts,  who 
located  in  Westfield  as  early  as  January 
21,  1669.  Sergeant  Luke  Noble  was  born 
in  Westfield,  July  15,  1675,  died  there, 
March  21,  1744.  He  married  (second) 
May  5,  1708,  Ruth  Wright,  born  April 
26,  1687,  daughter  of  Joseph  and  Ruth 
(Sheldon)  Wright,  who  bore  him  nine 
children. 

Captain  Asa  Noble,  third  son  of  Ser- 
geant Luke  and  Ruth  (Wright)  Noble, 
was  born  in  Westfield,  Massachusetts, 
January  16,  1715,  died  there,  March  25, 
1797.  He  was  selectman  in  1748,  served 
in  the  French  and  Indian  War  in  1755, 
as  a  lieutenant,  and  captain  in  1759,  also 
was  an  officer  in  the  Revolution.  He 
married.  November  30,  1738,  Bethia 
Noble,  born  April  20,  1721,  died  July  2, 
1787,  daughter  of  Matthew  and  Joana 
(Stebbins)  Noble.  Asa  Noble,  son  of 
Captain  Asa  and  Bethia  (Noble)  Noble, 
was  born  in  Westfield,  October  11,  1748, 
died  there,  March  27,  1823.    He  joined  the 


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church,  July  24,  1774.  He  was  a  corporal 
in  the  Revolutionary  Army,  in  1778.  He 
married,  November  12,  1772,  Rhoda  Fow- 
ler, born  April  10,  1752,  died  January, 
1832,  daughter  of  Stephen  and  Mary 
(Wells)   Fowler. 

Sarah  Noble,  daughter  of  Asa  and 
Rhoda  (Fowler)  Noble,  was  born  in 
Westfield,  January  13,  1785,  died  June  4, 
1862.  She  married,  March  13,  1814, 
Asahel  Bush,  born  in  Westfield,  May  26, 
1788,  died  June  16,  1839.  They  were  the 
parents  of:  i.  Luke,  born  December  i, 
1814,  died  April  8,  1902;  married  Lucy 
Alderman.  2.  Mary,  born  December  i, 
1816,  died  August  8,  1887;  married,  in 
1842,  Thomas  Kneil,  State  Senator  and 
postmaster  of  Westfield.  3.  Pamelia, 
born  June  21,  1818,  died,  February  28, 
1909;  married,  in  1851,  Abraham  Crary, 
of  Westfield.  4.  Seth,  born  May  4,  1820, 
married,  in  January,  1847,  Lucy  Ann  Kel- 
logg. 5.  Asahel,  born  June  4,  1824,  died 
December  22,  1913.  6.  Edmund,  born 
April  7,  1826. 

Seth  Bush,  son  of  Asahel  and  Sarah 
(Noble)  Bush,  was  born  at  the  Bush, 
Silver  street,  homestead,  in  Westfield, 
May  4,  1820,  and  there  died  May  30,  1894. 
He  remained  at  the  homestead  with  his 
parents  after  all  the  other  children  had 
departed,  married,  and  took  his  bride 
there,  and  after  his  father's  death  inher- 
ited the  property.  He  was  one  of  the 
first  farmers  in  the  Westfield  valley  to 
raise  tobacco,  and  so  well  did  he  succeed 
with  his  first  ventures  that  he  increased 
his  acreage,  until  each  year  he  had  many 
acres  of  the  finest  leaf  tobacco  to  market. 
He  owned  some  of  the  best  land  in  the 
valley  for  tobacco  raising,  and  for  many 
years  specialized  in  that  crop,  although 
he  conducted  general  farming  to  some 
extent.  Both  he  and  his  wife  were  de- 
voted members  of  the  Methodist  Episco- 
pal church. 


Seth  Bush  married,  January,  1847,  Lucy 
Ann  Kellogg,  born  in  Southwick,  Massa- 
chusetts, February  22,  1827,  died  March 
II,  1895,  daughter  of  Alva  and  Eliza 
(Fowler)  Kellogg.  Her  brother,  Dwight 
Kellogg,  now  deceased,  married  Julia 
Whipple,  and  left  a  daughter,  Eliza,  a 
resident  of  Westfield.  Another  brother, 
Lorenzo  Kellogg,  married  Mary  Ann 
Moseley,  both  deceased,  leaving  no  chil- 
dren. Seth  and  Lucy  Ann  (Kellogg) 
Bush  were  the  parents  of  Homer  and 
William  Seth  Bush  (q.  v.)  and  three 
daughters:  Lucy  A.  Bush,  born  July  24, 
1849,  ^ovf  residing  in  Westfield;  Mary  K. 
Bush,  born  July  30,  1851,  married,  Sep- 
tember 2,  1886,  Ezekiel  S.  Chipley,  and 
resides  in  Atlanta,  Georgia ;  Emma  E. 
Bush,  born  September  5,  1853,  married, 
November  23,  1883,  James  O.  Haskins, 
and  resides  in  Suffield,  Connecticut. 

Lucy  Ann  (Kellogg)  Bush  was  a 
descendant  of  Philipe  Kellogg,  of  Great 
Leighs,  England,  who  was  of  ancient 
English  family.  His  son,  Martin  Kellogg, 
baptized  at  Great  Leighs,  November  23, 
1595,  died  in  Braintree,  England,  1671. 
He  married  Prudence  Bird,  who  died 
prior  to  May  20,  1671.  Their  son,  Lieu- 
tenant Joseph  Kellogg,  baptized  at  Great 
Leighs,  England,  April  i,  1626,  died 
between  June  27,  1707,  the  date  of  his 
will,  and  February  4,  1708,  the  date  of  its 
being  probated.  He  is  of  record  in  Farm- 
ington,  Connecticut,  in  1651.  He  joined 
the  church,  with  his  wife,  October  9, 
1653,  and  served  several  terms  as  select- 
man. He  sold  his  town  lot  and  other 
property  in  February,  1655,  and  about 
1677  moved  to  Boston,  Massachusetts.  In 
1659  ^''s  bought  property  in  Boston,  which 
he  sold  in  1661,  and  moved  to  Hadley. 
This  property,  which  he  bought  for  $700, 
is  now  covered  in  part  by  the  Boston  Ad- 
vertiser building,  and  is  a  very  valuable 
piece  of  property.    In  1661  he  agreed  with 


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the  Hadlej'  town  authorities  to  operate  a 
ferry  between  Hadley  and  Southampton. 
In  1655  the  court  appointed  a  committee 
to  confer  with  him  and  determine  upon  a 
schedule  of  rates  to  be  charged,  and  in 
1687  another  agreement  was  made  which 
allowed  him  to  charge  double  rates  after 
dark.  This  ferry  was  run  by  Lieutenant 
Joseph  Kellogg,  his  son  John,  and  Stephen 
Goodman,  son-in-law  of  John,  until  1758, 
nearly  a  century,  being  known  as  Good- 
man's Ferry,  under  the  last  named.  Lieu- 
tenant Joseph  Kellogg  was  selectman  of 
Hadley  in  1665,  1674-77-79-81-85-92,  mem- 
ber of  the  school  committee  in  1686, 
served  on  many  other  committees,  and  in 
1678  was  sergeant  of  the  train  band.  He 
lieutenanted  in  1678,  serving  in  that  rank 
until  1692,  and  saw  service  in  the  Indian 
Wars,  including  the  great  battle  at  Turn- 
er's Falls,  May  18,  1676.  There  was  no 
change  in  the  captaincy  of  the  company 
during  his  service,  which  explains  his 
long  term  as  lieutenant  without  further 
promotion.  He  married  (first)  probably 
in  England,  Joana,  who  died  in  Hadley. 
September  14,  1666.  He  married  (sec- 
ond) Abigail  Terry,  born  in  Windsor, 
Connecticut,  September  21,  1646,  daugh- 
ter of  Stephen  and  Elizabeth  Terry.  His 
first  wife  had  nine  children  and  his  sec- 
ond wife  eleven. 

John  Kellogg,  son  of  Lieutenant  Joseph 
Kellogg  by  his  first  wife,  Joana,  was  bap- 
tized in  Farmington,  Connecticut,  De- 
cember 29,  1656,  died  between  1723-1728. 
He  moved  to  Hadley,  Massachusetts, 
where,  in  1720,  he  was  the  largest  land- 
holder in  the  town.  He  succeeded  his 
father  in  the  operation  of  the  ferry,  later 
passing  it  on  to  his  son-in-law,  Stephen 
Goodman.  His  home  in  Hadley  at  one 
time  was  in  the  Hopkins  School-house. 
John  Kellogg  married  (first)  in  Hadley, 
December  23,  1680,  Sarah  Moody,  born  in 
1660,    daughter    of    Samuel    and    Sarah 


(Deming)  Moody.  She  died  September 
10,  1689,  and  he  married  a  second  wife, 
Ruth. 

Captain  Samuel  Kellogg,  son  of  John 
Kellogg  and  his  first  wife,  Sarah  Moody, 
was  born  in  Hadley,  Massachusetts,  April 
I,  1687,  died  May  27,  1761,  in  Westfield, 
Massachusetts,  where  his  gravestone  is 
yet  to  be  seen.  He  is  first  mentioned  in 
Westfield,  March  10,  1712,  when  the  town 
granted  him  ten  acres  on  condition  that 
he  "settle  in  ye  town."  At  a  town  meet- 
ing, held  March  9,  1713,  it  was  voted  "to 
allow  Samuel  Kellogg  twelve  pounds  to 
build  a  substantial  bridge  'to  Mile 
Brook.' "  On  January  14,  1714,  he,  with 
Captain  Joseph  Mandsley,  and  Samuel 
Bishop,  were  granted  "liberty  to  build  a 
sawmill  and  grist  mill  at  'ye  half  mile 
fall.' "  There  is  no  doubt  but  what  he 
built  the  second  church  in  Westfield,  in 
1721.  He  joined  the  church  in  1712,  his 
wife  joining  in  1716.  Later  he  became 
the  owner  of  several  hundred  acres  on 
the  easterly  side  of  Manns  Brook,  a  sec- 
tion abounding  in  wild  game  He  was  an 
accurate  shot  with  a  rifle  and  spent  a 
great  deal  of  time  hunting.  On  July  8, 
1714,  he  married  (first)  his  cousin,  Mary 
Ashley,  who  died  April  8,  1728.  He  mar- 
ried (second)  June  3,  1728,  Rachael  Ash- 
ley, both  being  daughters  of  Samuel  and 
Sarah  (Kellogg)  Ashley,  and  grand- 
daughters of  Lieutenant  Joseph  Kellogg. 

David  Kellogg,  of  Westfield,  son  of 
Captain  Samuel  Kellogg  and  his  first 
wife,  Mary  Ashley,  was  born  May  30, 
1721,  died  March  6,  1776,  his  entire  life 
being  spent  in  Westfield.  He  was  a 
soldier  under  General  Amherst  in  the  ex- 
pedition against  Quebec,  his  service  be- 
ginning April  6,  1759.  He  married  (in- 
tentions dated  April  11,  1747)  Elizabeth 
Jones,  daughter  of  Lieutenant  Thomas 
and  Mary  (Meacham)  Jones. 

Seth  Kellogg,  son  of  David  and  Eliza- 


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beth  (Jones)  Kellogg,  was  born  in  West- 
field,  Massachusetts,  March  14,  1754,  died 
June  20,  1801.  He  married,  March  29, 
1786,  Ann  Loomis,  born  July  10,  1758, 
daughter  of  Joshua  and  Abigail  (Lang- 
don)  Loomis. 

Alva  Kellogg,  son  of  Seth  and  Ann 
(Loomis)  Kellogg,  was  born  in  South- 
wick,  Massachusetts,  August  22,  1799, 
died  in  Westfield,  March  30,  1873.  He 
married,  April  6,  1824,  Eliza  Fowler,  born 
in  Trenton,  New  York,  May  4,  1806, 
daughter  of  Major  Walter  and  Lucy 
(Campbell)  Fowler.  She  died  in  Marcy, 
New  York,  August  11,  1871.  They  were 
the  parents  of  the  following  children : 
Lorenzo  Alva  Kellogg,  married  Mary 
Ann  Moseley ;  Lucy  Ann  Kellogg,  born 
in  Southwick,  Massachusetts,  February 
22,  1827,  died  in  Westfield,  Massachu- 
setts, March  11,  1895;  married  Seth  Bush, 
of  previous  mention  ;  Dwight  Oliver  Kel- 
logg, born  April  9,  1840,  married  Julia 
Josephine  Whipple. 

Homer  Bush,  eldest  son  of  Seth  and 
Lucy  Ann  (Kellogg)  Bush,  was  born  at 
the  home  farm  in  Westfield,  Massachu- 
setts, January  7,  1848,  and  was  educated 
in  the  grade  and  high  schools.  He  re- 
mained at  the  home  farm,  his  father's 
assistant,  until  his  marriage  in  1880,  then 
purchased  a  farm  on  the  north  side  of  the 
river,  and  there  has  developed  a  fine  prop- 
erty. He  first  learned  tobacco  culture 
with  his  father,  who  was  one  of  the  pio- 
neers of  the  business  in  the  Westfield  val- 
ley, and  on  his  own  farm  he  has  continued 
the  same  crop,  one  of  Westfield's  pros- 
perous respected  farmers.  He  thoroughly 
understands  the  growing  of  good  grade 
tobacco,  and  to  this  knowledge  has  added 
industry,  a  combination  which  always 
spells  success.  He  is  a  Democrat  in  his 
political  faith,  and  from  boyhood  has  been 
a  member  of  the  Methodist  Episcopal 
church. 


Mr.  Bush  married  (first)  December  16, 
1880,  at  JefTersonville,  Indiana,  Christie 
R.  Loomis,  born  in  Westfield,  December 
4,  1850,  of  old  Massachusetts  family,  her 
parents  moving  to  Indiana.  Mr.  and  Mrs. 
Bush  are  the  parents  of  three  children:  i. 
Homer  Earl,  born  December  5,  1881,  mar- 
ried (first)  Elizabeth  Waterman,  de- 
ceased; married  (second)  Malina  Graves, 
deceased ;  married  (third)  Edna  Zell 
Graves ;  two  children  :  Barbara  and  Ever- 
ett ;  and  resides  in  Westfield.  2.  Clara, 
born  April  8,  1883,  married  Rev.  Charles 
E.  Davis,  who  resided  in  East  Boston, 
Massachusetts.  Child :  Alice  Martha.  3. 
Seth  Leroy,  born  July  24,  1884,  mar- 
ried Bertha  Loomis,  and  resides  in 
Holyoke,  Massachusetts.  Child:  Ralph 
Loomis.  Christie  Loomis  Bush,  died 
April  22,  1886.  Mr.  Bush  married  (sec- 
ond) January  18,  1888,  at  Westfield,  Mas- 
sachusetts, Martha  Maria  (Pease)  Ely, 
born  October  30,  1840,  daughter  of  Wal- 
ter and  Mary  (Ingham)  Pease,  of  Middle- 
field,  Massachusetts,  and  widow  of  Jo- 
seph M.  Ely. 


BUSH,  William  Seth, 

Agriculturist. 

Born  in  the  house  in  which  he  now 
resides  in  Westfield,  William  Seth  Bush, 
youngest  son  of  Seth  and  Lucy  Ann 
(Kellogg)  Bush,  is  surrounded  by  many 
reminders  of  his  forbears,  and  the  acres 
he  tilled  for  many  years  have  responded 
to  the  labors  of  their  Bush  owners.  The 
old  home  is  a  fine  example  of  Colonial 
architecture,  the  design  and  workman- 
ship attesting  the  skill  and  integrity  of 
architect  and  builder.  This  Bush  home- 
stead and  farm,  one  of  the  oldest  settled 
in  Westfield,  was  originally  owned  by 
Thomas  Bancroft,  whose  home  was  de- 
stroyed by  fire,  next  came  into  the  pos- 
session of  Samuel  Fowler,  the  first  of  the 


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name  in  Westfield,  who  settled  on  an 
adjoining  farm,  now  owned  by  a  descend- 
ant, John  H.  Fowler.  William  S.  Bush 
has  in  his  possession  a  deed  showing  the 
transfer  of  the  present  Bush  property  to 
Jonathan  Alvord.  This  deed,  probably 
the  oldest  document  of  its  kind  in  West- 
field,  was  sworn  to  before  John  Pynchon, 
son  of  William  Pynchon,  the  Springfield 
pioneer,  October  15,  1684.  The  deed, 
well  preserved,  is  entirely  in  manuscript, 
and  in  fine  penmanship  describes  in  the 
usual  way  the  property  of  five  acres  con- 
veyed to  Jonathan  Alvord.  Jonathan  Al- 
vord and  wife  occupied  the  property  for 
many  years,  and  having  no  children 
adopted  the  oldest  son  of  Samuel  Bush, 
the  founder  of  his  family,  then  of  Suffield, 
Connecticut.  This  adopted  son,  Eben- 
ezer  Bush,  born  in  Suffield,  July  24,  1687, 
received  the  property  from  Jonathan 
Alvord  through  a  document  drawn  Au- 
gust ID,  1709,  which  constituted  him  the 
owner,  but  in  it  Mr.  Alvord  reserved  for 
himself  and  his  wife  a  maintenance  dur- 
ing their  natural  life  and  also  the  privi- 
lege of  keeping  a  number  of  cows,  swine, 
etc.  Mr.  Alvord  had  previously  (Febru- 
ary, 1709)  drawn  up  a  document  which 
practically  was  a  will  which  conveyed  the 
property  to  Ebenezer  Bush,  but  not  until 
Mr.  Alvord's  death.  This  later  docu- 
ment, however,  marks  the  actual  passing 
of  the  property  to  Bush  ownership,  and 
from  that  year,  1709.  it  has  never  been 
out  of  the  family  name,  the  last  children 
there  born  being  the  eighth  to  claim  it  as 
their  home.  (For  ancestry  of  this  family 
see  under  heading  of  Homer  Bush). 

William  Seth  Bush  was  born  at  the 
Bush  homestead,  January  8,  1856,  and 
there  spent  his  minority,  attending  West- 
field  public  schools,  and  assisting  his 
father  until  the  latter's  death  in  1894,  they 
converting  the  large  farm  into  a  well- 
tilled     tobacco     plantation.      When     the 


estate  of  Seth  Bush  was  settled,  William 
S.  Bush  came  into  possession  of  his 
homestead,  and  has  since  owned  and 
tilled  its  fertile  acres.  Tobacco  is  the 
principal  crop,  many  acres  being  devoted 
to  its  culture,  but  general  crops,  corn, 
barley  and  oats,  are  also  raised,  while  a 
fine  herd  of  cattle  roam  on  the  spaces 
reserved  for  them.  The  farm  is  one  of 
the  best  in  the  fertile  Westfield  Valley 
as  its  general  good  appearance  at  all  sea- 
sons of  the  year  testifies. 

Mr.  Bush  married,  December  18,  1883, 
Fannie  Noble,  daughter  of  David  and 
Elizabeth  (Brennan)  Noble,  of  South- 
wick,  Massachusetts,  a  descendant  of 
Thomas  Noble,  who  died  in  Westfield, 
January  20,  1704,  aged  seventy-two  years. 
Mr.  and  Mrs.  Bush  are  the  parents  of 
three  daughters,  all  born  at  the  home- 
stead: I.  Emma  H.,  December  16,  1884, 
married  John  Collins,  of  London,  On- 
tario, and  resides  at  West  Medford,  Mas- 
sachusetts ;  they  have  a  son,  John.  2. 
Elizabeth,  born  January  22,  1886,  married 
Albert  E.  Fowler,  of  Westfield,  and  has 
three  children :  Sally,  Albert  E.  (2)  and 
Elizabeth.  3.  Louise,  born  September  7, 
1888,  married  Josiah  S.  McCann,  resides 
at  Groveland,  Massachusetts,  and  has  a 
daughter,  Isabella. 

Mrs.  Fannie  (Noble)  Bush,  traces  her 
ancestry  from  Thomas  Noble.  The 
American  ancestry  is  through  Sergeant 
Luke  Noble,  1675-1744,  and  his  second 
wife,  Ruth  Wright ;  their  son,  Moses 
Noble,  1710-1771,  married,  September  2. 
1731,  Mary  Grant;  their  son,  Reuben 
Noble,  born  in  Westfield,  Massachusetts, 
June  9,  1732,  died  in  Rupert,  Vermont, 
1812,  married  (first)  July  17,  1755,  Ann 
Ferguson ;  their  son,  David  Noble,  born 
in  Southwick,  Massachusetts,  April  20, 
1756,  died  in  Lewiston,  Niagara  county, 
New  York,  September  22,  1822,  married 
(first)    Sarah    Rising,    born    in    Suffield, 


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Vermont,  daughter  of  Benjamin  and 
Lydia  Rising,  moved  from  Southwick  to 
Rupert,  Vermont,  thence  to  Western 
New  York;  their  son,  David  (2)  Noble, 
born  in  Rupert,  Vermont,  October  4, 
1794,  died  in  Southwick,  Massachusetts, 
September  15,  1868,  a  farmer,  married 
Sophia  Palmer;  their  son,  David  (3) 
Noble,  married,  February  3,  i860,  Eliza- 
beth Brennan.  they  the  parents  of  Fannie 
Noble,  wife  of  William  Seth  Bush. 


HATHAWAY,  Robert  Nelson, 
Executive  Head  of  Union  Belt  Company. 

The  early  life  of  Robert  N.  Hathaway 
was  spent  on  the  farm  and  at  Fall  River 
in  an  attempt  to  find  himself.  In  turn, 
the  law,  engineering  and  mercantile  life 
were  given  a  trial  but  rejected  as  a  life 
work.  In  January,  1875,  the  turn  in  the 
tide  came,  and  on  the  fifteenth  of  that 
month  he  began  an  association  with  the 
Union  Belt  Company,  of  Fall  River, 
which  has  never  been  dissolved,  even  tem- 
porarily. In  the  years  which  have  since 
intervened,  forty-two,  he  has  traversed 
the  entire  road  from  bookkeeper's  desk  to 
the  executive  chair,  and  has  won  high  po- 
sition as  a  financier  and  executive  man- 
ager. In  a  city  of  able  business  men  and 
amid  executives  of  great  manufacturing 
corporations,  he  holds  a  leading  position 
and  most  worthily  bears  his  ancient  and 
honorable  family  name. 

Robert  Nelson  Hathaway  is  a  great- 
grandson  of  Gideon  Hathaway,  the  patriot 
whose  military  service  was  the  base  for 
the  pension  his  widow,  Kezia  Hathaway, 
drew  from  the  United  States  Government 
until  the  end  of  her  long  life  which  ended 
within  two  years  of  reaching  a  full  cen- 
tury. Their  son,  Henry  Hathaway,  once 
a  nail  maker  in  the  employ  of  the  Fall 
River    Iron   Works,   used   his   brain    and 


inventive  genius  to  such  good  purpose 
that  the  machinery  he  devised  about  rev- 
olutionized nail  manufacture.  Henry 
Hathaway  married  Emily  Eddy,  they  the 
parents  of  William  Henry  Hathaway, 
born  in  Dartmouth,  Massachusetts,  who 
married  Adeline  Peats  Lincoln,  also  born 
in  Dartmouth,  daughter  of  Calvin  W. 
Lincoln. 

Robert  Nelson  Hathaway,  son  of  Wil- 
liam Henry  and  Adeline  Peats  (Lincoln) 
Hathaway,  was  born  at  Fall  River,  Mas- 
sachusetts, August  13,  1854,  there  lived 
and  attended  public  school  until  nine 
years  of  age.  From  that  age  until  eigh- 
teen he  was  employed  on  a  farm  at 
Assonet,  Massachusetts,  there  attending 
school  during  the  winter  months.  In 
1872,  he  returned  to  Fall  River  and  for 
six  months  read  law  under  the  direction 
of  Lewis  Lapham,  police  judge  at  Fall 
River  from  1852  until  the  office  was  abol- 
ished in  1873.  The  young  man  had  also 
been  engaged  with  an  engineering  corps 
in  surveying  lands  at  Fall  River  and 
vicinity,  part  of  the  survey  including  Flint 
village,  where  the  cotton  mills  are  now 
built.  Neither  of  these  professions 
appealed  to  him,  and  about  three  years 
were  spent  in  mercantile  life  as  clerk  in 
the  Stephen  L.  French  shoe  store.  This 
brings  Mr.  Hathaway's  career  to  its  turn- 
ing point,  the  setting  upon  a  definite  line 
of  endeavor,  he  then  becoming  a  part  of 
the  clerical  force  of  the  Union  Belt  Com- 
pany. His  services  as  bookkeeper  began 
with  that  corporation,  January  15,  1875, 
and  continued  until  1886,  but  in  ever 
increasing  responsibility.  In  1886  he  was 
elected  treasurer  of  the  company  and  in 
that  office  was  the  strong  support  and 
aide  to  the  founder  of  the  business,  Wil- 
liam H.  Chace.  In  1892  the  duties  and 
responsibilities  of  agent  were  added,  and 
as  agent-treasurer  he  developed  an  excep- 
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tional  ability  as  financier  and  business 
man  which  made  him  the  logical  succes- 
sor to  William  H.  Chace  upon  the  latter's 
death,  September  8,  1892.  The  business 
of  the  company  is  the  manufacture  of 
belts  used  in  transmission  of  power  in 
mills  and  factories,  and  top  roll  covers 
for  spinning  frames  and  various  manufac- 
turing accessories.  Mr.  Hathaway  has 
had  no  divided  business  interest,  devoting 
his  time  and  ability  to  the  corporation  of 
which  he  has  had  so  large  a  share  in 
developing  and  of  which  he  is  the  hon- 
ored executive  head. 

In  Freemasonry  Mr.  Hathaway  holds 
all  degrees  of  the  York  Rite  and  has 
attained  the  thirty-third  degree  of  the 
Ancient  Accepted  Scottish  Rite.  He  is 
a  past  master  of  King  Philip  Lodge,  Free 
and  Accepted  Masons ;  a  companion  of 
Fall  River  Chapter,  Royal  Arch  Masons ; 
a  member  of  Fall  River  Council,  Royal 
and  Select  Masters ;  a  sir  knight  and  past 
eminent  commander  of  Godfrey  de  Bouil- 
lon Commandery,  Knights  Templar.  He 
is  also  a  Noble  of  Aleppo  Temple,  Nobles 
of  the  Mystic  Shrine,  Boston,  and  for 
many  years  treasurer  of  the  Masonic  Hall 
Association  of  Fall  River.  In  religious 
faith  he  is  a  Unitarian. 

Mr.  Hathaway  married  at  Fall  River, 
September  2,  1884,  Maria  Louise  Wilbur, 
born  March  2^,  1863,  daughter  of  Andrew 
and  Maria  (Wilkie)  Wilbur,  and  of 
ancient  family,  tracing  to  the  "May- 
flower." Mr.  and  Mrs.  Hathaway  are  the 
parents  of  two  daughters  and  a  son : 
Hazel  Louise,  married  E.  W.  Clarke,  of 
Fall  River ;  Robert  Wilbur,  now  with  the 
Union  Belt  Company,  and  now  a  mem- 
ber of  Company  A,  Three  Hundred  and 
Second  United  States  Infantry,  and  sta- 
tioned at  Ayer,  Massachusetts,  with  rank 
of  corporal ;  Grace  Doris,  married  Albert 
W.  Lewis,  Jr. 


BAGG,  Richard  Atwater, 

Agriculturist. 

The  late  Richard  Atwater  Bagg  comes 
of  ancient  English  ancestry.  Robert  Le 
Bagge,  of  Caen,  Normandy,  went  with 
William  the  Conqueror  to  England,  where 
the  family  has  since  flourished  in  Py- 
mouth  and  in  the  county  of  Norfolk.  The 
name,  usually  spelled  "Bagge"  in  Eng- 
land, is  said  to  signify  a  badge. 

(I)  John  Bagg,  the  first  American 
ancestor  of  record,  makes  his  earliest 
appearance  as  a  resident  of  Springfield, 
Massachusetts.  He  settled  on  the  west 
bank  of  the  Connecticut,  in  the  neighbor- 
hood which  later  became  West  Spring- 
field. He  married,  December  24,  1657,  at 
Springfield,  Hannah  Burt,  who  was  born 
there  April  28,  1641,  and  they  were  the 
parents  of  five  sons  and  five  daughters. 
John  Bagg  appears  to  have  been  an  indus- 
trious citizen,  and  his  descendants  are 
among  the  most  prosperous  and  intelli- 
gent people  of  recent  times.  His  wife 
died  August  i,  1680,  and  he  passed  away 
on  September  5,  1683. 

(II)  John  (2)  Bagg,  son  of  John 
(i)  and  Hannah  (Burt)  Bagg,  was 
born  March  26,  1665.  He  married, 
March  30,  1689,  Mercy,  born  May  15, 
1671,  daughter  of  Rowland  and  Sarah 
(Chapin)  Thomas,  who  were  married 
April  14,  1667.  The  latter  was  a  daugh- 
ter of  Deacon  Samuel  Chapin,  the  immi- 
grant, who  died  November  11,  1675,  and 
to  whom  a  statue  was  erected  at  Spring- 
field, in  1887.  Rowland  Thomas  died 
February  21,  1698,  his  wife  having  passed 
away  August  5,  1684.  John  Bagg  and  his 
wife  were  the  parents  of  four  sons  and  six 
daughters.  The  death  of  John  Bagg 
occurred  in  November,  1740. 

(III)  Thomas  Bagg,  son  of  John  (2) 
and  Mercy  (Thomas)  Bagg,  was  born 
February  22,  1710.     He  married,  July  29, 


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1748,  Margaret,  born  November  21,  1716, 
daughter  of  Joshua  Root,  who  was  born 
November  23,  1682,  and  was  one  of  the 
original  proprietors  of  the  land  which 
now  constitutes  the  sites  of  Great  Har- 
rington and  Sheffield.  He  died  Septem- 
ber 28,  1730.  To  Thomas  Bagg  and  his 
wife  were  born  five  sons  and  one  daugh- 
ter. The  mother  of  the  family  passed 
away  October  4,  1775,  and  the  father  sur- 
vived her  but  six  months,  his  death  occur- 
ring April  II,  1776. 

(IV)  Ezekiel  Bagg,  son  of  Thomas  and 
Margaret  (Root)  Bagg,  was  born  Janu- 
ary 24,  1761,  and  as  a  man  was  of  great 
stature,  being  over  six  feet  in  height.  He 
was  energetic,  an  indefatigable  worker 
and  extremely  methodical,  but  good- 
natured  and  kind-hearted.  He  married, 
January  4,  1787,  Huldah,  born  March  24, 
1758,  daughter  of  Roger  and  Mary  (Steb- 
bins)  Cooley,  who  were  married  August 
4,  1748.  Roger  Cooley  was  born  Sep- 
tember 21,  1719,  and  in  1776  served  as 
lieutenant  in  Colonel  John  Moseley's  reg- 
iment, at  White  Plains.  He  died  June  6, 
1802.  His  son,  also  Roger,  was  a  soldier 
on  duty  at  the  execution  of  Major  Andre 
in  1780,  and  afterward  became  colonel  in 
the  Massachusetts  militia.  Ezekiel  Bagg 
and  his  wife  were  the  parents  of  three 
sons  and  three  daughters.  Mrs.  Bagg 
died  July  17,  1833,  and  on  January  i, 
1837,  her  husband  was  gathered  to  his 
fathers. 

(V)  Richard  Bagg,  son  of  Ezekiel  and 
Huldah  (Cooley)  Bagg,  was  born  No- 
vember 22,  1789,  and  was  a  farmer  of  the 
old  school.  He  was  a  church  member  and 
a  regular  attendant,  his  pew  being  well 
toward  the  front,  and  his  custom  was  to 
turn  about  and  take  a  deliberate  survey 
of  the  congregation  before  settling  into 
his  seat.  Mr.  Bagg  married,  January  3, 
1809,  Flavia,  born  January  15,  1789,  at 
Elizabeth,  New  Jersey,  daughter  of  Rans- 


ford  and  Belinda  (Flower)  Rogers,  the 
latter  born  May  9,  1761,  at  Agawam,  died 
June  I,  1844.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Bagg  had 
three  daughters  and  one  son.  The  death 
of  Mr.  Bagg  occurred  January  4,  i860, 
and  his  widow  survived  him  ten  years, 
passing  away  February  15,  1870. 

(VI)  Richard  (2)  Bagg,  son  of  Richard 
(i)  and  Flavia  (Rogers)  Bagg,  was  born 
March  20,  1812,  and  was  a  progres- 
sive agriculturist,  becoming  the  largest 
market-gardener  in  the  county  if  not  in 
the  State,  having  about  forty  acres  under 
cultivation  and  employing  a  large  num- 
ber of  men.  In  politics  he  was  a  staunch 
Whig.  Mr.  Bagg  married  (first)  Janu- 
ary 3,  1838,  Nancy,  born  June  12,  1814, 
daughter  of  Elijah  and  Lucy  (Vanhorn) 
Bliss,  and  they  became  the  parents  of  one 
daughter,  Nancy  Elizabeth,  born  Novem- 
ber 15,  1838,  married  Francis  Henry  Ful- 
ler, and  died  July  30,  1893.  Mrs.  Bagg 
died  December  21,  1838,  and  Mr.  Bagg 
married  (second)  January  3,  1841,  at  New 
Haven,  Susan,  born  July  14,  1817,  daugh- 
ter of  Lyman  and  Clarissa  (Hotchkiss) 
Atwater.  Mr.  Atwater  was  born  March 
3,  1783.  and  died  March  20,  1862.  His 
wife,  who  was  born  December  18,  1786, 
died  September  17,  1846.  By  his  second 
marriage  Mr.  Bagg  was  the  father  of  two 
sons :  Richard  Atwater,  of  further  men- 
tion ;  and  Lyman  Hotchkiss,  born  De- 
cember 24,  1846.  Mr.  Bagg  died  October 
29,  1852,  and  the  Rev.  Henry  Field,  edi- 
tor of  the  "Evangelist,"  who  knew  him 
well,  spoke  of  him  thus:  "If  it  were 
required  to  characterize  him  by  one  word 
it  would  be  energy.  Nor  was  this  extra- 
ordinary activity  expended  merely  in  the 
promotion  of  his  own  interests.  He  was 
a  man  of  public  spirit.  He  took  a  lively 
interest  in  whatever  concerned  the  pros- 
perity of  the  town.  He  was  a  warm  friend 
of  schools."  Mrs.  Bagg  survived  her  hus- 
band more  than  forty  years,  passing  away 


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December  27,  1895.  It  was  truly  said 
of  her:  "She  was  a  woman  of  rare  per- 
sonality. She  was  calm,  cordial,  consid- 
erate, cautious,  even-tempered  and  had 
large  common  sense.  She  inherited  good 
business  capacity.  She  made  no  enemies 
and  none  spoke  ill  of  her." 

(VII)  Richard  Atwater  Bagg,  son  o'f 
Richard  (2)  and  Susan  (Atwater)  Bagg, 
was  born  November  29,  1843,  in  West 
Springfield,  where  he  received  his  earliest 
education  in  the  public  schools,  afterward 
attending  Springfield  private  schools  and 
then  studying  at  the  academy  in  Suffield, 
Connecticut.  After  finishing  his  student 
life,  Mr.  Bagg  became  the  assistant  of 
his  father,  learning  thoroughly,  in  all  its 
branches,  the  business  of  a  market  gar- 
dener. Perhaps  it  would  be  more  cor- 
rect to  say,  in  view  of  the  fact  that  at  the 
time  of  his  father's  death  he  was  but  a 
boy,  that  his  training  was  received  under 
the  supervision  of  his  admirable  mother 
who,  on  being  left  a  widow,  continued  the 
business  with  notable  success.  On  reach- 
ing manhood  he  was  able  to  relieve  his 
mother  of  the  care  of  the  estate,  and  dur- 
ing the  remainder  of  his  life  conducted 
the  business  in  a  manner  which  proved 
that  he  had  inherited  his  father's  talent. 
In  politics  Mr.  Bagg  was  a  Republican 
and,  while  always  public-spirited,  never 
took  any  active  part  in  community  afifairs. 
He  never  affiliated  with  any  lodges  nor 
joined  any  clubs,  always,  however,  re- 
taining his  membership  in  the  First  Con- 
gregational Church  of  West  Springfield. 

Mr.  Bagg  married,  October  17,  1866, 
Martina  Sanchez  Doringh,  born  Septem- 
ber 12,  1848,  in  Cuba,  daughter  of  Martin 
and  Josephine  Sanchez,  and  adopted 
daughter  of  C.  H.  R.  Doringh,  of  Bristol, 
Rhode  Island.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Bagg  were 
the  parents  of  four  daughters:  i.  Susan 
Sanchez,  born  July  17,  1867,  married, 
June   14,    1892,   Williard    Francis  Tripp, 


born  March  8,  1867,  died  February  22, 
1899,  son  of  Ephraim  Augustus  and  Har- 
riet Frances  (Armstrong)  Tripp,  who 
were  married  June  17,  1855.  Mr.  Tripp 
served  the  city  of  Springfield  as  council- 
man, alderman  and  on  the  school  commit- 
tee, and  at  the  time  of  his  death  was  the 
president  of  the  R.  H.  Smith  Company, 
manufacturers  of  rubber  stamps.  Mrs. 
Tripp  resides  with  her  mother.  Mr.  and 
Mrs.  Tripp  had  two  children:  Richard 
Bagg,  born  October  19,  1894,  died  August 
12,  1910,  and  Louise,  born  August  15, 
1899.  2.  Martina  Doringh,  born  Janu- 
ary 8,  1869,  resides  with  her  mother.  3. 
Louise  Atwater,  born  March  2,  1874,  mar- 
ried, June  12,  1902,  Charles  Emory 
Crosier,  now  of  Fitchburg,  Massachu- 
setts, manager  for  Swift  &  Company  ;  they 
have  had  two  children:  Elizabeth  Mar- 
tma,  born  September  7,  1909,  died  at  the 
age  of  six  days;  and  John  Emory,  born 
December  21,  1912.  4.  Lena  Grace,  born 
February  10,  1879,  married,  September  12, 
1905,  Dwight  Alonzo  Thayer,  of  Roches- 
ter, New  York,  traveling  salesman  for  the 
Ailing  and  Corey  Company,  a  paper 
house  of  that  city.  In  his  marriage  Mr. 
Bagg  was  singularly  fortunate.  His  wife, 
in  addition  to  possessing  all  the  domestic 
virtues,  qualities  most  necessary  to  a 
man  of  his  home-loving  disposition,  was 
endowed  with  executive  talents  rarely 
found  in  one  of  her  sex,  and  since  she 
became  a  widow  has  managed  with  con- 
sumate  ability  the  estate  and  business  of 
her  late  husband.  It  is  now  many  years 
since  Mrs.  Bagg  was  forced  to  assume 
this  responsibility,  for  on  February  10, 
1880,  Mr.  Bagg,  then  only  in  the  thirty- 
seventh  year  of  his  age,  was  summoned 
to  rest  from  the  labors  which  had  proved 
too  strenuous  for  his  physical  powers. 
Young  as  he  was  he  left  a  record  of  ac- 
complishment which  many  men  greatly 
his  seniors   might  justifiably   envy. 


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Perhaps  some  words  spoken  of  his 
father  might  be  applied  to  this  son  who 
so  strongly  resembled  him  :  "He  was  the 
strongest  and  manliest  among  us.  *  *  * 
His  presence,  even,  inspired  confidence. 
He  had  the  power  of  infusing  ambition 
into  those  around  him,  and  wherever  he 
went  there  went  life  and  energy." 


STEDMAN,  Edward  Phineas, 
Agricnlturist. 

Chicopee,  Massachusetts,  was  the  birth- 
place of  Edward  Phineas  Stedman,  and 
of  his  father,  Phineas  (3)  Stedman,  but 
prior  generations  had  lived  in  Connecti- 
cut. Phineas  (3)  Stedman  was  a  son  of 
Levi  Stedman,  son  of  Phineas  (2)  Sted- 
man, son  of  Phineas  (i)  Stedman,  all  of 
Staflford,  Connecticut.  Phineas  (2)  Sted- 
man was  a  farmer  of  Stafford  for  many 
years,  then  moved  to  Springfield,  Massa- 
chusetts, his  home  in  that  city  being  on 
Liberty  street.  He  married  (first)  Sarah 
Howard,  and  they  were  the  parents  of  six 
sons  and  a  daughter.  One  of  these  sons, 
Levi  Stedman,  was  the  father  of  Phineas 
(3)  and  grandfather  of  Edward  Phineas 
Stedman. 

Levi  Stedman  was  born  in  Stafford, 
Connecticut,  but  early  in  life  was  brought 
to  Springfield,  Massachusetts,  by  his  par- 
ents, and  there  he  resided  until  after  his 
marriage,  when  he  purchased  a  farm  at 
Chicopee.  There  he  passed  the  remainder 
of  his  years,  eighty-two,  a  prosperous, 
highly-respected  farmer.  He  married  So- 
phia Chapin,  of  Chicopee,  daughter  of 
Ephraim  Chapin,  and  a  descendant  of 
Deacon  Samuel  Chapin.  She  died  at  the 
age  of  eighty-two,  the  mother  of  four  sons 
and  five  daughters,  as  follows :  Mary 
Ann,  married  a  Mr.  Gates;  Sophia  C, 
married  Dr.  Chapin ;  Sarah  H. ;  Cath- 
erine, died  in  infancy;  Phineas  (3),  of 
further  mention;   Amelia,  married  Chal- 


mers Chapin ;    Levi  Lyman ;    William  S. 
and  Benjamin. 

Phineas  (3)  Stedman  was  born  in 
Chicopee,  Massachusetts,  July  5,  1816, 
and  died  September  9,  1898.  He  was  edu- 
cated in  the  schools  of  Chicopee,  and 
assisted  in  the  cultivation  of  the  home 
farm  until  the  age  of  nineteen,  when  he 
began  teaching  a  district  school  at  South 
Hadley,  receiving  for  the  four  months' 
term  the  sum  of  $50,  in  addition  to  his 
board  which  was  furnished  him  by 
patrons  of  the  school  in  turn.  He  next 
taught  two  terms  in  Springfield,  Massa- 
chusetts, then  for  three  terms  taught  in 
his  home  district,  Chicopee.  These  terms 
were  all  in  the  winter  months,  and  dur- 
ing the  summer  intervals  Mr.  Stedman 
was  employed  in  farming.  In  1855  he 
became  New  England  manager  of  the 
Buffalo  Agricultural  Machine  Company, 
a  position  he  filled  for  four  years.  He 
then  returned  to  farming,  and  at  his  well 
improved  one  hundred  acre  farm  on 
Chicopee  street,  Chicopee,  conducted  gen- 
eral farming  operations.  He  also  traveled 
in  the  interest  of  the  Moseley  &  Stod- 
dard Manufacturing  Company  for  eleven 
years,  covering  the  States  of  Massachu- 
setts and  Connecticut.  He  cast  his  first 
presidential  vote  for  William  Henry  Har- 
rison, and  continued  in  the  support  of  the 
Whig  party  until  it  was  succeeded  by  the 
new  Republican  party,  which  he  sup- 
ported for  the  remainder  of  his  life.  He 
served  Chicopee  as  one  of  its  assessors, 
and  in  1862  as  representative  to  the  State 
Legislature ;  served  Hampden  county  as 
commissioner,  and  the  State  as  a  member 
of  the  Massachusetts  Board  of  Agricul- 
ture. He  organized  the  Hampden  Har- 
vest Club,  was  also  a  member  of  the 
Franklin  Harvest  Club  and  of  the  Hamp- 
den County  Agricultural  Society.  At  his 
Chicopee  street  farm  he  conducted  a 
dairy,    and    at    one   time   was   a   leading 


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breeder  of  short  horn  cattle.  He  was  a 
man  of  education  and  enterprise,  public- 
spirited  and  broad  in  his  vision,  deeply 
interested  iiTthe  welfare  and  development 
of  his  section  of  the  State.  He  married, 
October  i6,  1839,  Lucy  Pynchon  Wright, 
born  in  Hampton  county,  Massachusetts, 
December  26,  1814,  daughter  of  Eber  and 
Oral  Wright.  They  were  the  parents  of: 
Mary  Ann,  married  Edward  Belding; 
Orville,  died  in  infancy ;  Edward  Phineas, 
to  whom  this  review  is  inscribed. 

Edward  Phineas  Stedman  was  born  in 
Chicopee,  Massachusetts,  at  the  home- 
stead farm,  September  24,  1843,  ^^d  died 
there  March  8,  1909.  He  was  educated  in 
the  public  schools  of  Chicopee,  Burnham 
College,  and  a  private  school  in  Long- 
meadow,  and  from  his  first  until  his 
latest  day  the  old  homestead  was  his 
home,  and  after  the  death  of  his  parents, 
it  became  his  property.  He  was  his  fath- 
er's assistant  from  youth,  and  later  the 
management  of  the  farm  devolving  upon 
him,  and  finally  the  land  he  loved  and 
brought  to  a  high  state  of  cultivation  be- 
came his  own.  He  became  widely  known 
as  a  successful,  progressive  farmer,  and 
reached  the  height  of  local  favor  which 
made  him  an  authority  in  matters  agri- 
cultural. The  farm  was  his  business  and 
his  occupation,  not  a  drudgery,  and  to  its 
cultivation  he  gave  his  mind  and  brain. 
He  caused  its  acres  to  produce  abun- 
dantly, and  through  his  example  and 
advice  the  entire  section  benefitted.  He 
was  a  lifelong  Republican,  and  during  the 
days  of  town  government  he  was  sur- 
veyor of  highways.  He  was  never  un- 
mindful of  his  obligations  as  a  citizen, 
and  met  them  fully,  failing  in  no  duty, 
public  or  private.  He  was  a  member  of 
the  First  Congregational  Church  of 
Chicopee,  and  liberally  supported  its  vari- 
ous benevolences. 

Mr.  Stedman  married  Catherine  Hins- 


dale Cross,  of  Blanford,  Massachusetts, 
born  May  3,  1840,  died  May  14,  1903.  Mr. 
and  Mrs.  Stedman  were  the  parents  of 
two  sons  and  a  daughter:  i.  Phineas 
(4),  resides  in  Winchendon,  Massachu- 
setts, a  farmer  and  also  follows  his 
trade  of  painting;  married  Lillian  Bald- 
win, and  they  have  four  children :  Ed- 
ward P.,  Howard  E.,  Catherine  J.,  and 
Clifton  B.  2.  Benjamin,  who  died  May 
31,  1917;  he  carried  on  the  homestead 
farm  after  his  father's  death.  3.  Lucy 
Wright,  residing  at  No.  243  Chicopee 
street,  Chicopee,  Massachusetts. 


GATES,  Mary  A., 

Representative    of    Important    Family. 

Mary  A.  Gates,  of  Chicopee,  Massa- 
chusetts, is  a  descendant  of  an  old  and 
distinguished  family  in  this  country,  and 
one  which  can  be  traced  back  in  England 
for  many  generations.  Stephen  Gates, 
the  American  progenitor,  was  the  son  of 
Thomas,  who  was  the  son  of  Peter,  who 
was  the  son  of  GeolTrey,  who  was  the  son 
of  Geofifrey,  who  was  the  son  of  Sir  Geof- 
frey, who  was  the  son  of  William,  who 
was  the  son  of  Sir  Geofifrey,  who  was 
the  son  of  William,  who  was  the  son  of 
Thomas. 

(I)  Stephen  Gates,  the  immigrant  an- 
cestor, who  represents  the  first  American 
generation  of  the  Gates  family,  was  the 
second  son  of  Thomas  Gates,  of  Norwich, 
Norfolk  county,  England.  He  came 
from  Hingham,  England,  to  Hingham, 
Massachusetts  Bay  Colony,  in  the  ship 
"Diligent,"  of  Ipswich,  England,  in  the 
year  1638.  With  him  came  his  wife  Ann 
(Hill),  and  two  children.  He  first  set- 
tled at  Hingham,  Massachusetts,  remov- 
ing from  there  to  Lancaster,  Massachu- 
setts, and  the  records  of  that  place  give 
him  as  there  in  1656.  From  Lancaster  he 
went  to  Cambridge,  Massachusetts,  where 


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he  died  in  1662.    His  will  was  dated  June    was  baptized  with  others  May  3, 1646,  and 


9,  1662,  and  as  it  was  probated  October 
7,  1662,  his  death  must  have  occurred 
between  those  dates. 

The  men  of  the  Gates  family  were  good 
fighters  and  soldiers,  and  we  find  them 
again  and  again  enlisting  in  the  Indian 
and  Colonial  wars  of  the  period.  They 
took  an  active  part  in  the  Revolutionary 
War,  and  one  of  the  family  is  said  to 
have  begun  his  service  at  the  age  of  ten. 
Members  of  the  family  also  took  part  in 
the  War  of  1812,  fighting  for  the  same 
rights  they  had  so  bravely  upheld  in  the 
Revolution.  Though  the  records  of  the 
Mexican  War  are  scanty,  they  probably 
followed  the  old  tradition  of  the  house, 
and  the  records  of  their  services  in  the 
Civil  War  would  be  too  voluminous  for 
anything  but  the  bare  mention. 

Stephen  (i)  Gates  left  in  his  will  to 
his  eldest  son,  Stephen  (2)  Gates,  his 
house  and  its  adjacent  land  in  Lancaster, 
Massachusetts.  To  his  wife,  and  son, 
Simon,  he  left  his  place  in  Cambridge, 
Massachusetts,  with  the  arrangement 
that  his  son,  Thomas,  should  live  with 
them,  should  be  choose  to  do  so.  The  fol- 
lowing were  the  children  of  Stephen  (i) 
and  Ann  (Hill)  Gates:  i.  Elizabeth, 
born,  probably,  in  England,  died  August 

3,  1704,  at  Hingham,  Massachusetts ; 
married,  November  29,  1647,  John  Laselle 
(also  spelled  Lasell),  who  is  suppossed  to 
have  died  in  1695.  2.  Mary,  born,  prob- 
ably, in  England;  married,  April  5,  1658, 
John  Maynard,  of  Sudbury,  Massachu- 
setts. He  died  December  22,  171 1.  3. 
Stephen   (2),  of  whom  further  mention. 

4.  Thomas,  born  in  1642;  married,  July 
6,  1670,  Elizabeth  Freeman,  daughter  of 
Edmund  Freeman,  of  Sudbury,  Massa- 
chusetts. 5.  Simon,  born  in  1645,  died 
April  21,  1693,  at  Brockton,  Massachu- 
setts; married  Margaret ,  of  Cam- 
bridge,    Massachusetts.      6.  Isaac,    who 


died  September  3,  1651.  7.  Rebecca,  bap- 
tized with  others  May  3,  1646,  died  Janu- 
ary, 1650. 

(II)  Stephen  (2)  Gates,  son  of  Ste- 
phen (i)  and  Ann  (Hill)  Gates,  was 
born  about  1640,  and  died,  in  1706,  at 
Acton,  Massachusetts.  He  married  Sarah 
Woodward,  daughter  of  George  and  Eliz- 
abeth (Hammond)  Woodward,  of  Water- 
town,  Massachusetts.  He  lived  in  Stow, 
Massachusetts,  and  he  was  also  an  early 
proprietor  of  Preston,  Connecticut,  in 
which  neighborhood  a  number  of  his  de- 
scendants are  still  to  be  found.  He  made 
a  will  in  Stow,  dated  September  5,  1701, 
which  was  probated  in  1707.  His  chil- 
dren were:  i.  Stephen  (3),  born  July 
17,  1663.  2.  Simon,  of  whom  further.  3. 
Thomas,  born  December  31,  1669,  died  in 
1740,  at  Preston,  Connecticut;  married, 
in  December,  1695,  Margaret  Geer,  of 
Preston,  Connecticut.  4.  Isaac,  born  in 
1673  ;  married  Elizabeth ,  died  No- 
vember 22,  1748,  at  Stow,  Massachusetts. 
5.  Nathaniel,  born  in  1675.  6.  Sarah, 
born  April  2T,  \6~g,  at  Marlborough,  Mas- 
sachusetts. 7.  Rebecca,  born  July  23, 
1682,  at  Marlborough,  Massachusetts.  8. 
Daniel,  born  April  23,  1685,  at  Marlbor- 
ough, Massachusetts. 

(III)  Simon  Gates,  son  of  Stephen  (2) 
and  Sarah  (Woodward)  Gates,  was  born 
June  5,  1666;  married  May  4,  1688,  Han- 
nah Benjamin,  of  Stow,  Massachusetts. 
The  children  of  this  couple  were:  i. 
Simon.  2.  Joseph.  3.  Benjamin,  of  whom 
further.  4.  Elisha.  5.  Israel.  6.  Amos. 
7.  Hannah,  married  a  Mr.  Heald.  8. 
Mary,  married  a  Mr.  Haynes.  9.  Susan- 
nah, married  a  Mr.  Fitch.  10.  Elizabeth, 
married  a  Mr.  Wheeler. 

(IV)  Benjamin  Gates,  son  of  Simon 
and  Hannah  (Benjamin)  Gates,  was  born 
in  1704,  and  died,  in  1756,  at  Barre,  Mas- 
sachusetts.   He  married,  in  1727,  Bethulia 


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Rice,  daughter  of  Jonathan  and  Anna 
(Derby)  Rice,  of  Sudbury,  Massachu- 
setts, who  was  born  March  24,  1704. 
They  settled  at  Worcester,  Massachu- 
setts, and  went  afterwards  and  established 
their  home  in  Barre,  Massachusetts. 
Their  children  were:  i.  Israel,  of  whom 
further.  2.  William,  born  in  1729.  As 
sergeant  of  militia,  he  responded  to  an 
emergency  call,  and  served  in  Captain 
French's  Company,  from  September  23, 
1777,  to  October  18,  1777,  and  again  in 
1779,  answering  two  calls  in  the  latter 
year.  (The  foregoing  is  taken  from  the 
Massachusetts  Archives  as  quoted  in 
"Stephen  Gates,  of  Hingham,  and  his 
descendants").  3.  Thomas,  born  in  1732; 
married  Experience  Perry.  4.  Make- 
peace, born  May  13,  1735;  married,  June 
6,  1765,  Catherine  Smith,  daughter  of 
Nathaniel  Smith,  of  Barre,  Massachu- 
setts. She  died  June  23,  1825,  and  he, 
September  9,  1817.  5.  Benjamin,  born 
November  2"],  1737,  died  1796-7;  married 
(first)  Experience  Mason,  and  married 
(second)  Experience  Allen.  6.  Esther, 
born  in  1739.  7.  Jonathan,  born  in  1742; 
married  May  4,  1770,  Catey  Morse.  He 
responded  to  the  "Lexington  Alarm"  and 
served  eleven  days.  8.  Aaron,  born  in 
1744.  He  responded  to  the  "Lexington 
Alarm"  a^d  is  credited  with  eleven  days' 
service. 

(V)  Israel  Gates,  son  of  Benjamin  and 
Bethulia  (Rice)  Gates,  was  born  at  Con- 
way, Massachusetts.  He  enlisted  May  8, 
1775,  and  served  at  the  siege  of  Boston 
until  October,  1775,  when  he  seems  to 
have  been  transferred  to  the  "Alarm 
List,"  sometimes  called  "Minute  Men," 
being  men  who  held  themselves  in  readi- 
ness to  respond  immediately  to  any  sud- 
den call.  In  this  service  he  responded  to 
several  calls,  serving  from  a  few  days  to 
a  month  and  a  half.  In  1778  he  was 
drafted  in  the  quota  for  Stow,  Massachu- 


setts, and  its  vicinity,  but  paid  the  fine  for 
not  serving.  (Quoted  from  the  Massa- 
chusetts Archives  in  "Stephen  Gates, 
of  Hingham,  and  his  descendants"). 
The  children  of  Israel  Gates  were:  i. 
Peter,  of  whom  further.  2.  Experience, 
born  April  16,  1775;  married  January  31, 
1798,  Henry  Arms,  who  was  born  July 
ID,  1769,  and  died  in  1848,  a  brother  of 
Experience  Arms,  who  married  Peter 
Gates;  she  also  died  in  1848.  3.  Electa, 
who  married  Josiah  Boyden,  Jr.,  of  Con- 
way, Massachusetts.  They  were  resi- 
dents of  Conway,  and  had  twelve  chil- 
dren. 4.  Luke,  who  married  Rebecca 
Kittridge,  and  who  lived  in  Lenox,  Mas- 
sachusetts. 5.  Thomas,  who  lived  in 
Belchertown,  Massachusetts.  6.  Ezra,  who 
moved  to  Canada. 

(VI)  Peter  Gates,  son  of  Israel  (i) 
Gates,  was  born  in  1753,  at  Conway,  Mas- 
sachusetts, and  died  in  the  same  place, 
December  15,  1821.  He  married  (first) 
in  1778,  Anna  Childs,  and  after  her  death 
he  married  (second)  in  1782,  Experience 
Arms,  daughter  of  Daniel  Arms,  and  sis- 
ter of  the  Henry  Arms  who  married  his 
sister.  Experience  Gates.  (See  V).  The 
children  of  Peter  Gates  were:  i.  Israel 
(2),  of  whom  further.  2.  Anna,  born 
June  19,  1785,  at  Conway,  Massachusetts. 
3.  Daniel,  born  January  23,  1787;  mar- 
ried Lydia  White.  4.  Electa,  born  Janu- 
ary 8,  1789;  married  Samuel  Childs.  5. 
Henry,  born  November  25,  1791 ;  mar- 
ried Julia  Case.  6.  Sumner,  born  April 
15,  1796.  7.  Spencer,  born  August  14, 
1798,  and  died  in  1848,  at  New  Orleans, 
Louisiana.  8.  Willard,  born  June  28, 
1802.  All  of  these  children  were  born  in 
Conway,  Massachusetts. 

(VII)  Israel  (2)  Gates,  son  of  Peter 
and  Anna  (Childs)  Gates,  was  born  at 
Conway,  Massachusetts,  November  17, 
1783,  and  died  at  the  age  of  eighty-three, 
September  3,  1866.    He  married.  May  25, 


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1809,  Hannah  Lincoln,  who  was  born 
June  17,  1786,  and  died  August  2,  1868. 
She  was  a  native  of  Wyndham,  Connecti- 
cut. He  was  a  blacksmith  by  trade,  Hv- 
ing  in  Long  Meadow,  Massachusetts,  and 
was  considered  very  skillful.  Their  chil- 
dren were :  I.  Caroline,  born  February 
27,  1810,  died  January  17,  1834,  at  the 
age  of  twenty-four.  2.  Experience  Arms, 
born  June  26,  1812,  died  April  5,  1819; 
married  Uriah  Ladd,  of  Springfield,  Mas- 
sachusetts. 3.  Israel,  born  September  21, 
1814,  died  April  12,  1884.  4.  Henry,  of 
whom  further.  5.  Hannah  Lincoln,  born 
March  5,  1821,  died  May  27,  1888;  mar- 
ried Robert  Silcox.  6.  Mary  Billings, 
born  June  16,  1823,  died  March  28,  1845. 
7.  Sumner  W.,  born  November  23,  1826, 
died  November  20,  1917. 

(VIII)  Henry  Gates,  son  of  Israel  (2) 
and  Hannah  (Lincoln)  Gates,  was  born 
August  5,  1817,  and  died  at  Chicopee, 
Massachusetts,  January  14,  1907.  He 
received  a  common  school  education,  but 
made  the  most  of  every  opportunity  for 
acquiring  information,  thus  gaining  a  bet- 
ter general  education  than  many  who 
have  studied  longer  at  school.  Like  the 
great  English  poet,  his  "university  was 
the  world."  When  a  young  boy  he 
worked  in  his  father's  shop  and  learned 
the  trade  of  blacksmith,  becoming  known 
far  and  wide  as  a  very  skilled  work- 
man. He  was  the  only  man  in  the  region 
who  was  able  to  shoe  oxen,  and  was  much 
called  on  for  this.  After  learning  his 
trade  he  was  associated  with  his  father 
in  business  for  a  few  years,  carrying 
it  on  in  Long  Meadow,  Massachusetts. 
In  1844  he  came  from  Long  Meadow, 
to  Chicopee,  Massachusetts,  and  there 
worked  for  a  time  in  the  service  of  the 
Ames  Company,  being  rated  there  as  a 
first  class  workman.  He  was  in  business 
for  a  long  period  of  years  in   Holyoke, 


Massachusetts,  although  he  retained  his 
residence  in  Chicopee.  In  Holyoke  he 
was  associated  in  the  blacksmith  business 
with  Mr.  Hosmer,  under  the  firm  name 
of  Gates  &  Hosmer.  This  partnership 
was  terminated  after  a  few  years,  and  Mr. 
Gates  bought  a  shop  in  Chicopee,  in  1856, 
and  was  in  active  business  there  until 
1884,  when  failing  eyesight  compelled  his 
retirement.  During  his  long  business 
career  the  wagons  built  by  Mr.  Gates 
were  known  throughout  the  State  for  ex- 
cellence of  workmanship,  and  their  relia- 
bility and  durability.  He  had  a  high 
reputation  as  a  conscientious  workman, 
and  was  esteemed  by  all  his  fellow  towns- 
men as  a  fine  type  of  the  simple  Ameri- 
can citizen,  who  does  his  duty  to  his  fam- 
ily and  to  his  community.  In  the  quiet 
pursuance  of  his  business  interests  he  was 
very  successful.  Among  these  were  real 
estate  in  which  he  became  an  extensive 
owner.  He  built  himself  the  house  in 
which  he  lived  the  greater  part  of  his 
life.  He  was  a  member  and  deacon  of  the 
Baptist  church,  of  Chicopee,  Massachu- 
setts, from  1866  until  the  time  of  his 
death.  He  married  (first)  Abigail  Col- 
son,  after  whose  death  he  married  (sec- 
ond) May  3,  1843,  Almira  Callista  Abby, 
who  was  born  September  18,  1817,  and 
died  August  14,  1888.  To  the  first  mar- 
riage one  daughter  was  born,  Abbie  Fran- 
ces, who  married  Henry  M.  Colton,  of 
Long  Meadow,  Massachusetts.  Their 
children  are :  May,  Harry,  Fred,  Daisy, 
and  Jessie,  all  deceased.  By  the  second 
marriage  there  were  three  children:  i. 
Mary  A.  2.  Albert  H.,  who  married 
Mary  L.  Bodfish.  She  died  April  5,  1916, 
leaving  a  daughter.  Belle  Bertha.  3. 
Clarence  U.,  who  married  Jennie  Morley, 
and  they  have  one  .daughter,  Almira  Jen- 
nie, who  married  James  Smith,  of  New 
York  City. 


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ELMER,  Ellsworth  Elijah, 

Agriculturist. 

In  the  "Domesday  Book,"  a  record  of 
lands  given  by  William  the  Conqueror  to 
his  followers  (1086),  and  the  earliest  rec- 
ord of  land  titles  in  England,  the  name  El- 
mer frequently  appears  as  "Elmer  habet." 
Since  then  many  spellings  of  the  name 
have  prevailed  :  Aylmer,  Elmor,  Elmour, 
Elmore,  and  Elmer,  the  most  common. 
John  Aylmer,  Bishop  of  London,  in  Queen 
Elizabeth's  time,  wrote  his  name  both 
Aelmer  and  Elmer.  In  both  England  and 
America  branches  of  the  same  family  used 
the  forms  Elmer  and  Elmore.  The  Amer- 
ican ancestor  from  whom  the  Elmer's  of 
Chicopee  trace  their  descent  is  Edward 
Elmer,  born  in  England,  about  1604,  a 
son  of  Edward  and  Elizabeth  Elmer.  He 
came  to  New  England  in  the  ship,  "Lion," 
arriving  in  Boston,  September  16,  1632, 
and  settling  first  in  Cambridge.  In  1636 
he  joined  Rev.  Joseph  Hooker's  Com- 
pany, and  went  to  Hartford,  Connecticut, 
one  of  the  original  proprietors,  his  home 
lot  being  on  the  east  side  of  Main  street. 
In  1654  he  became  one  of  the  first  set- 
tlers of  Northampton,  there  was  chosen 
recorder  in  1658,  but  in  1660  returned  to 
Hartford,  acquiring  in  addition  to  the 
land  owned  there  a  tract  of  550  acres  on 
the  east  side  of  the  river  in  what  is  now 
South  Windsor.  That  tract  he  and  his 
sons  cultivated  on  that  day  in  June,  1676, 
when  he  was  killed  on  his  farm  by  In- 
dians. A  portion  of  that  farm  at  South 
Windsor  is  yet  owned  by  descendants  of 
the  first  owner,  Edward  Elmer,  who  hal- 
lowed it  with  his  blood. 

From  Edward  and  Mary  Elmer  sprang 
a  large  family,  they  having  sons :  John, 
Samuel,  Edward  and  Joseph  ;  and  daugh- 
ters :  Elizabeth,  Mary  and  Sarah.  The 
line  of  descent  to  Ellsworth  A.  Elmer  is 
through  the  founder's  third  son,  Edward 


(2)  Elmer,  who  was  born  in  Hartford, 
Connecticut,  in  1654,  died  in  South  Wind- 
sor, October  31,  1725.  He  married  Re- 
becca   ,  and  they  were  the  parents 

of  sons:  xiezekiah,  Caleb,  Amos  and 
Edward  ;  also  daughters :  Mary,  Hester, 
Rebecca,  Hannah  and  Ann. 

Hezekiah  Elmer,  the  eldest  son  of  Ed- 
ward (2)  and  Rebecca  Elmer,  was  born 
in  Hartford,  in  1636,  removed  to  Deer- 
field,  Massachusetts,  thence  to  Northfield 
in  1717,  and  died  there,  September  19, 
1750.  He  was  the  owner  of  Elmore's 
Island  in  the  Connecticut  river,  in  1731, 
and  was  a  soldier  in  Captain  Kellogg's 
company   in    1724.      He   married    Miriam 

,  and  they  had  children :     Miriam, 

Hezekiah  (2),  Jacob,  died  young,  Jacob 
(2),  Daniel  Samuel,  Gad,  Thankful,  and 
another  child.  The  line  continues  through 
Hezekiah  (2),  the  eldest  son. 

Hezekiah  (2)  Elmer  was  born  in  North- 
field,  Massachusetts,  September  24,  1724, 
and  died  November  22,  1810.  He  was  a 
soldier  in  Captain  Joseph  Willard's  com- 
pany. He  married,  May  30,  1751,  Sarah 
Wright,  of  Hinsdale,  born  April  11,  1730, 
died  April  6,  1809.  Their  children  were : 
Ann,  Elijah,  Miriam,  Sarah,  Zilpha,  Oziah, 
Hezekiah  and  Philena.  Descent  is  again 
traced  through  the  eldest  son,  Elijah. 

Elijah  Elmer  was  born  October  3,  1753, 
and  died  December  28,  1833.  He  resided 
in  Hinsdale  until  1783,  going  thence  to 
Athens,  Vermont,  but  in  1792  was  living 
in  Newfane,  Vermont.  In  1807  he  was  a 
member  of  the  State  Legislature.  He 
married  (first)  Grace  Gould,  born  in  1757, 
died  October  21,  1817.  He  married  (sec- 
ond) Amy  (Wood)  White.  Children: 
Amasa,  Polly,  Roswell,  Philena,  Eliza, 
Lydia,  Ozias,  Fannie  and  Almira. 

Ozias  Elmer,  youngest  son  of  Elijah 
Elmer  and  his  first  wife,  Grace  (Gould) 
Elmer,  was  born  September  9,  1793,  in 
Newfane,    Vermont,    and    died    July    13, 


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He    married    Susan    Edwards,    of     mer.     He  has  succeeded  in  his  business 


Claremont,  New  Hampshire.  Children : 
Elijah,  Edwin,  John  C,  Laura,  Henry 
and  Ellis. 

Their  second  son,  Edwin  Elmer,  born 
June  lo,  1821,  was  killed  in  a  runaway  at 
Brattleboro,  Vermont,  February  4,  1865. 
He  was  a  farmer  and  a  cattle  dealer,  a 
man  of  high  standing  in  his  community, 
whose  untimely  end  was  deeply  regretted. 
He  married,  February  20,  1850,  Sally  A. 
Howe,  born  February  20,  1826,  died  No- 
vember 9,  1863.  They  were  the  parents 
of  two  sons :  Irving  Howe  Elmer,  was  a 
merchant  of  Chicopee,  born  February  10, 
1851,  died  March  22,  1918  (q.  v.)  ;  Laura 
A.;  and  Ellsworth  E.,  of  further  men- 
tion. 

Ellsworth  Elijah  Elmer,  of  the  eighth 
generation  of  his  family  in  New  England, 
son  of  Edwin  and  Sally  A.  (Howe)  Elmer, 
was  born  in  Dummerston,  Windham 
county,  Vermont,  February  4,  1859,  and 


undertakings  through  untiring  energy, 
well-directed,  and  has  won  the  respect  of 
his  community. 

Mr.  Elmer  married  (first)  in  1884,  Clara 
Avery,  of  Pelham,  Massachusetts.  He 
married  (second)  Mary  Blanchard,  who 
died  April  15,  191 1.  They  were  the  par- 
ents of  a  son,  Ellsworth  I.  Elmer,  born 
April  2,  191 1.  The  family  home  is  at  No. 
333  Chicopee  street,  Chicopee,  Massachu- 
setts. 


DURFEE,  Nelson  Borden, 

Mill  Superintendent. 

Though  he  has  barely  reached  the 
period  of  middle  life.  Nelson  Borden  Dur- 
fee,  of  Fall  River,  has  had  a  career  of 
unusual  variety  and  interest.  A  school 
teacher,  sailor,  carpenter,  soldier  in  the 
Spanish  War,  proprietor  of  a  planing  mill, 


he  has  always  been  active  in  social  and 
there  attended  public  school  until  fifteen  religious  work  while  living  in  Fall  River, 
years  of  age.    In  1874  he  came  to  Chico-     Among  his   ancestors   are   many   of  the 


pee,  Massachusetts,  and  there  completed 
his  studies  with  a  high  school  course. 
After  leaving  school  he  was  employed  on 
a  farm  for  some  time,  then  began  lum- 
bering, buying  the  standing  timber  in 
such  lots  as  it  happened  to  be,  and  con- 
verting the  timber  into  mercantable  lum- 
ber. This  business  he  yet  continues  in 
connection  with  the  cultivation  of  his 
farm  of  thirty  highly  productive  acres  on 
Chicopee  street.  During  nine  of  the  years 
which  have  passed  he  conducted  a  milk 
business,  delivering  daily  to  a  route  of 
regular  customers,  and  for  eighteen  years 
operated  a  regular  dairy.  For  eighteen 
years  he  leased  the  Chester  Chapin  farm 
on  Chicopee  street,  and  there  successfully 
farmed  along  intensive  lines.  His  pres- 
ent farm  has  been  partly  converted  into 
residence  building  lots,  several  houses 
having  been  erected  thereon  by  Mr.  El- 


founders  of  Rhode  Island  and  men  of 
prominence  in  the  making  of  Fall  River. 
As  his  name  indicates  he  is  descended 
from  two  of  the  leading  families  of  that 
city. 

(I)  Thomas  Durfee,  the  first  of  the 
family  in  this  country,  came  to  Ports- 
mouth, Rhode  Island,  from  England, 
before  1664.  He  was  a  juror  in  1679; 
constable  in  1690;  overseer  of  the  poor  in 

1691  ;  deputy  to  the  General  Assembly  in 
1691 ;    member  of  the  Town  Council  in 

1692  and  1694.  and  deputy  again  in  1694. 
He  was  admitted  a  freeman,  May  6,  1673. 
For  seven  years  after  1698  he  and  John 
Borden  were  in  charge  of  the  Rhode 
Island  end  of  the  ferry.  He  died  in  July, 
1712.  He  married  (second)  Deliverance 
(Hall)  Tripp,  widow  of  Abiel  Tripp,  and 
daughter  of  William  and  Mary  Hall.  His 
widow  died  in  1721.     His  will  was  dated 


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February  4,    1710,   and   proved   July    14, 

1712.  Children  by  first  wife:  Robert, 
born  March  10,  1665;  Richard;  Thomas, 
mentioned  below ;  William,  born  about 
1673  '  Benjamin.  By  second  wife  :  Pa- 
tience and  Deliverance. 

(IT)  Thomas  (2)  Durfee,  son  of  Thomas 
(i)  Durfee,  was  born  in  Portsmouth  and 
died  there,  February  24,  1729.  He  mar- 
ried Ann  Freeborn,  daughter  of  Gideon 
and  Sarah  (Brownell)  Freeborn.  She  was 
born  in  Portsmouth,  March  28,  1669,  and 
died  there  in  1729.  He  was  a  member  of 
the  General  Assembly  in  1707,  1709  and 

1713.  His  will  was   dated   February  9, 

1729,  proved  February  24,  1729.  Chil- 
dren, born  in  Portsmouth :  Ann,  born 
August  25,  1691  ;  Sarah,  March  i,  1693; 
Freeborn,  December  15,  1695 ;  Patience, 
June  12,  1697;  Mary,  January  22,  1701 ; 
Martha,  February  20,  1702;  Gideon,  Jan- 
uary 15,  1704;  Thomas,  June  6,  1706; 
Susanna;  Job,  mentioned  below;  Eliz- 
abeth. 

(Ill)  Job  Durfee,  son  of  Thomas  (2) 
Durfee,  was  born  in  Portsmouth  in  1710, 
died  at  Tiverton,  Rhode  Island,  in  April, 
1774.     He  married   (first)   September  17, 

1730,  Elizabeth  Chase,  daughter  of  Ben- 
jamin and  Amy  (Borden)  Chase.  She 
was  born  in  Portsmouth,  June  16,  1701, 
died  there  about  1734.  He  married  (sec- 
ond) in  Portsmouth,  Mary  Earle,  daugh- 
ter of  John  and  Mary  (Wait)  Earle.  She 
was  born  in  Portsmouth,  February  19, 
1703,  died  in  Tiverton.  He  married 
(third)  in  Freetown,  Massachusetts,  Sarah 
Brayton.  He  became  a  freeman  of  Ports- 
mouth in  May,  1731.  He  bought  land  on 
Stafford  Road,  Tiverton,  and  built  a 
house  which  is  still  standing,  and  owned 
by  descendants.  He  was  deputy  to  the 
General  Assembly  in  1761,  1762  and  1764. 
His  will  was  dated  July  31,  1769,  and 
proved  May  16,  1774.  (See  p.  138,  Dur- 
fee   Genealogy).      Child    by    first    wife: 


Thomas,  born  March  25,  1732.  By  sec- 
ond wife:  Elizabeth,  born  July  12,  1735; 
John,  August  31,  1736;  Gideon,  February 
6,  1738;  Earle,  September  16,  1740;  Job, 
mentioned  below. 

(IV)  Job  (2)  Durfee,  son  of  Job  (i) 
Durfee,  was  born  August  26,  1742,  at  Tiv- 
erton, and  died  there  in  1789.  He  mar- 
ried, in  Portsmouth,  March  10,  1765,  Mary 
Slocum,  daughter  of  Thomas  Slocum. 
She  died  at  Tiverton,  June  28,  1823.  Chil- 
dren, born  at  Tiverton :  Thomas,  born 
August  2,  1766;  Daniel,  November  21, 
1767;  David,  September  5,  1770;  George, 
mentioned  below;  Joseph,  May  8,  1780; 
William,  August  5,  1784. 

(V)  George  Durfee,  son  of  Job  (2) 
Durfee,  was  born  at  Tiverton,  September 
II,  1772,  and  died  there  November  12, 
1854.  He  married,  in  1793,  in  Tiverton, 
Sarah  Coggeshall,  daughter  of  John  and 
Elizabeth  (Stafford)  Coggeshall.  She 
was  born  in  Tiverton,  August  18,  1774, 
died  there  August  31,  1859.  He  was  a 
farmer  and  a  large  owner  in  the  Eagle 
Mills,  located  near  Fall  River,  manufac- 
turing woolen  goods.  It  is  said  that  he 
owned  more  than  a  thousand  acres  of  land 
at  one  time.  Children :  Dwelly,  born 
September  6,  1795;  Job,  January  25,  1798; 
Gideon  C,  December  28,  1800;  Elizabeth 
C,  January  i,  1803;  Mary,  February 
19,  1805 ;  Joshua  Coggeshall,  mentioned 
below;  Susannah,  December  25,  1809; 
Peter,  October  16,  1812;  David  3d.,  May 
3,  1815;   Delana,  August  3,  1818. 

(VI)  Joshua  Coggeshall  Durfee,  son  of 
George  Durfee,  was  born  in  Tiverton,  Oc- 
tober II,  1807,  died  at  Eagleville,  Massa- 
chusetts, August  21,  1899.  He  spent  his 
boyhood  on  his  father's  farm.  From  his 
first  savings  he  invested  in  whaling  ves- 
sels. He  worked  in  the  mills  and  invested 
in  them,  but  lost  when  the  mills  were 
destroyed  by  fire.  He  followed  farming, 
but  continued  to  put  money  into  the  in- 


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dustries  of  Fall  River  and  left  a  substan- 
tial estate.  In  early  life  he  was  a  Demo- 
crat, later  a  Whig  and  finally  a  Republi- 
can. He  was  studious  and  possessed  a 
wide  range  of  information  and  learning. 
In  religion  he  was  a  Baptist.  He  married, 
June  5,  1833,  Patience  Brayton,  daughter 
of  Captain  Thomas  and  Marietta  (Albert) 
Brayton,  of  Fall  River.  She  was  born  in 
Tiverton,  October  5,  1809,  died  there  Feb- 
ruary 12,  1897.  She  was  a  granddaughter 
of  Borden  Brayton,  who  was  a  soldier  in 
the  Revolution  in  Captain  Joseph  Dur- 
fee's  company.  She  was  a  grand-niece  of 
Commodore  Oliver  Hazard  Perry.  Chil- 
dren, born  in  Tiverton :  Sarah  Cogge- 
shall,  born  February  25,  1834,  married 
William  Tell  Robinson,  of  New  York; 
Ellen  Elizabeth,  August  15,  1836,  married 
Nelson  Cook  Borden,  of  Tiverton  ;  Joshua 
Thomas,  mentioned  below. 

(VII)  Joshua  Thomas  Durfee,  son  of 
Joshua  Coggeshall  Durfee,  was  born  in 
Tiverton,  August  10,  1842.  He  was  edu- 
cated in  the  public  schools  of  his  native 
town  and  of  Fall  River.  At  the  age  of 
eighteen  he  began  to  teach  in  the  public 
schools  of  Tiverton  and  continued  teach- 
ing for  ten  years.  During  the  remainder 
of  his  active  life  he  has  followed  farming 
on  the  homestead  in  Tiverton.  His  farm 
is  a  part  of  the  Pocasset  Purchase,  origi- 
nally cleared  by  Job  Durfee  and  has  con- 
tinued in  the  family  ever  since.  It  is  on 
Stafford  Road,  a  few  miles  from  Fall 
River.  In  politics  Mr.  Durfee  is  a  Re- 
publican. He  was  elected  a  member  of 
the  school  committee  in  1864  and  con- 
tinued on  the  committee  for  seven  years. 
He  was  chosen  justice  of  the  peace  in 
1874,  trial  justice  in  1877,  and  at  one 
time  was  coroner.  During  the  Civil  War 
he  was  commissioned  second  lieutenant 
of  the  Eighteenth  Regiment  of  Rhode 
Island  militia  and  served  until  that  organ- 
ization disbanded.     Mr.  Durfee  married, 


September  23,  1866,  Amanda  M.  Crandall, 
born  June  25,  1850,  daughter  of  John  G. 
and  Amanda  M.  (Reed)  Crandall.  Chil- 
dren, born  in  Tiverton  :  I.  Frederick  Ever- 
ett, born  December  7,  1867,  a  machinist 
of  Fall  River;  soldier  in  the  Spanish  War; 
married,  October  14,  1888,  Laura  Wilber- 
tis  Forsyth,  daughter  of  William  and  Isa- 
bella (Jenkins)  Forsyth.  2.  Nelson  Bor- 
den, mentioned  below.  3.  Ellen  Eliza- 
beth, born  March  5,  1889. 

(VIII)  Nelson  Borden  Durfee,  son  of 
Joshua  Thomas  Durfee,  was  born  at  Tiv- 
erton, January  28,  1870.  He  attended  the 
public  schools  of  his  native  town  and  Fall 
River.  For  a  time  he  taught  in  the  pub- 
lic school  of  Eagleville  in  his  native  town. 
In  1887  he  shipped  before  the  mast  on  the 
whaling  bark  "Mermaid"  from  New  Bed- 
ford, Massachusetts.  The  first  six  months 
they  cruised  off  the  La  Platte  river  on  the 
Patagonian  coast,  going  as  far  south  as 
within  one  hundred  and  fifty  miles  of  Cape 
Horn,  covering  from  this  to  the  Island 
of  St.  Helena ;  spent  one  month  on  the 
island  and  then  went  around  into  the 
Indian  ocean,  going  as  far  north  as  the 
Persian  gulf,  doing  most  of  the  cruising 
over  the  Equator,  crossing  it  over  six 
times.  In  the  cruise  there  were  one  thou- 
sand three  hundred  and  fifty  barrels  of 
oil  obtained.  On  the  way  back  to  St. 
Helena  they  went  to  the  Island  of  Zanza- 
bar,  where  Stanley  started  on  his  search 
for  Livingston,  visited  the  Island  of  Mad- 
agascar besides  several  islands  of  the  In- 
dian ocean  and  saw  many  interesting  inci- 
dents in  the  lives  of  the  natives.  There 
were  pirates  on  the  south  coast  of  Mada- 
gascar and  the  Arabs  took  the  natives  and 
made  slaves  of  them  and  sold  them.  They 
were  two  years  and  one  day  on  the  cruise, 
received  discharge  at  St.  Helena,  and 
visited  the  house  Napoleon  lived  and  died 
in.  From  St.  Helena  he  went  to  Italy, 
shipped  from  there  to  Borneo  in  Africa, 


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and  there  to  Gibralter,  from  there  to  Phil- 
adelphia, and  then  home  to  Fall  River. 
He  was  afterward  seaman  on  a  coasting 
vessel.  Returning  to  Fall  River  he  fol- 
lowed the  trade  of  carpenter,  and  in  1900 
became  the  proprietor  of  a  planing  and 
moulding  mill  at  No.  870  South  Main 
street.  On  June  11,  1914,  his  mill  was 
destroyed  by  fire,  and  since  then  he  has 
been  superintendent  of  a  mill  owned  by 
C.  H.  Hodgate,  at  the  corner  of  Durfee 
and  Central  streets,  Fall  River.  This 
mill  specialized  on  inside  and  outside  fin- 
ish, and  has  turned  out  the  finest  product 
in  Fall  Fiver  for  the  last  ten  years. 

During  the  Spanish-American  War  Mr. 
Durfee  served  in  Battery  M,  Heavy 
Artillery,  First  Massachusetts  Regiment, 
under  Captain  S.  L.  Braley,  and  was  sta- 
tioned at  Fort  Warren,  Boston.  He  was 
mustered  out  at  the  end  of  the  war.  He 
is  an  active  member  of  Trinity  Baptist 
Church,  Fall  River.  He  was  president  of 
the  United  Societies  of  Christian  En- 
deavor in  1900-01,  and  in  1903  was  super- 
intendent of  the  Foster  Street  Baptist 
Mission  Sunday  School.  In  1915-17  he 
was  vice-president  of  the  Taunton  Bap- 
tist Sunday  School  Association.  In  the 
Young  Men's  Christian  Association  he 
has  served  on  various  standing  commit- 
tees. For  two  years  he  was  teacher  of 
the  class  of  Syrians  of  the  Young  Men's 
Christian  Association.  He  is  a  member 
of  Narragansett  Lodge,  Ancient  Free  and 
Accepted  Masons,  and  Mount  Vernon 
Lodge,  Knights  of  Pythias.  In  politics  he 
is  a  Progressive  Republican. 

Mr.  Durfee  married,  March  22,  1893, 
Jeanie  Morrison  Williamson,  daughter  of 
John  and  Jessie  (Morrison)  Williamson, 
of  Fall  River.  She  was  born  in  Fall  River, 
December  6,  1871.  Her  father  was  a 
native  of  Stockport,  England,  and  her 
mother  of  Glasgow,  Scotland.  Children, 
born  in  Fall  River:     i.  Myrtle  May,  born 


June  17,  1894,  died  March  28,  1896.  2. 
Inez  Morrison,  born  October  21,  1898, 
graduate  of  B.  M.  C.  Durfee  High  School, 
1915,  now  a  student  at  Bridgewater  State 
Normal  School,  class  of  1917.  3.  Beatrice 
Plasket,  born  July  29,  1901,  student  in 
the  B.  M.  C.  Durfee  High  School.  4. 
Joshua  Crandall,  born  ]\Iay  15,  1905. 


WRIGHT,  William  Francis,  M.  D., 

Physician, 

Dr.  William  Francis  Wright,  one  of  the 
leading  physicians  and  surgeons  of  Fall 
River,  Massachusetts,  was  born  in  that 
cit}-,  November  27,  1880,  a  son  of  David 
and  Susannah  (Shepardson)  Wright.  His 
father  was  a  native  of  Stockport,  England, 
son  of  Jonathan  and  Maria  (Shepardson) 
Wright,  of  Stockport.  His  mother  was 
a  native  of  Lincolnshire,  England,  and  his 
paternal  grandmother  was  born  in  Sus- 
sex, County  Essex,  England.  His  par- 
ents came  to  this  country  soon  after  their 
marriage,  and  made  their  home  in  ^'all 
River. 

Dr.  Wright  received  his  early  educa- 
tion in  the  public  schools  of  his  native 
city,  and  was  graduated  from  the  B.  M. 
C.  Durfee  High  School  in  the  class  of 
1896.  He  entered  Baltimore  Medical 
College  at  Baltimore,  Maryland,  in  1904, 
and  in  due  course  was  graduated  in  1908 
with  the  degree  of  Doctor  of  Medicine. 
After  graduating  he  went  abroad  and 
spent  nine  months  in  the  hospitals  of 
Europe,  studying  in  London,  Paris  and 
various  other  large  cities  on  the  Con- 
tinent and  acquiring  a  very  varied  and 
interesting  experience  in  hospital  prac- 
tice and  surgery.  Upon  his  return  to  this 
country,  he  opened  an  office  in  his  native 
city  and  since  1908  has  been  in  general 
practice  there.  Dr.  Wright  has  an  exten- 
sive practice  among  all  classes  of  people, 
is    widely    known    and    highly    esteemed 


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both  in  his  profession  and  among  his  pati- 
ents. He  is  a  member  of  the  Fall  River 
Medical  Society,  the  Massachusetts  Med- 
ical Society  and  the  American  Medical 
Association.  In  politics  Dr.  Wright  is 
a  Republican,  and  though  he  takes  a  keen 
interest  in  public  affairs,  especially  in 
municipal  matters,  he  has  never  entered 
public  life.  His  practice  has  engaged  his 
attention  to  the  exclusion  of  other  activi- 
ties. He  is  a  member  of  the  Central  Con- 
gregational Church  of  Fall  River. 

Dr.  Wright  married,  August  22,  1909, 
Gertrude  Clark  Jenney,  who  was  born 
in  Fall  River,  a  daughter  of  William  and 
Anne  (Clark)  Jenney.  Her  grandfather 
on  the  paternal  side  was  for  many  years 
engaged  in  the  whaling  industry  and 
made  his  home  in  New  Bedford,  Massa- 
chusetts. Dr.  and  Mrs.  Wright  have  no 
children. 


HORNE,  Frank  Lamb, 

Railroad  Employee. 

Among  the  railroad  men  in  the  service 
of  the  Boston  &  Albany  Railroad,  prob- 
ably few  are  better  known  than  Frank  L. 
Home,  who  had  spent  nearly  half  a  cen- 
tury in  the  service  of  that  corporation, 
eight  years  of  which  he  was  employed  as 
a  locomotive  fireman  and  thirty-five  in 
holding  the  throttle  and  driving  the  iron 
horse  over  the  shining  highway  of  steel. 
His  record  is  a  proud  one  in  other  ways 
than  length  of  service,  and  he  enjoys  all 
the  rights  and  privileges  of  the  veteran 
engineer.  Mr.  Home  is  a  grandson  of 
David  Home,  of  Charlton,  Framingham 
and  Southbridge,  Massachusetts,  and  a 
son  of  William  Denison  Home,  who  was 
born  at  Framingham,  Massachusetts. 

William  Denison  Home  was  educated 
in  Framingham  public  schools,  and  later 
moved    to    Southbridge,    Massachusetts, 


where  he  owned  a  small  farm.  There  he 
resided  for  several  years,  then  disposed 
of  this  and  purchased  a  farm  of  three  hun- 
dred acres  at  Charlton,  Massachusetts, 
which  he  cultivated  until  his  death  at  the 
age  of  seventy-nine  years.  He  was  dea- 
con and  treasurer  of  the  Universalist 
church,  and  a  man  much  respected  by  all 
who  knew  him.  Politically  he  was  a  Re- 
publican. He  married  Louisa  Lamb,  who, 
surviving  her  husband  for  several  years, 
died  at  the  Charlton  farm,  aged  eighty- 
six.  She  was  a  daughter  of  David  Lamb, 
of  Charlton,  a  substantial  farmer  and  land 
owner.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  William  D.  Home 
were  the  parents  of  five  sons  and  five 
daughters :  Lavell  Maria,  married  Charles 
Nelson;  William  Edward,  married  Mary 
Stowe;  Francis  Lamb  (Frank)  of  further 
mention;  Frances  (twin  with  Francis), 
married  Herbert  K.  Davidson ;  Jennie 
Louise,  married  Alonzo  B.  Davidson ; 
Otis  David ;  George  Albert,  died  in 
infancy  ;  Mary,  died  in  infancy  ;  Caroline 
Eva,  married  Myron  Putnam ;   Charles. 

Frank  Lamb  Home  was  born  at  Stur- 
bridge,  Massachusetts,  November  20, 
1850,  being  taken  as  an  infant  to  South- 
bridge,  where  he  remained  until  four 
years  of  age,  when  he  removed  to  Charl- 
ton and  here  he  attended  and  completed 
his  studies  in  the  public  schools.  He  was 
his  father's  farm  assistant  until  the  age 
of  twenty-one,  then  left  home  and  soon 
afterward  became  an  employee  of  the 
Boston  &  Albany  Railroad  Company, 
serving  as  fireman  eight  years  before 
securing  promotion.  But  finally  the 
coveted  position  was  awarded,  and  the 
young  man  was  rated  on  the  company's 
books  "Engineer."  Thirty-five  years  have 
passed  since  he  proudly  took  his  seat  on 
the  engineer's  side  of  the  cab,  and  during 
these  many  years  he  has  faithfully  met 
the  demands  of  an  arduous  occupation. 


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He  was  for  twelve  years  in  the  freight 
service  when  he  was  given  a  passenger 
train,  and  he  has  since  been  retained 
in  the  passenger  service,  residing  in 
West  Springfield,  Massachusetts.  Al- 
though leading  a  busy  life,  Mr.  Home  has 
found  time  to  ally  himself  with  various 
social  ind  fraternal  organizations ;  in 
connection  with  his  position  he  is  a  mem- 
ber of  the  Brotherhood  of  Locomotive 
Engineers,  and  fraternally  he  is  a  mem- 
ber of  Teco  Lodge,  Independent  Order  of 
Odd  Fellows ;  Orthodox  Lodge,  Free  and 
Accepted  Masons,  and  in  connection  with 
the  latter  is  a  director  of  the  Masonic 
Corporation  who  have  in  charge  the  erec- 
tion of  a  new  Masonic  Home  in  West 
Springfield.  While  taking  no  active  part 
in  political  affairs,  he  is,  nevertheless, 
interested  in  all  that  makes  for  the  best 
interests  of  his  town,  being  a  believer  and 
advocate  of  the  principles  of  the  Repub- 
lican party. 

Mr.  Home  married,  December  25,  1876, 
Adella  Marion  Marble,  born  in  Charlton, 
Massachusetts,  July  4,  1859,  daughter  of 
Washington  and  Ruth  Anna  (Sibley) 
Marble,  her  father  a  resident  of  Sutton, 
Massachusetts,  died  aged  sixty-six  years, 
having  been  for  several  years  employed 
by  the  Boston  &  Albany  Railroad.  Mr. 
and  Mrs.  Washington  Marble  were  the 
parents  of  Albert  W.  Marble,  married 
Effie  D.  Sibley;  William  Marble;  Adella 
M.  Marble,  married  Frank  Lamb  Home. 
Mr.  and  Mrs.  Home  are  the  parents  of 
two  sons  and  two  daughters :  Louisa  M., 
married  Joseph  Derby;  Francis  A.,  died 
in  1888,  aged  fifteen  months ;  Bertram  M., 
married  Dorothy  Flint;  Bertha  (twin 
with  Bertram  M.)  died  aged  three  months. 
The  family  home  is  No.  311  Main  street. 
West  Springfield,  Massachusetts.  Mrs. 
Ruth  Anna  (Sibley)  Marble,  Mrs.  Home's 
mother,  also  residing  there. 


COLBERT,  William  John, 
Superintendent. 

The  opportunity  for  advancement  in 
cotton  mill  manufacturing  exists  on  every 
hand,  and  every  day  some  young  man 
emerges  from  the  ranks  of  the  operators 
to  take  a  position  among  those  who  direct 
and  command.  Small  as  the  authority  may 
be  at  first,  the  young  man  cannot  hide  his 
light  under  a  bushel  in  a  cotton  mill,  and 
if  he  possesses  the  real  quality  he  finds  a 
call  to  come  up  higher  soon  afterwards. 
This  was  the  experience  of  William  J. 
Colbert,  superintendent  of  the  American 
Linen  Company  Mills  at  Fall  River,  who 
has  passed  through  all  the  ranks  of  pro- 
motion from  weaver  to  superintendent. 
There  has  been  nothing  sensational  nor 
meteoric  in  his  rise,  but  he  has  steadily 
advanced  from  post  to  post,  filling  each 
position  so  well  that  further  promotion 
could  not  be  denied  him.  He  thoroughly 
understands  his  business,  is  thoroughly 
practical  in  his  progressiveness,  not  an 
enthusiast,  in  short,  a  level  headed  busi- 
ness man  doing  well  everything  that  he 
undertakes  to  do  at  all.  He  is  of  Irish 
birth  and  parentage,  his  ancestors  on  both 
sides  going  from  France  to  Ireland  about 
the  year  1690.  He  is  a  descendant  of  Col- 
onel De  la  Garde,  a  French  Huguenot, 
and  a  grandson  of  Robert  and  Alice  (Con- 
nors) Colbert,  of  County  Waterford,  Ire- 
land, and  son  of  John  and  Margaret 
(De  la  Garde)  Colbert,  both  born  in  Ire- 
land, his  fatherca  machinist. 

William  John  Colbert  was  born  in 
County  Waterford,  Ireland,  June  24,  1870; 
in  1876  was  brought  to  Dublin,  and  there 
attended  school  until  coming  to  the 
United  States  in  1882,  Fall  River  becom- 
ing the  family  home.  At  the  age  of  four- 
teen years  he  began  his  long  connection 
with  cotton  manufacturing,  in  the  Amer- 


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ican  Linen  Company  Mill,  the  first  seven 
years  being  spent  in  the  weaving  room. 
From  weaver  he  became  loom  fixer,  re- 
maining in  that  capacity  six  years.  He 
next  became  second  hand  in  the  weaving 
department,  then  an  overseer,  sixteen 
years  being  passed  in  those  positions, 
when  his  appointment  as  superintendent 
came  in  1913.  He  ably  fills  that  position 
and  now,  just  in  the  prime  of  life,  holds 
the  honorable  position  which  has  come  to 
him  through  his  own  merits,  a  tribute  to 
his  energy,  industry,  ambition  and  ability. 
He  enjoys  life  and  freely  passes  along  the 
good  things  which  are  his.  He  is  a  mem- 
ber of  St.  Louis  Roman  Catholic  Church, 
and  in  politics  is  an  Independent  Repub- 
lican.    He  is  unmarried. 


GRINNELL,  Henry  Frank, 
Business  Man. 

For  many  years  Mr.  Grinnell  has  been 
identified  with  cotton  manufacturing  at 
Fall  River,  Massachusetts,  as  clerk,  book- 
keeper and  treasurer  of  the  Chace  Mills ; 
his  father,  George  W.  Grinnell,  having 
been  a  director  of  the  same  corporation 
from  the  date  of  incorporation  in  1871. 
The  Grinnell  family  is  an  old  and  promi- 
nent one  in  Southern  Massachusetts  and 
Rhode  Island,  and  for  several  generations 
have  been  prominent  in  Fall  River.  The 
coat-of-arms  of  the  family  is  as  follows : 

Arms — Argent,  on  a  chief  gules  a  lion  rampant 
of  the  first  crowned  or. 

Crest — A  serpent  entwined  round  a  pheon 
shafted  all  proper. 

Henry  F.  Grinnell  is  a  son  of  George 
Washington  Grinnell,  and  a  grandson  of 
John  Grinnell,  all  of  Fall  River,  Massa- 
chusetts. John  Grinnell  lived  to  the 
age  of  ninety  years,  dying  at  Fall  River 
about  the  year  1872.  George  Washington 
Grinnell,  born  at  Fall  River,  there  died 
in     191 1.     He     married     in     Providence, 


Rhode  Island,  Abby  Anthony  Thomas, 
of  that  city,  who  died  in  1903. 

Henry  Frank  Grinnell,  son  of  George 
Washington  and  Abby  Anthony  (Thomas) 
Grinnell,  was  born  at  Fall  River,  Massa- 
chusetts, July  30,  1867,  and  is  yet  a  resi- 
dent of  his  native  city.  He  obtajjned  his 
education  in  the  grade  and  high  schools 
of  Fall  River,  completed  the  course  at  the 
B.  M.  C.  Durfee  High  School,  going 
thence  to  Providence,  Rhode  Island,  to 
the  Mowry  &  Goff  English  and  Classical 
School.  After  completing  his  studies, 
Mr.  Grinnell  was  for  a  few  years  engaged 
in  the  coal  business  at  Fall  River,  then 
entered  the  employ  of  the  Bernard  Mill 
in  the  clerical  department.  He  was  then 
nineteen  years  of  age,  and  from  that  year, 
1888,  he  has  been  connected  with  the 
Chace  Mill,  a  corporation  organized  in 
1871,  with  a  capital  of  $500,000,  the  in- 
corporators including  George  W.  Grin- 
nell, who  also  served  as  a  director.  He 
served  as  clerk  and  bookkeeper,  and  in 
1914  was  elected  treasurer  of  the  com- 
pany, and  under  his  wise,  experienced 
guidance  the  interests  of  the  corporation 
have  been  carefully  conserved  and  stock- 
holders well  remunerated.  The  products 
of  the  mill  have  an  established  place  in 
the  textile  market,  and  the  corporation  is 
one  of  the  well  managed,  prosperous 
manufacturing  concerns  which  have  won 
fame  for  Fall  River  as  the  greatest  of 
cotton  manufacturing  cities.  Mr.  Grin- 
nell is  also  a  trustee  of  the  Citizens'  Sav- 
ings Bank,  and  has  other  business  inter- 
ests. He  is  a  Republican  in  politics,  and 
a  member  of  Central  Congregational  So- 
ciety and  an  attendant  of  that  church. 

Mr.  Grinnell  married,  at  Fall  River, 
Massachusetts,  April  23,  1894,  Etta  Louisa 
Smith,  born  at  Fall  River,  October  12, 
1871,  daughter  of  George  Yorke  and 
Susan  IMiriam  (Gardner)  Smith. 


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BUTTON,  Julius  Maltby,  M.  D., 

Physician. 

The  Buttons  have  an  undoubted  de- 
scent from  one  of  the  followers  of  Wil- 
liam the  Conqueror,  and  at  the  time  of 
the  Domesday  Survey  they  were  estab- 
lished at  what  was  known  as  Duntune, 
in  Cheshire,  England.  The  name  But- 
ton is  a  corruption  derived  from  "Dun," 
a  Saxon  word  meaning  a  hill  or  down. 
"So  that  Duntune  signifies  as  much  as  A 
Town  upon  a  Hill  or  Down."  (Leices- 
ter's Historical  Antiquities).  The  earlier 
progenitor  of  the  Duttons  in  England 
was  Odard,  the  eldest  or  first  named  of 
five  brothers,  one  of  them  a  priest,  that 
came  together  from  Avranches,  Nor- 
mandy, at  the  time  of  the  Conquest. 
They  accompanied  a  Norman  noble  named 
Nigel,  who  is  said  to  have  been  a  kind  of 
a  cousin  of  the  Conqueror.  The  names 
of  these  five  brothers  were  Odard,  Edard, 
Horswyne,  Wolmere,  and  Wolfaith,  a 
priest.  Four  of  these  brothers  were  prob- 
ably the  squires  of  Nigel,  and  the  fifth 
attached  to  his  household  as  a  priest. 
From  Nigel,  Odard  received  the  Lordship 
of  Duntune.  The  following  is  a  transla- 
tion of  the  entry  in  the  Domesday  Book 
relating  to  Odard's  possession  of  Dun- 
tune: 

Odard  holds  Duntune  of  the  Earl.  Ravene 
held  it  and  was  a  freeman.  There  is  one  virgate 
and  a  half  of  land  rateable  to  the  gelt.  The  land 
is  one  carucate.  There  is  one  radman  and  one 
serf.  A  wood  a  league  long  and  a  half  as  broard, 
and  a  hawks  aery.  In  King  Edward's  time  it  was 
worth  5s.  now  I2d. 

Odard  also  owned  a  portion  of  Halton, 
and  lands  in  Weston,  Aston  and  Whitely, 
in  Cheshire.  Nothing  is  known  of  the 
date  of  his  death.  His  sword  is  said  to 
have  been  preserved  at  Dutton  Hall  until 
Leicester's  time.  The  family  seat  was  at 
Button,  in  the  valley  of  the  Weaver.    The 


portion  of  Dutton  Hall  that  is  now  stand- 
ing is  an  interesting  half-timbered  struc- 
ture, standing  back,  though  within  sight 
of  the  main  road  from  Northwich  to  Run- 
corn. It  was  the  home  of  Odard's  de- 
scendants for  six  centuries.  Thomas 
Button,  the  twentieth  in  descent  from 
Odard,  was  the  last  of  the  main  line  of 
Buttons  of  Button  Hall.  He  died  in  1614. 
The  property  passed  by  the  marriage  of 
his  daughter,  Elinor,  to  the  Buke  of  Ham- 
ilton. While  the  main  line  of  Odard's 
family  became  extinct  with  the  death  of 
Thomas  Button,  in  1614,  there  are  still 
many  families  of  the  name  in  and  around 
Chester.  They  are  found  in  all  the  walks 
of  life. 

(I)  John  Button,  the  American  ances- 
tor, came  from  this  Chester  stock,  but 
what  relationship,  if  any,  his  family  had 
with  that  of  Button  Hall,  cannot  now  be 
determined.  It  is  known  that  the  younger 
sons  of  the  family  usually  settled  in  or 
near  Chester.  It  is  also  known  that  the 
family  names  were  the  same.  The  fam- 
ily became  Puritan  under  the  influence  of 
the  noted  John  Bruen,  a  cousin,  about  the 
time  of  the  Puritan  exodus  to  Massachu- 
setts. It  is  safe  to  conclude  that  John 
Button,  the  first  American  of  the  name, 
was  a  descendant  of  one  of  the  younger 
sons  of  the  family  of  Odard,  and  it  is 
altogether  probable  that  he  was  ignorant 
of  his  relationship  to  the  holders  of  the 
lands  and  titles  of  Odard,  the  Norman. 
"Odard  whose  name  is  spelled  in  the 
latter  records,  Hudard  or  Huddard,  Vis- 
count Constantia,"  was  the  immediate 
ancestor  of  the  numerous  and  ancient 
family  of  Buttons  of  Button.  From  Ly- 
sons  Magna  Brittanica,  Vol.  II.,  John 
Button,  the  American  ancestor,  was  born 
in  Chester,  England,  and  came  to  Bor- 
chester,  Massachusetts,  in  1630.  having 
with  him  a  son  Thomas,  then  a  boy  of 
ten. 


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(II)  Thomas  Button,  son  of  John  But- 
ton, was  born  in  Chester,  England,  and 
is  first  mentioned  in  connection  with  his 
father  as  being  in  Borchester,  Massachu- 
setts, in  1630.  He  lived  for  a  time  in 
Reading,  moving  thence  to  Woburn,  and 
in  1675  was  a  resident  of  Billerica.  In 
addition  to  his  court  record,  previously 
mentioned,  there  is  an  extract  from  the 
minutes  of  a  meeting  of  the  selectmen  of 
Billerica  and  a  committee  of  militia,  held 
August  8,  1675,  concerning  the  Garrison 
house  which  names  him  and  his  son  John. 
His  son  Thomas  was  with  the  expedition 
sent  from  Natick  in  1677,  was  "shot 
through  the  side  of  my  belt  and  through 
my  left  knee  and  fell  down  not  able  to 
help  myself."     Thomas   Button   married 

(first)    Susan  ,  who  died  in   1684, 

aged  fifty-eight.  He  married  (second) 
November  9,  1684,  Ruth,  daughter  of 
William  Hopper.  His  first  four  children: 
Thomas,  Mary,  Susannah  and  John,  were 
born  in  Reading,  the  last  five:  Elizabeth, 
Joseph,  Sarah,  James  and  Benjamin,  at 
Woburn,  the  last  named  born  February 
19,  1669.  The  Buttons  of  Cavendish  and 
Jefifrey,  New  Hampshire,  are  descended 
from  Thomas  and  Susan  Button. 

(III)  Joseph  Button,  son  of  Thomas 
and  Susan  Button,  was  born  in  Woburn, 
January  25,  1661,  and  his  will  bears  date 
1733,  the  year  of  his  death.  He  lived  for 
a  time  in  Reading,  where  he  subscribed 
two  pounds  towards  the  erection  of  a 
new  meeting  house,  but  later  moved  to 
East  Haddam,  Connecticut,  where  he 
died.  He  bought  land  in  Wallingford, 
Connecticut,  in  1718  and  1719,  which  he 
gave  to  his  sons.  He  is  supposed  to  have 
been  a  tanner.  He  married  (first)  in  1685, 
Rebecca  Fitch,  who  bore  him  a  daughter 
Rebecca,  in  1686.  He  married  (second) 
in  1693,  Mary  Smith,  who  was  the  mother 
of  Susannah,  born  1695  ;  Benjamin,  bom 
in  Lynn,  1696;  Bavid,  born  in  East  Had- 


dam, Connecticut,  1698;  Ruth,  born  1703; 
Samuel,  born  1704;  Thomas,  of  further 
mention. 

(IV)  Thomas  (2)  Button,  youngest  of 
the  children  of  Joseph  and  Mary  (Smith) 
Button,  was  born  at  East  Haddam,  Con- 
necticut, March  6,  1707,  and  died  in  Hart- 
ford, Vermont,  where  a  stone  in  the 
cemetery  in  Christian  street  which  marks 
his  grave  states  he  died  in  1799,  aged 
ninety-eight.  Thomas  Button  was  a  man 
celebrated  as  a  church  builder  and  carver. 
He  built  churches  at  Waterbury,  Con- 
necticut, and  in  other  places,  being  well 
known  over  a  large  section  of  Connecti- 
cut. He  was  living  in  Wallingford  in 
1757,  and  was  a  deacon  of  the  church  at 
Westbury.  He  was  distinguished  for  his 
personal  piety,  and  reared  his  large  fam- 
ily with  such  care  that  all  of  his  sons 
who  lived  to  manhood  were  church  mem- 
bers and  four  of  them  held  official  posi- 
tions. After  the  death  of  his  wife  he 
went  to  the  home  of  his  grandson,  also 
Thomas  Button,  in  Waterford,  expect- 
ing there  to  soon  die.  But  he  so  far 
regained  his  strength  that  he  journeyed 
to  Vermont  to  visit  children  and  there 
died  in  1799.  He  married.  May  8,  1729, 
Abigail  Merriam,  born  in  1708.  Chil- 
dren: John,  born  in  1730,  died  young; 
Abigail,  born  July  8,  1732;  Thomas,  Jan- 
uary 31,  1735;  Samuel,  February  13,  1737; 
Lois,  November  8,  1739;  Matthew,  No- 
vember II,  1740,  died  in  1842,  aged  ninety- 
nine  ;  Amasa,  of  further  mention ;  Na- 
thaniel, June  5,  1747;  Phoebe,  October 
II,  1749,  died  in  1825;  Asahel,  February 
2,  1753,  died  young;  and  perhaps  a 
daughter  Asenath. 

(V)  Amasa  Button,  son  of  Thomas 
(2)  and  Abigail  (Merriam)  Button,  whom 
one  account  gives  as  the  twin  brother  of 
Asahel,  was  born  July  31,  1745,  and  died 
at  Royalton,  Vermont,  September  30, 
1 83 1.     He   moved    from   Connecticut   to 


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Clarendon,  Vermont,  in  1773,  thence  to 
Royalton,  where  he  followed  his  trade, 
shoemaker,  until  his  death.  He  married 
(first)  October  i,  1766,  Sarah  Parmalee, 
born  November  25,  1748,  died  September 
9,  1805.  He  married  (second)  March  10, 
1806,  Ruth,  widow  of  Jeremiah  Ingra- 
ham.  Children,  all  by  first  wife:  Susan- 
nah, born  November  25,  1767,  died  young; 
Reuben,  born  December,  1773,  married 
Clarissa  Thomas,  and  died  in  Brooktield, 
Vermont,  February  3,  1866;  Sally,  born 
September  17,  1776,  died  young;  Susan- 
nah, born  September  27,  1781  ;  Amasa,  of 
further  mention  ;  Thomas  Parmalee,  born 
January  14,  1787,  died  in  1805 ;  John 
Gould,  born  November  18,  1789. 

(VI)  Captain  Amasa  (2)  Dutton,  son 
of  Amasa  (i)  and  Sarah  (Parmalee)  Dut- 
ton, was  born  at  Clarendon,  Vermont, 
November  21,  1785,  died  April  i,  1863, 
and  is  buried  with  his  two  wives  in  North 
Royalton  Cemetery.  He  removed  with 
his  father  to  Royalton,  Vermont,  and 
there  is  listed  in  1808.  In  that  year,  with 
Daniel  Ashcroft,  he  bought  the  store  and 
potash  works  of  John  Flint  and  probably 
the  old  Yuran  place.  After  his  removal 
to  the  Yuran  place,  he  made  a  hardwood 
table  and  on  it  he  ate  the  first  supper  with 
his  second  bride,  Althea  (Hazen)  Dutton. 
He  moved  from  the  Yuran  place  to  the 
Lyman  Burbank  farm,  and  cared  for  his 
parents  in  their  old  age.  He  won  his  mil- 
itary title  in  the  militia  service  of  the 
State,  being  captain  of  an  Independent 
Infantry  Company.  During  the  War  of 
1812,  Harry  Bingham  went  to  the  front 
in  his  stead  saying  "Captain  Dutton  has 
a  family,  I  have  none."  In  appreciation 
of  his  friend.  Captain  Dutton  named  one 
of  his  sons  Harry  Bingham  Dutton.  Cap- 
tain Dutton  was  a  substantial  farmer, 
prominent  in  town  affairs,  and  a  leading 
member  of  the  Masonic  order.  He  mar- 
ried (first)  November  14,  1805,  Tamasin 


Ashcroft,  born  October  12,  1799,  died  July 

11,  1817,  daughter  of  William  and  Tama- 
sin (Cady)  Ashcroft.  He  married  (sec- 
ond) October  26,  1817,  Althea  Hazen, 
born  September  14,  1788,  died  Septem- 
ber 14,  1877,  daughter  of  Thomas  and 
Abigail  (Dutton)  Hazen.  Children  by 
first  wife:  Harry,  born  August  25,  1806, 
died  September  23,  1806;  Carlos,  March 
8,  1808,  died  in  Rochester,  New  York, 
June  II,  1874;  Caroline,  June  14,  1810, 
married  Dr.  James  Woodworth  ;  Carlton, 
January  30,  1812,  died  in  Rochester,  New 
York;  Harry  Bingham,  July  14,  1814, 
died  prior  to  1861.  Children  by  second 
wife :  Althea  Louise,  born  January  5, 
1819;  Amasa  Parmalee,  of  further  men- 
tion ;    David,  born  in  Royalton,  January 

12,  1822;  Tamasin  Ashcroft,  December 
20,  1823 ;  Eleanor  Maria,  November  22, 
1825,  died  December,  1834;  Sarah  Parma- 
lee, August  17,  1827;  Edward  Francis, 
May  4,  1832. 

(VII)  Amasa  Parmalee  Dutton,  son  of 
Captain  Amasa  (2)  Dutton,  and  his  sec- 
ond wife,  Althea  (Hazen)  Dutton,  was 
born  June  24,  1820,  and  died  at  Crafts- 
bury,  Vermont,  June,  1898.  He  was  a 
farmer  of  Royalton  in  early  life,  but 
moved  to  Craftsbury  in  Orleans  county, 
Vermont,  where  he  became  a  substantial 
farmer  and  prominent  in  county  affairs, 
serving  as  associate  judge  for  many  years. 
He  was  a  deacon  of  the  Congregational 
church,  a  leading  member  of  the  Masonic 
order,  and  a  man  highly  respected  every- 
where known.  He  married  Mary  Mason, 
born  in  Hanover,  New  Hampshire,  No- 
vember 15,  1818,  died  in  Craftsbury,  in 
December,  1890,  daughter  of  Stephen  and 
Eunice  (Hazen)  Mason.  Children:  i. 
John  Mason,  of  further  mention.  2. 
Eliza,  born  in  Craftsbury,  June  19,  185 1, 
married  La  Forest  Thompson,  a  lawyer  of 
Irasburg,  Vermont,  who  died  in  May, 
1900,  leaving  children :     Margaret,  Frank 


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and  Helen.  3.  Henry  Hazen,  born  June 
18,  1854;  a  farmer  of  Craftsbury,  Ver- 
mont, until  1891,  then  removed  to  Ports- 
mouth, New  Hampshire,  where  he  is  a 
successful  wholesale  butter  dealer;  since 
1905  he  has  been  totally  blind,  following 
the  unsuccessful  removal  of  a  cataract ; 
he  "married  Jeannette  P.  Lyon,  and  has 
children :  Leona,  Nina  B.,  Julius  Mason, 
and  Harold  L.,  who  in  April,  1918,  entered 
the  United  States  army  and  is  now  serv- 
ing in  France.  4.  Edward  Amasa,  born 
June  19,  1864;  a  deacon  of  the  Crafts- 
bury  Congregational  Church,  and  in  1906 
a  member  of  the  Vermont  Legislature ; 
he  married  Katherine  A.  Anderson,  and 
has  children :  Flora  Eliza,  a  graduate  of 
Simmons  College;  James  Amasa,  a  grad- 
uate of  the  University  of  Vermont,  class 
of  1908;  ]\Iary  Caroline,  a  graduate  of 
Simmons  College ;  Mildred ;  Margaret, 
died  young ;  Mason  Parmalee,  died  at 
University  of  Vermont,  March,  1917,  and 
Edward  Anderson  Button. 

(VIII)  Rev.  John  Mason  Dutton,  eld- 
est son  of  Amasa  Parmalee  and  Mary 
(Mason)  Button,  was  born  in  Craftsbury, 
Vermont,  April  14,  1847,  and  died  in  New- 
port, Vermont,  in  June,  1900.  His  youth 
was  spent  in  Craftsbury,  his  preparatory 
education  obtained  in  the  public  schools 
and  academy  of  that  town.  He  then 
entered  Bartmouth  College,  whence  he 
was  graduated  in  1873,  after  which  he 
pursued  studies  in  theology  at  Yale  Bi- 
vinity  School,  graduating  with  the  class 
of  1876.  He  was  ordained  a  minister  of 
the  Congregational  church  and  was  set- 
tled over  the  church  at  Lebanon,  New 
Hampshire,  for  ten  years ;  over  the  Som- 
ersworth,  New  Hampshire,  church  for 
ten  years ;  over  Newtonville,  Massachu- 
setts, Central  Congregational  Church  for 
seven  years,  building  the  present  magni- 
ficent church,  at  Newtonville,  Massachu- 
setts, then  to  Newport,  Vermont,  where 


he  died  a  year  later.  In  addition  to  his 
ministerial  work,  he  took  an  unusual  in- 
terest in  educational  affairs,  and  while 
in  Somersworth  was  chairman  of  the 
Board  of  Education,  doing  a  great  deal 
in  his  energetic,  progressive  way  to 
increase  the  efficiency  of  the  schools.  He 
was  a  man  of  devout  life  and  deep  intel- 
lectuality, highly  esteemed  as  a  preacher 
and  pastor.  His  political  faith  was  Re- 
publican. 

Rev.  John  M.  Button  married  Flora 
Belle  Maltby,  born  at  Northford,  Con- 
necticut, July  8,  1849,  daughter  of  Epa- 
phius  C.  and  Hannah  (Hoadley)  Maltby, 
her  father  a  manufacturer  of  silverware, 
her  mother  a  daughter  of  Rev.  L.  I.  Hoad- 
ley, a  prominent  clergyman.  Mrs.  Dut- 
ton died  in  Waltham,  Massachusetts,  in 
May,  1905.  Their  only  child  was  Br. 
Julius  Maltby  Button,  of  further  men- 
tion. 

Br.  Julius  Maltby  Button  was  born  in 
Lebanon,  New  Hampshire,  Becember  14, 
1877.  He  there  began  his  public  school 
education,  and  was  a  student  in  the  Som- 
ersworth, New  Hampshire,  and  Newton, 
Massachusetts,  schools,  finishing  his  pre- 
paratory study  with  the  Newton  High 
School,  graduating  with  the  class  of  1895. 
He  entered  Bartmouth  College  in  1896, 
and  was  graduated  A.  B.,  class  of  1900. 
He  then  began  the  study  of  medicine,  and 
in  1903  was  awarded  his  M.  D.  by  Bart- 
mouth Medical  College.  Br.  Button 
began  his  professional  career  at  Tewkes- 
bury, Massachusetts,  continuing  there  as 
health  officer  and  resident  physician  from 
May,  1903,  until  September  i,  1905.  Be- 
cember I  of  that  year  he  located  in  West- 
field,  Massachusetts,  with  offices  in  the 
Columbus  building  and  at  his  home,  No. 
93  Elm  street,  and  there  continues  in 
general  practice,  well  established  in 
public  favor  and  confidence.  He  is  a 
member   of  the   surgical   staff   of   Noble 


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Memorial  Hospital,  and  is  an  expert 
X-Ray  operator  and  official  photographer 
for  the  hospital  in  X-Ray  cases.  He  was 
devoted  special  study  tosurgery,  but  his 
practice  is  general.  He  is  highly  regarded 
as  a  physician  and  surgeon  of  skill  and 
honor,  has  a  large  clientele  and  is  one  of 
the  successful  men  of  his  profession. 

Outside  the  realm  of  his  profession  and 
the  cares  of  a  large  private  and  hospital 
practice,  he  is  interested  in  public  affairs, 
church  and  social  life.  He  does  a  great 
deal  of  professional  work  for  charity's 
sake,  and  is  the  type  of  physician  men 
delight  to  honor.  He  is  a  member  of  the 
Westfield  Medical  Society,  of  which  he 
is  secretary ;  the  Hampden  County  Medi- 
cal Society,  the  Massachusetts  Medical 
Society,  is  a  fellow  of  the  American  Medi- 
cal Association,  and  a  member  of  the 
American  College  of  Surgeons.  He  is  a 
member  of  Mt.  Moriah  Lodge,  Free  and 
Accepted  Masons ;  Evening  Star  Chapter 
Royal  Arch  Masons ;  the  Westfield  Board 
of  Trade ;  the  Westfield  Club  and  Tekoa 
Countr)'  Club.  He  has  been  a  deacon  of 
the  First  Congregational  Church  of  West- 
field  for  many  years;  is  a  Republican  in 
politics,  was  chairman  of  the  Board  of 
Education  in  1914-15-16,  was  reelected 
for  another  term  of  three  years,  and  is  a 
member  of  the  building  committee  in 
charge  of  the  erection  of  the  new  Meadow 
street  school  building.  He  is  a  worker, 
and  whatever  he  does  does  it  with  his 
might. 

Dr.  Dutton  married,  September  12, 
1905,  Charlotte  Helena  Coye,  born  in  Li- 
vonia, New  York,  daughter  of  Edwin  R. 
and  Frances  (Fowler)  Coye,  her  father 
a  farmer,  died  in  1915,  her  mother  a 
daughter  of  Stephen  Bancroft  Fowler,  of 
Pittsfield,  Massachusetts,  a  descendant  of 
Ambrose  Fowler,  of  Windsor,  Connecti- 
cut, the  American  ancestor.  The  line  of 
descent  from  Ambrose  Fowler  is  through 


his  son,  Samuel  Fowler,  who  settled  in 
Westfield,  in  1689;  his  son,  Samuel  (2) 
Fowler,  born  in  1683 ;  his  son,  Stephen 
Fowler,  born  in  1719,  married  (first) 
Rhoda  Bancroft;  their  son,  Stephen  (2), 
Fowler,  married  Rhoda  Wells  and  moved 
from  Westfield  to  Pittsfield  street  about 
1772,  later  going  to  Western  New  York; 
their  son,  Stephen  (3)  Fowler,  born  Feb- 
ruary I,  1777,  died  in  Livonia,  New  York, 
in  1846,  married  Rhoda  Harrison  and  had 
sons :  Fitch,  Meigs,  Harmon  and  Stephen 
Bancroft  Fowler,  the  latter  the  father  of 
Frances  Fowler,  who  married  Edwin  R. 
Coye,  they  the  parents  of  Charlotte 
Helena  Coye,  wife  of  Dr.  Julius  Maltby 
Dutton.  (The  Fowler  Genealogy  is  given 
at  length  elsewhere  in  this  work.)  Dr. 
and  Mrs.  Dutton  are  the  parents  of  a  son, 
John  Maltby  Dutton,  born  September  2, 
1906,  and  a  daughter,  Ruth  Frances  Dut- 
ton, born  January  15,  1909. 


FOWLER,  Jeduthan  Tarsus, 

Representative  Citizen. 

The  Fowler  family  traces  to  an  early 
period  in  the  history  of  this  country,  their 
residence  being  in  the  States  of  Connecti- 
cut and  Massachusetts,  an  early  member 
of  the  family,  Ambrose  Fowler,  being  a 
resident  of  Windsor,  Connecticut,  as  early 
as  1640,  where  he  was  a  member  of  the 
church  of  which  the  Rev.  John  Warnham 
was  pastor.  He  was  one  of  the  commit- 
tee in  1641  in  Hartford  Colony  to  settle 
the  bounds  between  UncoWay  and  Po- 
quonnuck.  He  sold  his  land  at  Windsor 
in  1671,  and  soon  afterwards  removed  to 
Westfield,  Massachusetts,  accompanied 
by  his  family.  He  married,  at  Windsor, 
May  6,  1646,  Jane  Alvord,  who  bore  him 
seven  children,  all  of  whom  were  born  in 
Windsor:  Abigail,  born  March  i,  1647, 
married,  March  22,  1670-71,  Increase 
Sikes;   John,  November  6,  1648,  married 


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Mercy  Miller;  Mary,  May  15,  1650,  mar- 
ried, May  14, 1677,  Fearnot  King ;  Samuel, 
of  whom  further;  Hannah,  born  Decem- 
ber 20,  1654,  married  James  Sexton ; 
Elizabeth,  born  December  2,  1656;  Am- 
brose, born  May  8,  1658,  married  Mary 
Baker. 

(II)  Samuel  Fowler,  second  son  of 
Ambrose  and  Jane  (Alvord)  Fowler,  was 
born  in  Windsor,  Connecticut,  November 

18,  1652,  was  reared  and  educated  there, 
removing,  in  1689,  to  Westfield,  Massa- 
chusetts, and  in  that  city  he  spent  the 
remainder  of  his  days.  He  married,  No- 
vember 6,  1683,  Abigail  Brown,  who  bore 
him  ten  children,  namely :  Samuel,  of 
whom   further;    Jonathan,   born  October 

19,  1685,  married  (first)  Catherine  Mar- 
shall, (second)  Flannah  Pettibone ;  Abi- 
gail, born  October  25,  1687;  Mary,  born 
February  22,  1689;  Hannah,  born  No- 
vember 3,  1693 ;  Hester,  born  January 
16,  1695;  Sarah,  born  May  31,  1698;  Isa- 
bel, born  February  i,  1700,  married,  1720, 
Ezra  Strong;  Elizabeth,  born  June  7, 
1704;    Mindwell. 

(III)  Samuel  (2)  Fowler,  eldest  son  of 
Samuel  (i)  and  Abigail  (Brown)  Fowler, 
was  born  in  Windsor,  Connecticut,  Janu- 
ary 29,  1685,  and  died  in  Westfield,  Mas- 
sachusetts, November  10,  1744.  He  mar- 
ried Mercy ,  whose  death  occurred 

in  Westfield,  January  6,  1744.  Children, 
born  at  Westfield :  Samuel,  of  whom  fur- 
ther ;  David,  married  Elizabeth  Smith ; 
Bethesda,  born  April  26,  1717;  Stephen, 
born  December  21,  1719;  Mercy,  born 
July  31,  1722,  died  January  6,  1744;  Bil- 
dad,  married  Elizabeth  Bancroft ;  Daniel, 
born  January,  1729,  married  Eleanor  Wil- 
liams; Mehitable,  married  Wil- 
liams. 

(IV)  Samuel  (3)  Fowler,  eldest  son  of 
Samuel  (2)  and  Mercy  Fowler,  was  born 
in  Westfield,  Massachusetts,  January  31, 
171 1,    died    January    6,    1777.      He    was 


reared  on  his  father's  farm,  educated  in 
the  district  school,  and  later  removed  to 
Southwick,  then  part  of  Westfield,  the 
first  of  the  name  to  settle  there.  Mr. 
Fowler  was  a  man  of  more  than  ordinary 
education,  ability  and  energy,  was  a  sur- 
veyor by  occupation,  prospered  in  his 
undertakings,  and  at  the  time  of  his  death 
was  the  owner  of  half  of  Southwick,  then 
called  Poverty  Plains.  He  erected  the 
third  house  in  that  town,  which  is  stand- 
ing at  the  present  time  (1918)  being  now 
the  ell  part  of  the  Oliver  Utly  residence. 
Air.  Fowler  married,  in  Westfield,  May  8, 
1734,  Naomi  Noble,  born  March  8,  1718, 
died  February  27,  1797.  Among  their 
children  was  Noble,  of  whom  further. 

(V)  Noble  Fowler,  son  of  Samuel  (3) 
and  Naomi  (Noble)  Fowler,  was  born  in 
Southwick,  Massachusetts,  January  10, 
1763,  died  there,  December  21,  1828.  He 
devoted  his  time  to  agricultural  pursuits, 
residing  on  the  farm  given  him  by  his 
father,  which  is  still  in  the  possession  of 
the  family,  passing  first  to  his  son.  Tarsus 
N.  Fowler,  then  to  Luzerne  A.  Fowler, 
son  of  Tarsus  N.  Fowler,  then  to 
Jeduthan  T.  Fowler,  brother  of  Luzerne 
A.  Fowler.  Noble  Fowler  erected  a  house 
on  the  property  in  1790,  which  was  of  the 
old  type  New  England  construction, 
frame  of  oak  timbers,  erected  in  the  usual 
way  by  calling  the  neighbors  for  a  "rais- 
ing," the  usual  festivities  coming  after  the 
labor  of  the  day.  This  house  stood  until 
1915,  in  which  year  it  was  torn  down.  Mr. 
Fowler  married  Mary  (Polly)  Doolittle, 
born  in  1769,  died  in  Southwick,  March 
II,  1847,  daughter  of  Titus  Doolittle,  of 
Russell,  Massachusetts.  Children,  born 
in  Southwick,  all  deceased:  Lewis  Doo- 
little, born  June  — ,  1792,  died  November 
17,  1861 ;  Samuel  Sardis,  December  26, 
1798,  died  January  28,  1873;  Ranson, 
January  6,  1804,  died  November  28,  1828; 
Tarsus    Noble,   of   whom   further;    Coit, 


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April  17,  1814.  All  the  members  of  the 
family  were  active  in  the  work  of  the 
Baptist  church  of  Southwick. 

(VI)  Tarsus  Noble  Fowler,  fourth  of 
the  five  sons  of  Noble  and  Mary  (Doolit- 
tle)  Fowler,  was  born  in  Southwick,  Mas- 
sachusetts, September  10,  1805,  and  died 
there,  February  3,  1892.  He  was  educated 
in  the  district  school,  assisted  with  the 
work  of  his  father's  farm,  and  upon 
attaining  young  manhood  his  father  gave 
him  a  farm,  which  he  cultivated  and 
improved,  and  he  devoted  his  entire 
active  career  to  that  pursuit  and  to  the 
catching  of  wild  pigeons  for  the  market, 
following  this  line  of  business  in  South- 
wick, Massachusetts,  also  in  the  States  of 
New  York  and  Pennsylvania,  which 
proved  a  profitable  enterprise.  In  poli- 
tics he  was  first  a  Whig  and  later  a  Re- 
publican, but  aside  from  serving  as  select- 
man for  a  time,  took  no  active  part  in 
political  affairs  other  than  casting  his  vote 
for  the  candidates  he  deemed  worthy  of 
holding  public  position.  He  married,  Sep- 
tember 5,  1830,  Mary  Ann  Aldrich,  born 
in  the  State  of  Connecticut,  January  10, 
181 1,  died  in  Southwick,  Massachusetts, 
August  25,  1880.  Children:  Calista  Je- 
mima, born  July  15,  1831 ;  Amaret,  born 
February  9,  1833,  died  aged  five  years ; 
Jeduthan  Tarsus,  of  whom  further;  Har- 
riet Eliza,  born  November  27,  1835  ;  Mark 
Doolittle,  born  January  3,  1839;  Loraine, 
died  August  26,  1842 ;  Alden  Simon, 
born  December  22,  1841,  enlisted  in  the 
Twenty-seventh  Massachusetts  Volun- 
teer Infantry,  Company  F,  served  three 
years  with  this  regiment,  was  in  all  cam- 
paigns and  battles,  was  taken  sick  and 
never  fully  recovered,  although  he  lived 
to  be  seventy-two  years  old,  his  death 
occurring  in  1913;  Calvin,  died  October 
8,  1843 ;  Luzerne  Arthur,  born  February 
14,  1849,  resides  in  Southwick ;  Ellen  M., 
born  October  30,   1851,  died  in  infancy; 


Emma  Jane,  born  March  16,  1853,  became 
the  wife  of  Llewellyn  Weatherby,  and 
resides  in  Westfield.  All  the  members  of 
this  family  were  active  workers  in  the 
Baptist  church  of  Southwick,  devoted  to 
the  interests  of  the  same. 

(VII)  Jeduthan  Tarsus  Fowler,  son  of 
Tarsus  Noble  and  Mary  Ann  (Aldrich) 
Fowler,  was  born  in  Southwick,  Massa- 
chusetts, July  30,  1834.  He  spent  the 
early  part  of  his  life  on  his  father's  farm, 
attending  the  schools  of  the  neighborhood, 
also  the  Westfield  High  School  for  one 
year,  and  his  first  employment  was  with  a 
railroad  company,  having  charge  of  the 
freight  yard  in  Springfield,  his  service 
with  this  company  continuing  for  ten 
years.  During  the  struggle  between  the 
North  and  South  he  offered  his  Services 
in  behalf  of  his  country,  but  was  rejected 
on  account  of  his  health,  but  for  three 
3'ears  he  was  employed  in  the  Springfield 
Armory.  He  then  secured  employment 
with  the  Stimpson  Piano  Company  of 
Westfield,  his  occupation  being  the  mak- 
ing of  piano  legs  for  the  old  style  square 
pianos,  but  the  passing  of  that  style  of 
piano  caused  the  closing  of  the  plant,  and 
Mr.  Fowler  was  employed  in  finishing 
and  shipping  the  last  order  of  piano  legs 
for  the  company,  which  he  had  faithfully 
served  for  a  number  of  years.  He  then 
entered  the  employ  of  the  Eggleston 
Company  of  Westfield,  dealers  in  gro- 
ceries and  provisions,  with  whom  he 
remained  for  a  long  period  of  time,  until 
they  went  out  of  business,  and  for  the 
following  three  years  was  in  the  employ 
of  Peter  Jenson,  engaged  in  the  same  line 
of  business.  Since  then  he  has  lived 
retired,  enjoying  the  fruits  of  his  many 
years  of  labor.  Mr.  Fowler  is  a  fine 
type  of  the  old  New  Englander,  rugged, 
sturdy,  honorable,  a  faithful,  conscien- 
tious worker,  interested  in  and  supporting 
all  worthy  enterprises,  but  avoiding  pub- 


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licity.  He  has  always  been  an  active 
member  and  ardent  worker  in  the  local 
Methodist  Episcopal  church,  and  his 
political  affiliations  have  been  with  the 
Republican  party. 

Mr.  Fowler  married,  October  23,  1856, 
Marilla  Holcomb,  born  in  Tolland,  Mas- 
sachusetts, October  23,  1836,  died  in 
Westfield,  March  9,  1913,  daughter  of 
Walter  and  Fluvia  (Rockwell)  Holcomb. 
Walter  Holcomb  was  a  blacksmith  by 
trade  and  followed  that  line  in  Tolland, 
Massachusetts,  and  in  Tariffville  and 
Thompsonville,  Connecticut,  his  death 
occurring  in  the  latter  named  place.  His 
wife,  who  was  the  youngest  of  eleven 
children,  now  all  deceased,  she  the  last 
surviving  child,  was  born  in  Tariffville, 
Connecticut,  a  member  of  the  numerous 
Rockwell  family  of  Connecticut.  Her 
death  occurred  at  Westfield,  in  1872,  but 
her  remains  were  interred  in  Tariffville. 
Children  of  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Fowler:  i. 
Grace,  born  October  10,  1859;  became  the 
wife  of  Edward  W.  Atwater,  an  account- 
ant of  the  Munson  Steamship  Company ; 
resides  in  Brooklyn,  New  York;  they  are 
the  parents  of  one  daughter,  Ruth  At- 
water, born  in  Brooklyn,  January  10, 
1885,  graduate  of  Pratt  Institute  of 
Brooklyn,  now  teacher  of  domestic  sci- 
ence there,  also  taught  at  Waterford, 
New  York,  and  is  on  the  staff  of  teachers 
at  the  Summer  School  of  Chicago  Uni- 
versity. 2.  Gertrude  Louise,  born  Feb- 
ruary 22,  1865  ;  became  the  wife  of  Frank 
W.  Gushing  and  resides  in  Westfield ;  she 
is  artistic,  has  studied  extensively  with 
the  best  teachers,  and  specializes  in  paint- 
ing of  china  for  which  there  is  a  constant 
demand,  her  patrons  being  among  the 
best  families  of  Westfield  and  vicinity. 
3.  Ned  Howard,  born  April  7,  1874; 
attended  the  public  schools  of  Westfield 
and  Emerson  College  of  Oratory  at  Bos- 
ton; as  a  boy  he  was  interested  in  thea- 


tricals, and  early  in  life  he  adopted  the 
theatrical  profession  for  his  active  career, 
in  which  line  he  was  eminently  successful 
until  his  death  which  occurred  January 
22,  1904. 


FOWLER,  Edward  Taylor, 

Manufacturer. 

Treasurer  and  general  manager  of  the 
Foster  Machine  Company  of  Westfield, 
Massachusetts,  Edward  T.  Fowler  is  of 
the  eighth  generation  of  the  family 
founded  in  New  England  by  Ambrose 
Fowler,  who  settled  in  Westfield  in  1671, 
and  there  this  branch  of  the  family  has 
ever  resided,  although  Stephen  Fowler, 
of  the  fourth  generation,  late  in  life  moved 
to  Pittsfield,  Massachusetts,  and  thence 
to  New  York  State.  Farming  has  been 
the  family  occupation,  and  at  one  time 
Charles  Fowler  and  his  son,  Charles  R. 
Fowler,  conducted  a  very  extensive 
tobacco  farm  which  was  later  operated 
by  his  son  until  1903,  when  he  retired, 
although  he  still  owns  the  farm. 

(IV)  Stephen  Fowler,  son  of  Samuel 
(2)  Fowler  (q.  v.),  was  born  at  West- 
field,  December  21,  1719.  He  removed 
from  Westfield  to  Pittsfield  about  1772, 
and  afterwards  to  the  State  of  New  York. 
He  married  (first)  August  10,  1746, 
Rhoda,  died  January  8,  1747-48,  sister  of 
Captain  John  Bancroft,  who  had  a  large 
estate  in  the  northwest  part  of  Westfield. 
He  married  (second)  in  175 1,  Mary  Wells, 
of  Hartford.  Child  of  first  wife :  Stephen, 
born  July  26,  1747,  married  Rhoda  Wells. 
Children  of  second  wife :  Rhoda,  born 
April  ID,  1752;  Blackledge,  mentioned 
below ;  Abigail,  born  March  23,  1756,  mar- 
ried Asa  Noble;  Mehitable,  February  16, 
1758,  married  Dr.  Porter,  of  Williams- 
town  ;  Sarah,  August  26,  1760,  married 
John  Lee,  of  Hartford ;  Amos,  February 
16,  1763,  married  Irene  Fowler,  of  North- 


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ford,  Connecticut;  Mary,  August  15, 
1765,  died  February  15,  1766;  Wells,  Feb- 
ruary 20,  1768,  died  young;  Mary,  Octo- 
ber 13,  1771,  married  (first)  Daniel  Fow- 
ler, (second)  Dr.  Martin  Phelps. 

(V)  Blackledge  Fowler,  son*of  Stephen 
Fowler,  was  born  January  4,  1754,  and 
died  September  6,  1839.  He  married 
(first)  March  23,  1780,  Miriam  Smith,  died 
January  11,  1811.  He  married  (second) 
October  23,  1813,  Sarah  Rogers,  died  Sep- 
tember 25,  1825.  Children,  all  by  first 
wife:  Charles,  born  February  12,  1781, 
died  young;  Sophia,  April  14,  1783,  mar- 
ried Charles  Noble,  January  8,  1803 ; 
Lucy,  June  26,  1785  ;  Clarissa,  August  30, 
1787,  married  Henry  Taylor;  Porter,  men- 
tioned below ;  Thomas,  February  28, 
1791  ;  Elizabeth,  June  4,  1794;  Julia,  No- 
vember 5,  1796,  married  Chauncey  Pease, 
December  22,  1818. 

(VI)  Porter  Fowler,  son  of  Blackledge 
Fowler,  was  born  in  Westfield,  December 
29,  1789,  and  died  October  12,  1828.  He 
was  a  farmer  of  Westfield,  owning  a  large 
tract  of  the  finest  farm  land  in  the  town, 
a  tract  still  owned  in  the  family.  He 
married,  September  26,  1816,  Sarah  At- 
water,  of  Russell,  Massachusetts,  born 
January  13,  1793,  died  December  25,  1864. 
Children:  Wells,  born  October  4,  1817, 
died  January  11,  1857,  married  Diantha 
Stiles,  born  December  23,  1817,  died  Oc- 
tober 28,  1894;  Mary,  born  March  17, 
1820,  married  Horace  Latimer;  Charles, 
mentioned  below ;  John,  born  July  26, 
1825,  died  June  10,  1907,  married  Adeline 
Moore  Bartholomew  ;  Elizabeth,  born  No- 
vember 2,  1828,  married,  April  17,  1850, 
Daniel  Monson. 

(VII)  Charles  Fowler,  second  son  of 
Porter  Fowler,  was  born  at  Westfield, 
December  21,  1822,  and  died  there  Janu- 
ary 24,  189D.  "*  He  was  six  years  of  age 
when  his  father  died,  the  large  farm  Por- 
ter  Fowler  left  being  conducted  by  his 


father,  Blackledge  Fowler,  until  his  death 
in  1839,  when  Charles  Fowler  became  its 
manager.  He  was  educated  in  the  public 
school,  and  until  1864  remained  at  the 
homestead  on  Silver  street.  When  his 
brother  John  reached  suitable  age,  the 
brothers  b'ecame  partners  in  its  manage- 
ment, but  in  1864  Charles  Fowler  sold  his 
interest  to  his  brother  and  bought  a  large 
farm  in  the  vicinity  on  West  Silver  street. 
There  he  conducted  general  farming  oper- 
ations, and  in  the  winter  season  bought 
feeders  and  fattened  them  for  the  market. 
He  thus  continued  until  about  1870,  when 
Western  beef  began  coming  to  Eastern 
markets  in  such  quantities  that  Mr.  Fow- 
ler abandoned  the  lines  he  had  found 
profitable  and  began  tobacco  raising.  He 
added  to  his  own  crops  purchases  of  leaf 
tobacco  from  the  neighboring  farmers, 
erected  a  large  warehouse  and  conducted 
an  extensive  business  until  his  death  in 
1890.  His  son,  Charles  R.,  was  admitted 
a  partner,  and  after  the  death  of  Charles 
Fowler,  Charles  R.  admitted  his  brother, 
Edward  T.,  and  together  they  continued 
the  business  until  1901,  when  Edward  T. 
retired  from  the  firm.  Charles  Fowler 
was  a  democrat  in  politics,  and  both  he 
and  his  wife  were  members  of  the  Congre- 
gational church.  He  married  (first)  Har- 
riet Taylor,  born  in  Westfield,  May  26, 
1821,  died  February  3,  1853,  leaving  a 
son,  Charles  Richmond,  born  December 
22,  1848.  He  married  (second)  Jane  E. 
Taylor,  sister  of  his  first  wife,  born  Feb- 
ruary 18,  1830,  died  November  13,  1864, 
leaving  a  son,  Edward  Taylor,  mentioned 
below.  He  married  (third)  Sarah  M. 
Taylor  (not  a  relative)  born  November  16, 
1829,  died  June  28,  1915. 

(VIII)  Edward  Taylor  Fowler,  only 
son  of  Charles  Fowler  and  his  second 
wife,  Jane  E.  (Taylor)  Fowler,  was  born 
in  Westfield,  Massachusetts,  November 
4,  1864,  his  birthplace  the  farm  on  West 


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Silver  street,  then  recently  purchased  by 
his  father  and  now  occupied  by  his 
brother,  Charles  R.  Fowler.  His  life  until 
the  age  of  twenty  was  spent  in  acquiring 
an  education  in  the  graded  and  high 
schools  of  Westfield  and  at  Eastman's 
Business  College,  Poughkee^sie,  New 
York.  He  then  became  associated  with 
his  father  and  brother  in  the  cultivation 
of  the  farm  and  in  the  leaf  tobacco  busi- 
ness. After  the  death  of  their  father,  in 
1890,  the  brothers  continued  the  business 
until  1901,  when  Edward  T.  retired  from 
the  farming  and  tobacco  business  to- 
devote  himself  exclusively  to  the  manage- 
ment of  the  Foster  Machine  Company  of 
Westfield.  He  had  been  previously  inter- 
ested in  that  company,  but  some  changes 
that  were  made  in  1901  made  it  advisable 
that  he  take  a  more  active  part.  He  is 
now  treasurer  and  general  manager  of 
this,  his  brother,  Charles  R.  Fowler,  being 
president.  The  company  manufactures 
machinery  for  use  in  textile  mills,  but 
specializes  on  an  improved  type  of  yarn 
winder  for  knitting  machines,  also  ma- 
chines for  silk,  wool  and  cotton  yarns. 
During  the  sixteen  years  that  Mr.  Fowler 
has  been  the  active  manager  of  tli'e  plant 
the  business  has  greatly  expanded,  im- 
proved and  increased  in  volume,  quality 
and  prestige,  and  the  Foster  Machine 
Company  is  one  of  the  prosperous  impor- 
tant manufacturing  enterprises  of  West- 
field.  Mr.  Fowler  is  an  attendant  of  the 
Second  Con^egational  Church  of  West- 
field,  and  of  Mt.  Moriah  Lodge,  Free  and 
Accepted  Alasons,  and  is  interested  in  all 
that  concerns  the  welfare  of  the  commun- 
ity in  which  seven  generations  of  his 
ancestors  labored  and  wrought  for  its  up- 
building. Mr.  Fowler  married.  May  5, 
1892,  Mary  K.  Allyn,  born  in  Holyoke, 
Massachusetts,  in  1872,  daughter  of  Sam- 
uel B.  Allyn,  a  farmer  of  Montgomery, 
Massachusetts,  and  a  merchant  of  Hol- 


yoke. Mrs.  Fowler's  only  brother,  Robert 
A.  Allyn,  is  a  prominent  lawyer  of  Hol- 
yoke. Mr.  and  Mrs.  Fowler  are  the  par- 
ents of  two  daughters  :  Margaret  A.,  mar- 
ried Donald  Bridgman,  January,  1918,  and 
Katherine^M. 


FOWLER,  John  Henry, 

Manufacturer. 

John  Henry  Fowler,  of  the  eighth 
American  generation  of  this  family  in 
America,  is  a  true  representative  of  the 
family,  and  like  his  ancestors  is  largely 
interested  in  agriculture,  tilling  the  acres 
on  which  his  father,  grandfather  and  great- 
grandfather spent  their  lives.  His  dispo- 
sition, however,  ran  contrary  to  the  usual 
Fowler  agricultural  instinct,  as  he  craved 
a  business  life,  and  in  Thompson,  Con- 
necticut, a  manufacturing  business  exists 
which  owes  its  inception  and  success  to 
the  ten  years  of  his  life  which  he  devoted 
to  its  upbuilding. 

(VII)  John  Fowler,  son  of  Porter 
Fowler  (q.  v.),  was  born  in  West- 
field,  Massachusetts,  July  26,  1825,  and 
there  died  June  10,  1907.  He  was 
but  three  years  of  age  when  his 
father  died,  but  the  family  remained  at 
the  farm  which  was  managed  by  Black- 
ledge  Fowler,  grandfather  of  Charles  and 
John  Fowler.  John  Fowler  attended  the 
public  schools  and  Westfield  Academy, 
who  assisted  in  the  farm  work  until  the 
death  of  Blackledge  Fowler,  in  1839. 
Charles,  the  elder  of  the  two  boys,  suc- 
ceeded him  and  later,  John  and  the  broth- 
ers then  formed  a  partnership  and  most 
efficiently  conducted  the  farm  until  1864. 
Charles  Fowler  then  purchased  a  farm 
nearby,  and  John  continued  at  the  home- 
stead. He  bought  and  fattened  cattle  for 
the  Boston  market  and  was  very  success- 
ful in  that  undertaking,  but  when  the 
Western  packing  houses  obtained  control 


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of  the  Eastern  markets,  he  withdrew  and 
gave  more  attention  to  dairy  farming  and 
gradually  devoted  his  farm  to  tobacco 
raising.  He  became  one  of  the  substan- 
tial farmers  of  Westfield,  but  retired  in 
favor  of  his  capable  sons  who  yet  own 
and  cultivate  the  farm.  He  was  an  ardent 
Democrat  of  the  "old  school,"  and  took  an 
active  part  in  town  afifairs.  He  served 
Westfield  as  selectman  for  about  twelve 
years,  and  in  all  his  campaigns  polled  a 
large  vote,  his  integrity  and  public  spirit 
attracting  the  independent  voters.  He 
was  a  deacon  of  the  Second  Congrega- 
tional Church  for  many  years,  and  one  of 
the  highly-esteemed  men  of  the  commun- 
ity in  which  his  long  life  was  passed. 

John  Fowler  married.  May  29,  1861, 
Adeline  Moore  Bartholomew,  born  in 
Montgomery,  Massachusetts,  April  22, 
1840,  who  resided  at  the  old  homestead  on 
Silver  street,  Westfield,  until  her  death  in 
December,  1917.  She  was  a  daughter  of 
Nathan  Parks  Bartholomew,  born  in 
Montgomery,  1817,  died  there  in  1867.  He 
married  Dolly  Ann  Moore,  born  in  1818, 
died  in  1896.  Nathan  Parks  Bartholo- 
mew was  a  son  of  Harris  Bartholomew, 
of  Montgomery ;  son  of  Captain  Andrew 
Bartholomew,  a  captain  during  the  Revo- 
lution of  Harwinton,  Connecticut ;  son  of 
Rev.  Andrew  Bartholomew,  a  graduate  of 
Yale,  1731,  pastor  of  the  church  at  Har- 
winton for  thirty-five  years ;  son  of  An- 
drew Bartholomew,  of  Wallingford,  Con- 
necticut, a  man  of  prominence ;  son  of 
Lieutenant  William  Bartholomew,  the 
first  deputy  to  the  Connecticut  General 
Court  from  Woodstock  in  1692;  son  of 
William  Bartholomew,  born  in  Burford, 
England,  in  1602-03,  arrived  in  Boston, 
Massachusetts,  on  the  ship  "Griffin," 
September  18,  1634,  was  a  merchant  of 
Boston  and  a  man  of  great  prominence. 
In  England  the  Bartholomews  trace  to 
John  Bartholomew,  of  Oxfordshire,  who 


is  on  record  in  the  year  1551.  Nathan 
Parks  and  Dolly  Ann  (Moore)  Bartholo- 
mew were  the  parents  of:  Adeline 
Moore,  widow  of  John  Fowler ;  Maria 
J.,  born  July  25,  1841  ;  Myra  Parks,  born 
February  12,  1845,  died  December  31, 
1907,  married  Albert  Thomas,  who  died 
in  1905.  John  and  Adeline  Moore  (Bar- 
tholomew) Fowler  were  the  parents  of 
four  sons  and  a  daughter:  Porter  N., 
born  November  16,  1863,  died  June  i, 
1864;  John  Henry,  mentioned  below; 
Lillian  M.,  born  January  24,  1867,  died 
February  29,  1872 ;  Albert  E.,  born  No- 
vember 17,  1873,  married  Elizabeth  Bush  ; 
Harold  E.,  born  April  20,  1880,  married 
Irene  Pope. 

(VIII)  John  Henry  Fowler,  second  son 
of  John  Fowler,  was  born  at  the  home- 
stead in  Westfield,  Massachusetts,  No- 
vember 3,  1865.  He  was  educated  in  the 
graded  and  high  schools  of  Westfield, 
spent  two  years  at  Amherst  Agricultural 
College,  and  is  now  engaged  in  farming 
on  a  part  of  the  old  homestead. 

Mr.  Fowler  married  Edith  May  Loomis, 
born  1883,  daughter  of  George  W. 
Loomis,  a  lumber  dealer  of  Westfield. 
Mr.  and  Mrs.  Fowler  are  the  parents  of 
two  sons,  John  Parker  and  Richard  L. 


NOBLE,  A.  Fowler, 

Physician. 

The  ancestry  of  Wells  Noble  is  of  great 
antiquity  in  England.  The  name  is 
found  also  in  Scotland.  Wells  Noble, 
third  son  of  Charles  and  Sophia  (Fowler) 
Noble,  was  born  January  28,  1818,  in 
Westfield,  was  a  farmer  on  the  paternal 
homestead,  where  he  died  July  2,  1875. 
He  married,  June  17,  1846,  Mary  Dewey, 
of  that  town,  born  May  26,  1819,  daugh- 
ter of  Charles  C.  and  Electa  (Sackett) 
Dewey. 

Reuben  Noble,  second  son  of  Wells  and 


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Mary  (Dewey)  Noble,  was  born  May  5, 
1849,  in  Westfield,  where  he  has  been  an 
extensive  tobacco  grower  and  dealer  for 
many  years,  and  is  now  retired  from 
active  life.  He  and  his  family  are  attend- 
ants of  the  Methodist  Episcopal  church. 
He  married  Dr.  Anngenette  Fowler, 
daughter  of  Joseph  Jonathan  and  Ann- 
genette (Fowler)  Fowler,  of  Westfield, 
elsewhere  mentioned  in  this  article.  Their 
daughter,  Mary  Anngenette  Noble,  was 
born  .September  27,  1898,  at  Westfield, 
graduated  from  the  high  school  of  that 
town,  and  then  pursued  a  post-graduate 
course  preparatory  to  entering  Bryn 
Mawr  College. 

Dr.  A.  Fowler  Noble  was  born  in  West- 
field.  Most  of  her  life  has  been  spent  in 
that  town,  where  she  graduated  from  the 
high  school  in  1878,  and  was  subse- 
quently a  student  in  the  Westfield  Nor- 
mal School.  After  pursuing  the  course  at 
the  Woman's  Medical  College  of  Balti- 
more, she  was  graduated  in  1893,  and 
received  a  gold  medal  for  the  highest 
standing  in  scholarship.  She  is  deeply 
interested  in  her  profession,  is  a  contin- 
uous student,  and  has  conducted  a  prac- 
tice in  Westfield  among  a  select  class  of 
patients.  She  is  more  inclined  to  study 
and  research  than  to  practice,  is  a  mem- 
ber of  various  medical  societies,  all  of 
whose  meetings  and  conventions  find  her 
an  interested  attendant.  She  was  presi- 
dent of  the  Westfield  Woman's  Club,  a 
member  of  the  Parent-Teachers'  Associa- 
tion, active  in  the  Visiting  Nurses'  Asso- 
ciation, and  generally  interested  in  all 
work  of  a  benevolent  nature. 

(The   Fowler  Line). 

(IV)  David  Fowler,  second  son  of 
Samuel  (2)  and  Mercy  Fowler  (q.  v.), 
was  born  about  1714,  and  married,  in 
June,  1747,  Elizabeth  Smith,  born  Febru- 
ary   16,    1728,   in   Simsbury,   Connecticut, 


daughter    of   James    Smith,    Jr.,    of    that 
town. 

(V)  David  (2)  Fowler,  son  of  David 
(i)  and  Elizabeth  (Smith)  Fowler,  was 
born  April  27,  1752,  and  died  February  16, 
1823.  He  married  (first)  Polly  Rising, 
who  was  the  mother  of  eight  children.  He 
married  (second)  in  1802,  Elizabeth 
Campbell,  who  died  March  20,  1845. 
Their  son  is  the  next  mentioned. 

(VI)  Aretus  Fowler,  son  of  David  (2) 
Fowler,  was  born  January  10,  1805,  and 
died  March  6,  1849.  He  married,  Febru- 
ary 17,  1828,  Nancy  Allen.  Of  their  eleven 
children,  the  fourth  was  Anngenette 
Fowler,  born  October  16,  1835,  who  mar- 
ried, December  11,  1856,  Joseph  Jonathan 
Fowler,  mentioned  below. 

(III)  Jonathan  Fowler,  second  son  of 
Samuel  and  Abigail  (Brown)  Fowler  (q. 
v.),  was  born  October  19,  1685,  in  Windsor, 
and  was  a  child  when  the  family  settled  in 
Westfield.  He  married  (first)  in  1720, 
Catherine  Marshall,  born  April  11,  1699, 
in  Winder,  third  daughter  of  Thomas 
and  Mary  (Drake)  Marshall.  He  married 
(second)  Hannah  Pettibone. 

(IV)  Luther  Fowler,  eighth  child  of 
Jonathan  and  Catherine  (Marshall)  Fow- 
ler, was  born  May  2,  1739,  and  married, 
in  May,  1762,  Anna  Woodward,  who  died 
August  28,  1796.  Of  their  eleven  children 
the  second  was  Ashbel  Fowler. 

(V)  Ashbel  Fowler,  son  of  Luther 
Fowler,  was  born  1764,  married,  in  1788, 
Lucretia  Kellogg,  born  about  1764,  in 
Westfield,  daughter  of  David  and  Eliza- 
beth (Jones)  Kellogg,  a  descendant  of  a 
very  ancient  family.  This  surname  is  found 
in  England  early  in  the  sixteenth  century, 
and  in  Debden,  County  Essex,  England, 
where  in  January,  1525,  Nicholas  Kellogg 
was  taxed.  William  Kellogg  was  also  on 
the  tax  list.  There  were  many  ways  of 
spelling  the  name,  among  them  being  Kel- 
hogge,    Kellogue,    Cologe,    Calaug,    Cel- 


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lodge,  Kellock,  Killhog,  Collidge,  Cellog, 
Kellog,  and  many  others.  There  were 
many  families  of  the  name  in  County 
Essex,  Great  Leigh  and  Braintree  being 
the  seat  of  different  branches  probably  of 
the  same  family.  Phillippe  Kellogg  lived 
in  Booking,  County  Essex,  England,  a 
parish  adjoining  Braintree,  where  his  son 
Thomas  was  baptized  September  15,  1583. 
Two  years  later  he  was  in  Great  Leigh, 
where  his  daughter  Annis  was  buried  in 
161 1.  His  son,  Martin  Kellogg,  was  bap- 
tized November  23,  1595,  in  Great  Leigh, 
County  Essex,  and  died  in  Braintree  in 
1671.  He  was  a  weaver  or  cloth  worker, 
and  lived  in  Great  Leigh  and  Braintree. 
He  married,  in  St.  Michael's  Church, 
Bishop's  Stortford,  County  Hertford,  Oc- 
tober 22,  1621,  Prudence  Bird,  whom  he 
survived.  They  were  the  parents  of  Lieu- 
tenant Joseph  Kellogg,  baptized  April  i, 
1626,  in  Great  Leigh,  and  died  in  1707,  in 
Hadley,  Massachusetts.  As  early  as  165 1 
he  was  living  in  Farmington,  Connecti- 
cut, where  he  and  his  wife  joined  the 
church,  October  9,  1653.  In  1655  he  sold 
his  house  lot  there  and  two  years  later 
moved  to  Boston,  Massachusetts,  where 
he  purchased  a  dwelling  house,  October 
16,  1659.  This  was  on  the  street  leading 
to  Roxbury,  and  the  site  is  now  occupied 
by  the  Advertiser  building  on  Washing- 
ton street,  Boston.  He  paid  for  it  seven 
hundred  dollars,  sold  it  in  1661,  and 
removed  to  Hadley,  Massachusetts,  where 
he  made  an  agreement  with  the  town  in 
that  year  to  maintain  the  ferry  between 
Hadley  and  Northampton.  He  built  his 
house  on  a  small  home  lot  reserved  by  the 
town  for  the  ferry,  and  was  given  leave 
also  to  entertain  travelers.  In  1677  the 
town  voted  him  forty  pounds  for  a  team, 
which  had  been  impressed  for  the  col- 
ony's service  and  for  ferriage  for  soldiers. 
This  ferry  was  continued  by  his  son  and 
grandson  until  1758,  and  later  by  a  son- 


in-law  of  the  latter.  Joseph  Kellogg 
was  long  selectman  of  Hadley,  was 
a  sergeant  of  the  military  company 
in  1663,  appointed  ensign  in  1678, 
and  before  the  close  of  that  year 
was  made  lieutenant,  in  which  position  he 
served  until  1692.  As  sergeant  he  com- 
manded the  Hadley  troops  in  the  famous 
Turners  Fall  fight.  May  18,  1676.  He 
served  on  committees  to  purchase  lands 
from  the  Indians,  to  lay  out  lands,  and  he 
and  his  sons  had  grants  in  Hadley.  His 
first  wife,  Joanna,  died  in  Hadley,  Sep- 
tember 14,  1666,  and  he  married  (second) 
Abigail  Terry,  bom  September  21,  1646, 
in  Windsor,  daughter  of  Stephen  Perry, 
who  was  born  August  25,  1608,  in  Stock- 
ton, Wiltshire,  England,  and  his  wife, 
Elizabeth.  John  Kellogg,  son  of  Lieuten- 
ant Joseph  and  Joanna  Kellogg,  was  bap- 
tized December  29,  1756,  in  Farmington, 
lived  in  that  town  and  Hadley,  where  he 
succeeded  to  the  ferry  which  had  been 
operated  by  his  father.  The  list  of  those 
owning  large  estates  in  Hadley  included 
his  name.  He  married,  December  23, 
1680,  in  Hadley,  Sarah  Moody,  born  1660, 
daughter  of  Samuel  and  Sarah  (Deming) 
Moody,  died  in  Farmington.  Her  third 
son  was  Samuel  Kellogg,  born  April  i, 
1687,  in  Hadley,  died  May  27,  1761,  and 
was  buried  in  Westfield,  where  his  grave- 
stone is  still  standing.  He  received  a 
grant  of  ten  acres  in  Westfield,  whither 
he  removed  as  early  as  1712,  and  was 
hired  by  the  town  in  1713  to  build  a 
bridge  over  Two  Mile  brook.  A  carpen- 
ter by  trade,  he  probably  built  the  second 
meetinghouse  in  Westfield,  in  1721.  In 
association  with  two  others  he  was 
granted  leave  by  the  town,  January  14, 
1 714,  to  build  a  saw  and  grist  mill.  His 
home  was  at  Little  Plain  Place,  and  after 
1 72 1  on  the  land  granted  him  on  the  east- 
erly side  of  Munn's  brook,  where  he  had 
about  one  hundred  acres  of  high  land,  in 


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which  game  abounded.  He  is  said  to 
have  been  a  fine  shot  and  much  devoted 
to  the  chase.  He  married,  July  8,  1714, 
his  cousin,  Mary  Ashley,  born  March  12, 
1694,  died  April  8,  1728,  daughter  of  Lieu- 
tenant Joseph  and  Sarah  (Kellogg)  Ash- 
ley. Their  third  son  was  David  Kellogg, 
born  May  30,  1721,  in  Westfield,  where  he 
made  his  home,  and  died  March  6,  1766. 
He  served  in  the  expedition  against  Can- 
ada, being  impressed  in  the  service,  April 
6,  1759.  He  married  (intentions  published 
April  II,  1747)  Elizabeth  Jones,  of  En- 
field, Connecticut,  daughter  of  Thomas 
and  Mary  (Meacham)  Jones.  Their  fifth 
daughter,  Lucretia,  became  the  wife  of 
Ashbel  Fowler,  as  above  noted. 

(VI)  Ashbel  (2)  Fowler,  third  son  of 
Ashbel  (i)  and  Lucretia  (Kellogg)  Fow- 
ler, was  born  May  14,  1801,  in  Westfield, 
and  died  there  February  26,  1862.  He 
married.  May  16,  1832,  Laura  Everton. 

(VII)  Joseph  Jonathan  Fowler,  second 
son  of  Ashbel  (2)  and  Laura  (Everton) 
Fowler,  born  May  i,  1836,  was  a  farmer, 
lived  all  his  life  in  one  house,  born  and 
died  in  the  same  room.  He  married,  De- 
cember II,  1856,  Anngenette,  daughter  of 
Aretus  and  Nancy  (Allen)  Fowler,  of 
Southwick.  They  had  two  children : 
Anngenette,  who  married  Reuben  Noble, 
and  Mabelle,  married  Merrill  H.  Hosmer. 
and  now  resides  in  Westfield. 


SHEPARD,  Frederick  Fowler, 

Business   Man. 

Three  generations  of  this  branch  of  the 
Shepard  family  have  resided  in  Westfield 
and  each  in  his  own  sphere  has  contri- 
buted to  the  upbuilding  of  the  city  ;  Paul 
Shepard,  the  grandfather,  as  a  carpenter 
and  builder,  the  son,  Charles  Fay  Shepard, 
as  a  manufacturer  and  business  man,  the 
grandson,  Frederick  Fowler  Shepard,  as 
a  merchant.     Charles  Fay  and  Frederick 


Fowler  Shepard,  Westfield  claims  as 
native  sons,  but  Paul  Shepard  came  at  an 
early  age  from  Connecticut,  a  descendant 
of  John  Shepard,  who  Hinman  says: 
"was  a  man  of  consequence  in  the  colony." 
He  was  a  son  of  Edward  Shepard,  and 
was  known  in  Hartford  as  Sergeant  John 
Shepard.  He  is  first  mentioned  in  Hart- 
ford, Connecticut  records  in  1654,  but 
had  been  made  a  freeman  in  Cambridge, 
Massachusetts,  in  1650.  He  lived  in  Hart- 
ford in  what  is  now  known  as  Lafayette 
street,  just  south  of  the  new  State  House, 
and  owned  lands  extending  to  the  Weth- 
ersfield  bounds.  Edward  Shepard,  son 
of  Sergeant  John  Shepard,  resided  in  Mid- 
dletown,  Connecticut,  was  a  deputy  to 
the  General  Court,  1710-11,  and  died  Sep- 
tember 9,  171 1.  The  line  of  descent  is 
through  his  son,  John  (2)  Shepard,  of 
Middletown;  his  son,  Daniel  Shepard,  of 
Chatham,  now  Portland,  Connecticut ;  his 
son,  Daniel  (2)  Shepard,  of  Portland, 
born  March  12,  1754,  died  October  24, 
1850;  his  son,  Paul  Shepard,  who  moved 
to  Westfield,  Massachusetts. 

Paul  Shepard  passed  his  life  mostly  in 
Westfield  and  all  his  active  years  fol-  ■* 
lowed  his  trade  of  carpenter.  Both  he 
and  his  wife  were  members  of  the  Metho- 
dist Episcopal  church.  He  married  Clar- 
issa Nelson,  born  in  Westfield,  January  4, 
1804,  died  there  March  13,  i860.  They 
were  the  parents  of  Charles  Fay,  of  fur- 
ther mention ;  Horace  K.,  born  in  1830,. 
married,  and  there  died  March  29,  1895. 

Charles  Fay  Shepard  was  born  in 
Westfield,  Massachusetts,  in  1828,  and 
died  January  21,  1902.  He  was  educated 
in  Westfield  public  schools  and  academy, 
and  early  became  interested  in  that 
standard  Westfield  industry,  the  manu- 
facture of  whips.  He  began  with  the  E. 
B.  Light  Company,  and  by  ability,  indus- 
try and  close  attention  became  superin- 
tendent of  the  factory  while  yet  a  young 


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man.  The  E.  B.  Light  Company  was 
succeeded  by  the  Hampden  Whip  Com- 
pany, and  that  corporation  by  the  United 
States  Whip  Company,  but  through  all 
the  changes  Mr.  Shepard  remained  super- 
intendent, also  having  a  financial  interest 
and  serving  on  the  board  of  directors.  He 
was  a  Republican  in  politics,  serving  in 
the  Massachusetts  Assembly  one  term. 
He  was  an  active  member  of  the  Metho- 
dist Episcopal  church,  a  member  of  the 
official  board,  untiring  in  his  work  in  all 
departments  of  church  work.  He  was 
highly  esteemed  as  business  man,  citizen 
and  neighbor,  was  much  sought  for  in 
counsel,  and  all  relied  upon  his  just,  up- 
right, manly  character. 

Mr.  Shepard  married  (first)  March  29, 
1849,  Emeline  (Emily)  Fox.  They  had 
one  son,  Charles  S.,  born  March  11,  185 1, 
spent  boyhood  in  Westfield,  was  for  a 
time  in  Middletown,  Connecticut,  later 
engaged  in  business  in  Chicago,  Illinois, 
died  in  that  city,  but  his  remains  were 
interred  in  Westfield.  Mr.  Shepard  mar- 
ried (second)  Harriet  Eliza  Fowler,  born 
in  Southwick,  Massachusetts,  November 
27,  1835,  died  in  Westfield,  June  18,  1914, 
daughter  of  Tarsus  Noble  and  Mary  Ann 
(Aldrich)  Fowler.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Shepard 
were  the  parents  of  two  sons:  Frederick 
Fowler,  of  further  mention,  and  Harry 
N.,  who  died  in  1868,  aged  eleven  months. 

Frederick  Fowler  Shepard  was  born  in 
Westfield,  Massachusetts,  October  16, 
1863.  He  was  educated  in  Westfield  pub- 
lic schools,  and  after  graduation  from 
high  school  in  1884  entered  the  whip  fac- 
tory over  which  his  father  was  superin- 
tendent. That,  however,  was  not  his  first 
introduction  into  business  life,  for  during 
his  vacation  periods  he  had  been  em- 
ployed in  different  departments.  He  did 
not  find  the  business  a  congenial  one, 
although  the  inducements  were  good,  and 
ere  long  he  sought  a  different  field.     For 


a  time  he  was  with  the  hardware  firm,  Wil- 
liams &  Wolcott,  leaving  them  to  become 
associated  under  better  conditions  with 
James  H.  Bryan,  also  a  hardware  dealer 
of  W'estfield.  There  he  found  his  true 
sphere  and  opportunity,  and  so  well  did 
he  master  the  details  and  methods  of  the 
hardware  business  that  he  rose  rapidly  in 
rank  and  filled  an  important  place  in  the 
firm  management.  When  his  friend  and 
employer,  James  H.  Bryan,  died,  January 
II,  1913,  Mr.  Shepard  purchased  the  busi- 
ness from  the  estate,  incorporated  as  the 
Bryan  Hardware  Company,  of  which  he 
is  president  and  manager.  Many  im- 
provements have  been  made  in  the  store 
and  business,  new  lines  have  been  added, 
the  reputation  of  the  establishment  for 
quality  of  goods  and  fairness  in  dealing 
being  very  high.  His  connection  with 
the  hardware  business  covers  practically 
the  entire  active  period  of  Mr.  Shep- 
ard's  life,  and  to  have  risen  to  the 
position  he  has  in  the  city  of  his  birth 
is  a  favorable  comment  upon  his  abil- 
ity and  character.  An  active  member 
of  the  Methodist  Episcopal  church,  he 
supports  earnestly  all  departments  of 
church  work.  He  is  a  member  of  Mt. 
Moriah  Lodge,  Free  and  Accepted  Ma- 
sons ;  is  a  Republican  in  politics ;  served 
nine  years  as  a  member  of  the  Board  of 
Education  and  is  deeply  interested  in 
public  affairs. 

Mr.  Shepard  married,  September  6, 
1912,  Elizabeth  Talmadge  Avery,  born  in 
Westfield,  Massachusetts,  November  21, 
1864,  daughter  of  Captain  John  Avery, 
and  granddaughter  of  Joseph  Sheldon  and 
Clarissa  (Noble)  Avery.  Captain  John 
Avery,  a  man  of  romantic,  adventurous 
spirit,  joined  the  "gold  seekers"  in  1849, 
made  a  long  and  dangerous  voyage 
around  Cape  Horn  to  San  Francisco, 
spent  five  years  in  the  gold  field, 
saw    much    of    the    dangers    of    wild    life 


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of  the  mining  camps,  made  the  return 
voyage  around  the  Horn,  finally  reaching 
his  home  in  safety  with  a  rich  fund  of 
experience.  When  the  Civil  War  broke 
out,  he  recruited  a  company  which  became 
Company  K  of  the  Forty-sixth  Regiment, 
Massachusetts  Volunteer  Infantry,  went 
to  the  front  as  its  captain  and  served  until 
the  surrender  at  Appamattox  Court 
House.  After  the  war  Captain  Avery 
returned  to  Westfield  and  became  a  brick 
manufacturer ,  conducting  a  large  and 
prosperous  business.  Captain  John  Avery 
married  (first)  Rebecca  Hancock,  a  direct 
descendant  of  John  Hancock,  signer  of 
the  Declaration  of  Independence.  They 
were  the  parents  of  Caroline  S.  Avery, 
married  William  B.  White,  of  Boston,  and 
died  in  that  city,  September  28,  1903 ; 
Mary  A.  Avery,  married  Daniel  W.  Mar- 
tin, of  Detroit,  Michigan,  and  he  died 
there  in  November,  1914,  and  she  re- 
turned to  Westfield  and  died  in  that  city ; 
Ellen  Avery,  died  aged  twenty  years. 
Captain  Avery  married  (second)  Mary 
Day  Bush,  sister  of  Henry  J.  Bush,  born 
January  16,  1825,  founder  of  the  American 
Whip  Company  of  Westfield,  and  died 
there  March  11,  1905.  They  were  the 
parents  of  two  daughters :  Lila  Bush 
Avery,  married  G.  E.  Austin,  of  West- 
field,  and  died  April  22,  1906;  Elizabeth 
Talmadge  Avery,  married  Frederick  Fow- 
ler Shepard. 


CARPENTER,  Frank  L., 

Treasurer  of  Davis  Mills. 

The  history  of  the  Carpenter  family  in 
England  has  been  traced  to  about  the 
year  1300  and  extends  further  undoubt- 
edly for  a  century  or  more  to  the  time 
when  surnames  came  into  use.  The  coat- 
of-arms  is  described: 

Arms — Argent,  a  greyhound  passant  and  a  chief 
sable. 


Crest — A  greyhound's    head    erased    per    fesse 
sable  and  argent. 
Motto — Ccleritas    Vitus    Fidclitas. 

This  was  granted  to  the  Carpenter 
family  of  Cobham,  County  Surrey,  and 
Sussex,  England,  March  4,  1663.  This 
armorial  was  engraved  on  the  tombstone 
of  Daniel  Carpenter,  of  Rehoboth,  who 
was  born  in  1669.  Herefordshire  was  the 
family  seat. 

(I)  John  Carpenter,  born  about  1303, 
was  a  member  of  Parliament  in  England 
in   1325. 

(II)  Richard  Carpenter,  son  of  John 
Carpenter,  was  born  about  1335,  a  wealthy 
goldsmith. 

(III)  John  (2)  Carpenter,  son  of  Rich- 
ard Carpenter,  was  a  cousin  of  John  Car- 
penter, town  clerk  of  London,  who  died  in 
1442. 

(IV)  John   (3)  Carpenter,  son  of  John 

(2)  Carpenter,  died  about  1500. 

(V)  William   Carpenter,   son   of  John 

(3)  Carpenter,  was  born  about  1440,  died 
in  1520,  lived  at  Homme. 

(VI)  James  Carpenter,  son  of  William 
Carpenter. 

(VII)  John  (4)  Carpenter,  son  of  James 
Carpenter. 

(VIII)  William  (2)  Carpenter,  son  of 
John  (4)  Carpenter,  was  born  about  1520, 
and  died  in  1550. 

(IX)  William  (3)  Carpenter,  son  of 
William  (2)  Carpenter,  was  born  about 
1540. 

(X)  William  (4)  Carpenter,  son  of 
William  (3)  Carpenter,  was  born  in  Eng- 
land, about  1576,  and  lived  in  London. 
He  sailed  from  Southampton  in  the  ship 
"Bevis,"  landed  in  Boston,  May,  1638,  but 
returned  in  the  same  vessel,  possibly  hav- 
ing come  to  this  country  merely  to  help 
his  son  to  locate. 

(XI)  William  (5)  ^arpenter,  the  Amer- 
ican immigrant,  son  of  William  (4)  Car- 
penter, was  born  in  England  in  1605,  and 


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died  in  Rehoboth,  Massachusetts,  Febru- 
ary 7,  1659.  He  was  first  at  Weymouth, 
and  was  there  May  13,  1640,  when  admit- 
ted a  freeman ;  was  deputy  from  that 
town,  1641-43,  and  from  Rehoboth  in 
1645  ;  also  constable  in  1641  and  proprie- 
tor's clerk  of  Weymouth  in  1643.  He 
drew  lot  18  in  the  division  of  lands  at 
Rehoboth,  June  30,  1644,  and  was  admit- 
ted an  inhabitant  of  that  town,  March  28, 
1645.  Through  his  influence  and  exertion 
the  grant  of  Seekonk,  later  called  Reho- 
both, was  made  by  the  General  Court  at 
Plymouth,  and  in  1647  he  was  one  of  the 
directors  of  the  town.  He  had  charge  of 
most  of  the  legal  business  of  the  town  and 
was  evidently  of  superior  education.  He 
contributed  to  the  funds  for  King  Philip's 
War.  As  early  as  1642  he  was  commis- 
sioned a  captain,  and  called  upon  to  pro- 
tect the  owners  of  Pawtuxet  lands.  He 
served  on  the  committee  that  laid  out  the 
road  from  Rehoboth  to  Dedham.  He  was 
an  intimate  friend  of  Governor  Bradford, 
who  married  his  cousin  Alice.  His  wife 
Abigail  died  February  22,  1687.  Children : 
John,  born  about  1628  in  England ;  Wil- 
liam, about  163 I ;  Joseph, 1633;  Hannah, 
born  in  Weymouth,  April  3,  1640;  Abiah, 
April  9,  1643 ;  Abigail,  twin  of  Abiah ; 
Samuel,  mentioned  below. 

(XII)  Samuel  Carpenter,  son  of  Wil- 
liam (5)  Carpenter,  was  born  in  1644,  died 
in  Rehoboth,  February  20,  1683.  He  was 
of  those  making  the  North  Purchase,  in 
which  he  was  allotted  land,  February  5, 
1671.  He  also  contributed  to  the  King 
Philip's  War  fund.  He  became  wealthy 
for  his  day.  He  married.  May  25,  1660, 
Sarah  Readaway,  and  she  married  (sec- 
ond) Gilbert  Brooks.  Children,  born  at 
Rehoboth:  Samuel,  September  15,  1661 
Sarah,  January  11,  1663;  Abiah,  men- 
tioned below;  James,  April  12,  1668 
Jacob,  September  5,  1670;  Jonathan,  De 
cember  11,  1672;    David,  April  17,  1675 


Solomon,  December  23,  1677;  Zachariah, 
July  I,  1680;  Abraham,  September  20, 
1682. 

(XIII)  Abiah  Carpenter,  son  of  Sam- 
uel Carpenter,  was  born  at  Rehoboth, 
February  10,  1665-66,  and  died  in  April, 
1732.  He  was  a  farmer  and  wheelwright, 
and  served  as  ensign  in  the  militia.  He 
married  (first)  in  Rehoboth,  May  30, 
1690,  Mehitable  Read,  born  in  August, 
1660,  died  March  19,  1701-02;  married 
(second)  June  7,  1702,  Sarah  Read,  who 
died  July  17,  1724;  married  (third),  July 
16,  1726,  Mary  Ormsby.  Children  by  his 
first  wife,  born  at  Rehoboth :  Abiah, 
born  April  21,  1691  ;  Thomas,  mentioned 
below;  Mehitable,  November  15,  1694; 
Samuel;  Sarah,  1696;  Rachel,  May  19, 
1699;  Peter,  April  22,  1701.  By  second 
wife,  Mary,  born  March  4,  1704;  Corne- 
lius, August  20,  1707. 

(XIV)  Thomas  Carpenter,  son  of  Abiah 
Carpenter,  was  born  at  Rehoboth,  No- 
vember 8,  1692,  died  May  3,  1779.  He 
was  a  farmer,  and  deacon  of  the  Rehoboth 
church.  He  married  there,  January  17, 
1720-21,  Mary  Barstow.  She  died  April 
28,  1783,  aged  seventy-eight  years.  Chil- 
dren, born  in  Rehoboth :  Mary,  Septem- 
ber 22,  1723;  Peter,  September  22,  1723; 
Rachel,  April  14,  1731 ;  Thomas,  men- 
tioned below;  Caleb,  September  21,  1736. 

(XV)  Captain  Thomas  (2)  Carpenter, 
son  of  Thomas  (i)  Carpenter,  was  born 
at  Rehoboth,  October  24,  1733.  He  was 
a  farmer.  In  1775  he  was  deputy  to  the 
General  Court.  He  was  commissioned 
colonel  of  the  Bristol  county  militia  reg- 
iment, under  General  Lincoln,  at  Boston, 
November  28,  1776.  He  served  in  the 
Rhode  Island  campaigns  in  1778,  1779 
and  1780.  He  rose  to  this  rank  from  a 
private.  He  was  captain,  October  7, 
1774,  and  was  on  the  county  committee 
of  safety,  etc.,  1775,  was  delegate  to  the 
Provincial  Congress  at  Cambridge,  Feb- 


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ruary  i,  1775,  and  at  Watertown,  May 
31,  1775.  He  was  one  of  the  committee 
to  fix  the  pay  of  soldiers  and  officers  in 
June,  1775,  and  on  a  committee,  to  devise 
ways  and  means  to  prevent  the  convey- 
ance of  information  to  the  enemy,  later 
in  that  year.  After  the  campaign  about 
Boston,  Colonel  Thomas  Carpenter's  reg- 
iment marched  to  join  Washington's 
army,  and  arrived  just  before  the  battle 
of  White  Plains,  New  York.  They  were 
not  in  the  battle,  being  used  as  reserves 
four  miles  away,  but  had  a  slight  skirm- 
ish in  which  three  men  were  wounded. 
He  was  with  his  regiment  on  Long  Island, 
in  action,  August  29,  1778,  and  was  dis- 
tinguished for  bravery.  Several  of  his 
men  from  Rehoboth  were  killed  there. 
Colonel  Carpenter  is  described  as  very 
large  and  portly  in  later  years.  He  mar- 
ried, in  Rehoboth,  December  26,  1754, 
Elizabeth  Moulton.  He  died,  April  26, 
1807,  at  Rehoboth.  His  wife  died  there, 
May  17,  1804.  Children,  all  born  in  Reho- 
both :  Elizabeth,  born  December  22, 
1755;  Thomas,  March  6,  1758;  Sarah, 
October  10,  1760;  William,  April  15,  1763  ; 
James,  September  15,  1764;  Stephen, 
mentioned  below;  James,  September  15, 
1767;  Rebecca,  September  14,  1769;  Na- 
than, June  17,  1772;  Peter,  October  5, 
1773;    Nathan,  August  27,  1776. 

(XVI)  Stephen  Carpenter,  son  of  Cap- 
tain Thomas  (2)  Carpenter,  was  born  in 
Rehoboth,  November  5,  1765.  He  was 
also  a  farmer  in  his  native  town.  He 
married  there,  in  January,  1790,  Hannah 
Wilmarth.  Children,  bom  in  Rehoboth : 
Hannah,  October  22,  1791  ;  Stephen,  men- 
tioned below;  Maria,  September  2,  1796; 
William  M.,  April  5,  1798;  Joseph  Wil- 
marth, November  24,  1801 ;  Samuel  Bliss, 
June  15,  1804;  Ira  Winsor,  May  19,  1807; 
Abigail  Whipple,  July  28,  1810;  Francis 
Henry,  April  24,  1813. 

(XVII)  Stephen  (2)  Carpenter,  son  of 


Stephen  (i)  Carpenter,  was  born  at  Reho- 
both, September  19,  1793,  and  resided  in 
that  part  of  Tiverton  now  included  within 
the  limits  of  the  city  of  Fall  River.  He 
kept  a  tavern.  He  died  September  28, 
1841.  He  married,  February  15,  1825, 
Mary  P.  Lawton.  Children,  born  in  Tiv- 
erton:  I.  William  Moulton,  born  May 
30,  1827;  married,  May  20,  1851,  Eunice 
Walker  Bishop,  born  December  23,  1821, 
died  November  3,  1889 ;  he  was  a  dry 
goods  dealer;  died  April  4,  1868.  2. 
Joseph  Wilmarth,  mentioned  below.  3. 
Stephen  Henry,  born  January  30,  1826, 
died  June  28,  1827.  4.  George  Washing- 
ton, born  November  25,  1830,  died  De- 
cember 21,  1832. 

(XVIII)  Joseph  Wilmarth  Carpenter, 
son  of  Stephen  (2)  Carpenter,  was  born 
in  Tiverton,  June  28,  1828,  and  educated 
in  the  public  schools  there.  When  a 
young  man  he  learned  the  trade  of 
machine-engraving  in  the  cloth  printing 
industry.  Subsequently  he  was  in  part- 
nership with  his  brother  William  M.  in 
the  retail  dry  goods  business  in  Provi- 
dence, Rhode  Island.  Their  store  was 
burned  after  they  had  been  in  business  a 
number  of  years,  and  the  firm  was  then 
dissolved.  He  then  started  a  grocery 
business  in  Fall  River,  having  a  store  at 
the  corner  of  Main  and  Rodman  streets, 
and  conducted  it  until  he  was  elected  city 
messenger  and  sealer  of  weights  and  meas- 
ures, which  office  he  held  for  fifteen  years. 
Among  his  duties  was  the  superintend- 
ence of  the  city  hall,  renting  the  hall  and 
stories,  and  providing  for  supplies  for  the 
offices.  From  1872  to  1879  he  lived  in 
Berkley  and  conducted  a  farm  that  he 
bought  in  that  town.  Upon  his  return  to 
Fall  River  he  was  again  called  into  the 
service  of  the  city,  and  in  addition  to  the 
care  of  the  city  hall  he  held  the  office  of 
sealer  of  weights  and  measures.  He 
resigned  these  offices  a  few  years  later  to 


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engage  in  the  manufacture  of  roll  cover- 
ings in  Fall  River,  and  continued  until  he 
was  obliged  by  age  and  ill  health  to 
retire.  He  died  in  Fall  River,  February 
24,  1894,  and  was  buried  in  Oak  Grove 
Cemetery.  For  many  years  he  was  a 
member  of  the  volunteer  fire  department 
of  Fall  River,  and  secretary  of  the  famous 
old  Cascade  Fire  Company. 

Mr.  Carpenter  married,  November  10, 
1853,  Phebe  Kershaw,  who  was  born  Feb- 
ruary 13,  1831,  in  Cheadle,  England,  a 
daughter  of  James  W.  and  Mary  R. 
(Barnes)  Kershaw.  She  died  April  20, 
1895.  Children,  born  in  Fall  River:  i. 
Joseph  Wilmarth,  born  September  4, 
1855,  died  in  Worcester,  October  30,  1899  ! 
a  traveling  salesman;  married  Anna  Bar- 
ney. 2.  Annie  E.,  born  February  22, 
1858;  teacher  in  the  public  schools  of  Fall 
River  for  several  years ;  married  Moses 
F.  Brierly,  of  Worcester.  3.  Mary  A., 
born  July  17,  i860,  teacher  in  the  Robe- 
son School,  Fall  River.  4.  Edward  M., 
born  May  23,  1863 ;  married  Alice  Hay- 
hurst;  resides  in  Fall  River.  5.  Frank 
L.,  mentioned  below. 

(XIX)  Frank  L.  Carpenter,  son  of  Jo- 
seph Wilmarth  Carpenter,  was  born  in 
Fall  River,  January  3,  1868.  He  attended 
the  public  schools  of  his  native  city  and 
was  graduated  from  the  B.  M.  C.  Durfee 
High  School  in  the  class  of  1887.  He  then 
began  to  study  for  the  profession  of  arch- 
itect in  the  offices  of  Ichabod  B.  Burt,  of 
Fall  River,  but  a  year  later  became  a  clerk 
in  the  office  of  the  Durfee  Mills.  In  1890 
he  accepted  the  position  of  assistant  book- 
keeper of  the  Sagamore  Manufacturing 
Company,  and  in  1892  became  bookkeeper 
for  the  Fall  River  Iron  Works,  filling  that 
position  until  September  14,  1909,  when 
he  was  elected  treasurer  of  the  Davis 
Mills,  succeeding  Arthur  H.  Mason,  and 
in  this  office  he  has  continued  to  the  pres- 
ent time.  The  uniform  growth  and  pros- 
perity of  the  mills  under  his  management 


have  been  due  in  large  part  to  his  execu- 
tive ability  and  energy. 

He  is  a  member  and  one  of  the  vice- 
presidents  of  the  Home  Market  Club,  and 
a  member  of  the  Arkwright  Club  of  Bos- 
ton, of  the  Fall  River  Cotton  Manufac- 
turing Association,  and  the  National  Cot- 
ton Manufacturers'  Association.  He  is  a 
member  of  the  corporation  of  the  Fall 
River  Savings  Bank  and  of  the  Union 
Savings  Bank  of  Fall  River.  He  is  past 
master  of  King  Philip  Lodge,  Ancient 
Free  and  Accepted  Masons,  of  which  he 
was  treasurer  for  two  years ;  member  of 
Fall  River  Chapter,  Royal  Arch  Masons, 
and  of  Fall  River  Council,  Royal  and 
Select  Masters,  of  which  he  is  past  thrice 
illustrious  master;  past  eminent  com- 
mander of  Godfrey  de  Bouillon  Com- 
mandery,  Knights  Templar,  and  member 
of  the  Massachusetts  and  Rhode  Island 
Association  of  Knights  Templar  Com- 
manders ;  also  a  thirty-second  degree 
Mason,  being  a  member  of  the  Massachu- 
setts Consistory,  Supreme  Princes  of  the 
Royai  Secret.  He  is  a  charter  member  of 
Puritan  Lodge,  No.  88,  Knights  of 
Pythias,  and  was  master  of  finance  of  that 
body  for  several  years.  Also  a  member  of 
the  Quequechan  Club,  the  Rhode  Island 
Country  Club,  the  Fall  River  Country 
Club,  the  Republican  Club  of  Massachu- 
setts and  the  Southern  New  England 
Textile  Club.  In  politics  he  is  a  Repub- 
lican. 

Mr.  Carpenter  married,  in  Fall  River, 
September  20,  1893,  Annie  P.  Brightman, 
a  daughter  of  Pardon  M.  and  Rachel  D. 
(Pickering)  Brightman.  They  have  one 
child,  Isabel,  born  July  22,  1899. 


ALLEN,  George  A., 

Business  Man. 

George  A.  Allen,  now  deceased,  who 
was  favorably  known  in  business  circles 
in  the  city  of  Springfield,  where  he  resided 


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for  more  than  two  decades,  was  a  man 
of  strong  purpose,  energy  and  capable 
management.  He  was  a  self-made  man, 
and  his  business  success  was  due  to  his 
own  efforts.  He  left  his  family  in  com- 
fortable circumstances,  but  more  than 
this  he  left  to  them  the  priceless  heritage 
of  an  untarnished  name.  His  ancestors 
trace  back  to  Ethan  Allen. 

William  H.  Allen,  father  of  George  A. 
Allen,  was  born  in  Enfield,  Massachu- 
setts, September  2,  1824,  and  died  in  that 
city,  March  27,  1909,  at  the  advanced  age 
of  eighty-five  years.  He  was  reared  and 
educated  in  his  native  city,  and  there  fol- 
lowed agricultural  pursuits  until  1892,  in 
which  year  he  retired  from  active  labor. 
He  took  an  active  interest  in  community 
affairs,  and  was  numbered  among  the  in- 
fluential residents  of  Enfield.  He  mar- 
ried Lucy  Killam,  born  in  Enfield,  Con- 
necticut, June  13,  1822,  died  in  Spring- 
field, Massachusetts,  February  20,  1915, 
at  the  great  age  of  ninety-three  years, 
having  survived  her  husband  almost  six 
years.  Their  only  child  was  George  A.,  of 
this  review. 

George  A.  Allen  was  born  in  Enfield, 
Connecticut,  April  24,  1852,  and  died  in 
Springfield,  Massachusetts,  December  11, 
1901.  His  preliminary  education  was 
received  in  the  public  schools  of  Enfield, 
and  supplemented  by  a  course  of  study  at 
Wilbraham  Academy,  which  prepared 
him  for  an  active  career.  Being  inured 
to  farm  work,  he  chose  that  as  a  means  of 
livelihood  upon  attaining  the  suitable  age 
for  depending  upon  his  own  resources, 
and  so  continued  until  he  was  thirty-six 
years  of  age,  meeting  with  well  merited 
success  as  the  result  of  his  progressive 
ideas  and  straightforward  methods.  He 
then  removed  to  Springfield,  Massachu- 
setts, and  established  a  sales  stable  on  the 
corner  of  Hancock  and  Ashley  streets, 
which  he  successfully  conducted  up  to  the 


time  of  his  death,  the  business  increasing 
steadily  in  scope  and  volume  with  each 
passing  year,  he  gaining  the  esteem  and 
respect  of  his  business  associates  and  all 
with  whom  he  had  business  dealings 
through  his  straightforward  and  honor-* 
able  transactions.  He  was  a  Republican 
in  politics,  but  aside  from  casting  his  vote 
at  the  polls  took  no  active  part  in  public 
matters.  He,  with  his  wife  and  family, 
were  attendants  of  the  Congregational 
church,  in  the  work  of  which  he  took  a 
keen  interest. 

Mr.  Allen  married,  February  6,  1878, 
Emeline  Amelia  Beasley,  born  in  Elling- 
ton, Connecticut,  December  15,  1855, 
daughter  of  John  Beasley.  Jr.,  and  his 
wife,  Laura  A.  (Clark)  Beasley,  and 
granddaughter  of  John  Beasley,  Sr.,  and 
his  wife,  Susan  (Clough)  Beasley.  Mr. 
and  Mrs.  Allen  were  the  parents  of  four 
children:  i.  Grace  M.,  born  January  21, 
1879 ;  became  the  wife  of  Fred  Belcher, 
who  was  engaged  in  the  automobile  busi- 
ness in  Springfield,  but  is  now  (1918) 
serving  in  the  army ;  children :  Madeline, 
born  June  17,  1907,  and  Allen,  born  Octo- 
ber 18,  1909.  2.  George  B.,  born  May  8, 
1881  ;  an  architect  and  civil  engineer  in 
Springfield ;  married  Susan  Bowden,  of 
New  York  City.  3.  Charles  W.,  born 
November  12,  1882;  an  architect  and  civil 
engineer  in  Springfield ;  resides  in  West 
Springfield ;  married  Florence  Ells,  of 
Norwalk,  Connecticut.  4.  John  H.,  born 
October  8,  1890;  engaged  in  the  real 
estate  business  in  Springfield ;  resides  on 
Westfield  street.  West  Springfield ;  mar- 
ried Nellie  Gibson,  of  Springfield ;  one 
child,  Phillis,  born  January  16,  1917. 

John  Beasley,  Sr.,  aforementioned,  was 
born  in  Providence,  Rhode  Island,  and 
died  in  Ellington,  Connecticut.  He  was 
a  locksmith  by  trade,  was  employed  in  the 
Springfield  Armory,  and  spent  the  greater 
part  of  his  active  life  in  that  city.     He 


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helped  to  defend  this  city  against  the 
British.  He  married  Susan  Clough,  whose 
death  occurred  in  Ellington,  Connecticut, 
at  the  age  of  seventy-three  years.  Mr. 
and  Mrs.  Beasley  were  members  of  the 
Congregational  church.  They  were  the 
parents  of  eight  children,  namely:  i. 
Susan,  deceased,  who  became  the  wife  of 
John  Stacey,  deceased ;  they  resided  in 
Hartford,  Connecticut ;  children  :  Florett, 
Susan,  Beasley,  William  and  Emma.  2. 
Sarah,  deceased,  who  became  the  wife  of 
James  Barber,  deceased ;  they  resided 
in  Windsorville,  Connecticut ;  children : 
Sarah  and  Charles.  3.  Abigail,  died 
young.  4.  Elizabeth,  died  young.  5. 
Emmeline,  died  young.  6.  Harriet,  de- 
ceased, who  became  the  wife  of  Charles 
Clark,  deceased  ;  they  resided  in  Hartford, 
Connecticut ;  children  :  Resell,  Charles 
and  Frederick.  7.  John,  of  whom  further. 
8.  Child  died  in  infancy. 

John  Beasley,  Jr.,  son  of  John  and 
Susan  (Clough)  Beasley,  was  born  in 
Springfield,  Massachusetts,  1825,  and  died 
in  Ellington,  Connecticut,  May  13,  1908, 
aged  eighty-three  years.  He  resided  in 
Springfield  until  he  was  eight  years  of 
age,  then  accompanied  his  parents  to  El- 
lington, attended  the  public  schools  of 
that  place,  and  followed  the  occupation 
of  farmer  there.  He  was  a  Republican  in 
politics,  served  for  several  years  as  a 
selectman,  and  represented  the  town  of 
Ellington  in  the  State  Legislature.  He 
was  a  member  of  the  Congregational 
church,  as  was  also  his  wife.  He  mar- 
ried Laura  A.  Clark,  born  in  Windsor- 
ville, Connecticut,  died  in  Ellington,  Con- 
necticut, July  21,  1897,  aged  seventy-three 
years.  She  was  the  daughter  of  Charles 
and  Chloe  (Sadd)  Clark,  the  former 
named  born  in  1800,  a  farmer  of  Wind- 
sorville, Connecticut,  where  his  death 
occurred,  and  the  latter  named  was  a 
daughter  of  Zubah  Sadd.     Mr.  and  Mrs. 

Mass— 8-16  24 


Clark  were  the  parents  of  four  other  chil- 
dren, namely:  i.  Aurelia,  became  the 
wife  of  Dr.  Wilson,  of  Hartford,  Connec- 
ticut, and  they  had  three  children :  Bell, 
Kate,  Fannie ;  they  went  as  missionaries 
to  Oregon  and  died  there ;  they  went 
around  the  Horn ;  Mrs.  Wilson  was  well 
versed  in  the  Indian  language.  2.  Reu- 
ben, married  ,  and  they  had  three 

children:  Frank,  Lottie,  Albert;  they 
reside   in   Windsorville,    Connecticut.     3. 

John,    married    (first)    ,    who   bore 

him  one  child;  married  (second)  Eliza- 
beth (Snow)  Clark ;  resides  in  Windsor- 
ville, Connecticut.  4.  Charles,  married 
Harriett  Beasley,  who  bore  him  three 
children :  Rozell,  Frederick,  Charles ; 
they  reside  in  Indiana.  Mr.  and  Mrs. 
Beasley  were  the  parents  of  four  children : 
I.  Marion,  became  the  wife  of  Daniel 
Allen ;  resides  in  East  Windsor,  Connec- 
ticut. 2.  Dwight,  married  Mary  Allen, 
who  bore  him  four  children :  Florence, 
Laura,  Eva,  Charles ;  they  reside  in  El- 
lington, Connecticut.  3.  Emeline  Amelia, 
widow  of  George  A.  Allen,  aforemen- 
tioned; she  resides  in  West  Springfield. 
4.  George,  died  in  infancy. 


ARNOLD,  William, 

Business  Man. 

The  name  which  heads  this  article  will 
be  instantly  recognized  by  all  the  older 
residents  of  the  Springfield  district  as 
that  of  one  who  was  long  numbered 
among  its  most  respected  citizens.  Both 
in  the  church  circles  and  the  social  life 
ot  his  community,  Mr.  Arnold  was 
regarded  as  a  man  of  standing. 

William  Arnold  was  born  in  1825,  at 
Middletown,  Connecticut,  and  in  the  pub- 
lic school  there  received  his  education. 
As  a  young  man  he  moved  to  Springfield, 
Massachusetts,  where  he  engaged  in  the 
wholesale  provision  business.     The  name 


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of  the  firm  was  first  Dale  &  Arnold,  but 
later,  on  the  retirement  of  Mr.  Dale, 
became  Arnold  &  Lyon.  The  success 
which  attended  the  concern  may.»  be 
inferred  from  the  fact  that  in  1876,  when 
he  was  but  fifty-one  years  old,  Mr.  Arnold 
found  himself  in  circumstances  which 
warranted  his  retirement.  It  should  be 
said  that  this  prosperity  was  mainly  due 
to  his  own  enterprise,  sound  judgment 
and  wisely  aggressive  methods.  He 
proved  himself  possessed  of  the  essential 
qualifications  of  a  successful  business 
man.  In  politics  Mr.  Arnold  was  a  Re- 
publican, but  never  mingled  actively  in 
public  affairs,  always,  however,  in  an  un- 
obtrusive way,  doing  all  in  his  power  for 
the  advancement  of  the  best  interests  of  his 
community.  He  and  his  wife  were  mem- 
bers of  the  North  Congregational  Church 
of  Springfield. 

Mr.  Arnold  married,  June  19,  1859, 
Eliza  Le  Gro,  and  they  became  the  parents 
of  two  children  :  Susan,  and  Lyman,  who 
resides  in  Lynn,  Massachusetts,  where  he 
is  the  head  of  the  Lynn  division  of  the 
General  Electric  Company.  Mrs.  Arnold, 
a  woman  of  estimable  character  and  ami- 
able disposition,  passed  away  June  15, 
1906,  at  the  age  of  sixty-eight,  at  West 
Springfield,  leaving  to  her  children  the 
memory  of  a  devoted  mother.  On  De- 
cember 18,  1905,  Mr.  Arnold  closed  an 
honorable  and  useful  life,  the  duration  of 
which,  exceeding  by  ten  years  the  tradi- 
tional three-score  and  ten,  had  permitted 
him  to  enjoy,  in  well-earned  repose,  the 
fruits  of  his  well-directed  labors.  His  loss 
to  the  community  was  deeply  mourned 
by  a  large  circle  of  warmly  attached 
friends.  Like  a  shock  of  corn  fully  ripe, 
William  Arnold  was  gathered  to  his  fath- 
ers, but  he  left  an  example  worthy  of 
imitation  by  the  younger  generations. 
Mr.  Arnold  was  most  kind  and  affection- 
ate in  his  family  relations,  and  his  hap- 


piest hours  were  those  passed  at  his  own 
fireside. 

Susan  Arnold,  daughter  of  Mr.  and 
Mrs.  Arnold,  who  never  married,  resides 
in  the  family  home  at  West  Springfield. 
She  was  born  at  Springfield,  spent  her 
early  life  there  and  at  West  Springfield, 
receiving  her  education  at  the  Springfield 
High  School.  She  is  a  member  of  the 
North  Congregational  Church,  taking  an 
active  part  in  its  charitable  work,  and  is 
popular  in  social  circles. 

David  Le  Gro,  father  of  Mrs.  Eliza 
(Le  Gro)  Arnold,  was  for  many  years  an 
inspector  in  the  Springfield  (Massachu- 
setts) Armory.  He  died  in  that  city  at 
the  age  of  seventy-six.  He  married  Mar- 
tha Wetmore,  a  native  of  Meriden,  Con- 
necticut, and  their  child  was  Eliza,  born 
in  Rochester,  New  York,  who  became  the 
wife  of  William  Arnold,  as  stated  above. 


AFFLECK,  John  Henry, 

Manufacturer. 

The  surname  Affleck  is  of  Scottish  ori- 
gin, derived  from  Auckenleck  estate  and 
family. 

Henry  Affleck,  son  of  Robert  Affleck, 
was  born  in  Edinburgh,  Scotland.  His 
father  was  born  and  died  in  Scotland. 
Henry  Affleck  was  educated  in  his  native 
place,  and  learned  the  trade  of  paper 
making  there.  When  still  a  young  man 
he  became  manager  of  various  paper  mills 
in  England,  and  eventually  engaged  in 
business  as  a  manufacturer  of  paper  on 
his  own  account.  His  mills  were  at  Guns 
Mills,  located  near  the  border  line  of  Eng- 
land and  Wales  near  the  Forest  of  Dean 
in  Gloucestershire.  There  the  first  can- 
non were  cast  in  England.  He  continued 
in  this  business  to  the  time  of  his  death 
at  the  age  of  sixty-eight  years.  He  was 
an  able  man  of  affairs,  an  upright,  earn- 
est and  useful  citizen.     In  politics  he  was 


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a  Liberal.  His  brother,  Robert  Affleck, 
was  well  known  throughout  the  United 
Kingdom  on  account  of  his  activity  in  the 
temperance  movement.  He  was  a  force- 
ful speaker,  and  for  many  years  was 
on  the  lecture  platform.  For  forty 
years  Robert  Affleck  resided  in  London. 
Henry  Affleck  married  Elizabeth  Swin- 
ton.  daughter  of  John  and  Elizabeth 
Swinton,  of  an  old  Scotch  family,  resi- 
dents of  Edinburgh.  Children  of  Henry 
and  Elizabeth  Affleck :  William,  who  for 
many  years  was  traveling  salesman  for 
the  firm  of  Charles  Marden  &  Sons,  paper 
dealers,  of  Sheffield,  England,  and  who 
was  said  to  be  the  most  successful  com- 
mercial traveler  in  his  line  of  business  in 
England  ;  John  Henry,  mentioned  below  ; 
Thomas,  died  in  Holyoke  in  1913;  Agnes, 
Violet,  Minnie,  Bessie. 

John  Henry  Affleck,  son  of  Henry  Af- 
fleck, was  born  in  Derbyshire,  England, 
June  4,  1856.  He  received  his  early  edu- 
cation in  the  schools  of  that  county.  He 
also  attended  school  in  Gloucester  and 
the  Blenheim  House  School.  In  his  fath- 
er's mill  at  Guns  Mills  he  learned  the  art 
of  paper  making  and  the  details  of  the 
business.  In  1874,  when  he  was  but  a 
boy  in  years,  he  was  intrusted  with  the 
duty  of  installing  a  paper  mill  in  New 
Brunswick,  Canada,  and  he  remained 
there  two  years.  During  the  next  six 
years  he  was  associated  in  business  with 
his  father,  but  his  observation  of  condi- 
tions in  America  led  him  eventually  to 
seek  his  fortune  here.  He  saw  greater 
possibilities  for  a  paper  manufacturer  in 
the  United  States  than  in  the  United 
Kingdom,  and  thither  he  came  in  1880, 
beginning  his  career  as  superintendent  of 
the  finishing  department  of  the  Holyoke 
Chemical  Company  at  Holyoke,  Massa- 
chusetts. He  remained  in  this  position 
for  a  period  of  twelve  years,  and  in  a  simi- 
lar position  in  the  employ  of  the  George 
C.  Gill  Paper  Company  for  seven  years. 


The  Mills  of  both  these  concerns  were  in 
Holyoke.  Since  1900  Mr.  Affleck  has 
been  in  business  on  his  own  account.  He 
established  the  Affleck  Ruling  and  Sta- 
tionery Company,  of  which  he  is  presi- 
dent and  treasurer.  He  erected  a  large 
and  finely  equipped  mill  on  North  Bridge 
street,  Holyoke.  In  system,  convenience, 
the  latest  machinery  and  methods,  this 
concern  keeps  pace  with  the  foremost  in 
its  line  of  business.  The  blank  books  and 
stationery  of  the  Afifleck  plant  are  known 
in  all  parts  of  the  country,  and  in  various 
foreign  markets.  Mr.  Affleck  has  devoted 
his  energies  strictly  to  his  business,  has 
taken  no  active  part  in  public  affairs,  and 
is  affiliated  with  no  social  organizations 
outside  of  Mt.  Tom  Golf  Club. 

He  married  (first)  in  1881,  Clara 
Thomas,  daughter  of  Henry  and  Jemima 
Thomas,  of  Hereford,  England.  She  died 
in  1908.  He  married  (second)  in  Buf- 
falo, New  York,  Mrs.  F.  S.  Brooks,  nee 
Caroline  Priscilla  Wallace,  of  Watertown, 
New  York.  Their  home  is  in  Holyoke.  By 
the  first  marriage  there  was  one  daughter, 
Minnie  Gertrude,  born  in  Holyoke  in 
1882,  married  Charles  Howard  Hastings, 
of  Holyoke,  and  has  a  daughter  Marion, 
born  in  November,  1903. 

Franklin  Samuel  Brooks,  the  first  hus- 
band of  Mrs.  Afifleck,  was  a  native  of 
Oriskanny  Falls,  New  York,  and  a  repre- 
sentative of  an  old  Revolutionary  family. 
He  died  in  1897.  By  this  marriage  there 
were  two  daughters:  i.  Ida  May,  who 
married  Merle  Haynes  Dennison,  of  Buf- 
falo, New  York,  and  they  have  two  chil- 
dren :  Carl  Wallace  and  Priscilla.  2.  Min- 
nie A.,  married  Forrest  George  Kirsch, 
of   Springfield,   Massachusetts. 


BELISLE,  Hector  Louis, 

Superintendent  of  Schools. 

Of    Canadian-French    extraction, 
Belisle  is  a  native  of  Massachusetts, 


Mr. 
has 


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had  excellent  educational  opportunities, 
and  has  won  distinction  as  a  teacher.  His 
grandfather,  Anthony  Belisle,  was  a  black- 
smith by  trade,  a  captain  of  militia  in  St. 
Marcel,  Province  of  Quebec,  Canada. 
His  wife's  family  was  Dusseault,  and 
they  were  the  parents  of  thirteen  chil- 
dren. Their  son,  Alexander  Belisle,  born 
December  28,  1830,  in  St.  Marcel,  mar- 
ried Marie  Dorval,  born  March  7,  1833, 
in  the  Province  of  Quebec.  They  lived 
for  some  time  in  Nova  Scotia,  came  to 
the  United  States  in  1840,  and  resided  in 
Worcester,  where  Alexander  Belisle  died, 
January  28,  1905.  He  was  a  shoemaker 
by  trade  and  very  successful.  Mr.  and 
Mrs.  Belisle  were  the  parents  of  fifteen 
children. 

Hector  Louis  Belisle,  son  of  Alexander 
and  Marie  (Dorval)  Belisle,  was  born 
October  8,  1873,  in  Worcester,  Massa- 
chusetts, and  grew  up  in  that  city,  where 
the  excellent  public  schools  afforded  him 
a  thorough  preparation  for  college.  After 
passing  through  the  grammar  and  high 
schools  and  a  preparatory  school  at  Wor- 
cester, he  entered  Harvard  University, 
from  which  he  was  graduated  in  1896, 
with  the  degree  of  A.  B.  Since  that  time 
Mr.  Belisle  has  been  very  busy  in  teach- 
ing others,  and  for  four  years  was 
teacher  of  English  and  French  in  the 
Lawrence  High  School,  Lawrence,  Mas- 
sachusetts. He  was  for  some  years  prin- 
cipal in  the  grade  schools  of  that  city  and 
supervisor  of  evening  schools.  In  1913 
he  removed  to  Fall  River,  Massachusetts, 
becoming  superintendent  of  city  schools, 
in  which  position  he  has  continued  to  the 
present  time.  While  feeling  the  natural 
interest  of  a  good  citizen  in  the  progress 
of  his  native  country,  and  of  the  world, 
Mr.  Belisle  has  devoted  little  time  to 
political  matters,  and  is  independent  of 
party  dictation.  He  is  identified  with 
various    social    organizations,    including 


the  Country  and  Calumet  clubs ;  has 
been  president  of  the  Massachusetts 
School  Masters'  Club,  and  Bristol  County 
Teachers'  Association ;  a  member  of  the 
Knights  of  Columbus,  and  of  the  Society 
Jean  Baptiste  of  America.  With  his  fam- 
ily Mr.  Belisle  is  affiliated  with  St.  Mat- 
thew's (Roman  Catholic)  Church  of  Fall 
River.  Mr.  Belisle  is  greatly  interested 
in  music,  has  composed  songs,  piano 
pieces,  and  an  opera  entitled  "The  Court 
of  Life." 

He  was  married  in  Boston,  June  28, 
1905,  to  Mildred  Grace  Potter,  born  De- 
cember 5,  1876,  in  that  city,  daughter  of 
George  Martin  and  Anna  M.  (Cunning- 
ham) Potter.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Belisle  have 
children:  Anna  Maria,  born  June  10, 
1907;  Alexander,  August  9,  1908;  Eu- 
gene, January  13,  191 1;  Elizabeth,  Octo- 
ber 2,  1913. 


LOOMIS,  GEORGE  T., 

Member  of  Important  Family. 

From  Joseph  Loomis,  the  American 
ancestor  of  the  Loomis  family  of  New 
England,  came  a  long  line  of  descendants 
found  in  every  State  of  the  Union.  He 
came  from  Braintree,  County  Essex, 
England,  arriving  on  the  ship  "Susan 
and  Ellen"  at  Boston,  July  17,  1638.  He 
was  one  of  the  early  settlers  of  Windsor, 
Connecticut.  He  died  November  25, 
1653,  and  his  wife  died  August  23,  1652. 
They  were  the  parents  of  five  sons  and 
three  daughters,  all  born  in  England, 
seven  of  whom  are  here  mentioned :  Jo- 
seph ;  Elizabeth ;  Deacon  John,  married 
Elizabeth  Scott;  Thomas,  of  further 
mention  ;  Nathaniel ;  Mary  ;  Samuel,  mar- 
ried  Elizabeth  Judd. 

The  line  of  descent  to  William  Henry 
Loomis,  of  Bolton,  Connecticut,  and  his 
sons,  William  Bertie,  Robert  C.  and  Den- 
nison    H.    Loomis,   of   Westfield,    Massa- 


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chusetts,  is  through  Thomas,  third  son 
of  the  ancestor,  Joseph  Loomis. 

Thomas  Loomis  was  born  in  England, 
and  came  to  New  England  with  his 
father  in  1638.  He  owned  a  farm  in  East 
Windsor,  Connecticut,  and  there  died 
August  28,  1689.  He  was  made  a  free- 
man in  1654,  and  admitted  to  the  church, 
April  3,  1666.  He  married  (first)  No- 
vember I,  1653,  Hannah  Fox,  who  di<d 
April  25,  1662.  He  married  (second) 
January  i,  1663,  Mary  Judd,  who  died 
August  8,  1684,  daughter  of  Thomas 
Judd.  Children :  Thomas,  Hannah,  May, 
Elizabeth,  Ruth,  Sarah,  Jeremiah,  Mabel, 
Mindwell,   Benjamin. 

Thomas  (2)  Loomis  was  born  March 
17,  1655,  and  died  April  19,  1746.  He 
married,  December  17,  1682,  Hannah 
Porter,  born  January  i,  1662,  died  Janu- 
ary I,  1739.  Children:  Mary,  Hannah, 
Thomas,  Joshua,  ,,Sarah,  Jabez,  Ruth, 
Gershom. 

Sergeant  Thomas  (3)  Loomis  was  born 
March  16,  1687,  and  died  in  Bolton,  Con- 
necticut, January  12,  1770.  He  had  land 
in  Colchester  in  1709,  was  collector  there 
in  1717,  and  in  1727  moved  to  Bolton,  his 
home    until    death.      He    married    (first) 

Sarah  ,   who   died    May    10,    1728; 

married  (second)  Mary  ,  who  died 

September  6,  1761.  Children:  Sarah, 
Thomas,  Ezra,  Benjamin,  Mary. 

Thomas  (4)  Loomis  was  born  Febru- 
ary 9,  1723,  resided  in  Bolton,  Connecti- 
cut, from  his  fourth  year,  and  there  died, 
August  16,  1761.  He  married,  March  5, 
1746,  Abigail  Robbins.  Children:  Abigail, 
Thomas,  Desdemona.  The  old  Loomis 
home  in  Bolton,  built  in  1746,  is  yet 
standing  after  one  hundred  and  seventy 
years,  but  has  passed  from  the  family 
ownership. 

Thomas  (5)  Loomis  was  born  in  Bol- 
ton, Connecticut,  July  6,  1756,  and  died 
there.    May    i,    1842.      He    married,    No- 


vember 6,  1777,  Eunice  Mann.  Children: 
Eunice,  Thomas,  George,  Salmon,  Austin, 
Laura,  Harriet. 

George  Loomis  was  born  in  Bolton, 
Connecticut,  and  died  October  28,  1847. 
He  moved  to  Pike,  Wyoming  county. 
New  York.  He  married  (first)  Anna 
Driggs,  who  died  June  3,  1808,  aged 
twenty-five  years.  He  married  (second) 
Thoda  Bailey.  Children:  Julia  Ann, 
George  Trumbull,  Austin,  William  T., 
Angeline,  Isaac  Newton,  Andel  C. 

George  Trumbull  Loomis,  eldest  son 
of  George  Loomis  and  his  first  wife, 
Anna  (Driggs)  Loomis,  passed  his  life 
in  his  native  town,  Bolton.  He  was  born 
February  12,  1808,  and  died  in  Bolton. 
He  was  a  farmer  all  his  active  life,  mak- 
ing a  specialty  of  apple  raising  and  cider 
manufacture,  having  a  large  mill  where  he 
also  handled  the  surplus  apple  crop  of  his 
neighbors.  He  and  his  family  were 
members  of  the  Congregational  church. 
He  married  (first)  September  14,  1836, 
Sarah  M.  Northam,  who  died  in  Bolton, 
sister  of  Charles  H.  Northam,  of  Hartford, 
Connecticut.  Children :  i.  George,  born 
August  15,  1837,  died  in  1918;  married 
Frances  M.  Sanders,  deceased.  2.  Charles 
N.,  born  September  17,  1840;  married, 
November  29,  1866,  Elizabeth  Hickman. 
3.  William  Henry,  of  further  mention. 
He  married  (second)  Clarissa  Bugbee. 


LOOMIS,  William  Henry, 

Business    Man. 

Of  the  ninth  generation  of  his  family 
in  Connecticut,  William  Henry  Loomis, 
third  son  of  George  Trumbull  Loomis, 
and  his  first  wife  Sarah  M.  (Northam) 
Loomis,  yet  resides  in  the  town  of  his 
birth,  Bolton,  Connecticut,  in  the  house 
which  for  half  a  century  has  been  his 
home.  He  was  born  May  31,  1842,  grew 
to  manhood  at  the  home  farm,  and  ob- 


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tained  his  education  in  the  public  school. 
He  has  all  his  life  been  engaged  in  farm- 
ing and  kindred  pursuits,  and  with  his 
farming  and  lumbering  operations  has 
dealt  considerably  in  real  estate,  buying 
and  selling  many  farms  and  home  lots  as 
well  as  doing  a  great  deal  of  business 
with  the  railroads. 

A  Republican  in  politics,  Mr.  Loomis 
has  taken  a  deep  interest  in  party  and 
town  affairs  and  has  held  many  positions 
of  trust.  For  many  years  he  served  as 
moderator  at  the  annual  town  meeting, 
was  selectman  several  terms,  was  tax 
collector,  town  treasurer  and  chairman 
of  the  town  Republican  committee.  He 
is  a  member  of  the  Patrons  of  Husban- 
dry, was  a  charter  member  and  first 
chaplain  of  the  local  Grange  and  much 
interested  in  its  work.  Both  he  and  his 
wife  are  lifelong  members  and  active 
workers  in  the  Bolton  Congregational 
Church,  he  for  many  years  superintendent 
of  the  Sunday  school,  she  a  teacher  in 
the  Sunday  school  and  a  member  of  the 
church  choir  in  her  younger  years. 

William  Henry  Loomis  married,  No- 
vember 29,  1866,  Alice  Abia  Watrous, 
born  in  Bolton,  April  23,  1846,  youngest 
child  of  Elijah  W.  and  Prudence  (Sco- 
ville)  Watrous.  Elijah  W.  Watrous, 
born  September  28,  1800,  died  in  Bolton. 
Connecticut,  December  23,  1884.  He 
was  a  cooper  by  trade,  and  also  owned  a 
small  farm.  He  was  a  musician  and  for 
many  years  played  the  bass  viol  in  church. 
Prudence  Scoville,  born  November  28, 
1803,  married,  February  13,  1821,  died 
April  23,  1882.  They  were  the  parents  of 
the  following  children :  Sarah  Ann,  Fran- 
ces Celia,  Sarah  Cornelia,  Emily,  Ade- 
line, Mary  C,  Clarissa  L.,  Jennie  R.,  Ju- 
liaetta,  Alice  Abia,  and  two  other  chil- 
dren, who  died  in  infancy. 

The  wedding  of  Mr.  and  Mrs.  William 
H.  Loomis  was  celebrated  in  connection 


with  that  of  his  brother,  Charles  N. 
Loomis,  who  married  Elizabeth  Hick- 
man, Rev.  William  Turkington  perform- 
ing both  ceremonies,  November  29,  1866, 
in  Bolton.  Fifty  years  later,  November 
29,  1916,  the  same  couples  celebrated  to- 
gether the  golden  wedding  anniversary 
of  their  double  wedding  day.  Each  family 
consisted  of  three  children ;  each  of  the 
aged  couples  had  three  grandchildren. 
The  occasion,  unique  in  its  unusual  char- 
acter, was  a  most  enjoyable  one  and 
many  friends  congratulated  the  brides 
and  grooms  of  half  a  century  ago.  The 
golden  wedding  was  celebrated  at  the 
home  of  William  H.  Loomis  in  Bolton, 
to  which  he  brought  his  bride  soon  after 
their  marriage  in  1866,  and  where  they 
have  since  (1918)  continuously  resided. 
Mr.  and  Mrs.  William  H.  Loomis  are  the 
parents  of  three  sons,  their  first  child  and 
only  daughter  Nellie  A.  dying  in  infancy. 
The  sons,  William  Bertie,  Robert  Cas- 
per and  Dennison  H.,  are  each  of  further 
mention. 


LOOMIS,  William  Bertie, 

Business   Man. 

Eldest  of  the  three  sons  of  Wil- 
liam Henry  and  Alice  Abia  (Watrous) 
Loomis,  William  B.  was  the  first  to 
leave  the  home  in  Bolton  and  locate  in 
Westfield,  Massachusetts,  where  all  are 
now  engaged  in  business  under  the  firm 
name  "Loomis  Brothers."  William  B. 
Loomis  was  born  in  Bolton,  Connecticut, 
November  21,  1872,  and  there  was  edu- 
cated in  the  public  schools.  He  con- 
tinued his  father's  assistant  until  reach- 
ing manhood,  then  became  a  clerk  in  the 
retail  grocery  store  of  Keeney  Brothers 
in  Rockville,  Connecticut.  After  several 
years  in  that  employ,  he  resigned  his  po- 
sition and  located  in  Westfield,  Massa- 
chusetts.    In   1895  he  became  a  clerk  in 


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the  Eaton  &  Waterman  grocery  store, 
but  the  death  of  Mr.  Waterman  soon 
afterward  caused  a  reorganization  and  he 
became  a  member  of  the  new  firm, 
Eaton,  Barnes  &  Company.  Later  Mr. 
Barnes  retired,  his  interest  being  pur- 
chased by  Robert  C.  Loomis,  brother  of 
William  B.,  the  firm  name  then  changing 
to  Eaton,  Loomis  &  Company.  In  De- 
cember, 1906,  Mr.  Eaton  died  and  the 
third  brother,  Dennison  H.  Loomis,  pur- 
chased the  Eaton  interest  from  the  estate 
and  the  present  style  and  title  of  the 
firm,  Loomis  Brothers,  was  adopted. 
William  B.  Loomis  has  been  president 
of  the  Merchants'  Association  of  West- 
field  for  two  years.  He  is  president  of 
the  Westfield  Shootirig  Association  and 
very  fond  of  all  out-door  sports.  He  is 
a  member  of  the  Westfield  Club,  past 
regent  of  Hampden  Council,  Royal  Ar- 
canum, past  chancellor  commander  of 
St.  Elmo  Lodge,  Knights  of  Pythias,  is 
a  member  of  the  Second  Congregational 
Church,  and  for  the  past  eight  years  has 
been  treasurer  of  the  Sunday  school.  In 
politics  he  is  a  Republican. 

Mr.  Loomis  married,  July  10,  1894, 
Nellie  Alice  Legge,  born  in  Rockville, 
Connecticut.  They  are  the  parents  of 
a  son,  Elmer  Chester,  born  at  Rockville, 
June  14,  1895,  educated  in  Westfield 
graded  and  high  schools,  was  associated 
with  his  father  in  the  business  of  Loomis 
Brothers  up  to  June  7,  1917,  when  he 
enlisted  and  is  now  in  France  in  Com- 
pany B,  104th  Regiment. 


LOOMIS,  Robert  Casper, 

Business   Man. 

Like  his  brothers,  Robert  C.  Loomis 
spent  his  early  life  on  the  paternal  farm, 
but  his  ambition  was  for  a  business 
career,  and  from  the  time  of  his  gradua- 
tion from  business  college  he  has  been 
engaged   in  mercantile  life  as   clerk  and 


proprietor.  He  is  the  second  son  of  Wil- 
liam Henry  and  Alice  Abia  (Watrous) 
Loomis,  both  living  in  Bolton,  Connecti- 
cut. Robert  C.  Loomis  was  born  in  Bol- 
ton, May  23,  1877,  consequently  has  just 
(1918)  passed  his  forty-first  birthday.  He 
spent  his  early  life  on  the  home  farm, 
attended  the  public  schools  and  Hunt- 
singer's  Business  College,  Hartford,  Con- 
necticut, his  business  life  beginning  as 
clerk  in  the  grocery  store  of  Keeney 
Brothers  at  Rockville,  Connecticut.  Later 
he  entered  the  service  of  the  New  York, 
New  Haven  &  Hartford  Railroad  as 
freight  clerk  at  Rockville,  there  remain- 
ing until  his  locating  at  Westfield,  Mas- 
sachusetts. He  purchased  the  interest  of 
Mr.  Barnes,  of  Eaton,  Barnes  &  Com- 
pany, grocers  of  Westfield,  the  firm  re- 
organizing as  Eaton,  Loomis  &  Company, 
and  consisting  of  Mr.  Eaton,  William  B. 
and  Robert  C.  Loomis.  In  1906  the  firm 
of  Loomis  Brothers  succeeded  Eaton, 
Loomis  &  Company,  the  third  brother, 
Dennison  H.  Loomis,  then  becoming  a 
member  of  this  prosperous  Westfield 
mercantile  enterprise.  Mr.  Loomis  is  a 
capable,  energetic  business  man,  progres- 
sive, and  with  his  brothers  has  fairly  won 
an  honorable  position  in  the  business 
world.  He  is  secretary  of  the  Merchants' 
Association  of  Westfield,  past  regent  of 
Hampden  Council,  Royal  Arcanum,  a  Re- 
publican in  politics,  and  with  his  wife  a 
member  of  the  Second  Congregational 
Church.  Mr.  Loomis  assisted  in  organ- 
izing Company  E,  i8th  Regiment,  Mas- 
sachusetts State  Guard,  which  was 
sworn  into  the  service,  August  27,  1917, 
and  on  February  27,  1918,  he  received  a 
commission  as  second  lieutenant. 

Mr.  Loomis  married  on  his  mother's 
birthday.  May  23,  1902,  Inga  C.  John- 
son, of  Norwegian  parentage.  They  are 
the  parents  of  a  son,  Robert  George,  born 
in  Westfield,  August  5,  1906. 


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LOOMIS,  Dennison  Henry, 

Business   Man. 

Last  of  the  three  sons  of  William 
Henry  and  Alice  Abia  (Watrous)  Loomis 
to  leave  the  farm  and  enter  mercantile 
life,  was  Dennison  H.  Loomis,  who  located 
in  Westfield  in  1899,  and  since  1906  Jias 
been  a  partner  with  his  brothers  in  the 
grocery  house  of  Loomis  Brothers.  He 
was  born  in  Bolton,  Connecticut,  Septem- 
ber 9,  1880,  and  in  boyhood  attended  the 
public  schools,  his  training  there  supple- 
mented by  courses  at  Huntsinger's  Busi- 
ness College  and  Morse's  Business  Col- 
lege, both  of  Hartford,  Connecticut.  As 
a  boy  he  possessed  a  keen  business 
instinct,  had  a  faculty  for  earning  money 
and  recalls  with  a  good  deal  of  satisfac- 
tion that  while  yet  a  lad  he  drove  the 
team  that  carried  the  mail  from  the  rail- 
road station  to  Bolton  post  office,  a  dis- 
tance of  two  and  a  half  miles,  making  a 
daily  trip  and  incidentally  also  doing 
some  of  the  express  business  and  the 
carrying  of  passengers.  After  complet- 
ing his  business  course  at  Morse's  Bus- 
iness College,  he  entered  the  employ 
of  H.  Goldsmith  &  Son,  wholesale  dry 
goods  merchants  of  Hartford,  remaining 
with  them  as  bookkeeper  until  1899,  when 
he  located  in  Westfield,  becoming  book- 
keeper in  the  business  of  which  later  he 
became  a  partner,  Eaton,  Loomis  &  Com- 
pany. In  1906,  after  the  death  of  Mr. 
Eaton,  his  interest  was  purchased  by 
Dennison  H.  Loomis,  the  business  thus 
passing  entirely  into  the  hands  of  the 
brothers,  William  B.,  Casper  C.  and  Den- 
nison H.  Loomis.  The  business  is  a  well- 
managed,  prosperous  one,  each  partner 
managing  his  department  with  skill  and 
ability  along  the  most  modern  lines  of 
merchandising.  Dennison  H.  Loomis  is 
a  past  regent  of  Hampden  Council,  No. 
955,  Royal  Arcanum,  and  its  treasurer;  is 


an  ex-treasurer  of  the  Westfield  Young 
Men's  Christian  Association  and  much 
interested  in  association  work;  is  a  mem- 
ber of  the  Second  Congregational  Church, 
as  is  his  wife,  and  in  political  faith  is  a 
Republican,  the  family's  religious  faith 
and  the  family  politics  holding  allegiance 
of  the  three  brothers,  who  in  all  things 
work  in  harmony. 

Mr.  Loomis  married,  July  8,  1908,  at 
Westfield,  Martha  Nellie  Stery,  born  in 
Westfield,  July  i,  1874,  daughter  of  Jud- 
son  and  Martha  P.  (Dewey)  Sterj',  both 
of  old  New  England  families.  Mr.  and 
Mrs.  Loomis  are  the  parents  of  a  son, 
Donald  Stery  Loomis,  born  in  Westfield, 
July  14,  1909. 

(The    Stery*Dewey   Line). 

The  Stery  family  of  New  England 
springs  from  Roger  Sterry,  who  settled 
at  Stonington,  Connecticut,  when  a 
young  njan.  He  married,  in  1670,  Han- 
nah (Palmer)  Huet,  widow  of  Captain 
Thomas  Huet,  and  daughter  of  Walter 
and  Rebecca  (Short)  Palmer.  The  line  of 
descent  is  through  their  only  known  son, 
Samuel  Sterry,  and  his  first  wife,  Han- 
nah (Rose)  Sterry;  their  son,  Samuel  (2) 
Sterry ;  their  son,  Silas  Sterry,  a  soldier 
of  the  Revolution ;  their  son,  John,  who 
spelled  his  name  Stery,  and  his  wife, 
Susanna  (Carew)  Stery;  their  son,  Har- 
vey Stery,  and  his  wife,  Lura  (Osborne) 
Stery ;  their  son,  Judson  Enos  Stery,  born 
in  West  Springfield,  Massachusetts,  May 
26,  1839,  died  in  Westfield,  January  28, 
1900.  At  the  age  of  sixteen  he  went  to 
Grand  Rapids,  Michigan,  returning  in 
1861  to  a  farm  at  Bush  Hill,  locating  in 
Westfield  in  1870,  and  there  engaging  in 
the  meat  and  provision  business  until 
about  1895.  He  also  dealt  in  real  estate 
and  was  a  well-known,  popular  member 
of  his  community.  He  married  Martha 
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at  Chatham,  Massachusetts,  daughter 
of  Andrew  Addison  and  Betsey  Clara 
(Moore)  Dewey.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Stery 
were  the  parents  of  six  children :  Minnie 
Eliza,  married  L.  Brown;  Mary  R., 
married  William  H.  Angell ;  Carrie  E., 
married  Clarence  M.  Walker;  Clara 
L.,  married  Peter  Jensen ;  Martha  Nel- 
lie, married  Dennison  H.  Loomis  ;  Judson 
Enos  (2),  deceased. 

Martha  Pease  (Dewey)  Stery  descends 
from  Thomas  Dewey,  of  Sandwich,  Kent 
county,  England,  who  was  one  of  the 
original  patentees  of  Dorchester,  Massa- 
chusetts, in  1636,  although  he  was  in  Mas- 
sachusetts as  early  as  1633.  He  sold  his 
lands  at  Dorchester  in  1635,  and  became 
one  of  the  first  settlers  of  Windsor,  Con- 
necticut. He  married,  March  22,  1639, 
at  Windsor,  Frances,  widow  of  Josiah 
Clark.  The  line  of  descent  is  through 
their  son.  Ensign  Jedediah  Dewey,  of 
Windsor  and  Farmington,  Connecticut, 
and  Westfield,  his  settlement  at  West- 
field  dating  from  a  grant  of  land  made 
him  August  27,  1668.  He  was  a  wheel- 
wright by  trade,  owned  with  his  brothers 
a  saw  and  corn  mill  on  Two  Mile  brook, 
and  considerable  land.  He  was  select- 
man several  years  and  ensign  in  1686.  He 
married  Sarah  Orton,  whose  grave  in  the 
old  Mechanic  street  burying  ground  is 
yet  marked  by  a  red  sandstone  slab.  They 
were  the  parents  of  ten  children,  this  line 
continuing  through  the  fourth  son,  Ser- 
geant Joseph. 

Sergeant  Joseph  Dewey,  born  at  West- 
field,  May  10,  1684,  died  there  January  3, 
1757.  He  married,  in  1713,  Sarah  (War- 
ner) Root,  daughter  of  John  and  Sarah 
(Ferry)  Warner,  and  widow  of  Samuel 
Root. 

Their  eldest  son.  Deacon  Joseph  Dewey, 
born  at  Westfield,  October  7,  1714,  died 
there  August  25, 1799.  Dudley  avenue  now 
passes  over  the  site  of  his  home,  which 


was  a  large  two-story  building.  He  mar- 
ried (first)  January  26,  1738,  Beulah 
Sackett. 

Their  third  son.  Gad  Dewey,  born  in 
Westfield,  January  14,  1745,  died  there 
June  28,  1823.  He  married,  July  17,  1768, 
Deidamia  Wood. 

Their  youngest  child,  Ethan  Dewey, 
born  at  Westfield,  May  20,  1788,  died 
there  April  12,  1841,  although  for  a  time 
he  was  a  farmer  of  Greenriver,  Columbia 
county.  New  York.  He  married  Electa 
Phelps. 

Andrew  Addison  Dewey,  eldest  and 
only  son  of  Ethan  and  Electa  (Phelps) 
Dewey,  was  born  at  Greenriver,  Colum- 
bia county,  New  York,  July  26,  1810,  died 
at  Granville,  Massachusetts,  February  17, 
1889.  He  married,  March  i,  1837,  Betsey 
Clara  Moore,  who  died  at  the  home  of  her 
daughter,  Martha  Pease  (Dewey)  Stery, 
in  Westfield,  February  24,  1880.  They 
were  the  parents  of  nine  children,  the  eld- 
est daughter  and  third  child,  Martha 
Pease,  the  wife  of  Judson  Enos  Stery, 
they  the  parents  of  Martha  Nellie  (Stery) 
Loomis,  wife  of  Dennison  H.  Loomis. 


PORTER,  Samuel, 

Manufacturer. 

Samuel  Porter,  manufacturer  of  shoe 
lasts,  was  born  in  Stoughton,  Massachu- 
setts, June  27,  1833,  and  died  February 
16,  1904,  son  of  Ahira  and  Rachel  D. 
(Swan)  Porter.  He  received  his  educa- 
tion in  the  public  schools  of  his  native 
town.  When  a  young  man  he  came  to 
Worcester  and  engaged  in  the  woodwork- 
ing business  here.  He  established  the 
business  of  manufacturing  lasts  for  shoe 
manufacturers,  with  which  his  name  is 
still  associated,  and  he  continued  in  bus- 
iness until  1903,  when  he  sold  his  inter- 
ests to  his  son,  Walter  C.  Porter,  and 
Walter  E.  Bigelow.     The  firm  became  a 


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corporation  later  under  the  old  name,  S. 
Porter  &  Son,  Inc.  Mr.  Porter  was  a 
Free  Mason.  In  politics  he  was  a  Repub- 
lican. He  was  a  member  of  the  First 
Universalist  Church. 

He  married  (first)  November  26,  1857, 
Sarah  Chamberlain,  who  died  May  18, 
1865,  daughter  of  Benjamin  and  Patience 
Chamberlain,  of  Marion,  Massachusetts. 
He  married  (second)  June  i,  1870,  Helen 
Frances  Kendall,  of  Portland,  Maine.  He 
married  (third)  July  4,  1894,  Emma  G. 
(Wingate)  Putnam,  daughter  of  Aaron 
and  Phebe  T.  (Lamos)  Wingate.  She 
married  (first)  Edward  J.  Putnam,  of 
North  Grafton,  Massachusetts,  and  he  died 
August  29,  1891.  The  children  of  Samuel 
Porter  were :  Addie  Lester,  born  July  9, 
1859,  died  September  24,  1865;  Walter 
Chamberlain,  born  May  13,  1865;  Marian 
Kendall,  born  September  28,  1874.  Mrs. 
Porter  lives  at  No.  875  Main  street  with 
her  sister,  Elizabeth  W.  Cook,  widow  of 
Eben  K.  Cook. 


PUTNAM,  Edward  J., 

Business   Man. 

Notwithstanding  his  youth  at  the  out- 
break of  the  Civil  War,  Edward  J.  Put- 
nam enlisted  in  the  Union  Army,  and  for 
three  years  served  with  an  Ohio  regiment 
under  command  of  General  Harrison, 
later  president  of  the  United  States.  The 
results  of  his  three  years  of  soldier  life 
were  never  effaced  from  his  physical  man, 
and  he  died  in  what  should  have  been  the 
full  prime  of  his  powers,  aged  forty-seven 
years.  He  was  a  man  of  quiet  tastes  and 
retiring  disposition,  his  home  the  great 
attraction  of  his  life,  to  the  exclusion  of 
club,  society  or  fraternity. 

Edward  J.  Putnam  was  born  in  the  lit- 
tle New  England  village,  now  known  as 
North  Grafton,  Massachusetts,  in  1844, 
and  died  at  his  residence.  No.  9  Merrick 


street,  city  of  Worcester,  August  29,  1891, 
aged  forty-seven  years  and  six  months. 
Early  in  life  he  went  West,  and  at  the 
outbreak  of  the  Civil  War  was  in  Ohio. 
He  enlisted  for  three  years  and  passed 
through  that  period  without  serious 
wounds  or  injury,  and  when  honorably 
discharged  located  in  Worcester,  which 
was  his  residence  from  1865  until  his 
death  in  1891.  He  was  engaged  in  the 
retail  shoe  business  in  Worcester,  becom- 
ing a  member  of  the  well-known  firm, 
Bemis  &  Company,  being  connected  with 
Mr.  Bemis  when  the  latter  sold  his  inter- 
est to  Mr.  Kelley.  Never  in  robust 
health,  he  became  quite  delicate  in  his 
later  years  and  spent  several  months  in 
Denver  and  Colorado  Springs  seeking  to 
regain  his  strength.  He  married  Emma 
G.  Wingate,  who  survived  him. 


SHAW,  Edwin  Loomis, 

Representative   Citizen. 

Although  he  began  life  as  an  assistant 
to  his  father  in  his  milling  business,  Mr. 
Shaw,  from  the  age  of  twenty-two,  has 
been  engaged  in  farming  and  in  real 
estate  operations,  his  original  farm  of 
fifty  acres  lying  close  to  Chicopee,  Massa- 
chusetts, many  of  its  fertile  acres  being 
converted  into  building  lots  on  which 
comfortable  houses  have  been  erected. 
He  is  a  son  of  Dwight  Loomis  Shaw,  who 
was  long  connected  with  the  business  life 
of  Chicopee,  and  is  a  descendant  of  Abra- 
ham Shaw,  who  was  in  Watertown,  Mas- 
sachusetts, in  1636,  but  after  suffering 
the  loss  of  his  house  and  goods  by  fire, 
removed  to  Dedham,  there  built  a  corn 
mill,  and  in  1&38  died.  He  married,  June 
24,  1616,  Briggit  Best,  born  April  9,  1592, 
daughter  of  Henry  Best. 

The  line  of  descent  from  Abraham 
Shaw  to  Edwin  Loomis  Shaw,  of  Chico- 
pee, is   through   the  founder's  son,  John 


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Shaw,  born  in  Halifax,  England,  baptized 
May  23,  1630,  died  in  Weymouth,  Massa- 
chusetts, September  16,  1704.  He  mar- 
ried Alice,  daughter  of  Deacon  Nicholas 
Phillips.  John  and  Alice  (Phillips)  Shaw 
were  the  parents  of  eleven  children:  Eliza, 
Abraham,  John,  Mary,  Nicholas,  Joseph, 
Alice,  Hannah,  Benjamin,  Abigail  and 
Ebenezer.  This  branch  traces  descent 
through  Nicholas  Shaw,  born  in  1662, 
married  Deborah  Whitmarsh,  and  left 
sons,  Nicholas,  Joshua,  and  John,  also  a 
daughter,  Alice. 

Joshua  Shaw,  son  of  Nicholas  and  De- 
borah (Whitmarsh)  Shaw,  was  born 
March  18,  1602,  in  Abington,  Massachu- 
setts. He  married  (first)  Rebecca  Beal  or 
Alger;  (second)  Sarah  Burnell  Shaw, 
and  settled  in  Brimfield,  Massachusetts, 
and  there  his  son,  Captain  Joshua  Shaw, 
was  born  in  I72i,died  in  Monson,  Massa- 
chusetts, in  1793.  Captain  Joshua  Shaw 
became  the  owner  of  a  large  tract  of  land 
in  what  is  now  the  town  of  Monson, 
which  he  cleared,  brought  under  cultiva- 
tion, and  farmed  until  his  death.  He  was 
one  of  the  prominent  men  of  his  day,  rep- 
resented Monson  in  the  Massachusetts 
General  Court  in  1780-81-83,  journeying 
from  Monson  to  Boston  on  horseback  to 
attend  the  sessions.  At  one  time  there 
were  but  two  watches  owned  in  Monson, 
one  of  these  being  carried  by  Captain 
Shaw  during  his  life  and  yet  preserved  in 
the  family.  Captain  Shaw  married  (first) 
Mary  Pratt,  (second)  Naomi  Bates. 

His  son,  Luther  Shaw,  born  in  1773, 
succeeded  his  father  as  a  farmer  of  Mon- 
son, Massachusetts,  but  his  life  was  cut 
short  in  middle  age,  he  dying  at  the  age 
of  thirty-six'  years.  He  married  Chloe 
Loomis,  who  survived  him  until  the  age 
of  seventy-five  years,  dying  in  Chicopee, 
at  the  home  of  her  grandson,  Dwight 
Loomis  Shaw. 

Luther    Loomis   Shaw,   son   of   Luther 


and  Chloe  (Loomis)  Shaw,  was  born  at 
Monson,  Massachusetts,  March  7,  1802, 
and  died  in  Chicopee,  Massachusetts, 
May  I,  1861.  He  inherited  from  his 
father  the  old  homestead  in  which  three 
generations  of  the  family  had  been  born, 
and  containing  over  two  hundred  acres 
of  good  farm  land,  which  he  cultivated 
for  many  years.  He  married  Lydia  Dal- 
liba,  born  April  29,  1803,  died  August  26, 
1846,  daughter  of  John  and  Phoebe  (Bev- 
erly) Dalliba,  of  Woodstock,  Connecti- 
cut. Luther  L.  and  Lydia  Shaw  were 
the  parents  of:  Dwight  Loomis,  who  is 
next  in  line  of  descent ;  Lewis,  Emily 
Beverly,  Lydia,  Phoebe,  Luther,  Emme- 
line,  Lewis  Sandford,  Chloe  Loomis, 
David,  Mary,  Henry,  Albert,  Maria  Ame- 
lia, and  Ellen. 

Dwight  Loomis  Shaw,  eldest  child  of 
Luther  L.  and  Lydia  (Dalliba)  Shaw, 
was  born  in  Monson,  March  23,  1822,  and 
died  in  Chicopee,  Massachusetts,  Decem- 
ber 30,  1899.  He  attended  school  until 
fifteen  years  of  age,  then  began  life  on  his 
own  account,  leaving  the  homestead  to 
accept  employment  as  a  farm  hand.  He 
continued  as  such  for  two  years,  then 
went  to  Thorndike,  Massachusetts,  and 
entered  a  cotton  mill.  Later  he  was  en- 
gaged as  a  mill  worker  at  Chicopee  Falls, 
remaining  there  five  years,  going  thence 
to  the  employ  of  the  Dwight  Manufactur- 
ing Company,  at  Chicopee,  which  city 
was  ever  afterward  his  home.  He  con- 
tinued in  the  service  of  the  Dwight  Com- 
pany for  a  quarter  of  a  century  as  an 
overseer,  then  resigned  to  engage  in  bus- 
iness for  himself.  He  purchased  a  grist 
and  saw  mill,  in  1869,  and  continued  this 
for  two  years  very  successfully.  He  then 
sold  it  and  followed  his  trade  of  carpen- 
ter for  nine  years,  up  to  1880,  then  built 
a  saw  mill  about  one-quarter  mile  from 
his  home  and  conducted  this  until  1884. 
He  then  retired  from  active  business  and 


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gave  his  time  to  his  duties  as  an  asses- 
sor, continuing  until  his  retirement  from 
that  office,  which  he  held  over  twenty 
years.  He  was  an  Independent  in  poli- 
tics, and  represented  Chicopee  in  the 
State  Legislature  in  1881.  He  was  a 
member  of  the  Masonic  order,  a  man  of 
upright  life,  honorable  in  all  his  dealings, 
and  most  highly  esteemed. 

Mr.  Shaw  married,  June  4,  1842,  Har- 
riet Amelia  Johnson,  born  in  East  Wind- 
sor, Connecticut,  August  22,  1820,  died 
August  8,  191 1,  daughter  of  Fenn  and 
Dinah  Johnson.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Shaw  were 
the  parents  of  six  children :  Amelia,  born 
September  6,  1843,  died  at  birth ;  Elmer 
Dalliba,  born  September  13,  1845,  died 
May  ^o,  1851;  Eliot  Dwight,  born  May 
24,  1851,  a  graduate  of  Amherst  State 
Agricultural  College ;  Ida  Emma,  born 
March  31, 1853,  died  June  24,  1859;  Edwin 
Loomis,  of  further  mention  ;  Emma  Iretta, 
born  July  7,  1867,  died  December  25, 
1884. 

Edwin  Loomis  Shaw,  of  the  ninth 
American  generation,  youngest  son  of 
Dwight  Loomis  and  Harriet  Amelia 
(Johnson)  Shaw,  was  born  at  Granby, 
Massachusetts,  September  17,  1862,  and 
in  1863  was  brought  to  Chicopee  by  his 
parents.  His  father  in  that  year  bought 
the  property  on  Chicopee  street,  upon 
which  he  erected  a  residence,  and  there 
his  life  has  since  been  spent.  He  attended 
the  public  schools  of  Chicopee  until  six- 
teen years  of  age,  then  became  his  fath- 
er's assistant  in  his  saw  milling  opera- 
tions,- continuing  until  the  age  of  twenty- 
two,  when  he  began  farming  operations 
on  his  own  account.  This  was  in  1884, 
and  since  that  year  he  has  been  continu- 
ously engaged  in  agricultural  operation, 
devoting  his  farm  of  fifty  acres  to  general 
and  dairy  farming,  his  herd  of  cattle, 
numbering  twenty  of  standard  breed. 
The   farm   has   been   partly   absorbed   by 


the  city,  the  location  rendering  it  very 
valuable  as  residence  property.  T'or  many 
years  Mr.  Shaw  has  been  a  leading  mem- 
ber of  the  local  grange.  Patrons  of  Hus- 
bandry, was  master  for  several  years,  and 
active  in  all  forms  of  grange  work.  He 
is  a  Republican  in  politics,  and  for  two 
terms  has  served  Chicopee  as  a  member 
of  the  Board  of  Aldermen.  In  religious 
faith  he  is  a  Unitarian. 

Mr.  Shaw  married,  April  7,  1888,  at 
Wilbraham,  Massachusetts,  Ella  Elida, 
daughter  of  Francis  Elliott  and  Annise  L. 
(Fuller)  Clark.  They  are  the  parents  of 
six  children  :  i.  Etta  Iretta,  born  June  25, 
1889,  died  August  i,  1890.  2.  Ernest 
Ethelbert,  born  January  12,  1891,  came 
to  his  death  by  drowning,  August  2,  1902. 
3.  Homer  Archie,  born  August  9,  1892, 
died  April  19,  1893.  4.  Warren  Clark, 
born  November  22,  1894,  now  a  machin- 
ist in  the  employ  of  the  Page-Storms 
Drop  Forging  Company  of  Chicopee ; 
married,  March  6,  191 1,  Helen  Gertrude 
Smith  ;  she  died  June  10,  1918,  leaving  a 
son,  Warren  Clark  Shaw,  Jr.,  born  March 
II,  1916.  5.  Albert  Marcus,  born  Febru- 
ary 18,  1897,  graduate,  M.  E.,  Worcester 
School  of  Technology.  6.  Olive  Mabel, 
born  December  29,   1900. 


SHOVE,  Walter  Frank, 

Mill  Treasnrer. 

Some  men  are  born  mill  treasurers  in 
the  city  of  Fall  River.  From  childhood 
certain  boys  are  trained  for  the  onerous 
and  responsible  position  of  managing  the 
financial  affairs  of  the  great  industrial 
corporations.  The  inheritance  of  stock, 
of  the  fruit  of  the  labor  of  their  fathers 
and  grandfathers  bring  these  positions  to 
the  capable  young  men  of  many  of  the 
families  of  whom  sketches  will  be  found 
in  this  work.  In  the  case  of  Mr.  Shove, 
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the  textile  industries,  we  find  a  young 
man  returning  to  the  activities  in  which 
his  grandfather  was  famous  and  highly 
successful.  Mr.  Shove  has  been  for 
twenty-six  years  treasurer  of  the  Pocas- 
set  Mill  Corporation  in  Fall  River. 

Benjamin  Slade  Shove,  son  of  Clarke 
Shove,  was  born  October  25,  1826,  in  the 
town  of  Troy,  and  now  the  city  of  Fall 
River,  Massachusetts.  There  he  was  edu- 
cated in  the  common  schools.  Early  in 
life,  following  the  inclination  of  a  rather 
adventurous  disposition,  he  went  to  sea 
and  rose  step  by  step  to  the  rank  of  mas- 
ter mariner.  Another  reason  for  his  fol- 
lowing the  sea  was  ill  health.  He  was  in 
the  coasting  trade  for  a  number  of  years. 
When  gold  was  discovered  in  California, 
in  1849,  the  spirit  of  adventure  and  a 
thought  for  the  fortune  that  all  the  Argo- 
nauts were  seeking  led  him  thither,  but 
instead  of  seeking  for  gold  in  the  hills  he 
took  advantage  of  the  opportunities  for 
profit  in  transportation  and  became  half- 
owner  of  a  vessel  engaged  in  trade  along 
the  California  coast.  The  death  of  his 
mother  in  1855  caused  him  to  come  East 
again  and  he  sold  out  his  business.  Dur- 
ing the  remainder  of  his  life  he  continued 
to  follow  trading  and  ship  rigging.  At 
the  time  of  his  death  he  had  entered  into 
partnership  with  his  brother,  Clarke 
Shove,  to  carry  on  a  coal  business  in  Fall 
River.  He  was  an  energetic,  ambitious, 
upright  citizen.  He  died  in  Fall  River, 
April  12,  1867.  He  was  a  member  of  the 
Second   Baptist  Church  for  many  years. 

He  married,  July  16,  1857,  Annie 
Frances  Coolidge,  who  was  born  in  Wey- 
mouth, July  12,  1835,  daughter  of  Charles 
Coolidge,  of  Weymouth.  Children,  born 
at  Fall  River:  Walter  Frank,  mentioned 
below ;  Benjamin  Clarke,  born  October 
4,  i860,  a  resident  of  Fall  River ;  Annie 
Borden,  born  January  29,  1865,  married 
William  Hampton,  of  Fall  River. 


Walter  Frank  Shove,  son  of  Benjamin 
Slade  Shove,  was  born  in  Fall  River,  Mas- 
sachusetts, August  12,  1858.  He  attended 
the  public  schools  of  his  native  town  until 
his  sixteenth  year.  He  left  the  Durfee 
High  School  at  the  end  of  his  second  year 
to  accept  a  position  as  clerk  in  the  Fall 
River  post  office.  From  May,  1874,  to 
July,  1880,  he  served  under  Postmasters 
Shaw  and  Chester  Green.  After  resign- 
ing from  the  government  service  he  was 
for  one  year  and  a  half  second  clerk  in 
the  Union  Mill,  and  afterwards  book- 
keeper, a  position  he  filled  for  nine  and  a 
half  years.  Possessing  a  wide  acquaint- 
ance with  men  and  affairs,  a  thorough 
business  training  and  experience  in  man- 
ufacturing, he  came  to  the  responsible 
office  of  treasurer  of  the  Pocasset  Mill 
Corporation,  elected  by  the  directors  in 
April,  i89i,to  succeed  Bradford  T.  Davol. 
His  selection  proved  wise  from  the  point 
of  view  of  the  directors  and  stockholders. 
Even  at  that  time  this  great  mill  had  in 
operation  60,000  spindles ;  the  capacity 
was  doubled  before  many  years,  and  at 
the  present  time  the  mill  has  in  operation 
no  less  than  2,800  looms  and  123,000 
spindles. 

His  activity  has  not  been  limited  to 
this  corporation,  however.  He  has  been 
treasurer  of  the  Windham  Manufacturing 
Company  of  Willimantic,  Connecticut. 
He  was  elected  treasurer  of  the  Meta- 
comet  and  Anawan  Mills  Corporation  in 
1894,  and  successfully  administered  the 
business  until  the  mills  were  sold  to  the 
Iron  Works  Company.  In  P900  he  was 
elected  treasurer  of  the  Fall  River  Manu- 
factory, which  has  since  been  purchased 
by  the  Pocasset  Company.  He  was  treas- 
urer of  the  Wampanoag  Mills  from  Feb- 
ruary. 1905,  to  December,  1915,  and  is 
now  the  president  of  that  corporation. 
He  is  also  president  of  the  National  Asso- 
ciation of  Cotton  Manufacturers. 


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In  politics  Mr.  Siiove  is  a  Republican, 
though  he  has  declined  all  offices  of  pub- 
lic trust.  He  attends  the  Protestant 
Episcopal  church.  He  is  a  member  of  the 
Country  Club  of  Fall  River,  and  of  the 
Quequechan  Club  of  Fall  River.  In  the 
Masonic  order  he  has  taken  the  thirty- 
second  degree.  He  is  a  member  of  King 
Philip  Lodge,  Free  and  Accepted  Ma- 
sons, of  Fall  River;  of  Fall  River 
Chapter,  Royal  Arch  Masons ;  of  Fall 
River  Council,  Royal  and  Select  Masters ; 
of  Godfrey  de  Bouillon  Commandery, 
Knights  Templar,  of  which  he  is  past 
commander. 

Mr.  Shove  married,  September  3,  1883, 
Clara  L.  Ackley,  daughter  of  Almerin 
Lorenzo  and  Elizabeth  (Holman)  Ack- 
ley. Children,  born  in  Fall  River:  Ethel, 
born  January  10,  1887,  died  January  24, 
1887 ;  Ackley,  born  February  5,  1896,  is 
a  student  at  Yale  University,  class  of 
1918 ;  he  was  among  the  first  to  enlist 
when  the  war  with  Germany  was  de- 
clared, and  holds  the  rank  of  ensign  in  the 
United  States  Navy. 


LAWTON,  George  Robert, 

Public   Official. 

Recognized  as  the  leading  public  ac- 
countant of  Southeastern  Massachusetts, 
Mr.  Lawton  enjoys  the  confidence  and 
support  of  the  many  prominent  corpor- 
ations of  the  section  in  which  he  resides, 
many  of  them  being  his  clients  whose 
accounts  he  has  audited  for  many  years. 
He  is  a  direct  descendant  of  the  family 
founded  in  Rhode  Island  by  George  Law- 
ton,  who  was  of  Newport,  Rhode  Island, 
as  early  as  1638.  He  was  a  man  of  im- 
portance, serving  as  deputy  and  assistant 
many  years.  He  married  Elizabeth  Haz- 
ard, and  located  the  family  home  in  Ports- 
mouth, Rhode  Island,  where  George  Law- 
ton  died  October  5,  1693,  the  orchard  on 


the  homestead  being  his  burial  place.  He 
was  succeeded  by  his  son,  Robert  Law- 
ton,  he  by  a  son,  Captain  George  Law- 
ton,  Robert  and  George  being  a  freely 
used  name  until  the  present  day,  Mr. 
Lawton,  of  this  review,  bearing  both  of 
these  time  honored  family  names.  He  is 
a  grandson  of  George  Lawton,  of  the 
seventh  American  generation,  born  in 
Portsmouth,  Rhode  Island,  a  sea  captain, 
merchant  and  hotel  proprietor,  a  mem- 
ber of  the  Baptist  church,  a  Whig  and  a 
Republican.  Captain  George  Lawton  and 
his  wife.  Patience,  were  the  parents  of: 
Robert,  George,  Moses  Turner,  Mumford, 
Hannah,  and  Theodore. 

Moses  Turner  Lawton,  son  of  Captain 
George  Lawton,  was  born  in  Tiverton, 
Rhode  Island,  and  all  his  life  was  a  noted 
hotel  proprietor,  and  an  ardent  Republi- 
can. He  married  Elizabeth  Harris, 
daughter  of  Solomon  and  Eliza  (Tilling- 
hast)  Lawton.  They  were  the  parents  of 
a  daughter,  Elizabeth  Harris,  and  a  son, 
George  Robert,  of  further  mention. 

George  Robert  Lawton,  only  son  of 
Moses  Turner  and  Elizabeth  Harris 
(Lawton)  Lawton,  was  born  in  Tiverton, 
Rhode  Island,  December  31,  1858,  and 
there  spent  his  youth.  He  completed 
high  school  courses  at  Fall  River,  then 
pursued  courses  in  bookkeeping  and  com- 
mercial methods  at  business  college,  spe- 
cializing in  accounting.  He  then  secured 
a  position  with  the  Durfee  Mills  as  ac- 
countant, and  there  continued  for  six 
years,  becoming  an  expert  in  cotton  mill 
accounting.  From  private  position  he 
advanced  to  public  work,  answering  all 
calls  made  upon  his  ability,  and  for  thirty 
years  he  has  been  a  public  accountant. 
He  is  rated  an  expert,  and  is  regularly 
employed  by  many  corporations  to  audit 
their  accounts,  his  time  being  fully  em- 
ployed through  his  numerous  engage- 
ments.     A    Republican    in    politics,    Mr. 


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Lawton  has  long  been  potent  in  party 
affairs  and  has  had  many  honors  bestowed 
upon  him.  His  home  district  in  Tiverton, 
Rhode  Island,  elected  him  to  the  Lower 
House  for  four  terms,  and  for  six  years 
he  was  a  State  Senator  of  Rhode  Island. 
He  is  a  member  of  the  iVIasonic  order, 
holding  the  thirty-second  degree  of  the 
Ancient  Accepted  Scottish  Rite ;  is  a 
member  of  the  Quequechan  and  Squan- 
tum  Clubs,  of  the  Boston  Athletic  Club, 
and  the  Republican  Club  of  New  York 
City.  He  is  a  Baptist  in  religious  prefer- 
ence, a  member  of  the  corporation  of  the 
Baptist  church. 

Mr.  Lawton  married,  in  Tiverton,  June, 
1899,  Calista  Church,  born  in  Tiverton, 
in  1868,  daughter  of  Daniel  T.  and  Mary 
P.  (Manchester)  Church.  Mr.  and  Mrs. 
Lawton  are  the  parents  of  a  daughter, 
Helen,  born  November  14,  1900,  gradu- 
ated from  B.  M.  C.  Durfee  High  School, 
class  of  1917,  then  entered  the  Freshman 
class  of  Smith   College. 


CASSIDY,  Henry  Cornelius, 

Expert    Paper    Maker. 

Henry  C.  Cassidy,  superintendent  of 
the  Holyoke  Paper  Company,  Division  of 
The  American  Writing  Paper  Company, 
and  an  expert  in  the  manufacturing  of 
fine  paper,  comes  naturally  by  his  paper 
making  skill,  his  father  and  grandfather 
both  having  been  experts  in  the  business 
and  following  it  all  their  active  lives.  His 
grandfather  learned  the  trade  in  Ireland, 
then  came  to  America,  and  settled  in  Lee, 
Massachusetts,  and  there  followed  paper 
making  the  remainder  of  his  life.  He 
died  in  Lee,  but  is  buried  in  Pittsfield, 
Massachusetts.  He  married  and  was  the 
head  of  a  family  of  seven,  his  five  sons : 
Edward,  William,  Thomas,  Michael  and 
Joseph,  all  following  their  father's  trade. 
He  had  two  daughters :     Mary  and  Mar- 


garet. Henry  Cornelius  Cassidy,  so  well 
known  in  Holyoke,  is  a  son  of  the  last 
mentioned  son,  Joseph. 

Joseph  Cassidy  was  born  in  Dublin, 
Ireland,  in  1873,  and  died  in  Lee,  Massa- 
chusetts, in  1906.  He  attended  the  pub- 
lic schools  in  Ireland,  and  there  lived 
until  seventeen  years  of  age,  when  he 
came  to  America  and  joined  his  bother 
Michael  at  Lee,  Massachusetts,  Michael 
having  come  over  in  1885,  and  located  in 
that  town.  Joseph  Cassidy  learned  the 
family  trade  and  spent  his  life  in  the  Lee 
paper  mills  with  the  exception  of  short 
periods  in  Mt.  Holly,  New  Jersey,  and  in 
Pennsylvania.  He  married  in  Ireland, 
Martina  Shea,  born  in  Ireland,  died  in 
Lee,  Massachusetts,  in  1910,  aged  sixty- 
three.  Children :  Michael,  drowned  in 
childhood ;  Henry  Cornelius,  of  further 
mention ;  Edward,  Mary,  Annie,  Agnes, 
and  Catherine. 

Henry  Cornelius  Cassidy.  son  of  Jo- 
seph and  Martina  (Shea)  Cassidy,  was 
born  in  Lee,  Massachusetts,  September 
16,  1866,  and  there  was  educated  in  the 
public  schools.  At  the  age  of  sixteen,  in 
1882,  he  first  came  to  Holyoke,  securing 
a  position  in  the  Skinner  Silk  Mill,  re- 
maining there  one  year.  He  next  was 
employed  for  a  short  time  by  the  Holyoke 
Warp  Company,  then  began  learning  the 
family  trade,  paper  making,  returning  to 
Lee  for  that  purpose  and  renjaining  one 
year  in  the  Smith  Paper  Mill.  He  then 
returned  to  Holyoke  and  found  employ- 
ment with  the  Holyoke  Paper  Mill,  a  con- 
cern then  operated  by  the  Greenleafs,  of 
which  David  Williams  was  superintend- 
ent. In  1900  that  was  absorbed  by  the 
American  Writing  Paper  Company,  Mr. 
Cassidy  continuing  with  the  new  owners 
as  assistant-superintendent  until  1912, 
when  he  was  appointed  superintendent, 
which  position  he  still  most  ably  fills.  He 
is   a    man    of   force   and    character,    thor- 


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oughly  familiar  with  the  varied  phases  of 
paper  manufacture,  and  highly  regarded 
by  all  who  know  him.  He  is  a  member 
of  the  Superintendents  Club  o£  the 
American  Writing  Paper  Company,  the 
Foresters,  and  of  Holy  Cross  Roman 
Catholic  Church. 

Mr.  Cassidy  married,  April  i8,  1893, 
Helen  Kennedy,  born  in  County  Kerry, 
Ireland,  daughter  of  James  and  Mar- 
garet (O'Flaherty)  Kennedy,  she  coming 
to  the  United  States  at  the  age  of  sixteen 
years.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Cassidy  are  the  par- 
ents of  the  following  children:  i.  Lil- 
lian M.,  born  February  5,  1894.  2.  Henry 
L.,  born  August  23,  1895 ;  a  graduate  of 
Holyoke  High  School,  class  of  1913; 
spent  two  years  at  the  Massachusetts  In- 
stitute of  Technology,  being  especially 
strong  in  mathematics;  in  June,  1917,  he 
enlisted  in  his  country's  service,  choosing 
the  Cavalry,  and  is  now  (1918)  still  in 
the  service.  3.  Edward  J.,  born  August  22 
1897;  a  paper  mill  worker  with  his  father 
4.  Walter  J.,  born  June  15,  1901.  5 
James  M.,  born  August  27,  1903.  6, 
Helen  Frances,  born  September  15,  1905 
7.  Coletta,  born  December  14,  1909,  died 
December  11,  1910.  8.  Joseph,  born  F"eb- 
ruary  9,  191 1.  9.  Frederick,  born  March 
6,  1912.  10.  Agnes  Martina,  born  Octo- 
ber 27,  1917. 


ROURKE,  Edward  A., 

Business   Man. 

The  Rourke  family  has  been  intimately 
connected  with  the  business  life  of  Chico- 
pee,  ^lassachusetts,  and  for  half  a  century 
the  firm  name,  P.  Rourke  and  P.  Rourke 
&  Sons  has  been  a  familiar  one.  Patrick 
Rourke,  of  the  second  generation,  was  the 
first  Irish  selectman  elected  in  the  town, 
and  in  addition  to  this  was  for  thirty-five 
years  assessor,  and  for  twenty  years 
water  commissioner.     He  was  one  of  the 


best  and  most  loyal  citizens  of  the  town, 
and  from  manhood  until  old  age  shirked 
no  public  duty  demanded  of  him.  He  was 
a  good  business  man,  and  in  his  grocery 
and  provision  store  educated  his  son, 
Edward,  to  succeed  him,  which  he  did 
after  an  association  of  Several  years  as  a 
partner.  Patrick  was  a  son  of  Cornelius 
Rourke,  born  in  Ireland,  who,  with  his 
family,  came  to  the  United  States  in  1846, 
landing  at  Halifax,  Nova  Scotia,  then 
making  his  way  to  New  Hampshire,  and 
finally  to  Chicopee,  Massachusetts.  There 
he  entered  a  mercantile  business  (gro- 
ceries), and  in  addition  had  an  undertak- 
ing establishment,  and  also  sold  furni- 
ture. He  was  a  genius  in  his  field,  and 
with  success  managed  his  different  and 
widely  diverged  lines  of  business. 

Cornelius  Rourke  married  Mary  Mc- 
Mahon,  and  they  were  the  parents  of: 
Patrick,  of  further  mention  ;  Mary,  Brid- 
get, Kate,  and  Helen  Margaret,  who  mar- 
ried a  Mr.  McCarthy. 

Patrick  Rourke,  only  son  of  Cornelius 
and  Mary  (McMahon)  Rourke,  was  born 
in  Dingle,  County  Kerry,  Ireland,  F'ebru- 
ary  12,  1838,  was  brought  to  America  by 
his  parents  in  1846,  and  died  in  Chicopee, 
Massachusetts,  June  26,  1916.  Not  long 
after  the  arrival  at  Halifax,  in  1846,  the 
family  settled  in  Chicopee,  and  in  the 
Spruce  street  public  school  the  lad,  Pat- 
rick, obtained  his  education.  He  became 
his  father's  assistant  in  the  store  for  a 
time,  and  also  drove  a  team  in  connec- 
tion with  the  grocery  and  undertaking 
business,  but  quite  early  in  life  he  started 
out  for  himself,  as  a  merchant.  He  began 
as  a  groceryman,  but  later  added  meats 
and  provisions,  building  up  a  large  and 
successful  business,  with  which  he  was 
connected  until  his  death  at  the  age  of 
seventy-eight.  He  inherited  strong  busi- 
ness ability  from  his  father,  and  this  was 
developed   to  an   unusual   degree  by   the 


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fact  that  he  assumed  heavy  responsibili- 
ties very  early  in  his  business  career. 
When  the  weight  of  years  grew  heavy 
the  burden  was  shifted  to  the  capable 
shoulders  of  his  son  and  partner,  Edward 
A.  Rourke,  the  present  head.  In  addition 
to  his  mercantile  interests  he  was  largely 
interested  in  building  contracts,  and  in 
that  capacity  erected  many  private  and 
public  buildings  in  Chicopee.  He  was  the 
contractor  for  the  brick  work  on  the  Pub- 
lic Library,  that  being  but  one  of  the  im- 
portant operations  he  contracted  for.  His 
life  was  an  exceedingly  busy  one,  and  bis 
energy  knew  no  bounds.  Dennis  G.  Mur- 
phy was  his  partner  in  the  contracting 
business,  and  they  were  associated  to- 
gether for  a  number  of  years. 

From  youthful  manhood  Mr.  Rourke 
took  a  deep  interest  in  public  affairs,  and 
was  for  many  years  one  of  Chicopee's 
best  known  official  citizens,  his  service 
covering  the  offices  of  town  selectman, 
board  of  assessors  (thirty-five  years), 
water  commissioner  (twenty  years),  he 
resigning  the  last  named  office  during  the 
administration  of  Mayor  Rivers.  He  gave 
to  the  public  service  the  same  loyal  and 
efficient  attention  which  his  private  bus- 
iness received,  and  won  the  respect  and 
perfect  confidence  of  his  community,  they 
returning  him  to  office  term  after  term. 
He  was  a  director  and  a  trustee  of  the 
Chicopee  Co-Operative  Bank,  was  an  out- 
spoken foe  of  the  liquor  traffic,  and  from 
boyhood  a  memberof  the  Father  Matthew 
Total  Abstinence  Society,  having  been 
pledged  when  a  boy  in  Ireland  by  the 
great  Irish  priest  and  Apostle  of  Temper- 
ance, Father  Matthew.  In  Chicopee,  he 
aided  in  founding  a  Father  Matthew  So- 
ciety. He  was  also  a  consistent,  devoted 
member  of  the  Holy  Name  Society  of  the 
Holy  Name  Roman  Catholic  Church,  of 
Chicopee. 

Patrick     Rourke     married     (first)     in 

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1858,  in  Chicopee,  Massachusetts,  Maria 
O'Donell,  born  in  Ireland,  who  died  in 
1873,  daughter  of  Terrence  and  Bridget 
(McKenna)  O'Donell.  They  were  the 
parents  of:  Maria;  Edward  A.,  of  fur- 
ther mention ;  John  C,  deceased ;  Patrick 
J.;  Elizabeth;  William,  deceased;  and 
Rose,  wife  of  Daniel  Daley.  Patrick 
Rourke  married  (second)  Mary  Sullivan, 
who  survived  him  with  one  child,  Minnie. 

Edward  A.  Rourke,  eldest  son  of  Pat- 
rick and  his  first  wife,  Maria  (O'Donell) 
Rourke,  was  born  in  Chicopee,  Massachu- 
setts, January  19,  1861,  and  was  there 
educated  in  the  public  schools.  After 
school  days  were  ended  he  became  a  per- 
manent clerk  in  his  father's  store  on  West 
street,  Chicopee,  Massachusetts,  continu- 
ing his  trusted  assistant  until  1896,  when, 
together  with  his  brother,  Patrick,  he  was 
admitted  to  the  partnership,  the  firm  then 
becoming  Patrick  Rourke  &  Sons.  The 
original  lines,  'groceries  and  meats,  were 
adhered  to  all  through  these  years,  and 
since  the  death  of  the  founder,  in  1916, 
the  business  has  been  continued  by  the 
sons,  Edward  and  Patrick.  Edward  was 
elected  a  member  of  the  Board  of  Alder- 
men in  1894,  and  is  a  charter  member  of 
the  Knights  of  Columbus. 

Edward  A.  Rourke  married,  in  1904, 
Catherine  Walsh,  who  at  the  time  of  her 
marriage  was  principal  of  the  Belcher 
School,  daughter  of  Michael  and  Johanna 
Walsh,  of  Chicopee  Falls,  Massachusetts. 
Mr.  and  Mrs.  Rourke  are  the  parents  of  a 
daughter,  Marian  Elizabeth,  born  Novem- 
ber 10,  1905,  and  a  son,  Brandon,  born 
September  18,  1908. 


GAGNE,  Joseph  Alfred,  M.  D., 

Physician. 

As  one  of  the  well-known  physicians 
of  Chicopee  Falls,  Dr.  Gagne  is  familiar 
to  his  townsmen,  and  also  to  many  out- 


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side  of  his  community.  Jean  Baptiste 
Gagne,  his  grandfather,  was  born  in  Can- 
ada, and  there  passed  his  life  as  a  farmer. 
He  married,  and  among  his  eleven  chil- 
dren was  Stanislas,  mentioned  further. 
Mr.  Gagne  and  his  wife  died  in  Canada, 
the  former  in  1858,  at  the  age  of  sixty. 
Both  were  members  of  the  Roman  Cath- 
olic church. 

(II)  Stanislas  Gagne,  son  of  Jean  Bap- 
tiste Gagne,  was  born  in  1844,  in  the  Prov- 
ince of  Quebec,  Canada,  and  there  re- 
ceived his  education  in  a  parochial  school. 
At  the  age  of  nineteen  he  came  to  the 
United  States,  settling  in  Fall  River,  Mas- 
sachusetts, where,  during  the  remainder 
of  his  life,  he  was  engaged  in  business  as 
a  fish  dealer.  He  married  (first)  Dube, 
and  their  children  were  :  Mary,  born  Feb- 
ruary 15,  1862;  William,  born  December 
15,  1864;  Frank,  born  January  17,  1866, 
died  March  8,  191 1;  Annie,  born  Octo- 
ber 24,  1873;  Peter,  born  April  28,  1875, 
and  Delia,  born  September  25,  1880.  Mr. 
Gagne  married  (second)  Philomena  Bon- 
ville,  born  in  Canada,  daughter  of  F.  Bon- 
ville,  a  farmer  of  the  Dominion,  who  died 
there  in  1877  ^t  the  age  of  sixty.  By  this 
marriage  there  was  but  one  child :  Jo- 
seph Alfred,  of  further  mention.  Mr.  and 
Mrs.  Gagne  were  members  of  the  Roman 
Catholic  church.  The  former  died  in 
1883,  in  Fall  River,  and  the  latter  on  Jan- 
uary 17,  1916. 

(III)  Joseph  Alfred  Gagne,  son  of 
Stanislas  and  Philomena  (Bonville) 
Gagne,  was  born  December  31,  1882,  in 
Fall  River,  Massachusetts,  where  he  lived 
until  the  age  of  twelve  years.  He  was  a 
pupil  in  St.  Aime  Commercial  College, 
Canada,  and  then  spent  one  year  in  Holy 
Cross  College,  followed  by  two  years  in 
Montreal  College.  He  then  studied  four 
years  and  a  half  in  Marieville  College,  at 
the  end  of  that  time  matriculating  at 
Grand    University,    where    he    spent    one 


year.  Then  came  four  years  at  Laval 
University  where,  in  191 1,  he  received 
the  degree  of  Doctor  of  Medicine.  Dr. 
Gagne  then  opened  an  office  at  Chicopee 
Falls  and  entered  upon  the  practice  of  his 
profession  in  which,  in  the  short  space  of 
six  years,  he  has  acquired  a  steadily  in- 
creasing clientele  and  established  a  repu- 
tation founded  on  innate  ability,  thorough 
equipment  and  devotion  to  duty.  Politi- 
cally, Dr.  Gagne  is  a  Republican,  and  is 
every  ready  to  do  his  part  toward  pro- 
moting civic  reform  and  obtaining  bet- 
terment of  conditions.  In  1914-15  he 
served  as  city  physician  of  Chicopee,  and 
he  is  now  medical  inspector.  He  is  a 
member  of  the  stafif  of  the  Mercy  Hospi- 
tal. He  is  also  identified  with  the  Franco- 
American  Association  of  Chicopee,  Inc., 
of  which  he  is  treasurer.  Among  the 
social  and  fraternal  orders  in  which  Dr. 
Gagne  is  enrolled  are  the  Social  Club  of 
Chicopee  Falls ;  Knights  of  Columbus ; 
Local  Order  of  St.  Jean  Baptiste,  and  the 
National  organization  of  same  order.  He 
is  physician  for  this  organization  and  also 
for  the  Loyal  Order  of  Moose,  and  the 
Ladies"  Order  of  Foresters. 

Dr.  Gagne  married,  May  18,  1913,  Mary 
Dea  Benoit,  whose  family  record  is 
appended  to  this  biography,  and  they  are 
the  parents  of  two  children :  Mary  Jean- 
nette,  born  July  23,  1914.  and  Joseph 
Alfred  Omer,  born  October  15,  1916.  Dr. 
and  Mrs.  Gagne  also  have  an  adopted 
son,  Ferdinand,  aged  thirteen.  They 
attend  the  Roman  Catholic  church. 

(The  Benoit   Line). 

Timothy  Benoit,  father  of  Mary  Dea 
(Benoit)  Gagne,  was  born  at  Marieville, 
Canada,  and  engaged  in  business  as  a 
mason  and  plasterer,  taking  and  execut- 
ing contracts.  He  married  Mary  Nadeau, 
also  a  native  of  Marieville,  and  of  the 
thirteen   children   born   to  them   we   find 


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record  of  the  following:     Arzelia,  died  at  The  surname  Bostwick  is  of  Saxon  ori- 


the  age  of  twenty-five ;  Edias,  died  at 
eighteen;  Wilfred,  Lea,  Mary  Dea,  of 
further  mention ;  Ferdinand,  Sylvia,  Di- 
ana, and  Dora,  who  died  at  the  age  of  two 
months.  The  parents  of  these  children 
are  now  living  in  Lachine,  Quebec. 

Mary  Dea,  daughter  of  Timothy  and 
Mary  (Nadeau)  Benoit,  was  born  in  Fall 
River,  Massachusetts,  and  became  the 
wife  of  Dr.  Joseph  Alfred  Gagne,  as 
stated  above. 


BOSTWICK,  WUliam  Ferry, 

Public    Official. 

Twenty  generations  of  the  Bostwick- 
Bostock  family  in  England  were  back  of 
Arthur  Bostwick,  the  American  ances- 
tor of  William  F.  Bostwick,  of  Chicopee, 
Massachusetts,  who  is  of  the  ninth  gener- 
ation in  New  England.  The  English  line 
is  traced  to  Osmer,  the  owner  of  great 
estates  in  Chester  (Cheshire),  England, 
which  are  entered  in  Domesday  Book, 
1080,  as  being  held  by  him  since  the  con- 
quest. The  line  then  follows  through  his 
son,  Hugh ;  his  son,  Richard ;  his  son, 
Roger;  his  son.  Sir  Gilbert;  his  son, 
William,  Lord  of  Bostoc;  his  son.  Sir 
Edward ;  his  son.  Sir  Adam  ;  his  son,  Sir 
William;  his  son,  Sir  Adam;  his  son, 
Adam  ;  his  son.  Sir  Ralph ;  his  son.  Sir 
Adam ;  (all  of  whom  held  the  rank  of 
Knight  and  were  Lords  of  Bostoc)  ;  his 
fourth  son,  William ;  his  son,  George,  by 
a  third  wife ;  his  son,  Robert ;  his  son, 
Arthur,  married  Ellen  Dennis ;  their  son, 
Arthur  (2)  Bostoc,  born  at  Tarporley, 
Cheshire,  England,  December  22,  1603, 
married  (first)  January  26,  1627,  Jane 
Whittel,  married  (second)  Ellen  John- 
son. About  1641  he  came  to  New  Eng- 
land, founding  the  family  of  which  Wil- 
liam F.  Bostwick  is  a  twentieth  century 
representative. 


gin,  and  is  traceable  to  the  time  of  Ed- 
ward the  Confessor,  who  preceded  Har- 
old, the  last  of  the  Saxon  kings,  upon  the 
throne  of  England.  Like  all  ancient 
names  it  has  undergone  some  changes  in 
over  seven  centuries  and  Bostwick  has 
evolved  from  Bostock  in  the  near  three 
centuries  since  Arthur  Bostock  brought 
the  name  to  New  England.  The  family 
bore  arms : 

Arms — Sable,  a  fesse  humettee,  argent. 

Crest — On  the  stump  of  a  tree  eradicated. 
Argent  a  bear's  head,  erased,  sable  muzzled  or. 

Motto — Scmpo  Presto  servire  (Always  ready 
to  serve). 

(I)  Arthur  Bostwick  (Bostock),  one 
of  the  first  settlers  of  Hartford,  Connecti- 
cut, settled  there  in  1639.  He  lived  in 
Southampton,  Long  Island,  prior  to 
March  8,  1649.  He  may  have  resided  in 
New  Jersey  before  his  permanent  settle- 
ment in  Stratford,  as  his  second  wife, 
Ellen  (Johnson)  Bostwick,  had  a  son  by 
her  first  marriage  who  was  living  in  that 
colony  at  the  time  of  his  mother's  death. 

(II)  John  Bostwick,  son  of  Arthur  and 
Jane  (Whittel)  Bostwick,  was  baptized 
in  St.  Helen's  Club,  Tarporley,  Cheshire, 
England,  October  18,  1638,  and  died  in 
Stratford,  Connecticut,  December  11, 
1688.  He  received  his  father's  entire 
estate  by  gift,  and  was  allotted  other 
tracts,  but  he  sold  from  time  to  time,  and 
nevertheless  died  possessed  of  a  fair 
estate.  He  married,  in  Stratford,  Mary 
Brinsmead,  born  in  Charlestown,  Massa- 
chusetts, July  24,  1640,  died  in  Stratford 
prior  to  December  28,  1704,  having  mar- 
ried a  second  time. 

(III)  John  (2)  Bostwick,  eldest  son  of 
John  (i)  and  Mary  (Brinsmead)  Bost- 
wick, was  born  in  Stratford,  Connecti- 
cut, May  4,  1667,  and  died  in  New  Mil- 
ford,   Connecticut    (date   unknown),   but 


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after  April  i,  1747,  at  the  age  of  eighty 
years.  He  removed  from  Stratford,  going 
to  Derby,  thence,  in  1707,  to  New  Mil- 
ford,  where  he  was  the  second  settler. 
He  was  a  man  of  energy  and  progressive 
spirit,  and  bore  his  full  share  in  the  up- 
building of  New  Milford,  holding  many 
offices  in  town  and  church.  He  married, 
in  Stratford,  about  1687,  Abigail  Walker, 
born  February  17,  1672,  daughter  of  Jo- 
seph and  Abigail  (Pruden)  Walker. 

(IV)  Daniel  Bostwick,  ninth  child  of 
John  (2)  and  Abigail  (Walker)  Bostwick, 
was  born  in  New  Milford,  Connecticut, 
in  1708,  the  first  male  white  child  born  in 
the  town.  He  there  resided  all  his  life, 
kept  a  tavern  many  years,  was  deputy  to 
the  General  Assembly,  and  in  May,  1754, 
was  appointed  lieutenant  of  the  First 
Militia  Company  in  the  town.  He  died 
December  25,  1782.  Lieutenant  Daniel 
Bostwiok  married,  December  14,  1736, 
Hannah  Hitchcock,  daughter  of  Samuel 
and  Sarah  (Weller)  Hitchcock,  of  New 
Milford.  She  was  born  January  i,  1719, 
died  July  21,  1792,  the  mother  of  five  chil- 
dren. Both  of  their  sons,  Daniel  and 
Amos,  were  soldiers  of  the  Revolution. 

(V)  Amos  Bostwick,  second  son  of 
Lieutenant  Daniel  and  Hannah  (Hitch- 
cock) Bostwick,  was  bom  in  New  Mil- 
ford, Connecticut,  in  1743,  and  died  in 
Unadilla,  New  York,  November  19,  1829. 
He  served  as  ensign  in  Captain  Chap- 
man's company,  of  the  Nineteenth  Con- 
tinental Infantry,  under  Colonel  Charles 
Webb,  from  January  i,  1776,  to  Decem- 
ber 31,  1776,  and  as  ensign  of  the  Sixth 
Company,  Second  Regiment,  Colonel 
Bezaleel  Beebe,  in  January,  1780.  He  mar- 
ried (first)  in  New  Milford,  December  2, 
1766,  Sarah  Grant,  born  in  Litchfield, 
Connecticut,  August  7,  1745,  died  in  New 
Milford,  her  will  being  probated  May  11, 
1795.  Ensign  Amos  Bostwick  married 
(second)  Sarah  Hayes,  born  in  England, 


died  in  Unadilla,  New  York,  August  28, 
1825,  aged  seventy-seven  years. 

(VI)  Charles  Bostwick,  second  son  of 
Ensign  Amos  Bostwick,  and  his  first 
wife,  Sarah  (Grant)  Bostwick,  was  born 
in  New  Milford,  Connecticut,  October  9, 
1772,  and  died  in  New  Haven,  Connecti- 
cut, October  17,  1850.  He  married,  in 
New  Haven,  Connecticut,  June  i,  1797, 
Sarah  Trowbridge,  born  March  4,  1779, 
died  December  13,  1842,  born,  lived 
and  died  in  New  Haven,  daughter  of 
Thomas  and  Mary  (Macumber)  Trow- 
bridge. They  were  the  parents  of  eleven 
children,  descent  being  traced  through 
the  first  born,  George. 

(VII)  George  Bostwick,  eldest  child  of 
Charles  and  Sarah  (Trowbridge)  Bost- 
wick, was  born  in  New  Haven,  Connec- 
ticut, March  30,  1798,  lived  there  all  his 
life,  and  died  July  15,  1831,  at  the  age  of 
thirty-three.  He  learned  the  harness- 
maker's  trade,  and  was  so  engaged  until 
his  untimely  death.  He  married,  in  New 
Haven,  in  1821,  Amelia  Truman,  born  in 
New  Haven,  in  April,  1800,  died  there 
February  15,  1884.  They  were  the  par- 
ents of  children :  Charles  Gates,  born 
June  2,  1823,  married.  May  20,  1850,  Har- 
riet N.  Kimberley,  and  died  in  New 
Haven,  March  16,  1888 ;  George  Henry, 
born  July  21,  1824,  and  had  three  wives, 
Adaline  Warren,  Abbe  M.  Hayden,  and 
Sarah  Tomlinson ;  Jane,  died  in  1880; 
William  Truman,  of  further  mention. 

(VIII)  William  Truman  Bostwick, 
youngest  son  of  George  and  Amelia 
(Truman)  Bostwick,  was  born  in  New 
Haven,  Connecticut,  February  8,  1832, 
and  died  in  Chicopee,  Massachusetts,  De- 
cember 24,  1915.  He  was  educated  in  the 
public  schools  of  New  Haven,  and  in  that 
city  learned  the  harness-maker's  trade. 
He  was  engaged  at  his  trade  in  the  shops 
of  New  Haven,  Greenfield  and  Pittsfield, 
finally,  in  1870,  settling  in  Chicopee,  Mas- 


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sachusetts,  where  he  was  in  charge  of  the 
leather  department  of  the  Ames  Sword 
Company.  He  resided  in  Chicopee  for 
forty-five  years,  until  his  death,  and  was 
one  of  the  best-known  men  of  his  com- 
munity. He  never  took  an  active  part  in 
public  affairs,  but  he  was  always  the  in- 
terested citizen  and  bore  his  share  of 
civic  responsibility  in  that  capacity.  He 
retired  from  the  employ  of  the  Ames 
Sword  Company  after  twenty-five  years 
of  continuous  service,  then  for  twenty 
years,  until  he  passed  away,  he  lived  a 
quiet,  retired  life.  He  was  a  member 
of  the  Unitarian  church,  and  Chicopee 
Lodge,  Free  and  Accepted  Masons.  He 
was  a  man  of  honor  and  uprightness,  kept 
his  word  sacred,  and  lived  a  life  of  use- 
ful endeavor.  William  T.  Bostwick  mar- 
ried, in  Chicopee,  Massachusetts,  May  ii, 

1871,  Ella  Duley,  born  in  Chicopee,  De- 
cember 23,  1847.  They  were  the  parents 
of  a  daughter,  Ella  Belle,  born  May  28, 

1872,  married,  November  12,  1895,  Charles 
Adams,  of  Springfield ;  and  William 
Ferry,  of  further  mention. 

(IX)  William  Ferry  Bostwick,  only 
son  of  William  and  Ella  (Duley)  Bost- 
wick, was  born  in  Chicopee,  Massachu- 
etts,  October  8.  1873,  and  was  there  edu- 
cated in  the  public  schools.  When  fifteen 
years  of  age  he  left  school  to  become  a 
wage-earner,  although  from  his  eleventh 
year  he  had  earned  his  own  living  as  a 
newsboy.  After  leaving  school  in  1888, 
he  entered  the  office  employ  of  the  old 
Connecticut  River  Railroad,  now  the  Bos- 
ton &  Maine,  beginning  as  a  clerk  and 
advancing  to  the  cashier's  desk,  holding 
that  position  nine  years.  On  February  5, 
1900,  Mr.  Bostwick  was  appointed  collec- 
tor for  the  city  of  Chicopee,  took  the  posi- 
tion at  once,  and  is  now  serving  his  nine- 
teenth year  in  that  capacity,  a  splendid 
tribute  to  his  efficient,  faithful  perform- 
ance of  his  duties.     He  is  a  trustee  of 


Chicopee  Savings  Bank,  also  clerk  of  the 
corporation  ;  member  of  Chicopee  Lodge, 
Free  and  Accepted  Masons ;  Unity  Chap- 
ter, Royal  Arch  Masons ;  Springfield 
Council,  Royal  and  Select  Masters ; 
Springfield  Commandery,  Knights  Temp- 
lar; Melba  Temple,  Ancient  Arabic 
Order  Nobles  of  the  Mystic  Shrine ;  Im- 
proved Order  of  Red  Men ;  and  of  the 
Unitarian  church,  serving  on  the  stand- 
ing committee. 

Mr.  Bostwick  married,  in  Carlisle, 
Pennsylvania,  March  14,  191 1,  Nellie 
Alice  Davis,  born  in  Symmes,  Ohio, 
daughter  of  John  A.  and  Nancy  Jane 
(Chapman)  Davis,  and  granddaughter  of 
Zebulon  and  Elizabeth  (Hart)  Davis. 
John  A.  Davis  was  a  soldier  of  the  Union 
army,  serving  with  the  Seventy-ninth 
Regiment,  Ohio  Volunteer  Infantry,  and 
saw  hard  service,  fighting  at  Chickamau- 
gua,  Stone  River,  Lookout  Mountain,  and 
elsewhere.  He  is  now  living  a  retired 
life,  having  spent  many  years  as  a  miller 
and  grain  merchant  of  Carlisle,  Pennsyl- 
vania. The  Bostwick  family  residence  is 
No.  190  Nonatuck  street,  Chicopee,  Mas- 
sachusetts. Mr.  Bostwick  is  a  man  of 
genial  nature  and  pleasing  personality, 
winning  friends  wherever  known  and 
holding  the  regard  of  all  who  enjoy  his 
acquaintance.  He  has  served  his  city  well 
and  holds  his  position  in  public  confi- 
dence through  merit  alone.  He  is  of  the 
ninth  generation  of  his  family  in  Massa- 
chusetts, and  of  the  twenty-ninth  from 
the  Saxon  ancestor,  Osmer,  1066. 


PAGE,  Woodman  Shute, 

Manufacturer. 

In  1867  Amos  Woodman  Page  estab- 
lished a  needle  manufactory  at  Chicopee 
Falls,  which  he  conducted  very  success- 
fully until  his  death.  His  mantle  then 
fell  upon  his  son,  Woodman  Shute  Page, 


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who  had  been  associated  with  his  father 
in  his  factory  management  from  the  age 
of  twenty  years.  Since  1891  the  son  has 
been  head  of  the  business  enterprise  of  the 
city. 

(I)  Mr.  Page  is  of  the  ninth  generation 
of  the  family  founded  in  New  England  by 
John  Page,  born  in  England,  who  was  an 
early  settler  of  Hingham,  Massachusetts. 
He  is  of  record  there  as  the  signer  of  a 
petition  to  the  General  Court,  November 
4,  1646,  but  in  1652  he  moved  to  Haver- 
hill, Massachusetts,  where  he  died  No- 
vember 23,  1687.  He  married  Mary 
Marsh,  daughter  of  George  Marsh,  she 
surviving  him  until  February  15,  1796. 
From  this  marriage  sprang  a  family  of 
sons:  John,  Onesiphorus,  Benjamin,  Jo- 
seph, Cornelius  and  Ephraim,  they  the 
ancestors  of  a  numerous  family.  They 
were  also  the  parents  of  four  daughters, 
three  of  whom  married.  The  line  of 
descent  to  Woodman  S.  Page,  of  Chico- 
pee  Falls,  is  through  the  second  son, 
Onesiphorus,  who  is  called  in  the  records, 
"Sergeant." 

(II)  Sergeant  Onesiphorus  Page,  son 
of  John  Page,  was  baptized  at  Hingham, 
Massachusetts,  November  20,  1642,  and 
died  at  Salisbury,  Massachusetts,  June 
28,  1716.  He  took  the  oath  of  allegiance 
at  Salisbury,  is  of  record  as  a  householder 
there  in  1677,  and  there  he  followed  his 
trade  of  weaver.  He  married  (first)  No- 
vember 22,  1664,  Mary  Hauxworth,  who 
died  May  8,  1695,  the  mother  of  eight 
children:  Mary,  died  young;  Mary  (2)  ; 
Abigail;  Mary  (3),  died  young;  Sarah, 
Onesiphorus,  Cornelius,  died  young ;  Mary 
(4).  He  married  (second)  July  3,  1685, 
Sarah  (Morrell)  Rowell,  widow  of  Philip 
Rowell.  Descent  is  traced  through  Jo- 
seph, the  eldest  son  by  the  first  marriage. 

(III)  Joseph  Page,  son  of  Sergeant 
Onesiphorus  Page,  was  born  in  Salisbury, 
April  6,  1670,  and  there  resided  until  his 


death.      He    married    (first)    March    12, 

1690,  Sarah  Smith,  who  died  October  21, 

1691,  the  mother  of  a  daughter,  Sarah, 
who  was  left  motherless  when  but  nine 
days  old.  She  was  the  daughter  of  Rich- 
ard Smith.  His  second  wife,  Elizabeth, 
was  the  mother  of  seven  children,  namely : 
Judith,  died  young;  John,  through  whom 
descent  is  traced ;  Joseph,  Joshua,  Ben- 
jamin,  Mary,  and  Onesiphorus. 

(IV)  John  Page,  son  of  Joseph  Page, 
was  born  in  Salisbury,  Massachusetts, 
June  17,  1696,  and  died  there  March  11, 
1767.  He  married.  May  16,  1720,  Mary 
Winslow,  who  died  August  21,  1774,  in 
her  seventy-seventh  year.  Children,  all 
born  in  Salisbury :  Ebenezer,  Samuel, 
Betty,  Moses,  the  next  in  direct  line; 
John,  Ephraim,  Benjamin,  died  young; 
Benjamin  (2),  Enoch,  who  settled  in 
Wentworth,  New  Hampshire. 

(V)  Moses  Page,  son  of  John  Page, 
was  born  in  Salisbury,  Massachusetts, 
September  3,  1726,  and  died  at  Gilman- 
ton.  New  Hampshire,  September  27,  1805. 
He  left  his  Massachusetts  home  in  earl> 
life,  and  resided  in  both  Epping  and  Gil- 
manton,  New  Hampshire.  He  married 
Judith,  daughter  of  Benjamin  French,  Sr. 
They  were  the  parents  of  nine  children, 
eight  of  whom  were  born  in  Epping: 
Judith,  Mary,  Elizabeth,  John  and  Benja- 
min, twins ;  Ebenezer,  Hannah,  Moses 
(2),  Andrew,  the  last  named  born  in  Gil- 
manton.  The  head  of  the  sixth  genera- 
tion is  Benjamin,  who  was  a  twin  with 
John. 

(VI)  Benjamin  Page,  son  of  Moses 
Page,  was  born  in  Epping,  New  Hamp- 
shire, February  2,  1763.  He  married, 
April  26,  1787,  Ruth  Bean,  of  Brentwood, 
New  Hampshire,  and  their  married  life 
was  spent  in  Belmont,  New  Hampshire, 
and  Waterborough,  Maine.  Their  two 
sons,  James  and  Benjamin,  were  born  in 
Belmont.    James,  the  eldest  son,  was  the 


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grandfather    of    Woodman    S.    Page,    of 
Chicopee  Falls. 

(VII)  James  Page,  son  of  Benjamin 
Page,  was  born  in  Belmont,  New  Hamp- 
shire, in  1797,  was  taken  by  his  parents 
when  young  to  Waterborough,  Maine, 
and  died  in  1840.  He  was  a  millwright, 
and  in  the  pursuit  of  his  calling  lived  in 
various  towns.  He  married  Eliza  Wood- 
man, born  in  1799,  and  died  in  Biddeford, 
Maine,  aged  ninety-two  years.  They 
were  the  parents  of  seven  children:  i. 
and  2.  Amos  Woodman  and  John  Wood- 
man, twins.  3.  Abigail.  4.  Moses.  5. 
Thomas  Clarke,  founder  of  the  Holyoke 
Machine  Company,  and  as  general  man- 
ager and  agent  of  that  company  accumu- 
lated capital  with  which  he  bought  a 
knitting  machine  patent  invented  by  I. 
W.  Lamb ;  the  manufacture  of  these 
machines  was  begun  in  Rochester,  New 
York,  but  later  the  old  Massachusetts 
Arms  Company's  property  at  Chicopee 
Falls,  Massachusetts,  was  bought,  the 
Lamb  Knitting  Machine  Manufacturing 
Company  incorporated,  and  the  manufac- 
ture of  the  Lamb  and  Tuttle  knitting 
machines  was  begun ;  with  him  was  asso- 
ciated his  brother  Amos  W.,  whose  career 
is  herein  traced.  6.  Harriet  A.,  married 
Louis  F.  Sewall,  of  Springfield.  7.  Eliza 
Jane. 

(VIII)  Amos  Woodman  Page,  eldest 
son  of  James  and  Eliza  (Woodman) 
Page,  was  born  in  HoUis,  Maine,  August 
8,  1823,  and  died  at  Chicopee  Falls,  Mas- 
sachusetts, August  31,  1891.  After  leav- 
ing school  he  became  a  cotton  mill  em- 
ployee, and  rising  through  all  grades 
finally  became  an  overseer  of  the  weaving 
department.  During  the  War  between 
the  States,  he  enlisted  in  the  Twenty- 
seventh  Regiment,  Maine  Volunteer  In- 
fantry, served  nine  months,  and  was  hon- 
orably discharged,  holding  a  lieutenant's 
commission.     He  liked  the  South  so  well 


that  after  the  war  he  engaged  in  the  lum- 
ber business  in  North  Carolina,  his  head- 
quarters at  Beaufort.  In  1866  he  joined 
his  brother,  Thomas  Clarke  Page,  in 
Rochester,  New  York,  there  remaining 
until  his  return  to  Massachusetts  in  1867, 
and  the  incorporation  of  the  Lamb  Knit- 
ting Machine  Manufacturing  Company  of 
Chicopee  Falls.  The  business  of  the  com- 
pany was  the  manufacture  of  the  Lamb 
and  Tuttle  knitting  machines,  but  a  coali- 
tion was  formed  with  A.  G.  Spaulding  & 
Brothers,  and  under  a  new  firm  name. 
The  Lamb  Manufacturing  Company, 
sporting  goods  of  many  kinds  became  the 
factory  product.  Amos  W.  Page  did  not 
go  into  this  new  field,  but  established  a 
needle  factory  in  connection  with  the 
Lamb  factory  at  Chicopee  Falls,  and  until 
his  death  was  the  head  of  a  most  pros- 
perous manufacturing  enterprise.  He  was 
a  man  of  good  business  quality,  enter- 
prising and  public-spirited,  a  Republican 
in  politics,  and  serving  Chicopee  Falls  as 
selectman  and  chairman  of  the  board. 
He  was  affiliated  with  Belcher  Lodge, 
Free  and  Accepted  Masons ;  and  was  a 
member  of  several  organizations,  busi- 
ness, social  and  political  in  their  purpose. 
Mr.  Page  married,  October  17,  1847, 
Caroline  Warren  Shute,  born  October  31, 
1S25,  and  died  at  Chicopee  Falls  in  1888, 
daughter  of  Michael  and  Olive  (Leavitt) 
Shute,  of  Effingham  Falls,  (Centreville) 
New  Hampshire.  Michael  Shute  was 
born  in  Newmarket,  New  Hampshire, 
and  died  in  Biddeford,  Maine.  His  wife, 
Olive  (Leavitt)  Shute,  was  born  in  Bux- 
ton, Maine.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Page  were  the 
parents  of  five  children :  Francis  Moore, 
born  November  28,  1848,  died  October  5, 
1861  ;  Laura  Eva,  born  January  8,  1853; 
Ernest  Lawrence,  born  September  6, 
1855,  died  February  27,  1857;  Irving 
Howard,  born  November  15,  1858,  now 
president  and  treasurer  of  the  J.  Stevens 


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\rms  &  Tool  Company,  and  officially 
/onnected  with  other  large  manufactur- 
ing enterprises ;  and  Woodman  Shute,  of 
further  mention. 

(IX)  Woodman  Shute  Woodman, 
youngest  son  of  Amos  Woodman  and 
Caroline  Warren  (Shute)  Page,  was  born 
in  Biddeford,  Maine,  May  7,  1862,  but 
when  a  young  child  his  parents  located 
at  Chicopee  Falls,  and  there  he  has  ever 
since  resided.  He  was  educated  in  the 
graded  and  high  schools  and  Massachu- 
setts Institute  of  Technology,  his  years  of 
preparation  for  a  business  career  ending 
with  his  attendance  at  the  last-named. 
He  became  associated  with  his  father  in 
the  needle  jnanufacturing  department  of 
the  Lamb  Manufacturing  Company,  and 
at  the  age  of  twenty  was  foreman  of  a 
department.  Not  long  afterward  he  was 
made  a  partner,  and  at  the  death  of  his 
honored  father  in  1891,  Woodman  S.  suc- 
ceeded him  as  executive  head  under  the 
title  of  general  manager.  The  manufac- 
ture of  needles  was  successfully  con- 
tinued in  the  old  plant  until  1898,  when 
it  was  moved  to  the  present  site,  and  in 
I9i8was  incorporated  as  the  Page  Needle 
Company,  Mr.  Page  being  elected  presi- 
dent of  the  corporation.  He  is  also  a 
trustee  of  the  Chicopee  Falls  Savings 
Bank,  has  served  as  a  member  of  the 
Board  of  Aldermen,  and  affiliated  with 
Belcher  Lodge,  Free  and  Accepted  Ma- 
sons.    In  politics  he  is  a  Republican. 

Mr.  Page  married,  October  11,  1893, 
Mary  Engle  Hamilton,  of  Ballston  Spa, 
Saratoga  county,  New  York,  and  they 
are  the  parents  of  a  son,  Karl  Woodman 
Page,  born  August  5,  1900. 


SYNAN,  William  Edward,  M.  D., 

Physician. 

For  twenty-four  years  Dr.  Synan  has 
been  engaged  in  the  practice  of  his  pro- 


fession at  Fall  River,  specializing  in  sur- 
gery and  diseases  of  women.  His  father, 
William  Edward  Synan,  a  native  of 
County  Cork,  Ireland,  was  a  carpenter 
and  builder,  and  came  to  Fall  River  in 
1854.  Here  he  was  employed  in  the  print 
works,  was  a  member  of  the  City  Coun- 
cil and  an  active  and  useful  citizen.  One 
of  his  uncles  was  a  member  of  the  Brit- 
ish Parliament,  as  was  also  an  uncle  of 
his  wife,  Catharine  (Eagen)  Synan,  also  a 
native  of  County  Cork,  Ireland. 

Dr.  William  Edward  Synan  was  born 
October  27,  1868,  in  Fall  River,  and  en- 
joyed excellent  educational  opportunities 
in  that  city,  passing  through  the  high 
school.  Subsequently  he  attended  Holy 
Cross  College,  from  which  he  received  the 
degrees  of  A.  B.  and  A.  M.  His  medical 
education  was  obtained  in  the  University 
of  Pennsylvania,  where  he  was  graduated 
M.  D.  in  1892.  For  more  than  a  year  he 
was  an  interne  at  St.  Joseph's  Hospital, 
Philadelphia,  Pennsylvania,  thus  gaining 
an  experience  which  has  proven  of  great 
value  to  him  in  his  work.  In  1893  he 
began  general  practice  in  Fall  River,  has 
met  with  encouraging  success,  and  has 
attained  a  high  position  in  the  profession 
and  as  a  citizen  of  Fall  River.  He  is 
especially  interested  in  educational  and 
literary  work,  and  has  served  on  the 
school  boards  of  the  city.  With  his  fam- 
ily he  is  affiliated  with  St.  Mary's  (Roman 
Catholic)  Church  of  Fall  River,  and  is  a 
member  of  the  Knights  of  Columbus. 
Dr.  Synan  was  married  in  Providence, 
Rhode  Island,  January  27,  1897,  to  Mary 
Ellen  Cunningham,  a  native  of  that  city, 
daughter  of  James  and  Mary  (Owen) 
Cunningham.  They  have  one  son,  Wil- 
liam Edward,  Jr.,  born  November  17, 
1897,  deeply  interested  in  history  and 
political  economy.  He  graduated  in  1917 
from  the  C.  D.  Borden  High  School  of 
Fall  River. 


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BENT,  WiUiam  Edward, 

Business   Man. 

William  Edward  Bent,  of  Chicopee, 
Massachusetts,  traces  his  ancestry  to 
John  Bent,  born  November  20,  1596, 
at  Penton  Grafton,  Parish  of  Weyhill, 
County  of  Hants,  England,  about  seventy 
miles  from  London.  He  married,  about 
1624,  and  in  the  ship  "Confidence,"  in 
1638,  with  his  wife  Martha,  and  five 
children,  came  to  New  England,  becom- 
ing  one  of  the  founders  of  Sudbury, 
where  he  spent  the  remainder  of  his  life. 
He  died  September  27,  1672.  His  widow 
Martha  died  in  Sudbury,   May   15,   1679. 

The  line  of  descent  to  William  Edward 
Bent,  of  Springfield  and  Chicopee,  Mas- 
sachusetts, is  through  Peter  Bent,  son 
of  John  and  Martha  Bent,  who  was  born 
in  England,  in  1629,  and  was  brought  to 
New    England    by    his    parents    in    1638. 

He  married  Elizabeth ,  about  165 1, 

and  settled  at  Marlborough,  Massachu- 
setts. His  home  was  used  as  a  garrison, 
and  was  captured  and  burned  during 
King  Philip's  War,  and  one  of  his  sons 
was  scalped.  He  returned  to  England, 
where  he  died  in  May,  1678. 

The  line  continues  through  Hopestill 
Bent,  son  of  Peter  and  Elizabeth  Bent, 
who  was  born  in  Marlborough,  Massa- 
chusetts, January  17,  1672,  ,and  died  at 
Sudbury,  Massachusetts,  August  18,  1725. 
He  served  as  ensign  in  the  Colonial  Army 
against  the  French  and  Indians,  and  was 
actively  engaged  during  the  campaign 
of  1690.  He  married,  November  27,  1700, 
Elizabeth,  daughter  of  Mayor  Thomas 
Brown.  Hopestill  Bent  was  the  progeni- 
tor of  the  Missouri  branch  of  the  family, 
their  deeds  in  the  Indian  wars  and  in 
pioneer  work  furnishing  an  important 
chapter  in  the  history  of  the  Bent  family. 
From  Hopestill  Bent  the  line  is  through 
Thomas  Bent,  his  son;   Newell  Bent,  his 


son;  William  Henry  Bent,  his  son;  Wil- 
liam Edward  Bent,  of  Springfield,  Mas- 
sachusetts, a  worthy  twentieth  century 
son  of  the  seventh  generation. 

William  Henry  Bent  was  born  in  Sud- 
bury, Massachusetts,  August  10,  1838, 
and  died  in  Waltham,  Massachusetts, 
June  8,  1893.  He  was  educated  in  the 
public  schools,  and  for  a  time  was  em- 
ployed on  a  farm  in  Sudbury,  but  later 
he  established  a  soda  water  bottling  plant 
in  Waltham,  Massachusetts,  a  business 
he  followed  several  years.  For  about 
fifteen  years  prior  to  his  death  he  was 
a  member  of  the  Waltham  police  force, 
compiling  an  honorable  record  as  an  offi- 
cer of  the  law.  He  was  a  member  of  the 
Society  of  Good  Fellows,  everybody  his 
friend,  and  beloved  by  all  who  knew  him 
well.  He  married  Caroline  Taylor,  of 
Sudbury,  born  in  1844,  died  in  191 1, 
daughter  of  John  and  Caroline  (Jones) 
Taylor,  her  grandfather,  Samuel  Jones,  a 
soldier  of  the  Revolution.  William  H. 
and  Caroline  Bent  were  the  parents  of 
three  sons:  Frederick  H.,  a  teller  in  the 
Beacon  Trust  Company,  Boston,  married 
Florence  Bowers,  and  they  are  the  par- 
ents of  a  son,  Albert  Frederick ;  William 
Edward,  of  further  mention ;  Harold  L., 
married  Isla  L.  Pownell,  and  has  two 
daughters  :     Marjorie  and  Helen. 

William  Edward  Bent,  of  the  seventh 
generation,  second  son  of  William  H. 
and  Caroline  (Taylor)  Bent,  was  born  in 
Waltham,  Massachusetts,  August  20, 
1873,  and  was  there  educated  in  the  pub- 
lic schools.  After  finishing  his  school 
years  he  was  employed  in  a  Waltham 
lumber-yard  for  about  five  years,  going 
thence  to  Boston,  remaining  for  about 
four  years,  and  for  a  like  period  was  in 
Leominster,  Massachusetts,  going  thence 
to  New  Haven,  Connecticut,  where  he 
was  employed  for  about  twelve  years. 
During  all  these  years  he  was  in  the  lum- 


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ber  business  as  an  employee,  excepting 
the  last  two  years  of  his  stay  in  New 
Haven.  During  that  period  he  was  a 
partner  in  the  Smith  &  Bent  Lumber 
Company.  At  the  expiration  of  two 
years  the  firm  dissolved,  and  in  191 3,  Mr. 
Bent  located  at  Chicopee,  Massachusetts, 
where  he  formed  the  William  E.  Bent 
Company  to  handle  a  general  line  of 
builders'  finishing  lumber.  Of  this  cor- 
poration he  is  vice-president  and  general 
manager.  He  is  a  thorough  master  of 
the  lumber  business,  having  given  his 
entire  business  life  to  lumber  dealing  in 
many  localities  and  under  widely-varied 
conditions.  Mr.  Bent  is  a  member  of 
Annawan  Lodge,  No.  115,  Free  and  Ac- 
cepted Masons ;  Joseph  Andrus  Chapter, 
Royal  Arch  Masons,  of  West  Haven, 
Connecticut;  Harmony  Council,  of  New 
Haven,  Connecticut ;  Springfield  Com- 
mandery,  Knights  Templar ;  in  religious 
faith  he  is  a  Universalist.  Politically  he 
is  a  Republican. 

Mr.  Bent  married,  October  9,  1895, 
Blanche  A.  Jackson,  of  Waltham,  Massa- 
chusetts, daughter  of  Atwood  J.  and  Inez 
(Conner)  Jackson.  Atwood  J.  Jackson 
was  born  in  Jefiferson,  Maine,  September 
27,  1850,  son  of  Joseph  and  Arietta 
(Flagg)  Jackson,  the  former  named  born 
in  Jefferson,  Maine,  and  the  latter  named 
in  Nobleboro,  Maine ;  grandson  of  Joseph 
and  (Ames)  Jackson,  and  great- 
grandson  of  Samuel  and (Erskine) 

Jackson.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Bent  are  the  par- 
ents of  two  daughters:  Miriam  and  Car- 
oline Inez,  and  a  son,  Atwood  H.  Bent. 
The  family  home  is  in  Longmeadow, 
Massachusetts. 


ATKINSON,  Isaac, 

Representative   Citizen, 

Isaac   Atkinson,   now   living  retired   at 
Chicopee   Falls,  is  of   English   birth,   the 


son  of  Thomas  Atkinson,  who  died  in 
England,  April  15,  1898,  aged  seventy-one 
years.  Thomas  Atkinson  married  Anna 
Greenwood,  and  they  were  the  parents  of 
the  following  children  :  John,  deceased  ; 
Mary,  deceased ;  Sarah  Ellen,  who  mar- 
ried William  Howarth,  deceased ;  James 
Henry;  Elizabeth,  married  Joshua  Firth, 
deceased  ;  Abraham  ;  Isaac  ;  Joseph  ;  Leah, 
who  married  Calvert  Shaw. 

Isaac  Atkinson,  son  of  Thomas  Atkin- 
son, was  born  in  Ovenden,  Yorkshire, 
England,  November  9,  1855,  and  there 
obtained  his  schooling.  He  began  work 
in  a  worsted  mill  when  eight  years  of  age, 
being  employed  one-half  day  in  the  mill 
and  spending  one-half  day  in  school. 
This  continued  until  he  was  thirteen 
years  of  age,  when  he  was  allowed,  under 
the  then  law,  to  become  a  full  day  worker. 
He  became  an  expert  mill  worker,  familiar 
with  every  detail,  especially  expert  as  a 
spinner.  He  could  have  had  an  over- 
seer's position  while  yet  under  twenty, 
but  he  had  determined  to  follow  another 
business,  and  he  began  working  in  a 
boiler  factory,  his  ambition  being  to 
become  an  engineer.  He  began  as  a  fire- 
man, but  it  was  not  long  before  he  was 
running  both  engine  and  boilers,  becom- 
ing proficient  as  an  engineer.  He  con- 
tinued in  this  business  in  England  until 
January,  1882,  when  he  came  to  the  United 
States  by  way  of  Halifax,  finally  arriving 
at  Springfield,  Massachusetts.  He  went 
thence  to  Thompsonville,  Connecticut, 
where  he  was  employed  in  the  Carpet 
Mills,  later  returning  to  Springfield.  Here 
he  was  employed  by  George  Tapley  as 
fireman  until  1885,  in  which  year  he  set- 
tled at  Chicopee  Falls,  his  present  home. 
He  was  first  employed  at  Chicopee  Falls 
by  Wardell  &  Rice,  then  went  with  L.  H. 
Mitchell,  and  for  twenty-nine  years  he 
was  employed  by  these  two  firms,  driving 
a  bakery  cart  over  the  routes,  serving  the 


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towns  of  Indian  Orchard  and  Ludlow.  In 
1915  he  retired  from  his  position,  and  has 
since  devoted  himself  to  the  care  of  his 
real  estate  interests,  his  investments  hav- 
ing been  along  that  line  for  many  years. 
He  has  gained  the  esteem  of  the  commun- 
ity in  which  he  has  resided  for  more  than 
a  quarter  of  a  century.  He  was  a  member 
of  the  Advent  Christian  Church,  and 
politically  is  a  supporter  of  the  Republi- 
can party. 

Mr.  Atkinson  married,  December  23, 
1877,  Adeline  Dyson,  of  Bridghouse, 
Yorkshire,  England,  daughter  of  Charles 
and  Ellen  (Barnes)  Dyson.  They  are 
the  parents  of  five  children:  i.  Thomas 
Henry,  born  in  Halifax,  Yorkshire,  Eng- 
land, August  7,  1878:  a  tool  maker,  ma- 
chinist and  draughtsman  of  Springfield, 
Massachusetts ;  he  married  Agnes  Mc- 
Nich,  of  Brooklyn,  New  York,  and  they 
are  the  parents  of  Adeline  Louise,  born 
March  15,  1909,  Thomas  Milton,  August 
I,  1910,  Wallace  Norman,  July  i,  1913.  2. 
Rowland,  born  July  17,  1880;  married 
(second)  Edna  Grace  Fairbanks ;  has  an 
adopted  daughter,  Elizabeth  Carolyn.  3. 
Abraham.  4.  Georgia.  5.  Robert.  The 
three  youngest  children  died  in  infancy. 


MARTIN,  Adolphus  Rodney, 

Business  Man,  Postmaster. 

Tracing  his  ancestry  on  the  paternal 
side  to  early  New  England  days,  Adol- 
phus Rodney  Martin  has  earned  honor- 
able mention  through  his  own  deeds,  and 
as  farmer.  Civil  War  veteran,  merchant, 
and  postmaster,  has  proved  the  strength 
of  his  devotion  to  the  best  ideals  of  pri- 
vate and  civic  life.  He  is  now  living 
practically  retired  from  business  cares 
after  serving  the  people  of  Chicopee  Falls 
for  thirty-five  years  as  merchant  and  post- 
master. The  ancestry  of  Adolphus  R. 
Martin   is  traced   from   General   William 


Martin,  of  the  British  army,  whose  son, 
William,  is  the  American  ancestor.  An- 
other son  of  General  Martin  went  to 
France,  but  this  review  deals  only  with  a 
branch  of  the  American  family  which 
settled  in  Rhode  Island.  From  General 
Martin  down,  the  name  William  has  been 
retained  in  the  family,  every  American 
ancestor  of  Adolphus  R.  Martin  having 
borne  it  as  a  given  name.  The  line  of 
descent  in  New  England  is  through  Wil- 
liam Martin,  the  founder;  his  son,  Wil- 
liam H.  Martin;  his  son,  William  H.  (2) 
Martin,  a  farmer  of  Rhode  Island;  his 
son,  William  H.  (3)  Martin;  his  son, 
Adolphus  Rodney  Martin,  of  Chicopee 
Falls,  Massachusetts,  whose  career  with 
that  of  his  father,  is  herein  traced. 

William  H.  (3)  Martin  was  born  in 
Rhode  Island,  about  the  year  1813,  and 
died  in  Chicopee,  Massachusetts,  Febru- 
ary 14,  1875.  He  attended  the  district 
school,  and  was  employed  on  the  farm 
by  his  father  until  fourteen  years  of  age, 
when  he  left  home  and  learned  the 
cabinet-maker's  trade.  He  did  not  con- 
tinue long  at  this,  but  learned  tool- 
making,  becoming  an  expert  tool-maker 
and  worker  in  metal.  After  completing 
his  last  apprenticeship,  he  left  Rhode 
Island,  and  for  a  time  was  employed  in 
a  machine  shop  in  Keene,  New  Hamp- 
shire. From  Keene  he  removed  to  Hol- 
yoke,  Massachusetts,  where  he  was  em- 
ployed by  the  Deane  Steam  Pump  Com- 
pany, until  locating  in  Chicopee,  Massa- 
chusetts, with  the  Ames  Manufacturing 
Company  as  a  machinist.  This  was  his 
final  change,  his  connection  with  the 
Ames  Company  continuing  until  his 
death,  a  period  of  thirty-five  years.  He 
was  a  member  of  Chicopee  Lodge, 
Free  and  Accepted  Masons ;  an  attendant 
of  the  Third  Congregational  Church  of 
Chicopee,  and  a  man  respected  wherever 
known. 


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Mr.  Martin  married  (first)  Avis  Angell, 
daughter  of  Henry  Angell,  of  the  famous 
Rhode  Island  family.  He  married  (sec- 
ond) Silence  Hoskins.  Children  of  first 
marriage:  I.  Henry,  a  soldier  of  the 
Union,  who  after  the  War  between  the 
States  ended,  reenlisted  in  the  regular 
army,  served  five  years,  then  was  ap- 
pointed to  a  government  position  in  the 
Western  frontier,  and  was  killed  by  the 
Indians  at  the  battle  of  the  Little  Big 
Horn,  with  Custer  and  his  entire  com- 
mand. 2.  James,  also  a  soldier  of  the 
Civil  War,  who  died  at  Harrison's  Land- 
ing, Virginia,  from  a  disease  contracted 
during  the  Seven  Days'  fighting  with  the 
Army  of  the  Potomac  under  General 
George  B.  McClellan.  3.  Adolphus  R.,  of 
further  mention.  Children  of  second  mar- 
riage :  4.  Horace  E.,  deceased.  5.  James. 
6.  Mary,  deceased. 

Adolphus  R.  Martin,  youngest  son  of 
William  H.  (3)  Martin  and  his  first  wife, 
Avis  (Angell)  Martin,  was  born  in  Woon- 
socket,  Rhode  Island,  November  4,  1844. 
When  later  the  parents  moved  to  New 
Hampshire,  he  attended  the  district 
schools  at  Chesterfield,  during  the  few 
weeks  of  the  winter  terms,  but  he  is 
largely  a  self-educated  man.  He  began 
to  assist  his  family  as  early  as  four  years 
of  age,  braiding  hats,  and  at  six  could 
braid  an  entire  hat.  Later  he  worked  on 
a  farm,  going  to  Windham,  Vermont,  at 
the  age  of  ten,  and  there  remaining  until 
September,  1863,  when  he  enlisted  in 
Company  G,  First  Regiment,  Vermont 
Heavy  Artillery.  The  First  Vermont  was 
attached  to  the  Army  of  the  Potomac, 
and  with  this  regiment  Mr.  Martin  fought 
in  sixteen  important  battles,  including 
the  hard-fought  battle  of  the  Wilderness, 
where  30,000  men  were  killed  and 
wounded ;  Cold  Harbor,  where  26,000 
were  killed  and  wounded ;  City  Point, 
Petersburg,    Weldon    Railroad,    Charles- 


ton, Winchester,  Cedar  Creek,  Fisher's 
Hill,  Petersburg,  Sailor's  Run,  and  num- 
erous skirmishes,  coming  out  of  all  with- 
out injury  save  a  slight  wound  from  a 
fragment  of  shell.  He  was  honorably  dis- 
charged and  mustered  out  August  25, 
1865,  he  then  returning  to  Windham,  Ver- 
mont, the  town  from  which  he  had 
enlisted. 

For  two  years  after  his  return  from 
the  army,  Mr.  Martin  engaged  in  farming 
at  Windham,  then  was  in  similar  occupa- 
tion at  Jamaica,  Vermont,  there  remain- 
ing until  going  to  Middletown,  Connecti- 
cut, where  he  was  in  charge  of  wards  at 
the  State  Insane  Asylum.  After  a  year 
at  Middletown  he  went  to  Florence,  Mas- 
sachusetts, there  becoming  associated 
with  the  shipping  department  of  the 
Florence  Sewing  Machine  Company,  re- 
maining two  years,  until  1873.  In  that 
year  he  permanently  located  in  Chicopee 
Falls,  Massachusetts,  becoming  associated 
with  the  Stevens  Arms  and  Tool  Com- 
pany, and  later  entered  the  clothing  bus- 
iness as  clerk  for  P.  W.  Smith.  He 
retained  that  position  for  three  years, 
resigning  it  to  go  with  the  Lamb  Knit- 
ting Machine  Company.  He  later  bought 
out  the  P.  W.  Smith  clothing  business, 
and  for  nineteen  years  he  successfully 
conducted  that  business,  handling,  besides 
clothing,  boots,  shoes  and  hats.  After 
nineteen  years  of  continuous  proprietor- 
ship he  retired  to  accept  appointment  as 
postmaster  of  Chicopee  Falls,  and  for  six- 
teen consecutive  years  he  retained  that 
ofifice,  retiring  at  the  end  of  that  period 
to  private  life,  bearing  the  good  will  of 
every  patron  of  the  office  and  leaving 
behind  him  a  record  of  efficient  manage- 
ment which  won  him  the  commendation 
of  the  department.  He  is  a  trustee  and 
vice-president  of  the  Chicopee  Falls  Sav- 
ings Bank,  also  serves  that  institution  as 
a  member  of  the  finance  committee.     He 


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is  a  Republican  in  politics,  has  served  on 
the  ward  committees,  but  has  served  his 
city  not  as  a  partisan  but  as  a  loyal  citi- 
zen, interested  only  that  Chicopee  Falls 
might  have  the  greatest  good  from  his 
services.  He  is  a  member  of  Belcher 
Lodge,  Free  and  Accepted  Masons,  of 
Chicopee ;  Unity  Chapter,  Royal  Arch 
Masons ;  Springfield  Council,  Royal  and 
Select  Masters ;  Springfield  Command- 
ery.  Knights  Templar;  Chicopee  Lodge, 
Knights  of  Pythias ;  and  is  a  deacon  of 
the  Second  Congregational  Church. 

Mr.  Martin  married,  November  3,  1870, 
Celia  M.  Orcutt,  of  Buckland,  Massachu- 
setts, daughter  of  Thomas  and  Minerva 
(Taylor)  Orcutt, 'and  of  the  ninth  genera- 
tion of  the  family  founded  in  New  Eng- 
land by  William  Orcutt  early  in  the  sev- 
enteenth century.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Martin 
are  the  parents  of  a  daughter,  Cora  M.,  a 
graduate  of  Smith  College. 


HASKINS,  Daniel  Parris, 
Business   Man. 

A  native  son  of  Vermont,  Mr.  Haskins 
has  spent  the  past  ten  years  in  Massachu- 
setts, engaged  in  merchandising,  and 
since  191 1  has  been  a  successful  coal 
dealer  of  Chicopee,  Massachusetts. 

(I)  The  earliest  record  of  this  branch 
of  the  Haskins  family  is  found  in  Dutchess 
county.  New  York,  where  Abel  Haskins, 
a  farmer,  resided  in  Nine  Partners  prior 
to  settling  in  Danby,  Vermont.  At  the 
age  of  twenty-five  years  he  left  his  home 
in  Nine  Partners,  Dutchess  county,  New 
York,  and  journeyed  to  Danby,  Vermont, 
there  taking  possession  of  a  tract  of  wild 
land  upon  which  he  built  a  log  cabin 
which  was  his  home  during  the  early 
years  of  settlement.  He  was  accom- 
panied by  his  wife,  Mary  (Bell)  Haskins, 
of  Norwich,  Connecticut,  of  Welsh  an- 
cestry, a  woman  of  uncommon  energy,  a 


fitting  pioneer's  wife.  She  brought  an 
apple  tree  with  her  from  New  York,  which 
was  set  out  and  carefully  tended,  becom- 
ing one  of  the  features  of  the  homestead 
and  known  as  the  "Nine  Partners"  apple 
tree.  Abel  Haskins  and  his  wife  endured 
all  the  privations  and  dangers  of  pioneer 
life,  but  persevered  and  there  in  the  for- 
est founded  a  home  and  reared  a  family 
of  hardy  men  and  gentle  women.  He  was 
a  man  of  intelligence,  upright  and  honor- 
able, conscientiously  scruplous  in  the 
performance  of  every  duty.  He  died  very 
suddenly  in  1820,  aged  seventy.  His 
widow,  Mary  (Bell)  Haskins,  survived 
him  until  1839,  dying  at  the  age  of  eighty 
years.  They  were  the  parents  of:  Wil- 
liam, married  Judith  Haskins,  and  lived 
upon  the  homestead  at  Danby  until 
within  a  few  years  of  his  death  in  1848, 
aged  sixty-nine;  Abel  (2),  of  further 
mention ;  Diller,  married  Rachel  Calkins, 
and  lived  in  the  south  part  of  the  town  of 
Danby ;  Mary,  married  Reid  Mahurin ; 
Ruth,  married  Elisha  Tyron. 

(II)  Abel  (2)  Haskins,  second  son  of 
Abel  (i)  and  Mary  (Bell)  Haskins,  was 
born  in  Danby,  Vermont,  January  31, 
1782,  and  died  March  5,  1877.  He  grew 
to  manhood  at  the  home  farm  and  was  his 
father's  assistant  for  many  years.  Fin- 
ally he  moved  to  East  Rupert,  Vermont, 
where  he  bought  the  tavern  which  he 
owned  for  several  years,  but  finally  sold 
to  George  Jenks.  He  lived  to  the  great 
age  of  ninety-five  years,  from  1782  to 
1877.  He  married  Miranda  Stannard, 
born  April  26,  1788,  died  March  17,  1873. 
They  were  the  parents  of  seven  children : 
Harvey,  of  further  mention ;  Alvah,  mar- 
ried Rosette  Lamphire ;  Margaret,  mar- 
ried Jacob  Odel ;  Phebe,  married  George 
Jenks  ;  Jane,  married  Parker  Fitch  ;  Lu- 
cette,  married  Orville  Nichols ;  Ania, 
married  Elihu  Towsley. 

(HI)   Harvey  Haskins,  eldest  child  of 


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Abel  (2)  and  Miranda  (Stannard)  Ras- 
kins, was  born  in  Danby,  Vermont,  De- 
cember 22,  1808,  and  died  July  10,  1871. 
After  his  marriage  he  moved  to  Middle- 
town,  Vermont,  and  there  purchased 
what  is  yet  known  as  the  "Raskins 
Farm"  on  Coy  Hill.  He  married,  Octo- 
ber 16,  1831,  Mary  Parris,  daughter  of 
Daniel  Parris,  a  woman  of  remarkable 
business  ability  and  energy,  who  died  De- 
cember 15,  1884,  aged  seventy-two.  They 
were  the  parents  of  eleven  children:  i. 
Anjanette,  born  October  31,  1833,  died 
April  30,  1903;  married  (first)  Robert 
Thew,  of  Saranac,  New  Jersey;  (second) 
Levi  S.  Brownell,  of  Manston,  Wiscon- 
sin. 2.  Abel,  born  June  28,  1835.  3.  So- 
phronia,  born  March  26,  1837,  married 
Adin  Hudson  Green,  of  Middletown 
Springs,  Vermont.  4.  Helen  A.,  born 
May  12,  1839,  married  Alvin  G.  Hoadley, 
of  Middletown,  Vermont.  5.  Erwin,  of 
further  mention.  6.  George  Emerson, 
born  August  22,  1843,  died  October  27, 
1871.  7.  Parris  Cook,  born  July  3.  1845, 
died  November  5,  1865.  8.  Sidney  Leroy, 
born  July  18,  1849.  9-  Julia  Ella,  born 
January  3,  1850,  married  (first)  Edwin 
A.  Brown ;  (second)  Reuben  T.  Snyder. 
10.  Gustav.us  Adolphus,  born  May  9, 
1852.  II.  William  Edward,  born  Novem- 
ber 2,  1857,  died  April  4,  1864.  Left  a 
widow  in  1871,  her  youngest  child  four- 
teen years  of  age,  and  the  farm  heavily 
mortgaged,  Mrs.  Raskins,  assisted  by  her 
son  Erwin,  addressed  herself  to  the  task 
of  clearing  her  home  from  debt,  and  in 
this  efifort  she  was  successful,  her  son, 
Erwin,  assisting  her  for  two  years.  She 
established  a  cheese  factory,  and  from  a 
dairy  of  thirty  cows  paid  the  debt  and 
lived  in  comfort  until  her  summons  came. 
(IV)  Erwin  Raskins,  fifth  child  of 
Rarvey  and  Mary  (Parris)  Raskins,  was 
born  at  the  Raskins  Farm,  Middletown, 
Vermont,   March   26,    1842,   and   died   in 


Danby,  Vermont,  April  16,  191 1.  He  was 
educated  in  the  public  schools  of  Middle- 
town,  Fairfax  Academy,  and  at  Albany, 
New  York ;  he  for  a  time  teaching  school 
at  Poughkeepsie,  New  York.  In  1863  he 
enlisted  in  Company  C,  Tenth  Regiment, 
Vermont  Infantry,  and  saw  hard  service, 
although  his  term  of  service  was  short. 
For  two  years  after  the  death  of  his 
father  he  assisted  his  mother  in  the  man- 
agement of  her  dairy  farm  and  cheese 
factory,  was  for  a  time  in  the  grocery  bus- 
iness at  East  Poultney,  Vermont,  and 
later  lived  at  Wells,  Vermont,  where  the 
greater  part  of  his  life  was  passed.  Re 
became  a  noted  road  builder,  and  in  the 
course  of  his  career  constructed  public 
race  tracks  at  Cambridge  and  Glens  Falls, 
New  York.  He  built  several  private 
tracks,  and  kept  many  others  in  repair  at 
fair  grounds  and  on  private  estates.  He 
served  the  town  of  Wells  as  road  com- 
missioner and  was  selectman  for  many 
years,  and  always  active  in  the  affairs  of 
the  town.  He  married,  January  2,  1871, 
Laura  Maria  Lewis,  born  April  8,  1847, 
died  May  16,  1910,  daughter  of  Orlin 
and  Martha  (Wordin)  Lewis,  of  Wells, 
Vermont,  granddaughter  of  Barnebas 
and  Rachel  (Curtis)  Lewis,  great-grand- 
daughter of  Benjamin  and  Mary  (Mat- 
thews) Lewis,  and  great-great-grand- 
daughter of  Ebenezer  Lewis,  the  early 
settler  of  Wallingford,  Connecticut,  son 
of  Captain  William  and  Mary  (Hopkins) 
Lewis,  Captain  William  being  the  son  of 
William  Lewis,  the  English  founder  of 
the  family  in  New  England.  Erwin  and 
Laura  Maria  (Lewis)  Raskins  were  the 
parents  of  three  sons  and  three  daugh- 
ters: I.  Elsie  Martha,  born  November 
18,  1871,  married  Frank  Woods;  chil- 
dren, Walter  C.  and  Lawrence  L.  2. 
Lottie  Lewis,  born  September  26,  1873, 
married  Dr.  W.  L.  Wallace,  of  Philadel- 
phia, four  children :    Harriett  Laura,  Sid- 


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ney  Warner,  Donald  Conover,  Jeanette 
Muriel.  3.  Edgar  Lewis,  born  June  20, 
1876,  married  Mary  License ;  children : 
Vera,  Leroy  License,  Doris  Elizabeth, 
Leslie  Lewis  and  Bertha  Lena.  4.  Daniel 
Parris,  of  further  mention.  5.  Helen 
Clara,  born  Augiist  14,  1884,  married 
Leroy  Shaw  ;  children  :  Wilbur,  Lewis, 
Mildred.  6.  Florence  F.,  born  June  4, 
1887,  married  Simon  Adams,  of  Pawlet, 
Vermont. 

(V)  Daniel  Parris  Haskins,  youngest 
son  of  Erwin  and  Laura  Maria  (Lewis) 
Haskins,  was  born  at  Wells,  Vermont, 
December  7,  1881.  After  completing  pub- 
lic school  courses,  and  graduating  from 
Wells  High  School,  he  entered  Albany 
(New  York)  Business  College,  from 
which  he  was  graduated  in  1899.  He 
specialized  in  stenography  and  typewrit- 
ing at  Rutland  (Vermont)  Busmess  Col- 
lege, in  the  fall  and  winter  of  1902-03, 
then  for  two  years  was  an  instructor  in 
telegraphy  and  typewriting  at  that  insti- 
tution. In  February,  1905,  Mr.  Haskins 
accepted  a  position  as  bookkeeper  with 
the  H.  C.  White  Company,  of  North  Ben- 
nington, Vermont,  there  continuing  until 
March  i,  1908,  when  he  moved  to  Flor- 
ence, Massachusetts,  in  the  town  of 
Northampton,  where  he  engaged  in  busi- 
ness with  William  H.  Rice,  in  the  boot 
and  shoe  business,  also  dealing  in  coal 
and  wood.  This  association  continued 
until  191 1,  when  Mr.  Haskins  moved  to 
Chicopee,  Massachusetts,  purchased  an 
established  coal  and  wood  business,  and 
has  since  devoted  himself  to  its  success- 
ful management.  He  is  a  member  of  the 
Chicopee  Lodge,  Free  and  Accepted  Ma- 
sons, and  Unity  Chapter,  Royal  Arch 
Masons,  of  Chicopee  Falls ;  he  was  made 
a  Mason  while  residing  in  Rutland.  He 
also  belongs  to  the  Modern  Woodmen  of 
America,  and  to  the  Third  Congrega- 
tional Church,  which  he  serves  as  deacon 


and  as  a  member  of  the  prudential  com- 
mittee. He  is  a  man  of  sterling  char- 
acter, and  in  his  business  undertakings 
has  been  uniformly  successful. 

Mr.  Haskins  married,  April  12,  1906,  at 
Florence,  Massachusetts,  Eva  Mae  Rice, 
daughter  of  William  H.  and  Josephine 
(Wade)  Rice.  They  are  the  parents  of: 
William  Collis,  born  April  19,  1907;  Don- 
ald Wade,  November  23,  191 1;  Arthur 
Lewis,  October  9,   1913. 


KNIGHT,  John  Bliss, 

Financier. 

Richard  Knight,  who  died  in  Worces- 
ter, Massachusetts,  in  1813,  was  a  descend- 
ant of  Richard  Knight,  one  of  the  early 
settlers  of  Providence,  Rhode  Island. 

(I)  Richard  Knight,  born  in  1778,  died 
in  1813,  was  the  great-grandfather  of 
John  Bliss  Knight,  of  Chicopee  Falls, 
Massachusetts,  treasurer  of  the  Chicopee 
Falls  Savings  Bank. 

(II)  Asa  Miller  Knight,  son  of  Rich- 
ard Knight,  born  June  17,  1809,  died  in 
Springfield,  Massachusetts,  in  1885.  He 
was  a  plumber  by  trade,  living  in  Brim- 
field,  Massachusetts,  locating  there  under 
the  firm  name,  A.  M.  Knight  &  Son.  He 
married  Nancy  Hersey,  and  they  were 
the  parents  of  a  son,  Edwin  Lewis,  of 
further  mention,  and  three  daughters : 
Elizabeth,  married  J.  Henry  Muzzy ; 
Nancy  and  Rebecca. 

(III)  Edwin  Lewis  Knight,  son  of  Asa 
Miller  Knight,  was  born  in  Brimfield, 
Massachusetts,  January  25,  1839,  and  died 
in  Thomaston,  Georgia,  December  24, 
1909.  He  attended  the  public  schools  of 
Brimfield  until  fifteen  years  of  age,  when 
the  family  moved  to  Springfield,  his 
school  days  then  ending.  He  was  in  the 
office  employ  of  the  Hampden  Paint  & 
Chemical  Company  of  Springfield,  for  a 
few   vears,  but  at  the  outbreak  of  war 


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between  the  states  he  enlisted  in  the 
Tenth  Regiment,  Volunteer  Infantry. 
This  regiment  was  a  part  of  the  Army  of 
the  Potomac,  and  in  this  organization  he 
served  his  full  term  of  enlistment  of  three 
years.  He  won  several  promotions  for 
gallantry  in  action.  His  first  came  June 
2,  1861,  when  he  was  made  second  ser- 
geant; from  this  he  was  soon  advanced 
to  the  rank  of  second  lieutenant,  and  on 
November  i,  1862,  he  was  commissioned 
captain.  At  the  battle  of  Spottsylvania 
Court  House,  May  12,  1864,  he  was 
wounded,  and  at  the  expiration  of  his 
term  was  honorably  discharged  and  mus- 
tered out  of  service.  On  May  13,  1865,  he 
was  commissioned  major,  by  brevet. 
After  his  return  from  the  war  Captain 
Knight  returned  to  Springfield,  and  was 
admitted  to  partnership  with  his  father, 
Asa  M.  Knight,  and  until  1891  he  was 
actively  engaged  in  the  heating  and 
plumbing  business  under  the  firm  name, 
A.  M.  Knight  &  Son.  The  exposures  and 
hardships  had  implanted  the  seeds  of  dis- 
ease within  him  and  in  1891  they  had  so 
far  developed  that  his  health  forbade  his 
longer  continuance  in  business.  He  lived 
practically  retired  from  business  cares 
until  his  death  in  1909.  He  maintained 
an  active  interest  in  all  public  affairs  and 
current  events  all  through  his  life,  but 
would  never  accept  public  office,  although 
often  importuned  by  his  party  friends. 
He  was  a  member  of  the  Grand  Army  of 
the  Republic ;  the  Military  Order  of  the 
Loyal  Legion  of  the  United  States,  and 
of  Hope  Congregational  Church. 

Major  Knight  married,  June  19,  1865, 
Harriet  Ells,  born  April  7,  1841,  died 
June  7,  1903,  daughter  of  Edwin  and 
Mary  (Rumrill)  Ells,  of  Springfield,  Mas- 
sachusetts. They  were  the  parents  of 
five  sons :  Edwin  Ells,  Arthur,  Frederick 
Asa,  John  Bliss,  of  further  mention  ;  and 
Harry  Raymond,  deceased. 

(IV)  John  Bliss  Knight,  fourth  son  of 


Major  Edwin  Lewis  and  Harriet  (Ells) 
Knight,  was  born  in  Springfield,  Massa- 
chusetts, April  7,  1875,  and  was  there 
educated  in  the  public  schools,  complet- 
ing the  high  school  and  graduating  in 
the  class  of  1894.  He  entered  business 
life  February  18,  1893,  his  first  position 
being  with  the  Pynchon  National  Bank 
of  Springfield,  and  for  eight  years,  1893- 
1901,  he  remained  with  that  bank  in  con- 
stantly increasing  positions  of  trust,  his 
last  that  of  assistant  teller.  In  1901  he 
transferred  his  services  to  the  Hampden 
Trust  Company  of  Springfield,  and  for 
seven  years  continued  with  that  bank  as 
bookkeeper  and  teller.  He  resigned  his 
position  in  December,  1908,  and  on  Janu- 
ary I,  1909,  entered  the  Chicopee  Falls 
Savings  Bank  as  its  treasurer  and  mem- 
ber of  the  board  of  trustees.  Ten  years 
have  since  elapsed  and  he  has  most  ac- 
ceptably performed  the  duties  of  his 
responsible  position.  The  business  of  the 
bank  has  doubled  in  volume  during  this 
period,  and  in  1916  a  new  bank  building 
was  erected  to  properly  care  for  this  great 
increase  and  give  it  a  worthy  home.  Mr. 
Knight  is  a  member  of  several  business 
organizations,  and  is  fraternally  affiliated 
with  Springfield  Lodge,  Free  and  Ac- 
cepted Masons ;  Morning  Star  Chapter, 
Royal  Arch  Masons ;  Springfield  Coun- 
cil, Royal  and  Select  Masters  ;  Springfield 
Commandery,  Knights  Templar ;  Melba 
Temple,  Ancient  Arabic  Order  Nobles  of 
the  Mystic  Shrine.  He  is  also  a  member 
of  Grace  Church,  of  Chicopee,  a  member 
of  the  vestry  and  treasurer  of  the  church. 
Mr.  Knight  married,  October  23,  1907, 
Ethel  Myrick,  born  in  Boston,  but  a  resi- 
dent of  Springfield  for  many  years, 
daughter  of  Orin  D.  and  Mary  (Allen) 
Myrick.  They  are  the  parents  of  three 
sons:  John  Bliss  (2),  born  March  3, 
Paul  Myrick,  born  October  30, 
Richard    Allen,    born    March    10, 


1910; 

1914; 
1917. 


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HINES,  John,  Lieutenant, 

Civil  War  Veteran. 

For  seventy  years  John  Hines  was 
known  to  the  people  of  Chicopee,  Massa- 
chusetts, he  coming  to  that  city  a  lad  of 
nine  years.  He  was  one  of  the  heroes  of 
the  Civil  War,  winning  his  rank,  lieuten- 
ant, for  "gallant  and  meritorious  service," 
and  through  merit  alone  rose  from  the 
ranks.  He  was  born  in  the  County  of 
Kings,  Ireland,  May  i6,  1837,  and  died  at 
Chicopee  Falls,  Massachusetts,  January 
30,  1917.  He  was  the  son  of  Patrick  and 
Ann  (Coughlin)  Hines,  John  being  one  of 
a  family  of  five  children,  namely :  Cath- 
erine, John,  Martin,  Patrick.  Mary. 

When  John  Hines  was  about  nine  years 
of  age  he  was  brought  to  the  United 
States,  a  home  being  made  for  him  in 
Chicopee,  Massachusetts,  where  he  ever 
afterward  lived.  He  attended  public 
schools  in  Chicopee,  and  when  school 
days  were  ended,  being  a  well  developed 
lad,  able  to  turn  his  hand  to  most  any 
kind  of  work,  he  was  variously  employed 
until  his  enlistment  in  the  army.  He 
enlisted  in  Company  E,  Thirty-first  Regi- 
ment, Massachusetts  Volunteer  Infantry, 
November  5,  1861,  and  served  continu- 
ously until  he  was  discharged,  February 
22,    1864.      Six   days   later,    February   28, 

1864,  he  reenlisted  in  the  same  organiza- 
tions, serving  until  honorably  discharged 
with  the  rank  of  lieutenant,  September  9, 

1865,  having  served  four  years.  He  rose 
from  the  grade  of  private  through  all 
intermediate  grades  to  his  lieutenancy, 
was  wounded  at  Baton  Rouge,  and  made  a 
record  for  obedience  and  gallantry  which 
won  him  the  respect  of  his  superior  offi- 
cers and  honorable  mention  in  official 
despatches.  After  the  war  was  over  he 
spent  two  years  in  the  West  with  his 
brother  engaged  in  stock  raising  in  Kan- 
sas,   then    returned    to    Chicopee    Falls, 


where  he  built  the  American  House,  and 
became  its  proprietor,  continuing  some 
years,  then  selling  the  business.  He  was 
an  active,  zealous  member  of  the  Grand 
Army  of  the  Republic,  belonging  to  Otis 
Chapman  Post,  of  which  he  was  senior 
vice-commander  at  the  time  of  his  death. 
He  was  a  member  of  St.  Patrick's  Roman 
Catholic  Church  of  Chicopee  Falls,  his 
residence,  No.  263  Grove  street. 

Lieutenant  Hines  married,  September 
6,  1870,  Mary  Ann  Dillane,  of  Chicopee 
Falls,  who  survives  him.  She  is  the 
daughter  of  James  and  Mary  (McKelop) 
Dillane.  They  were  the  parents  of  the 
following  children :  Mary,  died  aged 
four  years ;  Agnes,  deceased,  married 
Frank  J.  Shea,  and  has  a  son,  Cyril  E. ; 
Grace  and  James,  deceased;  John  (2), 
born  September  20,  1880,  the  only  one 
now  living;  William;  Robert  and  Mar- 
tin, twins,  deceased ;  Helena,  deceased. 
Lieutenant  Hines's  funeral  was  held  from 
his  home,  February  i,  1917,  followed  by  a 
requiem  high  mass  at  St.  Patrick's 
Church. 


SEAVER,  Charles  Joseph, 

Financier,  Public  Official. 

Charles  Joseph  Seaver,  treasurer  of  the 
Chicopee  Savings  Bank,  Chicopee,  Mas- 
sachusetts, came  to  this  position  after  a 
preparatory  course  in  practical  finance 
and  banking  with  the  Springfield  Institu- 
tion for  Savings,  which  began  when  he 
was  a  lad  of  eighteen  years  of  age  and 
continued  through  a  period  of  twenty 
years,  1890-1910.  Thus  twenty-eight  of 
his  forty-six  years  have  been  spent  with 
these  two  institutions,  similar  in  purpose, 
and  not  widely  separated  in  location.  The 
bank  whose  funds  he  safeguards  was 
founded  in  Chicopee,  in  1854,  and  has  an 
honorable  past  history,  the  present  man- 
agement one  of  the  strongest  in  its  his- 
tory. 


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(I)  Mr.  Seaver  is  a  great-grandson  of 
John  Seaver,  of  Monson,  Massachusetts, 
who  had  sons,  George  and  Pearly,  the  lat- 
ter the  grandfather  of  Charles  J.  Seaver, 
of  Chicopee,  Massachusetts, 

(II)  Pearly  Seaver,  son  of  John  and 
Susanna  Seaver,  was  born  in  Monson, 
Massachusetts,  October  4,  1812,  and  died 
at  Riddicksville,  North  Carolina,  in  1887, 
aged  seventy-five  years.  He  was  a  skilled 
machinist,  long  employed  in  Worcester 
and  Oxford,  Massachusetts,  and  for  a 
short  time  was  in  Holyoke,  similarly 
engaged.  He  was  in  the  South  employed 
with  the  Washington  Plow  Works,  then 
was  a  farmer  of  the  State  of  Indiana,  for 
a  time,  returning  thence  to  Worcester, 
Massachusetts,  where  he  remained  until 
going  to  South  Carolina,  residing  there 
until  his  death.  He  married  Julia  Maria 
Field,  born  in  Sharon,  Massachusetts, 
May  5,  1814,  died  in  Holyoke,  Massachu- 
setts, in  1891,  daughter  of  John  and  Julia 
(Titus)  Field.  They  were  the  parents  of 
three  sons  and  three  daughters :  Julia 
Maria,  William  Titus,  John  Fletcher, 
Charles  Edson,  of  further  mention ;  Ann 
Eliza,  married  General  Embury  P.  Clark ; 
and  Elizabeth  Field,  married  Hugh  Craig. 

(HI)  Rev.  Charles  Edson  Seaver, 
youngest  son  of  Pearly  and  Julia  Maria 
(Field)  Seaver,  was  born  in  Worcester, 
Massachusetts,   December  25,    1849,   and 


years,  then  for  one  year  was  at  Heath, 
Massachusetts,  his  health  there  breaking, 
causing  him  to  retire  from  the  ministry. 
After  retirement  he  located  in  Holyoke, 
where  he  utilized  his  musical  talent  in 
teaching  both  vocal  and  instrumental 
music  during  the  rest  of  his  life.  He  was 
a  man  with  a  warm  sympathetic  nature,  a 
conscientious,  devoted  minister  of  the 
Gospel,  of  pure  christian  character,  and 
devoted  to  home  and  family.  He  was  a 
strong  advocate  of  the  temperance  cause, 
and  accomplished  much  good  in  this 
direction. 

Rev.  Seaver  married,  in  February,  1871, 
Emma  Clough,  of  Chicopee  Falls,  Massa- 
chusetts, born  October  12,  1847,  daughter 
of  Joseph  and  Lucy  (Humphrey)  Clough. 
Mrs.  Seaver  survived  her  husband  and 
married  (second)  Dwight  S.  Warner,  now 
deceased.  Rev.  Charles  E.  and  Emma 
(Clough)  Seaver  were  the  parents  of  two 
sons :  Charles  J.,  of  further  mention  ;  and 
Edgar  W.,  born  January  19,  1874,  died  in 
October,  1900. 

(IV)  Charles  Joseph  Seaver,  eldest  son 
of  Rev.  Charles  Edson  Seaver,  was  born 
in  North  Dana,  Massachusetts,  January 
23,  1872.  His  father  was  engaged  in  the 
itinerant  ministry  of  the  Methodist  Epis- 
copal church  during  the  early  boyhood  of 
his  son,  whose  public  school  education 
began  after  the  family  permanently  set- 


died  in  Holyoke,  Massachusetts,  NovemTj;    tied     in    Chicopee    Falls,    there    passing 


ber  5,  1881.  He  was  educated  in  the  pub- 
lic schools  and  in  Wesleyan  University, 
beginning  life  as  a  clerk  in  Luddington's 
Drug  Store,  Holyoke,  Massachusetts, 
that  store  then  located  in  the  Exchange 
Block.  Later  he  studied  theology,  was 
ordained  a  minister  of  the  Methodist 
Episcopal  church ;  began  his  ministry  in 
1872,  as  pastor  in  North  Dana,  Massa- 
chusetts, where  he  remained  two  years. 
He  was  pastor  at  North  New  Salem,  two 
years,  was  settled  over  the  church  at 
South     Deerfield,     Massachusetts,     three 


through  high  school.  After  graduation 
from  this  he  entered  business  life  as  office 
clerk,  being  employed  for  a  tirne  with  the 
Carter  Electric  Company,  and  later  with 
the  Chicopee  Manufacturing  Company. 
He  was  so  employed  until  November, 
1890,  when  he  secured  an  office  position 
with  the  Springfield  Institution  for  Sav- 
ings, Springfield,  Massachusetts,  his  im- 
mediate employer  Henry  S.  Lee.  He 
began  at  the  bottom,  and  for  twenty  years 
remained  with  the  institution,  rising  in 
rank    to    a    highly    honorable    position. 


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His  connection  with  the  instittuion 
brought  him  into  relation  with  financiers 
and  business  men  elsewhere,  and  in  1910 
he  was  offered  the  position  of  treasurer  of 
the  Chicopee  Savings  Bank.  He  at  once 
resigned  his  position  with  the  Springfield 
Institution  for  Savings,  and  the  same 
month,  August,  1910,  entered  upon  his 
duties  as  treasurer  of  the  Chicopee  Sav- 
ings Bank.  At  one  time  Mr.  Seaver  was 
a  director  of  the  Lamb  Knitting  Com- 
pany, and  has  long  been  interested  in  the 
public  and  fraternal  life  of  Chicopee.  He 
served  as  a  member  of  the  Board  of  Al- 
dermen six  years,  representing  Ward  4, 
and  twice  was  elected  alderman-at-large. 
He  served  as  president  of  the  board  for 
three  years,  and  now  is  a  member  of  the 
school  committee,  the  present  being  his 
third  term  on  that  body,  each  term  for  a 
period  of  three  years.  He  is  a  trustee  and 
treasurer  of  the  Chicopee  Falls  Cemetery 
Association  ;  member  and  a  trustee  of  the 
Methodist  Episcopal  church  of  Chicopee 
Falls.  He  holds  all  degrees  of  the 
York  Rite  Masonry,  belonging  to  Belcher 
Lodge,  Free  and  Accepted  Masons ; 
Unity  Chapter,  Royal  Arch  Masons,  both 
of  Chicopee  Falls ;  Springfield  Council, 
Royal  and  Select  Masters,  and  Spring- 
field Commandery,  Knights  Templar, 
both  of  Springfield,  Massachusetts. 

Mr.  Seaver  married,  September  i, 
1903,  Georgiana  Elmina  Ayers,  born  in 
Hebron,  New  York,  daughter  of  George 
and  Susanna  E.  (Laing)  Ayers.  They 
are  the  parents  of:  Azuba  Ruth,  born 
September  3,  1904;  Charles  William, 
born  October  21,  1908;  Beatrice  Louise, 
born  December  30,  1909. 


MITCHELL,  Linwood  Henry, 

Business   Man. 

Linwood  Henry  Mitchell,  of  Chicopee 
Falls,  the  story  of  whose  life  follows,  is 


well  known  in  his  adopted  city  and  its 
vicinity  as  the  head  of  a  large  baking  bus- 
iness which  he  has  developed  from  a 
small  beginning  made  in  the  year  1888. 
Thirty  years  have  since  elapsed,  years  of 
continued  increase  in  business  and  repu- 
tation, until  now  he  ranks  with  the  influ- 
ential men  of  Chicopee  Falls. 

d)  The  American  ancestor,  John  Mit- 
chell, was  born  in  the  North  of  Ireland, 
about  the  year  1804,  and  died  in  Dedham, 
Maine,  in  1883.  He  came  to  Penobscot, 
Maine,  as  a  pioneer  and  built  a  log  house 
on  land  he  bought  within  a  few  miles  of 
the  city  of  Bangor,  and  as  the  years  rolled 
on  and  prosperity  came  to  him  the  old  log 
house  was  replaced  by  a  modern  and 
larger  farm  house.  He  cleared  and  im- 
proved his  land,  built  barns,  and  other- 
wise made  his  farm  such  as  a  successful 
farmer  of  his  day  might  take  pride  in. 
This  old  homestead  is  now  owned  by  his 
grandson,  Linwood  H.  Mitchell,  of  Chico- 
pee Falls.  He  married,  in  Penobscot, 
Maine,  Mary  Hayney,  and  they  were  the 
parents  of  five  sons  and  three  daughters: 
William,  John,  Arilla,  Thomas,  Silas,  of 
further   mention ;    Nancy,   Sewall,   Mary. 

(II)  Silas  Mitchell,  son  of  John  Mit- 
chell, the  founder,  was  born  at  the  home- 
stead in  Dedham,  Maine,  in  1840,  and  died 
in  Penobscot,  Maine,  in  the  year  1900. 
From  youth  he  followed  the  calling  of  a 
lumberman,  working  in  the  logging 
camps,  taking  part  in  the  spring  drives 
to  tidewater,  worked  in  the  saw  mills, 
and  drove  a  lumber  carrying  team.  When 
the  rigor  and  hardship  of  a  lumberman's 
life  no  longer  held  attractions  for  him  he 
opened  a  general  store  in  Penobscot, 
Maine,  but  this  was  late  in  life,  all  his 
active  years  having  been  spent  in  lum- 
bering operations  of  some  kind.  He  was 
a  man  of  good  standing  in  his  commun- 
ity, was  affiliated  with  the  Masonic  order, 
and    widely    and    favorably    known    as    a 


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man  of  industry  and  integrity.  He  mar- 
ried at  Ellsworth,  Maine,  Julia  Brown, 
born  in  1840,  died  in  1869,  daughter  of 
Enoch  Brown.  They  were  the  parents  of 
Linwood  Henry,  and  George,  who  died, 
leaving  a  widow  and  children :  Dorothy, 
Phyllis,  Silas,  and  Everett. 

(Ill)  Linwood  H.  Mitchell,  eldest  son 
of  Silas  and  Julia  (Brown)  Mitchell,  was 
born  in  Ellsworth,  Maine,  September  27, 
1863,  and  there  obtained  a  good  public 
school  education.  He  then  began  wage 
earning,  was  an  employee  in  a  saw  mill, 
then  for  about  three  years  was  engaged 
in  a  hotel  at  Bar  Harbor,  Maine's  famous 
summer  resort.  In  1881  he  came  to  Mas- 
sachusetts, located  in  Springfield,  and  for 
seven  years  was  a  grocery  clerk,  about 
half  of  that  period  being  with  J.  S.  Carr, 
wholesale  cracker  manufacturer.  Dur- 
ing the  month  of  September,  1888,  Mr. 
Mitchell  carried  into  efifect  a  long- 
cherished  ambition,  and  began  business 
under  his  own  name,  choosing  Chicopee 
Falls  as  the  location,  and  there  starting  a 
bakery  in  a  very  modest  way.  He  em- 
ployed skilled  bakers,  bought  good  mater- 
ials, dealt  fairly  with  his  customers,  and 
prospered.  The  little  bakery  and  shop 
has  been  succeeded  by  others  capable  of 
accommodating  the  large  trade,  while 
twenty-two  people  and  several  teams  are 
required  to  bake  and  distribute  the  goods. 
The  present  block  in  which  his  business 
is  located  was  bought  by  Mr.  Mitchell  in 
1908.  Mr.  Mitchell  is  an  energetic  busi- 
ness man.  He  is  affiliated  with  his  fel- 
lowmen  in  several  of  the  leading  fraterni- 
ties, being  a  member  of  Belcher  Lodge, 
Free  and  Accepted  Masons ;  Unity  Chap- 
ter, Royal  Arch  Masons ;  Chicopee  Lodge, 
No.  115;  Independent  Order  of  Odd  Fel- 
lows ;  Chicopee  Commandery,  Knights  of 
Pythias ;  and  in  his  political  preference 
is  a  Republican. 

Mr.  Mitchell  married,  October  20,  1887, 


Ida  Warner,  of  Springfield,  Massachu- 
setts, daughter  of  Alfred  A.  and  Mary 
(Palmer)  Warner.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Mit- 
chell are  the  parents  of  two  daughters : 
Ruth  Madeline  and  Leta. 


WEBSTER,  George, 

Contracting  Plumber. 

George  Webster,  of  Chicopee,  well  and 
favorably  known  in  the  plumbing  and 
steamfitting  trade,  although  a  compara- 
tively new  comer  in  Chicopee,  Massachu- 
setts, has  won  a  strong  position  among 
the  business  men  of  his  town,  his  plumb- 
ing and  heating  business  being  firmly 
established  and  well  patronized.  He  is  a 
son  of  George  Webster,  born  in  England, 
and  now  (1918)  residing  there,  aged 
sixty-five  years.  Mr.  Webster  is  a  black- 
smith, having  learned  the  trade  in  youth, 
and  always  followed  it.  He  married 
Mary  Frances  Johnson,  and  they  are  the 
parents  of:  Joseph  Walter,  William 
James,  George  (2),  of  further  mention; 
Frances  Annie,  and  Thomas. 

George  (2)  Webster  was  born  in  Lei- 
cestershire, England,  November  26,  1885, 
and  there  attended  public  schools.  After 
arriving  at  suitable  age  he  learned  the 
plumber's  trade,  at  which  he  was  engaged 
at  the  age  of  twenty,  when  he  came  to 
the  United  States,  arriving  in  Buffalo, 
New  York,  in  1905,  having  landed  at 
Quebec,  Canada.  He  remained  in  Buffalo 
but  a  short  time,  going  thence  to  Boston, 
Massachusetts,  and  soon  afterward  locat- 
ing permanently  in  Chicopee,  Massachu- 
setts. He  was  employed  at  his  trade  for 
about  two  years  in  Chicopee,  then  started 
in  business  for  himself  as  a  contracting 
plumber.  He  has  built  up  a  prosperous 
business,  his  specialties  being  plumbing, 
hot  water  and  steam-heating  systems  for 
dwellings,  business  blocks,  mills  and  fac- 
tories. 


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Mr.  Webster  married,  in  July,  191 1, 
Kate  A.  Retaj,  of  Chicopee,  a  widow, 
daughter  of  Jacob  Kazennenski,  born  in 
Poland.  By  her  first  marriage  she  had 
children:  Peter  and  Alieni.  Mr.  and  Mrs. 
Webster  are  the  parents  of  a  daughter, 
Frances  Lillian,  and  a  son,  George  Ed- 
ward Webster. 


O'DONNELL,  James  Elwood, 
Business   Man. 

The  O'Donnells,  of  Kilkenny,  Ireland, 
one  of  the  old  and  respectable  families  of 
that  section,  trace  to  an  early  period  in 
Kilkenny.  John  O'Donnell  was  sovereign 
of  the  town  in  1395,  and  Patrick  O'Don- 
nell filled  the  same  office  in  141 1.  Walter 
O'Donnell  was  coroner  of  the  city  of  Kil- 
kenny in  1610,  and  sheriff  in  1613.  The 
branch  of  the  family  to  which  Father 
Richard  O'Donnell  belonged  settled  at 
Ballywalter,  within  a  mile  of  Callan, 
before  Crofnwell's  time.  About  the 
year  1700,  and  after  their  property  had 
been  confiscated  by  Cromwell,  a  Walter 
O'Donnell  was  the  head  of  the  family. 
He  seems  to  have  been  a  person  of  some 
consequence,  as  he  gave  his  name  to  the 
townsland  of  Ballywalter,  in  which  place 
he  lived.  The  site  of  this  residence  is  still 
pointed  out  on  W.  Thomas  Shelly's  farm 
there.  Early  in  the  last  centtiry,  a  branch 
of  the  O'Donnells  removed  from  Callan 
to  Inistague,  in  which  place  Father  Rich- 
ard O'Donnell  was  born.  He  was  a 
grandson  of  Walter  O'Donnell,  of  Bally- 
walter, heretofore  mentioned. 

From  this  ancient  Kilkenny  family 
came  James  Elwood  O'Donnell,  late  of 
Chicopee  Falls,  Massachusetts,  son  of 
Prince  and  Bridget  (Elwood)  O'Donnell, 
his  brothers,  Peter,  Richard,  and  Thomas, 
his  sisters,  Bridget,  Catherine  and  Mary. 
James  E.  O'Donnell  was  born  in  Kil- 
kenny, Ireland,  in  the  village  of  Pilltown, 


in  185 1,  and  died  in  Chicopee,  Massachu- 
setts, April  6,  1914.  He  was  educated  in 
the  national  schools,  also  attended  private 
schools,  and  obtained  a  good  business 
education.  He  ran  away  from  home  while 
yet  young,  and  came  to  the  United  States, 
his  thoughts  turned  toward  America,  per- 
haps, by  the  fact  that  he  had  an  uncle, 
Captain  Edward  O'Donnell,  serving  in 
the  Union  Army,  in  the  Civil  War.  Later 
he  returned  to  Ireland,  remaining  there 
several  years.  Later  he  again  came  to 
the  United  States,  first  going  to  Boston, 
Massachusetts,  where  he  was  employed 
by  Dr.  Walsh,  a  cousin,  and  one  of  the 
leading  physicians  of  the  city.  Later  he 
was  in  New  York  City,  going  thence  to 
Holyoke,  Massachusetts,  later  to  Dor- 
chester, Massachusetts,  he  at  one  time 
taking  a  civil  service  examination  for  a 
position  in  the  government  post  office  de- 
partment. Eventually,  he  settled  at  Chico- 
pee Falls,  Massachusetts,  and  established 
a  meat  and  grocery  business  in  which  he 
was  successfully  engaged  untfl  his  death. 
He  was  a  man  of  quick  intelligence  and 
good  character,  very  popular  among  his 
many  friends,  and  as  a  business  man,  hon- 
orable and  upright. 

James  E.  O'Donnell  married,  October 
10,  1887,  Ellen  Knox,  daughter  of  Thomas 
and  Anastasia  (Stone)  Knox.  Mrs. 
O'Donnell  survives  her  husband,  a  resi- 
dent of  Chicopee  Falls. 


CANTY,  Timothy  WUliam, 

Representative  Citizen. 

Timothy  William  Canty,  of  Chicopee, 
is  a  son  of  Dennis  Canty,  and  a  grandson 
of  Timothy  Canty,  both  of  whom  were 
born  in  County  Cork,  Ireland.  Timothy 
Canty  was  a  resident  of  the  town  of  Ban- 
don,  twenty  miles  southwest  of  Cork,  sit- 
uated on  both  sides  of  the  river  Baridon. 
Bandon,  or  as  often  called,  Bandonbridge, 


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was  the  seat  of  important  leather  indus- 
tries. Timothy  Canty  was  long  employed 
as  a  shoemaker,  later  conducting  a  shoe 
store.  Dennis  Canty,  born  in  Bandon, 
County  Cork,  Ireland,  about  1825,  died  in 
Chicopee,  Massachusetts,  November  13, 
1887.  He  attended  the  national  schools 
in  youth,  and  until  eighteen  years  of  age 
was  his  father's  assistant  in  the  shoe 
store.  At  the  age  of  eighteen,  he  came 
to  the  United  States  and  located  in  Chico- 
pee, Massachusetts,  there  securing  em- 
ployment in  a  cotton  mill.  He  proved  adept 
at  his  work,  being  promoted  "second 
hand,"  continuing  in  the  cotton  mills  until 
1846,  when  he  established  a  grocery  and 
provision  store  in  Chicopee,  he  being  the 
first  Irish  merchant  in  the  town.  He 
prospered  in  his  enterprise  and  continued 
the  business  until  his  death,  forty  years 
later.  He  was  a  well-educated  man,  and 
a  convincing  talker,  and  took  an  interest 
in  the  public  afifairs  of  the  town.  He  was 
its  first  Irish  constable,  and  a  member  of 
the  old  Chicopee  military  company,  "The 
Caobot  Guards."  He  belonged  to  the  An- 
cient Order  of  Hibernians,  and  was  active 
in  these  organizations,  and  in  business, 
until  his  death,  which  came  suddenly. 

Dennis  Canty  married,  May  8,  1850, 
Mary  Lahey,  born  in  County  Cork,  Ire- 
land, about  1827,  died  in  Chicopee,  Mas- 
sachusetts, August  3,  1895,  daughter  of 
Patrick  I-ahey.  They  were  the  parents  of 
the  following  children:  i.  Dennis  G., 
born  August  20,  185 1,  a  leading  contrac- 
tor of  Chicopee,  where  several  of  the  large 
plants  testify  to  his  skill  as  a  builder. 
Among  these  may  be  mentioned  the 
Westinghouse  building,  the  Page  & 
Storms  building,  A.  G.  Spaulding  and 
Brothers  plants,  Springfield  Rendering 
Company,  two  of  the  Dwight  Corporation 
buildings,  and  many  others  including  the 
Overman  Wheel  Company,  now  the 
Westinghouse   Company,   on   Broadway, 


the  Lamb  Knitting  Machine  Company, 
the  Spaulding  Paper  Company,  now  a 
part  of  the  present  Fisk  Rubber  Com- 
pany, where  the  first  rubber  bicycle  tires 
were  made.  He  secured  a  contract  to 
build  the  mason  work  on  the  Croton 
Aqueduct,  this  contract  requiring  three 
years  for  its  completion ;  also  built  the 
school  house  on  East  street,  Chicopee,  the 
Boston  &  Albany  passenger  station  at 
Spencer,  Massachusetts,  and  the  freight 
house  at  Mittineague,  Massachusetts. 

In  connection  with  William  P.  Boyle 
he,  on  January  i,  1917,  organized  the 
Economy  Furnace  Company,  which  is 
now  doing  a  flourishing  business.  He  is 
one  of  the  directors  of  the  Chicopee 
Photograph  Paper  Company,  and  also  a 
member  of  the  Knights  of  Columbus.  He 
is  a  member  of  the  Chicopee  Board  of 
Park  Commissioners,  also  one  of  the 
License  Commissioners.  He  married 
Joanna  Donahue,  who  died,  leaving  two 
sons,  Dennis  F.  and  Edward  J.,  associated 
with  their  father  in  the  contracting  busi- 
ness. 2.  Timothy  William,  of  further 
mention.  3.  Michael,  deceased.  4.  Joseph, 
deceased.  5.  and  6.  Twins,  deceased.  7. 
Catherine  A.,  deceased. 

Timothy  William  Canty  was  born  in 
Chicopee,  Massachusetts,  February  15, 
1853:  was  educated  jn  the  public  schools, 
and  Burnett's  Business  College,  and  there 
yet  resides.  After  school  years  were  • 
completed  he  became  his  father's  assist- 
ant in  the  store,  so  continuing  until  the 
death  of  the  latter  in  1887.  He  then 
became  owner  and  proprietor,  conducting 
the  business  very  successfully  until  the 
year  1900,  then  selling  out  and  retiring 
from  mercantile  life.  Since  1900  he  has 
been  interested  to  a  greater  or  less  extent 
with  his  brother,  Dennis  G.  Canty,  in 
real  estate  operations.  He  is  a  Democrat 
in  politics,  and  was  chairman  of  the  town 
committee    for    four    years,    and    twelve 


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years  was  a  member  of  the  Demo- 
cratic Senatorial  District  Committee  ;  also 
served  three  years  as  deputy  sheriff  under 
Sheriff  Brooks.  He  is  a  member  of  the 
Knights  of  Columbus,  and  has  a  host  of 
warm  friends  in  the  town  which  has  ever 
been  his  home.    Mr.  Canty  is  unmarried. 


PAINE,  Wilson, 

Contractor,   Bnilder. 

Chicopee  Falls  has  long  been  familiar 
with  this  name  as  that  of  one  of  her  suc- 
cessful retired  business  men,  Wilson 
Paine  having  been  a  resident  of  the  town 
for  more  than  forty  years. 

(I)  George  Paine,  grandfather  of  Wil- 
son Paine,  was  born  at  Thursthorpe,  Lin- 
colnshire, England,  and  followed  the  com- 
bined callings  of  a  shepherd  and  farmer. 
At  the  age  of  fifty-five  he  emigrated  to 
Canada,  settling  at  Henrysburg,  where 
he  purchased  a  farm  and  for  the  remainder 
of  his  life  devoted  himself  to  agriculture. 
He  was  a  conservative  in  politics  and 
never  held  any  office.  Mr.  Paine  married 
Mildred  Wilson,  and  their  children  were: 
I.  William,  lived  at  Henrysburg,  as  did 
his  brothers,  with  the  exception  of  the 
youngest;  married  Maria  Donaldson  and 
they  had  three  children;  he  died  at  the 
age  of  ninety-two.  2.  John,  married  Anna 
Moore,  and  they  had  five  children ;  he 
died  at  the  age  of  eighty.  3.  Hewson,  of 
further  mention.  4.  Joseph,  married  in 
England,  but  left  his  wife  and  came  to 
Canada;  a  little  later  he  left  for  the 
United  States  and  was  never  seen  nor 
heard  of  more.  The  mother  of  these  sons 
died  at  Henrysburg  at  the  age  of  sixty- 
eight,  and  the  father  passed  away  at  the 
same  place,  being  then  eighty-five  years 
old.  Both  were  members  of  the  Baptist 
church. 

(II)  Hewson  Paine,  son  of  George  and 
Mildred  (Wilson)  Paine,  was  born  Janu- 


ary 30,  1800,  at  Thursthorpe,  Lincoln- 
shire, England,  and  came  to  Canada  a1 
the  age  of  twenty-seven,  making  the  voy^ 
age  on  a  sailing  vessel  and  spending 
eleven  weeks  on  the  water.  His  educa- 
tion had  been  received  in  public  schools 
in  his  native  land,  where  he  had  also 
learned  the  shoemaker's  trade  and  for  a 
time  followed  it.  During  the  early  part 
of  his  residence  in  Canada  he  was  em- 
ployed at  his  trade,  but  eventually  pur- 
chased a  farm  of  three  hundred  acres. 
Like  his  father  he  was  conservative  in 
politics.  In  1837-38,  during  the  French 
Rebellion,  he  served  in  the  army  and  was 
taken  prisoner,  but  was  soon  released. 
Mr.  Paine  married  Hannah  Scott,  born  at 
Drefffeld,  Yorkshire,  England,  daughter 
of  David  and  Susan  (Stebbins)  Scott. 
Both  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Scott  were  natives  of 
England,  and  there  and  in  Canada  the 
former  followed  his  trade,  which  was  that 
of  a  blacksmith.  He  died  in  Canada  at 
the  age  of  seventy-two.  Mr.  and  Mrs. 
Paine  were  the  parents  of  the  following 
children,  i.  Mary,  died  in  Beloit,  Wis- 
consin, at  the  age  of  eighty-six ;  married 
(first)  Robert  Hall,  and  (second)  Edward 
Fillingham.  2.  David,  aged  eighty-three; 
has  never  married  and  lives  at  the  old 
home  at  Henrysburg,  Canada.  3.  John, 
aged  eighty-two ;  has  never  married  and 
lives  with  his  brother  David  in  the  old 
home.  4.  Susan,  aged  eighty;  has  never 
married  and  resides  with  her  brothers.  5. 
Wilson,  of  further  mention.  6.  George, 
aged  seventy-six ;  lives  at  Chicopee  Falls  ; 
married  Angelina  Williams,  and  they  had 
two  children,  a  son  and  a  daughter,  the 
latter  deceased.  7.  Sarah,  aged  seventy- 
four  ;  married  Edward  Braithwaite,  and 
they  had  six  children ;  her  husband  died 
in  1907  and  she  now  lives  with  her 
children  in  Canada.  8.  Mildred,  aged 
seventy-two;  resides  at  Henrysburg; 
married  William  Cockerline,  who  died  in 


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1908.  g.  Jabez,  aged  seventy;  unmarried, 
and  lives  at  the  old  home.  10.  Jeannette, 
aged  sixty-eight ;  married  the  Rev.  John 
Armstrong,  of  Montreal,  where  they  now 
live;  he  is  now  ninety-four  years  of 
age.  II.  Sophia,  aged  sixty-five ;  married 
Thomas  Cockerline,  and  they  have  one 
son,  Hewson ;  their  home  is  at  Henrys- 
burg.  As  will  be  noted  by  the  above, 
there  were  eleven  children  in  this  family, 
/he  eldest  of  whom  is  eighty-five  and  the 
youngest  sixty-five.  Ten  are  living  and 
in  good  health,  a  record  perhaps  un- 
equalled by  any  other  family  in  the 
United  States.  The  death  of  Mr.  Paine 
occurred  in  June,  1862,  at  Henrysburg, 
and  his  widow  survived  him  many  years, 
passing  away  at  the  same  place,  Febru- 
ary 5,  1895,  ^t  the  age  of  eighty-three. 
Both  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Paine  were  members 
of  the  Wesleyan  Methodist  Church,  the 
former  being  very  active  in  its  work  and 
acting  as  leader  of  the  choir. 

(Ill)  Wilson  Paine,  son  of  Hewson 
and  Hannah  (Scott)  Paine,  was  born 
March  23,  1839,  ^t  the  village  of  Henrys- 
burg, Province  of  Quebec,  Canada,  where 
he  acquired  his  education  in  the  public 
schools.  During  his  youth  and  early  man- 
hood he  assisted  in  the  labors  of  the  farm, 
but  when  about  thirty  years  of  age  aban- 
doned this  for  the  carpenter's  trade.  It 
was  not  long  before  Mr.  Paine  began  to 
take  contracts  on  his  own  account  and 
soon  he  felt  the  need  of  a  wider  field  in 
which  to  exercise  his  business  capacity. 
Accordingly,  at  the  age  of  thirty-three, 
he  came  to  the  United  States,  settling  at 
Chicopee  Falls,  Massachusetts,  where  he 
found  employment  with  J.  N.  Cockerin,  a 
well-known  builder.  Only  for  six  months, 
however,  did  he  continue  to  work  in  a 
subordinate  position.  At  the  end  of  that 
time  he  found  himself  in  circumstances 
which  enabled  him  to  buy  out  his  em- 
ployer and  become  the  head  of  the  con- 


cern. Thenceforth,  for  thirty  years,  he 
conducted  an  extensive  and  flourishing 
business.  As  a  contractor  and  builder  he 
stood  second  to  none  in  the  estimation  of 
his  associates  and  in  the  confidence  of  the 
public.  In  1902  he  retired  from  business. 
He  and  his  wife  attend  the  Congrega- 
tional church. 

Mr.  Paine  married,  September  11,  1873, 
Mary  E.  Fuller,  a  sketch  of  whose  fam- 
ily follows. 


FULLER,  Reman, 

Business  Man. 

John  Fuller,  one  of  the  first  settlers  of 
Cambridge  Village,  was  born  in  England 
in  1611,  came  to  New  England  about 
1635,  and  settled  in  Cambridge  Village, 
now  Newton,  about  1644.  In  December, 
1658,  John  Fuller  bought  seven  hundred 
and  fifty  acres  of  his  tract  bounded  north 
and  west  by  the  Charles  river.  Later  he 
increased  his  holdings  to  about  one  thou- 
sand acres  and  became  one  of  the  largest 
land  owners  of  the  village,  his  tract  long 
known  as  the  "Fuller  Farm."  This  land 
he  divided  among  his  children  in  his  life- 
time, confirming  the  division  by  will,  but 
stipulating  that  they  should  not  sell  to 
any  stranger  without  first  giving  the  rel- 
atives a  chance  to  purchase.  Twenty-two 
of  his  descendants  are  said  to  have  served 
in  the  Revolutionary  Army.  Pope  says 
he  was  a  farmer  and  a  malster.  He  died 
February  7,  1697,  aged  eighty-seven,  ac- 
cording to  his  gravestone  record.  I;Iis 
wife,  Elizabeth,  died  April  13,  1700.  Chil- 
dren :  John  (2),  of  further  mention; 
Jonathan,  Elizabeth,  Joseph,  Joshua, 
Jeremiah,  Bertha,  and  Isaac. 

(II)  John  (2)  Fuller,  son  of  John  (i) 
Fuller,  was  born  in  Newton,  Massachu- 
setts, in  1645,  and  died  January  21,  1720. 
He  married  (first)  in  1682,  Abigail  Boyls- 
ton ;  (second)  October  14,  1714,  Margaret 


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Hicks.  Children:  Sarah,  John  (3),  Abi- 
gail, James,  of  further  mention ;  Hannah, 
Isaac,  Jonathan,  died  young;  Jonathan 
(2),  and  Caleb. 

(HI)  James  Fuller,  son  of  John  (2) 
Fuller,  was  born  in  Newton,  Massachu- 
setts, February  4,  1690.  He  removed  to 
Ashford,  Connecticut,  thence  to  Union, 
Connecticut,  where  in  1737  he  was  town 
clerk.  He  married  Abigail  Youmans. 
Children :  Dinah,  Abigail,  Elizabeth, 
William,  Hezekiah,  of  further  mention. 

(HI)  Hezekiah  Fuller,  son  of  James 
Fuller,  was  born  March  2,  1724,  and  died 
in  Stafiford,  Connecticut,  March  19,  1799. 
He  was  a  wheelwright  by  trade,  having 
served  seven  years  as  an  apprentice  in 
Tolland,  Massachusetts.  Later  he  moved 
to  Stafiford,  settling  near  what  was  known 
as  the  Fiske  place,  and  later  as  the  Ply- 
mouth place.  He  bought  property  in 
Stafiford,  April  10,  1770.  He  married 
(first)  February  14,  1748,  Margaret  Tyler, 
who  died  February  21,  1772.  He  married 
(second)  Margaret  Graham,  of  Scotch- 
Irish  descent,  her  parents  coming  from 
the  North  of  Scotland  and  settling  in 
Union,  Connecticut.  Children :  Amos, 
born  July  10,  1752;  Asa,  died  young; 
Elizabeth,  born  September  6, 1760;  James, 
March  21,  1765;  Edna,  March  8,  1768; 
Chloe,  February  3,  1772;  Margaret,  Jan- 
uary 12,  1776,  died  young;  Asa,  of  fur- 
ther mention ;  Amasa,  born  August  19, 
1780. 

(IV)  Asa  Fuller,  son  of  Hezekiah  Ful- 
ler, was  born  in  Stafford,  Connecticut, 
January  12,  1778,  and  died  at  Chicopee, 
Massachusetts,  September  7,  1862.  He 
was  a  farmer  all  his  life,  but  very  fond  of 
hunting  and  fishing.  He  married  Rachael 
Trask,  who  died  in  Springfield,  Massa- 
chusetts, in  1847,  aged  sixty-seven.  Chil- 
dren :  Orrin,  married  Mary  Cooley ; 
Rhoda,  married,  November  4,  1823,  Seth 
Clough  ;  Alvin,  married  Mary  Ann  Hunt- 


ley; Maria,  married  Anthony  Slater; 
Anson,  married  Diana  Clough ;  Lucinda, 
also  married  a  Slater;  Heman,  of  further 
mention ;  Emily,  married,  December  4, 
1848,  Harrison  Burnett;  Dexter,  married 
Delia  A.  Clough. 

(V)  Heman  Fuller,  son  of  Asa  Fuller, 
was  born  at  Chicopee,  Massachusetts, 
February  20,  1822,  and  there  died,  Febru- 
ary 3,  1892.  He  spent  his  life  in  Chico- 
pee, was  a  man  of  good  judgment  and  far- 
sighted  in  his  dealings.  He  dealt  in  real 
estate,  and  was  a  general  trader,  kept  a 
store  for  a  time,  and  for  thirty  years  was 
superintendent  of  East  Street  Cemetery. 
He  married,  July  2,  1845,  Harriet  Augusta 
Hamilton,  born  in  Pelham,  Massachu- 
setts, and  died  at  Chicopee  Falls,  Janu- 
ary 27,  1913,  aged  ninety  years,  daughter 
of  Joseph  and  Sylvia  Hamilton.  Chil- 
dren, both  born  in  Chicopee,  Massachu- 
setts :  Mary  E.,  of  further  mention  ;  and 
Alice  F.,  born  April  30,  1859,  died  Novem- 
ber 22,  1859. 

(VI)  Mary  E.  Fuller,  daughter  of 
Heman  and  Harriet  Augusta  (Hamilton) 
Fuller,  was  born  August  26,  1848,  and  is 
yet  a  resident  of  Chicopee  Falls.  She 
married,  September  11,  1873,  Wilson 
Paine.     (See  Paine  III). 


SMITH,  James  H., 

Agriculturist. 

Around  the  old  Smith  farm  upon  which 
John  Charles  Smith  located  soon  after 
coming  to  the  United  States,  and  upon 
which  he  lived  and  conducted  successful 
dairying  and  agricultural  operations,  the 
Massachusetts  community  known  as  Chic- 
opee Falls  has  grown,  and  on  the  old 
farm,  where  once  he  tilled  the  soil,  are 
many  modern  residences.  When  John  C. 
Smith,  the  original  owner,  laid  down 
earthly  cares  he  was  succeeded  by  his 
son,  James  H.  Smith,  who  still  conducts 


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the  farm.  John  Charles  Smith  was  a  son 
of  Richard  Smith,  who  lived  and  died  in 
Ireland. 

John  Charles  Smith  was  born  in  Tip- 
perary,  Ireland,  in  1833,  and  died  in  Chic- 
opee  Falls,  Massachusetts,  July  i,  1891. 
He  was  educated  in  the  public  school  and 
remained  in  his  native  land  until  his  twen- 
tieth year,  then  came  to  the  United  States 
and  settled  in  Springfield,  Massachusetts, 
where  for  a  time  he  was  employed  in  a 
foundry.  Later  he  was  an  employee  of 
the  Taylor  farm  in  Springfield,  but  after 
the  close  of  the  Civil  War  he  removed  to 
Chicopee  Falls  and  there  purchased  the 
farm  upon  which  he  resided  until  his 
death,  about  a  quarter  of  a  century  later. 
He  operated  his  farm  along  dairying 
lines,  retailing  the  products  of  his  farm 
largely  in  Springfield,  where  for  many 
years  he  also  served  a  retail  milk  route. 
At  one  time  he  devoted  a  part  of  his  farm 
to  tobacco  raising.  The  town  during  the 
years  which  have  followed  his  coming 
has  encroached  upon  the  old  Smith  farm 
and  several  of  its  acres  have  been  given 
over  to  residence  sites,  but  the  farm  is 
still  a  productive  property.  Mr.  Smith 
took  no  part  in  political  affairs,  but  was 
a  lover  of  his  home  and  devoted  to  his 
business.  He  was  an  active  member  of 
St.  Patrick's  Roman  Catholic  Church  and 
a  generous  supporter  of  its  beneficences. 

Mr.  Smith  married  Ellen  E.  Dalton, 
born  in  Tipperary,  Ireland,  in  1840,  died 
at  Chicopee  Falls,  in  March,  1900,  daugh- 
ter of  John  and  Margaret  (Walsh)  Dal- 
ton. They  were  the  parents  of  nine  chil- 
dren :  Bridget,  married  Jeremiah  Sulli- 
van ;  William,  Delia,  Alice,  Annie,  Rich- 
ard, Charles,  James  H.,  of  further  men- 
tion ;   Mary,  deceased. 

James  H.  Smith,  youngest  son  of  John 
Charles  and  Ellen  E.  (Dalton)  Smith, 
was  born  at  Chicopee  Falls,  Massachu- 
setts,   May   30,    1875,    his    birthplace    the 


Smith  farm,  which  he  now  owns  and  which 
has  ever  since  been  his  home.  He  was 
educated  in  the  public  graded  and  high 
schools,  and  early  in  life  became  his 
father's  farm  assistant,  and  upon  the 
death  of  John  C.  Smith,  in  1891,  the  son 
succeeded  to  the  management  of  the 
farm.  This  he  still  continues  in  a  suc- 
cessful manner.  He  has  confined  himself 
to  his  business  and  has  not  taken  any 
interest  in  political  affairs  further  than 
to  exercise  his  right  and  perform  his 
duties  as  a  citizen. 

Mr.  Smith  married,  August  24,  1916, 
Susie  B.  Knight,  of  Chicopee  Falls, 
daughter  of  Charles  and  Elizabeth  (Con- 
nor) Knight. 


SWIFT,  James  Marcus 

Lanryer,  State  Official. 

Descendants  of  William  Swift,  who 
was  brought  to  Maine  from  England  in 
earlier  days,  thence  settling  on  Cape  Cod, 
are  to  be  found  in  all  parts  of  the  nation. 
The  branch  now  represented  by  James 
Marcus  Swift,  of  Fall  River  and  Boston, 
being  that  of  Brigadier-General  John 
Swift,  who  lost  his  life  in  the  War 
of  1812-14,  the  line  being  that  of  his 
son,  Rev.  Marcus  Swift,  who  was  one 
of  the  pioneers  of  Nankin,  Wayne  county, 
Michigan,  a  village  about  twenty  miles 
west  of  Detroit.  Marcus  is  a  name 
which  has  persisted  in  this  branch,  hav- 
ing been  the  given  name  of  the  pio- 
neer Western  preacher,  who  in  his 
day  and  generation  gained  more  than 
local  fame  as  a  pulpit  orator  and  eloquent 
advocate  of  the  cause  of  Abolition.  In 
Eastern  Michigan  he  was  held  in  highest 
esteem  for  his  untiring  interest  and  self- 
sacrificing  devotion  to  the  cause  of  right 
living  and  justice.  Said  Hon.  Jonathan 
Shearer,  of  Plymouth,  Michigan : 


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No  man  living  or  dead  did  as  much  for  Eastern      and  until  tuberculosis  demanded  another 


Michigan  in  her  civil,  social,  educational  and  reli- 
gious well  being  and  character,  as  did  Rev.  Marcus 
Swift 

Brigadier-General  John  Swift,  in  1779, 
was  one  of  the  founders  of  Palmyra, 
Wayne  county,  New  York,  twenty-two 
miles  from  Rochester.  He  came  to  New 
York  State  from  Pomfret,  Connecticut, 
became  one  of  the  influential  men  of  his 
county,  commanded  a  regiment  in  the 
second  war  with  Great  Britain,  and  in  one 
of  the  battles  fought  in  defence  of  the  Ni- 
agara frontier,  lost  his  life,  being  the 
brevet  brigadier-general. 

Rev.  Marcus  Swift,  son  of  Brigadier- 
General  John  Swift,  was  born  at  Palmyra, 
Wayne  county.  New  York,  June  23,  1793, 
there  was  educated,  and  at  the  age  of 
nineteen  married  Anna  Osborn,  daughter 
of  Weaver  Osborn,  of  Palmyra.  In  the 
spring  of  1825  he  purchased  a  township  of 
land  in  Wayne  county,  Michigan,  twenty 
miles  west  of  Detroit,  and  in  the  fall  of 
the  same  year  went  to^  his  purchase  in 
company  with  William  Osborn.  He  set- 
tled at  the  village  of  Nankin  and  there 
became  the  influential  Methodist  minis- 
ter and  citizen  of  whom  such  glowing 
words  of  eulogy  were  uttered.  He  was 
succeeded  by  his  son,  Dr.  Orson  Ross 
Swift,  who  ministered  to  the  bodies  of 
men  as  faithfully  as  his  honored  father 
cared  for  their  souls  and  morals. 

Dr.  Orson  Ross  Swift,  son  of  Rev.  Mar- 
cus Swift,  was  born  in  Palmyra,  Wayne 
county,  New  York,  October  11,  1821,  was 
taken  to  Nankin,  Michigan,  by  his  par- 
ents when  a  child,  and  there  died  after  a 
life  of  usefulness  and  honor,  April  3, 
1856.  He  was  eminent  in  the  Metho- 
dist Episcopal  church  and  an  ordained 
preacher,  was  a  strong  advocate  of  the 
abolition  of  slavery,  and  while  strength 
permitted  gave  himself  without  stint  to 
the  church.     Later  he  studied  medicine. 


victim  he  practiced  medicine  and  surgery 
to  the  full  extent  of  his  strength  and  often 
far  beyond.  Able  and  eloquent  as  a 
preacher,  his  skill  as  a  physician  equalled 
his  pulpit  ability,  and  his  life  was  all  too 
short.  Dr.  Swift  married  (first)  in  Michi- 
gan, March,  1846,  Mary  Elizabeth  Barker, 
daughter  of  Captain  George  J.  Barker,  of 
Washtenaw  county,  Michigan,  a  county 
of  which  Ann  Arbor  is  the  county  seat. 
Mrs.  Swift  died  in  1854,  leaving  a  son, 
Marcus  George  Barker,  of  further  men- 
tion, and  a  daughter  Camilla,  who  mar- 
ried James  A.  Dubuar,  of  Northville, 
Michigan.  Dr.  Swift  married  (second) 
Jane  E.  Peck,  of  Northville,  Michigan. 

Marcus  George  Barker  Swift,  son  of 
Dr.  Orson  Ross  Swift  and  his  first  wife, 
Mary  Elizabeth  (Barker)  Swift,  was  born 
in  Raisin  township,  Lenawac  county, 
Michigan,  March  12,  1848.  He  was  edu- 
cated in  the  public  schools  and  at  Adrian 
College.  At  the  age  of  sixteen  (Septem- 
ber, 1864)  he  enlisted  as  a  private  in  the 
Fourth  Regiment,  Michigan  Infantry, 
was  honorably  discharged  and  mustered 
out  with  his  regiment  in  1866,  the  Fourth 
Michigan  being  one  of  the  regiments  re- 
tained for  service  until  the  French  inter- 
ference in  Mexico  had  ceased  to  be  a  sub- 
ject of  international  importance.  After 
his  return  from  the  army  he  completed 
his  course  in  the  law  department  of  the 
University  of  Michigan,  from  which  he 
graduated  in  1872,  and  was  admitted  to 
the  bar  in  April  of  that  year.  He  then 
began  the  practice  of  law  in  the  office  of 
Newberry,  Pond  &  Brown,  an  eminent 
law  firm  of  Detroit,  and  was  later  asso- 
ciated with  F.  H.  Canfield.  On  Decem- 
ber 5,  1874,  he  was  admitted  to  the  Fed- 
eral courts  of  the  district.  Mr.  Swift  did 
not  practice  in  Michigan  after  December, 
1874,  but  came  to  Fall  River,  Massachu- 
setts,  where   he  remained   in   continuous 


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practice  in  all  State  and  Federal  courts  of 
the  district  until  his  death,  February  22, 
1902.  He  was  for  sixteen  years  a  part- 
ner of  the  Hon.  Henry  K.  Braley,  and  was 
for  a  number  of  years  on  the  school  com- 
mittee of  Fall  River,  Massachusetts.  He 
long  ranked  with  the  leaders  of  the  bar 
of  Southern  Massachusetts.  He  founded 
the  law  firm,  Swift  &  Grime,  now  Swift, 
Grime  &  Swift,  the  third  partner  being 
John  Tuttle  Swift,  brother  of  the  pres- 
ent senior  member.  He  was  a  member 
of  the  bar  associations,  the  Masonic  order, 
Odd  Fellows,  and  Red  Men  fraternities, 
and  of  the  First  Congregational  Church. 
He  also  took  a  prominent  part  in  the 
activities  of  the  Grand  Army  of  the  Re- 
public, being  commander  of  Richard  Bor- 
den Post,  and  judge  advocate  of  the  De- 
partment of  Massachusetts. 

Mr.  Swift  married,  December  25,  1872, 
at  Fall  River,  Massachusetts,  Mary  Dun- 
can Milne,  of  Fall  River,  daughter  of  Rev. 
Alexander  Milne,  of  Fall  River.  Their 
children  were:  James  Marcus,  of  further 
mention ;  Orson  Alexander,  John  Tuttle, 
a  sketch  of  whom  follows ;  Milne  Barker, 
Mabel  Antoinette  and  Anna  Osborn 
Swift. 

James  Marcus  Swift,  eldest  son  of  Mar- 
cus George  Barker  and  Mary  Duncan 
(Milne)  Swift,  was  born  in  Ithaca,  Gar- 
tiot  county,  Michigan,  November  3,  1873, 
but  the  following  year  was  brought  by  his 
parents  to  Fall  River,  Massachusetts, 
which  city  has  since  been  his  home.  He 
passed  through  the  grades  of  the  public 
grammar  and  high  school,  finishing  with 
high  school  graduation,  class  of  1891 
(class  historian)  ;  he  became  a  student 
for  one  year  at  the  Michigan  State  Nor- 
mal School  at  Ypsilanti,  and  then  entered 
the  sophomore  class  of  the  University  of 
Michigan,  pursuing  classical  courses  until 
graduated  A.  B.,  class  1895,  going  the 
following  fall   to   Harvard    Law   School. 


During  his  college  career,  Mr.  Swift  took 
part  in  all  forms  of  college  activities,  was 
prominent  in  athletics,  in  musical  and  fra- 
ternity circles.  His  father's  serious  ill- 
ness compelled  him  to  leave  the  law 
school  in  June,  1897,  and  he  became  a 
member  of  the  firm  of  Swift  &  Grime 
upon  his  admission  to  the  bar  in  October, 
1897.  On  the  death  of  his  father  in  1902, 
James  Marcus  Swift  became  senior  mem- 
ber of  the  firm,  and  in  1909  John  Tuttle 
Swift,  a  younger  brother,  was  admitted, 
the  style  of  the  firm  now  being  Swift, 
Grime  &  Swift.  Upon  retiring  from  the 
office  of  attorney-general  in  1914,  Mr. 
Swift  became  the  head  of  the  firm  of 
Swift,  Friedman  &  Atherton,  No.  30  State 
street,  Boston,  and  has  been  largely  en- 
gaged in  street  railway,  banking  and 
other  corporation  matters.  He  has  been 
much  in  the  public  eye,  as  assistant 
district  attorney,  1899-1902,  district  attor- 
ney, 1902-10,  and  attorney-general  of 
Massachusetts,  1911-12-13.  He  is  the 
youngest  man  in  the  Commonwealth  ever 
elected  district  attorney,  but  his  choice 
was  justified  by  his  previous  service  as 
assistant,  and  for  eight  years  he  most  ably 
filled  the  office.  His  record  there  naturally 
led  to  the  attorney-generalship  of  the 
Commonwealth,  and  he  was  nominated 
by  the  Republican  State  Convention  in 
1910,  being  the  only  candidate  for  that 
office  ever  nominated  by  the  Republican 
party  without  opposition,  and  he  was  the 
youngest  man  ever  elected  to  that  office 
in  Massachusetts.  He  also  received  the 
largest  vote  of  any  State  officer  each  year 
he  was  on  the  ticket,  and  was  widely- 
mentioned  as  a  candidate  for  Governor, 
but  chose  to  follow  the  practice  of  his 
profession.  In  1916  he  was  appointed  by 
Governor  McCall  one  of  three  commis- 
sioners to  revise  and  consolidate  the  Laws 
of  the  Commonwealth.  This  unusual 
record  of  five  generations,  each  producing 


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a  son  eminent  in  his  profession,  has  not 
been  marred  by  this  fifth  son,  but  his 
career,  hardly  more  than  fairly  begun, 
already  is  worthy  of  his  soldier  ancestor, 
Brigfadier-General  John  Swift ;  his  min- 
isterial forebear,  Rev.  Swift;  his  medical 
grandfather,  Dr.  Orson  Ross  Swift ;  and 
his  preceptor,  partner  and  eminent  father, 
Marcus  G.  B.  Swift.  Mr.  Swift  is  vice- 
president  of  the  Citizen's  Savings  Bank  of 
Fall  River,  member  of  the  American  Bar 
Association,  Massachusetts  Bar  Associa- 
tion, the  Bar  Association  of  the  City  of 
Boston,  Harvard  Law  School  Associa- 
tion, Delta  Tau  Delta,  fraternity,  is  chief 
grand  tribune  of  the  Grand  Lodge  of 
Massachusetts  Knights  of  Pythias,  a 
member  of  the  Elks,  and  in  Free  Ma- 
sonry he  holds  the  thirty-second  degree, 
Ancient  Accepted  Scottish  Rite,  and  is  a 
Knights  Templar.  Politically  he  is  a  Re- 
publican, and  in  church  affiliation  is  con- 
nected with  the  First  Congregational 
Church  of  Fall  River.  His  clubs  are: 
The  City,  Athletic,  Press,  Harvard,  St. 
Botolph,  all  of  Boston,  and  the  Queque- 
chan,  of  Fall  River. 

Mr.  Swift  married,  February  26,  1907, 
Olive  U.  Sterling,  of  Chicago.  She  is 
also  of  New  England  stock,  her  father, 
Nathan  Underwood,  having  been  of  the 
pioneer  stock  of  Harwich,  Cape  Cod,  and 
her  mother,  Hannah  Weekes,  from  Maine. 


SWIFT,  John  Tuttle, 

Lavpyer,    Public    Official. 

Endowed  with  the  personality  of 
warmth  and  magnetism,  with  the  power 
invested  in  him  to  attract  friends,  John 
Tuttle  Swift  has  made  a  mark  in  public 
and  professional  life,  rising  to  a  point  of 
prominence.  He  is  a  son  of  the  late  Mar- 
cus G.  B.  Swift,  and  his  wife,  Alary  D. 
Swift. 

John  Tuttle  Swift  was  born  November 


15'  ^^77y  in  Fall  River,  Massachusetts. 
He  attended  the  public  schools  of  that 
city,  graduating  from  the  B.  M.  C.  Durfee 
High  School  in  the  class  of  1897,  and  sub- 
sequently attended  Williams  College  in 
the  class  of  1901.  After  leaving  the  lat- 
ter institution  he  was  employed  in  vari- 
ous capacities  for  a  number  of  years,  all 
of  which  were  very  useful  in  giving  him 
much  valuable  experience  for  later  years. 
For  about  five  years  he  engaged  in  news- 
paper work  in  various  capacities,  being 
on  the  reportorial  staff  of  Fall  River 
papers  as  well  as  financial  correspondent 
for  various  papers.  In  this  manner  he 
was  brought  into  contact  with  many  of 
the  leading  men  of  the  day  and  acquired 
an  insight  into  matters  of  a  vital  nature, 
municipal  and  otherwise.  Also  he  was 
trained  in  both  the  banking  and  broker- 
age business,  working  in  the  Citizens 
Savings  Bank,  the  banking  and  brokerage 
office  of  the  late  George  N.  Durfee  and 
for  Tuttle  Hurley  &  Company,  brokers. 

From  1907  to  1911,  during  the  adminis- 
trations of  Presidents  Roosevelt  and  Taft, 
Mr.  Swift  served  as  clerk  of  the  commit- 
tee on  merchant  marine  and  fisheries  of 
the  House  of  Representatives  at  Wash- 
ington, in  which  capacity  he  performed 
commendable  work,  and  in  Washington 
he  attended  the  law  school  of  the  George 
Washington  University,  graduating  with 
the  degree  of  LL.  B.  in  the  class  of  1910. 
He  resigned  his  Federal  position  in  191 1, 
and  took  up  the  practice  of  his  profession 
as  junior  partner  of  the  law  firm  of  Swift, 
Grime  &  Swift,  founded  by  his  honored 
father.  Mr.  Swift  has  continued  in  this 
firm  to  the  present  time,  making  a  spe- 
cialty' of  corporation  matters  and  of  the 
trial  of  civil  cases.  Some  of  the  largest 
corporations  are  among  his  clients,  and 
he  has  achieved  an  enviable  reputation  as 
a  trial  lawyer,  defending  many  cases  for 


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street  railways  and  liability  insurance 
companies. 

His  work  as  a  leading  lawyer  has  nat- 
urally brought  him  into  contact  with 
many  business  interests,  and  he  holds  a 
place  on  the  directorate  of  financial  and 
industrial  corporations.  He  is  a  trustee 
of  the  Citizens  Savings  Bank,  director  of 
Allen,  Slade  &  Company,  Inc.,  and  of  the 
Shawmut  Mills,  and  president  of  the 
American  Plumbing  and  Heating  Com- 
pany. On  June  19,  1917,  he  was  ap- 
pointed police  and  license  commissioner 
by  Governor  McCall  for  a  term  of  three 
years.  He  served  as  first  lieutenant  of 
the  Twelfth  Company,  M.  V.  M.,  C.  A.  C, 
from  which  he  resigned  in  1913,  and  when 
this  country  entered  the  war  in  1917 
he  was  appointed  first  lieutenant  in 
the  Twenty-second  Company,  Seventeenth 
Regiment,  Massachusetts  State  Guard. 
In  June,  1918,  Mr.  Swift  was  appointed 
counsel  for  the  custodian  of  alien  prop- 
erty of  the  United  States  for  the  duration 
of  the  war,  his  district  including  Fall 
River  and  vicinity. 

Mr.  Swift  is  a  Republican  in  politics 
and  takes  a  keen  interest  in  civic  matters, 
and  while  he  has  never  been  a  candidate 
for  elective  office,  he  is  always  to  be 
found  foremost  among  those  who  work 
for  the  betterment  of  the  general  welfare. 
His  fraternal  affiliations  are  with  the  Ma- 
sonic order  in  which  he  holds  the  thirty- 
second  degree.  He  was  a  member  of  the 
Sigma  Phi  fraternity  at  Williams  College, 
and  at  law  school  was  a  member  of  Phi 
Delta  Phi,  legal  fraternity.  He  is  a  mem- 
ber of  the  Quequechan  Club  of  Fall 
River,  Williams  Club  of  New  York,  Uni- 
versity Club  of  Washington,  D.  C,  and  of 
numerous  other  organizations.  In  1914 
he  was  elected  president  of  the  Fall  River 
High  School  Alumni  Association. 

On  January  28,  1914,  Mr.  Swift  was 
married  at  Philadelphia,  Pennsylvania,  to 


Julia  Beaumont  Gilroy,  of  Lebanon,  that 
State.  She  was  born  there  May  25,  1884, 
daughter  of  Henry  and  Mary  Gilroy.  Mr. 
and  Mrs.  Swift  are  the  parents  of  a  son, 
John  Beaumont,  born  April  28,  1915. 
Both  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Swift  are  members 
of  the  First  Congregational  Church  of 
Fall  River. 


HORTON.  Herbert  H., 

Representative   Citizen. 

There  were  numerous  immigrant  set- 
tlers of  this  name  in  New  England,  three 
brothers    coming    from    England    about 

1640,  in  many  cases  the  name  being 
spelled  Orton.  As  the  early  recorders  in 
New  England  spelled  largely  by  ear,  it 
cannot  be  determined  whether  the  origi- 
nal form  was  Horton  or  Orton,  as  the 
English  predilection  to  annex  or  drop  the 
initial  "h"  would  make  either  form  pos- 
sible. Thomas  Orton,  a  ship  carpenter, 
resided  in  CharlestowTi,  Massachusetts, 
where  he  died  May  19,  1687,  aged  over 
sixty  years.  Several  of  his  sons  were 
recorded  as  Horten. 

(I)  Thomas  Horton  removed  from 
Windsor,  Connecticut,  to  Springfield, 
Massachusetts,  in  1638,  and  died  there  in 

1 641.  His  wife's  name  was  Mary,  and 
their  only  known  child  was  Jeremiah, 
mentioned  below. 

(II)  Jeremiah  Horton,  son  of  Thomas 
Horton,  was  of  Springfield.     He  married 

.      He    had    children :      Nathaniel, 

born  1662;  Jeremiah,  1665;  Samuel,  1667; 
Thomas,  1668;  Timothy,  1670;  John, 
mentioned  below;  Mary,  born  1674;  Ben- 
jamin, 1682. 

(III)  John  Horton,  son  of  Jeremiah 
Horton,  born  1672,  is  probably  the  John 
Horton  who  resided  in  Rehoboth,  Massa- 
chusetts, where  he  married  Mehitable 
Gamzey,  of  Swansea.  Five  of  their  sons 
are    recorded,    John,    Jothan,    Nathaniel, 


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Jonathan  and  David,  and  there  were 
probably  others,  including  Solomon.  John 
Horton  resided  in  the  southern  part  of 
Rehoboth. 

(IV)  Solomon  Horton  was  a  resident 
of  Rehoboth,  Massachusetts.  A  diligent 
search  of  the  records  of  Swansea,  Massa- 
chusetts, and  Barrington,  Rhode  Island, 
formerly  a  part  of  Rehoboth,  fails  to  dis- 
cover any  account  of  this  birth.  He  was 
perhaps  a  grandson  of  John  and  Mehit- 
able  (Gamzey)  Horton.  He  married,  in 
Rehoboth  (  intentions  published  February 
i8,  1738),  Mary  Gof?,  and  they  had  chil- 
dren recorded  in  Rehoboth :  Charles, 
born  March  18,  1739;  Constant,  October 
29,  1740;  Solomon,  mentioned  below; 
Mary,  August  10,  1745 ;  Abiall,  October 
14,  1747;  Daniel,  January  30,  1750;  Aaron, 
March  21,  1752. 

(V)  Solomon  (2)  Horton,  second  son 
of  Solomon  (i)  and  Mary  (Gofif)  Hor- 
ton, was  born  January  15,  1743,  in  Reho- 
both, and  was  a  soldier  of  the  Revolution, 
serving  as  sergeant  in  Captain  Elijah 
Walker's  company.  Colonel  Pope's  regi- 
ment, on  the  alarm  at  Rhode  Island  of 
December  8,  1776.  After  twelve  days' 
service  he  was  discharged,  return  dated 
at  Taunton,  December  17,  1776.  After 
the  war  he  settled  in  Dighton,  Massachu- 
setts, where  he  married,  in  November, 
1768,  Hannah  Talbot,  of  that  town,  and 
they  were  the  parents  of  seven  sons  and 
three  daughters. 

(VI)  Aaron  Horton,  son  of  Solomon 
(2)  and  Hannah  (Talbot)  Horton,  born 
1779  or  1780,  in  Dighton,  died  December 
3,  1854,  aged  seventy-four  years.  He  was 
a  farmer  in  Rehoboth.  He  married  (first) 
Bethaney  Baker,  born  December  19,  1784, 
daughter  of  Samuel  and  Bethaney  (Ma- 
son) Baker,  of  Rehoboth.  After  her 
death  he  married  (second),  January  3, 
1842,  Sally  M.  Burr,  daughter  of  Crom- 
well and  Sarah   (Mason)    Burr,  of  Reho- 


both ;  married  by  Samuel  Bullock,  Esq. 
Children  of  first  marriage  :  Mason  ;  Dan- 
forth,  born  November  19,  1812;  Hiram, 
mentioned  below  ;  Nancy  B.,  married  Jar- 
vis  W.  Eddy ;  Nathaniel  B. ;  Angelina, 
married  Levi  Baker;  Alvah. 

(VII)  Hiram  Horton,  son  of  Aaron 
and  Bethaney  (Baker)  Horton,  was  born 
in  Dighton,  and  lived  in  Fall  River,  where 
he  was  engaged  in  the  mason  and  con- 
tracting business.  He  was  a  faithful 
member  of  the  Baptist  church,  and  was 
among  the  first  to  espouse  the  principles 
enunciated  by  the  Republican  party  upon 
its  organization  in  1856.  He  married 
(first)  December  19,  1839,  Freelove  M. 
Wood ;  married  (second)  Catherine  A. 
Bean,  of  Barrington.  Children:  Melvin  B., 
Herbert  Hiram,  mentioned  below;  Frank 
A.,  Ellen  Amanda.  The  latter  became  the 
wife  of  James  Cotton,  and  lives  in  South 
Somerset,  Massachusetts. 

(VIII)  Herbert  Hiram  Horton,  son  of 
Hiram  and  Catherine  A.  (Bean)  Horton, 
was  born  June  15,  1856,  in  Fall  River, 
where  he  has  continued  to  reside  to  the 
present  time.  He  was  educated  in  the 
public  schools  of  that  city,  and  in  Willis- 
ton  Academy,  graduating  in  1874.  He 
began  his  business  experience  at  an  early 
age,  for  David  M.  Anthony,  remaining  two 
years,  went  with  the  Troy  Mills  as  office 
boy,  and  was  with  this  firm  continuously 
for  forty-six  years,  rising  step  by  step. 
In  1906  he  became  treasurer  of  the  Troy 
Mills  of  Fall  River,  one  of  the  largest 
manufacturing  establishments  of  that  city, 
and  to  his  efficient  conduct  is  due  much 
of  its  prosperity.  Mr.  Horton  is  very 
prominent  in  the  work  of  the  First  Bap- 
tist Church  of  Fall  River;  is  a  member  of 
the  board  of  trustees  of  the  Old  Folks 
Home,  and  active  in  the  promotion  of 
various  elevating  influences  in  his  home 
city.  Following  the  precepts  of  his 
father,  he  adheres  in  political  movements 


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to  the  principles  and  policies  of  the  Re- 
publican party.  He  is  a  member  of  the 
Ouequechan  Club.  He  married  (first) 
Martha  T.  Gardiner,  of  Fall  River,  Rlas- 
sachusetts,  who  died  September  13,  1893. 
He  married  (second)  Bessie  Gale  Bean, 
daughter  of  Horace  and  Catharine  L. 
Bean.  There  is  one  daughter  of  the  first 
marriage:  Martha  Gardiner  Horton,  born 
September  6,  1893,  resides  at  home,  en- 
gaged in  war  work,  Red  Cross  and  com- 
munity aid. 


KAUFMANN,  Samuel  Benjamin, 

Physician. 

Vilna,  a  city  of  Russia,  capital  of  the 
Government  of  Vilna  in  Lithuania,  was 
taken  by  Russia  in  the  final  partition  of 
Poland  in  1795,  and  as  a  result  of  the 
World's  War  bids  fair  to  be  restored  to 
its  ancient  owners  and  again  become  a 
part  of  Poland  under  whatever  form  of 
government  the  Poles  may  elect.  This 
city  on  the  Viliya  river,  ninety  miles  from 
Grodno,  and  two  hundred  and  twenty- 
five  miles  northeast  of  Warsaw,  was  the 
birthplace  of  Dr.  Samuel  B.  Kaufmann, 
of  Fall  River,  Massachusetts,  he  having 
been  brought  to  the  United  States  when 
he  was  but  four  years  of  age. 

He  is  a  grandson  of  Edward  Kauf- 
mann, an  innkeeper  of  Vilna,  a  man  of 
learning  and  a  devout  student  of  the 
Bible  in  the  original  Hebrew.  Edward 
Kaufmann  was  the  father  of  Solomon 
Kaufmann,  born  in  Vilna,  Lithuania, 
Russia,  about  i860,  who  came  to  the 
United  States  in  1892,  having  served  his 
term  of  three  years  in  the  Russian  army. 
He  has  here  resided,  a  peddler  and  dry 
goods  merchant  until  the  present  time, 
now  and  for  many  years  a  resident  of 
Fall  River,  Massachusetts.  He  married 
Liba  Horvitz,  born  in  Vilna  about  1862, 
her  great-grandfather  a  famous  dealer  in 
gold,  silver,  and  precious  stones  in  Vilna. 


Solomon  and  Liba  Kaufmann  were  the 
parents  of  five  children:  Charles,  Philip, 
Dora,  Samuel  B.,  Jessie,  all  born  in  Vilna, 
Russia. 

Samuel  B.  Kaufmann,  fourth  child  of 
Solomon  and  Liba  (Horvitz)  Kaufmann. 
was  born  in  Vilna,  Lithuania,  Russia, 
July  4,  1888,  an  auspicious  date  for  the 
future  American  citizen.  In  1892  he  was 
brought  by  his  parents  to  this  country, 
they  settling  at  Fall  River,  Massachu- 
setts, where  he  completed  grammar  and 
high  school  courses,  finishing  with  gradu- 
ation from  the  B.  M.  C.  Durfee  High 
•School,  class  of  1908.  Deciding  upon  the 
profession  of  medicine  he  entered  Jeffer- 
son Medical  College,  Philadelphia,  there 
pursuing  full  courses  of  study  until  gradu- 
ated M.  D.,  class  of  1912.  The  following 
year  he  was  interne  and  resident  physi- 
cian to  St.  Mary's  Hospital.  Fall  River, 
resigning  in  1913,  and  on  August  i  of 
that  year  he  began  private  general  prac- 
tice at  Fall  River,  but  specializing  in  gen- 
eral surgery.  He  is  rapidly  establishing 
himself  in  public  confidence  as  physician 
and  surgeon,  his  practice  already  a  most 
satisfactory  one.  Dr.  Kaufmann,  since 
June  22,  1917,  has  been  an  enlisted  United 
States  soldier  attached  to  the  medical 
corps  of  the  aviation  section  of  the  Signal 
Corps  of  the  United  States  Army,  with 
the  rank  of  lieutenant.  He  received  his 
honorable  discharge  after  the  close  of 
hostilities,  it  being  dated  December  11, 
19 1 8,  and  signed  by  Lieutenant-Colonel 
Harmon,  Commandant.  He  is  a  member 
of  the  Masonic  order,  the  Knights  of  Py- 
thias, the  Arcadia  Club,  is  a  Republican 
in  politics,  and  a  member  of  Adas  Con- 
gregation, Israel  Synagogue,  Fall  River. 


CROSSLEY,  WiUiam  Cyril, 
Lawyer,    liegislator. 

With  the  best  years  of  his  life  before 
him,  William  Cyril  Crossley,  attorney-at- 


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law,  of  Fall  River,  Massachusetts,  is 
richly  equipped  to  make  an  honored  name 
for  himself.  Mr.  Crossley  was  born  April 
II,  1892,  in  Fall  River,  son  of  William 
and  Catharine  (Brosnahan)  Crossley. 
His  father,  William  Crossley,  was  born  in 
England,  about  1864,  son  of  Luke  Cross- 
ley,  of  Yorkshire.  The  former  is  now 
living  retired  from  active  business  life  at 
Fall  River,  Massachusetts. 

The  elementary  education  of  Mr.  Cross- 
ley  was  obtained  from  private  tutors  and 
in  the  grammar  schools  of  his  native  city. 
After  his  graduation  from  the  B.  M.  C. 
Durfee  High  School  in  1910,  he  spent  one 
year  at  the  Jefferson  Medical  College  of 
Philadelphia.     Subsequently  he  took  up 
the  study  of  law  under  the  able  preceptor- 
ship   of  the  Hon.  James  Marcus   Swift. 
Previous  to  this,  Mr.  Crossley  spent  ten 
months  in  the  office  of  the  law  firm  of 
Swift,   Grimes  &  Swift,  perfecting  him- 
self for  his  professional  career  and  gain- 
ing much  valuable  experience  which  will 
be  of  untold  use  to  him  throughout  his 
practice  of  law.    He  then  attended  a  law 
school  from  which  he  received  his  degree 
of  LL.  B.  in  1914-    During  the  year  191 5, 
Mr.  Crossley  continued  along  these  same 
lines  with  the  firm  of  Phelan  &  Conway, 
well-known  Boston  attorneys.    On  March 
24,  1916,  Mr.  Crossley  was  admitted  to 
the     bar,     and     immediately     thereafter 
opened  a  law  office  in  Fall  River,  and  in 
partnership    with    Harold    E.    Clarkin    is 
conducting  a  general  legal  practice.     Mr. 
Crossley    is    a    learned    and    fair-minded 
lawyer,  and  is  rapidly  achieving  distinc- 
tion for  the  masterful  way  he  has  handled 
important  cases.     He  is  a  clear  and  deci- 
sive  speaker,   presenting  his   arguments 
with    force    and    conviction,    and    has    a 
broad  knowledge  of  his  profession.     Mr. 
Crossley    served    as    a    member    of    the 
Massachusetts  Constitutional  Convention 
from    1917   to    1919,    inclusive.      He   was 
elected  from  the  Eleventh  Bristol  Rep- 

MasB-S— 19  2. 


resentative  District.    His  particular  com- 
mittee  appointment   while   a   member  of 
that  body  was  to  that  of  Amendments 
and  Codification  of  the  Constitution.    As 
a  man  he  is  genial,  and  into  both  profes- 
sional and  private  life  carries  an  inspira- 
tion of  his  presence.     He  is  a  director  of 
the    Fall   River   Chamber  of   Commerce, 
and  a   Republican   in  political   principle. 
His  fraternal  affiliations  are  with  the  Ma- 
sonic order,  and  the  Fall  River  Lodge  of 
Odd  Fellows.    While  a  student  at  college, 
he  became  identified  with  the  fraternities, 
Phi  Delta  Phi  and  Sigma  Alpha  Epsilon, 
and  these  associations  he  has  since  con- 
tinued to  maintain.     Mr.  Crossley  is  an 
attendant  of  the   Summerfield  Methodist 
Church.    He  is  an  upright  citizen,  highly 
respected  in  his  community,  and  it  is  safe 
to  say  that  before  many  years  he  will  be 
advanced  onward  in  the  public  life  of  the 
city,  and  many  additional  trusts  and  re- 
sponsibilities will  be  placed  in  him. 

Mr.  Crossley  married,  August  10,  1918, 
Martha  Edward  Smith,  she  serving  at 
that  time  in  the  Army  Nurse  Corps  and 
being  stationed  at  Camp  Dix,  New  Jer- 
sey, in  charge  of  a  surgical  ward.  She 
was  born  at  Vineyard  Haven,  Martha's 
Vineyard,  Massachusetts,  February  11, 
1894.  She  was  the  daughter  of  James 
Laurence  and  Janie  Owen  Smith.  Her 
mother's  maiden  name  was  Cottle,  and 
she  was  a  descendant  of  Revolutionary 
stock.  The  mother's  middle  name  was 
that  of  a  very  dear  friend  of  the  family, 
Owen,  whose  son.  Will  Owen,  owned  the 
dog  which  has  made  the  Victor  phono- 
graph record  famous,  and  which  is  con- 
nected with  the  title,  "His  Master's 
Voice."  This  famous  dog  was  her  pet 
and  playmate. 


WALSH,  Patrick  Henry,  M.  D., 
Physician. 

There  is  something  that  appeals  to  the 
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ibout  the  adoption  of  a  profession,  the 
object  of  which  is  the  alleviation  of 
\uman  sufifering,  such,  for  instance,  as 
nedicine,  especially  where,  as  in  this  case, 
/he  sacrifice  of  many  of  the  comforts  and 
pleasures  which  men  count  so  highly  is 
involved.  When  in  addition  to  this,  how- 
ever, the  task  is  not  only  voluntarily 
chosen,  but  carried  out  in  the  most  altru- 
istic spirit  and  in  the  face  of  difficulties 
quite  special  and  peculiar,  the  circum- 
stances rise  toward  the  heroic  and  the 
sincere  admiration  of  all  is  claimed.  Such 
is  the  case  in  a  high  degree  in  the  life  of 
Dr.  Patrick  Henry  Walsh. 

Born  on  July  20,  1891,  in  the  city  of 
Fall  River,  Massachusetts,  Dr.  Walsh 
has  made  that  place  his  home  and  the 
scene  of  his  busy  professional  life  up  to 
the  present  time.  Dr.  Walsh  is  of  Irish 
parentage,  and  is  a  son  of  James  and 
Julia  (Hayes)  Walsh,  both  natives  of  Ire- 
land. James  Walsh  was  born  in  County 
Kilkenny,  Ireland,  and  ran  a  grocery  store 
for  fifteen  years  after  coming  to  this  coun- 
try. He  made  his  home  in  Fall  River,  Mas- 
sachusetts, and  their  died  in  the  month  of 
January,  191 7,  a  much  beloved  and  highly 
respected  gentleman.  His  wife,  who  be- 
fore her  marriage  was  Julia  Hayes,  was 
a  native  of  County  Tipperary,  Ireland, 
and  married  Mr.  Walsh  before  coming  to 
this  country.  They  were  the  parents  of 
two  children,  one  of  whom  died  at  the  age 
of  ten  months,  the  other,  Patrick  Henry 
Walsh,  referred  to  in  this  sketch.  Mr. 
Walsh,  Sr.,  was  a  life-long  Democrat  and 
active  in  political  life  in  Fall  River.  He 
was  a  son  of  Patrick  Walsh,  a  native  of 
County  Kilkenny,  where  he  lived  and 
died  and  where  he  married  Alice  Dalton, 
also  of  that  region. 

Dr.  Patrick  Henry  Walsh,  for  the  pre- 
liminary portion  of  his  education,  at- 
tended the  local  public  schools  of  Fall 
River  and  afterwards  the  Bradford  Mat- 


thew Chaloner  Durfee  High  School,  where 
he  completed  his  general  education  and 
from  which  he  graduated  with  the  class 
of  1910.  He  was  a  well-known  figure  in 
the  school  during  the  years  that  he 
remained  there,  and  was  popular  alike 
with  his  masters  and  the  undergraduate 
body.  He  was  captain  of  both  the  foot- 
ball and  baseball  teams  there,  besides 
being  an  excellent  student.  After  com- 
pleting his  studies  at  this  school,  he 
entered  Tufts  Medical  College  at  Boston, 
where  he  devoted  himself  to  the  study  of 
a  profession  which  he  had  determined 
upon  as  his  career  in  life.  Here  he  estab- 
lished an  excellent  reputation  as  a  student 
and  was  graduated  with  the  class  of  1914 
and  the  degree  of  medical  doctor.  During 
the  time  he  was  at  Tufts  he  was  treasurer 
of  his  class  and  took  a  prominent  part  in 
the  life  of  the  student  body.  While  pur- 
suing his  studies  here  he  supplemented 
his  theoretical  knowledge  with  a  practical 
experience  of  eleven  months  at  Mount 
Sinai  Hospital,  and  eighteen  months  at 
Grace  Hospital,  of  Boston,  where  he  held 
the  position  of  obstetrical  house  officer. 
After  graduation  in  1914,  he  went  to  St. 
Luke's  Hospital,  New  Bedford,  where  he 
was  house  physician  for  the  better  part  of 
a  year.  He  then  came  to  Fall  River  and 
was  house  physician  at  the  Fall  River 
Hospital  from  February  i,  1915,  to  July 
I  of  the  same  year.  On  the  latter  date 
he  began  his  private  practice  in  Fall 
River,  and  has  already,  in  the  two  years 
that  have  elapsed,  established  for  himself 
a  reputation  as  one  of  the  leading  physi- 
cians in  the  city  and  developed  a  practice 
which  places  him  among  the  most  suc- 
cessful of  the  younger  physicians  there. 
Dr.  Walsh  is  a  profound  student  and  a 
man  of  ready  and  alert  intelligence,  who 
can  apply  his  knowledge  to  the  practical 
issues  of  every  day  experience  with  a  de- 
gree of  accuracy  quite  unusual.  It  is  not 
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surprising  therefore  that  he  is  already  one 
of  the  most  popular  physicians  in  that 
region,  or  that  he  possesses  a  large  and 
lucrative  practice.  Dr.  Walsh  is  a  Dem- 
ocrat in  politics,  but  the  demands  made 
upon  him  by  his  professional  life  make  it 
quite  impossible  for  him  to  take  a  very 
active  part  in  the  public  life  of  the  com- 
munity for  which  his  talents  so  eminently 
fit  him.  He  is  a  member  of  the  Knights 
of  Columbus,  the  Phi  Chi  Medical  fra- 
ternity and  the  Fall  River  Medical  So- 
ciety. In  his  religious  belief  Dr.  Walsh 
is  a  Roman  Catholic  and  is  a  faithful 
member  of  St.  Williams  Church  of  that 
denomination  in  Fall  River. 

Dr.  Patrick  Henry  Walsh  was  united 
in  marriage,  April  i8,  1917,  at  Fall  River, 
with  Ellen  Maria  Shea,  a  native  of  this 
city,  born  June  24,  1890.  Mrs.  Walsh  is 
a  daughter  of  John  H.  and  Catherine  E. 
(Smith)  Shea,  her  father  being  a  well 
known  veterinary  surgeon  of  Fall  River. 

During  the  few  years  in  which  Dr.  Walsh 
has  practiced  in  Fall  River,  he  has  won 
an  enviable  reputation  there.  He  is  quali- 
fied for  the  general  practice  of  medicine 
by  his  hospital  experience  and  by  a  very 
wide  reading  on  the  subject,  which  he 
continues  in  order  to  keep  abreast  of  the 
most  modern  advances  in  medical  science. 
He  has  given  himself  up  to  his  chosen 
work  with  a  singleness  of  purpose  which 
is  very  creditable  and  which  also,  it  may 
be  remarked,  invariably  spells  success. 
Such  devotion  characterizes  the  really 
great  physician,  and  to  this  Dr.  Walsh 
adds  an  energy  and  strength  that  seems 
indefatigable.  Of  any  man  who  takes  up 
medicine  as  a  profession  with  the  true 
realization  of  what  is  involved  in  the  way 
of  sacrifice  and  a  sincere  intention  to  live 
up  to  its  ideal,  it  may  be  said  that  he  has 
given  himself  for  humanity's  cause.  This 
is  unquestionably  true  of  Dr.  Walsh  and 
it  has  met  with  an  active  response  on  the 


part  of  the  community  to  his  ministration. 
For  Dr.  Walsh  has  resisted  to  a  certain 
extent  the  great  tendency  towards  spec- 
ialization which  is  so  in  evidence  today, 
and  has  retained  the  character  of  the  old 
fashioned  family  physician,  save  for  the 
fact  already  mentioned  that  he  keeps 
abreast  of  the  times  in  his  science. 


HARLEY,  William, 

Expert  Calico  Printer. 

For  generations  Harleys  in  their  Scotch 
home  have  been  calico  printers,  that  hav- 
ing become  an  established  family  calling. 
William  Harley  early  adopted  the  same 
line  of  work,  and  in  Scotland,  England 
and  the  United  States  has  perfected  his 
art  until  he  is  an  expert  in  his  line  of  busi- 
ness. He  is  now  superintendent  of  the 
Algonquin  Printing  Company,  one  of  the 
best  firms  in  Fall  River,  Massachusetts. 
He  is  a  grandson  of  William  and  Mar- 
garet Harley,  of  Perth,  Scotland,  and  a 
son  of  John  and  Margaret  (Morrison) 
Harley.  John  Harley  was  born  in  Perth, 
Scotland,  and  like  his  father  and  grand- 
father was  a  calico  printer.  He  married 
Margaret  Morrison,  who  was  born  in 
Dumbartonshire,  Scotland,  her  father  also 
a  calico  printer. 

William  Harley  was  born  in  Alex- 
ander, Dumbartonshire,  Scotland,  March 
8,  1861.  He  attended  the  home  schools, 
also  schools  in  Manchester,  England, 
where  at  the  age  of  fourteen  he  was  em- 
ployed in  the  textile  mills  as  an  appren- 
tice to  color  printing.  As  he  advance-d 
in  his  knowledge  he  added  to  the  practical 
side  of  his  business  a  term  of  study  in  a 
textile  school,  finishing  with  graduation 
in  the  special  course  he  was  pursuing. 
He  chose  color  printing  as  his  work,  and 
at  the  age  of  twenty  decided  to  come  to 
the  United  States  and  here  ply  his  trade, 
believing    that    a    better    future    awaited 


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him.  This  was  in  1881  and  for  seventeen 
years  after  his  arrival  he  was  employed 
in  the  American  Print  Works,  of  Fall 
River,  as  color  maker  and  chemist,  and 
during  that  period  kept  up  his  studies  in 
chemistry  and  color  printing.  In  1898 
he  entered  the  employ  of  the  Algonquin 
Mills  at  Fall  River,  Massachusetts,  and 
has  now  been  with  that  corporation 
twenty  years,  1898-1918,  and  in  the  latter 
named  year  he  was  appointed  superin- 
tendent of  the  Algonquin  Printing  Com- 
pany, that  being  his  present  position. 
Mr.  Harley  is  a  member  of  the  Masonic 
Order,  Fall  River  Bowling  Green  Club, 
the  Burns  Club  and  of  the  First  Congre- 
gational Church. 

Mr.  Harley  married,  in  England,  in 
1884,  Mary  Turner,  born  at  Staly  Bridge, 
England,  in  i860,  daughter  of  William 
Turner.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Harley  are  the 
parents  of  a  son,  William  Turner,  born 
in    Fall    River,    Massachusetts,    July    27, 


REARDON,  John  Francis, 

Textile  ManafactiiTer. 

"For  loyalty  and  service"  was  the 
beautiful  sentiment  engraved  upon  the 
watch  which  the  Grosvenor  Dale  Com- 
pany presented  to  Mr.  Reardon  upon  his 
severing  business  relations,  July  14,  1917, 
to  accept  his  present  post,  superintendent 
of  the  cotton  mills  division  of  the  Amer- 
ican Printing  Company,  one  of  the  larg- 
est textile  corporations  in  the  world. 
That  was  the  tribute  paid  by  those  in 
authority  over  him.  Upon  the  day  he 
was  to  leave  Grosvenor  Dale,  a  village 
of  Windham  county,  Connecticut,  the 
entire  village  declared  a  public  holiday, 
and  at  a  farewell  meeting  held  in  the  af- 
ternoon, the  operatives  of  the  mills  pre- 
sented him  with  many  valuable  and  use- 
ful  tokens   of  their   regard.     With    such 


testimonials  he  came  to  his  new  position, 
one  of  extreme  responsibility  and  trust, 
one  which  he  did  not  seek,  but  which 
sought  him,  and  being  in  the  line  of  ad- 
vancement was  given  favorable  consid- 
eration. 

Mr.  Reardon  is  a  son  of  John  Bernard 
Reardon,  and  grandson  of  Batholomew 
Reardon,  of  County  Cork,  Ireland,  who 
reared  a  family  of  three  sons  and  three 
daughters,  all  of  whom  grew  to  years  of 
maturity.  John  Bernard  Reardon  was 
born  in  County  Cork,  Ireland,  but  at  the 
age  of  twelve  came  to  the  United  States, 
locating  in  Manchester,  New  Hampshire, 
where  he  became  a  cotton  mill  worker. 
During  the  Civil  War  he  enlisted  in  Com- 
pany F,  Tenth  Regiment,  New  Hamp- 
shire Volunteer  Infantry,  and  in  Man- 
chester married  Hannah  Barrett. 

John  Francis  Reardon  was  born  in 
Manchester,  New  Hampshire,  December 
10,  1867,  and  there  attended  the  public 
and  parochial  schools  until  he  was  twelve 
years  of  age.  He  then  obtained  a  posi- 
tion in  the  carding  department  of  one  of 
the  many  mills  comprising  the  great 
Amoskeag  plant,  and  step  by  step  won 
his  way  to  second  hand.  There  were 
eleven  children  left  fatherless  at  the  early 
death  of  John  Bernard  Reardon,  and  John 
F.  was  one  of  the  main  supports  of  the 
family  for  sometime,  this  fact  stimulating 
his  ambition  to  earn  as  much  as  possible. 
From>  his  position  as  second  hand  in  the 
Amoskeag  plant  at  Manchester,  he  was 
called  as  superintendent  to  the  plant  of 
the  Millville  Manufacturing  Company  of 
Millville,  New  Jersey,  going  thence  as 
agent  to  the  Falls  Mills  of  Norwich,  Con- 
necticut. From  the  latter  mills  he  was 
recalled  to  be  again  superintendent  of 
the  Millville  Manufacturing  Company 
and  from  there  he  was  asked  to  become 
agent  of  the  mills  of  the  Grosvenor  Dale 
Company,  at  Grosvenor  Dale  and  North 


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Grosvenor  Dale,  Connecticut,  there  con- 
tinuing until  July  14,  1917,  when  he  came 
to  Fall  River,  Massachusetts,  as  superin- 
tendent of  the  cotton  mills  division  of  the 
American  Printing-  Company.  He  is 
master  of  the  textile  business  from  every 
angle,  and  has  proved  his  value  as  opera- 
tive, agent  and  superintendent.  While 
living  in  Manchester,  he  was  an  enlisted 
member  of  the  New  Hampshire  National 
Guard,  retiring  with  the  rank  of  First 
Lieutenant.  He  is  a  member  of  the 
Knights  of  Columbus  and  Benevolent  and 
Protective  Order  of  Elks ;  a  Republican 
in  politics ;  and  a  member  of  the  Church 
of  the  Sacred  Heart  of  Fall  River. 

Mr.  Reardon  married  in  Manchester, 
New  Hampshire,  June  9,  1895,  Bridget 
Keaney,  whose  family  came  from  Galway, 
Ireland.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Reardon  are  the 
parents  of  three  sons  and  a  daughter: 
John  Francis  (2),  born  April  3,  1896; 
Richard  J.,  born  January  26,  1898 ;  Mar- 
garet Ursula,  born  June  9,  1903,  and  Fran- 
cis, born  March  15,  1911. 


PAGE,  James  Joseph, 

Contractor. 

This  branch  of  the  Page  family  in  the 
United  States  came  from  England  via 
Canada.  Benjamin  Page,  the  American 
ancestor,  who  was  of  English  birth,  and 
a  member  of  the  Church  of  England,  died 
in  St.  Gabriel,  Canada,  in  1863,  at  the 
great  age  of  ninety-four.  St.  Gabriel  de 
Brandon,  where  he  located  on  coming 
from  England,  is  a  banking  village  of 
Berthier  county,  Quebec,  and  there  he 
resided  from  the  date  of  his  arrival.  He 
left  sons,  John  and  Timothy,  descent  be- 
ing traced  through  the  latter. 

Timothy  Page  was  born  in  England, 
came  to  Canada  with  his  father  when 
about  eighteen  years  of  age,  and  at  St. 
Gabriel   de   Brandon   in   Berthier   county 


spent  his  life.  He  was  an  industrious, 
hard-working  man,  and  reared  a  large 
family.  His  children  :  George  ;  Amanda, 
married  Louis  Perrin  ;  Edward,  of  further 
mention;  Edmund;  James;  Emmeline ; 
Delia,  who  became  the  second  wife  of 
Louis  Perrin ;  and  Patron,  married  Paul 
Pillon. 

Edward  Page  was  born  at  St.  Gabriel 
de  Brandon,  Berthier  county,  Quebec, 
Canada,  in  1837,  and  died  there  April  6, 
1879.  He  learned  the  carpenter's  trade, 
which  he  followed  all  his  life.  He  mar- 
ried Flavis  Raymond,  who  died  June  23, 
1894,  aged  fifty-six.  Their  children  were: 
Eliza,  married  Arthur  Lemire ;  James 
Joseph,  of  further  mention ;  Alphonse, 
deceased ;  Mary,  married  Clifford  Gel- 
inas ;  Alexander ;  and  Edward  T. 

James  Joseph  Page  was  born  in  St. 
Louis,  Quebec,  Canada,  July  16,  1869,  and 
was  the  first  of  his  family  to  locate  in 
Chicopee,  Massachusetts.  He  attended 
school  until  nine  years  of  age,  the  death 
of  his  father  in  1879  obliging  him  to  leave 
school  and  aid  in  the  support  of  the  famr- 
ily.  He  was  employed  as  a  mill  worker 
in  Canada  until  1885,  when  he  came  to 
the  United  States,  locating  at  Chicopee, 
there  spending  three  years  in  the  mills. 
He  finally  learned  the  carpenter's  trade, 
being  employed  as  a  journeyman  until 
19 1 3,  when  he  entered  the  contracting 
field  in  his  own  behalf,  forming  the  firm 
of  J.  J.  Page  &  Son.  During  the  five  years 
which  have  since  intervened  he  has  built 
up  a  good  reputation  as  a  contractor. 
His  force  of  men  at  times  numbers  thirty- 
five  mechanics,  most  of  them  being  em- 
ployed the  year  round.  He  has  built 
many  residences  in  Chicopee  and  vicinity, 
his  own  skill  as  a  workman  being  a  guar- 
antee that  all  contracts  will  be  carefully 
looked  after.  He  is  a  member  of  L'Union 
Canadienne,  the  Franco-American  Order 
of  Foresters,  and  was  one  of  the  city  plan- 


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ning  board  of  Chicopee.  He  served  two 
terms,  on  the  board  of  water  commission- 
ers, of  two  years  each,  is  now  serving  a 
third  term  of  three  years. 

James  J.  Page  married,  January,  1890, 
Ellen  Boisvert,  born  in  St.  Etienne,  Can- 
ada, daughter  of  William  and  Philomene 
(Comeau)  Boisvert.  Children:  i.  Ed- 
ward Louis,  of  further  mention.  2.  Ed- 
mund A.,  born  August  28,  1892 ;  married 
Clara  Goyette,  of  Chicopee,  daughter  of 
Nelson  and  Malinda  (La  Marsh)  Goy- 
ette. 3.  Lucinda,  born  December  7,  1897. 
4.  Alice,  died  in  infancy.  5.  Lena,  died 
in  infancy.  6.  Louisa,  born  June  10,  1899 ; 
died  October,  1918.  7.  George,  born  Sep- 
tember II,  1900.  8.  Ida,  born  September 
I,  1901.  9.  William,  born  October  27, 
19021.  ID.  Arcade,  born  May  8,  1909.  11. 
Alma,  born  July  12,  1914,  died  in  infancy. 

Edward  Louis  Page  was  born  in  Chico- 
pee, Massachusetts,  May  24,  189 1,  and 
there  was  educated  in  the  parish  and  pub- 
lic schools.  This  was  supplemented  by 
a  course  of  study  in  a  correspondence 
school,  his  evenings  being  devoted  to 
study,  while  his  days  were  spent  in  learn- 
ing the  carpenter's  trade.  After  complet- 
ing his  trade  he  was  employed  as  a  jour- 
neyman until  1913,  when  he  joined  his 
father  in  a  co-partnership  under  the  firm 
name  of  J.  J.  Page  &  Son,  contractors 
and  builders.  This  firm  is  well  estab- 
lished in  public  favor  and  prosperous. 
He  resigned  from  this  firm  in  1917  and 
since  then  has  been  employed  as  a  con- 
struction engineer  with  Fred  T.  Ley  & 
Company.  Edward  L.  Page  is  a  member 
of  the  L'Union  Canadienne  and  the  Fran- 
co-American Order  of  Foresters ;  is  a 
Republican  in  politics  ;  and  for  three  years 
was  a  member  of  the  Chicopee  Board  of 
Aldermen,  191 5,  1916  and  1917.  Mr.  Page 
married,  December  27,  1909,  Anna  Marcil, 
born  in  St.  Paul,  Joliette,  Canada,  daugh- 
ter of  Cyrill  and   Emerance    (Champou) 


Marcil.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Page  are  the  par- 
ents of:  Gerard,  born  November  10,  1910; 
Alfred,  died  in  infancy ;  Annette,  born 
April  16,  1913;  Yvonne,  died  in  infancy; 
Loretta,  born  March  18,  1916;  and  Ray- 
mond, born  September  6,  1918. 


LeCLAIR,  Nelson, 

Representative   Citizen. 

This  name  is  but  one  of  the  forms  of 
the  French  name  which  is  so  frequently 
met  with  as  LeClair,  LeClare  and  Le- 
Clerc.  In  the  United  States  it  is  born  in 
this  branch  by  Nelson  LeClair  and  his 
father,  Leander  LeClair,  respectively, 
grandson  and  son  of  a  Canadian  farmer, 
who  reared  a  large  family,  the  youngest 
being  a  son,  Leander. 

Leander  LeClair  was  born  in  Sovelle, 
Canada,  September  26,  1831,  and  died  in 
Chicopee,  Massachusetts,  January  23, 
1917.  He  came  to  Spencer,  Massachu- 
setts, in  1840,  a  boy  of  nine  years,  and 
after  a  time  went  to  New  York  State, 
finally  locating  in  the  town  of  Champlain, 
in  the  northern  part  of  the  State.  During 
the  years  spent  in  that  locality  his  prin- 
cipal occupation  was  lumbering,  being 
chiefly  employed  in  the  saw  mills  and 
around  the  yards.  In  1877  he  returned  to 
Massachusetts,  locating  at  Chicopee,  and 
there  resided  until  his  death,  forty  years 
later.  For  thirty  years  of  that  period  he 
was  in  the  employ  of  the  Ames  Sword 
Company,  and  until  his  retirement  from 
active  life,  in  1907,  he  continued  with  that 
company.  He  was  an  industrious,  up- 
right man,  well-liked  by  his  employers, 
who  ever  found  him  thoroughly  reliable. 
He  married  (first)  a  Miss  Blanchard, 
who  died,  leaving  four  children.  He  mar- 
ried (second)  Mary  Durant,  born  in  1839, 
died  March  12,  1910.  They  were  the 
parents  of  thirteen  children:  Simon; 
John,    deceased;    Mary,    married    Joseph 


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Parent;  Nelson,  of  further  mention; 
Delia,  married  Alfred  St.  Pierre ;  Phoebe, 
married  Eugene  Seems ;  Nellie,  died  in 
infancy;  Emmeline,  died  in  infancy; 
Frederick ;  William ;  Victoria,  married 
Charles  Greenough ;  Florence,  married 
David  Lord ;  Eva,  married  Charles  Wel- 
don. 

Nelson  LeCIair,  son  of  Leander  and 
Mary  (Durant)  LeClair,  was  born  in 
Champlain,  New  York,  in  the  settlement 
at  Perrys  Mills,  near  Moor's  Forks,  Feb- 
ruary II,  1870.  There  his  parents  resided 
until  1877,  then  locating  in  Chicopee, 
Massachusetts,  where  the  lad  Nelson  was 
educated  in  the  public  schools.  After 
leaving  school  he  began  a  wage-earning 
life  with  the  Ames  Sword  Company,  at 
their  Chicopee  plant,  continuing  with  that 
company  without  interruption  for  eleven 
years,  1886-97.  He  then  entered  the  em- 
ploy of  the  Spaulding  Sporting  Goods 
Manufacturing  Company,  of  Chicopee, 
there  remaining  a  year  before  entering 
the  service  of  the  United  States  in  the 
water  shops  of  the  Arsenal  at  Springfield, 
Massachusetts.  There  he  has  been  em- 
ployed for  twenty  years,  1898-1918,  his 
department,  the  tempering  and  welding 
shops.  During  the  entire  twenty  years  he 
has  continued  his  residence  in  Chicopee, 
where  he  is  the  owner  of  considerable 
real  estate.  Since  1893,  a  period  of  over 
twenty-five  years,  he  has  been  a  member 
of  the  Chicopee  fire  department,  and  is 
yet  a  "Call"  member. 

Mr.  LeClair  married,  July  14,  1897, 
Lucy  A.  Sheehy,  daughter  of  Cornelius 
and  Hannah  (Hines)  Sheehy,  of  Chico- 
pee Falls,  Massachusetts.  Mr.  and  Mrs. 
LeClair  are  the  parents  of  four  sons  and 
two  daughters :  Nelson  Francis,  a  grad- 
uate of  Chicopee  High  School,  is  now 
at  the  Norwich  University,  class  of  1922, 
in  the  Students  Army  Training  Corps,  in 
the   cavalry   troop   of  the   United   States 


Army  ;  Wilton  Cyril,  Robert  Charles,  Ed- 
win William,  Grace  Agnes  and  Lucille 
May. 


KERR,  JAMES  BULLOUGH, 

Mannfactnrer. 

As  ageyt  for  the  American  Thread 
Company  at  Fall  River,  Mr.  Kerr  is  the 
business  and  local  head  of  a  company 
founded  by  his  father,  Robert  Kerr,  and 
his  uncle,  James  P.  Kerr,  who  came  from 
Scotland  and  founded  the  firm  of  Kerr  & 
Company,  of  Newark,  New  Jersey,  they 
being  the  forerunners  of  the  Kerr  Thread 
Company  of  Fall  River,  founded  by  the 
same  men  in  1888.  The  original  plant 
was  a  tract  of  fourteen  acres  in  the  ex- 
treme eastern  part  of  the  city,  upon 
which,  in  1890,  a  large  five-story  brick 
mill  was  completed,  equipped  with  ma- 
chinery for  making  fine  cotton  yarn  and 
thread.  The  founders  were  in  control  of 
the  business  until  removed  by  death,  the 
sons  of  both  Robert  and  John  P.  then  suc- 
ceeding to  the  management.  In  1898,  the 
Kerr  Thread  Company  became  an  integ- 
ral part  of  the  American  Thread  Com- 
pany, the  mania  for  consolidation  which 
swept  over  the  country  sparing  not  so 
important  a  plant  as  the  Kerr  Thread 
Company.  With  the  consolidated,  James 
B.  Kerr  became  the  agent  under  the  new 
management,  and  from  that  year,  1898, 
has  held  that  very  important  position. 
He  is  of  Scotch  and  English  parents,  his 
father,  Robert  Kerr,  born  in  Paisley, 
Scotland,  his  mother,  Margaret  (Bul- 
lough)  Kerr,  born  in  Accrington,  Eng- 
land. Robert  Kerr  was  a  thread  manufac- 
turer all  his  life,  both  in  Scotland  and  the 
United  States,  a  Liberal  in  politics,  a 
Congregationalist  in  religion. 

James  Bullough  Kerr  was  born  in  Pais- 
ley, Scotland,  January  13,  1872.  He  was 
educated  in  the  grammar  schools  of  Pais- 


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ley  and  at  Marlborough  College,  England, 
finishing  his  courses  at  the  latter  institu- 
tion in  1888.  In  1889,  he  began  business 
life,  entered  into  the  manufacture  of 
thread,  his  father's  business,  and  contin- 
ued until  1893,  in  Paisley.  In  that  year 
he  came  to  the  United  States,  locating  at 
Fall  River,  Massachusetts,  where  he  at 
once  became  connected  with  the  Kerr 
Thread  Company,  founded  by  his  father 
and  uncle  in  1888.  From  1893  until  1898, 
he  was  a  director  of  the  company  which 
had  attained  large  proportions,  and  then 
when  the  American  Thread  Company  ab- 
sorbed it,  he  became  agent  under  the  new 
owners.  He  is  a  thoroughly  practical 
level-headed  man  of  affairs,  is  highly  es- 
teemed wherever  known,  and  a  man  of 
unimpeachable  integrity.  Mr.  Kerr  is  an 
Independent  Republican  in  his  political 
sympathies,  is  a  member  of  Centre  Con- 
gregational Church,  and  of  the  Queche- 
quan  and  the  Fall  River  Country  clubs. 
Mr.  Kerr  married,  in  Harrowgate,  Eng- 
land, July  16,  1912,  Harriet  Annie  Swin- 
bank,  born  in  Stockton,  England,  daugh- 
ter of  John  Potter  and  Annie  (Empsall) 
Swinbank.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Kerr  are  the 
parents  of  Bertha  Margaret  Kerr,  born 
at  Fall  River,  May  11,  1913. 


LEE,  Hiram  Harrison, 

Manufacturer. 

Six  generations  of  this  branch  of  the 
Lee  family  resided  in  Westfield  prior  to 
Hiram  Harrison  Lee,  whose  children  and 
grandchildren  constitute  the  eighth  and 
ninth  generations. 

(I)  The  founder  of  this  branch  of  the 
Lees  in  America  was  Walter  Lee,  born  in 
England  about  1630,  died  in  Westfield, 
Massachusetts,  February  9,  1718,  "at  a 
great  age."  On  coming  to  New  England 
he  settled  first  in  Connecticut,  where  he 
was  admitted  a  freeman  in  1654.     In  1656 


he  moved  to  Northampton,  and  in  1665 
to  Westfield,  Massachusetts,  where  he 
had  a  grant  of  four  acres  for  a  house  lot 
and  thirty-three  acres  of  meadow.  His 
first  wife  (name  unknown)  died  in  West- 
field,  February  29,  1696,  and  he  married 
(second)  Hepzibah,  widow  of  Caleb 
Pomeroy.  His  eight  children  were  all  by 
his  first  wife. 

(II)  John  Lee,  eldest  child  of  Walter 
Lee,  the  founder,  was  born  in  Northamp- 
ton, Massachusetts,  January  22,  1657,  and 
died  in  Westfield,  November  13,  1711. 
During  the  Indian  wars  he  served  with 
the  Colonial  soldiers,  and  during  King 
Philip's  War  was  in  the  great  fight  at 
Turners  Falls.  John  Lee  married  (first) 
December  9,  1680,  Sarah,  daughter  of 
William  Pixley.  Married  (second)  Eliz- 
abeth Crampton,  who  survived  him,  the 
mother  of  his  eight  children,  all  born  in 
Westfield. 

(III)  John  (2)  Lee,  eldest  son  of 
John  (i)  Lee  and  his  second  wife,  Eliz- 
abeth (Crampton)  Lee,  was  born  in 
Westfield,  Massachusetts,  August  2,  1687. 
He  was  appointed  co-executor  with  his 
mother  to  administer  his  father's  estate, 
resided  in  Westfield  and  there  died.  He 
married  and  was  the  father  of  a  son  Icha- 
bod,  of  further  mention. 

(IV)  Ichabod  Lee,  son  of  John  (2) 
Lee,  was  born  in  Westfield,  Massachu- 
setts, in  1725,  and  became  one  of  West- 
field's  prominent  men.  He  married  Mar- 
tha Root,  of  Westfield. 

(V)  Samuel  Lee,  son  of  Ichabod  and 
Martha  (Root)  Lee,  was  born  in  West- 
field,  September  20,  1781,  but  at  the  time 
of  his  marriage  was  living  in  Southwick 
Massachusetts.  Later  he  returned  to 
Westfield,  and  there  resided  until  death. 
He  married,  November  27,  1800,  Rachael 
Shepard,  of  Westfield. 

(VI)  Daniel  Lee,  son  of  Samuel  and 
Rachael     (Shepard)     Lee,    was    born    in 


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Westfield,  May  6,  1801,  there  resided  all 
his  life,  and  died  August  4,  1863.  He 
grew  up  on  the  paternal  farm  in  West- 
field,  and  during  his  youthful  manhood 
was  his  father's  assistant  in  its  cultiva- 
tion. Later  he  was  the  owner  of  a  large 
farm  in  the  eastern  part  of  that  town, 
near  the  railroad  crossing  known  as  Lee's 
Crossing.  He  was  a  man  of  quiet  life  and 
industrious  habits,  took  no  active  part  in 
political  alifairs,  but  was  a  man  of  sub- 
stance, highly  regarded  in  his  community. 
He  married  Mercy  Everton,  born  in  the 
Mundale  section  of  Westfield,  July  10, 
1803,  died  August  13,  1846,  daughter  of 
Harvey  Everton,  her  father  a  farmer. 
They  were  the  parents  of  three  sons  and 
a  daughter:  Mercy  Delight,  born  Febru- 
ary 6,  1830,  died  in  August,  1867;  Hiram 
Harrison,  of  further  mention ;  Gamaliel 
Cowles,  born  August  26,  1832,  died  in 
Westfield ;  Daniel  Dwight,  born  April  2, 
1839,  died  in  Portland,  Maine,  in  1889. 
The  family  were  members  of  the  Meth- 
odist Episcopal  church. 

(VII)  Hiram  Harrison  Lee,  son  of 
Daniel  and  Mercy  (Everton)  Lee,  was 
born  at  Westfield,  February  28,  1831,  and 
there  died  January  4,  1892.  His  early 
home  was  in  the  West  Parish,  but  later 
his  father  bought  the  farm  at  Lee's  Cross- 
ing, and  there  his  youth  and  early  man- 
hood were  passed.  He  was  educated  in 
the  public  schools,  and  until  his  marriage 
in  1839  remained  at  the  home  farm,  his 
father's  assistant.  He  then  accepted  an 
ofifer  from  his  father-in-law,  Charles  W. 
Spencer,  to  join  him  in  whip  manufactur- 
ing, a  proposition  which  he  accepted. 
Shortly  after  engaging  in  business,  Mr. 
Lee  erected  a  residence  in  Westfield,  and 
there  resided  until  his  death.  He  was  a 
Republican  in  politics,  but  took  little  part 
in  public  afifairs.  He  was  a  member  of 
the  Methodist  Episcopal  church,  was  af- 
filiated with  the  Masonic  order,  the   In- 


dependent Order  of  Odd  Fellows  and 
Knights  of  Pythias. 

Mr.  Lee  married,  June  14,  1859,  Lu- 
cella  Ruth  Spencer,  born  in  Westfield, 
November  16,  1839,  eldest  daughter  of 
Charles  William  and  Sarah  A.  (Root) 
Spencer.  Mrs.  Lee  survives  her  husband 
with  one  daughter,  Adella  Delight  Lee, 
born  March  29,  i860,  married.  May  3, 
1888,  William  Marshall  Van  Deusen,  born 
at  Hillsdale,  New  York,  September  29, 
1850,  now  one  of  the  largest  whip  manu- 
facturers of  the  country  and  otherwise 
prominent  in  business  and  public  life. 
Children :  Spencer  Martin  Van  Deusen, 
born  August  9,  1890,  now  associated  with 
his  father  in  business ;  he  married  Grace 
Miriam,  daughter  of  George  F.  Alex- 
ander, of  Longmeadow,  Massachusetts, 
and  resides  in  Westfield ;  child,  Henry 
Marshall  (2),  born  May  9,  1918.  Axie 
Lee  Van  Deusen,  born  September  26, 
1893,  rnarried,  February  20,  1916,  Thomas 
Thomson  Logic,  of  New  Haven,  Connec- 
ticut, resided  in  Boston ;  holding  a  cap- 
tain's commission  and  now  in  France. 
William  Marshall  Van  Deusen  is  of  the 
ninth  American  generation  of  the  family 
founded  on  Manhattan  Island  by  Abra- 
ham Petersen  Van  Deusen,  of  Haarlam 
in  the  Netherlands. 

Charles  William  Spencer,  father  of 
Mrs.  Hiram,  Harrison  Lee,  was  born  in 
Suffield,  Connecticut,  October  25,  1813, 
and  died  in  Westfield,  Massachusetts, 
October  25,  1893,  son  of  Charles  and  Ruth 
(Scoville)  Spencer.  Charles  Spencer,  a 
stage  driver  in  early  life,  later  moved 
with  his  family  to  Oneida  county.  New 
York,  where  in  a  log  house  of  his  own 
construction  and  amid  pioneer  surround- 
ings he  lived  to  the  age  of  seventy.  His 
wife  died  at  the  age  of  sixty-seven.  Both 
were  members  of  the  Baptist  church. 

Charles  W.  Spencer  remained  at  the 
New  York  home  until  fourteen  years  of 
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age,  then  came  to  Massachusetts,  where 
he  completed  his  public  school  education. 
At  the  age  of  eighteen  he  apprenticed 
himself  to  a  whip  maker  and  learned  that 
trade  very  thoroughly.  He  only  remained 
with  his  employer,  Mr.  Pease,  of  Little 
River,  for  two  years,  then  obtained  his 
release,  paying  for  the  year  he  had  yet  to 
serve  by  working  nights  and  at  odd  times. 
He  later  spent  a  few  years  upon  the  road 
as  a  whip  salesman  prior  to  his  becoming 
a  manufacturer.  He  first  engaged  in  the 
manufacture  of  whips  with  Mr.  Gillett  as 
a  partner,  later  with  Mr.  Connor,  then 
was  alone  until  the  admission  of  his  son- 
in-law,  Hiram  H.  Lee  (usually  known  as 
"Harry  Lee").  They  continued  a  very 
successful   manufacturing   business   until 

1886,  when  Mr.  Spencer  retired.  He  was 
a  member  of  lodge,  chapter  and  com- 
mandery  of  the  York  Rite  of  Masonry, 
and  in  the  Scottish  Rite  obtained  the 
thirty-second  degree,  and  was  one  of  the 
active  and  interested  Masons  of  the  city, 
responsible  for  the  erection  of  the  Mason- 
ic Temple.  Both  he  and  his  wife  were 
members  of  the  Methodist  Episcopal 
church,  he  being  a  member  of  the  official 
board. 

Mr.  Spencer  married,  September  13, 
1837,  Sarah  A.  Root,  daughter  of  Ben- 
jamin and  Rhoda  (Harman)  Root,  both 
of  old  Massachusetts  families.  Benjamin 
Root,  born  in  Enfield,  Massachusetts, 
died  in  Westfield,  at  the  age  of  eighty- 
four.  He  was  the  owner  of  a  large  farm 
at  Blandford,  and  one  of  Hampden's  sub- 
stantial, successful  men,  a  Democrat  of 
considerable  influence.  Rhoda  Root,  born 
in  Enfield,  died  in  Westfield,  aged  eighty- 
two.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Spencer  celebrated 
their  golden  wedding  day,  September  13, 

1887,  at  the  old  homestead,  and  a  great 
host  of  friends  and  acquaintances  joined 
with  them,  in  commemorating  the  day. 
Mr.  and  Mrs.  Spencer  were  the  parents 


of  three  children:  Lucella  Ruth,  widow 
of  Hiram  H.  Lee;  Charles  Oliver,  born 
July  7,  1842,  died  January  6,  1862,  just  on 
life's  threshold  with  a  life  of  brilliant 
promise  before  him ;  at  the  time  of  his 
death  he  was  a  clerk  in  the  Hampden 
National  Bank ;  Ardella  Maria,  born 
December  15,  1S49,  died  July  2"],  185 1. 


STEARNS,  Willard  Wakefield, 

Expert  in  Textile  Industry. 

The  death  of  Willard  Wakefield 
Stearns,  who  for  forty-one  years  was  con- 
nected with  the  Farr  Alpaca  Company, 
of  Holyoke,  where  he  was  well  known 
and  greatly  beloved,  was  not  only  a  local 
but  a  national  loss  to  the  textile  industry 
with  which  he  had  so  long  been  con- 
nected, for  he  literally  grew  up  in  the 
business,  in  which  he  began  under  the  in- 
struction of  his  father.  The  Stearns  fam- 
ily is  among  the  oldest  of  the  New  Eng- 
land families,  dating  back  nearly  to  the 
landing  of  the  Pilgrims. 

Willard  Wakefield  Stearns,  son  of 
Shepard  and  Bethiah  (Bartlett)  Steams, 
was  born  in  Barre,  Massachusetts,  April 
9,  1845.  He  was  the  youngest  of  ten 
children,  of  whom  only  three  are  now 
(1918)  living:  Edgar  E.,  of  Dorchester, 
Massachusetts  ;  George  A.,  of  Blackstone, 
Massachusetts;  and  Mrs.  Calvin  M. 
Smith,  of  Franklin,  Massachusetts.  Af- 
ter completing  school  years  at  Barre, 
Massachusetts,  and  Blackstone,  Massa- 
chusetts, he  began  learning  woolen  manu- 
facturing under  his  father,  who  was  an 
expert  in  his  time,  and  in  a  position  of 
trust  in  a  Blackstone  woolen  mill.  He 
advanced  in  the  Blackstone  mill  as  far  as 
was  possible.  Leaving  here,  he  was  next 
engaged  in  managerial  capacity  in  mills 
at  Providence,  Rhode  Island,  and  Nor- 
wich, Connecticut,  up  to  the  year  1876, 
when  he  came  to  Holyoke.    Although  but 


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thirty-one  years  of  age  at  this  time,  his 
reputation  had  preceded  him,  and  he  was 
engaged  as  manager  of  the  worsted  de- 
partment of  the  Farr  Alpaca  Company, 
then  a  comparatively  new  industry  in 
Holyoke.  (For  full  description  of  this 
company  see  sketch  of  Joseph  Metcalf 
elsewhere  in  this  work).  So  well  did  he 
organize  and  develop  his  department  that 
about  fifteen  years  later  he  was  placed  in 
charge  of  all  departments  as  general  sup- 
erintendent of  manufacturing,  and  for 
more  than  a  quarter  of  a  century  he  ably 
filled  that  position.  His  administrative 
ability  was  fully  recognized  by  H.  M. 
Farr  and  Joseph  Metcalf,  heads  of  the 
Farr  Alpaca  Company,  by  whom  he  was 
held  in  very  high  regard.  To  this  com- 
pany he  gave  the  enthusiasm  of  his 
youthful  manhood,  the  strength  of  his 
maturer  years,  and  the  wisdom  and  ripe 
experience  of  his  advanced  years,  and  un- 
til his  last  illness  continued  at  his  post 
of  duty. 

It  was  said  of  him  that  he  had  but  two 
interests  in  life,  his  home  and  the  Farr 
Alpaca  Company.  Fifteen  of  the  forty- 
one  years  of  his  connection  with  this 
company  were  passed  as  head  of  the 
worsted  department,  the  remaining 
twenty-six  years  as  general  superintend- 
ent of  the  manufacturing  departments  of 
the  company,  whose  wonderful  growth 
and  development  have  meant  so  much  to 
the  city  of  Holyoke.  Along  with  the  ex- 
pert knowledge  of  woolen  textiles  and 
their  manufacture,  he  developed  a  strong 
and  administrative  ability  and  enjoyed 
the  perfect  confidence  of  the  executive 
heads  of  the  company,  under  whom  he 
served.  Just  how  highly  he  was  esteemed 
by  these  officials  of  the  company  is  at- 
tested by  the  following  testimony  of  an 
official  of  high  rank  in  the  company.  "He 
was  without  a  peer  in  America  or  any 
other  country  as  a  woolen  manufacturer. 


Every  employee  liked  him,  for  he  was  ab- 
solutely just  in  his  dealings  with  them. 
In  his  many  years  association  with  the 
company,  he  saw  its  capacity  grow  from 
an  output  of  two  million  yards  of  goods 
a  year  to  one  of  fifty  million  yards.  He 
was  happy  because  the  concern  grew,  as 
it  gave  him  an  opportunity  to  exercise  his 
really  wonderful  constructive  mind.  His 
death  was  a  great  loss  to  the  Farr  Alpaca 
Company  and  to  the  city  of  Holyoke." 
During  these  years  he  had  invented  an  at- 
tachment for  a  spinning  frame,  upon 
which  he  obtained  a  patent,  June  15,  1875. 
On  December  13,  1910,  he  obtained  a 
patent  on  a  shuttle,  and  on  the  same  day 
another  patent  for  a  shuttle  body.  On 
March  13,  19 17,  he  obtained  a  patent  for 
a  weft  binding  and  cutting  device  for 
looms. 

But  it  was  in  his  home  life  that  the 
beautiful  traits  of  his  character  shone 
forth.  For  nearly  fifty-one  years  Mr.  and 
Mrs.  Stearns  trod  life's  pathway  together 
and  in  1916  celebrated  their  golden  wed- 
ding. Children  and  grandchildren  came 
to  them  and  few  men  more  thoroughly 
enjoyed  their  coming.  He  regarded  his 
grandchildren  with  an  unusual  ailfection 
and  felt  that  his  life  was  enriched  by  their 
love  and  presence.  The  aged  couple 
were  not  long  separated,  the  wife  passing 
away  on  July  20,  191 7,  the  husband  five 
months  later.  He  was  ill  but  one  week, 
so  died  as  he  had  often  said  he  wished 
to,  "in  the  harness." 

Mr.  Stearns  married,  in  December, 
1866,  at  Providence,  Rhode  Island,  Mary 
McBride.  When  first  coming  to  Holy- 
oke in  1876,  they  made  their  home  at 
South  Hadley  Falls,  but  in  1882  moved 
to  Holyoke,  and  for  thirty-five  years  re- 
sided at  No.  224  Pine  street,  the  loved 
and  happy  home  from  which  both  de- 
parted on  that  long  journey  "from  which 
no  traveler  ere  returns."     Mr.  and  Mrs. 


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Stearns  were  the  parents  of  two  daugh- 
ters :  Harriet,  became  the  wife  of  Charles 
H.  Miller,  they  the  parents  of  two  child- 
ren, Edith  Miller  and  John  Stearns. 
Edith  B.,  became  the  wife  of  Oliver  C. 
Alderman  (a  sketch  of  whom  follows), 
they  the  parents  of  Willard  W.  S.,  E. 
Bethia,  Clyden  E.,  H.  Elwood  and  Mary 
Elizabeth.  Both  families  reside  in 
Springfield,  Massachusetts. 

Mr.  Stearns  had  no  clubs,  nor  political 
life,  and  belonged  to  but  one  fraternal 
order,  the  Knights  of  Pythias,  his  home 
filling  every  want  of  his  nature  after  the 
cares  of  business  were  laid  aside  for  the 
day.  His  long  life  was  well-spent  and  the 
record  he  compiled  a  just  source  of  pride 
to  his  descendants. 


ALDERMAN,  Oliver  Clydon, 

Merchant. 

Oliver  Clydon  Alderman,  whose  an- 
cestry appears  in  preceding  volume,  was 
born  in  Wethersfield,  Connecticut,  No- 
vember 28,  1870.  He  attended  school  in 
East  Granby  and  Plainville,  Connecticut, 
and  Holyoke,  Massachusetts.  He  left 
school  and  went  to  work  in  a  hardware 
store  in  Holyoke.  In  1898  he  with  F.  E. 
Carlisle  bought  out  the  Penniman  Hard- 
ware Store  of  North  Adams  and  ran  it 
under  the  firm  name  of  Alderman  &  Car- 
lisle. In  1904  they  bought  out  the  C.  J. 
Blackstone  Hardware  Store  in  Spring- 
field, Massachusetts,  and  in  1905  Alder- 
man and  Carlisle  dissolved  partnership, 
Mr.  Alderman  taking  the  Springfield 
store,  and  Mr.  Carlisle  taking  the  North 
Adams  store.  In  1912  Mr.  Alderman 
bought  the  property  Nos.  227^229  Worth- 
ington  street,  a  three-story  building,  and 
fitted  the  building  up  for  his  business  and 
is  still  (1917)  located  there.  He  has  one 
of  the  largest  and  most  complete  stocks 
of  goods  in  western  Massachusetts.     He 


is  a  member  of  Greylock  Lodge,  Free  and 
Accepted  Masons,  of  North  Adams ; 
Morning  Star  Chapter,  Royal  Arch  Ma- 
sons ;  Springfield  Council,  Royal  and 
Select  Masters ;  Springfield  Commandery, 
Knights  Templar ;  and  Melha  Temple 
Ancient  Arabic  Order  Nobles  of  the  Mys- 
tic Shrine ;  Springfield  Board  of  Trade, 
and  of  the  Nyasset  Club.  In  political 
faith,  he  is  a  Republican. 

He  married,  June  21,  1893,  Edith  B. 
Stearns,  of  Holyoke,  daughter  of  Willard 
W.  and  Mary  (McBride)  Stearns.  Their 
children  are:  Willard  W.  S.,  born  in 
Holyoke,  May  8,  1897.  At  present  (1917) 
a  junior  in  Dartmouth  College ;  E. 
Bethia,  born  in  North  Adams,  Massa- 
chusetts, November  6,  1902;  Clydon  Eu- 
gene, born  in  Springfield,  Massachusetts, 
April  13,  1907;  H.  Elwood,  born  in 
Springfield,  Massachusetts,  July  24,  1908; 
Mary  E.,  born  in  Springfield,  Massachu- 
setts, August  25,  191 1. 


FROST, 


Victor  Merriam, 
Business  Man. 


The  career  of  Victor  M.  Frost,  of  West 
Springfield,  the  head  of  a  large  trucking 
establishment  and  sales  stable  in  that 
town,  presents  to  his  fellow-citizens  an 
example  of  fairly-earned  and  well-merited 
success. 

Daniel  C.  Frost,  father  of  Victor  Mer- 
riam Frost,  was  born  September  12,  1839, 
at  Marlborough,  New  Hampshire,  and 
there  received  his  education  in  the  public 
schools.  He  was  a  harness  manufacturer 
and  possessed  constructive  genius,  in- 
venting and  patenting  buckles  and  other 
articles  pertaining  to  his  business.  He 
lived  and  conducted  his  factory  in  Spring- 
field, Massachusetts.  For  a  time  he  was 
a  member  of  the  firm  of  Wilkinson,  Well- 
man  &  Frost,  Incorporated,  and  later 
went  into  business  for  himself.     All  was 


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apparently  going  well  with  him  when  a 
great  disaster  befell  him.  His  establish- 
ment was  unprotected  by  insurance  and 
in  this  condition  was  totally  destroyed 
by  fire.  After  this  great  misfortune  Mr. 
Frost  took  a  position  and  represented  a 
firm  on  the  road  for  three  years  and  re- 
tired from  business.  During  the  Civil 
War  he  served  with  credit  in  the  Union 
Army,  and  in  politics  he  was  always  a 
staunch  Republican.  Mr.  Frost  married 
Esther  Elizabeth  Merriam,  born  January 
7,  1851,  at  Fitzwilliam's,  New  Hampshire, 
daughter  of  William  and  Jane  (Whit- 
comb)  Merriam.  The  former,  during  the 
greater  part  of  his  life,  was  engaged  in 
the  tannery  business  in  New  Hampshire, 
later  serving  as  overseer  of  the  poor  in 
Palmer,  Massachusetts.  In  the  latter 
place  he  died  in  1914.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Frost 
were  the  parents  of  two  sons :  William, 
died  at  the  age  of  four  years ;  and  Victor 
Merriam,  mentioned  below.  The  death 
of  Mr.  Frost  occurred  in  1892,  in  New 
York  City,  when  he  was  returning  from  a 
trip  to  the  West.  His  widow  did  not 
long  survive  him,  passing  away  in  1894, 
in  Springfield,  Massachusetts.  Both 
were  members  of  the  Universalist  church. 
Victor  Merriam  Frost,  son  of  Daniel 
C.  and  Esther  Elizabeth  (Merriam) 
Frost,  was  born  January  5,  1875,  in 
Springfield,  Massachusetts,  and  received 
his  education  at  the  Springfield  grammar 
school.  At  the  age  of  eighteen  he  ob- 
tained a  position  in  a  drug  store,  but  find- 
ing the  confinement  detrimental  to  his 
health  he  left  at  the  end  of  two  years  and 
worked  successively  for  the  American 
Express  Company  and  the  United  States 
Express  Company.  He  became  proficient 
in  all  branches,  becoming,  it  has  been 
said,  "a  live  wire  at  the  business."  Ap- 
preciating his  energy  and  ability,  the 
American  Express  Company  made  him 
foreman    in    the    transfer    department,    a 


position  which  he  retained  for  three  years, 
at  the  end  of  which  time  he  became 
cashier  for  the  United  States  Express 
Company.  After  two  years  in  this  posi- 
tion, Mr.  Frost  tendered  his  resignation 
and  engaged  in  the  express  and  livery 
business  on  his  own  account.  Two  years 
later,  deeming  it  to  his  advantage  to  do 
so,  he  sold  out  and  embarked  in  the  hack 
business.  In  this  he  was  extremely  suc- 
cessful, building  up  a  large  business  re- 
quiring from  thirty  to  forty  horses.  After 
four  years,  believing  a  change  would  be 
advantageous,  he  disposed  of  this  also  and 
established  a  trucking  and  taxi  business 
in  Springfield,  having  at  one  time  seven 
stables  and  doing  the  largest  business 
of  this  kind  in  the  city.  This  continued 
up  to  1913,  when  he  sold  his  stables  in 
Springfield  and  removed  to  West  Spring- 
field, where  he  has  offices  at  the  foot  of 
Meadow  street.  He  was  very  successful 
and  his  trucking  business  in  West  Spring- 
field required  at  times  one  hundred  horses. 
In  addition  to  this  Mr.  Frost  conducted 
a  large  sales  stable,  buying  horses  from 
the  West  in  car-load  lots  and  selling 
them  at  private  and  auction  sales,  handl- 
ing during  this  time  thirty-seven  thous- 
and head  of  horses.  On  August  i,  1918, 
he  sold  out  his  entire  business,  going  to 
Washington,  Massachusetts,  where  he 
purchased  a  very  large  estate  consisting 
of  three  palatial  houses,  club  house  and 
grounds,  and  which  are  being  fitted  up 
in  a  luxuriant  manner  for  the  accommo- 
dation of  guests  as  a  summer  hotel.  To 
this  enterprise,  he  will  in  future  devote 
his  time.  Politically  Mr.  Frost  is  a  Re- 
publican, and  while  taking  no  active  part 
in  the  affairs  of  the  organization  is  ever 
ready  to  do  all  in  his  power  for  the  fur- 
therance of  the  best  interests  of  his  home 
city.  He  and  his  wife  attend  the  Protest- 
ant Episcopal  Church. 

Mr.  Frost  married,  April  22,  1896,  Car- 


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oline  E.  Ashton,  whose  family  record  is 
appended  to  this  biogjaphy,  and  they  are 
Ihe  parents  of  one  daughter,  Gladys  Ash- 
ton, born  June  12,  1898.  Mrs.  Frost  is  a 
Irue  home-maker,  and  her  husband  al- 
ways finds  at  his  own  fireside  the  repose 
and  relaxation  so  necessary  to  a  man  who 
leads  a  strenuous  life. 

John  Ashton,  father  of  Mrs.  Caroline 
]'2.  (Ashton)  Frost,  was  born  in  Canada, 
and  there  engaged  in  the  hotel  business. 
He  married  Eliza  Rosby,  also  a  native  of 
(lanada,  and  their  children  were:  Wil- 
liam John,  born  in  1870,  now  lives  in 
\Vest  Springfield ;  Dorothy,  born  in  1872, 
resides  in  Springfield ;  Arthur,  born  in 
1874.  killed  at  the  age  of  twenty-two  in 
a  railroad  accident ;  and  Caroline  E,  born 
July  16,  1877,  at  Waterloo,  Canada,  be- 
came the  wife  of  Victor  Merriam  Frost, 
as  stated  above.  Mr.  Ashton  died  in  1914, 
aged  sixty-three,  and  his  widow  is  now 
living  in  Springfield. 


HILL,  George  A., 

Active   in   Commnnity   Affairs. 

Joseph  Hills,  the  immigrant  ancestor 
O'f  the  family  represented  in  the  present 
generation  by  George  A.  Hill,  the  well- 
known  real  estate  dealer  of  Springfield 
and  West  Springfield,  was  born  in  the 
parish  of  Great  Burnsted,  Billerica,  Es- 
sex, England,  and  the  record  of  his  bap- 
tism reads  March,  1602.  "Joseph  Hills, 
the  Sonne  of  George,  was  baptized  the 
third  day."  He  married  Mary  Symonds, 
cif  Billerica,  County  Essex,  widow  of 
William  Seymour,  October  13,  1596. 

His  son,  Joseph  Hills,  married,  July 
22,  1624,  Rose  Clark.  They  resided  in 
(jreat  Burnsted,  and  there  his  elder  child- 
ren were  born.  Not  later  than  March, 
1632,  the  family  removed  to  Maldon,  later 
to  County  Essex,  which  was  the  birth- 
place   of    sons,    John    and    Steven,    and 


daughter,  Sarah.  In  1638,  Joseph  Hills 
came  to  America  on  the  ship,  "Susan  and 
Ellen,"  which  arrived  July  17  of  that  year 
at  Boston  in  New  England.  His  first 
abiding  place  was  where  the  settlement 
of  Charlestown  was  located  by  Governor 
Winthrop,  between  the  Charles  and  Mys- 
tic rivers,  and  about  the  middle  of  the 
nineteenth  century  it  became  a  city,  and 
in  1870  it  was  annexed  to  Boston.  The 
family  dwelling  was  near  the  market 
place,  but  a  few  years  later  he  was  a  resi- 
dent of  that  part  of  the  town  north  of  the 
Mystic  river,  established  his  home  on  the 
Mystic  side,  on  a  farm  of  considerable 
size.  He  soon  became  active  in  public 
affairs ;  served  as  selectman  of  the  town 
in  1644;  in  1646  represented  it  in  the  Gen- 
eral Court,  as  the  Colonial  Assembly  was 
then  named,  and  as  its  Legislature  is 
still  known  under  the  Constitution  of 
the  State ;  re-elected  in  1647,  he  was 
chosen  speaker  of  the  House  of  Deputies. 
When  Mystic  side  was  set  off  as  a  sepa- 
rate town,  it  was  doubtless  named  by 
him  for  the  place  where  he  last  dwelt  in 
Old  England,  and  this  part  of  Charles- 
town  is  now  known  as  the  city  of  Maiden. 
He  was  Maiden's  first  deputy,  and  the 
town  had  no  other  representative  until 
after  1664.  In  1665  Maiden  was  not  rep- 
resented, Mr.  Hills  having  removed  to 
Newbury,  on  the  Merrimac  river,  and  in 
1666  his  son-in-law,  John  Waite,  was  his 
■successor,  and  for  nineteen  years  he  filled 
this  office,  being  speaker  of  the  House  of 
Deputies  in  1684,  and  nominated  as  a 
magistrate  in  1683.  While  a  resident  of 
Mystic  side  and  Maiden,  Mr.  Hills  was 
captain  of  the  train  band,  and  at  his  death 
he  willed  his  buff  coat  to  his  son,  Samuel, 
and  his  back  sword  to  Henry  Lunt,  his 
step-son. 

In  1645,  Joseph  Hills  was  the  first 
named  on  a  committee  to  set  out  lots  to 
the  settlers  of  Nashaway  plantation ;  in 


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1648  he  was  the  first  of  a  committee  of 
four  to  change  the  location  of  the  high- 
way between  Winnesennet  and  Redding; 
in  1650  he  was  second  of  a  committee  of 
which  the  governor  was  chairman,  ap- 
pointed to  draw  up  instructions  for  the 
Massachusetts  delegates  to  a  gathering 
where  the  commissioners  of  all  the  col- 
onies shall  meet ;  in  1653  he  was  one  of 
the  committee  of  six  to  consider  the  ques- 
tion "if  the  vinted  collonges  have  power 
by  the  articles  of  agreement — to  ingage 
in  collonges  in  warre ;"  in  1654,  with  Cap- 
tains Hawthorne  and  Johnson  and  the 
treasurer  of  the  colony,  he  was  appointed 
to  frame  a  reply  to  the  home  government 
which  had  demanded  an  explanation  of 
certain  acts;  three  times,  in  1650,  1653 
and  1661,  he  was  of  committees  to  audit 
the  treasury  accounts.  But  his  greatest 
public  service  was  that  of  the  leading 
member  of  the  committee  that  in  1648 
reported  to  the  General  Court  the  first 
codification  of  the  laws  of  the  colony,  and 
the  story  of  his  part  of  the  work  is  well 
told  by  one  of  his  descendants,  D.  P. 
Cory,  in  his  "History  of  Maiden,"  pub- 
lished in  that  city  in  1899.  That  he  was 
the  actual  compiler  of  the  laws,  that  he 
prepared  the  copy  for  the  press  and  sup- 
ervised their  printing  is  clearly  proved, 
and  the  colony  recognized  the  great  value 
of  his  work  not  only  by  a  money  payment 
but  by  a  grant  of  five  hundred  acres  of 
land  on  the  Nashua  river,  now  a  part  of 
Southern  New  Hampshire,  and  the  re- 
mission of  his  taxes  in  his  old  age.  But 
new  laws  were  from  time  to  time  enacted 
and  old  ones  changed,  and  "the  courts 
finding  by  experience  the  great  benefitt 
that  doth  redound  to  the  country  by 
putting  of  the  laws  into  print,  in  1649-50, 
1653,  i654i  and  1661  appointed  committees 
as  stated  in  the  vote  of  the  last  named 
years,  to  peruse  such  laws  as  are  un- 
printed  and  unrepealed  and  commit  them 


to  the  presse."  For  this  work  Joseph 
Hills  had  such  prominence  that  his  ap- 
pointments to  these  committees  were 
three  times  as  numerous  as  those  of  any 
of  his  colleagues  except  Governor  Bell- 
ingham  who,  notwithstanding  his  official 
position,  was  outranked  by  his  less  dis- 
tinguished associate  in  the  number  of 
times  he  was  designated  for  such  service. 
Rose  (Clark)  Hills,  the  first  wife  of 
Joseph  Hills,  died  at  Maiden,  March  24, 

1650.  He    married    (second),    June    24, 

165 1,  Hannah  (Smith)  Mellows,  widow 
of  Edward  Mellows,  of  Charlestown,  and 
she  died  about  1655.  He  married  (third) 
in  January,  1656,  Helen,  Elline  or  Elea- 
nor, daughter  of  Hugh  Atkinson,  of  Ken- 
dall, Westmoreland,  England,  who  died 
between  the  dates  January  8,  1661,  and 
November  10,  1662.  He  married  (fourth) 
March  8,  1665,  at  Newbury,  Ann  Lunt, 
the  widow  of  Henry  Lunt,  of  that  town. 
He  died  at  Newbury,  February  5,  1688. 
Children  of  Joseph  and  Rose  (Clark) 
Hills:  Mary,  Elizabeth,  Joseph,  James, 
John,  Rebecca,  Steven,  Sarah,  Gershom 
and  Mehitable.  Children  of  Joseph  and 
Hannah  (Mellows)  Hills:  Samuel,  Nath- 
aniel, Hannah.  Children  of  Joseph  and 
Helen  (Atkinson)  Hills:  Deborah,  Abi- 
gail. 

Samuel  Hills,  son  of  Joseph  and  Han- 
nah (Mellows)  Hills,  was  born  at  Mai- 
den, Massachusetts,  in  July,  1652,  and 
died  at  Newbury,  Massachusetts,  August 
18,  1732.  He  served  as  sergeant  in  the 
Indian  War  with  King  Philip,  and  was 
present  at  the  battle  of  Bloody  Brook, 
September  18,  1675,  and  of  Narragansett, 
December  19,  1675.  He  married  at  New- 
bury, May  20,  1679,  Abigail  Wheeler, 
who  died  April  13,  1742.  She  was  the 
daughter  of  David  and  Sarah  (Wise) 
Wheeler,  of  Newbury,  who  were  married 
May  II,  1650.  David  Wheeler  was  a  son 
of  John  B.  Wheeler,  of  Salisbury,  Wilt- 


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shire,  England,  born  1625,  came  to  New 
England  in  the  "Confidence"  in  1638. 
Children  of  Samuel  and  Abigail  (Wheel- 
er) Hills:  Samuel,  Joseph,  Nathaniel, 
Benjamin,  Abigail,  Henry,  William,  Jo- 
siah,  John,  Abigail,  James,  Hannah,  Dan- 
iel, Smith. 

Benjamin  Hills,  son  of  Samuel  and  Abi- 
gail (Wheeler)  Hills,  was  born  at  New- 
bury, Massachusetts,  October  16,  1684, 
and  died  at  Chester,  New  Hampshire, 
November  3,  1762.  He  married,  Novem- 
ber 7,  1709,  Rebecca  Ordway,  born  De- 
cember 22,  1690,  died  September  4,  1769, 
daughter  of  Hananiah  and  Abigail  Ord- 
way, and  granddaughter  of  James  Ord- 
way. Children:  Samuel,  Abigail,  Rebec- 
ca, Joannah,  Ruth,  Benjamin,  Abner, 
Hannah,  Prudence,  Moses. 

Benjamin  (2)  Hills,  son  of  Benjamin 
(i)  and  Rebecca  (Ordway)  Hills,  was 
born  at  Newbury,  Massachusetts,  March 
12,  1721,  and  died  at  Chester,  New  Hamp- 
shire, May  6,  1801.  He  married  at 
Chester,  September  15,  1761,  Elnora 
Moses,  born  at  Chester,  1728,  died  Jan- 
uary 14,  1814,  daughter  of  Stephen  Moses. 
Children :  Benjamin,  Eleanor,  Eliphalet 
and  Sarah,  twins. 

Benjamin  (3)  Hills,  son  of  Benjamin 
(2)  and  Elnora  (Moses)  Hills,  was  born 
at  Chester,  New  Hanmpshire,  November 
I,  1762,  and  died  there,  September  25, 
1 85 1.  He  married,  October  29,  1736, 
Lydia  Dearborn,  born  at  Chester,  Janu- 
ary 24,  1767,  died  there,  June  2,  1844, 
daughter  of  Deacon  John  S.  Dearborn, 
the  paternal  line  being  traced  through 
Thomas,  Jonathan,  Ebenezer,  Ebenezer 
and  Thomas  Dearborn.  Children:  Na- 
thaniel, Henry,  Lydia,  James,  Eleanora, 
Charles,  Levinda,  Benjamin,  Elizabeth, 
Rufus. 

Charles  Hill,  son  of  Benjamin  (3)  and 
Lydia  (Dearborn)  Hills,  was  born  at 
Chester,  New  Hampshire,  1800,  and  died 


at  Derry,  New  Hampshire,  in  1877,  aged 
seventy-seven.  He  remained  in  his  native 
town  until  he  was  thirty  years  of  age, 
then  moved  to  Derry,  New  Hampshire. 
He  devoted  his  entire  time  up  to  the  age 
of  sixty  years  to  agricultural  pursuits, 
in  which  line  of  work  he  was  eminently 
successful,  and  then  became  a  commission 
merchant  in  butter  and  eggs,  continuing 
along  that  line  until  his  retirement  from 
business  at  the  age  of  seventy-seven 
years.  He  married  Hannah  F.  Hanson, 
a  native  of  Epping,  New  Hampshire,  who 
died  at  the  age  of  eighty-four  years  in 
Derry,  New  Hampshire.  They  were  the 
parents  of  four  children,  two  of  whom  are 
living  at  the  present  time  (1918),  name- 
ly :  Horace  A.,  resides  in  Derry,  New 
Hampshire,  and  George  A.,  of  whom 
further. 

George  A.  Hill,  son  of  Charles  and 
Hannah  F.  (Hanson)  Hill,  was  born  at 
Derry,  New  Hampshire,  March  6,  1842. 
He  resided  on  his  father's  farm  until 
eighteen  years  of  age,  in  the  meantime 
attending  the  common  school,  and  later 
Pinkerton  Academy  at  Derry,  New 
Hampshire.  He  then  removed  to  Boston, 
Massachusetts,  and  his  first  employment 
was  as  a  carpenter,  and  later  he  entered 
the  drug  store  of  Mr.  Tufts,  the  well 
known  soda  fountain  manufacturer,  with 
whom  he  remained  for  two  and  a  half 
years.  He  then  entered  the  service  of  his 
country,  enlisting  in  Company  E,  Thirty- 
ninth  Massachusetts  Volunteers,  and 
served  the  full  term  of  enlistment,  nine 
months.  After  his  honorable  discharge, 
he  located  in  Springfield,  Massachusetts, 
where  he  engaged  in  the  drug  business, 
which  he  conducted  successfully  for  a 
quarter  of  a  century,  up  to  1891,  in  which 
year  he  sold  out,  being  at  that  time  one 
of  the  oldest  and  best  known  druggists 
in  that  city.  He  then  engaged  in  the  real 
estate  and  insurance  business,  with  an  of- 


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fice  in  Springfield,  and  has  continued  in 
this  ever  since,  over  a  quarter  of  a  cen- 
tury, and  is  at  the  present  time  (igi8) 
one  of  the  oldest  business  men  in 
Springfield,  it  being  half  a  century  ago 
since  he  established  himself  in  the  drug 
business.  His  home  for  the  past  forty- 
four  years  has  been  in  West  Spring- 
field and  here  as  well,  he  being  one 
of  the  oldest  in  that  section.  He  has 
served  that  town  as  a  member  of  the  Park 
Commission,  and  for  ten  years  was  chair- 
man of  that  board,  and  during  this  time 
he  was  instrumental  in  building  up  a 
beautiful  park  system.  He  also  served 
for  four  years  as  a  member  of  the  Board 
of  Fire  Engineers.  Together  with  Mr. 
Worthy  he  headed  the  petition  for  build- 
ing the  present  North  End  Bridge,  and 
when  this  structure  was  completed  a  pro- 
cession was  formed  at  Court  Square. 
Springfield,  of  which  Mr.  Hill  was  grand 
marshal  and  rode  across  the  bridge  at 
the  head  of  the  procession,  being  the  first 
person  to  cross  the  structure  after  its 
completion.  Mr.  Hill  is  a  Republican  in 
politics,  a  member  of  the  Free  and  Ac- 
cepted Masons,  affiliated  with  Blue 
Lodge,  Chapter  and  Council,  and  for  over 
forty  years  has  held  membership  in  the 
Independent  Order  of  Odd  Fellows. 

Mr.  Hill  married,  June  15,  1869,  Jose- 
phine Lyon  Hazelton,  born  in  Boston, 
Massachusetts,  April  5,  1847,  but  up  to 
the  time  of  her  marriage  spent  her  life  in 
New  Haven,  Connecticut.  She  was  the 
only  child  of  Edmund  F.  and  Sarah  (Gar- 
field) Hazelton,  of  whom  further.  They 
are  the  parents  of  three  children.  i. 
George  A.,  Jr.,  married  Mabel  Beaseley, 
of  Brooklyn,  New  York,  and  are  the  par- 
ents of  two  children:  George  A.,  3rd, 
and  Catherine.  2.  Josephine  Garfield,  be- 
came the  wife  of  James  Lyon,  and  they 
are  the  parents  of  one  child,  Josephine ; 
they   reside   near    Philadelphia,    Pennsyl- 


vania. 3.  Edwin  Charles,  graduated  from 
the  Corvallis  Agricultural  College,  in 
Oregon,  and  is  now  serving  in  a  gov- 
ernment experimental  station ;  married 
Edythe  Brunquist ;  one  child,  Virginia. 

Edmund  F.  Hazelton,  father  of  Mrs. 
Hill,  was  born  at  Chester,  New  Hamp- 
shire, was  the  successful  proprietor  of  a 
hotel,  and  died  in  Orange,  New  Jersey. 
He  married  Sarah  Garfield,  born  in  New 
Haven,  Connecticut,  and  died  at  the  early 
age  of  twenty-four.  Edmund  F.  Hazel- 
ton was  a  son  of  Josiah  and  Sarah  (Emer- 
son) Hazelton,  the  latter  a  daughter  of 
John  Emerson,  born  August  13,  1757, 
died  April  3,  1844.  His  name  is  on  the 
pay  roll  of  Captain  Joseph  Dearborn's 
company  in  Colonel  Moses  Nichols'  regi- 
ment ;  he  marched  to  Rhode  Island, 
entered  August  5,  1777,  and  was  dis- 
charged August  28,  1777,  and  allowed  two 
days'  travel  home.  His  record  is  found 
in  the  "Flistory  of  Chester,  New  Hamp- 
shire," page  376,  and  in  New  Hampshire 
War  Rolls,  vol.  2,  page  525.  John  Emer- 
son married  Elizabeth  French,  who  was 
born  December  10,  1761.  John  Emerson 
was  a  lineal  descendant  of  Michael  Emer- 
son, who  moved  to  Haverhill,  Massachu- 
setts, in  1656;  married  in  1657,  and  was 
the  father  of  fifteen  children,  the  oldest, 
Hannah,  married  Thomas  Dustin,  and  is 
well  known  in  history  as  "Hannah  Dus- 
tin." Among  the  children  of  Michael 
Emerson  was  a  son,  Jonathan  Emerson, 
a  grantee  of  Chester,  New  Hampshire, 
who  had  a  son,  Samuel  Emerson,  who 
settled  in  Chester  in  1707,  a  very  able 
man,  the  father  of  fifteen  children.  John 
Emerson,  the  twelfth  child  of  Samuel 
Emerson,  married  Elizabeth,  daughter  of 
Deacon  Nathaniel  French,  as  aforemen- 
tioned. Samuel  and  John  Emerson  held 
the  office  of  town  clerk  in  Chester,  New 
Hampshire,  from  1731  to  1817,  a  period 
of    eighty-six    years,     Samuel     Emerson 


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serving  for  fifty-seven  years.  Sarah  (Gar- 
field) Hazelton  traced  her  ancestry  to 
Edward  Garfield,  of  England,  who  came 
to  America  with  the  colonists  under  Gov- 
ernor Winthrop,  June  30,  1630.  The  line 
is  traced  through  his  son,  Edward  (2) 
Garfield,  a  resident  of  Watertown,  Mas- 
sachusetts, who  died  April  16,  1661. 
Through  his  son,  Benjamin  Garfield,  born 
1643,  died  1717;  he  was  captain  of  militia, 
and  was  a  member  of  the  General  Court 
eleven  times.  He  married  (first),  1673, 
Mehitable  Hawkins,  and  (second),  1677, 
Elizabeth  Bridge.  His  fourth  child, 
Thomas  Garfield,  was  the  ancestor  of 
President  Garfield.  The  line  here  fol- 
lowed is  traced  through  Samuel  Garfield, 
born  1692,  a  resident  of  Watertown,  Mas- 
sachusetts. Through  his  son,  Benjamin 
Garfield,  born  1715,  died  1756;  a  resident 
of  Watertown ;  he  was  killed  by  the  In- 
dians;  he  married,  1739,  Abigail  Harring- 
ton. Through  their  son,  Benjamin  Gar- 
field, born  1740,  married,  1764,  Lucy 
Chase.  Through  their  son,  Timothy  Gar- 
field, born  1765,  died  1841 ;  was  a  resident 
of  Fitchburg,  Massachusetts;  married, 
1789,  Eunice  Pond.  Through  their  son, 
John  Metcalf  Garfield,  who  was  an  Epis- 
copal minister  and  preached  in  various 
places,  and  later  conducted  a  young 
ladies'  seminary  in  Troy,  New  York,  and 
from  this  institution  graduated  many  of 
the  most  successful  teachers  who  subse- 
quently had  private  schools  throughout 
the  New  England  States  and  were  among 
the  leading  educators  in  that  section  of 
the  United  States.  He  later  gave  up  the 
conduct  of  the  seminary  and  went  to  New 
Haven,  Connecticut,  where  he  organized 
a  church  for  colored  people,  of  which  he 
had  charge  up  to  the  time  of  his  death, 
at  over  eighty  years  of  age.  He  was  the 
father  of  Sarah  Garfield,  who,  as  noted 
above,  married  Edmund  F.  Hazelton,  the 
father  of  Mrs.  George  A.  Hill. 


KING,  John  Robert, 

Business   Man. 

John  R.  King,  the  well-known  grocer  of 
Westfield,  is  a  grandson  of  Patrick  King, 
of  County  Cavan,  Ireland,  who  in  1837 
came  to  the  United  States  and  settled  at 
Chicopee,  Massachusetts,  where  he  be- 
came a  mill  worker.  He  was  accom- 
panied by  his  wife,  three  sons  and  three 
daughters.  One  of  these  sons,  James 
King,  who  was  about  seven  years  of  age 
at  the  time  his  parents  came  to  the  United 
States,  was  the  father  of  John  Robert 
King,  of  Westfield,  whose  successful 
career  is  herein  traced.  Patrick  King  did 
not  long  remain  a  mill  worker  at  Chico- 
pee, but  removed  to  Belchertown,  where 
he  became  a  farmer,  and  there  his  wife 
died  shortly  after  the  removal,  but  he  sur- 
vived to  the  great  age  of  ninety-seven, 
dying  about  1876. 

James  King,  born  in  1830  in  County 
Cavan,  Ireland,  died  in  Belchertown, 
Massachusetts,  in  1902.  He  was  brought 
to  this  country  by  his  parents  in  1837,  and 
the  spirit  of  adventure  aroused  by  the 
journey  over  land  and  sea  long  remained 
with  him.  He  was  educated  in  the  pub- 
lic schools  of  Chicopee,  and  then  went  to 
the  farm  in  Belchertown  with  his  parents, 
remaining  there  until  1849,  when  he  left 
home  to  seek  his  fortune  in  the  California 
gold  fields.  He  made  the  voyage  via  the 
Isthmus  of  Panama,  reached  his  destina- 
tion in  safety  and  there  spent  six  success- 
ful, adventurous  years.  He  then  returned 
to  Belchertown,  settled  on  his  own  farm 
and  there  passed  the  remainder  of  his 
life  amid  quiet,  rural  surroundings,  pros- 
perous and  contented.  He  married  at 
Chicopee,  Massachusetts,  Mary  Walsh, 
born  in  County  Kilkenny,  Ireland,  who 
came  to  the  United  States  with  an  aunt, 
settled  in  Chicopee  and  there  resided  until 
her  marriage.    She  died  in  Westfield,  Jan- 


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uary  20,  1907.  James  and  Mary  King 
were  the  parents  of  four  children,  all 
born  in  Belchertown :  James,  who  died 
at  the  age  of  eighteen  years ;  Edward 
Joseph,  born  July  16,  1863,  now  a  retired 
merchant  living  in  West  Springfield ; 
Mary  H.,  born  March  3,  1865,  married 
John  Powers,  both  deceased ;  children : 
Eleanor,  Winifred,  Dorothy,  James  and 
Charles  Powers ;  John  Robert,  of  further 
mention. 

John  Robert  King  was  born  in  Belcher- 
town, Massachusetts,  June  24,  1868,  and 
there  obtained  a  high  school  education, 
graduating  with  the  class  of  1885.  A  few 
years  were  spent  with  his  father  as  his 
farm  assistant,  then  for  ten  years  he  was 
a  partner  with  his  brother,  Edward  J.,  the 
brothers  conducting  a  provision  store  in 
West  Springfield  under  the  firm  name  of 
King  Brothers.  They  prospered  and  for 
ten  years  confined  their  energies  to  the 
West  Springfield  business,  then  opened  a 
branch  store  in  Westfield,  Edward  J.  tak- 
ing charge  there,  John  R.  remaining  at 
the  original  place  of  business.  Three 
years  later  the  brothers  dissolved  and  in 
the  division  John  R.  received  the  West- 
field  store  and  at  once  assumed  its  man- 
agement. He  started  very  modestly  with 
one  clerk,  handling  only  meats,  but  from 
that  small  beginning  has  built  up  the 
largest  meat,  grocery,  fruit  and  vegetable 
store  in  Western  Massachusetts,  twenty- 
seven  clerks  being  required  to  meet  the 
demands  of  his  trade.  Mr.  King  is  thor- 
oughly modern  in  his  methods  of  mer- 
chandising, keeps  abreast  of  the  times  in 
equipment  and  stock,  and  in  connection 
with  his  handsome  store  has  a  refriger- 
ating plant  which  controls  the  tempera- 
ture of  the  rooms  devoted  to  perishable 
goods.  He  is  of  a  fine  type  of  business 
man,  able,  energetic  and  far-sighted,  as 
the  business  he  has  developed  shows.  He 
is    one    of    Westfield's    solid,    substantial 


business  men,  interested  in  all  that  makes 
for  community  good.  He  is  a  member  of 
St.  Mary's  Roman  Catholic  Church,  the 
Knights  of  Columbus,  the  Ancient  Order 
of  Hibernians,  the  Benevolent  and  Pro- 
tective Order  of  Elks  and  the  Improved 
Order  of  Red  Men. 

Mr.  King  married  on  Christmas  Day, 
1893,  Catherine  Boyle,  born  in  Ware, 
Massachusetts,  in  1876,  daughter  of  Jo- 
seph and  Mary  Boyle.  Mr.  and  Mrs. 
King  are  the  parents  of  four  daughters 
and  a  son:  i.  Frances  Clair,  born  Octo- 
ber 10,  1896,  a  graduate  of  Westfield  High 
School,  class  of  1914;  post-graduate,  191 5  ; 
a  graduate  of  the  Domestic  Science  De- 
partment of  Framingham  State  Normal 
School.  2.  Helen  May,  born  July  24, 
1898.  a  graduate  of  Westfield  High 
School,  class  of  1916,  now  a  student  at 
Sargent  School  of  Physical  Culture, 
Cambridge.  Massachusetts,  class  of  1919. 
3.  Irene  Gertrude,  born  January  7,  1901, 
a  student  at  high  school.  4.  Dorothy  Al- 
freda,  born  May  24,  1903.  5.  John  Robert 
(2),  born  February  8,  1915. 


SULLIVAN,  John  Francis, 
Public  Official. 

John  Francis  Sullivan,  superintendent 
of  the  water  department  of  the  city  of 
Chicopee,  Massachusetts,  is  a  son  of  John 
David  Sullivan,  grandson  of  Michael  Sul- 
livan, and  great-grandson  of  Maurice  Sul- 
livan, the  latter  born  in  County  Kerry, 
Ireland,  and  came  to  the  United  States  at 
an  early  day.  He  was  a  farmer  by  occu- 
pation and  a  noted  performer  on  the  flute, 
the  section  of  Fitchburg,  Massachusetts, 
in  which  he  lived,  yet  being  known  as  the 
"Fifer's  Patch."  He  was  the  father  of 
two  sons,  Patrick  John,  and  Michael,  also 
a  daughter,  Margaret. 

Michael  Sullivan,  born  in  County  Kerry, 
Ireland,  about  1827,  came  to  the  United 

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States  about  1848,  and  died  at  Chicopee 
Falls,  Massachusetts,  in  1910.  He  was  a 
quarrj'man  by  occupation  and  was  em- 
ployed in  Holyoke,  Massachusetts,  until 
1856,  when  he  went  South  and  was  em- 
ployed in  railway  construction  for  three 
years,  then  returned  to  New  England, 
obtaining  a  quarryman's  position  at  Rock- 
ville,  Connecticut,  and  also  was  engaged  in 
railroad  building  both  there  and  at  Ver- 
non, Connecticut.  After  i860  he  located 
at  Chicopee  Falls,  there  being  in  the 
employ  of  Sackett  Brothers  on  construc- 
tion work,  and  in  Springfield,  Massachu- 
setts, they  built  a  sewer  system  for  the 
city.  He  was  a  man  of  education  and 
widely-read,  a  good  writer,  continuing  in 
his  business  until  within  about  five  years 
of  his  death,  when  he  retired.  He  mar- 
ried Mary  Shea,  born  in  County  Kerry, 
Ireland,  daughter  of  Maurice  and  Betsey 
(Moriarity)  Shea.  They  were  the  par- 
ents of  the  following  children :  John 
David,  of  further  mention ;  Joanna,  mar- 
ried Maurice  J.  Hasset;  Mary,  Sister 
Alexada,  a  sister  of  St.  Joseph,  connected 
with  a  convent  at  Brentwood,  Long 
Island ;  Agnes,  deceased ;  James  F.,  de- 
ceased ;  Nellie,  married  James  Bagley, 
deceased ;  Michael  H. 

John  David  Sullivan,  eldest  of  the  chil- 
dren of  Michael  and  Mary  (Shea)  Sulli- 
van, was  born  in  Fitchburg,  Massachu- 
setts, June  16,  1849,  now  a  resident  and 
extensive  land  owner  of  Chicopee  Falls, 
Massachusetts.  He  was  educated  in  the 
schools  of  Holyoke,  Massachusetts,  and 
in  his  youth  went  South  with  his  father 
and  was  also,  as  a  boy,  employed  on  rail- 
road construction.  In  Richmond,  Vir- 
ginia, he  was  a  newsboy  and  later  at  the 
time  of  the  battle  of  Bull  Run,  was  liv- 
ing in  that  city  and  was  employed  on  the 
fortification.  Soon  afterward  he  came  to 
Chicopee  Falls,  where  for  four  years  he 
was  in  the  employ  of  the  Chicopee  Manu- 


facturing Company.  He  then  learned 
the  mason's  trade  with  Captain  McClel- 
lan,  becoming  an  expert  bricklayer.  In 
1893  he  began  contracting  in  Chicopee 
and  has  continued  until  the  present  time 
(1918)  one  of  the  well-known  builders  of 
his  section.  He  contracted  for  and  built 
a  number  of  school  buildings  in  Chicopee, 
the  Lamb  Knitting  Mill,  and  a  number  of 
the  business  blocks  on  Main  street,  the 
first  addition  to  the  Fisk  Rubber  Plant, 
the  first  large  trunk  sewer  in  Chicopee, 
and  also  contracted  important  construc- 
tion in  Springfield,  Massachusetts.  He 
is  a  large  owner  of  Chicopee  Falls  real 
estate,  and  one  of  the  successful,  substan- 
tial men  of  that  community. 

John  D.  Sullivan  married,  in  May, 
1872,  Mary  Fitzgerald,  of  Chicopee  Falls, 
daughter  of  Maurice  and  Katherine  (Ken- 
nedy) Fitzgerald.  They  were  the  par- 
ents of  eight  children :  Mary  Ellen,  de- 
ceased, who  was  the  wife  of  Michael  J. 
O'Brien;  Agnes,  married  Jeremiah  Mur- 
phy ;  Louisa,  deceased ;  John  Francis,  of 
further  mention ;  Michael  H.,  Charlotte, 
William,  Joseph. 

John  Francis  Sullivan,  eldest  son  of 
John  David  and  Mary  (Fitzgerald)  Sul- 
livan, was  born  at  Chicopee  Falls,  Massa- 
chusetts, June  18,  1880,  and  was  there  edu- 
cated in  parochial  schools.  He  then 
learned  the  trade  of  bricklayer  under  his 
father's  instruction,  after  which  for  two 
years  he  was  employed  at  Welland,  On- 
tario, Canada,  by  the  Gallovan  Construc- 
tion Company.  He  soon  returned  to 
Chicopee  Falls,  and  again  entering  his 
father's  employ  continued  in  construction 
work  until  1915,  when  he  was  appointed 
superintendent  of  streets  of  the  city  of 
Chicopee  and  held  that  office  until  elected 
by  the  water  commissioners  to  the  office 
of  superintendent  of  the  water  depart- 
ment, which  responsible  position  he  now 
holds.     He  is  a   Democrat  in  politics,  a 


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member  of  the  Knights  of  Columbus  and 
the  Knights  of  Columbus  Club. 

Mr.  Sullivan  married,  October  27,  1909, 
Nora  Murphy,  of  Thorndike,  Massachu- 
setts, daughter  of  Michael  and  Joanna 
(McKeagan)  Murphy.  Mr.  and  Mrs. 
Sullivan  are  the  parents  of  five  children: 
John,  Frank,  Charlotte,  Bernard,  Thomas. 
The  family  home  is  No.  109  Church 
street,  Chicopee  Falls. 


BRAY,  George  Willard, 

Business  Man. 

Nearly  three-quarters  of  a  century  has 
elapsed  since  Robert  Bray  with  his  wife 
and  three  infant  sons,  James,  George  W. 
and  William,  left  his  English  home  and 
came  to  the  United  States,  making  settle- 
ment in  the  village  of  Greenfield,  Massa- 
chusetts, then  passing  on  to  Sherburne 
Falls,  Massachusetts,  then  to  Heath  and 
back  to  Sherburne  Falls,  where  he  ended 
his  days  after  nearly  half  a  century  of  life 
in  his  American  home.  Six  other  children 
were  born  to  Robert  and  Amelia  (Baker) 
Bray. 

George  W.  Bray  is  a  grandson  of  James 
Bray,  born  November  3,  1791,  died  Feb- 
ruary 3,  1861,  who  married  Ann  Jennings, 
born  December  4,  1792,  died  May  5,  1848, 
both  of  whom  lived  and  died  in  England. 
They  were  the  parents  of  nine  children : 
Leah,  born  December  i,  1813,  died  March 
2-],  1895 ;  Thomas,  born  September  18, 
1815;  Robert,  of  further  mention;  Rich- 
ard, born  March  7,  1821 ;  George,  born 
September  8,  1823 ;  Worthy  Benoni,  born 
April  12,  1826;  Ruth,  born  April  22,  1829; 
William,  born  June  25,  1831  ;  Martha, 
born  June  8,  1834. 

Robert  Bray,  second  son  of  James  and 
Ann  (Jennings)  Bray,  was  born  at  Bath, 
England,  March  31,  1818,  and  died  at 
Sherburne  Falls,  April  3,  1890.  He  be- 
came a  mill  worker  and  remained  in  his 
native  land  until  1845,  when  he  came  to 


the  United  States,  accompanied  by  his 
family  then  consisting  of  a  wife  and  three 
sons.  He  settled  at  Greenfield,  Massa- 
chusetts, where  he  was  foreman  of  a  de- 
partment in  a  woolen  mill ;  Mr.  Bray 
later  settled  at  Sherburne  Falls,  Massa- 
chusetts, where  he  obtained  a  position  in 
the  cutlery  works  operated  by  Lamson, 
Goodenough  &  Company.  In  later  years 
he  bought  a  farm  of  two  hundred  acres 
on  Heath  mountain,  where  he  continued 
his  residence  for  some  years,  and  then 
returned  to  Sherburne  Falls,  where  he 
resided  until  his  death.  He  was  an  ardent 
advocate  of  the  cause  of  temperance  and 
believed  in  the  legal  prohibition  of  the 
liquor  traffic.  He  was  a  widely-read  Bible 
student,  and  a  deacon  of  the  Baptist 
church,  a  member  of  the  Masonic  order 
and  of  the  Independent  Order  of  Odd  Fel- 
lows, all  of  Sherburne  Falls. 

Robert  Bray  married,  June,  1840,  in 
England,  Amelia  Baker,  born  in  Brad- 
ford, England,  on  the  river  Avon,  June  30, 
1820,  and  died  in  the  year  1908,  daughter 
of  William  Baker.  They  were  the  par- 
ents of  eight  children :  James,  born 
March  31,  1841 ;  George  Willard,  of  fur- 
ther mention;  William,  born  April  13, 
1846,  deceased ;  Benjamin  W.,  born 
March  7,  1851  ;  Rosina,  born  February 
17,  1853;  Sarah,  born  February  21,  1857; 
Martha,  born  November  22,  1859;  Albert 
C,  born  October  21,  1866. 

George  Willard  Bray,  second  son  of 
Robert  and  Amelia  (Baker)  Bray,  was 
born  in  Bradford,  England,  September 
28,  1843,  but  when  six  years  of  age  was 
brought  to  the  United  States  by  his  par- 
ents, his  first  American  home  being  at 
Greenfield,  Massachusetts.  Later  the  fam- 
ily moved  to  Sherburne  Falls,  Massachu- 
setts, then  to  Heath,  and  in  these  towns 
the  lad,  George  W.,  attended  public 
schools  until  thirteen  years  of  age.  He 
then  entered  the  Gardner  Cutlery  Works 
at    Sherburne    Falls,    as    oftice   boy,   but 


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soon  afterward  was  employed  with  his 
father  in  cultivating  the  Heath  Mountain 
Farm.  At  about  the  age  of  seventeen  he 
journeyed  to  Meriden,  Connecticut,  where 
he  was  in  the  employ  of  the  Meriden 
Cutlery  Company,  later  going  with  the 
Meriden  Brittania  Company,  manufactur- 
ers of  all  kinds  of  small  metal  goods. 
There  he  was  assistant  to  the  engineer, 
Isaac  Schedel,  and  for  a  time  ran  the 
engine  here. 

In  April,  1866,  he  made  his  entrance 
into  mercantile  life  as  a  member  of  the 
firm  E.  B.  Clarke  &  Company,  Mr.  Bray 
and  E.  B.  Clarke  constituting  the  firm. 
They  opened  a  general  store  in  South 
Meriden,  and  there  they  conducted  a 
prosperous  business  for  two  years,  Mr. 
Bray  then  selling  his  half-interest  to  his 
partner  and  removing  to  Chicopee  Falls, 
Massachusetts.  There  in  May,  1868,  he 
bought  the  furniture  and  grocery  business 
of  James  E.  Taylor.  He  continued  this 
for  some  years,  then  reorganized  the  bus- 
iness, dropped  the  furniture,  rugs  and  car- 
pet lines,  retaining  the  groceries  and  pro- 
visions. He  bought  the  business,  June 
II,  1868,  and  from  that  date  until  the 
present  (1918)  has  continued  at  the  same 
stand.  That  he  has  been  successful  is  a 
self-evident  fact,  and  during  the  half  cen- 
tury which  has  just  expired  he  has  given 
his  personal  efifort  and  greatest  energy  to 
the  developing  and  conduct  of  an  estab- 
lishment of  this  kind  along  the  best  mod- 
ern lines. 

Outside  of  his  personal  business,  he  has 
large  interests  of  varied  value.  He  was 
one  of  the  incorporators  of  the  Chicopee 
Falls  Savings  Bank,  and  since  its  incor- 
poration he  has  been  a  member  of  the 
finance  committee  in  charge  of  the  real 
estate  department.  A  Republican  in  poli- 
tics, he  has  long  been  one  of  the  influ- 
ential men  of  the  party  in  his  district.  For 
twenty-five  years  he  was  treasurer  of  the 
Republican  committee,  was  assessor  for 


three  years,  was  associate  for  two  years, 
then  was  elected  county  commissioner, 
and  has  been  reelected  and  is  now  serv- 
ing his  second  three-year  term,  or  eight 
years  in  all.  He  was  a  member  of  the  Re- 
publican county  committee  and  chairman 
of  the  commissioners  of  the  Mount  Tom 
State  Reservation  Board,  which  is  com- 
posed of  the  county  commissioners  of 
Hampden  and  Hampshire  counties,  his 
service  perpetuated  in  Lake  Bray,  which 
was  laid  out  under  his  leadership.  He 
was  one  of  the  charter  members  of  the 
original  lodge  of  the  Royal  Arcanum,  is 
a  member  of  the  Knights  of  Pythias,  and 
Gaza  Temple,  No.  191,  D.  I.  K.  of  K.,  of 
Springfield,  and  of  the  Chicopee  Falls 
Methodist  Episcopal  Church,  has  served 
many  years  as  a  member  of  the  official 
board  and  is  now  president  of  the  board 
of  trustees.  Thus  in  honor  and  in  useful- 
ness, he  is  passing  the  evening  of  life, 
rich  in  the  regard  of  his  fellow  townsmen, 
and  grateful  that  he  has  been  able  to  ren- 
der so  good  an  account  of  his  steward- 
ship. 

Mr.  Bray  married,  November  21,  1866, 
Annie  E.  Clark,  of  Milford,  Connecticut, 
daughter  of  Lewis  and  Nancy  (Benjamin) 
Clark.  For  forty-eight  years  Mr.  and 
Mrs.  Bray  trod  life's  pathway  together 
when  suddenly  the  bond  was  sundered,  the 
good  wife  passing  away  January  2,  1914. 
They  were  the  parents  of  three  sons  and 
a  daughter,  i.  Arthur  E.,  deceased.  2. 
Clayton,  deceased.  3.  Charles  Willard, 
born  August  27,  1879,  was  connected  with 
the  recent  war  drives  and  was  food  agent 
of  the  Falls ;  married,  September  14,  1910, 
Grace  Evelyn  Harlow,  of  Northampton, 
Massachusetts,  daughter  of  George  Mose- 
ley  and  Mary  Louise  (Kneeland)  Har- 
low, and  they  are  the  parents  of  two 
daughters:  Lois  Kneeland,  born  May  16, 
1913,  and  Dorothy  Harlow,  born  June  30, 
1918.    4.  Maud,  born  1881,  deceased. 


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KINYON,  William  Hervey, 
Educator. 

A  man  of  quick  perception,  sound  judg- 
ment, and  remarkable  force  of  determina- 
tion of  character,  Mr.  Kinyon  is  peculiarly 
well  fitted  for  his  position  in  life,  that 
of  preparing  the  young  man  and  woman 
for  business  careers.  He  possesses  fine 
natural  abilities  in  this  line,  and  his  sev- 
eral undertakings  have  met  with  signal 
success. 

Mr.  Kinyon  was  born  December  i8, 
1869,  in  Albany,  Kansas,  son  of  Myron 
Thurston  and  Mary  Ann  (Adams)  Kin- 
yon. The  Kinyon  family  is  early  found  in 
the  records  of  West  Greenwich,  Rhode 
Island,  and  representatives  of  this  family 
removed  to  Smyrna,  New  York,  and  there 
Myron  Thurston  Kinyon  was  born.  He 
engaged  in  the  lumber  business  for  many 
years  in  Williamsport,  Pennsylvania,  and 
subsequently  was  in  the  insurance  busi- 
ness in  Pawtucket,  Rhode  Island. 

William  Hervey  Kinyon  was  but  a  boy 
when  his  parents  moved  to  Williamsport 
and  thence  to  Providence,  Rhode  Island. 
He  attended  the  public  schools  of  Paw- 
tucket and  Providence.  He  graduated 
from  Stowell's  Business  College  of  Provi- 
dence in  1887,  and  then  pursued  a  course 
at  Packard's  Commercial  College  in  New 
York  City,  New  York.  After  this  he  re- 
turned to  the  first  named  college  as  an 
instructor,  and  remained  there  until  1902. 
The  year  previous,  Mr.  Kinyon  had 
founded  the  Pawtucket  Commercial 
School,  a  very  thriving  institution  of 
learning  which  grows  better  and  larger 
each  year.  In  191 1,  Mr.  Kinyon  founded 
a  commercial  school  at  New  Bedford, 
Massachusetts,  which  is  progressing  and 
graduating  students  well-skilled  in  com- 
mercial studies.  Kinyon's  Commercial 
School  was  established  September  3,  1901, 


in  two  small  rooms  on  the  third  floor  of 
Kinyon  block.  That  the  methods  em- 
ployed met  with  success  from  the  start 
has  been  proven  by  the  fact  that  six 
months  later  the  school  was  compelled  to 
move  to  more  spacious  quarters  on  the 
second  floor,  covering  an  area  of  twenty- 
five  hundred  square  feet.  But  the  school 
grew  so  rapidly  that  in  1905  it  was  neces- 
sary to  add  three  more  large  rooms  on 
the  third  floor,  which  now  makes  a  total 
of  five  thousand  square  feet  for  the  Paw- 
tucket school.  From  the  start  the  suc- 
cess of  the  school  was  a  certainty.  It 
has  found  its  place  in  the  business  com- 
munity. Business  men  turn  to  the  Kin- 
yon Schools  when  they  want  efficient 
stenographers,  bookkeepers  and  general 
clerks,  while  young  men  and  women  seek- 
ing the  best  in  ofiice  training  choose  Kin- 
yon's School.  The  Kinyon  School  thus 
demonstrates  the  power  of  a  high  ideal 
and  exemplifies  the  thought  of  Emerson, 
who  said:  "If  a  man  write  a  better  book, 
preach  a  better  sermon  or  make  a  better 
mouse-trap  than  his  neighbor,  though  he 
build  his  house  in  the  wilderness,  the 
world  will  make  a  beaten  path  to  his  door." 
Mr.  Kinyon  is  a  Republican,  and  takes  an 
active  interest  in  the  aft'airs  of  that  party. 
He  is  an  attendant  of  the  Park  Place  Con- 
gregational Church  of  Pawtucket,  and 
serves  as  one  of  its  trustees,  in  which  of- 
fice he  renders  great  help  and  assistance 
because  of  his  expert  business  training 
and  knowledge. 

On  July  12,  1893,  Mr.  Kinyon  married 
at  Providence,  Rhode  Island,  Ella  May 
Gillmore,  daughter  of  Robert  Gillmore, 
a  native  of  Ireland.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Kin- 
yon are  the  parents  of  three  daughters: 
Alice  Gillmore,  born  September,  1898; 
Marion  Sheldon,  November,  1901 ;  Nettie 
Wensley,  August,  1903. 


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STEVENS,  Henry  Hale, 

Manufacturer. 

The  Stevens  family,  whose  first  repre- 
sentative vi^as  in  Massachusetts  Bay  Col- 
ony when  that  colony  was  but  little  more 
than  a  decade  of  years  old,  has  grown  in 
numbers  and  in  the  strength  and  influence 
of  its  individual  members  from  the  early 
days  of  New  England  to  the  present  time. 
Colonel  Thomas  Stevens,  of  London, 
came  originally  from  Devonshire,  Eng- 
land. He  was  a  member  of  the  company 
chartered  for  the  settlement  of  Massa- 
chusetts Bay,  which  in  1628  sent  out  John 
Endicott  and  others  to  plant  a  colony  at 
Salem,  Massachusetts.  There  were  num- 
erous other  immigrants  bearing  this 
name,  who  settled  very  early  in  New  Eng- 
land, being  located  in  Gloucester,  New- 
bury, Salisbury  and  Amesbury,  as  well 
as  in  Plymouth. 

(I)  John  Stevens,  born  in  England,  in 
1605,  came  from  Caversham  or  Gonsham, 
Oxfordshire,  England,  in  the  ship  "Con- 
fidence," sailing  in  April,  1637,  from 
Southampton.  Caversham  is  in  the 
southern  part  of  Oxford  near  Reading,  in 
Berkshire.  He  settled  first  in  Newbury, 
Massachusetts,  and  was  admitted  a  free- 
man. May  18,  1642,  removed  to  Andover 
and  served  on  a  committee  with  Henry 
Short,  of  Newbury,  and  Joseph  Jewett, 
of  Rowley,  to  decide  the  boundary  line 
in  dispute  between  Haverhill  and  Salis- 
bury, appointed  by  the  General  Court  in 
1654.  In  1681  his  son  John  was  also  a 
proprietor  of  Andover.  He  was  a  man 
of  note  and  substance  and  his  name  often 
appears  in  the  town  and  court  records, 
and  he  was  called  yeoman,  was  sergeant, 
or  chief  commander,  of  the  militia  com- 
pany of  Andover.  His  gravestone  at  An- 
dover, the  only  one  to  a  first  settler,  is 
quaintly  carved  and  ornamented,  but 
bears  no  eulogy  or  text,  simply  this  in- 


scription :  "Here  lyes  buried  the  body  of 
Mr.  John  Stevens,  who  deceased  ye  11 
Day  of  April  1662  in  ye  57  Year  of  his 
age."  His  wife  Elizabeth  was  appointed 
administratrix,  June  14,  1662.  The  inven- 
tory showed  a  Bible  and  other  books,  also 
musket,  corslet,  headpiece,  a  sword,  cut- 
lass and  halberd,  table  cloths  and  napkins, 
table  board,  chairs.  Elizabeth  testified 
June  16,  1673,  that  she  was  sixty  years 
old,  concerning  Samuel  Parker,  son  of  her 
brother,  Joseph  Parker,  of  Andover,  and 
presumably  her  maiden  name  was  Parker, 
though  the  word  "brother"  was  often 
used  for  brother-in-law.  She  died  May 
I,  1694,  aged  eighty-one  years.  Her  will, 
dated  October  21,  1687,  with  codicil  Sep- 
tember 7,  1691,  bequeathed  to  children, 
and  was  proved  September  25,  1694. 
Children:  i.  John,  born  June  20,  1639,  at 
Newbury ;  selectman,  and  prominent  in 
militia ;  died  March  5,  1689,  while  on  mil- 
itary duty.  2.  Timothy,  born  September 
2;^,  1641.  The  following  born  at  Andov- 
er :  3.  Nathan,  1643 ;  married,  1692,  Eliz- 
abeth Abbot ;  served  in  King  Philip's  War 
as  corporal.  4.  Ephraim,  1649 ;  married, 
1680,  Sarah  Abbot;  sergeant  of  militia; 
selectman.  5.  Joseph,  mentioned  below. 
6.  Captain  Benjamin,  June  24,  1656;  mar- 
ried Susannah  Symmes;  died  1730;  dep- 
uty to  General  Court.  7.  Elizabeth,  mar- 
ried Joshua  Woodman.  8.  Mary,  married 
John  Barker. 

(II)  Joseph  Stevens,  son  of  John  and 
Elizabeth  Stevens,  was  born  May  15, 
1654,  in  Andover,  and  died  February  25, 
1743,  aged  eighty-eight  years.  He  settled 
in  his  native  town,  in  1675  took  the  oath 
of  allegiance  prescribed  by  the  king,  was 
elected  deacon  of  the  church  in  1694,  and 
was  a  leading  citizen  and  treasurer  of  the 
town  for  many  years,  constable,  highway 
surveyor,  and  on  committee  for  care  of 
the  church.  He  married  (first)  May  28, 
1679,  Mary  Ingalls,  born  January  25,  1659, 


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died  September  21,  1699,  daughter  of 
Henry  and  Mary  (Osgood)  Ingalls.  He 
married  (second)  Elizabeth  Brown. 
Children,  born  at  Andover:  i.  Rev.  Jo- 
seph, June  20,  1682;  graduate  of  Harvard 
College,  1703;  minister  at  Charlestown, 
ordained  October  13,  1713;  died  of  small- 
pox. 2.  James,  mentioned  below.  3.  Ben- 
jamin, born  about  1690. 

(III)  Captain  James  Stevens,  son  of 
Deacon  Joseph  and  Mary  (Ingalls)  Stev- 
ens, was  born  January  31,  1686,  in  An- 
dover, and  died  May  25,  1769,  aged  eighty- 
four  years.  On  his  gravestone  is  in- 
scribed :  "Blessed  are  the  dead  who  died 
in  the  Lord."  He  was  in  the  French  and 
Indian  Wars,  1744-49,  and  commanded  a 
company  of  Andover  men  in  the  Cape 
Breton  expedition,  taking  part  in  the  cap- 
ture of  Louisburg.  With  others  of  this 
army  he  was  one  of  the  first  who  peti- 
tioned for  a  grant  of  land  for  services, 
November  22,  1751,  and  received  land  in 
the  province  of  Maine.  He  was  a  prom- 
inent man  in  his  day;  town  treasurer 
from  1721  to  1729  and  from  1733  to  1734; 
selectman  in  1742.  In  his  will,  1768,  he 
bequeathed  to  grandson,  Jonathan,  son  of 
deceased  son,  James,  the  land  east  of  the 
road  from  John  Johnson's  to  the  meeting 
house.  He  married,  March  18,  1713,  Dor- 
othy Frye,  born  1695,  died  March  7, 
175 1,  aged  fifty-six,  daughter  of  Captain 
James  and  Lydia  (Osgood)  Frye.  Child- 
ren: Phebe,  born  1714,  married,  1736, 
Benjamin  Harrod,  of  Boston;  Mary,  1717, 
married,  1739,  Samuel  Appleton,  of  Hav- 
erhill ;  James,  mentioned  below ;  Joseph, 
1725-28;  Benjamin,  1732,  married  Hannah 
Varnum,  of  Dracut,  and  died  1793.  Three 
others  died  of  throat  distemper  in  1738, 
and  two  others  died  in  infancy. 

(IV)  Ensign  James  (2)  Stevens,  son 
of  Captain  James  (i)  and  Dorothy 
(Frye)  Stevens,  was  born  October  17, 
1721,    in    Andover.      He    fought    in    the 


French  and  Indian  War,  marched  to  Lake 
George  as  ensign,  at  the  head  of  his  com- 
pany, and  died  there  of  camp  fever,  No- 
vember 28,  1755,  in  his  thirty-fifth  year. 
He  was  in  Captain  Abiel  Frye's  company, 
Colonel  Williams'  regiment.  His  widow 
petitioned  for  reimbursement  for  loss  of 
personal  effects  in  the  service.  He  mar- 
ried, August  I,  1745,  Sarah  Peabody,  born 
March  31,  1728,  died  September  26,  1808, 
daughter  of  John  and  Sarah  (Head)  Pea- 
body  (see  Peabody  V).  She  married 
(second)  John  Peters.  Children:  Jona- 
than, mentioned  below ;  James,  settled  in 
Jafifrey,  New  Hampshire,  marched  on 
alarm  at  Lexington,  April  19,  1775 ; 
Lydia,  married  a  Mr.  Peters. 

(V)  Jonathan  Stevens,  son  of  Ensign 
James  (2)  and  Sarah  (Peabody)  Stevens, 
was  born  April  8,  1747,  in  Andover,  and 
died  April  3,  1834.  He  marched  on  the 
Lexington  alarm,  April  19,  1775,  with  his 
brother,  in  Captain  Thomas  Poor's  com- 
pany, Colonel  James  Frye's  regiment.  He 
served  in  Captain  Benjamin  Ame's  com,- 
pany.  Colonel  Frye's  regiment,  at  the 
battle  of  Bunker  Hill,  and  on  the  anniver- 
sary of  the  battle  he  invariably  invited 
his  comrades  in  the  fight,  and  entertained 
them  at  his  home  with  hearty,  old-fash- 
ioned hospitality,  while  the  old  veterans 
fought  their  battles  over  again.  He  was 
also  in  the  battle  of  Ticonderoga,  and  a 
letter  to  his  sister,  dated  at  Pawlet,  Octo- 
ber I,  1777,  is  published  in  "History  of 
Andover"  (p.  377).  He  was  a  strong 
man  and  worked  as  a  farmer  all  day  and 
carried  on  the  trade  of  currier  after  candle 
light.  In  1799,  when  it  was  desired  to 
establish  Franklin  Academy,  he  gave  land 
on  the  hill  north  of  the  meeting  house  for 
the  academy  to  be  incorporated  in  Massa- 
chusetts. It  was  the  first  academy  where 
both  sexes  were  taught.  He  married, 
December  15,  1773,  Susanna  Bragg,  born 
August    19,    1755,    died    March    3,    1840, 


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daughter  of  Thomas  and  Dorothy  (In- 
galls)  Bragg.  Children:  i.  Jonathan, 
born  July  3,  1774;  married,  June  27,  1799, 
Debbe  Poor;  lived  in  Andover,  Maine, 
and  died  in  Cutler,  Maine.  2.  James, 
November,  1777.  3.  Dolly,  November  21, 
1779,  died  young.  4.  Jeremy,  August  22, 
1781,  died  in  1800.  5.  Hannah,  May  5, 
1783,  married  Thomas  Prime,  of  Salem. 

6.  Isaac,  May  10,  1785;  married  (first) 
September  29,  1814,  Hannah  Cummings ; 
(second)  Betsey  Poor;  farmer  at  An- 
dover; sons:  Major  General  Isaac  In- 
galls  and  Oliver,  district  attorney  of  Suf- 
folk county.  7.  Nathaniel,  mentioned  be- 
low. 8.  Dolly,  September  26,  1788.  9. 
Moses,  October  i,  1790;  college  graduate, 
and  teacher  of  school  for  boys  at  Nash- 
ville, Tennessee.  10.  Sally,  November  9, 
1792.  II.  Oliver,  May  3,  1794,  died  in 
New  Orleans.  12.  Judge  William,  Janu- 
ary 21,  1799;  married  (first)  Eliza  Leach 
Watson;  (second)  Elizabeth  Barnard 
Phillips,  daughter  of  Lydia  Phillips  Stev- 
ens, resided  on  Everett  street,  Cambridge, 
Massachusetts.  13.  Susanna,  married 
Captain  Ephriam  McFarland,  of  Belfast, 
Maine. 

(VI)  Captain  Nathaniel  Stevens,  son 
of  Jonathan  and  Susanna  (Bragg)  Stev- 
ens, was  born  October  19,  1786,  in  An- 
dover, and  died  at  North  Andover,  March 

7,  1685.  He  and  his  brother  William 
were  educated  in  the  public  schools  and 
at  Franklin  Academy.  In  1804,  after  leav- 
ing school,  he  took  a  sea  voyage  to  Leg- 
horn as  a  common  sailor  before  the  mast, 
for  the  sake  of  his  health  and  the  experi- 
ence. He  was  a  trader  in  Andover  from 
1810  to  1812,  was  a  lieutenant  in  the  An- 
dover company  in  the  war  of  1812,  and 
was  later  captain.  The  example  and  en- 
couragement of  his  father-in-law,  Moses 
Hale,  started  him  in  the  manufacturing 
business.  Entering  partnership  with  Dr. 
Joseph  Kittredge  and  Josiah  Monroe  in 


1813,  he  built  the  woolen  mill  on  the  site 
of  the  first  saw  mill  on  the  Cochickawick 
river,  the  same  building,  with  brick  in- 
stead of  wooden  walls,  being  still  in  use 
as  part  of  the  Stevens  mills.  James  Schol- 
field  was  engaged  to  take  charge  of  the 
mills,  and  Mr.  Stevens  devoted  his  entire 
attention  to  manufacturing.  By  perse- 
verance and  energy  he  soon  mastered  in 
all  its  details  the  art  of  manufacturing 
cloth,  then  decided  to  give  up  making 
broadcloth,  in  which  he  experimented 
first,  because  of  the  difficulty  of  making 
the  goods  and  the  uncertainty  of  profit, 
and  began  to  manufacture  flannels,  the 
pioneer  in  this  manufacture  in  this  coun- 
try. In  1828  and  1831  he  bought  out  his 
partners  and  took  entire  charge  of  the 
mill  and  business.  He  was  warned  by 
well-meaning  friends  that  he  would  lose 
his  time  and  sink  his  capital.  Abbot 
Lawrence,  the  importer,  especially 
warned  him  that  American  manufacturers 
could  not  compete  with  the  British  suc- 
cessfully. "Take  my  advice,"  said  he,  one 
day,  when  Mr.  Stevens  carried  a  load  of 
flannels  to  Boston,  "sell  out  your  mill 
and  go  into  some  other  business." 
"Never,"  replied  Mr.  Stevens,  "as  long  as  I 
can  get  water  to  turn  my  mill  wheel." 
Captain  Stevens  continued  despite  the 
discouragements  of  small  and  insufficient 
capital,  of  narrow  and  inconvenient  quar- 
ters, and  of  a  market  flooded  with  foreign 
goods,  against  the  advice  of  his  friends, 
and  won  eventually  a  brilliant  success. 
He  lived  to  become  one  of  the  most 
wealthy,  honored  and  influential  manu- 
facturers of  the  country,  a  leader  in  the 
woolen  industry  of  the  country,  carrying 
on  a  business  for  half  a  century  with  con- 
tinuous success  and  increasing  volume. 
He  had  the  satisfaction  also  of  seeing  the 
industry,  in  which  he  was  a  pioneer,  be- 
come of  giant  proportions  in  the  United 
States ;   saw   American   looms   producing 


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the  best  goods  and  winning  a  place  in  the 
markets  of  the  world,  employing  millions 
of  dollars  in  capital,  and  hundreds  of 
thousands  of  men.  Perhaps  no  one  manu- 
facturer, no  single  individual  in  this  coun- 
try, contributed  more  than  Mr.  Stevens  in 
paving  the  way  for  the  textile  industries 
that  have  held  the  prestige  of  New  Eng- 
land when  she  ceased  to  be  of  importance 
as  an  agricultural  community.  He 
opened  the  way  to  wealth  for  the  nation 
by  proving  that  American  mills  could  be 
operated  profitably.  He  was  a  remark- 
ably shrewd  and  far-sighted  business 
man,  of  much  common  sense  and  con- 
summate executive  ability.  He  had  no 
precedents  to  fall  back  upon.  He  had  to 
rely  on  his  own  discretion  in  making 
goods  and  marketing  them.  He  was  al- 
ways generous  with  the  wealth  that  came 
as  a  fruit  of  his  enterprise  and  industry, 
contributed  to  every  charity  within  his 
reach  and  was  especially  eager  to  con- 
tribute to  the  welfare  and  progress  of  his 
native  town.  He  was  the  leading  citizen 
of  North  Andover  for  many  years,  and 
derived  much  pleasure  from  the  cultiva- 
tion of  his  ancestral  acres.  He  was  a  man 
of  iron  constitution  and  phenomenal  in- 
dustry, and  used  to  say  that  he  never  felt 
fatigue  until  he  was  fifty  years  old.  He 
was  a  member  of  the  Merrimac  Power 
Association,  and  one  of  the  founders  of 
the  city  of  Lawrence,  formerly  a  part  of 
Andover.  He  believed  in  the  value  of 
sound  learning,  and  gave  the  best  possible 
education  to  all  of  his  large  family.  In 
politics  he  was  an  ardent  Democrat,  a 
loyal  supporter  of  Andrew  Jackson's  ad- 
ministration, and  formidable  in  debate  in 
defending  and  supporting  "Old  Hickory." 
When  the  Civil  War  came,  he  was  loyal 
to  the  Union,  and  did  his  utmost  to  sup- 
port the  administration  in  his  old  age.  In 
religion  he  was  a  Unitarian.  Three  of 
his  sons  became  associated  with  him  in 


business  in  Andover,  and  all  five  became 
prominent  manufacturers.  To  the  sons 
as  well  as  to  the  father,  the  town  of  An- 
dover, the  town  of  North  Andover,  and 
all  the  other  villages  in  which  the  family 
has  mills,  owe  a  great  debt.  They  have 
been  model  mill  proprietors  in  every 
sense  of  the  word. 

Mr.  Stevens  married,  November  6, 
1815,  Harriet  Hale,  born  August  21,  1794, 
died  January  29,  1882,  daughter  of  Moses 
Hale,  of  Chelmsford,  Massachusetts,  a 
pioneer  manufacturer.  Children:  i. 
Charles  Abbot,  born  in  August,  1816,  died 
April  7,  1892,  at  Ware,  Massachusetts. 
2.  Henry  Hale,  mentioned  below.  3.  Har- 
riet, died  in  1843.  4.  Julia  Maria,  married 
Rev.  Sylvan  S.  Hunting.  5.  Moses  Tyler, 
born  October  10,  1825.  6.  Catherine,  mar- 
ried Hon.  Oliver  Stevens.  7.  George, 
married  Harriet  Lyman  Brooks,  of  New- 
port, Rhode  Island.  8.  Ann  Eliza,  mar- 
ried John  H.  D.  Smith.  9.  Horace  Na- 
thaniel, married  Susan  Peters. 

(VII)  Henry  Hale  Stevens,  son  of  Na- 
thaniel and  Harriet  (Hale)  Stevens,  was 
born  April  6,  1818,  in  Andover,  and  died 
at  Kissimmee,  Florida,  March  10,  1901. 
He  was  educated  at  Franklin  Academy, 
Andover,  entered  his  father's  woolen  in- 
dustry, remaining  until  1842,  when  he  en- 
gaged in  the  manufacture  of  woolen  cloth 
until  1845,  in  company  with  George 
Hodges,  when  he  visited  Great  Britain 
and  Ireland  to  study  the  manufacture  of 
linens.  In  1846  he  returned  and  began 
the  manufacture  of  linens  at  Dudley, 
Massachusetts,  in  the  old  merino  wool 
factory.  The  first  lot  of  flax  machinery 
was  received  in  May,  1846,  and  Mr.  Stev- 
ens began  to  make  crash  and  later  bur- 
laps from  American  grown  flax.  The 
business  proved  successful,  and  in  1855 
he  made  an  extensive  improvement  in  the 
plant,  building  dams,  erecting  new  water 
wheels,  and  repairing  the  buildings.     In 

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1862-65  he  erected  the  fine  buildings  which 
has  since  been  the  main  mill,  of  stone, 
five  stories  high,  seventy  by  two  hundred 
and  seven  feet,  with  an  extension  seventy 
by  eighty-three,  and  an  east  wing  forty  by 
two  hundred  and  ten,  and  a  west  wing 
twenty-four  by  eighty.  By  much  native 
energy,  ability  and  perseverance,  Mr. 
Stevens  built  up  a  large  business  in  a 
hitherto  unoccupied  field,  and  maintained 
the  lead  in  this  industry  in  this  country 
to  the  time  of  his  death.  At  one  time  this 
was  the  only  mill  of  the  kind  in  this 
country.  He  received  five  gold  medals  as 
awards  on  goods  of  his  manufacture.  The 
mills  were  devoted  exclusively  in  later 
years  to  the  manufacture  of  crash.  The 
business  was  incorporated  in  1867  with 
David  Nevins,  Sr.,  as  president  and  one 
of  the  largest  stockholders.  In  January, 
1877,  Mr.  Stevens  retired  from  the  man- 
agement of  the  company.  The  capital 
stock  was  then  $350,000,  and  the  capacity 
of  the  plant  six  million  yards  a  year.  M. 
T.  Stevens,  of  North  Andover,  was  after- 
wards president  of  the  company.  In  pol- 
itics Mr.  Stevens  was  a  Democrat;  in 
religion  a  Unitarian.  He  was  a  member 
of  the  State  Legislature,  delegate  to  the 
National  Democratic  Convention  at 
Charleston,  South  Carolina,  and  later  at 
Baltimore,  Maryland,  that  nominated 
Stephen  Douglass  for  president ;  and  held 
minor  town  offices.  He  married,  Decem- 
ber 7,  1843,  Eliza  Poor  Osborn,  born  No- 
vember 30,  1823,  at  Danvers,  daughter  of 
Miles  and  Eliza  (Poor)  Osborn,  of  that 
town  (see  Osborn,  VIII).  Children:  i. 
Harriet  Louisa,  born  October  10,  1844, 
in  Andover ;  married,  at  Dudley,  August 
28,  1873,  John  Edward  Stevens,  of  Leeds, 
England ;  she  and  her  husband  lived 
three  years  in  Russia ;  she  died  July  7, 
1901.  Children:  i.  Sidney,  born  June  3, 
1877,  at  Stuttgart,  Germany,  married 
Edith  Hawkins,  and  they  had  John  Ed- 


ward, born  March  27,  1909,  at  Ludlow, 
Massachusetts,  and  Ethel.  ii.  Mary 
Louise,  born  May  15,  1879,  at  Dresden, 
Germany,  married  Walter  C.  Arensberg, 
of  Oakmont,  Pennsylvania ;  iii.  John  Nay- 
lor,  born  at  Ludlow,  Massachusetts,  April 
14,  1883,  married  Leila  Stebbins  Safifords, 
of  Springfield,  Massachusetts.  2.  Eben 
Sutton,  born  December  11,  1846,  at  Dud- 
ley ;  educated  in  the  public  schools  and 
Massachusetts  Institute  of  Technology; 
built  a  mill  near  Quinebaug  in  West  Dud- 
ley, Massachusetts,  in  1872,  and  engaged 
with  great  success  in  the  manufacture  of 
jute  goods,  and  under  his  personal  super- 
vision the  business  grew  to  large  propor- 
tions ;  married,  in  Oxford,  September  10, 
1872,  Gertrude,  sister  of  Hon.  Richard 
Olney,  daughter  of  Wilson  and  Eliza 
(Butler)  Olney;  child,  Gertrude  Olney, 
born  November  15,  1873,  in  Dudley;  mar- 
ried, in  Dudley,  June,  1894,  Clarence  Ed- 
win Cleveland.  3.  Mary  Kittredge,  men- 
tioned below. 

(VIII)  Mary  Kittredge  Stevens, 
youngest  child  of  Henry  Hale  and  Eliza 
Poor  (Osborne)  Stevens,  born  November 
5,  1849,  was  educated  in  private  schools  in 
Boston.  She  is  a  member  of  Mercy  War- 
ren Chapter,  Daughters  of  the  American 
Revolution,  and  is  prominent  in  social 
life.  She  resides  at  No.  105  Ingersoll 
Grove,  Springfield,  Massachusetts. 

(The    Peabody    Line). 

The  Peabody  family  is  said  to  have 
originated  in  England  about  the  3'ear  61, 
at  the  time  that  Nero  ruled  Great  Britain, 
as  well  as  the  rest  of  the  Roman  Empire. 
The  ancient  Britons,  who  were  tribes  of 
the  more  ancient  Cambri,  were  vassals  of 
Nero.  Parsutagus  in  the  right  of  Queen 
Boadicea,  his  wife,  was  the  reigning  king 
of  Icena,  Britain.  When  he  died,  although 
he  gave  half  his  vast  estate  to  the  Em- 
peror, the  rapacity  of  the  tyrant  was  not 


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satisfied  and  he  seized  the  whole.  When 
the  Queen  interfered  with  his  officers  in 
their  confiscation,  he  ordered  her  publicly 
whipped.  A  rebellion  followed.  Boadie, 
a  patriarch  of  one  of  the  tribes,  fought 
for  the  Queen  and  killed  a  Roman  officer, 
Galbuta,  whose  armor  he  took  as  a  trophy. 
The  Britons  were  finally  subdued  and 
Boadie  retired  to  the  hills.  Hence  the  name 
Pea  or  Pay,  meaning  hill — Peaboadie 
or  Payboadie.  The  name  was  variously 
spelled,  but  means  of  the  hills.  The  Pea- 
bod}'  arms  contain  the  insignia  from  the 
arms  of  Galbuta — two  suns.  The  arms 
are :  Party  per  fess,  nebule  gules  azure ; 
two  suns  proper  with  a  garb.  Crest, 
scroll  and  motto,  Miirus  Aerits  Conscien- 
tia  Sana.    The  arms  are  very  ancient. 

(I)  John  Peabody  came  to  New  Eng- 
land about  1635,  probably  with  his  son 
William,  as  their  names  are  mentioned 
together  in  the  list  of  original  proprietors 
of  the  town  of  Plymouth.  John  Peabody 
owned  ten  acres  at  Blufish  in  the  Ply- 
mouth colony  in  1637.  He  was  admitted 
a  freeman,  January  2,  163S,  was  one  of 
the  original  proprietors  of  Bridgewater 
in  1645  with  his  son  William,  and  lived 
in  Duxbury.  His  will  is  dated  July  16, 
1649,  at  "Duxbrock,"  Plymouth  colony, 
and  proved  at  Boston,  April  27,  1667,  but 
recorded  at  Plymouth.  He  died  at 
Bridgewater  in  1667,  aged  seventy-seven 
years,  and  was  survived  by  his  wife  Isa- 
bel. Children:  Thomas,  mentioned  in 
will  in  1667;  Francis,  mentioned  below; 
William,  born  1620,  came  to  Plymouth 
colony  and  settled  in  Rhode  Island,  mar- 
ried Elizabeth  Alden ;  Annis  (Agnes), 
married  John  Rouse,  who  was  with  Wil- 
liam Peabody,  one  of  the  original  proprie- 
tors of  Little  Compton,  originally  .Sea- 
conet. 

(II)  Francis  Peabody,  son  of  John  and 
Isabel  Peabody,  born  1614,  at  St.  Albans, 
Hertfordshire,    England,    came    to    New 


England  in  the  ship  "Planter,"  Nicholas 
Frarice,  master,  sailing  April  2,  1635,  and 
first  settled  in  Ipswich,  where  he  was  a 
proprietor  in  1636.  In  1638  he  was  one  of 
the  original  settlers  of  Hampton,  New 
Hampshire,  then  Norfolk  county,  with 
Rev.  Stephen  Bachilor  and  twelve  others, 
and  they  resided  there  several  years.  He 
was  on  the  grand  jury,  also  the  trial  jury 
there,  and  was  admitted  a  freeman  there 
May  18,  i6/\2.  He  sold  his  estate  at 
Hampton,  May  25,  1650,  and  removed  to 
Topsfield,  Massachusetts,  in  order  to  be 
near  Boston.  His  new  farm  was  adjoin- 
ing those  of  Richard  Dorman  and  Mr. 
Simonds.  He  became  a  very  prominent 
man  there,  both  on  account  of  his  prop- 
erty and  influence,  and  also  owned  large 
tracts  of  land  in  Topsfield,  Boxford  and 
Rowley.  His  will  is  dated  January  20, 
1695,  and  proved  August  7,  1698.  He  died 
in  Boxford,  February  19,  1698,  aged  eigh- 
ty-three years.  He  married  Mary  Foster, 
born  about  1618,  in  England,  died  April 
9,  1705,  daughter  of  Reginald  Foster,  of 
the  family  names  in  Scott's  "Marmion" 
and  "Lay  of  the  Last  Minstrel."  Regi- 
nald Foster  was  born  about  1595,  in  Brun- 
ton,  England,  and  came  with  his  wife  Ju- 
dith and  seven  children  to  this  country,  set- 
tling in  Ipswich,  Massachusetts,  in  1638. 
He  had  a  grant  of  land  there  in  1641,  and 
seems  to  have  been  of  much  consequence 
among  the  planters.  He  was  well-to-do 
for  the  times.  His  wife  Judith  died  in 
October,  1664,  and  he  married  (second) 
Sarah  Martin,  widow  of  John  Martin ; 
after  the  death  of  her  second  husband  she 
married  William  White,  of  Haverhill, 
Massachusetts.  His  eldest  child  was 
Mary,  born  about  1618,  who  became  the 
wife  of  Francis  Peabody,  as  previously 
noted.  Children  of  Francis  and  Mary 
(Foster)  Peabody:  John,  born  1642; 
Joseph,  1644;  William,  mentioned  below; 
Isaac,  1648;  Sarah,  1650;  Hepsibah,  1652; 


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Lydia,  1654;  Mary,  1656;  Ruth,  May  22, 
1658;  Damaris,  January  21,  1660,  died 
December  19,  1660;  Samuel,  January  4, 
1662,  died  September  13,  1677;  Jacob,  July 

28,  1664;  Hannah,  May  28,  1668;  Nathan- 
iel, July  29,  1669. 

(III)  William  Peabody,  third  son  of 
Francis  and  Mary  (Foster)  Peabody,  was 
born  March  3,  1646,  resided  in  Boxford, 
Massachusetts,  and  died  March  6,  1699. 
He  married,  August  14,  1684,  Hannah 
Hale,  born  November  29,  1663,  in  New- 
bury, died  February  23,  1733,  daughter  of 
Thomas  (2)  and  Mary  (Hutchinson) 
Hale,  granddaughter  of  Thomas  (i)  Hale, 
who  was  in  Newbury  as  early  as  1637. 
Children:  Stephen,  born  August  5,  1685; 
Mary,  April  11,  1687;  Ephraim,  April  23, 
1689;  Richard,  February  7,  1691 ;  Hannah, 
August,  1693 ;  John,  mentioned  below ; 
Abiel,  1697;  Oliver,  May  7,  1698. 

(IV)  John  (2)  Peabody,  fourth  son  of 
William  and  Hannah  (Hale)  Peabody, 
was  born  August  i,  1695,  in  Boxford, 
where  he  lived  for  some  years,  removing 
thence  to  Andover,  where  he   died  July 

29,  1780.  He  married,  November  24,  1721, 
Sarah  Head,  born  February  7,  1702,  died 
April  II,  1788,  in  Boxford.  Children: 
Oliver,  born  June  22,  1725 ;  Mehitable, 
October  20,  1727;  Sarah,  mentioned  be- 
low; John,  1730,  died  young;  John,  Au- 
gust 9,  1732;  Elizabeth,  April  i,  1735; 
Mary,  1737,  died  young ;  Mary,  January 
27,  1739;  Stephen,  November  11,  1741 ; 
Rebecca,  September  16,  1746. 

(V)  Sarah  Peabody,  child  of  John  (2) 
and  Sarah  (Head)  Peabody,  was  born 
March  31,  1728,  in  Boxford,  and  was  mar- 
ried, August  I,  1745,  to  Ensign  James  (2) 
Stevens,  of  Andover  (see  Stevens,  IV). 

(The  Osborn  Line). 

The  family  here  under  consideration  is 
one  of  the  oldest  and  withal  one  of  the 
most  respectable  of  the  many  that  became 


seated  in  the  ancient  town  of  Salem  with- 
in the  ten  years  following  the  landing  of 
the  Pilgrims ;  and  in  the  mother  country 
as  well  as  in  New  England  they  who  bore 
the  Osborne  surname  were  noted  for  re- 
spectability and  high  moral  character. 
The  Yorkshire  Osbornes  were  an  ancient 
people  and  genealogists  have  given  them 
great  antiquity  in  countries  of  Europe. 
In  various  records  the  name  is  found 
written  Osborne  and  Osborn  in  the  same 
general  family,  the  use  or  disuse  of  the 
final  letter  being  merely  a  matter  of  taste. 

(II)  William  Osborne,  Jr.,  the  immi- 
grant, born  1644-45,  died  in  Salem  in  Jan- 
uary, 1729,  and  his  will,  made  January  31, 
1717,  was  admitted  to  probate  February 
5,  1730,  sons  William,  Samuel  and  John 
being  named  as  executors.  His  will  was 
witnessed  by  Joseph  Southwick,  Jonathan 
Trask  and  George  Locker.  In  his  will  he 
gave  to  his  wife  one-third  part  of  the 
produce  of  all  his  lands,  to  be  brought 
home  to  her  by  his  three  sons,  Samuel, 
John  and  William,  who  also  were  directed 
to  supply  her  with  firewood  and  other 
things  necessary  both  in  sickness  and 
health.  His  property,  subject  to  the  pro- 
vision made  for  his  wife,  was  divided 
among  his  sons,  with  a  bequest  of  twenty- 
four  pounds  to  his  daughter,  Hannah 
Trask.  In  1721  his  wife  in  a  deposition 
stated  that  she  was  eighty-one  years  old. 
She  was  Hannah  (Burton)  Osborne,  born 
in  1640,  died  1721,  daughter  of  John  Bur- 
ton, who  came  from,  England  to  Salem  by 
way  of  the  Barbadoes.  William  and  Han- 
nah (Burton)  Osborne  were  married 
March  17,  1672;  children:  Samuel,  of 
further  mention ;  John,  born  August  27, 
1677;  Hannah,  December  2,  1679;  Wil- 
liam, May  3,  1682,  died  September  29, 
1771. 

(III)  Samuel  Osborn,  eldest  child  of 
William,  Jr.,  and  Hannah  (Burton)  Os- 
borne, was  born  April  27,  1675,  in  Salem, 


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and  died  about  1750.  He  married  (first) 
Ellinor  Southwick,  born  June  25,  1674, 
in  Salem,  died  December,  1702,  daughter 
of  Daniel  and  Esther  (Boyce)  South- 
wick, of  that  town.  He  married  (second) 
August  30,  1705,  Sarah,  daughter  of  Abra- 
ham Clark. 

(IV)  Joseph  Osborn,  son  of  Samuel 
and  Ellinor  (Southwick)  Osborn,  was 
born  October  26,  1702,  in  Salem,  lived  in 
that  part  of  the  town  called  Salem  Vil- 
lage, now  Danvers,  and  married,  about 
1725,  Rachel  Foster,  a  daughter  of  Eben- 
ezer  and  Ann  (Wilkins)  Foster,  of  Salem. 

(V)  Joseph  (2)  Osborn,  son  of  Joseph 
(i)  and  Rachel  (Foster)  Osborn,  was 
born  August  26,  1726,  in  Danvers,  died 
there  July  9,  1804.  He  married  Mary 
Proctor,  born  December  3,  1733,  died  Jan- 
uary 20,  1791,  daughter  of  John  (3)  and 
Lydia  (Waters)  Proctor,  of  Danvers  (see 
Proctor,  V).  Children:  Joseph,  born 
January  5,  1757 ;  Sylvester,  November  10, 
1758;  Rachel,  January  31,  1761 ;  Jonathan, 
August  30,  1763;  John)  of  further  men- 
tion; Amos,  April  2,  1773;  Mary,  August 
14,  1779- 

(VI)  John  Osborn,  fourth  son  of  Jo- 
seph (2)  and  Mary  (Proctor)  Osborn, 
was  born  November  22,  1765,  in  Danvers, 
and  died  there  November  3,  1845.  He  mar- 
ried, March  22,  1785,  in  Danvers,  Lydia 
Southwick,  born  November  i,  1766, 
daughter  of  Ebenezer  (2)  and  Susanna 
(Orr- Foster)  Southwick,  died  January  7, 
1834,  in  Danvers  (see  Southwick,  VI). 
Children:  Betsey,  born  June  23,  1786; 
Lydia,  April  8,  1787;  Henry,  July  4,  1789; 
Miles,  1792,  died  young;  Miles,  mentioned 
below;  Kendall,  July  22,  1796;  Polly,  Jan- 
uary 25,  1799  ;  Franklin,  February  9,  1803  ; 
Susanna,  May  22,  1805 ;  John,  July  18, 
1807. 

(VII)  Miles  Osborn,  third  son  of  John 
and  Lydia  (Southwick)  Osborn,  was 
born  March  6,  1794,  in  Danvers,  where  he 


made  his  home,  and  died  January  30, 
1873.  He  married,  December  17,  1820, 
Eliza  Poor,  of  Andover,  daughter  of 
Stephen  and  Elizabeth  (Dustin)  Poor,  of 
that  town  (see  Poor,  VI).  Children: 
Eben,  born  September  25,  182 1 ;  Eliza 
Poor  and  Miles  (twins),  November  30, 
1823;  George  Poor,  June  12,  1826;  Emila, 
August  31,  1828;  Susan,  December  20, 
1830;  Harriet,  March  31,  1833;  Lydia, 
December  17,  1835. 

(VIII)  Eliza  Poor  Osborn,  eldest 
daughter  of  Miles  and  Eliza  (Poor)  Os- 
born, was  born  November  30,  1823,  in 
Danvers,  and  became  the  wife  of  Henry 
Hale  Stevens,  of  Andover,  Massachusetts 
(see  Stevens,  VII). 

(The  Proctor  Line). 

(I)  John  Proctor  sailed  with  wife  and 
two  children  from  London,  and  settled  in 
1635  in  Ipswich,  Massachusetts.  He  gave 
his  age  at  that  time  as  forty,  his  wife 
twenty-eight,  son  John,  aged  three,  and 
daughter  Mary,  aged  one  year.  He  re- 
moved to  Salem,  and  in  1667  deposed  that 
he  was  aged  seventy-five  years.  His  will, 
dated  August  18,  1672,  proved  November 
28  following,  bequeathed  to  wife  Martha ; 
to  daughters  Martha  White,  Abigail  Var- 
ney,  Sarah  Dodge  and  Hannah  Weeden ; 
to  sons  John,  Joseph  and  Benjamin. 

(II)  John  (2)  Proctor,  son  of  John  (i) 
Proctor,  was  born  1632,  in  England ;  mar- 
ried, at  Ipswich,  December,  1662,  Widow 
Elizabeth  (Thorndike)  Bassett.  He  fell 
a  victim  to  the  witchcraft  delusion,  and 
he  was  hanged  August  19,  1692.  Two 
weeks  afterward  a  child  was  born  to  his 
wife  in  prison.  She  was  afterward  par- 
doned by  order  of  the  Crown.  The  story 
of  the  persecution  is  too  long  for  this 
place.  He  wrote  an  eloquent  and  vigor- 
ous appeal  to  the  clergy  of  Boston  in  vain. 
In  171 1  the  heirs  of  John  Proctor  received 
from  the  province  £50  as  damages  for  the 


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outrage.  Elizabeth  Thorndike  married 
(first)  Edmund  Bassett,  and  (second) 
John  Proctor ;  she  was  a  daughter  of  John 
Thorndike,  and  was  born  in  1642-42.  Her 
father  was  a  son  of  Francis  Thorndike 
(5),  Francis  (4),  Nicholas  (3),  Herbert 
(2),  William  Thorndike  (i).  John 
Thorndike  was  born  in  Carleton,  Lincoln- 
shire, England,  about  1605,  came  to 
America  in  1633,  returned  to  England  in 
1668,  and  died  in  London,  November  3, 
1668,  and  is  buried  at  Westminster  Abbey 
cloister.  Children:  John,  born  1664; 
Martha,  June  4,  1666;  Benjamin,  men- 
tioned below ;  Mary,  November  30,  1669 ; 
Thorndike,  July  15,  1672;  W^illiam,  Eliz- 
abeth, Joseph,  Abigail  and  Samuel. 

(III)  Benjamin  Proctor,  second  son  of 
John  (2)  and  Elizabeth  (Thorndike-Bas- 
sett)  Proctor,  was  born  August  28,  1668, 
in  Salem,  and  lived  in  that  part  of  the 
town  now  Danvers,  where  he  married, 
December  8,  1694,  Mary  Whittredge, 
probably  a  daughter  of  Thomas  and  Flor- 
ence (Norman)  Whittredge,  of  Salem. 
Four  children  are  recorded  in  Danvers : 
Mary,  born  October  12,  1695 ;  Priscilla, 
December  11,  1699;  Sarah,  January  2, 
1702;  John,  mentioned  below. 

(IV)  John  (3)  Proctor,  only  known 
son  of  Benjamin  and  Mary  (Whittredge) 
Proctor,  was  born  1705,  recorded  in  Dan- 
vers, and  there  married,  December  14, 
1727,  Lydia  Waters,  daughter  of  John 
and  Mary  Waters,  granddaughter  of  John 
and  Sarah  (Tompkins)  Waters,  great- 
granddaughter  of  Richard  and  Joyce 
Waters.  Richard  Waters  was  a  son  of 
James  and  Phebe  (Manning)  Waters, 
the  former  an  iron  monger  of  St.  But- 
tolph-without-Algate,  London.  Richard 
Waters  settled  in  Salem  at  an  early  date. 
Children  of  John  Proctor:  John,  born 
September  14,  1728;  Lydia,  March  31, 
1730;  Benjamin,  January  28,  1731 ;  Mary, 
mentioned  below  ;  Sarah,  August  21,  1736  ; 


Sylvester,  October  26,  1738;  Prudence, 
November  21,  1740;  Joseph,  August  31, 
1743;  Daniel,  May  14,  1746. 

(V)  Mary  Proctor,  second  daughter  of 
John  (3)  and  Lydia  (Waters)  Proctor, 
was  born  December  3,  1733,  in  Danvers, 
and  became  the  wife  of  Joseph  (2)  Os- 
born,  of  that  town  (see  Osborn,  V). 

(The  Southwick  Line). 

( I )  Lawrence  Southwick  was  born  in 
England,  and  according  to  the  family  tra- 
dition was  from  Lancashire,  coming  first 
in  1627,  returning  to  England  to  bring 
his  wife  Cassandra,  son  John  and  daugh- 
ter Mary,  on  the  ship  "Mayflower,"  in 
company  with  William  Bradford  and  oth- 
ers, and  settled  at  Salem,  1639,  and  he 
and  his  family  were  admitted  to  the  First 
Church,  and  in  that  same  year  two  acres 
of  land  were  granted  to  him  by  the  town 
to  carry  on  the  business  of  manufacturing 
glass  and  earthen  ware.  Some  writers 
state  that  he  was  the  first  to  manufacture 
glass  in  America  and  his  two  acres  of 
land  was  called  Glass  House  Field.  This 
name  has  followed  the  property  to  the 
present  time,  although  the  manufacture  of 
glass  there  ceased  long  ago.  It  is  in  a 
valley  running  easterly  from  Aborn  street, 
and  on  the  south  side  of  what  is  called 
Gallows  Hill,  where  several  persons  were 
hanged  during  the  Salem  witchcraft  delu- 
sion. Lawrence  Southwick  and  his  fam- 
ily became  Friends,  or  Quakers,  and  were 
conspicuous  sufferers  from  the  bigoted 
Puritan  authorities.  Lawrence  and  his 
wife  Cassandra,  his  son  Josiah  and  daugh- 
ter Mary,  were  fined,  whipped,  impris- 
oned, and  finally  banished.  Their  son 
Daniel  and  daughter  Provided  were  sen- 
tenced by  the  general  court  to  be  sold 
into  slavery.  Says  John  Gough,  in  "His- 
tory of  the  People  Called  Quakers," 
(1790)  :  "I  know  of  no  instance  of  a  more 
persevering  malice  and  cruelty  than  that 


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wherewith  they  persecuted  the  aforesaid 
Lawrence  and  Cassandra  Sou  thick 
(Southwick)  and  their  family.  First, 
while  members  of  their  church,  they  were 
both  imprisoned  for  entertaining  strang- 
ers, Christopher  Holder  and  John  Cope- 
land,  a  Christian  duty  which  the  Apostle 
to  the  Hebrews  advises  not  to  be  unmind- 
ful of;  and  after  seven  weeks  imprison- 
ment, Cassandra  was  fined  forty  shillings 
for  owning  a  paper  written  by  the  afore- 
said persons.  Next,  for  absenting  from 
public  worship  and  owning  the  Quaker's 
doctrine,  on  the  information  of  one  Cap- 
tain Hawthorne,  with  their  son  Josiah, 
were  sent  to  the  House  of  Correction  and 
whipped  in  the  coldest  season  of  the  year, 
and  at  the  same  time  Hawthorne  issued 
his  warrant  to  distrain  their  goods  for  ab- 
sence from  public  worship,  also  and  their 
cattle  to  the  value  of  four  pounds,  fifteen 
shillings  were  taken  from  them.  Again 
they  were  imprisoned  with  others  for 
being  at  a  meeting,  and  Cassandra  was 
again  whipped,  and  upon  their  joint  letter 
to  the  magistrates  before  recited,  the  oth- 
er applicants  were  released  but  this  fam- 
ily, although  they  with  the  rest  had  fully 
suffered  the  penalty  of  the  cruel  law  were 
arbitrarily  detained  in  prison  to  their 
great  loss  and  damage,  being  in  the  season 
of  the  year  when  their  affairs  most  im- 
mediately demand  their  attendance;  and 
last  of  all  were  banished  upon  pain  of 
death,  as  before  recited,  by  a  law  made 
while  they  were  imprisoned.  Thus  de- 
spoiled of  their  property,  deprived  of  their 
liberty,  driven  into  banishment,  and  in 
jeopardy  of  their  lives,  for  no  other  crime 
than  meeting  apart  and  dissenting  from 
the  established  worship,  the  sufferings  of 
this  inoffensive  aged  couple  ended  only 
with  their  lives.  But  the  multiplied  in- 
juries of  this  harmless  pair  were  not  suffi- 
cient to  gratify  that  thirst  for  vengeance 
which  stimulated  these  persecutors  while 

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any  member  of  the  family  remained  un- 
molested. During  their  detention  in 
prison  they  left  at  home  a  son  Daniel  and 
a  daughter  Provided ;  these  children,  not 
deterred  by  the  unchristian  treatment  of 
their  parents  and  brother,  felt  themselves 
rather  encouraged  to  follow  their  steps 
and  relinquish  the  assemblies  of  a  people 
whose  religion  was  productive  of  such 
relentless  persecution ;  for  their  absence 
from  which  they  were  fined  ten  pounds, 
though  it  was  well  known  that  they  had 
no  estate,  their  parents  having  been  re- 
duced to  poverty  by  repeated  fines  and 
extravagant  disgrace ;  therefore  to  satisfy 
the  fine  they  were  ordered  to  be  sold  for 
bond  slaves  at  Virginia  or  Barbadoes. 
Edward  Butler,  one  of  the  treasurers, 
sought  out  a  passage  for  them  to  Bar- 
badoes for  sale,  but  could  find  none  will- 
ing to  take  them  thither.  *  *  *  Dig. 
appointed  in  his  designs,  and  at  a  loss 
how  to  dispose  of  them,  the  winter  ap- 
proaching, he  (Butler)  sent  them  home 
to  shift  for  themselves  till  he  could  find 
convenient  opportunity  to  send  them 
away."  Lawrence  Southwick  and  wife 
Cassandra  went  to  Shelter  Island,  Long 
Island  Sound,  being  banished  under  pain 
of  death  in  1659,  and  there  he  died  in  the 
spring  of  1660,  from  privation  and  ex- 
posure, and  his  wife  died  three  days  be- 
fore him.  Their  son,  Josiah,  went  to 
Rhode  Island  and  established  a  home  for 
himself  and  family.  He  came  back  to 
Salem  in  1660  to  look  after  his  parents' 
property,  and  found  it  in  very  poor  con- 
dition. He  was  whipped  for  returning  to 
Massachusetts.  The  will  of  Lawrence 
Southwick  was  dated  July  10,  1659,  be- 
queathing to  his  son  Daniel  his  property 
at  Salem ;  devising  also  to  sons,  Josiah 
Southwick,  John  Southwick ;  to  John 
Burnell,  Samuel  Burton,  Mary  Trask, 
Deborah  Southwick,  Ann  Potter,  and 
others.     Children:    John,   mentioned   be- 


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low ;  Mary,  born  1630,  married  Henry 
Trask ;  Josiah,  1632;  Provided,  1635,  died 
1640;  Daniel;  Provided,  December,  1641, 
married,  December  30,  1662,  Samuel  Gas- 
kill. 

(II)  John  Southwick,  eldest  child  of 
Lawrence  and  Cassandra  Southwick,  was 
born  1620,  in  England,  and  died  October 
25,  1672,  in  Salem,  where  he  appears  to 
have  been  an  extensive  landholder,  the 
records  of  the  town  showing  many  pur- 
chases and  sales  in  his  name.  He  married 
(first)  in  1642,  Sarah,  widow  of  Samuel 
Tidd,  (second)  May  12,  1658,  Widow 
Hannah  Flint,  and  (third)  Sarah,  daugh- 
ter of  John  Burnett  (or  Nurnell).  Chil- 
dren of  first  wife:  Sarah,  born  June  16, 
1644;  Mary,  October  10,  1646;  Samuel, 
mentioned  below ;  children  of  second  wife, 
found  of  record:  John,  born  January, 
1669;  Isaac,  November,  1669,  died  young; 
Isaac,  January  22,  1671. 

(III)  Samuel  Southwick,  eldest  son  of 
John  and  Sarah  Southwick,  was  born  Feb- 
ruary 19,  1658,  in  Salem,  where  he  lived 
with  his  wife  Mary,  and  died  in  1710. 
Children:  Samuel,  born  January  3,  1689; 
Ebenezer,  mentioned  below;  Hannah, 
February  24,  1692;  Jonathan,  1694;  Ben- 
jamin, 1696;  Mercy,  1698;  Mary,  1700; 
David,  1701 ;  Elizabeth,  1702;  Provided, 
1704. 

(IV)  Ebenezer  Southwick,  second  son 
of  Samuel  and  Mary  Southwick,  was  born 
November  9,  1690,  in  Salem,  where  his 
will,  made  November  9,  1771,  among 
other  legacies  bequeathed  to  his  wife  a 
negro.  He  married  (first)  April  9, 
1724,  Sarah  Proctor,  who  left  no  issue. 
He  married  (second)  October  18,  1727, 
Mary  Whitman,  who  undoubtedly  be- 
longed to  the  Ipswich  family  of  that 
name.  Children :  Sarah,  born  May  24, 
1728;  Mary,  December  22,  1729;  Lois, 
March  3,  1733 ;  Ebenezer,  mentioned  be- 
low;  Hannah,  1738;  Lydia,  1740. 


(V)  Ebenezer  (2)  Southwick,  eldest 
son  of  Ebenezer  (i)  and  Mary  (Whit- 
man) Southwick,  was  born  February  3, 
1735'  in  Salem,  probably  in  that  part 
which  is  now  Danvers,  where  he  died 
January  8,  1820.  By  will  of  his  father  he 
received  lands  and  rights  in  Townsend, 
Massachusetts.  He  married  (intentions 
published  January  28,  1758  in  Danvers), 
Widow  Susanna  Foster,  maiden  name 
Orr,  born  February  2,  1734,  in  North  Yar- 
mouth, died  August  9,  181 1.  Children: 
David,  born  April  28,  1759;  Susanna, 
March  6,  1761 ;  Experience,  October  31, 
1762;  Molly,  December  3,  1764;  Lydia, 
mentioned  below ;  Mercy,  December, 
1768;  Huldah,  July  19,  1770;  Temperance, 
June  19,  1782;  Margaret,  June  25,  1784; 
Richard,  July  30,  1786. 

(VI)  Lydia  Southwick,  third  daughter 
of  Ebenezer  (2)  and  Susanna  (Orr-Fos- 
ter)  Southwick,  was  born  November  i, 
1766,  in  Danvers,  and  was  married,  March 
22,  1785,  to  John  Osborn,  of  that  town 
(see  Osborn,  VI). 

(The   Poor  Line). 

(I)  Daniel  Poore,  eleventh  settler  of 
Andover,  came  from  England  in  the  ship 
"Bevis,"  Captain  Robert  Batten,  master, 
sailing  from  Southampton  with  sixty 
other  passengers  in  May,  1638,  when  he 
was  fourteen  years  of  age.  He  came  in 
the  family  of  Richard  and  Alice  Dum- 
mer.  Daniel  Poore  married  in  Boston, 
October  20,  1650,  Mary  Farnum,  daughter 
of  Ralph  and  Alice  Farnum,  who  also  set- 
tled in  Andover,  and  had  many  descend- 
ants in  that  section.  Daniel  Poore  died 
June  8,  i'689,  aged  sixty-five ;  his  wife  also 
died  in  Andover,  February  3,  17 14,  aged 
eighty-five  years.  Their  home  was  on  the 
easterly  side  of  the  Shawshine  river,  not 
far  from  its  mouth  and  near  the  Merri- 
mac  river,  adjacent  to  the  present  station 
of  the  Boston  &  Maine  Railroad  in  North 


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Andover,  and  the  street  railway  from 
Lawrence  to  North  Andover  passes  near 
the  site  of  the  old  house.  The  ancient 
bridge  over  the  Shawshine  river  is  near 
by  and  the  homestead  included  land  on 
both  sides  of  the  river  below  the  bridge. 
Children  of  Daniel  and  Mary  (Farnum) 
Poore:  i.  Mary,  born  in  the  summer  of 
165 1  ;  married,  in  Newbury,  John  Noyes, 
son  of  Deacon  Nicholas  and  Mary  (Cut- 
ting) Noyes,  November  23,  1668,  and  in 
Newbury  the  births  of  ten  children  are 
recorded.  2.  Sarah,  born  December  28, 
1652;  married,  February  13,  1673,  Samuel 
Pettengill,  of  Newbury,  son  of  Richard 
Pettengill,  and  they  had  eleven  children, 
born  in  Newbury.  3.  Martha,  born  No- 
vember 4,  1654;  married,  February  9, 
1679,  John  Granger,  and  had  seven  child- 
ren born  in  Andover.  4.  Daniel,  men- 
tioned below.  5.  John,  born  September 
5,  1658,  died  unmarried,  December  24, 
1690;  was  a  soldier  in  the  Canadian  Ex- 
pedition. 6.  Hannah,  born  May  6,  1660; 
married,  November  16,  1681,  Lieutenant 
Francis  Dane,  son  of  Francis  Dane,  of 
Andover,  where  they  had  nine  children. 
7.  Elizabeth,  born  April  15,  1662;  married, 
April  7,  1686,  Jacob  Marstone,  son  of  John 
and  Martha  Marstone,  and  they  had  elev- 
en children,  born  at  Andover.  8.  Deb- 
orah, born  April  18,  1664;  married.  May 
29,  1689,  Timothy  Osgood,  brother  of  the 
wife  of  her  brother,  Daniel  Poore ;  she 
died  in  1724;  he  died  in  1748.  9.  Ruth, 
February  16,  1665;  married  John  Stev- 
ens. 10.  Priscilla,  born  June  22,  1667. 
II.  Lucy,  September  28,  1670. 

(II)  Daniel  (2)  Poor,  son  of  Daniel 
(i)  and  Mary  (Farnum)  Poore,  was  born 
September  5,  1656,  in  Andover,  died  in 
1735,  and  was  the  only  son  who  had  male 
descendants.  He  was  a  farmer  at  An- 
dover, inheriting  the  homestead  and  most 
of  the  real  estate  of  his  father  and  one 
hundred  and  fifty  acres  from  his  brother, 


John.  He  married,  April  25,  1688,  Me- 
hitable,  daughter  of  Captain  John  and 
Mary  (Clements)  Osgood,  of  Andover, 
born  March  4,  1672,  died  October  28,  1752. 
Children,  born  at  Andover :  Daniel,  Feb- 
ruary 9,  16S9;  Mehitable,  October  3,  1690, 
died  January  14,  1691  ;  John,  October  30, 
169 1,  married  Mary  Faulkner;  Mehitable, 
December  10,  1693  >  Samuel,  November 
36,  1695,  married  Deborah,  sister  of  Dor- 
othy Kimball ;  Mary,  March  26,  1698, 
married  Benjamin  Stevens ;  Joseph, 
March  14,  1700;  Joseph,  March  29,  1701 ; 
Thomas,  mentioned  below ;  child  ( Lydia  ?) , 
March  10,  1705 ;  Timothy  and  Han- 
nah (twins)  ;  child,  July  20,  1709;  child, 
August  27,  1710;  Elizabeth,  August  17, 
171 1 ;  Martha,  May  17,  1713;  Deborah, 
October  19,  1714;  Timothy,  April  15, 
1716.  It  is  said  that  the  mother  of  these 
children  was  sorely  disappointed  because 
she  failed  to  have  twenty.  Her  son  John 
lived  to  the  age  of  ninety-four  and  ate 
seventy-two  Thanksgiving  dinners  with 
his  wife,  after  their  marriage. 

(Ill)  Thomas  Poor,  sixth  son  of  Dan- 
iel (2)  and  Mehitable  (Osgood)  Poor, 
was  born  1703,  in  Andover,  where  he 
made  his  home,  and  died  1778-79.  He 
married,  September  30,  1728,  in  Andover, 
Mary  Adams,  born  September  26,  1707, 
in  Newbury,  Massachusetts,  daughter  of 
Abraham  and  Ann  (Longfellow)  Adams. 
The  last  named,  born  October  3,  1683,  was 
a  daughter  of  William  and  Ann  (Sewall) 
Longfellow.  William  Longfellow  was 
born  about  165 1,  in  Hants,  England,  and 
settled  in  Haverhill,  Massachusetts.  He 
married,  November  10,  1678,  Ann,  daugh- 
ter of  Henry  Sewall.  The  surname  Sew- 
ell,  Shewell  or  Showell  is  of  ancient  Eng- 
lish origin.  As  early  as  1376  the  coat-of- 
arms  of  John  Sewall  was  affixed  to  a  deed : 
Fretty,  in  a  chief  a  sea-whale.  The  other 
coat-of-arms,  used  by  most  of  the  Sew- 
alls,  was  borne  by  John  de  Sewelle,  who 


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accompanied  Edward  the  Black  Prince  in- 
to Aquitaine:  Sable,  a  chevron  between 
three  butterflies  argent.  In  the  arms  used 
by  the  Sewalls  of  New  England  we  find 
"gadbees,"  instead  of  "butterflies,"  and 
there  is  some  mystery  about  the  bees  in 
this  coat-of-arms ;  according  to  Colonel 
Chester,  who  investigated  the  subject,  the 
coat-of-arms  should  be  that  containing 
the  butterflies,  if  it  can  be  proved  that 
the  Sewalls  belong  to  the  heraldic  family. 
No  family  has  been  more  prominent  in 
New  England  history  than  the  Sewalls. 
The  first  to  whom  the  line  can  be  directly 
traced  was  William  Shewall,  who  lived 
in  Coventry,  Warwickshire,  England, 
and  married,  about  1540,  Matilda  Home. 
Their  second  son  was  William  Sewall, 
born  about  1544,  in  Coventry,  a  linen 
draper,  a  "prudent  man  who  acquired  a 
large  estate,"  served  as  alderman  and 
mayor  of  the  city.  He  married  Margaret, 
daughter  of  Alverey  (or  Avery)  Gres- 
brooks,  a  gentleman  of  Middleton,  in  the 
county  of  Warwick,  and  of  his  wife,  Mar- 
garet (Keene)  Gresbrooks,  of  Sutton, 
Coldfield.  Their  eldest  child  was  Henry 
Sewall,  baptized  April  8,  1576,  lived  in 
Coventry,  married  Anne  Hunt.  He  was 
dissatisfied  with  the  English  hierarchy, 
and  sent  his  only  son  with  provisions  for 
a  plantation  to  America.  Their  son, 
Henry  Sewall,  born  in  1614,  came  to  New 
England  in  the  ship  "Elizabeth  and  Dor- 
cas," in  1634,  with  an  outfit  of  servants 
and  cattle.  In  the  following  spring  he 
settled  in  Newbury,  Massachusetts,  where 
he  was  a  prominent  citizen.  He  married, 
March  25,  1646,  Jane,  daughter  of  Stephen 
Dummer,  and  received  five  hundred  acres 
of  land  in  Coventry  from  his  father  as  a 
wedding  gift.  He  lived  for  sometime  at 
Warwick,  England,  but  returned  to 
America  after  the  death  of  his  father,  and 
died  May  16,  1700,  at  the  age  of  eighty- 
six  years.     His  widow  died  January  13 


following,  at  the  age  of  seventy-four. 
Their  daughter  Ann  was  the  wife  of  Wil- 
liam Longfellow,  above  noted.  Children 
of  Thomas  and  Mary  (Adams)  Poor: 
Thomas,  mentioned  below ;  Mary,  born 
April  6,  1734;  Stephen,  August  2,  1735; 
Enoch,  1736-37;  Ann,  July  4,  1738;  Dan- 
iel, September  21,  1740;  Abraham,  Feb- 
ruary 23,  1742;  Sarah,  January  3,  1744; 
Susee,  November  26,  1745;  Joseph,  died 
young;  Joseph,  November  7,  1748. 

(IV)  Colonel  Thomas  (2)  Poor,  eld- 
est child  of  Thomas  (i)  and  Mary 
(Adams)  Poor,  was  born  July  19,  1732, 
in  Andover,  where  he  resided  until  about 
1776,  when  he  removed  to  Methuen, 
Massachusetts,  and  died  there  September 
24,  1804.  He  was  a  soldier  in  the  French 
and  Indian  Wars,  and  commanded  one 
of  the  companies  that  marched  from  An- 
dover on  the  Lexington  Alarm,  April  19, 
1775,  in  Colonel  James  Frye's  regiment. 
His  brother.  General  Enoch  Poor,  of  Ex- 
eter, New  Hampshire,  was  major  general 
of  New  Hampshire  troops  in  the  Revolu- 
tion, and  a  prominent  and  honored  citizen 
of  that  State.  He  married  Phebe  Os- 
good, baptized  May  27,  1735,  in  the  First 
Church  of  Andover,  daughter  of  Timothy 
and  Mary  (Poole)  Osgood,  died  March  2, 
1797,  in  Methuen.  Children,  born  in  An- 
dover: Mary,  December  23,  1757;  Han- 
nah, December  4,  1759;  Phebe,  July  3, 
1761 ;  Stephen,  mentioned  below;  Enoch, 
April  20,  1765;  Caleb,  March  28,  1767; 
Thomas,  baptized  March  27,  1774.  Born 
in  Methuen :    Susanna,  January  14,  1778. 

(V)  Stephen  Poor,  eldest  son  of  Col- 
onel Thomas  (2)  and  Phebe  (Osgood) 
Poor,  was  born  February  16,  1763,  in  An- 
dover, and  lived  in  that  town.  He  mar- 
ried (intentions  published  October  25, 
1795)  Elizabeth  Dustin,  of  Windham, 
New  Hampshire,  born  September  8,  1773, 
in  Salem,  New  Hampshire,  daughter  of 
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Haverhill,  Salem  and  Windham  (see  Diis- 
tin,  VI).  Children,  recorded  in  Andover: 
George,  born  November  24,  1796;  Eliza, 
mentioned  below. 

(VI)  Eliza  Poor,  daughter  of  Stephen 
and  Elizabeth  (Dustin)  Poor,  was  born 
November  23,  1798,  in  Andover,  and  died 
December  20,  1835,  in  Danvers,  Massa- 
chusetts. She  was  married,  December  17, 
1820,  to  Miles  Osborn,  of  Danvers,  Mass- 
achusetts (see  Osborn,  VII). 

(The  Dustin  Line). 

(I)  Thomas  Dustin  was  born  in  Eng- 
land, and  as  early  as  1640  was  in  Dover, 
New  Hampshire.  He  owned  land  in 
Charlestown,  Massachusetts,  adjoining 
land  of  Ralph  Hall,  in  1648,  and  was  ad- 
mitted a  freeman  at  Kittery,  Maine,  in 
1652.  His  name  is  variously  spelled  Dur- 
stan,  Dastin,  Duston  and  Dustin.  Only 
one  child  seems  to  be  known,  Thomas, 
mentioned  below. 

(II)  Thomas  (2)  Dustin,  son  of  Thom- 
as (i)  Dustin,  was  born  about  1650; 
married,  December  3,  1677,  Hannah  Em- 
erson, daughter  of  Michael  and  Hannah 
(Webster)  Emerson.  Hannah  Dustin 
(or  Duston)  is  one  of  the  most  famous 
women  of  American  history.  Every 
school  child  for  two  hundred  years  has 
read  with  interest  the  thrilling  story  of 
her  capture  by  the  Indians  and  her  es- 
cape. The  Indians  attacked  the  house  of 
Thomas  Duston,  March  15,  1697.  Duston 
managed  to  escape  from  the  house  with 
seven  of  his  children.  Mounting  his  horse 
he  covered  the  retreat  of  the  little  flock, 
gun  in  hand,  and  succeeded  in  reaching  a 
place  of  safety  with  all  of  them  un- 
harmed. The  Indians  fired  but  hit  none 
of  the  little  party.  Mrs.  Duston  was  in 
bed,  attended  by  a  midwife,  named  Mary 
Neff,  and  with  her  infant  daughter,  one 
week  old.  Mrs.  Duston  was  ordered  to 
accompany    her    captors    and    but    partly 


dressed  started  on  the  dreadful  journey 
northward.  The  savages  dashed  out  the 
brains  of  her  child  in  order  to  spare  them- 
selves the  trouble  of  an  infant  in  the 
party.  After  two  weeks  the  Indians 
camped  on  an  island  at  Pennacook,  now 
Concord,  New  Hampshire,  and  while 
there,  March  30,  1697,  Mrs.  Duston 
planned  her  escape.  With  the  aid  of 
Samuel  Leonard's  son,  who  had  been  cap- 
tured in  Worcester,  Mrs.  Duston  and  Mary 
Nefif,  each  armed  with  a  hatchet,  toma- 
hawked ten  of  the  twelve  Indians  while 
they  were  sleeping  in  the  camp.  A  squaw 
and  one  young  Indian  escaped,  the  latter 
not  being  marked  for  slaughter,  however, 
as  Mrs.  Duston  meant  to  spare  one  of 
them.  The  three  returned  to  Haverhill 
and  later  presented  the  bloody  trophies 
of  their  feat-at-arms  to  the  General  Court 
of  Massachusetts,  and  received  bounties 
for  them.  Children  of  Thomas  and  Han- 
nah Dustin :  Hannah,  born  August  22, 
1678 ;  Elizabeth,  May  7,  1680 ;  Mary,  No- 
vember 4,  1681,  died  October  18,  1696; 
Thomas,  January  5,  1683;  Nathaniel, 
mentioned  below  ;  John,  February  2,  1686, 
died  January  28,  1690;  Sarah,  July  4, 
1688;  Abigail,  October,  1690;  Jonathan, 
January  16,  1692;  Timothy  and  Mehitable 
(twins),  September  14,  1694,  latter  died 
December  16,  1694;  Martha,  March  9, 
1697,  killed  March  15,  1697;  Lydia,  Oc- 
tober 4,  1698. 

(III)  Nathaniel  Dustin,  second  son  of 
Thomas  (2)  and  Hannah  (Emerson) 
Dustin,  was  born  May  15,  1685,  in  Haver- 
hill, and  married  there,  before  1712,  Mary 
Ayer,  born  September  9,  16S7,  daughter 
of  Nathaniel  and  Tamesin  (Turloar) 
Ayer.  Children,  recorded  in  Haverhill : 
Mary,  born  February  8,  1712;  John,  July 
3,  1714;  Thomas  and  Timothy  (twins), 
December  20,  1716;  Nathaniel,  mentioned 
below. 

(IV)  Nathaniel  (2)  Dustin,  son  of  Na- 


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thaniel  (i)  and  Mary  (Ayer)  Dustin,  was 
born  February  25,  1719,  in  Haverhill,  and 
married  there,  April  28,  1742,  Tryphena 
Haseltine,  born  there  May  3,  1722,  daugh- 
ter of  Philip  and  Judith  (Webster)  Has- 
eltine. Children :  Timothy,  born  April  8, 
1743;  Moses,  November  21,  1744;  Peter, 
mentioned  below ;  Judith,  February  20, 
1749;  Mary,  July  14,  1751 ;  Hannah,  July 
I,  1754;  Nathaniel,  February  12,  1756. 

(V)  Peter  Dustin,  third  son  of  Nathan- 
iel (2)  and  Tryphena  (Haseltine)  Dustin, 
was  born  January  7,  1746,  in  Haverhill, 
resided  for  some  years  on  Zion's  Hill,  in 
Salem,  New  Hampshire,  whence  he  re- 
moved to  Windham,  same  State,  in  1785. 
There  he  purchased,  January  10  of  that 
year,  a  farm  of  ninety-eight  acres  for 
three  hundred  and  twenty  pounds.  He 
died  on  this  farm,  July  23,  1825.  He  was 
a  soldier  of  the  Revolution,  described  as 
witty  and  impulsive,  a  very  genial  and 
companionable  man.  He  married  at  the 
First  Church  in  Haverhill,  February  7, 
i'77i,  Betty  Sawyer,  born  November  17, 
1752,  in  that  town,  daughter  of  Jonathan 
and  Elizabeth  (Tenney)  Sawyer.  Chil- 
dren:  Nathaniel,  born  August  14,  1772; 
Betty,  mentioned  below ;  Jonathan,  Feb- 
ruary 22,  1778;  Peter,  June  4,  1781  ;  Han- 
nah, December  22,  1783. 

(VI)  Elizabeth  (Betty)  Dustin,  eld- 
est daughter  of  Peter  and  Betty  (Sawyer) 
Dustin,  was  born  September  8,  1773,  in 
Salem,  New  Hampshire,  and  became  the 
wife  of  Stephen  Poor,  of  Andover,  Mass- 
achusetts, (see  Poor,  V). 


BURCHARD,  Leeds, 

Business  Man. 

A  young  man  in  point  of  years,  but  a 
veteran  in  the  business  world,  Mr.  Burch- 
ard  occupies  a  prominent  place  in  the 
commercial  life  of  Fall  River,  Massachu- 
setts,  being  treasurer  and   general   man- 


ager of  the  Covel  &  Osborn  Company, 
Incorporated,  a  company  to  which  he 
came  as  bookkeeper  in  1908.  Mr.  Burch- 
ard  traces  descent  from  Thomas  Birch- 
ard,  the  founder  of  the  family  in  New 
England,  he  coming  in  the  ship  "True 
Love,"  in  1635,  with  his  wife  Mary,  son 
John,  and  five  daughters.  The  line  of 
Leeds  Burchard  is  as  follows:  Thomas 
Burchard,  born  in  England,  1595;  John 
Burchard,  born  in  England,  1628;  Sam- 
uel Burchard,  born  in  Norwich,  Connec- 
ticut, went  to  Windham,  Connecticut, 
1663;  John  Burchard,  born  in  1704;  John 
Burchard,  born  in  1728;  Jabez  Burchard, 
born  in  1765;  Jabez  Burchard,  born  in 
1799;  Samuel  D.  Burchard,  born  in  New 
York  City,  181 1 ;  Thomas  Herring  Burch- 
ard ;  Leeds  Burchard,  born  in  New  York 
City,  May  20,  1883.  Jabez  Burchard,  a 
farmer  of  Oneida  county.  New  York, 
married  Lucina,  daughter  of  David  Bar- 
ton, who  died  in  his  seventy-fifth  year. 
They  were  the  parents  of  twelve  chil- 
dren: Cynthia,  Seneca  B.,  Theodore,  Syl- 
vester, Roxana,  Jabez,  Horace,  John,  Lu- 
cina, Hannah,  Charles  A.  and  Samuel 
Dickinson. 

Samuel  Dickinson  Burchard  was  born 
in  Steuben,  New  York,  September  6, 
1812,  and  became  a  well-known  and 
famous  clergyman  of  the  Presbyterian 
church.  He  entered  Centre  College,  Dan- 
ville, Kentucky,  in  1830,  supporting  him- 
self by  teaching.  In  1832,  when  the 
cholera  scourge  devastated  Kentucky, 
he  was  the  only  student  who  remained, 
and  throughout  the  plague  he  nursed  the 
sick  and  tended  the  dying,  becoming 
known  as  the  "student  nurse  of  Dan- 
ville." He  had  already  been  preaching 
upon  religion,  temperance  and  human 
rights,  and  after  his  graduation  in  1836 
he  became  a  lecturer,  speaking  on  aboli- 
tion to  large  audiences  even  in  Kentucky. 
In    1838    he    was    regularly    licensed    to 


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preach   by   the  Transylvania   Presbytery,     that  employ  as  a  clerk  for  two  years.     In 


and  in  1839  accepted  a  call  from  the  old 
Houston  Street  Presbyterian  Church, 
New  York  City.  The  church  prospered 
under  his  pastoral  charge,  and  in  1846  a 
new  and  larger  church  was  built  on 
Thirteenth  street.  That  building  was 
destroyed  by  fire  in  1855,  was  rebuilt,  and 
Dr.  Burchard  continued  its  pastor  until 
1879.  In  1856  he  was  appointed  chan- 
cellor of  Ingham  University,  a  position 
he  held  eight  years,  making  semi-annual 
visits  to  the  University.  He  was  also 
president  of  Rutgers  Female  Academy. 
In  1861  he  was  appointed  chaplain  of  the 
American  church  in  Paris.  He  was  a 
lifetime  supporter  of  the  Union  during 
the  Civil  War.  Dr.  Burchard  received 
his  A.  M.  from  his  alma  mater,  and  D.  D. 
from  Madison  University.  He  was  an 
author  of  note,  the  publisher  of  two  vol- 
umes, and  wrote  a  number  of  valuable 
articles  of  value  for  periodicals.  He  died 
at  Saratoga,  New  York,  September  25, 
1891,  survived  by  three  sons,  Thomas 
Herring,  Roswell  Beebe  and  Lewis  Sayre 
Burchard. 

Thomas  Herring  Burchard,  son  of  Rev. 
Samuel  Dickinson  Burchard,  embraced 
the  profession  of  medicine  and  was  an 
eminent  physician  of  New  York  City,  de- 
voting his  life  to  his  profession.  He  mar- 
ried Irene  Stewart,  daughter  of  William 
Robert  and  Mary  Matilda  Stewart.  They 
were  the  parents  of  two  sons,  Stewart 
and  Leeds  Burchard. 

Leeds  Burchard,  son  of  Thomas  Her- 
ring and  Irene  (Stewart)  Burchard,  was 
born  in  New  York  City,  May  20,  1883. 
He  attended  the  Drisler  and  Dwight 
grammar  schools  of  New  York  City,  the 
Stone  School  of  Boston,  Massachusetts, 
then  entered  Harvard  College,  whence 
he  was  graduated  A.  B.,  class  of  1906. 
He  began  business  life  with  the  American 
Trust  Company  of  Boston,  continuing  in 


1908  he  came  to  Fall  River,  Massachu- 
setts, and  there  became  a  bookkeeper 
with  Covel  &  Osborn,  hardware  and  mill 
supply  dealers.  He  applied  himself  to 
the  tasks  in  hand  so  satisfactorily  that 
when  in  1912  the  business  was  reorgan- 
ized as  the  Covel  &  Osborn  Company,  In- 
corporated, of  Fall  River,  he  was  chosen 
treasurer  of  the  corporation  and  its  gen- 
eral manager.  A  Republican  in  politics, 
and  an  attendant  of  Central  Congrega- 
tional Church,  Mr.  Burchard  takes  little 
part  in  the  active  management  of  either, 
but  finds  that  his  official  business  posi- 
tion furnishes  him  with  quite  sufficient 
opportunity  to  exercise  his  tact  and  tal- 
ent. He  is  a  member  of  the  Harvard 
Club  of  Boston,  and  the  Quequechan 
Club  of  Fall  River.  Mr.  Burchard  is  cap- 
tain of  the  Massachusetts  State  Guard, 
Company  M,  Twenty-first  Company,  or- 
ganized during  the  World  War. 

Mr.  Burchard  married  at  Fall  River, 
November  8,  191 1,  Elizabeth  Carr  Os- 
born, daughter  of  James  E.  and  Delia  S. 
(Carr)  Osborn,  she  a  descendant  in  the 
eighth  generation  of  the  family  founded 
in  New  England  by  Jeremiah  Osborn, 
who  settled  in  Newport,  Rhode  Island, 
and  there  died  in  1673.  James  E.  Osborn 
was  president  of  the  Covel  &  Osborn 
Company  for  several  years,  and  is  yet 
widely-connected  with  Fall  River  corpor- 
ations and  interests.  Mr.  and  Mrs. 
Burchard  are  the  parents  of  a  daughter, 
Hope,  born  April  28,  1914. 


McCarthy,  Eugene  Ambrose, 

Physician. 

By  birth  and  associations  an  American, 
Dr.  Eugene  Ambrose  McCarthy,  a  well- 
known  and  public-spirited  citizen  of  Fall 
River,  Massachusetts,  is  on  his  father's 
side  descended  from  Irish  ancestry,  and 


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exhibits  in  his  character  and  personality 
many  of  the  traits  of  that  brilliant  race. 
His  grandfather,  Jeremiah  McCarthy,  was 
a  native  of  County  Cork,  Ireland,  who 
came  to  this  country  and  settled  in  Rhode 
Island.  His  son,  Eugene  Francis  Mc- 
Carthy, who  was  one  year  old  when  he 
came  from  Ireland,  became  the  father  of 
the  Dr.  McCarthy  of  this  sketch.  Mr. 
McCarthy,  St.,  became  active  in  the  rail- 
road business  in  early  youth,  and  was  a 
railroad  conductor  all  his  active  life  on 
the  New  York,  New  Haven  &  Hartford 
Railroad.  He  is  now  living  retired  and 
enjoying  a  pension,  which  he  well  de- 
serves as  the  fruit  of  forty  years'  long 
and  faithful  service.  He  married  Ellen 
McCarthy,  a  native  of  Valley  Falls, 
Rhode  Island,  and  a  daughter  of  Patrick 
and  Julia  McCarthy,  of  that  place. 

Born  at  Fall  River,  Massachusetts,  Au- 
gust 29,  1881,  Eugene  Ambrose  McCar- 
thy passed  the  early  years  of  his  life  in 
attending  the  excellent  public  schools  of 
his  native  city.  He  was  graduated  from 
the  high  school  there  with  the  class  of 
1900,  and  there  was  prepared  for  college. 
He  decided  to  enter  Brown  University, 
and  graduated  from  there  with  the  class 
of  1904,  taking  the  degree  of  Bachelor  of 
Arts.  He  had  in  the  meantime  deter- 
mined upon  medicine  as  his  career  in  life, 
and  with  this  end  in  view  matriculated  at 
the  Harvard  Medical  School.  Here,  after 
four  years  of  close  and  painstaking  study, 
he  graduated  in  the  class  of  1908  with  the 
degree  of  M.  D.  He  supplemented  the 
theoretical  knowledge  gained  at  the  uni- 
versity with  the  requisite  practical  ex- 
perience gained  as  interne  at  Carney  Hos- 
pital at  South  Boston,  where  he  remained 
for  eight  months.  Dr.  McCarthy  is  a  fine 
example  of  that  sterling  type  of  character 
which  the  popular  mind  associated  with 
the  records  of  the  medical  profession  in 
New  England,  and  he  has  always  shown 


with  great  clearness  those  sterling  vir- 
tues of  honesty  and  sincerity  which  must 
prove  the  basis  of  all  success  which  is 
worth  achieving.  He  began  the  practice 
of  his  profession  at  the  city  of  Fall  River, 
and  is  meeting  with  splendid  success  in 
his  chosen  profession.  He  specializes  in 
orthopedic  surgery,  and  has  gained  an 
excellent  practice  through  the  reputation 
which  he  has  established  for  his  skill  in 
correcting  and  preventing  deformities. 
Dr.  McCarthy  is  visiting  orthopedic  sur- 
geon to  both  the  Union  Hospital  of  Fall 
River  and  the  Newport  Hospital  of  New- 
port, Rhode  Island.  For  eight  years  Dr. 
McCarthy  has  been  associated  in  ortho- 
pedic surgery  with  Dr.  W.  R.  Mac- 
Ansland,  of  Boston,  surgeon-in-chief  at 
the  Carney  Hospital,  of  Boston.  Dr. 
McCarthy  not  only  is  doing  excellent 
work  for  his  patients,  but  he  has  written 
valuable  papers  on  orthopedics.  A  paper 
on  "The  After  Care  of  the  War  Cripple," 
read  at  the  Rhode  Island  State  Confer- 
ence of  Charities  and  Corrections  on  Oc- 
tober 24,  1917,  has  been  reprinted  in 
pamphlet  form  for  a  more  select  distribu- 
tion and  reading  by  the  profession,  and 
has  been  favorably  commented  on  by  the 
Boston  Medical  and  Surgical  Journal.  Dr. 
McCarthy  is  now  regarded  as  a  leader  of 
his  profession  and  as  an  authority  on  the 
troubles  of  children,  especially  those  re- 
quiring surgical  treatment.  While  he  is, 
of  course,  prevented  from  taking  that 
active  part  in  public  affairs  for  which  his 
abilities  well  fit  him,  he  is,  nevertheless, 
keenly  interested  in  the  political  issues  of 
the  day.  In  politics  he  may  be  classed  as 
an  Independent  Democrat.  In  his  relig- 
ious belief  he  is  a  Catholic,  and  attends 
St.  Joseph's  Church  of  that  denomination 
at  Fall  River.  He  is  also  prominently 
identified  with  social  and  club  life  in  the 
community,  and  is  affiliated  with  the 
local  organization  of  the  Knights  of  Co- 


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lumbus,  the  college  fraternity  of  Phi 
Kappa,  the  Fall  River  Medical  Society,  the 
State  Medical  Society,  and  the  American 
Medical  Association,  while  his  club  is 
the  Country  of  Fall  River.  He  is  also  a 
director  in  the  Fall  River  Chamber  of 
Commerce. 

Dr.  McCarthy  was  united  in  marriage, 
June  17,  1914,  at  Fall  River,  with  Carrie 
Clayton  Langley,  a  native  of  this  city, 
and  a  daughter  of  Henry  J.  and  Carrie 
Minerva  (Davol)  Langley,  old  and  highly- 
respected  residents  here.  To  Dr.  and 
Mrs.  McCarthy  the  following  children 
have  been  born :  Carolyn  Langley,  Au- 
gust 16,  igis.and  Elinor  Clayton,  Novem- 
ber 6,  1916. 

Dr.  McCarthy  is  of  the  type  of  man 
that  makes  the  best  citizens.  With  a 
high  sense  of  civic  duties  and  obligations, 
he  identifies  himself  with  many  important 
movements  undertaken  for  the  welfare  of 
the  community,  and  does  much  to  assist 
in  its  development.  As  a  man  he  is  in  all 
respects  admirable  and  wins  the  confi- 
dence and  afifection  of  his  associates  in  all 
walks  and  relations  of  life.  In  all  capaci- 
ties he  measures  up  to  the  highest  stand- 
ards, and  his  name  may  well  be  held  in 
regard  and  afifection  not  only  by  his  large 
clientele,  but  by  the  community  in  gen- 
eral. The  life  of  a  physician  is  no  sine- 
cure, and  the  very  choice  of  it  is  proof  of 
the  sincerity  and  earnestness  of  the 
chooser,  either  as  a  student  with  an  over- 
whelming love  of  his  subject,  or  as  an 
altruist  whose  first  thought  is  the  good 
of  his  fellows.  Probably  something  of 
both  qualities  enters  into  the  attitude  of 
Dr.  McCarthy,  of  Fall  River,  Massachu- 
setts, one  of  the  leaders  of  his  profession 
in  that  city,  and  this  is  borne  out  by  the 
double  fact  that  he  is  at  once  unusually 
well  versed  in  the  theory  and  technical 
practice  of  medicine,  and  that  he  has  won 
the  respect  and  afifection  of  his  patients 
and  the  community  generally. 


TURNER,  Harry  Maxwell, 

Manufacturer, 

Harry  Maxwell  Turner,  son  of  Julius 
Theodore  and  Emma  (Maxwell)  Turner, 
and  brother  of  Dr.  William  George  Tur- 
ner, of  whom  biographical  notice  is  con- 
tained elsewhere  in  this  work,  was  born 
at  Monroe,  Michigan,  March  20,  1876. 

At  the  time  his  parents  removed  to  Fall 
River,  Mr.  Turner  was  a  small  lad  of 
five  years.  It  was  in  that  city  that  his 
elementary  education  was  obtained.  He 
attended  the  public  schools,  and  in  1896, 
graduated  from  the  Matthew  Chaloner 
Durfee  High  School.  Very  early  in  the 
career  of  Mr.  Turner  the  qualities  which 
have  distinguished  his  business  career 
were  evidenced.  Possessed  of  high  youth- 
ful ambitions,  he  applied  himself  to  the 
faithful  and  diligent  performance  of  his 
work,  and  now,  although  comparatively 
young  in  years,  Mr.  Turner  has  attained 
a  well-deserved  position  of  respect  and 
esteem  among  the  business  men  of  Fall 
River.  He  started  in  rather  a  lowly  posi- 
tion with  the  Swansea  Dye  Works  Com- 
pany, and  from  the  very  start  held  the 
idea  paramount  in  his  mind  that  he 
would  achieve  success.  To-day,  Mr. 
Turner  holds  the  office  of  manager  of  this 
thriving  business,  and  a  large  amount  of 
credit  for  its  success  is  due  to  him.  The 
business  was  founded  by  his  uncle,  the 
late  Wendell  Emerson  Turner,  whose  an- 
cestry and  biography  are  fully  given  else- 
where. Mr.  Turner  is  a  Republican  in 
political  principle,  and  although  the  party 
of  his  choice  receives  his  full  allegiance 
he  is  not  a  seeker  for  political  prefer- 
ment. He  finds  his  greatest  interest  in 
his  absorption  in  his  business  problems 
and  within  his  home  circle,  not  being 
affiliated  with  any  of  the  social  organiza- 
tions. 

On  June  22,  1904,  Mr.  Turner  married 
in  Fall  River,  Massachusetts,  Maude  Ann 


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Fisher,  born  in  Shamokin,  Pennsylvania, 
November  19,  1879,  daughter  of  Harvey 
E.  and  Mary  (Neeley)  Fisher.  They  are 
the  parents  of  a  son,  Maxwell  Turner, 
who  was  born  March  15,  1905.  With  his 
family  Mr.  Turner  attends  the  Methodist 
Union  Church  of  Fall  River,  to  the  good 
works  of  which  he  is  a  generous  contri- 
butor. 


BORDEN,  Fred  Clinton, 

Business  Man. 


There  is  no  name  that  occupies  a  more 
deservedly  high  place  in  the  regard  of  his 
fellow-citizens  than  that  of  Borden,  which 
is  borne  by  a  family  that  has  for  many 
years  distinguished  itself  in  the  affairs  of 
the  various  communities  where  its  mem- 
bers have  resided.  It  is  especially  well 
known  in  Fall  River,  Massachusetts, 
where  it  has  been  well  represented  for 
many  years  and  where  Fred  Clinton  Bor- 
den, the  gentleman  whose  name  heads 
this  brief  sketch,  is  now  engaged  in  the 
business  of  baker  and  caterer.  Mr.  Bor- 
den is  a  grandson  of  Amassah  G.  Borden, 
of  Adamsville,  Rhode  Island,  and  of  Mary 
Fiery  (Venice)  Borden,  his  wife.  Amas- 
sah G.  Borden  was  a  prominent  man  in  the 
community  where  he  dwelt,  a  Congrega- 
tionalist  in  religion,  and  a  Federalist  in  pol- 
itics, and  played  no  small  part  in  the  pub- 
lic life  of  Adamsville.  He  and  his  wife 
were  the  parents  of  a  family  of  children, 
one  of  whom  George  Andrew  Borden,  was 
the  father  of  the  Mr.  Borden  of  this 
sketch.  George  Andrew  Borden  was  born 
at  Adamsville,  Rhode  Island.  During  his 
early  life  he  was  engaged  in  the  occupa- 
tion of  farming,  but  afterwards  removed 
to  Fall  River,  Massachusetts,  where  he 
took  up  the  baking  business  and  founded 
the  enterprise  at  the  head  of  which  Mr. 
Fred  Clinton  Borden  now  is.  He  mar- 
ried Patience  W.  Shaw,  a  daughter  of 
highly  respected  residents  of  that  place. 

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Born  June  17,  1865,  in  the  City  of  Fall 
River,  Fred  Clinton  Borden,  son  of 
George  Andrew  and  Patience  W.  (Shaw) 
Borden,  has  made  his  native  city  his  home 
ever  since.  It  was  here  that  his  childhood 
was  spent  and  here  that  he  received  his 
education,  attending  for  that  purpose  the 
local  public  schools.  He  passed  through 
the  grammar  grades  and  entered  the  high 
school  from  which  he  was  graduated  with 
the  class  of  1882,  before  the  erection  of 
the  new  Bradford  Matthew  Chaloner 
Durfee  High  School.  Upon  completing 
his  studies  at  these  institutions,  Mr.  Bor- 
den became  associated  with  his  father  in 
the  latter's  bakery  business.  Mr.  Borden, 
Sr.,  upon  first  coming  to  Fall  River,  had 
become  associated  with  the  old  baking 
business  of  Fisher  &  Company  and  it  was 
under  this  name  that  the  enterprise  was 
still  conducted  at  the  time  when  Fred 
Clinton  Borden  entered  it  fresh  from 
high  school.  This  was  in  the  year  1885, 
and  some  time  later  the  name  was  changed 
to  that  of  M.  Fisher  &  Company,  when 
the  business  passed  into  the  hands  of  Mr. 
Mason  Fisher.  In  the  year  1895  Mr.  Bor- 
den, who  had  come  more  and  more  to 
take  an  active  part  in  the  management  of 
affairs,  purchased  the  business  and  has 
since  conducted  it  on  his  own  account 
with  a  very  high  degree  of  success,  so 
that  at  the  present  time  it  has  come  to  be 
the  leading  business  of  its  kind  in  Fall 
River.  It  has  been  due  in  no  small  meas- 
ure to  the  direction  of  Mr.  Borden  that 
the  concern  has  grown  so  rapidly  in 
recent  years  and  has  now  reached  its  pres- 
ent great  proportions.  The  bakery  is 
equipped  in  the  most  modern  and  com- 
plete fashion  and  the  products  turned  out 
therefrom  establish  a  standard  of  excel- 
lence most  creditable  at  once  to  the  com- 
pany and  to  the  community.  Mr.  Borden, 
in  spite  of  the  great  demand  made  upon 
his  time  and  energies  by  the  conduct  of 
his  business,  does  not  make  the  mistake 


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so  common  among  merchants  and  busi- 
ness men  to-day  of  confining  himself 
wholly  to  this  department  of  life,  but  on 
the  contrary  has  always  maintained  a 
keen  interest  in  every  department  of  the 
life  of  the  community  and  has  taken  no 
small  part  in  many  of  them.  As  a  young 
man  he  was  a  member  of  the  Naval  Re- 
serve Company,  but  withdrew  from  this 
organization  in  1897,  one  year  before  the 
outbreak  of  the  Spanish-American  War. 
He  is  also  very  prominent  in  fraternal 
and  club  life,  and  is  a  member  of  a  num- 
ber of  important  organizations  of  this 
character,  including  the  Masonic  order  in 
which  he  is  particularly  prominent,  be- 
longing to  King  Philip's  Lodge,  Ancient 

Free     and     Accepted     Masons ;     

Chapter,  Royal  Arch  Masons ;  Fall 
River  Council,  Royal  and  Select  Masters ; 
and  Godfrey  DeBoullion  Commandery, 
Knights  Templar.  He  is  also  a  member 
of  the  Quequechan  ClubT  In  his  relig- 
ious belief  Mr.  Borden  is  a  Congregation- 
alist  and  he  attends  the  First  Church  of 
this  denomination  at  Fall  River.  He  is 
unmarried. 

A  word  here  concerning  the  Borden 
family  from  which  Mr.  Borden  is  de- 
scended will  be  appropriate.  It  has  now 
many  representatives  in  various  parts  of 
New  England  and  throughout  the  United 
States,  and  indeed  a  number  of  families 
bearing  names  of  a  slightly  different 
form,  such  as  Barden  or  Burden,  trace 
their  descent  from  the  same  immigrant 
ancestor  in  this  country.  The  surnames 
Barden,  Borden  and  Bourden  were  orig- 
inally Borden,  and  besides  the  above 
many  other  variations  are  to  be  found, 
in  all  some  thirty-two.  The  Bardens,  of 
Attleborough,  are  numbered  among  the 
posterity  of  Richard  Borden,  who  was  one 
of  the  original  settlers  in  Portsmouth, 
Rhode  Island. 


Richard  Borden,  of  the  County  of  Kent, 
England,  born  in  1601,  came  to  New  Eng- 
land in  the  ship,  "Elizabeth  and  Ann,"  in 
1635,  accompanied  by  his  wife  Joan  and 
two  children.  In  1638  he  went  from  Bos- 
ton to  Portsmouth,  Rhode  Island,  as  one 
of  the  founders  of  that  town,  was  admit- 
ted a  freeman  there  in  1641,  and  subse- 
quently held  various  public  offices,  includ- 
ing that  of  deputy  to  the  General  Court. 
He  worshipped  with  the  Society  of 
Friends,  and  in  all  of  his  dealings  with 
his  fellowmen  he  exemplified  to  a  high 
degree  the  principles  of  that  faith.  He  died 
in  Portsmouth  in  1671,  and  his  wife  died 
there  July  16,  1688.  Their  children  were: 
I.  Thomas,  born  in  England.  2.  Francis, 
also  born  there.  3.  Matthew,  born  in 
Portsmouth,  in  May,  1638;  the  first  native 
white  child  on  the  island  of  Rhode  Island. 
4.  John,  born  in  Portsmouth,  Rhode 
Island,  September,  1640,  and  died  there 
June  4,  1716;  Joseph,  born  in  1643;  Sarah, 
born  in  1644;  Samuel,  born  in  1645.  8. 
Benjamin,  born  in  1649.  9-  Annie,  born 
in  1654. 

Fred  Clinton  Borden  is  a  man  of  strong 
character  and  personality,  of  broad  sym- 
pathies and  interests  and  of  indefatigable 
industry.  It  is  such  men  who  of  neces- 
sity exert  an  influence  on  all  those  with 
whom  they  come  in  contact,  and  are  by 
nature  constituted  leaders  of  their  fel- 
lows. Not,  indeed,  the  type  of  leader  who 
imposes  his  will  upon  others  through  the 
sheer  force  of  his  aggressive  energy,  but 
that  far  more  effective  kind  who  through 
clear  reason  and  an  infectious  enthusiasm 
win  their  following.  Possessed  of  the 
truly  democratic  outlook  which  sees  in 
all  men  brothers  without  regard  for  their 
exteriors  or  the  distinctions  of  class,  he  is 
extremely  easy  of  approach  and  instantly 
wins  the  confidence  of  those  with  whom 
he  comes  in  contact.  He  is  devoted  to 
everything    from    which    he    can    derive 


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knowledge  and  culture,  and  especially 
enjoys  the  intercourse  with  his  fellow- 
men  and  neighbors  and  is  a  highly  re- 
spected citizen. 


BRITTON,  WUliam  David, 
Business  Man. 

When  a  lad  of  twelve  years  William  D. 
Britton,  now  treasurer  and  general  man- 
ager of  A.  G.  Thurston  and  Son,  of  Fall 
River,  Massachusetts,  began  his  business 
career  in  the  city  of  his  birth,  and  during 
the  thirty-five  years  which  have  since 
elapsed  he  has  passed  through  many 
grades  of  promotion,  until  he  ranks  with 
the  men  of  his  city  who  are  making  for 
Fall  River  wide  and  high  reputation  as  a 
business  city. 

He  is  a  son  of  William  Britton,  born  in 
the  North  of  Ireland,  a  carpenter  by 
trade,  who  settled  in  Fall  River,  and 
there  followed  his  trade.  He  was  a  son 
of  John  Britton,  a  farmer  of  the  North  of 
Ireland,  who  married  and  had  children, 
John,  Mary,  William,  James,  Margaret, 
and  Christine.  William  Britton  married 
Eliza  Brown,  bom  at  Fall  River,  Massa- 
chusetts, of  an  old  Fall  River  family, 
originally  coming  to  that  city  from  Ire- 
land. William  and  Eliza  (Brown)  Brit- 
ton were  the  parents  of  five  children : 
Joseph,  Robert,  Samuel,  William  David, 
and  Gertrude. 

William  David  Britton  was  born  at 
Fall  River,  Massachusetts,  September  28, 
1872,  and  until  twelve  years  of  age  at- 
tended the  public  schools.  He  then 
became  a  wage-earner,  beginning  in  the 
white  department  of  the  American  Print 
Works.  From  the  textile  mill  he  passed 
to  the   machine  shop  of  the  Poc.   Man- 


ufacturing Company,  and  for  three  years 
he  was  an  apprentice  in  those  shops.  He 
then  entered  the  employ  of  the  Narragan- 
sett  Oil  Company  at  Portsmouth,  Rhode 
Island,  as  hoisting  engineer,  that  com- 
pany being  owned  by  Captain  Dan 
Church.  He  later  returned  to  Fall  River, 
entering  the  machine  shops  of  A.  G. 
Thurston  and  Son,  continuing  as  a  ma- 
chinist until  the  death  of  the  father,  A.  G. 
Thurston,  who  was  succeeded  by  his  son, 
Rienzi  W.  Thurston,  who  appointed  Mr. 
Britton  superintendent  of  the  company. 
He  continued  in  this  position  until  the 
death  of  Mr.  Thurston  in  1915,  when  he 
became  treasurer  and  general  manager  of 
the  company,  as  at  present. 

Mr.  Britton  is  a  thorough  master  of  the 
business  he  manages,  and  is  highly- 
regarded  by  his  business  associates,  em- 
ployees, and  by  a  very  wide  circle  of 
friends  and  acquaintances.  He  is  an  In- 
dependent Republican  in  his  political 
opinions,  a  member  of  the  Independent 
Order  of  Odd  Fellows,  and  the  Knights 
of  Pythias.  His  club  is  the  King  Philip 
Boat,  his  religious  affiliations  with  the 
First  Baptist  Church  of  Fall  River. 

Mr.  Britton  married  at  Fall  River,  Feb- 
ruary 20,  1894,  Harriet  Crowther,  born  in 
that  city  in  April,  1872,  daughter  of  James 
and  Jane  (Mellor)  Crowther,  her  father  a 
Union  veteran  of  the  Civil  War.  Mr. 
and  Mrs.  Britton  are  the  parents  of  a 
son,  Harold  Earle  Britton,  born  at  Fall 
River,  November  19,  1900;  attended 
Thibodeau  Business  College,  full  com- 
mercial course,  bookkeeping,  stenography 
and  typewriting,  and  is  now  with  the 
Rhode  Island  Hospital  Trust  Company 
as  clerk. 


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INDEX 


INDEX 


Affleck,  Caroline  P.,  243 
Clara,  243 
Henry,  242 
John  H.,  242,  243 
Robert,  242 
Alderman,  Edith  B.,  300 

Oliver  C,  300 
Allard,  Alcina,  123 
Joseph,  122,  123 
Joseph,  Dr.,  122,  123 
Minerva,  123 
Allen,  Charles  W.,  240 
Emeline  A.,  240 
George  A.,  239,  240 
George  B.,  240 
John  H.,  240 
William  H.,  240 
Anthony,  Abraham,  122 
Francis,  Dr.,  121 
John, 122 
William,  122 
Arnold,  Eliza,  242 
Lyman,  242 
Susan,  242 
W'illiam,  241 
Ashley,  Aaron,  151 
Benjamin,  151 
Charles  A.,  152 
Daisy,  152 
David,  151 
Edmund  A.,  150,  152 
Joseph,  150 
Robert,  150 
Ashton,  Eliza,  302 

John, 302 
Atkinson,  Adeline,  267 
Isaac,  266 
Rowland,  267 
Thomas,  266 
Thomas  H.,  267 


Bagg,  Ezekiel,  206 
John, 205 
Martina  S.,  207 
Richard,  206 
Richard  A.,  205,  207 
Thomas,  205 
Beasley,  John,  240 
John,  Jr.,  241 
Laura  A.,  241 
Beattie,  Helen,  113 
John, 112 
Roy  H.,  Ill,  112 
William,  112 
Beede,  John,  130 
John  T.,  130 
Julia  A.,  130 
Stella  C,  131 
Belisle,  Alexander,  244 
Hector  L.,  243,  244 
Mildred  G.,  244 
Bent,  Blanche  A.,  266 
Hopestill,  265 
John,  265 
Newell,  265 
Peter,  265 
Thomas,  265 
William  E.,  265 
William  H.,  265 
Bigelow,  Bernard  F.,  137 
James  B.,  Dr.,  137,  138 
John, 137 
Katherine  M.,  138 
Blaisdell,  Charles  M.,  55,  56 
Ebenezer,  55 
Henry,  55 
Mary  H.,  57 
Ralph,  55 
Samuel,  56 
Virginia,  57 
Blanchette,  Alexander,  113 
Eva  W.,  1 14 


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Valentine,  113 

William  H.,  Dr.,  113,  114 
Blood,  Ebenezer,  169 

Lemuel  B.,  168 
Blossom,  Barnabus,  15 

Ruby,  16 

William  E.,  15 

William  W.,  15 
Bond,  George  W.,  152,  153 

Jessie  A.,  154 

Luke  W.,  152 
Bonneville,  Antoine,  148 

Frederick,  Rev.,  148 

Guillaume,  148 
Borden,  Amassah  G.,  330 

Fred  C,  330 

George  A.,  330 

Richard,  331 
Bostwick,  Amos,  260 

Arthur,  259 

Charles,  260 

Daniel,  260 

George,  260 

John,  259 

Nellie  A.,  261 

William  F.,  259,  261 

William  T.,  260 
Bray,  Annie  E.,  310 

Charles  W.,  310 

George  W.,  309 

James,  309 

Robert,  309 
Brien,  Mida  M.,  126 

Theodore  R.,  124,  125 

Thomas,  124 
Bright,  Abraham,  88 

Jacob,  88,  90 

James  C,  Dr.,  88,  90 

John,  88,  89,  90 

Mary  J.,  91 

Richard,  90 

William,  88 
Britton,  Harriet,  332 

John,  332 

William,  332 

William  D.,  332 


Brooks,  Franklin  S.,  243 
Burchard,  Elizabeth  C,  327 

Leeds,  326,  327 

Samuel  D.,  Rev.,  326 

Thomas  H.,  327 
Burns,  Patrick  J.,  103 

Thomas  F.,  Dr.,  103 
Bush,  Aaron,  199 

Asahel,  199 

Christie  R.,  202 

Fannie,  202 

Homer,  198,  202 

Homer  E.,  202 

Martha  M.,  202 

Samuel,  199 

Seth,  200 

Seth  L.,  202 

William  S.,  202,  203 

Caldwell,  Charles  E.,  51 

Charles  M.,  52 

Fannie  L.,  52 

Jacob,  49,  50 

John,  48,  49,  50 

Winford  N.,  48,  51 
Canty,  Dennis,  277,  278 

Timothy,  277 

Timothy  W.,  277,  278 
Cardigan,  Ellen,  71 

Timothy,  71 
Caron,  Amable  B.,  Dr.,  92,  93 

Josephine,  94 

Onesime,  93 
Carpenter,  Abiah,  237 

Annie  P.,  239 

Frank  L.,  236,  239 

James,  236 

John, 236 

Joseph  W.,  238 

Richard,  236 

Samuel,  237 

Stephen, 238 

Thomas,  237 

Thomas,  Capt.,  237 

William,  236 


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Cassidy,  Catherine,  164 
Edward  I.,  163 
Edward  J.,  256 
Helen,  256 
Henry  C,  255 
Henry  L.,  256 
Joseph,  255 
Margaret,  164 
Michael,  163 
Walter  M.,  164 
Chase,  Aaron,  120 
Charles  P.,  57,  58 
Daniel,  120 
Edwin,  58 
George,  120 
George  D.,  121 
Isaac,  120 
James,  120 
Jean  E.,  59 
Junius  B.,  59 
Lyndon  H.,  59 
Russell  D.,  59 
William,  119,  120 
Clark,  Caroline  E.,  92 

Charles  B.,  91 

Charles  D.,  195,  196 

Charles  D.,  Jr.,  197 

Cornwall  W.,  91 

Emma  E.,  196 

James  H.,  91,  92 

Louis  B.,  197 

Lyman  T.,  195 
Coakley,  Andrew  J.,  194 

Daniel  J.,  194 

Elizabeth,  195 

Julia  A.,  195 
Colbert,  John,  219 

Robert,  219 

William  J.,  219 
Cook,  Betsey,  4 

Ezekiel,  64 

Frederick  R.,  64,  65 

Mabel  L.,  65 

Richard  H.,  3 

William,  3 

William  F.,  64 


Covel,  Benjamin,  128 

Betsey  P.,  129 

Ebenezer,  128 

Edward,  Capt.,  127 

Joseph,  127,  128 

Samuel,  128 

Thomas  D.,  127,  129 
Crispo,  Marie  H.,  150 

Pierre  T.,  Dr.,  149 

Timothee,  149 
Crossley,  Martha  E.,  289 

William,  289 

William  C,  288,  289 

Darcy,  Delia,  147 
Eliza,  148 
Emile  J.,  147 
Francis,  146 
Frank  P.,  145,  146 
Day,  James,  78 
Dean,  Benjamin,  133 
Ebenezer,  133 
Gardiner  T.,  133 
Joseph,  133 
Marian,  134 

Robert  A.,  132,  133,  134 
Walter,  133 
Dedrick,  Albert  C,  Dr.,  8,  9 
Albert  C,  Jr.,  11 
May  L.,  11 
Samuel  T.,  9 

Sarah, 10 

William,  9 

William  M.,  11 
Denton,  Alexander,  37 

Benjamin,  37 

Henry  H.,  36,  38 

Joseph  B.,  38 

Lillian,  40 

Nathaniel,  37 

Richard,  37 

Richard,  Rev.,  36 
Dewey,  Andrew  A.,  249 

Ethan,  249 

Gad,  249 

Jedediah,  249 

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Joseph,  249 

Thomas,  249 
Dickinson,  Abijah,  182 

Dexter,  183 

Ebenezer,  182 

Emma,  183 

Flora,  184 

George  S.,  183,  184 

Gideon,  183 

Herbert  S.,  181,  182 

Jonathan  W.,  183 

Nathan,  182 

Nathaniel,  181,  183 

Samuel,  181 

Samuel  S.,  182 
Doten,  Bartlett,  24 

Edward,  22 

Elisha,  23 

Frederick  B.,  Capt.,  21,  24 

Georgiana  L.,  25 

John,  23 

Stephen,  23 
Driscoll,  Dorothea  E.,  142 

John  H.,  142 

John  H.,  Dr.,  142 

Stella,  142 
Dubuque,  Anne  M.,  8 

Hugo  A.,  7 

Marie,  8 

Moise,  7 

Pauline,  8 
Dufault,  Louis  M.,  184,  185 

Mary,  185 

Misael,  184 

Pierre,  184 
Durfee,  George,  215 

Jeanie  M.,  217 

Job,  215 

Joshua  C,  215 

Joshua  T.,  216 

Nelson  B.,  214,  216 

Thomas,  214,  215 
Dustin,  Nathaniel,  325 

Peter,  326 

Thomas,  325 
Dutton,  Amasa,  222 


Amasa,  Capt.,  223 

Amasa  P.,  223 

Charlotte  H.,  225 

John, 221 

John  M.,  Rev.,  224 

Joseph,  222 

Julius  M.,  Dr.,  221,  224 

Thomas,  222 

Elmer,  Clara,  214 
Edward,  213 
Edwin,  214 
Elijah,  213 

Ellsworth  E.,  213,  214 
Hezekiah,  213 
Mary,  214 
Ozias,  213 

Fanning,  Edmund,  66 

David  H.,  66,  67 

Henry  W.,  67 

John,  66 

Rosamond  H.,  69 

Thomas,  66,  67 
Fowler,  Ambrose,  225 

Aretus,  232 

Ashbel,  232,  234 

Blackledge,  229 

Charles,  229 

David,  232 

Edith  M.,  231 

Edward  T.,  228,  229 

Jeduthan  T.,  225,  227 

John,  230 

John  H.,  230,  231 

John  P.,  231 

Jonathan,  232 

Joseph  J.,  234 

Katherine  M.,  230 

Luther,  232 

Marilla,  228 

Mary  K.,  230 

Noble,  226 

Porter,  229 

Richard  L.,  231 

Samuel,  226 


338 


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Stephen, 228 

Tarsus  N.,  227 
Frost,  Caroline  E.,  301 

Daniel  C,  300 

Gladys  A.,  302 

Victor  M.,  300,  301 
Fuller,  Asa,  281 

Harriet  A.,  281 

Heman,  280,  281 

Hezekiah,  281 

James,  281 

John,  280 

Gagne,  Jean  B.,  258 

Joseph  A.,  Dr.,  257,  258 

Mary  D.,  258 

Stanislas,  258 
Gallagher,  Elizabeth,  72 

Francis,  71 

James  A.,  71,  72 

Peter,  71 
Gamage,  Elizabeth,  63 

Joseph,  63 

Wilbur  S.,  63 
Gates,  Abigail,  212 

Albert  H.,  212 

Almira  C,  212 

Clarence  W.,  212 

Henry,  212 

Israel,  211 

Mary  A.,  209,  212 

Peter,  211 

Simon,  210 

Stephen, 209,  210 
Gowdy,  Charles  H.,  189 

Harriet  M.,  190 

James,  189 

Robert,  189,  190 

Robert  A.,  190 

Samuel,  189 

Tudor,  189 
Grinnell,  Etta  L.,  220 

George  W.,  220 

Henry  F.,  220 

John,  220 


Hall,  Leal  M.,  74 
Levi,  72 

Newell  B.,  72,  73 
Percy  N.,  72,  73 
Harley,  John,  291 
Mary,  292 
William,  291 
William  T.,  292 
Harvey,  Ebenezer,  192 
Jenette  E.,  193 
Peter,  192 
William,  192 
William  R.,  192,  193 
Haskins,  Abel,  269 
Daniel  P.,  269,  271 
Erwin,  270 
Eva  M.,  271 
Harvey,  269 
Hathaway,  Gideon,  204 
Henry,  204 
Maria  L.,  205 
Robert  N.,  204 
Robert  W.,  205 
William  H.,  204 
Hawes,  Aaron,  108 
Daniel,  107 
Edward,  107 
James,  Lieut.,  108 
Lincoln  T.,  Lieut.,  in 
Mary  E.,  in 
Oliver  S.,  107,  108,  no 
Oliver  S.,  Jr.,  in 
Philip  T.,  in 
Richard  K.,  in 
William  M.,  109 
Hazelton,  Edmund  F.,  305 
Josiah,  305 
Sarah,  305 
Hickson,  Charles  A.,  114,  115 
George  J.,  114 
Mary,  115 
Hill  (Hills),  Benjamin,  304 
Charles,  304 
Edwin  C,  305 
George  A.,  302,  304 
George  A.,  Jr.,  305 

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Joseph,  302 

Josephine  L.,  305 

Samuel,  303 
Hindle,  Agnes  B.,  14 

Haworth,  13 

Joseph,  13 

Joseph  H.,  13 
Hines,  John,  273 

John,  Lieut.,  273 

Mary  A.,  273 

Patrick,  273 
Home,  Adella  M.,  219 

Bertram  M.,  219 

David,  218 

Frank  L.,  218 

William  D.,  218 
Horton,  Aaron,  287 

Bessie  G.,  288 

Herbert  H.,  286,  287 

Hiram,  287 

Jeremiah,  286 

John, 286 

Martha  G.,  288 

Martha  T.,  288 

Solomon,  287 

Thomas,  286 
Howes,  James  R.,  187 

Lillian  B.,  189 

Paul  S.,  189 

Ruth  E.,  189 

Samuel,  187 

Thomas,  187 

William  J.,  187,  188 
Hull,  David  C,  80 

Ernest  L.,  79,  81 

Hiram,  80 

Joseph,  80 

Joseph,  Rev.,  79 

Larinda  N.,  81 

Tristram,  80 

Tristram,  Capt.,  79 

Ivers,  John,  197 
Louis  F.,  197,  198 

Ives,  Arvilla,  154 
William  H.,  154 


Jackson,  John  P.,  Dr.,  106,  107 
Patrick  J.,  106 
Thomas,  106 

Kaufmann,  Edward,  288 

Samuel  B.,  Dr.,  288 

Solomon,  288 
Kay,  Brook,  102 

Brook  W.,  102 

Henry  E.,  102 

James  H.,  loi,  102 

Mary  R.,  103 

William,  102 
Kellogg,  Alva,  202 

David,  201 

John, 201 

Joseph,  Lieut.,  200 

Martin,  200 

Philipe,  200 

Samuel,  Capt.,  201 

Seth,  201 
Kennedy,  Clement  E.,  loi 

Clementine  S.,  lOi 

Matthew,  100 

Patrick,  100 

Paul  S.,  loi 

William  F.,  100 
Kent,  Daniel,  i6g 

Daniel  W.,  169 

Georgia  T.,  169 
Kerr,  Harriet  A.,  296 

James  B.,  295 

Robert,  295 
Kershaw,  James,  190,  191 

James  E.,  190,  191 

Mabel  E.,  192 
King,  Catherine,  307 

Frances  C,  307 

George  G.,  63,  64 

Helen  M.,  307 

James,  306 

Jane,  64 

John  R.,  306,  307 

Patrick,  306 

Samuel,  63 
340 


ENCYCLOPEDIA  OF  BIOGRAPHY 


Kinyon,  Ella  M.,  311 

Myron  T.,  311 

William  H.,  311 
Knight,  Asa  M.,  271 

Edwin  L.,  271 

Ethel,  272 

John  B.,  271,  272 

Richard,  271 

Lane,  Loring,  52 

Loring  P.,  52 

Loring  S,  53 

Lucy  M.,  53 

Robert  P.,  53 

Sarah  E.,  53 
Lapham,  Arad,  178 

John, 177 

Mowry,  178 

Nicholas,  177 

Solomon,  177 

William,  178 
Lawton,  Calista,  255 

George,  254 

George  R.,  254 

Moses  T.,  254 

Robert,  254 
LeClair,  Leander,  294 

Lucy  A.,  295 

Nelson,  294,  295 

Nelson  F.,  295 
LeGro,  David,  242 

Martha,  242 
Lee,  Daniel,  296 

Hiram  H.,  296,  297 

Ichabod, 296 

John,  296 

Lucella  R.,  297 

Samuel,  296 

Walter,  296 
Leland  (Layland),  Daniel,  175 

Francis  A.,  176 

Henry,  173 

Hopestill,  173,  174 

Moses,  175 

Samuel  R.,  176 
Lewis,  Robert  J.,  Dr.,  12 


Thomas,  12 

Thomas  A.,  12 
Loomis,  Alice  A.,  246 

Belle  C,  166 

Clarissa,  245 

Dennison  H.,  248 

Frances  A.,  166 

George,  245 

George  T.,  244,  245 

Inga  C, 247 

John, 164 

Joseph,  164,  244 

Martha  N.,  248 

Nellie  A.,  247 

Noah,  165 

Noah,  Capt.,  165 

Oliver  B.,  164,  165 

Robert  C,  247 

Samuel,  Lieut.,  164 

Sarah  M.,  245 

Thomas,  245 

Walter,  165 

William,  164 

William  B.,  246 

William  H.,  245 
Love,  George  W.,  Rev.,  25 

Idella  A.,  26 

James,  25 
Lowney,  Effie  M.,  6 

Jeremiah  J.,  Dr.,  5,  6 

Timothy,  5 
Lyon,  David,  84 

Georgia  E.,  86 

Irving  R.,  86 

Jacob,  84 

Lucian  N.,  83,  85 

M.  Martha,  86 

Nathaniel,  84 

Norman,  85 

William,  83,  84 

McCarthy,  Carrie  C,  329 
Eugene  A.,  Dr.,  327,  328 
Eugene  F.,  328 
Jeremiah,  328 

McKean,  John  O.,  86,  87 


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Mabelle  E.,  87 
Robert,  86,  87 
McLane,  Clyde  T.,  140 
Etta,  140 
Frederick  A.,  139 
Gordon  H.,  145 
Hugh,  144 
James,  145 
Joseph  H.,  139 
Mabel  J.,  145 
"William  N.,  143,  145 
William  N.,  Jr.,  145 

Marcoux,  Ephraim  A.,  Dr.,  16 

Joseph  A.,  16 

Mary  S.,  16 
Martin,  Adolphus  R.,  267,  268 

Celia  M.,  269 

Cora  M.,  269 

William,  267 

William  H.,  267 
Mathews,  Angelina,  76 

Frank  J.,  76 

Richard,  76 
Millard,  Philema,  193 

Warren,  193 
Miller,  Charles  H.,  300 

Harriet,  300 
Mitchell,  Ida,  276 

John,  375 

Linwood  H.,  275,  276 

Silas,  275 
Mosher,  Albert,  143 

Amos,  143 

Edward  L.,  143 

Elizabeth  F.,  143 

Frank,  143 

Peter,  142,  143 

Noble,  A.  Fowler,  Dr.,  231,  232 
Asa,  Capt.,  199 
Charles,  231 
David,  203,  204 
Luke,  199 
Moses,  203 
Reuben,  203,  231 


Thomas,  199 
Wells,  231 

O'Donnell,  Ellen,  277 

James  E.,  277 

Prince,  277 
Olmstead,  Anna  E.,  iSC 

Chauncey,  179 

Chauncey  L.,  179 

Mary  E.,  180 
Osborn,  John,  319 

Joseph,  319 

Miles,  319 

Samuel,  318 

William,  318 
Otto,  Elizabeth,  70 

Frederick,  70 

George  R.,  69,  70 

John,  70 

Oscar,  69 

Page,  Amos  W.,  261,  263 

Anna,  294 

Benjamin,  262,  293 

Edmund  A.,  294 

Edward,  293 

Edward  L.,  294 

Ellen,  294 

James,  263 

James  J.,  293 

John, 262 

Joseph,  262 

Mary  E.,  264 

Moses,  262 

Onesiphorus,  262 

Timothy,  293 

Woodman  S.,  261,  264 
Paine,  George,  279 

Hewson,  279 

Mary  E.,  280 

Wilson,  279,  280 
Palmer,  Edna,  97 

Edward  A.,  96 

Elisha  H.,  95 

George,  95 

Gershom,  94,  95 


342 


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Gideon,  95 

Percy  S.,  94,  96 

Reuben,  95 

Walter,  94 
Parker,  Adolphus  G.,  99 

Josiah,  99 

Josiah  A.,  99 

Minerva  B.,  100 
Parsons,  Benjamin,  61 

Ebenezer,  61 

George  S.,  60,  62 

Jonathan,  62 

Mary  L.,  63 
Peabody,  Francis,  317 

Jolin,  317,  318 

William,  318 
Perkins,  Benjamin,  157 

Benjamin  F.,  157 

Caleb,  157 

Clayton  H.,  159 

Ellen,  160 

Isaac,  157 

John  L.,  157,  159 

Joseph,  157 

Malvena,  159 
Phelps,  John,  53,  54 

Nathaniel,  54 

William,  53 
Poor  (Poore),  Daniel,  322,  323 

Stephen,  324 

Thomas,  323,  324 
Pope,  Archibald  E.,  Dr.,  131 

Justus,  131 

Mary  D.,  131 

William  J.,  131 
Porter,  Apira,  249 

Emma  G.,  250 

Helen  F.,  250 

Marian  K.,  250 

Samuel,  249 

Sarah,  250 

Walter  C,  250 
Proctor,  Benjamin,  320 

John,  319,  320 
Putnam,  Edward  J.,  250 

Emma  G.,  250 


Read,  Daniel,  40,  41 

George  F.,  41 

Henry  A.,  41 

Jessie,  42 

John, 40 

Nathan  G.,  40,  42 
Reardon,  Bartholomew,  292 

Bridget,  293 

John  B.,  292 

John  F.,  292 

John  F.,  Jr.,  293 

Richard  J.,  293 
Rivers,  Alexander,  59 

Edward  F.,  60 

Frank  A.,  59 

Julia,  60 
Robinson,  Arthur,  35 

Clara,  34 

Denison,  33 

James,  31 

James  T.,  30,  3$,  36 

Mrytle  Z.,  36 

Thomas,  30,  31,  32,  33 
Roloff,  Aimee  L.,  75 

Charles  F.,  75 

Harold  M.,  75 

Oscar  T.,  74,  75 

Otto,  74 

Percy,  75 

Peter,  74 
Rosa,  Antonia  M.,  160 

Henry  A.,  Dr.,  160 

Manuel,  160 
Rourke,  Catherine,  257 

Cornelius,  256 

Edward  A.,  256,  257 

Patrick,  256 
Russell,  Charles,  76 

Clara,  78 

Hezekiah,  76 

Thaddeus,  76 

William  H.,  76,  77 
Searle,  Augusta  L.,  168 

John,  166,  167 

Moses,  167 

Myron  E.,  166,  168 


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Nathaniel,  167 

Nathaniel  E.,  167 
Seaver,  Charles  E.,  Rev.,  274 

Charles  J.,  273,  274 

Georgiana  E.,  275 

John,  274 

Pearly,  274 
Sharp,  George  A.,  83 

George  H.,  82,  83 

Jacob,  82 

Jacob  I.,  82 

John,  82 

John  A.,  82 

Sarah  L.,  83 
Shaw,  Abraham,  250 

Albert  M.,  252 

D wight  L.,  250,  251 

Edwin  L.,  250,  252 

Eliot  D.,  252 

Ella  E.,  252 

Harriet  A.,  252 

John,  250 

Joshua,  251 

Luther,  251 

Luther  L.,  251 

Nicholas,  251 

Warren  C,  252 
Shea,  Ann  F.,  127 

Michael  H.,  Dr.,  126 

Patrick,  126 
Shepard,  Charles  F.,  234 

Elizabeth  T.,  235 

Frederick  F.,  234,  235 

Paul,  234 
Shove,  Ackley,  254 

Benjamin  S.,  253 

Clara  L.,  254 

Clarke,  253 

Walter  F.,  252,  253 
Simmons,  Aaron,  97 

George  W.,  98 

Hezekiah,  98 

John,  97 

Moses,  97 

Noah,  97 

Ralph  H.,  Dr.,  97,  99 


Weston,  98 

William  W.,  98 
Slade,  Abbott  E.,  115,  118 

Baker,  116 

Cora  L.,  119 

Edward,  116 

Harold  C,  119 

John, 117 

John  P.,  117 

William,  116 
Slauter,  Edith  D.,  106 

Ephraim,  104 

George,  104 

George  T.,  104,  106 

Piatt  T.,  105 

Sylvanus  F.,  104 
Smith,  Benjamin,  185 

Clara  P.,  187 

Dwight  M.,  187 

Ellen  C,  187 

James  H.,  281,  282 

John  C,  282 

Joseph  A.,  186 

Joseph  M.,  185,  186 

Susie  B.,  282 
Southwick,  Ebenezer,  322 

John, 322 

Lawrence,  320 

Samuel,  322 
Spencer,  Charles,  297 

Charles  W.,  297 

Sarah  A.,  298 
Stearns,  Mary,  299 

Shepard,  298 

Willard  W.,  298 
Stedman,  Catherine  H.,  209 

Edward  P.,  208,  209 

Levi,  208 

Lucy  W.,  209 

Phineas,  208,  209 
Stery  (Sterry),  Harvey,  248 

John,  248 

Judson  E.,  248 

Roger,  248 

Samuel,  248 

Silas,  248 


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Stevens,  Eben  S.,  316 

Eliza  P.,  316 

Henry  H.,  312,  315 

James,  313 

John, 312 

Jonathan,  313 

Joseph,  312 

Mary  K.,  316 

Nathaniel,  Capt.,  314 
Sullivan,  Arthur  J.,  Dr.,  134,  135 

Cornelius,  156 

James  K.,  135 

John  D.,  307,  308 

John  F.,  307,  308 

Leo  J.,  Dr.,  156 

Maurice,  307 

Michael,  307 

Nora,  309 
Sweeney,  Helen,  132 

Michael,  131 

Patrick,  131 
Swift,  James  M.,.282,  284 

John,  Brig.-Gen.,  282,  283 

John  T.,  285 

Julia  B.,  286 

Marcus,  Rev.,  282,  283 

Marcus  G.  B.,  283 

Olive  W.,  285 

Orson  R.,  Dr.,  283 
Synan,  Mary  E.,  264 

William  E.,  264 

William  E.,  Dr.,  264 

William  E.,  Jr.,  264 

Talbot,  Charles,  18 

Edmond  P.,  18 

Marie  A.,  18 
Thibault,  Anne  M.,  17 

Charles,  17 

Onesime,  16,  17 
Thompson,  Frederick  A.,  46,  47 

Nancy  A.,  48 

Thomas  D.,  Rev.,  46 

Thomas  G.,  48 


Trowbridge,  Edmund,  28 

Edward  H.,  Dr.,  26,  29 

Elisha,  28 

James,  27 

John,  27 

Louise,  29 

Parker,  29 

Thaddeus,  28 

Thomas,  26,  27 

William,  27 

William  S.,  28 
Turner,  Harry  M.,  329 

Maude  A.,  329 

Theodore,  329 
Tyler,  Henrietta,  169 

Nelson  F.,  169 

Van  Deusen,  Adella  D.,  297 

William  M.,  297 
Vezina,  Delvina,  155 

Morse,  154 

Nicholas,  154 

Stanislas,  154 

Walsh,  Ellen  M.,  291 

James,  290 

Patrick  H.,  Dr.,  289,  290 
Warren,  Ann  R.,  44 

Arthur  W.,  45 

Charles  B.,  45 

George,  42 

Horace,  30 

Jeanie  R.,  45 

Julius  E.,  30 

Olive  M.,  30 

Wesley  R.,  30 

William,  42,  43 
Webster,  George,  276 

Kate  A.,  277 
Westall,  Elizabeth,  21 

John,  Dr.,  20 

William,  20 
White,  Andrew,  141 

John,  140 

Luther,  140,  141 


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Mabel  A.,  142 

Mary  J.,  142 

Nathaniel,  Capt.,  141 
Williams,  Frederick,  161, 

Frederick  C,  161 

Mary  A.,  162 
Wright,  David,  217 


162 


Gertrude  C,  218 
Jonathan,  217 
William  F.,  Dr.,  217 

Zuill,  Margaret,  20 
Robert  W.,  18,  19 
William  P.,  19 


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