Barnstable County, Massachusetts - Biographical sketches (2 of 12 so headed), 1890 (part 2 of 2)

Herbert S. Taylor, born in 1865, is a son of George A. Taylor, of Chatham, grandson of George and great-grandson of George Taylor. He came to Barnstable in 1883, as partner in a meat business, with Prentice H. Davis. Three years later he took the entire business which he still successfully carries on. His wife, Mercie B., is a daughter of Captain Lewis B. Doane, of Harwich.

Robert M. Waitt, son of Samuel and Persis (Hallett) Waitt, was born in 1824. His mother was one of twelve daughters of Benjamin Hallett and a sister of Hon. Benjamin F. Hallett. Captain Waitt went to sea at ten years of age as cook, following the sea seventeen years, most of the time in coast trade, the last six years being master. He was an inspector in the Boston custom house eight years prior to 1861. He then did, with a short interval, a restaurant business in Boston until 1888. His wife, Ellen, is a daughter of Capt. Matthias Hinckley, a descendant from Governor Hinckley. Their only living child is Arthur M. Waitt, a graduate from the Boston Institute of Technology, and an oflBcial in the car department of the Lake Shore & Michigan Southern Railway. Captain Waitt's residence is one of the oldest houses in Barnstable village. It was built in 1717 by one of two sisters named Doane, who came from down the Cape.

Joseph Whittemore, son of Hiram and grandson of Edward Lloyd Whittemore, was born in South Dennis in 1819. He has carried on a paint shop since 1849, in Barnstable. His wife, Betsey, is a daughter of Freeman Phillips of Dennis, and granddaughter of Benjamin Phillips of Harwich. Their children were: Joseph (deceased), Annah (Mrs. Alfred Kelley of Yarmouth), Alice (Mrs. Andrew Newcomb of Brewster), Louisa, Maria (deceased), Sarah (Mrs. Moses C. Waterhouse), Joseph F. of East Wareham; Hiram, a contractor at Middleboro, and Bessie M.