Bristol County, Massachusetts - Chapter 16: Westport, 1924 (part 2 of 3)

Almost as remarkable as his record in the newspaper field is that of Mr. Milne's connection w.th the local banking business. When the Pocasset National Bank was organized in Tiverton, in May, 1854, he was one of its first board of directors. He continued in that position for forty-nine years, or until the time that the bank lost its identity in a merger with the Massasoit and National Uz ion banks, forming the present Massasoit-Pocassct Bank. Mr. Milne lived to see the other members of two boards of directors pass away, as well as the two treasurers and two cashiers. The Pocasset started at the corner of South Main and Rodman streets, then a part of Tiverton, with Oliver Chace as its president, and Samuel Hathaway, Weaver Osborn, John C.. Milne, and William H. Taylor of Fal: River, and Moses Baker and Gideon H. Durfes of Tiverton, as directors. Mr. Milne was the youngest director. As one after another of the members passed.-away, each was replaced by a new man, until Mr. Milne found himself with an entirely new bodrd. More remarkable, still, he lived to see each of these six members of the second board pass away. William Henry Brackett, the first cashier, "vas succeeded by Edward E. Hathaway, who died May 11, 1911. Mr. Hathaway was a boy when the Pocasset Bank was started. He was succeeded as cashier by William F. Winter, who survived Mr. Milne only four months, his death occurring February 10, 1919. Mr. Milne was serving with the third complete set of directors, when, in 1903, the governor of the Commonwealth insisted upon the 'separation of State and National banks. The P - casset was occupying rooms with a State bank and went out of existence. Mr. Milne was one of the Pocasset directors carried. over to the Massasoit- Pocasset, of which institution he was a director. During its forty-nine years' existence Mr. Milne repeatedly declined the presidency of the Pocasset. Since June 9, 1862, Mr. Milne had been a trustee of the Citizens' Savings Bank, and since June 10, 1884, he had been the president of that institution. He had been a member ofthe board of investment, also, for forty-one years.

In 1871 Mr. Milne purchased the land at the corner of Bedford and Main streets for a new location for the News office. The price paid was $15,000. He had hardly completed the transaction when Samuel Hathaway, president of the Pocasset _ Bank, asked him to sell the land to the bank at the price he had paid for it. Although he could easily have turned a handsome profit on the sale of the land to other parties, Mr. Milne turned it over to the bank. As a director of the institution, sworn to look out for its best interests always, he felt that he could not refuse the bank's request.

Mr. Milne was one of the original board of directors of the Osborn Mills. He became president of that corporation upon the death of James M. Osborn, in May, 1898. He was also a director of the Slade Mills from the time of incorporation in 1871 until 1898, when, under new control and management, the name was changed to the Ancona Company. He was a director of the Stafford Mills since 1898.

From his earliest life Mr. Milne had been deeply interested in religious work. He was the first clerk of the Second Baptist Church, being elected June 18, 1846, and serving for many years. He was for a long time the superintendent of the Sunday school of this church also. Mr. Milne was one of those who proposed the construction of stores on the South Main street front of the Baptist Temple, a plan which has brought the 'church substantial revenue each year since it was put into effect. For the past thirty-two years Mr. Milne had attended the Central 'Congregational Church. He was one of the promoters of the Fall River Hospital, the predecessor of the Union Hospital.

John C. Milne died October 10, 1918. Mrs. Abby Ann (Gifford) Milne died July 21, 1916, their married life covering a period of sixty-seven years.

Five years after the "Weekly News" was founded, on June 28, 1849, John C. Milne married Abby Ann Gifford, daughter of George W. and Betsy (Howland) Gifford. Mr. and Mrs. Milne were the parents of nine children, four of whom died in early life. The survivors are: 1. Mary J., who married Henry S. Fenner, and has four children: Henry M., Joseph A.; Laura, who married Richard G. H. Knight, and has two children, Mary and Richard; and George A. 2. Joseph D., his father's associate and successor in business, who married Georgie A. Wright, and has two children:. Janet, who married Roland H. Ballou, and has two sons, Richard M. and John M.; and John C. 3. Abbie G., who married Charles H. Carr, and has one daughter, Elizabeth. 4. Jeannette D., who married Edward B. Remington. 5. Hannah E., who married James A. Chadwick, and has two children, Mary and Katherine.

Matthew Chaloner Durfee Bor

The new organization was incorporated as the American Printing Company of Fall River, Massachusetts, and today is one of the largest textile industries of its kind in the country and still continues to be under Borden control and management. Colonel Richard Borden was president of the American' Print Works; Matthew C. D. Borden, his son, was the first president of the American Printing Company, and now, Bertram Harold Borden, his son, is president of that company, and head of M. C. D. Borden & Sons, Inc., located at No. 90 Worth street, New York City. This is a remarkable rec- ord of family control of a great industry which includes another son of Matthew C. D. Borden, Howard Seymour Borden, vice-president and treasurer of the company.

This fine old family traces its ancestry in New England to Richard Borden, who came from England to Portsmouth, Rhode Island, 1637-8, with his wife Joan. Richard Borden was of the ninth recorded generation of the Borden family of England, a family name which came in with William the Conqueror in 1066, and is found on the Roll of Battle Abbey as Bordoun. In early English records the name is found under thirty-two different spellings, varying from Bourdon to Borden. The name was conspicuous in France as well as in England, where the line begins with Blundel at Burdoun, from whom came the name Burdon, so numerously found in England and Scotland. In the United States the name is spelled in different ways, but in this branch, beginning with Richard, the name has always been Borden. Richard, the ancestor, was of the Kent family, which is definitely traced to Henry Borden, of the parish of Hedcorn, Kent, England, born during the decade 1370-80. In the eighth generation in direct line from Henry came Matthew Borden, a church warden in MHedcorn, Kent, in 1598, who died in October, 1620. Two of his sons, Richard and John, came to New England.

(1) Richard Borden, of the ninth English and the first American generation, was born in Hedcorn, Kent, England, February 22, 1595-96, and died at Portsmouth, Rhode Island, May 25, 1671. He married, in Hedcorn parish church, September 28, 1625, Joan Fowle, and in 1628 they moved to the neighboring parish, Cranbrook. In 1637-38 they came to New England, locating in Portsmouth, Rhode Island, where Richard, a surveyor, acquired large tracts of land as he also did in New Jersey. He became a man of high standing and official importance in Rhode Island, his list of offices including that of deputy to the General Assembly in 1667 and 1670. His nuncupative will was admitted to probate May 31, 1671, by the Town Council of

(II) John Borden was born in Portsmouth, Rhode Island, in September, 1640, and there died, June 4, 1716. He married, December 25, 1670, Mary Earle, born in Portsmouth, and died there in 1734, daughter of William and Mary (Walker) Earle. They were the parents of eight children, the eldest a son, Richard (2), of whom further.

(III) Richard (2) Borden was born October 25, 1671, and at the time of his death, sixty years later, was the largest landowner in his town and one of the wealthiest men. His home was on the main road, about one mile from the east shore of Mount Hope Bay, and two and one-half miles south of the City Hall at Fall River, his homestead farm containing about two hundred acres. He married, about 1692, Innocent Wardell, and they

(IV) Thomas Borden was born December 8, 1697, died at Tiverton, Rhode Island, in April, 1740. He owned that part of the south side of Fall River stream that lay south of the Great Falls and the adjoining land down to salt water, besides other farms and outside lands. He married, August 14, 1721, Mary Gifford, born October 6, 1695, daughter of Christopher and Meribah Gifford. They were the parents of five children, the eldest a son, Richard (3), of whom further.

(V) Richard (3) Borden was born in 1722, died July 4, 1795. He inherited from his father an estate which had been owned by his grandfather and fore-

Fall River. During the Revolutionary War, British troops burned his saw mill, together with a great deal of manufactured lumber, owned by his sons, who were operating the mill, Mr. Borden being carried away a prisoner by the raiders, who also burned his home. He married, March 12, 1747, Hope Cook, and they were the parents of six children, the second-born, a son, Thomas (2), of whom further.

(VI) Thomas (2) Borden was born at Fall River, Massachusetts, October 26, 1749, and there spent his life, becoming a man of wealth and importance, dying May 30, 1831. He married Mary Hathaway, born November 21, 1757, died February 18, 1824. They were the parents of thirteen children, all born at Fall River, the ninth a son, Colonel Richard, of whom further.

(VII) Colonel Richard Borden was born at Fall River, Massachusetts, April 12, 1795, and died in the city of his birth, after a long and useful life, February 25, 1874. He was educated in Fall River schools, and spent his early life at the home farm. From 1812 until 1820 he operated a grist mill at the fall nearest the river's mouth, and also engaged in ship-building in association with Major Bradford Durfee. He enlisted as a private in the second war with Great Britain, 1812-14, advancing through the ranks of ensign, lieutenant, captain, lieutenantcolonel, to the grade of colonel. After the war was over he engaged in shipbuilding, working upon the woodwork of a craft during the day, then, with his partner, going to a neighboring blacksmith shop and working on the iron work of the vessel. In this way he managed to launch one coasting vessel each year, these being from twenty to seventyfive tons burden. This blacksmith shop was the beginning of the later extensive Fall River Iron Works, which became one of the most important industries of Fall River. Borden & Durfee later, with others, incorporated as the Fall River Iron Works Company, with an original capital of $24,000, which was reduced soon afterward to $15,000, but was later increased until in 1845 the capital was nearly $1,000,000. This company was the first makers of iron wire for the manufacture of wood screws in this country. For over fifty years, from the organization of the company until his death,

Colonel Richard Borden was treasurer of the Fall River Iron Works Company, and to his energy and industry the great development of the business was largely due.

It was through Colonel Borden's influence that the Old Colony railroad was induced to extend its line in the direction of Fall River and Narragansett Bay, he, with his brother, Jefferson, establishing the Fall River Steamboat Company in 1847, with a capital of $3,000 to operate in connection with the railroad. Colonel Borden was interested in many other important Fall River enterprises, including the American Print Works, organized in 1834; the American Linen Company; the Troy Cotton and Woolen Manufactory, and the Richard Borden Manufacturing Company. He was also a director of the Annawan Manufactory, and the Metacomet Mill; president and director of the Fall River National Bank; director, agent and _ corporation clerk of the Fall River Iron Works Company; president of the Watuppa Reservoir Company; agent of the Fall River Furnace Company; director of the Fall River Gas Company, these all being Fall River corporations. He held high official position with corporations outside the city, being president of the Bay State Steamboat Company; the Providence Tool Company; the Cape Cod Railroad Company; and the Borden Mining Company, and was a director of the Old Colony Railroad Company. He was asssessor; representative; State Senator, and, in 1864, presidential elector on the Republican ticket. The soldier's monument, erected at the entrance to Oak Grove Cemetery, was his gift to the city.

Colonel Borden married, February 21, 1828, Abby Walker Durfee, born March 22, 1798, in Pawtucket, died November 14, 1884, at the Borden Fall River home, surviving her husband more than a decade of years. She was a daughter of James and Sally (Walker) Durfee; granddaughter of Thomas and Patience (Borden) Durfee; great-granddaughter of Benjamin and Prudence (Earle) Durfee; great-greatgranddaughter of Thomas Durfee, born in England in 1643, who came to Portsmouth, Rhode Island, in 1660, and there died, in 1712, Benjamin Durfee being the youngest son of his first wife, to whom he was married as early as 1664. This was a 'Tiverton, Rhode Island, family during the first four American generations, then, in 1803, this branch was transplanted to Fall River, Massachusetts.

Colonel Richard and Abby Walker (Durfee) Borden were the parents of seven children: 1. Caroline, born September 20, 1829, a resident of Boston, died March 19, 1922. 2. Colonel Thomas James, born March 1, 1832, at Fall River, and there died, November 21, 1902, a prominent business man and eminent citizen, his military title derived from service in the Massachusetts National Guard. He married Mary Elizabeth Hill, and they were the parents of four children. 3. Richard Baxter, born at Fall River, Massachusetts, February 21, 1834, and there died, October 12, 1906. He was a textile manufacturer whose term of active service extended over a longer period than that of any man in Bristol county, and a man of stainless integrity and admirable citizenship. He married Ellen F. Plumer, and left three children. 4. Edward Payson, born February 12, 1836, became a resident of Philadelphia, and died December 15, 1916. He married Margaret Lindsey Durfee, and left one son, Edward Shirley Borden. 5. Captain William Henry Harrison, born September 13, 1840, died in Menada, France. He married, September 25, 1867, Fannie Ingram Bosworth, of Augusta, Maine. 6. Matthew Chaloner Durfee, of further mention. 7. Sarah Walker, born May 13, 1844; married, May 19, 1869, Alphonso S. Covel.

(VIII) Matthew Chaloner Durfee Borden, fifth son of Colonel Richard and Abby Walker (Durfee) Borden, was born at Fall River, Massachusetts, July 18, 1842, and died at his summer home in Rumson, Monmouth county, New Jersey, May 27, 1912. He attended Fall River public schools and a school at Auburndale, Massachusetts, prepared for college at Phillips-Andover Academy, and was graduated from Yale University, class of 1864. In 1865 he began his marvelous business career, his first position being as a clerk with Lathrop, Luddington & Company, dry goods jobbers of New York City. He soon left that house for Low, Harriman & Company, a commission firm, acting as selling agents for the American Print Works, of Fall River, of which Colonel Richard Borden was president. The print works from its small beginning in 1834 had grown to be a large corporation, but two disastrous fires during the winter of 1867 caused the works to become involved in financial difficulties, and finally, in 1879, to make an assignment. In 1880 Matthew C. D. Borden re-organized the business, which was then incorporated as the American Printing Company, with a capital of $300,000. Its history since has been one of rapid and substantial growth, and under the efficient Borden management stands today the largest business of its kind in the United States. Matthew C. D. Borden, in 1887, purchased the interest of his brother, Colonel Thomas James Borden, and became practically the sole owner of the _ business. In 1889 he bought the property of the Fall River Iron Works Company and erected the first of that corporation's large mills, adding a second mill in 1892, and a third in 1893. Business men freely predicted Mr. Borden's early downfall, and the depressed condition of the textile industry at that time was most discouraging, but when other manufacturers were discussing reduced time and lower wages Mr. Borden startled them by announcing an advance of ten per cent in the wages of all employees. This advance he followed two weeks later by beginning the erection of a fourth mill, which was to be the largest print cloth mill in America.

Mr. Borden's boldness staggered the trade, but his judgment and foresight, his courage and determination, won success, and in due time other manufacturers fell in line and acknowledged him as their leader. When in 1899 the industry suffered another period of depression, Mr. Borden again raised the wages of his employees ten per cent, and in time others followed his lead. Mr. Borden's courage in the face of financial danger and his resourcefulness in time of business crisis were most remarkable. Another instance of these characteristics was in 1901, when the Fall River textile market was greatly overstocked and prices very low and falling. In this critical period Mr. Borden purchased nearly a million dollars worth of cotton cloth, taking all that was offered. This strengthened the market, and prices advanced, and the movement resulted in a good profit for Mr. Borden personally, and also in a good profit for the entire textile trade.

In 1902 the American Printing Company acquired the property of the Fall River Machine Company and a large storehouse. The company's fifth mill was built in that year, and later, when a sixth and a seventh mill was added, the cloth mills of the American Printing Company were by far the largest in the United States. In 1912 the company's plant covered an area of twenty-eight acres; it had in operation twenty-nine printing machines, the weekly output being about 135,000 pieces. In the same year the Fall River Iron Works Company operated 485,000 spindles and 13,000 looms, producing weekly 80,000 pieces, or 205,000,000 yards of print cloth annually, requiring, to produce, over 50,000 bales of cotton. This marvelous development was due to the energy, enterprise and vision of Matthew C. D. Borden.

In 1910 the firm M. C. D. Borden & Sons took over the selling agency of the American Printing Company, and is still acting in that capacity, though the wise and efficient head which built up the business has been laid at rest. No man in the industry ever accomplished so much in maintaining a steady and safe market. On many occasions he placed in storage large quantities of goods which, if launched on the market, would have greatly depressed it, and on several occasions he took over the surplus stock of other manufacturers in order to maintain the market. No one other man ever accomplished so much as he in bettering the conditions of the mill operatives of Fall River, for his action in raising the wages of his own employees forced others to do the same, and his frequent bolstering of the industry in times of depression averted lockouts, strikes and other occasions making idle labor. His boldness and prompt action always redounded to his own benefit, and he never made any pretentions as a public benefactor, though everyone connected with the cotton manufacturing industry shared in his advantages. There is no doubt that he was inspired in all of these dealings with a strong sense of responsibility toward the thousands who derived their living from the industry. Mr. Borden entertained high ideals of a man's duty to his fellowmen and carried them out with unostentatious and unpretending sincerity. At one time he said: "I believe in success, and the greater the better. I believe in the accumulation of wealth, without any limit, except, always, that fixed by clean and honorable methods, but I believe, also, that unusual success brings with it inseparably extraordinary responsibility."

Though Mr. Borden exhibited in marked degree the business qualifications inherited from jworthy sires, he possessed a strong and very distinct individuality. His mind was open and his attitude was never intolerant, but he made his own decisions, and never wavered in their execution. He considered great chances as a matter of course in handling great affairs, and faced his responsibilities without flinching. With confidence in his own judgment, he took steps which, in the opinion of all his associates, seemed certain to result in disaster, and the result invariably justified his action. Altogether he was one of the most remarkable of the long list of remarkable business men who have made this country great. While he was familiar with all details, he had a very great grasp of mind and a keen foresight. Like all broad-minded men, he was charitable in the widest sense, most of his benefactions were kept under cover. This could not be accomplished in some cases, such as a gift of $100,000 to the charities of Fall River, on the occasion of starting Mill No. 4, October 17, 1895. This gift was made, as he expressed it, "in grateful recognition of a kind Providence that has so favored me." Of this gift $15,000 went to the building fund of the Home for Aged People, smaller sums to other institutions, and the bulk for the erection of a home for the Boys' Club, a magnificent building, with accommodations for 2,000 members, containing a theatre, gymnasium, swimming pool, library and bowling alleys. This is used exclusively by street boys for social and educational purposes, and is by far the finest institution of its kind in the United States. In 1906 Mr. Borden made extensive additions to this building for the use of men. Though a very busy man, caring for enormous interests, he still found time for recreation, and had many interests in life. Fond of outdoor sports, he was an enthusiastic yachtsman and horse owner. His famous steam yacht, the "Sovereign," is now owned by the United States Government, under the name of the "Scorpion." Mr. Borden's home was for many years in New York, and he was associated with many sporting clubs of that section, including the Seawanhaka Yacht Club, South Side Sportsmen's Club, New York Yacht Club, New York Athletic Club, Larchmont Yacht, and Jeykll Island Clubs. He was also interested in literature and art, and possessed a library and art gallery surpassed in value and excellence by very few in this country. More than a million dollars worth of paintings were hung in his gallery, and his library contained many volumes of unusual interest. A friend of education, he was a ready contributor to its advancement, and among his beneficiaries was his alma mater - Yale, which received from him a quarter of a million dollars. For six years he was park commissioner of New York City. He was interested in many of its business concerns: a director of the Lincoln National, Astor Place, and Manhattan Company banks, New York Security and Trust Company, and the Lincoln Safe Deposit Company. He was also a member of many social organizations of the city, including the following clubs:

Union League, Republican, Metropolitan, Players,' Merchants, Down 'Town, Yale Alumni, Riding, Rumson Country and other clubs. He was a member of the New England Society, Metropolitan Museum of Art, American Museum of Natural History, and a trustee of the Young Men's Christian Association.

Mr. Borden married, September 5, 1865, Harriet M. Durfee, daughter of Dr. Nathan and Delena (Borden) Durfee. Two of the seven children of this marriage survive: Bertram Harold, a_ sketch of whom follows; and Howard Seymour, a sketch of whom will be found on following pages.

Harriet M. (Durfee) Borden was of the sixth American generation of the family founded in New England by Thomas Durfee, who was also the ancestor of Abby Walker (Durfee) Borden, wife of Colonel Richard Borden. Her father, Dr. Nathan Durfee, was a graduate of Brown University, class of 1824, and of the Medical Department of Harvard University, class of 1831. He married (first) at Fall River, Delena Borden, daughter of George and Phoebe (Borden) Borden.

BERTRAM HAROLD BORDEN, son of Matthew C. D. and Harriet M. (Durfee) Borden (see preceding sketch), was born in New York City, October 3, 1868. He was educated in private New York City schools, and at the age of twenty entered business life in the dry goods commission firm of Bliss, Fabyan & Company, where he was intimately associated with his father. In the fall of 1895 he was elected treasurer of the American Printing Company, of which his father was president. On July 1, 1910, the firm of M. C. D. Borden & Sons was established at No. 90 Worth street, New York, Bertram H. Borden becoming a partner. In 1912, upon the death of Matthew C. D. Borden, Bertram H. Borden succeeded his father as senior partner of the M. C. D. Borden & Sons, and in the presidency of the American Printing Company and the Fall River Iron Works Company. On January 1, 1918, the cloth mills of the Fall River Iron Works Company became a part of the American Printing Company. In 1923 the firm of M. C. D. Borden & Sons was incorporated under that name and Bertram H. Borden became the president.

In 1918 Mr. Bordan organized the Association of Cotton Textile Merchants, of New York, and was its first president. He is a director of The Bank of Manhattan Company; Claflin's Inc.; The Merchants' Association of New York City; the Liverpool, London and Globe Insurance Company, Ltd.; the Globe Indemnity Company; the Prudential Life Insurance Company; the Star Insurance Company; and a trustee of the Union Square Savings Bank of New York. 'These responsibilities he carries with ability and zeal, devoting himself closely to his business interests. He is one of the strong men of the textile trade and a fitting executive for that industry's active corporation.

Mr. Borden, a native son of New York City, has taken a deep interest in many departments of city life. When a young man he served in the National

Guard, and was on duty during the Brooklyn strikes of 1893. He is on the board of managers of St. Mark's Hospital; is a member of the board of trustees of the Cathedral of St. John the Divine, and of the Grant Monument Association. He is a member of the New England Society of the City of New York; the Union League, Racquet and Tennis, Union, Merchants' (president), New York Yacht and Atlantic Yacht clubs; the Quequechan and Country clubs, of Fall River; and the Rumson Country Club, of Rumson, New Jersey. Mr. Borden is a keen sportsman, and all his life has enjoyed riding, yachting and country club sports. His home is at Rumson, New Jersey. He is greatly interested in the Borough of Rumson and is active in its civic interests. He is a man of quiet, dignified, fine personality, highly esteemed by his contemporaries of the business world, and popular socially.

Mr. Borden married, in New York City, January 23, 1896, Mary Lavinia Owen, daughter of William H. and Mary Lavinia (Brooks) Owen, of New York City. In winter he resides at No. 48 East Sixtyeighth street, New York City.

General Howard Seymour Borden

GENERAL HOWARD SEYMOUR BORDEN, son of Matthew C. D. and Harriet M. (Durfee) Borden, was born in New York City, April 27, 1876. He prepared in private schools, then entered Yale University, whence he was graduated A. B., class of '98. The same year he. became associated with his father in the American Printing Company, and in 1910, when the firm of M. C. D. Borden & Sons was founded, was admitted to that firm as a partner. Upon the death of Matthew C. D. Borden in 1912, his large business interests devolved upon the sons who had been trained by their father for that responsibility, Bertram H. Borden becoming president of both the American Printing Company and the Fall River Iron Works Company, and Howard §. Borden being chosen as vicepresident and treasurer of the first-named company and treasurer of the last-named. These positions of responsibility are ably filled by the incumbents, and the name of Borden, so long and honorably known in the textile world, never was more prominent than today. Howard S. Borden, in addition to the offices named, is a director of the Lawyers' Mortgage Company, and of the Lincoln Safe Deposit Company, of New York.

On the outbreak of the war now known as the "World War," 1914-18, General Borden, in common with all men of large business interests, saw the need of active codperation with the government, and on the declaration of war between the United States and Germany he took immediate steps to support his country in every way possible. He was appointed chairman, by the President, of the Local Exemption Board at Red Bank, New Jersey. Through his efforts two companies of Coast Artillery were enlisted, and on August 17, 1917, Howard S. Borden was commissioned captain of the First Machine Gun: Company of the New Jersey National Guard. On October 4, 1917, he was commissioned major of the Third Battalion of the Guard, and later he was aide-de-camp by detail on the staff of Governor Edge, of New Jersey, with headquarters at Red Bank, New Jersey. He was commissioned colonel of the Second Regiment, Field Artillery, of the National Guard, August 19, 1918, to October, 1918, then served on the governor's staff; and from November 12, 1919, until December 21, 1920, was colonel of the 6th Regiment of the New Jersey National Guard, and from December 21, 1920, until February 4, 1922, was commander of the 57th Brigade, ranking as brigadier-general. On July 13, 1921, he was commissioned brigadier-general of the Officers' Reserve Corps of the United States Army, and shortly after assigned to command the 212th in all out-of-door recreations, particularly polo, yachting and aviation. "Old Oaks" stock farm is one of his keen delights and there he breeds the best strains of polo ponies; Dalmatian dogs; Irish setters, the "Old Oaks" kennels being famous. He was, for some years, master of the Monmouth county hounds, and is greatly interested in photography, amateur theatricals, hunting and music. In fact, his range of interests reveal a man of extremely versatile tastes, a list of his clubs showing how broad are his recreation pleasures and tastes. He is a member of the New York, Atlantic and Columbia Yacht clubs; Aero Club of America; Rumson Hunting and Steeplechase Association; the Amateur Comedy Club; Motor Boat Club of America; Sea Bright Tennis Club; Sea Bright Beach Club; Mendelssohn Glee Club; Yale Club; Union League Club; Merchants' Club; Army and Navy Club of New York; founder and chairman of the finance committee; Rumson Country Club, of Rumson, New Jersey, of which he was a founder; Delta Kappa Epsilon Club; University Club; Graduate Club, of New Haven; Society of American Officers; and the Quequechan Club, of Fall River. His church connection is with St. George's Parish (Protestant Episcopal), Rumson, New Jersey.

In Orange, New Jersey, February 1, 1900, Howard S. Borden married Edith C. Curtis, born September 9, 1876, daughter of George Curtis, of Hartford, Connecticut, and Ellen (Bradley) Curtis. General and Mrs. Borden have had five children: 1. John Chaloner, born October 26, 1900, Yale A. B., 1923, now associated with M. C. D. Borden & Sons, Inc., New York City. 2. Jeanette, born January 17, 1903, died January 14, 1906. 3. Arthur Bradley, born November 4, 1906, a student at Hotchkiss School, Lakeville, Connecticut. 4. Doris, born May 21, 1909. 5. William Howard, born October 22, 1915. The family home is "Old Oaks,' Rumson, New Jersey; the New York home at No. 280 Park avenue.

JEFFERSON (3) BORDEN - For three generations the name of Jefferson Borden has been one of large significance to the textile industry in Fall River, Massachusetts, and the present head of the family, Jefferson (3) Borden, is one of the widely prominent business executives of Bristol county at the present time. His lifelong interest in the textile advance of Fall River has won his way to a largely responsible position as vice-president, in charge of manufacture, of the Fall River Bleachery. Mr. Borden is broadly interested in all community advance in civic affairs, fraternal interests, and all that pertains to the welfare of the people.

Jefferson (1) Borden was an early pioneer of the textile industry in Fall River, a man of broad vision and great natural ability, and from the beginnings which he instituted great industries have been developed. He was for a number of years treasurer of the American Printing Company, and held a large responsibility over various subsidiary concerns of that great corporation. He was a man of wide influence in public affairs, both locally and in this section of the State, and his name is one of the honored ones in the annals of Fall River. He married Susan Elizabeth Easton, also a member of an old and influential Bristol county family. Of their children, Colonel Spencer Borden and Jefferson (2) Borden became leading textile executives of this city.

Jefferson (2) Borden was born at Fall River, Massachusetts, June 2, 1844, and died August 20, 1918. His education was begun in the local public schools and he later entered Brown University, at Providence, Rhode Island, from which he was graduated in the class of 1866. He took a special course in chemistry in its relation to the textile industry, and upon the completion of his education he entered the employ of the American Printing Company, of which his father was at that time treasurer. He later became agent of the Mt. Hope Mill, now known as the Conanicut Mill, which was then controlled by the American Printing Company. After a time he became associated with the Aquidneck Mills, of Providence, Rhode Island, in the capacity of superintendent, forming this connection at a time when electricity was first being introduced into the textile industry in a tentative way. Mr. Borden was principally responsible for the adoption of this motive power in the textile plants of Providence and Fall River through his influence as an executive in the industry, bringing about a _ thorough trial of electrical equipment in the mills with which he was connected. Later, Mr. Borden became active as a broker in yachts, as an executive of the Yacht Brokerage and Designing Company, of Boston, Massachusetts. He won international fame in this field, having been the first to design the composition board of wood and metal, which was named "composite," used in the manufacture of yachts. He was the designer of the "R. D.," but probably the best known racing craft which he designed was the "Varda." The "Maybelle Swift," which was especially constructed for the owner, Charles W. Anthony, of Fall River, Massachusetts, was also his work. Power boats and sailing vessels in large numbers were built from his plans and he was considered one of the influential forces of the day in this field of sport. Still retaining his interest, however, in the textile industry, Mr. Bor- den eventually entered the mill supply business in partnership with his son, John Westall Borden, founding the present important firm of Jefferson Borden & Son. He remained at the head of this concern until about four years prior to his decease, when his broken health compelled him to retire, and John Westall Borden took over the interest. Mr. Borden's many other affiliations included the Fall River Bleachery of which Jefferson (3) Borden is vice-president at the present time. The civic advance always commanded the influence and aid of Jefferson (2) Borden, and he was particularly active in the fire department, having served as captain of the first chemical engine in this district, also as district engineer. He was a well-remembered figure of the yacht clubs of Boston, New Bedford, and Fall River.

Jefferson (2) Borden married, on February 4, 1869, Ellen Westall, daughter of Rev. John Westall, of Fall River. Mrs. Borden died about 1914, leaving three children: Jefferson (3), of further mention; John Westall, a sketch of whom follows; and Elizabeth E., wife of Walter I. Nichols.

Jefferson (3) Borden, son of Jefferson (2) and Ellen (Westall) Borden, was born at Fall River, Massachusetts, November 16, 1869. His education was begun in the local public schools, and he was graduated from the B. M. C. Durfee High School with the class of 1888. A week after graduation he became associated with his uncle in the Fall River Bleachery, remaining a part of the organization for about one year, during which time he was active in the office of the establishment. He then went into the manufacturing departments of the concern, and learned every branch of its activities by experience. Three years after entering the plant, Mr. Borden was made its superintendent and continued in that capacity until his election to the office of vice-president, in charge of the manufacturing, which took place November 17, 1921. He is a member of the Church of the New Jerusalem.

JOHN WESTALL BORDEN - A leading industrial executive of Bristol county, Massachusetts, and, indeed, a leader in his special field in this part of the country, John Westall Borden has been engaged in the mill supply business for many years, and is now the sole proprietor of the enterprise long known under the title of Jefferson Borden & Son. Mr. Borden has largely achieved his own success, uniting forces with his father only after he had attained a noteworthy position in his own responsibility. The resulting enterprise gives to Fall River the distinction of being a center of mill supply activities, particularly in the field of transmission, in which this concern specializes.

John Westall (J. Westall) Borden, son of Jefferson (2) and Ellen (Westall) Borden (q. v.), was born in Fall River, Massachusetts, September 28, 1872. His education was begun in the local public schools, and he is a graduate of the B. M. C. Durfee High School, class of 1890. His early business experience was as a member of the office for some six years. During this period Mr. Borden handled various individual interests on the outside, and at the expiration of the time mentioned he determined to resign in order to develop this business which he had already built up to a considerable importance. Accordingly, he severed his connection with the Mechanics Mill and founded an interest under his own name. His father, Jefferson (2) Borden, was deeply interested in his activities, and with long experience in textile affairs and wide influence among textile executives, his name was considered to be of distinctive significance and of special value in connection with any enterprise of this kind. Thus, father and son became affiliated in the enterprise and the title became Jefferson Borden & Son. The influence of the older man on the progress of the business was definite and permanent, although for only a comparatively few years was he active in it. John Westall Borden has been the head of the organization since about 1914, and with his breadth of experience and large executive ability he has developed a business of international importance. The house has been known since it was established as a mill supply house, but their principal activity is in the line of transmission. In the distribution of power throughout the mill, Mr. Borden has developed various ideas of his own, which have been accepted as distinctively original and of the greatest value, and this concern is now the leading transmission house in Southern Massachusetts.

Mr. Borden is affiliated with various industrial organizations in this section, but his time is largely occupied by his business activities. Fraternally he is identified with Massasoit Lodge, Free and Accepted Masons, and his clubs are the Rotary, Quequechan, Fall River Yacht, and Arctic. He is a member of the Church of the New Jerusalem, which he serves as treasurer.

John Westall Borden married, September 4, 1906, Jessie Stewart, daughter of David C. Stewart, for many years a leading merchant of Fall River, now deceased. Mr. and Mrs. Borden are the parents of two children: John Westall, Jr., a student at the B. M. C. Durfee High School; and Eleanor S.

SPENCER BORDEN, JR. - As the head of the long established firm known as the Fall River Bleachery, Spencer Borden, Jr., holds a foremost position in the business world of this city and is widely affiliated with the textile industry _throughout the East. A man of broadly practical ability, trained for the special field in which he has always been engaged, Mr. Borden has for nearly thirty years been a definite force for progress in his branch of the textile industry. He comes of a very old and prominent family of Bristol county, a family whose men have been identified with industrial advance in New England for many generations, and whose constructive efforts have done much for the State of Massachusetts.

Elizabeth (Easton) Borden. studies, he became a_ student at the Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute, of Brooklyn, New York, from which he was graduated in the class of 1868. This course was followed by advance study at the Conservatoire des Arts et Metiers, from which he was graduated at the Sorbonne in 1870. Colonel Borden first entered the employ of the American Printing Company, and was active as a chemist in that connection until the year 1872, when he established the Fall River Bleachery. Even in its early beginnings this enterprise was one of the most important of its kind in the United States and its plant one of the largest. With Colonel Borden's extensive technical training and his deep interest in his work the development of the business was a matter of large and rapid expansion. He became affiliated with many of the older and more important textile corporations of Bristol county, and also held stock in many other branches of industrial activity. Colonel Borden was even more widely known through his interest in fine horses. From the year 1873 practically throughout his lifetime he was a breeder of horses, first Hamiltonians, later Morgans and Clays, and in 1890 he began breeding polo ponies. At this time he headed the stables with the famous and "unbeaten" Kismet, well known to the racing public in 1883 and 1881. At his beautiful estate at Interlachen, on the borders of North Watappa Lake, he continued breeding Arabians throughout his lifetime, becoming an authority on this breed. His many monographs, treating the subject of horse breeding, won the highest esteem among horsemen, and have _ since been considered authoritative. He was tireless in his efforts to improve the breeds in which he was interested and also to uphold the highest standards of ethics in this interest. Mr. Borden was broadly interested in all scientific advance and kept in close touch with electricity in its early development, inventing many appliances, mechanical, electrical and chemical, some in the field of textile production and others of a general nature. Poliitcally Colonel Borden was a leader in Fall River, and from 1890 until 1893 served as a member of W. E. Russell's staff, in which connection he received his mililary rank. This full and well-rounded life was closed on October 17, 1921, at Woodstock, Vermont, where Colonel Borden had gone for a few days of leisure. His significance to the community of which he had been a lifelong resident was on every side revealed by the countless expressions of good will and admiration which were brought out by his decease. His is one of the names which in the annals of Fall River will always remain among the brightest.

Colonel Spencer Borden married Effie Brooks, and they were the parents of four children: Spencer, Jr., of further mention; Lenora B.; the wife of Bernard W. Trafford, of Boston; Alfred B.; and Florence, wife of William Darrach.

Spencer Borden, Jr., was born at Fall River, 'Massachusetts, September 8, 1872. His education was begun in the local public schools, and, later entering Harvard University, he was graduated from that institution in the class of 1894, Interested from boyhood in the enterprise of which his father was the founder and the head, the trend of his educational preparations, as well as his youthful interest, was toward his future as a part of this organization. He became identified with the business shortly following his graduation from Harvard University, and familiarized himself with its details by the very practical method of experience in all departments. Rising from one position to another, each of greater responsibility on the merits of his attainments in the organization, Mr. Borden was received into the firm in due course, and, eventually, upon the death of his father, became president of the corporation. His energy and efficiency have for many years been vital factors in the growth and development of the enterprise, and it was as a broadly capable executive that he took over the duties of his present position. His plans for the future include definite lines of expansion and development, and the history of more than half a century which lies behind him is only an augur of the future of this great interest. Mr. Borden is affliated with the world of finance of his native State as a director of the Shawmut National Bank of Boston and vice-president and director of the Fall River National Bank. In the public affairs of his native city, Mr. Borden takes a deep and constructive interest, but has never permitted his name to be brought forward as a candidate for elective office. He has served as a member of the School Board and the Planning Board. During the World War, he enlisted in the Massachusetts State Guard, and now holds the rang of lieutenant-colonel of the 17th Infantry Regiment. He is a member of the Quequechan Club of Fall River, the University Club of New York, the New York Yacht Club, and the Eastern Yacht Club, these latter organizations revealing his chief leisure interest. He is affiliated with the Baptist church.

Spencer Borden, Jr., married, at Lowell, Massachusetts, June 1, 1901, Sarah Hidreth Ames, daughter of General Adelbert and Blanche (Butler) Ames, and they are the parents of four children: Blanche Butler, Joan, Ames, and Richard.

BRAYTON FAMILY - For over two hundred years the name of Brayton has been associated with . the growth of Massachusetts, yet we must turn to the annals of Rhode Island for the earlier records of this family. There we find that Francis Brayton was received as an inhabitant of Portsmouth, Rhode Island, as early as 1643, and to him the majority, if not all, of the Braytons in this country trace their origin. The names of his descendants have long been prominent in our civic, commercial, judicial, and military history, and a brief outline of that branch of the family, closely allied with growth of Bristol county, is given below.

(1) Francis Brayton, of Portsmouth, Rhode Island, and his wife Mary had six children: Francis, Mary; Stephen, of further mention; Martha, Elizabeth, and Sarah.

(II) Stephen Brayton married, March 8, 1679, Ann Tallman, daughter of Peter and Ann Tallman. Their children were: Mary; Elizabeth; Ann; served, of further mention; Stephen; and Israel.

(III) Preserved Brayton, who became the founder of the family in Bristol county, Massachusetts, was born in Portsmouth, Rhode Island, March 8, 1685, and married Content Coggeshall, daughter of John and Elizabeth (Timberlake) Coggeshall. Their children were: John, Stephen, David, Baulston, Ann, Content, and Israel, the first two of whom were born in Portsmouth, Rhode Island.

In 1714, Preserved Brayton purchased of William Little, of Plymouth, Massachusetts, one hundred thirty-eight acres of land lying in the Great Neck of the Shawomet Lands; in 1724 he enlarged the farm, and these acres, having been in possession of the family through succeeding generations, have long been known as the Brayton Homestead. Today their location may be described as on the west side of Taunton river, between the two bridges, directly opposite the north section of the 'city of Fall River. As the first owners of the land were residents of Plymouth, we infer that Preserved Brayton, his wife, and two oldest children, were the pioneer settlers on this land, yet not the first settlers on the Great Neck, as other families had previously come over from Rhode Island, among whom was the sister of Content (Coggeshall) Brayton with her husband. Their farm purchased in 1700, was located on the east side of Lee's river, west of the Brayton Homest<ad, and this "Anthony Homestead" is still owned by a descendant of William and Mary (Coggeshall) Anthony. Preserved Brayton did not limit the purchase of his lands to those acquired in the Great Neck, for we learn from his will that he gave "a certain piece of land lying in Freetown" to his granddaughter Elizabeth Robinson; "a certain farm" in Rehoboth to his grandson Preserved Brayton; and "a certain piece of land" in another part of Swansea to his grandson Stephen. Thus we know that the family scattered to different parts of Bristol county, while one son inherited a large tract of land in Smithfield, Rhode Island. His daughter, Content, married Samuel Gardner, Jr., and their descendants have also been prominent in this section of Massachusetts. Swansea did not annex the Shawomet Lands until after 1724, but in later records the name of Preserved Brayton is connected with its public offices and various town affairs, and thus we have evidence that his interests extended beyond those of his family and farm to the broader life of the community. Preserved Brayton died in 1761, leaving his Homestead farm to his son Israel, of whom further.

(IV) Israel Brayton was born October 13, 1727, and was twice married; first to Mary Perry, and their children were: Israel; Preserved; Content, who married Captain Nathan Reed; David; John of whom further; Bethany, who married Dr. John Winslow; Mary, who married Philip Bowers; Perry; and Baulston, who married Mercy Slade. Thus the name of Brayton was again united with names of other families prominent in the growth of Bristol county. Israel Brayton married(second) Mrs. Mary Read Bowers and their children were: Nancy; Perry Bowers and Nathan Read (twins), neither of whom lived to maturity.

Although Israel Brayton had a large family, he was able to extend his holdings, and purchased a large tract of land in Tiverton, which he left by will to his son Baulston, while to his son John he left the Homestead Farm.

(V) John Brayton was born in Swansea, April 12, 1762, and died in Somerset, May 12, 1829. His life covered a span of years when the community was filled with anxiety, conflict, privation, financial depression, scarcity of food, great loss of life during the war, and then the unsettled times connected with the re-organization and the forming of a new government. Too young to serve throughout the war, John Brayton enlisted, on August 2, 1780, in Captain Peleg Peck's company of Colonel Thomas Carpenter's regiment. John Brayton married, on September 21, 1782, Sarah Bowers, daughter of Philip and Mary (Read) Bowers, a descendant of three of the passengers of the first voyage of the "Mayflower." Their children were: Mary, who became the second wife of Dr. John Winslow; Sarah, who married Benjamin Clark Cornell; William Bowers, who was drowned at sea when seventeen years old; Nancy Jarrett Bowers, who became the second wife of David Anthony; Israel, of whom further; Content, who died in her seventyfifth year, unmarried; Stephen, who married (first) Mary H. Gray, (second) Abby Gray; Almira, who married Captain Jesse Chace; Betsey; John, Jr., and Caroline, none of whom lived to maturity.

(VI) Israel Brayton was born in Somerset (which had been set apart from Swansea in 1790) on July 29, 1792, and died there November 5, 1866, although he did not pass his entire life on the Homestead Farm after his marriage to Keziah Anthony, daughter of David and Submit (Wheeler) Anthony, he lived a short time in Foxboro, and then removed to Swansea Village, where he remained several years. Subsquently, he became a resident of Fall River, but after the death of his brother Stephen, he returned to the Homestead Farm, where he spent the remaining years of his life.

The children of Israel and Keziah (Anthony) Brayton were: 1. Mary, who married (first) Branford Durfee; (second) Jeremiah S. Young. 2. William Bowers, who married Hannah T. Lawton, of Tiverton. 3. Nancy Jarrett Bowers, who married Daniel Chase, of Somerset. 4. Elizabeth Anthony, who married Roswell D. Hitchcock, a native of Maine; 5. David Anthony, a sketch of whom follows. 6. John Summerfield, a sketch of whom will be found in the following pages. 7. Israel Perry, born in Swansea, May 24, 1829. 8. Hezekiah Anthony, who married Caroline Elizabeth Slade, of Somerset.

DAVID ANTHONY BRAYTON - Gifted with a nature generous and benevolent, with a mind keen and quick in judgment of men, with foresight and wisdom in the handling of affairs, and a charac- ter noted for its sterling integrity, David Anthony Brayton was a citizen of commanding power, whose fearlessness in the performance of duty won for him the confidence and esteem of all who came within the scope of his broad influence.

David Anthony Brayton was the son of Israel and Keziah (Anthony) Brayton, and was born April 2, 1824, in Swansea, Massachusetts, and died in London, England, August 20, 1881. The greater part of his childhood was passed in Somerset, on the farm that for generations had been the home of his Brayton ancestors. He acquired the rudiments of a practical education by regular attendance at the public schools of Somerset and Fall River, and when not at school he worked with great energy and zeal at various occupations. His special aptitude for business led him to find a larger field than that offered by his boyhood home, and when still a minor he made a business trip to Cuba, in later years becoming extensively engaged in trade with the West Indies. The discovery of gold in California intensely interested Mr. Brayton, and in 1849 he sailed in the ship "Mary Mitchell" for the Pacific Coast, where he remained several months. On his return to Fall River, with Silas Bullard as a partner, he erected the Bristol County Flour Mills, the first industry of the kind in this part of Massachusetts, and he subsequently became its sole proprietor.

Shortly after the enactment of the National Banking Law, David Anthony Brayton, with his brother, John S. Brayton, and their associates, established the First National Bank of Fall River, and so faithful and valuable were his services in building up this organization, that at the time of his death the directors of the corporation spread upon its records this tribute: "To his remarkable foresight, energy, and high moral character, this institution owes its origin and its great success."

Fall River had already become a centre of the cotton industry, and Mr. Brayton, realizing the great possibility of its growth, conceived the idea of erecting a large manufactory, for which, in 1865, a site was purchased, bordering on the stream that gave to Fall River its name. As a result of his foresight and business acumen, Durfee Mill No. 1 was completed in 1867; in 1871 Durfee Mill No. 2, a duplicate of No. 1, was built, thus doubling the production of the print cloths of this corporation; and in 1880 the plant was enlarged by the erection of mill No. 3. These mills were named in honor of Bradford Durfee, whose son, B. M. C. Durfee, was the largest stockholder, but they stand as an enduring monument to the enterprise, energy, and sound judgment of David Anthony Brayton. From the time of their incorporation to that of his demise he was treasurer and manager of the Durfee Mills, which for many years constituted one of the largest print cloth plants in the country.

Mr. Brayton's wide-spread knowledge and experience contributed 'to the success of the many enterprises in which he held offices of responsibility and trust. He was director in eight other corporations in Fall River, and at the time of his death was president and principal owner of the Arnold Print Works in North Adams, Massachusetts.

As a citizen, Mr. Brayton took an active interest in the development of Fall River, and his wise counsel and public spirit exerted a powerful influence in the community. He was a regular attendant and active member of the First Congregational Church of Fall River, giving freely to the support of divine worship, and bestowing many private benevolences unostentatiously and discriminatingly.

David Anthony Brayton was married, in Fall River, May 1, 1851, to Nancy R. Jenckes, daughter of John and Nancy (Bellows) Jenckes. They had five children, namely: 1. Nannie Jenckes Brayton (1853-1905), married (first) Norman Easton Borden, of Fall River; and (second) Henry Wayland. Peabody, of Salem, Massachusetts. 2. David Anthony Brayton, Jr. (1855-1913), unmarried; he became associated with the Arnold Print Works, of North Adams, Massachusetts, and later succeeded his father as treasurer and manager of the Durfee Mills from 1881 until his death in 1913. 3. John Jenckes Brayton (1859-1915), unmarried; for several years he carried on a storage warehouse business and later became the president of the Durfee Mills, serving from 1908 until his death in 1915. 4. Elizabeth Hitchcock Brayton, born in 1865; unmarried. 5. Dana Dwight Brayton, born in 1869; married Florence Elizabeth Davis, of Fall River. He succeeded his brother as president of the Durfee Mills, and is director of several other corporations.

JOHN SUMMERFIELD BRAYTON, son of Israel and Keziah (Anthony) Brayton (q. v.), was born in Swansea, Massachusetts, December 3, 1826, and died in 1904. He attended the district school, fitting himself for teaching duties, and was enabled to continue his studies at Pierce's Academy, in Middleboro, and the University Grammar School, of Providence, Rhode Island. Subsequently, he was graduated from Brown University in the class of 1851, and deciding upon the legal profession, studied law in the office of Thomas Dawe Eliot ,at New Bedford, and in the Dane Law School of Harvard College, being graduated in 1853. On August 8th of the same year he was admitted to the suffolk county bar and began active practice in Fall River. The first year of his professional career was made notable by the fact that he was chosen city solicitor, the first incumbent of that office in the newlyorganized city. Later he served as clerk of courts for Bristol county. In 1864 he reéntered general practice, in association with James M. Morton, who was later one of the justices of the Massachusetts Supreme Court. Mr. Brayton's appointment as financial agent of Mrs. Mary B. Young and B. M. C. Durfee, brought obligations and responsibilities that necessitated his withdrawal from legal practice, and from that time until his death he was a prominent figure in Fall River business circles. As president of the First National Bank and president of B. M. C. Durfee Trust Company, he headed two of the city's most substantial and valuable institutions and to their service he gave himself with a fidelity and devotion that knew no bounds. His helpful influence extended into many spheres of community life and his assistance was at the ready call of his wide circle of friends in both practical and personal relations. Loyalty and dependability were two of his outstanding characteristics and they found notable expression in all of his many and varied interests. Mr. Brayton's public service included representation of Fall River in the Central Court of Massachusetts in 1856, and membership on the governor's council in 1866-67-68 and 1879-80, under Governors Bullock, Talbot and Long. History, general and local, appealed strongly to his studious and scholarly taste and he was also a patron of art and literature. His knowledge of the Narragansett country was equal to that of any expert on the subject, and he was president of the Old Colony Historical Society for several years, a member of the New England Historic and Genealogical Society, and from 1898 until his death was a member of the Massachusetts Historical Society. He was a loyal supporter of all forward movements in the cause of education. In 1893 his alma mater, Brown University, honored him with the degree of Doctor of Laws, and from 1898 until his passing he was a Fellow of that institution; he was likewise, from 1882 until 1900, a trustee of Amherst College. He was a man of rare quality, whose nature inclined instinctively to all that is good and true, in whom were admirably blended philanthropic and humanitarian aims and the faculty of practical administration.

John §S. Brayton married, November 27, 1855, Sarah Jane Tinkham, daughter of Enoch and Rebecca (Williams) Tinkham, and they were the parents of three children: Mary Jarrett Bowers, who married Dr. Charles L. Nichols, of Worcester; Harriet Hitchcock; and John Summerfield, whose sketch follows.

"JOHN SUMMERFIELD BRAYTON, son of John Summerfield, a sketch of whom precedes this, and Sarah Jane (Tinkham) Brayton, was born in Fall River, Massachusetts, September 16, 1864, and died there on April 20, 1923. His education was begun in the local public schools, and from the high school he went to Phillips Academy, at Andover, Massachusetts, whence he graduated in the class of 1884. Later, in 1888, he graduated from Amherst College, and then studied for a legal carcer at Harvard University Law School, entering upon the practice of law in Fall River, in partnership with the late Hon. Andrew Jackson Jennings and the late Justice James M. Morton. Although he was regarded as one of the promising young lawyers of his day, Mr. Brayton turned from the profession of his early choice after a few years of active practice and entered the banking field in association with his father, John S. Brayton, then president of the First National Bank of Fall River and president of the B. M. C. Durfee Trust Company. Such was the ability of the younger man and so great the public confidence in him that upon the death of his father, in 1904, he succeeded to the presidency of both these institutions. It was one of the noteworthy characteristics of the man that in all his activity in the world of finance he went forward with the quiet dignity and unconscious power which makes the most forceful executives and forms the ablest leadership. His legal training was of incalculable benefit to the institutions with which he was identified, and his keen far-sightedness and cool judgment were constant factors in their great prosperity and permanent stability. Mr. Brayton was extensively interested in the industrial world of Fall River and vicinity, and at the time of his death he was identified with the Border City Manufacturing Company as president and director, also holding the same offices in the Troy Cotton and Woolen Company and the Union Cotton Manufacturing Company. He was a director of the American Linen Company, the Durfee Mills, the Foster Spinning Company, Charlton Mills, the Mechanics Mills and the Sagamore Manufacturing Company. In this center of textile activity he early apreciated the value of vocational education and for many years was one of the most active members of the board of trustees of the Bradford, Durfee Textile School of this city. He was also a trustee of the B. M. C Durfee High School. His long and enthusiastic encouragement and support of the Fall River Boys' Club was a matter of more than routine distribution of benevolence, for he was deeply concerned in the development of the youths who were benefited by its activities and gave his close personal attention to the problems of the organization.

John Summerfield Brayton married, on June 20, 1894, Jessie Curtis Flint, daughter of John D. and Clarissa Curtis (Waterman) Flint, and they are the parents of four children: John S., Jr., Flint, Edith, and Anthony.

The following is quoted from a leading journal as expressive of the universal esteem and appreciation in which John Summerfield Brayton was held and as a contemporary estimate of his place in the community:

Seldom has Fall River received such a shock as falls upon it in the death of John S. Brayton, without the least forewarning. Rarely has a man, active in the business life of Fall River. been called, in a day, from his full share in his responsibilities to the silence of death. According to nature, Mr. Brayton should have had another score of years in the administration of the banking business, which he _ inherited, which he loved, and which he carried forward with success. That business had given him the opportunity, which he had the heart to use, to give not a few men the help in business which they needed, and of which he felt sure they were worthy, looking at their characters as an essential part of the security which they had to offer. Many causes looked to him for assistance, and usually not in vain, if he felt that they were worthy.

State, won marked distinction, and the influence of his long and useful life will bear beneficent fruit for many years to come. Mr. Jennings retired from professional activity and enjoyed the leisure he so richly deserved, but his former associates and colleagues looked up to him as one whose leadership they valued, and he was frequently sought in an advisory capacity among the active members of the profession. Mr. Jennings was one of the best known lawyers in Southeastern Massachusetts, and was a former member of the State Legislature and the Senate. He was at one time district attorney. Possessed of a gift for public speaking, he took part in many patriotic gatherings and was always ready to put his shoulder to the wheel for any movement for the public good. His influence was be hard to fill. One of his last public appearances, if not his last, was as president of the day at the annual Memorial Day exercises on May 30th last.

Andrew J. Jennings came of an old Colonial family, being the seventh in his line of descent from John Jennings, of Sandwich. Subsequent generations lived in Tiverton, where the first ancestcr of the name settled, nearly 200 years ago, and where Mr. Jennings' grandfather, Isaac Jennings, was a well known resident. Andrew J. Jennings was a son of Andrew M. Jennings, who was born in what is now Fall River, Massachusetts, and was a machinist by trade. For thirty-five years he acted as foreman of Hawes, Marvel & Davol Machine Shops, at that time the second largest plant of this kind in the United States. Andrew M. Jennings died in the year of 1882, at the age of seventy-four years. The mother, Olive B. (Chace) Jennings, was born at Freetown, Massachusetts, and died at the age of seventy-six years.

Andrew Jackson Jennings was born at Fall River, Massachusetts, August 2, 1849, died, October 19, 1923. His education was begun in the local public schools, and he later took a preparatory course at the Mowry & Goff School, at Providence, Rhode Island, after which he entered Brown University, whence he was graduated with the degree of Bachelor of Arts, class of 1872. At Brown he took an active part in athletics, being captain of his class and the university's baseball teams. His higher education being more or less dependent upon his own efforts, Mr. Jennings thereafter taught school for two years in the Warren, Rhode Island, High School, after which he returned to Fall River and began the study of law in the office of James M. Morton. <A short time later, however, he entered Boston University School of Law, from which he received his degree of Bachelor of Laws, with the class of 1876. He began his professional career as a partner of James M. Morton, this association being carried forward under the names of Morton & Jennings until the elevation of the senior member of this firm to the bench of the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, which. occurred in 1890. Thereupon Mr. Morton's son, James M. Morton, Jr., became Mr. Jennings' associate, and continued in the same capacity until his appointment to the bench of the United States District Court, at Boston, Massachusetts. Another name was also identified with this partnership, that of John S. Brayton. Prior to the coming of Mr. Jennings into the firm, John S. Brayton, Sr., was the partner of the senior Mr. Morton, and on his appointment as clerk of the Superior Court, he still continued his affiliations, not wishing his name to be removed from the office sign. Upon the graduation of his son, John S. Brayton, Jr., from law school, the young man was taken into the firm, and thereby the names of John S. Brayton, as well as the names of James M. Morton and Andrew Jackson Jennings, remained continuously on the door of this office for a period of fifty-three years. ,

From the early years of his practice Mr. Jennings displayed the ability which not only wins personal success but commands the codperation and loyalty of others. This quality was recognized many years ago by the leaders of the Republican party, and in 1878 he was elected to the Massachusetts State Legislature, where he served two successive terms. His work in this capacity was that of a man with not only a broadly alert but a definitely constructive mental endowment, and so gratifying to his constituency was his activity as a legislator, that the people of the district elected him to the State Senate in the year 1882. Serving one term as a Senator, Mr. Jennings was thereafter active in his private practice until November, 1894, when he was elected district attorney of the Southeastern District of Massachusetts, in which responsible office he served for a period of four years. As a citizen, a legislator, as a law officer of the government, he was always a tower of strength to the enemies of the drink curse. When a generation since, the Legislature of Massachusetts sent to the people for decision, the question of incorporating prohibition into the State constitution, and when the question was to be met, the friends of prohibition turned to him as a strong helper in the campaign which they were to wage.

Failing in that campaign, those who waged it still had in him a strong helper in the good cause. He was always relied upon for personal aid in no license campaigns. Whenever the city voted "no," he aided in the demand for the enforcement of the law. When, on that issue, the friends of law enforcement went to the State Legislature and obtained the law for the appointment of a police and license commission, Mr. Jennings was their leader. When the law was finally enacted and signed, it was in his law office that the first board of police and license was fashioned for recommendation to the appointing power. Whenever, since that date, the law or the board has been assailed in the Legislature, he has been a leader in defense of the law and of its administration, even down to last winter. As a lawyer he stood in the front rank. He had two fruitful terms in the office of district attorney. He took this position seriously and used it, to the utmost of his power, as an agency for the en- forcement of the law. No one ever offered to buy immunity from him. He used his professional skill with the desire to promote righteous judgment.

Mr. Jennings achieved prominence at the bar and was everywhere recognized as an able, painstaking, and energetic lawyer and advocate, being retained in 'many important cases. local school board for three years, and served as a member of the House of Representatives in 1878 and 1879, and as State Senator in i882. During his three years in the House and Senate, he was an influential member of the judiciary committee and chairman of the joint committee on the removal of. Judge Day by address in 1882. He was active in securing the passage of the civil damage law in the House, and the introduction of the school house liquor law in the Senate. He was a natural orator, of eloquent and pleasing address, and a public-spirited citizen. At the time of the rapid growth of the textile industry in Fall River 1895- 1897, the tariff question became one of importance to the community and Mr. Jennings was retained to represent local manufacturing interests at tariff hearings in Washington. On these occasions he set forth the situation as it applied to the local textile mills and his knowledge of the situation was such that national tariff committees were guided to a great extent by the masterful presentation of the situation as argued by Mr. Jennings. On the day of General Grant's funeral, he was selected to deliver the memorial oration for this city, and on many other occasions, he was called upon to make important and fitting speeches.

Mr. Jennings had been for several years a trustee of Brown University, clerk of the Second Baptist Church, and was president of the Brown Alumni in 1891 and 1892. With the passing of the years Mr. Jennings became widely interested in various affairs in Fall River, Massachusetts, and was for a long period a trustee of the Union Savings Bank. In the industrial world he was a director of the Merchants Manufacturing Company, one of the largest cotton mills of Fall River, and in many branches of social and welfare work he was a noteworthy figure. For a full quarter of a century he served as president of the Fall River Young Men's Christian Association, and gave the weight of his influence to every forward movement. He was interested in and for several years was a trustee of the Fall River Historical Society. He was affiliated with King Philip Lodge, Free and Accepted Masons; his clubs, the University, of Providence; and the Quequechan Club, of Fall River. His religious affiliation was with the Second Baptist Church, of Fall River, and he was chairman of the standing committee of the church society, teacher in the Sunday school, and he was devoted in his interest for the welfare of his church home.

Mr. Jennings married, in 1879, Marion G. Saunders, of Warren, Rhode Island, and to them two children were born: Oliver S., a graduate of Brown University, A. B., class of 1905, also a graduate of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, with the degree, Electrical Engineer, now in the employ of the Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Company, of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; and Marion J., wife of Dwight S. Waring, a well known cotton yarn merchant of Fall River, and for some years chairman of the Fall River Fire Commission.

Such, in brief, is the life story of this eminent lawyer and worthy citizen, Andrew J. Jennings, one of the strong men of his day and generation. The sincere effort and constant loyalty to high ideals, which marked both his public service and his individual endeavors, made his life a worthy example for the youth of today, and it is eminently fitting that now, as an honorable and venerable, though fallen figure in Fall River, the people should render to his name full appreciation for the work which he did.

SIMEON BORDEN CHASE - The business career of Simeon B. Chase has been compiled in the city of Fall River, Massachusetts, where he holds high office in textile corporations and financial institutions. To a long life of business activity Mr. Chase has added public service to his State and for many years he has been an earnest student of economic questions, giving especial attention to the tariff and the theory of protection as applied to American industry. He has spoken from many platforms in support of the tenets of the Republican party, and is known as an able, forcible and interesting public speaker, vigorous thinker and writer. He receives many requests for lectures and papers from the various literary societies of Fall River and to his quality as a business man and public speaker he adds social qualities and sterling character, which in all complete an engaging personality.

The surname Chase is derived from the French "chasser," meaning to hunt, and the family has been prominent in England since the first use of surnames. The seat of the family in England was at Chesham, in Buckinghamshire, through which runs a rapidly flowing river called the Chess, whence the name of the town and perhaps also of the family. Thomas and Aquila Chase, brothers, whose English ancestry is traced to remote antiquity, are believed to have been cousins of William Chase, the immigrant ancestor, mentioned below. Some branches of this family in America have used the spelling Chace, but the form in most general use is that at the head of this review.

(1) William Chase, a native of England, born in 1595, came to America in Governor Winthrop's fleet in 1630, accompanied by his wife Mary and son William. He settled first in Roxbury, Massachusetts, where he became a member of the First Church, presided over by Rev. John Eliot, the ~ Indian Apostle. In the autumn following his arrival he was propounded for freeman, and was admitted May 14, 1634. About 1637 he joined the company which established a new plantation at Yarmouth, in what is now Barnstable county, Massachusetts. There he served as constable in

1639, and continued to reside in May, 1659. In October passed away. William Chase was a soldier against the Narragansett Indians in 1645. He had two children born after his arrival in America, namely: Mary; May, 1637, in Roxbury; and Benjamin, 1639, in Yarmouth.

(II) William (2) Chase, eldest son of William and Mary Chase, was born about 1622, in England, and accompanied his father to Yarmouth, where he lived, and died February 27, 1685. There is no record of his wife. His children were: William; Jacob; John; Elizabeth; Abraham; Joseph; Benjamin, of whom further; and Samuel.

(III) Benjamin Chase, son of William (2) Chase, lived in Portsmouth, Rhode Island, and married Amey Borden, born May 30, 1678, daughter of John and Mary (Earle) Borden. She died before 1716. Children: Patience; Elizabeth; Nathan, mentioned below; Benjamin; and Abner.

(IV) Nathan Chase, eldest son of Benjamin and Amey (Borden) Chase, was born January 13, 1704, and lived in Portsmouth, where he married, April 29, 1731, Elizabeth Shaw. Children: Borden; Holder, mentioned below; Amey, Clark, Anna, Content, Benjamin and Hannah.

(V) Holder Chase, second son of Nathan and Elizabeth (Shaw) Chase, was born August 24, 1733, in Portsmouth, and lived in that town, where he died in February, 1820. He married there, February 21, 1760, Freeborn Dennis, daughter of Joseph and Sarah (Durfee) Dennis, born August 18, 1739, in Portsmouth. Children: Nathan, died in childhood; Sarah, married Benjamin Mott, of Portsmouth; Nathan, married Anne Sherman, of Portsmouth, daughter of Sampson and Ruth (Fish) Sherman; Anna, married in Portsmouth, John Weeden, of Jamestown, Rhode Island; Eliza; Borden, married (first) September 12, 1802, Sarah Folger, (second) Ruth Bunker, both of Nantucket, Massachusetts; Amey, died in childhood; Abner, born in Portsmouth, married there, October 5, 1803, Deborah Chace, daughter of Benjamin and Mary (Almy) Chace; Clark, mentioned below; Freeborn, died unmarried, November 23, 1819.

(VI) Clark Chase, fifth son of Holder and Freeborn (Dennis) Chase, married, in Tiverton, Rhode Island, December 26, 1811, Anne Borden, daughter of Simeon and Amey (Briggs) Borden. Children: Simeon B.; Amey A., married, January 5, 1838, Humphrey Almy; Borden, mentioned below; Philip Briggs, married Sarah, daughter of William Earle and Eunice (Sherman) Cook; Sarah Freeborn, married Stephen Davol, of Fall River; Eliza, married Charles Fowler, of Brooklyn, New York; Charles, married Frances C. Pearce, of Bristol, Rhode Island; Nathaniel B., married Louise M. Pierson; Alfred Clark, married (first) Mrs. Clapp and (second) Ruth Anthony, and had children: Ruth (Mrs. Hedley), and Edmund.

(VII) Borden Chase, second son of Clark and Anne (Borden) Chase, was born April 5, 1816, and resided in Portsmouth, engaged in agriculture until

1875, when he removed to Fall River, Massachusetts. His farm was one of the handsomest of the section, and his home was noted for its bountiful hospitality. In 1871 he engaged in the coal business at Fall River, establishing the Fall River the Church of the Ascension of Fall River, where he died February 20, 1879. He married, in Portsmouth, December 24, 1838, Elizabeth Anthony Thomas, of the city, daughter of Joseph and Hannah S. (Anthony) Thomas. Children: 1. Annie Borden, married William H. Jennings. 2. Frederick, married (first) Louise Tallman, of Portsmouth; (second) Edith Snell. 3. Clark, married Emma F. Boyd, and had children. 4. Simeon Borden, mentioned below.

(VIII) Simeon Borden Chase, youngest son of Borden and Elizabeth A. (Thomas) Chase, was born at Portsmouth, Rhode Island, January 10, 1849, and there spent the first eighteen years of his life, acquiring an education in the public schools. After graduation from business college in Providence, he entered business life as a clerk in the office of the Merchants' Manufacturing Company, in Fall River, Massachusetts. In 1870 he went West, and for eighteen months was located in the State of Nebraska. In 1872 he returned to the employ of the Merchants' Manufacturing Company, of Fall River, remaining until 1875 as a bookkeeper. In the latter year he accepted a position with the Tecumseh Mills and was elected treasurer of the company. In 1882 he resigned that office and returned to the Merchants' Manufacturing Company, but now as treasurer of that corporation. In February, 1885, Mr. Chase was elected treasurer of the King Philip Mills, the largest in Fall River, an office he yet holds. From that time he has been connected officially with many Fall River manufacturing and financial corporations, among them being the Barnaby Manufacturing Company, of which he was president; the Crystal Spring Bleaching and Dyeing Company; the Wampanoag Mills; the Globe Yarn Mills; the Stevens' Manufacturing Company, of which he has been the president since 1898; the Tecumseh Mills, which he serves as treasurer; the Osborn Mills; Davol Mills; Merchants' Manufacturing Company; Stevens' Manufacturing Company; Boston Manufacturers' Mutual Insurance Company; and the Fall River Manufacturing Mutual Insurance Company. All of these concerns carry his name as a director. He is also president of the Metacomet National Bank, of Fall River. A Republican in politics, Mr. Chase has never desired public office and has only accepted what was a clear duty, membership in City Council and on the Massachusetts State Board of Education, being appointed to the latter office by Governor Draper. He is held in high esteem in the community in which his life has been largely spent, and he reviews a life of great usefulness in aiding the development of that community.

Simeon B. Chase married, on March 19, 1874, Louise Whitman Hills, born November 2, 1848, daughter of John E. and Mary (Whitman) Hills, and a descendant of William Hills, born in England, who came to New England on the ship "Lyon," September 16, 1632, becoming a resident of Roxbury, Massachusetts, and later of Hartford, Connecticut. Mr. and Mrs. Chase are the parents of five children: 1. Mary Whitman (Mrs. William Wilson Heaton), residing at Greenwich, Connecticut, has three children: Mary, Chase and Sarah. 2. Anne Borden, wife of Philip E. Tripp, of Fall River, and they have three children: Borden, Judith, and Mary E. 3. Louise S., married George Hewitt Myers, of Washington, District of Columbia, and they have three children: Persis Chase, Mary Hewitt, and Louise Chase. 4. Genevieve, who married Richard K. Hawes, of Fall River, and they have two sons: Richard K., Jr., and Simeon Borden Chase. 5. Florence, married Paul Gifford, of Fall. River, and they have two children: Benjamin F. C. and Louise Whitman.

JUDGE ARTHUR MARTINEAU ALGER - When in 1876 Arthur M. Alger was awarded his degree in law, he located his home in Taunton, Massachusetts, and continued a devotee of the law until his passing in 1921, at the age of sixtyseven. He was not known as a practitioner to any great extent but as an official and jurist. In his early life he was called to public place, and as clerk, registrar and judge he compiled a rare record of efficiency and usefulness. He was an interested friend and adviser of the younger generation of Taunton lawyers and these young men received valuable aid and help from the veteran. In _ his direction of his court he was courteous and most considerate. A probate court is a revelation in family amenities and scores of open family ruptures were prevented and differences adjusted by Judge Alger by his sympathetic talks with the interested parties, ere the law was evoked. He usually found a common ground upon which a start toward conciliation could be made, and he achieved some surprising results as a peace-maker.

Judge Alger was an accurate student of legal history and devoted much of his time to careful _research work with regard to the sources of information concerning the earlier settlers of the Taunton section. He was an authority on the beginnings of the Cohannet settlement, and familiar with the histories of all the towns of the Old Colony as well as the group to the north. During the year 1878 he wrote a series of articles for the "Bristol County Republican," comprising the biographies of such men as Daniel Leonard, Judge Samuel White and Robert Treat Paine. His great work, however, in this line was a history of the descendants of Thomas Alger, his ancestor. In this work, which he brought down to the year 1875, he traced the line of descent through nearly 1,000 names. From this work it is learned that the American ancestor was Thomas Alger, who came to New England about 1665, Judge Alger being of the eighth American generation. He was a son of Rev. William Rounseville and Anne Langdon (Lodge) Alger, a daughter of Giles and Abigail Langdon Lodge, of Boston. Mrs. Alger was a sister of Henry Cabot Lodge, senior United States Senator from Massachusetts.

The line of descent from Thomas Alger and his wife, Elizabeth Packard, to Judge Arthur M. Alger is through the former's son, Israel Alger, and his wife, Patience Hayward; their son, Israel (2) Alger, and his wife, Susanna Snow; their son, Lieutenant James Alger, and his wife, Martha Kingman; their son, James (2) Alger, and his wife, Hannah Bassett; their son, Nahum Alger, and his wife, Catherine Sampson Rounseville; their son, Rev. William Rounseville Alger, and his wife, Anne Langdon Lodge; their son, Arthur Martineau Alger, whose career is herein traced.

Catherine Sampson (Rounseville) Alger, wife of Nahum Alger of the sixth generation, was a daughter of Rev. William Rounseville, a Baptist clergyman, who for over ten consecutive years represented Freetown in the General Court. She was a granddaughter of Captain Levi Rounseville, who commanded a company of "minute-men" that marched from Freetown to Lexington April 19, 1775, and later was a captain in the Ninth Regiment of the Continental Army. Rev. William R. Alger was a graduate of the Divinity School of Harvard University, whence he was graduated in 1847, later being ordained a Unitarian clergyman. Harvard conferred upon him the honorary degree, Master of Arts, and he filled pastorates in Boston, New York City and other Massachusetts towns. He was famous as a pulpit orator and in demand as a lecturer, the chaplain of the Massachusetts House of Representatives and author of a number of books, one of which, "The Doctrine of a Future Life," passed through fourteen editions. He delivered the oration at the unveiling of the monument to Edgar Allen Poe at the Metropolitan Art Museum of New York and was in close touch with the thinkers and scholars of his day. He married Anne Langdon Lodge, also the descendant of an illustrious member of Congress. One of their sons, Captain Philip R. Alger, was for several years professor of mathematics at the United States Naval Academy at Annapolis and one of the foremost experts on ordnance in the country, publishing text books and various papers on that subject. A daughter, Abbie Langdon Alger, who died in 1905, was a remarkable linguist, who translated and published a number of books.

Arthur Martineau Alger, son of Rev. William Rounseville and Anne Langdon (Lodge) Alger, was born in that part of Boston formerly Roxbury, September 23, 1854, died at his home on Somerset avenue, Taunton, Massachusetts, June 2, 1921. He was educated in Boston Latin School, private schools, and in the law department of the Boston University, whence he was graduated in 1876. He read law in the office of F. B. Bryant, of Boston, and was his graduation from law school. He at once located in Taunton, entering the law offices of Judge William H. Fox, continuing with him until he was appointed clerk of the District Court in 1879. He filled that office until 1893 and was chosen register of probate. During this period he also served the city as alderman for one year, as city solicitor for four years,and as mayor, in 1890, declining reélection. In 1911, while still holding the office of register, he was appointed judge of the Probate Court, succeeding Judge William E. Fuller. Judge Alger was endorsed for the judgeship in the form of a petition presented to Governor Foss by John W. Cummings of Fall River, signed by every member of the Bristol county bar. This was an unusual endorsement and well deserved, for during the twenty-eight years that he had served as register he had won all hearts by his courtesy and consideration. He served as judge of the Probate Court until his death ten years later. He sat as auditor and master on several important cases and was recognized as one of the leading authorities in matters on corporation and probate law. He was the author of "Fuller's Probate Law," which began while he was register of probate, which included rulings from Judge Fuller, amplified later by many of his own, and which represented years of application. He was the author of another book which gave him prominence, "A Treatise on Law in Relation to Promotors and the Promotion of Corporations." He was a frequent contributor to the Harvard "Law Review," and the author of several lesser treatises. He was also one of the editors of "Contributions, Biographical, Historical, and Genealogical,' published by the New England Historic and Genealogical Society.

Aside from his law interest and activities, Judge Alger was identified with a number of Taunton financial and industrial enterprises. He was a trustee of the Taunton Savings Bank, and a director of the Taunton National Bank until its merger with the Bristol County National into the Worcester County Trust Company. He was a director of the Corr Manufacturing Company, a director of the Boston Investment Company, of the Massachusetts Real Estate Company, and one of the directors of the Old Colony Historical Society. He-was senior partner of the law firm, Alger, Dean & Sullivan, of Boston, the consulting member of the firm. He was a member of the Masonic order, affiliated with Ionic Lodge, Free and Accepted Masons; and a member of the Winthrop Club, of Taunton.

In the passing of the Honorable Arthur' M. Alger, the city has lost one of its most distinguished citizens. Many years of honorable public service earned for him the admiration and the respect of those who had occasion to deal with him, and he has long been recognized as an authority on those branches of the law in which he specialized.

In his younger years he was elected to the highest office within the gift of the citizens of Taunton, that of Mayor; and in his later years, as Judge of Probate, he maintained the high

Judge Alger married, April 22, 1882, Lelia C. Sanders, daughter of George B. and Elizabeth S. Sanders. She died October 24, 1895, leaving two daughters: Mary Lodge, wife of John D. Sullivan, graduate of Harvard University and of Harvard Law School, a practicing lawyer of Boston, member of the firm Alger, Dean & Sullivan; and Anne Langdon, wife of a Mr. Sherman, of New Bedford, Massachusetts. Both of these daughters survive their father, whose estate they inherit.

HON. WILLIAM A. COPELAND, A.B., A. M., LL.B. - Professionally prominent as a lawyer in Bristol county, Massachusetts, and with forty-three years of practice to his credit, Hon. William A. Copeland holds an outstanding position in the town of Mansfield, where he was born and where the greater part of his life has been spent. With professional interests in both Boston and Mansfield for many years, Mr. Copeland has won an enviable position in his chosen field of endeavor. Mr. Copeland is a member of one of the very old and honored families of Mansfield. He is a son of Almon and Elizabeth (Allen) Copeland, both natives of Mansfield. The father, who was a farmer by occupation, died at an early age in 1880, but the mother survived him for many years, passing away at an advanced age in 1907.

William A. Copeland was born at Mansfield, Massachusetts, October 23, 1855. His education was begun in the local public schools, and he later attended Bristol Academy, at Taunton, Massachusetts, where he prepared for college. Entering Amherst College, he was graduated in the class of 1877, and received his Bachelor's and Master's degrees in the arts from that institution. Later entering the Boston University Law School, his graduation occurred in the class of 1880, and he received the Bachelor's degree in the law. In December, 1880, Mr. Copeland was admitted to the bar of his native State, and took up the practice of his profession in Boston under his own name. Continuing independently until 1905, he then became a member of the law firm of Macleod, Calver, Copeland & Dike, with offices at No. 350 Trement building, Boston. He is still affiliated with this professional organization, and they specialize on patents and trade marks. In this field of legal advance they hold a leading position and Mr. Copeland has come to be recognized as an authority. For a number of years he conducted an office at Mansfield, but the importance of his interests in a number of years ago. Mr. Copeland was, for nearly forty years, a trustee of the local public library. A Republican by political affiliation, Mr. Copeland was elected to the Massachusetts State Legislature for the years of 1882-1883, serving with honor and distinction in the deliberations of that body. He was a member of the Mansfield School Committee for six years, and was moderator of the town for fifteen years. His acceptance of public responsibility, however, has been only as it has been presented to him as a duty, for he has never sought the honors or the responsibilities of office. During the World War he served on various boards governing the activities of the time.