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HISTORY

NEW BEDFORD

Under the Editorial Direction ot

ZEPHANIAH W. PEASE

Editor ot The Morning Mercury

VOLUME III

ILLUSTRATED

The Lewis Historical Publishing Company

New York

1918

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pany in a clerical capacity, and during the seventeen years which have
since intervened has through many promotions risen to his present
position, superintendent of equipment. He has never known other
employers, in his chosen line of work has gained enviable reputation and
is one of the men who have gained for the Union Street Railway Com-
pany the reputation of being one of the best managed of New England
~^v Street Railway systems. He is a son of Thomas B. and Sarah F.
/■' (Winsor) Fuller, of Fairhaven, Massachusetts, his father a former
~ cashier of the Citizens Bank of New Bedford.
-^ Arthur B. Fuller was born in Fairhaven, Massachusetts, January

1*^ 12, 1882, and there completed the courses of Roger's Grammar School
y and one year of high school. He finished study at the New Bedford
High School with the graduating class of 1900, then beginning his busi-
^ ness career. His first position was as stock clerk at the Weld Street
\. Station of the New Bedford Street Railway Company. The following
, ; spring he was transferred to the main office of the company, which at
(~ that time was on the corner of Purchase and Union streets. From
^ clerical position he was advanced to paymaster, then was promoted to
the post of cashier, being transferred to the Weld Street Station in
1912. The custom, when he became cashier, was to receive the money
collected by the conductors and place it in a common receptacle, count-
ing it in bulk the next day at the main office. The company did away
with that system and inaugurated the present one of counting every
conductor's money in his presence on coming in from a run, and Mr.
Fuller was sent to the Weld Street Station to start this system. This
s^ plan caused a much greater degree of accuracy as well as a saving of
" ) conductors' and accountants' time. After two and a half years as
receiver, Mr. Fuller became storekeeper, a position which had become
a very important one with the great expansion of the company. Soon
afterward he was appointed assistant purchasing agent for supplies and
accessories, a position he still holds. The death of Mr. Bennett in 1914
created a vacancy in the position of superintendent of equipment, which
was filled by Mr. Fuller's appointment. He brought to the position
youth, enthusiasm, knowledge and experience, the duties of his office
being efficiently and faithfully performed. He is a Republican in politics,
a member of the Union Street Railway Relief Association, and in reli-
gion a Protestant.

Mr. Fuller married, November 21, 1913, Flora F. Keith, of Onset,
Massachusetts.

THOMAS A. TRIPP.

To be the directing head of a plant employing more than one thou-
sand people would indicate not only business ability, but managerial and
administrative ability of a high order, and that these attributes are char-
acteristic of Mr. Tripp, the success attained and the standing won in the

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business world by the Pairpont Corporation of New Bedford is conclu-
sive evidence. The founding and growth of the corporation is part of the
business life and record of Thomas A. Tripp, who has never known other
allegiance since graduation in 1877 than the Mount Washington Glass
Company, of which he became president, and the Pairpont Corporation,
formed through a consolidation of the Mount Washington Glass Com-
pany and the Pairpont Corporation under the corporate name, the Pair-
pont Corporation, of which he has been general manager since 1895. He
entered the employ of the Mount Washington Glass Company on his
twentieth birthday, in 1877, at thirty-three years of age, was president
of the company, and at thirty-eight became general manager of the Pair-
pont Corporation, his present position at the age of sixty. Although
other important corporation responsibilities and honors have been
attained, his personal success has equalled that of the company with
whom his business life has been spent. Mr. Tripp comes from a family
long seated in the town of Fairhaven, his ancestor, Joseph Tripp, of the
second generation, a deputy from the town of Dartmouth in 1685, and a
selectman, 1686-90.

The American ancestor, John Tripp, born 1610, died 1678, was ad-
mitted an inhabitant of the Island of Aquidneck (now Rhode Island) in
1636, and became one of the important men of the Rhode Island colony,
deputy and assistant many years. He married Mary Paine and from
them descend those claiming early colonial Tripp ancestry. The line of
descent is through their son, Joseph Tripp, of Dartmouth, Massachusetts,
and his wife, Mehitable (Fish) Tripp; their son, Peleg Tripp, and his
wife, Abigail (Jenkins) Tripp; their son, Samuel Tripp, who died in
Acushnet, May 11, 1824; his son, Stephen Tripp, born in Dartmouth,
May 4, 1756, died April 6, 1831 ; his son, Stephen (2) Tripp, born in
Acushnet (then Fairhaven), died in Fairhaven, May, 1873; he married
Hannah Gifford, and they were the parents of Arnold Gifford Tripp, and
grandparents of Thomas A. Tripp, whose useful lives are the principle
topics of this review.

Arnold Gififord Tripp was born in (now) Acushnet, May 10, 1818,
died in the village of Fairhaven, February 21, 1906. He learned the car-
penter's trade, working in Marion, Falmouth and Nantucket until 1849,
then came from Nantucket to Fairhaven, starting for the California gold
fields with a party of Fairhaven men on August i, 1849. They sailed in
the ship "Florida," and on January i, 1850, arrived at their destination.
In 1905 but three of his party of gold seekers of "49" were living; in 1910,
their number was reduced to one and none now remain. Mr. Tripp
remained in California until the latter part of 1852, then spent a winter
in the South building bridges. He then returned to Fairhaven, where
until 1870 he, in partnership with Anselm J. Bourne, conducted a con-
tracting and building business, their shop being located on Main street
opposite the Jethro Taber house. During that period he erected many
residences in Fairhaven and vicinity, and was employed in the erection

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of the Congregational and Methodist churches. His last contracts were
the erection of a barn on the H. R. Rogers estate and the residence of
Mrs. John S. Taber, on William street. He spent a few months in the
Pennsylvania oil fields, and for a short time was in partnership with a
nephew in Troy, New York, otherwise his life from his return from Cali-
fornia was spent in Fairhaven. His life was one of great activity from
youth until within a few years of his death. He served his town as select-
man, but his usefulness as a citizen was honorable, upright and true. He
was a member of the Society of Friends, plain of speech and life, a man
of the best type, earnest, energetic and reliable. Arnold G. Tripp mar-
ried, in June, 1844, Susan T. Swift, born February 10, 1820, died May 28,
1908, both she and her husband having long won octogenarian honors,
both dying at the age of eighty-eight. Mrs. Tripp was a daughter of
Moses and Elizabeth Swift, of West Falmouth, Massachusetts.

Thomas A. Tripp, only child of Arnold Gifford and Susan T. (Swift)
Tripp, was born in Fairhaven, Massachusetts, October 8, 1857, and in
1875 completed public school study with graduation from high school.
Two years were then spent at the Friends (later the Moses Brown
School) at Providence, Rhode Island, terminating with graduation with
the class of 1877. On his twentieth birthday, October 8, 1877, he entered
the employ of the Mount Washington Glass Company as clerk and
bookkeeper, remaining until 1880, the company then employing one hun-
dred and twenty-five people. In 1880, the Pairpont Manufacturing Com-
pany was organized, and until 1885 Mr. Tripp was a bookkeeper for that
concern, becoming treasurer in 1885, succeeding Alexander H. Seabury.
In 1890 he was elected president of the Mount Washington Glass Com-
pany, continuing until 1895, when the two companies consolidated as the
Pairpont Corporation, Mr. Tripp becoming and yet remaining general
manager of the corporation, which in its four exclusive lines of manu-
facture, cut glass, silverware, paper and paper tubes, employs more than
one thousand people. He is a director of the First National Bank of
New Bedford, director of the Fairhaven National Bank, and president of
the Fairhaven Institution for Savings.

Mr. Tripp does not take his business responsibilities light and the
positions he holds he regards as having claim upon all his talent and
energy. Yet he has not given himself to the sordid side of life, but has
ever been keenly alive to his duty as a citizen and has rendered his town
valuable service. In 1890 he accepted election to the school board for a
term of three years, was again chosen in 1900. and gave his services to
the board until February, 1918, sixteen of those years shouldering the
added responsibility of chairman of the board. He serves that magnifi-
cent Rogers philanthropy, The Millicent Library of Fairhaven, as life
member of the board of trustees, and for more than a quarter of a cen-
tury has been treasurer of the local meeting of the Society of Friends.
Thus he has served Fairhaven and New Bedford as business man and

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citizen for forty years, deserving so well of both that they claim him as
an honored son.

Mr. Tripp married, at Wakefield, Rhode Island, Lois Elma Babcock,
born there September 6, 1857, daughter of John Babcock, a prominent
business man of Wakefield, and his wife, Mary (Perry) Babcock. Mrs.
Tripp is of the eighth generation of the family founded in New England
by James Babcock, who was first of record in Portsmouth, Rhode Island,
in 1642, the line of descent being: James Babcock, the founder; his son,
John Babcock ; his son, George Babcock ; his son, Hezekiah Babcock ;
his son, Caleb Babcock, his son, Hezekiah Babcock ; his son, John Bab-
cock ; his daughter, Lois Elma Babcock, who married Thomas A. Tripp,
as above noted. They are the parents of two daughters, Anna L. and
Mary Arnold Tripp, and a son, Stanley Russell Tripp. The family home
is at No. 74 Green street, Fairhaven.

WINSOR C. PEIRCE.

In entering upon his career as a mill worker, Mr. Peirce chose the
factory rather than the office, and has risen through various promotions
in other mills to his present position, superintendent of the Page Manu-
facturing Company. He is a son of David B. Peirce, who was a travel-
ing salesman for many years, veteran of the Civil War, serving with the
Fifth Massachusetts Battery, engaged with his battery in many of the
battles fought by the Army of the Potomac.

Winsor C. Peirce, son of David B. and Sarah E. (Gammons) Peirce,
was born in New Bedford, Massachusetts, October 11, 1878, and has
spent his life in his native city. His first work was in the Rotch Mill and
he left the mill three years after his first entrance, holding the position
of "third hand" on speeders. From the Rotch he went to the Grinnell
Mill as "third hand," remaining two years; thence to the City Mill as
"third hand" for one and one-half years ; to the New Bedford Spinning
Company as "second hand" for four years ; then as "second hand" in the
Hathaway Mill for several years, leaving that mill to go to the Manomet
as a "second hand." He spent several years at the Manomet, then re-
entered the employ of the Hathaway Mill, but as an overseer of carding.
He held that position for six years, 1910-16, then being promoted to
assistant superintendent. On September 10, 1917, he was promoted to
the superintendency of the Page Manufacturing Company, a position of
responsibility. Mr. Peirce is a member of Eureka Lodge, Free and
Accepted Masons, and Camp No. 150, Sons of Veterans. He married in
New Bedford, September 12, 1904, Ellen Lukeman.

PELEG HUMPHREY SHERMAN.

The Shermans were an ancient family in England, and the name
there was numerous. The name is said to be derived from their ancient

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occupation, they having been cloth dressers or shearers of cloth. The
Dedham family in England retained the family occupation, and the coat-
of-arms borne by those residing in or about London. The family has
been productive of men of marked character and abilities in England,
whilst the American branch has become famous, furnishing many well
known figures in public life, who have filled offices of public trust and
honor.

Peleg Humphrey Sherman, of this review, is a descendant of the
Hon. Philip Sherman, of English birth, son of Samuel Sherman, son of
Henry Sherman, son of Henry Sherman, of Dedham, England, where
Philip Sherman, the American ancestor, was born February 5, 1610. He
came to New England in 1634, located in Massachusetts, got into trouble
with the authorities over the Ann Hutchinson matter, and went to what
is now Rhode Island, where he purchased a large tract of land from the
Indians, March 28, 1638, and when the colony was formed legally on July
I, 1639, he became its secretary. He was also town clerk of Portsmouth,
Rhode Island, for many years, and there died in 1687. He married Sarah
Odding, and reared a large family, including a son Peleg. After moving
to Rhode Island, Philip Sherman became a member of the Society of
Friends.

Peleg Sherman, known as Lieutenant Sherman, son of the Hon.
Philip Sherman, the founder, was born in Portsmouth, Rhode Island. He
married Elizabeth Lawton. From Peleg Sherman the line of descent to
Peleg Humphrey Sherman, of the ninth American generation, is through
Peleg (2) Sherman, son of Peleg (i) Sherman, born 1666, and his wife,
Alice (Fish) Sherman; their son, Peleg (3) Sherman, born 1704, who
married, in 1731, Bathsheba Sherman; their son, Peleg (4) Sherman,
born February 11, 1744, died 1776; married, in Dartmouth, Massachu-
setts, Sarah Kirby, daughter of Thomas Kirby. Mrs. Sherman married
(second) in 1780, David Wing. Peleg (4) Sherman owned the farm on
the road from South W'estport to Horseneck, where is still standing the
famous William Ricketson house built in 1680 and one of the oldest
dwellings with a stone chimney in New England. On this farm the
Sherman family located. The line is continued through their son,
Thomas Sherman, born 1775, died October 27, 1845, and his wife, Meri-
bah (Allen) Sherman, daughter of Ebenezer Allen; their son, Peleg (5)
Sherman, born October 10, 1804, a farmer and carpenter, and his wife,
Hannah P. (Case) Sherman, whom he married, December 7, 1829.
Among their children was Charles F., of whom further.

Charles F. Sherman, father of Peleg Humphrey Sherman, was born
in Westport, Bristol county, Massachusetts, March 10, 1835, and died
November 11, 1915. He was a well educated man, and for twenty-one
years taught the winter term of the Westport public school. He owned
a farm, which he cultivated many years, and was one of the respected,
substantial men of the town. He was a Republican in politics, was a
member of the school committee, and constable for many years. Mr.

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Sherman married Martha W. Snell, born in Westport, Massachusetts,
July i6, 1842, died December 26, 1896, daughter of Humphrey W. and
Clarinda (Potter) Snell, of Westport. They were the parents of two
children : Maria L., became the wife of Menzo S. Loucks, of Mountain
Vieu, California, by whom she has two children, namely, Charles Ernest
and Ray Sherman Loucks; and Peleg Humphrey, of whom further.

Peleg Humphrey Sherman, only son of Charles E. and Martha W.
(Snell) Sherman, was born on the home farm in Westport, Bristol
county, Massachusetts, April 28, 1866. He was educated in the public
school taught by his father, and in the intervals of school life, until six-
teen years of age, he remained his father's farm assistant. He then began
learning the trade of mason, at which he worked for a time before decid-
ing to become a funeral director. He took up his residence in New York,
there becoming proficient in the art of embalming by a thorough career
in the Renouard College, graduating in 1903, and then located in New
Bedford, Massachusetts, where he has since been in business as funeral
director, his establishment located at No. 506 County street. He is mas-
ter of his business, is most courteous, considerate and thoughtful, per-
forming his duties with a quiet dignity and with as little obtrusiveness as
possible. He is a popular member of the Masonic order, being a past
master of Star in the East Lodge, of New Bedford, and holds all degrees
of chapter, council and commandery. He is a member of Aleppo Temple,
Ancient Arabic Order Nobles of the Mystic Shrine, and is highly re-
garded by the brethren, companions, sir knights and nobles of these
bodies. His clubs are the Masonic, Pilgrim and Brooks, his politics Re-
publican, and his church the North Congregational.

Mr. Sherman married, in New Bedford, September 20, 1894, Hannah
F. Davis, born in Dartmouth, Massachusetts, daughter of Captain Joshua
V. and Elizabeth (Wilson) Davis, her father a whaling captain. Cap-
tain and Mrs. Davis were the parents of Joshua V., Jr., Elizabeth W., and
Hannah F., now Mrs. Sherman.

ARNOLD CARR GARDNER.

With a capital of $3,000,000 and the largest employer of labor in the
New Bedford district, and the largest producer of combed cotton yarns
in the world, the Manomet Mills, through its treasurer, transacts a
volume of business enormous in its extent. The new mill, completed in
191 7, raises the company's number of hands employed to two thousand
and four hundred, and its spindles in operation to two hundred and four
thousand, their product being combed cotton yarns. The control of the
finances of such a corporation demands a man of high quality, not alone
one skilled as a financier, but having qualities of leadership, one broad
of vision and of a progressive, well-balanced mind. The treasurer's office
is a vital spot in most corporations and a penurious grasping policy may
bring disaster as surely and as quickly as a policy which never considers

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expense or provides ways and means intelligently. The Manomet pos-
sesses in Mr. Gardner a man well qualified for the treasurer's office, a
man of financial ability, high business quality, honorable, upright and
efficient. He came to the position through years of preparation in re-
sponsible positions with other companies of varying kind, but each con-
tributing to the training needed to produce the financier and able man of
affairs. He comes of ancient New England family, Gardners and Gardi-
ners being found from earliest days. He is a son of Darius P. Gardner,
clothier and outfitter for whalers. He died in 1899, at the age of sixty-
six. He was an ardent Democrat, a man of character, highly esteemed.
He married Frances M. Taber, of Acushnet, who survives him at the age
of eighty-four, she born July 21, 1833. They were the parents of Arnold
Carr, of further mention; Mary, born 1862, married, in 1892, Edward S.
Brown, of New Bedford ; Lucy Bartlett, born in 1866, married Frederick
R. Emmart, of Boston, and died in 1906; William B., treasurer of the
Nashawena Mills, of New Bedford.

Arnold Carr Gardner was born in New Bedford, December 14, 1869.
He attended public schools and in 18S8 completed his high school course
with graduation. He began business life as clerk with Frederick Swift,
a whaling merchant, remaining four years. The next two years he was
clerk in the offices of the Coastwise Transportation Company, going from
that company to the Dartmouth & Westport Street Railway Company,
being treasurer of that company and of the Union Street Railway Com-
pany, remaining five years. He then became assistant manager of J. C.
Rhodes & Company, Incorporated, eyelet manufacturers. He continued
in that position for three years, then for a year was with the New Eng-
land Cotton Yarn Company of New Bedford, becoming treasurer of the
Manomet Mills in October, 1903, and has had a prominent part in the
upbuilding of that corporation now operating three mills. He is a Re-
publican in politics, a member of the Dartmouth, Wamsutta, Country
and Yacht clubs of New Bedford, Seapint Club, Osterville, Massachu-
setts, and Scott Fish and Game Club, Quebec, Canada. The sport he
most enjoys is boating. He is a member of the National Association of
Cotton Manufacturers, and stands high as an authority on cotton mill
finance.

JAMES THOMSON.

As the newly appointed treasurer of the Fairhaven Mills, Mr. Thom-
son made the acquaintance of his fellow cotton manufacturing officials
early in 1917, and the months which he has since passed in that office
have confirmed the favorable impression then created. He came to the
Fairhaven Mills from the Harmony Mills of Cohoes, New York, but his
business life had been spent in New York City mainly with a commis-
sion dry goods house. There he acquired a close familiarity with cotton
goods and mill financial problems, so that he was able to step at once

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into a treasurer's position and has since been either treasurer or agent
of cotton mills. He is a son of James Thomson, born in Scotland, who
came to the United States when a young man, became a successful mer-
chant of New York City, and several years prior to his death had so
arranged his finances that he retired. He married Phoebe Vreeland,
born in New Jersey, a descendant of the old Holland emigrant of that
name, who early came to New Amsterdam and founded a family.

James Thomson, son of James and Phoebe (Vreeland) Thomson,
was born in New York City, September 19, 1867, and there pursued
courses of public school study extending through grammar school. The
first twent3-five years of his business life were spent with the Minot Dry
Goods Commission House, beginning as office boy and through a series
of promotions coming to responsible position. In 1907 he resigned to
become assistant to the treasurer of the Dwight Manufacturing Com-
pany, in 191 1 became treasurer of the Arnold Print Works of New York
City, and in 1913 went to Cohoes, New York, as agent of the Harmony
Mills. There he remained until 1917, becoming treasurer of the Fair-
haven Mills, New Bedford, February 15, 1917. He is a member of the
Fort Orange Club of Albany, New York, the Art Club of Boston, the
Wamsutta and Country clubs of New Bedford.

EVERETT MORTON CUSHMAN.

At the bottom of one of the panels of the Forefathers Monument at
Plymouth, Massachusetts, is this statement : "Robert Cushman who
chartered the May Flower and was active and prominent in securing the
success of the Pilgrim Enterprise came in the Fortune 1621." This was
the ancestor of the Taunton Cushman family to which Everett Morton
Cushman, Herbert Ellsworth Cushman, William A. Cushman, brothers
and prominent business men of New Bedford, belong. Robert Cushman,
after coming in 1621, returned to England on business of the colony and
died there in 1626. His son, Thomas Cushman, born in England, in 1608,
he left in Plymouth in the care of Governor Bradford. Thomas Cush-
man became an important man in the Plymouth colony, was an elder of
the church for forty-three years, and his gravestone on Burial Hill calls
him, "That precious servant of God." He married Mary Allerton, of the
"Mayflower," and together they walked life's pathway for fifty-five
years, she surviving him ten years. He died December 10, 1691, in his
eighty-fourth year.

Thomas (2) Cushman, son of Deacon Thomas (i) and Mary (Aller-
ton) Cushman, lived to be eighty-nine ; his years were from 1637 to 1726.
He married (first) Ruth, daughter of John Howland, and (second) in
1679, Abigail Fuller, of Rehoboth. Their son, Benjamin Cushman, lived
on a part of his father's farm in Plympton and both he and his first wife,
Sarah (Eaton) Cushman, were members of the Plympton church. He
was succeeded by his son, Jabez Cushman, he by his son, Zebedee Cush-

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man, who settled in Taunton, Massachusetts, after his marriage to Sarah
Padelford, of that city. They were the parents of Alvah Cushman, born
in Taunton, who married Sally Leonard, a woman of strong, forceful
character, daughter of William Leonard. They were the parents of
Horatio Leonard Cushman, an eminent business man and city ofiScial,
and of William H. Cushman, father of Everett Morton Cushman, of New
Bedford, superintendent of the Holmes Manufacturing Company.

William H. Cushman was born in Taunton, Massachusetts, Novem-
ber 21, 1839, ^"d there died August 27, 1901. For many years he was a
nail and tack maker with his brother, David, but later became a mem-
ber of Taunton's Fire Department, ranking as captain. His health failed
and he resigned, living retired for several years prior to his death. He
was a member and an official of Alfred Baylies Lodge, Free and
Accepted Masons, and a man greatly beloved by all who knew him and
there were few in Taunton who did not. He married Joa'nna Harlow
Paine, born October 12, 1840, who survives him, residing in New Bed-
ford. She is a daughter of John B. and Rebecca (Reed) Paine, her
mother a daughter of Levi and Lucy (Doten) Reed, of Plymouth. The
children of William H. Cushman: Henry P., died young; Herbert Ells-
worth, treasurer and general manager of the Morse Twist Drill and
Machine Company; Albert Francis, died aged twenty years; William
Alvah, of the Morse Twist Drill and Machine Company ; Jennie Edith,
married Lewis Bright Barker ; Everett Morton, of further mention ;
Grace Reed, died young; Bessie May, married Francis N. Smith, and re-
sides in Haverhill, Massachusetts.

Everett Morton Cushman, of the ninth generation of this old Pilgrim
family, son of William H. and Joanna H. (Paine) Cushman, was born in
Taunton, Massachusetts, February 16, 1876, and was there educated,
finishing in high school with graduation class of 1894. He then came
to New Bedford, entered the employ of the Dartmouth Manufacturing
Company, and for five and one-half years was employed in the carding
room, thoroughly mastering the business. He then spent two and one-
half years as "second hand" of the carding room of a Natick, Rhode
Island, mill, rising to the position of assistant superintendent. He then
returned to New Bedford as superintendent of the Manomet Mills, re-
signing after six years' service, to become superintendent of the Holmes
Manufacturing Company, which is his present position. The Holmes
Manufacturing Company in its single mill employs twelve hundred hands
in the manufacture of fine combed yarns, gassed, mercerized, bleached
and dyed. The company is a large dividend payer and is ably managed
in office and mill. Mr. Cushman is a Republican in politics, and a mem-
ber of the Wamsutta Club. He is highly regarded in manufacturing
circles and holds the respect of those above and below him in rank.

He married, in Natick, Rhode Island, July 19, 1905, Adelaide Louise
Miner, born in South Swansea, Massachusetts, July 3, 1884, her parents
later moving to Natick. She is a daughter of Howard E. Miner, born in

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North Stoning^on, Connecticut, in 183 1, died September 22, 1914, a
farmer, and his wife, Josephine (Buten) Miner, of New York, born in
1844, ^nd yet living. Mr. and Mrs. Cushman are the parents of a son,
Robert Miner Cushman, born October 16, 1906.

EDMUND WRIGHT BOURNE.

For nearly thirty of his years, fifty-six, Edmund Wright Bourne has
occupied the cashier's desk in the New Bedford Safe Deposit and Trust
Company and seems as much the man of middle age as ever. As prepara-
tion, he spent seven years in the wild free life of the Kansas cattle coun-
try and there built up the splendid constitution that has withstood thirty
years of a confining bank position. He is a son of George A. Bourne, of
New Bedford, a captain of Home Guards, major of militia and an active
business man, a descendant of Thomas Bourne, "the Eldest of the Marsh-
field settlers and a patriarch of its Eden," who Savage says, "probably
came from Kent, England, bringing family. He was of substance and
repute." He was buried May 11, 1664, aged eighty-three years. His
wife, Elizabeth, was buried July 18, 1660, aged seventy years. From
the "patriarch" of Marshfield sprang a large family, now found in all
parts of the United States. His daughters married, one to a son of Gov-
ernor Bradford, another a Tracy, another a Smith, another a Winslow
and another a Tilden, these collateral lines all tracing to the "patriarch."
His only son John is the source from which all of the name spring who
trace to Thomas Bourne.

John Bourne succeeded to the homestead in Marshfield, a property
which later than 1854 was owned in the family, its possessor then being
the venerable John Bourne, a descendant of the fifth American genera-
tion, who died in October, 1859, a centenarian and Revolutionary patriot.
John Bourne married Alice Besbedge or Besbeesh, his the second mar-
riage recorded on the town books. The line of descent is through their
son, Thomas Bourne, and his first wife, Elizabeth (Rouse) Bourne; their
son, Josiah Bourne, "A man of small stature but of good practical sense,
determination and perseverance who made the hills and valleys laugh and
shine with their abundance;" his son, Ebenezer Bourne, a man of promi-
nence in Pembroke, Massachusetts, and his wife, Abigail (Newcomb)
Bourne, who died aged one hundred years, six months, three days ; their
son, Deacon Abner Bourne, deacon of the First Congregational Church
of Middleboro and captain of a company in the Revolution in active
service in Rhode Island, and his wife, Mary (Torrey) Bourne; their son,
Abner (2) Bourne, who is said to have started the first cotton factory in
the State of Maine, and his wife, Abigail (Williams) Bourne, they the
parents of George A. Bourne, and grandparents of Edmund Wright
Bourne, of the ninth American generation.

George A. Bourne was born in Boston, Massachusetts, January 12,
1814, and died in New Bedford. He attended Boston schools until he

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was eighteen, then became a money broker's clerk. In 1835 he came to
New Bedford, engaging in the book and stationery business, first on
Union street, then in a store in Liberty Hall building, continuing until
1850 when a partnership with Charles Almy was made and an auction
business developed. A few years later the firm dissolved, Mr. Bourne
continuing in business as a real estate dealer and auctioneer. The firm
of George A. Bourne & Son was formed in 1889, and flourished. Mr.
Bourne later retired, leaving his son, Standish, as sole owner. He was a
successful dealer and largely instrumental in the upbuilding of Nonquitt.
He was a member of the Common Council in 1856 and president of that
body ; director of the Protecting Society in 1844-45 ; captain of the City
Guard in 1852 and during the Civil War ; also a major of Massachusetts
militia ; trustee of the New Bedford Institution for Savings ; treasurer of
the Unitarian Society for twelve years ; a member of the Independent
Order of Odd Fellows, and everywhere he was known was highly re-
garded. George A. Bourne married, in 1835, Lucy Randall Standish,
born August 13, 1818, daughter of Levi and Lucy (Randall) Standish, a
descendant of the eighth generation of the family founded in New Eng-
land by Captain Myles Standish of the "Mayflower," Plymouth's first
military captain.

Edmund Wright Bourne, youngest of the twelve children of George
A. and Lucy Randall (Standish) Bourne, was born in New Bedford,
Massachusetts, July 23, 1861. His first school experience was in Miss
Walker's School in Sycamore street and Mrs. Knight's School, after
which he attended Parker street school, going thence to Friends' Acad-
emy. He finished his studies at Bryant & Stratton's Business College in
Boston, with class of 1880, and at once entered business life, going west
to Kiowa, Kansas, where for seven years he was engaged in placing
loans on cattle and western farms for eastern capital. He covered the
cattle country as far west as Albuquerque, New Mexico, and lived the
wild life of the open. Seven years were thus spent, but that form of in-
vestment becoming unpopular with eastern capital, he returned East
and in 1889 was elected cashier of the New Bedford Safe Deposit and
Trust Company, a post he yet fills, time being twenty-eight years later.
The developing tendencies of his life in the west were not alone physi-
cal, but there he learned lessons of determination, self-reliance and
perseverance in the face of obstacles that have been reflected in his own
life. He is president of the New Bedford Clearing House Association,
director of the Taber Manufacturing Company, and interested in many
New Bedford business enterprises. He was for three years a member
of the executive board of the Massachusetts Bankers' Association. He
is a member of Wamsutta and Dartmouth clubs, attends the Unitarian
church, and in political faith is a Republican. In 1917 he was a member
of the executive board of the Liberty Loan Committee of New Bedford.
He is a man of generous, kindly nature, and highly esteemed by his many
friends.

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Mr. Bourne married, October 20, 1898, Emma C. Taber, daughter
of Charles and Sarah J. (Rowland) Taber. They are the parents of
Standish Taber, bom February 13, 1900; Catherine Rowland, Decem-
ber 31, 1901 ; Richard Williams, July 29, 1903, Edmund Wright (2), June
26, 1905.

FRED W. STEELE.

While employed in the Rowland Mill, Mr. Steele attended night
classes at New Bedford Textile School, and to the practical work of the
day added special technical study, acquiring knowledge which in due
season brought him higher rank and greater opportunities. He came
from a family of mill men, his father an overseer, and from him the boy
drew the inspiration to fit himself for higher position. We love to call
America the "land of opportunity" and it is, but the opportunity, while
open to all, is only accepted by the few and failures abound on every
hand. Mr. Steele possessed not only the required ambition but the nec-
essary stamina to pursue night study while other young men of his
acquaintance passed the evening hours in pleasure. It was the spirit
which won, not the fact that it was America in which it was exhibited ;
it would have won anywhere.

Fred W. Steele was born in Lonsdale, Rhode Island, June 27, 1878,
son of William R. Steele, born 1852, died 1905, who was a mill overseer,
and his wife, Elizabeth J. (Anderson) Steele, born in 1856, died in 1899.
In 1884 the family moved to New Bedford, Massachusetts, where the lad
was attending the public schools until grammar school courses were com-
pleted. Re then became a mill worker, and later entered a night class at
New Bedford Textile School, continuing until his purpose in entering
was efifected. From the Rowland Mill he went to the Grinnell Mill as
second hand in the carding room, there remaining until appointed over-
seer of the West Boylston Company Mill at Easthampton, Massachu-
setts, in charge of the carding department. From Easthampton he went
to the Burgess Mill, Pawtucket, Rhode Island, again as overseer of card-
ing then was for a time selling agent for the Roward & Bullock Com-
pany, mill machinery, that position followed by his appointment as super-
intendent of Weypoyset Mill, Central Falls, Rhode Island. Ris next
service was with the Fisher Manufacturing Company, of Fisherville,
Massachusetts, as agent, a position he held until March 12, 1916, when
he returned to New Bedford as treasurer and agent of the Booth Manu-
facturing Company, manufacturers of plain and novelties, having two
mills employing six hundred hands.

As a member of Battery E, First Regiment, Heavy Artillery, Massa-
chusetts National Guard, Mr. Steele served an enlistment period of three
years, retiring with an honorable discharge. Ris business journeying
around the State, as indicated, has involved frequent change of residence,
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in the different cities. He is a master Mason of Abraham H. Howland,
Jr., Lodge, New Bedford, Massachusetts ; a companion of Tyrian Chap-
ter, Royal Arch Masons, Millbury, Massachusetts; a cryptic Mason of
Hiram Council, Worcester, Massachusetts ; and a sir knight of Worces-
ter County Commandery, Knights Templar, also of Worcester, Massa-
chusetts. He holds the thirty-second degree, Ancient Accepted Scottish
Rite, Massachusetts Consistory, of Boston, and is a noble of Palestine
Temple, Nobles of the Mystic Shrine, of Providence, Rhode Island. His
social club is the Wamsutta. He is a director of the Southern New Eng-
land Textile Club, a Republican in politics, and an attendant of the Bap-
tist church.

Mr. Steele married in New Bedford, March 19, 1902, Lillian M.
Bailey, born in New Bedford, August 24, 1881, daughter of William and
Mary (Tuckerell) Bailey, both now residents of New Bedford. Mr. and
Mrs. Steele are the parents of Allen C, born September i, 1903; Donald
A., born March 5, 1905 ; Dorothy K., born October 9, 1910.

CHARLES HAYDEN ROBBINS.

When Mill No. 3 of Manomet group went into commission it made
that corporation the largest employer of labor in the New Bedford mill
section, two thousand four hundred hands being the number employed
in the manufacture of combed cotton yarns. The opening of Mill No. 3
also brought in clearer view Charles H. Robbins, who was chosen to
superintend the new mill, that, however, not being a new rank for him,
for since 1909 he had been superintendent of Mill No. 2, of the Manomet
trio, coming to New Bedford from Holyoke, Massachusetts, and the
American Thread Company. He is a native son of New Jersey, his an-
cestors long seated in that State.

Charles Hayden Robbins was born in Newark, New Jersey, Novem-
ber 26, 1865, and was there educated in the excellent grade and high
schools of the city. At the age of sixteen he began his long connection
with cotton manufacturing, his start being made as an office boy with
the Williamantic Linen Company, Willimantic, Connecticut. From
office boy he advanced to clerk, then mastered draughting and passed
to the mechanical engineering department, finally becoming chief engi-
neer. Through his years of preparation for high position Mr. Robbins
refused no task that came in the way of duty and gained an expert
knowledge of every process of thread manufacture. Eighteen years
were passed with the Williamantic Thread Company, the novice of six-
teen passing out the expert of thirty-four. From the Willimantic Com-
pany he went to the Hadley Mill at Holyoke as superintendent, that
mill then having passed under the control of the American Thread
Company. He remained in Holyoke ten years, until 1909, his last posi-
tion, superintendent of Merrick Mill No. 5. In 1909 he came to New
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having two mills, Mr. Robbins becoming superintendent of Mill No. 2.
In 1917 Mill No. 3 was completed and the company capitalized at
$3,000,000, becoming in point of hands employed the greatest in the dis
trict. As superintendent of the new No. 3 Mill, Mr. Robbins has a
perfect, modernly-equipped cotton mill under his direction and the mill
a thoroughly modern, capable superintendent.

BENJAMIN WOODSOME.

While a native son of New Hampshire, Mr. Woodsome, superin-
tendent of the New Bedford Cotton Mill Corporation, came when a lad to
New Bedford, attended her public schools, and since his seventeenth year
has been a worker in her cotton mills, beginning as clerk and rising
through many promotions to his present position, superintendent. He
is a son of Wallace and Marietta (Nourse) Woodsome, of Bethlehem.
New Hampshire, and New Bedford, Massachusetts, his parents now
residing in the last named city.

Benjamin Woodsome was born in Bethlehem, New Hampshire.
September 7, 1885, and obtained his education in the public schools of
Boston and New Bedford, Massachusetts. At the age of seventeen years,
in 1902, he entered manufacturing life as a clerk in the offices of the
New England Cotton Yarn Company, there remaining two years, but
transferring to the factory department. In 1904 he went to the Nonquitt
Mill as "third hand" in a department, remaining with that mill four
years. He came to the New Bedford Cotton Mill Corporation in 1908
as "second hand," and after promotion to the post of overseer, and
proving his quality was advanced to the position he now holds, superin-
tendent, in September, 1913. The corporation operates one mill in which
seventy-three thousand spindles, one thousand four hundred looms and
six hundred and fifty hands are engaged in the manufacture of fine
cotton goods. Mr. Woodsome came to his position through high merit,
has fairly earned and ably fills it and is highly esteemed by management
and operatives. He is a Republican in politics, a member of the Masonic
order and of the Dartmouth Club, enjoys life in the open and with gun
and rod usually spends his vacation periods in the "wild places."

He married, in August, 1910, Ada Morehouse, daughter of James
and Margaret (Taylor) Morehouse, of New Bedford. Mr. and Mrs.
Woodsome are the parents of a son, Dana, born August 16, 191 2.

EDWARD EVERETT FRANKLIN POTTER.

At the age of eighteen, after graduation from high school, Mr.
Potter began his business life as a Western Union employee. From
that time he has been continuously in good position in New Bedford, the
city of his birth, education and business experience. He is a son of

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Warren S. Potter, of Westport birth, and a grandson of Restcome Pot-
ter, born in Tiverton, Rhode Island, this branch descending from Na-
thaniel Potter, born in England, who was admitted an inhabitant of
the Island of Aquidneck, April 30, 1639, and died before 1644. From
Rhode Island the family came to the town of Dartmouth, Bristol county,
Massachusetts, an important branch settling there. Restcome Potter
was of the Tiverton, Rhode Island, branch, but joined his relatives in
Westport where his son, Warren S., was born. He was a farmer and
carpenter, a strict church member and a good man. He died June 27,
1864, aged seventy-seven years, eleven months, twenty-one days. He
married Edith Gififord, who died March 3, 1872, aged eighty-two years,
ten months. Children: Charles, Lyman, Rachel, Warren Sherman, of
further mention ; Pardon, Perry, Delilah, Clarinda, Edwin R., Elias.

Warren Sherman Potter was born in Westport, September 11, 1817,
and died in New Bedford, Massachusetts, June 2, 1876. He was an
expert mechanic, equally so as a worker in wood or metal. He was a
carpenter, gas fitter, steam fitter, engineer, and for several years was
engineer at the old Gosnold Rolling Mills in New Bedford. He married
Margaret Potter, born in Dartmouth, Massachusetts, January 3, 1825,
died in New Bedford, December 31, 1916, daughter of Holder Potter,
who died August 24, 1870, aged eighty-one years, seven months, and
his wife, Hannah Potter, who died August 4, 1876, aged eighty-two
years, five months, both members of the Society of Friends. Children of
Warren Sherman and Margaret (Potter) Potter: Charles W. H., born
November 3, 1844, residing at No. 47 Chestnut street. New Bedford;
Herbert ; and Edward E. F., of further mention.

Edward E. F. Potter, youngest son of Warren Sherman and Mar-
garet (Potter) Potter, was born in New Bedford, Massachusetts, Decem-
ber 22, 1858, and has ever been a resident of his native city, honored
and respected as boy and man. He passed through all grades of the
public schools, finishing at high school, graduate of class of 1876. In the
autumn of the same year he entered the service of the Western Union
Telegraph Company, at their office at the southeast corner of Water
and Center streets, and there remained nearly ten years, resigning May
I, 1886. to take a position as meter man with the Edison Electric Illumi-
nating Company, the company offices being on Middle street. A year
later he became a bookkeeper for the same company, and also kept a set
of books for the New Bedford Cooperative Bank, and when the Acush-
net Cooperative Bank was formed under the same management added
to his labors the books of that institution. When in 1890 the elec-
tric and gas companies consolidated as the New Bedford Gas and
Edison Light Company, Mr. Potter continued with the consolidation
as bookkeeper and so continues, having been with the company and its
predecessor a period of over thirty-one years, May i, 1886, August i,
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was for years engaged in clerical service and has long served the New
Bedford Cooperative Bank as a director and vice-president, and the
Acushnet Cooperative Bank as a director. He is a member of the Star
of the East Lodge, Ancient Free and Accepted Masons, and of Acushnet
Lodge, Independent Order of Odd Fellows. He is a member of the
Stetson Club, of the New Bedford Gas and Edison Light Company, the
Brooks and the Pilgrim clubs. He is a Republican in political prefer-
ence, but has never desired nor accepted public office. For twenty-seven
years he has made his summer home at Bay View, where he built a
cottage, and in motor boating and fishing finds great enjoyment.

Mr. Potter married, in New Bedford, September ii, 1882, Ellen
Francena Woodward, born in East Providence, Rhode Island, December
27, 1861, daughter of Frederick Bayles Woodward, a shoe manufacturer
of Pawtucket, Rhode Island, and his wife, Sarah Cordelia (Harvey)
Woodward, both born in Taunton, Massachusetts.

WANTON MARTIN GLADDING.

When Mr. Gladding came to the Morse Twist Drill & Machine
Company in 1903, he brought the wide experience of the mechanic,
trained in technical school, private manufacturing works and government
shops. He had served a regular apprenticeship as machinist and tool
maker, his mechanical skill was of the highest order and he had the
mental ability which made his mechanical skill doubly effective. It was
his combination of mental and mechanical ability which marked him
for promotion, and as superintendent of the great plant of the Morse
Twist Drill & Machine Company at New Bedford, he has demonstrated
his capacity for managerial position. He is a native son of Rhode
Island, son of Henry G. and Matilda (Wilkey) Gladding, of Newport,
his father a boat builder and sail maker.

Wanton M. Gladding was born in Newport, Rhode Island, January
10, 1874, and there obtained a public school education. Early deciding
upon his career he entered an evening technical school at Providence,
Rhode Island, there graduating in 1893. During the period, 1891-93,
he was also working as an apprentice in the Brown & Sharpe Manu-
facturing Company's shops in Providence, and there continued for
two years after graduation from technical school, completing a four
years' term and emerging a skilled worker in metals, his legal freedom
coming the same year. He had progressed very rapidly and during his
last year was practically a journeyman, performing all tasks, even the
most difficult. From the Brown & Sharpe Company, he entered govern-
ment service at the Newport Naval Station in the manufacturing depart-
ment. There he was employed as a machinist for eight years, 1895-
1903, leaving to accept appointment as foreman of a department of the
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continued in that position three years, until 1906, when he was appointed
superintendent of the entire plant, being but thirty-two years of age
when he accepted that heavy responsibility. Eleven years have since
intervened, and as the company has enlarged and expanded so has Mr.
Gladding grown and developed, the superintendent's office being one of
strong, well managed departments of a wonderful manufacturing busi-
ness, founded in New Bedford in 1865, by Stephen A. Morse, whose
principal capital at that time was a United States patent for the making
of a twist drill. All the civilized world is now a market for the products
of the company, and frequent extra dividends are the lot of the stock-
holders. The position Mr. Gladding holds has been fairly won by him,
and great as are its responsibilities he fully measures up to its require-
ments. Mr. Gladding is a lover of the out-of-door sports, motoring, boat-
ing and golf, his clubs, the New Bedford Yacht, Country, Brooks and
Julian. He is a Republican in politics, attends the Trinitarian church,
the Masonic order and the Independent Order of Odd Fellows. He is
also a member of associations of a business and technical nature, among
which is the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, and wherever
known is highly esteemed.

He married in Newport, Rhode Island, February 18, 1897, Sadiean
K. Kaull, daughter of Henry Augustus and Frances (Stevens) Kaull.
Mr. and Mrs. Gladding are the parents of a son, Wanton Elgar, born
October 26, 1901, a student at high school, and a daughter, Sadiean
Kaull, born September 4, 1906.

WILLIAM T. READ.

The same self-reliant spirit which led Mr. Read, a boy of fifteen, out
into the world, remained with him during his four years' absence from
New Bedford, and has ever been one of his valuable assets. He has never
retreated from any duty assigned him or voluntarily assumed, and in
the hard school of experience has developed his resources of mind and
body. He in one of the men who constitute the official personnel of
that great New Bedford corporation, the Morse Twist Drill and Ma-
chine Company, has risen from the grade of clerk to the important post
of purchasing agent. He is a son of Clement and Mary C. (Johnson)
Read, his father an instructor and chemist.

William T. Read was born in New Bedford, Massachusetts, April
8, 1883, and is yet (1917) a resident of his native city. He attended the
public schools until he was fifteen years of age, then went to Richmond,
Virginia, where he spent four years in clerical work. He returned to
New Bedford, in 1902, and entered the employ of the Morse Twist Drill
and Machine Company, as clerk, his association with that company still
continuing. Through sheer ability he impressed himself upon the busi-
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he was advanced through other grades to the post of purchasing agent,
a promotion both earned and deserved. Mr. Read is a Democrat in
political preference, an attendant of the Protestant Episcopal church,
member of the Wamsutta and Country clubs.

Mr. Read married, July 19, 1909, Sarah Hicks, daughter of Herbert
E. and Clara E. (Allen) Hicks. Mr. and Mrs. Read are the parents
of a daughter, Mary Hicks, born in Newr Bedford, February 19, 191 1.

JAMES OTIS THOMPSON, JR.

When the Pierce Mill started in December, 1892, James Otis Thomp-
son, Jr., now agent for the New Bedford Cotton Mills Corporation,
began his career as a cotton mill worker. The quarter of a century which
has since intervened have been years of progress and expansion for him
as well as for the business he embraced, and he has become an important
figure in the affairs of the corporation he so ably serves and guides in
its dividend earning course. He is a son of James Otis Thompson, Sr.,
of New Bedford, Massachusetts, and grandson of Amasa Thompson.
James Otis Thompson, Sr., born in Middleboro, Massachusetts, in 1835,
died in 1902. In business life he was an express messenger, and was a
veteran of the Civil War, member of the local Grand Army Post. He
married Elizabeth Helen Simmons, born in Dighton, Massachusetts, in
1838, died in 1910. Their children were: Frederick Boomer, born in
New Bedford, December 10, 1866, married, in 1899, Adelaide Cleary ;
Grace Eaton, born December 17, 1868. married, in 1896, William E.
James ; James Otis, Jr., of further mention.

James Otis Thompson, Jr. was born in New Bedford, Massachu-
setts, October 2, 1871. After passing all grades of public school, he was
graduated from high school, class of 1889. After graduation, he was em-
ployed in the photographic studio of Hadley & Reed until December,
1892, acquiring a good knowledge of that art. With the building of the
Pierce Mill, in 1892, a good opportunity offered to learn the business
and he accepted it. He remained there until June. 1894, and then went to
the Wamsutta Mills, there receiving promotions to the post of cotton
sampler and cost figurer, the latter position embracing that of assis-
tant superintendent. In October, 1897, he was appointed superintendent
of the Wamsutta Mills. Numbers 6 and 7, serving in that capacity until
1890, then becoming superintendent of the yarn mills of this corpora-
tion. Numbers i, 2 and 3. In June, 1902, he was promoted to the superin-
tendency of Wamsutta Mills, Numbers 4 and 5, succeeding Mr. John
Neild. He resigned this position to accept the superintendency of the
Wampanoag Mills in Fall River, Massachusetts, in April, 1905, having
full charge of the mills without an agent. He continued in this posi-
tion until June, 1909, then resigned to accept the superintendent's posi-
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organized and the erection of the buildings being then in process. He
continued in that position until 1914, then was appointed agent and so
continues (1917). The New Bedford Cotton Mills Corporation is a
million dollar corporation, and manufactures fine cotton goods, plain and
fancies. They employ six hundred and eighty operators who tend the
seventy-three thousand spindles and fourteen hundred looms. Mr.
Thompson is also a director of the New Bedford and Acushnet Co-
operative banks, of the corporation of which he is agent, also trustee,
director and clerk of the New Bedford Textile School.

In politics, Mr. Thompson is a Republican, but never sought nor
held public office. From 1894 to 1897 he was a member of the Naval
Brigade, Massachusetts National Guard. He is a member of the Massa-
chusetts Republican Club, the National Association of Cotton Manu-
facturers, the Textile Club of Boston, Southern New England Textile
Club of Providence, Old Dartmouth Historical Society of New Bedford,
the Brooks, Wamsutta and Country clubs of New Bedford. He holds
all degrees of the York Rite bodies, affiliated with Star in the East
Lodge, Free and Accepted Masons; Adoniram Chapter, Royal Arch
Masons; Sutton Commandery, Knights Templar, all of New Bedford.
His Council membership is with the Fall River organization. He is
also a noble of Palestine Temple, Nobles of the Mystic Shrine, of Provi-
dence, Rhode Island. His Scottish Rite bodies are: Lafayette Lodge
of Perfection, Mt. Olivet Chapter Rose Croix, Giles Fonda Yates Council
of Princes of Jerusalem, and Massachusetts Consistory, all of Boston,
he holding all degrees of the rite up to and including the thirty-second.

Mr. Thompson married, in New Bedford, June 14, 1899, Mary
Elizabeth Baker, born in Providence, Rhode Island, April 18, 1872,
daughter of Ephraim D. and Georgianna Baker. They are the parents
of two children : Philip Eaton, born May 2, 1902, preparing for Harvard
at St. George's School, Newport, Rhode Island; Louise, born October
23, 1903, attending New Bedford Friends Academy.

ARTHUR A. NOEL.

From the age of sixteen, Mr. Noel has been connected with the
business life of his native city. New Bedford, through the medium of
the Automatic Telephone Company, beginning as a night operator, and
rising to his present position of superintendent, a position which he has
most satisfactorily filled since 1915, and to his ability as a superintendent
and to his genius at invention and improvement, the New Bedford
branch of the corporation controlling this most modern invention, the
automatic telephone, owes a measure of its success. His experience
has gained in similar work in the Fall River Exchange of the Automatic
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but his initial experience was with the home company, and when the
aims for which he went away were fulfilled, and the broadening experi-
ence gained, he returned to fill his present responsible position. Arthur
A. Noel is a son of Bartholomew Noel, now deceased, a former real
estate dealer in New Bedford.

Arthur A. Noel was born in New Bedford, Massachusetts, May 5,
1888, and in the city public schools obtained his education. At the age
of sixteen years he left high school to enter the employ of the New Bed-
ford Automatic Telephone Company, beginning as an operator on the
night force and there serving an apprenticeship of three years. During
these years he became an expert in the automatic telephone business,
thoroughly familiar with the machines used, their construction and
their weakness. From New Bedford he was transferred to the Fall
River Automatic Telephone Company, as assistant superintendent, later,
in 1910, was appointed superintendent, and there continued until 1914,
building up a strong office there. The next year was spent in Chicago
with the Automatic Electric Company of that city, after which he re-
turned to New Bedford, where he succeeded to the superintendency of
the New Bedford Automatic Telephone Company in 191 5, upon the
resignation of Mr. Brinkley.

During his years of automatic telephone service, Mr. Noel has seen
where the system could be strengthened and to his genius several im-
provements are due, particular mention being made of his very success-
ful improvement to the automatic ringing up of subscribers, a new
system of party line operation, an improved method of management, re-
sulting in greater efticiency. The automatic telephone is a success, al-
though practically in its infancy, and in its }-oung, but earnest. New
Bedford superintendent, and in men of his stamp lies the system's hope
of becoming a formidable rival of the Ilell s}'Stems. Mr. Noel is a
member of King Philip Lodge, Masons, of Fall River.

CHARLES A. JEWETT.

As manager of the Jonathan Handy Company, Nos. 28-30 William
street, New Bedford, Mr. Jewett is filling a position left vacant by his
brother, William N. Jewett, at his death in 191 1. William N. Jewett
assumed the duties of manager upon the death of Jonathan Handy in
1895. The Jonathan Handy Company succeeded Watkins & Handy in
the wholesale iron and metal business, established in 1833. The
brothers, William N. and Charles A. Jewett, have been in turn managers
of this very successful corporation. The former having been with the
old firm, Watkins & Handy, remained with Mr. Handy after his pur-
chase of Mr. Watkins' interest and succeeded to the management when
Mr. Handy died. Thus for considerably over a quarter of a century
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the managing heads. The brothers are sons of Nelson E. and Amanda
M. (Leavitt) Jewett, who settled in New Bedford when their sons were
children, and grandsons of Joshua Jewett, of New Hampshire.

Nelson E. Jewett was born April 15, 1839, and died February 24,
iqi4. He was an expert machinist, pursued his calling in Amherst and
Nashua, New Hampshire ; Lowell, Massachusetts ; Providence, Rhode
Island ; finally settling permanently in New Bedford where for twenty-
two years he was connected with the Morse Twist Drill and Machine
Company. He married, in Chelmsford, Massachusetts, Amanda M.
Leavitt, born in Kennebec, Maine, August 2, 1841, daughter of William
and Elizabeth Leavitt, of ancient Maine family. Nelson E. and Amanda
M. Jewett were the parents of two sons: William N. and Charles A.,
both born in Providence, Rhode Island.

William N. Jewett, eldest son of Nelson E. and Amanda M.
(Leavitt) Jewett, was born October 29, 1867, and died February 14,
1912. Shortly after 1871 the family moved to New Bedford, where he
completed his studies in the high school with the graduation class
of 1882. He began business life as clerk in the store of Watkins &
Handy, heavy hardware merchants of New Bedford, remained with Mr.
Handy after his purchase of the business, and in 1895 succeeded him as
manager of the business, now known as the Jonathan Handy Company.
He married, in 1893, Edith H., daughter of Captain W^illiam Washburn,
of Fairhaven, Massachusetts. His connection with the business in which
he began, a youth of sixteen, continued for the remainder of his life,
a period of thirty years, during which time he rose from the lowest to
the highest position, a record of successful achievement only possible in
a man of high quality and strong character.

Charles A. Jewett, younger son of Nelson E. and Amanda M.
(Leavitt) Jewett, was born in Providence, Rhode Island, July 21, 1871,
but soon afterward his parents moved to New Bedford and here his
life has been spent. After completing grammar school courses he
began his career as a business man in the office employ of the Edmund
Grinnell Foundry. From that time until 191 1 he held positions in the
office and as salesman with Briggs & Laurence, John Hastings, and the
Jonathan Handy Company. His connection with the last named com-
pany, which began in 1895 as bookkeeper, was continued in the selling
department until 191 1. when the death of his brother, William N.,
manager of the company, created a vacancy that Charles A. Jewett was
chosen to fill. Lender his management the company has continued its
successful career, the Jewett managerial ability still the potent force
in that success. The company, located at No. 28 William street, deals
in hardware at wholesale and retail ; in iron, steel, blacksmith's supplies,
carriage woodwork, wagon paints, etc., those lines having been the
staples dealt in since the foundation of the business in 1833. Mr. Jewett
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Men, John H. Clifford Camp, Sons of Veterans, and of the Congrega-
tional church.

Mr. Jewett married, in New Bedford, January 28, 1892, Almira A.
Vincent, of that city, born September 14, 1874, daughter of Herbert
and Hannah (Savery) Vincent, her father a machinist. Mr. and Mrs.
Jewett are the parents of six children: i. Millicent A., born August 3,
1895, married Holder B. Tripp, of New Bedford. 2. Doris L., born
April 6. 1897, graduate of New Bedford High School, now stenographer
for her father. 3. Harold N., born March 20, 1899, graduate of Dart-
mouth High School, now a traveling salesman for the Jonathan Handy
Company. 4. Eleanor B., born June 6, 1907. 5. Charles A. (2), born
January 16, 1914. 6. Elizabeth, bom February 26, 1916. The family
home is in South Dartmouth, Massachusetts.

CHARLES F. F. JONES.

When a young man, Mr. Jones came to New Bedford and for a
long term of years was engaged with the Mount Washington Glass
Company, now consolidated with the Pairpont Manufacturing Company,
before coming to the New Bedford Gas and Edison Light Company, of
which he is cashier and chief of the office force. He is a son of
Francis F. Jones, a shoe merchant of Sandwich, Massachusetts, and his
wife, Emily F. (Kern) Jones, who died in 1884.

Charles F. F. Jones was born at Sandwich, Massachusetts, January
20, 1865, and was there educated in the public schools and at Sandwich
Academy. At the age of eighteen he entered the employ of the Boston
& Sandwich Glass Company at their plant at Sandwich, continuing with
them for five years. In 1888 he came to New Bedford, entering the ser-
vice of the Mount Washington Glass Company, of which W^illiam J.
Roch was then president, but was succeeded in 1890 by Thomas A.
Tripp. The company were manufacturers of the highest standard glass-
ware, including a line of decorated lamps, vases and beautiful Burmese
ware. Mr. Jones entered the decorative department of the company and
for thirteen years remained there, becoming one of the company's artistic
decorators. In 1901, Mr. Jones left the Glass Company to enter the
employ of the New Bedford Gas and Edison Light Company as clerk.
He has remained continuously with that important corporation until
the present, advancing in rank to his present position, cashier and office
manager, through a series of promotions. He is a Democrat in politics,
a Unitarian in religious faith, belongs to the Stetson Club, and is highly
esteemed by his associates.

Mr. Jones married, in 1888, Sarah L. Chipman, daughter of Major
Charles and Elizabeth (Gibbs) Chipman, of Sandwich, Massachusetts.
They are the parents of a son, Francis F., born in New Bedford, August
13, 1892, now paymaster in the United States Naval Reserve force,
with the rank of ensign. He served in the signal corps of the Second
Brigade, Massachusetts.

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FRANKLIN WINSLOW HATCH.

As superintendent of the New Bedford Cordage Company, manu-
facturers of manila and sisal cordage and tarred hemp goods, Mr.
Hatch is the operating head of the mill, which for three-quarters of a
century has manufactured cordage, and although the founders have long
since passed away the business they founded and the company they
organized yet remains, the mill still occupying its first site "up on the
hill" and now as then the product is "good rope." In the year the New
Bedford Cordage Company was started there were but few railroads in
the United States ; the telegraph had not yet come into public use ; John
Tyler was the president of the United States, and the Mexican and Civil
wars were yet to be fought.

In 1842 a number of shipowners and captains of vessels in New
Bedford, which was then the centre of the great whaling industr}', de-
cided to make rope for use on their own vessels. Their venture was suc-
cessful, and their product soon became so favorably known that other
shipowners were glad to buy their surplus stock. Therefore, on Febru-
ary 2, 1846, the New Bedford Cordage Company was incorporated under
the laws of the State of Massachusetts "for the purpose of manufactur-
ing cordage in the town of New Bedford." There still remain as stock-
holders of the company descendants of the officers who were elected at
the first meeting of the corporation on April 2, 1846.

To this company came Franklin W. Hatch, November i, 1907, as
master mechanic, his promotion to superintendent coming in 1913 upon
the death of Marshall F. Lewis. He had been connected with the Plym-
outh Cordage Company for many years and was thoroughly equipped for
the position he fills. Although intensely practical and his own provider
from boyhood, he has a decided musical talent and all through the years
has kept up his music, playing the cornet in orchestra and band. In fact
music is his recreation and one of the great pleasures of his life. He is a
son of Charles \V. and Almeda Hatch, the latter deceased, the former
residing in New Bedford employed in the plant of the New Bedford
Cordage Company.

Franklin W. Hatch was born in Marshfield, Massachusetts, Febru-
ary 13, 1879, but when he was quite young his parents moved to Kings-
ton, Massachusetts, where he attended the grade and high schools until
fourteen years of age, then against the wishes of his parents he left school
to become a clerk in the post office at North Plymouth, Massachusetts.
He only remained in the post office a few months, then left to enter the
employ of Cobb & Drews Tack Works, at Kingston, his duty to attend
one of the tack feeding machines. He continued at the tack works until
seventeen years of age, and also began the study of the cornet. He next
went with the Plymouth Cordage Company, of North Plymouth, Massa-
chusetts, as machinist's apprentice, remaining in that employ for twelve
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kept up his music, was a member of orchestra and band, being the cornet
soloist of the band. For one year after leaving the cordage company,
Mr. Hatch gave himself wholly to his music, then on November i, 1907,
came to New Bedford.

His first position in New Bedford was as master mechanic with the
New Bedford Cordage Company. Eighteen months later he was made
assistant superintendent, and in December, 1913, succeeded Marshall F.
Lewis as superintendent and mill manager. He is thoroughly furnished
with the technical knowledge for the position he fills, and by disposition
is eminently fitted for managerial station. His religion is the "Golden
Rule" and its spirit is carried out in all his dealings with his fellow-men.
Kindly, courteous and considerate, he holds the respect and confidence
of all those with whom he comes in contact.

Mr. Hatch is a member of the Masonic order, belonging to Star in
the East Lodge, Free and Accepted Masons ; Adoniram Chapter, Royal
Arch Masons ; New Bedford Council, Royal and Select Masters ; Sutton
Commandery, Knights Templar, Adams Lodge, Independent Order of
Odd Fellows, Kingston, Massachusetts. He was for several years a
member of the Trinitarian Church quartette, playing the cornet. He
enjoys automobiling and travel, but takes all his pleasures rationally,
giving preference to music.

Mr. Hatch married in Kingston, Massachusetts, Flora A. Tatlow,
born in Nottingham, England, daughter of Arthur E. and Annie Tatlow,
who came to the United States when their daughter was eight years of
age. Arthur E. Tatlow is now engaged in the real estate business at
Onset, Massachusetts.

SHERRARD CLEMENS.

Sherrard Clemens was born at Riverview, near Wheeling, Virginia,
February 3, 1862. He is a son of the Hon. Sherrard Clemens, Demo-
cratic member of Congress from the Tenth District of Virginia. His
mother's maiden name was Catherine Elizabeth Dawson, of Madison
Parish, Louisiana. Mr. Clemens' father, while a Democrat, was a Union
man and against secession. On January 22, 1861, he made a strong
speech in the House of Representatives on the state of the Union. He
was a lawyer by profession and attended Washington College in Penn-
.sylvania and West Point Military Academy. He was at West Point at
the same time as General U. S. Grant. Just before the outbreak of the
Civil War, he fought a duel with O. Jennings Wise, editor of the "Rich-
mond Inquiry," from which he received a wound which left him a cripple
for life and which finally compelled his withdrawing from politics as well
as the practice of law. This unfortunate circumstance, together with
conditions existing after the Civil War and the formation of the new
State, West Virginia, brought about the removal of the family from the

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home at Wheeling, West Virginia, to Louisiana. Sherrard Clemens, 2d.,
on account of his father's health, practically became their main support.

He commenced his career upon a plantation in Louisiana, without
resources and only such educational advantages as he was able to obtain
in the public schools. He remained in Louisiana three years, then, on
account of ill health, went to the northwest, remaining there until 1885,
at which time he returned south and entered the cotton business at
Yazoo City, Mississippi, working his way up through all the branches of
the business as classer, buyer and manager for various cotton firms doing
both domestic and foreign business. He was sent to New Bedford, Mas-
sachusetts, in 1914 as manager of Stewart Brothers Cotton Company's
eastern business, office at No. 71 William street. Mr. Clemens is a char-
ter member of Lodge No. 148, Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks,
also a member of the Wamsutta Club, New Bedford Yacht Club. Board
of Trade and Protestant Episcopal Church, and in politics is a Demo-
crat.

He married, in Vicksburg, Mississippi, March 6, 1900, Birdie Gallo-
way Hilliard, daughter of Frank P. and Hattie Elizabeth (Dyer) Hilli-
ard. Mr. and Mrs. Clemens are the parents of Sherrard Clemens, 3rd.,
born February 15, 1901, and Hilliard Dawson Clemens, born May 23,
1903. The family home is at No. 241 Hawthorne street, New Bedford,
Massachusetts.

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WILLIAM H. JENCKES.

In 1906 Mr. Jenckes came to New Bedford as superintendent of the
Nonquitt Spinning Company, a corporation operating two mills and em-
ploying one thousand and three hundred hands in the manufacture of
combed cotton yarns. From the age of eleven years he has been a
worker, although until the age of fourteen only his vacations from school
were devoted to wage-earning. But at the age of fourteen his school
days ended and he entered the ranks in which he has since marched,
coming up from the rear and in the constantly advancing rank until
reaching his present high position at the age of thirty-one years, a posi-
tion he has filled for the past eleven years. He is a son of Andrew N.
and Lydia N. Jenckes, his father, who died in 1884, was head of a team-
ing business in Woonsocket, Rhode Island, and quite prominent in city
political life. His mother died in 1914.

William H. Jenckes was born in Woonsocket, Rhode Island, June
23, 1875, and until fourteen years of age attended grammar school, com-
pleting the course. After his father's death in 1884, during the summer
school vacations, he began working in the American Wringer Works,
formerly the Bailey Company, and at the age of fourteen left school to
work in a drug store. A year later he went with Stollard & Bushway,
candy and ice cream manufacturers, and continued with their successor,
F. B. Fenton He was variously employed after this until entering the

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employ of the VV'oonsocket Street Railway as a motorman and conductor,
remaining there for three years. Then he began as mill worker, entering
the pattern weaving room of the Harris Woolen Mill, there remaining
for eighteen months. He then became a cotton mill worker at the Social
Mill, Woonsocket, whose superintendent was George W. Comnock.
There he learned carding, rising to the position of third hand. Then he
went as second hand to the Clinton Mill, Woonsocket. Then to the
Ashton Mill at Ashton, one of the Lonsdale Company's mills. He then
became an overseer in the carding department of Ray's Main Street Mill,
Woonsocket, Rhode Island, then leased by Frank Knight. For two and
one-half years he held that position and then the mill was burned ; then
followed a period of employment in Connecticut mills, finally ending by
his going to Albion, Rhode Island, as overseer. Four years he held that
position, leaving in 1906 to become superintendent of the Nonquitt Spin-
ning Company, at New Bedford, a position he now (1917) fills, although
its importance has greatly increased with the doubling of the company's
plant and great business expansion. Hard work, faithfulness and perse-
vering efifort, coupled with a natural ability, has brought the reward it
always brings, and to every young man who would rise Mr. Jenckes
says, "Work, work and then work," as there is no room in a cotton mill
nor anywhere else for the idler.

Mr. Jenckes is a member of the National Association of Cotton
Manufacturers, the Southern Massachusetts Textile Club, the Young
Men's Christian Association, Modern Woodmen of America, the Benevo-
lent and Protective Order of Elks and the Rod and Reel Club. He is a
member of Star in the East Lodge, Free and Accepted Masons ; x-\doni-
ram Chapter, New Bedford Council, Sutton Commandery, Knights Tem-
plar, and Palestine Temple, Nobles of the Mystic Shrine. In politics he
is a Republican, and in his religious faith a student of Christian Science
as taught in the works of Mary Baker Eddy.

CHARLES HAMMOND VINAL.

Son of an old captain of whalers and born in New Bedford before
the maritime glory of the port had departed, Mr. Vinal is bound by
tradition and contact to the olden time, when in every part of the world
ships flying a New Bedford house flag cruised in search of whales or in
pursuit or delivery of cargoes. From the time he was sixteen years of
age Captain William H. Vinal sailed the seas, and nine years after the
birth of his son died in New Bedford, in 1868, aged forty-six years. He
was born in Scituate, Massachusetts, his wife, Lavinia A. T. (Lavare)
Vinal, born in Adamsville, Rhode Island, September 9, 1826. and died
in New Bedford, Massachusetts, September 8, 1907. Their son, Charles
Hammond Vinal, since 1887 has been connected with the industry, which
in connection with the discovery of petroleum is responsible for the de-
cline of the whale and sperm oil business, as gas, electricity and coal oil

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are competitors that nothing in the way of an illuminant could hope to
vanquish. So he belongs to the new era as well as to the old, and as
registrar of the New Bedford Gas and Edison Light Company he is
vitally concerned in the operation of one of New Bedford's most modern
corporations, one who under ground, under water and over head delivers
power, heat and light all over this section of Massachusetts.

Charles Hammond Vinal was born in New Bedford, July 29, 1859.
He was educated in the public schools of the city, finishing with high
school graduation. He began business life as clerk with Pratt & Alley,
grocers, and for ten years remained with that firm, advancing to respon-
sible position. He then engaged in the grocery business with a partner,
and as Vinal & Tuell conducted a store for five years, then Mr. Vinal sold
his interest to his partner and retired. For a time thereafter he was in
the employ of the New Bedford Institution for Savings, but in April,
1887, resigned to enter the employ of the New Bedford Gas Company as
head and only bookkeeper at that time. When the gas and electric con-
solidation took effect in 1890, and the New Bedford Gas and Edison
Light Company resulted, Mr. Vinal was appointed registrar, a position
he yet fills most acceptably. A Republican in politics, Mr. Vinal has
since the organization of a cemetery commission as a part of the city gov-
ernment been a member of the commission. For three years he was a
member of the Common Council, and at all times he has been the deeply
interested, public-spirited citizen. He is a member of Star in the East
Lodge, Free and Accepted Masons, of which for seventeen years he has
been secretary ; is an Odd Fellow, member of the Stetson, Dartmouth
and Yacht clubs of New Bedford.

Mr. Vinal married (first) in New Bedford, Marion J. Hamblin, of
Foxboro, Massachusetts. He married (second) Marianna Veeder, born
April II, 1S58, at Nantucket, Massachusetts, daughter of Charles A.
Veeder, of New York, who died in the Society Islands, and his wife,
Susan C. (Austin) Veeder, who died in New Bedford. Children: i.
Elwin S., born in New Bedford, April 2, 1886, now residing in East
Seattle, Washington, connected with the Bend Park Company, who are
promoting the building of the city of Bend, in Central Oregon ; he mar-
ried Grace Tripp, daughter of George H. Tripp, librarian of New Bed-
ford Public Library. 2. Elise, born in New Bedford, August 11, 1892,
graduate of high school, now a student at Bridgewater. The family resi-
dence is No. 103 Summer street.

ARTHUR C. PUTNAM.

Bom in New York City, but taken thence by his parents to Nashua,
New Hampshire, Mr. Putnam has practically spent his entire life in New
Hampshire, Vermont and Massachusetts, coming to New Bedford in
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was then living at Mariottsville. Since 1910 he has been chief engineer
at the Nashawena Mills, a corporation employing one thousand and eight
hundred hands, operating one hundred and forty-five thousand spindles
and three thousand and eight hundred looms in the manufacture of plain
and fancy cotton and jacquard silk novelties. Over all engineering prob-
lems and operations, Mr. Putnam is supreme, and that department is as
well managed as the others, which in combination have placed the
Nashawena in the front rank of cotton mills. He is a son of John B.
and Aurelia Putnam, his father a manufacturer. In 1882 the family
moved to Nashua, New Hampshire, where John B. Putnam engaged in
the manufacture of soapstone slate of varied form, later he moved to
Perkinsville, Vermont, thence to Mariottsville. Maryland, thence to
Jettyville, Virginia.

Arthur C. Putnam was born in New York City, October 25, 1877,
and five years later was taken by his parents to Nashua, New Hamp-
shire, where he attended the grade and high schools until graduated from
high school in 1895, at the age of eighteen. He then began his business
career, and after the removal of the family to Perkinsville, Vermont, be-
came associated with his father in the quarrying and manufacture of
soapstone. He remained with him three years, then went with the
Metropolitan Water Works, at Framingham, Massachusetts, being con-
nected with the engineering department of the works for ten years. He
then spent a few months in Maryland, with his father, entering the em-
ploy of the Bristol Mill in New Bedford, in 1907, as assistant engineer.
Two years later, on the completion of the Nashawena Mill, he was
appointed chief engineer of that plant and has held that position since.
He is a member of Pacific Lodge, Encampment, Canton, New Bedford
Patriarchs Militant, Independent Order of Odd Fellows; the National
Society of Engineers ; the First Baptist Church, and politically is a Re-
publican.

He married, in 1908, Jessie Hunter Burton, daughter of John L. Bur-
ton, of the Nashawena Mills, whose career is also traced in this work.
Mrs. Putnam, died in 1914, leaving a daughter, Janet, born in 1909.

JEREMIAH FRANCIS SULLIVAN.

When Jeremiah Sullivan left his home in Ireland and brought his
family to the United States, he intended to make it his permanent home.
He was employed in railroading and remained several years, but finally
the love for the "Old Sod" overcame and he returned to his Irish home,
there living the remainder of his days. But his son, Cornelius F. Sulli-
van, born in Ireland and brought to the United States by his father,
remained in his adopted land until death, and proved his right to ctitzen-
ship and his appreciation of the honor it conferred by offering his life,
if need be, in defence of the flag which had become his. He enlisted in

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Company F, Fifth Regiment, Rhode Island Volunteer Infantry, in 1861,
and served until the war closed in 1S65. saw service in North and South
Carolina under Burnside and others, returning with an honorable dis-
charge and the scars of a wound received in battle. By trade he was
a millwright. Cornelius F. Sullivan married Mary Dillon, also born in
Ireland, but married in New Bedford, in St. Lawrence Church. Both
are now deceased, but their two children, Jeremiah F., of further mention,
and Mary Sullivan are both residing in New Bedford.

Jeremiah Francis Sullivan, only son of Cornelius I', and Mary
(Dillon) Sullivan, was born in New Bedford, Massachusetts, September
23, 1875, and until fifteen years of age attended St. Joseph's Parochial
School, and the public grammar school. He began business life by
working in a grocery store for a few months, then entered the employ
of his uncle, Jeremiah D. Sullivan, who was an undertaker in New Bed-
ford. He remained with his uncle sixteen years and eight months, be-
coming an expert in the care of the dead and in funeral direction. On
April I, 1907, he opened an undertaking establishment at No. 594 Pur-
chase street, and there remained as funeral director and embalmer until
191 1, when he removed to No. 1546 Purchase street, continuing in the
same business to date (1918). In politics Mr. Sullivan is a Democrat,
and in religious faith connected with the Church of the Holy Name
(Roman Catholic). He is a member of the Holy Name Society; the
Plymouth Club; the Massachusetts Catholic Order of Foresters; New
Bedford Court of Foresters of America; New Bedford Lodge, No. 73,
Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks ; New Bedford Aerie, No. 647,
Fraternal Order of Eagles; the Knights of Columbus. Division No. 9;
Ancient Order of Hibernians, and the Loyal Order of Moose.

Mr. Sullivan married, in Taunton, Massachusetts, June 15, 1904,
Annie A. McGinty. daughter of John and Hannah (Howe) McGinty.

NAPOLEON BEAULIEU.

A son of John and Philomene C'Mlaire) Beaulieu, a business man of
Lawrence, Massachusetts, Napoelon Beaulieu, one of their six sons to
reach manhood, became a mill worker at the age of twelve years, and in
one New Bedford Mill alone, the Grinnell, has a record of twenty years
service. He has been since 1910 overseer of the Nonquitt Spinning
Company, in whose two mills, fourteen hundred hands, operating one
hundred and ninety-five thousand spindles, produce combed cotton
yarns. When he went with the company seven years ago, the company
were operating seventy thousand spindles. But it is not alone as a
mill worker that Mr. Beaulieu is well known to New Bedford, but for
years he has taken an unusual interest in civic affairs, especially in the
cause of education, he being a very useful member of the New Bedford
School Board and of the board of trustees of the Industrial School.

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Napoleon Beaulieu was born in Lawrence, Massachusetts, Novem-
ber 22. 1866, and there spent his youth, attending St. Hyacinthe's
Parachial School until beginning mill work at the age of twelve. He
was a worker in the mills at Lowell at that age and from the bottom
worked his way through various promotions to his present post. In
1S83 he came to New Bedford, working in the mill during daytime, at-
tending evening high school, becoming proficient in mechanical draw-
ing. For twenty years he was employed in the Grinnell Mills, going to
the Bulter Mill in 1902. going thence to the Gosnold Mills, where he
remained until 1910, when he became overseer at the Nonquitt Mills.
He is thoroughly equipped for the position he holds, is trusted by his
fellow workmen and possesses the confidence and the respect of those
above him in ofificial rank. In 1910 Mr. Beaulieu organized a branch
of the L'Independent Publishing Company of Fall River, a company
of which he is president. "L'Independent" is a very popular newspaper,
printed in French, and has a wide New England circulation. He is a
Republican in politics, and since 1908 has been a member of the School
Poard, his term expiring on January i, 1919. He is also a member of
the board of trustees of the Industrial School, his term expiring in 1918.
He is a useful member of both boards and conscientiously performs the
duties assigned him. He is also a director of the Sasaquin Sanitarium.
He is a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, St. Anthony's
Roman Catholic Church, the Loretto and Tremont clubs. In 1915 Mr.
Beaulieu organized the Educational Club of Home Study, taking boys
of sixteen up from the mills and giving them the opportunity of home
study, furnishing text books and instructors without charge. This was
a most commendable effort and Mr. Beaulieu deserves great credit for
the success of the movement.

Mr. Beaulieu married in New Bedford, March 22, 1890, Rose Barri-
teau, born in Lowell. Massachusetts, daughter of Antoine and Ederst
(Marcil) Barriteau. Mr. and Mrs. Beaulieu's only child born in Decem-
ber, 1S91, died the following year.

HERBERT E. WALMSLEY.

Although for two years prior to his death, Herbert E. Walmsley
was retired from his position as agent of the Wamsutta Mills, he could
not surrender nor has death taken from him the distinction of being
one of the most distinguished men in the textile manufacturing busi-
ness. The post he held with the Wamsutta Mills may properly be
considered the most important one in the United States, carried great
prestige, and could only be filled by a man of deep knowledge of the
cotton industry in all its phases. That knowledge Mr. Walmsley
possessed in a superlative degree, his wisdom being of the most prac-
tical kind, gained during many years of textile mill service and

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management, which began when he was a lad of fifteen. Eleven years
of his life were spent in developing the cotton spinning industry in
Russia. The remarkable development of the cotton manufacturing in-
dustry in Russia was accelerated and encouraged under his inspiration
and influence, and for years he was assistant manager of the largest
textile mill in the world. After his Russian experience he was sent
to India to investigate and report on the cotton industry, but the climate
was unfit for his constitution and nothing of moment was accomplished
there. Then came his transition to the American field of labor and
success. His ten years as superintendent of the great Clark Thread
Mills of Newark, New Jersey, included the period of the greatest strike
the plant ever passed through, yet so well and justly did Mr. Walmsley
manage affairs that one of his treasured belongings was a framed testi-
monial given him by the Clark operatives when he retired from that
position to accept another with the Wamsutta Mill. Perhaps it was an
opinion held before, perhaps the experiences of the Clark strike im-
pressed it, but it was his thorough belief that it is good common busi-
ness sense to pay the very best wages a mill can afford, leaving the
humanitarian standpoint out of the calculation entirely.

Mr. Walmsley was warmly welcomed in New Bedford, where his
reputation had preceded him. He continued in official relation with
the Wamsutta Mills until 1915, and became a high authority upon tex-
tile manufacturing practices. His personal achievement as a manufac-
turer was high, and there came from his pen works which greatly en-
riched the literature of the cotton industry. Equally notable were his
addresses before gatherings of textile men, and he was a well known
figure wherever cotton manufacturers gathered. He was one of the
most distinguished men of the business, and was highly regarded per-
sonally.

Herbert E. Walmsley, son of Dr. Francis Walmsley, a skilled
physician of Manchester, England, was born in Manchester, England,
January 27, 1854, and died in New Bedford, Massachusetts, June 14,
1917. His brothers prepared for professional careers, but Herbert E.
was strongly inclined toward a business life, and at the age of fifteen
he left school to begin work at a cotton mill in Stockport, near Man-
chester. He spent six years in that mill, and at the age of twenty-one
was thoroughly equipped and eligible to any managerial position in
any department of cotton manufacturing. He rose rapidly in reputa-
tion and rank, the most important part of his English life being his
selection by large Russian financial interests to develop cotton spinning
in Russia.

When he left England to accept this post, he went direct to Narva,
a town of Russia, on Neva river, nine miles from the mouth, in the gulf
of Finland and eighty-one miles from Petrogad. The falls of the river
furnished water power which attracted manufacturers, and there for
six years Mr. Walmsley, as assistant manager, virtually controlled the

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destinies oi tne largest mill in the world, with half a million spindles.
At the end of the six years he accepted a position in another section, and
near Moscow he spent five years as manager of a cotton mill. This
completed his Russian engagement, a connection from which all con-
cerned had greatly profited. He returned to England to accept a com-
mission from Dobson & Barlow, machinery builders of Bolton, England,
to investigate the cotton industry in India, but after six months he re-
turned to England, unable to endure the Indian climate.

His reputation had crossed the seas, and he was offered the superin-
tendency of the Clark Thread Company at Newark, New Jersey, a posi-
tion he held ten years. From Newark he came to New Bedford as agent
for the W'amsutta Mills, a position from which he retired in 191 5. He
was in poor health then and afterward, although he aided in some mill
promotions in New Bedford. But his work was finished, and the end
soon came.

As a writer and platform speaker, Mr. Walmsley was well known,
his subjects always relating to textile manufacturing. An article pub-
lished in "Commerce and Finance" in 1916, on "Cotton Manufacturing
and the Nations," attracted wide attention. His published books were:
"The Manufacture of Fine Yarns;" "Industrial Institutions, their Or-
ganization and Regulation, and Cotton Spinning and Weaving." the
latter going through three editions, one of which was printed in the
Russian language, the first book ever printed in that language on cot-
ton manufacturing. He was president of the New England Cotton
Manufacturers Association from 1903 to 1905.

Mr. Walmsley married Berta Veronch. born in Narva, Russia, died
in 1902, at New Bedford. They were the parents of two daughters :
Beatrice and Marguerita, and a son, Herbert, whose sketch follows.

HERBERT WALMSLEY.

Herbert Walmsley, son of Herbert E. and Berta (Veronch) W'alms-
ley, was born in Newark, New Jersey, January 4. 1890, his father at
that time being general manager of the Clark Thread Company. He
attended private school in New Bedford, the city to which the family
came in 1898, and he was a student at Friends Academy. He followed
the business with which his father had been connected for so long, and
beginning in lowly place rose through the various grades of promotion to
the high position of superintendent of the Wamsutta Mill, holding that
position when barely eighteen years old. He filled that position for
six years, from 1908 to 1914, then resigned to become assistant superin-
tendent of the Dartmouth Manufacturing Corporation, which is his
present position. The Dartmouth is one of New Bedford's largest em-
ployers of labor, twenty-two hundred hands operating in three mills,
two hundred thousand spindles, and fifty-seven looms weaving plain.

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fancy and jacquard cotton and silk goods, capitalized at $2,600,000, pre-
ferred and common stock, on which liberal dividends are paid. Air.
Walmsley is a Republican in politics, member of the Grace Protestant
Episcopal Church, and of the Wamsutta Club. Mr. Walmsley married,
in New Bedford, March 20, 191 7, Evelyn Ennis, of New Bedford.

DAVID WEBSTER BEAMAN.

After technical instruction and practical experience in electrical
engineering, Mr. Beaman came to his present position, superintendent of
the electric department of the New Bedford Gas & Edison Light Com-
pany, after a series of promotions from lower positions. He is a native
son of Cincinnati, Ohio, his father, Edmund Addison Beanian, a teacher
and a minister of the Swedenborgian church. Edmund Addison Beaman,
bom in Wendell, Massachusetts, August 8, 1811, died in Cincinnati,
Ohio, June 8, 1908. He married Sarah V. Parsons, born in Northampton.
Massachusetts, February 27, 1833, died in Newtonville, Massachusetts,
January 4, 1916.

David W. Beaman was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, November 2, 1872,
and there completed the grammar school course of public instruction
with graduation. He also there pursued a course of instruction in the
Technical School of Cincinnati, whence he was graduated in 1890. After
working two years in the electrical business, he entered Massachusetts
Institute of Technology-, Boston, and was graduated thence with the
degree B. S., class of 1896. Graduates from Boston "Tech" are in de-
mand, and immediately after graduation Mr. Beaman entered the employ
of the West End Street Railway Company, now the Boston Elevated
Railroad Company, at one of the company's power plants. He only re-
mained in Boston until March, 1897, then became an employee of the
New Bedford Gas and Edison Light Company, at their electric light sta-
tion, as an electrician. A period of twenty years has elapsed since he first
came to New Bedford, and in that time the company has expanded and
added greatly to their equipment and plant, the year igi6 alone adding
the New Bedford and Onset Street Railway Company as a user of
current, and the area of the company's supply through Wareham reaches
from Cape Cod on the east to Falmouth and Chatham on the southeast,
and the town of Middleboro. With direct line the company also supplies
to Lakeville on the north, Mattapoisett on the east, and Potomska on the
south. Current is also supplied the Bay State Street Railway Company
to its station at Lakeside, all this in addition to its own lines and custo-
mers in New Bedford. But the graduate of 1896 has also grown and
expanded, and with opportunity knocking has answered each call and
advanced from post to post until he reached his present position, super-
intendent of the electrical department. He is an expert in electrical
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his department, meeting to the full every demand made upon him. He
is an associate member of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers,
member of the National Electric Light Association, a member of the
Unitarian church, and in political faith a Republican.

Mr. Beaman married, June 25, 1902, in New Bedford, Jane Witter
Stetson, born September 26, 1876, daughter of George R. Stetson, who
died July 20, 1915, president of the New Bedford Gas & Edison Light
Company, president of the Cooperative Bank, director of the New Bed-
ford Textile School, an alderman, a water board commissioner, president
of the Republican Club in 1888, and long one of the most prominent
men of the city. Mr. and Mrs. Beaman are the parents of a son, David
W., Jr., born March i, 1916.

FRANCIS S. WINSPER.

Although one of the young men of the cotton trade, Francis S.
Winsper has the knowledge born of several years experience in the busi-
ness and to that adds the technical knowledge gained at the New
Bedford Textile School. He has hitherto devoted himself to the raw
material as classifier and salesman and has won enviable reputation for
a man of his years. With great possibilities awaiting him and so thor-
oughly equipped, the years seem full of brightest promise. He is a son
of William J. Winsper, born at Glasgow, Scotland, August 29, 1863,
came to the United States in 1881, now engineer with the Philadelphia
& Reading Coal and Iron Company, at New Bedford. He was married
in 1884 to Mary Kelley ; children: William J. (2), Josephine A., Mary,
Ruth v., John B., Gertrude R., Emma C, Francis S.

Francis S. Winsper was born in New Bedford, Massachusetts,
August 8, 1895. He completed his public school attendance at St. Mary's
Roman Catholic School, and R. C. Ingraham Grammar School, then
entered classes at the New Bedford Textile School, where he prepared
for the business career he has so successfully pursued. He began
business life as a clerk with the Beacon Manufacturing Company, next
became a cotton classer with the City Manufacturing Company, remain-
ing three years, then filled the same position with The Dean, Dakin,
Bridgeman Company, of Clarksdale, Mississippi, holding that position
until entering the employ of Stephen M. Weld & Company, cotton
brokers at New Bedford, leaving them to take charge of the New Bed-
ford office of Samuel Newburger & Company, of New York. He is
thoroughly equipped for the work he has undertaken and success has
attended his efforts. Mr. Winsper is a Democrat in politics, a charter
member of the New Bedford branch of the Red Cross Society, member
of the Plymouth Club and of St. Lawrence Roman Catholic Church. He
was a member of the Sixth Deck Division, Massachusetts Naval Militia,
served a full term of enlistment and was honorably discharged in 1915.

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GEORGE LOUIS OLIVIER.

Son of a brave soldier of the Union who gave up his life for his coun-
try on the battlefield of Kenesaw Mountain, Mr. Olivier was thus
orphaned when a child. But the Nation which claimed the life of his
father cared for the son until a high school graduate, being sheltered and
educated at the expense of the Government in the Soldiers' and Sailors'
Orphan Home at Xenia, Ohio. A resident of New Bedford since June
10, 1889, Mr. Olivier, a business man and citizen, endeared himself to the
people with whom he came in contact, and when President Wilson was
called upon to name a postmaster for New Bedford, Mr. Olivier was his
choice, the first postmaster to occupy the magnificent new postofifice
building.

James McCully Olivier was born in Bedford, Pennsylvania, July 6,
1S34, and was killed in the battle of Kenesaw Mountain, Georgia, June
27, 1864. He was a contractor, and at the time of his enlistment was liv-
ing in Shelby, Ohio. He enlisted in Company A, One Hundred and
Twenty-first Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and as a part of the
Second Brigade of the Fourteenth Corps, Army of the Cumberland, was
engaged under General William T. Sherman in his Georgia campaign,
which for Mr. Olivier ended on the bloody slopes of Kenesaw Mountain.
He was a member of the Methodist Episcopal church, and a man much
esteemed. He married, November 25, i86o, at Shelby, Ohio, Alary Ann
Gross, born April 7, 1843, died in Chicago, Illinois, in 1885. Mr. and
Mrs. Olivier were the parents of a daughter and son : Sadie Ellen, mar-
ried Frederick S. Hendry, and resides in San Francisco, California;
George Louis, of further mention.

George Louis Olivier was born in Shelby, Ohio, November 19, 1862,
and there attended the public school. Later he was a student at the high
school at the Ohio Soldiers' and Sailors" Orphan Home, Xenia, Ohio,
and there completed his studies with graduation. He began business
life as an employee of the American Express Company, and rose rapidly
in the service, holding positions with that company in Cleveland, Ohio,
and Chicago, Illinois. Later he resigned to accept a better position
with the Wells, Fargo Express Company in Chicago, remaining with
that company until coming to New Bedford as representative of the
United States Express Company. In New Bedford he resigned from the
United States Express Company to become manager of the express busi-
ness of Hatch & Company, continuing in that position until engaging in
mercantile business as a wholesale importer. On February 4, 1915, he
was appointed postmaster by President Wilson, and on September 13,
191 5, moved from the old building, corner of Acushnet avenue and Wil-
liam street, expressly designed for and first occupied as a postofifice,
April I, 1893, to the present post, incomparably superior to the conven-
tional postoffice building erected by the Government in cities of the size
of New Bedford. He is ably administering the afifairs of the office, giv-

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ing service to the city and satisfaction to the department. He is a mem-
ber of the Wamsutta, Dartmouth, Merchants and Yacht clubs of New
Bedford; is a member of the Protestant Episcopal church, and in politics
a Democrat, influential in the party and popular with all.

Mr. Olivier married, October 23, 1890, at Whitney Point, New York,
Mattie Virginia Perry, born there, November 21, 1865, died in New Bed-
ford, Massachusetts, August 20. 1912, daughter of Dr. Frederick H. and
Anna (Northrup) Perry. Children: i. Frederick Perry, born August
21, 1891, formerly engaged in the oil business, and in igi/ enlisted in
Battery B. One Hundred and Forty-fourth Field Artillery, "California
Grizzlies." 2. Katherine, born February i, 1893, married. May i, 1916,
Stuart L. Rich, educated in Friends' Academy, Germany and England.
3. Kenneth Seymour, born March 20, 1894, educated at the Powder Point
School, Exeter Academy and Harvard University, now (1917) a first
lieutenant of infantry in the United States Army, a regular. 4. George
Louis (2), born November 14, 1896, educated in the New Bedford public
schools, Powder Point School, and training ship "Ranger ;" in the spring
of 1917 he enlisted in Company F, Fourth Reginjjent of Massachusetts
Engineers, and on June 5, was ordered to report for duty, the regiment
destined for service against the Germans in either France or Russia, now
in France, been there since August i, 1917; the Fourth is expected to be
mainly used in keeping and constructing railroads. 5. James Mulford,
born June 10, 1899, now a student at Lawrenceville Preparatory School,
Lawrenceville, New Jersey. 6. Margaret Hamlin, born February 15,
1901, now a student at the Royal School, Lansdowne, Bath, England.

RUFUS BABCOCK TOBEY.

On any summer day anyone entering or lea\'ing Boston harbor may
see somewhere inside the Light a vessel riding quietly at her anchor in
some protected spot. There is little to distinguish this "White Ship of
Mercy" from other passenger craft save the large green cross on each
side of her funnel, yet this boat never carried a paying passenger and
never voyages outside Boston harbor.

This vessel is the Boston Floating Hospital, not a pleasure craft
for pleasure outings, but a completely equipped children's hospital,
devoted each summer to a great and serious work. When the Boston
Floating Hospital goes out of commission for the season of 1918 she will
have completed a full quarter of a century of history. The original
floating hospital was a barge much smaller than the present vessel, and
was towed back and forth from its daily and nightly anchorage. Ten
years later the many applications for admission resulted in the building,
equipping and commissioning of the present splendid vessel, now driven
by twin screws, her engines a gift from the owner of the yacht "Pilgrim."

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Hanging on the walls of the hospital is a bronze tablet bearing this
inscription :

In Grateful Recognition

Of the Services of

Rufus B. Tobey

Founder of This Hospital

An institution, it is said, is the lengthened shadow of a man. Mr.
Tobey has lived to see this lengthened shadow of his reach out and in
many ways become one of the most remarkable institutions in the world,
a true hospital ship for the sick babies of Boston, which has been aptly
christened "God's Battleship of Peace." It is the only institution of its
kind, and is famous all over the civilized world, for its graduate nurses
have gone to the furthermost corners to use their knowledge in fighting
infantile diseases.

Mr. Tobey is a frail looking man, having poured his vitality into the
veins of the sick babies of Boston. Thousands of them are alive and
strong instead of sickly because of the devotion which has aged him.
"Has it been worth it?" he has been asked ; "a thousand times worth it,"
he said.

Mr. Tobey comes from a seafaring family of New Bedford, Massa-
chusetts, his father and one brother having been whalers from that
famous port, both of his mother's brothers being whalers, and his young-
est paternal uncle was a merchant sailor who died at sea. There were
others in the family who went down to the sea in ships, but the spirit of
adventure seems to have missed Rufus B., although his ship sailing only
in Boston harbor is known all around the world and her fame will live
forever and perpetuate his name among those "who loved their fellow
men."

Rufus Babcock Tobey, son of Charles Richmond, son of Lemuel,
son of Thomas, son of Jonathan (2), son of Jonathan (i ). son of Thomas
Tobey, traces descent from John Alden of the "Mayflower," and to
Colonel Sylvester Richmond, a high sheriff of Bristol county, Massa-
chusetts, many years representative to the General Court, 1741-1747, a
colonel in the British army, active in the Spanish and French wars, par-
ticularly distinguishing himself at the capture of Cape Breton. He com-
manded the Sixth Massachusetts Regiment in the campaign against
Louisburg, and received the French flag after the capture of the fortress.
His connection with the royal troops did not prevent his deeply sympa-
thizing with the colonies in their struggle for independence, and was
greatly grieved that one of his sons refused to join the Revolutionary
army. The old soldier, then seventy-seven, said that if he were but ten
years younger he should not be found at home. Colonel Richmond was
a man of exemplary character, very generous in promoting religious
institutions. He almost wholly supported the Congregational minister
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seventy acres to the Dighton church, a gift from which it yet benefits.
Colonel Sylvester Richmond was the son of Silvester, son of Edward,
son of John Richmond, the American ancestor. He married Elizabeth
Talbut, daughter of Jared and Rebecca Talbut, of Dighton. He died
January 14, 1783, in his eighty-fifth year. She died June 23, 1772, in her
seventy-third year He moved from Little Compton, Rhode Island, his
birthplace, to Dighton, Bristol county, Massachusetts, about 1723. The
full line of descent from John and Priscilla Alden of the "Mayflower"
follows :

John Alden of the "Mayflower." His daughter. Elizabeth Alden,
married William Peabodie. Their daughter, Elizabeth Peabodie, born in
Duxbury, April 24, 1647, rnarried, in November, 1666, John Rogers, born
about 1640, died at Barrington, Rhode Island, June 28, 1732. Their
daughter, Elizabeth Rogers, born at Duxbury, April 16, 1673, died Octo-
ber 23, 1724, married, 1693 or 1694, Silvester Richmond, born about 1673,
died at Little Compton, Rhode Island, November 22, 1754. Their son.
Colonel Sylvester Richmond, born at Little Compton, June 30, 1698, died
at Dighton, Massachusetts, January 14, 1783, married Elizabeth Talbut,
born June 14, 1699, died at Dighton, June 23, 1772. Their eldest son,
Ezra Richmond, born at Little Compton, January 20 or 26, 1721, died
at Dighton, September 15, 1800, married, February 18, 1751, Mary Bay-
lies, born about 1723, died September 10, 1795. Their son, Thomas Bay-
lies Richmond, born at Dighton, November 18, 1751, died at Dighton,
June 14, 1843, rnarried, September 20, 1777, Elizabeth Fales, born about
1755, died at Dighton, October 20, 1783. Their daughter, Elizabeth
Fales Richmond, born at Dighton, October 14, 1783, died at Lakeville,
Massachusetts, March 28, 1855, married at Dighton, December 2, 1805,
Lemuel Tobey, born at Rochester, Massachusetts, July 20, 1781, died
at New Bedford, June 25, 1850. Their son, Charles Richmond Tobey,
born at Dighton, April 21, 1806, died at San Francisco, California, Octo-
ber 30, 1850, married at New Bedford, January i, 1838, Maria Patey Rob-
bins, born in Plymouth, Massachusetts, January 28, 1819, died at New
Bedford, April 6, 1895. Their son, Rufus Babcock Tobey, of further
mention.

The paternal ancestor of Rufus B. Tobey was Thomas Tobey. the
name also being found spelled Toby and Tobie. Nathaniel, son of
Thomas, signed his name Tobie, his brother, Gershom Toby, while the
eldest grandchild found still another form of spelling without altering
the pronunciation — Tobye. Thomas Tobey came at an early date to
Sandwich, in Plymouth Colony, the earliest mention of him being May
7, 1644. when he subscribed seven shillings for the meeting house. He
was a man of good sense, energetic, and bore his part in town and church
afifairs. He married (first) November 18, 1650, Martha Knott, daughter
of George Knott, one of the ten founders of Sandwich. He married
(second) after 1689, Hannah, widow of Ambrose Fish, who survived him.

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Thomas Tobey, the founder, had seven sons : Thomas (2), John, Nathan,
Ephraim, Jonathan, of further mention, Samuel and Gershom.

Jonathan Tobey was born in Sandwich, Massachusetts, and there
died in 1741, his will being proved August 4 of that year. His wife
Remembrance died November 3, 1732, they the parents of ten children,
Jonathan being the ninth. Jonathan (2) Tobey, born in Sandwich,
August 6, 1718, died before January 15, 1755. He married at Plymouth,
February 19, 1740, Deborah Swift, of Plymouth. The line follows
through their youngest son, Deacon Thomas Tobey, born March 26,
1753, died in May or June, 1831. Deacon Thomas Tobey was a shoe-
maker and dealt considerably in real estate in Rochester. He was a
deacon of the Mattapoisett Church, elected June 21, 1791, an active man
in town and church affairs, highly respected. He was a private in Cap-
tain Clap's company of Colonel Colton's regiment, and is recorded under
several enlistments as a soldier of the Revolution between 1775-1780. He
married (first) Elizabeth Norton, married (second) Abigail Smith, mar-
ried (third) Keziah Lincoln, married (fourth) Mercy Pope, married
(fifth) Hetty Willis, who survived him.

Lemuel Tobey. son of Deacon Thomas Tobey and his second wife,
was born at Rochester, Massachusetts, July 20, 1781, died at New Bed-
ford, June 25, 1850. He was a prominent citizen of Mattapoisett and
New Bedford for many years, a man of ability and integrity. He mar-
ried Elizabeth Fales Richmond (see "Mayflower" descent). The line con-
tinues through their first born, Charles Richmond Tobey. Charles
Richmond Tobey, while still a youth, left home and went to sea, con-
tinuing a mariner for many years, and being one of the men who brought
wealth and fame to New Bedford through the whaling business. Two of
his wife's brothers were also whalers, and others of the family. In 1849
he joined the gold seekers, a quest from which he never returned. He
was a man of even disposition and high character, friends of that long
ago leaving testimony that he was "never impatient," "never railing at
fortune," "one of the best men they ever knew." He married at New
Bedford. June i, 1838, Maria Patey, daughter of Lemuel and Rachel
(Bailey) Robbins, born at Plymouth, January 28, 1819, died at New
Bedford, April 6, 1895. Children: Thomas Richmond, born September,
1844, died April 10, 1845; Harriet Newell, born April 5, 1846: Susan
Maria, born April 5, 1846, died October 30, 1879; Charles Robbins, born
September 8, 1847, died suddenly December 12, 1898, married Abbie
Delia Huddy. Rufus Babcock, of whom further.

Rev. Rufus Babcock Tobey, of the seventh Tobey generation in
New England, and tenth in the line beginning with John and Priscilla
Alden, was born in New Bedford, Massachusetts, May 6, 1849, h's father
a mariner and whaler. After leaving school he obtained business experi-
ence at New Bedford, and at Kingston, later going to Boston, where he
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Andover Academy, entered Amherst College, whence he was graduated
class of ""/Tr entered Andover Theological Seminary, was graduated
therefrom class of "80." The following year he received the degree of
A. M. On November 30, 1880, he was ordained pastor of the Congre-
gational church at Harwich, Massachusetts, serving that church three
years. In 1883, imbued with the sacrificing missionary spirit, he resigned
his charge, went to Helena, Montana, there organizing a church, which
he served as pastor until 1885. He also was pastor of the Carrington,
Dakota, church for a short time, then returned to Massachusetts, and
was settled over the Ashburnham Church.

While at Ashburnham he was called as associate pastor of Berkeley
Temple, Boston, Rev. Charles A. Dickinson being pastor. At that insti-
tutional church his unusual abilities as an organizer and worker found
fuller, freer expression and his work there was very successful. Practical
and deeply sympathetic, he attracted the young people, the poor and
the unfortunate, to whom Berkeley made its strongest appeal, and much
of the success of this new departure in religious work was due to his
direction of the department coming under his special care. In 1S95
Mr. Tobey resigned his associate pastorate, realizing the wider field
outside the church in which he might extend his usefulness. He
organized the Memorial Trust, a philanthropy and charity whose range
of helpfulness was the varied needs of the poor, the perplexed and the
unfortunate of a cosmopolitan city. Its motto Nihil humani alienmn,
"Nothing that pertains to humanity is foreign to me," expressed its
scope, and its assistance was sought not only by individuals but by
kindred societies. Mr. Tobey also founded The Ingleside, a successful
work for homeless and untrained girls (now under other direction), and
that most helpful of Boston's philanthropies — the Boston Floating Hos-
pital, a beneficial work with which his name will always be associated.
He was associated with Dr. Everett Hale, as senior vice-president of
the Lend a Hand Society; is vice-president of the private charity — the
Howard Benevolent Society ; president of the Palmer Company, pub-
lishers of an educational magazine.

The ancestral lines herein traced have gained him membership in
the Society of Mayflower Descendants, Society of Colonial Wars, Mas-
sachusetts Society Sons of the American Revolution. He is also a
member of the Bostonian Society, New England Historic-Genealogical
Society, his club the Boston City. In Free Masonry he is a member of
lodge, chapter and commandery. His college fraternity is Alpha Delta
Phi. His business offices are at No. 201 Devonshire street, Boston,
room 313.

Mr. Tobey married (first) June 21, 1882, Caroline Mary Gififord,
born October 3, 1852, died April 3, 1890, daughter of Henry Oscar and
Avis J. (Eaton) Gifford. He married (second) at Quincy, Massachusetts,
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October 11, 1854, sister of his first wife. Mr. Tobey by his second mar-
riage has a daughter, Avis Caroline, born May 3, 1893, who married
Herbert L. Johnson, and has a daughter, Genevieve Gififord. On the
wall of his business office hang two pictures. One is the daughter of
the daughter who helped make her father's heart tender to all babies.
The other is a picture of a beautiful white ship, "God's battleship of
peace." "I call them my two babies," he said.

Such has been the life of Rev. Rufus Babcock Tobey, son, brother
and nephew of whaling and merchant sailors. He has rendered a good
account of his stewardship and is yet in the harness, losing no oppor-
tunity to lend a hand.

BENJAMIN BUTLER BARNEY.

Nothing bequeathed him by his honored father, Edwin Luther Bar-
ney, was so valued by his son, Benjamin Butler Barney, as the remem-
brance of that father's life and career at the bar. Association no doubt
led the son to adopt the father's profession, and the nine years associa-
tion guided the young man during his initial years of practice, and when
the veteran lawyer of nearly half a century was called to appear before
the Supreme Tribunal, the son went forward to greater successes, better
and stronger for the life with which, as boy and man, he had been asso-
ciated for thirty years. Since 1850 a Barney has been a member of the
Bristol county bar, Edwin L. being admitted in that year, his son, Ben-
jamin B., following in 1889, and another son, Edwin L., Jr., coming in
a little later. In 1897, when Edwin L. Barney retired, he had been in
successful practice for nearly half a century, aided by his sons. He tried
more cases than any attorney of the Bristol county bar, and was the old-
est lawyer practicing at that bar. In his practice, Benjamin B. Barney
has been very successful, and at his offices, Rooms 11 and 12, Masonic
Building, cares for the interests of a large and influential clientele.
Evenness and poise are among his characteristics, and he is a dependable
man in any relation or emergency. He meets all life's obligations with
the confidence and courage that comes from self-reliance, personal abil-
ity, a true conception of values and a habitual regard for that which is
best in human activity.

Edwin Luther Barney, father of Benjamin Butler Barney, was born
in Swansea, Massachusetts, April i, 1827, son of Edwin and Abby (Lu-
ther) Barney, of Swansea, the former named a substantial farmer, and
the latter a member of the ancient Luther family of Swansea. Edwin L.
Barney obtained a good common school education in Swansea, and spent
one year at Brown University, class of 1850. Choosing the profession of
law, he prepared at Yale Law School and in the offices of Timothy G.
Cofifin, of New Bedford, and in October, 1850, he was admitted to the
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at once began practice at New Bedford and continued without interrup-
tion until his death, in New Bedford, in 1897. He was a perfect type of
the determined, upright lawyer, never declining a case because it did not
seem profitable or using one bit less effort to do justice to a client's cause
even though the fees promised to be small or delayed in payment. He
was strong in trial and during his years of practice was credited with
trying more cases than any other lawyer in Bristol county. In 1S51 he
was appointed master in chancery, which position he held for more than
forty years. He commanded a large practice, and from 1889 until his
death, eight years later, the heavier duties were shifted to the younger
shoulders of his capable son, who was admitted to practice in that year.
Necessarily in trying so many cases he met with many defeats, but he
was uniformly successful, and where he did not win he often secured a
more favorable verdict for his client than the defeated party could hope
for. He knew the law and worked hard to win, yet was strictly honor-
able and highly esteemed. Many men studied law under his preceptor-
ship, one of his students becoming attorney-general of the State of Mas-
sachusetts. A Democrat in politics, he was a staunch supporter of the
Union with his leader, Stephen A. Douglas, and in 1865 and 1866 repre-
sented the New Bedford district in the State. From 1869 until 1875 he
served as judge advocate on General Benjamin F. Butler's staff, and for
several terms was elected city solicitor of New Bedford. For nearly
half a century he was a member of the Masonic order, holding the thirty-
second degree. Ancient Accepted Scottish Rite. A man of strong char-
acter, his natural qualifications for the profession he chose were strong
factors in the success he attained. Mr. Barney married, April 15, 1856,
Mary Hillman, who survives him, residing at No. 96 State street, New
Bedford. She is a daughter of Zachariah and Sylvia Hillman. Mr. and
Mrs. Barney were the parents of four sons : Benjamin Butler, of further
mention; Edwin Luther, Jr., assistant clerk of Bristol county courts;
Laurence H. and Charles W.

Benjamin Butler Barney was born in New Bedford, Massachusetts,
January 25, 1868, and is yet a resident of his native city. He obtained
his English education in the grade and high schools of New Bedford,
and prepared for the practice of his profession under the instruction of
his father and at Boston University Law School, whence he was gradu-
ated Bachelor of Laws, class of 1889. He was at once admitted to the
Bristol county bar and began practice with his father, the two continu-
ing in intimate association until the death of the father in 1897. Since
that time, Benjamin B. Barney has been alone, his practice extending to
all State and Federal courts of the district. He is a sound lawyer, wise
in council, efYective as a pleader and strong in presentation. He served
as city solicitor in 1898, and in every year following except 1906, 1915
and 1916, and is now ('1918) filling the office. He is a Democrat in poli-
tics, and in 1892 represented New Bedford in the Lower House of the

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Legislature. His clubs are the New Bedford Country, Wamsutta and
Dartmouth.

Mr. Barney married, in New Bedford, September 24, 1891, Emma
L. Brownell, born in New Bedford, June 19, 1868. The family home is at
No. 3 North Orchard street.

ABRAHAM H. HOWLAND.

Although little more than in the prime of his splendid manhood
when his final summons came, Abraham H. Howland had long been a
conspicuous figure in the business life of New Bedford, his native city.
He belonged to the whaling era of New Bedford's history, saw it all in
its greatness, and witnessed its decline and fall. He was nearly all his
life engaged in merchandising as clerk and proprietor, but, dealing with
the whalers as their outfitters, finally became a ship owner, and made
two voyages as master of the ships he owned. He was a keen, sagacious
business man, quick to act and most persevering. While he was essen-
tially the merchant, there was no department of New Bedford's life in
which he was not interested. As first chief executive of the city under
the charter, his wisdom, public spirit and disinterested patriotism was a
rock of strength to the young municipality, and his four successive re-
elections to the mayoralty shows beyond controversy the high value his
fellow-citizens placed upon his patriotism, wisdom and executive ability.
His life was a valuable one, and although a generation has since arisen to
whom he is personally unknown he will always live as one of that body
of men who were the responsible heads and controlling spirits during a
period of prosperity in New Bedford, largely brought about by their own
enterprise, energy and public spirit. The conditions which created such
men and the business they developed to such a high state of prosperity
are now things of the past, but the years in which Abraham H. How-
land flourished were wonderful years, and their close marked one of the
great tragedies of history, the collapse of a great industry and the de-
struction of a great fleet of vessels connected with the whaling industry
and hailing from New Bedford as their home port.

The town of Dartmouth, the village, borough and city of New Bed-
ford, Massachusetts, have been the home localities of the Howlands from
the time Henry Howland bought a tract of land in Dartmouth in 1652.
Henry Howland is of record in Plymouth as early as 1624. was constable
of Duxbury in 1635, became a member of the Society of Friends in 1657,
and both he and his wife, Mary (Newland) Howland, died at their Dux-
bury home. He was a good man, honorable, upright and intelligent,
transmitting these qualities to his posterity. The line of descent to
.'\braham H. Howland is through Zoeth Howland. second son of Henrj^
and Mary (Newland) Howland. Zoeth Howland was born in Duxbury,
Massachusetts, but settled in the town of Dartmouth as early as 1662.

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He was killed by the Indians, January 21. 1676, at Pocasset, a part of
Rhode Island, since known as Little Compton and Tiverton. The pres-
ent stone bridge at Tiverton was known as Rowland's Ferry, and was
later operated by Daniel Rowland, son of Zoeth. Zoeth Rowland, like
his father, was a convert to the Society of Friends, and all his five sons
were members of the Apponegansett Monthly Meeting except Samuel.
He left a widow who married again.

Benjamin Rowland, second son of Zoeth Rowland, was born March
8, 1657, in Duxbury, Massachusetts, died at his farm at Round Hills, in
the town of Dartmouth, February 12, 1727. Re was a substantial farmer,
a leading member and treasurer of the Apponegansett Monthly Meeting
of Friends, was selectman, assessor, surveyor of highways, and constable,
holding these offices at different times and for many years. The Round
Hills farm, which he owned and cultivated, has never been owned by any
other than a descendant of Benjamin Rowland. He married Judith
Sampson, and they were the parents of a large family.

Isaac Rowland, son of Benjamin and Judith (Sampson) Rowland,
was born at the Round Hills farm in the town of Dartmouth, January 30,
1694, died at the farm he owned and cultivated in the southern part of
the town, September 22, 1778. He was an active member of the Society
of Friends, selectman, surveyor of highways, constable, and juryman.
Re married Hannah Allen, and they were the parents of eight sons and
daughters.

Abraham Rowland, son of Isaac and Hannah (Allen) Rowland, was
born in the town of Dartmouth, in 1726, and died at the Round Rills
homestead farm. Re married Ruth Hicks, of Dartmouth, who died June
30, 1856, the mother of five sons and four daughters.

Captain Weston Rowland, son of Abraham and Ruth (Ricks) Row-
land, was born in the town of Dartmouth, May 30, 1764, and died in New
Bedford, Massachusetts, August 8, 1841. He was a master mariner for
some years engaged in the coastwise trade, then established a flour and
grain business with storehouses on Rotch's Wharf. He was a large ves-
sel owner and kept quite a fleet engaged in transporting the grain and
flour he sold. Re maintained a branch of his business at Alexandria,
Virginia, which was in charge of his son Thomas, and had many inter-
ests, varied in character. He was a good business man, and as a citizen
highly esteemed and honored. He married (first) Desire Crandall ; (sec-
ond) Abigail Hathaway, who survived him at the family home, at the
corner of Spring and Eighth streets. New Bedford, and died July 12,
1867. His sons were active in New Bedford business circles, and one of
his daughters, Alice R., married Joseph C. Delano.

Abraham H. Rowland, son of Captain Weston Rowland, and his
second wife, Abigail (Hathaway) Rowland, was born in New Bedford,
Massachusetts, March 2, 1802, and there died May 24, 1867. .After leav-
ing school he entered business life as a clerk and passed through a long

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and arduous course of training to fit him for the position he was to
occupy. He mastered merchandising, then went to sea and became a
master mariner, making two extended whaling voyages. After becom-
ing a merchant he also became a ship owner, and at his place of business,
now the site of the plant of the City Manufacturing Corporation, con-
ducted a large and prosperous business, and accumulated a generous
competence. As the whaling industry declined he sought other avenues
of wealth, and was one of the first men in this country to refine petroleum
as a business. He continued active in business until the end of his years,
sixty-five. Mr. Howland was at one time a director of the Western rail-
way, later a part of the Boston and Albany system, and from the date of
organization was a director of the New Bedford Gas Light Company.
Although a birthright member of the Society of Friends, he only openly
joined in the service of the society a few years prior to his death. He
was a member of the Masonic order, and for many years an active mem-
ber of the City Volunteer Fire Department, and on one occasion it was
entirely through his influence that the department was saved from dis-
bandment. In 1844 he was elected to represent New Bedford in the
Massachusetts Legislature, and served three years through reelections.
Li the house he served on the committee on mercantile affairs, and was
one of the active, influential men of that period. In 1847, under the new
charter, he was elected the first mayor of New Bedford, then a city of
12,000 inhabitants, and so well did he administer the responsibilities of
that ofifice that his four reelections followed. So in usefulness and honor
his years, sixty-five, passed, there being no flaw upon his public or busi-
ness record.

Mr. Howland married Mehitable Earle Russell, who died August 26,
1892, at the age of eighty-two. She was a daughter of Reuben and Anna
(Tucker) Russell. Mr. and Mrs. Howland were the parents of seven
children : Abigail, died in infancy ; Anna, died in young womanhood ;
Abraham H. (2), whose sketch follows; Alice Russell, died August 2,
igi6; Horace G., died February 2, 1909; Mary Tucker, yet a resident of
New Bedford ; and Edmund Howland, died in infancy.

ABRAHAM H. HOWLAND, JR.

One great advantage possessed by Abraham H. Howland, Jr., was
the association in business with his honored father until the death of the
latter in 1867. What this meant to the young man may be best judged
by observing how closely his career paralleled that of his father, this con-
clusively showing how deeply the individuality of the father had im-
pressed the son. Both were honored by their fellowmen with election to
the highest office in the city government, the father being the first man
to be chosen mayor under the charter, the son being chosen in 1875 and
1876, after one of the most exciting contests the city had ever known,

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forty-six hundred votes being cast, a number never before reached in a
mayoralty contest. Other parallels are found in the lives of these two
men, both of whom gave so liberally to the business growth and civic
uplift of that city.

Abraham H. Howland, Jr., eldest son of Abraham H. and Mehitable
Earle (Russell) Howland, was born in New Bedford, Massachusetts, in
1840, and died in the city of his birth, April 20, 1887. He was educated
in the New Bedford schools, and the Paul Wingo Academy, in Sand-
wich, Massachusetts. He began business life in his father's counting
room, and until the death of the senior Howland in 1867, the two men
were very close in their business relations. The son thoroughly mastered
the business of manufacturing sperm and whale oil, the plant being
located at the corner of Second and South streets. When petroleum
refining became a part of the Howland business he made several trips to
the oil fields of Pennsylvania, as agent of the New Bedford firm, and was
manager of the plant at the foot of South street. After the death of his
father, Abraham H., Jr., succeeded to the business and went forward to
greater achievements. He was a director of the New Bedford Gas Light
Company, member of the board of investment and clerk of the New Bed-
ford Institution for Savings, director of the Merchants National Bank,
and had other business interests, private and corporative. The public
service rendered by Abraham H. Howland, Jr., was varied and exceed-
ingly valuable. He was long a member of the fire department, being
foreman of Franklin Engine Company, No. 10, and of Cornelius How-
land Steamer, No. 4, serving as chief engineer of the department in 1871-
72-73. Many reforms were instituted in the department during his term
as chief and a plane of efficiency was reached higher than ever before
attained. The telegraphic fire alarm apparatus was installed in the city
during his term as chief, his influence going far toward that desired end.
In 1875 he was elected mayor of New Bedford and reelected in 1876. As
mayor he was cx-officio chairman of the school committee, board of trus-
tees of the Public Library, and Board of Water Commissioners, and on
these boards his business ability was of the greatest service to the city.
He retired from the mayor's ofifice with the knowledge that he had hon-
estly striven to advance every city interest confided to him, and with the
respect of even those politically opposed to him. From the time he re-
tired from ofifice until his death in 1887, Mr. Howland was a member of
the board of trustees of the Public Library. He displayed a great deal of
political sagacity, and on several occasions while mayor used his .won-
derful powers of oratory to the delight and satisfaction of his friends.

Special mention must he made of the Masonic eminence attained by
Mr. Howland, he being the only man from New Bedford who had ever
held the high office of grand master of Massachusetts Free and Accepted
Masons. He was a past worshipful master of Eureka Lodge, past high
priest of Adoniram Chapter, Royal .\rch Masons, past eminent com-

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mander of Sutton Commandery, Knights Templar, all these being New
Bedford bodies. In 1875 he was elected grand senior warden of the
Massachusetts Grand Lodge, Free and Accepted Masons, was deputy
grand master in 1877-7S-79, and in 1883-84-85 was grand master. He
was most faithful and earnest in his Masonic work, giving to every office
his whole-hearted devotion and rising to his highest flights of oratory at
Masonic gatherings. He was greatly beloved in the order, and at his
funeral Masons of high degree gathered from all over Massachusetts and
neighboring states. His name is perpetuated in the order by Abraham
H. Rowland, Jr., Lodge of New Bedford, chartered March 8, 1916.

A man of pleasing personality and sterling quality, Mr. Howland
made many friends. He did whatever he had to do with all his might
and in his hours "oft duty" he gave himself up to whatever recreation he
had chosen. Being of a mechanical turn of mind and living in a seaport,
boat-building became one of his fads, and his numerous boating trips
were taken in boats built by himself. Thus a useful life was passed, a
life which ended all too soon. Mr. Howland impressed himself indelibly
upon the life of his city, and his excellent qualities of head and heart were
fully recognized and appreciated. He was a worthy son of a worthy
sire, and New Bedford was greatly benefited by the lives of Abraham H.
Howland, Sr. and Jr.

GEORGE AMOS YORK.

For well over a quarter of a century George A. York has been one
of the men interested in the placing of fire insurance risks upon New
Bedford property, and for a large part of that period his agency has been
a leader in that branch of the city's business. The present firm, George
A. York & Company, was organized about 1897, his partner Jean B. Jean.
They are now located at room 42, No. 105 William street, a line of gen-
eral insurance business there being transacted. On paternal lines Mr.
York is of the first American born generation of his family, but on the
maternal side he traces to the old Cape Cod family Hinckley, founded by
Samuel Hinckley, who came from the County of Kent, England, in 1635.
Mr. York's mother. Julia Ellen (Hinckley) York, was of the eighth gen-
eration of Hinckleys in New England, her descent from Samuel Hinck-
ley, the founder, coming in direct male line.

The York family also traces to England, Amos York, grandfather
of George Amos York, of New Bedford, being born in that country, was
an officer of the English army, married a Greek lady, their son, John
York, being born in Corfu, Ionian Isles. John York married in Oster-
ville, Massachusetts, July i8, 1854, Julia Ellen Hinckley, born in Oster-
ville, Massachusetts, August 20, 1823, died at the home of her son in New
Bedford, Massachusetts, November 5, 1909. Their son, George Amos
York, of New Bedford, being of the ninth generation of Hincklevs in

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Massachusetts, his ancestry tracing to England through the York, Hinck-
ley and Scudder lines, George Hinckley of the sixth generation, marry-
ing Pruella Scudder, of English ancestry, sister of Zeno Scudder, mem-
ber of Congress, mentioned by Dickens as an example of American
names, and of Henry A. Scudder, a judge of the Massachusetts Superior
Court.

Amos York, born at Barking, Essex, England, in 1776, died in Zante,
Greece, in 1826. In 1793 he joined the English army, serving until March
18, 1818, being stationed in Sicily, Zante, the Ionian Isles, and the Island
of Malta, holding military rank. He married a Greek lady, Katherine
Neodosius, and their children were : Mary, Anne, Spiridon and John.

John York, son of Amos and Katherine (Neodosius) York, was born
in Corfu, Ionian Isles, January 15. 1816, died in Washington, D. C, July
22, 1876. He was a graduate of Brown University, a gifted linguist, and
teacher, later in the office of the United States commissioner of customs,
and an official of the Treasury at Washington, D. C. He was a member
of the Baptist church, a scholarly, cultured gentleman. He married, July
18, 1854, Julia Ellen Hinckley, of previous mention, who survived him
thirty-three years, ^nd died at the home of her son in New Bedford,
Massachusetts. John and Julia Ellen (Hinckley) York were the parents
of George Amos, of further mention ; John Waldo, born December 12,
1856, died November 8, 1861 ; Emily Ella, born June 12. 1859, died No-
vember 8, 1906: Herbert W^aldo. born February 18. 1864.

George Amos York was born in Osterville, Barnstable county, Mas-
sachusetts, July 13, 1855, his mother's family, the Hinckleys, having been
resident of that section of Cape Cod sin6e 1640. They lived then in
Jamaica Plains, later West Roxiniry. Later his father was appointed to
an official government position, and the family moved to W^ashington,
D. C, where he prepared for college at the C. B. Young School and
Columbian Preparatory School. He then entered Columbian University,
Washington, there completing his freshman, sophomore and junior
years, but in his senior the death of his father compelled him to leave
before graduation. For twelve years he was in the United States Reve-
nue Cutter service, now the Coast Guard, beginning as cadet, gaining
promotion to third and second lieutenant. In 1S89 he resigned from the
service, and in the same year entered the life insurance business, which
he yet continues, head of the well known firm, George A. York & Com-
pany, of New Bedford, a city of which he has been a resident since 1889.
He is a Republican in politics, and a vestryman of Grace Protestant Epis-
copal Church.

Mr. York married in New Bedford. Massachusetts, Eliza Pernmiman
Cornell, born there May 16, 1855, daughter of Joseph H. and Eliza
(Pernmiman) Cornell, her father a whaling captain, later treasurer of
the Gosnold Rolling Mills, alderman, school committeeman, and mem-
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each posiliun. Mr. and Mrs. York are the parents of a sou and daughter,
Waldo Cornell, born July 22, 1888, a graduate of Massachusetts Institute
of Technology, Civil Engineer, was engaged as engineer on the construc-
tion of the Cape Cod and the Panama canals, now engaged in power con-
struction work as engineer; Margaret, born November 30, 1894, a gradu-
ate of Westover School, Connecticut.

(The Hinckley Line).

Samuel Hinckley, of County Kent, England, sailed in March, 1635,
with one hundred and one others, including his wife Sarah and four chil-
dren, from Sandwich, England, on the ship "Hercules," Captain John
Wetterly. The ship reached Boston in safety, Samuel Hinckley and his
family going thence to Scituate. There he built a house and resided
until July 16, 1640, when he moved to Barnstable on Cape Cod, later mov-
ing to West Barnstable. The line of descent from Thomas and Sarah
Hinckley is through their tenth child, Samuel (2) Hinckley, born in
Barnstable, July 24, 1642. Samuel (2) Hinckley married (first) Decem-
ber 14, 1664, Mary Goodspeed, died December 20, 1666, and married (sec-
ond) January 15, 1668, Mary Fitz Randolph. He died January 2, 1726,
leaving four sons, the line tracing the eldest, Benjamin, the only child of
Samuel (2) by his first wife, Mary Goodspeed.

Benjamin Hinckley, of the third American generation, was born in
Barnstable, December 6, 1666, married, December 27, 1686, Sarah Cobb,
they the parents of nine sons and daughters, the eldest being Benjamin
(2) Hinckley, through whom the line continued. Benjamin (2) Hinck-
ley, born July 18, 1694, married Abigail Jenkins, November 2, 1716, and
died in 1745, head of a family of eleven sons and daughters. Sylvanus
Hinckley, sixth child of Benjamin (2) and Abigail (Jenkins) Hinckley,
was born in Barnstable, August 25, 1729, he the father of Sylvanus (2)
Hinckley, born in Barnstable, August 25, 1756. Sylvanus (2) Hinckley
was a soldier of the Revolution, serving from December 15, 1775. He
was at the siege of Boston ; aided in building a fort at Lochmere's Point
under Captain George Lewis ; served in 1776 under Captain Elisha Nye
at Falmouth and on Nashawena Island, successfully defending the fort
there from a landing party from the English frigate "Diamond." He
served with the militia again in 1778-79-80, under Captain Jacob Lovell.
Sylvanus (2) Hinckley married, March 5, 1786, Mary Hawes.

George Hinckley, son of Sylvanus (2) Hinckley, the Revolutionary
soldier, was born in Centreville, town of Barnstable, Massachusetts, May
10, 1793, died in Boston, January 17, 1871. He was a carpenter and
builder, a member of the Baptist church, a man of industrious, prudent
life. He married, August 13, 1820, Pruella Scudder, who died in 1880.
They were the parents of two daughters, Hannah Lovell and Julia Ellen.
Julia Ellen Hinckley, daughter of George and Pruella (Scudder) Hinck-
ley, was born at Osterville, on Cape Cod, August 20, 1823, died at New
Bedford, Massachusetts, November 5, 1909. She married, July 18, 1854,
John York, they the parents of George Amos York, of New Bedford.

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CHARLES EDWARD BUCKLEY.

After graduation from New Bedford Textile School, class of 1902,
Mr. Buckley ranked as a designer rather than a weaver of cotton cloths,
although he was an expert weaver even before entering the Textile
School. The special courses which he pursued developed his inventive
talent, and for several years thereafter designing patterns and weaving
of samples were his special fields of labor. As the years progressed his
ability for filling more important posts became apparent and promotion
to his present position followed. The Gosnold Mills Company, of which
he is superintendent, operates two mills, employs eleven hundred hands
in the operation of eighty-two thousand, two hundred and thirty-two
spindles, and three thousand, two hundred and fifty looms, producing fine
cotton goods, plain and fancy jacquards, silk and cotton mixtures. The
post of superintendent of this large plant requires a man of varied experi-
ence and technical knowledge, and these qualities are centered to a
remarkable degree in the present suprintendent, who is one of the young-
est in the district. He is a lover of books, and to personal experience has
added the learning and experience of others. He is a son of Charles H.
and Annie (Devlin) Buckley, his father of English and mother of Scotch
birth.

Charles Edward Buckley was born in New Bedford, Massachusetts,
January 14, 18S2. After his public school education was completed, he
entered mill employ, and at Warren, Rhode Island, Natick, Rhode
Island, and New Bedford, Massachusetts, passed from bobbin boy
to weaver in the employ of B. B. & R. Knight, the Warren Manu-
facturing Company, and the Wamsutta Mills at New Bedford. He
then pursued courses at the New Bedford Textile School, specializ-
ing in designing, and in 1902 was graduated. His first position as a
designer of patterns was with the Hargreaves Mill of Fall River,
leaving there after eighteen months to accept a similar position with
the Bristol Manufacturing Company of New Bedford. After a year
and a half with the Bristol Company, he went to the Whitman Mill,
New Bedford, as sample weaver, assistant designer and second hand,
eventually becoming head designer, remaining with the Whitman Mill
seven and one-half years. He then came to the Gosnold Mills, as head
designer, filling that position five years, until 1916, when he was pro-
moted to his present position, superintendent. While engaged at the
Whitman Mill he was assistant instructor at the New Bedford Textile
School, from which he had graduated not many years before, an institu-
tion whose usefulness he appreciated and was willing to extend.

Mr. Buckley married, July i, 1908, Ruth Whalley, born in New
Bedford, daughter of John and Ann Whalley, her father an overseer of
spinning at the Whitman Mills. Charles E. and Ruth Buckley are the
parents of three sons and a daughter: Norman C, born April 29, 1909:
Edward W., born April 28, 1910; Ruth, born August 23, 1912, and James
M., born March 24, 191 5.

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CLARENCE E. BENSON.

Although born in Biddeford, Maine, Mr. Benson was brought to the
State of Massachusetts by his parents at so early an age that he is to all
intents and purposes a native son. His mill career began at Fall River,
the foundation there being laid upon which he has since built wisely and
well, being now superintendent of the Booth Manufacturing Company,
a corporation of New Bedford operating two mills and employing six
hundred hands in the manufacture of plain and fancy silk goods and
novelties. He is a son of Luther J. Benson, born February 12, 1840, a
loom harness manufacturer at Fall River, now living there retired. Lu-
ther J. Benson married Harriet E. Davis, born in 1842, she and her hus-
band both born in Biddeford, Maine.

Clarence E. Benson was born in Biddeford, Maine, August 8, 1867.
At the age of five years he was brought to Lawrence, Massachusetts, and
there completed his public school course in high school. He began mill
work at Fall River, Massachusetts, with the Richard Borden Manufac-
turing Company, there remaining two and a half years. His next engage-
ment was with the Centerville Cotton Manufacturing Company at Cen-
terville, Rhode Island, and continued two and one-half years, his posi-
tion, overseer of spinning. From Centerville he went to the Berkshire
Cotton Manufacturing Company at Adams, Massachusetts, remaining
there seven years as overseer and eight years as assistant superintendent.
He was next on duty as superintendent of the spinning department of the
Arlington Mills at the home of his boyhood, Lawrence, Massachusetts,
and there he was until October, 1914, when he resigned to accept his
present post, superintendent of the Booth Manufacturing Company, New
Bedford. He is a capable official, well liked, and highly regarded by
those over whom he has authority and holds the confidence of those in
authority over him. He is a Republican in politics, a member of the
Masonic order, being past master of Berkshire Lodge of Adams, and a
member of St. Paul Commandery of North Adams, Massachusetts, also
a member of the Congregational church.

Mr. Benson married, at Fall River, Massachusetts, July 23, 1893,
Agnes G. Musson, born June 5, 1867. Mr. and Mrs. Benson are the par-
ents of Edith Irene, born January 6, 1896, Colby Hamilton, February 2,
1897.

JOHN CARLOS da SILVA PITTA, M. D.

Of ancient family, both paternal and maternal, which is duly
recorded and preserved in the Library of Angra, Terceiva Island, Azores
group, Portugal, Dr. Pitta brought to New Bedford the medical and
surgical lore gained in the schools of Lisbon and here has demonstrated
the depth of his learning and skill. Not only has he ministered to the
physical woes of his countrymen, but as their vice-consul, representing

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the government of Portugal for over ten years, he was to them much
more than the physician. He is the only child of John Augusto Betten-
court Pitta, a lawyer, and a grandson of Nicolau Bettencourt Pitta, a
physician, born on the island of Madeira, Portugal, who later was
physician at Holy Ghost Hospital in Angra, Azores, Portugal. He had
children: Nicolau Bettencourt Pitta: Theotanio Bettencourt Pitta;
Manuel Nicolau Bettencourt Pitta, a physician : John Augusto Betten-
court Pitta, of further mention : Gregorio Bettencourt Pitta ; Helena
Bettencourt Pitta : Adelaide Bettencourt Pitta ; Sampaio and Carlota
Bettencourt Vasconcellos Pitta.

John Augusto Bettencourt Pitta was a lawyer and district attorney,
first in Fayal, Horta, later in Angra. Terceiva, Azores. He married
Maria da Gloria da Silva, of Angra, they the parents of an only child,
whose career follows :

John Carlos da Silva Pitta was born at Horta, Fayal, Azores. Por-
tugal, May 26, i860. Later his parents moved to Angra where his father
was eminent in the law, his grandfather in medicine. He obtained his
primary education in Angra, then was sent to Lisbon, capital of Por-
tugal, and a city of fine educational institutions, there completing
academic and professional study. From the Academic School he passed
to the Polytechnic School, thence to the schools of medicine and sur-
gery, finally receiving his degree and authority to practice in 1884. He
visited Paris at three different periods where he was in receipt of
instruction in the leading hospitals. He also spent a short time in
Charing Cross Hospital, London, and his work in the United States has
been supplemented by attendance in various cities at hospitals and
clinics. For a season he practiced in Angra, and then was physician and
surgeon to Holy Ghost Hospital in addition to a private practice. In 1895
he came to New Bedford, Massachusetts, where he is firmly established
as a physician and surgeon of learning, skill and integrity. He is a
member of the emergency staff of New Bedford : Bristol County Medical
Society ; Massachusetts State Medical Society ; New Bedford Medical
Society : the International Surgeons Club, Rochester, Minnesota ; Ameri-
can Medical Association ; Monte Pio Society, a beneficial society ; The
Portuguese Fraternity of the United States, America; the Portuguese
Catholic Beneficial Society ; St. Anthony Portuguese Beneficial Society ;
life member of the American Red Cross and of the Loyal Order of
Moose. He is a member of the Dartmouth Club, the New Bedford
Country, the Portuguese Masonic Club, and in religious faith is a Roman
Catholic. For ten years preceding the overthrow of Portugal's mon-
archial form of government, he represented the interests of his fellow
countrymen in New Bedford as vice-consul, duly accredited by the
government of Portugal to the government of the United States.

Dr. Pitta married, in Boston, Massachusetts, January 31, 1900, Anna
Mac Kay de Almeida, born in the Island of Flores, Azores, Portugal.
April 26, 1876, daughter of Manuel Pedro Fustado de Almeida, a lawyer,

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who served as judge substitute and district attorney in Flores, Azores,
then was sent by the Portuguese government to Boston, Massachusetts,
as consul. He filled that post until the overthrow of the monarchial
government and the proclamation of the Republic of Portugal. His
wife was Jessie Mac Kay de Almeida. Dr. and Mrs. Pitta are the parents
of Carl Almeida Pitta, born September 27, 1900; Mercedes Almeida
Pitta, born February 21, 1902; Clarice Almeida Pitta, April 6, 1910; the
two eldest are students in New Bedford High School. Dr. Pitta's
residence is No. 57 Allen street, and office is No. 43 Allen street, New
Bedford.

WILLIAM JAMES KERWIN.

Born in far away Melbourne, Australia, of Irish parents, Mr. Kerwin
has tasted life on the Island Continent, the Mother Country, Great
Britain, and her daughter, the United States, all three now locking arms
for the great struggle which shall decide forever the question, "Shall
Democracy live or shall it be strangled by self elected forces, claiming
to rule by Divine right." For more than a quarter of a century Mr.
Kerwin has been a resident of Massachusetts, his New Bedford coming
dating from 1904. He has been for many years engaged in cotton
manufacture in Lawrence, Massachusetts, Providence, Rhode Island, and
New Bedford, his position, superintendent of the Beacon Manufacturing
Company, a corporation capitalized at $800,000, operating three mills,
employing twelve hundred and fifty hands in the manufacture of blankets
and napped goods. The position of superintendent of the Beacon Com-
pany carries with it grave responsibilities, and these Mr. Kerwin meets
by having men who perform the work to the satisfaction of all who are
affected by his rulings and ofiicial action.

William James Kerwin was born in Melbourne, Australia, No-
vember 20, 1868, but educated in the public schools and Smart's Academy
of Bradford, England. He is a son of William James and Mary E.
(Brennan) Kerwin, born in Ireland, his father an engineer. After the
family came from Melbourne to Bradford, the boy completed his edu-
cation and there remained until 1890, becoming an expert in the manu-
facture of worsted goods. In 1890 he came to the United States, made
settlement at Lawrence, Massachusetts, and became an employee of the
Pacific Mills of that city, in the worsted department, remaining one year.
He then went to the Atlantic Mill in Providence, Rhode Island, there
continuing until 1904, reaching the position of assistant-superintendant
after several minor promotions. In that year he came to the super-
intendency of the Beacon Manufacturing Company of New Bedford, has
won high reputation as a cotton mill official, and there yet continues.
Mr. Kerwin is a Republican in politics, and during the years 1909-10
represented his ward on the New Bedford Board of Aldermen. He is
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356 NEW BEDFORD

Order of Elks, the Wamsutta Club, and of St. Anthony's Roman
Catholic Church.

Mr. Kerwin married in Providence, October, 1893, Anna Elizabeth
Warren, born there, daughter of James and Mary E. (Burke) Warren.
Mr. and Mrs. Kerwin are the parents of three sons and a daughter, all
born in Providence: William James (3), born in 1895; Harold Edward,
1896, now a student in the Baltimore School of Dental Surgery ; Ernest
Warren, 1897 ; all graduates of New Bedford High School. William J.
and Ernest W. now in training for mill officials, specializing in chemi-
cals and dyes. Gladys May, the only daughter, born in 1900, is yet a
high school student.

ROBERT LINDSAY.

Through a long course of technical study and experimental
laboratory work, Mr. Lindsay has come to his present position, super-
intendent of the gas department of the New Bedford Gas and Edison
Light Company. Chemistry, ever a favorite study, has been caused to
yield to him important secrets, but they were diligently and intelligently
sought for and came as the result of painstaking labor and study. He is
an authority on the chemist's view of gas manufacture and distribution, a
branch of scientific study and practical business that he has been con-
nected with from his nineteenth year when he first entered the employ
of his present company as their chemist.

Robert Lindsay was born in Glasgow, Scotland, November 22,
1871, son of William Archibald Lindsay, an engineer, and his wife, Mary
(Hynd) Lindsay, the Lindsays an ancient Scottish Clan of high standing.
Robert Lindsay attended Glasgow public schools, the College of Science
and Arts and Technical School before coming to this country, and in
New Bedford attended both the Swain Free School of Design and the
Textile School, taking the mechanical engineering course at the latter
institution and graduating from both. In August, 1890, he entered the
employ of the New Bedford Gas and Edison Light Company, as
chemist ; not that his studies were over for they had but begun, and
during the quarter of a century which has since elapsed his work has
been one long series of problems submitted and many of them solved,
and many still in the course of solution but the answer still afar off.
His library of works pertaining to chemistry and chemical research is
very large, and his spirit of investigation carries him deep into their
contents. In 1910 he became superintendent of the gas department, an
immense business in itself, when it is recalled that the company in New
Bedford, Acushnet and Fairhaven has a total of one hundred and fifty-
five miles of main pipe ; that in New Bedford alone there are twenty-one
thousand five hundred and eighty-two gas meters ; that they supply gas
to twenty-one thousand two hundred and fifty-five gas stoves, and that

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for the financial year ending July i, 1916, their sales of gas increased
$15,976.13.

Mr. Lindsay is a member of the National Commercial Gas Asso-
ciation, member of the American Gas Institute, member of the New
England Association of Gas Engineers, member of the Order of Scottish
Clans, the Caledonian Club, Abraham H. Rowland Lodge, Free and
Accepted Masons. In addition to his weighty duties and responsibilities,
he took the course of military training at Plattsburg, New York, and is
qualified for service as an officer if called. In religious faith he is a
Presbyterian.

Mr. Lindsay married, in New Bedford, December 23, 1889, Elnora
Elizabeth Leuchsenring, her parents born in Germany. They are the
parents of a son, Robert Bruce, born January i, 1900, now a student at
Brown University, class of 1920.

EDWARD STETSON, D. D. S.

Among the dentists of by-gone days in New Bedford, Dr. Edward
Stetson occupies a prominent position. His life in New Bedford covered
a half century of most startling change and progress, a city springing
into existence and becoming the seat of a prosperous manufacturing
business, the whaling industry breathing its last after bringing to New
Bedford wealth and prestige such as no other New England city enjoyed.
During those years, 1826-84, Dr. Stetson, as business and professional
man, had a share in the upbuilding of the town and city, was long a
dental practitioner with an office in his residence on Purchase street, and
was one of the strong men of the Masonic order, holding high degree,
and taking active part in the work of the bodies of the order to which he
belonged. He lived to advance far into the rank of octogenarian, lack-
ing little of reaching his eighty-fifth year. He was a man of kindly,
happy disposition, always cheerful and helpful, and even after passing
his eightieth year gave little indication of the great weight of years he
was carrying. He had many friends and was everywhere welcome. He
left no son to bear his name, but a daughter and a granddaughter sur-
vived him. This daughter, Charlotte M. A. C, married William Spauld-
ing, their only daughter, Mary Clarke Spaulding, still being a resident of
New Bedford, widow of John Stirrett, and mother of Chester Spaulding
Stirrett, D. V. S., now a member of the Veterinary Corps, United States
Army, enlisting from New Bedford.

Dr. Edward Stetson, a descendant of Cornet Robert Stetson, who
came to New England from England, in 1634, was born at Hanover,
Massachusetts, November 3, 1800, and died in New Bedford, Massachu-
setts, June 12, 1884. He was educated in the Hanover schools and learned
the locksmith's trade, remaining in Hanover until 1826, when he moved
to New Bedford. Here he opened a locksmith shop and continued in

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ber of John H. Clifford Camp, No. 150, Sons of Veterans, which he
served as captain ; was councilman from Ward 4 during the mayoralty
terms of David L. Parker ; was secretary of the New Bedford Yacht
Club ; member of the Country Club, and politically a Republican.

Mr. Forbes married, in the old Fairhaven Congregational Church,
October 5, 1892, Minerva L. Westgate, of Fairhaven, Massachusetts,
daughter of Stephen and Laura Westgate, her father a master mechanic
of the Old Colony and the New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad
Company. They were the parents of a daughter, Elizabeth Claire Forbes,
born in 1895. She is a pianist of note, making her professional debut in
New Bedford, at the age of seventeen, as soloist with the Boston Sym-
phony Orchestra, Dr. Muck conducting. She married, in 1917, Charles
De Malley, of Boston, also a member of this orchestra.

CHARLES MASON HOLMES.

Charles Mason Holmes, organizer, treasurer and agent of the Holmes
Manufacturing Company, is one of the men who contributed to that era
of New Bedford's industry in which New Bedford won first place among
the cotton manufacturing cities of the United States. Mr. Holmes's
achievement was unusual in several particulars. The manufacture of
cloths and yarns was a well established industry at the time he built his
mills, but there had been no local development of the mercerizing and
dyeing of the yarns produced, these processes having been left to outside
plants. Mr. Holmes undertook to add these processes to that of the
manufacture of fine combed yarns, and within a short time secured an
identity through the trade marking of his goods which gave the Holmes
product a reputation and enviable name throughout the country.

The Holmes mill made handsome earnings from the start, which was
an unusual thing at this period, because, while the building of the mill
was started when the cotton industry was on the top of the wave, a
depression intervened in the interval between the commencement and
completion of the mill, and many of the new enterprises which were
inspired by the earlier prosperity which led to the multiplication of new
enterprises, were put to their shifts to finance them over the lean years
which followed. It is therefore a personal tribute to Mr. Holmes's per-
ception and sagacity, exceptional training and experience, and business
ability, that he produced a special type of yarns which appealed to buyers
in a market surfeited with conventional product. So it happened that
whereas some other of the new mill enterprises were compelled to run
at a loss until business revived, the Holmes mill earned dividends
throughout these unpropitious times.

Mr. Holmes crime of a race of cotton manufacturers and his experi-
ence was wide and thorough. His career brings credit to New Bedford,
inasmuch as most of his earlier training was in the mills of New Bedford.

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Mr. Holmes was born in Providence, March 23, 1S64, the son of Denison
Baldwin Holmes and Catherine Elizabeth (Whitman) Holmes. His
great-grandfather, Olney Angel, of Centerdale, Rhode Island, built and
operated the old Graystone mill, which was the second cotton mill in the
United States. His maternal grandfather, William Whitman, of Center-
dale, was also a cotton manufacturer. His uncle, Gilbert P. Whitman,
built the Armory mills of Manchester, New Hampshire; and another
uncle, John Kilburn, of Lowell, was also identified with the manufacture
of cotton.

After leaving the high school at Rockport, Massachusetts, where he
attended the public schools, Mr. Holmes started upon his textile career
at the Potomska mills in New Bedford, where he remained three and one-
half years. Then he went to the Lawrence Manufacturing Company of
Lowell, of which his uncle, John Kilburn, was agent, and spent three
years in the machine shop, eighteen months in the draughting room, and
a year as assistant overseer in the carding room. From Lowell he went
to Manchester, New Hampshire, where he was assistant overseer in the
carding room of the Jefferson mill, a part of the great plant of the Amos-
keag Manufacturing Company. He remained three and one-half years
in Manchester, when he went to Clinton, Massachusetts, as overseer of
the carding room of the Lancaster mill, holding that position for three
years. Then Mr. Holmes returned to New Bedford to take a position as
overseer of carding in Mills Nos. i, 2 and 3 of the Wamsutta plant. After
two years in this position he was appointed superintendent of the W^am-
sutta Mills, a position he held for eighteen months. From the W^amsutta
Mills, Mr. Holmes went to the Manchaug Mills at Manchaug, Massachu-
setts, as superintendent, then to the Natick Mills at Natick, Rhode Island,
in a similar position, both mills being owned and controlled by B. B. and
R. Knight. Mr. Holmes was in the employ of the Knights for four and
one-half years.

And then, in 1903, at the age of thirty-nine, after this long and suc-
cessful experience on the manufacturing side, Mr. Holmes commenced
his career as a manager of great enterprises. He came to New Bedford
as agent of the first Manomet mill, having the responsibility for the build-
ing and equipping of that plant. A second mill was added, and Mr.
Holmes acted as agent for both until May, 1909. Mr. Holmes in the lat-
ter year organized the Holmes Manufacturing Company, with a capital
of $1,200,000. The mill was built on Clark's Point, on the river front, for
the manufacture of fine combed yarns, gassed, mercerized, bleached and
dyed. The mill employs twelve hundred hands. Mr. Holmes is agent
and treasurer of the mill, and it has paid handsome dividends from the
beginning, paying in 1916 the highest dividend rate of any cotton manu-
facturing corporation in New Bedford, with one exception. Mr. Holmes's
success with this enterprise was so striking that when the Gosnold mills
passed into the hands of Boston capitalists in 1916. Mr. Holmes was

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asked to become treasurer and agent of that company, capitalized at
$1,650,000 and operating two mills engaged in manufacturing fine cotton
goods, plain and fancies, jacquards, silk and cotton mixtures.

As the guiding genius of these enterprises, Mr. Holmes might seem
to be well occupied, but he has found opportunity to take active part in
various public-spirited activities, such as the reorganization of the Board
of Commerce, and many of the fund-raising movements for promoting
the comfort and welfare of the young men in the army. Mr. Holmes is
a director of the Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Company of
Springfield, the Manufacturers Mutual Fire Insurance Company of Prov-
idence, director of the First National Bank of New Bedford, trustee of
the New Bedford Institution for Savings, director of the Morris Plan
Bank, trustee and member of the executive committee of the New Bed-
ford Textile School, trustee of Friends' Academy, trustee of the Free
Public Library, director of the Board of Commerce, member of Washing-
ton Lodge, Free and Accepted Masons, of Manchester, New Hampshire ;
the Royal Arch Masons of Phoenix, Rhode Island ; Sutton Commandery,
Knights Templar, of New Bedford ; Aleppo Temple, Nobles of the
Mystic Shrine, Boston. His clubs are the Wamsutta and Country Club
of New Bedford ; the Country Club of Rockport, Massachusetts ; the Tex-
tile Club and the Southern New England Club. He is a member of the
National Manufacturers Association, and a vestryman of the Grace Epis-
copal Church of New Bedford. Mr. Holmes is a Republican in politics.

Mr. Holmes married, June 30, 1891, Miss Alice Parker, daughter of
the late Frederick and Augusta (Tripp) Parker. They have three sons:
I. Harold Denison Holmes, born December 12, 1893; two years in New
Bedford High School, graduate of Phillips Exeter Academy, Harvard
University, Bachelor of Arts, class of 1916: assistant superintendent of
the Holmes Mill ; now second lieutenant. United States Regulars, Bureau
of Ordnance, stationed in Washington, D. C. 2. Charles Parker Holmes,
born January 16. 1899; graduate of Friends' Academy, New Bedford, and
Phillips Exeter Academy ; now a student at Harvard University, class
of 1918. 3. Standish Whitman Holmes, born April 11, 1906, now attend-
ing Friends' Academy.

Denison B. Holmes, the father of Charles M. Holmes, was the only
child of Daniel B. Holmes, a soldier in the War of 1812, whose source of
livelihood was farming. He was born in North Stonington, Connecti-
cut, June 9, 1815, and died at Manchester, New Hampshire, March 14,
1889. He was an engineer, steam and mechanical, and at one time super-
intendent of the mechanical department of the Old Colony railroad, with
headquarters at Fall River. He was connected with the Corliss Steam
Engine Company of Providence, and employed by other large companies
as consulting engineer. He retired from business six years before his
death. He married Catherine Elizabeth Whitman, daughter of William
Whitman, of Centerdale, a cotton manufacturer. She was born at Cen-

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terdale, July 15, 1826, and died at Lowell, March 28, 1902. Denison B.
Holmes was a member of the Congregational church, and was a Repub-
lican in politics. The children of Mr. and Mrs. Denison B. Holmes were
Charles Mason Holmes ; and Annie Whitman Holmes, born March 8,
1869, who married Elmer D. Robinson, of Cambridge, Massachusetts.

EVERETT B. MacLEOD.

Of Scotch descent, Mr. MacLeod, like most of his race, could not
brook restraint, and when but a lad of thirteen he left his home without
consent and never returned until he was a man in years and stature. But
the desire for change was strong within him. and although he learned a
trade and worked steadily for years he longed for the freedom of a sales-
man's life and several more years were spent "on the road." Finally he
settled in New Bedford, and here won his greatest success as a mer-
chant and man of exemplary life.

Everett B. MacLeod was born in East Providence, Rhode Island,
December 5, 1S61, and died in New Bedford, Massachusetts, December
30, 1916. Until thirteen years of age he attended public school and re-
sided with his parents, then ran away, walking to Poughkeepsie, New
York. There he found employment, and remained several years, then
returned to Providence. There he found employment with the Corliss
Engine Works, his father being also employed there. The young man
learned the machinist's trade, and steadily followed it for five years, then
longing for an out-of-door occupation took an agency for the sale of the
Encyclopedia Brittanica, continuing a successful salesman of the publi-
cation for several years. He then took out a commercial line, and for a
number of years traveled for a credit house, handling different lines, and
continued to master all details of the credit business, proving its desir-
ability as a producer of profits. In 1805 Mr. MacLeod resigned his posi-
tion, located in New Bedford, and in a small store on Purchase street
started a retail clothing store on the credit plan. His venture proved a suc-
cess and he enlarged several times, finally purchasing the entire block at
the corner of Elm and Purchase streets, which has ever since been known
as the MacLeod Building. Later he opened a credit furniture store on
South Water street. The Ward Six Furniture Company, a business he
closed out in 1914. He invested largely in New Bedford real estate from
the profits of his business, choosing his investments wisely and increas-
ing his profits. He was interested in all that promised better things for
New Bedford, and although he never took an active part in politics was
intensely interested in city affairs. He continued active in business until
his death in 1916, the clothing business he had built up then passing by
purchase to Arthur S. Ashley, an old employee, who yet continues it as
the MacLeod Credit Company. Mr. MacLeod was an eminent member
of the Masonic order, holding the thirty-third degree. Ancient Ac-

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cepted Scottish Rite, and was affiliated with Eureka Lodge, Free and
Accepted Masons, and his widow is now a member of the Order of the
Eastern Star. He was also a companion of the Royal Arch Masons, a
Knights Templar and an Elk. His club was the Wamsutta.

On November 30, 1908, at New Bedford, Mr. MacLeod married
Elizabeth M. Layton, daughter of Captain John S. and Agnes M. (Cong-
don) Lay ton, her father a famous master of whalers, he commanding
many of New Bedford's noted ships, Mr. and Mrs. MacLeod were the
parents of three sons : Donald, Norman, and Robert, all residing with
their widowed mother at the family home, No. 52 Rotch street. New Bed-
ford.

JOHN T. CHAMPION.

The first twenty-three years of the life of John T. Champion were
spent on his native Prince Edward Island and there he learned the trade
of tailor, which he has so successfully followed in New Bedford, being
sole proprietor of the business of A. M. Bush & Company, No. 47 William
street. He has succeeded in his enterprises and has built up along
with his business a reputation for integrity and honorable dealing. He
is a son of John B. and Isabelle Champion, both deceased, his father a
farmer.

John T. Champion was born on Prince Edward Island, Canada,
September 14, 1864, and there he was educated, learned his trade and
lived until 1887. In that year he came to the United States, locating
in New Bedford where he was employed at the Wamsutta Mills for six
weeks, and by the Street Car Company for one year as a conductor. He
then began working at his trade of tailor, being hired for four months
by B. Frank Taylor. In 1884 he entered the employ of A. M. Bush,
tailor, whose store was then at the same location as Mr. Champion now
occupies. He began as press man and for three years was so engaged,
then being made shop foreman. For eleven years he was engaged by
Mr. Bush on salary, then was admitted to a partnership, purchasing a
one-half interest with his savings. The firm name then became A. M.
Bush & Company, and for about thirteen years the partnership con-
tinued, Mr. Champion then purchasing the half interest owned by Mr.
Bush and becoming sole proprietor. The business is a large and a
prosperous one and conducted on modern business lines. Delivery is
made by automobile, that mode supplanting the horse and wagon, which
supplanted the hired horse, which supplanted the bicycle, which suc-
ceeded the arm delivery of the early days. In January, 1902, Mr. Cham-
pion completed a course of instruction at Mitchell's Cutting School in
New York City, graduating as a ladies' tailor and receiving a dijiloma.
Upon coming into full ownership, he built a concrete cleaning building
upon the rear of his home lot which the State inspector declared was
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merits of the business, and in all respects A. M. Bush & Company is a
model, modern cleaning and pressing establishment, reflecting the views
and principles of its owner. The business has been built up in honor
and the store motto is "Good service."

Under Mayor Thompson's administration, Mr. Champion was chair-
man of the board of overseers of the poor appointed for a three years'
term, but at the end of seven months he resigned. He is a member of
the First Church of Christ (Scientist), the Home Club, and in political
faith is a Republican.

Mr. Champion married (first) Luella J. Mackay, born on Prince
Edward Island, in 1875, died in New Bedford, Massachusetts, 1895,
leaving a son, John M. Champion, born in 1890, now sergeant in Com-
pany E, Three Hundred and Second Infantry, at Camp Devan. Mr.
Champion married (second) in 1897, Mary W. Greer, and they are the
parents of a daughter, Millicent L. Champion, now her father's office
assistant, and student of music. The family home is at No. 85 Rotch
street, where Mr. Champion is found in his hours off duty, a small
poultry farm his chief recreation. Mr. Champion entered two birds in
the Quannapowett poultry show at Wakefield, Massachusetts, and won
eight first ribbons, automatic feeder, $15 in cash and a silver cup. One
cockerel, "General Pershing," won first prize for best cockerel, first
best color, first best shape, first best white leghorn male in the show.
One S. C. white leghorn pullet, "Lady Byng," won first best pullet, first
best shape, first best color, first best female leghorn in the show. One
of the greatest known records for two single birds at any show.

OVIDE TOUSSAINT CHARRON, M. D.

Three generations ago a de Charron came to St. Dennis, Province
of Quebec, Canada, and there Dr. Charron, of New Bedford, was born,
not far from the first location chosen by his ancestor as their first home
in the New World. Dr. Charron is a grandson of Ignace Charron, and a
son of Philias and Albina (Phaneuf ) Charron, of St. Dennis, Canada, now
living in New Bedford, the father formerly a farmer, and later engaged
as a baker.

Dr. Ovide Toussaint Charron was born in St. Dennis, St. Hyacinthe,
Quebec, Canada, July 12, 1882. His early education was followed by
preparatory college study and courses at St. Francis Xavier College in
St. Dennis. He continued a student at St. Francis Xavier's until his
parents decided to come to the United States, then all came, and a home
was made in New Bedford, Massachusetts. The boy was ambitious,
energetic, and self-reliant, not afraid of responsibility or hard work. This
is amply evidenced by the fact that at the age of eighteen he was con-
ducting his own grocery store and did it very successfully for five years.
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College of Physicians and Surgeons in Boston, and a year's special course
at Laval University, Montreal, Canada, he was awarded his degree of
Doctor of Medicine bv the College of Physicians and Surgeons, class of
1912. After graduation he located in New Bedford, at No. 9 West
French avenue, and there practiced very successfully for three years.
In 191 5 he erected the hospital on Cove street, which bears his name.
In 1917 Dr. Charron was appointed city physician, is examining physi-
cian to the Government Exemption Board, which, all during the summer
and fall of 1917, sat to examine and pass upon the fitness of those chosen
in selective draft to serve their country in the war between the United
States and Germany. He is also physician to the Francs Tireurs, of
which he is a member; is a member of the Benevolent and Protective
Order of Elks ; Loyal Order of Moose ; Catholic Mutual Benefit Associa-
tion ; Federation Franco-American Fraternal League ; the New Bedford
Board of Trade ; French Chamber of Commerce ; and is a communicant
of the Roman Catholic church. Dr. Charron married, in New Bedford,
February 8, 1904, Octavie LeClere.

CLIFFORD M. FARMER.

In the year 1889, Mr. Farmer, then a young man of twenty, entered
the employ of the New Bedford Gas and Edison Light Company, going
into the electrical department. Twenty-eight years have since elapsed,
and he has never severed his connection with either company or depart-
ment, but has faithfully developed his own powers with the expansion
of the company and is power engineer and chief electrician of the com-
pany's power and lighting departments. The obtaining of power for the
company's generating plant comes under the management of Mr. Farmer
as chief electrician. He is devoted to the duties of his position, his
mechanically inclined mind delighting in its problems and intricacies.
He is a son of Charles and Emily A. (Myrick) Farmer, his parents both
deceased.

Clifford M. Farmer was born in Myrick's, Massachusetts, July 7,
1869, and there completed grammar school courses. He then entered
Bristol Academy in Taunton, completing study there in 1888. He began
business life as an employee of the King Manufacturing Company of
New Bedford, remaining there about eight months, before going to the
Morse Twist Drill Company as a straightener. He spent about a year
with that company, leaving in the latter part of 1889 to enter the service
of the New Bedford Gas and Edison Light Company, then a very small
company in comparison with the company of to-day. Now chief elec-
trician he reviews his more than a quarter of a century of association
with the company with the satisfaction which every man is entitled to
feel over duty well performed. He can trace his own progress in mak-
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the demand made upon the company for that force, and he is gratified to
have been a factor in the great scheme development which, with the
great New Bedford Power Company to draw upon for supply, has
worked such wonders in Southeastern Massachusetts. It is in a way an
empire building the work such men are doing, for a new industry created
or an old one strengthened is just that much done toward making a bet-
ter, greater and grander United States of America.

Mr. Farmer is a Republican in politics, attends the Congregational
church, is a member of Eureka Lodge, Free and Accepted Masons ;
Vesta Lodge. Independent Order of Odd Fellows ; New Bedford Yacht
Club ; the Stetson Yacht Club, and Masonic Club, and has many friends,
both within and without these organizations. He is a man of energy
and force, but genial, courteous and considerate to all.

Mr. Farmer married, in 1914, Ethel De Moranville, of New Bedford,
daughter of Herbert and Thankful E. (Luce) De Moranville.

EUGENE G. GUILBERT.

The career of Mr. Guilbert has been one of constant progress since
he first came to New Bedford and reflects the greatest credit upon him.
Beginning as an inexperienced clerk in a drug store, he there prepared
himself to pass the required examination to enable him to register as a
pharmacist, then became a partner and finally sole owner of the drug
store, No. 757 Brock avenue, accomplishing all this since his coming to
New Bedford in 1907, without knowledge of the English language and
without capital. His first partnership with Alexander A. Petit he financed
with capital he had saved during his six years clerkship with Mr. Petit,
and with the profits of the partnership he purchased the Petit interest in
the Brock avenue drug store of which Mr. Guilbert is sole owner. This
achievement of ten years stamps Mr. Guilbert as a young man of high
purpose and determined character and argues strongly in favor of a
successful future.

Eugene G. Guilbert was born in St. Dominique, Province of Quebec,
Canada, December 23, 1886. He was educated in St. Dominique's paro-
chial school, St. Hyacinthe Seminary and Sacred Heart Business College,
completing the last named course with graduation in 1907. His studies
had all been in the French language, and when in 1907 he came to New
Bedford his first task was learning English. He obtained a position
with Alexander A. Petit in Petit's Pharmacy and there he worked and
studied, improving every waking hour for a term of four years. At the
end of that period he had so perfected himself in his studies in English
and pharmacy that he successfully passed the State Board of Pharmacy
and became a duly qualified registered pharmacist, his authority bearing
date of February 15, 1911. He remained with Mr. Petit in this higher
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No. 757 Brock avenue, which was opened October 25, 1913. He opened
the new store as a partner, not a clerk, and until February, 1917, he was
associated in its ownership with Mr. Petit. On that date he bought the
entire business, and is now conducting it with a good degree of success.
His success has been earned, and none who know him but agree that he
richly deserves all that has come to him in return for his well directed,
intelligent labor. Mr. Guilbert is a member of the Francs-Tireurs,
Franco-American Federation, and to the National Association of Retail
Druggists.

Mr. Guilbert married, in Salem, Massachusetts, June 30, 1913, Emma
Michaud ; they are the parents of Arthur, Genevieve, Louis, Joseph and
Josephine Petit Guilbert.

ANDREW J. W. McAVOY.

Entering the postal service at the age of eighteen, Mr. McAvoy as
clerk, carrier and assistant postmaster reviews a connection of more than
twenty-seven years with the New Bedford post office, his service begin-
ning when the post office was located in the United States Custom House
building, continuing through the occupancy of the specially constructed
post office building on the southeast corner of Acushnet avenue and Wil-
liam street, 1893-1915, and the period spent in the present building, com-
pleted in 191 5. This long period of service lends dignity to the position
which he now holds, assistant postmaster, a position won through effi-
iency and reliability and held under two postmasters. He is very popular
with the post office force, clerical and carrier, and holds the confidence
and esteem of the department.

He is a son of James McAvoy, born in Ireland, who in 1850 came to
the United States, settling in Connecticut. He enlisted in Company C,
First Regiment Connecticut Cavalry, served through the Civil War, and
after the war came to Massachusetts and New Bedford, where he was an
overseer of weaving in cotton mills, and died in 1910. His wife, Ellen C.
McAvoy, died the same year.

Andrew J. W. McAvoy, son of James and Ellen C. McAvoy, was
born in Uxbridge, Massachusetts, March 21, 1871, but later his parents
moved to New Bedford, where he was educated, being a graduate of St.
Joseph's High School, class of 188S. After a short period as dry goods
clerk, he entered government employ as clerk in the post office at New
Bedford, resigning after two years' service, but returning a year later.
On his return he entered a different branch of the service, going on as
substitute carrier. In eighteen months he was appointed regular carrier,
a position he filled twelve years, making a host of friends over the routes
he served who parted from him with regret. He was tranferred to the
clerical department in 1905, served as record clerk until 191 1, and in that
year was promoted to assistant postmaster under Postmaster Frank C.
Barrows, and continues under the present postmaster.

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Mr. McAvoy is a Republican in politics, a member of St. Lawrence
Church, Roman Catholic, the National Association of Letter Carriers,
past deputy grand knight and ex-treasurer of the Knights of Columbus ;
vice-president one year, president a short time and a director three years
of the Fraternal Order of Eagles, New Bedford Aerie, No. 647; member
and ex-trustee of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, New
Bedford Lodge, No. 73. Mr. McAvoy is unmarried.

JOHN HALLIWELL.

On coming to years of responsibility, John Halliwell embraced the
cause of labor, and as the champion of the class with which he is proud
to number himself he serves them in the forum in the labor unions and
in legislative halls, being now representative from the Eighth Bristol
Legislative District. He is of English birth and parentage, son of
Thomas Halliwell, a tailor of Lancashire, England. Thomas Halliwell,
born in 1842, died in 1871, lived in Mossley and Ashton-Under-Lyne, but
when his son was seven years of age the father died, and at eight the lad's
school days were reduced one-half and at twelve ended entirely. With
this start in life, he has overcome all obstacles which would daunt and
discourage most men, and now stands upon a level with those who are
striving honorably and lawfully to legislate in such a manner that justice
toward all may be the theme of all law.

John Halliwell was born in Mossley, Lancashire, England, February
21, 1864, and there and at Ashton resided until his nineteenth year. He
began working half-time in a cotton mill when eight years of age as a
"back boy," and at the age of twelve was put on as a "full time" worker
and for seven years more worked in English mills. In 1883 he came to
the United States alone, sailing on September i, and obtained his first
position in a mill at Taftsville, Connecticut, as a mule spinner. There he
spent eight years, followed by two years at Berkeley, Rhode Island,
then in 1893 came to New Bedford where he worked as a mule spinner
until his election to the Legislature in 1914.

All his mature years, Mr. Halliwell has been active in labor unions
and has held many offices conferred by his fellows of the organizations.
He is a Republican in politics, and in 1905-06-07 represented his ward in
the New Bedford Common Council. In 1914 he was the candidate of
his party for representative from the Eight Bristol District, was elected
and reelected in 1915-16, and is now (1917) the nominee to the State
Senate. He has the united labor vote, and has made an excellent repre-
sentative. He is a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows
(Manchester Unity) ; the Ancient Order of United Workmen ; Century
Lodge. Free and Accepted Masons ; and the Washington Club.

Mr. Halliwell married at Taftsville, Connecticut, January 28, 1890,
Ada Greenwood, born at ,\shton-Under-Lyne, England, March 21, 1869,

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coming to the United States in 1885. She is a daughter of John and
Alice Brown Greenwood, both deceased. Mr. and Mrs. Halliwell are the
parents of four children : Thomas Ewart, born at Taftsville, November
19, 1890, a thermostat fixer by trade; Raymond, born at Berkeley, Rhode
Island, July i, 1892, now visitor for the New Bedford Poor Department,
married Margaret Nightingale, of New Bedford ; Alice, born in New
Bedford, April 27, 1896, married Carroll A. Lindell, of Newport, Rhode
Island; Eric Gordon, born in New Bedford, October 15, 1901, a student
at the New Bedford Industrial School.

JAMES FRANCIS COLLINS.

The fortunes of politics often lands a man in public office who
ordinarily would fail of an election, but rarely does fortuitous circum-
stance reelect and never is a third term the result of what we may term
luck. Thus we may safely conclude that as James F. Collins has been
returned by his constituents of Ward 2, year after year, and advanced
from councilman to alderman, his course in these bodies has been honor-
able, progressive, patriotic and just. The confidence reposed in him is
most gratifying to Alderman Collins and greatly encourages him in
following the line of duty as he sees it. He is a native son of Scotland,
but from the age of four years has been in the United States and since
the age of six has resided in New Bedford, thus practically knowing no
other home or country. He is a son of Michael and Mary Collins, the
father dying when his son James F. was an infant, his brave mother
later, in 1873, gathering her four sons and two daughters around her and
with them coming to the United States.

James Francis Collins was born in Milfort, Scotland, March 31,
1869, but for forty-two years has lived in New Bedford, Massachusetts,
where as craftsman and city ofificial he has risen to an honorable position
in public esteem. With his widowed mother, three brothers and two
sisters, he came to Canton, Massachusetts, in 1873, locating in that part
of the town now Canton Junction, the family moving to New Bedford in
1875. James F. attended the Merrimac and Parker streets public
schools, leaving the latter when twelve years of age to take a boy's place
in the spinning room in the Wamsutta Mill. .\t the age of sixteen he
left the mills, a weaver, and began an apprenticeship at the trade of
plumber with Parker & Sherman, whose shop was on \\'ater street,
corner of Union, his immediate superior being William Deacon, now
serving the city board of health as an inspector of plumbing, under
whose direction he learned his trade. After completing his apprentice-
ship he continued with the firm as a journeyman for fourteen years, then
until 1915 was in the employ of George Hatch, Wood & Brightman and
C. L. Dunham. In 1915, having accumulated a sufficient capital from his
savings, he formed a partnership with Charles Kennedy and founded the

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plumbing business of Collins & Kennedy at No. 1707 Purchase street,
New Bedford, and is now firmly established in public favor and on the
high road to business success. From youth Mr. Collins has taken a
deep interest in the work of the labor organizations and in public affairs.
When the Journeymen Plumbers' Union, No. 53, was formed, he was
elected its first president, serving during the first six years of the Union's
existence as president and secretary, only retiring from ofifice when he
became an employer and president of the Master Plumbers' Association.
In 191 1 he was elected a member of Common Council from Ward 2,
and was annually reelected for four terms, making five in all. In
December, 1916, he was elected Alderman from Ward 2, and reelected in
December, 1917, and is now serving his city in that capacity for a second
term. He was chairman of joint council committees, audit and street
lighting, and a member of joint committees, building code and city
property, during 1917. In his second term he is chairman of joint com-
mittee on street light and building code and a member of joint com-
mittee on finance. He has been a faithful legislator, always to be found
at his post of duty and keenly alive to the responsibilities of the offices
he fills. He is a member and a director of the Knights of Columbus,
and in political preference he is a Republican.

Mr. Collins married Mary E. Flavin, of New York, daughter of
Maurice Flavin, a cooper by trade, who moved from New York to New
Bedford. Mr. and Mrs. Collins are the parents of two sons: Francis, a
graduate of New Bedford High School, now serving in the United States
Navy ; James, a student in grammar school.

ARTHUR UTTLEY.

From the time of his coming to the United States, a lad of eighteen
years, Mr. Uttley has energetically pursued diflferent lines of activity,
but as purveyor to the public taste has won his greatest success "Velvet"
and "Banquet" ice cream being his well-known and popular brands. He
is a native son of Albion, but thoroughly American in his methods and
sympathies, not forgetting the land of his birth, however, in his love
and loyalty to the land of his adoption.

Arthur Uttley was born in Hebden Bridge, Yorkshire, England,
June 5, 1876, and until ten years of age attended public school. He then
became a half day worker in a textile mill, the other half of the day being
spent in school, a practice allowed under the English law. At the age
of thirteen his school days and half days ended and he began clerking
in a grocery store, and at the age of fourteen he became a mill apprentice
to the business of corduroy manufacture, a line of cloth making and
manufacturing that he thoroughly mastered. He labored three years
as an apprentice, then for a j'ear followed the business of corduroy
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eighteen years. He located in New Bedford, entering the employ of a
leather merchant, with whom he remained two years before going to
Crompton, Rhode Island, where for six years he again engaged in his
trade of corduroy cloth manufacture. In igo2 he returned to New
Bedford, spending two years in the service of the Union Street Railway
Company, then embarking in the baking business.

With the baking, Mr. Uttley combined the manufacturing of ice
cream, but it was soon demonstrated to his satisfaction that the manage-
ment of both departments was too great an undertaking and he decided
to abandon the bakery and concentrate all his energy upon the manu-
facture and distribution of ice cream. The result has proved the wisdom
of his decision, and as the Velvet Ice Cream Com.pany, located at No. 119
Smith street, he has built up a large and profitable business. He is an
energetic, public-spirited citizen, always ready to aid in any progressive
movement, a man respected by all who know him. During the coal
crisis of 1917-18, due to the great war, and when coal shortage was at
a most critical stage, Mr. Uttley succeeded in securing more than 1,000
tons of coal which he distributed where it would do the most good. He
is a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, Manchester
Unity, member of the Daughters of Rebekah, Sons of St. George,
Knights of Malta, Union Street Railway Relief Association, is a com-
municant of Grace Episcopal Church, and in politics is a Republican.

Mr. Uttley married, February 5, 1895, Victoria E. Rogers, of Arctic
Center, Rhode Island, daughter of Benjamin and Jane (Alvord) Rogers,
Mr. and Mrs. Uttley are the parents of two sons and two daughters :
Gladys, born November 23, 1899; Harold, born April 18, 1901 ; Doris,
born July 23, 1904; Arthur (2), born October 9, 1916.

GEDEON POISSON.

It was in 1888 that the Poisson Brothers, Gedeon, Joseph, Laurent
and Ludger, opened a small store in New Bedford, and from that small
start came the business of Poisson Brothers, No. 1056 Acushnet avenue,
and G. & L. Poisson, No. 912 South Water street, New Bedford, the last
named the largest dry goods and clothing store south of Union street.
The brothers operated as a partnership until 1903, then dissolved, Joseph
and Laurent Poisson going to the North End as Poisson Brothers,
Gedeon and Ludger to the South End where they had equipped a new
store which, under the firm name, G. & L. Poisson, they successfully
conducted as a partnership until 1914. In that year Ludger Poisson sold
his interest to his brother Gedeon, retired from business with a com-
petence, but did not live long to enjoy it, dying July 4, 1915. These
brothers were sons of Nere and Adelaide Poisson, their father a mer-
chant in Canada, Gedeon Poisson was the last of the four to come to
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employed in Michigan and Minnesota. When offered a share in the new
store in New Bedford by his brothers he accepted, and in 1887 came to
New Bedford and the following year began his long and successful
career as a merchant.

The Poisson family was one of the oldest French families of the
Province of Quebec, Canada, Gedeon being a son of Nere Poisson, of
Gentilly, a wholesale grain and wood merchant. He married Adelaide
Jolibois and reared a large family, all of whom became men of business
standing in their native town and in New Bedford. Children : Hector,
died in Gentilly ; Joseph, a retired merchant of New Bedford, Massa-
chusetts; Adolphe, succeeded his father in Gentilly; Jean Baptiste,
owning a grain and lumber business at Gentilly ; Alphonsine, married
Joseph Bourgois, a general grain merchant of Ste. Angilo, Three Rivers,
Canada ; Gedeon, of further mention ; Ludger, a partner of G. & L.
Poisson until his death, July 4, 1915; Laurent, a real estate dealer in
property at New Bedford.

Gedeon Poisson was born in Gentilly, Province of Quebec, Canada,
November 20, 1857, and there was educated, learned the carpenter's
trade and resided until nineteen years of age. In 1876 he left the employ
of the architect, Gireau, with whom he had learned his trade, and came
to the United States, spending the first three years in Michigan, and the
following five years in Minneapolis, Minnesota. He first came to New
Bedford in 1887, began merchandising with his brothers in 1888, the
original location being at No. 909 South Water street. The capital
employed was not large, consisting of the money they had saved after
coming to the United States, each brother contributing a share. In
1903 they separated, Gedeon Poisson having designed and fitted up the
store in the North End to which Joseph and Laurent Poisson removed,
also the one at No. 912 South Water street, where he conducts his
present business. He with his brother Ludger, trading as G. & L.
Poisson, opened their new store, September 21, 1903, and there until the
retirement of the junior partner in 1914, they conducted a flourishing
business. Since becoming sole owner, Gedeon Poisson has continued
the business along the same general lines. He carries full lines of dry
goods, men's clothing and furnishings, women's clothing and small
wear; his store running along modern department lines, and employing
about twenty-eight people. His trade is large, the South End finding
that the Poisson store serves them honorably and well. The owner is
a capable business man, upright and energetic, particularly careful of
the welfare of his employees. Courtesy and fair dealing are the store
mottoes, and his efforts to give the South End a modern store with good
service have been well appreciated. He is also interested in New Bed-
ford real estate. Mr. Poisson is a member of the Franco-American
Chamber of Commerce, the Franco-American Federation, the Francs
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Catholic Church. He has traveled extensively in the United States and
Canada, his travels also including a European tour.

He married, in New Bedford, in 1905, Emma Antoinette Rousseau,
of Woonsocket, Rhode Island, and they are the parents of a son, Hugo,
born in 1913.

ROBERT SCHOFIELD.

Coming from a family of English millmen, I\Ir. Schofield not only
came honestly by his taste for the business he has been connected with
since boyhood, but with it he inherited a genius for the business. He
has passed through every grade of cotton mill position, from back boy
to agent, having, since 191 1, held the last named position with the Sharp
Manufacturing Company, of New Bedford. This corporation, with
$1,250,000 common and $1,200,000 preferred stock, employs sixteen hun-
dred hands in their two mills, operating 200,000 spindles and manu-
facturing fine combed yarns. The management of the business depart-
ment of such an enterprise demands a man of high business quality and
technical knowledge, as he must meet m,en of highest quality from other
managerial departments of his own company and men whose lives are
given solely to selling and buying from the outside world. He must
meet furthermore, on an equality, confer and decide wisely, keeping
ever in view the duty he owes to the stockholders and their representa-
tives, the board of directors to whom he is responsible. Mr. Schofield
meets these specifications in every particular and is rated one of the
strong men of the mill district. He is a son of Henry and Hannah
(Hilton) Schofield, the former an English mill worker and member
of the Established Church.

Robert Schofield was born in Royton, borough of Oldham
Lancashire, England, February 20, 1864. He secured his education in
the public and textile schools, his attendance at textile school being
in the evening classes, after he had become a mill worker, well ad-
vanced in practical cotton mill methods. He began in the mill as a
back boy and advanced through the various positions in the manu-
facturing departments until he reached the position of agent, first with
the Rotch Mill and since 191 1 with the Sharp Manufacturing Company
of New Bedford, Massachusetts. He came to Magog, Province of
Quebec, in 1889, remained there for three and one-half years, came to
the United States in 1893, 'i"*^^ '^'^s since made New Bedford his home.
Mr. Schofield is a Republican in politics, member of the National Manu-
facturers Association of the United States, member of lodge, chapter,
council and commandery of the Masonic order, the Dartmouth Club,
and the Congregational church.

Mr. Schofield married in Royton, England, September 11, 1889,
Jane Knott, born there, daughter of John and Elizabeth (Lord) Knott.
Mr. and Mrs. Schofield are the parents of four sons and a daughter:

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Frank Lionel, born September 29, 1894, married Mildred Sherman, of
New Bedford; Florence Beatrice, January 22, 1896; Robert Milton,
January 24, 1901 ; William Hilton, October 12, 1902; George Louis,
November 18, 1906. The family home is at No. 189 Orchard street.

NOE LEOPOLD NADEAU.

Noe Leopold Nadeau, a man of learning, skill and ability, a member
of the legal profession and a legislator, is a scion of an old French-
Canadian family, the earliest member of whom we have definite infor-
mation being Jean Baptiste Nadeau, grandfather of Noe L. Nadeau, who
was born in St. Hyacinthe, Province of Quebec, Canada, followed
agricultural pursuits throughout the active years of his life, and died
in Ste. Marie, Province of Quebec. His son, Damase Nadeau, father of
Noe L. Nadeau, was born in Ste. Marie, Province of Quebec, Canada, in
1817, and died in Concordia, Kansas, in 1895. He took an active part
in the Insurrection of 1837, on the side of the Patriots, and was in the
engagement with the Quebec Insurrectionists, although not then of
legal age. Two nephews of Noe L. Nadeau are now serving with the
Volunteer United States Troops, one as a lieutenant in the infantry, the
other in the aviation corps. Later Damase Nadeau became a resident
of Kansas, and there spent the remainder of his days. He married Marie
Louise Archanbeault, born in St. Cesaire, Province of Quebec, Canada,
in 1833, and died in Concordia, Kansas, in 1894. They were the parents
of eight children: Leopoldine, born in 1855, died in 1894; Noemie, born
in 1857, now (1917) residing in Los Angeles, California; Rosehne, born
in 1859, now residing in Providence, Rhode Island; Noe Leopold, of
whom further; Honorine, born 1864; Joseph D., born in 1867, now
residing in Des Moines, Iowa ; Hubert G., born in 1869, now residing in
Houston, Texas ; Emma, born in 1872.

Noe Leopold Nadeau was born in St. Cesaire, Province of Quebec,
Canada, in 1862. He was educated in primary school and commercial
college of St. Cesaire, and made his classics in the College of Ste. Gen-
evieve, but before graduation the family came to the United States
and settled in Concordia, Kansas. He chose the profession of law as his
life work, completing his preparation at a law school in St. Louis, Mis-
souri, of which he was a student during the years 1888-89. He returned
to the State of Kansas in 1892, was admitted to the bar of that State in
that year, and practiced in Concordia until 1895, when he went to Los
Angeles, California, on a visit, but remained to practice his profession.
The following year, 1896, occurred the great Cripple Creek gold rush,
although not the first in that region, Mr. Nadeau became one of the gold
seekers, his business, however, being that of mining broker. He visited
Montreal, Canada, in the interest of his mining property, and while there
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following >cai, 1897, Mr. Nadeau located in Pawtucket, Rhode Island,
was admitted to practice, won fame as a lawyer and legislator, and
until 1914 was one of the strong men of the Rhode Island bar. In that
year he took up his residence in New Bedford, Massachusetts, and since
that time, a period of three years, has established a lucrative law busi-
ness and has gained the respect and confidence of his fellow practitioners
His offices are in the Five Cents Savings Bank Building. During his
residence in Pawtucket, he became interested in politics, became prom-
inent in party councils, and was elected on the Democratic ticket to
serve in the Rhode Island Legislature during the years 1903-04. Mr.
Nadeau is a member of the local and county bar associations, the
Franco-American Chamber of Commerce, the Francs Tireurs, the Franco-
American Federation, and the Church of Ste. Anne (Roman Catholic).
In politics he is a Democrat.

Mr. Nadeau married, in Providence, Rhode Island, June 7. 1906,
Lila Tetreault, born in St. Cesaire, Province of Quebec, Canada, March
5, 1877, daughter of Meril Tetreault, of St. Cesaire, Canada, a farmer, and
his wife, Josephine (Farens) Tetreault, of Cawensville, Province of
Quebec, Canada.

JAMES FRANCIS MURPHY.

A New Bedford boy, educated in the city schools, Mr. Murphy has
spent his years, forty-four, in his native city, beginning his business
life as errand boy, and has since been a merchant, an apprentice journey-
man plumber, and since 1912 a contracting plumber, operating under his
own name. He early displayed the commercial instinct, and as a boy
made and sold lemonade, hunted dandelions and sold them himself,
and was a newsboy, there being few chances that a boy has for making
money that he did not pursue. But his greatest desire was to learn
the plumber's trade, and when the opportunity came, although he was
then nearly twenty years of age and earning a man's wages, he accepted
the small pay accorded an apprentice and served his full term of three
years. The years have brought him expert knowledge of plumbing as
a trade, and as a science or profession, its sanitary features being as
well understood as its mechanical. He is highly rated in his business,
and is the chosen instructor of the class in plumbing at the New Bed-
ford Industrial School, a branch of the public school system. He is a
son of Timothy Joseph and Catherine M. Murphy, his father, now de-
ceased, having been one of the employees of the Mt. Washington Glass
Company. Timothy J. and Catherine M. Murphy were the parents of
fourteen children, five deceased, eight sons and one daughter living.

James Francis Murphy was born in New Bedford, August 8, 1873,
and was educated in Fifth Street Grammar School, attending this until
fourteen j'ears of age. His first employment was as errand boy with
J. G. Childs & Son, fish dealers, he remaining with that firm three years.

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He was but seventeen, when, profiting by his experience with Childs
& Son, he opened a fish stand at South Water street, near Cannon, an
enterprise he conducted under his own name for eighteen months. Then
came his opportunity to learn the plumber's trade with George E. Hatch,
of New Bedford, and three years were thus spent as an apprentice at the
Hatch concern, corner of Purchase and William streets. Soon after he
had completed his term of apprenticeship and arrived at the dignity of
a journeyman, he entered the employ of S. C. Love, located at No. 87
Union street, and for seventeen years was in his employ, two years as
a journeyman plumber and fifteen years as foreman. In this capacity
he was connected with the plumbing of many mills and large residences
in New Bedford and far around vicinity, becoming a well known expert
in his line. In 1912, having accumulated sufificient capital, he decided
to turn his skill and knowledge toward developing a business of his
own, and located at Nos. 436-38 Pleasant street, New Bedford. He
specializes in mill work, gas water heaters and repair work of all kinds,
and has built up a good business among those who understand and ap-
preciate. When employed by others, Mr. Murphy became a member of
the Journeyman Plumbers Union, serving as its president for thirteen
years, and since has become a member of the Master Plumbers Associa-
tion, serving on its executive committee. For the past five years he has
been an instructor in plumbing at the New Bedford Industrial School.
He is a member of the New Bedford Chamber of Commerce, and when
a clerk was connected with the Provision Clerks Mutual Benefit Associa-
tion. In politics he is an Independent, and in religious faith a Roman
Catholic, belonging to St. James Parish.

Mr. Murphy married in New Bedford, August 29, 1900, Frances
Anna Blecha, daughter of Joseph Blecha, a mill worker, Mr. and Mrs.
Murphy are the parents of two sons and two daughters : Francis, born
in 1904; Catherine, in 1906; James F., in 1910; Mary Frances, in 1914;
a fifth child, a daughter, is deceased.

HUGH LINN DONAGHY.

When a boy of tender years, Hugh Linn Donaghy lost both his
parents, and it was through the kindly aid of a society of the Pres-
byterian church, whose special duty was the care of orphans, that he
was enabled to obtain an education and learn a trade. He was one of
a family of eight thus bereft and one of these was to have the privilege
which fell to the boy, Hugh L. The trade was learned, and in this
country Mr. Donaghy has built up a business and a reputation as a
smith which has brought him large returns. To the Presbyterian
church of New Bedford he is a strong pillar of support, and in serving
that church as trustee and active member he feels that he is only in a
measure repaying the debt of gratitude he owes to the church in rescuing
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well improved. To craftsman and churchman must be added valuable
service as a citizen, for his life in New Bedford also included civic
service of a high order.

Hugh L. Donaghy was born in Londonderry, Ireland, June 6, 1864,
son of Scotch Presbyterian parents, Nixon and Matilda Donaghy. On
being left an orphan, the Presbyterian Society arranged for his sup-
port with an uncle of the lad, and until fourteen years of age he attended
the state schools. He was then hired out to a farmer by his uncle, the
stipulated term being six months, but he remained a year at the farm.
He was then apprenticed to a blacksmith, his term only to terminate
with his coming of age, a date then six years in the future. He served
the entire period, receiving no wages except his food, the society stand-
ing sponsor for all his other needs, a debt of gratitude paid and repaid
over and over in loyal support of the church which befriended him.
In 1885 he came to the United States, landing at Castle Garden, New
York City, with ten cents which was invested in a loaf of bread, his only
food until he reached Fall River, Massachusetts, his brother, who was
living there, having sent him a ticket good on the Fall River boat. He
did not long remain in Fall River, but came to New Bedford, almost
immediately securing employment at his trade with N. T. Fuller, with
whom he remained two years. Work then becoming slack at the Fuller
shop he entered the employ of a Mr. Hamlin, forging the iron work for
loom harness on which Mr. Hamlin held a patent. With Mr. Hamlin
and with Joseph B. Ashley, father of the present mayor of New Bed-
ford, who was a member of the firm of Brownell & Ashley, manu-
facturers. Air. Donaghy spent nine years, being foreman for eight of
those years.

In 1895 he formed a partnership with John A. Taylor, who had been
a fellow workman with Brownell & Ashley, and they conducted a gen-
eral blacksmith business for three years under the firm name, Taylor &
Donaghy, their shop at No. 447 Kempton street. In 1898 Mr. Taylor
withdrew and Mr. Donaghy became sole owner. A general black-
smithing business, very large in its volume, is transacted, skilled black-
smiths being employed in the different departments, and modern ma-
chines also being used wherever possible. For twenty-one years the
shop has been in its present location, headquarters for all iron repair
work, horseshoeing, carriage iron work and wheelwrighting. Integrity
in his dealings has marked his business career, and superiority of work-
manship is a guaranteed feature of all that goes from his shops. As a
man he ranks equally high, and as this North of Ireland still compara-
tively young man reviews his years, thirty-two, in New Bedford, he
can feel nothing but genuine satisfaction in his achievement.

For seven years Mr. Donaghy represented Ward Four in Common
Council, elected as a Republican, and loyally served his consituency and
his city. He is a member of the First Presbyterian Church, of which
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and is a generous contributor to its varied interests. He is a member
of Eureka Lodge, Free and Accepted Masons ; Adoniram Chapter,
Royal Arch Masons; the Encampment, Canton, New Bedford Patri-
archs Militant, Independent Order of Odd Fellows; Nonquitt Tribe,
Improved Order of Red Men; New Bedford Lodge, Benevolent and
Protective Order of Elks; New Bedford Aerie, Fraternal Order of
Eagles ; and the Calendonian Club, of which he was a trustee. He is
interested in all these organizations, and held in high esteem by his
brethren of these orders.

Mr. Donaghy married Elizabeth Conn, born in Armagh, Ireland,
in 1886, the only five dollars he had in the world going to pay the
minister who performed the ceremony. But that was the real beginning
of his prosperity, and want has never invaded the Donaghy home.
They are the parents of two sons, Samuel N., born in 1892, now in
the employ of Bates & Kirby ; and Francis A., born in 1898, employed
with his father in his blacksmithing business.

C. CHESTER GIFFORD.

C. Chester Gifford, now manager of the New Bedford branch of the
R. W. Powers Company, distributors of the Hudson Automobile in
Southern Massachusetts, has been connected with the commercial life
of the city for all the years of his business life. He is a son of Charles
L. and Ellen M. Giftord, the former named for many years prior to his
death in 1913 was assistant city engineer of Fall River.

C. Chester Gifford was born in Fall River, Massachusetts, August
22, 1881. He was educated in the public schools, later pursuing ad-
vanced courses at Gushing Academy, Ashburnham, Massachusetts. He
began business life in 1903 with the Title Guarantee and Trust Com-
pany of New York City, filling the position of solicitor for nine years.
He was then for a term of years associated with the Franklin Howes
Medicine Company of Boston as treasurer, and is still a director of
this company. In both these positions. New Bedford was embraced in
the territory he covered and at regular intervals he was in the city in
pursuit of business. In 1914 he entered the employ of the R. W. Powers
Company of Fall River, and in 1915 was appointed manager of their
New Bedford oiifice. The Powers Company have the agency for the
sale of the Hudson Automobile in Southern Massachusetts and Rhode
Island, and the New Bedford office is one of the important offices of the
Hudson Power Company. The company's showrooms and garage are
located at No. 501 County street, and there a large volume of business
is transacted. Mr. Gifford is a Republican in politics, an attendant of the
Congregational church, and formerly a member of the Seventh Regiment,
New York National Guard.

Mr. Gifford married, in 1907, Corina M. Lewis, daughter of Thomas
L. and Lillian (Hicks) Lewis, of Dartmouth, Massachusetts, her father
an owner of the Westport Manufacturing Company.

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CHARLES RICHMOND GIDLEY.

A Dartmouth boy, educated in New Bedford schools, trained to
business methods in the offices of New Bedford corporations, one of
which he now serves as treasurer, Mr. Gidley is a true son of that old
Dartmouth of which New Bedford was once a part. As treasurer of the
New Bedford Textile Company, he holds important position in the
manufacturing life of the city and is vested with an authority and
responsibility uncommon for a man of his years. But in business youth
is no crime nor a bar to promotion, and this young man of thirty-six
has fairly won the recognition that has been bestowed upon him. He
is a son of Elijah B. Gidley, born in Dartmouth, Massachusetts, Septem-
ber 19, 1858, now connected with the Texas Oil Company, and his wife,
Sarah A. (McGinn) Gidley, born in Providence, Rhode Island, they now
residing at No. 1384 Rockdale avenue. New Bedford.

Charles R. Gidley was born in Dartmouth, Bristol county, Massachu-
setts, January 21, 1881. After the family moved to New Bedford he
began his public school education, which was continued through gram-
mar school and a preparatory school. He began his business career
with the New England Cotton Yarn Company of New Bedford, as an
office employee, continuing there three years. The following five years
he was with the Lambeth Cordage Company, in charge of their plant,
then aided in the organization of the New Bedford Textile Company,
of which he was elected treasurer. He is a Republican in politics, a
member of Abram H. Howland, Jr. Lodge, Free and Accepted Masons;
Adoniram Chapter, Royal Arch Masons; New Bedford Council, Royal
and Select Masters ; and Sutton Commandery, Knights Templar. His
club is the Wamsutta, his church the Trinitarian (Congregational).

Mr. Gidley married in Marion, Massachusetts, July 7, 1906, Susan T.
Delano, daughter of Captain Clark Wheeler Delano, born January 19,
1858, died November 4, 1916, and his wife, Fanny J. (Hamilton) Delano,
born in 1859, yet residing in New Bedford. Mr. and Mrs. Gidley are the
parents of four daughters and a son : Elizabeth Richmond, born .'\ugust
26, 1907; Fanny Delano, January 28, 191 1 ; Ruth, October 14, 1913;
Charles Richmond (2), June 26, 1915 ; Alice, June 6, 1917. The family
home is No. 474 Park street.

FREDERICK HUGH McDEVITT.

When a boy of twelve years in Canada's Maritime Province, New
Brunswick, Frederick H. McDevitt began mill work. His ambition to
rise bore instant fruit and even before coming to the United States he
had risen through the various grades that separate the beginner from
the overseer and was filling the last named position. He came to the
United States in 1900, the man of knowledge and experience, and filled
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to the Soule Mill. As agent of that mill, he carries the responsibility of
both the buying and selling departments, and as the corporation is
capitalized at $1,250,000, operates ninety-three thousand spindles, twenty-
three hundred looms and employs nine hundred hands in the manu-
facture of lawns, organdies, sateens, dimities, lenos and fancies. It is
readily seen that his position is no sinecure. He is a son of Hugh and
Catherine McDevitt, of St. John's, New Brunswick.

Frederick Hugh McDevitt was born in St. John's, New Bruns-
wick, Canada, and until twelve years of age attended school. He then
became a mill worker in Canada and so rapidly did he advance that in
four years he was rated as second hand. Two years later he was made
an overseer, then in 1900 came to the United States, spending his
first year in North Adams, Massachusetts. The following nine years
were spent in Easthampton, Massachusetts, mills, in different depart-
ments, after which he was superintendent of a new mill which he or-
ganized in East Boston, manned with city labor — a difficult under-
taking at that time, and operated it for three years very successfully.
On June 11, 191 5, he came to the Soule Mill as agent, and in the three
years that he has been in New Bedford he has won high position among
the men whose skill is such an important factor in the success of the
great cotton industry, the city's pride and source of prosperity. He is
a member of the National Association of Cotton Manufacturers. Socially
and fraternally, he officiates with his fellow men in the Benevolent
and Protective Order of Elks, Knights of Columbus, the Wamsutta
Club, and is a member of the Roman Catholic church.

Mr. McDevitt married in Boston, Massachusetts, in November,
1902, Nellie Owens, born in Dorchester, Massachusetts. They are
the parents of Frederick Anthony and Francis Owens, twins, born
December 30, 1904: Paul Fennell, born in 1908; Alice Louise, born in
1912; Mary, born in 1914. The twins, Frederick A. and Francis O.,
both entered New Bedford High School at the remarkable age of twelve
years.

L. J. OSCAR FONTAINE.

Coming in 1904 from his native St. Hyacinthe, Province of Quebec,
Canada, to accept appointment as organist at Notre Dame Church, Fall
River, Mr. Fontaine has grown in popularity with music lovers, and as
the present organist of St. Anthony's Church, New Bedford, as com-
poser and piano instructor, occupies a leading position in musical circles.
He has composed and published many pleasing and effective pieces of
music for the piano, favorably reviewed by the musical critics. He
has given New Bedford many musical treats, one of them the concert
given at the inauguration of the new pipe organ at St. Anthony's. The
organ recital which formed the main feature of the program was given
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of the musical numbers were rendered by members of St. Anthony's
under the leadership of the church organist, Mr. Fontaine. The critic
of the "Mercury," in reporting the concert, said : "The ninth number,
"Illusion," was played by Mr. Fontaine (his own composition), in a
manner that bodes well for the future use of the organ, while the singing
of the chorus and the double quartet reflected credit upon the talented
organist and director." The organ over which Mr. Fontaine presides
is a wonderful instrument of great brilliancy and power of tone. In its
varied tonal effects it is like an orchestra of stringed, brass and reed in-
struments. Its soft stops are of lovely quality and delicacy of tone,
while its full organ is sonorous, powerful and rich. The organ was built
by Casavant, of Canada, and embodies all the modern ideas in organ-
building. In his masterly handling, Mr. Fontaine adapts his talents
to the capacity and peculiarities of his wonderful instrument and together
the musical service adds to the dignified services of the large Catholic
church, St. Anthony's.

L. J. Oscar Fontaine was born in St. Hyacinthe, Province of Quebec,
Canada, July 4, 1876, a birthday which surely entitles him to the best
the United States can give him, the hundredth anniversary of the signing
of the Declaration of Independence. He is a son of Raphael E. and
Angeliqne (Bonin) Fontaine, his father a lawyer and king's counsellor
of the judicial district of Montreal, and judge of the superior court of
Richelieu county, his legal career covering a period of forty years, filled
with professional honors. Judge Fontaine had two sons : Ernest, a
lawyer of St. Hyacinthe and king's counsellor; L. J. Oscar, of further
mention ; and three daughters, one of whom, Eugenie, married H. Abani
Beauregard, clerk of court, residing in St. Hyacinthe.

L. J. Oscar Fontaine early developed musical talents, and with his
academic study a course of musical instruction was pursued. He was
placed under the instruction of Leon Riguet, organist of the cathedral
and composer of more than local fame ; continued under him until
entering the Seminary of St. Hyacinthe. There his musical study con-
tinued, and later, at Nicolet Seminary, he spent four years under the
instruction of Professor De Chattellon. an acknowledged master of the
pipe organ. While at Nicolet, Mr. Fontaine also acted as the seminary
organist. After leaving Nicolet he continued musical study under the
direction of Professor Octave Pelletter, organist of the Cathedral at
Montreal, also pursued studies in harmony and composition under Pro-
fessor Guillaume Couture. Later he returned to St. Hyacinthe and was
appointed assistant to the cathedral organist, his former teacher, Leon
Riguet. For seven years he filled that position, constantly growing in
I'ower and skill. In 1904 Mr. Fontaine came to the United States, lo-
cating in Fall River, Massachusetts, where he was appointed organist
and choir director of the Church of Notre Dame, which had just in-
stalled a magnificent organ. He continued in that position until 1910,

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when he resigned to accept a similar relation with St. Anthony's Church,
of New Bedford.

Although Mr. Fontaine has control and is master of the finest organ
in this section, he makes no pretensions to being a concert organist,
neither does he teach the organ. He has built up a choir of one hundred
male and female voices at St. Anthony's, all of them working people,
whose only musical instruction is received through him. His musical
library is a wonderful collection, containing nothing inferior. His work
at the church requires five organ compositions each Sunday, and he is
not known to have repeated himself once in a period of several months.
He has a large number of piano pupils and these with church services
and choir rehersals, leave him no time for pupils on the organ.

He is a voluminous composer, his library containing many three-
part sacred pieces for female voices and selections for male voices in
three parts written by himself. He writes many of his organ accom-
paniments, composed a mass for male voices in which the "Santus,"
is written in 5-4 time, a most unusual combination. He is one of the
most successful composers of what are known as "piano teaching pieces,"
a field of piano compositions in which he is supreme. Every year he
has issued from the m.usic publishing house, Theodore Presser, of
Philadelphia, several compositions that reach the teachers of the United
States and Canada through the medium of the "Etude," the well-known
musical publication. Among the best known of his classical publications
are: "L'Elegant," "L'lllusion," "Boat Song," "L'Humoresque." He
is a member of the American Guild of Organists, and is very popular with
a large circle of friends.

Mr. Fontaine married Berthe Desjardins, daughter of George T.
and Philomene (Peloquin) Desjardins, her father a real estate and in-
surance agent. Mr. and Mrs. Fontaine are the parents of Conrad Rene,
born in 191 1, and Gaston Pol, born in 1914, both born in New Bedford.

JOSEPH OLIVIER PAQUETTE.

When Mr. Paquette first came to New Bedford from his native
Canada, his cash capital consisted of four dollars, and he was unable to
speak the language of the country which he had selected as his home.
But he had friends among the French speaking people of the city, and
within a year had acquired a knowledge of English, had supported him-
self and gained a business knowledge, which was the foundation of his
later successful career as a real estate agent and promoter. The firm
name under which he operates, "The Joseph O. Paquette Land Com-
pany," is one well known in New Bedford, and he is head of the largest
real estate development business in the North End. This is the record
of his twenty years of life in New Bedford, 1897-1917, and stamps him
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man, honorable, upright and highly esteemed among those with whom
his twenty years have been passed. He is a son of Jean and Leas
Paquette, both of whom died in Canada ; Jean Paquette, a building con-
tractor, died in 1892. two of his uncles serving and losing their lives in
the Rebellion of 1837. His widow survived him until 1910.

Joseph Olivier Paquette was born in St. Aime, Quebec, Canada,
January 31, 1877. He attended the Montreal schools until fifteen
years of age, then became a clerk in a Montreal dry goods store, con-
tinuing in mercantile life until coming to New Bedford, April i, 1897.
The first year in New Bedford was spent in the employ of a house paint-
er, and in learning to speak English, his second year as clerk with the
Globe Clothing Company, the following six years as agent and assis-
tant superintendent for the John Hancock Life Insurance Company.
He was very successful in his insurance work, and later, when offered
a real estate agency by a Providence firm, he accepted, making an equal
success in that line of business activity. Having demonstrated his
ability to transact business profitably for others, he decided to engage
in business for himself, and in March, 1910, began real estate operations
as "The Joseph O. Paquette Land Company." Success attended his
efforts and he is one of the best known real estate operators of this
city and Worcester, Massachusetts. He is a Republican in politics,
member of the Franco-American Republican Club ; New Bedford Lodge,
Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks ; Nashawena Tribe, Improved
Order of Red Men ; Council No. 3, League Des Patriots, De L'Union
St. Jean Baptiste D'Amerique ; and the Commonwealth Club of Wor-
cester, Massachusetts.

Mr. Paquette married, in New Bedford, February 18, 1903, Olive
A. Normandin, born in the Province of Quebec, Canada, daughter of
Francis X. and Josephine E. Normandin, her father now retired. Mr.
and Mrs. Paquette are the parents of Normand J., born May 8, 1904;
Roland L., October 15. 1905; Raymond H., February 16. 1907; Evelyn
v., April 16, 1913.

GEORGE HERBERT NYE.

When in 18S1, a young man of seventeen, George H. Nye entered the
employ of the City of New Bedford as an attachee of the surveyor's of^ce,
he probably had little idea that his life was to be spent in the employ of
that and kindred departments of the city public service. But that was
the fact, nevertheless, and the city gained for the engineering department
that which the private engineering profession lost, although for a very
short time, 1893-94, he was engaged as a private surveyor as well. He
has given to municipal engineering problems his entire time and talents,
and it is gratifying to his townsmen to know that his reputation has ex-
tended far beyond city limits, and that he is regarded as an authority
and consulted by eminent municipal engineers.

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George Herbert Nye was born in New Bedford, June 10, 1864. After
preparatory study at New Bedford Friends' Academy, he became a stu-
dent at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, there continuing his
studies until graduated, class of 1885. During his summer vacation in
1881, he secured a position in the office of the city surveyor of New Bed-
ford, and during the summers, 1881-1885, there spent his vacation periods.
In 1886 he received permanent appointment as city surveyor, an office he
held until 1893, then for a year was in private practice as a surveyor.
His connection with the city engineers began in the summer of 1884, and
continued in connection with his duties of city surveyor until the duties
of the latter office were retired in 1893, then he gave his entire time to
the duties of assistant to the city engineer until 1910, when he accepted
appointment as city superintendent of cemeteries, an office he held two
years, 1910-1912. In April, 1912, he was elected city engineer by com-
mon council in convention, and each succeeding year has been reelected
to succeed himself. His office is in Room 303, Municipal Building. Mr.
Nye is a member of professional societies. Eureka Lodge, Free and
Accepted Masons ; Adoniram Chapter, Royal Arch Masons ; New Bed-
ford Council, Royal and Select Masters ; Sutton Commandery, Knights
Templar ; and the Dartmouth and New Bedford Yacht clubs. He mar-
ried, in New Bedford, in 1888, Anne Freeman Bartlett.

JOSEPH UBALDE PAQUIN, M. D.

Since 1901, Dr. Paquin has practiced his healing art in New Bedford,
coming from Canada's great medical department of Laval University,
Quebec, Canada, his M. D. bestowed by that institution in 1901. He is
an ardent disciple of prevention as well as cure, and as chairman of the
New Bedford Board of Health in 1915-16 he strove for the enforcement
of all health ordinances of the city and the enactment of more stringent
and sweeping laws for safeguarding public health. His practice is
extensive and he ranks with the eminent physicians of his community.
He is a son of Joseph Albert and Emma (Savard) Paquin, his father
a merchant and mayor of St. Eustache.

Joseph Ubalde Paquin was born in St. Eustache, Province of
Quebec, Canada, October 4, 1878. His years of preparatory study were
passed in the Academy (St. Eustache) of his home city, and at Bourget
College. Quebec, Canada. He then entered the classical courses, Laval
University, Quebec, whence he was graduated B. A. in 1897, and four
years later received his M. D. at the Medical Department of Laval Uni-
versity, Montreal, class of 1901. Since that year he has been continuously
in active practice, his residence and practice in New Bedford dating from
that time, his offices and residence at No. 1304 Acushnet avenue. He is
a member of the New Bedford Medical Society, the Massachusetts
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of the New Bedford Board of Health. 1915-16, and is a trustee of Massa-
chusetts State Hospital at Palmer, his term expiring in 192 1.

While deeply engrossed in his professional duties, Dr. Paquin has
many social and fraternal connections, and is one of the genial, courte-
ous gentlemen whom his fellow-men delight to meet and honor. He
is a member of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, Fraternal
Order of Eagles (physician to). Loyal Order of Moose, Fraternal Order
of Tigers, Nashawena Tribe. Improved Order of Red Men, Franco
American Federation of New Bedford, L. Union St. Jean Baptiste d"
Amerique (physician), Knights of Columbus, Foresters of America,
Knights of vSherwood Forest of Massachusetts (physician), La Societe
Historique, Franco Americaine de Boston, Le Club des Franc Tireurs
de New Bedford, Le Club Tremont de New Bedford, the Plymouth
Club of New Bedford, and St. Anthony Church, Roman Catholic.

Dr. Paquin married. September 23, 1902, at Manteno, Illinois, Nelda
Marceau, born there December 5, 1877, daughter of Zephere Marceau,
furniture dealer, undertaker, mayor of Manteno, and his wife, Helen
(Carney) Marceau. They are the parents of Helen Emma, born April
28, 1904. a student at Academy of the Sacred Heart, Fairhaven, Massa-
chusetts; Zephya Albert, born May li, 1905, attending St. Anthony's
Parochial School ; Jeanne Louise, born January 24, 1906, attending
Academy of the Sacred Heart ; Beatrice Frances, born January 19, 1907,
attending Academy of the Sacred Heart ; John Conrad, born January 19,
1912, attending St. Anthony's Parochial School.

ALFRED HOLMES.

A native son of Massachusetts, Mr. Holmes, at the age of twelve,
began his successful career as a cotton mill worker at North Pownal,
Vermont, a career he has pursued without interruption from that first
boy's position to his responsible post as superintendent of Mill No. 2. of
the Nonquitt Spinning Company, a two and a half million dollar corpora-
tion, operating two mills where fourteen hundred employes and one hun-
dred and ninety-five thousand spindles combine in producing combed
cotton yarns. All the way has been won through merit, and a point of
vantage once reached was never relinquished except when moving to a
higher level in mill service. His ambition from a boy has been to do
things well, and to be faithful to a trust has become a part of his very
nature. He is master of his business, and from the standpoint of the
trained practical worker of wide experience meets his problems and
forms his judgments.

Alfred Holmes was born at North Attleboro, Massachusetts, April
6, 1876, son of Leander and Margaret (Duckworth) Holmes, his parents
both living, his father also a mill man. He attended in Lonsdale, Rhode
Island, the public schools. The family soon moved to North Pownal,

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Vermont, and at the age of twelve he began running a cotton waste
machine, continuing until advanced to the carding room. From North
Pownal he went to Pawtucket, Rhode Island, and for a short time was a
back boy at the E. Jenks Mill, going thence to the Mechanic Mills in
East Attleboro, Massachusetts, as picket tender and card stripper, serv-
ing as such for three years. He then returned to Pawtucket and for one
year worked on "speeders." The next four years were spent in the em-
ploy of J. F. Adams, in Adamsdale, Massachusetts, there becoming a
carding room "second hand." Back to Pawtucket again was his next
move, changing to thread manufacturer at the J. & P. Coates Mills, his
rating, "speeder" and "comber." He remained at the thread mills three
years, leaving to take the position of overseer with the Lorraine Manu-
facturing Company in Pawtucket, there remaining one year. The next
year was spent at Hebronville, "second hand ;" then three years at the
New Hampshire Mills in Pennacook, New Hampshire, "second hand;"
again one year at Pawtucket with the Dexter Yarn Mills, overseer of the
carding room ; and three years with the Samoset Mills, overseer of card-
ing in two mills. Another period of about three years was passed at the
Luther Mills at Fall River, Massachusetts, as overseer of carding, com-
ing from that position to a similar one in Nonquitt Mill No. i, at New
Bedford, in 1904. In 191 1 he was appointed superintendent of Nonquitt
Mill No. 2, which position he has occupied to date. He has fairly won
his place in the manufacturing field, and is a thoroughly respected and
self respecting man. He has many friends, is a member of the Masonic
order, and of the Congregational church, but when free from his official
duties his home and his family are his first consideration.

Mr. Holmes married in Pennacook, New Hampshire, in 1900, Mary
J. Osborne, they the parents of a son, Leander, born January 26, 1902,
named for his grandfather; and a daughter, Margaret L., born August
10, 1915, named for her Grandmother Holmes.

WILLIAM HENRY AUGUSTUS TOBEY.

The art of growing old gracefully has been attained in its perfection
by Mr. Tobey, his many years in the circus business seemingly com-
municating to him the good cheer and joviality the circus so freely
dispenses to all comers. Now past the age which marks a man with
octogenarian distinction he has the merry laugh of a boy, and in his
daily walk into the city he meets and greets his old friends with the
good fellowship and abandon of a young man. Deprived of children of
their own, he and his good wife, both lovers of young people, are well
known in the neighborhood and are apparently grandparents to an ex-
ceedingly large family. Mr. Tobey is a descendant of Dr. Elisha Tobey,
a Harvard graduate, who practiced his profession in the town of Dart-
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years. Dr. Elisha Tobey's son, William Tobey, New Bedford's first
postmaster, was born in that part of the town of Dartmouth, Bristol
county, Massachusetts, now known as Acushnet, March 20, 1755, died
in New Bedford, January 5, 1835. The postofTice in New Bedford was
established in 1794, William Tobey being the first postmaster and filling
the office twelve years until succeeded by Abraham Smith in 1806.
William Tobey, before taking the postoffice, followed the sea and com-
manded vessels. Captain William Tobey was the father of Dr. William
Henry Tobey, born in 1804, died in 1864, a physician and druggist. He
married Lucy W. Fuller, of New Bedford, who was taken by an aunt to
her home on Nantucket Island and there grew to womanhood. She died
in 1900, aged ninety-five years, eight months, fourteen days. Dr. Tobey
died in Rochester.

William H. A. Tobey, son of Dr. William H. and Lucy W. (Fuller)
Tobey. was born in Purchase street, opposite the Common, New Bed-
ford, Massachusetts, March i, 1835. Two months later he was taken
by his parents to Rochester, New York, and there resided until the age
of twenty years. He was educated in the public schools of Rochester,
and about 1855 he moved to Providence, Rhode Island. The young man
worked for a year in Providence and while there became of legal age.
He located in New Bedford, became interested in the circus business,
and for thirty-five years toured the country, first with the Rivers and
Derious shows, then with the Toole and Miles aggregation, then from
1861 until his retirement was with the Forepaugh shows. He is one of
the olden time circus men, is full of reminiscences of the palmy days of
the business and regards the years spent with the "big top" as a liberal
education.

After retiring from the circus business he entered the drug busi-
ness in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and for seven years was manager for
others. He then bought a store which he operated for two years, then
sold out and has since lived a retired life at No. 163 River Road in the
Acushnet district of New Bedford. He is an enthusiastic member of the
Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, a charter member of New
Bedford Lodge, No. 73, his name being No. i on the list of charter
members. For six years he was chaplain of the lodge, for many years
was a trustee and has attended nineteen annual conventions of the
order in as many different cities. He retains a lively interest in lodge
affairs and attended the Convention of 1917 in Boston, Alassachusetts.

Mr. Tobey married, November 24, 1871, in Cambridge, Massachu-
setts, Mrs. Catherine R. Stone, daughter of John R. and Mary Otis
(Peabody) Arrington, of Salem, Massachusetts.

CLIFTON B. PIERCE.

Clifton B. Pierce, who is serving in the capacity of superintendent
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Massachusetts, born April 12, 1878, son of Crawford S. and Elizabeth
(Delano) Pierce, the former named a mason and builder.

Leaving school at the age of thirteen years, Clifton B. Pierce worked
for William G. Hayden, who at that time carried on a general plumbing
and house furnishing business. After working at the same stand, but
under different management, for a period of six years, he accepted a posi-
tion as local salesman for a mill supply house, serving in that capacity
for several years. During the summer of 1901 he became interested in
the Street Railway business and applied for a position as motorman,
which he secured. Within a year he was promoted to the position of
clerk on the night shift, and was later put in charge of the carhouse as
night foreman. Mr. Pierce held almost all of the minor positions in
the Street Railway business, and was promoted in 1910 to the position
of superintendent of transportation, which he is filling at the present
time (1918). Mr. Pierce is affiliated with the North Christian Church,
with Vesta Lodge, Independent Order of Odd Fellows, with Dartmouth
Club, with the Union Street Railway Employees Association, and is a
Republican in politics. He married. June 12, 1907, Lillian M. Moulton.

CHESTER P. REXFORD.

Beginning his business life at the age of seventeen as clerk with the
Union Street Railroad Company, Mr. Rexford bent every energy toward
mastering every detail of his position, eschewing the allurements and
pleasure so attractive to a young man of that age. Promotions have fol-
lowed in logical sequence until reaching his present responsible position,
claim adjuster, all claims for damages against the company passing
through his hands. This record of fifteen years' service with one corpora-
tion testifies both to the quality of that service and to the value placed
upon his faithful, intelligent efforts by the Union Street Railroad Com-
pany — the only employer he ever knew. He is a son of George and Eliza
(Butts) Rexford, of Dartmouth, Massachusetts, his father a general in-
spector with the Morse Twist Drill and Machine Company of New Bed-
ford.

Chester P. Rexford was born in New Bedford, Massachusetts, Feb-
ruary 15, 1885, and has ever resided in the city of his birth. He was
educated in the grade schools, continuing his studies until 1902, when he
began business life by securing a clerk's position with the Union Street
Railroad Company in New Bedford. He was not long allowed to remain
in a clerk's position, his promotion carrying him to the desk of the assist-
ant cashier. In that position he proved his quality, and in 1906, which
was four years after entering the company's employ, he was made
cashier. Two years were spent at the cashier's desk, then he was placed
in charge of the company's disbursements, to its operating and office
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present position, claim adjuster, a post requiring an ability — to success-
fully fill — which comparatively few men possess. Claims against any
public service corporation are many, varied in nature and grading as just,
unjust and doubtful. To work each claim into its proper class, work
injustice to neither claimant nor corporation is a problem which never
grows easier of solution with each recurring claim. A deep knowledge
of human nature and the workings of the human mind, great tact, infinite
patience and stern resolve to get at the truth are some of the requisites
for the position Mr. Rexford so ably fills, although a man but fairly out
of the valley of youth.

One of New Bedford's ancient and unique institutions is the Protect-
ing Society, which is the oldest part and ever an important adjunct of
the Fire Department, volunteer and paid. The officers of the society are
a president, eight directors, a secretary and treasurer, Mr. Rexford now
holding the last named dual office. The Protecting Society was the out-
growth of the vigilance committee, organized in 1830 to deal with the
rough element in the city. Mr. Rexford is also a member of Star in the
East Lodge, Free and Accepted Masons, the American Order of United
Workmen, Trinitarian Church, and in politics is a Republican.

He married, September 11, 1909, Helen Allen Cushman, daughter of
Dr. Andrew Barnard and Edith H. (Allen) Cushman, the full record of
her father's valuable life and ancestry appearing in another part of this
work. Mr. and Mrs. Rexford are the parents of Eleanor, born in New
Bedford, August 8, 1910.

ARTHUR JOAQUIN TAVEIRA, M. D.

After completing medical college courses and receiving his degree,
Dr. Taveira visited his native Lisbon and as visiting physician in St.
Joseph's Hospital m that city, gained valuable and practical experience
in the treatment of disease and of the methods employed by his country-
men of the medical profession. With this complete equipment he came
to New Bedford in 1912, and offering his services as physician and sur-
geon proceeded to that hardest of all tasks — the awaiting of a practice.
The professional man barred by the ethical tradition and precept may
employ none of the arts of the merchant or business man, but must ex-
pend years of his life and a great deal of money to prepare for practice,
then await the pleasure of the public. Small wonder that of the great
number yearly graduated from medical, dental and legal schools, so small
a percentage survive those first years of weary waiting and watching.
But Dr. Taveira had a more pleasing experience, and instead of the usual
experience he found a practice awaiting him. Young and skillful in both
medicine and surgery, he is most popular and finds his time fully occu-
pied by the demands of a large practice.

Dr. Taveira is a son of Antonio Joaquin Taveira, born in Minho,

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Portugal, in 1831, died in Lisbon, Portugal, in 1908. He served in the
Royal Army, was a merchant, a devout Catholic and much respected.
He married Maria Candida Paes de Silva, born in Serra da Estrella, in
185 1, and is yet living in Lisbon, Portugal. They had two sons. Dr.
Arthur J., of further mention ; and Rev. Augustus Joaquin Taveira, pas-
tor of the Church of the Immaculate Conception, New Bedford, Massa-
chusetts. Their only daughter, Marie da Conceicao Taveira, married
Captain Antonio Martins, of Lisbon, an officer in the army of Portugal.

Arthur Joaquin Taveira was born in Lisbon, Portugal, December i,
1887, and there finished courses of study in the city schools correspond-
ing in grade to American primary, grammar and high schools. After that
course of study was completed, he came to the United States and pur-
sued study at St. Anselm's College, Manchester, New Hampshire. With
classical courses finished he began professional study at the Baltimore
Medical College, Baltimore, completing his course at the Maryland Medi-
cal College, whence he was graduated Doctor of Medicine, class of 1910.
He then returned to Lisbon and for a period was on the house staff of
St. Joseph's Hospital, coming again to the United States in 1912, and
locating in New Bedford, with offices and residence at No. 1565 Acush-
net avenue. He is a member of the New Bedford Medical and the Massa-
chusetts Medical societies, the Portuguese Fraternity, Catholic Portu-
guese Society of New Bedford, Knights of Columbus, the Immaculate
Conception Church, Roman Catholic, his clubs being the Merchants' and
Plymouth.

Dr. Taveira married in Lisbon, Portugal, December 8, 191 1, Camilla
Casais de la Rosa, born there January 3, 1888, daughter of Marcial Benito
Casais de la Rosa, a manufacturer, born in Celanova, Province of Hurense,
Spain, and Catherinedo Rosario Fernandes, born in Villa Franca de Xira,
Portugal. Dr. and Mrs. Taveira have a son, Augustus Casais Taveira,
born February 4, 1913.

WALTER ERICH LOTHAR NIETSCH, M. D.

Since coming to New Bedford as pathologist to St. Luke's Hospital
and as surgeon in practice for the past five years, 1912-17, Dr. Nietsch
has demonstrated the extent of his scientific attainment by his wonderful
success as a practitioner and by his research and investigation along
broad lines of professional knowledge. He is a young man in years and
is comparatively young in practice, but his worth has been recognized,
and he already is a quoted authority, and with a thorough understanding
of the obligation resting upon him he performs professional service
with an efficiency indicative of great skill and ability. Dr. Nietsch is
of old and honorable German family, tracing on the paternal side to
Hermann Nietsch, of Trachenberg, Silesia, great-great-great-grand-
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line to the Burggraf of Wartburg. an ancient noble family with a castle
(now in ruins) in Wartburg, Silesia, dating back to the Thirty Years'
War. Dr. Nietsch is a son of Hermann Xietsch, of Breslau, Germany,
bom May 29, 185S. the owner of an express company business, an hon-
orar}- judge of the court in Breslau. He married Agnes Dudeck, born
June 12, 1857.

Dr. Walter E. L. Xietsch was born in Breslau, Germany, September
I. 1S86, and completed his home education with graduation from the
"Gymnasium" in Breslau in 1906. The same year he came to the United
States, and soon afterward entered the medical department of the Uni-
versity of Pennsylvania, whence he was graduated M. D., class of 1910.
He then returned to Breslau, was physician to the medical clinic.
University of Breslau, and took post-graduate courses in the universities
of Breslau, Berlin. Munich and Heidelberg, Germany, specializing in
surgery. Upon his return to the United States, he became chief resident
surgeon to Garfield ^^lemorial Hospital, Washington, D. C.. which
position he held for one year, when he was chosen physician to the
Dispensary of the University of Pennsylvania Hospital in Philadelphia,
leaving these and coming to New Bedford as pathologist to St. Luke's
Hospital. For the past five years he has specialized in surgical practice,
with offices at No. 294 Union street. He is a member of the professional
societies, and of the New Bedford Yacht Club.

Dr. Nietsch married, in New Bedford, February 21, 1913. Emily
Margaret Perr\-, born August 8, 1894. daughter of Charles F. Perry, of
New Bedford, her father engaged in the real estate business. They are
the parents of Martha Agnes, born April 12. 1914, and Herman Cyril,
born April 18, 1916.

JULIUS BERKOWITZ.

In 1888, Julius Berkowitz came to the United States, a boy of
eighteen years, landing at Lewiston, Maine, in August of that year.
In 1895 he came to New Bedford, where as merchant and real estate
dealer he has taken an active part in the business life and development
of the South End. He is a son of David Wolf and his wife, Hannah
Galda (Smolowsky) Berkowitz, both of whom died in their native
Tauroggen, Russia, the father, a bookkeeper, died November 6. 1900,
aged seventy-two, the mother, July 26, 1912, at the age of eighty-two.

Julius Berkowitz was bom in Tauroggen, Russia, August 8, 1870,
and there attended school until fourteen years of age. completing a
grammar school course. He was a clerk in a German mercantile house
for a time, then went to Riga, Russia, working as clerk until 1888, when
he took passage for the United States, locating in Lewiston. Maine, in
the month of August, 1S88. Two years later he transferred his residence
to Boston, where in 1893 he completed all formalities and became a legal
citizen of the United States. In Boston he was a salesman and a West

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End street car conductor, resigning his position with the street railway
company in April, 1895, and coming to New Bedford. His first business
move in New Bedford was the purchase of the business of A. J. Freates
at No. 791 South Water street, which three years later he moved to a
better location at No. 889 South Water street, there remaining in pros-
perous operation until 191 1, when he sold out and began dealing in real
estate. In 1913 he opened a store at No. 1003 South Water street, which
he conducted for two years, then sold and has since given his entire time
to his real estate business. He has developed a large amount of South
End property, Roosevelt street being one of his promotions in partner-
ship with others. He is a Republican in politics, a trustee of the Massa-
chusetts State Hospital at Taunton, director of the New Bedford Charity
Organization, the New Bedford branch of the Society for the Prevention
of Cruelty to Children, is president of the Zionist Society, treasurer of
the Young Men's Hebrew Association, past president of New Bedford
Lodge of Brith Abraham, member of Lodge and Encampment, Inde-
pendent Order of Odd Fellows, ex-president of the South End Merchants
Association, member of the New Bedford Board of Commerce, and a
director of the Morris Plan Bank. He is a member of the Ahavath
Achin Congregation.

Mr. Berkowitz married, in New York City, July 26, 1896, Sophia
G. Shireson, daughter of Joseph and Fannie Schireson. They are the
parents of five children: Leo, Rebecca, Miriam, Celia and Benjamin.

aldege chausse.

When Aldege Chausse was fourteen years of age, he was brought by
his excellent parents to New Bedford, Massachusetts. That was in 1892,
a quarter of a century ago, but his parents are still living, comfortably
retired, and the boy of fourteen is the successful grocer, undertaker and
liveryman, his residence. No. 396, his grocery No. 398, and his undertak-
ing establishment and livery, at No. 388 North Front street. He was
still a minor when he first engaged in the grocery business, but youth did
not operate against him, and the business begun at eighteen is still con-
ducted and is a prosperous enterprise. As a further outlet for the energy
of this virile American of Canadian birth, he elected to add the business
of an undertaker and at his establishment modern funeral service has
reached a high state of perfection. In connection therewith a private
ambulance service is maintained and a livery barn is conducted in con-
nection therewith. In his business relations he is intimateh' connected
with the life of the North End, and hardly less influential in political
afifairs, fraternal and social. He is a grandson of Joseph Chausse. a
farmer of Canada, and son of Eugene and Vitaline (Desruisseau)
Chausse, his father a harness-maker by trade, now living retired at No.
396 North Front street, New Bedford.

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Aldege Chausse was born at Dunham, Canada, August 20, 1878, and
there attended school until 1892, when the family moved to New Bed-
ford, Massachusetts. He was employed for one year at the Bennett Cot-
ton Mill, then for three years was clerk in a grocery. There he became
familiar with business methods and custom, improved every opportunity
to acquire knowledge of buying stock as well as selling, and having con-
trol of a small amount of capital, began business for himself in 1896,
although but eighteen years of age. From that year he has steadily
progressed, he developing and expanding as his responsibilities increased
with the growth of his business. In 1910 he added an undertaking busi-
ness, and as funeral director and embalmer he maintains a modern estab-
lishment with private ambulance service and livery at Nos. 386-388 North
Front street. He is a trustee of the United Loan Company of New Bed-
ford, and to each of his lines of activity he gives personal attention and
supervision.

He is a Republican in politics, and for three years represented his
district in Common Council, 1909-1910-1912. In the latter year he was
elected alderman from Ward i, serving as chairman of the standing com-
mittee on burial grounds, and member of the committee on streets, chair-
man of the joint committee, audit, and member of joint committees,
charities, almshouse and the poor, education, finance, fire department,
ordinances, street lights, water works and water supply. He served as
alderman during 1913-1914, since then his interest in city affairs have
been as a private citizen. He is a member of Sippican Tribe, Improved
Order of Red Men ; the Loyal Order of Moose ; the Francs Tireurs
(French Sharpshooters); the Federation Franco-American; Court Bona-
venture. No. 25, Foresters Franco-American ; New Bedford Lodge, Be-
nevolent and Protective Order of Elks: the Tremont and Dartmouth
clubs. In religious affiliation he is a member of St. Anthony's Church,
Roman Catholic.

Mr. Chausse is unmarried, his home now as always being with his
parents. His standing is high in his community, and he has a host of
true friends attracted by his courteous, whole-souled manner and retained
through an appreciation of his many manly qualities.

MANUEL CORREIA LUIZ.

At the age of fifteen years Manuel C. Luiz,a Portuguese boy from the
Azores, came to the United States, going to Mattapoisett. Massachusetts,
where he spent three years as a farm hand. From the Denham farm he
made his way upward, becoming a mill worker in New Bedford at the
age of eighteen. He had a taste for machinery, particularly engines, and
in course of time, after acquiring the writing, reading and speaking of
English, he entered his name with the International Correspondence
School of Scranton for the stationary engineering course. The result of
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of the Bennett Mill was the procuring of a license, certifying him a fire-
man of the second class. This brought him a position as assistant fire-
man at the Bennett Mill No. 2, and his experience and further study
brought him a fireman's license of the first class. Still continuing his
studies while working as fireman, he passed the required examination
and received a license as an engineer of the second class, his attainments
permitting him to pass the third class grade. Next came a position as
assistant engineer, followed in due season by his receiving his license as
an engineer of the first class, the goal for which he had been so earnestly
striving, studying while others slept or played, and giving up all else to
further his purpose of becoming a first class engineer. In 1905 he be-
came assistant engineer with the Union Street Railway at the New Bed-
ford power house, and in 1910 was appointed to his present position,
chief engineer, having been in the United States twenty-two years. The
quality of the man is shown in his achievement, and no estimate of the
strength of his character, his courage or his determination is too high.

Manuel C. Luiz was born in the Azores, August 24, 1873, and there
attended public school until twelve years of age, coming to the United
States in 1888. Mr. Luiz is a member of the New England Association
of Stationary Engineers ; member of the Union Street Railway Em-
ployees : is a Republican in politics ; a communicant of Mount Carmel
Roman Catholic Church, and a lover of out-of-door sports, particularly
boating and fishing. He is a man thoroughly respected by all who know
him.

Mr. Luiz married, January 23, 1892, in New Bedford, Izabel T. Fon-
seca. Mr. and Mrs. Luiz are the parents of a son, Manuel, born in 1894,
and a daughter, Margaret, born in 1905.

LOUIS E. DESTREMPS.

Five generations before Louis E. Destremps, New Bedford's highly
esteemed architect, first saw the light in his Canadian home, an ances-
tor, and an eminent surgeon, arrived in Canada from Bordeaux, France,
but yielding to the opportunities for trade he abandoned his profes-
sion and became a wealthy merchant and ship owner. Louis E. Des-
tremps is a son of Louis G. Destremps, an architect, to whose capable
instruction and wise guidance the young man owes much of the success
which has come to him in his profession. He and his wife Celina yet
reside at Fall River.

Louis E. Destremps was born in Montreal, Canada, June 9. 1875.
His parents came to New York City where he attended public school
until the removal to Fall River, Massachusetts. After completing
grammar school courses his father placed him under private tutors, in-
tending him to enter college, but circumstances altered their plans and
the young man decided to prepare for his father's profession, architect.

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He was then eighteen years of age, and for four years he applied him-
self diligently, even going out and taking regular courses of instruc-
tion in the various building trades. This thorough instruction created
not only a designer of beautiful structures, but one who can intelli-
gently superintend the construction and meet every mechanic on his
ground. At the age of twenty-two, he left his father's office, went to
Newport and there entered the employ of Andrews & Withers, archi-
tects of Newport and New York. From Newport he went to the firm's
New York office and from there was sent to the various operations
that they were conducting, his ability to superintend construction so
capably rendering him a very valuable assistant. With this experience,
he returned to Fall River and there spent a year with his father, after
which he was for a time in New London, Connecticut, coming to New
Bedford in 1905 and opening an office in the Masonic Building. In
1907 he moved to his present offices in the New Bedford Theatre Build-
ing, where he serves a large and discriminating clientele. While Mr.
Destremps has designed and superintended the erection of many public
and private buildings in New Bedford and vicinity, perhaps the build-
ings which have given pleasure and enjoyment to the greatest number
of people are the Fort Phoenix Baths and allied buildings, their full
enjoyment, however, to follow the development of the pergola plan of
the last building. Among other buildings he has designed are the
Third District Court Building, the Star Store, the Betsey Winslow
School, the Lincoln School, the Jireh Swift School and many others,
public and private. He is not only a designer of buildings, but possesses
the genius to fit his buildings to their location and to the purpose for
which they are intended. Harmony prevails, and his designs have har-
mony written large all over them. The front of one of his buildings
could never be mistaken for a side or rear elevation, nor a factory be
mistaken for a school, nor a school for a church. His work is artistic
as well, and in the practical features of his profession he has the ad-
vantage of understanding the technicalities of the different trades. Like
most professional men he is a lover of the out-of-doors and farm life.
He paints in oils and indulges his artistic nature in all it impulses and
cravings. He is one of the incorporators of The New Bedford Institution
for Savings, and served as councilman at Fall River for three years.
When the Spanish-American War broke out he was a private of Battery
M, of Fall River, Massachusetts Heavy Artillery, but was honorably dis-
charged. May 2, 1898, not being able to pass the physical tests required
before the battery was admitted to the United States army. Although
Battery M was stationed at Fort Warren in Boston Harbor, they were
not called to active service in the field. He is a member of the Benevo-
lent and Protective Order of Elks, and several other orders, and belongs
to the Massachusetts Forestry Association. His clubs are the Dart-
mouth, Plymouth and Merchants of New Bedford ; he is a member of
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served as second vice-president and for two years first vice-president
of the New Bedford Board of Trade. In religious faith he is a Catholic,
belonging to the Church of the Sacred Heart.

Mr. Destremps married in Pittsfield, Massachusetts, June 16, 1897,
Antonia Labrode, daughter of Harmidas and Alice (Grandchamp) Lab-
rode. Mr. and Mrs. Destremps are the parents of Louis L., a student
of Dean Academy at Franklin, Massachusetts ; Pauline F., a student
at Jesus Mary Convent, Fall River; Francis C, attending Sacred Heart
parochial school.

BARNEY ZEITZ.

A business which was developed to one of large proportions in
New Bedford was established by Mr. Zeitz with a capital of about fifty
dollars. The first dealing was in small second hand soda fountains,
but to-day the Mercantile Wrecking Company will contract to dismantle
any plant regardless of its size and pay cash for the amount of their
purchase. In addition he is head of a wholesale and retail hardware
business which occupies a five-story brick building on Union street.

Barney Zeitz was born in Russia, Europe, February 3, 1882, son
of Koppel and Fannie Zeitz, the former deceased, the latter living in
New Bedford with her son Barney. When very young his parents came
to the United States, landing in New York City, later coming to New
Bedford. He attended the public school of New Bedford until twelve
years of age, then began assisting his father who was head of the New
Bedford Bottling Company. For three years he continued with his
father, then went with Bliss & Nye, crockery dealers, remaining with
them one year as driver and deliverer. He then spent two years with
his father, a bottler of mineral waters, this suggesting the business in
which he then engaged, the buying of soda fountain plants, removing
them and selling to new customers desiring to install a fountain. The
fifty dollars capital with which he began business soon grew to sizable
proportions from accrued profits, and he was encouraged to add to his
dealing everything that could be resold at a profit. So the Mercantile
Wrecking Company was born and stands ready to purchase and remove
all metal machinery or fixtures of any kind and in any quantity. Recent
operations have been the purchase and removal of the machinery of
the old Atlas Tack Company and the Taunton & New Bedford Copper
Company Switches, these purchases all having been disposed of to good
advantages. A more recent purchase is a handsome steam yacht, the
price $25,000. The offices of the company are at No. 1082 Purchase
street, Mr. Zeitz being the owner and manager. This buying and selling
of metals, machinery and merchandise has been the main business of his
life, but he has other interests. In 1905 he opened a loan office at No.
90 Union street and later a jewelry store at No. 123 Union street, his
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191 1, and then started a wholesale and retail hardware business at No.
90 Union street, which eighteen months later he moved to the five-story
brick building, Nos. 132-144 Union street. This business he yet owns in
addition to that of the Mercantile Wrecking Company. The hardware
business was most modestly started with very little capital, but has
grown to be the largest of its kind in New Bedford. The success he
has met with in his other business has come from his great ability as
an appraiser of values. His long experience, keen judgment and quick
brain enable him to appraise at a glance, and he makes few mistakes as
he knows the market value of everything he buys. He is a member of the
Board of Trade. Mr. Zeitz is unmarried.

HARMIDAS PIERRE DION.

Since 1S87 the bakery at No. 1070 County street. New Bedford,
from which emanates "Butter Krust" Bread, was established by Har-
midas P. Dion, who is one of the proprietors and manager. He is a
great-grandson of Henri Dion, born in Varenne, Province of Quebec,
Canada, whose son, Jean Baptiste Dion, was born at St. Marie de Manon,
Quebec, Canada, and married Catherine Candon. He was a farmer of his
native province, a devout Roman Catholic, an industrious man of good
character. Children: John B., of further mention; Julie; Marie; Timo-
thy ; Celina ; Azelda and Israel Dion. John B. Dion, the eldest son of
Jean Baptiste Dion, was born in St. Marie de Manon, Quebec, Canada,
June 29, 1827, died in St. Athanase, Canada, July 26, 1882, a blacksmith.
He married Zoe Nerbonne, a farmer's daughter, born in St. Athanase,
April 6, 1834, she being seventeen years of age when married. Children:
Jean B., a merchant of New Bedford; Harmidas P., of further men-
tion.

Harmidas Pierre Dion, son of John B. and Zoe (Nerbonne) Dion,
was born in St. Athanase d' Iberville, Province of Quebec, Canada, June
27, 1859. He attended the parochial school in St. Athanase until coming
to New Bedford in 1868, finishing his studies in Foster street public
school of that city. He was variously employed until 1884, when in
partnership with his brother, Jean B. Dion, he established a furniture
business. Three years later he entered his present field of activity.
His business established thirty-three years ago has grown to large pro-
portions, the plant a wonder of modern equipment, cleanliness and
sanitary condition. His best known product, "Butter Krust" bread, is
made from the best Minnesota flour by experienced bakers and scarcely
touched by human hands until delivered in air-proof packages to the
purchaser. A keen visioned business man, industrious and progressive,
Mr. Dion has given a good account of his years in New Bedford, and has
other business interests in addition to his bakery business. A Republican
in politics, he represented his district in Common Council in 1895 and

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1896; is a member of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, No.
73 ; Loyal Order of Moose ; Francs Tireurs ; treasurer of the Supreme
Conseil. ten years, 1900-1910; Franco-Americaine Federation, treasurer
1894-1900; Catholic Men's Benevolent Association, president 1914-1916;
La Gaiete Club ; and a communicant of St. Francois Xavier Church,
Roman Catholic.

Mr. Dion married (first) at St. Athanase d' Iberville, Canada, July
12, iSSi, Rosalie Boucher, born November 28, 1861, died February 3,
1895, daughter of Marcel and Marie Sylvestre Boucher, her father a
farmer. He married (second) in New Bedford, Massachusetts, Novem-
ber 2, 1895, Cecelia St. Amour, born in Ottawa, Canada, November 7,
1877, daughter of Joseph and Adele (Lauzon) St. Amour, her father a
sawmill operator and foreman. HarmidaS Pierre and Rosalie (Boucher)
Dion were the parents of one child, Aumore, born April 15, 1885, a
graduate of Drummondville Convent, Quebec, Canada, married Arthur
Perron, and resides in New Bedford. Children of Harmidas Pierre and
Cecelia (St. Amour) Dion: Cecile, born November 20, 1902; Roland,
July 21, 1904; Raymond, January 17, 1906; Omer, November 14, 1907;
Henri, January 25, 1910: Normand, January i, 1912.

LEON PIERRE BRAUN.

As organist, composer and instructor, Mr. Braun is well known to
the music lovers of New Bedford, Massachusetts, having been a resident
of that city since 1901. His fame as a composer is more than local, sev-
eral of his numbers published by Theodore Presser, of Philadelphia, hav-
ing met with a large sale in the United States and Canada, and as organ-
ist of the Church of the Sacred Heart for the past sixteen years, lovers of
the grand organ have been delighted with his skillful manipulation of
that wonderful instrument. Mr. Braun was born in Bitsche in the dis-
trict of Kreis Sarrgemiind, Lorraine, about eight miles from Metz, the
province having passed from France to Germany as a result of the War
of 1870. During that war the town was shelled vigorously by the Ger-
mans, and in the final settlement it nearly remained a part of France, but
Belfort was retained instead and Bitsche ceded to Germany. While Mr.
Braun's family were Germans for many generations back and spoke the
German language in common with a great majority of the people of the
town, they greatly preferred French rule, having thoroughly imbibed
the spirit of liberty, equality and fraternity. It was very hard for them
to pass under the rule of German imperialism and many thousands left
the province, Mr. Braun's parents among them. When he was nineteen
years of age he returned to his birthplace with his mother. As he had
been born under German rule, even though he had left when a baby, he
was called to render his allotted years of war military service, but he
crossed the border into France and there he remained at the home of an

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uncle until joined by his mother. His father, Nicholas Braun, was
organist in Bitsche until 1877, then came to America, settling in Mon-
treal, Canada, being there appointed organist at the Sacred Heart Church,
a position he filled for thirty-five years.

Leon Pierre Braun, born in Bitsche, Alsace-Lorraine, Germany, in
1873, was brought to Montreal, Canada, by his parents in 1877, and there
was educated and received musical instruction from his talented father,
who was his only teacher on the pipe organ. He completed a commercial
course at Sacred Heart School, at the age of fourteen, and a classical
course at St. Mary's Jesuits College, Montreal, at the age of twenty, and
while at college was organist of the college choir. While abroad on his
visit to his birthplace with his mother, previously mentioned, they spent
some time in Paris, where he took a course of instruction on the piano
under the celebrated teacher, Louis Diemer. After leaving college he
began teaching music, and in 1894 was appointed organist and choir-
master at the Church of the Nativity, Montreal. He filled that position
most acceptably until 1898, then for one year occupied the same relation
to the Church of St. Vincent de Paul. In the year 1900, he came to the
United States to fill an engagement as organist at the Church "des
Saints Agnes," St. Albans, Vermont, there remaining until 1901, when
he came to New Bedford as organist and choir-master at the Church of
the Sacred Heart.

His connection with the music of Sacred Heart Church brought him
into relation with musicians and music lovers, and he has been most
favorably received as a teacher and tuner. His classes of both piano and
organ students are large, and through a business arrangement with the
music dealing firms he is able to negotiate occasional sales of instru-
ments. He is a member of Local No. 214, American Federation of Musi-
cians, and has contributed largely toward raising New Bedford's musical
standard. He has composed many numbers which have been published,
most of them carefully arranged for the use of students and very care-
fully graded. Among these is a popular tarantella. "Napolita," "Pansies
and Roses," "Risette," a petite farandole, "Dancing Nymphs," '"Young
Heroes March," all published by Presser, of Philadelphia, and valse de
concert, "Les Fleurs," published by C. W. Thompson, of Boston. Both
he and his wife are ardent supporters of everything that is good in music,
and wherever there is a good concert being given they are to be found.
Mr. Braun, with his wide and varied experience and musical attainments,
is exerting an influence in the right direction and one result of his work
is seen in the German singing society, "Arbeiter Liedertafel," of which
he was conductor for several years until obliged to retire through press
of engagements. He is a member of the Loyal Order of Moose, the
Francs Tireurs, Workmen's Sick and Death Benefit Association, Ameri-
can Federation of Musicians, Arbeiter Leidertafel, Chamber De Com-
merce (Franco-Americaine), and a communicant of Sacred Heart Parish,
Roman Catholic.

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Mr. Braun married in Montreal, Canada, January 30, 1901, Laura
Angelina Roy, born at Lacadie, Province of Quebec, Canada, January 15,
1875, daughter of Laurent and Eleonore Roy, her father a retired farmer.
Mr. and Mrs. Braun are the parents of four children : Leon Alfred Nicho-
las, born February 22, 1902; Leopold Laurent Simon, July 13, 1903;
Laurette Julie Beatrice, November 9, 1907; Marcel Emile, July 19, 1914.

WILLIAM W. CRAPO.

William Wallace Crapo is by unanimous consent reckoned the First
Citizen. This was an honor conceded to him many years ago, and he
has retained it through several generations. He is eighty-eight years old,
and the span of his life covers the transition of the city from a village to
the greatest whaling port in the world, and from the famous whaling
port to the first position among the cities of the United States in the
manufacture of cotton. Of these developments he has been a part, and
is still active in the management of great business affairs connected with
the textile industry and its financing. He retains at the present time the
presidency of cotton mills and banks, and is consulted in the great affairs
of the community. His prominence as a business man would make his
local fame secure, but he receives admiring consideration from his fellow
citizens for other attributes and services. For a half century he has been
considered the most graceful and captivating orator. He has been the
first choice as a speaker whenever any extraordinary occasion has called
the citizens together. His reputation would be secure and permanent if
it rested alone upon the addresses, charming in reminiscence and polished
in style, delivered upon the occasion of the celebration of the great anni-
versaries in local history, which have called the people together in the
past, at the two hundredth Dartmouth anniversary in 1S67, at the Cen-
tennial in 1876, the fiftieth anniversary of the incorporation of the city in
1897, and when it came to the selection of the most effective orator for
the dedication of the Bourne Whaling Museum, but two years ago, he
was still, by common agreement, the first choice. Not only has he
achieved the leading position in the business and literary life of the com-
munity, but he accpiired State and National prominence in his political
career, and wide fame as public servant, historian and leading member
of the local bar. And to-day, as he walks the streets amid the lengthen-
ing shadows, he carries dignity and reverence in his presence, is full of
honors and crowned with esteem.

Mr Crapo is sentimentally attached to every nook and corner of Old
Dartmouth and has done more than any other man to preserve its his-
tory. The collections at the Free Public Library and the Old Dart-
mouth Historical Society are enriched by his contributions, not only of
his own research and literature, but by paintings, books and pamphlets.

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The statue of "The Harpooner," elsewhere described, was his gift to the
city. Every morning Mr. Crapo is at his desk in the law offices of Crapo,
ClilTord & Prescott, and he is still the trusted advisor and inspirer of
many perplexed and often discouraged business men who seek his com-
forting philosophy. He can recall how in the past the perplexities and
discouragements of earlier generations have resolved into the general
prosperity of the community.

William Wallace Crapo, of the sixth recorded generation of his fam-
ily, only son of Henry Rowland Crapo, who was afterwards Governor of
Michigan, was born at Barney's Joy, in the town of Dartmouth, May i6,
1830. Two years later his parents moved to New Bedford, where he has
since dwelt. Like his father, he was an accomplished student, and mak-
ing the law his goal, neglected no detail of preliminary preparation. He
completed New Bedford public school courses with graduation from
high school, and in turn was graduated from Phillips Academy, An-
dover; Friends' Academy, New Bedford, and Yale College, being
awarded his Bachelor's degree with the class of 1852. In college he was
conspicuous for literary achievements and was chosen class poet. After
graduation from Yale, Mr. Crapo began the study of law in the office of
Governor John H. Clifford, then entered Harvard Law School and was
graduated Bachelor of Laws in the class of 1854. He was admitted to
the Bristol county bar in 1855, located in New Bedford for practice, and
now, sixty-two years later, is the senior member of the law firm, Crapo,
Clifford & Prescott, every day to be found at his desk in the Masonic
building During his early years his practice was largely admiralty law
and he was connected with the "Geneva xA.ward" and the distribution of
the "Alabama Claims." The ".'\labama" destroyed scores of vessels and
the owners and crews, or their heirs, were compensated later on by Eng-
land. In later years Mr. Crapo's practice has been largely in connection
with the affairs of corporations. In his first year as a legal practitioner,
Mr. Crapo was appointed city solicitor and held the office from 1855 until
1867, a period of twelve years. He was chairman of the water board from
1865 to 1875. As the years progressed he was chosen to administer many
estates, often to serve as guardian and trustee, until more business of
that nature poured in upon him than he could attend to. There are few
enterprises of a public nature inaugurated in New Bedford during the
last half century with which his name is not connected in some capacity
and whether as legal adviser or official, his rare judgment, keen fore-
sight and wise counsel has been strongly relied upon to bring success.
In 1870 Mr. Crapo was chosen president of the Mechanics' National
Bank, and remained as the head of that institution until 1904. He was
chosen the executive head of the New Bedford Institution fgr Savings in
1896. a position he still holds. He is the president of the Wamsutta,
Potomska and Acushnet mills and is in his quietly aggressive way. a
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gan investments, was for many years president of the Flint & Pere Mar-
quette Railroad Company, acquiring extensive lumber interests. Mr.
Crapo is at the present time a director of the Genesee County Savings
Bank of Flint. He served many years as a director of the International
Trust Company of Boston, and held many directorships in manufactur-
ing and railroad corporations, his business interests being so extensive
as to indicate the manufacturer or financier rather than the professional
man.

From the beginning of his career he participated actively in politics,
and was a supporter of the first candidate of the Republican party, Gen-
eral John C. Fremont in 1856, in whose interest he made a number of
speeches. In i860 he supported Mr. Lincoln for the Presidency, and
during the war, 1861-65, he gave freely of his time, his means, and his
energy to the support of the Union cause.

His first State service was rendered in 1856, when he was elected a
member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives and his first
national service was in 1875 when he was chosen to fill a vacancy in the
Forty- fourth Congress. He was elected to the Forty-fifth, the Forty-
sixth and Forty-seventh Congresses, finally declining a renomination.
In the Forty-fifth Congress he was a member of the committee on foreign
affairs ; banking and currency in the Forty-sixth ; and chairman of bank-
ing and currency in the Forty-seventh Congress. During his last term
he was in charge of the bill for extending the charters of national banks,
and against determined opposition he skillfully piloted the bill to pas-
sage. His Congressional career was marked by a lofty standard, and he
became conspicuous as a statesman of ability and integrity. He was the
choice of many leaders in the State for Governor, and missed securing
the Republican nomination by a small margin.

In a recent interview Mr. Crapo said :

I was the only boy in a family of ten children. Those were the days
when people had families, antediluvian days, I suppose, (and there was
the quiet chuckle again). When I was getting on toward thirty my
father used to take me to see Lincoln and Stanton. These calls all had
to do with the routine conduct of the war, the raising of troops and such
matters.

As I recall Lincoln, he was always very serious minded. The topics
were never mirthful. I can relate no incidents of his story telling. He
was a man with a great crisis to handle and he was sober, indeed. He
would say, "Well, Governor, you will have to see Stanton about that,"
and we would go on to the War Department.

Grant, I knew much better. I was in Congress during his Presi-
dency. Before that time I had had much to say about the Alabama
claims which meant so much to the people of this city. I had specialized
in admiralty law and prepared the first memorial asking that the United
States demand reparation for the burning of the barque "Atlantic," with
the statements of Captain Tilton and certain of the officers and the crew,
as well as of the customs officers and others. Of course. New Bedford
suffered severely from the depredations of the rebel cruisers built in
England.

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I well recall Seward's reply, which, unfortunately, I did not preserve.
He was gratified, and so on. He wanted a continuance of such memo-
rials, and so on. But — he did not suppose that Great Britain would
acknowledge any obligation to us, but in some future controversy with
that country these memorials might be useful, and so on. It was because
I wished to induce Congress to act in the matter that I sought to become
a member of that body. And thus I came into intimate contact with
Grant. I used to see him and urge him in his messages to insert pointed
references to that entire subject.

The splendid outcome was the Alabama arbitration, and I knew well
Charles Francis Adams, Ambassador to England, and our leading arbi-
trator. I have always been rather proud of the share I may have had in
the honorable adjudication of that great cause.

Mr. Crapo continued in Congress during the time of the Hayes and
Tilden controversy, and he was a member of the commission to investi-
gate the Louisiana election, taking testimony as one of a sub-committee
in some counties of the "black belt" in that State.

He was selected by his colleagues from Massachusetts to accept on
the part of the House of Representatives the desk on which Jefferson
had written the Declaration. The desk carried an autograph inscription
in the author's handwriting to the efifect that upon it he had penned that
instrument. The story is known to comparatively few, even in Massa-
chusetts, says Mr. Crapo, how a granddaughter of Jefiferson married a
Coolidge, and how he presented the desk to her husband some time in
the twenties, and how their heirs — J. Randolph Coolidge, Dr. Algernon
Coolidge, Thomas Jefferson Coolidge, and Mrs. Ellen Dwight, all of the
Bay State — desired to present the relic to the government, and how Rob-
ert C. Winthrop acted as intermediary and transferred the desk to the
government, and how the President committed it to Congress, when
Senator Dawes in the Upper House and Mr. Crapo in the Lower made
the acceptance speeches, after which in the House Randolph Tucker
made an "eloquent address," says Mr. Crapo.

Yale University in 1882 conferred upon him the honorary degree of
Doctor of Laws, and many honors have been bestowed in recognition
of his erudition and accomplishments. His tastes have run in later years
to historical themes and he has written much concerning Old Dartmouth
and Old New Bedford. He is a member of Massachusetts Historical,
Old Colony Historical and Old Dartmouth Historical Societies, the Pil-
grim Society, the Union Club of Boston and the Wamsutta Club of New
Bedford. In religious affiliation he is a Unitarian.

Mr. Crapo married, in New Bedford. January 22, 1857, Sarah A.
Davis Tappan, born in Newburyport, Massachusetts, October 6, 1831,
died in New Bedford, December 13, 1893, daughter of George and Serena
(Davis) Tappan, her father a merchant of Newburj-port. Mr. and Mrs.
Crapo were the parents of two sons: i. Henry Howland Crapo, born in
New Bedford, January 31, 1862, a graduate of Harvard, 1883; president
of the Union and other street railway corporations ; member of the Bris-

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tol county bar, and of the law firm of Crapo, Clifford & Prescott ; mar-
ried Carolina M. Caldwell, who died March 5, 1901. 2. Stanford Tappan
Crapo, born in New Bedford, June 13, 1865; a graduate of Yale, 1887; a
railroad manager and manufacturer of Detroit, Michigan; married, Octo-
ber 10, 1894, Emma Morley, of Painesville, Ohio. Children : William
Wallace (2) Crapo, born August 2, 1895; Catherine Crapo, born July
23, 1897; Mary Morley Crapo, born July 8, 1912.

Governor Henry Howland Crapo, the father of William W. Crapo,
was a son of Jesse and Phebe (Howland) Crapo, of Dartmouth, his
mother a descendant of Henry Howland, of Duxbury, one of the original
purchasers of Dartmouth. Henry Howland Crapo, a Governor of Michi-
gan, was born at the home of his grandfather in the northern part of the
town of Dartmouth, near the Freetown line. May 24, 1804, and died at
his home in Flint, Michigan, June 22, 1869. His youth was spent at his
father's farm and in the winters he attended the district school. He
made every effort possible to add to his knowledge, often walking from
his home, eight miles, to New Bedford, to consult a book or look up the
meaning of words he had encountered in his reading or study. James
B. Congdon is authority for the statement that he compiled a manuscript
dictionary of words whose meaning he discovered, and that he (Mr.
Congdon) had seen the manuscript. He also made himself master of
the theory of surveying, and after fashioning himself a crude compass at
the blacksmith's shop at the Head of Westport, put his theorj- into
practice. He so applied himself that he became the village schoolmaster.
He was twenty-eight years of age when he moved to New Bedford. The
immediate reason of Mr. Crape's coming to New Bedford was that he
had the job of surveying and settling the complicated land interests
involved in the failure of Seth and Charles Russell. He opened a sur-
veyor's ofiice, advertising as an accountant and auctioneer. He soon
became active in public affairs and was elected town clerk, treasurer
and collector of taxes, holding these offices fifteen years. When New
Bedford became a city he was treasurer and collector of taxes for two
years. He had been police justice many years. He served as a member
of the board of aldermen, and chairman of the committee on education,
and personally prepared the report made by the committee from which
sprang the action creating the Free Public Library. He was chosen a
member of the library's first board of trustees. He compiled and pub-
lished directories of New Bedford for 1836 and 1845.

He had whaling interests, owning in several ships, one of which bore
his name. He was president of the Bristol County Fire Insurance Com-
pany and secretary of the New Bedford Commercial Insurance Company.
He organized the Horticultural Society of New Bedford and was its first
president ; was a regular contributor to the "New England Horticultural
Journal" and a well-known grower of fruit and ornamental trees, shrubs,
and flowers. This was his passion, and upon his own grounds he propa-

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gated one hundred and fifty varieties of pears and one hundred and
twenty varieties of roses, which were exhibited at horticultural fairs in
Boston and elsewhere. His long connection with the municipal govern-
ment won him the abiding confidence of his townsmen, and so precise
was he, so exact and methodical, so conscientious and persistent in the
discharge of every duty pertaining to his official transactions with the
town and city, that no error has ever been detected or improvement
made upon his method as a financial or recording officer.

The United States Government issued to the soldiers of the Mexi-
V an War "land scrip" in the Territory of Michigan. This scrip was sold
I'y the soldiers and a considerable amount of it was bought by New Bed-
'ord merchants, George Rowland being a large purchaser. The land was
so remote that its ownership became of questionable value, and the Michi-
gan land scrip fell far below par. It was soon after 1840 that Mr. Crapo
became interested in buying up this scrip at a low figure and, acting for
George Rowland, he went to Michigan and took up many acres of land
in the southern counties, selling them to prospecting farmers. In this
way he became familiar with the territory of Michigan and established
business relations with many of its pioneers. It was later that James
Arnold, of New Bedford, became involved in a large loan on the timber
land in northern Michigan. He employed Mr. Crapo to investigate the
security. Mr. Crapo's duties as city treasurer and treasurer of the Bed-
ford Commercial Insurance Company prohibited him from undertaking
a personal investigation of Mr. Arnold's investments, and he sent his
son, William W. Crapo, about twenty-one years old. to look up the land
titles and survey the timber, an employment for which as college student,
graduating as class poet, he naturally had very little aptitude. His report
was favorable. As a result Mr. Arnold became still more involved in
the timber lands, and asked Mr. Crapo to take hold of the whole proposi-
tion. Judge Oliver Prescott became interested with Mr. Crapo in under-
taking the business. This necessitated Mr. Crapo's removal with his
family to Michigan. He settled at Flint, where the logs could be floated
down to be manufactured into lumber. It was as a lumber merchant that
he gave his most energetic life work.

He also took a deep interest in public affairs, was elected mayor of
Flint in 1861, State Senator in 1862, Governor of the State in 1864, re-
elected in 1866, retiring from office January i, 1869. During the latter
part of his life he was a regular contributor to the "Country Gentleman,"
was president of the Genessee (Michigan) County Agricultural Society,
retained his interest in the trees, shrubs, plants and flowers, as long as he
lived and at the National Horticultural Society's annual meeting at Phil-
adelphia, in i86g, a most beautiful and touching eulogy of their honored
comrade was delivered by the president of the society.

It was said of Governor Crapo in the columns of the "Detroit
Tribune," July 24, 1869:

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In all the public positions he held Governor Crapo showed himself
a capable, discreet, vigilant and industrious officer. He evinced wonder-
ful vigor in mastering details, and always wrote and spoke intelligently
on any subject to which he gave his attention, Michigan never before
had a Governor who devoted so much personal attention and painstaking
labor to her public duties as he did. His industry was literally amazing.
He was not a man of brilliant or showy qualities, but he possessed sharp
and remarkably well developed business talents, a clear and practical
understanding, sound judgment and unfailing integrity. In all the walks
of life there was not a purer man in the State. So faithful, so laborious,
so conscientious a man in office is a blessing beyond computation in the
healthful influence which he exerts in the midst of the too prevalent cor-
ruptions that so lamentably abound in the public service. We have often
thought that in his broad and sterling good sense. Governor Crapo
closely resembled the lamented Lincoln. He was a man of the people
and most worthily represented them. His decease is an occasion for
public mourning and the State has very few men like him and can ill
afTord to spare such an eminently useful citizen. His death will be de-
plored throughout our Commonwealth.

As a fitting mate for so sterling a character a great-great-great-grand-
daughter of the Pilgrim Giles Slocum was chosen, Mary Ann Slocum, of
Dartmouth, Massachusetts. Of her it was written:

Mrs. Crapo was a character of rare, precious qualities. Of New
England birth and education, she had all the earnestness and exalted
veneration for truth and honor and the high sense of duty which fell to
the best type of New England people. During a long life of duties and
not free from afflictions, she walked always helpfully beside her hus-
band, the two combining in a singular degree the executive force which
conquers obstacles and the grace which wins love and esteem. Since the
death of her husband she has devoted herself to the duties of her home,
meeting all the demands of society and looking with a watchful eye over
the interests of her children.

Governor Crapo married, June 9, 1825, in Dartmouth, Massachu-
setts, Mary Ann Slocum, born May 21, 1805, died in Flint, Michigan,
June 9, 1875, daughter of Williams and Ann (Chase) Slocum, of Dart-
mouth, her mother a daughter of Benjamin and Mary Ann (Almy) Chase,
of Portsmouth, Rhode Island. Williams Slocum was a son of Peleg, son
of Peleg, son of Giles Slocum, the New England founder of the family.
Children of Henry H. and Mary (Slocum) Crapo: i. Mary Ann Crapo,
born November 6, 1827 ; married John Orrell. 2. William Wallace Crapo,
born May 16, 1830. 3. Rebecca Folger Crapo, born March 26, 1833; mar-
ried William C. Durant. 4. Sarah Bush Crapo, born January 14, 1835 ;
married Alphonso Ross. 5. Lucy Ann Crapo, born November 8, 1836;
married H. H. H. C. Smith. 6. Rhoda Macomber Crapo, born July 29,
1838; married James C. Willson. 7. Henrietta Peel Crapo, born July 19,
1840; married Ferris F. Hyatt. 8. Lydia Sherman Crapo, born July 19,
1843, died September 14, 1861. 9. Emma Eliza Chase Crapo, born June

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I, 1845; married Harlan P. Christy. 10. Wilhemina Helena Crapo, born
April 6, 1849, married Charles W. Clifford.

Jesse Crapo was a son of Peter and Sarah (West) Crapo, of Dart-
mouth. Peter was born in 1743, a minute-man of the Revolution, march-
ing with Captain Levi Rounseville's company on the Lexington Alarm,
April 19, 1775. Peter, the mmute-man, was a son of John and Sarah
(Clark) Crapo, who was a son of Peter Crapo, the American founder of
the family, a young French lad "cast up by the sea" on the shore of
Cape Cod about 1680. There could be nothing learned as to who he was,
but the Crapaud, applying to all Frenchmen alike in the minds of those
who rescued him from the wreck, he became Peter Crapaud, and the
founder of the Crapo family of Dartmouth. He married, May 31, 1704,
Penelope White, daughter of Samuel White, of Rochester, Massachu-
setts, and granddaughter of Resolved White, son of William White, a
passenger of the "Mayflower." Peter, the founder, and his son John,
resided in Rochester, but Peter of the third generation moved to Free-
town. Peter's wife was Sarah West, of Dartmouth. Their marriage
intentions were published May 18, 1766. Jesse Crapo, grandfather of
William Wallace Crapo, owned a farm in the southern part of the town
of Dartmouth, on the Rock-a-dunda road.

HENRY ROWLAND CRAPO.

Henry Howland Crapo, the eldest son of William W. Crapo, has the
extraordinary distinction of conducting a great public utility in a way
that gives satisfaction to a majority of people. He is at the head of the
Union Street Railway Corporation, which operates the line to Fall River,
and also of the New Bedford & Onset Line, which runs down Cape Cod
as far as Buzzards Bay. The Crapo family were large owners in the
road. It was slammed and attacked as are most public utility companies
and in his inmost heart Mr. Crapo conceived the criticism was not with-
out reason. So he determined to undertake himself the experiment of
popularizing a public utility, surrendered his law business and took up
the management of the street railroad. It is one of the few profitable
roads in New England and Mr. Crapo has established the policy of being
liberal with the people in accommodations. The cars operated are the
finest in the country and invariably attract attention and compliment
from visitors from other cities. The company has extended its lines to
unprofitable sections out of a sense of its duty to the public. It has de-
veloped two beautiful parks, Lincoln Park and a Marine Park at Fort
Phoenix, Fairhaven, the latter reflecting Mr. Crapo's artistic taste.

Mr. Crapo is a writer of much charm, sharing the genius of his
father. A genealogical work in two volumes under the title of "Certain
Comeovers," privately published, is in captivating style. Mr. Crapo's
ability to make literature of uncompromising material is demonstrated
by his chapter upon banking history in this work.

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Mr. Crapo was born January 31, 1862. He attended Friends' Acad-
emy, graduated from Harvard in 1883, spent two years at Harvard Law
School, and in April, 1887, became a member of the firm of Crapo, Clif-
ford & Clifford, where he became a recognized authority on titles. He
was at one time a member of the Board of Aldermen, but his business
interests left him no leisure for politics. He is at the present time a
member of the fuel committee and devotes much time to this problem of
the war.

WILLIAM J. ROTCH.

In 1847 New Bedford was chartered a city, and came under the rule
of a chief executive called a mayor. In 1852 William J. Rotch, then
ihirty-three years of age, was elected to that high office, being the second
man to fill the mayor's chair, Abraham H. Howland, the first incumbent,
holding it through four reelections, 1847-1852. But Mayor Rotch was
emphatically a business man and was not susceptible to the allurements
of political life, and after a term in the mayor's office, then as now, one
year in length, he steadfastly declined all public office. But his tenure of
office as president of the New Bedford Cordage Company was thirty-four
years, and as president of Friends' Academy he served forty-four years.
In his life he exemplified the best traits of American manhood, and was
rich in the love, respect and esteem of his townsmen.

The Rotch name has been intimately and prominently connected
with New Bedford since 1765, when Joseph Rotch left Nantucket, and
settled in that part of the town of Dartmouth to which he gave the name
Bedford. He was attracted to the beautiful harbor, which he saw was
especially well suited to become the seat of the whaling industry whose
future he foresaw. He purchased ten acres in one tract, now the busi-
ness center of the town, and built his house on what was long known as
Rotch's Hill, a building which was burned by the British when they
made their famous raid through Dartmouth during the Revolution. He
was succeeded by his son, William (2) Rotch, named for his Grandfather
Rotch, born in England, who settled at Provincetown, Massachusetts,
about the year 1700. This William (2) Rotch moved from Nantucket to
New Bedford in 1795, and there resided until his death in 1828, in his
ninety-fifth year. His residence was the "Mansion House," corner of
Union and North Second streets. Tall and dignified in person, his face
expressive of benevolence, with his long silvery locks, and the Friends'
drab colored suit, combined with his noble philanthropic character, ren-
dered him an object of profound respect. He was of the highest type
of merchant, a man of strictest integrity, generous and high-minded,
broad and liberal, a friend of the down-trodden, using his wealth wisely,
and all in all one of those rare characters which approach as near perfec-
tion as humanity can hope to attain.

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about the close of the Revohition until his death, in 1850, was one of
New Bedford's leading merchants. He was the first president of the
New Bedford Institution for Savings, gave nearly one-half the amount
subscribed to erect Friends' Academy, built in 181 1 on land given by his
father. William (i) Rotch was the first president of the Academy. Wil-
liam (2) Rotch, the first treasurer, and for thirty-nine years either treas-
urer or president. His home, now the Mariners', was nearly opposite the
former Merchants' National Bank, William and Water streets. Later he
moved to a mansion on County street. He was most hospitable in his
entertainment of strangers, and like his father was an ardent Abolitionist,
aiding many a slave on his way to freedom. He married Elizabeth Rod-
man, of Newport, Rhode Island, the line of descent to William J. Rotch
coming through the second son, Joseph Rotch, born in 1790, died in 1S39,
who married Anna Smith, of Philadelphia, and there resided for a few
years, after which he resided on William street, between County and
Eighth streets, in New Bedford.

William J. Rotch, second son of Joseph and Anna (Smith) Rotch,
was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in May, 1819, and died at Bev-
erly Farms, Massachusetts, August 17, 1S93. After graduation with
honors. Harvard, Bachelor of Arts, 1838, he entered business life, and
with his brother, Benjamin S. Rotch (Harvard, 1838), engaged in many
business enterprises. In connection with Joseph Ricketson, they founded
the New Bedford Cordage Company, one of the successful enterprises of
New Bedford, Mr. Rotch continuing president of the company for thirty-
four years. The Rotch Brothers were closely associated with Gordon
McKay in the development of the McKay Sewing Machine, and there
were few New Bedford enterprises of importance with which he was not
connected. He was president of the Howland Mills Corporation, presi-
dent of the Rotch Wharf Company, vice-president of the New Bedford In-
stitution for Savings, a director of the National Bank of Commerce, Old
Colony Railroad Company, Cleveland & Canton Railroad Company,
Rotch Spinning Company, New Bedford Copper Company, Wamsutta
Mills, and the Potomska Mills. He was always ready to aid in the
founding of new industries or the extension of old ones, and like his
ancestors was an instant champion of the cause of the oppressed.

He was the second man elected mayor of New Bedford, succeeding
Mayor Howland in 1852. Previously, he had served two terms in the
Massachusetts Legislature, 1848-1850. He was one of the founders of
the Republican party in Southeastern Massachusetts, and had long been
an ardent advocate of the cause of abolition of the slave trade. A man
of culture and refinement, he graced any assembly, and as a platform
speaker was ready, eloquent and forceful. He was of graceful, courtly
manner, of upright dignified carriage, a conspicuous figure at public
gatherings on the city streets. In nature, kindly and considerate, he had
a cheery word for all, and, although one of the wealthiest men of the
city there was nothing ostentatious about him, his smile as ready and

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unforced in greeting one as another. Although a Friend by inherited
right, he was a member of the Unitarian church. For forty-two years he
was president and treasurer of Friends' Academy, an institution always
dear to the Rotch heart.

When finally the end of his useful life was reached, and he was laid
at rest in Oak Grove Cemetery, there was an unusual display of public
sorrow. The many corporations with which he was connected passed
suitable resolutions of respect and many eulogies were uttered. One of
these expressions of respect was that passed, August 21, 1893, by the
board of directors of the National Bank of Commerce :

Resolved, That the Directors of the National Bank of Commerce of
New Bedford recognize that in the death of their late vice-president, the
Hon. William J. Rotch, they have lost not only the guidance and assist-
ance of one upon whose wisdom and character they were accustomed to
lean, but also the companionship of one whose charmmg personality
commanded the respect and won the friendship of his associates. And
they desire thus to record their appreciation of the value to this bank
of his long and constant service of more than forty years.

William J. Rotch married (first) in 1842, Emily Morgan, eldest
daughter of Charles W. and Sarah (Rodman) Morgan. Mrs. Rotch died
in 1861, leaving seven children, one, Charles M., dying in infancy. The
others are: i. William, married Mary Rotch Eliot, of New Bedford, now
resident of Boston. 2. Helen, married Dr. Thomas Morgan Rotch, for-
merly of Boston ; Dr. Rotch died March 9, 1914, and Mrs. Rotch died Sep-
tember 3, 1914. 3. Isabel M., the widow of Pierre Severance, of Boston,
who died in 1886. 4. Sarah R., the widow of Frederick Swift, of New
Bedford. 5. Emily M., married Dr. J. T. Bullard, of New Bedford. 6.
Anna S., married Francis H. Stone, of New Bedford. Mr. Rotch mar-
ried (second) in 1866, Clara, youngest sister of his first wife, who sur-
vives him. The daughter of this marriage, Mary R. Rotch, died Febru-
ary 19, 1917. From 1876 until 1881, the winter home of the family was
in Boston, the summer home, the County Street Mansion, built by James
Arnold, an uncle of Mr. Rotch. In 1881-1882 Mr. Rotch with his wife
and four daughters toured Europe, returning to New Bedford in the fall
of 1882.

Mrs. Clara (Morgan) Rotch is a daughter of Charles Wain Mor-
gan, born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, September 14, 1796, died at his
home on County street (the present site of New High School). New Bed-
ford, Massachusetts, April 7, 1861, son of Thomas and Anne (Wain)
Morgan. He located in New Bedford in 1819, became an extensive ship-
ping merchant in connection with the whaling industry, and ranked
among the wealthy and prominent men of the city. He was a man of
strict integrity, and most generous nature, there yet existing monuments
to his philanthropy and bountiful liberality. Mr. Morgan was an incor-
porator of the New Bedford Institution for Savings in 1825 ; a founder

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of the New Bedford Lyceum in 1826; member of the committee in charge
of the erection of the First Congregational Church, 1836-38; a contribu-
tor to the fund to establish Friends' Academy ; donor of the second trust
fund to New Bedford Free Public Library, established under the act of
185 1 ; portraits of George Howland, Jr., donor of the first fund, and of
Charles W. Morgan adorning the library walls, with those of other
friends of the institution.

Mr. Morgan married, June 3, 1819, Sarah Rodman, born October 31,
1793, died September 26, 1888, daughter of Samuel and Elizabeth (Rotch)
Rodman, a direct descendant of John Rodman, of Barbadoes, tather of
Thomas Rodman, of the same place and Newport, Rhode Island, 1640-
1728. Charles W. and Sarah (Rodman) Morgan were the parents of:
Emily, born December 31, 1821, died in 1861, married William J. Rotch;
Samuel Rodman, born August 18, 1824, married Josephine Wharton
Craig, of Philadelphia ; Isabel, born October 21, 1829, died May 18, 1847;
Elizabeth Rodman, born February 20, 1833, the widow of George Hus-
sey, of New Bedford, Mrs. Hussey is still living at an advanced age;
Clara, born December i, 1836, married William J. Rotch. whom she sur-
vives, a resident of New Bedford.

FRANK RIVERS KIRBY.

For over thirty years Frank Rivers Kirby was one of New Bedford's
successful merchants, and when, at the close of his years, sixty-five, he
journeyed to "that bourne from which no traveler ever returns," he left
behind him the memory of a man, genial and kindly to all, honorable and
upright in every business transaction, quiet and retiring, very fond of
his home and family. He came to New Bedford a man of mature years,
and experienced in mercantile business, and in the city of his adoption
bought out an established bakery and confectionery store, later known
as Bates, Kirby & Company.

Mr. Kirby was of the eighth generation of the family founded in
Lynn, Massachusetts, in 1636, by Richard Kirby, who the next year
was one of the founders of Sandwich, and later of the town of Dart-
mouth that ancient town which at one time included New Bedford.
This Richard Kirby moved to Dartmouth after 1660, and there died
in 1688. being succeeded by his son, Richard (2) Kirby, of Sandwich
and Dartmouth. He married (first) Patience Giflford, of Sandwich,
their son, Robert Kirby, being a resident of that part of Dartmouth
which, in 1787, became the town of Westport, his homestead of two
hundred and twelve acres lying both sides of the Coaxit river. With
Robert Kirby membership in the Society of Friends began officially,
although both his father and grandfather were friendly to the Soci-
ety, but are not of record as members. Robert Kirby married Re-
becca Potter, the next in line being their son, Nathaniel Kirby, who mar-

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ried Abigail Russell, a direct descendant of Ralph Russell, who came
from England and set up an iron forge at Russell's Mills in Dartmouth.
The line of descent from Nathaniel Kirby is through his son, Justus
Kirby, and his wife, Catherine (Cornell) Kirby, of Westport ; their son,
Wesson Kirby and his wife, Hannah (White) Kirby, of Westport, she
a descendant of Francis Cooke of the "Mayflower ;" their son, Abraham
Kirby, and his wife, Eunice (White) Kirby, of Westport ; their son, Ste-
phen P. Kirby, and his first wife, Harriet N. (Brownell) Kirby, of West-
port, they the parents of Frank Rivers Kirby, to whose memory this re-
view is dedicated.

Frank Rivers Kirby was born in Westport, Bristol county, Massa-
chusetts, May 28, 1850, died in New Bedford, Massachusetts, January 22,
191 5. He was educated in the public schools of Westport and Pierce
Academy, Middleboro, going thence to the Mason Machine Company at
Taunton, Massachusetts, there serving four years as an apprentice, learn-
ing the machinist's trade. But neither that trade nor his father's busi-
ness, cattle buyer and drover, attracted him sufficiently to retain him,
and he soon left the machine shop for the store, his real ambition being
for mercantile life. His first store was a grocery at Taunton, ex-Senator
Walter O. Luscomb being his partner, the firm name Kirby & Luscomb.
This partnership was finally dissolved, Mr. Kirby returning to his home
in Westport, and there again engaging in business under the firm name,
Kirby & Hicks, an association which was dissolved early in the eighties.
Such had been the career of Mr. Kirby at the time of his coming to New-
Bedford immediately after the dissolution of Kirby & Hicks. Here he
formed a partnership with Orrin Bates, whose brother. William Bates,
was proprietor of a bakery and confectionery store. The partnership
Bates & Kirby bought out the William Bates business, which they en-
larged and successfully conducted at No. 592 Pleasant street, later admit-
ting a third partner, Charles G. Tripp, the firm then becoming Bates,
Kirby & Company. Mr. Kirby continued active in the business until
1913, when he retired to enjo}- the full benefits of his life of well directed
effort.

Mr. Kirby married, October 11, 1877, Cora L. Eddy, who survives
him, still residing at the Cottage street home in New Bedford.

RODOLPHUS ASHLEY.

Founder of the New Bedford Ice Company and one of the strong
men of the "long ago," Rodolphus Ashley lived a life of usefulness and
honorable endeavor in keeping with the honored name he bore. He was
a son of John Sherman Ashley, and brother of Joshua Bishop Ashley,
father of the present mayor of New Bedford, Charles Sumner Ashley,
and a descendant of the family founded by Joseph and Elizabeth Ash-
ley, who early settled in Rochester, Massachusetts. John Sherman Ash-

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ley, born May 3, 1790, married in Rochester, Massachusetts, June 17, 1815,
Mary G. (Gouch) Brown. Their second son was Rodolphus, to whose
memory this review in offered.

Rodolphus Ashley was born in Rochester, Bristol county, Massachu-
setts, May 19, 1818, died in New Bedford, Massachusetts, May 16, 1873.
He attended the town schools until thirteen years of age, then began
learning the blacksmith's trade in Randolph, Massachusetts, later com-
ing to New Bedford, where he entered the employ of Mr. Brownell,
where his brother, Joshua Ashley, was later admitted a partner, Brown-
ell & Ashley continuing for several years. Later Mr. Ashley bought a
farm on the county road, and until 1849 bought and sold ship timber.
In 1849 he went to California with the gold-seekers, and spent two years
at the mines as a blacksmith, returning to New Bedford in 1851. In the
year i860 he moved to a large farm at Clarke's Point, which he owned,
and in 1865 built ice houses on his property and organized the New Bed-
ford Ice Company with which he was connected until his death. He
also operated his farm, dealt in real estate, lumber and live stock, con-
ducting profitable operations along all these lines. He was well known
as a standing timber appraiser. He was a man of energy and good judg-
ment, meeting every demand good citizenship made upon him. He was
superintendent of streets for some time, was a member of the Masonic
order, and in all respects measured up to the full stature of a man.

Mr. Ashley married, January 14, 1841, Ruth Parker, born September
8, 1818, died in February, 1900, daughter of Elijah and Anna (Spooner)
Parker, her father a noted shipbuilder. Mr. and Mrs. Ashley were the
parents of four sons and five daughters, one of the sons, Isaac L. Ashley,
yet living (1918). The deceased sons are: R. Emery, Freeman H. and
Henry T. Ashley. The five daughters of Rodolphus Ashley are all living
and reside in New Bedford : Caroline, married Edwin Swan ; Mary G.,
married Killey E. Terry ; Ellen I., married Alexander Omey ; Ruth, un-
married ; Emma, married Thomas B. Tripp. The married daughters are
all widowed.

ZEPHANIAH W. PEASE.

Zephaniah W. Pease, the editor of this work, was born in New Bed-
ford, August 21, 1861, the son of Peleg and Joanna Morton (Thomas)
Pease. He is of "Mayflower" and Revolutionary ancestry, being of the
eighth generation from John Howland, and a descendant of Noah
Thomas, a Revolutionary soldier, who was wounded at the battle of
Bunker Hill. Mr. Pease graduated from the High School in 1877 and
after a brief experience on a Fall River newspaper, became a reporter on
the morning "Mercury" of New Bedford in the fall of 1880. In 1895 Mr.
Pease became editor of the "Mercury," a position he has since occupied.
The same year Mr. Pease was appointed by President Cleveland collector
of customs for the Port of New Bedford, an office he held until 1900.

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Mr Pease has also served on the New Bedford water board and is a
member of the selective service board of Division No. 3. Mr. Pease is
the author of "The Catalpa Expedition," published in 1897, and has con-
tributed many special articles to various publications. He was married,
October 24, 1888, to Anna F. Bryden, of Fairhaven, and has one son,
Bryden Pease, aged twenty-five, at the present time in the United States
Army.

The father of Mr. Pease was Peleg Pease, who was an assistant edi-
tor of the "Mercury" in 1876 and a writer of verse and many humorous
articles that appeared in the local newspapers. He was, for many years,
a member of the school board. He was born in New Bedford in 1822, the
son of Zephaniah Pease and Mary (Spooner) Pease. He died in 1879.
The mother of Z. W. Pease was the daughter of the Captain of a mer-
chant ship and was born in Plympton, Massachusetts, in 1828. She is
still living.

FREDERICK SWIFT.

When William Swift left his native England and came to Water-
town, Massachusetts, in 1634, he brought to his new home the attributes
of character, which, under pioneer conditions and needs, developed to
their full and made him the fitting ancestor of a race of men and women
whose lives and deeds are preserved in the histories of many com-
munities and states. Frederick Swift, of New Bedford, was a son of the
ninth American generation of his family, coming through the Falmouth
branch, a grandson of Reuben Eldred Swift, the first of this branch to
settle in New Bedford, who was a son of William (6) Swift, a farmer of
Falmouth, a tailor by trade and a man of influence; son of William (5)
Swift; son of William (4) Swift; son of William (3) Swift; son of
William (2) Swift, born in England, and lived in Sandwich, Massachu-
setts ; son of William (i) Swift, the founder of the family of Bocking,
England, Watertown, Massachusetts, 1634; Sandwich, Massachusetts,
1637. died at the latter place, in January, 1643.

Reuben Eldred Swift, of the seventh generation, grandfather of
Frederick Swift, was a cabinetmaker of Falmouth and Acushnet until
1620, then moved to New Bedford, there becoming a manufacturer of
furniture. Prior to his moving to Acushnet, he had been associated with
his brothers in the live oak timber business, and had spent considerable
time in the states of South Carolina and Florida, seeking tracts of live
oak, buying and shipping the timber to the ship yards of New Bedford
and vicinity. He established a profitable furniture business in New
Bedford, was captain of a company of Light Infantry during the Second
War with Great Britain, and for a time was stationed at Clark's Point.
He married, in Fairhaven, Massachusetts, March 24. 1803, Jane, a
daughter of Captain Obed Nye, a soldier of the Revolution, and a direct
descendant of Benjamin Nye, who came from England to Lynn, Massa-

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chusetts, in 1635. Captain Obed Nye was a well known sailing master,
and by his first wife, Mary (Sellers) Nye, had twelve children, James
being the youngest, Reuben Eldred and Jane (Nye) Swift were the
parents of five sons, one of them, William Cole Nye Swift, father of
Frederick Swift.

William Cole Nye Swift was born in Acushnet, Bristol county,
Massachusetts, April 27, 1815, and died in New Bedford, May 11, 1892.
He became one of New Bedford's whaling merchants, senior of the
firm. Swift & Perry, later Swift & Akin. The outfitting of whaling
vessels and other craft was the business of the firm, and was prosperously
conducted. With his brother he was also interested in whale fishing and
the live oak timber business. Mr. Swift married, June 15, 1847, Eliza
Nye Perry, they the parents of Frederick Swift, to whose memory this
review is inscribed.

Frederick Swift was born in New Bedford, December 12, 1852, and
died in the city of his birth, December 16, 1915. He was a graduate of
Friends Academy, New Bedford, prepared for college at Phillip's
(Exeter) Academy, and completed his education at Harvard University,
A. B., class of 1874. With this splendid mental equipment, he joined
his father in the whaling business, as merchant outfitter, so continuing
until the decline of New Bedford as a whaling center, and the substi-
tution of Pacific ports as outfitting centers left the business an un-
profitable one. By outfitting at Pacific ports the long voyage around
Cape Horn was avoided, that great item of expense thus being saved.
After retiring from the business with which the Swifts had long been
connected, Frederick Swift was associated with the American Car &
Foundry Company, of Chicago, and later and until 1914 was closely
identified with the Griffin Wheel Company of Boston. In 1914 he was
appointed a United States deputy collector of internal revenue, and at
the time of his death was holding that position. Mr. Swift had the love of
the sea in his blood and was an ardent yachtsman, being at one time
commodore of the New Bedford Yacht Club. He was a man of genial,
social nature, and thoroughly enjoyed the society and companionship
of his fellowmen. He was a member of the Wamsutta Club, the Inde-
pendent Order of Odd Fellows, and the Unitarian church, his political
affiliations. Democratic. He was an excellent business man and official,
faithful to every trust, progressive and public spirited. He met obliga-
tions of manhood and citizenship to the full, bore well his part, and left
behind him the record of a just and upright life.

Mr. Swift married, in New Bedford, Sarah R., daughter of William J.
and Emily (Morgan) Rotch, of the old and influential Rotch family of
New Bedford. W' illiam J. Rotch, of the sixth American generation, was
born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in May, 1819, and died at Beverly
Farms, Massachusetts, August 17, 1893. He was a graduate of Harvard,
class of 1838, was founder of the New Bedford Cordage Company, and
its president for thirty-four years, president of the Howland IMills Cor-

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poration, president of the Rotch Wharf Company, vice-president of the
New Bedford Institution for Savings, director in most of New Bedford's
manufacturing enterprises, and all his life exemplified all the best
attributes of manhood, few men more fully deserving the respect and
esteem in which he was held. He married (first) in 1842, Emily Morgan,
of New Bedford, daughter of Charles W. and Sarah (Rodman) Morgan.
She died in 1861, and five years later Mr. Rotch married her youngest
sister, Clara. Mr. Rotch was a grandson of William (3) Rotch, born in
Nantucket, who soon after the Revolution moved to New Bedford, and
was one of the most prominent merchants and citizens. He was the first
president of the Institution for Savings ; first, and for thirty-nine years,
treasurer of Friend's Academy, his father, William (2) Rotch, its first,
and his grandson, William J. Rotch, its president and treasurer for forty-
two years. He married Elizabeth Rodman, they the parents of Joseph
Rotch, who married Ann Smith, of Philadelphia, and there resided, they
the parents of William J. Rotch. Frederick and Sarah R. (Rotch) Swift
were the parents of a daughter and two sons: i. Helen Rotch, married
William M. Scudder, of Chicago. 2. Frederick Rotch, a graduate of
Harvard University, A. B., Harvard Law School, LL. B.; he practiced
law in New York many years, then returned as employment manager of
the Atlas Tack Company, now filling that position with the Groton Ship
Yards near New London, Connecticut. 3. Rodman, a graduate of Har-
vard, and as a finish to his education circumnavigated the world in a
sailing vessel ; he was a capable civil engineer, connected with the mines
of Grass Valley. California, but since 1910 has been identified with the
Submarine Signal Company, of Boston. Mrs. Frederick Swift survives
her husband, a resident of New Bedford Village, to which her great-
great-great-grandfather, Joseph Rotch, came in 1765, who gave the
name of Bedford to the village, but more important gave to the infant
whaling industry of the village his experience, sagacity, skill and capital,
factors which insured its permanence and success.

WILLIAM FRANCIS READ.

From the time of the coming of John Read to New England until
the present generation of which William Francis Read, of New Bedford,
is representative, the Reads have been residents of Rehoboth and New
Bedford, Massachusetts, Mr. Read, above mentioned, and his brother,
Charles W. Read, and Ella H. Read, being the only natives of New
Bedford, their father, Joseph R. Read, a successful merchant, the first of
his line to make that city his home. Behind John Read, of Rehoboth,
the American ancestor, are fourteen generations of Englishmen, descent
being traced in direct line to Brianus De Rede, living in 1139, from whom
came the Reeds, Reids, Reads and Reades. The line from Brianus De

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Rede to John Read, the Pilgrim, is thus traced: Brianus De Rede; his
son William ; his son Robert ; his son Golfinus ; his son Thomas ; his son
Thomas (2) ; his son Thomas (3) ; his son John, Mayor of Norwich,
England, in 1388; his son Edward; his son William, a professor of
Divinity; his son William (2); his son William (3); his son Matthew,
an Esquire; his son William (4), married Lucy Henage ; their son John,
the American ancestor.

John Read, of the fifteenth English generation and founder of the
family in New England, came from England in 1630. He was of Wey-
mouth in 1637, Dorchester in 1638, Braintree next, Rehoboth in 1643,
going there with Rev. Mr. Newman and his company, his name being
placed third in a list of purchasers of land in the town. He held the
then important office of constable, and seems to have been highly
esteemed by his townsmen. His home was in that part of Rehoboth, now
Seekonk, and there he was keeper of the inn. He died September 7,
1685, aged eighty-seven. His wife Sarah bore him the following children :
Samuel, William, Abigail, John (2), of further mention ; Thomas, Ezekiel
and Zechariah (twins), Moses, Mary, Elizabeth, Daniel, Israel, and
Mehitable.

John (2) Read was born August 29, 1640, his parents then living in
Braintree, soon afterwards moving to Rehoboth. He was killed in the
fight with the Indians, identified in history as "Pierce's Fight," March
21, 1676. He was distinguished by the title of Mr. in the records which
indicates prominence in his community. By his wife Rachael he had
children: Sarah, Mehitable, John (3), and Thomas, of further mention.

Thomas Read, born in Rehoboth, July 23, 1672, died November 25,
1748. He married (first) June 21, 1699, Sarah Butterworth, who left a
daughter, Patience, born April 16, 1708. His second wife Martha was
the mother of Thomas, Martha, Noah, of further mention ; Hannah, Sarah
and Peter.

Noah Read was born in Rehoboth, December 26, 1717, and died
October 14, 1773. He married Anna Hunt, they the parents of Peter,
Martha, Noah (2), Perez, Cyril, Thomas, of further mention; Anna,
Judith. William and Lois.

Thomas Read, born in Rehoboth, December 25, 1752, died there
September 2, 1816. He married Hannah Bourne, born December 24,
1761, died January 10, 1817. Children: William, of further mention;
Frances, Betsey, Thomas, Samuel, Noah and John B.

William Read was born in Rehoboth, October 19, 1785, died at Fall
River, Massachusetts, November 2, 1863. He married, March 6, 1808,
Sarah Rogers, and prior to their removal to Fall River resided at
Somerset, Massachusetts, that town being the birthplace of some of their
children of whom there were eight: Hannah, Bourne, Peter. William,
Thomas, Francis Bourne, Joseph R., of further mention ; and Julia Ann,
the last survivor of the family, born December 21, 1821, died unmarried
in 1904.

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Joseph R. Read, of the seventh American and the twenty-first
recorded generation of his family, was born in Somerset, Massachusetts,
July 5, 1818, died in New Bedford, Massachusetts, September 12, 1879.
He was educated in the pubHc schools, and after the removal of the
family to Fall River he learned the tailor's trade, located in New Bedford,
and there until 1850 was in the employ of the clothing firm, O. & E. W.
Seabury, as a cutter. He was thirty-three years of age when in 1850, in
partnership with Edward Taber, a fellow employee, he bought the
Seabury clothing business, which he successfully conducted until his
death. Read & Taber later admitted Nathan Ellis to a partnership, and
after his death Darius P. Gardner bought the Ellis interest. Mr. Reed,
an excellent business man, continued at the head of the business, which
became a large and profitable one, until his death in 1879, he then being
succeeded by his son, William Francis Read.

Although devoted to his business, Mr. Read was not slavishly so,
nor was he unmindful of his responsibilities as a citizen. A man of clear
mind and strong convictions, he was very quiet in manner, but forceful,
and one to inspire instant respect. He would have preferred to serve his
city as a citizen only, but he never shirked duty, and when his ward
nominated him for the Board of Aldermen in 1874, he consented to run,
was elected and rendered good service during his term. He was devoted
to his home and family, was very hospitable, and a most entertaining
conversationalist. His library of choice literature, a feature of his home,
was very dear to him, his reading covering a variety of subjects, history
perhaps being his favored theme. The Read home was the abode of
good cheer, and there Mr. Read m,et his many friends under the happiest
conditions.

Mr. Read married, November 17, 1844, Cynthia A. Potter, born
September 30, 1823, died January 19, 1913, daughter of Jonathan and
Cynthia (Howard) Potter, a direct descendant of Nathaniel Potter, who
came from England, and settled at Portsmouth, Rhode Island, signing
the "Compact" in 1639, his residence beginning at least a year earlier.
Mr. and Mrs. Read were the parents of two sons and two daughters:
Clara A., born September 28, 1845, died July 9, 1914, while on a tour of
Scotland ; William Francis, of further mention ; Ella Howard, born
December 13, 1850, a resident of New Bedford; and Charles Warren,
born January 19, 1853, married Elizabeth Williams, daughter of Theodore
Dean Williams, of New Bedford.

William Francis Read, eldest son of Joseph R. and Cynthia A.
(Potter) Read, was born in New Bedford, Massachusetts, October 14,
1848. He completed full public school courses with graduation from
high school, then was a student at Highland Military School at Worces-
ter, Massachusetts. He began business life as clerk for a New York City
commission house, but after three years in that line he entered the
employ of the Boston wholesale clothing house, Merrill & Co., continuing
with them as a salesman until the great fire of 1872, which devastated

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Boston's business district. Being thrown out of a position by the fire
he decided to return to New Bedford, and the same year he entered his
father's employ, the firm then being Taber, Read & Gardner, clothiers.
He continued with the firm as a salesman until the death of Joseph R.
Read in 1879, the son then succeeding to the father's former interest and
place in the firm. For twenty-one years he continued the business
founded by his father. Edward T. Taber, the senior partner, and Darius
P. Gardner, the junior, were both gathered to their fathers and alone
Mr. Read continued the business until 1900, then sold it to a New York
concern, but now it is owned by Louis Jean and Frederick C. Clarke
and operated as Read & Company. The business when founded by
Joseph R. Read was in one store, south of the present First National
Bank on Union street and Acushnet avenue, and is still on that street,
but on the opposite side. For fifty years, 1850-1900, Joseph R. Read and
his son, William F. Read, there served the public as tailors and clothing
outfitters, and the name yet is attached to the business although the
Read interest has ceased. Since the sale of his clothing business in
1900, Mr. Read has lived a retired life, but is a director of the Kilbourn
Mill and Merchants National Bank. His clubs are the Wamsutta and
Country. In political faith he is a Republican.

Mr. Read married, October 22, 1879, Eleanor Masters, of Syracuse,
New York, who died May 21, 1908. They were the parents of three
sons: I. Warren Kempton, born August 18, 1883, now in the employ of
the Kilbourn Mill, New Bedford; he married, October 27, 1907, Jessie
Sawyer, of Sharon, Massachusetts, and they are the parents of three
children, viz: Warren Kempton, Jr., Cynthia A. and William S. 2.
Joseph Masters, born 1885 ; a cotton broker of New Bedford ; married
Amelia Haselton, of Rome, New York, parents of three children: Eleanor
M., Elizabeth H. and John H. 3. Everett Preston, born April 25, 1887;
married Pauline Mowry, of Rome, New York, the parents of one child,
Nancy.

HENRY BARNARD WORTH.

Henry Barnard Worth, lawyer, and secretary of the Old Dartmouth
Historical Society, has rendered the city and succeeding generations
unique service. For many years he has devoted himself to research and
historical and genealogical investigation, compiling masses of manu-
script of inestimable value. These manuscripts have been deposited with
the Old Dartmouth Historical Society and the Free Public Library. Mr.
Worth has gone about this service without ostentation. Comparatively
few people have knowledge of the vastness of the labor and those who
know his work and appreciate it have never learned of it from him, for he
has no ambition for notoriety. The records cover a wide scope. One
undertaking was a history of the old houses of New Bedford and sur-
rounding towns. This is illustrated with photographs of every old house

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in the vicinity. The history of these houses has not been assembled
casually. Mr. Worth spent the spare time at his command for a period
covering several years in the compilation and the facts and dates have
been verified by the examination of court records. The expense of these
volumes was borne by Mr. Worth and when the work was done he de-
posited it among the archives and took up the next task. He has writ-
ten exhaustively upon topics of such variety as the fortunes of the rich
men of olden days, the old cemeteries and those buried therein, and old
ships, and he is keeping at the task persistently, constantly adding to a
store of material which is invaluable.

Mr. Worth was born at Brooklyn, New York, February 24, 1858.
He was educated in the schools of Nantucket, the Bridgewater Normal
School, from which he graduated, then spending a year at Amherst Col-
lege. He taught school from 1877 to 1881, then passed his examination
to the bar and commenced the practice of law in New Bedford. Mr.
Worth came of an old Nantucket family and has contributed to the his-
tory of Nantucket as well as of New Bedford. Mr. Worth's father was
Captain Calvin G. Worth, of Nantucket, who commanded whaleships and
merchant vessels. Mr. Worth is of "Mayflower" and Revolutionary an-
cestry, including the Gardiners of Long Island and allied families, the
Worths of Nantucket and all the families of the Nantucket settlers and
the Winslows of Freetown, Massachusetts, back to Kenelm Winslow.
Mr. Worth married, on August 18, 1891, Sarah E. Tuell, a daughter of
Charles D. and Sarah A. Tuell. He is a member of all the bodies of Free
Masons in New Bedford, excepting the lodge, and of Union Lodge of
Nantucket.

Captain Calvin G. Worth, the father of Henry B. Worth, was born
in Nantucket, March i, 1812. He married, in 1855, Helen B. Winslow,
daughter of George Winslow and Love Barnard, of Nantucket. The
children were Henry B. Worth and Helen B. W. Worth. The latter was
born in 1861 and died in 1907. Captain Worth died in Nantucket in
September, 1879, and his wife died in January, 191 1.

Henry B. Worth's grandfather was William Worth, a blacksmith,
born in Nantucket in 1763. He died in 1851. William Worth married
Rebecca Gardiner in December, 1807. She was born in 1787 and died in
1841. William Worth was a Quaker. The children were Sophia, Mar-
garet, Calvin, Thomas, William, Matthew and Lydia.

OTIS SEABURY COOK.

Otis Seabury Cook was born in New Bedford, July 30, 1873. His
father, William Cook, was born in New Bedford in 1833, and died in 1876.
For a time he was in business as a merchant tailor. In 1863 and 1864 he
served in the Third Regiment of Massachusetts Volunteer Heavy Artil-
lery, and was a first lieutenant at the time of his discharge for disability.

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William Cook was the son of Thomas Cook, who was born in Newport,
Rhode Island, in 1801, and died in New Bedford in 1890, having been for
many years a well-known resident. Otis Seabury Cook's mother, Cornelia
A. (Seabury) Cook, was born in New Bedford in 1836, the eldest daughter
of Otis and Caroline A. (Bailey) Seabury, who was formerly of Little
Compton, Rhode Island. Otis Seabury, born in Little Compton in 1808,
died in 1880. He was one of New Bedford's prominent and highly
respected citizens. William and Cornelia A. Cook were the parents of
Clarence A., Elizabeth B. Mackie, Mary T. Stanton, Cornelia S. Abbott,
and Otis Seabury Cook.

After attending the public schools and Friends' Academy in New
Bedford, Otis Seabury Cook received the degree of Bachelor of Laws in
1896 at Harvard, and he was given the same degree from Boston Uni-
versity in 1897. In 1896 he entered the office of Knowlton & Perry, and
soon afterwards became a partner in the firm of Knowlton, Perry &
Cook, with Attorney-General Hosea M. Knowlton and Arthur E. Perry,
in the same offices now occupied by the firm of Cook, Brownell & Taber
as their successors. Mr. Cook belongs to the American Bar Association
and the Massachusetts State Bar Association, and since his graduation
has been engaged in practice without interruption.

He has served in the school committee, and for years has been a
trustee of the Free Public Library and of Friends' Academy. He is a
director in several corporations ; and with Morris R. Brownell, of Fair-
haven, and Frederic H. Taber, of New Bedford, is counsel for numerous
companies and interests. Mr. Cook was chairman of the organization
committee of the New Bedford Morris Plan Company. For two years
he was president of the Board of Trade and a national councillor of the
Chamber of Commerce of the United States. In 1917 he was one of the
principals in forming the New Bedford Committee of One Hundred for
public safety and war work ; and in other ways has given freely of his
time in seeking to promote civic welfare. Mr. Cook attends the Unitarian
church. In politics he is an Independent Democrat, although not active
in political affairs. He is a member of a number of clubs.

On December 13, 1899, in Ansonia, Connecticut, he married Kath-
arine L. Mathews, formerly of New Bedford, the daughter of William H.
and Catherine Treadway (Macomber) Mathews, then residing in
Ansonia. Mr. Mathews was a manufacturer of copper products. Most
of his life was spent in New Bedford, where he was engaged in business
and took a lively interest in municipal affairs. He was the son of Captain
John Mathews, a native of Devonshire, England, a shipmaster, who
made his home in New Bedford from early youth. Catherine Treadway
Mathews is a daughter of Captain John A. Macomber, of New Bedford,
long interested in shipping. Mr. and Mrs. Cook have four children,
namely : Seabury, Helen, Barbara and Cornelia.

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REV. FREDERICK SKIFF STANTON.

Music was the great talent possessed by Rev. Frederick S. Stanton,
a man whose loving heart and sunny disposition made his life "one grand
sweet song," which brought him in return the love and affection of all
who came in contact with him. He was a regularly accredited minister
of the Christian Advent church, and in evangelistic and pastoral work
spent several years of his life, but during that period he kept up his
music, finally resigning to devote himself to the composing and teach-
ing of music. As a composer, his fame rests upon sacred music, hymns,
songs and cantatas, although he published many concert, exercise and
orchestra pieces. Many of his hymns are rendered in the churches of all
denominations and brought him the high recommendation of musical
authorities. Although he was a writer of hymns principally, his indi-
vidual musical talent knew no bounds. After becoming a teacher of
music in New Bedford he had large classes, and at one time he was
instructing pupils on thirteen different instruments. He was self-edu-
cated, and prepared for the ministry through self-study and the aid of
ministerial friends, but his musical genius, so early and strongly devel-
oped, was cultivated, and he held the degree, Bachelor of Music. But
Mr. Stanton would have been a man of note in his circle had he never
preached a sermon nor composed a hymn, for he possessed that wonder-
ful faculty of attracting men to him, and through a life of practical daily
Christian living retained the friends his ready smile and genial disposi-
tion brought him. His life was a busy one and he had no afifiliation with
club or fraternity, his home being his haven of rest in his hours "oflf
duty."

Rev. Frederick Skiff Stanton was born in New Bedford, Massachu-
setts, December 2^, 1857, and died in the city of his birth, October i, 191 5,
a son of Henry and Charity C. (Skiff) Stanton. Henry Stanton was a sea-
faring man. He attended grammar school, but his school years ended
early, his earnings being a source of great help to his widowed mother.
His first position was with the Union Boot and Shoe Company, and
later he was with Hathaway & Soule, shoe manufacturers of New Bed-
ford. During these years he maintained courses of evening study, and
becoming converted to the faith of the Christian Advent church he pre-
pared for and was ordained a minister of that faith. He was twenty-six
years of age when he began his ministerial work as an evangelist, and
for some years his work was the upbuilding and strengthening of old
churches, and organizing ones wherever the field seemed ripe for the
harvest. He he'd services in tents, halls and in private homes during his
years of evangelistic service, and found his work inspiring and blessed.
He later was settled as pastor over the Christian Advent church at Hud-
son Falls, New York, and from that church was transferred to the church
at Lawrence, Massacnusetts. He served these two churches with great
acceptability for eight years. On December 24, 1896, the death of his

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mother-in-law, the wife of James G. Harding, long associated with
Wood, Brightman & Company, of New Bedford, made his duty plain,
and resigning from the ministry, he returned to New Bedford and Mr.
Harding and Mr. Stanton's aged mother were henceforth the objects of
the loving care of their son and daughter, Mr. and Mrs. Frederick S.
Stanton.

The relinquishing of ministerial work gave Mr. Stanton his full time
to devote to his musical work, although he had never ceased to use his
talents freely while in the ministry. Neither did he now abandon church
work, but during this period and for many years prior, totalling alto-
gether twenty-one years of service, he was secretary of the Massachu-
setts State Conference of his denomination. At the age of twenty-three
he printed a religious song book in his home for the use of the children
in the Sunday school, that being the commencement of a musical career
which ended only with his death. He had sung, played and composed
music for church needs all during his ministerial life, but in New Bed-
ford he first used his gifts in the practical form of a profession. He
organized classes in music, taught about every kind of instrument, gave
lessons privately in any branch of music, wrote and published continu-
ously, in fact, gave himself without reserve. This was hard, fatiguing
work, but his labors were greatly lessened from the fact that he was a
natural musician and music literally flowed from him with almost uncon-
scious effort. He wrote both libretto and score of cantatas, composed
hymns, and set them to music, published many instrumental pieces,
arranged for concert and orchestra, and taught pupils and classes inces-
santly. His last work was the arrangement of seventeen voluntaries
orchestral scores. While the amount of work he accomplished was
prodigious, he was never other than most agreeable and companionable,
his smile and his ready wit always driving away gloom or weariness. He
loved his work and his fellowmen, and they loved him. That was his
great reward, the love of his fellowmen, and most abundantly he reaped
that which he sowed, kindly words and deeds. Finally the limit of his
strength was reached, and the end of his useful life among men came,
finding him ready. In speaking of Mr. Stanton, after his death, Rev.
Charles H. Oliphant, pastor of the First Congregational Church at
Methuen, said:

Had he enjoyed the early advantages (which he indeed showed so
little need of) of liberal training, he would have been one of the notable
men of the times. In him the sweetness of childhood was united with a
maturity and strength of character seldom seen. His moral vigor, his
determined and persistent pursuit of the ends he sought, his contagious
merriment, and most of all, his rare sensitiveness to spiritual values of
every kind, made him a most lovable and unusual man.

Mr. Stanton married, October 13, 1880, Mary Althea Harding, who
survives him, daughter of James G. Harding, of New Bedford. Mr. and
Mrs. Stanton were the parents of three children, all deceased.

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JAMES EDWIN BRIERLY, C. S. D.

In 1887 James Edwin Brierly came to New Bedford. He was a
member of the First Church of Christ, Scientist, of Boston, the Mother
Church, and a graduate of the Massachusetts Metaphysical College in
Boston, presided over by Mary Baker Eddy, its founder. The addition
of one family to the thousands already there is a trivial matter, but the
coming of Mr. and Mrs. Brierly was the "little matter which kindleth
a great fire." He was then, as now, an accredited practitioner and author-
ized teacher under his degree, C. S., D., Doctor of Christian Science, and
came to New Bedford, a city then without a church of his faith and a
most inviting field to a believer in Christ's command to "go preach the
Gospel and heal the sick." From the efforts of Mr. Brierly and his de-
voted wife sprang the First Church of Christ, Scientist, of New Bedford,
whose church edifice at the corner of Mill and County streets was
erected without a pledge or subscription from anyone, all of its cost,
$31,000, having been dropped in the collection plates on Sunday morn-
ings. The congregation at each service makes a goodly showing, and
five practitions carry their cards in the Christian Science Journal from
New Bedford, which fact is proof that they are duly authorized. All of
this is a result of the coming of James E. Brierly, thirty years ago.

James Edwin Brierly was born in Milbury, Massachusetts, April 12,
1S52, son of Joseph and Elizabeth (Hoyle) Brierly, both his parents born
in England. Joseph Brierly came to Milbury, Massachusetts, with his
parents and became a cotton mill worker in charge of a department. In
Milbury he married Elizabeth Hoyle, who had likewise come from Eng-
land with her parents. Joseph Brierly died in Worcester, Massachu-
setts. James Brierly, father of Joseph Brierly, was born in England and
he died in Milbury.

James E. Brierly grew up in Milbury, was educated in the grammar
and high schools there, finishing with a course at a business college in
Worcester, Massachusetts. He began business life as clerk in a book
store in Worcester, there continuing seven years. He then established
a retail book, stationery and jewelry store at Birmingham, now Derby,
Connecticut, a business which he conducted for ten years. There he
terminated his career as a merchant, the change coming to him unex-
pectedly, but the call was so insistent and came to him so naturally that
it was heeded.

Mr. Brierly had been reared under the influences of the Congrega-
tional church, but after his marriage he identified himself with the Meth-
odist Episcopal, the church of which Mrs. Brierly was a follower. Chris-
tian Science came into their lives through the serious illness of Mrs.
Brierly, a practitioner of that faith having been called in at the eleventh
hour with a result that recovery followed. Such convincing proof could
not be disregarded, and both Mr. and Mrs. Brierly gave their allegiance
to the old-new faith. With the revelation of God's power which was so

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clearly demonstrated to him in the healing of his wife, a desire came to
Mr. Brierly to know more of this truth which sets men free, and with
that knowledge came a resolve to spread the "glad tidings" and to devote
his life to the practice of the Science of living and healing as taught in
the Bible, and "Science and Health" by Mary B. Eddy. In preparation
therefor he became a member of a class at Massachusetts Metaphysical
College, personally taught by Mary Baker Eddy, founder of the College
and author of "Science and Health," the text book of the denomination,
that book and the Bible the only preachers allowed in Christian Science
churches. After the completion of his first course he located his home in
Worcester, Massachusetts, there practicing Christian Science about fif-
teen months In January, 1887, New Bedford being without a practi-
tioner or a church devoted to Christian Science, he located in that city
and began the work of creating an interest in a religion without creed,
a religion which demonstrates its power at all times, everywhere, a reli-
gion such as all believe once existed, but which Christian Scientists be-
lieve is as potent to-day as ever.

After eighteen months in New Bedford, Mr. Brierly returned to
Massachusetts Metaphysical College for the Normal course of instruc-
tion, and at graduation in September, 1888, received the degree, C. S. D.
At his rooms in the old Mt. Pleasant House which once stood opposite
the present standard building on Pleasant street, he held his first class,
a single student, and his first Sunday service, until April i, 18S7. He
removed to Middle street, September, 1887, and organized a Christian
Science Bible School. James E. Brierly was superintendent ; Mrs.
Clara Hicks, treasurer; and Miss Mary J. Eldridge, secretary. It was
not until September, 1893, that a church was organized and a charter
secured, but in the quarter of a century which has since elapsed its
growth has been steady, until it is a strong, virile church, radiating an
influence exceedingly blessed and powerful. During these early years
the little body of devoted men and women led by Mr. Brierly, their first
pastor, met in many different places, their meeting places being the old
Mt. Pleasant House, now demolished; No. 187 Middle street; the Five
Cents Savings Bank Building; No. 109 Fourth street; the corner of High
and Purchase streets; the Universalist church; Vesta Hall; Christian
Church on Middle street, and finally their own church, completed in
May, 1916. So this work, which began in a gathering of "two or three"
the first Sunday after Mr. Brierly 's arrival in January, 1887, has gone
on and on gathering strength with each day.

Mr. Brierly was the first pastor of the church, serving until Mrs.
Eddy decreed that The Bible, "Science and Health," should be the pastor
of the denomination. Then Mr. Brierly was chosen first reader, Mrs.
Roxa D. Long as second reader, followed by Mrs. Nellie Delano and
Mrs. James E. Brierly. After this the readers were chosen. For three
years Charles L. Kirkland, first reader ; Mary J. Eldridge, second reader ;
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Mrs. Fannie Lowell, first reader; Mrs. Ella Hillman, second reader; Mrs.
Daisy Snow, first reader; Walter R. Mitchell, second reader; Mrs. Alice
B. Taber, first reader; and George W. Holbrook, second reader. A sec-
ond church was formed through the eflforts of Charles L. Kirkland, but
three years later, in September, 1902, the two united, as at present. A
reading room was first started in the Five Cents Savings Bank Building,
after which it was transferred to No. 109 Fourth street, corner of High
and Purchase streets, Cushing Building, Christian Middle Street Church,
and now is maintained in the bookstore building. No. 222 Union street.
During the year 1902 Mrs. Eddy informed her students that all readers
that had served three years should retire at the proper time, and Mr. and
Mrs. Brierly, feeling that a union of forces was desirable, invited the
officials of both congregations to meet for a conference at the First
Church, No. 109 Fourth street. From this meeting came the final reunion
consummated in September, 1902. At the same time they resigned.

Since 1887 Mr. Brierly has taught classes under the authority
granted him, his students being allowed in common with all class stu-
dents to use the title "S. S." after their names if they become practi-
tioners. On May i, 1901, the New Bedford Institute of Christian Science
received a charter of incorporation for the purpose of teaching "Chris-
tian Science mind healing as is taught in a certain book called "Science
and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker G. Eddy. James
E. Brierly, Ella F. Hillman, Louise R. Macy, Cordie F. Hillman, Eliza-
beth Salisbury, Esther L Scales, Latetia M. Eldredge, Minnie C. Ru&-
dinger, Mary E. Oliver and Priscilla B. Case are the incorporators. The
following are the officers which were elected on April 15, 1901 : Presi-
dent, James E. Brierly ; clerk, Minnie C. Ruedinger ; treasurer, Ella F.
Hillman; directors, James E. Brierly, Cordie F. Hillman and Louise R.
Macy; principal, James E. Brierly. On September 23, 1915, at sunrise,
with simple but impressive services, the cornerstone of the new First
Church of Christ, Scientist, was laid on the site at County and Mill
streets in the presence of the officers of the church, the building commit-
tee and the contractors. The brief service was conducted by the readers,
Mrs. Alice B. Taber and George W. Holbrook. James E. Brierly put
the stone in place. Beneath it was imbedded a copper box containing the
writings of Mary Baker Eddy, copies of the publications of the Christian
Science Publishing Society, and a paper containing the names of the
church officials, the building committee and the contractors. The new
church was ready for occupancy in 1916. Mr. Brierly maintained an
office at No. 948 Kempton street, where he keeps office hours morning,
afternoon and evening, ministering to the spiritual and physical needs
of a large clientele there and at their homes. He is the dean of New Bed-
ford practitioners and a bulwark of strength to the church he was instru-
mental in founding in New Bedford.

Mr. Brierly married, October, 1877, Ruth Agnes Harrison, of Fall
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Fall River, aged ninety-three, a quarry operator, but for many years was
retired from all active business pursuits. His wife, Ruth Ann (Brayton)
Harrison, was born in Dartmouth, Massachusetts. Mr. and Mrs. Brierly
are the parents of Raymond H., born in New Bedford, in May, 1888, now
in charge of the shipping department of the Weeden Manufacturing Com-
pany of New Bedford ; he married Maud Brightman, they the parents of
sons, Roland and Earl Brierly.

HERBERT ELLSWORTH CUSHMAN.

At the bottom of one of the panels of the forefathers monument at
Plymouth, Massachusetts, in this inscription : "Robert Cushman, who
chartered the Mayflower and was active and prominent in securing the
success of the Pilgrim Enterprise, came in 1621." This Robert Cush-
man, whose term of residence in New England was short, was one of
the leading spirits in all the preliminary measures taken both in Eng-
land and Holland by the Pilgrims prior to the actual sailing of the "May-
flower." His own coming for some reason was delayed, but the year
following he came in the "Fortune" accompanied by his only son,
Thomas. This Thomas Cushman married Mary Allerton, a "Mayflower"
passenger, and became prominent in church and colony life. Robert
Cushman returned to England on business for the colony and there died
in 1626, but Thomas Cushman continued in Plymouth until his death,
December 10, 1691. He was laid at rest in that holiest of American
shrines. Burial Hill in Plymouth, his gravestone proclaiming him "that
precious Servant of God." He was the founder of this one of New Eng-
land's historic families, he being the only son of Robert Cushman, who
is commemorated on the Forefathers' Monument.

Herbert Ellsworth Cushman, for many years financial head of one
of New Bedford's great corporations. The Morse Twist Drill and Ma-
chine Company, and an eminent citizen, is of the ninth American genera-
tion of the family. The line of descent from Robert Cushman is through
Elder Thomas Cushman, elder of Plymouth Church for forty-three years,
and his wife Mary (Allerton) Cushman; their son, Thomas (2) Cush-
man, and his second wife, Abigail (Fuller) Cushman, of Rehoboth ; their
son, Benjamin Cushman, and his first wife, Sarah (Eaton) Cushman;

their son, Jabez Cushman, and his wife, (Padelford) Cushman;

their son, Zebedee Cushman, who moved to Taunton, Massachusetts,
and his wife, Mary (Padelford) Cushman; their son, Alvah Cushman,
of Taunton, and his wife, Sally (Leonard) Cushman; their son, William
H. Cushman, of Taunton, and his wife, Joanna Harlow (Paine) Cush-
man ; their son, Herbert Ellsworth Cushman, of further mention.

William H. Cushman was born in Taunton, Massachusetts, Novem-
ber 2, 1839, snd there died, August 27, 1901. For many years he was
engaged in nail manufacture with his brother David, was well known,
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Paine, born October 12, 1840, daughter of John B. and Rebecca (Reed)
Paine, and granddaughter of Levi and Lucy (Doten) Reed, of Plym-
outh. Mrs. Cushman survived her husband and later became a resident
of New Bedford, where her sons were prominent in manufacturing cor-
porations. William H. and Joanna Harlow (Paine) Cushman were the
parents of eight children: Henry Presbrey, died young; Herbert Ells-
worth, of further mention ; Albert Francis, died aged twenty years ;
William Alvah, of New Bedford, clerk of Morse Twist Drill and Machine
Company ; Jennie E., married Louis Bright Barker ; Everett Morton (q.
v.), superintendent of the Holmes Manufacturing Company, New Bed-
ford; Grace Reed, died young; Bessie May, married Francis N. Smith.

Herbert Ellsworth Cushman, eldest son of William H. and Joanna
Harlow (Paine) Cushman, was born in Taunton, Massachusetts, Janu-
ary I, 1862. There he completed full courses of grade and high school
study, finishing with graduation, class of 1880. He began business life
with the Taunton Locomotive Works, serving that corporation as clerk
for one year, then for about six years was head bookkeeper for the Wil-
liams Manufacturing Company of Taunton. In 1887 he resigned his
position and came to New Bedford, entered the employ of the Morse
Twist Drill and Machine Company, as sales agent, and is now rounding
out his thirty-first year of continuous service with that very important
corporation. He continued as sales agent for the company until 1902,
his record in that responsible position then bringing him promotion to
his present office, treasurer and general manager, succeeding Gideon
Allen, Jr., who succeeded E. S. Taber as treasurer in March, 1889, be-
came vice-president in 1902, and upon the death of Andrew G. Pierce,
September 11, 1903, was elected president. As treasurer of so important
a manufacturing corporation, Mr. Cushman at once became a factor in
the financial world and during the years which have passed since assum-
ing the duties of his office he has grown to full stature as a financier and
general manager. The corporation is strong in all its departments,
factory, office and selling, but in its finance department particularly so,
that department being the cornerstone of every successful manufactur-
ing enterprise.

During his thirty years of residence in New Bedford, Mr. Cushman
has been called to other positions of trust, he now serving the First
National Bank as director, the New Bedford Institution for Savings, as
trustee, the Fireman's Mutual Insurance Company and Union Mutual
Insurance Company, of Providence, as director, the New Bedford
Foundry and Machine Company, as director, and is a director of the
company which he also serves as treasurer, the Morse Twist Drill and
Machine Company. He is an ex-president of the New Bedford Board of
Trade, member of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, the
Engineer and Machinery clubs of New York City, the Wamsutta and
Country clubs of New Bedford, Hope Club of Providence, the Old
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Institute of Salem, the American Museum of Natural History of New
York, and the Old Dartmouth Historical Society of New Bedford. He
has been for several years and is now president of the Old Dartmouth
Historical Society of New Bedford. In religious affiliation he is a mem-
ber of the Unitarian church of New Bedford. His masonic memberships
are held with Alfred Baylies Lodge, Free and Accepted Masons, of Taun-
ton ; St. Mark's Chapter, Royal Arch Masters, of Taunton ; New Bedford
Council, Royal and Select Masters, of Taunton ; St. John's Commandery,
Knights Templar, of Providence. In political faith he is a Republican.
Mr Cushman married, January 22, 1901, Anna Russell Taber,
daughter of William C. and Sarah A. W. Taber. Mr. and Mrs. Cush-
man are the parents of three children : Mary AUerton, who died in in-
fancy ; Sarah, born September 30, 1902 ; Eleanor Jarvis, born November
28, 1905. This record of the life of a busy business man necessarily
touches the principal happenings of its half century of years. From the
age of eighteen years he has been a worker, performing well each duty
as presented and continually rising to a high level of usefulness. He is
a worthy twentieth century representative of a family which dates back
to the earliest English settlement of New England, a family, which dur-
ing the near three centuries which have elapsed since Robert Cushman,
"that precious servant of God," first stepped upon the sacred soil of Plym-
outh, has borne well its part in the upbuilding and development of the
new Commonwealth of Massachusetts.

HORACE ALLEN LAWTON.

Scion of an ancient Rhode Island family, Horace Allen Lawton was
brought when an infant to New Bedford, Massachusetts, and there his
years, fifty-five, were passed. He selected a business career, and for
twenty-three years conducted two drug stores in New Bedford, one at
the corner of Union and Purchase streets, the other at the corner of
Union and Second streets. He operated in connection with his brother,
Charles H. Lawton, the firm of C. H. & H. A. Lawton, organized Janu-
ary I, 1873, continuing until July i, 1896, both brothers then retiring,
after settling their affairs, and selling the business to the C. H. & H. A.
Lawton Drug Company. While Horace A. Lawton was an excellent
business man, well informed and possessed of strong literary taste, he
took little part in city affairs, and found in his home his greatest happi-
ness. This does not imply that he was not interested, for on the con-
trary he was keenly alive to his responsibilities as a citizen, and in his
own quiet way bore his part. But he was essentially a business man,
won his way from the bottom of the mercantile ladder, and in his busi-
ness and in his home found the full measure of a contented, successful
life.

Horace Allen Lawton was of the eighth generation of the family
founded in Newport, Rhode Island, by George Lawton, who was one of

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the twenty-eight signers of the Compact, April 30, 1639, for the forma-
tion of a "Civil Body Poloticke." George Lawton was prominent in
Colonial affairs, serving six terms as deputy and nine terms as assistant
to the Governor. He owned land at Portsmouth, and there died October
5, 1693, his body being laid at rest in his own orchard. He married Eliza-
beth Hazard. The line of descent is through the founder's third son,
Robert Lawton ; his son. Captain George Lawton ; his son, Robert Law-
ton ; his son. William Lawton ; his son, Peter Lawton ; his son, Peter
(2) Lawton ; his son, Horace A. Lawton.

Bristol, Portsmouth or Newport, Rhode Island, continued to be the
homes of the preceding until Peter (2) Lawton, born May 20, 181 1, a
cabinetmaker, moved to Seekonk, Massachusetts, thence to New Bed-
ford, in 1843, ^"d there died at his home, now No. 198 Kempton street,
July 24, 1869. At one time he was a manufacturer of pianos. Peter (2)
Lawton married, in Bristol, Rhode Island, August 12, 1839, Nancy F.
Simmons. They were the parents of two sons, Charles Henry and Hor-
ace Allen, both now deceased, founders of the business, now the C. H.
& H. A. Lawton Drug Company.

Horace Allen Lawton was born in Bristol, Rhode Island, December
14, 1843, but shortly afterward New Bedford became the family home
and there his life was spent. He attended the public schools of the city
until seventeen years of age, then began his business life which ended
with his retirement in 1896, three years prior to his death, April 26, 1899.
He began as a dry goods clerk, and while connected with that line of
merchandising was employed by R. H. Whitcomb and E. B. Whiting.
From the dry goods store he changed to drugs, and until January i,
1873, was clerk in the drug store conducted by Thornton & Gerrish, his
brother, Charles H., having been a clerk in the same store from his six-
teenth year, entering it in 1856, he being the senior of Horace A. by three
years. On January i, 1873, the Lawton brothers, having left the employ
of Thornton & Gerrish, began business as C. H. & H. A. Lawton, pur-
chasing the two drug stores owned by E. Thorton, Jr., one at the corner
of Union and Purchase streets, the other at the corner of Union and
North Second streets. The brothers conducted these two stores for
twenty-three years, retiring July i, 1896. Those were years of honor-
able business success, and when the brothers retired a stock company,
the C. K. & H. A. Lawton Drug Company, purchased both stores.

Horace Allen Lawton was a member of the New Bedford Protect-
ing Society from 1867 until his death, attended Trinitarian Church, and
held membership in the Wamsutta Club ; Eureka Lodge, Free and
Accepted Masons ; Adoniram Chapter, Royal Arch Masons ; New Bed-
ford Council, Royal and Select Masters; and Sutton Commandery,
Knights Templar. In politics he was a Republican, but never sought nor
accepted public office. At the time of his decease he was fifty-five years,
four months and twelve days old, and his remains were interred in Rural
Cemetery, New Bedford.

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Mr. Lawton married, January 5, 1871, Clara P. Taber, daughter of
Captain Jacob Taber, whose sketch follows in this work. Mrs. Lawton
survives her husband and continues her residence in New Bedford (1918).

CAPTAIN JACOB TABER.

Philip Taber, the first ancestor of Captain Jacob Taber, of whom we
have definite information, was a resident of Watertown, ^Massachusetts,
in 1634, from whence he removed to Providence, Rhode Island. One of
the descendants of Philip Taber was Jacob Taber, great-grandfather of
Captain Jacob Taber, who was a resident of Acushnet, Bristol county,
Massachusetts, erecting a house in which many generations of the
family resided. The line is carried down through his son, Stephen
Taber, grandfather of Captain Jacob Taber, and then through Joseph
Taber, father of Captain Jacob Taber. Joseph Taber was a farmer of
Acushnet, and there spent his life. He married (first) Phoebe, daughter
of William Ashley, and (second) a widow, Mrs. Dexter, who survived
him. Children of first wife: i. Stephen, in early life a mariner and
whaling captain, later moved to Walworth, Wayne county, New York,
there becoming a land owner and farmer ; he married Charity Nye, of
Acushnet. 2. Abram, was also a mariner in early life ; married Marcia
Nye, a sister of Charity Nye, and moved to Walworth, also becoming a
land owner and farmer. 3. Jacob, of further mention. 4. Phineas. a
master mariner, who after retiring from the sea settled in the State of
Maine ; he married Abigail Gifford. 5. Marcus W., a whaling captain of
New Bedford, which city was his home for many years ; married Olive C.
Ashley, who survived him. 6. Betsey A., became the wife of David
Chace, a farmer of Acushnet, whom she survived.

Captain Jacob Taber was born August 13, 1813, in the house built
by his great-grandfather, Jacob Taber, in the now town of Acushnet,
Bristol county, Massachusetts. He attended the district school during the
winter months, and assisted with the work of the home farm during the
remainder of the year. At the age of nineteen he shipped on the whaler,
"South Boston," of Fairhaven, Captain Sheffield Read, sailing from that
port in 1832. This was a short voyage to the South Atlantic, extending
over a period of a month, and he then sailed on his second voyage, this
time in the ship, "Alarcia," Captain Peter Butler, sailing from Fairhaven,
which extended over a period of thirty-three months. He continued a
member of the crew of that vessel until April. 1838. then shipped on the
"James Monroe," this service continuing until September, 1842, when he
became a member of the crew of the ship, "Arab," as second mate, under
Captain Benjamin Cushman. The tender of the "Arab" was sent home
from Desolation Island, Terra Del Fuego, under command of the first
mate, this causing Second Mate Taber to advance to the rank of first
mate. The "Arab" made her port in October, 1845, and on July 7, 1846,

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Captain Jacob Taber sailed from New Bedford in command of the ship,
"Condor," he being then thirty-three years of age. He was on that
voyage for twenty months, to the coast of Chile, and in July, 1848, sailed
for the northwest coast and the sea of Okhotsk in command of the ship,
"Chandler Price," returning with a profitable catch, nearly three years
later. In 185 1 he repeated the trip with the same ship, and at the expira-
tion of the three years again entered his home port with a profitable
cargo. In i860 he went to Honolulu, there taking command of the ship,
"Abigail," a vessel which had sailed from New Bedford in 1856. In
November, 1861, he sailed as master of the "Northern Light" for the
Hudson Bay Whaling Ground, returning the following October with a
valuable cargo. He sailed again in the same ship in April, 1863, and
cruised the same grounds until October, 1864, and while the catch was
about the same as on the first voyage the price of oil had so increased,
owing to the destruction wrought among the whalers by the Confederate
cruisers, that it netted the owners about $30,000 more. Captain Taber
sailed as a whaling master for the last time in September, 1865, in com-
mand of the ship, "Three Brothers." He cruised in the Arctic ocean until
August, 1869, then returned to New Bedford, well laden. This was his
last whaling voyage, but his last sea voyage was not taken until 1870,
when he went to San Francisco, California, and from that port sailed the
bark, "Norman," around Cape Horn to New Bedford. He was a success-
ful captain from every point of view ; he made money for his owners and
for himself, never lost a vessel, never hoisted a signal of distress, never
sustained personal injury, and never advanced a claim against any of
his underwriters for even the smallest amount of damage.

The twenty-one years following his last voyage were spent in
honored retirement, his private affairs being his only care. He resided
at his home, corner of County and Middle streets, and there or at
the Chronometer Club, a club composed of retired whaling captains,
he could usually be found. He was a man of genial, friendly nature,
very approachable, and always retained the many friends he so easily
made. He was highly regarded in the various capacities he filled, em-
ployee, shipmate, employer, friend or neighbor. He was a Republican
in politics, and twice represented Ward Three in the Common Council,
1872 and 1874.

Captain Taber married, April 16, 1840, Hannah Mendell Blackmer,
born in 1817, died April 3, 1881, daughter of Salisbury and Lucy Black-
mer, of Acushnet. Captain and Mrs. Taber were the parents of three
daughters : Lucy M., became the wife of John S. Perry, of New Bedford ;
Clara P., became the wife of Horace Allen Lawton, whose sketch precedes
this in the work, and whom she survives, a resident of New Bedford ;
Alice R., became the wife of Clarence M. Hathaway, of Fall River.
Captain Taber died suddenly at his home in New Bedford, December 16,
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GIDEON ALLEN, JR.

The history of the branch of the Allen family, long eminent in New
Bedford business annals, of which Gideon Allen, Jr., is a leading repre-
sentative, begins in New England on May 6, 1635, when George Allen,
his wife, and their sons, George, William and Matthew, arrived at Boston
from Weymouth, England. From Boston, George Allen went to Wey-
mouth, Massachusetts, but soon afterward to Sandwich, where in 1646
he built a house near the meeting house of the Society of Friends on
the main road to Cape Cod. where he died in 1648. That old house
stood until 18S2, when it was taken down. After his death members of
his family moved away from Sandwich, two of his sons going to Con-
necticut, one to Martha's Vineyard, another to Braintree, Massachusetts,
but five sons remained in Sandwich.

One of these, Ralph Allen, was the ancestor of most of the Dart-
mouth Aliens, although it cannot be said whether or not he ever lived
in that town, yet it is probable that he did. His land holdings were large
both in Sandwich and Dartmouth, but before his death he divided his
lands among his children confirming his gifts by deed. Ebenezer Allen,
son of Ralph Allen, held land on the west side of Coxsit river as well
as the homestead land, and in 1727 Ebenezer Allen, a blacksmith, was
deeded the meadow at Horse Neck on the west side of Long Lot. He
was succeeded by his son, James Allen, to whom he willed part of the
homestead. James Allen married Mary Akin, of Portsmouth, Rhode
Island, the line of descent to Gideon Allen, Jr., being through their son,
Prince Allen and his wife, Deborah (Butler) Allen; James (2) Allen,
son of Prince and Deborah Allen, married Sarah Howland, of another old
Dartmouth family, they the parents of Gideon Allen and grandparents of
Gideon Allen, Jr., whose life story is herein told.

Gideon Allen, born May 29, 1791. in Dartmouth, died in New
Bedford, December 6, 1878. He was long one of New Bedford's promi-
nent business men, having extensive whaling interests, his firm owning
many vessels. His place of business was first located on Front street,
later on Water street and Hazard's Wharf, he continuing active in
business until his death, although he saw New Bedford's glory as a
whaling port depart. He was a director of the Merchants Bank, member
of the First Congregational (Unitarian) Church, and one of the com-
mittee in charge of the erection of the edifice at the corner of Eighth
and Union streets. He was one of the original incorporators of Rural
Cemetery, April 12, 1837, the property being sold to the city of New
Bedford by Gideon Allen and Benjamin T. Sanford in 1849 for about
$5,000. With him was associated his sons, Gilbert and Gideon, Jr., but
they realized quickly when the tide turned against whaling and engaged
in other lines. When the business finally departed, they were both well
established in their new enterprise. Gilbert Allen, who died April 27,
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the Merchants Bank, at one time president of the New Bedford Gas
Light Company, and held other official positions in the corporations of
his city. Gideon Allen married (second) Betsey H. Nye, born January
14, 1796, died September 27, 1844, daughter of Thomas and Hannah
(Hathaway) Nye, and granddaughter of Stephen and Abigail Hathaway.
Mr. and Mrs. Allen were the parents of: Hannah, married Jireh Swift;
Eliza Nye, married Isaac Davenport, Jr. ; Annie P., died aged thirteen
years ; Mary S., died aged sixteen years ; Alice, married Griffith B. Daven-
port ; Henry H. ; Gilbert, of previous mention ; Annie Perry ; Gideon, of
further mention ; and Mary S.

Gideon Allen, Jr., youngest son of Gideon and Betsey H. (Nye)Allen,
was born in New Bedford, Massachusetts, September 2"], 1837, and is yet
an honored resident of his native city. Although he has obtained octogen-
arian honors, he is the executive head of the First National Bank and the
Morse Twist Drill & Machine Company, two of New Bedford's leading
corporations, leaders in finance and manufacture. His mother having
been a member of the Society of Friends, his early education was obtained
in Friends School at New Bedford, and Haverford, Pennsylvania, his
preparatory education being completed at Phillips (Andover) Academy.
He then entered Harvard University, whence he was graduated with the
usual Bachelor's degree, class of "58," his business career beginning
immediately thereafter. He was associated with his father and brother
in the whaling business until 1862. The years, 1862-1865, were spent in
San Francisco, California. From 1865 until 1873 he was again associated
with his father in business, but in 1873 began a connection with the
Morse Twist Drill & Machine Company, which has now continued for
forty-four years, durng which time he has advanced from bookkeeper to
president. He filled the position of bookkeeper so well that he was soon
advanced to the head of the office force, holding that position for several
years until the death of the treasurer, E. S. Taber, in 1889, whereupon he
was elected to fill that responsible position. In March, 1902, he resigned,
having been elected vice-president; his position as treasurer being taken
and being still held by Herbert E. Cushman. On September 11, 1903,
Andrew G. Pierce, president of the Morse Twist Drill & Machine Com-
pany died, and Mr. Allen was at once chosen by the board of directors to
fill the executive chair, and from that time he has been president of the
company and active in its duties. He has long been connected with the
directorate of the First National Bank of New Bedford and for a number
of years has been its honored president. He is also a member of the
board of investment of the New Bedford Institution for Savings. He
has given his life largely to the prosecution of his business interests,
but has served his city as a member of the school committee, was for
many years a member of the Protecting Society, a valuable branch of the
fire department, and is a long time member of the First Congregational
(Unitarian) Church. In political faith he is a Republican. His clubs are
the Wamsutta and Country, both of New Bedford.

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Mr. Allen married, October i6, i860, Horatia Anna Howland, daugh-
ter of Williams and Mary R. (Wood) Howland, this uniting two of the
oldest New England families. Mr. and Mrs. Allen are the parents of:
Mary Howland, Frank Howland, both of whom died young; George
Swain, died at the age of fifteen years, April 15, 1882; Helen Howland,
who resides at the family home, No. 35 Grove street, a lady greatly
interested in benevolent work, particularly the Children's Aid Society, of
which she is treasurer.

Mr. Allen can review with satisfaction a life of successful effort in
which there has been few unproductive periods. His business career,
which began upon his release from the University in his twenty-first
year, has now continued over a period equal to an average man's life, and
he is yet the active head of two great corporations.

CHARLES ALLEN CASE.

Dartmouth, Bristol county, Massachusetts, became the home of John
Case, great-grandfather of Charles Allen Case, John Case, being the
father of Captain Allen Case, a master mariner, who resided in New
Bedford, where his son, Allen (2) Case, was born and became a member
of the prosperous firm, Delano & Case, coopers. In the palmy days of
the whaling business, Delano & Case did a large business at their plant
on Fish Island, they receiving also the first schooner load of staves ever
landed at a wharf north of the New Bedford and Fairhaven bridge.
Along in the forties they sold their cooperage business to Adams & Peck
in order that they might become oil inspectors and gangers. In the year
1866, Delano & Case dissolved, Mr. Case continuing an oil inspector until
1871, when he retired. He married, October 2^, 1836, Cordelia Leonard,
two children being born to them : Avis Delano, married Philip Howland,
they now both deceased ; and Charles Allen, to whose memory this review
is inscribed.

Charles Allen Case was born in New Bedford, Massachusetts, Sep-
tember 10, 1845, <i'sd at his home on Purchase street in his native city,
April 28, 1905. He was educated in the private schools of New Bedford,
and at the completion of his school years he entered business life as a
traveling salesman. He continued on the road for some time, then
abandoned that line to enter the drug store owned by Ezra Holmes.
He learned the apothecary business thoroughly, and in 1882 purchased
the business, which he successfully conducted until the breakdown of
his health, which was the forerunner of his death in 1905. The business
with which Mr. Case was so long connected was founded in 1846, by
M. Israel, who was succeeded by A. R. Holmes, he by Ezra Holmes, he
by Charles Allen Case. The store was located from the first at the corner
of Purchase and Hillman streets. A Democrat in politics, Mr. Case bore
his full share of civic responsibility, and gave freely of his time and
ability to the public service. He was a member of Common Council in

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1876 and 1877, and again in 1885 and 1886. In 1878 he represented New
Bedford in the Massachusetts House of Representatives, and at all times
could be relied upon to aid in any undertaking looking toward the com-
mon good. He was a member of the New Bedford Protecting Society,
was a Baptist in religious preference, and a member of the Benevolent
and Protective Order of Elks. He died at the age of sixty and was buried
in Oak Grove Cemetery.

Mr. Case married, at Gardner, Maine, January 16, 1889, Nellie M.
Townsend, born there, June 9, 1861, daughter of Stephen Townsend.
Mr. and Mrs. Case were the parents of two sons: Allen (3rd), born
October 30, 1890, now an employee of the Commonwealth Bank of
Boston; and Leonard Townsend, born January 8, 1896, now enlisted in
the United States Navy.

CAPTAIN GEORGE FOX BRIGHTMAN.

For twenty-seven years Captain George F. Brightman sailed the
seas as foremast hand, mate and master. His first command was the
ship "California," of which he was first mate for four years. Captain
Brightman was known as the "lucky captain," the master who never
sailed on an unprofitable voyage. His luck was proverbial and he never
had any trouble in securing a crew. Not until his last voyage, in 1889,
did serious misfortune overtake him. The ship, well laden, was but two
days sailing from her home port. New Bedford, when a hurricane which
continued three days struck the "California," dismasted her and sorely
tested the good ship, but she weathered the gale, and under jury rig
finally made Block Island in safety. After his marriage, in 1872, Mr.
Brightman, within a month, sailed for the South seas as mate, returning
four years later. When he sailed on his next voyage it was as Captain
Brightman, and Mrs. Brightman was a passenger. She proved a good
sailor, and henceforth as long as he continued a whaler she shared the
privileges of the quarter deck. This was not merely courtesy, for the
captain's wife had mastered navigation, could take the ships position
with the quadrant, and with precision work out the latitude and longi-
tude. Frequently, when whales were plentiful, she navigated the ship,
and when Captain Brightman was once stricken with fever she took his
place for several days and correctly navigated the ship. In the many
ports at which the "California" touched, Mrs. Brightman would secure
a souvenir of her visit, and now, in her New Bedford home, amid other
cherished mementoes of her gallant sailor husband, she has these curios
which furnish abundant material for an illustrated travel talk. The
sailors were firm believers in the luck of their captain, but attributed a
good share to the captain's wife, and two of her mementoes are a small
model of a sperm^ and a right whale carved by one of the officers. To-
gether Captain and Mrs. Brightman sailed three long whaling voyages
to the South Pacific, then with much regret bade good-bye to the

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"California," so long their home, and retired to the tame existence of a
dweller on land in a city. Their first home was on Acushnet avenue, the
old Covel place, but when the mills came the home was sold, and in 1903
they moved to the corner of County and Willis streets, New Bedford,
and resided there until the bond was broken, and the strong arm upon
which the wife had leaned so long was withdrawn.

George Fox Brightman was born at Smith's Neck, South Dartmouth,
Bristol county, Massachusetts, March 5, 1844, and died in New Bedford,
Massachusetts, July 3, 1914. His parents moved to New Bedford the
year following his birth, therefore that city may be styled his life long
home. He attended the public schools of New Bedford, and for a time
tried farming after his school days ended. But he was not tempera-
mentally fitted for a farm, and he soon followed the example set him by
other young men of his acquaintance, the result being that his name
appeared on the papers of the bark "Rocius" as a foremast hand entitled
to a 175th. lay, which meant that every time one hundred and seventy-five
barrels of oil were taken, he received one barrel, this in lieu of all other
remuneration. The "Rocius" sailed from New Bedford, in March, 1863,
cruised the Atlantic whaling grounds until December, 1863, then returned
to New Bedford with seven hundred and twenty-four barrels of oil, the
young whaler's share netting him $175.

This was the beginning of twenty-seven continuous years of exciting,
arduous, and often perilous life as a whaler. On his next voyage, which
was also a short one, in 1864, he sailed on the "Minerva," then made his
third voyage in the bark "Pacific," sailing in June, 1865, and returning
with a good catch in October, 1867. On his third voyage he had reached
the dignity of boat steerer, which meant that he was becoming a skilled
whaler and drawing a better share of the profits. His fourth voyage was
as fourth mate of the ship, "John P. West," they cruising in the Indian
Ocean the fiist year out, and taking one thousand four hundred barrels.
He left the "West" at St. Helena, and shipped on the bark "Nautilus" as
second mate in 1872, with two thousand barrels of whale oil and eight
hundred barrels of sperm oil. This catch, with the larger portion coming
to him as second mate, brought him in a good sum, and on July 3, 1872,
he married Elizabeth F. Douglas, of Rochester, Massachusetts, daughter
of Barnabas Nye Douglas, of Middleboro, but at the time of the marriage
of his daughter a farmer of Rochester. Mr. Douglas enlisted during the
War of 1812, but saw no active service. He served Rochester as school
committeeman, and was interested in other town activities. He married
Phoebe Nye Swift, who was born in Pocassett, Massachusetts. Captain
and Mrs. Brightman were the parents of a son, George F., born April 19,
1882, during Mrs. Brightman's second voyage, and died on Norfolk
Island (between Australia and New Zealand) April 22, 1882.

A month after his wedding. Captain Brightman shipped as first mate
of the ship, "California." Four years they sailed and cruised the Pacific

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for whales before again entering New Bedford harbor, but when, in 1876,
he again sailed in search of oil and gain, he was master of the "California,"
and Mrs. Brightman was on board, an honored guest. For twelve years
they sailed together in that ship, making three voyages of four years
each. Captain Brightman kept his ship in the South Pacific mostly,
making a New Zealand port occasionally. Mrs. Brightman circumnavi-
gated the world three times during the twelve years, and became not only
a good sailor but a skilled navigator, one who could be depended upon
in stress and storm, as well as in fair weather. These three voyages as
master were very profitable ones, the second being the most successful,
that catch, four thousand barrels of sperm and whale oil and twenty-five
thousand pounds of whale bone. He retired from the sea in his forty-
fifth year, having sailed continuously from his eighteenth year.

Captain Brightman retired from the sea in 1889, and for twenty-five
years lived a semi-retired life in New Bedford. He took a deep interest
in politics, was alderman from Ward i under Mayors Brock and Stephen
Brownell, and in March, 1895, he was appointed a member of the license
board by David L. Parker, an office he held two years. While he never
lost his interest in public affairs he would never accept office after leaving
the license board. He was an ardent Democrat, and enjoyed the con-
fidence of a large circle of friends. He was a most entertaining talker,
and the veranda of his County street home was usually well filled with
interested visitors, sometimes young, sometimes old people, and some-
times both. He was most hospitable and enjoyed these visitors to the
full. In his later years he became quite a baseball enthusiast, enjoying
the games with his friends, young and old. These were twenty-five
happy years for Captain and Mrs. Brightman, who in time forgot that
they loved the sea so dearly, and in their home spent those years of quiet
contentment. On the forty-second anniversary of their wedding day,
July 3, 1914, Captain Brightman died.

ISRAEL ELLIS RUDMAN. M. D.

In the sixties, the grandfather of Dr. Rudman came from his native
land to the United States, settling at Bangor, Maine, being one of the
first Russian Jews to locate in that city. He did not bring his children
with him, but left them with their mother in Russia to complete their
studies in Jewish institutions. In time they also came to Bangor and
there the grandfather died in 1905, aged about seventy. His son, Samuel
Ellis Rudman, born in Smargon, Russia, in 1865, served four years in the
Russian army, ranking as quartermaster, most of his service being near
Vilna, Russia. He married Ida Shnipelisky, born in Vilna in 1872, grand-
daughter of Rabbi Eleazer Strassoner. In the Strassoner family were
several famous Rabbis. Among them was Matthew Strassoner, and
among the monuments reared by those of the name is the Free Jewish

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Public Library in Vilna. Strassoners intermarried with the Rome
family, famous as printers and publishers in the City of Vilna. In 1899
Samuel E. and Ida Rudman came to the United States, joining his father
in Bangor, Maine, where he became a well-to-do dealer in lumber and
lumbermen's supplies.

Israel Ellis Rudman, son of Samuel Ellis and Ida (Shnipelisky)
Rudman, was born in Vilna, Russia, April 15, 1893. There he passed the
first six years of his life, being brought by his parents to Bangor, Maine,
in 1899. He completed the grade and high school courses of study in
1912, then entered Tufts College Medical School, whence he was grad-
uated M. D., class of 1916. During the years 191 5 and 1916 he was house
physician on the Neurological Dermatological Service of the Boston City
Hospital. After graduation he came to New Bedford as house physician
to St. Luke's Hospital, but after six months service he resigned to enter
private practice and is now located at No. 909 South Water street. New
Bedford. In November, 1917, Dr. Rudman enlisted in the Medical Re-
serve Corps of the United States Army. He was commissioned as first
lieutenant in January, 1918, and soon after he was called into active
service. He is at present connected with the Evacuation Hospital, No. 14,
Camp Greenleaf, Fort Oglethorpe, Georgia. He is a member of the
Independent Order of Odd Fellows, the Independent Order of Brith
Abraham, the Max Levy Progressive Society, the Labor League, the
Young Men's Hebrew Association and the New Bedford Zionist Society.
Dr. Rudman is unmarried.

THEODORE DEAN WILLIAMS.

Theodore Dean Williams was a prominent and successful business
man of New Bedford, Massachusetts. He was born July 5, 1829, in
Raynham. He died in New Bedford, August 4, 1900, on the dawn of the
new day. He was the son of Jonathan Williams and his wife, Phebe
(Elmes) Williams, of Raynham, Massachusetts. He came to New Bed-
ford when he was a young man, and was a clerk in the store of Sylvanus
Thomas, who was a relative by marriage. After a few months the firm
of Dow & Company wanted Theodore, and offered him a very fine posi-
tion in their store. He asked Sylvanus Thomas what he should do
about accepting it. Sylvanus answered and said, "I cannot pay you
as much as Dow & Company have offered to you, but you are worthy of
it, and, Theodore, I am not going to stand in your way of advancement."
In the year 1849, Theodore D. Williams went to California, with others
who had the gold fever, in a ship that sailed from New Bedford, to seek
their fortunes. They came near being shipwrecked, and they all returned
to New Bedford, with less gold in their belts than they carried away.
Afterwards Theodore D. Williams entered into partnership with Amassa
Bullard, under the firm name of BuUard & Williams. Later on, in the

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fifties, he entered into copartnership with Andrew H. Potter and Simeon
Doane, under the firm name of Potter, Doane & Williams, on Water
street, No. 28, corner of Shepherds lane, where they purchased the build-
ing, and carried on a very successful and lucrative business for several
years. The firm owned extensively in whaling ships that brought in
large returns. Some years afterwards Mr. Williams withdrew from the
firm and reestablished himself on Union street, in the clothing business,
where he remained until Acushnet avenue was cut through to William
street, and his store had to be torn down to make room for a new part
of the street. Then he retired from an active business life. Mr. Wil-
liams was always courteous to everyone, generous and noble hearted, and
a man of fine personal appearance. No one ever appealed to him for
assistance in vain. He never shirked his obligations, to do his part was
a pleasure to him, and he was strictly honest in all of his dealings with
everyone. He married, January 2, 1849, Caroline Tuckerman, who was
born in New Bedford, January 25, 1828, and died in New Bedford,
December 24, 1893. She was the daughter of Captain Robert Tucker-
man, who was born in New Bedford, July 14, 1795, and died in New
Bedford, February 3, 1884, aged eighty-eight years, six months, twenty
days, and his wife, Betsey (Buloid) Tuckerman, born in New Bedford,
1798, died August 14, 1875, aged seventy-six years, six months, fourteen
days Captain Robert Tuckerman was the son of Captain Stephen
Tuckerman and his wife, Elizabeth Tuckerman, of Nantucket. Captain
Stephen Tuckerman and his wife had children: i. Sally, born April 5,
1792. 2 and 3. Niobold and Robert (twins), born July 14, 1795 ; Vollin-
tine, born March 31, 1798; Stephen, born June 14, 1801 ; Robert, married
Betsey Buloid, March 2, 1818; their children were: Stephen, born Feb-
ruary 5, 1819, died 1873; Maria, born January 28, 1825, died November
10, 1842 ; Caroline, born January 25, 1828, died December 24, 1893, mar-
ried, January 2, 1849, Theodore Dean Williams, of New Bedford. Robert
and Charles, born January 6, 1831 ; Charles died July 28, 1837; Robert
died in Auburn, New York, December 14, 1900; he married Harriet
Bowman, of New Bedford, September 21, 1865. She was born July 7,
1834, died in Auburn, New York, November 10, 1902. Their daughter,
Alice H. Tuckerman, was born in Scipioville, Cayuga county. New York,
November 14, 1868, and was married in Auburn, New York, October 12,
1899, to Jesse H. Stanton, of Auburn, New York. The children of
Theodore Dean Williams and his wife, Caroline (Tuckerman) Williams
were: Maria Tuckerman Williams, born October 19, 1849, died June 13,
1883, married .\lfred M. S. Butler, of Boston, December 23, 1869, the son
of Leonard and Sophronia Butler, of Hanover, Connecticut, afterwards
of Hartford, Connecticut. Elizabeth Williams, married, January 22,
1908, in Boston, Massachusetts, Charles Warren Read, the son of Joseph
R. and Cynthia A. (Potter) Read, of New Bedford, Massachusetts. Caro-
line Williams, born May 30, 1855, died August 23, 1855. Charles Dean
Williams, born August 17, i860, died May 8, 1878, in New Bedford. The

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children of Alfred M. S. Butler and his wife, Maria T. (Williams)
Butler were: Theodore, Minnie P., Maria Caroline, Sophronia Elizabeth,
Alfred M. and Katharine James Butler. She married Arthur Taylor;
their son was Robert Taylor. Alfred M. Butler, A. M., married June 23,
1908, Irene (Endres Von Dilscher) Butler, and their children were:
Clara W. Butler, born June 26, 1909, and Elizabeth Caroline Butler, born
February 23, 1916, of Boston, Massachusetts., Alfred Munson Butler,
A. M., son of Alfred M. S. and Maria T. (Williams) Butler, was head of
Science Department, High School of Practical Arts, Boston, 1914.

Jonathan Williams, Jr., was born December 16, 1785, in Raynham,
Massachusetts. Married, November 12, 1820, Phebe Elmes. He and his
wife died in Raynham ; their children were : Elijah, born June 25, 1823,
who married Fidelia Leonard ; Theodore Dean, who married Caroline
Tuckerman ; Sophia, who married Eliphalet Thomas, of Middleboro,
September 26, 1838; Edward, who died at Sterling, Illinois. The father
of Jonathan Williams, Jr., was Captain Jonathan Williams, born June
8, 1764, died January 23. 1814; married, October 14, 1784, Polly Dean,
born 1766, died December 27, 1830; their children were: Jonathan, Jr.,
who married Phebe Elmes, November 12, 1820; Polly, Hannah, Sally,
Eliab, Augustus Dean and Eli, who married Fannie Pickens, March 25,
1830. He was born April 12, 1796, died December 6, 1884, in Lake-
ville, Massachusetts. He was the brother of Jonathan Williams, Jr., who
was the father of Theodore Dean Williams. Captain Jonathan Williams'
father was Deacon Abiel Williams, Jr., born 1740, died February 10,
1830, aged ninety years ; married, November 16, 1758, Zeruiah Staples,
born January 27, 1740, died February i, 1814; she was the great-grand-
mother of Theodore Dean Williams, and the daughter of Deacon Seth
Staples, of Taunton, Massachusetts, who married Hannah Standish, born
1704. She was the daughter of Ebenezer Standish, born 1672. He was
the son of Alexander Standish, born in Duxbury, died 1702. He was
the son of Captain Miles Standish, of Duxbury, of the "Mayflower" in
1620. He was born 1586, died October 3, 1656, married Rose, who died
1621 ; Barbara, second wife. Deacon Abiel Williams' father was Abiel
Williams, Sr. He was born 1713, died December 19, 1778, married
Mehitabel Williams. Abiel (i) Williams' father was Seth Williams,
born 1676, married Mary Dean. Seth Williams' father was Samuel Wil-
liams, married Jane Gilbert ; Samuel Williams' father was Richard Wil-
liams, born 1606, in Huntingdon, England. He first came to Dorchester,
Massachusetts, 1633, afterwards to Taunton.

(Richard Williams, ancestor of Theodore Dean Williams).

Theodore Dean Williams, of New Bedford, formerly of Raynham,
is a member of the ancient Williams family of Taunton. Massachusetts,
that was early located there. The Williams family of the name of
England and Wales, of which Sir Robert Williams, ninth baronet of the

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House of Williams of Penrhyn, was a lineal descendant from Marchudes
of Cyan, Lord of Abergeten, in Denbighshire, of one of the fifteen tribes
of North Wales, that lived in the time of Roderick the Great of the
Britons, about A. D. 849. The seat of the Welsh Williams family was
at Flint, Wales ; and in Lincolnshire, Oliver Cromwell, the "Lord Pro-
tector," was a Williams by right of descent, and was related to Richard
Williams, who settled at Taunton, Massachusetts.

(I) Richard Williams, of Taunton, Massachusetts, is a descendant in
the eighth generation of Howell Williams, Lord of Rborn, the progen-
itor of the Williams family in Wales, from whom his descent is through :

(H) Morgan Williams, married Joan Batten.

(HI) Thomas Williams, of Lancashire, died in London.

(IV) John Williams, married Margaret Smyth.

(V) Richard Williams, a native of Rochampton, settled at Mon-
mouth and Dexter.

(VI) John Williams, of Huntingdonshire, near Wotton-under-Edge,
Gloucester.

(VH) William Williams, of Huntingdon, married (second) Decem-
ber 4, 1603, Jane Woodward.

(VHI) Richard Williams, born January, 1606, son of William and
Jane Williams, was born 1606 in Huntingdon, England. He was mar-
ried in Gloucester, England, February 11, 1632, to Frances Dighton
(daughter of Dr. John Dighton); they came to Dorchester, Massachu-
setts, in 1633, and were the first of the American family of Williams;
afterward to Taunton. He was one of the eighty purchasers of the tract
of land bought of the Cohannet Indians, called The Eight-mile Square,
receiving name of Taunton in 1639, at time of incorporation. (Raynham
was a sub-division of Taunton). He removed to Taunton and sold land
and privileges at Dorchester in October, 1646. He and his sister Eliz-
abeth, then both in New England, were legatees in the will of their sister
Jane, of Whetenhurste, Gloucestershire, dated May 30, 1650, and proved
June 3, 1655. Richard Williams was a freeman at Plymouth, June 5,
1644. He was a deacon and deputy to the General Court from Taunton.
He returned to Dorchester and was a town officer there in 1658. His
wife was formerly Frances Dighton, sister of the first wife of Governor
Thomas Dudley. He died July 13, 1683. Their children were: John,
died young; Samuel; Joseph; Nathaniel; Thomas; Benjamin, who mar-
ried Rebecca, daughter of Captain George Macy, of Taunton ; Elizabeth,
who married John Bird, of Dorchester, and Hannah, who married John
Parmenter, of Boston. Through Benjamin and John Williams, sons of
Benjamin, and grandsons of Richard, came the early Williamses of
Easton. They were the first of the Williams family to settle in the town
where their father took up land about 1700. Through Joseph, who mar-
ried and had children: Richard, Joseph, Benjamin, Ebenezer, and
Mehitabel. Through Richard, who married and had sons George, Rich-

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ard and Ebenezer, came some of the Raynham Williamses. George, born
in 1745, married Bathsheba King, of Raynham.

(IX) Samuel Williams, the second son of Richard and Frances
(Dighton) Williams, married (first) Jane Gilbert. Their children were:
Seth, of whom further; Samuel, Daniel, Mary, Sarah and Hannah.

(X) Seth Williams, the son of Samuel and Jane (Gilbert) Wil-
liams, born 1675, died 1761. He married Mary Dean. Their children
were; James; Abiel, of whom further; Benjamin, born February 25,
1721, died March 18, 1784; Mary Elizabeth; Susanna; Rachel; and
Jemima.

(XI) Abiel Williams, son of Seth and Mary (Dean) Williams, born
1713, married Mehitabel Williams.

(XII) Abiel Williams, Jr., son of Abiel and Mehitabel (Williams)
Williams, born 1740, married Zeruiah Staples, November 16, 1758. She
was the daughter of Deacon Seth and Hannah (Standish) Staples. Han-
nah (Standish) Staples, born 1704, was the daughter of Ebenezer Stand-
ish, born 1672. He was the son of Alexander Standish. He was the son
of Captain Myles Standish, of Duxbury, and of the "Mayflower," 1620
Deacon Abiel Williams, Jr., and his wife, Zeruiah (Staples) Williams
had son Jonathan, of whom further.

(XIII) Jonathan Williams, son of Abiel, Jr., and Zeruiah (Stand
ish) Williams, was born June 8, 1764. He married, October 14, 1784,
Polly Dean, born 1766. Their children were: Jonathan, Jr., Polly, Eli,
Sally Leonard, Eliab and Augustus Dean. Jonathan, of whom further,
Polly, born March 16, 1789, married a Mr. French. Eli, born April 12,
1796, married Fanny Pickens. Sally Leonard, born November 20, 1798,

married (first) Randall, (second) Pickens. Eliab, noted

lawyer of Fall River, born May 10, 1803, married (second) W

slow, (third) Theodora Reed. Augustus Dean, born October 7, 1808.

(XIV) Jonathan Williams, Jr., the son of Captain Jonathan Wil
liams, Sr., and his wife, Polly (Dean) Williams, of Raynham, was born
December 16, 1785. He married, November 12, 1820, Phebe Elmes, of
East Taunton. Their children were: Theodore Dean, Elijah. Sophia
and Edward.

(XV) Theodore Dean Williams, son of Jonathan, Jr., and Phebe
(Elmes) Williams, married Caroline Tuckerman, of New Bedford.
Their children were: Maria T., Elizabeth, Caroline and Charles D.
Maria T. Williams married Alfred M. S. Butler, of Boston. Elizabeth
Williams married Charles Warren Read, of New Bedford, Massachu-
setts

(Williams (Taunton Family)).

Theodore Dean Williams is a member of the ancient Cromwell-
Williams family that early located at Taunton, Massachusetts. In the
ancient town of Taunton there are still representatives of the famous
Cromwell-Williams line of the family bearing the latter name. Refer-

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ence is made to some of the posterity of Richard Williams who, with
Oliver Cromwell, the "Lord Protector," sprang from the same ancestor.
William Cromwell was a son of Robert Cromwell, of Carlton-upon-
Trent, a Lancastrian, who was killed at the battle of Towton, 1461.

The fact that the family of Richard Williams, of Taunton, Massa-
chusetts, was connected by blood with that of Oliver Cromwell was
established by the wonderful patience and perseverance, and at consid-
erable expense, of the late Hon. Joseph Hartwell Williams, of Augusta,
Maine, a former governor of Maine, a direct descendant of Richard Wil-
liams, of Taunton, Massachusetts. The following is an account of this
connection, taken from the "New England Historical and Genealogical
Register of April, 1897," abridged by the late Josiah H. Drummond,
LL. D., of Portland, Maine :

Cromwell — The Cromwell line dates from Alden de Cromwell, who
lived in the time of William the Conqueror. His son was Hugh de
Cromwell, and from him descended ten Ralph de Cromwells in as many
successive generations ; but the tenth Ralph died without issue. The
seventh Ralph de Cromwell married, in 1351, Amicia, daughter of Robert
Berer, M. P., for Notts ; besides the eighth Ralph they had several other
sons; among them was Ulker Cromwell, of Hucknall, Torkard, Notts.
Ulker had Richard; and he John of Cromwell House, Carlton-upon-
Trent, Notts ; and he, Robert ; the names of the wives are not given.

(I) Robert Cromwell, of Carlton-upon-Trent, was a Lancastrian.
He was killed at the battle of Towton, in 1461. His lease of Cromwell
House was seized by Sir Humphrey Bourchier, Yorkist, who was the
husband of Joan Stanhope, the granddaughter of the ninth Ralph,
through his daughter Matilda, wife of Sir Richard Stanhope. Robert
left a son William, the ancestor of Robert Cromwell, and a daughter
Margaret, the ancestor of both Oliver Cromwell and Richard Williams,
of Taunton, Massachusetts.

(H) William Cromwell, of the prebend of Palace Hall, Norwalk,
Notts, settled in Putney, Surrey, 1452. He married Margaret Smyth, of
Norwalk, Notts, and had : John, Margaret Cromwell, married William
Smyth (son of John). They had son Richard Smyth, and daughter Joan
Smyth.

(HI) John Cromwell, son of William Cromwell, married his cousin,
Joan Smyth. He was a Lancastrian and his lands were seized by Arch-
bishop Bouchier, Lord of the Manor of Wimbledon, and his lease of
Palace Hall, Norwalk, Notts, remised by Lord Chancellor Bouchier.
They had among other children, William Cromwell, Richard Smyth, of
Rockhampton, Putney, by wife Isabella, had daughter Margaret Smyth,
who married John Williams, fourth in descent from Howell Williams,
the head of the Williams line.

(IV) Walter Cromwell married, in 1474, the daughter of Glossop
of Wirksworth, Derbyshire ; in 1472 he claimed and was admitted to two
virgates (thirty acres) of land at Putney; in 1499 Archbishop Morton,

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Lord of Wimbledon Manor, gave him six virgates (ninety acres) of
land, in Putney as a solatium for the property taken from his father by
the Bouchier Yorkists. He died in 1516, leaving among other children,
Katherine Cromwell.

(V) Katherine Cromwell married Morgan Williams, fifth in descent
from Howell Williams, and had a son Richard Williams, born about

1495-

(VI) Sir Richard Williams, alias Cromwell, married, in 1518, Fran-
ces Murfyn. He died at Stepney, 1547, and was buried in Gt. St. Helen's
Church, London. He left a son,

(VH) Henry Cromwell, alias Williams (called "The Golden
Knight") of Hinchenbrook, Huntingdon, England. He married Joan,
daughter of Sir Ralph Warren, Lord Mayor of London, and they had:
Sir Oliver, Robert, Henry, Richard, Philip, Joan, Elizabeth and Frances.

(Vni) Robert Cromwell, of Huntingdon, brewer, married Eliza-
beth Stewart, widow of William Lynn, of Bassingbourn, and their fifth
child was Oliver Cromwell, the "Lord Protector." Robert's sister, Eliz-
abeth Cromwell, married William Hampden, of Great Hampden, Bucks,
and among their children were John Hampden, "The Patriot," and
Richard Hampden.

Williams — George Williams, through his assistants, traced the Wil-
liams line back to Howell Williams, Lord of Ribour.

(I) Howell Williams, Lord of Ribour, married Wenlion, daughter
and heiress of Llyne ap Jevan, of Rady, and had son Morgan Williams.

(H) Morgan Williams, of Lanishen, Glamorgan, married Joan Bat-
ton, and had Thomas and Jevan. Jevan Williams married Margaret,
daughter of Jenkyn Kemeys, of Bagwye Man. They had son, William
Williams, of Lanishen, bailiff for Henry (VHI) who (wife not known),
was the father of Morgan Williams, of Lanishen, Glamorgan, and later
Putney, Surrey, and the husband in 1494 of Katherine Cromwell (see
ante Cromwell, No. 5, ct scq.

(HI) Thomas Williams, of Lanishen, Glamorgan, died at St.
Helen's, Bishopgate, London ; was buried in the church there, "with his
brass on stone."

(IV) John Williams, steward of Wimbledon Manor, Surrey, mar-
ried Margaret Smyth, daughter of Richard Smyth, and granddaughter of
Margaret Cromwell (see ante Cromwell No. i, 2). He died at Mort-
lake in 1502, and she in 1501. They had two sons, John and Richard.
John Williams, born in 1485, married Joan Wykys, daughter of Henry
Wykys, of Bolleys Park, Chetney, and sister of Elizabeth Wykys, who
married Thomas Cromwell (brother of Katherine), secretary to Henry
the VIII.. Lord Cromwell of Oakham, Earl of Essex.

(V) Richard Williams was born in Rockhampton in 1487. He set-
tled at Monmouth and Dixton, Mon., where he died in 1559. He mar-
ried twice ; the name of his first wife is not known. She is credited with

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one daughter, Joan. His second wife, Christian, had two daughters,
Reece and Ruth, and one son, John.

(VI) John WilHams, of Huntingdon, near Wotton-under-Edge,
Gloucester, died in 1579, leaving son William. No other particulars
of this family are given.

(VH) William Williams, of Huntingdon, married, November 15,
1585, Jane Shepherd. She died about 1600, a child of hers having been
baptized December 2, 1599. He married, December 4, 1603, Jane Wood-
ward. She died February 2, 1614, and he in 1618. The first child by his
second marriage, born in January, 1606, was Richard Williams, of Taun-
ton. Of the change of his name by Sir Richard Williams, Governor Wil-
liams said : "Oliver Cromwell in the male line of Morgan Williams of
Glamorganshire. His great-grandfather, Sir Richard Williams, assumed
the name of 'Cromwell' it is true, but not until in mature years he had
distinguished himself in the public service (temp. Henry VHI), under
the patronage of his uncle, Thomas Cromwell (Vicar General, 1535),
whom he proposed to honor by the adoption of his name In fact, ever
afterwards. Sir Richard used to sign himself Richard Cromwell, alias
Williams; and his sons and grandsons and Oliver Cromwell, himself, in
his youth (1620), used to sign in the same manner. In important grants
from the crown to Sir Richard (29 and 31, Henry VIII) the grantee's
name appears in both forms, 'Cromwell, alias Williams,' and 'Williams,
alias Cromwell'." It is not believed that, in the light of Governor Wil-
liams's researches, the relationship of Richard Williams, of Taunton,
and the Cromwell family will again be questioned.

(VTII) Richard Williams, son of William Williams, of Huntingdon,
and his wife, Jane (Woodward) Williams, born in January, 1606, married
in Gloucester, England, February 11, 1632, Frances Dighton, daughter
of Dr. John Dighton, and for whom the town of Dighton, Massachusetts,
was named. Richard Williams came to America, and was among the
first purchasers of Taunton. He was a man of good abilities ; was deputy
to the General Court of Plymouth Colony from 1645 to 1665; selectman
in 1666 and 1667. He was one of the proprietors of the "New Purchase,"
now Dighton. He was a member and deacon of the First Church. He
died in the year 1683, aged seventy-seven. The children born to Richard
and his wife, Frances (Dighton) Williams, the eldest two being born
while the parents were living in Gloucester, in the parish of Whitcombe
Magna, and both of whom died when young, were: i. John, baptized
March 27, 1634. 2. Elizabeth, baptized February 7, 1635-36. 3. Samuel,
married Jane Gilbert, and is mentioned further on. 4. Joseph, of whom
further. 5. Nathaniel, married, in 1668, Elizabeth Rogers, of Duxbury,
and their children were : John, born August 27, 1675 ; Nathaniel, born
April 9, 1679; Elizabeth, born April 8, 1686. 6. Thomas and his wife
Mary had children: Mary, born 1680; Jonathan, born 1683, married,
April 3, 1707, Elizabeth Leonard, born 1680; Sarah, born 1685; Bethia,

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born 1692; Mehitabel, born 1695; and Damaris, born 1698. 7. Benjamin,
married, March 18, 1689-90. Rebecca Macy, and their children were:
Rebecca, born November 2~, 1690; Josiah, born November 7, 1692; Ben-
jamin, born July 31, 1695 ; and John, born March 27, 1699. 8. Elizabeth,
born about 1647, married John Bird, of Dorchester. 9. Hannah, married
John Parmenter, of Boston.

(IX) Samuel Williams, second son of Richard and Frances (Digh-
ton) Williams, married (first) Jane Gilbert. Their children were:
Seth, Samuel, Daniel, Mary, Sarah and Hannah.

(X) Seth Williams, born 1675, was the son of Samuel and Jane (Gil-
bert) Williams. He was chief justice of the County Court of Common
Pleas from 1754 until 1761. the time of his death. His children were
James, Daniel, Abiel, Benjamin, of whom further ; Mary, Elizabeth,
Susanna, Rachel and Jemima. James Williams, son of Seth Williams,
died 1765. He was a judge of the Court of Common Pleas, after the
death of his father, and was also appointed register of deeds in 1746,
when the records were removed from Bristol, then set ofif from Massa-
chusetts to Rhode Island, serving until his death. Abiel, son of Seth
Williams and his wife, Jane (Gilbert) Williams, was born 1713, died
December 19, 1778, married Mehitabel Williams, born January 3, 1716,
died November 4, 1778. Their son Abiel, born 1740, died February 10,
1830, married, November 16, 1758, Zeruiah Staples, born January 27,
1740, died February i, 1814; she was the daughter of Deacon Seth Staples
and Hannah (Standish) Staples, born 1704, who was the daughter of
Ebenezer Standish, born 1672, who was the grandson of Captain Myles
Standish, of the "Mayflower," 1620.

Deacon Abiel Williams, Jr., born 1740, and his wife, Zeruiah
(Staples) Williams, had children: Hannah, Mary, Jonathan, Anna,
Macy, Zeruiah, Abiel, Eli and Abiah. Their son, Jonathan Williams,
born June 8, 1764, died January 23, 1814, married, October 14, 1784, Polly
Dean, born 1766, died December 27, 1830. They had a son Jonathan,
Jr., born in Raynham. He married, November 12, 1820, Phebe Elmes, of
East Taunton, the daughter of Cyrus Elmes. Their children were:
Theodore Dean Williams, who married Caroline Tuckerman, of New
Bedford, Massachusetts, the daughter of Captain Robert and Betsey
(Buloid) Tuckerman; Elijah, married Fidelia Leonard; Edward; and
Sophia, who married Eliphalet Thomas, of Middleboro. The children of
Theodore and Caroline Williams were: Maria T., who married Alfred
M. S. Butler, of Boston; Elizabeth, who married Charles W. Read, of
New Bedford ; Caroline, who died in infancy ; and Charles D. Williams,
who died May 8, 1878, in New Bedford.

(XI) Benjamin Williams, son of Seth Williams, born February 25,
1721, was appointed judge of probate for the county in 1778, and held
the office until his death, March 18, 1784. His children were: Lemuel,
who became a member of Congress ; Benjamin, of whom further ; Joshua ;

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Elisha ; Ann, who married a Tubs ; and Mary, who married Rev. Mr.
Spaiilding.

(XII) Benjamin Williams, Jr., son of Benjamin Williams, was born
July 17, 1757, and died January 29, 1830. On November 28, 1793, he
married Lydia Williams, who was born January 24, 1774, and died Sep-
tember II, 1845, youngest daughter of James Williams, and sister of
Judge John M. Williams. The children of this marriage were: Ann,
born February 8, 1795, who died in July, 1797; Myra, born August li,
1796, who married Rev. Samuel Presbrey; Benjamin F., born July 5,
1798; George W., of whom further; Sydney, born February 13, 1803;
Henry, born November 30, 1805; Edgar, born 1807, died April 6, 1808;
Lydia, born January 27, 1809, died September 7, 1830; and Anna Augusta,
born August 24, 181 1, died December 2, 1838.

(XIII) George W. Williams, son of Benjamin, Jr., and Lydia (Wil-
liams) Williams, was born July 13, 1800. He married Emma Willis, and
they became the parents of children, born as follows: Emma Augusta,
March 11, 1827; George Edgar, August 16, 1829; Julius, January 11,
1834; Andrew, August 28, 1837; Lewis, April 25, 1840; Felix, October
17, 1843; Arthur Herbert, February 23, 1846.

(XIV) Lewis Williams, son of George W. and Emma (Willis)
Williams, was born in Taunton, April 25, 1840, and died there December
23, 1902. He was brought up in Weir Village, and attended Bristol
Academy. After his school days he promptly entered upon business life,
and in the early seventies was busy in the old firm of Staples & Phillips,
who were the leading shippers, vessel owners and coal movers and
sellers in southeastern New England for a long term of years. On the
dissolution of that firm he joined his fortunes with those of the Staples
Coal Company, and vigorously assisted in developing the business of
that corporation, until it became one of the leaders in New England in
moving and selling coal, owning shipping (both barges and tugs) and
constantly enlarging its sphere of operations until they covered a great
portion of this territory, both coast and interior. A public spirited man
and open-handed citizen, Mr. Williams was among the foremost in
various enterprises to increase the commercial facilities of the city, add
to its manufactories, and give employment to workers. His advice was
always sound and his foresight good. He was interested as a part owner
in the West Silver Works, the Dighton Furnace, the Taunton Crucible
Works, and he owned stock in the Carr and Winthrop Mills, of Taunton,
and was also interested as a heavy stockholder in a number of Fall River
Mills. He never shirked his obligation to do his part in charitable work,
and no one who was really needy, no deserving public benefaction, ever
called upon him in vain. He was brought up in the old First Church,
believed in it, and stood by it always, both by his presence at its services,
and in every other way to strengthen its growth and its power as an
element of good in the city and the denomination. On September 22,

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1870, Mr. Williams married Adelaide W. Staples, daughter of Sylvanus
W. and D. Adaline (Hood) Staples, and one daughter blessed this union,
Hattie Staples, who married Frederick Ludlam. Mr. Williams's wide
family and personal connections made the termination of his useful and
busy life and the loss of his kindly and courteous personality far-reach-
ing, his high citizenship touched and influenced so many sides of the
community's social, religious and business life.

(IX) Joseph Williams, son of Richard and Frances (Dighton) Wil-
liams, married (first) Elizabeth Watson, and (second) Abigail Newland.
His children were: Elizabeth, Richard, Mehetabel, Joseph, Benjamin,
Ebenezer, Phebe, and Richard, of whom further.

(X) Richard Williams, son of Joseph and Elizabeth (Watson) Wil-
liams, born March 26, 1689, died in 1727. He married (first) Anna Wil-
bore, and (second) January i, 1740, Elizabeth Merick. His children
were : George, of whom further ; Richard and Ebenezer.

(XI) Colonel George Williams, of Taunton, son of Richard and
Anna (Wilbore) Williams, born in Taunton in 1717, married (first)
January 6, 1736-37, Sarah Hodges, born in 1715, in Taunton, Massachu-
setts, daughter of Henry and Sarah (Leonard) Hodges, of Taunton. The
second marriage of Colonel Williams was to Mrs. Nancy Dean. He died
in 1803, and his wife in 1797. His nine children, all born in Taunton,
were: i. Phebe, born in 1737. died in 1813, in Taunton. She married
(first) John Hart, of Taunton, son of Lawrence and Elizabeth Hart;
(second) February 15, 1759, Simeon Tisdale, of Taunton, son of Joseph
and Ruth (Reed) Tisdale, and (third) April 27, 1763, Eliphaz Harlow,
of Taunton, son of Eleazer and Hannah (Delano) Harlow. 2. Sarah,
born in 1739, "^i^d in 1820. On April 14, 1757, she married Richard God-
frey, of Taunton, son of Richard and Theodora (Dean) Godfrey. 3. A
child, born in 1741, died May 5, 1750, in Taunton. 4. George, of whom
further. 5. Anna, born in 1747, died November 2, 1833, at Taunton. She
married (first) September 16, 1763, Elisha Codding, and (second) July
19, 1788, Jonathan French, of Berkley, Massachusetts, son of Ebenezer
and Keziah French, of Berkley. 6. Ebenezer, born in 1751, died April
30, 1814. He married, March 7, 1769, at Raynham, Sarah Ellis, of Rayn-
ham, daughter of Phillip Ellis. 7. Lydia, born 1753, died March 5, 1773.
She married, August 6, 1772, Isaac Tobey, of Berkley, son of Rev. Samuel
and Bathsheba (Crocker) Tobey, of Berkeley. 8. Richard, born in 1755,
or 1757, died in Taunton in 1814. He married Hannah Padelford, of
Taunton, daughter of Edward and Sarah (Briggs) Padelford. 9. Abi-
athar, born June 4, 1759, died October 4, 1760, at Taunton.

Colonel George Williams lived in Taunton, on the east side of the
Taunton river, on what is William street. He was a man of property,
owning a large landed estate. From the soldierly qualities which he
evidently possessed it seems that he served in the war with the French
in 1744-45 ; and perhaps in the first year of the French and Indian War.

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But the record thus far found of his military service begins in 1757. He
was then ensign of a company stationed at Fort William Henry, when
the French and Indians under Montcalm invested the place, August 3,
1757. He was sent out at the beginning of the siege under Captain
Saltonstall, but his party was driven back, and he himself taken prisoner.
He was released not long after, and returned to Taunton. He rose to the
rank of captain of the Third Taunton Company, and in 1772 was major
of the Third Bristol County Regiment. On February 2, 1776. he was
elected colonel of this regiment by the Legislature, and commissioned
February 7, and did good service during the Revolution. His principal-
military services were in Rhode Island, which State was constantly
harried and threatened by the British navy. He was a prominent mem-
ber of the Taunton Committee of Correspondence, Inspection and Safety
for several years, beginning in 1775, and was selectman of Taunton in
1780. His son, Richard Williams, was one of the minute-men of the
company of Captain James Williams, Jr., who marched to Roxbury at
the news of the battle of Lexington. During the last six months of
1776 he was serving at the defense of Boston, being sergeant under
Captain Joshua Wilbore. He very likely served at other times, but the
Revolutionary rolls are not sufficiently explicit for his identification
among the many soldiers of this name.

(XII) George Williams, Jr., son of Colonel George and Sarah
(Hodges) Williams, was born in Taunton, August 18, 1745, and died in
Raynham, February 23, 1814. He married, October 2, 1766, Bathsheba
King, daughter of Phillip and Abigail King. Children, all born in Rayn-
ham, were: Sarah, born July 27, 1767; George, February 26, 1769; a son,
May 6, 1771 ; Abiathar, of whom further; Bathsheba, January 25, 1775;
Melancy, February 28, 1777; Francis, October 13, 1779; Narcissus, Sep-
tember 13, 1781 ; Enoch, December 29, 1783; and Samuel K., November
17, 1785. George Williams was of fine personal appearance, according
to the accounts handed down in the family. He was a farmer and owned
a fine property. While it is certain he served in the Revolution, it is
difficult to pick out his record from, the many. It is thought he served
in New York State from about the beginning of 1776, until December,
being or becoming a sergeant in Captain James Allen's company, Colonel
Simeon Carey's regiment. He certainly was quartermaster of his father's
regiment in Rhode Island, December, 1776, and January, 1777.

(XIII) Abiathar Williams, son of George, Jr., and Bathsheba (King)
Williams, was born in Raynham, January 8, 1773. He married Anna
Dean, daughter of Joseph and Anna (Strobridge) Dean, and they had
eleven children, as follows: Anna, born September i, 1806; Bathsheba,
September 11, 1808; Harriet Dean, November 17, 1810; Frances Amelia,
January 30, 1813; Abiathar K., March 11, 1815 ; Helen Melancy, July
6, 1817; George Bradford, of whom further. Abiathar Williams was
known as Captain Williams. He ran a sloop from Taunton to New

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York from the time he was fifteen years of age until he was fifty-five.
He made his sons, Abiathar R. and George B., his partners. A successful
and influential citizen, he represented his town in the General Court, and
held various local offices.

(XIV) George Bradford Williams, son of Abiathar and Anna
(Dean) Williams, was born November 12, 1824. He was educated in
the Taunton public schools, and always prided himself on being an old
Academy boy. He became one of the stanch monied men of Taunton,
starting early in life with a goodly inheritance. He constantly added to
it by thrift and good management, until gradually he became the largest
real estate owner in Taunton. Like his father, he was engaged in the
lumber business. In the early days lumber was discharged far down the
river, and rafted up, and Air. W'illiams was a prominent figure on all of
these rafts after he became old enough to go into business. He became
his father's partner, and his nam,e appeared in the firm, through all its
changes, until his retirement in 1887. He was a sturdy specimen of old
New England stock. He was quiet and unpretentious in manner, keen in
business aftairs, and strictly honest in all of his dealings. It would seem
that no man could leave a better heritage to his family. Like his ances-
tors, he was a stanch supporter of the First Congregational Society of
Taunton. IMr. Williams married Sarah Carver Barstow, daughter of
Charles Carver Barstow, and sister of the late Charles IM. C. Barstow.
They reared a large family, as follows: George, born July 29, 1849;
Charles K., February 9, 1851 ; Sarah, born September 4, 1852; Frederick,
born August 4, 1854; Abiathar G., born February 4, 1856; Enos D., Octo-
ber 30, 1857 ; Charlotte A., October 20, 1858 ; Alice M., September 17, i860 ;
Franklin D., November 21, 1861 ; Enos D., August 9, 1863; Alfred B., July
8, 1865; Ida L., October 11, 1868.

Simeon Williams, of Taunton, son of John and Hannah (Robinson)
Williams, born February 21, 1716-17, in Taunton, died September 10,
1799. He was twice married; his first wife, Zipporah (Crane) Williams,
of Raynham, whom he married, August 26, 1742, died in Taunton, May
21, 1748. In 1750 he married (second) Waitstill Hodges, born December

21, 1723, died November 21, 1820, in Taunton. Their children were:
Zipporah, born February 5, 1750-51, died October 28, 1812; Lurana, born
December 30, 1752; Nathaniel, of whom further; Waitstill, born August
10, 1758, died September 16, 1776, at Taunton; Hannah, born January

22, 1761, died February 24, 1846; Levi, born August 25, 1763, died August
5, 1764; Jemima, born June 30, 1765, died December 18, 1793, at Rayn-
ham ; and Cynthia, born September 9, 1767, died December 6, 1854.

Deacon Simeon Williams was one of the many members of the First
Church of Taunton who withdrew from the Society in 1792, and founded
the Westville Congregational Church. The cause of the withdrawal was
dissatisfaction with the new minister selected for the original church —
dissatisfaction which seems to have been well grounded. Deacon Simeon

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Williams was a man of ability, strength of character and influence.
He doubtless served in the French and Indian war; served as corporal of
the Second Company (Taunton) April 6, i/S", according to the roster of
that date; he rose to be lieutenant and captain of the company, as he
was on the alarm (or reserve) list, December 6, 1776; saw no active
service in the Revolution. In 1775, 1776, 1777, 1778, and possibly other
years, he was probably elected a member of the Taunton Committee of
Correspondence, Inspection and Safety, whose multifarious duties
included the discipline and reformation of Tories, the care of confiscated
property, the regulation of prices, the obtaining of supplies for the
American troops, etc. He was selectman of Taunton from 1760 to 1766,
in 1770 and in 1777.

Nathaniel Williams, of Taunton, son of Deacon Simeon and Waitstill
(Hodges) Williams, born March 29, 1755, at Taunton, died there June
30, 1829. He married, April 20, 1780, Lucilda Hodges, born May 27,
1760, at Norton, Massachusetts, died May 7, 1847, at Taunton. Their
children were: Lucilda, born May 16, 1781, died February 8, 1869; Polly,
born May 2, 1783, died May 30, i860; John, born September 2, 1785, died
March 21, 1850; Charlotte, born April 26, 1789, died October 24, 1873;
Susannah, born April 24, 1791, died May 13, 1884; Philander, born
October 18, 1793, died November 16, 1796; Amelia, born May 7, 1796,
died May 17, 1838; Nathaniel Hodges, born November 11, 1798, died
December 25, 1879; Simeon, born May 31, 1801, died August 10, 1847;
and Cassander, born December 9, 1804, died January 8, 1873.

Nathaniel Williams was one of the minute-men who, at the news of
the battle of Lexington, marched toward Boston under Captain Robert
Crossman. In December, 1776, and January, 1777, he served as corporal
under Captain Samuel Fales in Rhode Island. In 1778 he served two
terms, aggregating four and one-half months, as sergeant in Rhode
Island, of the companies of Captain Samuel Fales and Captain Josiah
Crocker. He may have served other terms, for the name occurs
repeatedly in the records, but as in other cases the rolls are not explicit
enough to identify the dififerent individuals of the same name.

Theodore Dean Williams is also a direct descendant of Captain Myles
Standish, from whom his descent is through Alexander, Ebenezer,
Zachariah, Ebenezer (2), Shadrach and Levi. These generations some-
what in detail and the order named follow :

(I) Myles Standish, of Plymouth and Duxbury, came in the "May-
flower" in 1620, with his wife Rose, who died January 29, 1621. He early
became a leading man of Plymouth Colony. He was chosen captain at
a general meeting held in February, 1621, to establish military arrange-
ments, and vested with the command. He conducted all the early
expeditions against the Indians, and continued in the military service
of the Colony during his whole life. He was also prominent in the civil
affairs of the Colony, was for many years assistant, one of the governor's

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council, etc. He died October 3, 1656. It is supposed he was born
about 1586. Captain Standish early went to live across the bay of
Plymouth, in what is now called Duxbury, and the hill rising abruptly
from the waters of Plymouth Bay, upon which he built his house and
lived the remainder of his life, has been called Captain's Hill to this day,
and here in his memory has been erected the Myles Standish monument.
His children were: Alexander, Charles, John, Myles, Josiah, Lora and
Charles G.

(H) Alexander Standish, of Duxbury, was admitted to the freedom
of the Colony in 1648; was third clerk of Duxbury, 1695-1700. He
married (first) Sarah, daughter of John Alden. and (second) Desire,
widow of Israel Holmes and William Sherman, and daughter of Edward
Doty He died in Duxbury in 1702. Desire died in 1723. His children
were : Myles, Ebenezer, Lorah, Lydia, Mercy, Sarah, Elizabeth, all born
to the first marriage ; Thomas, Desire, Ichabod and David.

(Ill) Ebenezer Standish, born in 1672, and of Plymouth, married
Hannah, daughter of Samuel Sturtevant, of Plymouth. He died March
19. 1755. and she January 23, 1759. Their children were: Zachariah,
Moses, Hannah, Zerviah, Sarah, Ebenezer and Mercy. Their daughter,
Hannah Standish, married Deacon Seth Staples, of Taunton "Neck of
Land," who was the son of Deacon John Staples, of Raynham. Their
daughter Zeruiah married Deacon Abial Williams, of Raynham,
November 16, 1758. Their son, Jonathan Williams, of Raynham, mar-
ried, October 14, 1784, Polly Dean, the daughter of Thomas Dean and
his wife, Sarah (Leonard) Dean.

The children of Captain Jonathan Williams, born June 8, 1764, and
his wife, Polly (Dean) Williams, born 1766, married, October 14. 17S4,
were : Jonathan Williams, Jr. ; Polly ; Hannah ; Eli, who married, March
25, 1830, Fannie Pickens, of Middleboro, Massachusetts. Their daughter
Mary Dean Williams, married, January i, 1857, John Hiram Nelson, of
Middleboro, now called Lakeville. Jonathan, Jr., the son of Captain
Jonathan and his wife, Polly (Dean) Williams, married, November 12,
1820, Phebe Elmes, of East Taunton, the daughter of Cyrus Elmes.
The children of Jonathan and Phebe were : Theodore Dean Williams,
born July 5, 1829, in Raynham, died in New Bedford, Massachusetts,
August 4, 1900, married, January 2, 1849, Caroline Tuckerman, who was
born in New Bedford, January 25, 1828. She died in New Bedford,
December 24, 1900. She was a daughter of Captain Robert Tuckerman.
He was born July 14, 1795, died in New Bedford, February 3, 1884, aged
eighty-eight years, six months, twenty days, and his wife, Betsey
(Buloid) Tuckerman, of New Bedford, born 1798, died August 14, 1875,
aged seventy-six years, six months, fourteen days. The children of
Theodore Dean Williams and his wife, Caroline (Tuckerman) Williams,
were : Maria T., who married December 23, 1869, Alfred M. S. Butler, of
Boston ; Elizabeth, who married Charles Warren Read, January 22, 1908,

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the son of Joseph R. and Cynthia A. (Potter) Read, of New Bedford,
Massachusetts; Caroline, died in infancy. She was born May 30, 1855,
and died August 23, 1855. Charles D. Williams, the son of Theodore
Dean and Caroline Williams, was born August 17, i860, died May 8,
1878. The children of Maria T. (Williams) Butler and her husband,
Alfred M. S. Butler, were: Theodore, Minnie Peirce, Maria Caroline,
Sophronia Elizabeth, Alfred M., Jr., and Katherine James Butler. Alfred
M., Jr., married Irene (Endres Von Dilscher) Butler; their children
were: Clara W., and Elizabeth Caroline Butler. Katherine J. Butler
married Arthur Taylor, of Boston ; they have one son, Robert.

THOMAS MANDELL.

Thomas Mandell was born in Fairhaven, August 9, 1792, and died
in New Bedford, February 13, 1870. He was for a long time clerk in a
store at the Head-of-the-River, and before reaching his majority com-
menced business here as partner with the late Caleb Congdon. Soon
after he took the entire management of a mechanics' store, developing
there the business traits which attracted the notice of the firm of Isaac
Howland & Company, and induced them to offer him an interest in their
house. He became a member of the firm in 1819, and it is exact justice
to say that to him more than any other partner is due the high credit
which the house for a half century maintained, and the colossal fortunes
built up. The late Edward Mott Robinson entered the firm about 1833,
which soon after consisted of that gentleman, Mr. Mandell, and the late
Sylvia Ann Howland. The new partner brought to the firm an eager-
ness and boldness in enterprise which greatly extended its operations,
but which never disregarded the sound judgment of Mr. Mandell ; and
the two, although widely differing in almost everything else, perfectly
agreed in their notions of mercantile integrity, and each entertained the
highest regard for the honor of the other. Besides his responsibility as
a partner, Mr. Mandell for more than a quarter of a century had the
entire care and management of the estate of the late Sylvia Ann How-
land, and her appointment of him as sole executor of her will was a just
recognition of his integrity, while her bequest to him of $200,000 was
nothing more than a fair remuneration for the valuable service he had
rendered.

Mr. Mandell was many years ago one of the selectmen of the town,
and was the first to commence the keeping of the records by the board.
He was a member of the Legislature for the years 1830 to 1836, inclusive.
These were the only public offices held by him. He sought no such
honors; but he was never without proofs of the confidence reposed in
his probity and discretion as the responsible positions he held in various
corporations showed. He was not a great man, but he was better than
that — he was a good man.

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A merchant of the old school, he knew no road to success but that
of upright and honorable dealing. Modest and unobtrusive, no man was
more tenacious of an opinion when satisfied of its correctness. His name
was a synonym of rectitude. He was a benevolent man. He was the
almoner of his own bounty, which did not break out at long intervals in
noisy, startling displays of beneficence, but flowing quietly, steadily,
refreshingly. We need not speak of the objects of his charity, or the
extent of his benefactions. He never spoke of them, and shrank from
any mention of them by others. He may be forgotten as the honorable
and successful merchant, but his memory will live in the hearts of those
who have been sustained and cheered by his unostentatious and gentle
charities.

JOSEPH R. READ.

A man of quiet manner, unostentatious, devoted to business, yet
public spirited, with clear decided convictions of duty, Joseph R. Read
in his day and generation enjoyed a secure position in the regard of his
fellow citizens of New Bedford, Massachusetts. His fine mind was richly
stored with the best in literature, history being his favorite study, while
his unusual conversational powers and social qualities endeared him
to a very large circle of intimate friends. In his home his qualities of
mind and disposition shone brightest, and there he found his greatest
happiness. In business he was head of a prosperous firm of men's out-
fitters, ranking as one of the city's substantial men. He traced descent
to John Read, who is of record in Weymouth, Massachusetts, in 1637,
and through his marriage with Cynthia A. Potter. Mr. Read formed an
alliance with an ancient family of Rhode Island, founded by Nathaniel
Potter, who was one of the twenty-nine signers of the "Compact," his
residence in Portsmouth dating from the year 1638. Both the Reads and
Potters were English families of ancient lineage, and in this country have
attained unusual eminence.

John Read, the founder, remained in Massachusetts until 1643, then
accompanied Rev. Mr. Newman and his church society to Rehoboth,
settling in that part of Rehoboth now known as Seekonk, Rhode Island.
The line of descent from John and Sarah Read is through John (2) and
Rachael Read ; their son, Thomas Read, and his second wife, Martha ;
their son, Noah Read, who married Anna Hunt ; their son, Thomas Read,
and his wife, Hannah (Bourne) Read; their son, William Read, and
his wife, Sarah (Rogers) Read, the parents of Joseph R. Read, of New
Bedford, whose life this review commemorates. William and Sarah
(Rogers) Read resided in Somerset, Massachusetts, where some of their
children were born including Joseph R. Later the family moved to Fall
River, Massachusetts, and there William Read died, November 2, 1863.

Joseph R. Read, of the seventh American generation, was born in
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New Bedford, Massachusetts. After completing his school years he
learned the tailor's trade in Fall River, Massachusetts, and was there
employed until his removal to New Bedford to take a position as cut-
ter with the outfitting firm of O. and E. W. Seabury. He remained
in that position until 1850, then with Edward Taber, an employee of the
same firm, purchased the stock and good will of the Seabury business,
Read & Taber continuing successful clothing merchants for several
years. Nathan S. Ellis was at one time a partner with them, and after
his death Darius P. Gardner succeeded to the Ellis interest. They con-
tinued a remarkably successful career as long as Mr. Read lived, his
connection with the business world as a merchant covering a period of
twenty-nine years, 1850-1879. He was essentially the business man,
with no desire for public office, but strong in his loyalty and patriotic
devotion to his duty as a citizen. This caused him in 1874 to accept a
nomination for alderman, and for one term he served his ward in that
branch of the city government. He commanded the respect of all men
through his sterling attributes of character, his manliness and deep
sympathy for those in trouble.

Mr. Read married, November 17, 1844, Cynthia Ann Potter, born
September 20, 1823, died in New Bedford, January 19, 1913, daughter
of Jonathan and Cynthia (Howard) Potter, a descendant of Nathaniel
Potter, of the "Island of Aquidneck," 1638. The line of descent is
through the founder's son, Nathaniel (2) Potter; his son, Ichabod Pot-
ter; his son, Jonathan Potter; his son. Wesson Potter; his son, Jonathan
Potter, born June 26, 1795, died November 17, 1842, married, February 5,
1816, Cynthia Howard, born in 1795, died in 1887, daughter of Daniel
and Grace Howard. Jonathan and Cynthia A. Potter lived in West-
port and New Bedford. Their daughter, Cynthia Ann Potter, born in
the last named city, September 30, 1823, married, November 17, 1844, as
stated, Joseph R. Read. Mr. and Mrs. Read were the parents of two
sons and two daughters: Clara A., born September 28, 1845, in New
Bedford, died July 9, 1914, in Scotland; William Francis Read (q. v.);
Ella Howard, born December 13, 1850, a resident of her native New
Bedford; Charles Warren, born January 19, 1853, married, January 22,
1908, Elizabeth, daughter of Theodore Dean Williams, and resides in
New Bedford.

SAMUEL IVERS.

Third in direct line to bear the name Samuel, Mr. Ivers was the first
to locate in New Bedford, a city to which he came as a clerk when a
young man of minor years, and departed from sixty years later full of
honors, with a record of business activity, usefulness and success which
few men ever achieved. He developed a creative faculty which was
expressed in the organization and promotion of corporations and busi-
ness enterprises. He was richly endowed intellectually, was ever a stu-

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dent and a man of remarkable personality. He was intimately associated
with many enterprises, then new, now well established and strong ; in the
North Congregational Church and Sunday school ; and in the Wam-
sutta Club he is remembered as the long time treasurer.

Samuel (3) Ivers, of New Bedford, was a son of Samuel (2) Ivers,
of Dedham and Somerville, Massachusetts, son of Samuel (i) Ivers, of
Boston, son of William (2) Ivers, of Boston, son of William (i) Ivers,
who was married in Boston by a Presbyterian minister, April 28, 1724,
to Jane Barber.

Samuel (3) Ivers, son Samuel (2) and Caroline (Fuller) Ivers, was
born in Dedham, Massachusetts, June 14, 1S28, died in New Bedford,
November 24, 1905. His education, begun in the Dedham schools, was
continued in Roxbury until his sixteenth year, when the family removed
from Roxbury to Cambridge. In Cambridge the lad gained his first
business experience, being for one year a clerk in the dry goods store of
Ivers & Campbell, his brother being a partner. The sale of the business
threw him out of a position, and about 1845 Samuel Ivers appeared in
New Bedford as a clerk in the Shaw Dry Goods Store. A year later he
became clerk with Nehemiah Leonard, an oil commission merchant and
candle manufacturer. In course of time he was admitted a partner, the
firm, N. Leonard & Company, continuing until the death of Mr. Leon-
ard in 1869. For several years prior to that date Mr. Leonard had been
in feeble health, the burden of the business falling almost entirely upon
Mr. Ivers. By the terms of Mr. Leonard's will, Samuel Ivers was
appointed trustee and executor of his estate, valued at $100,000, the
burden of that trust being carried in addition to continuing the business
of N. Leonard & Company. He continued that business until about
1880, then sold out, and at once began his successful career as a pro-
moter of business corporations.

His first great promotion was in 1880, when, in connection with
three others, he organized the Southern Massachusetts Telephone Com-
pany, a corporation which, beginning with a small capital and limited
franchises, grew under another name to be one of the great public utili-
ties of Southern Massachusetts. Mr. Ivers was treasurer and clerk of
the company from its incorporation, and finally withdrew from other
enterprises, the business of the telephone company having increased to
such an extent as to require his entire time. His connection with the
company continued for a quarter of a century, he being a director of the
New England Telephone Company at the time of his death in 1905. At
about the same time (18S0) Mr. Ivers promoted the \\'illiams Manu-
facturing Company, of which he was treasurer ; the New Bedford House
Company, being its treasurer and clerk ; and later elected treasurer and
clerk of Clark's Cove Guano Company, which he served for about five
years, then resigned all his offices to devote himself to the duties of his
treasurership of the telephone company and of the Opera House Com-

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pany. He continued active in business until his death, being officially
connected with several smaller enterprises, a director in several com-
panies of which he had once been treasurer. His connection with the
New Bedford Five Cents Savings Bank began with its inception, he
being one of the incorporators and a trustee until his death. Thus sixty
years of active business life were spent, and to enumerate all the cor-
porations, companies and firms with which he was connected as treasurer
and director would now be impossible. He was the builder of his own
fortunes, and his work was so well done that it endures.

Mr. Ivers was a Republican in politics, deeply concerned for the
welfare of his city, but without ambition to hold political office. He was
a member of the Republican city committees at different times, served
as its chairman and treasurer, held some minor local offices, and was
once in his absence from the city nominated for the Legislature without
his consent. Indeed that was the only way he could have been nomi-
nated for he persistently refused ofters to make him the party candidate
for alderman and for mayor. He was a member of the North Congrega-
tional Church and was treasurer of the Sunday school for fifteen years.
He was one of the organizers of the Wamsutta Club, and its long time
treasurer: member of the Board of Trade, and interested in several soci-
eties. During his latter years, books were a great source of enjoyment to
him, Shakespeare being his favorite in literature. He possessed a mind
of varied and analytical power, and he delighted to study the works of
the great English poet.

Mr. Ivers married (first) October 29, 1851, Jane Frances Tobey, who
died early in the year 1853, daughter of Jonathan and Hannah (Sears)
Tobey, her father a son of Jonathan (2) Tobey, son of Jonathan (i)
Tobey, son of Samuel Tobey, son of Thomas Tobey, who was of Scitu-
ate, Massachusetts, later of Sandwich, where he is recorded as a member
of the church in 1694. Mr. and Mrs. Ivers were the parents of a daugh-
ter, Ella Frances Ivers, who is residing in New Bedford. Mr. Ivers mar-
ried (second) late in the year 1855, Elizabeth Perkins, who died in 1885,
daughter of John Perkins. They were the parents of a daughter, Lizzie
Perkins Ivers, who died October 30, 1883.

GEORGE E. BRIGGS.

While never a man to seek public position, Mr. Briggs as little
shuns it, and when confronted with any duty has accepted it as an
obligation of citizenship. Hence he has been much in the public eye
through his connection with city affairs, political and otherwise, his
most valuable service being in connection with the Board of Assessors
during the years 1894-95-96. His term as assessor was marked by
radical changes in methods of assessing real estate, the total value of
property as assessed in 1894 increasing $7,000,000 in the face of the fact

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that business was in a deplorable condition due to the panic of 1893.
The tax levy for that year was $26,000, g^reater than in 1893, yet the tax
rate was reduced from $17.50 to $15.60, and more than one-third of the
valuations either reduced or left unchanged. Mr. Briggs was the leader
in these reforms, and as a result earned the enmity of party leaders, but
the people showed their appreciation of his efforts for the public good
and returned him to office by an overwhelming plurality.

In the business world he was long known as an enterprising con-
tractor and builder, and in the textile world as one of the organizers of
the Whitman Mills, of which he has always been a director, and as one
of the incorporators of the New Bedford Textile School, of which he
was president four years, during its construction and dedication and is
now a trustee of the institution. This but indicates the life of usefulness
which yet continues, and gives an idea of the good he has accomplished
during his half-century of residence in New Bedford, and he has lost
neither his influence, energy or willingness to aid any cause which
receives the sanction of his judgment.

Mr. Briggs is of the ninth generation of the family founded in
Massachusetts by John Briggs, born in Norfolk, England, in 1609,
admitted an inhabitant of the Island of Aquidneck in 1638, became one
of Rhode Island's prominent citizens, and died in Dartmouth in 1690.
The line of descent from John Briggs is through his son, Thomas Briggs,
who was a member of the grand jury from the town of Dartmouth,
Massachusetts, June 2, 1685, having settled on lands in Dartmouth
owned by his father. The line of descent continues through his son,
John (2) Briggs, of Dartmouth ; his son, Wesson Briggs ; his son Walter
Briggs ; his son Weston Briggs ; his son, Elihu Briggs ; his son, Elihu
(2) Briggs, of Bakerville, town of Dartmouth, born November 18, 1819,
died August 23, 1902, who married (first) October 24, 1841, Lydia A.
Brown, born May 2, 1823, and married (second) April 17, 1851, Mary E.
Baker, born May 2, 1833, daughter of Captain Michael and Jane Eliza
(Dixon) Baker, the last named born in Alexandria, Virginia, January 2,
1808, died at the old homestead in Bakerville (in which she had resided
nearly eighty years) in 1901, aged ninety-three years.

George E. Briggs, son of Elihu (2) and Mary E. (Baker) Briggs,
was born in Bakerville, Dartmouth, Massachusetts, August 22, 1854.
He there attended the public schools until removing to New Bedford,
where he completed his studies in the high school, and began business
life in his seventeenth year as an employee of the Morse Twist Drill
and Machine Company. Four years were spent with that company,
terminating in 1875, when he began learning the trade of carpenter with
his father. In 1879 he was admitted to a partnership, and together father
and son conducted a successful contracting and building business until
1883, when the partnership was dissolved, the son continuing in business
alone until 1892. During and since this period as a contractor, Mr.

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Briggs erected about one hundred tenements on his own account, he also
becoming interested in land operations in connection with his building
activities. Since retiring from the contracting field the care of his real
estate and other investments has engaged much of his time.

Mr. Briggs was chairman of committees in charge of the leading
features of New Bedford's Semi-Centennial Celebration of 1897, and
he was president of the New Bedford Board of Trade in 1912. During
his term, he stronglj' advocated State Aid for harbor improvements,
and the new $350,000 State Pier is the result of that agitation. He was
a delegate the same year to the Fifth International Congress of Cham-
bers of Commerce at Boston, heading the representation from the local
board, and is now (1918) a director of the Civic Division of the Board
of Commerce.

Always interested in public affairs, Mr. Briggs first held public
ofifice in 1882, when he was elected to represent his ward in the Common
Council. He was reelected in 1883 and 1884, but held no other public
office until 1S94. In the meantime, he had led in agitating reform in the
methods of assessing property, and in March, 1894, the people placed
him in a position to carry out his ideas by electing him as a member of
the Board of Assessors to fill out the unexpired term of William, A.
Russell. In the fall of 1894 he was reelected in spite of the opposition
of party leaders, and resigned in 1896, having served as chairman of the
board in 1S95 and 1896. The reforms he had urged were carried through
and much permanent improvement in methods of assessment accom-
plished during his tenure of office as an assessor.

The part Mr. Briggs played in the founding of the New Bedford
Textile School and in staunchly supporting it at a time when its future
seemed uncertain and its friends apathetic, forms an interesting chapter
in his own life and is a most important one in the history of the
institution now recognized as a most valuable addition to the educational
opportunities New Bedford offers to her sons, native and adopted.
Financial depression, a prolonged strike in the city, and the death of two
presidents in one year, were severe blows for the enterprise, and the
future looked dark when, in 1898, Mr. Briggs accepted the presidency.
He threw himself into the work with his usual energy and ability,
aroused the directors, reawakened the interest of early and former
friends, and during the four years he held the presidency placed the
institution upon its feet. $50,000 was secured from the city and State, a
site centrally located was acquired and in 1899 a brick building, three
stories in height, sixty-four by one hundred and ten feet, was dedicated
to the use of the school. This was the first building ever constructed
in this country for a textile school, the Philadelphia and Lowell Textile
Schools occupying buildings erected for other purposes. Before retiring
from the presidency, property between the school building and Maxheld
street was purchased and a large extension to the south constructed.

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Since 1902, Mr. Briggs has traveled much in the West Indies, South
America, and Europe.

Mr. Briggs married, November 18, 1885, Louise, daughter of Thomas
Donaghy, of New Bedford, and they are members of the Unitarian
Church. Mr. Briggs is a member of the Wamsutta Club. Mr. and Mrs.
Briggs have one son, George E. Briggs, Jr., born November 26, 1891.

GEORGE E. BRIGGS, JR.

George E. Briggs, Jr., son of George E. and Louise (Donaghy)
Briggs, was born in New Bedford, November 26, 1891. He graduated
from the New Bedford High School in 1910, then entered Dartmouth
College, whence he was graduated with the degree of Bachelor of Arts
in 1914, taking in his senior year a course in the Tuck School of Admin-
istration and Finance. The following September he sailed for Buenos
Ayres, Argentina, one of a party of twelve sent out by the National City
Bank of New York to establish the first of its foreign branches which
are now scattered over Latin America, and Europe. He remained in
Buenos Ayres three years as commercial representative of the bank,
devoting his whole service to promoting trade relations between the
United States, Argentina and Uruguay. He returned to New York in
October, 1917, and during the following winter made several addresses
on South American trade topics before commercial organizations in cities
of the East and Middle West. He is the author of exhaustive reports
on various lines of North American productions. In February, 1918, he
started on a trade mission through Central and South America in the
interest of G. Amsinck & Company, exporters of New York, a subsidiary
of the American International Corporation.

EDMUND GRINNELL.

When death removed Joseph G. Grinnell from the firm of Taber &
Co., foundrymen of New Bedford, he was the sole owner of the business
with which he had been connected for twenty-four years, 1849-1873.
To this business succeeded his son, Edmund Grinnell, a young man of
twenty-three years. The plant of Taber & Co., was then located on
North Front street, and later was removed to the stone building on South
Water street, where as the corporation, The New Bedford Iron Foundry,
it is yet a prosperous concern. From the death of Joseph G. Grinnell, on
January 28, 1873, until his own death, August 26, 1892, Edmund Grinnell
was the active head of the business, although upon his first being con-
fronted with the responsibility of management he availed himself largely
of the experience and ability of Samuel Ivers, one of New Bedford's
leading business men for half a century, 1850-1900. Rapidly Edmund
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he came into so suddenly and unexpectedly was a very large one, he was
soon its master and its real managing head. To gain the knowledge
required of a young man whose previous life had been that of a student,
required hard work, but fortunately Mr. Grinnell possessed the ability,
strength and disposition to perform prodigies of labor, and it is recorded
that it was not an uncommon sight to see a light burning in his private
office until 4 A. M., and then he would again be on duty with the office
force at the regular opening hour. Not alone did he successfully conduct
his own business, but he was sought by other corporations, and with
Samuel Ivers organized the Southern Massachusetts Telephone Com-
pany, and as president of the Clarks Cove Guano Company he attained a
national prominence through his formation of a combination of fertilizer
manufacturers. With the years, he grew in mental strength and business
ability until he ranked with the leaders of the commercial world in which
he moved, was sought for in counsel, and his judgment deferred to. He
was always a leader, and wherever his judgment approved he led with
confidence and courage.

Edmund Grinnell was the first born of Joseph G. Grinnell of New
Bedford, and his second wife, Lydia W. Presbury, daughter of Rev.
Samuel Presbury, who was ordained pastor of the Second Congregational
Society of Northfield, Massachusetts, February 27, 1828. He was a
grandson of Cornelius and Eliza Tallman (Russell) Grinnell of New
Bedford, great-grandson of Captain Cornelius Grinnell, a famous mariner
of his day who served his country, was a vessel owner and commander,
founder of the marine firm of Fish & Grinnell, of New York City, which
was the first American firm to start a regular line of packet ships between
New York and Liverpool, that firm (now Grinnell, Minten & Co.) dating
from the year 1810. One of the ships he built and commanded was the
"Euphrates," launched in 1803, destroyed by the Confederate privateer
"Shenandoah" in the Pacific in 1864. During her entire career the
"Euphrates" was owned in the Grinnell family. Captain Cornelius Grin-
nell lived to celebrate his ninety-second birthday, dying in New Bedford
about two months later, on April 19, 1850. It was a son of Captain
Cornelius and Sylvia (Howland) Grinnell who equipped at his own cost
an Arctic exploration expedition to go in search of Sir John Franklin,
was a generous contributor to the Hayes and "Polaris" expedition, and
through the career of Henry Grinnell a new lustre was attached to the
name of Grinnell, to which Grinnell Land in the frozen North is a
memorial. The family descends in America from the Huguenot Cren-
elles of France, the American ancestor being Matthew Grinnell, who was
of Newport, Rhode Island, not earlier than 1638. The line of descent
is through his son Daniel Grinnell, of Little Compton and Portsmouth ;
his son Richard Grinnell, of Little Compton; his son Daniel (2) Grinnell,
of Little Compton; his son Captain Cornelius Grinnell, of previous
mention, great-grandfather of Edmund Grinnell, of New Bedford, to
whose memory this review of a useful and honorable life is dedicated.

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Edmund Grinnell, eldest son of Joseph G. and Eliza Tallman (Rus-
sell) Grinnell, was born in New Bedford, October 13, 1850, and died in
his native city August 26, 1892. He was educated in Friends Academy,
New Bedford, and prepared for college, but the illness of his father
caused a change of plan, and when in 1873 Joseph G. Grinnell passed to
another sphere of existence, Edmund Grinnell was his successor as head
of the firm of Taber & Co. That firm was founded by Joseph G. Grin-
nell, Isaac C. Taber and William Eddy, who in 1849 established a foundry
in New Bedford. Later, Joseph G. Grinnell became sole owner, built up
a good business, and then surrendered it to his son. Early in his business
career he had the assistance of Samuel Ivers, and for many years the two
men were associated in business enterprises of importance. He soon
became the actual head of Taber & Co., and so continued until his death,
that business now being the New Bedford Iron Foundry corporation.

In 1880. with Samuel Ivers and two others, he organized the
Southern Massachusetts Telephone Company, holding exclusive rights
in New Bedford and Southern Massachusetts territory, which later
became exceedingly valuable. For several years he was president of the
Clarks Cove Guano Company, and in that capacity conceived and carried
into partial effect plans for combining all the amalgamation of the
fertilizer interests ; two or three leading manufacturers withdrew, and
the plan was temporarily abandoned. Mr. Grinnell, however, invaded
southern territory and started several fertilizer companies in that section,
which he controlled, these proving profitable ventures. He was also
the first active president of the New Bedford Manufacturing Company,
and for several years was a director of the First National Bank. At the
time of his death he was also a leading member of the Boston Masters
Association. His foundry, telephone and fertilizer interests were large,
and made such demands upon his vitality that at the early age of forty-
two his labors ended, and he passed to his reward.

Mr. Grinnell was essentially a business man, and took little active
part in public afifairs. He was a Republican in politics, a member of the
New Bedford Protecting Society, the Wamsutta Club of New Bedford,
the Union Club of Boston, and in religious faith a Unitarian.

He married, November 19, 1875, Jennie Gibbs Swift, daughter of
Humphrey Hathaway and Jane (Gibbs) Swift. Mr. and Mrs. Grinnell
were the parents of two sons and three daughters: Edmund (2), of New
Bedford; Rachael Lee; Ralph Russell, died in infancy; Katherine, of
California ; and Susan Williams Grinnell. Mrs. Grinnell yet survives
her husband, a resident of New Bedford.

HUMPHREY HATHAWAY SWIFT.

Six generations of Swifts preceded Humphrey Hathaway Swift in
New England, the ancestor, William, Swift, coming from England and
settling in Watertown, Massachusetts, in 1634. His grandfather, Jireh

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(3) Swift, was a minute-man of the Revolution ; his father, Jireh (4)
Swift, a dry-goods merchant at Lunds Corner, in the village of Acush-
net, county of Bristol, Massachusetts, and there married, November 10,
1805, Elizabeth, daughter of Stephen and Abigail Hathaway. Hum-
phrey H. Swift was one of the remarkable men of his century and his
years vied with those of a century, his span of life more than ninety-two
years, 1819-1911. Those years covered the wonderful development of
New Bedford as a port of entry, whaling port, shipping centre, and cotton
manufacturing city. He elected the South American export trade as his
specialty, and for sixty years was actively engaged therein. He made
his first venture as an exporter in 1841, his first shipment being a
$10,000 cargo of tea bought on bank credit and consigned to a Brazilian
port. This venture was successful, and thereafter his life was one of
great activity, he making frequent voyages between the United States
and Brazil, and coming to know Brazilians as few men knew them,
and winning many friends in that country, including the then sovereign
Don Pedro H., who honored him with knighthood in the Order of the
Rose, November 2^, 1867. His influence in Brazil was of value to the
United States government during the War between the States (1861-
1865), and for his farsighted action in securing options on coal for the
use of our war vessels and for his energy in aiding the American consul
in providing for sailors from whaling ships and merchantmen captured
and burned by Confederates, he received the thanks of the government
through William H. Seward, Secretary of State. In 1889 he made the
last of thirty sea voyages to Brazil, China, Africa and Europe, retired
in 1896, gave up his home in New York the same year, and until 1910
resided in New Bedford, Massachusetts. After the death of his second
wife, September 10, 1910, he resided with his daughter, Anne Hathaway,
wife of Professor Charles Burton Gulick, in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Humphrey Hathaway Swift was born at Lunds Corner, near New
Bedford, Massachusetts, now a part of the city, November 30, 1819, died
in Cambridge, Massachusetts, April 28, 191 1. He prepared for college
at the Paul Wing School in Sandwich, Massachusetts, but choosing a
business career and after completing his own studies and teaching a
district school for three months, began in 1840 the wonderful exporting
commercial life which continued until 1896. He sailed on his first
voyage to Brazil in October, 1840, leaving Salem,, Massachusetts, on the
brig "America," bound for Pernambuco. In 1841 he became a clerk in
the Pernambuco office of Henry Forster & Co., an American exporting
house. In that year he returned home, and the same year sailed as
captain's clerk on the ship "Horatio," bound for China. There he visited
his cousins, Gideon and Clement Nye, merchants at Canton. China. It
was on this voyage that he made the speculation in tea which, shipped
to Brazil, yielded him a handsome profit. He returned to the United
States in 1842, and in January, 1843, again sailed for Brazil as clerk for

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Henry Forster & Co., a position he held until 1846, but from January i,
1847, a partner, and later senior partner. Until i860, Henry Forster &
Company operated from Long Wharf, Boston, then moved their head-
quarters to New York City, operating until 1886 as H. H. Swift & Co.,
then as Swift, Billings & Co., until 1896, when Mr. Swift retired.

Besides his personal business, Mr. Swift became deeply interested in
Brazil's internal affairs, and was connected with many enterprises and
movements for the betterment of conditions there. He promoted and
financed the first horse car line in the country, and for a time was head
of the company. He stimulated the planters to increase their cotton
acreage, and by every vessel of his house bands of free cotton seed
formed a part of the cargo. He succeeded in greatly increasing the
acreage, then introduced the cotton gin, enabling the planters to handle
their greater crops. He established the first tug boat service in Brazil,
organized the Brazilian Steam Coasting Company, served as United
States Consul at Pernambuco for several years, appointed by President
Grant, and held this until resigning through press of business. He was
an active agent in bringing about emancipation of the slaves in Brazil,
founded the "Sociason Emancipadora," a society favoring emancipation
and incorporated under the patronage of the Brazilian government to
create sentiment for the cause. He freed his own slaves, and everyone
he bought was with the understanding that good behavior would bring
freedom. He was a charter member of the Union League Club of New
York, and took an active part in organizing colored regiments. He was
also a member of the Down Town Club, the New England Society,
Chaniber of Commerce, trustee of the Sun Insurance Company, director
of the St. Nicholas Bank, a lover of horses, and never happier than when
mounted, riding to hounds. Ten of his thirty ocean voyages were made
in sailing vessels, and in the great development of the country following
the war he was an important factor.

Mr. Swift married, in 1846, Jane Elizabeth Gibbs, daughter of Alfred
Gibbs, of New Bedford. Mrs. Swift died in 1852, leaving two sons and a
daughter : Alfred Gibbs, died 1893 ; Thomas Nye Gibbs, died 1893 ! ^"d
Jennie Gibbs, who married Edmund Grinnell, of New Bedford, whom she
survives.

Mr. Swift married (second) in 1865, Bertha Wesselhoeft, who died
in 1910. Children: Bertha W., a resident of Boston ; Anne H., the wife
of Professor Charles Burton Gulick, of Cambridge, Massachusetts;
Humphrey H. (2), who died in June, 1914; Robert W., of Syracuse, New
York ; and Ruth Swift, a resident of Boston, Massachusetts.

CHARLES M. PEIRCE, JR.

Many years have passed since Charles M. Peirce, Jr., held a place
among the strong men of his city and met them on an equality in
business competition, legislated with them upon the floor of common

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council for the welfare of the city, and upon the floor of the Massachu-
setts Legislature raised his voice for or against measures then pending,
afifecting the weal or woe of the commonwealth. Few men of his day
accomplished more, and none possessed more indomitable energy or
courage to face the consequences of holding to convictions of right and
wrong. He was a son of Charles M. Peirce, who settled in New Bedford
in 1820, and became so prominent a builder that it was said of him by
a city father, "Charles M. Peirce nearly built New Bedford." Charles M.
was a son of Barnard Peirce, of Rehoboth, Massachusetts; son of
Joshua Peirce, of Rehoboth ; son of Mial Peirce, of Warwick, Rhode
Island, Swansea and Rehoboth, ]\Iassachusetts ; son of Ephraim (2)
Peirce, of Rehoboth and Swansea ; son of Ephraim Peirce, of Warwick,
Rhode Island ; son of Captain Michael Peirce, the founder of the family
in New England, a gallant soldier who met his death in combat with
the Indians.

Charles M. Peirce, Jr., son of Charles M. and Mary (Maxfield)
Peirce, was born in New Bedford, July 26, 1823, and died at his home in
his native city, his life-long home, September 12, 1875. He was edu-
cated in the city schools, and after completing his studies became
associated with his father, then New Bedford's leading contractor and
builder. Among the activities of the early life and of the building firm
was the manufacture of patented cement and water pipes, there being
no other kind of drainage pipes used in the city for many years. The
furnishing of brick, lime, and mason's materials became an important
business in itself, and in time the son, Charles M., retired from other
activities and for many years was engaged in the brick and lime business,
with ofifice and yards on North Water street. He was a man of strong
business quality, firm in his convictions, and fearless in his support of
his opinions. Integrity distinguished his business life, and when he
entered the political arena the same principles guided his public life.

He early became interested in political affairs, and gave much time
to the public service. He served the city as councilman, and during two
of those years he was president of council. From the local legislative
body he passed to the State Legislature, serving as a member of the
lower house for several years, and at the time of his death was a mem-
ber. He was a member of the committee on schools during most of his
legislative career, and rendered the cause of education good service. He
was a Republican in politics, and fraternally a member of the Inde-
pendent Order of Odd Fellows. Thus was his life passed, engrossed
with business and public cares. He made such heavy drafts upon the
physical man through close attention to his own and public business,
that he broke early in life, his years numbering but fifty-two.

Mr. Peirce married (first) March 11, 1851, Susan A. Durfee, born
December 27, 1826, died October 6, 1855. They were the parents of one
son: Frank C. Peirce, of New Bedford. Mr. Peirce married (second)
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Thomas J. Hill, of Providence, Rhode Island, a leading manufacturer of
that city. Charles M. and Amanda E. (Hill) Peirce were the parents of
four daughters and two sons: i. Annie Calder, born August 23, 1861 ;
married, May 23, 1881, Hubert M. Howland, who died July 6, 1885,
leaving a daughter, Grace Edgerton Howland, who married, November
17, 1909, Moses M. Sergeant, of New York, and has two children. 2.
William Copeland, born November 21, 1863; was later president of the
Providence Machine Company, founded by his grandfather, Thomas J.
Hill. He married, September 27, 18S7, Isabelle Louise Baker, of Re-
hoboth, their children being: i. Thomas J. H., married, April 26, 191 1,
Gertrude Buskard, daughter of William J. Buskard, and they have three
children ; ii. Emma I., married, October 5, 1910, William Barrows, of
Providence, and they have three children; iii. William Copeland (2),
married Miriam Crosby, daughter of William Frank White, of Provi-
dence, and they have one son ; iv. Ruth C. 3. Mary A. H., born July 21,
1865, married, November 6, 1881, Lieutenant Percy H. Brereton, of the
United States Navy, who have a son, Peirce Hill, who married, July 8,
191 5, Julia Marion Stockard, of Providence. 4. Emily Hill, born Sep-
tember I, 1867; married, January 21, 1892, Thomas Potter Davis, and
removed to Edgewood, Rhode Island, and have five children : i. Albert
H ; ii. Beatrice ; iii. Thomas Potter (2) ; iv. Hope ; v. Charles M., who died
in infancy. 5. Albert Browne, born December 26, 1869, now a resident
of New York City. 6. Elizabeth Sawyer, born September 30, 1871,
married Walter D. Wood, and moved to Edgewood, Rhode Island, and
whose children are : i. Walter C. ; ii. Ralph W., and iii. Dorothy. Mrs.
Amanda E. (Hill) Peirce. the widow of Charles M. Peirce, Jr., now
resides in Edgewood, Rhode Island.

CAPTAIN LOT HASKELL GIBBS.

When on September 2, 1904, Captain Lot Haskell Gibbs entered
the harbor of eternal rest, he was one of the oldest master mariners of
the port of New Bedford, from which he first sailed in 1844, a boy of
fourteen years. At the age of twenty-one he was captain of a merchant-
man, and for twenty-two years he trod his own quarterdeck, but always
in the merchant sen'ice. When tiring of the sea and craving the com-
forts of land and home. Captain Gibbs entered business life in New
Bedford ; he was as successful as a merchant and lumber dealer as he had
been as a navigator and master mariner. He came rightly by the love for
the sea, his father, George Crocker Gibbs, being a sea captain, five of his
sons also being master mariners, and back of Captain George C. and
his five sea captain sons was his father, Caleb Gibbs, born in Sandwich,
Massachusetts, but whose home and business were on the sea. These
three generations of seafaring men made the name one of the best known
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at sea off Charleston, South Carolina, on his own vessel, the "Paugasset."
He was brought to New Bedford and there buried in Rural Cemetery ;
his fourth son, Captain Lot H. Gibbs, is also buried there.

Caleb Gibbs, grandfather of Captain Lot Gibbs, was a resident of
Sandwich, a sailor engaged in the coasting trade, and there died Feb-
ruary 27, 1847, '^t the age of eighty-two. He was head of a large family,
most of his sons becoming captains of vessels, engaged in whaling. This
review follows the career of his son, Captain George C. Gibbs, and his
grandson. Captain Lot H. Gibbs, both of whom were captains in the
merchant service. George C. Gibbs was born in what was then a part
of the town of Sandwich, in the village of Monument, but later the town
of Bourne. He followed the sea all his life, became a master mariner,
and met his death at sea, on his own vessel, May 22, 1849. He married
Mary Cotton Haskell, daughter of Lot and Elizabeth (Cotton) Haskell,
and a descendant of Rev. John Cotton, one of the early settlers of
Halifax, Massachusetts. Captain George C. and Mary (Haskell) Gibbs
were the parents of six sons, five of whom became sea captains, and a
daughter, Mary Lucretia, who married Charles T. Bonney. This review
continues with the life story of the fourth son, Captain Lot Haskell
Gibbs.

Captain Lot Haskell Gibbs was born at Rochester, Massachusetts,
February 17, 1830, died in New Bedford, Massachusetts, September 2,
1904. He attended the town school until fourteen years of age, then
made his first sea voyage, sailing with his father, Captain George C.
Gibbs, making his first voyage in 1844. For seven years he sailed con-
tinuously before the mast and as mate, receiving his master's papers and
first command in 1851. He continued a master of coasting vessels for
twenty-two years, 1851-1873, then retired from sea service, covering a
period of twenty-nine years.

With honors fairly earned, with a fine record and the good will of
his owners and of the men who had sailed with him, some of them from
boyhood. Captain Gibbs retired at the age of forty-three years, and for
eight years thereafter engaged as grocer and ship chandler in New Bed-
ford, the family home since 1846. At the end of that period he became a
ship broker, and in addition dealt heavily in lumber, principally box
board, buying in large quantities and shipping to New York and Phila-
delphia. He continued in that business until his death, winning as
notable success in the last quarter century of his life as in the first.
While taking no part in political affairs beyond exercising his privileges
and responsibilities as a citizen, he was interested in all that pertained to
the public welfare, and in his political preference was a Republican.
He was a member of the Masonic order, affiliated with Star in the East
Lodge, Free and Accepted Masons ; while his religious association was
with the Trinitarian church. New Bedford. Quiet and unassuming,
upright and honorable, he was highly esteemed for his sterling attributes
of character, and left a substantial record.

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Captain Gibbs married, in Rochester, Massachusetts, December 5,

1867, Jennie W. Leonard, daughter of Theodore Washburn and Sarah
(Cathell) Leonard, her father a descendant of James Leonard, the early-
ironmaster of Taunton, Massachusetts. Mrs. Gibbs survives her hus-
band, a resident of Nev^r Bedford, a member of the Trinitarian church,
and interested in other good works. Captain and Mrs. Gibbs are the
parents of a daughter and son : Elizabeth Leonard, born December 16,

1868, died November 28, 1902, wife of Rolland N. Van Buskirk, of New
York, and the mother of Elizabeth and Eleanor Van Buskirk ; George
Crocker Gibbs, born in New Bedford, Massachusetts December 16,
1872, a graduate of Massachusetts Institute of Technolog)% C. E., and
of Episcopal Theological School, Cambridge, Massachusetts, is an or-
dained priest of the Protestant Episcopal church, and is now stationed
at the Royal Palace Hotel, Paris, France, as a representative of the
American University Union in Europe.

The line of descent from James Leonard, the founder, to Mrs. Jennie
W'. Gibbs, is through his son, Benjamin Leonard, his son Joseph Leonard,
his son Captain Philip Leonard, his son George Leonard, his son George
(2) Leonard, his son Theodore Washburn Leonard, his daughter,
Jennie W., widow of Captain Lot H. Gibbs. The first six genera-
tions named were ironmasters without interruption, but in the seventh
generation Theodore W. Leonard broke the line of ironmasters by be-
coming a merchant in that part of the town of Rochester which later
became Marion, but still later returned to Rochester, succeeding to the
mercantile business of his father, George (2) Leonard. Theodore W.
Leonard was born at Middleboro, Massachusetts, August i, 1812, died
in Rochester, Massachusetts, February 28, 1881. His parents moved to
Rochester in 1822, and there he was educated. He made a whaling
voyage prior to his marriage, and one after that happy event, but there-
after was engaged as a merchant until his death. He was a good busi-
ness man. successful in his undertakings, and highly esteemed as an
honorable, upright citizen. He married Sarah Cathell, born in Rochester,
who survived him, daughter of James and Jane (Dexter) Cathell. Both
Theodore and Sarah Leonard are buried in the cemetery at Rochester
Centre. They were the parents of two daughters and a son : Emily F.,
deceased; Jennie W., married Captain Lot H. Gibbs; Charles T., de-
ceased.

ALONZO E. COVIL.

When a lad of sixteen, Alonzo E. Covil came to New Bedford, and
the same year (1852) shipped on board a whaling vessel. The sea did
not prove to his liking, and in the course of time he became a hotel
proprietor, being engaged in the hotel business in Chicago at the time
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and as manager of the Parker House Livery Stable and later in the
livery business under his own name, he was well and favorably known.

Alonzo E. Covil was born in Pontiac, Rhode Island, in 1836, and
died in New Bedford, Massachusetts, June 3, 1893. He was educated in
the public schools and Pierce Academy in Middleboro, but at the age of
sixteen he left school to ship on a New Bedford whaler. The work on
the whaler was distasteful to him, and he left as quickly as possible,
and for the following three years he was purser on a steamship running
between New York and Savannah. He next took an interest in the
Planters Hotel, in Richmond, Virginia, and for four years was proprietor
of that hostelrj-, running it in partnership with a Mr. Smith. From
Richmond he went to Chicago, Illinois, was for a time a wholesale junk
dealer, but soon became interested in the hotel business, continuing
until driven out by the fire of 1871. After the fire he returned to New
Bedford, there managing the Parker House Livery Stable until its sale
to Kirby & Hicks. He then represented the Kirby interest until 1892,
when he bought the John Snow stable, located at the corner of Elm street
and Acushnet avenue, and until his death operated it under his own
name. He was greatly interested in politics, but never sought office for
himself.

Mr. Covil married, July 3, 1858, Harriet H. Manchester, of Little
Compton, Rhode Island, who survived him with a son and daughter,
who continued their residence at No. 48 High street.

Orion E. Covil, only son of Alonzo E. and Harriet H. (Manchester)
Covil, was bom in New Bedford, Massachusetts, February 17, i860, and
died at Waverly, January i, 1913. He completed a course in graded
school and then attended the Nancy Burr private school. He conducted
a store at the corner of Second and School streets. He was a member of
the firm of Covil & Pease, fruit and produce business, for a number of
years, and had a branch store in the summer season at Cottage City and
afterward at Nantucket. He also conducted a large livery business
during the summer months at Nantucket, and after the death of his
father he succeeded him in the livery business, located at the corner of
Elm street and Acushnet avenue. He then sold his interests in Nan-
tucket to his partner, confining himself to his New Bedford business.
For a number of years Mr. Covil was one of Mayor Ashley's closest
political advisers, and at the same time there existed a strong intimacy
between Mr. Covil and David L. Parker, and at different times during his
career Mr. Covil was an active supporter of both men, when their in-
terests were not opposed. In the last successful campaign of Mr. Parker,
prior to the death of Mr. Covil, for the Republican State Committee, Mr.
Covil gave freely of his waning strength to advance his friend's interests.
At Nantucket, where Mr. Covil spent a part of the summer seasons, he
was an important factor in swinging the greater part of the island vote to
William S. Greene, in the memorable Slade-Greene controversy, one of
the most hotly contested of any in the veteran congressman's long career.

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Always possessed of a keen sense of humor, Mr. Covil went to Nantucket
and there raised the battle cry, "Remember what Slade did to the fisher-
men," and before the campaign had ended, the fisherman of that place
polled one of the heaviest votes in years, all of which were for William
S. Greene. After the campaign was over, one of Mr. Covil's intimate
friends approached him and asked: "What was it that Slade did to the
fishermen?" "I don't know," was Mr. Covil's answer, with a keen sense
of the humor of the situation. Mr. Covil was one of the charter members
of the New Bedford Driving Club, and up to the time when his health
failed him, had always taken a deep interest in the affairs of the organ-
ization. Twenty years prior to his death he owned a number of fast
horses, and was an enthusiastic follower of track events. He was also
a member of the local lodge of the Benevolent and Protective Order of
Elks.

Mr. Covil married. December 26, 1900, Clara P. Brown, who survives
him.

Annella W. Covil, only daughter of Alonzo E. and Harriet H.
(Manchester) Covil, was born in New Bedford, Massachusetts. She
was educated in the schools of New Bedford, later was her father's and
brother's assistant, and since the death of her brother has managed the
livery business very successfully. She is one of the well known and
highly esteemed residents of New Bedford.

RUFUS ALBERTSON SOULE.

Rufus Albertson Soule, the son of Thomas Howard Soule and Mar-
garet Albertson Dunham, was born in Mattapoisett, Massachusetts,
March 16, 1839, ^"d ^^^'^ '" New Bedford, Massachusetts, January 9,
1913. He was a direct descendant of George Soule, a Majdlower pas-
senger and signer of the Immortal Compact. On his mother's side he
was a descendant of John Dunham, the founder of the Dunham family
in America.

His father, Thomas H. Soule, was long identified with the business
and civic life of New Bedford. Although born in Enfield. Massachusetts,
his home was in Duxbury, where he learned the trade of ship building.
He came to New Bedford in 1841, and in 1856 founded the firm of
Edwards & Soule, shipbuilders, continuing actively in this business until
his retirement in 1872. Mr. Soule took a deep interest in public affairs.
He was a member of the Republican party from its formation. He was
one of the first Republicans to be elected to the legislature from New
Bedford, serving in 1857-58, and supported Charles Sumner for United
States Senator. He was a member of the Common Council of New
Bedford, and took an active part in the establishment of the Free Public
Library. He was also active in and long identified with the Old Fire

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Department. He died in 1900, at the age of ninety, a man beloved and
respected by all who knew him.

Of his five children, four were sons. These four sons enlisted and
took their part in the Civil War. The eldest. William T., was a member
of the First and Fourth Regiment Massachusetts Volunteer Cavalry ;
Rufus A. enlisted in Company E, Third Regiment Massachusetts Volun-
teer Infantry ; Henry W. served with the famous Third Battery, Massa-
chusetts Light Artillery, and was killed in the second day's fight at
Gettysburg; Thomas H., Jr., served in the navy, and was with Admiral
Farragut at Mobile Bay.

Rufus A. Soule was born in Mattapoisett. When he was a small
child his parents moved to New Bedford. He received his education in
the public schools of New Bedford and lived all his life in that city. In
the spring of 1858 he became a clerk in the employ of the Union Boot and
Shoe Company. This was his introduction to a business with which he
was destined to become intimately connected in later years with another
New Bedford man. Savory C. Hathaway. They enlisted and served in
the same company, and their friendship begun in the army continued
during their lives.

The large and prosperous business of Hathaway, Soule & Harring-
ton, Inc., was begun by Savory C. Hathaway in July, 1865. Very soon
Mr. Soule became silent partner, and the name of the firm was changed
to S. C. Hathaway & Co. Two years later, Mr. Soule gave up his clerk-
ship and became an active partner in the firm of Hathaway & Soule.
Later, Herbert Harrington, of Boston, was admitted to the firm, and the
firm became Hathaway, Soule & Harrington. Still later, a stock com-
pany was organized under the title of Hathaway, Soule & Harrington,
Inc. In 1905 Mr. Soule retired from the shoe business. This business
grew and prospered for forty years. From its small beginning, the com-
pany became one of the largest concerns in the trade, selling dirct to
the retail dealers.

In 1905 Mr. Soule was appointed Collector of the Port of New Bed-
ford. From that time until his death, Mr Soule devoted his time to the
duties of the collector's office and to his many corporate interests. He
was the first president of the Dartmouth, Soule and Neild Mills, and
president of the City Manufacturing Company, manufacturers of cotton
goods. He was vice-president of the New Bedford Safe Deposit and
Trust Company, president of the Acushnet Cooperative Bank, and
director of the New Bedford Cooperative Bank. He also served his city's
business interests as president of the Board of Trade. In the business
world of his city his judgment was deferred to, and he was rated one of
the leaders among men of affairs.

Mr. Soule always took an active interest in public affairs. He was
a member of the New Bedford Common Council for several years. In
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of years he was a member of the City RepubHcan Committee. In 1878-79
he served as a member of the lower house of the Massachusetts Legis-
lature. He was returned to the House of Representatives by the largest
plurality ever given by the Legislature up to that time. For eight years,
from 1896 to 1904 inclusive, he served his State as State Senator. For
two years he was president of the Senate. He was a man of zeal, judg-
ment and ability, his record as a legislator being one of faithful, efficient
service. Alert and clear-minded, enthusiastic, with an earnest desire to
be of genuine service to his State, he was an ideal senator. He gained
the reputation in the Senate of being a tireless worker, while his energy,
persistency and initiative made him a valuable worker in committee and
routine work. His success in politics was well earned, his remarkable
personal magnetism winning him his first legislative victory, while his
honesty, fearlessness and ability won the continued support of his dis-
trict and the respect of his party opponents.

He was a member of the Wamsutta Club, New Bedford, and of the
Massachusetts Chapter of the Society of Mayflower Descendants. In
the Masonic order, he held the degrees of Star of the East Lodge, Adoni-
ram Chapter and Sutton Commandery, his membership in these bodies
being of long standing.

Mr. Soule was a devoted Grand Army man. Of all the organizations
with which he was connected he loved best the Grand Army of the
Republic. He served his own Post, the R. A. Pierce Post of New Bed-
ford, twice as commander, in 1893 and 1906. He was commander of the
Bristol County Association of the Grand Army of the Republic, and
served several terms on the staff of the commander-in-chief of the
National Grand Army of the Republic.

On August 28, i860, Mr. Soule married Susan C. Nesmith, of Bucks-
port, Maine. They were the parents of three children : Margaret H.
(Airs. Garry de N. Hough) ; Lois M. (Airs. Alexander T. Smith) ; and
Rufus A. Soule, Jr.

To whatever cause needed his assistance, Mr. Soule gave his intelli-
gent and loyal service, and his influence and example in temperate and
upright living have been an inspiration to those who have been blessed
with his acquaintance. His interest in children and all young people,
especially the boys who came so frequently to him for advice and assist-
ance, endeared him to a host of friends who cherish and honor his
memory. Air. Soule possessed the best traits of the good old New
England gentleman. His aims were high and he attained them. Loyal
to town, to State and country, and all the worthy interests within his
reach, he lived a grand and beautiful life, and his name will be cherished
always by all who had the honor of his friendship. In the death of Mr.
Soule the Commonwealth lost one of its most useful and valued citizens.
His long and honorable career left the memory of incorruptible integrity,
which is the best heritage a man can leave.

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FREDERIC TABER.

A native son of New Bedford, a city in which his life has been
passed, Frederic Taber, banker and manufacturer, has interests of great
importance in the city of his birth, and others of perhaps less importance
in outside cities. He left college in 1877 to become his father's business
associate. The company with which he was first identified, indelibly con-
nected the Taber name with the business of mechanical art, and lives
to-day in the Taber Prang Art Company of Springfield, Massachusetts,
but in New Bedford was long known as Charles Taber & Company, and
when incorporated, as the Taber Art Company. William C. Taber,
grandfather of Frederic Taber, was proprietor of a book store on Union
street in the early days of New Bedford. Nearly a century has elapsed
since William C. Taber began his book business in New Bedford ; his
son, Charles Taber, with his brothers expanded and gave it a national
reputation, three hundred persons at one time finding employment in the
several buildings in which the Taber Art Company conducted their
enterprise. This business was brought to so high a state of development
that the product of their art plant could be found literally everywhere.
With its removal from New Bedford, Mr. Taber's interest lessened, but
as director and vice-president of the Taber Prang Art Company, he
retains an interest acquired in his early manhood.

The Tabers of New Bedford spring from Philip Taber, the Pilgrim,
who was of Watertown, Massachusetts, 3.s early as 1634. He is found in
the records of Watertown, Plymouth, Yarmouth, and Martha's Vineyard,
of New London, Connecticut, Portsmouth, Providence and Tiverton,
Rhode Island, and was a man of prominence. His son, Thomas Taber,
was equally prominent in Dartmouth, Massachusetts, his home being in
that part now Fairhaven. There his house was burned by Indians in
1675. His first wife was Esther (Cook) Taber, a granddaughter of Rich-
ard Warren, of the "Mayflower;" his second wife, Mary (Thompson)
Taber, was a granddaughter of Francis Cook, the "Pilgrim." The line
of descent is through Joseph Taber, son of Thomas and Mary (Thomp-
son) Taber; their son, Benjamin Taber, and his wife, Susannah (Lewis)
Taber; their son, Benjamin (2) Taber, and his second wife, Eunice
(Worth-Gardner) Taber; their son, Barnabas Taber, and his wife, Mary
(Congdon) Taber; their son, William C. Taber, and his wife, Hannah T.
(Sherman) Taber; their son, Charles Taber, and his wife, Sarah Jane
(Howland) Taber; their son, Frederic Taber, and his wife, Elizabeth
Delano (Howland) Taber; their son, Frederic Howland Taber, of the
tenth American generation, founded in New England by Philip Taber.
It is particularly with Charles Taber and his son Frederic that this re-
view will deal.

Charles Taber was born in New Bedford, April 20, 1822, died No-
vember 17, 1887, son of William C. and Hannah T. (Sherman) Taber.
His father was also born in New Bedford, and in addition to the book

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store, of which he was proprietor, and prominent in other business affairs,
he was for sixty-three years connected with the New Bedford Institu-
tion for Savings in an official capacity, part of that time being its presi-
dent. He also represented the New Bedford district in the State Senate,
and left to his son both an example and an inspiration.

Charles Taber prepared at Friends' Boarding School, Providence,
Rhode Island, and completed his classical education at Haverford Col-
lege, near Philadelphia. He began business life as his father's clerk in
the Union street book store, becoming a partner in 1843. This business
was known as : William C. Taber & Son, William C. Taber & Sons, C.
& A. Taber, and Charles Taber & Company. During the years Charles
Taber was connected with it, the store on Union street was enlarged by
taking in the corner store and starting a branch on Purchase street. In
connection with the book store, the company conducted a publishing busi-
ness, and among their more important publications were several numbers
of the New Bedford Directory. They also operated a bindery, and a store
for the sale of nautical instruments which the company manufactured.
About 1859 Charles Taber became interested in the manufacture of am-
brotype copies of steel engravings, and that became his chief interest,
the book department being moved to the Purchase street stores. In 1862
he sold his interest to his brothers, Abraham and William C, and to his
art business he added photographs, artotypes, medallions, frames, cards
and fancy cabinets. Later his brother, William C. (2), became identified
with this branch, and when, in 1893, the firm of Charles Taber & Com-
pany was succeeded by the incorporated Taber Art Company, he became
its first president. Charles Taber continued the head of the business he
founded, and to his enterprise and business ability its prosperous condi-
tion was largely due. He was a birthright member of the Society of
Friends, maintained a Sunday School in the Union street store, was super-
intendent of Friends' Sunday School on Spring street, and was a leading
member of the New England Yearly Meeting. He married Sarah J.
Howland, they the parents of Charles M., Frederic, Elizabeth K.. and
Emma C.

Frederic Taber, second son of Charles and Sarah J- (Howland)
Taber, was born in New Bedford, February 26, 1856, and yet resides in
his native city, one of her foremost sons. After graduation from Friends'
School in 1872, he entered Brown University, class of '76. but after com-
pleting his freshman year, left to become his father's business assistant.
In 1882 he was admitted a partner in the firm, Charles Taber & Com-
pany, his father, himself, and brother, Charles M., with William C. Taber
composing the firm. The business built up by the firm was incorporated
in 1893 as The Taber Art Company, Frederic Taber, secretary. In Au-
gust, 1897, a merger was arranged with the Prang Company, the merger
being the Taber Prang Art Company, of which Frederic Taber is vice-
president, the headquarters of the company being as Springfield, Massa-
chusetts.

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From art manufacturing, Mr. Taber has extended his activities until
they touch many of the city's greatest corporations. He is the president
of the New Bedford Safe Deposit and Trust Company ; president of the
Taber Mill, a cotton manufacturing corporation, capitalized at $1,200,000,
employing seven hundred hands ; assistant treasurer and director of the
New Bedford Storage Warehouse Company ; treasurer of the New Bed-
ford Textile School ; president of the Automatic Telephone Company of
New Bedford ; president of the Acushnet Cooperative Bank and of the
New Bedford Morris Plan Company; director of the City Manufacturing
Company; Soule Mill; Quissett Mill; New Bedford Cooperative Bank;
New Bedford Gas and Edison Light Company ; vice-president and direc-
tor of Green & Daniels. Inc., of Pawtucket, Rhode Island ; and a member
of the committee of the Moses Brown School, of Providence, Rhode
Island. For two years he represented his ward in City Councils; is a
member of the Society of Friends ; clerk of the New Bedford Meeting
and superintendent of the Bible school. Frederic Taber married, in 1882,
Elizabeth Delano Rowland, who died in 1883, daughter of James H.
Howland, of New Bedford. He married, in 1895, Mary E., daughter of
John M. Williams, of New Bedford.

FREDERIC HOWLAND TABER, LL. B.

Frederic Howland Taber was born in New Bedford, May 3, 1883.
His father is Frederic Taber, and his mother, who died in 1883, was the
daughter of James Henry Howland, of New Bedford, and Fannie Peters,
of North Andover.

Frederic H. Taber attended Friends' Academy, graduating from
there in 1900. He then attended Harvard University, receiving an A. B.
in 1904 and LL. B. in 1907. After graduation from the law school he
was in the office of Crapo, Clifford & Prescott for a short time, and then
joined with Otis Seabury Cook, of New Bedford, and Morris R. Brownell,
of Fairhaven, forming the firm of Cook, Brownell & Taber. Mr. Taber
served in the Common Council for three years, and was the president of
it during his last year. He is a director in the Taber Mill, New Bedford
Safe Deposit and Trust Company, Neild Manufacturing Corporation,
New Bedford Cooperative Bank, Acushnet Cooperative Bank, New Bed-
ford Storage Warehouse Company, Automatic Telephone Company, and
Greene & Daniels Company, Incorporated, of Pawtucket, Rhode Island.
He is president of the New Bedford Charity Organization Society, and
chairman of the New Bedford Civilian Relief Committee of the American
Red Cross, which is at the present time endeavoring to look out for the
welfare of the families of the men who have enlisted or who have been
drafted into the service of the United States for the present war. He is
the treasurer of the Old Dartmouth Historical Society. Mr. Taber's
family have been members of the Society of Friends for many years, and

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he was brought up in that society. In politics he is an independent Re-
publican, and has taken quite an active interest in matters of a political
nature. He is a member of several clubs.

On April ii, 1908, Mr. Taber married Helen W. Bourne, of New
Bedford, daughter of the late Standish and Clara (Simmons) Bourne,
both of whom were residents of New Bedford. Mr. Bourne was asso-
ciated for many years in the firm of George A. Bourne & Son, auctioneers
and real estate dealers, and was later in the same business under his own
name and in partnership with his son. Mr. and Mrs. Taber have three
children, viz., Helen Standish, Frederic Howland, Jr,. and Philip.

WILLIAM NYE SWIFT, M. D.

"Let us follow in his steps. Oh Lord," prayed the preacher, '"in doing
good unto others. We thank thee for the good he did, for the integrity
of his character, for the excellence of his example." What finer eulogy
than this could be pronounced, and when to that is added the glowing
words spoken in connection with his work for St. Luke's Hospital by
members of his profession long associated with him, justice is done to
one of New Bedford's best known and best beloved citizens, Dr. William
Nye Swift, son of William Cole Nye Swift, whose life and services are
recited at length in this work.

William Nye Swift was born in New Bedford, Massachusetts, Au-
gust I, 1856, and there died October 27, 191 1. He prepared at Friends'
Academy, New Bedford, and at Phillips Exeter Academy, entered Har-
vard University, and in 1877 was graduated A. B. He chose medicine as
his profession, and after receiving his degree of M. D. from Harvard
Medical School, class of 1880, he studied in Vienna, he and his wife mak-
ing their home with a German family in order to learn the language. He
remained in Vienna two years, studj'ing and walking the hospitals. This
foreign hospital experience added to the months spent at Massachusetts
General Hospital, in Boston, prior to his going abroad was of greatest
benefit to him, and when he returned to New Bedford in 1884, and began
practice, it was not a novice, but an experienced physician who offered
his services. He opened his first office on Union street and there built
up a clientele along general lines of practice, but in 1896 he went abroad,
and in Berlin took special courses in surgery, and after his return to New
Bedford specialized in that branch of his profession. From 1882 until
1896, he affiliated with the New Bedford Health Department, first as city
physician, ex-officio, and later, when the law was changed. Dr. Swift
became a member of the Board of Health, but the demands of his prac-
tice were more than equal to his physical ability to meet, and the office
was resigned. He was devoted to his profession and in his private prac-
tice applied himself very closely, although financially entirely independ-
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sound ethical basis was far-reaching throughout the State, and the har-
mony existing between the physicians of his city and district and the
unity of their efforts is largely due to his efforts. During the first five
years of his life he devoted much time to this work, and it may be truly
asserted that the profession is better through his life and services. His
influence with young doctors was of value, both to them and to the com-
munity. As they came to the city, he fathered them, gave them advice,
assisted them from his rich store of experience, and made them his
friends.

He was one of the charter members of St. Luke's Hospital, and a
member of its first medical staff. Previous to the erection of the hospital
there had been no place in which accidental injury could be treated, many
accidents terminating fatally owing to this lack. Taunton or Boston being
the nearest available hospitals. Dr. Swift felt this need keenly and did a
great deal to bring about a better condition. St. Luke's indeed may be
called his monument as to its rise and growth he contributed not only
some of the best years of his life, but financial benefits flowed freely
from his purse, mostly unknown save to the few of the innermost circle.
To the hospital at Sassaquin he donated thousands in cash, as well as
valuable time, deep personal interest and medical advice. In 1910 he was
elected president of the staff of St. Luke's, and so continued until his
death in 191 1. He was a member of the American Medical Association,
the Massachusetts State Medical Society, the district and local societies,
and worshipped with the Unitarian congregation, furthering the work of
the church in every possible way. He was a member of the Wamsutta
Club of New Bedford, the Harvard, the University of New York City,
and the Union Club of Boston.

Dr. Swift married, February 15, 1881. Anna Hathaway, only daugh-
ter of Francis and Susan Shoemaker (Paxson) Hathaway, of New Bed-
ford. Dr. and Mrs. Swift were the parents of a daughter and two sons :
Hester Williams, married Dr. Henry D. Prescott ; Francis Hathaway, a
contractor and builder, member of the firm. Swift & McNutt, of Boston ;
Henry, a graduate of Harvard, class of 1915, associated for a time with
his brother in business, but now head of the Naval School of Aeronau-
tics at Pensacola, Florida. Thus was the life of Dr. Swift passed, and
thus universally respected, died one of the most positive and active
figures in the history of the medical profession in New Bedford.

FRANCIS HATHAWAY.

While not conspicuous in public life, Francis Hathaway was of that
splendid type of public-spirited citizen ever anxious to promote the pros-
perity of their home city, and in his quiet, energetic way did a great deal
for the permanent good of New Bedford. He succeeded his uncle in the
presidency of the National Bank of Commerce, and with sound judgment

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and rare discernment guided the affairs of that institution until his death.
He was a son of Nathaniel Hathaway, a substantial merchant, member
of a firm of three brothers, Nathaniel, Thomas S. and Francis S. Hatha-
way, tea importers, manufacturers and bankers, all men of wealth and
importance in New Bedford, sons of Humphrey and Abigail (Smith)
Hathaway.

Humphrey Hathaway was a son of Stephen and Abigail (Smith)
Hathaway, his wife and his mother both having the maiden name, Abi-
gail Smith. Stephen Hathaway was a son of Captain Jethro Hathaway,
who married Hannah West, and of whom it was written : "The Hatha-
ways were extensive land owners derived from John Hathaway, who
held a share in the eighth hundred acre division. Their lands were situ-
ated on both sides of the Acushnet River, commencing about half way
from New Bedford to Acushnet. Jetho Hathaway, as was his father and
grandfather, was a prominent man in the early history of Dartmouth,
and the handwriting of the former, who was one of the committee on
surveys from 1758 to 1773, is remarkably handsome and rarely equalled
by the professors of penmanship at the present day." The first of this
branch was Arthur Hathaway, who came from one of the Welsh coun-
ties of Great Britain in 1630, settling at Plymouth. The line of descent
is through his son, Arthur (2) Hathaway, whose wife, Sarah (Cook)
Hathaway, was a daughter of John Cook, of the "Mayflower," and his
wife, Sarah, daughter of Richard Warren, also of the "Mayflower." From
Arthur (2) Hathaway descent is traced through his son. Thomas Hatha-
way, and his wife Hepzibeth (Starbuck) Hathaway, of Nantucket, daugh-
ter of Rev. Nathaniel Starbuck, the famed preacher; their son. Captain
Jethro Hathaway ; his son, Stephen Hathaway ; his son, Humphrey Hath-
away : his son, Nathaniel Hathaway ; his son, Francis Hathaway, to
whose memory this review is dedicated.

Nathaniel Hathaway died at the age of thirty-eight years, but until
his death he was associated with his brothers, Francis S. and Thomas S.,
in the mercantile enterprises which made him and them substantial men
of their day. They were tea merchants, one of the brothers, Francis S.,
spending a great part of his earlier life in China in the interests of the
business. Nathaniel was the first of the trio to die, his life ending Octo-
ber 27. 1836. his wife, Anna (Shoemaker) Hathaway, having preceded
him, her death occurring September 2, 1833. Francis S. Hathaway died
in 1869, and bequeathed his property to his remaining brother, Thomas S.
Hathaway, and to the heirs of his brother Nathaniel. Nathaniel and
Anna (Shoemaker) Hathaway were the parents of two daughters and
three sons: Caroline, born in 1822, married, in 1841, Samuel G. Morgan,
and died in 1883; Richard, died young: Elizabeth, born in 1827, married
Joshua C. Stone, of Boston, and died in 1903: Francis, of further men-
tion; Horatio, born May 19, 1831, married, in 1859. Ellen Rodman, and
died March 25, 1898.

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Francis Hathaway was born at the old Hathaway homestead, at the
corner of Elm and Purchase streets, New Bedford, in 1829, and there
died January 21, 1895. He prepared in Friends' Academy, New Bedford,
entered Harvard College, there pursued a full course, and was graduated
with the usual bachelor's degree, class of '49. He inherited a generous
fortune from his father and began his business career in association with
his uncles, and spent the years until 1878 in New York City, engaged in
the tea business, acquiring large interests. He then returned to New
Bedford, succeeding his uncle, Thomas S. Hathaway, as president of the
National Bank of Commerce, a position of honor, trust and responsibility
he ably filled for seventeen years, 1878-1895. As executive head of so
important a financial institution, Mr. Hathaway filled an important place
in the business life of his city, and in addition to his own estate inherited
largely from his uncles, Francis S. and Thomas S. Hathaway. He was
a director of the Hathaway, Potoniska, Wamsutta and Acushnet cotton
mills, the Rotch Spinning Company, New Bedford Institution for Sav-
ings, also vice-president of that institution, and of the Board of Trade.

Mr. Hathaway was a man of strong business ability, the soul of
honor and uprightness, kindly disposed toward all, and intensely public-
spirited, watched the progress of his city with pride, aiding with all his
might to advance the public good. As a banker he was very conserv'a-
tive, but not timid, safe and sane in management, sound in advice and a
loyal friend. He was deeply attached to the old Purchase street home,
and, although the noise of a busy business street drove most of the old
families to strictly residence locations, he could never be induced to leave
the old home, but continued his residence there until his death. He was
one of the incorporators of the Wamsutta Club, its first and long-time
president, was a member of the executive committee of the South Massa-
chusetts Fish and Game League, and an earnest member of the Uni-
tarian church, freely bestowing upon the society his time and personal
effort, while his purse generously aided the church in its physical needs.
Charity and philanthropy profited through his liberality, and he was a
strong advocate for any cause he espoused.

Francis Hathaway married, in 1854, Susan Shoemaker Paxson, and
they were the parents of a son, Nathaniel, who died September, 1916,
and a daughter, Anna, now the widow of Dr. William Nye Swift, whose
life history is herein traced, and a daughter, Elizabeth, who died in
infancy.

JOSEPH MASTERS READ.

As a cotton broker Mr. Read has had the advantage of training under
the able P. C. Headley and others, thus, when in 1916, he formed the
firm, Nichols & Read, Egyptian Cotton Brokers, he brought to the busi-
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him to intelligently conduct his negotiation with cotton buyers. He is
on the threshold of his business career, but his future is brilliant with
promise. He is a son of William Francis Read, a retired merchant of
New Bedford, and grandson of Joseph R. Read, who in 1850 established
a mercantile business in New Bedford. Joseph M. Read is the third gen-
eration of his family in the city and the ninth in New England.

Joseph Masters Read was born in New Bedford, Massachusetts,
June 6, 1885. He was educated in Miss Leonard's School, Middle street
Grammar School, St. George's Preparatory School, Newport, Rhode
Island; Colonel Bragdon's Preparatory School, Highland Falls, New
York, and Harvard University, one year. He began business life as a
clerk in the Mechanics' National Bank, but a year later retired from the
bank, and has since been connected with the cotton brokerage business.
He began with P. C. Headley, with whom he remained eighteen months,
then for one year was with Rhodes, Woodward & Company, next with
Hurley Brady two years, leaving the last named to become manager of
the New Bedford branch of R. & O. Lindeman, Egyptian Cotton Brokers,
and remained with them until retired from business. In 1916 Mr. Read
formed the firm, Nichols & Read, Egyptian Cotton Brokers, with offices
in the Five Cents Savings Bank Building, their business, direct buying
from the cotton fields of Egpyt, and finding their market for it in New
Bedford and elsewhere among cotton manufacturers. He is a director of
the Rome Manufacturing Company of Rome, New York, and of the
Rome Brass and Copper Company. He is a member of the Wamsutta
and New Bedford Yacht clubs.

Mr. Read married, in Rome, New York, January 12, 1909, Amelia
Haselton, they the parents of: Eleanor, born September 27, 1909; Eliza-
beth, born February 26, 191 1 ; John Haselton, born July 27, 1916.

WALTER PELLINGTON WINSOR.

Our national prosperity depends upon the solid business men of the
country. The story of their success is our best text-book for the inspira-
tion of the young. As president of the First National Bank of New Bed-
ford, Walter P. Winsor held a position of importance in his community,
one to which he had risen through a quarter of a century in the scarcely
less responsible position of cashier. Mr. Winsor was a Fairhaven boy,
belonging to a family of sea captains and mariners, his father, Captain
Alexander Winsor, and his grandfather, Captain Zenas Winsor, were
thoroughly representative of a class of hardy upright men who would
have graced any station in life.

The first Winsor of record in this branch is William Winsor. who is
said to have come to Boston from Devonshire, England. The line of
descent is traced through his son Samuel, to his son Peter. Peter Win-
sor was born August 21, 1761, at Duxbury, removed to Kingston, Massa-
chusetts, and there died April 19, 1845. His son, Captain Zenas Winsor,

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was a sea captain of Duxbury, Massachusetts, whose eldest son was Cap-
tain Alexander Winsor, born in Duxbury, Massachusetts, August 11,
1810, who began his seafaring life at the age of fourteen years, making
his first voyage on the vessel of which his father was captain. He con-
tinued as seaman and mate until his twenty-fifth year, when he was
appointed to command the new ship "Molo." His first voyage as master
was to Stockholm, Sweden, a voyage made in safety, but after delivering
his ship over to the pilot, through some error in judgment or calculation,
the "Molo" was wrecked upon Gotland, a large island in the Baltic Sea,
belonging to Sweden, and both ship and cargo were lost. He returned
to the United States feeling that his career as master was ended, but
when he met the owner, Thatcher Magoun, in Boston, he was surprised
and delighted to find that another ship, loaded and ready for sea, awaited
him. With this ship, the "Timolean," he made many voyages, and in
turn commanded the merchantmen (some of them clipper ships of re-
nown) "Susan Drew," "Audubon," "Gertrude," "Hussar," "Sea Nymph,"
"Flying Cloud," "Sea Serpent," and "Herald of the Morning." The last
ship, which he commanded until his retirement in 1872, was owned by
Thatcher Magoun, who was also owner of the "Molo," the first ship he
commanded. Captain Winsor belonged to that olden school of clipper
ship masters of whom no finer ever trod a quarter deck. He married
Sarah Pellington Allen, of Fairhaven, Massachusetts, and there made his
home. They were the parents of: Alexander (2), born April 27, 1845;
Walter Pellington, of further mention; Sarah Frances, born June i, 1851,
married Thomas B. Fuller.

Captain Alexander (2) Winsor was a com.mander of ships in the
China trade, and for half a dozen years was captain of one of the largest
steamships running between Hong-Kong and Shanghai, then for twenty-
two years sailed under the flag of the China Merchant Steam Navigation
Company. During the war between China and Japan his steamer was
used by the government. In recognition of daring and gallant service in
rescuing a fleet of Chinese steamers from a perilous situation during a
naval battle, the Chinese government, through Li Hung Chang, prime
minister, presented Captain Winsor with the emblem of the Chinese
Double Dragon. He married Carrie I. Bailey, and died in Fairhaven,
June 7, 1899.

Walter Pellington Winsor, second son of Captain Alexander (i) and
Sarah Pellington (Allen) Winsor, was born in Fairhaven, Massachusetts,
October 12, 1846, and died there December 8, 191 1. He was educated
in the public schools of Fairhaven, and in the John Boadle private school
in New Bedford, continuing his studies until seventeen years of age.
He then began as bookkeeper for a Broadway firm in New York City,
but six months later returned to New Bedford, taking a position in a
grocery store as bookkeeper. At the age of eighteen he became junior
clerk in the First National Bank of New Bedford, and for two years
retained that position. At the age of twenty he accepted a clerk's posi-

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tion with the Union Mutual Marine Insurance Company of New Bed-
ford, continuing with that company eight years until 1874, having risen
to the position of secretary-treasurer. The heavy loss of ships in the
Arctic Ocean in 1871, and the lack of business through the death of the
whaling industry, caused the company to liquidate in 1874. This brought
Mr. Winsor to the next and by far the most important phase of his career,
his connection with the First National Bank. He was elected cashier of
that bank in June, 1874, and for twenty-five years he held that important
post, gaining expert knowledge of the laws governing national finance,
and the practical knowledge to make his learning effective. He won the
confidence of the public, and the high regard of the bank officials to a
degree which made him their unanimous choice for the presidency upon
the death of Edward S. Taber, in March, 1899. I'"' ^^e executive position
his long training and preeminent ability were demonstrated, and for
twelve years until his death, December 8, 191 1, he was the ideal financier
and bank president.

i\lr. Winsor was a Republican, and was one of the selectmen of Fair-
haven for thirteen years. He was a member of the Unitarian church of
Fairhaven, and was closely identified with its work and interests, to
which he was very devoted. A close friend of the late Henry H. Rogers
from boyhood, he represented Mr. Rogers in his Fairhaven undertakings.
Upon the death of Mr. Rogers, he became one of the executors of the vast
estate; was a director of the Virginian Railway Company, whose road
was built by Mr. Rogers; vice-president of the Atlas Tack Company;
director of the Wamsutta Mills; director of the Union Street Railway
Company ; and treasurer of the Millicent Library at Fairhaven. An esti-
mate of the worth of Mr. Winsor's life appeared editorially in the New
Bedford "Mercury," under date of December 11, 191 1 :

In the death of Walter P. Winsor there passes out one who has been
for nearly forty years a prominent figure in the large financial affairs of
this community. Mr. Winsor was a son of that one of that splendid race
of captains who controlled the destinies of the great clipper ships that
were once the glory of the seas. From that inheritance a type of man
was developed, of commanding figure and bearing, impressive in a physi-
cal sense of resourcefulness and reliability. Throughout his long busi-
ness career no act of Winsor's was ever at variance with that first impres-
sion which his noble appearance inspired. His ability as an accomplished
banker and financier was high, but the surpassing trait was his exalted
honor and trustworthiness, and his judicious conservation in handling
the important afifairs and the responsibilities entrusted to his manage-
ment and care. That the late Henry H. Rogers selected him as an execu-
tor of his vast estates and interests indicates that one of the greatest and
most discerning of the financiers of this age regarded Mr. Winsor's
endowments as uncommon.

He was the executor of many estates and entrusted with many
affairs of business outside of those in his regular line of duties as a
banker, and he was faithful in all. Outside of his business career he lived
the life of a gentleman of quiet and refined taste, one who loved flowers
and simple pleasures and his home above all.

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Of soul sincere
In action faithful, and in honor clear.
Who broke no promise, served no private end,
Who gained no title and who lost no friend.

Mr. Winsor married Mary G. Bancroft, daughter of Joseph B. and
Sylvia W. (Thwing) Bancroft, of Hopedale, Massachusetts. Mrs. Win-
sor survives her husband, continuing her residence at Fairhaven. Mr.
and Mrs. Winsor were the parents of a daughter and three sons: i.
Walter Pellington (2), born April 20, 1879, died June 29, 1911 ; a graduate
of Harvard University and Law School. 2. Anna Bancroft, born May
22, 1881 ; married Carl Clapp Shippee, and removed to Red Bank, New
Jersey. Mr. Shippee is a member of the firm of Shipee & Rawson,
brokers, of New York City, members of the New York Stock Exchange.
Mr. and Mrs. Shippee are the parents of three sons : Winsor, born Janu-
ary 18, 1908; Robert, July 3, 1910; Donald, born December i, 1915. 3.
Bancroft, born June 26, 1889 ; graduate of the Fairhaven High School,
and attended Worcester Polytechnic and Massachusetts Institute of
Technology. He married Beatrice Dunham, daughter of Crawford L.
and Anna Dunham, of Fairhaven. They are the parents of two children:
Sylvia, born in May, 1914, and Philip, born in November, 191 5. Bancroft
Winsor is now operating the Winsor farm at Acushnet, Massachusetts.
4. Allen Pellington, born February 12, 1892: graduated Harvard Univer-
sity, Bachelor of Arts, 1914 ; Harvard Medical School, Doctor of Medi-
cine, 1918; has enlisted in United States Medical Corps. He married
Vira Holcomb, daughter of Clarke W. Holcomb, of New Bedford, and
resides in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

ISAIAH FRANKLIN TERRY.

A man of enterprise and progress, Mr. Terry during the active
period of his years, ninety-one, was intimately connected with the pecu-
liar business industry of his native Fairhaven — whaling, with the finan-
cial institutions of the town, and with other affairs of importance. The
great number of years vouchsafed him were wisely improved, and when
he was called upon for a final accounting of his stewardship he went with
the record of a blameless life spent in honor and usefulness. For nearly
half a century he was a trustee of the Fairhaven Savings Bank, and for
sixteen years its president.

The "gold fever" claimed his attention in 1849, ^"d one of his ships
carried a large party of gold-seekers to the Pacific Coast, and to his
progressive public-spirited action much of Fairhaven's modern improve-
ment may be traced. Many of his earlier years were spent in New York
City, but later he returned to the home of his birth and there passed
from youth to manhood, gaining honorable position among the business
men of the city, reached the summit of man's powers, then gracefully

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descended the slope, passed into the ranks of those who walk long amid
lengthened shadows, and finally reached nonagenarian honors, retaining
his powers of mind and body to a surprising degree. He was of the sixth
generation of the family founded in New England. Lieutenant Thomas
Terry, who settled at Braintree, Massachusetts, later moved to Block
Island. Massachusetts, where he was made a freeman in 1664. a deputy
in 1665, and in 1672 was instrumental in obtaining a town charter for
Block Island. Later he moved to Freetown, Massachusetts (Fall River),
and on June 16, 1683, bought land of John Bryant, of Taunton, at Bryant's
Neck. Lieutenant Terry was a member of the first Freetown board of
selectmen, elected June 2, 1685, was reelected in 1686, serving until 1690.
He was commissioned lieutenant June 4, 1686, was deputy to the Gen-
eral Court in 1689. and was then rated one of the largest taxpayers in
Freetown. By his wife Ann he had sons : Thomas, John, and Benjamin.

The line of descent from Lieutenant Terry to Isaiah Franklin Terry
was through the founder's third son, Benjamin ; his son, Benjamin (2)
Terry, born in Fairhaven, Massachusetts, married Joanna Pope ; their
son, Benjamin (3) Terry, born in the town of Dartmouth, Massachusetts,
married Mary Eldredge; their sou, Elias Terry, a sea captain, married
Elizabeth Stevens, of Fairhaven ; their son, Isaiah Franklin Terry, to
w-hose memory this review of a useful honorable life is offered.

Isaiah Franklin Terry was the second son of his parents, born in
the town of Fairhaven, December 15, 1805, died at the Terry homestead
on Middle street, Fairhaven, December 20, 1896, the immediate cause of
his death, pneumonia. Educated in the public schools and Hawes Acad-
emy ; the death of his father while he was yet a minor threw the burden
of his own support upon his youthful shoulders, and in New York City
he spent several years in the employ of the shipping firm of Hicks, Jen-
kins & Company. He returned to Fairhaven a man of well developed
business abilities, thoroughly experienced, and capable of conducting the
large business enterprises in which he later became engaged. In Fair-
haven he entered the employ of Ezekiel R. Sawin, who was engaged in
the ship chandlery business, operated a saw mill and dealt in coal, his
place of business, Union Wharf, Fairhaven. After several years spent
with Mr. Sawin, he engaged in business for himself as ship agent and
fire insurance adjuster, a business he conducted successfully for several
years. Later he entered into a partnership with his brother-in-law,
Francis H. Stoddard, and as Terry & Stoddard extensively engaged in
the oil business and for many years they were successfully identified
with that industry, one with which Fairhaven and New Bedford were
long famous, the capture and marketing of products of whales. The
buildings used by Terry & Stoddard in their business were later bought
by the New Bedford & Fairhaven Street Railway Company, and used
for storing cars. During the gold excitement, Mr. Terry fitted out one
of his ships, loaded it with freight and dispatched it "around the Horn,"
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too heavy to be longer carried, and, to lesson his burdens, Mr. Terry
retired from active participation in commercial affairs. Henceforth he
gave himself to the enjoyments of the home he loved, and to the offices
he still retained in the banking- institutions of Fairhaven.

Mr. Terry was one of the incorporators of the Fairhaven National
Bank, was elected a member of the first board of directors, and held that
position for eighteen years. He held the same relation to the Fairhaven
Savings Bank in 1832, and from incorporation in that year until 1879,
he was a member of the bank board of trustees, and to his devoted inter-
est during those forty-seven years much of the prosperity of the bank
is due. He was a member of the first board of directors of the Fairhaven
Branch Railroad Company, and until the road was sold retained his place
upon the board. These were his principal interests, but there were few
enterprises started in Fairhaven during his active years there in which
he did not have a part, either advisory or official. He was a good citi-
zen, a loyal friend and neighbor, deeply devoted to his family. All men
respected him, and, when the years became very heavy, the interest dis-
played in him and his welfare was remarkable.

Mr. Terry married, in Fairhaven, May 29, 1832, Caroline Coleman
Jenney, born May 25, 1812, died February 6, 1851, and is buried with her
husband in Riverside Cemetery, Fairhaven. Mr. Terry married (second)
March 31, 1853, Phebe Hussey Bryant, daughter of Gamaliel and Mary
(Potter) Bryant, who is also buried in Riverside Cemetery. Caroline
Coleman Jenney was a daughter of Levi and Susannah (Proctor) Jenney,
of Fairhaven, and a descendant of John Jenney, of Norwich, England,
who early went to Holland, there married Sarah Carey, an English girl,
and moved to Rotterdam. John and Sarah Jenney came with their three
children to New England in 1623 in the ship "James," a small vessel of
forty-four tons, John Jenney becoming an important man in the Plym-
outh Colony. The line of descent from John and Sarah (Carey) Jenney,
was through their son Samuel, who married Ann Lettice ; their son, Let-
tice Jenney, whose wife Desire lived to be ninety-five years old ; their
son, Cornelius Jenney; his son, Cornelius (2) Jenney; his son, Levi Jen-
ney, a sea captain and a soldier of the Revolution ; his son, Levi (2)
Jenney, of Fairhaven, who died in Fairhaven. February 16. 1849. a promi-
nent man of his day. Levi (2) Jenney married, October 12, 1800, Susan-
nah Proctor, born December 23, 1781, died September 15, 1865, a descend-
ant of John and Priscilla Alden, of the "Mayflower," and of Samuel Proc-
tor, a soldier of the Revolution. Isaiah Franklin and Caroline Coleman
(Jenney) Terry were the parents of sons and daughters: i. Loretta
Hitchcock Terry, born November 13, 1833, fl'cd young. 2. Franklin
Terry, born November 6, 1835, and resides in Washington, D. C. 3.
Atkins Adams Terry, born March 12, 1838, died young. 4. Susan Burt
Terry, born July 31, 1840, married, November 21, 1867. Augustus Frank-
lin Perry, only son of Franklin and Caroline (Bryant) Perry and grand-
son of Dr. Samuel Perry, of New Bedford. Augustus F. Perry was for

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many years connected with the firm of O. G. Kimball, of Boston. Mr.
and Mrs. Perry usually spent their winters in Florida and in California,
and were in San Francisco at the time of the great earthquake and fire
in 1906. He died in Hartland, Vermont, while there on a visit, Septem-
ber 12, 1910, and is buried in Oak Grove Cemetery, New Bedford. Mrs.
Susan Burt (Terry) Perry survives her husband without children and
continues her residence at the Terry homestead on Middle street. Fair-
haven. 5. Joseph Tripp Terry, born January 24, 1843; now a resident of
San Francisco. 6. Bernard Jenney Terry, born March 25, 1847, lost at
sea, ]\Iarch 12, 1862. 7. Horatio Proctor Terry, born September 5, 1847,
died October, 191 1. 8. John Coleman Terry, born February 17, 1850,
died in San Francisco, February 11, 1908.

CAPTAIN HENRY HUTTLESTON, JR.

Huttleston avenue, Fairhaven, ^Massachusetts, is a reminder of a
family long identified with the town. Captain Henry Huttleston being
a son of Henry, a merchant, and a grandson of Peleg and Tabitha
(Crowell) Huttleston. Peleg Huttleston was a man of good circum-
stances and a large landowner of Fairhaven. When Henry H. Rogers
made his bountiful gifts to his native Fairhaven, he named one of the
streets which he built Huttleston street, in honor of Peleg Huttleston,
and the beautiful Tabitha Inn takes its name from Tabitha, his wife. The
Rogers and Huttleston families were closely related by marriage of Mary
Huttleston and Roland Rogers, their son Henry Huttleston Rogers, the
famous Standard Oil magnate, whose magnificent gifts to Fairhaven
place it in the very van of rural communities.

Henry Huttleston. son of Peleg and Tabitha (Crowell) Huttleston,
was born in Fairhaven, became a merchant, and there died. He married
Rhoda Merrihew, of Fairhaven. They were the parents of children:
Henry, of further mention ; Mary, married Roland Rogers, they the par-
ents of Henry H. Rogers; Jane W., died at age of seventeen; Betsey,
married Captain Charles Stoddard, of New York; Killey, deceased, of
Fairhaven.

Henry Huttleston, eldest son of Henry and Rhoda (Merrihew)
Huttleston, was born in Fairhaven, Massachusetts, September 17, 1798,
died on the Island of Java, an island of the Malay Archipelago, the prin-
cipal seat of the Dutch power in the East, May 17, 1849. After leaving
school he went to sea, and until his death was engaged in the merchant
service, carrying his country's flag to the furthermost parts of the world,
one of those hardy companies of men who made the Yankee flag, the
Yankee ship, and the Yankee tar respected wherever met. He sailed
under the house flag of that noted New York firm. Grinnell, Minturn &
Company, of New York City, and at the time of his death was in com-
mand of the ship "Ashburton," having risen from before the mast to his
own quarterdeck. He died while at a port of the Island of Java, and

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was there buried. He was a good navigator and a fearless commander; a
Whig in political faith, and a Unitarian.

Captain Henry Huttleston married, in August, 1827, Sarah Taber,
daughter of John and Mary (Hathaway) Taber, of Fairhaven. On the
morning of their wedding day he sailed with his bride on a voyage across
the Atlantic on his own ship, that being their honeymoon. Captain and
Mrs. Huttleston were the parents of five sons and four daughters: i.
John T., a merchant in China, died in Hong-Kong. 2. Jane W., married
Clement Nye, a merchant in China, whom she survives. 3. Mary T.,
married John I,auchlon MacLean, and died in London, England, in 1889.
4. Henry H., died in infancy. 5. Sarah T., who is yet a resident of Fair-
haven (1918). 6. Henry Lamson, died in Hong-Kong, China, in 1870. 7.
Adeline G., married John McDouall, and died in Bruges, Belgium, in
1887; her son Robert is Brigadier-General Robert McDouall, M. G. and
D. S. O., of the famous Bufifs of the English army ; and the second son,
Louchlon McDouall, is now engaged in ranching on a large scale in
South Africa. 8. Franklin D., died in Germantown, Pennsylvania. 9.
George Killey, lost at sea.

ROLAND FISH.

As one of the olden-time contractors and builders, coal and lumber
merchants and shipping agents, Roland Fish, of Fairhaven and New
Bedford, Massachusetts, lived a long, useful and contented life, almost
reaching nonagenarian honors. He bore well his part in the scheme of
life, and left many monuments which endure, the most lasting being
shaded Centre street, Fairhaven, every tree on that street, between the
town hall and Tabitha Inn, having been originally planted by him at
an early day. He was the son of James Fish, of Falmouth, Massachu-
setts, of ancient and honorable family.

Roland Fish was born in Falmouth, Massachusetts, February i,
1805, and died in Fairhaven, Massachusetts, August i, 1894. He attended
the small district school of that early day, and remained at home with his
parents until reaching the age of twenty-one, there beginning his Fair-
haven career, which was destined to cover almost the entire remaining
years of the nineteenth century. He had previously learned the carpen-
ter's trade, and in 1826 formed a partnership with Weston G. Robinson
and began business in Fairhaven as contractors and builders. They
became well known builders of Fairhaven and vicinity, continuing as
partners until the death of Mr. Robinson dissolved the bond, their busi-
ness a large and profitable one. After the death of his partner, Mr. Fish
engaged in the coal and lumber business, and in connection therewith
conducted a shipping agency, being agent for several vessel owners with
ships engaged in whaling. Both lines of business were successfully con-
ducted for several years, then he retired from the shipping business and
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management until almost the time of his death. He was a good business
man, honorable and upright in all his dealings, and very highly esteemed.
He was a man of clear brain and sound judgment, safe and sane in his
decisions, much sought for by those needing a capable adviser. He was
a long-time member of the Congregational church, but later embraced
the Unitarian faith and attended that church.

Roland p-ish married. September 21, 1832, Lucy Barstow Pope, of
Fairhaven, who survived her husband but a few weeks, dying in Sep-
tember, 1894. She was a daughter of Captain Nathaniel Pope, of Revo-
lutionary memory, who with Captain Daniel Egery performed deeds of
valor on the sea which place them among the naval heroes of the War for
Independence. One of his deeds was the capture of a British ship on the
night of May 13, 1776, twenty-four days after the battle at Lexington.
He was in command of the twenty-five men who at 9 :oo p. m. sailed from
Fairhaven wharf in the vessel "Success," quickly captured a British prize
w^hich was brought into the harbor, and gave chase to another British
vessel discovered in the offing. The second vessel was also brought in
as a prize, Captain Pope being in full command of the "Success" through-
out the entire afifair. Later he was captured by the British and con-
fined on board the prison ship, "Belvidere," in New York harbor. He
was not long held a prisoner, being one of the fortunates selected for
exchange.

Roland and Lucy Barstow (Pope) Fish were the parents of a son,
Nathaniel Pope Fish, deceased, and a daughter, Mary Alice Fish, a resi-
dent of Fairhaven, Massachusetts.

HUMPHREY W. SEABURY.

The golden era in whaling for New Bedford was practically the
period during which Captain Humphrey W. Seabury was connected
therewith, although he retired at a time when whale fishing had attained
the most profitable and successful prosecution. He was the son of a
master mariner, Captain William Seabury, of Little Compton, Rhode
Island, and New Bedford, Massachusetts, and the ambition to follow in
his father's footsteps came to him early. But after the removal to New
Bedford, when in his sixteenth year, the glamor of whale fishing, which
was the life of that town, decided him to go into the whaling instead of
the merchant service in which his father was engaged. He began at the
bottom of the ladder, sailing on his first voyage "before the mast," going
"a whaling" when nineteen years of age, rising to chief command on his
third voyage, compiling a most successful record and retiring from sea
service at the age of forty-three years. One of his voyages stands out
in whaling annals as one of the most notable, the value of the catch total-
ing $126,000, the voyage having covered a period of less than four years.
After retirement he served the city of New Bedford faithfully and
abundantly, winning from the New Bedford "Mercury" this eulogy :

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He was a faithful, conscientious, public-spirited servant, positive in
his opinions and plain in his expressions of them. His honesty was of
the rugged and uncompromising type, as sterling in matters of principle
as in those which involved money. He was an active and an ardent Re-
publican, holding to the extreme temperance wing of that party, and as
such for many years, conspicuous in the primary meetings, where he led
many a fight with the so-called liberal faction. He was a good citizen
whose influence and example were always exerted fearlessly in the way
he believed to be right.

Captain Seabury was a lineal descendant of John Seabury, of Boston,
who died before 1662. By his wife Grace, John Seabury had two sons,
John and Samuel, descent being traced through the last named. This
Samuel Seabury, born December 10, 1640, died August 5, 1681 ; married
(first) Patience Kemp ; (second) April 4, 1677, Martha Peabody, daugh-
ter of William and Elizabeth (Alden) Peabody, and granddaughter of
John and Priscilla (Mullins) Alden, of the "Mayflower." Samuel Sea-
bury became a physician, and located in Duxbury, Massachusetts, and
there died. The line of descent is through Joseph Seabury, eldest son
of Samuel Seabury and his second wife, Martha (Peabody) Seabury.
Joseph Seabury moved to Little Compton, Rhode Island, and there mar-
ried Phoebe Smith. He was succeeded by their son, Benjamin Seaburj-,
born January 20, 1708, died in 1773; married, in 1733, Rebecca South-
worth. Constant Seabury, son of Benjamin and Rebecca (Southworth)
Seabury, was born June 19, 1749, and died in January, 1807; married, in
1775, Susanna Gray. Their third son, William Seabury, born May 23,
1780, died July 30, 1852, in New Bedford, Massachusetts. He followed
the sea, was a captain in the merchant service, sailing to foreign lands.
He resided in Tiverton and Little Compton, Rhode Island, and after 1833
in New Bedford. Captain William Seabury married (first) April 12,
1807, Rhoda Woodman, born December 11, 1786, who died January 2,
1833. He married (second) February 16, 1834, Sally Woodman, sister
of his first wife. They were daughters of Edward and Priscilla (Negus)
Woodman; Edward, the son of John and Patience (Grinnell) Wood-
man; John, the son of Robert and Deborah (Paddock) Woodman; Rob-
ert, the son of John and Hannah (Timberlake) Woodman, the founders
of the family in New England. Captain William Seabury and his first
wife, Rhoda (Woodman) Seabury, were the parents of: Otis, Edward
W., Louisa, married Benjamin Cushman ; William H., Julia Ann, died
unmarried; Humphrey W., to whose memory this review is dedicated;
Charles P., a famous master mariner, both whaling and merchant, who
died in New Bedford, December 21, 1890; Jason, lost while on a whaling
voyage to the Arctic Ocean in 1853; and Andrew Jackson, who died
young.

Humphrey W. Seabury, of the seventh .-Vmerican generation, son of
Captain William and Rhoda (Woodman) Seabury, was born June 28,
1817, in Tiverton, Rhode Island, and died in New Bedford, Massachu-
setts, on his birthday in 1891. His boyhood was spent principally in

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Little Compton, Rhode Island, where he was educated, the family mov-
ing to New Bedford in 1833. He chose the sea as his element, and soon
after coming to New Bedford made his first voyage, going on a coasting
vessel to New York. His first "deep sea" voyage was as a foremast
hand, sailing with his father on the barque "Hope," commanded by his
father, Captain William Seabury. That voyage carried him across the
ocean to Holland, and upon his return he decided to make his next trip on
a whaler. He was in his nineteenth year when he sailed from New Bed-
ford. December 8, 1835, on the "Corinthian," Captain Leonard Crowell,
and on his return from the first whaling voyage, February 19, 1839, was
a seasoned, experienced whaler rated as a third mate, having advanced
from common seaman to boat steerer and to third mate.

He sailed on his second whaling voyage, June 16, 1839, as first mate
of the "Coral," that voyage consuming almost exactly three years, the
arri\al home, dating June 11, 1842. That was a most adventurous as well
as a profitable voyage, and brought out into clear relief those courageous,
manly traits which were ever characteristic of Captain Seabury as boy
and man. The "Coral" cruised in the Pacific ofif the coast of Peru and of?
the Galapagos Island, sighting whales eighty-nine times, and capturing
one or more whales fifty-eight times, the whole number taken totaling
one hundred and two, a catch exceeded in few instances by any vessel.
On June 15, 1841, the boats were sent out after a one-hundred-barrel
sperm whale sighted just south of the Galapagos Island. He proved a
"bad whale," rushed the boats and crushed two of them in his powerful
jaws. One sailor was drown, and another, Jethros S. Studley, was saved
from a similar fate by the action of First Mate Seabury, who dived for
him and caught him by the hair as he was sinking for the last time.
Captain Seabury in relating this experience late in life said this was the
only "jaw fighting" whale he ever encountered in his experience which
included the taking of twelve thousand barrels of sperm oil.

These two voyages brought the young man not only great pecuniary
reward, but to the goal of his ambition, his own quarterdeck. When he
sailed on his third voyage, November 16, 1842, it was as captain of the
"Coral," the same ship in which he sailed the previous voyage as first
officer. He returned to New Bedford, March 9, 1846, having captured
thirty-nine sperm and ten right whales. He sailed on his fourth voyage,
November 17, 1846, again as captain of the "Coral," took her around
Cape Horn, cruised the Pacific, captured one hundred whales and re-
turned to New Bedford, June 11, 185 1, with three thousand three hun-
dred and fifty barrels of sperm oil, which was sold at the then current
price of $1.19 per gallon, the value of the catch being above $126,000. In
all the history of New Bedford, few such notable voyages as this are
recorded.

Captain Seabury now spent a few years on the shore, acting as "out-
side agent" with his elder brother, Otis Seabury. In 1853 ^^ commanded
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for the New Bedford whaling fleet, and bringing home a full cargo of
oil and whale bone. In 1856 he made a merchant voyage in the ship,
"Commerce," to Rio Janeiro, visited Paris in 1858, Havana in 1870, and
Chili in 1871. His last whaling voyage was a short one, taking in the
"Scotland" to the North Atlantic, the voyage beginning in May, i860,
and ending December i, of the same year, the catch, one hundred barrels
of sperm oil.

At the very height of his career as a master mariner, Captain Sea-
bury retired, and until 1872 was engaged in business on shore. He be-
came interested in many of the enterprises which have greatly added to
the material prosperity of the city. He was a director of the First Na-
tional Bank, and when he had passed from their midst the members of
the board testified in memorial resolution their appreciation of his integ-
rity, faithfulness and ability. He served his city as alderman from the
Fifth Ward in 1870, was also councilman and school committeeman, fill-
ing these positions with a devoted faithfulness creditable to himself and
valuable to the city. He was a member of the Indian Association from
its organization, member of the board of managers of the Port Society,
and associate member of the Young Men's Christian Association ; he was
associated with the Society of Friends, constant in his attendance, and a
generous supporter of its philanthropies. His charities were quietly be-
stowed, yet few men more thoroughly considered the needs of the unfor-
tunate or were more concerned in the welfare of their fellowmen.

Captain Seabury married (first) October 14, 1850, Mary B. Wilcox,
who died March 10, 1852, their only child, Charles Albert, dying aged
four years. He married (second) August 12, 1855, Susan M. Gifford,
who died March 6, 1899, daughter of Nathaniel and Mercy (Macomber)
Gifford, her father an early day worker in the cause of peace, a strong
Abolitionist, and member of the Society of Friends. Captain Humphrey
W. and Susan M. (Gifford) Seabury were the parents of two daughters,
Mary B. and Helen H. Seabury, who are both honored residents of their
native city, deeply interested in all good works, and identified with the
Society of Friends. While they have long been ardent supporters of the
Gospel of Peace, their present efforts are to relieve the sufferings of those
whom war has scourged. The peace congresses which have been in the
past promoted by the Friends who managed the summer resort. Lake
Mohonk, just above Poughkeepsie, New York, and held at that resort,
attracted the Misses Seabury, and they have attended many of them with
serious intent. They have also been present as delegates to the peace
congresses held in New York, Baltimore and Boston, in this country,
and the International Peace Congress held in London in 1908.

JOHN HENRY CLIFFORD.

Since 1830 Clifford has been a name to conjure with in New Bed-
ford legal circles, and the name John Henry Clifford during the years

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1836-1876 was one widely known in the State of Massachusetts and
honorably borne. That was John H. Clifford, an eminent lawyer, Attor-
ney-General of the State of Massachusetts, Governor, inaugurated Janu-
ary 14, 1853, president of the Boston & Providence Railway Company,
in 1867, and president of the board of overseers of Harvard College,
although he was a graduate of Brown. Such was the founder of the
family in New Bedford, he coming from Providence, Rhode Island. He
was the father of Charles Warren Clifford and Walter Clifford, both of
whom were eminent in the legal profession, both members of that law
firm famous in New Bedford under same style and title since the first
coming of J. H. Clifford in 1830, the first form being Coffin & Clifford
(1830) and now (1917) is the well known Crapo, Clift'ord & Prescott.
During these eighty-seven years the Clifford influence has never been
absent no matter what the firm name might be, and since 1858 the Crapo
name has been potent. A John H. Clifford founded the firm, his sons
continued its successful career in association with eminent partners, and
the Clifford now sustaining the family prestige is another John H. Clif-
ford, a grandson of the original John H. Clifford, Governor and Attorney-
General of Massachusetts, and a son of Walter Clifford and nephew of
Charles Warren Clifford. Admitted to the bar in 1904, admitted a part-
ner of Crapo, Clifford & Prescott in 1909, the son of the tenth generation
of his family in America and its twentieth century representative is now
(July, 1917) at the officers' training camp at Plattsburg, New York,
being trained for that strenuous warfare upon which the United States
has entered to make the world safe for democracy.

The Cliffords of New Bedford trace their descent from George Clif-
ford, who came from Nottinghamshire to Boston in 1644, bringing wife
Elizabeth and son John. In female line descent is also traced to Thomas
Mayhew, Governor of Martha's Vineyard, and from Myles Standish,
Plymouth's military leader. George Clifford and his son, John Clifford,
were of Boston, but John (2) Clifford, of the third generation, settled in
Hampton, married Sarah Godfrey, and their son, Jacob Clifford, married
Elizabeth Mayhew, and also lived in Hampton. Jacob and Elizabeth
Clifford had a son, Jacob (2) Clifford, a posthumous child, born May 11,
1715, who married Bathsheba Skiff, they the parents of Jacob (3) Clif-
ford, who founded the family in Providence, Rhode Island. He married

Elizabeth , of that city, and their son, Benjamin Clift'ord, there

resided. Benjamin Clifford married Achsah W'ade, September 27, 1795,
they the parents of John Henry Clifford, of New Bedford, a Governor of
Massachusetts.

John Henry Clifford, born in Providence, Rhode Island, January 16,
1809, was of the eighth American generation of the family founded by
George and Elizabeth Clifford. He died in New Bedford. Massachusetts,
January 2, 1876, after a brief tour abroad in search of his health. He was
a graduate of Brown University, class of 1827, completed law studies
under Timothy Gardner Coffin, of New Bedford, and was admitted to

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the bar in 1830, locating in New Bedford, and for a brief period the law
firm, Coffin & Clifford, existed, conducting- a law business established in
181 1 by Timothy Gardner Coffin. In 181 1 he was considered the ablest
lawyer of his day and section. In 1838 the firm was Colby & Clifford,
then Colby, Clifford & Brigham, then Clifford & Brigham, and through
many changes the firm has come to its present form, Crapo, Clifford &
Prescott. Mr. Clifford was a member of the State Legislature; aide on
Governor Everett's staff in 1836 ; district attorney, 1840-1849 ; State Sena-
tor, 1845 • Attorney-General, 1849 ; Whig candidate for Governor in 1852,
but although having twenty-five thousand more votes than either of the
opposing candidates did not have a majority over all and the election was
thrown into the Legislature, they satisfying the choice of the people
and seating Governor Clifford. He was inaugurated, January i, 1853,
served a term with honor, declined renomination, and at the close of his
term accepted from his successor appointment as Attorney-General, an
office he held until 1858. In 1862 he was State Senator and chosen presi-
dent of the Senate. He was elected president of the Boston and Provi-
dence Railway Company, in 1867, and an overseer of Harvard College,
elected by the Alumni. This was a deeply appreciated honor, as he was
not a Harvard graduate. Later the board chose him its president.

As a man and private citizen, Governor Clifford exhibited traits of
character which won the respect of all and the love of those near him.
Said Alex H. H. Stuart, of Virginia, concerning him :

There was a quiet dignity and grace in every movement and his
countenance beamed with intelligence and benignity. With a mind of
great power he united a heart which throbbed with generous impulses
and a happy faculty of expression which gave a peculiar charm to his
conversation. There was a frankness in his bearing and a genial urban-
ity about him which at once commanded confidence and inspired good
will. Everyone who approached him felt attracted by a species of perma-
nent magnetism which was irresistible.

Governor Clifford married, January 16, 1832, Sarah Parker Allen,
daughter of W^illiam Harland and Ruth (Parker) Allen. Ruth Parker
was a daughter of John Avery and (Standish) Parker, a descend-
ant of Captain Myles Standish. Two of Governor Clifford's sons arrived
at maturity, Charles Warren and Walter Clifford. Charles Warren Clif-
ford became a member of the firm, then Alarston & Crapo, in 1868, and
Walter Clifford in 1874, the firm then becoming Crapo, Clift'ord & Clif-
ford. Charles Warren Clifford, born August 19, 1844, in New Bedford, is
now (1918) after a long life of usefulness in his profession and in the
public service, yet a member of the firm he entered in 1868.

Walter Clifford, son of Governor John H. and Sarah Parker (Allen)
Clifford, was born in New Bedford, Massachusetts, August 11, 1849, ^"^
died at his summer home in South Dartmouth, Massachusetts, August,
1913. His education, begun in private schools, was continued in New
Bedford Friends' Academy, Philips Exeter Academy, and Harvard Uni-

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versity. whence he was graduated Bachelor of Arts, class of 1871. The
following year he entered Harvard Law School, continued his study
there for three years, and in the meantime was a registered law student
in the offices of Staples & Goulding, of Worcester, and while a student
was admitted to the Bristol county bar in New Bedford during the June
term of 1874. He was graduated from Harvard Law School, Bachelor
of Laws, class of 1875, ^"d ^t once became law clerk with the firm of
Marston & Crapo, his brother, Charles Warren CliiTord, then being a
member of that firm. In 1878 Walter Clifford was advanced to a partner-
ship, the firm then reorganizing as Crapo, Clifford & Clifford. In 1894
Oliver Prescott, of high legal reputation, became a member of the firm,
which then took on its present form,, Crapo, Clifford & Prescott. Walter
Clifford continued active in his profession, attained high rank and repu-
tation among his contemporaries of the bar, and was greatly esteemed
by all who knew him. For several years he served as vice-president of
the New Bedford Five Cents Savings Bank, and had large business inter-
ests outside his profession. In municipal affairs he also bore an active
part, and in 1889 and 1891 served the city as mayor, his administration
being marked by efficiency and progress. He was a member of the Som-
erset and Union clubs of Boston, in addition to numerous clubs and
organizations of his native city.

Mr. Clifford married. June 5, 1878, Harriet Perry Randall, who sur-
vives him, daughter of Charles S. and Sarah (Perry) Randall, of New
Bedford. Their children are : John Henry, of further mention ; Rosa-
mond ; Hilda, married, October 14, 1905, John W. Stedman, of New
York; Randall, born May 12, 1889.

John Henry Clifford, of the tenth generation of Clift'ords in direct
male line, eldest son of Walter and Harriet Perry (Randall) Clift'ord, was
born in New Bedford, Massachusetts, May 7, 1879. After preparation
in city schools and Groton school, he entered Harvard University,
w^hence he was graduated, class of 1902, his classical course completed in
three years, his senior year being spent in study at Harvard Law School.
In 1904 he was admitted to the Bristol county bar, and following the lead
of his father, uncle and grandfather, located in New Bedford, and formed
an association with the law firm, Crapo, Clifford & Prescott, becoming
a member of the firm in 1909, and is one of the active younger members
of that firm, whose business began in New Bedford in 1811, when Timo-
thy Gardner Coffin, his grandfather's preceptor and later partner, began
practice in that city. Mr. Clifford is president of the New Bedford
branch of the S. P. C. C. ; vice-president of the New Bedford Five Cents
Savings Bank, an office to which he was elected upon the retirement of
his father; clerk and director of C. O. S. ; member of the various bar
societies, of various other local organizations, of the Harvard and Art
clubs of New Bedford, and of the Somerset Club of Boston. Mr. Clif-
ford is unmarried, his home being with his widowed mother. At the
present time (1918) he is serving as second lieutenant of the National
Army at Plattsburg, New York.

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EDWARD COFFIN JONES.

Although the greater part of the life of Edward C. Jones was spent
in New Bedford, the scene of his unusual business success, he was not
a native son, his birthplace that famed island in the Atlantic, thirty miles
from the Massachusetts mainland — Nantucket, ancestry on the maternal
side being traced to Tristram Coffin, whose life story is closely inter-
woven with the earlier history of Nantucket. His business career be-
longs to that golden era of New Bedford's history when her wharves
were crowded with whaling ships and whale products, when the count-
ing houses of her whaling merchants were scenes of busiest activity,
and an aristocracy of oil ruled the city.

Edward C. Jones was one of the greatest of these merchants, the
statement being made that at one time he was one of the wealthiest men'
in Massachusetts. He began as a clerk, but his ability, energy and indus-
try brought promotion, then a partnership, then sole ownership of a
wonderful business in outfitting whalers, and afterwards ownership of
many vessels which carried the Edward C. Jones' house flag. There was
little of fortuitous circumstance to which his success could be traced, but
intelligently directed industry and perseverance gave him his opportun-
ity, and sound business judgment guided his every enterprise. In select-
ing officers to sail his ships and govern their crews he used his keenest
judgment, and he always kept his vessels in the best repair. His crews
were well fed and well used, consequently were always one hundred per
cent, efficient. He took a deep interest in the families of his captains and
mates, and when any news arrived of one of his ships he would drive to
their homes and give to the families interested all the information he had
received. Honorable, upright and able, he won success strictly on his
merits, and among the merchants of his day stood preeminent.

His mother, Sally (Coffin) Jones, was a Quakeress, but in marrying
Captain Reuben Jones she transgressed a strict tenet of her faith and for
"Marrying out of the Meeting" was dismissed. This harsh decree was
later softened, and her son allowed his birthright membership in the
society. Mr. Jones was a strong believer in heredity, insisting upon
knowing all about the mother of any man who applied to him for a posi-
tion, without seeming particularly concerned about their fathers. He
was strong in his belief that a man's dominant traits were derived from
his mother. He was a man of culture and refined tastes, his love for the
best in English literature being especially marked. He could recite at
will from Byron, Scott and other authors, often entertaining his friends
in that way to his and their deep enjoyment. His was a well rounded
character, and in New Bedford his name stood for all that was best. He
was diligent in business, but not slavishly or selfishly so, and the charities
of New Bedford greatly benefited by his generosity, his daughter yet
continuing her interest in some of the philanthropies which he aided.

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Jones, was born at Nantucket, ^Massachusetts, October 23. 1805, and died
in New Bedford, Massachusetts, March 16, 1880. His father was a cap-
tain in the merchant service, sailing between American and French ports,
his voyages sometimes extending to the German and North Baltic ports
and to St. Petersburg. This trade was of necessity suspended during
the War of 1812, and for a time Captain Jones was out of employment.
The sudden change from an active seafaring life brought on a prolonged
and a fatal illness, and he died when his son Edward C. was only thirteen
years of age. The death of the father left the family without means of
support or property, except the house they lived in. Edward C. Jones'
early education, however, was the best available, his mother, a woman of
unusual character and qualifications, supporting the family and keeping
her son in school for the four years following her husband's death. Ed-
ward C. Jones attended first a small private school and later the Friends'
Academy in New Bedford, winning a reputation for quickness of mind,
aptitude for study, a love for books, especially works of poetry and
travel ; was an apt student in French, and devoted to outdoor sports,
skating, swimming, hockey and riding. During his vacations he assisted
his mother in the support of the family, at one time working as a book-
binder, and at another time as general utility boy in a shoe store. A
great source of pleasure to him in those early years was a gift of two
shares in the Social Library, and there he was able to procure "Cook's
Voyages," the discoveries of Dampier and others of a similar nature, all
of which inspired him with the hope of going to sea himself. When nine-
teen he was offered a position in the office of Fish & Grinnell, in New
York, at three hundred dollars a year, with excellent prospects of ad-
vancement, but he decided that his home town held quite as much prom-
ise of a successful career, and the offer was declined. Soon afterward he
entered the employ of Captain Elisha Dunbar, a ship chandler, where he
proved himself so valuable that in 1827 he became a partner in the busi-
ness, the firm becoming Elisha Dunbar & Company. In addition to the
ship chandlery business, the partners began importing bar iron from
Sweden and Russia and as they prospered invested their surplus funds
in the whaling industry, buying one ship after another and fitting it out
for whaling cruises. In 1839 Captain Dunbar died and Mr. Jones became
sole owner by the purchase of the Dunbar interest from the heirs. After
coming into full control he reorganized the business under the firm name
Edward C. Jones, with storerooms at the foot of Spring street, but his
own private offices were on Centre street, in the building which, after
his death, was sold to Bartlett Brothers.

The increase of business compelled Mr. Jones to surrender j^art of
his burden, and whaling being so profitable then, he withdrew from the
ship chandlery line and devoted all his energy to the fleet of whalers he
owned, adding to that fleet from two to five ships yearly. For nearly half
a century he was connected with whaling, retiring in 1873, he at one
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follows: "Robert Edward," from 1830 until 1867; "Iris," from 1831 until
1851 ; "Roman," 1835 until 1871 ; "Mobile," 1842 until 1851 ; "Rhine,"
1845, one voyage; "Clarice," 1846 until 1871 ; "Junius," 1849 until 1853;
"Eliza Adams," 1850 until 1863; "Europa," 1852 until 1864; "Oriole,"
1863 until 1870; "Gazelle," 1867 until 1873; "Emma C. Jones," 1849 until
1871 ; "Governor Troup," 1843 until 1868; "Milo," 1849 until 1864; "Lap-
wing," 1856 until 1864; "Florida," 1841 until 1865 ; "Congress," 1842 until
185 1. The last six named were the most successful and profitable of all.

During the Civil War a Confederate privateer attacked a fleet of
whalers in the Arctic, burned all but one, sending the crews home in the
one unharmed vessel, which it so happened belonged to Mr. Jones. The
losses inflicted by the Confederate raiders and the great mortality among
the vessels of the Arctic fleet from the rigor of the severe winters gave
the whaling ship owners such a serious setback that when the discovery
of petroleum resulted in a great curtailment of their market for oil they
were practically forced out of business. With characteristic energy and
wisdom, Mr. Jones disposed of his ship property and turned his capital
to the other fields of investment in which, during the years, he had be-
come interested. He was a director of the First National Bank of New
Bedford, formerly the Marine Bank ; a director of the New Bedford Gas
Light Company from its organization, and had other interests.

Although the whaling industry in which Mr. Jones was for so long
a prominent figure represented in its day one of the most profitable as
well as picturesque phases of the development of American trade, his
successful career was not the result of luck or was it due to the pros-
perity of the industry in which he was engaged. The fitting out of a
merchant fleet demanded both unusual skill and executive ability, both
marked characteristics of Mr. Jones, coupled with rare good judgment
which he exercised in selecting captains and crews. With thoroughness
and attention to detail, he spared no pains in putting ships into perfect
condition and in equipping them with adequate supplies, while liberal
treatment of the men sailing them attracted to his employ the best and
most efficient, thus enabling him to contribute largely to American pre-
eminence in the industry.

He was possessed of a remarkable memory, and was able to memo-
rize a poem simply by reading it once, and his love of poetry and good
literature continued throughout his life. Possessed of a keen sense of
humor, he appreciated Dickens thoroughly and read his books with much
pleasure. On account of his lameness, he could not participate as a
soldier during the War of the Rebellion, but he was active in the recruit-
ing service, and one company, raised mainly through his help, adopted
the name of the Jones Guards. On account of his strong anti-slavery
sympathies, he became an ardent Republican, and so continued through-
out the remainder of his life. He was easily moved by the appeal of the
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and he was exceedingly fond of the drama and of vocal music. He was a
liberal supporter of city charities and philanthropies, especially interested
in the Association for the Relief of Aged Women.

Mr. Jones married (first) in 1835. Louisa Gibbs, who died in 1839.
Mr. Jones married (second) in 1844, Emma Chambers, who died in 1852,
the mother of four daughters : Sarah Coffin, died aged seven years ;
Emma Chambers, of New York; Amelia Hickling, of New Bedford;
Sarah Coffin, died in 1891, wife of J. Malcolm Forbes, of Milton, Massa-
chusetts. Mr. Jones married (third) in July, 1872, Mary Coffin Luce,
daughter of Captain Matthew Luce, of New Bedford, who survived him
until 1917.

CLIFTON WARREN BARTLETT.

Clifton Warren Bartlett was born in New Bedford, Massachusetts,
December 6, 1866. He is a son of William. H. Bartlett, a commission
merchant of New Bedford, and his wife, Eunice N. (Tripp) Bartlett,
who is yet a resident of New Bedford. Mr. Bartlett was educated in his
native city, graduating with the class of 1887 from Friends' Academy.
He began business life as a bookkeeper, his first five years of service
being in that capacity with William Lewis, a shipping merchant. He
then spent about one year with the Journal Publishing Company, as
bookkeeper, then spent a few years in Boston as bookkeeper for the firm
of Harry G. Collins. In 1895 he entered the employ of the Dartmouth
Manufacturing Corporation, and in 1912 became treasurer, his present
responsible post. His natural aptitude has made business life a series of
success for Mr. Bartlett and the position he holds is one well earned and
efficiently filled. He is a man of clear, discerning mind, has no fads or
wild theories to distract him, but in a thoroughly rational way he deals
with the problems of financial mill management or civic government.
His value to corporation and city lies in the fact that he is always able
to meet his problems from a business man's standpoint and allows his
judgment, and not the impulse, to rule. Safe and sane are words which
might have been coined to describe him, so well do they convey the feel-
ing with which he is regarded.

He is a Republican in politics, and beginning with 1912 he has been
an integral part of the city government, with the exception of 1916, when
he was out only to return January i, 1917, reelected for 1918, and is now
chairman of important joint committees and deeply concerned in giving
his city good government. During 191 7 he was an important figure in
the city government, being chairman of the board of aldermen, which
position automatically made him acting mayor in the absence of disabil-
ity of the chief executive. He is chairman of the city Republican com-
mittee, secretary of the Wamsutta Club, member of the Country Club,
the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, and Trinitarian Church.

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Mr. Bartlett married, in 1893, Edith A. Stevens, they the parents of
a son, Warren Bartlett, born September 14, 1897, a graduate of Phillips
Exeter Academy, prepared at Rosenbaum's School, and entered Yale

University, class of 1921.

THOMAS DAWES ELIOT.

The history of Thomas Dawes Eliot carries us far back into the past
and to the minds of the elderly recalls scenes in Congress and in the
Nation which equalled any demonstration of the present crisis in our
Nation's history. He fought for the rights of the slave in Congress, and
aided in making the early history of the Republican party. He intro-
duced and championed the Freedmen's Bureau Bill, and watched over
the early life of the bureau. But it was as a great lawyer that he was best
known, and his is one of the names whose niche in the hall of fame is
secure.

He traces his ancestry back to the Hon. Andrew Eliot, who was
born in England, and died in Beverly, Massachusetts, in 1703-04. He
married Grace Woodier, who died in 1652. Their son, Andrew (2) Eliot,
was baptized in 1651, and was drowned at sea in 1688. He married
Mercy Shattuck, who was born in 1655, and their son was Andrew Eliot
(3), who was born in 1685, and died in 1749. He married Ruth Simonds,
who was born in 1676, and died in 1760. Their son was the Rev. Andrew
(4) Eliot, who was born in 1718, and died in 1778. He married Elizabeth
Langdon, who was born in 1721, and their son was Samuel Eliot, who
was born in 1748, and died in 1784. He married Elizabeth Greenleaf,
who was born in 1750, and died in 1841. Their son, William Greenleaf
Eliot, was born in 1781, and died in 1853. He married Margaret Dawes,
who was born in 1789, and died in 1875.

Thomas Dawes Eliot in the seventh generation from the Hon. An-
drew Eliot, the American progenitor of the family, was the eldest son of
William Greenleaf and Margaret (Dawes) Eliot, and was born in Bos-
ton, March 20, 1808, and died June 14, 1870. His parents lived awhile in
New Bedford, going to Washington, D. C, in 1815, and there he finished
his studies at Columbian College, being graduated in 1827, and delivering
the Latin salutatory address. Soon afterward he began the study of law
under the direction of his uncle. Chief Justice Cranch, of the United
States Circuit Court, District of Columbia, and until 1830 continued his
studies at Washington. In that year he came to New Bedford, and con-
tinued the study of the law with Charles H. Warren, later a judge of the
Court of Common Pleas. He continued his studies under Judge Warren
until admitted to the Massachusetts bar and then began practice as his
partner as Warren & Eliot. A large practice came to the firm, and after
Mr. Warren's elevation to the bench, a heavy burden fell upon Mr.
Eliot's shoulders, the business of the firm comprising common law causes
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Judge Warren left New Bedford, Mr. Eliot associated with himself,
Robert C. Pitman, afterwards judge of the Superior Court of Massa-
chusetts ; later they were joined by Walter Mitchell, and the firm became
Eliot, Pitman & Mitchell. Mr. Mitchell later became a clerg>-man of the
Episcopal church, and Mr. Eliot joined with his son-in-law Thomas M.
Stetson (q. v.), and the firm became Eliot & Stetson and remained so
until Mr. Eliot's death in 1870.

Mr. Eliot had also a great deal of equity business and admiralty
causes were becoming frequent. For thirty years he regularly attended
every jury term of court held in his part of the State, and in addition to
his responsibilities as senior counsel, kept up his own office business in
all its branches except criminal practice. He was deeply learned in the
law, thoroughly grounded in its principles, and its development through
decisions of high courts, and was especially skillful in applying principle,
decision or precedent to the cause in hand. He was a strong pleader be-
fore a jury, able and clear in his presentation, and in stately and more
scientific debates in banc, shone brilliantly.

Among the causes which drew public attention to the counsel em-
ployed was the litigation between the two divisions of the Society of
Friends, the features of the case in which Mr. Eliot appeared involving
the title of the meeting houses of the society in Massachusetts and
Rhode Island, and in the progress of the case the usages and faith of
the respective sects underwent investigation. Another celebrated case
was his defense of the Massachusetts Medical Society in upholding the
chartered powers of the society on issues raised by physicians of the
School of Homoeopathy. Another noted suit was a private one, but
from its novelty and magnitude drew professional and public attention,
as the result depended upon the execution, force and eflfect of mutual
wills. This was the suit of Hetty H. Robinson (later Hetty Green) vs.
Thomas Mandell, executor of the famous Sylvia Ann Howland estate,
involving an estate of three million dollars.

Mr. Eliot was devoted to his profession and so closely was he bound
by his conception of the duty he owed his clients that twice he declined
appointment to the bench. In his early life he followed the custom for
young lawyers, and served in both houses of the State Legislature, but
thereafter kept aloof from all political action for many years. He was
a hardworking lawyer, conscientious in his fidelity to his clients, and
always retained their confidence. In 1854 he was brought forward by
the Whig party as their candidate from the First Massachusetts Con-
gressional District to fill out an unfinished term. He was successful at
the polls, and sat in the Thirty-third Congress amid the intense excite-
ment of that Congress which witnessed the introduction and excited
debate on the Kansas-Nebraska bill. He was soon in the heart of that
fight, and his printed speech was circulated by the Whigs to prove its
concurrence with the growing anti-slavery sentiment of the State. The
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throw and disappearance as a national party, and the birth of the new
Republican party, that new and virile organization at once enlisting j\Ir.
Eliot's support. He arranged the first meeting of that party in Bristol
county, was their candidate for Congress, and served in the Thirty-sixth,
Thirty-seventh, Thirty-eighth, Thirty-ninth, and Fortieth congresses,
retiring in 1869, through his refusal to be again a candidate. In 1862
he was chairman of the select Committee on Confiscation ; in 1864 was
chairman of the Committee on Emancipation, reporting and advocating
a Bureau of Freedman's Afifairs, that recommendation leading to the
passage of the law creating the bureau. It was in the conception, forma-
tion and passage of this bill, and his watchful care of the interests of the
bureau when organized, that he performed a service which places his
name not only among the far-seeing statesmen, but among the wisest and
best philanthropists. He was the author of the "Coolie Bill," and its
passage was due to his efforts.

An anecdote may serve here to show how the astute mind and kindly
heart of President Lincoln recognized the fine qualities displayed by
Congressman Eliot. A citizen of Massachusetts, of good character, was
indicted for embezzlement of post of^ce funds. The trail was difficult
and he was convicted and sentenced upon purely circumstantial evidence.
An application for pardon was made to the President by the friends of
the convicted man who had long known him and could not believe him
guilty. President Lincoln referred the papers in the case to the law de-
partment, the report from that department being adverse and positive.
The President was not satisfied and referred the whole matter to Mr.
Eliot, who made a thorough investigation and reported to the President
his belief in the man's innocence. Upon the strength of that report the
President overrode the prosecuting attorney's office and a pardon was
promptly issued. At the first subsequent meeting between the President
and the Congressman, Mr. Lincoln came forward with face beaming, and
with both hands extended, exclaimed: "Well, Eliot, we got our man
clear."

In 1834, Mr. Eliot married Frances L. Brock, of Nantucket, who
died in 1900. They had eight children : Caroline Dawes, who married
Thomas M. Stetson, and resides in New Bedford; Paul Mitchell, who
died in 1862 ; Ida Mitchell, now residing in New Bedford ; Frances,
widow of R. Swain Giliford, of New York, now residing in New Bed-
ford; Mary, married William Rotch, and they reside in Boston; Emily
Lamb, who married Appleton Sturgis, of New York, and died in 1892;
and Edith, now residing in New Bedford.

The following eulogy appeared in the New Bedford "Mercury" at
the time of his death, and is the testimony of contemporaries :

Mr. Eliot was pure minded, kind hearted, of sterling integrity, and
of a most catholic spirit. In our unreserved intercourse with him, we
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or disparaging remarks about even tliose who had maligned him. He
spoke no ill of his neighbor, but evinced a spirit of charity as beautiful
as it is rare.

He was a deeply religious man, always ready with good words, and
as ready with good works. Of his labors in the Sunday school of the
Unitarian church, where for years he was superintendent, many of our
readers have grateful recollections. His heart was in his work, and he
deeply regretted the necessity of its relinquishment. Thousands will
call to mind his invaluable services as president of the National Confer-
ence of Unitarian churches, and also of the American Unitarian Associa-
tion, his admirable tact in the chair, his hearty zeal and enthusiasm, and
his earnest and successful exertions for fraternal union. He was a gener-
ous man, prompt to give to every good object, and foremost in his con-
tributions of money or of labor to sustain all benevolent enterprises.
Better than any triumph at the bar or the highest honors won in political
life, is the simple record of his unselfish Christian life. "He rests from
his labors and his works do follow him."

JOHN THOMAS KIRK.

A babe of two summers when brought by his parents to New Bed-
ford in 1866, John Thomas Kirk was for many years a traveler and a
wanderer, but always a worker, going from mill to mill in search of
knowledge, even back to England, remaining for several years, and also
to Canada. A roll call of the mills in which he has been employed sounds
like a list of United States mills with English and Canadian mills thrown
in for variety. He is now general superintendent of the Nashawena, a
$3,000,000 corporation, employing in their two mills twenty-four hundred
hands in the manufacture of combed cotton yarns. As general superin-
tendent, Mr. Kirk brings the manufacturing experience of a lifetime into
daily practical use and there is no man in the cotton mills of New Bed-
ford better qualified for the position he holds. He is a son of Josiah and
Sarah Kirk, who were the parents of six sons, three of whom died young,
three came to the United States, and all the family except John are now
deceased. Josiah Kirk was a cotton weaver, as were all the men of the
family for generations. He later became a manufacturer, but the panicky
times in the cotton trade wrought his financial downfall. After coming
to the United States, he soon went South with his family, traveling from
the end of the railroad to Waco, Texas, by prairie schooner for two days
and three nights. He is deceased.

John T. Kirk was born in Burnley, Lancashire, England, October 26,
1864. In 1866 he was brought to the United States by his parents, who
first settled in New Bedford, then went South and traveled over a great
deal of the country, the boy attending public schools in diflferent local-
ities, travel and experience having been his best teachers. He was but
six years of age when the family went South, and in Houston, Texas, he
began work in a cotton mill, that being followed by work in Waco,
Texas, mills. New Orleans came next, where his father was in the

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secret service for two years, and where the son attended school. About
1880 he went back to his native land, and after attending school for a
time, he worked in cotton mills. From England he went to Canada, and
then to the Harmony Mills, Cohoes, New York, where he spent about
eighteen months. In the meantime his parents had moved to New Bed-
ford and there he joined them in 1885, securing employment in the Wam-
sutta Mills as loom-fixer, remaining for five years. In 1900 he went to
the Grinnell Mill, then to South Berwick, Maine, to the Pierce Mill, as
second hand, remaining for three and one-half years, then went on the
road for the Compton Loom Company. He was for six months employed
as a weaving expert, then went to Moosic, Connecticut, as overseer for
the Aldrich Manufacturing Company, thence to the Grinnell Mill, New
Bedford, as weaving overseer, thence to the silk department of the New-
market Manufacturing Company, New Hampshire, thence to the Cocheco
Mills, Dover, New Hampshire, as assistant superintendent, thence to
Pawtucket, Rhode Island, as superintendent of weaving at the Slater
Mill, later becoming superintendent in charge of the plant, a position he
held until 1914, when he came to New Bedford to the responsible post
he now fills, general superintendent of the Nashawena Mills. There was
also a period in his earlier life when he was employed in the Carpet Mills
at Philadelphia.

A Republican in politics, Mr. Kirk was for five years councilman at
Pawtucket. In Masonry he belonged to Star in the East Lodge and
Adoniram Chapter, in New Bedford, and the Godfrey de Boullion Com-
mandery. Knights Templar, in Fall River. He is a lover of all out-of-
door sports and plays some of them himself, loves boating, and is a man
of unusual physical activity. He is level-headed and broad-minded, his
travels having taught him the world is quite large and peopled by quite
a number of men and women.

Mr. Kirk married (first) in New Bedford, March 5, 1889, Mary Addy,
who died in 1903, leaving a daughter, Margaret, born in New Bedford, a
graduate of Pawtucket High School, now a stenographer in the offices of
the Nonquitt Spinning Company of New Bedford. Mr. Kirk married
(second) in 191 1, Helen D. Mills, daughter of William J. and Celena
(Andrews) Mills, of New Bedford. The family home is at No. 12 Locust
street.

THOMAS NEIL ROCHE, M. D.

Thomas Neil Roche was born in Boston, Massachusetts, February
9, 1884, and completed a course of public school instruction extending
through grammar school. He prepared at Boston Latin School and while
there made the football team and the crew. Later he entered the medical
department of Tufts College, and there pursued full courses until gradu-
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courses in surgery at Carney Hospital, and before graduation from
Tufts took the examination in surgery and passed the hospital examin-
ing board. He continued his studies in surgery at the hospital, and in
1909 received an additional degree at graduation. He also was admitted
and for a time was connected professionally with the Lying-in Hospital
of New York City.

In 1909 he began private practice in Boston, and there continued
until 1915, being a ship's doctor to the North German Lloyd Steamship
Company and a member of the medical corps of the Ninth Regiment,
Massachusetts National Guard. In 1915 he came to New Bedford, and
is here practicing, his home and offices being located at No. 279 County
street. He is a director of the New Bedford Medical and the American
Medical societies, St. James' Roman Catholic Church, New Bedford, and
the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks.

Dr. Roche married, in Boston, August 3, 1916, Elizabeth C. East-
wood, daughter of Nathan Eastwood, a farmer of Milford, Connecticut.

JOHN B. WEBSTER, M. D.

As a specialist in orthopedic surgery. Dr. Webster is meeting with
success in New Bedford, his native city. He is a son of Joseph V.
Webster, born at Provincetown, Cape Cod, now a retired bone-setter,
living in New Bedford, at No. 341 Cottage street.

Dr. John B. Webster was born in New Bedford, Massachusetts,
October 19, 1886, and is now a practicing physician in his native city.
He attended Parker Street Grammar School, and for three years was a
student at high school, then withdrew to begin work as an apprentice to
the tool-maker's trade for five years, becoming an expert tool-maker, but
his ambition was to become a physician, and after a year in Mosher
Preparatory School (1909), he entered the College of Physicians and
Surgeons, Baltimore, Maryland, there taking a four years' course and
receiving his degree of Doctor of Medicine, class of June, 1914. He was
for a time at St. Francis Hospital, Hartford, Connecticut, then took a
special course in orthopedic surgery at the Hospital for the Ruptured and
Crippled in New York City. Thus well furnished, he began practice in
New Bedford with office at No. 341 Cottage street, and has become well
established as a specialist of skill in the treatment of the crippled. On
May I, 1917, he was appointed city physician by Mayor Ashley, his pub-
lic practice keeping him fully occupied.

Dr. Webster is an Independent in political action, selecting his can-
didates for personal fitness and not for party allegiance. He is deeply
interested in the work of the City Mission Dispensary, does a great deal
of charitable work, and is highly respected by all who know him. He is
a member of the Church of St. John the Baptist, Roman Catholic, and of
the Improved Order of Red Men. He is unmarried.

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CHARLES NEVES SERPA.

A successful lawyer, member of the Bristol county bar, practicing
in the State Court, and also Federal courts, Mr. Serpa has the further
distinction of serving the government of Portugal as vice-consul, repre-
senting the interests of citizens of that country in New Bedford. Since
1907 he has been in practice in the city of his birth, is well established and
highly regarded as a professional man and as a citizen. He is a son of
Charles A. and Anna (Murray) Serpa, his mother deceased, his father,
born in Portugal, now a business man of New Bedford.

Charles N. Serpa was born in New Bedford, Massachusetts, July 15,
1883, and after passing all grades of the primary and grammar depart-
ments, entered high school, whence he was graduated, class of 1903. His
education was continued in the College of Liberal Arts, University of
Boston, the degree of Bachelor of Arts being conferred upon him, gradu-
ation class of 1907. Choosing the profession of law, he entered the Law
School of the University of Boston, there completing legal study, and
receiving the degree of Bachelor of Jurisprudence, class of 1910. The
same year he was admitted to practice in State courts, and became asso-
ciated with the office of Crapo, Clifford & Prescott, remaining there one
year. They opened offices in the Masonic Building, in association with
Charles Mitchell. Mr. Serpa has grown rapidly in public favor as an
attorney-at-law, and has a most satisfactory law practice ; is public ad-
ministrator for Bristol county, and deeply interested in many depart-
ments of city life. He is a member of the bar association; director of
the New Bedford Anti-Tuberculosis Society; director of the Society for
the Prevention of Cruelty to Children ; former lieutenant, junior grade,
of Company G, Massachusetts Naval Militia; member of Theta Delta
Chi and Phi Delta Phi, legal fraternities, the New Bedford County Club ;
and in political opinion is a Republican, although taking no active part in
public affairs. In all the other organizations named he takes an active
part and is deeply interested in their success. In July, 1915, he was
appointed to represent Portugal in New Bedford and vicinity as vice-
consul, a position he still holds.

Mr. Serpa married in New York City, June 26, 1912, IMildred L.
Rounds, of Pawtucket, Rhode Island, daughter of Israel P. and Abbie
E. (Graves) Rounds, her father a Pawtucket business man. The family
home is No. 268 Hawthorne street. New Bedford.

STEPHEN DURPHEE PEIRCE.

Ever since beginning business life, Mr. Peirce has been interested
in the sale of automobiles even when holding positions not related to that
business. He now has the agency for the Dodge car, taking the old
David L. Parker garage at Nos. 14-16 Market street, New Bedford, as
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has had the benefit of experience gained in different cities and in different
lines of activity. He is a son of Stephen D. and Cyrene A. (Eldridge)
Peirce, his father at one time a clothing merchant of New Bedford, mem-
ber of the firm, Ashley & Peirce, and a man of prominence.

Stephen Durphee Peirce was born in New Bedford, Massachusetts,
August 22, 1886. He was educated in the public schools and in the
Mosher School, attending the latter for two years, taking a business
course which was finished in 1903. His first position was with J. K.
Bishop & Company, contractors of Worcester, Massachusetts, his posi-
tion that of timekeeper, and while holding it he became interested in
motor cars, the peculiarities of the dift'erent makes, their defects and
their advantages. The sale of autos was then becoming an established
profitable business, and Mr. Peirce decided to fit himself for it by a
course in general repair and garage work. For a short time he was so
employed by Harr^- Wilson, on Pleasant street, then went with J. E.
Watson, on Fourth street, on the old New Bedford Ice Company site.
Mr. Watson at that time had the agency for the Locomobile, a steam
propelled car, the first car of that make in New Bedford, according to Mr.
Peirce, having been sold by J. E. Watson to E. G. Russell. He spent one
year at the Watson Garage, then for about four years was a private chaf-
feur with Edward T. Peirce, Everett B. Sherman and John Hicks, serving
about an equal period with each.

From private driving he went to the Berlieu factory in Providence,
Rhode Island, then building the Alco automobile, and there became
familiar with all phases of motor car construction. After a year there a
strike disorganized the plant and he returned to New Bedford and ob-
tained a position with the Carlow Agency of Taunton, Massachusetts, as
salesman for the Autocar, acting as such for one season. The next
eighteen months were spent in the employ of the Waite Auto Supply
Company as traveling salesman. The company sold only to dealers, and
in his traveling Mr. Peirce formed the acquaintance of the leading men
of the automobile industry all over New England. In 1910 he returned
to New Bedford, entering the employ of R. W. Powers Auto Company,
then agents for the Hudson car, with offices on Williams street. Later
the Cadillac agency was taken from Mr. Robertson, he being the first
local salesman either Powers or Robertson had employed. Later, while
Mr. Green was in the South, Mr. Peirce took charge of his sheet metal
working plant at the corner of New Bedford and Acushnet avenues, but
kept in touch with automobile sales and business. In 1912 he was man-
ager of the Knickerbocker Garage, owned and run by Mark E. Sullivan,
who was then agent for the Hudson and Dodge cars, the latter car then
just coming into the market, its builder, the Dodge Brothers, having
previously been connected with the Ford Motor Company of Detroit.
On November i, 1915, Mr. Peirce secured the Dodge agency and is con-
ducting a successful agency and garage at Nos. 14-18 Market street. Mr.
Peirce is a member of the National Automobile Show Managers ; Abra-

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ham H. Howland, Jr., Lodge, Free and Accepted Masons; New Bed-
ford Lodge, Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks ; the Masonic and
Julien clubs, and the Trinitarian Church.

He married, in January, 1910, Agnes I\L Jackson, daughter of John
and Margaret (Ersken) Jackson.

PELEG C. HOWLAND.

From the organization of the Merchants' Bank of New Bedford
down through the years of its existence as a State and National bank to
the year 1885, but two men filled the position of cashier. The tirst of
these was James B. Congdon, a man of great ability, who began with the
organization of the bank in 1825, resigning January i, 1858, his mantle
falling upon Peleg C. Howland, who held the office until his death, Octo-
ber 26, 1885. Upon the records of the Merchants' National Bank are
pages devoted to these two men who bore an even closer relationship
than that of business contemporaries, the inscription of Peleg C. How-
land reading:

Resolved, The directors of the Merchants' National Bank of New
Bedford desire to give expression to their sense of the loss which they
and the corporation which they represent have sustained by the death of
Peleg C. Howland, whose connection with the Merchants' National Bank,
beginning August 13, 1846, continued under a Federal charter until his
death on the 26th of October, 1885, a period of thirty-nine years of con-
tinuous service ; and while it is more fitting that the character of our
late cashier in his home and as a citizen should receive proper recognition
elsewhere of his qualities as a man of affairs and of business, we may
speak ; and so speaking we would commemorate his unvarying courtesy
of manner, his integrity, his comprehensive grasp of the largest transac-
tions, as well as the minutest details, none too minute to receive that
attention which was always his best ; his rare, financial ability ; his ripe
experience and extensive knowledge of banking ; his instinctive devotion
to the interests committed to his charge ; his wise foresight and anxious
care for the interests of the bank and his pride in its success. All these
combined to make him what he was, and he was recognized to be a model
corporation officer and cashier.

Finer tribute from business associates than the foregoing could not
be paid nor was tribute more justly paid. As a citizen, neighbor, friend,
and father, he was of the best type, patriotic, helpful, loyal and devoted.
He was of the seventh generation of Howlands in New England, tracing
from Henry Howland, who was of record in Plymouth in 1624, a member
of the Society of Friends in his later years, a convert. This Henry How-
land lived and died at Duxbury, but he owned a large tract of land in
Dartmouth, bought in 1652, and in 1659 was one of the twenty-seven
purchasers of what was later Freetown. He married Mary Newland,
the line following through their second son, Zoeth Howland, who was
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father, was a convert to the faith of the Society of Friends, but all his
sons, except Samuel, were birthright members belonging to the Appo-
negansett meeting. Henry Rowland, son of Zoeth Rowland, was a
lumberman, lumber dealer and house builder, his homestead being on the
opposite side of the road from the Apponegansett meeting house, and a
little west. He held a high position in town and church, and did a large
business in sawing lumber. He married Deborah Briggs, and among his
sons was Zoeth (2) Rowland, who, with his wife, Sarah, lived in West-
port, all his life. Philip Rowland, son of Zoeth (2) Rowland, lived and
died in Westport, his home farm about one mile west of Westport Vil-
lage. His son, Isaac Rowland, a substantial farmer and good citizen,
married Lydia Cornell, and they were the parents of Stephen, father of
Peleg C. Rowland, whose worthy life furnishes the inspiration for this
review. Stephen Rowland was a leading business man, residing in West-
port Village, where he died ]\Iarch 28, 1855. Re married (second) March
4, 1824, Meribah Cornell, born December 29, 1801, died August 18, 1841.
Their third son was Peleg C. Rowland.

Peleg C. Rowland was born in Westport,. Massachusetts, April 29,
1830, and died in New Bedford, October 26, 1885. He prepared for a
business career through the medium of public and private schools, finding
his first position with a grocery firm of Westport, but at the age of six-
teen. August 13, 1846, he entered the service of the Merchants' Bank of
New Bedford, a business connection which was only severed by death.
John Avery Parker, one of New Bedford's foremost citizens, was then
president of the bank, and James B. Congdon was its cashier. The bank
had just attained its twenty-first year, having been organized in 1825.
Mr. Rowland, under the inspiration flowing from such men, rapidly
absorbed the fundamentals, then expanded rapidly, seeming to be a
financier through natural inclination and talent. Five years after his
entrance he was promoted to the position of teller. May 30, 1851, then
advanced to the post of assistant cashier, January 10, 1854, finally, on
January i, 1858, becoming cashier, after that office had become vacant
through the resignation of James B. Congdon, the only man who had
previously held that position with the Merchants' Bank. After the pas-
sage of the National Banking Act, the Merchants' reorganized as a Na-
tional bank, thereby greatly enlarging its scope and increasing its impor-
tance. Mr. Rowland was thoroughly familiar with the laws governing
national finance and financiering, and as a cashier of the Merchants' Na-
tional aided greatly in guiding the course of that institution to the high
place attained among State financial institutions. The bank was his
pride, and nothing in any way ever detracted from his complete absorp-
tion in its affairs. Prosperity came to the bank through the strength of
its management and everywhere Mr. Rowland was regarded as the lead-
ing spirit. It was not alone his ability as a financier that gained him his
reputation, but the nobility of his character, his unfailing courtesy, his
genial, kindly nature, which attracted and held friends. He was very

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fond of children, and when they came to his own home he was the hap-
piest of men. He had few interests outside the bank and his home, and
there his memory is yet green.

Mr. Rowland married, June 3, 1851, Lucy C. Congdon, daughter of
James B. Congdon, who died October 8, 1867. He married (second)
October 29, 1872, Clara E. Kempton, daughter of Horatio A. Kempton,
who died August 15, 1879. He married (third) November 16, 1882, Eliz-
abeth T. Kempton, sister of his second wife. Peleg C. Howland and his
second wife, Clara E. (Kempton) Howland, were the parents of two
daughters and a son: Elizabeth Kempton Howland, an accomplished
musician of New Bedford; Horatio Kempton Howland, died June i,
1915; and Clara Earle Howland, who married Joseph Cornell Nowell,
they are the parents of Joseph C, Jr., and Elizabeth H. Nowell.

HORATIO A. KEMPTON.

There were many reasons why the memory of Horatio A. Kempton
r.hould be kept green in New Bedford, for he was one of the leading pub-
lic men of his day, and was known as "the father of the school commit-
tee," his service on that board covering a period of thirty-five years.
U'hen New Bedford laid down her town form of government in 1847,
Mr. Ivempton was a member of the board of selectmen, and in the new
city government, inaugurated the same year, he was overseer of the poor.
Horatio A. Kempton was a son of Ephraim (6) Kempton, born in 1789,
died August 19, 1863. He married, August 25, 181 1, Mary Hillman, who
died leaving a son, Horatio A., and a daughter, Mary H., the latter born
June 30, 1823.

This branch of the Kempton family in America, of which Horatio
A. Kempton was of the eighth generation, springs from Ephraim Kemp-
ton, who appeared in Plymouth, Massachusetts, in 1643. There he was
listed as "able to bear arms," but the erasing of his name indicates that he
was found to be either too old or too infirm. It is not known when he
came to Plymouth, but he is not mentioned in the division of cattle in
1627. He died in May, 1645. He had a son, Ephraim (2) Kempton, born
in England, and who married Joanna Rawlins, in Scituate, Massachu-
setts. Their son, Ephraim (3) Kempton, born October i, 1649, married
Mary, daughter of John Reeves, of Salem. They were the parents of
Ephraim (4) Kempton, born in 1674, and who married, in 1702, Patience,
daughter of Elder Thomas Faunce. He was a goldsmith in Boston, at
one time, but late in life moved to Plymouth. In the next generation
Thomas Kempton, son of Ephraim (4) and Patience (Faunce) Kempton,
was born in 1705, married Esther Troop in 1730, and moved to Dart-
mouth, Massachusetts. Their son was Ephraim (5) Kempton. born May
26, 1745, died Januarj^ 25, 1802. He married. May 8, 1774, Elizabeth
Tupper, who died November 29, 1848, aged ninety-live years. They were

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the parents of Ephraim (6) Kempton, of previous mention, father of
Horatio A. Kempton, to whose memory this review is offered.

Horatio A. Kempton was born June 27, 1812, and died in New Bed-
ford, Massachusetts, November 2, 1885. He was a man of education and
intellectual vigor, his business life being principally spent in the lumber
business. He was a selectman of the town, an overseer of the poor under
the city charter, and in 1863-64 represented New Bedford in the State
Legislature. For thirty-five years his interest in education kept him on
the school committee, and to him a great deal of the credit is due for the
high plane of efficiency attained by the schools of his period. He bore
his part in life well, was a kind-hearted, courteous gentleman, and had a
host of friends, who appreciated his manly characteristics and the high
quality of his citizenship.

Horatio A. Kempton married, September 21, 1841, Caroline Newhall
Thornton, who was born in Leicester, Massachusetts, July 15, 1814, and
who died September 11, 1862. They were the parents of: i. Clara Earle,
born November 27, 1844, died August 15, 1879; married, October 29,
1872, Peleg C. Howland. 2. Mary, born March 27, 1848, died August
29, 1851. 3. Elizabeth Thornton, born November i, 1850, died March 7,
1896; married, November 16, 1882, Peleg C. Howland. 4. Jane Delano,
born January 3, 1854, died February 12, 1868.

WALTER HAMER LANGSHAW.

As the head and a large owner in a great manufacturing corporation,
Mr. Langshaw reviews a life of well directed efifort, constantly increasing
in value to the corporations he serves. He has won his way through
merit, each promotion from the bottom upward coming only after it had
been well earned. His career in New Bedford began in 1891, in the Po-
tomska Mills, in charge of a department, and nine years later, in 1900,
he became the dominating spirit in the Dartmouth Manufacturing Cor-
poration, and president of the corporation. He takes a keen interest in
public matters, particularly economics, and has made a very thorough
study of the tariiT question. His views on the latter question have been
different from those of many of his contemporaries and have caused con-
siderable discussion. In 1913 he issued a pamphlet stating his experience
because of his attitude on the tariff, the protective feature of which has
been perverted to suit the purpose of certain special interests. He also
submitted a brief to the Committee on Ways and Means, 1913, on the
cotton schedule. These two pamphlets, which taken together form an
enlightening treatise on the salient points of the tariff situation, present
in a forceful manner the conclusions of which Mr. Langshaw has arrived
at as the result of years of special study of a wide experience as a manu-
facturer, with the practical workings of the tariff measure in eft'ect dur-
ing the past quarter of a century. Holding that protection is necessary
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quantity, that moderate tariff on any article is not a burden on the people
provided it is manufactured in quantities proportionate to normal market
requirements, and that its manufacturing is not of a kind that excludes
men of limited capital, he believes that a moderate reduction in the tariff,
intelligently applied, would be beneficial rather than detrimental to the
industrial and commercial development of the country, and has for a
number of years favored such a reduction.

Walter H. Langshaw was born at Eagley, near Bolton, England, in
1859, his paternal and maternal ancestors for many years residents of
Lancashire, the records of the family extending back to the year 1570.
Cotton manufacturing was a family business, a Langshaw founding the
Eagley Mills in 1790. At the age of seven years Walter Langshaw was
brought to the United States by his parents, there locating in Lawrence,
Massachusetts, moving to Manchester, New Hampshire, in 1872, but re-
turning to Lawrence in 1874. In all these changes the lad had a part, and
from his ninth year was employed in cotton mills. He continued a mill
worker in Lawrence from the return in 1874 until 1887, then went to a
Rhode Island cotton mill in charge of a small department. Four years
later, in 1891, he came to New Bedford to take charge of a large depart-
ment of the Potomska Mills. During the ensuing four years he gained
such high reputation that at the incorporation of the Dartmouth Mills, in
1895, he was engaged as superintendent. In 1898 he was elected a direc-
tor, and in 1900 became the head of the corporation. The three mills of
the company are located in the South End, the capitalization is $2,600,-
000; twenty-two hundred hands are employed; two hundred thousand
spindles and fifty-eight hundred looms turning out an enormous quantity
of plain and fancy fine cotton goods. Over all Mr. Langshaw is the
executive, agent, and controlling spirit. The success of the corporation
is a matter of comment in the textile world. From 1896 to 191 7 the re-
turn to the original shareholder selling out at the market value shows an
average return for twenty years of forty-five per cent., this result being
accomplished in open competition in the same field for machinery and
labor. This thoroughly establishes Mr. Langshaw as one of the practical
mill executives who, from personal knowledge and experience, direct
their corporations wisely. He was also for some years president of the
Bristol Manufacturing Corporation of New Bedford, a million dollar cot-
ton manufacturing company, operating sixty-three thousand spindles,
and eighteen hundred and sixty-six looms, employing eight hundred and
twenty hands in manufacturing cotton and silk goods. He has other
business interests of importance widely separated. He is president of
W. H. Langshaw & Company, of No. 346 Broadway, New York City;
a director of the Massachusetts Trust Company of Boston ; and director
of the Liberty Insurance Company of Boston.

He has not sought the sordid in life, but has catered to the finer side
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more than a boy, he was organist of St. John's Episcopal Church of
Lawrence, and in the different cities to which his business took him he
often acted in that capacity. He is a patron of art, and one of the trus-
tees of the New England Conservatory of Music, Boston, Massachu-
setts. He is a member of the Massachusetts Alliance of Manufacturers
and Employers Associations, National Association of Manufacturers,
National Economic League, North American Civic League, Massachu-
setts Forestry Association, American Economic Association, and the
Royal Colonial Institute. His clubs show the wide range of his tastes,
and the recreations which most appeal to him are : Beverly Yacht of
Marion, Massachusetts ; Boston Athletic ; Country of Brookline, of New
Bedford and Rhode Island; Megantic Fish and Game of Maine; New
Bedford Rod and Reel; Tin Whistle of Pinehurst of North Carolina;
also other clubs ; the Algonquin of Boston ; Arkwright of Boston ;
Brooks ; Episcopalian of Boston ; Merchants of New York ; Rocky Moun-
tain of New York ; Royal Colonial Institute ; Seapuit of Cape Cod ;
Southern New England Textile ; Victorian of Boston ; and the Wam-
sutta of New Bedford, Massachusetts. He is also a member of St.
George's Society, and of Grecian Lodge, Free and Accepted Masons, of
Lawrence, Massachusetts.

Mr. Langshaw married (first) August 2^, 1884, Sarah Elizabeth
Mahan, of Andover, Massachusetts, who died in 1896, leaving sons:
Walter Seymour, assistant agent and director of the Dartmouth Manu-
facturing Corporation; Albert Colburn, of W. H. Langshaw & Com-
pany, No. 346 Broadway, New York City. Mr. Langshaw married (sec-
ond) June 23, 1898, Elizabeth Wilkinson, of New Bedford, they the par-
ents of a daughter, Eunice, and a son, Richard.

THOMAS MERIAM STETSON.

In a memorial prepared in honor of the memory of his former col-
league at the bar, Charles W. Clifford said of Mr. Stetson : "He was
unquestionably the ablest lawyer of his time in Southeastern Massachu-
setts, and would have measured up well to the standards of the ablest
lawyers of the country. Judge Bennett, Judge Marston, and Judge Mor-
ton were superior to him in certain lines of professional work, but no one
was his equal in pure mental legal abilit\-. To a mind of the highest
legal acumen, and stored with the fullest knowledge of legal principles,
and the history of their evolution, through decided cases, and statutory
enactment, he added impressive physique and a voice of marvelous
power and effectiveness. His conduct of trial was masterly, presenting
his evidence with the utmost telling force and meeting that of his ad-
versary with consummate skill. His industry and marvelous attention
to detail in the preparation of his cases kept his opponent in ignorance of
the pitfalls which lay before him until the psychological moment for

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their disclosure. His arguments were examples of strong and beautiful
language, graced by apposite quotations and the keenest wit. Abso-
lutely refusing to be diverted from his entire allegiance to the law as his
life work by the allurements of other fields where his great gifts would
have made him preeminent, he will be remembered as the embodiment
of the highest type of pure lawyer. Perhaps the most distinguished
honor Mr. Stetson ever received was his invitation to preside at the Cen-
tennial Celebration of the Battle of Lexington, at Lexington, at which
were assembled the highest officials of the commonwealth and nation.
President Grant being a guest. The house in Lexington which belonged
to Mr. Stetson's mother's ancestors is the one referred to in all accounts
of the battle of Lexington as the 'Buckman Tavern' and contains sev-
eral bullet holes received in the battle. Any memorial of Mr. Stetson
which omitted mention of his charming personality in personal life would
be absolutely deficient. His great fund of knowledge, his keen and bril-
liant wit, and his flow of language made him a rare conversationalist."

Such was the estimate placed upon the mental qualities of Thomas
M. Stetson by one of his contemporaries and one often his antagonist.
This was also the concensus of New Bedford opinion and quite naturally
and rightfully he came by his intellectual attainment. He was the son of
a minister, the Rev. Caleb Stetson, and his mother, Julia Ann (Meriam)
Stetson, was a fitting companion for her ministerial husband. Rev.
Caleb Stetson was a lineal descendant of Cornet Robert Stetson, who
settled in Scituate, Massachusetts, in 1634, and took an active part in
King Philip's War. His title of Cornet came from his rank in the first
company of horse raised in Plymouth Colony.

The descent of Thomas Meriam Stetson from this first American
ancestor of the family is as follows : Cornet Robert Stetson, who was
born in the County of Kent, England, in 1613, died February i, 1702, in
Plymouth, Massachusetts ; he left a son, Thomas Stetson, who was born
December 11, 1643; his son, Elisha Stetson, was born in March, 1684; he
left a son, Elisha Stetson, who was born April 26, 1718, and died August
28, 1803. The son of the second Elisha Stetson was Captain Thomas
Stetson, who was born March 9, 1752, and died in 1820. His son was the
Rev. Caleb Stetson, who was born July 12, 1793, and died in 1871 ; and his
son was Thomas M. Stetson, of this review.

Thomas Meriam Stetson was born in Medford, Massachusetts, June
15, 1830, and died in New Bedford, Massachusetts, February 10, 1916,
aged eighty-five years, seven months and twenty-five days. He prepared
for college and entered Plarvard University, whence he was graduated in
the class of 1849, going thence to Dane Law School, Harvard University.
Immediately after his admission to the bar, in 1854, he began practice in
New Bedford and had the rare good fortune to be invited to join one of
the oldest law firms in the State, a firm established about the time its
newly admitted partner was born, by Lemuel Williams and Judge
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1854, when the young lawyer was admitted to the Bristol county bar,
the firm was Eliot & Pitman, the senior partner a Congressman absent
much of the time in Washington, the junior member. Judge Robert C.
Pitman, of the Superior Court. Hence the necessity for a third partner
who could devote himself constantly to the firm business. With Mr.
Stetson's admission the firm became Eliot, Pitman & Stetson, but upon
the withdrawal of Judge Pitman a few years later, the name was changed
to Eliot & Stetson, and so continued until the death of Mr. Eliot in 1870.
Mr. Stetson practiced alone for a time, but later admitted Francis B.
Greene to a partnership, they practicing as Stetson & Greene. Later Mr.
Stetson was associated in legal practice with Lemuel Le B. Holmes, and
Eliot D. Stetson, his son. At the present time the firm is Stetson & Stet-
son, its members being Eliot D. Stetson and Frederick D. Stetson, sons
of Thomas M. Stetson.

Mr. Stetson's rise in the law was rapid and very soon he was rank-
ing among the leaders at the Bristol bar. As a pure lawyer in mastery
of the great principles of law, in his wealth of legal and other learning,
in his exhaustive preparation of his cases in the courts, he had no superior
in Southeastern Massachusetts. Among the celebrated cases with which
he was connected, and in which his legal ability was thoroughly tested
was the famous Howland will case, one of the most remarkable litiga-
tions in the history of the bar. Mr. Stetson, Mr. Eliot, his partner, and
Benjamin F. Thomas, who had but a short time before resigned from the
Massachusetts Superior Court bench, secured to the city of New Bedford
those bequests under the will of Sylvia Ann Howland, the Free Library,
and the water supply fund left to the city. Mr. Stetson was counsel for
the city of New Bedford in the subject of the water works, and was also
retained as counsel by Bristol county when it was building the Fairhaven
bridge. He was also counsel for the Board of Trade in compelling the
restoration of the Fairhaven Ferry.

Never lured from his profession by the attraction of power, position
or gain, Mr. Stetson acquired interests in New Bedford's business world,
including the First National Bank, and the Morse Twist Drill and Ma-
chine Company, both of which he served as director. He was similarly
associated with some of the cotton mills of the city and in all his trained
legal mind was invaluable to the board of directors on which he sat. He
was a lover of nature, delighting in the out-of-doors and at his large Ash
street home rare trees, shrubs and flowers attested to his love for the
beautiful, while his greenhouses, under the management of William
Keith, developed strange and curious forms of vegetables, fruit and
plant life. There fig, banana and orange trees grew, century plants
flourished and lovely orchids grew and lordly palm trees waved their
feathered fronds. It was amid such surroundings that his hours of
leisure of the best years of his life were passed and when old age came
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home were his solace and his comfort. He was a member of the Uni-
tarian church and was all his life a regular church attendant.

Mr. Stetson married, September lo, 1856, Caroline Dawes Eliot,
daughter of Thomas Dawes and Frances L. (Brock) Eliot, of Nantucket.
Mr. and Mrs. Stetson were the parents of: Julia M., who married Dr.
Leroy Milton Yale, of New York City ; Eliot D. and Frederick D., of the
law firm of Stetson & Stetson ; Dr. Frank E. ; and Edward M.

THOMAS JEFFERSON COBB.

All the years of the useful life of Thomas JefTerson Cobb were spent
in some form of public service, and all but the four years as secretary
to Governor Crapo, of Michigan, were spent in his native city of New
Bedford as deputy sherilT, and in semi-legal business, notably as a com-
missioner in the taking of testimony relating to the Alabama claims, as
lawyer's clerk, and clerk of the Third District Court, 1873 until his
death. He was a duly admitted member of the Bristol county bar, pass-
ing the required examination very creditably, although his years of ex-
perience with courts and lawyers, rather than law books, had prepared
him. At one time he acted as clerk for District Attorney Marston, and
under that brilliant lawyer Mr. Cobb became an expert in legal forms
and verbiage. It was said of him that he had no superior as a drawer
of indictments, and very few of those drawn by him were ever success-
fully attacked. His documents were models of neatness and precision,
and he had little patience with officials or lawyers who presented indict-
ments or legal papers to the court, loosely or improperly prepared. His
expertness was known and commented upon by the legal fraternity all
over the State, and during his twenty-one years administration of the
office of clerk of the District Court, system, neatness and exactness ruled
in every detail. He was prompt in the performances of every duty, cour-
teous always, and entirely impartial, mindful only of the interest of the
individual seeking his services. Efficiency always distinguished him, and
to his sterling qualities as an official he added these strong attributes
which mark the man of force and character. In disposition pleasant,
genial and obliging; he made many friends and although fond of caustic
repartee, his raillery was so good natured that no offence could be taken,
as none was intended.

Thomas Jefferson Cobb was born in New Bedford, Massachusetts,
July 15, 1844, died in his native city, October 29, 1902, son of William S.
Cobb, a wholesale ship chandler or outfitter of New Bedford, sheriff of
Bristol county for several years, and one of the strong men of his day.
Thomas J. Cobb began his education in New Bedford public schools, and
after completing the courses entered Pierce Academy at Middleboro,
Massachusetts. In 1863, at the age of nineteen, he went to Flint, Michi-
gan, remaining there four years as private and military secretary to
Henry H. Crapo, Governor of the State, a former resident of New Bed-

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ford, and father of William W. Crapo. The position he held as military
secretary constituted him a member of the Governor's staff, and gave
him the rank of major.

After returning to New Bedford, the young man was appointed by
his father, the sheriff of the county, as one of his deputies, an office he
held for several years under his successor, Andrew R. Wright, other
deputy sheriffs of that period being John W. Nickerson and Horatio N.
Kimball. In 1872 Mr. Cobb was a candidate for the then elective office
of clerk of the city police court, and in 1873 he was elected a member
of common council. In 1874, while still a deputy sheriff, he was ap-
pointed commissioner to take testimony in the court of commissioners of
Alabama claims. The testimony taken covered thousands of pages writ-
ten in long hand, the work done by Mr. Cobb being particularly accurate
and legible and completed promptly. He also acted as clerk for District
Attorney Marston. and under his instruction became the expert drafter
of indictments and other criminal processes. After Mr. Knowlton suc-
ceeded to the district attorney's office, Mr. Cobb continued as his clerk.
In i88i Mr. Sanford, clerk of the Third District Court of Bristol county,
died, and Mr. Cobb was appointed to succeed him. His administration
of that office is a model for all court clerks, and so satisfactory was it to
the bench and bar of that day that for twenty-one years he held the
office by successive appointments, only death creating a vacancy.

Through his long connection with courts and lawyers, Mr. Cobb
became so well informed that in January, 1896, he passed a successful
bar examination and was admitted to practice. This privilege availed
himself to a limited extent, although during the term of Andrew J.
Jennings as district attorney he served as his assistant most ably and
satisfactory. He became one of the best known court officers in the
State, and among court clerks was preeminent as a drawer of indictments
and complaints. While acting as assistant to H. M. Knowlton and
George Marston, district attorneys, he had charge of drawing some of
the weightiest indictments in the jurisdiction, notably the Lizzie A.
Borden indictment for the murder of her father.

He was a member of the Bar Association and of the Masonic order,
a Republican in politics, and an attendant of Trinitarian (Congrega-
tional) Church. His funeral service was largely attended, particularly
by his brethren of the bar, three of the pallbearers being justices of the
Third District Court — Frank A. Milliken, James L. Gilingham, A. Edwin
Clarke ; the fourth being a court officer, Lemuel D. Adams. He is buried
in Rural Cemetery.

Mr. Cobb married, in Flint, Michigan, September 1, 1870, Phebe A.
Hamilton, who survives him with their two daughters — Mrs. William W.
Gardner, of Touissett, Massachusetts; Elizabeth H., assistant clerk in
the Third District Court of Bristol county ; mother and daughter reside
at No. 78 Bedford street.

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FRANK HERBERT GIFFORD.

After graduation from Brown University in 1881, Mr. Gifford, scion
of an ancient and honorable New Bedford family, eminent in official and
public life, made his entrance into business life as a mill engineer in the
city of Providence, Rhode Island. Returning to New Bedford in 1882,
he has been actively connected with the manufacturing interests of the
city, but since 1899 as a cotton salesman. He is a son of Charles Henry
Gifford, twelfth postmaster of New Bedford, and a grandson of William
Giiiford, one of the olden time business men of New Bedford known as
"whaling merchants." The family traces from ancient Puritan stock,
the ancestor, William Gifford. a member of the Society of Friends, who
came to Plymouth, Massachusetts, prior to 1650.

William GifTord, of the sixth generation, died in New Bedford,
March 24, 1866, a quiet, forceful man of business, who was long remem-
bered as one of the upright, rugged, kindly-hearted men of his day, who
were a product of the peculiar business in which they were engaged —
whaling. He had been in business in Savannah, Georgia, for seven
years prior to settling in New Bedford, although he was an old Dart-
mouth boy. He clung to the religious faith and customs of his father's,
wore the plain garb, and used the same speech peculiar to the Society
of Friends. He married Rhoda Tucker, of an old Dartmouth (Massa-
chusetts) family, who died in December, 1891, surviving her husband a
quarter of a century. They were the parents of Lucretia T. ; Charles
Henry, of further mention ; Mary T., and Elizabeth Gifford.

Charles Henry Gifford was born in New Bedford, Massachusetts,
July 18. 1833, died in the city of his birth and lifetime residence, Febru-
ary 4, 1908. He was educated in New Bedford private schools and
Friends' Academy, completing his studies at Haverford College, a famous
institution under control of the Society of Friends near Philadelphia.
After leaving college he became associated with his father in the whaling
business as office assistant, and soon after coming of legal age was ad-
mitted a partner, and for several years after his father's death in 1866
he continued the business. He was connected with several business
enterprises of the city, was a director of the New Bedford Gas and Electric
Light Company, a long-time trustee of the New Bedford Institution for
Savings, and served for several years as a member of the Massachusetts
State Gas and Electric Light Commission, appointed by Governor Green-
halge in 1894. A Republican in politics, Mr. Gifford cast his vote for
every candidate of the party from John C. Fremont in 1856 to Theodore
Roosevelt in 1904. He represented his ward, the Sixth, in Common
Council, serving several terms ; was a member of the first city committee
appointed to consider a water supply and system ; was a one-time trustee
of the New Bedford Free Public Library : and twice was the leader of his
party ticket for the office of mayor. In 1889 he was appointed postmas-
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a new post office building was obtained, although he only retained office
about a year after moving into the new building. He succeeded Albert
H. W. Carpenter, and on February i, 1894, gave way to his own succes-
sor, Charles S. Ashley. Mr. Gifford effected several badly needed re-
forms in the administration of the office during his term, and illustrated
the business-like, well-ordered way in which it could be conducted. He
was a man of kindly, genial disposition, and, like his father, possessed a
gift of making friends easily. He married, in North Dartmouth, Sep-
tember 15, 1858, Elizabeth P. Cummings, born August 19, 1838, died in
New Bedford, June 7, 1907, daughter of John Cummings of North Dart-
mouth. Mr. and Mrs. Gifford were the parents of a son, Frank Herbert,
of further mention ; and of a daughter, Helen C. Gifford, born May 24,
1864.

Frank H. Gifford was born in New Bedford, Massachusetts, August
8, 1859, and is yet a resident of the city of his birth. After completing
preparation for college at Friends' Academy, New Bedford, in 1877. he
entered Brown University, whence he was graduated, class of 1881. He
at once entered business life as a mill engineer, 1881-82; engaged in mill
operation, 1882-84; was a cotton broker, 1884-1897; treasurer of the New
Bedford Spinning Company, 1897-99; ^"d since 1899 has been engaged
as a cotton salesman. He is a trustee of the New Bedford Five Cents
Savings Bank ; vice-president of New Bedford Gas and Edison Electric
Light Company; was a member of city council, 1885-86; member of the
school committee, 1887-89; is a member of Grace Protestant Episcopal
Church, the Wamsutta and New Bedford Country clubs, Delta Kappa
Epsilon fraternity, and in politics is a Republican.

Mr. Gifford married, in New Bedford, June 3, 1890, Eliza Howland
Cook, born in Saginaw, Michigan, August 13, 1867, daughter of Timothy
D. and Ellen L. Cook. The family residence is at No. 380 County street,
Mr. Gift'ord's offices at No. 17 Hamilton street.

FREDERICK H. ROBINSON.

A graduate of Tufts College Medical School, Dr. Frederick Hilliard
Robinson came to New Bedford, where he is well established in practice
with offices at 526 Purchase street. He is a descendant of that ancient
Robinson-Robertson family which emigrated to Scotland from the
Hebrides Islands, the family first appearing there. From Scotland they
followed King James to England, first appearing in this country on the
Maine coast at about the date of the earliest English settlement at
Plymouth. From Maine, branches have spread to every State.

Dr. Frederick H. Robinson belongs to the New Hampshire family, a
grandson of Augustus and Abiah (Wells) Robinson, he a bootmaker and
devout Baptist. Augustus and Abiah Robinson were the parents of
Daniel W., Augustus P., Henry L., Charles, Frank H., and Mary Robin-
son, Dr. Robinson being son of Henry L. Robinson.

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Henry L. Robinson, a merchant, was a veteran of the Civil War,
serving in both the Eighth and Fifteenth regiments of New Hampshire
Volunteers, and was a man of influence in his community. He was a
member of the New Hampshire Constitutional Convention of 1877, and
held other evidences of the esteem of his townsmen. He married Addie,
daughter of Frederick Hilliard.

Frederick Hilliard Robinson was born in Pittsfield, New Hampshire,
October 6, 1868. When a dozen or fourteen years of age, his parents
removed to Manchester, where he attended the grade and high schools.
He was variously engaged until entering Tufts College Medical School,
whence he was graduated Doctor of Medicine, class of 1896. He came
to New Bedford in 1908, and has since been engaged in the general prac-
tice of his profession. He is a member of the Medical Societies, the Sons
of Veterans, and the Protestant Episcopal Church. He married, in
Brockton, Massachusetts, in 1897, Helen Brightman, daughter of Asa
and Ruth (Nye) Brightman, of Acushnet. Dr. and Mrs. Robinson are
the parents of two sons: George Nye, born in 1898; Winfield Nye, born
in 1905.

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THOMAS BUSH TRIPP.

The entire life of Thomas Bush Tripp was spent in his native New
Bedford, and no man better served his city than he. His business enter-
prise and public spirit were employed in behalf of his own community,
and he was recognized as one of the strong men of the city. While he
was president of the First National Bank at the time of his death, he had
only filled that high position for about one year, although a director for
more than twenty years. He completed an honorable business record
in other lines and no stain of failure marred his record. He was a son
of James and Eliza (Mosher) Tripp.

Thomas Bush Tripp, was born in New Bedford, Massachusetts, Au-
gust 19, 1838, and died December 29, 1912. He was educated in the New
Bedford public schools, completing the advanced courses of the high
school in 1858. He was engaged in the grocery business in New Bedford
until 1872, his store located in the block at the corner of County and
Allen streets. After the death of his father he turned his attention to
real estate, discerning with rare vision the rapid growth of the city
which was to soon follow. He was a good judge of the value of real
estate, and with unerring judgment selected large tracts of unimproved
land which he purchased and improved with graded streets and sewers
before olTering a lot for sale. This policy he followed in all his additions,
and so well were his locations chosen and so skillfully was his business
conducted, that prosperity followed all his investments and likewise his
investors. He dealt generously with the public, allowing ample time for
those of limited means to secure homes, hundreds becoming home build-
ers and owners for the first time in their lives. This meant not only pros-

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perity for Mr. Tripp and the home builders, but for the city, whose
aggregate value of taxable property was greatly increased.

In addition to the management of his real estate business, Mr. Tripp
was a director of the New Bedford and Fairhaven Street Railway Com-
pany, elected in July, 1873, the road having been incorporated the previ-
ous year. He held the position until 1887, then resigned, but upon the
organization of the Union Street Railway Company, he accepted a direc-
torship, October 30, 1897, and became vice-president of the company,
July 14, 1898, serving until his death. He was also a director of the New
Bedford and Onset Street Railway Company; became a director of the
Dartmouth & Westport Railway Company in October, 1901, and vice-
president, January 9, 1902, serving until his death. His devoted and
efficient services to these concerns was the subject of fine tribute after
his death. He was also a director of the Howland Mills Corporation,
Dartmouth Mills Corporation, a director of the First National Bank in
1890, and on December 21, 191 1, was elected president, holding this until
his death. He was also a trustee of the New Bedford Institution for
Savings, and relied upon by the board as their expert in all real estate
investments.

A Republican in politics, Mr. Tripp took a deep interest in public
affairs, and in his younger years was an ardent worker for the party.
He was elected a member of common council in 1864, representative to
the State Legislature in 1872, and a member of the board of aldermen
in 1873. In 1891 he was appointed a member of the board of public
works, a post he ably filled for several years, also holding a place upon
the New Bedford water board, to which he devoted much time during the
building of the Quittacus water supply for New Bedford. He was, at
the time of his death, a trustee of the Kempton fund, the gift of Sarah E.
Potter to the city. A thorough business man, Mr. Tripp was highly
capable of filling these various offices or positions, and to his ability he
added a strong principle that caused him to regard "a public office as a
public trust." This resulted in the city and various organizations secur-
ing the highest form of service and won for him the highest commenda-
tion. He was a past master of Eureka Lodge, Free and Accepted Ma-
sons, and highly regarded by his brethren of the order. In early life he
was a member of the City Guards, and until his death he was a member
of the Wamsutta Club, and was at one time its president. He was also
a member of the Country Club of New Bedford. He was a man of regu-
lar life and methodical habits, careful in all things and devoted to his
home.

Mr. Tripp married, in 1888, Emma J. Ashley, daughter of Rodol-
phos and Ruth (Parker) Ashley (q. v.). Mrs. Tripp survives her hus-
band, with a daughter, Molly Bush Tripp, the family home No. 413
County street.

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CHARLES EDWARD BENTON, Ph. B.

Although a native son of Illinois, Mr. Benton since 1897 ^^^ been
a resident of New Bedford, Massachusetts, and since 1899 the managing
and directing head of Benton's Business School, which he founded and
has placed among the highly useful educational institutions of the city.
The name Benton has been an honored one in American annals since the
early settlement of New England. From New England this branch
located in Ontario and JefTerson counties, New York, and from the par-
ent stock branches have gone out north, south and west. In New Bed-
ford, the work of Mr. Benton as an educator will endure, and posterity
as well as the present generation benefit through the work and influence
of the school he founded and directs. In other branches of city life he
has exerted an influence for good, and in church and Young Men's Chris-
tian Association work has rendered valued assistance and inspiration.

The town of Guilford, Connecticut, was settled in 1639, by a colony
from the vicinity of Guilford, England. It included two brothers, Ed-
ward and Andrew Benton, both of whom were influential members of
the colony, Puritans who left civilization to found homes in a savage
wilderness in order that they might enjoy freedom of conscience. An-
drew Benton moved to Hartford, Connecticut, about 1660, and died there
in 1683. By his first wife he was the father of Andrew, Samuel, James,
Mary and Dorothy. His second wife bore him Ann (who died in 1686),
Ebenezer, Lydia and Hannah. The line of descent to Charles E. Benton
is through James (i) Benton, son of the founder and his first wife. That
James was of Hartford, Connecticut, and there he married, February 10,
1698, Sarah, daughter of Bevil Waters, of Hartford. James (i) was
succeeded by his son, James (2) Benton, born in Hartford, Connecticut,
in 1699. who moved to Guilford, Connecticut, where he died August 30,
1785. His wife was Experience, daughter of Edward Stocking, of Lyme,
Connecticut, whom he married March i, 1719. James (2) and Elizabeth
Benton were the parents of another James Benton, born 1720, and died
in Guilford, Connecticut, June 22, 1801. This James (3) Benton married,
September 27, 1736, in Guilford, Margaret Naughteye, of Guilford.
Among their children was Bethel Benton, a Revolutionary soldier,
founder of his family in Seneca, Ontario county, New York, and great-
grandfather of Charles E. Benton, of New Bedford.

Bethel, son of James (3) and Margaret (Naughteye) Benton, was
born December 14, 1750, in Guilford, and removed to Ashfield, Massa-
chusetts, in 1767. The name of his brother Beza is found in a list of
inhabitants of Ashfield between 1773 and 1798, and on a list of voters of
the last named year. In that year Bethel Benton removed from Ashfield
to Seneca, Ontario county, New York, where he continued to reside until
his death at the age of ninty-six years. When over ninety he walked
to Geneva to purchase a present for his granddaughter on the occasion
of her birthday. He was a soldier of the Revolution, enlisting from

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Ashfield at three different times, first for a period of eight months in
May, 1775, as a private in Captain Murray's company of Colonel Wood-
bridge's regiment of Massachusetts troops; again in January, 1776, for
one month, under Captain Barns, in Colonel Sargent's regiment; lastly,
at the expiration of that term, for twelve months in Captain Israel
Chapin's company, of Colonel Porter's regiment. He participated in the
battle of Bunker Hill, and was granted a pension August 28, 1832. He
married Mercy Hawkes, who died in January, 1826. One of their sons,
Dr. Abner Benton, married Hannah Cooper, a sister of Fenimore Cooper,
the novelist. Another son, Chester Hawkes Benton, is next in line in
this branch.

Chester Hawks Benton, son of Bethel and Mercy (Hawkes) Ben-
ton, was born in Seneca, Ontario county, New York, November 25, 1800,
died March 11, 1846, a farmer, and a member of the Baptist church. He
married, in February, 1824, Sarah Rose Sloan, born in Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania, in 1801, died January 21, 1825, leaving a son, John Sloan
Benton, of further mention. He married (second) March 7, 1826, Mary
Chapman, born October 28, 1805, died January 1891, the mother of two
daughters, Mary and Lydia A. Benton.

John Sloan Benton, only child of Chester Hawkes Benton and his
first wife, Sarah Rose Sloan, was born in Seneca, Ontario county. New
York, January 6, 1825, his mother surviving his birth but fifteen days.
He died in Miami, Florida, November 13, 1914. He pursued the occu-
pations of carpenter and farmer until his retirement from active life, and
was a devoted Baptist. He married, in Waukegan, Illinois, August 15,
1859, Sarah D. Shute, born July 4, 1826, died September 16, 1878, daugh-
ter of Henry and Louisa (Goodel) Shute. They were the parents of
three sons: William Chester Benton, born January 3, 1863; Charles
Edward Benton, of further mention ; George Henry Benton, born Janu-
ary 17, 1868.

Charles Edward Benton, son of John Sloan and Sarah D. (Shute)
Benton, was born in Evanston, Illinois, April 30, 1866. He was prepared
in public schools, finishing in Lincoln Grammar School, Boston, in 1882,
then continued his studies in Alfred University, Alfred, New York, com-
pleting the business course with the graduation class of 1887. During
the interval from 1882 until his entering Alfred University, he was em-
ployed as clerk and in farming, and also after leaving the university.
From 1887 until 1892 he was employed part of his time in the post office
as clerk, and from 1890 until 1892 he also taught commercial subjects at
Alfred. In 1892 Mr. Benton gave himself entirely to the cause of educa-
tion, and for a quarter of a century, with the exception of one year, he
has been engaged in teaching.

During 1892-93-94 he was an instructor in the New York Institute
for the Blind, and in 1892 received from Alfred University the degree of
Bachelor Philosophy. During 1894 and 1895 he taught commercial
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year as instructor in a commercial school in Terre Haute, Indiana, fol-
lowed by a year as corresponding clerk in Chicago. In 1897 he came to
New Bedford as instructor in the Business University, continuing two
years. In September, 1899, he founded and opened Benton's Business
School, of which he is principal and owner. The school is one of the
recognized educational institutions of the city, fitting students for special
lines of work, and each year graduating classes of skilled specialists.

Professor Benton is a member of the Eastern Commercial Teachers'
Association, member of the Brooks Club, the Young Men's Christian
Association, and North Congregational Church, his membership in all
being active. In political faith he is a Republican. He married, in
Waterville, New York, in 1894, Mary E. Rowell, born in Waterville, No-
vember 12, i860, daughter of James Pearce and Lucy Clever (Wilmot)
Rowell, her father a blacksmith, farmer, and a veteran soldier of Com-
pany D, One Hundred and Seventeenth Regiment New York Volunteer
Infantry, 1862-63. They are the parents of a son and a daughter: Roy
Wilmot Benton, born August 22, 1895, a graduate of New Bedford High
School, class of 191 1, with highest credit, now a junior of Brown Univer-
sity, class of iffi8, qualifying for the Bachelor of Philosophy degree ;
Ruth Agnes Benton, born June 19, 1897, student of the New Bedford
High School, class of 1917.

EDWARD WINSLOW HOLMES.

A twentieth century representative of the ancient family founded in
Plymouth, Massachusetts, by John Holmes in 1632, Edward W. Holmes
in his own right has won recognition as an honored member of the bar of
Bristol county. Plymouth was the home, the old homestead at Mano-
met being the birthplace of several generations, including Ezra Holmes,
of the eighth American generation, father of Edward W. Holmes, who in
youth located in New Bedford in 1861. John Holmes, the founder of the
family in Massachusetts, was of Plymouth Colony as early as 1632 ; was
made a freeman in 1634; was a messenger or page in the General Court
in 1638; was listed among those able to bear arms in Plymouth in 1643,
and there died October 13, 1667. His wife Sarah died August 18, 1650,
leaving children : John, born in 1636 ; Josiah ; Nathaniel, of further men-
tion ; and a daughter Sarah.

Nathaniel Holmes was born in Plymouth about 1640, there married,
in 1667, Mary, daughter of John Faunce. and resided all his days. He
had children: Elisha, Mercy, married Ebenezer Cobb; Nathaniel (2),
of further mention ; Sarah, John, Elizabeth and Ebenezer.

Nathaniel (2) Holmes was born in the town of Plymouth, in 1676,
and there spent his life. He married, in 1698, Joanna Clark; they were the
parents of eight sons and daughters: Nathaniel (3) ; James, of further
mention ; Bathsheba, married Nathan Delano ; Saul, Barnabas, Zepha-
niah ; Joanna, married Paul Cook ; and Ephraim.

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James Holmes, the second son of Nathaniel and Joanna (Clark)
Holmes, was born in the town of Plymouth, in the year 1700, and there
resided until death. He married, in 1729, Content, daughter of Joseph
Sylvester. Their children were : Solomon, James (2) ; Seth, of further
mention ; Nathaniel, Lothrop, Barnabas, Caleb and Ezra.

Seth Holmes, third son of James and Content Holmes, was born in
Plymouth, in 1735, and there spent his life. He married in 1762, Mary
Holmes, their family numbering seven sons and five daughters: Deb-
orah, Mary, Rebecca, Seth, Sylvanus ; Stephen, of further mention;
Jerusha, Amasa, Caleb, Nathan, Jesse, and Jerusha (2).

Stephen Holmes, son of Seth and Mary Holmes, was born in the
town of Plymouth, in 1771, and there resided all his life, his farm located
in that part of the town known as Manomet. He married, in 1798, Re-
becca Bartlett, who bore him eight children: Wealthy, Stephen (2),
Clark, Cromwell W.. Ezra; Truman, of further mention; Marston, and
Adriana.

Truman Holmes, sixth child of Stephen and Rebecca Holmes, was
born at the homestead in Manomet, Plymouth, Massachusetts, Febru-
ary 22, 181 1, died there in June, 1893. His youth was spent at the home
farm, but in early manhood he adopted the occupation of a fisherman
and made many passages to the fishing banks. Later he retired from the
sea, bought a farm near his father, and there died at the age of eighty-
two. He married Laurette Blackmer, born in Plymouth, 1821, died in
1898, daughter of John and Esther (Bartlett) Blackmer, she is buried
beside her husband in the family plot in Manomet. Their children were :
Ezra, of further mention; Sarah Amanda, died December 31, 1909, un-
married ; Truman Howard, who remained at the homestead ; Mary Lau-
rette, married George W. Griswold ; William Thomas, settled in East
Boston, Massachusetts.

Ezra Holmes, the eldest son of Truman and Laurette (Blackmer)
Holmes, was born at the paternal farm in Manomet, Plymouth, Massa-
chusetts, February 19, 1842, died in New Bedford, Massachusetts, Sep-
tember 26, 1916. He attended the public schools of the district, and aided
in the cultivation of the home farm until nineteen years of age, then came
to New Bedford and secured a position in the drug store of Dr. Alexander
Holmes. He continued as clerk in that establishment for six years, then
became its owner by purchase. He was proprietor of the business located
at the corner of Purchase and Hillman streets for fifteen years, retiring
therefrom and selling out in 1882. This ended his connection with the
mercantile life of New Bedford, as in January, 1883, he was appointed
officer at the House of Correction in New Bedford, a post he most effi-
ciently filled for thirty years. On the twenty-fifth anniversary of his
appointment the officers of the institution testified their appreciation of
his services by presenting him with a handsome mantel clock and many
expressions of regard. Six years later, in 1907, he was retired on a serv-
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continuously for thirty years (1883-1913), his record being one of honor-
able, efficient service.

He was an earnest useful member of North Congregational Church,
serving as treasurer for twelve years and as secretary of the Sunday
school for thirty-three years. His influence and interest were also
exerted in behalf of the Young Men's Christian Association, and he gave
freely of himself to advance its usefulness. In politics he was a Repub-
lican.

Mr. Holmes married, in Plymouth, September 28, 1870, Freelove
Scott Harden Hovey, born in Manomet, Plymouth, February 29, 1844,
daughter of Josiah C. and Judith (Witherell) Hovey. They were the
parents of two daughters and three sons : Margaret Hovey, born Septem-
ber 3, 1871, a graduate of New Bedford High School, and Harrington
Training School, a teacher in the city schools for fifteen years, married
Arthur S. Briggs; Elizabeth Clark, a graduate of New Bedford High
School and Business College, married Henry D. Waldron ; Joseph Buck-
minster, born July 22, 1875, of New Bedford; Philip Curtis, born March
9, 1879, of New Bedford ; Edward Winslow, of further mention.

Edward Winslow Holmes, of the ninth American generation of his
family, youngest son of Ezra and Freelove Scott Barden (Hovey)
Holmes, was born in New Bedford, Massachusetts, December 20, 1880.
He passed through the grade and high schools of the city, completing
his high school course with the class of 1899. He then entered Brown
University, completed a four years' course, and was graduated Bachelor
of Philosophy, class of 1903. Deciding upon the law as his profession,
he entered Boston University Law School in 1904 and was graduated
with the class of 1906. During these years of preparation and in the
early stage of law practice, Mr. Holmes in his spare time and summer
vacations engaged as a reporter on the "Mercury," also for five summers
was employed as a clerk by the city board of assessors. After gradua-
tion from law school, he was admitted to the Bristol county bar, located
in New Bedford, and is there well established in practice, with offices at
105 William street. In 1910-11 he practiced in the State of New Mexico.
He is a member of the bar associations, is a Republican in politics, and a
member of North Congregational Church. His college fraternities are
Phi Kappa Psi, Phi Beta Kappa, and Phi Delta Phi, the last named a law
school fraternity. He is secretary of the Brown Club of New Bedford,
and a member of Sippican Tribe, Improved Order of Red Men.

THOMAS ALOYSIUS CUNNIFF.

When in 1908 Mr. Cunniff, with his newly acquired diploma, re-
turned to New Bedford, he secured admission to the Bristol county bar
and began practice. The ye'Urs which have since intervened have brought
him high reputation, and he is one of the young men of the bar who hold
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is a son of William Cunniff, born in New Bedford, a merchant, and his
wife, Sarah E. Gannon, born in England.

Thomas A. Cunniff was born in New Bedford, Massachusetts, May
2-j, 1885. His education, begun in St. Mary's Parochial School, was
continued in the public schools of the city, his high school course termi-
nating with graduation with class of 1905. In choosing a profession he
decided upon the law, entered the Law Department of the University of
Pennsylvania, and received his degree of Bachelor of Laws from that
institution, class of 1908. He at once began practice in New Bedford,
and is firmly established in the good opinions of a large clientele, his
offices in the Masonic building. He is a member of the local and State
Bar Associations, and enjoys the confidence and esteem of his brethren
of the bar to an unusual degree. In politics he is a Democrat, and from
1908 until 1912 was secretary of the Democratic City Committee. He is
a member of St. Lawrence Catholic Church, and of the Knights of
Columbus, holding the office of advocate. His club is the Plymouth.

Mr. Cunnifif married, June 26, 1916, in New Bedford, Gertrude A.
Cunningham, daughter of John W. and Annie Cunningham, her father
retired.

ALFRED WILSON.

A man of unusually strong character in which love of justice, firm-
ness, determination and industry were pervading characteristics, Alfred
Wilson was one of the adopted sons of New Bedford, whose life was
spent in the public eye from his coming in 1851 until his death in 1912.
Thirty-seven of those years, 1851-1888, were devoted to governmental
service as post office clerk and assistant postmaster, and twenty-four
years, 1888-1912, as proprietor of the Wilson Inn at the corner of now
Purchase and Walnut streets. He was a man of rare intelligence, widely
read, a lover of nature and of bird life, a lover of poetry, and a deep
thinker, although not a graduate of any educational institution, on the
contrary, never attended aught but the public schools. The keynote of
his life, however, was industry ; the world to him was a place to work in,
and not only did he apply his doctrine to himself, but all those of his
household. Most generous by nature, he was tenderness itself toward all
in want or distress of any kind, but his nature was unforgiving, and he
literally followed the Scriptural reading: "An eye for an eye, and a tooth
for a tooth." He did not harbor malice, however, but when the score was
evened to his satisfaction, he was content to forget. His long connection
with the post office covered a period in which new customs and methods
were being introduced, which are so common that the fact that their
beginning was so recent comes as a surprise. He went into the post
office under Simeon Bailey, in 1851, served under his successors, Thomas
Coggeshall, appointed December 30, 1852 ; Joseph C. Kent, June 8, 1853 ;
John Fraser, April 6, 1857; Cyrus W. Chapman, April 16. 1861 ; Edmund

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Anthony, February 3, 1870; Thomas Coggeshall, March i, 1876, reap-
pointed March 17, 1880, and Albert H. W. Carpenter, April 9, 1887, the
latter soon removing him to make room for one of his own political
faith. Under Postmaster Coggeshall he was assistant postmaster, and
under the others named filled about every clerical post in the office.
Although in darkness during the last dozen years of his life, he continued
the management of the inn, a son, Alfred B., acting as his assistant, and
who still continues the old home as a place of public entertainment. A
man of wonderful memory, he could recall with accuracy names, places
and events connected with his early home, Newport, even to minute
detail. He was always a reader, and when darkness overtook him dur-
ing the last of his years, eighty-six, he as eagerly absorbed the news
from the public journals through the eyes of others. He fulfilled many
trusts, cared for many estates, was for many years a justice of the peace,
and few there were who did not know "Squire" Wilson, and none who
did not honor and respect him. His memory is green around the inn,
where for a quarter of a century he ministered to the comfort of patrons,
for the inn was largely a boarding house where guests were permanent
and transients the exception. There his spirit yet lingers, and not a day
passes but the name of the founder of the inn is brought into the con-
versation by the son who succeeded both to his name and to his position
as proprietor, or by guests who had enjoyed the old man's hospitality,
and around the old inn and its long-time proprietor a great deal of New
Bedford history centres.

Alfred Wilson, one of a family of ten, was born in Newport, Rhode
Island, February 15, 1826, his birthplace, the Wilson homestead, on the
corner of Poplar and Third streets. He died at his home, the Wilson
Inn, New Bedford, Massachusetts, Saturday afternoon, November 16,
1912. His father, William W'ilson, born August 3, 1789, was a just and
upright man, a wheelwright by trade, a good workman, and always
busily employed, but not favored with the money accumulating trait.
William. Wilson married Cynthia C. Briggs, born August 31, 1789, daugh-
ter of Captain William Briggs, born January 15, 175 1, of the clipper ship,
"Golden Ball," in the East India trade, carrying to New York spices,
silks, tea and sandal wood. Captain Briggs was a son of John and Mar-
garet Briggs.

Alfred Wilson was sent to the Mill street school when eight years
of age, and there he was constant in his attendance for two years. He
then was employed as a helper around the Mrs. Williams summer board-
ing house, there earning his first suit of clothes. At the age of eleven he
entered the employ of Harvey Sessions, a dry goods merchant of New-
port, and during the three years that he remained with Mr. Sessions the
boy attended night school, and also secured a term at Friends' School.
Then in his fourteenth year came a great change in his life. He heard
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Richard C. Rush, in Georgetown, South Carolina, and that a vessel
would sail the next day which would take him there. He succeeded in
obtaining the consent of his parents to go away, although they strongly
objected, as did his employer. When the consent of all was finally
obtained, Mr. Sessions gave him cloth sufficient for two suits of clothes,
and otherwise generously replenished a rather scanty wardrobe. When
the vessel sailed the next day he was on board with his chest of belong-
ings, facing he knew not what. He arrived safely in Georgetown, soon
fitted into his new position, and became a valuable assistant. His
experiences in the South were very pleasant, and he entered into the
life of the city quite freely, was corporal of a military company, and
would probably have made the South his home for all time but for the
bitterness which was then existing between the North and South over
the question of slavery. He had kept in touch with Newport through
regular return visits during the summer months, and when the feeling
of the South became unpleasant to him he came North, and until 185 1
was variously employed at Newport. He was in charge of a steamboat
refreshment counter, clerked in a Newport dry goods store, was clerk
of the old Bellevue Hotel on Catherine street, that hostelry then being
well patronized by men of national prominence, including the famed
Kentuckian, Henry Clay, with whom the young clerk became acquainted.
He also was employed by Kingsley's Express Company, was in charge
of the suttler's ofifice at Fort Adams, and bookkeeper for Thomas Cogges-
hall, a dealer in paints. During this period of his life he was clerk and
foreman of the famous old Protection Engine Company, No. 5, whose
hand machine, "The Honey Bee," with the gaily uniformed company
was the sensation of every fireman's parade in which the company par-
ticipated. With the year 185 1 his Newport life ended, and his New Bed-
ford career began.

He came to the latter city, February 12, 1851, a young man of
twenty-five years, the city then being in its fourth year as an incor-
porated city, and numbering nineteen thousand inhabitants. Simeon
Bailey was serving his second term as postmaster, and he gave the young
man a position as clerk. From that time until 1888 he was a part of the
post ofifice force, filling numerous positions, including that of assistant
postmaster. His ofifice was not a sinecure at any time, but in the early
days he and the postmaster were at the post office at 4:00 a. m. making
up the early mails to go by train and stage coach. For many years this
early morning mail and another in the afternoon constituted the postal
service. There were no stamps used in the early days, postage being
figured by mileage, California letters costing forty cents. The mail going
out was marked "collect" and that received the same. The arrival of
the California mail was an event at the office, a crowd always gathering
to await its distribution, for New Bedford furnished many "gold seekers"
to swell the numbers of those who by land and sea sought wealth in
California's sands and rocks.

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Long before Postmaster Chapman placed his three walnut boxes in
Purchase street stores to receive mail, Alfred Wilson put up and owned
the first mail box outside of the post office. This tin box was in the now
Douglass shoe store, corner of Purchase and Union streets, and every
morning Joseph R. Dunham, a carrier under the olden penny post plan,
opened the box with a key furnished him, and brought the contents to
the post office. This old box Mr. Wilson retained as a relic for years and
years, and it is yet doing duty, but as a cake box at the Wilson Inn. An-
other relic which Mr. Wilson preserved was the first mail bag used
between the New Bedford and Oak Bluffs post offices. This was but
an ordinary shot bag, and before his death he presented it to the post-
master at Oak Bluflfs. In those earlier years, as often recalled by him,
the post office remained open until 9:00 p. m., and its great stove in win-
ter drew a number of then well-known citizens who enjoyed a comfort-
able smoke and discussed aflfairs of importance. On Sundays the office
was opened and the few clerks were kept about as busy as on week days.
The money order system was first established in New Bedford, Novem-
ber 3, 1864, Cyrus W. Chapman then being postmaster. Thomas Cogges-
hall, then assistant postmaster, filled out the first money order issued by
the New Bedford office, making it payable to Samuel Rodman, the
amount being $4.25. The first postal note from the New Bedford office
was issued in September, 1883, by Alfred Wilson, for ten cents, and
mailed by him to his sister in Providence, Rhode Island.

In the year 1888, after thirty-seven years' continuous, faithful and
efficient service, Mr. Wilson resigned his position at the post office and
opened the Wilson Inn, previously the Mundell Home, in New Bedford.
The management of the inn occupied a portion of his time, and he soon
afterward secured office quarters with Judge Allison Borden, and, until
stricken with blindness, conducted a successful real estate and insurance
business, also dealing in Western bonds. He retired from the real estate
business in 1899, with greatly impaired eyesight, which later became
absolute darkness, but he retained the management of the inn until the
last and continued in charge of several estates. His son, Alfred B., gave
up his own business career to be his father's close companion and asso-
ciate, his devotion and care making it possible for the blind man to so
successfully manage his business affairs.

In politics, Mr. Wilson was a Republican from the formation of
that party until the Roosevelt Progressive movement swept many life-
time Republicans from their allegiance, defeated the party in the elec-
tion of 1912, and lost the Presidency. Mr. Wilson was an ardent admirer
of the ex-President, and his devotion to the Roosevelt cause was so great
that he insisted upon going across Purchase street to the polling place,
although physically unfit. He contracted a cold, and death resulted the
following Saturday. He was a member of North Christian Church for
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twenty-five years ; and a past noble grand of Vesta Lodge, Independent
Order of Odd Fellows ; past worthy chief templar of Orient Lodge, Inde-
pendent Order of Good Templars, a leading temperance order of the
long ago ; past patriarch of the Sons of Temperance, a still older temper-
ance society; and in all these was an active, useful worker. Thus his
years, eighty-six, were spent, New Bedford being his home for over sixty
of those years. He was faithful to every trust and in all things measured
up to the fullest stature of a man.

Mr. Wilson married (first) December 25, 1851, Mary Sherman Irish,
daughter of Dr. Ephraim Bancroft Irish, born June 18, 1802, and Abby
(Melville) Irish, of Newport, Rhode Island, born in 1808. Mrs. Wilson
died January 27, 1863, leaving a son, William D. Wilson, an employee of
the New Bedford post office since 1873 ; he married, June 14, 1881, Rachel
G. Sanford. Alfred Wilson married (second) November 29. 1865, Emily
Frances Irish, a half-sister of his first wife, she a daughter of Dr. Eph-
raim B. Irish and his second wife, Eliza (Weaver) Irish, who were mar-
ried January 27, 1839. She died May 12, 1900, leaving a son, Alfred
Bancroft Wilson, who during the years of his father's blindness was his
constant companion and business associate; since 1912 he has continued
the inn along the same lines, and is still its genial, highly esteemed pro-
prietor. He is unmarried.

So passed the life of a man who attained octogenarian honors, and
during all those years held the esteem of all who knew him. He was
inordinately fond of his home and there all his hours "off duty'' were
spent. He demanded prompt and implicit obedience from his sons, but
gained their closest love through his unfailing kindly care and fatherly
interest. He lived his life manfully, and played well his part.

WILLIAM COLE NYE SWIFT.

The sons of William Swift, of Falmouth, Massachusetts, Elijah,
Thomas and Reuben Eldred Swift, were men of strong business ability,
Reuben E. and Elijah being associated in the live oak timber trade.
These Swifts flourished in the days when at about every port or harbor
along the Atlantic coast from Maine to Cape May ships were built,
launchings being almost social functions. Reuben E. Swift was a man
of hardy, vigorous frame, and when live oak timber for ribs and knees
of wood vessels began to grow scarce, he went South, and in the swamp
section of Florida and South Carolina selected the standing timber he
needed, purchasing it in large tracts, getting the logs out and shipping
them North. Three of the sons of Reuben Eldred Swift, Franklin Kirby,
Rodolphus Nye and William Cole Nye Swift, succeeded their father in
this business, all having large marine and whaling interests, the first
named brother also being a master of ships. This review principally
follows the fortunes of William Cole Nye Swift, youngest of the sons of
Reuben Eldred and Jane (Nye) Swift to reach years of business account-

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ability. He was one of the substantial m,en of a strong family and com-
pressed into his years, seventy-seven, an amount of business achieve-
ment, travel and intellectual enjoyment most remarkable. He was of the
ninth generation of the family founded in Watertown, Massachusetts,
by William Swift, in 1634. going thence to Sandwich, where he died in
January, 1643. He came to New England, left a widow Joan, and a son,
William, also two daughters.

This son, William (2) Swift, was born in England, came to New
England with his parents, lived in Sandwich, Massachusetts, and there
died in 1705 or 1706. His wife Ruth was the mother of an only son,
William (3) Swift, born August 28, 1654, died in 1700 or 1701. He was
succeeded by a son, William (4) Swift, born January 24, 1679, who mar-
ried, October 9, 1707, Lydia Weeks. William (5) Swift, son of William
(4) and Lydia (Weeks) Swift, was born in April, 1719, and married, No-
vember 29, 1744, Dorcas Hatch. Their second son, William (6) Swift,
was born February 17, 1747, and married, March 6, 1773, Martha Eldred,
born September 12, 1752. He resided in Falmouth, Massachusetts, was
a tailor by trade, also a farmer, a member of the Masonic order, a Whig,
and a man of influence and usefulness. They were the parents of several
sons, the line of descent coming through Reuben Eldred, the third son.

Reuben Eldred Swift was born in Falmouth, ^Massachusetts, Sep-
tember 12, 1780, and there died December 6, 1843. He early settled in
Fairhaven, Massachusetts, and there followed the trade of a cabinet-
maker until 1820, when he moved to Nev/ Bedford, and there engaged in
the manufacture of furniture. He also was associated with his brother
Elijah in the live oak timber business, spent much time in Florida and
South Carolina, locating and purchasing tracts of the coveted timber.
During the War of 1812, he was captain of a company stationed at
Clark's Point. The cabinet-maker's shop which he built in New Bed-
ford was made over to his brother William. Reuben E. Swift married
in Fairhaven, March 24, 1803, Jane Nye, born in 1783, died November
9, 1839, daughter of Captain Obed Nye, a soldier of the Revolution, a
direct descendant of Benjamin Nye.

William Cole Nye Swift, son of Reuben Eldred and Jane (Nye)
Swift, was born at the Nye farm in Fairhaven, Massachusetts, April 2-j,
181 5, died in New Bedford, May 11, 1892. In 1820 New Bedford became
the family home and there he attended private school and academy.
He entered Brown University, class of 1835, but on completing his sopho-
more year found himself so broken in health that he was obliged to aban-
don all thought of a college degree. He then began his long and success-
ful career as a business man. His first position was with Benjamin Rod-
man, as bookkeeper, remaining with him until 1835. His father then
offered him a partnership in the firm, E. & R. Swift & Company, an offer
which was accepted, the young man at once plunging into the work
assigned him. His first assignment was in the South at Ossabaw Island,
on the coast of Georgia, he there superintending the cutting and ship-

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ment of live oak ship timber. He traveled over Florida and Louisiana,
examining lumber tracts and enduring great privation, for the timber he
sought grew in the most inaccessible districts, and this was about the
year 1836. But he had youth and a vigorous constitution, and he acquired
several valuable tracts for his firm. The firm, E. & R. Swift & Company,
dissolved in 1837, and from that time until 1847 William C. N. Swift,
with his brothers, in O. N. Swift & Company, engaged in the live oak
timber business steadily, and at intervals all through his active life. In
the pursuit of his business he travelled South in 1838, and on his return
took passage from Savannah for Baltimore on the steamship, "Pulaski."
She never reached her destination, an explosion in the boiler room ending
the voyage ior the ship and many of the passengers. Mr. Swift escaped in
one of the small boats, landing on an uninhabited island in Stump sound
on the North Carolina coast, he and another New Bedford man being the
first to land. The same year Mr. Swift took a greater interest in whaling,
although he had owned shares in several New Bedford whalers, but in
1843 h^ bought the ship "Plowboy," and dispatched her on a cruise for
sperm oil. In 1845 he joined with his brother, Obed Nye Swift, and
bought the "Formosa." He was also interested in the lumber operations
of Swift Brothers, and with his brother, Rodolphus Nye Swift, engaged
in the business of whale fishing, meeting with success in all.

The possibilities of an export business in ship lumber and spars
attracted him, and in December, 1845, he went to Europe, there spent
nearly a year, returning with contracts from the English government for
spars of American timber. A large part of that year was spent in Paris,
and there he acquired a fluent knowledge of the French language. In
July, 1847, he visited Europe as a wedding trip, he and Mrs. Swift spend-
ing over a year abroad, a year memorable in the history of France as wit-
nessing the Revolution of the 24th of February, 1848, and the terrible
days preceding and following the overthrow of the provincial govern-
ment during the June following. Mr. Swift was in Paris on both of these
dates and seemed fated to witness the agony of France in her efforts to
reach stable government, for in 1851 he was in Paris on that 2nd of
December that witnessed the "coup d' etat" by which Louis Philipe
regained the Throne which the great Napoleon bequeathed him. He had
previously visited Europe in 1849, ^"<i ^^^ his life maintained the deepest
interest in French politics, indeed in all European affairs of great
moment. The business he secured on these trips was very satisfactory,
and in time would have reached large proportion as he had contracts
with England, France and Holland. But in 1849 the death of his father-
in-law, Jireh Perry, made an almost imperative demand upon him to
attend to the Perry estate which owned several whaling ships and other
important business interests as well. Mr. Swift finally decided to with-
draw from his European timber exporting business, and with his brother-
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estate. This, with his whaling business, occupied his years until retire-
ment, his interest in whaling becoming very large. At one time he had
twelve vessels engaged in whale fishing, his agents being Aiken & Swift.
Cultured, courtly and courteous, Mr. Swift is also remembered as a
man of fine appearance, genial, afifable nature, very hospitable and fond
of his friends and of his home. He possessed that culture which travel
alone can give, the thrilling scenes he witnessed and the wide experience
gained in many lands giving him a fund of interesting matter which ren-
dered him a most interesting and instructive conversationalist. Energy,
enterprise and good judgment distinguished his business management,
integrity and uprightness in every act of his life. Success came to him
abundantly, and for many years he ranked with the leading business
men of the city. He was a director of the New Bedford Bank of Com-
merce from 1849, was its vice-president, and ever a strong factor in the
success of the bank. He was a Whig in politics until 1856, then became
a Democrat. He was an intimate friend of President James Buchanan,
and this gave him influential position in Massachusetts politics, but this
friendship he never took advantage of either by asking office for his
friends or for himself. He steadfastly set his face against public office,
and refused every offer made him.

William C. N. Swift married, June 15, 1847, Eliza Nye Perry, daughter
of Jireh and Nancy (Nye) Perry, of New Bedford, granddaughter of Dr.
Ebenezer Perry, an eminent physician of New Bedford, and great-grand-
daughter of Dr. Samuel Perry, well known and highly respected among
New Bedford's early physicians. Jireh Perry was intimately connected
with the whaling industry during his entire business life, beginning as a
clerk for Charles and Seth Russell, and becoming one of the wealthy
owners and merchants. Mr. and Mrs. Swift were the parents of four
sons and a daughter: i. Henry W., a graduate of Harvard, Bachelor of
Arts, 1871, Harvard Law School, Bachelor of Laws, 1874, now practicing
law in Boston, Massachusetts, with offices at No. 50 State street, and
also serves as reporter of decisions, Massachusetts Supreme Court. 2.
Frederick, a graduate of Harvard, Bachelor of Arts, 1874, died Decem-
ber 13, 1915 (q. v.). 3. Dr. William N. Swift, a graduate of Harvard,
Bachelor of Arts, 1874, Harvard Medical School, Doctor of Medicine,
1879, snd practiced his profession in New Bedford until his death, Octo-
ber 27, 191 1. 4. Lieutenant Franklin Swift, United States Navy, whose
sketch follows. 5. Elise, the youngest and only daughter. Mrs. Swift,
mother of these children, died January 15, 1904. The family home since
1856 was "Rockland," a beautiful farm in South Dartmouth, containing
about one hundred and twenty-five acres bordering on the shores of Buz-
zard's Bay. The winter home was on Orchard street. New Bedford, and
at both homes a rarely bountiful hospitality was extended to all friends,
young and old.

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LIEUTENANT FRANKLIN SWIFT, U. S. N.

This, the youngest son of William Cole Nye and Eliza Nye (Perry)
Swift, chose the naval service of his country as his profession and gave
himself to the performance of the trust he had assumed with all the
enthusiasm and intensity of his nature, and at the time of his death was
on the retired list, yet after being retired he performed valuable service.
He was a victim of ill health for many years, that fact causing his retire-
ment and closing many avenues strictly in the line of naval duty which
he could have followed with success. He rendered great service to the
coast survey and fisheries department, his only chance to distinguish
himself ending through illness just as he reached command of a vessel
during the Spanish-American War.

Franklin Swift was born at "Rockland." the family estate in South
Dartmouth, Massachusetts, July 30, 1857. Choosing the navy he ob-
tained an appointment to the United States Naval Academy at Annapolis,
passed all mental and physical tests, and in 1880 was graduated and
assigned to duty. He was on active sea duty on different war ships for
about fifteen years, and during that period made two cruises on mer-
chantmen, one to South America, the other to France. These cruises
were made by courtesy of the Navy Department in order to give the
young officers merchant ship experience. At the outbreak of the Spanish-
American War he was in command of the United States fisheries steamer,
"Fish Hawk," that vessel being quickly converted into a gunboat, and
Lieutenant Swift sailed as her commander. But he soon fell a vic-
tim to malarial fever, was relieved of his command and finally placed
upon the retired list. Prior to his retirement he had been connected
with important work done by those two departments of the government,
whose work, while not spectacular, is most valuable, the Coast Survey
and Fisheries.

Lieutenant Swift retired to a beautiful home on the St. John's river
in Florida, and there developed orange and grape fruit orchards which
were beginning to be very profitable when he was called away. Here he
always came in the intervals of duty, for he was frequently called on for
service, he not being retired through years. He was in command of
both the "Fish Hawk" and "Albatross" in the interests of the fisheries'
commission in the Pacific ocean. He commanded the "Albatross," the
larger of the two vessels, for three years, one of those years being spent
in Alaskan waters by order of President Roosevelt, who desired expert
reports on the salmon fisheries of that Northwestern possession, and
upon the canning business. After his return from this special expedition
he was relieved of the command of the "Albatross," ill health again
thwarting his desires. The vessel had been loaned by the Government
to Professor Aggasiz for deep sea dredging in the Pacific ocean, in the
interest of science, and by request of the great scientist. Lieutenant
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that he could not take the post, he was asked to name a commander
under whom the ship sailed. What made this a greater disappointment
was the fact that he had spent several months preparing the "Albatross"
for the new work she was to do. Such was the character of the duty
which fell to the lot of Lieutenant Swift, and while not showy or sensa-
tional, it was very often work of a character requiring the special skill
and training he possessed. His displayed sound judgment and unusual
executive ability in the post he filled, and he literally "died in the har-
ness," being in command of the "Fish Hawk" when on November lo,
1906, at Charleston, South Carolina, his final summons came.

Lieutenant Swift married, 1893, Louise Meyer, daughter of General
Adolph Meyer, of New Orleans, who for a long time represented a
Louisiana district in Congress. Mrs. Swift accompanied her husband
on all his cruises on the "Fish Hawk" and "Albatross," after he was
placed in command.

CLARK WILLIAM HOLCOMB.

While the iron industry flourished contemporaneously with whaling
in New Bedford, being first promoted by Taber & Grinnell in 1847, the
boiler and machinery industry did not start until later. Bradley, Lewis
& Holcomb were the forerunners of the New Bedford Boiler and Machine
Company, now owned by Clark W. Holcomb, the original plant dating
its existence from February 16, 1871. When Gilbert Bradley withdrew
from the firm of Bradley, Lewis & Holcomb, the remaining partners,
Joseph S. Lewis and Henry A. Holcomb, continued the business, manu-
facturing boilers and making a specialty of a patented steam-heating
system. Later Mr. Lewis withdrew, Mr. Holcomb reorganizing the
business under the firm name. New Bedford Boiler and Machine Com-
pany, and successfully continued it until succeeded as owner by his son,
Clark William Holcomb.

Mr. Holcomb is a great-grandson of Jehiel Holcomb, of Westfield,
West Parish, Massachusetts, and a grandson of Henry Holcomb, of
Westfield, later a merchant of New Bedford; and a son of Henry A. Hol-
comb, born in Swansea, Massachusetts, January 9, 1846, died in New
Bedford, March 10, 1916. He was educated in the public schools of New
Bedford, Massachusetts, and began his business career as a clerk in his
father's grocery in New Bedford. From mercantile life he passed into
the ranks of manufacturers, and became prominent in the business world
in which he moved. In addition to the ownership and management of
the New Bedford Boiler and Machine Company, he was for many years
interested in other enterprises, and aided in the establishing of new
industries and mills. He was a director of the Bennett Manufacturing
Company, and connected with other activities of the city operated by
individuals. He was a member of the Benevolent and Protective Order
of Elks, and was held in high esteem as a business man and citizen. He

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married Clare J. Best, of Albany, New York, who survives him, a resi-
dent of New Bedford. Mrs. Holcomb is a daughter of Christopher Guy
and Elizabeth Amelia (Jackson) Best, both natives of England, both
deceased. Children of Mr. and Mrs. Henry A. Holcomb: Bessie B.,
married A. J. Cook, of San Francisco, California ; Clark William, of fur-
ther mention ; Maria, married Ross C. Rich, of Watertown, New York ;
Helen, married C. W. Shurtlefif, of Fairhaven, Massachusetts ; Clare, mar-
ried Walter E. S. Tanner, of Providence, Rhode Island.

Clark William Holcomb was born in New Bedford, Massachusetts,
August 28, 1871, and is now a resident and business man of his native
city. After finishing high school study he entered the employ of the
Bennett Mill, learned the cotton mill business thoroughly, and for nine
years remained in that employ, becoming overseer of carding. On the
retirement of his father in 1897, he succeeded him as owner and man-
ager of the New Bedford Boiler and Machine Company, No. 42 Front
street, a business that he yet conducts most successfully. He has never
withdrawn from the cotton manufacturing industry, but has large inter-
ests therein, and is president of the Greene & Daniels Company of Paw-
tucket, Rhode Island, manufacturers of cotton yarns. He is also a direc-
tor of the First National and Morris Plan banks of New Bedford, and is
one of the energetic, progressive, public-spirited business men who have
put New Bedford in a proud position among manufacturing cities. He
is a Republican in politics, in religious faith a Unitarian, in fraternity a
member of the Masonic order and of the Elks, his clubs the Wamsutta,
Brooks and Country of New Bedford, the To Kalon of Pawtucket, Wan-
namoisett of Providence, and Old Colony of Cape Cod. When the lib-
erty loan "drive" of 1917 was on, he was appointed by the Federal Re-
serve Board as vice-chairman of the committee in charge, and also served
as vice-chairman of the 1918 Red Cross membership campaign. To both
the Liberty Loan and the Red Cross he gave freely of his time and ex-
perience, contributing largely to the success of both.

Mr. Holcomb married in New Bedford. May 20, 1893, Clara Bell
Murphy, of New Bedford, daughter of Robert and Alice (Slatter) Mur-
phy, her father born in Stockport, England, January 28, 1838, dying in
New Bedford, Massachusetts, February 11, 1900. Alice (Slatter) Murphy
was born in Stockport, England, December 17, 1847. She survives her
husband, a resident of New Bedford. I\Ir. and Mrs. Holcomb are the
parents of a daughter, Vira, born November 6, 1894, married Allen P.
Winsor, of Fairhaven, Massachusetts ; and a son, Henry Clark Holcomb,
born December 2, 1904, now attending Friends' Academy.

HORATIO HATHAWAY.

This name in early times was written as it was usually pronounced,
Hodaway. According to Swift's Barnstable four of the name came over :
Arthur, who settled in Marshfield, and afterward removed to Dartmouth ;

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John and Joseph, of Taunton ; and John, of Barnstable. J. D. Baldwin,
in the N. E. H. and G. Register, volume xxxii, page 92, has Arthur Hath-
away coming to America in 1630 from one of the Welsh counties of
Great Britain and settling in Plymouth and appearing to have remained
there ; gives him a son, Arthur, Jr., whom he has marrying in Duxbury
in November, 1652, Sarah Cook; there two of their children were born,
and thence they removed to Dartmouth soon after 1655. It is with some
of the descendants of Arthur Hathaway, the Dartmouth settler, this
article is to deal. It should be borne in mind that Dartmouth originally
was about thirteen miles square and included the present towns of Dart-
mouth, Westport, New Bedford and Fairhaven. It was bought of the
Indians in 1652. At the division of Dartmouth in 1787 New Bedford and
Fairhaven formed the township or town of New Bedford and Fairhaven
bearing the name of New Bedford. They were divided into separate
townships or towns in 1812. New Bedford, the metropolis, as it were,
of Dartmouth, takes its date from 1761, when the first house east of the
county road was built by John Lowden ; nearly a hundred years prior to
this, however, the settlement of Dartmouth had been made at Russells
Mills by the Russells, Ricketsons, Slocums, Smiths and others; and at
Acushnet on the east side of the river by the Popes, Tabers and Jen-
neys. It may be of interest, too, to note here that all of the original
purchasers of Dartmouth were passengers in the "Mayflower," but no
names of those who came in that vessel were among the early settlers
there. Out of the thirty-six original purchasers of the town, its owners
in 1652, perhaps only five or six became settlers. The lands were taken
up mostly by Friends or Quakers, not particularly identified with the
Puritans. This much for the early home country of the Hathaways.

(II) Arthur Hathaway, Jr., was in Marshfield in 1643, and in what
is now Plympton in 1656. In 1660 he and Sergeant Shaw were appointed
by the court of Plymouth to put those who had lands in Dartmouth in
some way for the levying and paying of the tax levied upon Cushna. In
1664, on the incorporation of the town, he was on the grand inquest, and
had previously been appointed to such. He was many times selectman,
etc., from 1664 until 1684, his name disappearing from the records in
1688. He married, November 2, 1652, Sarah, daughter of John Cook,
he of the "Mayflower" (married Sarah, daughter of Richard Warren, of
the "Mayflower"). Their children were: John, born September 17,
1653 ; Sarah, born February 28, 1656; Thomas, of further mention ; Jona-
than, born in 1671 ; Mary, became the wife of Hammond ; Lydia,

died June 23, 1714; Hannah, became the wife of Cadman.

(III) Thomas Hathaway, the second son of Arthur Hathaway, Jr.,
was a Quaker. He died in 1748. He married Hepzibeth Starbuck, of
Nantucket, daughter of Nathaniel and Mary (Coffin) Starbuck, the latter
named the g.'cat preacher. Mary (Coffin) Starbuck was the daughter of
Tristram Cofiin, and was married at seventeen years of age. She was
accustomed to attend town meetings and took an active part, "was a

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Deborah among the people, for little of moment was done without her ;"
"usually began her remarks with some allusion to her husband as 'my
husband thinks'." In 1701, during a religious visit of the celebrated
English preacher, John Richardson, she was converted to Quakerism
and became a "mighty instrument" through which large numbers were
brought into the faith. Tristram Coffin was the son of Peter and Joan
Coffin, born in Brayton, Devonshire, England ; married Dionis Stevens ;
immigrated in 1642 and lived at Salisbury, Haverhill and Salisbury, and
in 1662 removed to Nantucket; was patriarch of the town. Children of
Mr. and Mrs. Hathaway: Antipas, born October 5, 1698, married, Sep-
tember 13, 1729, Patience Church, of Freetown; Apphiah, born May 13,
1701, married. October 18, 1718, Adam Mott, son of Jacob Mott, of
Portsmouth, Rhode Island; Pernal, born June 3, 1703, died October 6,
1715; Elizabeth, born October 18, 1706, married, June 27, 1727, John
Clerk, of Rhode Island; Mary, born October 3, 1709, married, Novem-
ber 7, 1734, Thomas Kempton ; Thomas, born December 5, 171 1, married,
January 25, 1750, Lois Taber; Nathaniel, born June 23, 1715; Hepzibeth,
born March 18, 1718, married Samuel Wing, of Sandwich; Jethro, of fur-
ther mention.

(IV) Captain Jethro Hathaway, son of Thomas Hathaway, was
born in July, 1720, and died June 15, 1S03. The Hathaways were exten-
sive landowners, derived from John Hathaway, who held a share in the
eight hundred acre division. Their lands were situated on both sides of
the Acushnet river, commencing about half way from New Bedford to
Acushnet. Jethro Hathaway, as well as his father and grandfather, was
a prominent man in the early history of Dartmouth, and the handwriting
of the former, who was one of the committee on surveys from 1758 to
1773, is remarkably handsome and rarely equalled by the professors of
penmanship at the present day. Captain Hathaway married, September
3, 1741, Hannah West, daughter of Stephen West. She died September
26, 1798. He married for his second wife Judith Howland. His children
were : Elizabeth, born April 3, 1742 ; Stephen, of further mention ; Clark,
born October 21, 1747, married, June 17, 1770, Lois Akin.

(V) Stephen Hathaway, son of Captain Jethro Hathaway, was born
February 28. 1743, and died November 4, 1825. On August 9, 1764, he
married Abigail Smith, daughter of Humphrey and Mary (Wilcox)
Smith, and I0 them were born fourteen children, viz. Humphrey, of
further mention; Jethro, born September 13, 1766; Mary, born December
20, 1767, married, November 26, 1800, John Taber; Hannah, born June
22, 1769, married, June 11, 1791, Thomas Nye, Sr. ; Thomas, born January
30, 1771, died in Saratoga in 1793; Rebecca, born August 18, 1772, mar-
ried David Dillingham in 1792, and died in 1848; Abigail, born March
15, 1774, married, October 10, 1793, Weston Howland, and died in 1867;
Stephen, born September 4, 1775, married Lydia Swain, daughter of
Thaddeus and Ruth (Huzzy) Swain, and died July i, 1822; Hepzibeth,

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born April 13, 1777, married, September i, 1802, Pardon Rowland; Alice,
born November 13, 1779, married, September 24, 1800, Asa Russell, and
died February 12, 1802; Nathaniel, born February 18, 1781, died at
Charleston, October 26, 1802; Elizabeth, born December 9, 1782, mar-
ried, November 10, 1805, Jireh Swift, Jr.; George, born in 1787, married
Eliza Lyon; Silvia, born September 28, 1790, married, December 18,
181 1, Gideon Nye.

(VI) Humphrey Hathaway, son of Stephen and Abigail (Smith)
Hathaway, born April 13, 1765, died May 2, 1821. He married, December
27, 1787, Abigail Smith, daughter of George Smith. Children: Hum-
phrey, born in 1790, died in 1805 ; Ezra, born in 1793, was drowned at
sea in 1810; Thomas S., born in 1796, died in 1878; Nathaniel, of further
mention; Andrew, born in 1801, died in 1828, married Ruth Dillingham;
Francis S.. born in 1803, died in 1869; Alice, born in 1806, married, in
1826, Elisha Haskell, and died in 1880; Humphrey, born in 1808, died
the same year. Of these, Francis S. and Thomas S. were prominent
and rich merchants of New Bedford.

(VH) Nathaniel Hathaway, son of Humphrey and Abigail (Smith)
Hathaway, was born in 1798, and died October 27, 1836, aged thirty-eight
years. He was a graduate of Harvard College, of the class of 1818. He
and his brothers engaged in the merchant trade ; he was one of the sub-
stantial men of his day, as evidenced by the records of the various enter-
prises and institutions of the city. He married Anna Shoemaker, born
in 1794, and died September 2, 1833, aged thirty-nine years. Children :
Caroline, born in 1822, married, in 1841, Samuel Grififiths Morgan, and
died in 1883 ; Richard, born in 1824, died in 1826; Elizabeth, born in 1827,
married Joshua C. Stone, of Boston, and died in 1903; Francis, born in
1829, married, in 1854, Susan (Shoemaker) Paxson ; Horatio, of further
mention.

(VHI) Horatio Hathaway, son of Nathaniel and Anna (Shoe-
maker) Hathaway, was born May 19, 183 1, in the old Hathaway home-
stead at the corner of Elm and Purchase streets. He prepared for college
at Phillips Academy, Andover, and in 1846 entered Harvard University
from which institution he was graduated four years later. A year or
two after he went in the merchant ship "Horatio" on a voyage to China
and was absent about two years. The firm of which Mr. Thomas S.
Hathaway was a member was originally composed of the three brothers,
Nathaniel, Thomas S. and Francis S. Hathaway. They were importers
of tea and other eastern products and the business grew to be a success-
ful one. Francis S. Hathaway spent much of his early life in China
attending to the interests of the business there. He died in 1869 and
bequeathed his property, considered a large one for those days, equally
to his brother, Thomas S., and the heirs of his brother Nathaniel. Mr.
Horatio Hathaway became possessed of a considerable fortune at the
death of Thomas S. Hathaway, in 1878. Outside of Mr. Hathaway's

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connection with the tea business in his earlier years he had cares that
the management of a large estate entailed which made him a very busy
and active man. He was at one time appointed treasurer of the Potom-
ska Mills, but with his other duties found it to be too exacting and
resigned after a brief trial.

Early in his career IMr. Hathaway took a lively interest in all ques-
tions which concerned the civic welfare of the city. His sound discre-
tion, executive powers and broad culture gave him the confidence of his
fellow-citizens and he was sought for places of trust in the city govern-
ment. In politics he was first a Whig, and when the Republican party
was organized joined its ranks, and ever remained a most loyal and con-
servative adherent. Mr. Hathaway was a member of the city council of
New Bedford in 1866-67-68-69-77 and president in 1868 and 1869. In this
capacity his voice was always on the side of wise economy. In 1869 he
was a candidate for mayor and was defeated by George B. Richmond.

Mr. Hathaway's opinions on all questions of finance and economy
were always held as authority. He was president and a director of the
Acushnet Mills and Hathaway Manufacturing Corporation. He was a
director of the Mechanics' National Bank, the Potomska Mills and the
Wamsutta Mills, and also a member of the board of investment of the
Institution for Savings. He was also interested in other manufactories
in New Bedford and Fall River. It was one of Mr. Hathaway's strong-
est personal characteristics that he would never accept any position
which he had not sufficient time or opportunity to properly attend to,
and he never attempted any work which was not thoroughly performed.
He was known to be a man of most conservative opinions. His tastes
were of marked simplicity and his manners were always unaffected and
unpretentious, and courteous to a marked degree. He was preeminently
a man of scrupulous honesty and in his business transactions preferred to
appear to disadvantage rather than to resort to any kind of deception.
He always maintained a high standard of morals and had the courage to
live and act up to his convictions in the face of any opposition.

Mr. Hathaway was actively interested in the founding of St. Luke's
Hospital, its president from its inception and a liberal contributor to its
support until his death. He also gave liberally of his time and means to
other charitable organizations of New Bedford. He was a constant
attendant and member of Grace Church. He formerly attended the Uni-
tarian church, but its modern liberalism was not in accord with his
tastes. His benefactions to Grace Church and the parish house were
most liberal. He was senior warden of the church for many years prior
to his death.

In 1859 Mr. Hathaway married Ellen Rodman, daughter of Samuel
Rodman. Children: Samuel Rodman, born in i860, died in 1863; Ellen
Rodman, born in 1862; Elizabeth, born in 1864, married, in 1899, Charles
Osmyn Brewster, died in 1913, and their children were: Horatio Hath-

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away, born in 1900, and Elizabeth, born in 1903; Thomas Schuyler,
whose sketch follows; Horatio, born in 1870, married, in 1898, Mabel
Lovering, daughter of Henry M. Levering, of Taunton ; one child. Lever-
ing, born in 1898.

THOMAS SCHUYLER HATHAWAY.

Thomas Schuyler Hathaway, son of Horatio and Ellen (Rodman)
Hathaway, was born in New Bedford, Massachusetts, December 5. 1866,
and there yet resides, a man of influence and worth, highly regarded for
his sterling attributes of character and his manly, upright life. He pre-
pared for college in Friends' Academy, New Bedford, going thence to
Harvard in 1885, pursuing there a four years' course ending with gradua-
tion, Bachelor of Arts, class of 1889. From graduation until 1895 he
was in the office employ of the Acushnet and the Hathaway Mills, then
became his lather's assistant in the management of his business affairs,
father and son continuing closely associated until the former's death,
March 25, 1898.

In addition to continuing the management and admmistration of
his father's estate, Mr. Hathaway has accepted the presidency of both the
Hathaway Manufacturing Company and the Page Manufacturing Com-
pany, and a place on the directorate of the Acushnet Mills Corporation,
The Morse Twist Drill and Machine Company, the Mechanics' National
Bank, the Union Street Railway, and the New Bedford and Onset Rail-
way, all of New Bedford ; the Union Cotton Manufacturing Company of
Fail River; the Pocasset Manufacturing Company, of Fall River, and
the Mount Hope Finishing Company of North Dighton, Massachusetts.
He is a trustee and member of the board of investment of the New Bed-
ford Institution for Savings and has other interests of lesser importance.
He is a lifelong Republican, locally active in party afifairs, and in 1890
and 1891 was a member of the common council. He is a vestryman of
Grace Protestant Episcopal Church, and a member of the Wamsutta,
Country and Yacht clubs of New Bedford. His out-of-town clubs are
the Somerset, Union and Harvard of Boston; the Harvard and New
York Yacht of New York City. Yachting is his favorite sport and
recreation. He is chairman of the New Bedford Committee of One Hun-
dred on Public Safety, organized for war precautionary measures, and is
interested in various local organizations, charitable and philanthropic.
He is vice-president and serves on the board of trustees of St. Luke's
Hospital, is vice-president of the New Bedford Branch of the Society
for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children, and in all forward movements
his aid and support can confidently be relied upon.

There are people yet living in New Bedford and vicinity who always
received choice teas from Horatio Hathaway, he being engaged in the
China trade. As a graceful memorial to his father, Mr. Hathaway con-

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tinues this practice and chests of choicest tea are regularly delivered to
those who long ago established the practice of having their favorite
beverage from the Hathaways.

Mrs. Ellen (Rodman) Hathaway, widow of Horatio Hathaway, is
yet a resident of New Bedford, three of her children living with or near
her, Miss Eilen R. Hathaway, Thomas Schuyler Hathaway, and Horatio
Hathaway, Jr., of Dedham, Massachusetts.

WILLIAM H. HAND, JR.

William H. Hand, Jr., the well-known naval architect of New Bed-
ford, Massachusetts, where he is highly honored as a public-spirited and
progressive citizen, comes of a family that has for many years been
associated with naval matters generally. He is a son of Captain William
H. and Sarah S. (Wilcox) Hand, the former an officer in the navy during
the Civil War and the senior captain in the United States R. C. S. at time
of his death.

William H. Hand, Jr., was born at Portland, Maine, December ii,
1875. He attended the local public schools of his native city, completed
his course in the grammar grades in 1890, and graduated from the high
school in 1894, having been prepared for college there. He then entered
Brown University, where he devoted himself to the study of naval archi-
tecture and engineering with the class of 1898. Upon thus completing
his studies, Mr. Hand at once began the practice of his profession, and
met therein with a very gratifying success. His best known work is the
development of the Hand-V-Bottom boats, which are known in all parts
of the world. For twenty years he has been active in his line and in
that time has designed and built many fine craft, the performances of
which have brought him wide renown and a large business. With the
entrance of the United States into the great world war, talent, experi-
ence and training such as that possessed by Mr. Hand have been at a
high premium, and most men in his line are now working for the govern-
ment in connection with its great shipping program. Of these Mr. Hand
is one, and he is now engaged in this, one of the most important of all
services to his country and to the cause of liberty throughout the world.
He acted as district officer for the United States Shipping Board Emer-
gency Fleet Corporation in starting the ship building program in New
England, and is now the naval architect for the naval aircraft factorj- at
the Philadelphia navy-yard, where flying boats are being built. Mr. Hand
is a member of the Wamsutta Club and the New Bedford Yacht Club,
and is a prominent figure in social circles in this city.

William H. Hand, Jr. was united in marriage, June 29, 1905, with
Georgia C. Shaw, daughter of E. H. and Caroline Shaw, of New Bed-
ford, Massachusetts.

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SAMUEL FRANCIS WINSPER.

Mr. Winsper, when a boy, came to the United States with his par-
ents, and through a long, hard course of preparation, involving night
study in public and textile schools, fitted himself for the position of
superintendent, which he has held with the New England Cotton Yarn
Company and with the City Manufacturing Company, his present post
being superintendent of the last-named corporation. In the two mills
owned by the corporation, six hundred operatives are engaged with the
aid of 59,064 spindles in manufacturing carded and combed yarn from the
raw stock. Peeler, Egyptian and Sea Island Cotton.

Samuel Francis Winsper was born in Staffordshire, England, April
7, 1870, and there attended public school until coming to the United
States. He came to New Bedford, Massachusetts, in November, 1884,
and began working as a picker tender in No. 5 of the Wamsutta Alills.
But he possessed courage and knew the road to success lay only in being
a little bit better qualified to advance than the other fellow. He soon had
a better job, and the night schools knew the eager-faced young fellow
who was anxious to learn. Soon he was a third hand, and in 1890 began
working at the Bennett Mills. The New Bedford Textile School attract-
ed him and he enrolled there in night classes, gaining technical knowl-
edge which he was to add to the practical experience of his day position.
He rose to second-hand at the Bennett Mill, continuing as such until
1895, when he went to the City Manufacturing Company as overseer,
and in 1901 was promoted to the post of superintendent, holding this
until December, 1906, when he left to become general superintendent of
the cotton department of Mills Nos. i, 2, 3, 4 and 5 of the New England
Cotton Yarn Company, holding that position until December, 1908, when
he returned to the City Manufacturing Company as superintendent, a
position he yet fills most efficiently. He has other business interests and
serves the Acushnet and the New Bedford Cooperative banks as director.

A Republican in politics, Mr. Winsper has served the city as alder-
man, holding this during the years 1908-09-10, and was chairman of the
board of aldermen in the year 1910. He is now a member of the school
committee, elected in 1916 to serve a term of three years, starting January
I, 1917. He is a trustee of the New Bedford Free Public Library, and
elected in 1915 and reelected in 1918. He was a member of the commit-
tee in charge of the cotton department of the Liberty Bond sale in June,
1917, is a member of Sippican Tribe, Improved Order of Red Men; the
Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks ; past president of and a mem-
ber of the Plymouth Club ; member of Dartmouth Club, Wamsutta Club,
Southern New England Textile Club, and the National Association of
Cotton Manufacturers.

He is the son of Samuel and Hannah (Harper) Winsper, of Stafford-
shire, England. His father died in New Bedford in 1885, and his mother
died in New Bedford, November, 191 1.

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JAMES HENRY MISKELL.

As manager of the Green & Wood Lumber Company, James Henry
Miskell has seen the industry grow from its small beginnings to be one
of the most important in Southern Massachusetts.

He was born in New Bedford, Massachusetts, the son of John and
Margaret (Hassett) Miskell. He was sent to the public schools of the
cown. attending the old Grififin street school, which was a primary
school, and then the old Sixth street school, and finally going to the
Fifth street grammar school and belonging to the class of '7^. He then
went to the Middle street high school and studied under Mr. Rugg.
After leaving school he went into the employ of the Green & Wood
Lumber Company, he being only a boy at the time. He has learned the
whole business in its minutest detail and has seen it grow into a very
prosperous and flourishing concern. Outside of his connection with the
Green & Wood Company, Mr. Miskell is the president of the New Bed-
ford Finance Association. He is past chief ranger and a charter mem-
ber of the M. C. O. F., and also past deputy ranger of the same order.
He holds the rank of past grand knight of the Knights of Columbus, and
is also past district deputy of the order. He is a member and a director
of the Plymouth Club.

Mr. Miskell married, June 24, 1886, at New Bedford, Alargaret L.
O'Brien, daughter of John and Bridget (Byns) O'Brien. They have
four children: Joseph B., James H., Leo Hassett, and Louis O'Brien.

HENRY CARROLL WRIGHT MOSHER.

When, in 1899, Henry C. W. Mosher came to the presidency of the
Merchants' National Bank, New Bedford, Massachusetts, he was the
fifth man to hold that responsible position, that bank having been char-
tered by the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, by act of June 18, 1825.
The history of the institution during its ninety-three years of existence
is entwined with the lives and doings of New Bedford's foremost citizens,
its list of presidents beginning with that sterling citizen, John Avery
Parker, who ruled from incorporation, in 1823, until 1854, he giving way
to Charles R. Tucker, 1854-1876, Jonathan Bourne then succeeding, 1876-
1889. The fourth president was Gilbert Allen, 1889-1899, he being suc-
ceeded in the latter year by Henry C. W. Mosher, the present chief
executive whose term now covers a period of nineteen years of the bank's
greatest exjiansion and prosperity, and marked by its removal to the
handsome building, at the corner of William and Purchase streets, which
is the bank's fourth and present home. As head of this old and sub-
stantial institution, Mr. Mosher occupies a position of importance in the
financial world, which he has proved himself worthy to fill, and under
his guiding hand the best standards of banking law and custom are fully
maintained.

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Mr. Mosher is a descendant of Ensign Mosher, who came to Bos-
ton, in 1636. and died at Newport, Rhode Island, in 1694. Of the origin
of this Hugh Mosher the following is written :

Prior to the year 1600, there were in Manchester, and London, Eng-
land, five brothers by the name of Mosher or Mosier — viz : William,
John, Thomas, Stephen and George. Three of these brothers had sons
named Hugh, who were distinguished men. I — Hugh, son of John
Mosher, went to India, where he amassed a fortune, and on his return to
England was knighted and created a baron. He died in London, leaving
no children. II — Hugh, son of Thomas Mosher, sailed for New Eng-
land, in 1632, and finally settled at Falmouth, Maine. Ill — Ensign Hugh
Mosher, the ancestor of Henry C. W. Mosher, of New Bedford, Massa-
chusetts, to whom this review is inscribed.

Rev. and Ensign Mosher, son of Stephen Mosher, of Manchester,
England, arrived in Boston, in 1636, and settled first at Salem, going
thence to Rhode Island, with his friend, Roger Williams, the early
Apostle of religious freedom, who was pastor of the Salem Church before
settling the rolony in Rhode Island, at Providence, Hugh Mosher aiding
him. He m.arried Lydia Maxon or Masam, they leaving sons : Hugh
(2), John, Nicholas, Joseph, Daniel and James. The line of descent is
through Rev. Hugh (2) Mosher, born in 1633, died in 1713, who mar-
ried (first) Rebecca Harndel. Rev. Hugh (2) and Rebecca Mosher were
the parents of: Nicholas, John, Joseph, Mary, James, Daniel and Re-
becca, the line continuing through the fifth son, Daniel. Daniel Mosher
was born in ^678, and died in 1751. He married, in 1704, Elizabeth Ed-
wards, and they were the parents of eleven children ; the next in direct
line being their son, Benjamin Mosher, born April 19, 1706, who was
succeeded by his son, George Mosher, born October 11, 1740, married,
about 1765, Meribah Brightman, born May 11, 1746, died June 29, 1823,
being killed in a runaway while being driven by her son, Bryce. George
and Meribah Mosher were the parents of a large family including a son,
Bryce Mosher, born February 28, 1777, died March 9, 1863. He married
(first) in December, 1797, Peace GifFord, born March 31, 1780, died No-
vember I, 1S40, the mother of twelve children. He married (second)
Rozilla Decker, they the parents of five children.

Jonathan Mosher. eldest son and second child of Bryce Mosher and
his first wife. Peace (Gifford) Mosher, was born in Westport, Massa-
chusetts, October 4, 1799, died December 19, 1890. He was a man of
high intelligence, self-educated and well-read. For many years he was
toll-keeper of the old New Bedford and Fairhaven toll bridge before it
was made free, and later bought a farm in Fairhaven upon which he lived
to a good old age, honored and respected. He was an ardent Abolition-
ist, aiding in the operation of the "Underground Railroad" by which
many slaves escaped to Canada. He married (first) in June, 1824, Cath-
erine Soule, born February 25, 1793, died February 6, 1825, without issue.
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1804, died April 26, 1874, sister of his first wife, both tracing descent to
a "Mayflower" ancestor, George Soule. He married (third) in 1875,
Susan Starkey. Jonathan Mosher and his second wife, Abigail (Soule)
Mosher, were the parents of seven sons and four daughters : i. James E.,
born October 12, 1828, died November 30, 1829. 2. James Edwin, born Au-
gust 25, 1830, believed to be living in Australia. 3. William Coe, born
December 19. 1832, whereabouts unknown. 4. Angeline Caroline, born
March 9, 1S35, died November 4, 1836. 5. Charles Edward Everett, born
May 8, 1836, died November 19, 1915; he married, July 22, 1875, Mary
Elizabeth Briggs, born May 28, 1852 ; they had two children : i. Charlotte
Shirley, born May 15, 1876, married Walter L. Weeden, born November
28, 1875, and had a son, William Nye Weeden, born July 31, 1904. ii.
Brycia Gladys, born August 11, 1886, married Thomas W. Williams,
born July 26. 1886. 6. Abbie Catherine, born May 8, 1838, died Novem-
ber 7, 1910; married, July 6, 1865, Charles A. Johnson, who died August
31, 1889, without issue. 7. Mary Ellen, born March 22, 1840, died Febru-
ary 28, 1841. 8. Mary Everline, born November 19, 1841, died July 31,
1915. 9. Cyrus Burleigh, born November 25, 1843, died April 26, 1859.
10. Henry Carroll Wright, of further mention. 11. Eliza Caroline, born
October 16, 1847, died August 10, 1848.

Henry Carroll Wright Mosher, youngest son and tenth child of Jon-
athan Mosher and his second wife, Abigail (Soule) Mosher, and the last
survivor of that family, was born in New Bedford, Massachusetts, Au-
gust 12, 1845, and there spent the first seven years of his life. He then
was taken by his parents to the farm they had purchased. He was edu-
cated in the Fairhaven public schools, finishing with graduation from
high school, his brother, Charles Edward Everett, a well known educator
of his day, being one of his instructors and lending the weight of his influ-
ence in keeping the lad in school. Later he pursued courses of study in
Comer's Commercial College, in Boston, beginning his business career
as a clerk with Wood, Brightman & Company, tinsmiths, remaining with
that firm for six years, 1864-1870, becoming a clerk in the employ of the
Merchants' National Bank, of New Bedford, in August, 1870. After three
years in clerical position he was advanced to the post of teller, remain-
ing at that desk twelve years, then in 1885 becoming assistant cashier
with Peleg C. Howland, who had been cashier for twenty-seven years,
1858-1885. One month later Mr. Howland died, and Mr. Mosher became
cashier. He continued the able, efficient cashier for about fourteen years,
1885-1899, then early in the year 1899, the death of Gilbert Allen, who
had been president of the bank for ten years, caused a vacancy in the
executive office which was filled by the board of directors electing Mr.
Mosher as his successor and the bank's fifth president. At the time of
his elevation to the presidency Mr. Mosher had been in the bank's employ
for twenty-nine years. 1870-1899, and since that event nearly nineteen
years have elapsed. His rise from clerk to president was rapid, and in
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through natural selection. That he filled a post for thirty-two years that
was honored by that strong and eminent citizen, James B. Congdon, the
first cashier of the bank, and another filled by another eminent son of
New Bedford, John Avery Parker, the bank's first president, is a guaran-
tee of high efficiency and sterling character in itself, while a perusal of
the names of the presidents and cashiers of the bank rivals a list of men
who have figured prominently in New Bedford history tor the past cen-
tury and more — men who not less than the institution with which they
were connected have been important factors in New Bedford's growth,
prosperity and greatness.

In addition to his bank responsibilities, Mr. Mosher is a director of
the Kilburn Mill, and the Grinnell Mill, both of New Bedford, the Borden
City Mill of Fall River, Massachusetts, New Bedford and Agawam Fin-
ishing Company of East Wareham, Massachusetts, and has other inter-
ests of importance. He is a Republican in politics, active In its interest,
but as a citizen never holding nor desiring public office. He is a member
of Star of the East Lodge, Free and Accepted Masons ; Adoniram Chap-
ter, Royal Arch Masons; New Bedford Council, Royal and Select Mas-
ters : Sutton Commandery, Knights Templar. Now the veteran banker
of nearly half a century, and past life's summit, Mr. Mosher takes no
advantage of the years he owns, but devotes the business hours of the
day to the duties as bank executive, and is the strong, virile, level-headed
man of affairs. His business life has been spent with the Merchants'
National, and the name of the institution and the executive are synony-
mous in New Bedford.

Mr. Mosher married, June 17, 1869, Evelyn E. Gerrish, of Fairhaven,
Massachusetts, and they are the parents of a daughter and a son: i.
Grace Matilda, born April 23, 1870, married, June 2, 1896, James H.
Coffin, born March 31, 1S65. 2. Harry Gerrish, born February 25, 1873,
now engaged in the life insurance business in New York City ; he mar-
ried, in October, 1896. Sarah A. Dunham, born September i, 1878, their
only child being Gwendolyn Elizabeth, born March 30, 1898, she of the
tenth American generation of the family founded by Rev. and Ensign
Hugh Mosher.

JOSEPH PIERRE ST. GERMAIN, M. D.

Dr. Joseph P. St. Germain, one of the successful and efficient mem-
bers of the medical fraternity in the city of New Bedford, stands for
something in the community far more important than any concrete
accomplishment, he stands for probity and integrity in professional rela-
tions, for a conscientious fulfillment of the duties of citizenship, for virtue
in the domestic relations, and for a sterling manhood that may well serve
as a model for the youth of his own and other communities.

Dr. Joseph P. St. Germain was bom in Sherbrooke, Province of
Quebec, Canada, April 19, 1863, a son of Pierre D. and Vitalie (Le-

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Vesque) St. Germain, the former named having been one of two sons
born to his ;)arents, who were natives of France, from whence they emi-
grated to Canada, the name of the other son being Napolean. Pierre D.
St. Germain travelled considerably during his young manhood, spending
a number of years in Chile, South America, then returned to Canada and
was a general merchant and a well known citizen of Sherbrooke, taking
a prominent part in the development of that city. His marriage occurred
in Sherbrooke, and he and his wife were the parents of the following
named children : Edmund A., Ezeris, Joseph P., George A., Vitalie M.,
Emilie C, Marie, Georgiana and Ida, all born in Sherbrooke except the
youngest, who was born in Concord, New Hampshire. They all received
excellent educations, attending seminaries and colleges.

Dr. Joseph P. St. Germain attended the Seminary of St. Charles Bor-
romeo, Sheriirooke, from which he graduated in 1880; then studied for a
period of alrrost three years at McGill University, in the faculty of medi-
cine, at Montreal, and then became a student at Dartmouth Medical Col-
lege, from which he graduated in 1885. He served as medical student at
the Montreal General Hospital during his studentship at McGill Univer-
sity. In the year of his graduation, Dr. St. Germain began practicing
medicine at Keene, New Hampshire, and continued until 1888, a period
of three years, then removed to Manchester, New Hampshire, and in the
following year, 1889, took up his residence in New Bedford and has since
engaged in vvfork of a general character, which has been highly success-
ful, he having an extensive and lucrative practice. He has held the posi-
tion of medical inspector of schools for many years, and also serves in the
same capacity for the Board of Health. He is a member of the Sanitary
Reserve Corps of the State of Massachusetts, of the New Bedford Medi-
cal Society, Massachusetts Medical Society, the American Medical Soci-
ety, of the Wamsutta Club, and was formerly a member of the Dart-
mouth Club and one of its directors, and formerly a member of the New
Bedford Yacht Club. His religious affiliation is with St. James Roman
Catholic Church, and his political allegiance is given to the Republican
party.

Dr. St. Germain married. November 29, 1917, at St. Lawrence
Roman Catholic Church, New Bedford, Alice J. Macomber, daughter of
George Taber and Hannah M. (Gerraughty) Newcomber, a sketch of
whom follows. Mrs. St. Germain attended the public and the Mosher
Preparatory schools of New Bedford, also Tufts College and Swain
School of Design.

GEORGE TABER MACOMBER.

Among the native-born sons of New Bedftird, men who have led
lives of activity and usefulness, characterized by probity and integrity,
men whose lives should act as an inspiration for the youth of the present
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Bedford, Massachusetts, January 24, 1851, and whose death occurred
December 4, 1914. He was a son of John and Hannah (Taber) Mac-
omber, the former named a well-known merchant of New Bedford, and
they were the parents of two other children, Abba A. and Harriet S.
Macomber.

George Taber Macomber obtained a practical education by attend-
ing the public schools of New Bedford, and the Pierce Academy, Middle-
boro, Massachusetts, from which institution he was graduated. In 1870,
at the age of nineteen years, he began his business career, his first posi-
tion being that of clerk in the Five Cents Savings Bank, Boston, where
he served until 1881. when he engaged in the grain business in New
Bedford, and in 1885 turned his attention to stocks, bonds and cotton
brokerage, conducting his operations in New Bedford, Massachusetts,
and Providence, Rhode Island, achieving therein a large degree of suc-
cess. He cast his vote for the candidates of the Republican party, but
took no active part otherwise in political affairs. Mr. Macomber was a
member of the Friends' Society, but his family are affiliated with the
Roman Catholic church.

Mr. Macomber married. July 8, 1883, in New Bedford, Hannah M.,
daughter of Martin and Bridget (McDonald) Gerraughty. They were
the parents of one child, Alice J., born June 13, 18S4, in New Bedford,
became the wife of Dr Joseph P. St. Germain, of New Bedford.

ALLEN PHELPS KEITH.

Well known as an educator in this part of the State of Massachu-
setts, and superintendent of public schools of New Bedford, Allen Phelps
Keith comn.ands a position of prominence in the commimity of New
Bedford. He comes of Scotch stock, being a descendant in the eighth
generation of the Rev. James Keith, a Scotchman, who was the first
minister of Bridgewater.

The Re\. James Keith came at the age of eighteen in 1662 from
Aberdeen, Scotland, was ordained in 1664, married Susanna Edson, and
died in 1719. His son, John Keith, married, in 1711, Hannah Washburn,
and lived in Bridgewater. Among their children was Zephaniah Keith,
born in Bridgewater, in 1730. He married Mary Hooper, and in the
latter part of his life lived in Sheldon, Vermont, where some of his sons
had settled. His oldest son. Israel Keith, graduated from Harvard Col-
lege in 1771, and became .Adjutant-General of Massachusetts. Among
his other sons was Cyrus Keith, born in Middleboro, and there he made
his home. He enlisted as a private in the Revolutionary War. serving
in Captain Nehemiah Allen's company, Colonel Theophilus Cotton's
regiment, and served thirty-one days on a secret expedition to Rhode
Island, September and October, 1777. He married Bathsheba Sprout,

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daughter of Colonel Sprout, in whose command Air. Keith served in the
latter period of the war. Their son, John (2) Keith, married Abigail
Thomas, and died in Middleboro at the age of sixty-three. Their son,
Thomas Keith, was born at Middleboro, followed the trade of nailmaker
in Bridgewater, and died there in 1872. He married Julia A. White,
daughter of Martin and Parmelia (Washburn) White. Among their
children was Alfred T. Keith, born in East Taunton, Massachusetts. He
was educated in the public schools of Middleboro, and became an iron
worker, following the trade in Bridgewater and later in New Hampshire
and in Rhode Island He married Mary B. Phelps, daughter of Allen
Phelps, and a descendant of the well-known Phelps family of Connecti-
cut. Among their children is Allen Phelps, of whom further.

Allen Phelps Keith, son of Alfred T. and Mary B. (Phelps) Keith,
was born in Brideewater, Connecticut, December 18, 1872. He gained
his elementary education at the schools of his native town. He went
to the schools of Nashua, New Hampshire, when for a time the family
resided there, and then went to Bridgewater Academy on their return to
that town. He then went to the State Normal School at Bridgewater
under Dr. Boyden, and graduated in 1894. He had decided to make
teaching his profession, and his first position was at Pascoag, Rhode
Island, where he taught for a year and a half, and was then appointed
superintendent of the schools of Burrillton, Rhode Island, from which
position he \Yent to a similar one in East Providence. He remained here
for two years and then came to New Bedford, to teach in the Clifford
School, where he remained until he received the appointment of superin-
tendent of the schools of New Bedford, to succeed W. E. Hatch. Mr.
Keith has filled the position with great acceptability and proved himself
an inspiring and magnetic leader of youth and a capable and progressive
executive. He is a natural scholar and does much by his example and
forceful personality to set up the standards of cultivated efficiency before
his pupils. Under his wise administration the schools have advanced
along the most accredited lines of modern educational methods. Mr.
Keith is a member of Fellowship Lodge, Ancient Free and Accepted
Masons ; of Adoniram Chapter, Royal Arch Masons ; New Bedford Coun-
cil, Royal and Select Masters ; and Sutton Commandery, Knights Tem-
plar, all of New Bedford. He is a member of the National Education
Association. He has always taken a keen interest in the work of the
Young Men's Christian Association, and is a chairman of its social com-
mittee. In politics he is an Independent. In his religious affiliations he
is a member of the church of the New Jerusalem.

Mr. Keith married, June 26, 1900, in Pascoag. Rhode Island, Emma
Louise Harriman, daughter of Henry P. and Carrie (Mathewson) Harri-
man. Their children are: Arthur Reginald, born April 2, 1906; Don,
born November 25, 1907; Allen P.. Jr., born June 4, 1914.

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WILLIAM RUSSELL WEST.

Among the practical business men of the city of New Bedford, men
who have attained success as the result of straightforward methods, keen
judgment and perseverance, must be mentioned the name of William
Russell West, a native of New Bedford, born July 26, 1857, son of John
P. and Ellen C. (Lelock) West, the former named an agriculturist, also
engaged in t'le painting business.

William R. West attended the public schools of his native city, and
after completing the course of study there learned the painting business
under the preceptorship of his father, mastering its every detail, and in
1880 embarked in the retail paint supply business on his own account.
His trade increased materially and eventually he enlarged the scope of
his business, taking on textile top roll covering and mill supplies, and in
this branch he gained considerable trade from the cotton mills of the city,
and in this specialty, at the present time (1918) has probably the largest
supply business of its kind in the country. The business, which is now
extensive in its proportions, is transacted in an efficient manner at No.
1886 Purchase street, this being the location where Mr. West engaged in
business thiity-eight years ago. In addition to the business already
referred to, Mr. West serves in the capacity of president of the Conti-
nental Wood Screw Company, as director of the New Bedford, Onset and
Union Street Railway, the Wamsutta Mills, and the Mechanics' National
Bank, and as a trustee on the investment board of the Five Cents Sav-
ings Bank, both of New Bedford. He affiliates with the Republican
party, and for two years, under Mayor David L. Parker's administration,
was alderman from the Fourth Ward. His religious belief is that of the
Unitarian church, and he is a thirty-second degree Mason, and a member
of the Wamsutta Club of New Bedford.

Mr. West married, January 5, 1887, in New Bedford, Abbie W.
Lewis, daughter of Elijah W. and Mary (Simmons) Lewis. They are
the parents of one child, Elsie M., born May 14, 1888.

CHARLES STETSON MENDELL.

Charles Stetson Mendell, president of the Mendell Manufacturing
Company, w hose factories are located at New Bedford and Mattapoisett,
is a native of Mattapoisett, Massachusetts, born November 29, 1861, son
of John and Abby (Bolles) Mendell, old and prominent residents of
Mattapoisett. the former named proprietor of a country store.

Charles S. Mendell attended the public and high schools of his native
place, and early in life identified himself with the electrical industry and
has held many important positions, having served the E. & T. Fairbanks
Company, of St. Johnsbury, Vermont, as electrical engineer ; the Eco-
nomic Electric Company, of Brocklin, as superintendent : and the Union
Street Railway Company, of New Bedford, as electrician, when the sys-

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tern was changed from horse to electric power, and for the Dartmouth &
Westport Street Railway during construction. For the past twenty years
Mr. Mendell has been actively engaged in the manufacture of electrical
switch boards, and is at present (1918) president of the company that
bears his name. He has always taken an active part in the affairs of his
native town, and served in the capacity of chairman of a committee of
twenty in charge of the semi-centennial celebration of the town in 1907.
At the present time he is serving as chairman of the board of water com-
missioners of Mattapoisett. and he was formerly a member of the New
Bedford Board of Trade. He attends the Congregational church, is a
member of Machacam Club, the Mattapoisett Grange, Patrons of Hus-
bandry, and a former member of the Wamsutta Club of New Bedford.

Mr. Mandell married (first) in Mattapoisett, December 6, 1888, Carol
Barstow Dennis, daughter of Captain John S. and Mary Mason (Bars-
tow) Dennis, old and prominent residents of Mattapoisett. Children :
Annie Dennis, born December 6, 1891 ; John Dennis, born September 12,
1893; and Abby. born in July, 1895. Mr. Mendell married (second) Flor-
ence Freman Purrington, daughter of George, Jr.. and Olivia H. (Fre-
man) Purrington. They are the parents of one child, Charles Stetson,
Jr., born March 7, 1910.

ALFRED E. RICHARD, M. D.

Prominent among the members of the medical profession in the city
of New Bedford is Dr. Alfred E. Richard, a native of St. Paschal, Prov-
ince of Quel>ec, Canada, a son of George and Henriette (Frechette) Rich-
ard, old and prominent residents of St. Paschal.

He attended the St. Anne Lapacatiere Seminary at St. Anne, Prov-
ince of Quebec, Canada, graduating therefrom in 1879 with the degree of
Bachelor of Arts. He then entered Lavalle University at Quebec, Can-
ada, where he pursued a course of study for three and one-half years, and
later matriculated at Victoria College, Montreal, from which institution
he graduated in 1884 with the degree of Doctor of Medicine. He began
the practice of medicine at his native town and continued for a period of
two years, after which he came to the United States and located in
Somersworth, New Hampshire, where he practiced for about three years,
then removed to New Bedford, Massachusetts, continuing the practice
of his profession for several years ; in 1900 changed his place of residence
to Attleboro. Massachusetts, remaining there two years, engaged in the
practice of medicine, then returned to Canada, where he remained for
several years, and finally again took up his residence in New Bedford,
where he is engaged in active practice at the present time (1918). He is
a member of the Mutual Medical Association, Inc., and of St. Anthony's
Roman Catholic Church. Dr. Richard married, at Fall River, Massachu-
setts, February 6, 1910, Malvina Levesque.

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ROBERT GILBERT BENNETT.

Robert Gilbert Bennett, for many years a resident and one of the
prominent business men of New Bedford, Massachusetts, is a native of
this State, and a son of Robert and Weltha (Jenney) Bennett, old and
highly respected members of the community, where the former was
engaged in business as a cabinet-maker in connection with the ship build-
ing industry here.

Robert Gilbert Bennett was born in Marion, Massachusetts, August
19, 1840, but came to this city at an early age, and has made his resi-
dence here ever since. He had very little opportunity for education in
his boyhood, but was full of energy and ambition and was always striving
to better himself and his environment. He earned his first dollar work-
ing in the gardens of the late Mayor Willard Nye, of New Bedford, when
a little lad, but in spite of the necessity of earning a living at so early an
age, he managed to spend some time at the public schools here, time of
which he took the very best advantage. His first regular position was
that of clerk m the grocery store of William B. Dwight, and after remain-
ing some little time in this concern he worked in various positions in
mercantile establishments of the city, selling dry goods, furniture and
other commodities. Throughout these experiences, which covered a
period of years, the young man had, with praiseworthy energy and thrift,
laid by a considerable portion of his earnings and found himself in the
year 1893 in a position to engage in business on his own account. Accord-
ingly he opened at that time an undertaking establishment at No. 356
Acushnet avenue, and at the same time, desiring to make a specialty of
this business and profession, he took a course in one of the best schools
of anatomy and embalming in the country, where he studied most dili-
gently and made himself an expert in the science. His enterprise was
successful from the outset, and after seven years, in which the business
had steadily grown, he removed from Acushnet avenue to his new and
finely equipped establishment at No. 7 South Sixth street. New Bedford.
For fifteen years he remained at this place doing a highly successful
business, and at the end of that time retired from active life. This retire-
ment was caused by Mr. Bennett's failure of health and was made much
against his will as it was his feeling that a man should always remain
active as long as health permitted. His achievement is one that he can
look back upon with pride, however, for he remained for twenty-two
years in the same enterprise and in the course of that time built up what
was considered the best establishment of its kind in the city. His retire-
ment occurred in the year 191 5. and since that time Mr. Bennett has de-
voted himself to his family and home life. He is a man of retiring dispo-
sition and mture, and his domestic life means more to him than to the
average man. He is justly proud of his home at No. 57 South Sixth
street, where he and his wife are hosts to many visitors. Mr. Bennett is
affiliated with the Re])ublican party and takes an active interest in local

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politics, but only in the capacity of voter. He has often been urged by
his friends and associates to take a more direct part in affairs, but here,
once more, his retiring nature asserts itself and he has preferred not to
emerge from private life. He never fails, however, to do his duty as a
citizen and is quite independent in casting his vote for the candidate or
cause that he believes best for the community, whether local or general.
Mr. Bennett is a Methodist in his religious belief and is a member of the
County Street Church of that denomination, and for many years was one
of the church officials.

Robert Gilbert Bennett was united in marriage. June 5, 1864, with
Mary Elizabeth Gifford, born November 30, 1839, at New Bedford, a
daughter of Peleg and Eliza (Brightman) Gifford, of this place. To Mr.
and Mrs. Bennett the following children have been born : Albert Case,
who died in infancy; Lillias Mason, born March 31. 1870, educated in the
public and high schools of New Bedford, and became the wife of Cyrus
J. Gidley, of New Bedford.

LEANDER ALLEN PLUMMER.

Three of New Bedford's business men have borne the name, Leander
Allen Plummer, two of them now deceased, the third is one of the young
business men of the city. Leander Allen Plummer (i) was one of the
pioneer business men here, and one of the founders of the New Bedford
Cordage Company. He married Elizabeth Merrihew, and they had four
sons, amongst them being Leander Allen Plummer (2), who was born
in New Bedford, Massachusetts, June 12, 1857, and died February 10,
1914. He was educated in the Friends' Academy at New Bedford, and
Harvard University, graduating with the class of 1880. after full courses
in which he specialized in civil and mining engineering, the professions
he later followed for a short time. He then went to France and studied
art at one of the well-known Paris art schools. He returned to America
and made that his life's work. Mr. Plummer attained a wide reputation
in this country for his specialty in wood carving. His carvings of marine
life has no equal, perhaps, and many of his specimens are on exhibition at
various museums of natural history. He married, in Fairhaven, Massa-
chusetts, September 22, 1886, Amelia Hallet Hawes, daughter of John
A. and Amelia (H.allet) Hawes. They were the parents of: Leander
Allen (3), of further mention; Elizabeth, married Francis B. Grinnell ;
Anna; and Marianne.

Leander Allen (3) Plummer. only son of Leander Allen (2) and
Amelia Hallet (Hawes) Plummer, was born in Fairhaven, Massachu-
setts, September 15, 1S87. He was educated in Mosher's Home Prepara-
tory- School, and Groton Preparatory School, at Groton, Massachusetts.
After completing his studies he engaged in business as a cotton broker,
and has since continued in it. He served two and a half years in the

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Fourth Company Coast Artillery, Massachusetts Volunteer Militia, and
served as first lieutenant of the machine gun company, Seventeenth
Regiment, Massachusetts State Guard. He is a Republican in politics,
and a member of the Wamsutta Club. Mr. Plummer married, January
i6, 1917, Margaret Theresa McGrath.

FREDERICK G. CHADBOURNE.

Frederick G. Chadbourne, a native son of the State of Massachusetts,
interested at the present time in real estate operations, with offices in
New Bedford and Fall River, was born in Brighton, Massachusetts, No-
vember 14, 1862, son of Charles H. and Ida A. (Jorrie) Chadbourne, who
were for many years residents of Brighton, Massachusetts, well and
favorably known, Mrs. Chadbourne a daughter of a prominent elder of a
Methodist church in Potsdam, New York, author of religious books.

Frederick G. Chadbourne obtained a practical education in the pub-
lic schools of Providence, Rhode Island, and this was supplemented by a
course in Jencks Mowry Academy of Providence. From the completion
of his studies until the year 1905 he engaged in mercantile pursuits, then
embarked in the real estate business in company with others, continuing
until 1910, in which year he branched out for himself as the owner of the
Cooperative Land Company, conducting operations as such until it was
merged into the Citizens' Ice Company in Providence, Rhode Island, of
which Mr. Chadbourne was the president. Thus the Citizens' Ice Com-
pany became a holding company for the Cooperative Land Company,
both companies coming under the same executive. Desiring to concen-
trate his efforts in real estate development, Mr. Chadbourne organized
the F. G. Chadbourne Land Trust, in 1917, with offices in New Bedford
and Fall River, and this association has recently acquired an enormously
large tract of land in the outskirts of Fall River, on Sanford road, on and
near the South Watuppa Lake, which will take a number of years to
develop, but when completed will be a most attractive residential section,
adding greatly to the immediate surroundings. Although deeply inter-
ested in his business activities, Mr. Chadbourne has found time to devote
his attention to political affairs, his allegiance being given to the Repub-
lican party, the principles of which he believes to be for the best interests
of the people. For a period of three years he served as a town council-
man in Johnston, Rhode Island, which is now part of the city of Provi-
dence, and he also served as secretary of the Republican town committee.

GREENE & WOOD.

The business of Greene & Wood dates back in New Bedford's earlier
history, having been originated by Samuel Leonard in the year 1835. He
started in the lumber business at the bend of Clarks Cove, and for manv

558 NEW BEDFORD

years all the timber that was brought from the East by vessels into the
cove was rafted ashore. After a few years he built Leonard's Wharf on
the water front, now Greene & Wood's Wharf, and the business was
removed there, and here it has since remained. About this time Samuel
Leonard's son, Henry T. Leonard, took over the business, forming a
partnership with Augustus A. Greene, a prominent young carpenter, who
had come here from Providence to build the houses now occupied by Dr.
John G. Hathaway, Miss Julia Delano and the homestead of the late
Frederick Grinnell. Under the firm name of Leonard & Greene, the
business was continued until 1848, when Henry T. Wood bought out
Henry T. Leonard and the name became Greene & Wood. Under this
name it has remained for seventy years, and in one location has car-
ried on the business with success.

William G. W'ood, a brother of Henry T. Wood, entered the firm in
1861, and so remained until his death in 1906, and Augustus A. Greene
retired in 1872. On the death of Henry T. Wood, in 1883, his two sons,
George R. and Edmund Wood, entered the firm, and in 1906 they became
the sole owners of Greene & Wood. This well-known plant has been
worthily conducted and developed by the sons, both of whom are the
active, efificient heads of the business to-day. Their yards, mill and
offices are on Pine street, off South Water street, New Bedford. Their
share in the upbuilding of New Bedford has been an important one, and
although their identity is somewhat obscured in the firm name, Greene
& Wood, all New Bedford knows that the Wood energy, spirit, progres-
siveness and propelling force has for many years maintained the high
speed at which this firm has moved and kept to the front.

Greene & Wood now owns and occupies eleven acres of land on the
water front, including a wharf, and the entire area is utilized in that busi-
ness. There is a large and modernized planing mill, a part of this estab-
lishment is probably the oldest planing mill in Massachusetts, and here
are kept as relics two of the earliest planing machines ever constructed,
one bearing the date 1838 and the other 1845. This firm carries a com-
plete stock of building lumber. It also carries on a large wholesale busi-
ness in yellow pine timber and plank received directly by vessel from
Florida and the Gulf States. A branch of the business is maintained in
the town of Falmouth under the name of the Wood Lumber Company.

EDMUND WOOD.

Edmund Wood is a public-spirited man and very active in all that
pertains to the welfare of his native city. He graduated from Brown
University in the class of 1876. He early took an interest in city affairs
and civic duty. He represented Ward Six in the common council for
four years and two years was its president. When the board of public
works was established, he was one of the first members appointed and

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served for two years. A Republican in politics, he was in those earlier
years quite active in party affairs, and for eight years was secretary or
chairman of the Republican city committee. In 1893 he was elected a
member of the water board and served for six years. It was during his
term of office that the new water supply was planned and constructed.
The city by vote gave to the water board a credit of $1,200,000, and this
extended an important project was carried out within the time set for
its accomplishment and without running over the amount appropriated.
This work attracted the attention of other cities of the Commonwealth,
because of the novel and daring exploit of securing for the city by pur-
chasing, apparently for private individuals, all the land surrounding the
two Oquittacas ponds. The amount paid was insignificant when com-
pared with the prices other cities have been and are paying for the control
of the water shed of the city's supply. This was a memorable and most
valuable service to the community which will be more fully recognized
in a few years, when these hundred of acres of woodland are used and
beautified by the city as a great municipal reservation.

Mr. Wood is chairman of the school committee of the Swain Free
School of Design ; also a member and chairman of the advisory council
of Brown University, and in 1918 was elected a trustee. In 1909 he was
elected secretary of the New Bedford Institution for Savings, succeeding
his uncle, William G. Wood, who served for twenty-four years, and his
father, Henry T. Wood, who served twenty-two years, so for fifty-five
years, since 1862, this venerable institution has had but three secretaries.
In 1907 he was elected to succeed Mr. William W. Crapo and became the
second president of the Old Dartmouth Historical Society and held the
office for six years. In the published proceedings of the society are
many short historical addresses delivered by him.

Mr. Wood married, in 1905, Margaret C. Earle, daughter of Oliver
K. Earle, of Worcester, Massachusetts.

GEORGE RUSSELL WOOD.

George Russell Wood, a well-known and active business man of his
native city, after completing grammar and high school courses, entered
the Moses Brown School in Providence, Rhode Island, and was there
graduated \\ith the class of 1870. Since 1883 he has been a member of
the firm of Greene & Wood, and in 1906 became one of the sole owners
of the business. He is a trustee of the Five Cents Savings Bank, affiliated
with the Republican party, served for three years on the school commit-
tee, in the eighties ; a member of Pacific Lodge, Independent Order of
Odd Fellows ; Abraham H. Howland Lodge, Free and Accepted Masons,
and member and director of the New Bedford Yacht Club, and in reli-
gious faith is a Friend.

Mr. Wood married, in 1888, Isabelle Richmond, who died in 1905.

56o NEW BEDFORD

She was a daughter of Joshua Richmond, a clothier of New Bedford.
Their children are : Richmond, born in 1889, graduate of Moses Brown
School, a lumber salesman, now a member of the United States Coast
Patrol (1917); Russell, born 1892, educated in New Bedford schools and
at Berkshire School, graduated from Harvard College, and now a student
at the Harvard Medical School.

GEORGE IRVING MACY.

George Irving Macy, one of the representative business men of New
Bedford, Massachusetts, and a member of the well known firm of Fred-
erick B. Macy & Company, cotton, yarn and cloth brokers, of this city,
is a son of Frederick and Helen M. Macy, old and highly respected resi-
dents here.

George Irving Macy was born at New Bedford, March 8, i860, and
has made his home here during practically his entire life. He attended
in boyhood the local public schools and proved himself an apt and indus-
trious student, and upon completing his studies at these institutions
entered the employ of the Wamsutta Cotton Mills Company, a large New-
Bedford concern. He was a hardworking and intelligent youth, and soon
learned the process of manufacture very thoroughly and made himself of
great value to his employers. This value they acknowledged by advanc-
ing him rapidly, and he continued to remain in the same concern until
the year 1895, when he was made superintendent of spinning there. He
then received an offer of the position of superintendent of the North
Dighton Mills, which he accepted and continued to hold for a matter of
two years. In 1897, however, he took a similar position with the Grin-
nell Mills of New Bedford and remained there for fourteen years in all.
In 191 1 he became the superintendent of the Soule Mills, and in 1914
entered the firm of Frederick B. Macy & Company, where he is now situ-
ated. This concern is a large and influential one, and Mr. Macy is a
prominent figure in the business life of the city.

In politics Mr. Macy is a strong Republican, his beliefs and sym-
pathies being in accord with its principles, but although he is keenly
interested in the great issues of his time, the demands made upon his
energies by che conduct of his business are such as to leave him but little
opportunity for active participation in public affairs. He is well known
in fraternal and club circles here, however, and is a member of Star in the
East Lodge, Ancient Free and Accepted Masons ; Odoniram Chapter,
Royal Arch Masons; New Bedford Council, Royal and Select Masters;
and Sutton Commandery, Knights Templar. Besides these Masonic
bodies he is affiliated with the Veteran Firemen's Association ; the Ameri-
can Cotton Manufacturers' Association of New Bedford ; a director of the
Protective Society of New Bedford, and a member of the Kolon Club of
Pawtucket, Rhode Island. In his religious belief Mr. Macy is a Con-
gregationalist and attends the North Church of that denomination.

NEW BEDFORD 561

George Irving Macy married (first) October 4, 1892, Eliza L. Luce,
a daughter of Captain Thomas and Hannah Luce. Her death occurred
April 27, 1908. He married (second) October 18, 1910, Helen C. Hervey,
daughter of James W. and Elizabeth Hervey.

ALBERT GARDNER MASON.

Mr. Mason inherits sound business ability and traits from his father
and grandfather, which heritage has contributed to his success as treas-
urer of the Whitman Mills, one of the largest corporations of New Bed-
ford, Massachusetts. The Whitman Mills is capitalized at $2,000,000, has
two mills of about 200,000 spindles and 5,000 looms, employing about
2,000 operatives on the finest plain and fancy cotton goods, cotton and
silk mixtures, and fine yarns. It has helped supply the United States
Government with very particular fabrics during the war.

Albert G. Mason comes from an old family long identified with
Worcester, Massachusetts. His grandfather, John Coolidge Mason, was
the inspiration for many progressive enterprises of his day. He was a
partner in the old firm of Ruggles, Nourse & Mason, which firm manu-
factured the farm plow invented by Joel Nourse and other agricultural
implements. This firm was later absorbed by the present Ames Plow
Company. John Coolidge Mason was also president of the Central
National Bank of Worcester, and first president of the Peoples' Savings
Bank of Worcester, which he organized.

John Frederick Mason, son of John Coolidge Mason, was born in
Worcester, Massachusetts, in 1839, and died in September, 1907. He was
a prominent manufacturer and well-known citizen.

Albert Gardner Mason, son of John Frederick Mason, was born in
Worcester, Massachusetts, January 19, 1878. He completed a full public
school course and was graduated from the Worcester Classical High
School in 1896. He then entered Harvard University, and graduated
with the class of 1900. In college he was identified with Harvard ath-
letics, being on the Mott Haven team, of which he was also manager, and
also president of the Inter-Collegiate Athletic Association. From Har-
vard, Mr. Mason went into the banking and brokerage business, being
for a time as.sociated with Kinnicutt & De Witt, of Worcester. After six
months with them, dating from August, 1900, he went with Kidder, Pea-
body & Company, of Boston, in April. 1901, remaining with that well-
known house four and one-half years. He then became assistant man-
ager of Fisk & Robinson, bankers of Worcester, Massachusetts, continu-
ing with that firm until the summer of 1907. He became assistant treas-
urer of the Whitman Mills, New Bedford, Massachusetts, July i, 1907,
and in December, 1907, on the death of William C. Taber, succeeded
him as treasurer. He is also secretary and director of the Ma.son Brush
Works, of Worcester: a director of the American Mutual Liability Insur-

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562 NEW BEDFORD

ance Company, of Boston, and director of the Worcester Manufacturers'
Mutual Fire Insurance Company. His clubs are the Harvard Club of
New York ; Harvard Club of Boston, Varsity Club of Cambridge, Hasty
Pudding Club of Cambridge, Institute 1770 Cambridge, Arkwright Club
of Boston, and Wamsutta Club of New Bedford.

Mr. Mason married, in Cohasset, Massachusetts, June 3, 191 1, Caro-
line Humphrey Gay. daughter of Harrv- Howard and Caroline Louisa
(Dorr) Gay, of Boston.

CHARLES MITCHELL.

On paternal and maternal lines, Charles Mitchell, an honored prac-
titioner at the Bristol county bar located in New Bedford, descends from
pure Scotch ancestors, who settled in the north of Ireland, later moving
to Sligo, on the northwest coast. There Robert Mitchell lived, and there
in the city of Sligo his son, John Mitchell, was born, and there owned
and operated a small grist mill. He married Elizabeth McKim, and they
the parents of five sons : Robert, of further mention ; William, Charles,
Kim., and a daughter Jane, married a Mr. Ferguson. John Mitchell was
a member of the Episcopal Church, his wife a Wesleyan Methodist.

Robert Mitchell, son of John and Elizabeth Mitchell, and father of
Charles Mitchell of New Bedford, was born in Sligo, Ireland, but when
a young man came to the United States, and for several years resided
near Buflfalo, New York. His parents needed him at home, and he
returned to care for them in their declining years, and there he resided
until their death. While at the old home he married Rebecca O'Neill,
of English and Irish parentage, and in 1880, with his entire family,
Robert Mitchell again came to the United States. In 1885 he became a
citizen, and is yet living in Pitman, Connecticut, his wife deceased. A
carpenter by trade, he became a skilled workman and most of his active
life was in charge of other men as foreman. He is a member of the
Methodist Episcopal church, and a Republican in politics. Children of
Robert and Rebecca (O'Neill) Mitchell: John G. Mitchell, deceased,
Deputy-Secretary of State. Connecticut ; Elizabeth, deceased ; Rebecca,

deceased ; Charles, of further mention ; Emma, married Towne ;

Isabella, married May; Sarah F., married Terrallee ; Wil-
liam McKim.

Charles Mitchell, eldest son of Robert and Rebecca (O'Neill)
Mitchell, was born in Baltisodare, County Sligo, Ireland, October 22,
1869, and remained in his native land until 1880, when he was brought
to the United States by his parents. He was educated in the grade and
high schools, taking special courses in the latter, and this supplemented
by systematic study under a private instructor. In early life he was
employed in thread and silk mills. Later he studied civil engineering,
and became an assistant engineer. He next engaged in mercantile
business, and while studying law was assistant general manager of a

NEW BEDFORD 563

chain of stores. He began the study of law under his elder brother
John G. Mitchell, an eminent member of the Connecticut bar, who for
a time was Assistant Secretary of State of the Commonwealth of Con-
necticut. This study was in connection with other duties which made
progress slower, but he continued a student under his brother until
admitted to the bar. He located in New Bedford, and practiced as a mem-
ber of the firm of Raymond & Mitchell, but recently has practiced alone
his offices at No. 16-17 Masonic Building. He is a well established attorney
and counsellor, highly rated for his professional learning and skill His
business experience is a valuable asset, and there are few lawyers better
furnished for the practice of their profession than he.

A Republican in politics, Mr. Mitchell takes an active interest in
public affairs as a citizen, his election as delegate to the Massachusetts
Constitutional Convention of 1917 being the first public position he has
accepted. He is a member of the local and State law societies is a
Master Mason of Eureka Lodge, a companion of Odoniram Chapter and
in Scottish Rite Masonry has attained the thirty-second degree Massa-
chusetts Consistory. In religious affiliation he is a member of the Meth-
odist Episcopal Church.

Mr. Mitchell married, August 21, 1901, at Wallingford, Connecticut.
Edith L. Turner, born in Wallingford, June 16, 1871, daughter of Willes
and Ammelia A. (Hersey) Turner. Her father was a meat and provi-
sion merchant until the last years of his life, when he bought a farm near
New Bedford, where he resided until his death. Mr. and Mrs Mitchell
are the parents of: Bradford, born June 4. 1907; Edith Hersey. January
3, 1910; Raymond McKim, November 4, 191 1.

ADDENDA AND ERRATA— INDEX

ADDENDA AND ERRATA

Brierly, page 426, line 43, Roxa D. Long should be Roxa T. Long; page 427, line 3,
after second reader, should be Mrs. Alice \'alley, first reader, and Allen R. Bing-
ham, second reader; at end of line 38 should read: The new church, the cost of
which was $31,000, was ready for occupancy in May, 1916, and was informally
opened on May 28, with large congregations at the services, and was formally
dedicated on Sunday, August 27, 1916, free of debt.

Hill, page 271, line 11, name Roval should be Robert.

Williams, page 441, line 17, Mrs. Williams was buried in the Theodore Dean Wil-
liams Mausoleum at Rural Cemetery; line 22, Mrs. Tuckerman was buried in the
Robert Tuckerman lot at Rural Cemetery. Page 442, line 5, Von should be von ;
Mr. and Mrs. Butler have a third child, Roger Williams Butler, born March 29,
1918; line 12, Mr. and Mrs. Jonathan Williams, Jr., were buried in the Pleasant
Street Cemetery in the Jonathan Williams lot; their children should be as fol-
lows: Sophia C, born September 14, 1821, married, September 26, 1838, Eliphalet
Thomas, of Middleboro; Elijah E., born June 25, 1823, married Fidelia Leonard;
John M., born September 5, 1825, died July 23, 1827; Edward S., born June 23,
1827, died August 7, 1830; Theodore Dean, born July 5, 1829; Edward, died in
Sterling, Illinois; Thomas Lazell, died August 8, 1842; Francis S., died December
7, 1849; line 36, Mary Dean was daughter of John Dean, born 1640, died Febru-
ary 18, 1716; married, November 7, 1663. Sarah Edson, who died 1723, daughter
of Deacon Samuel and Susanna (Orcutt) Edson, of Scituate ; line 3y, Richard
Williams was the son of William Williams, of Huntingdon, England, married,
December 4, 1603, Jane Woodw^ard, who died Februarj- 2, 1614; he died in 1618.
Page 443, line 9, Rborn should be Rbom. Page 444, line 21, Standish should be
Staples; line 28, Eliab Williams married three times, name of first wife not known;
his children were : Francis H., of Boston, and Charles, who died in young man-
hood in Fall River. Page 454, line 38, 1900 should be 1893. Page 455, line 8, Von
should be von ; line 9, names of children should be Clara W., Elizabeth Caroline
and Roger Williams Butler.

INDEX

Akin, Abiel, no Gideon, Jr., 434, 435

Caroline S., 113 Helen H., 436

Charles G., 113 Horatio A., 436

Francis T., no, ni James, 434

John, Capt., no Prince, 434

Llewellyn, 112 Ralph, 434

Mary H., 112 Almond, Katherine, 280
Seth K., ni Mary A., 280

Thomas, 1 10 Walter, 278

Thomas B., n2 Walter W., 280

Allen, Gideon, 434 Anthony, Benjamin, 1 16,

568

NEW BEDFORD

Benjamin H., ii6, 121

Celia L., 120

Edmund, 117, 118, 122

Eliza L., 119

Harriet D., 122

John, 117
Arcand, Emile J., Dr., 122

George E., 122

Sylvianna E., 123
Ashley, Abraham, 126

Annie B., 128

Charles S., 125, 127

Charles S., Jr., 128

Hannah B., 128

Isaac L., 414

John, 126

John S., 126, 413

Joseph, 126

Joshua B., 126

Julia A., 128

Percival, 126

Ralph E., 128, 129

Roberta R., 129

Rodolphus, 413, 414

Ruth, 414
Atchison, Charles M.. Dr., 131, 132

Hannah E., 133

William, 131
Auger, Asa, 237, 238

Georgianna, 238

Zenas, 237

Baker, Daniel, Capt., 206

Daniel W., 206

Grace C, 207

Stanley G., 207
Balthazar, Alexina, 232

Henri, 231

J. Arthur, 231

Joseph A., 231
Barney, Benjamin B., 343, 344

Edwin L., 343

Emma L., 345

Bartlett, Clifton W., 500

Edith A., 501

Warren, 501

William H., 500
Batchelor, Benjamin S., Rev., 190

George H., 190. 191

Mary W., 191

IMatthew, Rev., 190
Baylies, Clifford, 123, 124

Edith L., 125

John, 124

John B., 124

Nicholas, 123

Thomas, 123

Thomas S., 123
Beaman, David W., 335

Edmund A., 335

Jane W., 336
Beaulieu, John, 331

Napoleon, 331, 332

Rose, 332
Beckman. Charles E., 275, 276

Wilhelmenia, 277
Bennett. Mary E., 556

Robert. 555

Robert G., 555
Benson, Agnes G., 353

Clarence E., 353

Luther J., 353
Benton. Bethel, 523

Charles E., 523, 524

Charles H., 524

Edward, 523

James, 523

John S., 524

Mary E., 525
Berkowitz, David W., 392

Julius, 392

Sophia G.. 393
Bertram, J. Franklin, 249

John, 248

Lawrence E.. 249

Phebe, 249

NEW BEDFORD

569

Bessette, Alfred M., 225

Ellen, 226
Bloomingdale, Estelle B., 194

Harry, 193, 194

Louis, 194
Bolton, Elizabeth, 287

Fred, 287

James, 286, 287

Wright, 286, 287
Borden, Charles M., loi

Carlton E., 102

Edna, 102

Harrison T., loi

Lizzie A., 102

Mabel I., 102

Milton E., 102
Bourbo, Albert C, 193

Alfred A., 193

Alfred D., 192

Caroline, 193

Josephine, 193

Moses, 192

Walter A., 193

William D., 193
Bourne, Abner, 312

Edmund W., 312, 313

Emma C, 314

George A., 312

John, 312
Boutelle, Adelbert D., 301
Bradford, Eliza B., 166

Joel P., Dr., 164, 165

John, 165

Oliver, 165

Philip A., 165

Samuel, 164, 165

Seth C, 165
Brault, Clement, 182

Florence C, 182

Norbert R., Dr., 181, 182
Braun, Laura A., 401

Leon P., 399, 400

Nicholas, 400

*Brierly, James E., 425

Joseph, 425

Raymond H., 428

Ruth A., 427
Briggs, Benjamin, 232, 233

Clement, 232

Elihu, 460

George E., 459, 460

George E., Jr., 462

James C, 232, 233

James F., 234

John, 460

Louise, 462

Mary J., 234

Nathan, 232

Nathan, Capt., 233

Rebecca C, 234

Remember, 232

Robert E., 234

Samuel, 232

Walter S., 234

Zenas M., 234
Brightman, Elizabeth F., 438

Frederick S., 133

George F., Capt., 437, 438

Leander, 133

Mabel C, 134

Phoebe N., 438
Brown, Benjamin, 228

Edward S., 155, 156

Emma C, 135

Frank C, 227, 228

G. H., Capt., 229

George H. T., 229

Herbert A., 228

Irving A., 134

John C, Capt., 156

Lucy M., 229

Walter L, 134, 135
Brownell, Charles T., 217

Eliot E., 218

Emma A., 218

Oliver G., 217

570

NEW BEDFORD

Buckley, Charles E., 352

Charles H., 352

Ruth, 352
Eudlong, Abbie E., 219

James E., 218

John A., 218
Bullard, Benjamin, 25

John L., 25

Robert, 25
Burton, Harry H., 284

Henry, 282, 283

James, 282

Jessie, 284

John L,, 282, 283
Bussey, Calvin O., 178

Edwina. 178

Floyd H., Dr., 178

Canney, Edward, 161

Ellen R., Dr., 160, 161
Carroll, Charles M., 102, 103

Daniel, 102

Mattie J., 105

Patrick, 103

Thomas P., 103
Case, Allen, 436

Allen, Capt., 436

Allen (3rd), 437

Charles A., 436

John, 436

Leonard T., 437

Nellie M., 437
Chadbourne, Charles H., 557

Frederick G., 557
Champion, John B., 364

John M., 365

John T., 364

Luella J., 36s

Mary W., 365

Millicent L., 365
Charron, Ignace, 365

Octavie, 366

Ovide T., Dr., 365

Philias, 365

Chausse, Aldege, 393, 394

Eugene, 393

Joseph, 393
Clemens, Birdie G., 327

Sherrard, 326
Clifford, Benjamin, 494

Charles W., 495

George, 494

Harriet P., 496

John H., 493, 496

John H., Gov., 494

Sarah P., 495

Walter, 495
Cobb, Elizabeth H., 518

Phebe A., 518

Thomas J., 517

William S., 517
Coffey, James M., Rev., 169
Coffin, Arthur S., 222

Charles C, 221

Charles H., 221

Edmund, 222

Frederick, 221

Walter H., 221, 222
Coggeshall, John, 137, 138

Ladora E., 141

Robert C. P., 137, 140

Robert F., 141

Sarah W., 141

Thomas, 138, 139
Coldwell, Ebenezer, 266

Esther, 268

Joseph, 264, 266
Cole, Charles E., 295

Everett W., 295

Winnie, 296
Collins, Francis, 371

James F., 370

Mary E., 371

Michael, 370
Cook, Edward H., 160

Flora L., 88

Fred B., 160

James B., 88

NEW BEDFORD

571

Katharine L., 422

Mary E., 160

Otis S., 421, 422

Thomas, 159, 422

Thomas W., 159

William, 421

William S., 87, 88
Covil, Alonzo E., 470, 471

Annella W., 472

Clara P., 472

Harriet H., 471

Orion E., 471
Crapo, Henry H., 402, 404, 408

Henry H., Gov., 405

Jesse, 408

Mary A., 407

Peter, 408

Sarah A., 404

Stanford T., 405

William W., 401, 402
Cromwell, John, 445

Robert, 445, 446

Walter, 445

William, 445
Cummings, Almira E., 21

Benjamin, 10, 12, 13, 20

Benjamin, Capt., 12

Charles S., 20

Isaac, II, 19

John, II, 19

Joseph, II, 19

Mary E., 14

William H., 13
Cunifif, Gertrude A., 528

Thomas A., 527, 528

William, 528
Cushman, Adelaide L., 311

Alvah C, 428

Andrew B., Dr., 170, 172

Anna R., 430

Bartlett, 172

Cephas, 171

Edith H., 173

Everett M., 310, 311

Ezekiel, 171
Francis B., 170, 172
Herbert E., 428, 429
Jabez, 428
Joshua, 171
Robert, 171
Robert W., 173
Thomas, 171, 310, 428
William H., 311, 428

Davenport, Edith E., 196

Rice, 195

William S., 195
Davignon, Alexander, 252

Arenda, 253

Theodore A., 252
Delano, Charles H. L., 23, 25

George, 24

Jabez, 24

Jonathan, Lieut., 23

Philip, 25

Sarah S., 25
Denham, Amy R., 72

Clara I., 72

Edith R., 72

Edward, 33, 35

Eleazer, 35, 69

Israel, 35, 69

John, 33, 35, 69

Joseph, 35, 69

Rachel G., 70

Silas, Lieut., 35, 69

Sylvanus, 35, 69

Thomas M., 69, 71

Tilson, 33, 35, 69

Tilson B., 34, 69
Destremps, Antonia, 397

Louis E., 395

Louis G., 395
Devoll, Daniel T., 29

Mary F. R., 30

Pardon, 29

Pardon, Capt., 29

Rose L.. 30

572

NEW BEDFORD

Dexter, Clara L., 107

Elisha, 106

Elisha L., 106

John A., 107

Lemuel L., 105, 107

Thomas, 105

William, 105
Dillingham, John, 299, 300

Mabel A., 301

Walter S., 299. 300
Dion, Cecelia, 399

Harmidas P., 398

Henri, 398

Jean B., 398

John B., 398

Rosalie, 399
Dixon, Gertrude, 152

Henry H., 151, 152

John W., 151
Donaghy, Elizabeth, 379

Francis A., 379

Hugh L, ZTJ, 378

Nixon, 378

Samuel N., 379
Doran, Daniel E., 177

James P., 177

Loretta K., 177
Drake, Albert B., 149, 150

Benjamin, 149

Edward, 151

Jonathan, 150

Jonathan E., 150

Minnie E., 151

Robert, 149

Thomas, 149
Dudgeon, Mabel P., 294

Samuel, 292, 293
Durfee, Arthur J., 185

Eliot, Andrew, 501
Edith, 503
Frances L., 503
Ida M., 503

Thomas D., 501
William G., 501

Farmer, Charles, 366

Clifford M., 366

Ethel, 367
Fish, James, 489

Lucy B., 490

Mary A., 49a

Roland, 489
Fisher, Charles L., 32

Edwin L., 31

Elizabeth G., 32

Hattie M., 33

Hervey L., Capt., 32

Lyman, 31

Lyman M., 31

Merton C, 31, 32
Fontaine, Bertha, 383

L. J. Oscar, 381, 382

Raphael E., 382
Forbes, Arthur W., 358, 359

Charles H., 359

Henry H., 358

Minerva L., 360
Francis, Florence, 297

Joseph F., 296
Fuller, Arthur B., 302, 303

Flora F., 303

Thomas B., 303

Gardiner, Ezekiel C, 60, 61

George N., 60, 61

Helen L., 62

James B., 61
Gardner, Arnold C, 308. 309

Archie C, 196

Darius P., 302, 309

John A., 196

Louise A., 197

Mary E., 302

William B., 301, 302
Gibbs, Caleb, 468, 469

NEW BEDFORD

573

George C, Capt., 468, 469

Jennie W., 470

Lot H., Capt., 468, 469
Gidley, Charles R., 380

Elijah B., 380

Susan T., 380
Gifford, Charles H., 519

Charles L., 379

C. Chester, 379

Corina M., 379

Eliza H., 520

Frank H., 519, 520

William, 519
Gillon, Charles J. C, Dr., 189

Patrick, 189

Thomas W., 189
Gilmartin, Charles W., Dr., 30

Grace M., 31

Michael W., 30
Gladding, Henry G., 318

Sadiean K.. 319

Wanton M., 318
Glasgow, Mary V., 37

William, n

William J., n
Godreau, C. Octave, 255

Rodolphe, 254, 255
Goethals, Effie, 52

George W., 52
Goldfarb, Bessie, 281

Jacob, 280

Samuel, 280
Gray, Asa, 298

Edward B., 299

Ella F., 299

Henry A., 298

Henry C, 299
Greene, Augustus A., 558
Grinnell, Edmund, 462, 463, 464

Jennie G., 464

Joseph G., 462
Guilbert, Emma, 368

Eugene G., 367

Gunning, Andrew, 250
James, 250

Nellie, 252

Halliday, Charles R., 297

Edith A., 298

Robert J., 297
Halliwell, Ada, 369

John, 369

Raymond, 370

Thomas, 369

Thomas E., 370
Hammond, Amittai, 76

Anna B., 79

Caleb, TJ

Edgar B., 76, 78

Samuel, 76

Seth, 76
Hand, Georgia C, 544

William H., Capt., 544

William H., Jr., 544
Handford, James F., 130

Joseph H., 129, 130

Lucy A., 131
Hatch, Charles W., 325

Emily N., 137

Flora A., 326

Franklin W., 325

Samuel W., 136

William E., 135, 136
Hathaway, Arthur, 142, 538, 539

Benjamin F., 38

Carlotta M., 38

Claudia H., 38

Edward R., 142, 143

Ellen, 542

Ellen R., 544

Francis, 479, 481

Franklyn L., 142, 143

Horatio, 538, 541

Horatio, Jr., 544

Humphrey, 480, 541

Jethro, Capt., 540

574

NEW BEDFORD

John G., Dr., 38

Luella, 143

Nathaniel, 480, 541

Stephen, 480, 540

Susan S., 481

Thomas, 539

Thomas S., 543
Hayes, Margaret A., 263

Mary G., 263

Stephen W., Dr., 262

William, 262
Headley, Daisy M., 7

Deborah C, 6

Dorothy, 7

Phineas C, Jr., 5, 6

Phineas C, Rev., 5
Healy, Grace, 187

Harrison T., Dr., 186

Michael, 186

Thomas F., 186
Hersom, Almeda T., i6g

Christopher, 166

John, 167

Martha J., 169

Stephen, 167

Thomas, 166, 167, 169
Hervey, Eliphalet, 147

Eliphalet W., Dr., 147

Eliphalet W., Jr., 146, 147

Emmeline K., 148

Helen L., 148

Homer W., 148

James, 147

William, 147
*Hill, Annie, 271

Esther, 271

Royal, 271

William, 270, 271
Hinckley, Benjamin, 351

George, 351

Samuel, 351
Hobin, Catherine, 290

John, 289

Thomas, 289
Hodgdon, Edward J., 198

James C, 198

E. Josephine, 199
Holcomb, Clara B., 538

Clark W., 537, 538

Henry, 537

Henry A., 537

Jehiel, 537
Holmes, Alfred, 386

Alice, 362

Charles M., 360

Charles P., 362

Daniel B., 362

Denison B., 361, 362

Edward W., 525, 527

Ezra, 526

Harold D., 362

James, 526

John, 525

Leander, 386

Mary J., 387

Nathaniel, 525

Seth, 526

Stephen, 526

Truman, 526
Howland, Abraham, 346

Abraham H., 345, 346

Abraham H., Jr., 347, 348

Annie C, 468

Benjamin, 346

Clara E., 511

Elizabeth K., 511

Henry, 345, 509, 510

Hubert M., 468

Isaac, 346, 510

Lucy C, 511

Mary T., 347

Mehitable E., 347

Peleg C, 509, 510

Philip, 510

Stephen, 510

NEW BEDFORD

575

Weston, Capt., 346

Zoeth, 345, 509, 510
Humphrey, Daniel J., Capt., 219

Horace L., 219

Mary, 220
Huttleston, Henry, 488

Henry, Capt., Jr., 488

Peleg, 488

Sarah, 489

Sarah T., 489

Ivers, Elizabeth, 459
Ella P., 459
Jane P., 459
Samuel, 457, 458

Jarry, Delphine, 244

Godfroid, 243

P. Damien. 243
Jenckes, Andrew N., 327

William H., 327
Jennings, George W., 199

Ruth E., 199

William H., 199
Jewett, Almira A., 324

Charles A., 322, 323

Harold N., 324

Joshua, 323

Nelson E., 323

William N., 323
Jones, Amelia H., 500

Charles P. P., 324

Edward C, 497

Emma, 500

Francis P., 324

Louisa, 500

Mary C, 500

Reuben, Capt., 497

Sarah L., 324

Keith, Alfred T., 163
Allen P., 161, 163
Cyrus. 162

Emma L., 164

James, Rev., 161

John, 162

Thomas, 162

Zephaniah, 162
Kelley, Abiah, 239

Abiel, 239

Ann H., 240

Charles S., 239, 240

Charles S., Jr., 239, 242

Henry C, 239, 240

John, 239

Lora S., 242

Richard, 239

Sarah, 241

William, 239
Kempton, Caroline N., 512

Ephraim, 511

Horati9 A., 511, 512

Thomas, 511
Kenney, John, 184

Joseph T., 183, 184

Nora E., 185
Kerr, Elizabeth M., 237

John, 236

Louis R., 237

Nathaniel B., 235, 236
Kerwin, Anna E., 356

William J., 355
Kirby, Abraham, 46

Albert C, 46

Benjamin, 188

Cora L., 413

Elizabeth, 189

Prank R., 412, 413

George, 188

George, Jr., 187, 189

Holder C, Dr.. 45. 47

Justus, 46, 188

Mary E., 48

Nathaniel, 46, 188

Phoebe A., 189

Richard, 45, 46, 188, 412

576

NEW BEDFORD

Robert. 46. 188

Stephen P., 46, 413

Wesson, 46
Kirk. Abby, 201

Helen D., 505

John, 200

John F., 200

John T., 504

Josiah, 504

Margaret, 505

Mary, 505
Kleeb, Celia G., 275

"Leonard, 274

Leonard, Jr., 274

Maude E., 275
Knight, Arnold. 245

Ella M.. 246

Jesse A., 244, 245
Knowles, Charles S., 41

Flora A., 40

John, 41

John P., 39

John P., Capt., 39

John P., Jr., 40

Mary L., 40

May F., 42

Richard. 40, 41

Seth, 41

Thomas, 41

William H.. 38, 40

Langshaw, Albert C, 514

Elizabeth, 514

Sarah E., 514

Walter H., 512, 513

Walter S., 514
Lawton, Clara P., 432

George, 430

George, Capt., 431

Horace A., 430. 431

Peter, 431

Robert, 431

William, 431

Lindsay, Elnora E., 357

Maurice M., 247

Robert, 356

Viola M., 248

William A., 356
Luiz, Izabel T., 395

Manuel C, 394, 395

MacLeod, Elizabeth M., 364

Everett B., 363
McAvoy, Andrew J. W.. 368

James, 368
McCarty, Bernard F., 284

Ellen, 285
McGee, Douglas L., 226

Louis W., 226

Robina, 227
McGuire, Helen G., 286

Patrick W., 285

William H.. 285
Macomber, George T., 550, 551

Hannah M., 551

John, 551
Macy, Eliza L., 561

Frederick, 560

George L, 560

Helen C, 561
Mandell, Thomas, 455
Mann, Alice B., 114

Henry E., Dr., 113

Henry S., 113

Jonathan, 113

William W., Dr., 113
Marchand, Eusebe, 235

Louis A., Rev., 234, 235
Mason, Albert G., 561

Caroline H., 562

Charles O., no

Clarence W., no

Frederick A., no

George N., no

Harriet A., 109

Henry W., 108

NEW BEDFORD

577

John C, 561
John F., 561

Norman, 108
Mendell, Carol B., 554

Charles S., 553

Florence F., 554

John, 553
Milliken, Allen W., 91

Edward, 89, 90

Frank A., 88, 91

Hugh, 89

John, 89

Joseph, 89

Mary C, 91
Miskell, James H., 546

John, 546

Margaret L., 546
Mitchell, Charles, 562

David H., 292

Edith L., 563

John, 562

Mattie O., 292

Robert, 562

Walter R., 291, 292
Morgan, Sarah, 412

Thomas, 41 1
Moriarty, Kate L., 231

Rossa, 231

Thomas, 230

Timothy J., 229, 230
Mosher, Bryce, 547

David G., 223

Edward C, 223

Elizabeth A., 224

Evelyn E., 549

Henry C. W., 546, 548

Hugh, 547

Jonathan, 547

Stephen, 547
Murphy, Frances A., 377

James F., 376

Timothy J., 376

Mussely, Henry J., Rev., 263, 264

Joseph, 264
Nadeau, Damase, 375

Jean B., 375

Lila, 376

Noe L., 375
Neild, Charles L., 269

Elisha, 269

Frank I., 269

John, 268, 269

Lavina, 269
Neyland, George W., 260

Harry A., 256, 260

Jeannette, 260
Nietsch, Emily M., 392

Hermann, 392

Weaker E. L., Dr., 391, 392
Noel, Arthur A., 321, 322

Bartholomew, 322
Noon, Henry J., Rev., 182
Normandin, Antoine, 272

Louis Z., Dr., 272

Mary, 273
Nye, Anne F., 385

George H., 384, 385

Oesting, Edward A., 181

F. William, 179, 180

Frederick W., 181

George, 180

Violetta, 181

William, 180
Olivier, Frederick P., 33S

George L., 337

George L., Jr., 338

James M., ^2,7, 338

Kenneth S., 338

Mattie V., 338

Paige, James H., 201

Mary P., 202

Walter H., 201
Paine, George W., 145

578

NEW BEDFORD

Harriet M., 146

Nathaniel T., Capt., 145

Samuel S., 145

Sarah A., 146
Paquette, Jean, 384

Joseph O., 383, 384

Olive A., 384
Paquin, Joseph A., 385

Joseph U., Dr., 385

Nelda, 386
Parker, Abbie G., 75

Benjamin, 74

Calista S., 16

David L., 14, 16

Henry W., Dr., 60

Joseph, 16, 74

Robert, 16, 74

Seth, 16

Sylvanus, 16, 74

Ward M., 14, 60

William, 15, j:^

William C, y:^, 74
Paul, John W., 144

Sylvester, 144
Pease, Anna F., 415

Bryden, 415

Peieg, 414, 415

Zephaniah W., 414
Peirce, Agnes M., 509

Amanda E., 467

Annette, 45

Barnard. 467

Charles M., 467

Charles M.. Jr., 466, 467

David, 43

David B., 306

Ellen, 306

Ephraim, 43

Grace B., 45

Herbert S., 42, 44

James L., 43

James, Rev., 43

Jennie C, 45

Michael, Capt., 43

Obadiah, Capt., 43

Stephen D., 507, 508

Susan A., 467

Winsor C, 306
Perkins, Andrew W., 203

Harriet M., 204

John A., 203
Perrier, Albert C. J., Dr., 246

Margaret C, 247

Numa, Capt., 246
Perry, Augustus F., 487

Charles P., 204

Ebenezer, Dr., 72

Edward C, 205

Elizabeth P., 291

Florence, 73

Francis T., 204

Franklin, 487

Jabez W., Capt., 72

Jennie, 205

John S., 290, 291

Lucy, 291

Mary S., 291

Salmon F., 290, 291

Samuel, Dr., 72

Stephen D., Dr., 72, 73

Susan B., 487

William A., 204

William A., Jr., 205
Petit, Alexander, 253

Alexander A., 253

Azelia, 254
Pickens, Daniel E., Dr., 98, 99

Eli.sha, 98

Mary J., 99

William, 98
Pierce, A. Martin, Dr., 152, 153

Andrew G., 63

Anna, 64

Clifton B., 388, 389

Crawford S., 389

Lillian M., 389

NEW BEDFORD

579

Lizzie J., 154

Mary A., 64

Michael, Capt., 63

Otis, 63, 153

Otis N., 62, 63
Pitman, Charles, 158

George W., 158

William H., 158
Pitta, Anna M., 354

John A. B., 354

John C, Dr., 353. 354
Plummer, Leander A., 556

Margaret T., 557
Poisson, Emma A., 374

Gedeon, 372, 373

Joseph, 372

Laurent, 372

Ludger, 372

Nere, 373
Potter, Edward E. F., 316, 317

Edward P., 65

Ellen F.. 318

Mary E., 66

Restcome, 317

Rhoda J., 206

Stephen N., Capt., 205

Stephen R., 205

Warren S., 317

William, 65

William G.. Dr., 64, 65
Praray, Annie E., 289

Charles A. M., 288

Charles W., 287, 2S8
Pratt. Charles A., Dr., 79, 80

Hiram A., So

Jonathan, 80

May L., 81
Prescott, Charles D., Dr., 17, 18

Charles S., 18

Henry D., Dr., 19

Ida F., 19

James, 17

Jeremiah, 17. 18

Jeremiah, Col, 18

Martha, 19

Samuel. 17
Putnam, Arthur C, 329, 330

Jessie H., 330

John B., 330
Ramsdell. Edward S., 23

Frank E., Jr., 23

Frank E., Rev. 21

Mary L., 23

Theodore, 23

Read, Amelia, 482

Charles W., 419

Clement, 319

Cynthia A.. 419, 457

Eleanor, 420

Elizabeth, 419

Ella H., 457

Everett P., 420

John, 418, 456

Joseph M., 420, 481, 482

Joseph R., 417, 419. 456

Noah, 418

Sarah, 320

Thomas, 41 8, 456

Warren K., 420

William, 418, 456

William F., 417, 419, 482

William T., 319
Rex. Fred W., 295

Harriet. 295

Harry W., 295

John, 294

Samuel T., 294

William, 294
Rexford, Chester P., 389

George, 389

Helen A., 390
Rhodes, Caroline M., 176

Henry, 174

John B., 176

John C, 174, 175

58o

NEW BEDFORD

Sarah B., 176

Stephen, 174, 175
Richard, Alfred E., Dr.. 554

George, 554

Malvina, 554
Robbins, Asa, 55

Charles H., 315

Edward W., 55

Elmer E., Dr., 55

Elmer E., Jr., Dr., 54. 56

John, 55

Joshua, 55

Ruby, 56

Winthrop W., 55
Robinson, Augustus, 520

Frederick H., Dr., 520, 521

Helen, 521

Henry L., 521

Margaret E., 116

William, 114

William A., 115

William A., Jr., 114, 115
Roche. Elizabeth C, 506

Thomas N., Dr.. 505
Rodman, John, 48

Julia W., 52

Samuel, 48, 49, 32

Thomas. 48

Thomas R., 48, 50
Rooney, Daniel T., 281

Luke H., 281

Mary A., 282
Rotch, Clara, 411

Emily, 411

Joseph, 409, 417

William, 409, 411

William J., 409, 4T0, 416
Rudman. Israel E.. Dr., 439. 440

Samuel E., 439

St. Germain. Alice J., 550
Joseph P., Dr., 549. 550
Pierre D., 549

Salles, John M., 81

John M., Dr., 81
Sartoris. Alexander. 278

Clara, 278

Morton G., 2-]-j, 278
Sawyer, Charles P., 220, 221

Gideon T., 220

Mabelle L., 221

Olive, 220

Stephen P., 220, 221
Schofield, Frank L., 375

Henry, 374

Jane, 374

Robert. 374
Seabury, Helen H.. 493

Humphrey W., Capt., 490, 491

Mary B., 493

Susan M., 493

William, Capt., 491
Serpa. Charles A.. 507

Charles N., 507

Mildred L., 507
Shanks, Charles, Dr., 157

James. 157

Mary R., 157
Sherman, Charles F., 307

Clifford P.. 67, 68

David W., 68

Emma B., 68

Hannah F., 308

Henry, 307

James, 67

Peleg, 307

Peleg H., 306. 308

Philip, 307

Thomas. 307
Shocklcy. Abraham E.. Dr., 26. 2

Alice R., 29

Charles, 28

Joseph, 26

Sarah E., 29
Silva, Manuel P. B.. 202

NEW BEDFORD

S8i

Minnie E., 203
Severe P., Dr., 202
Simmons, Charles H., 209
Lemuel E., 209
Matilda, 209
Slocomb, Celia G., 243
David H., 242
Parker F., Dr., 242
Slocum, Annie E., 54
Charles, 53
Giles, 52

Giles P., Capt, 52, 53
Holder, Capt., 53
Peleg, 53
Ricketson, 53
Smith, Alexander T., 66
Alice M., 67
Nathaniel C, 66
William T., 66
Snell. Achsah S., 60
Anthony, 58
David A., 57
Walter A., 60
William G., 56, 58
Soule, George, 472
Rufus A., 472, 473
Susan C, 474
Thomas H., 472
Spaulding, Charlotte M. A. C, 358

William, 358
Standish, Alexander, 454
Ebenezer, 454
Myles, 453
Stanton, Frederick S., Rev., 423
Henry, 423
Mary A., 424
Steele, Fred \\'., 314
Lillian M., 315
William R., 314
Stetson, Anna C, 216
Benjamin, 213
Caleb, Rev., 515
Caroline D., 517

Edward, Dr., 357

Ellen M., 215

George A., 215

George R., 213

James A., 213. 215

Mary, 358

Robert, 357

Thomas M., 514, 515
Stevens, Harry L., Dr., 141, 142

Henry, 142
Stirrett, Chester S., 358

John. 358

Mary C. 358
Strongman, John B., 270

Joseph, 270

Louise, 270
Sullivan, Annie A., 331

Cornelius F., 330

Jeremiah, 330

Jeremiah F., 330, 331

John B., 210, 211

Mark E.. 210

Sarah G., 211

Timothy, 210
Swift, Anna, 479

Bertha, 466

Elijah, 532

Eliza N., 535

Elizabeth B.. 10

Francis H.. 479

Franklin, Lieut., 536

Franklin K., 532

Frederick, 415, 416

Frederick R., 417

Henry, 479

Henry W., 535

Humphrey H., 464, 465
Jane E., 466
Jireh, 8, 9, 10, 464, 465
Jireh. Jr., 8, 9

Louise, 537

Reuben E.. 415, 532

Rodman, 417

582

NEW BEDFORD

Roddlphus N., 532

Sarah R., 416

Thomas, 332

William, 8, 415. 464. 532, 533

William C. N., 416, 478, 532, 533

William N.. Dr., 478

Taber, Charles, 475

Elizabeth D., 477

Frederic, 475, 476

Frederic H., 477

Hannah M., 433

Helen W., 478

Jacob, 432

Jacob. Capt., 432

Joseph, 432

M. Annie, 85

Mary E., 477

Philip, 432, 475

Ray H., 85

Silas, 82

Silas S., 82
Taft, Daniel F., 212

Mary E., 212

Thomas J., 211, 212
Taveira, Antonio J., 390

Arthur J., Dr.. 390, 391

Camilla C, 391
Teasdale, George M., Dr., 173

Prudence, 174

William, 173
Terry, Benjamin, 178, 179, 486

Caroline C, 487

Isaiah F., 485, 486

Kelley E., 179

Mary G., 179

Phebe H., 487

Robert A., 178, 179
Theller, Ralph L., 75
Thompson, James O., 320

James O., Jr., 320
Mary E., 321
Thomson, James, 309, 310

Tilden, John F.. 249

John L., 249

Lillian A.. 250
Tobey, Caroline M., 342

Catherine R., 388

Charles R., 339

Elisha, Dr.,. 387

Genevieve R., 342

Jonathan, 341

Lemuel, 339, 341

Rufus B., Rev., 338, 339. 34:

Thomas, 339, 340, 341

William, 388

William H. A., 387, 388

William H., Dr., 388
Tripp, Arnold G., 304

Curtis C, 5

Emma J., 522

Frank S.. 216

George, 216

George H., 3

Helen E., 4

Hiram, 3

Ida M., 217

James, 521

John, 3, 216, 304

Josei)h, 3, 304

Lemuel, 3

Lois E.. 306

Peleg, 304

Samuel, 304

Stephen, 304

Thomas A., 303, 305

Thomas B., 521
Tucker, Abraham, 85

Arthur L., 85, 86
. Charles, 86

Henry, 85

Jane F.. 87

Tonathan, 85

William. Capt., 85. 86
Turner, Hcrta N., 198

Calvin K.. 197

NEW BEDFORD

583

Elbridge A., 197
Jane, 274
Salmon, 197
Samuel, 273
Samuel, Jr., 2~-^
William P., 197

Uttley, Arthur, 371
Victoria E., 372

Vinal, Charles H., 328, 329
Elwin S., 329
Marianna, 329
Marion J., 329
William H., Capt., 328

Walmsley, Berta, 334

Evelyn, 335

Francis, Dr., 333

Herbert, 334

Herbert E., 332, 333
Walsh, Joseph, 222

Katherine E., 223

Michael H., 222
Webster, John B., Dr., 506

Joseph v., 506
West, Abbie W., 553

John P., 553

William R., 553
Westby, Aloysius, 208

Louise, 208

William, 208
* Williams, Abiathar, 451

Abiel, 444

Benjamin, 448

Caroline, 441

George, 451

George, Col, 450

George B., 452

George W., 449

Howell, 446

John. 446, 447

Jonathan, 440

Jonathan, Jr., 442

Joseph, 450

Lewis, 449

Morgan, 446

Nathaniel, 453

Richard, 443, 446, 447, 450

Samuel, 444, 448

Seth, 444, 448

Simeon, 452

Theodore D., 419, 440

Thomas, 446

William, 447
Wilson, Alfred, 528, 529

Alfred B., 532

Emily F., 532

Mary S., 532

William, 529

William D., 532
Winslow, Betsey B., 96, 97

George F., 91, 93

Giles H., Capt., 93

Harold, 95

Hudson, 97

Virginia, 95

William B., 97
Winsor, Alexander, Capt., 483

Allen P., 485

Bancroft, 485

Mary G., 485

Walter P., 482, 483

William, 482
Winsper, Francis S., 336

Samuel, 545

Samuel F., 545

William J., 336
Wood, Edmund, 558

George R., 559

Henry T., 558

Lsabelle, 559

Margaret C, 559
Woodsome, Ada, 316

5^4

NEW BEDFORD

Benjamin, 316

Wallace, 316
Woodward, Francis, 100

Helen L., 100

Henry A. C, 99

Henry E., 99

Thomas, 100
Worden, Charles, 96
Worth, Calvin G., Capt., 421

Helen B., 421

Henry B., 420, 421

Sarah E., 421
William, 421

York, Amos, 349, 350
Eliza P., 350
George A., 349, 350
John. 349, 350
Waldo C, 351

Zeitz, Barney, 397
Koppel, 397

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