Plymouth Town (part 39 of 54)

Augustus H. Wright, the third son, obtained his early education in the public schools of Dorchester, and took a special course at the Agricultural College at Amherst, Mass. He was a lad in his teens when the war broke out, l)ut he had a man's courage, and enlisted when only si.xteen years old in the Second Massachusetts Cavalry. He served two years, and was commissioned at the age of eighteen Eirst Lieutenant of the Twentyfourth United States Colored Infantry. After receiving his discharge from the army he was an Inspector in the internal Revenue Service and stationed in Boston three years; for about three years he was superintendent of the lumber yard of George Curtis in l^oston ; and then he followed farming at West Roxbury, Mass., until 1879, when he became a resident of Abington. He was ten years Trustee of the Abington Savings Bank; for fifteen years he has been connected with the town fire department as chief engineer. He was ten years Chairman of the Road Commissioners, and for the same length of time .Sujierintendent of the water-works. An esteemed member of the Grand Army, he was for six years Commander of McPherson Post, No. Ji-

Mr. Wright has been twice married. He was united to his first wife, Julia P. Billings, October 21, 1868; and to his second wife, Jennie Billings, October i, 1874. He has one child - E]dnnnul, who was born August i, 1877. In politics Mr. Wright is a stanch Republican.

EORGE H. GODDARD, machinist, S I of Hruci<ton, is a veteran of the late war, with a record for bravery worthy of his race, which was represented in the army of Napoleon. He was born in Bolton, Province of Quebec, March 14, 1842, a son of Edward P. and Josephine (Garnean) Goddard, both natives of tiie Canadian Province.

His paternal grandfather, a native-born Frenchman, fought under Napoleon, and also in Canada, in the battles of St. Charles and Ouebec. He diet! in the Province of Quebec at the advanced age of ninety-eight. A grant of land given him in Canada was never claimed by him or his posterity. He reared a family of fifteen children, all of wlnim attained advanced age.

Edward P. Goddard was bmn near Soirel, P. Q. , and for a number of years was engaged in farming in Bolton, his son's birthplace, and in trading to some extent. He was one of the prominent men of the town, and held a number of ]iublic offices. His death occurred in his forty-seventh year, his wife having been called to rest from the cares of earth when only thirty years of age.

George B. (ioddard was the eldest son in a familv of six children, four boys and two girls. LIntil he was nine years of age he lived on his father's farm in Bolton (an estate of six hundred acres), and then the familv moved to Manchaug, in the town of Sutton, Mass., where he went to work in a cotton-mill for a 'dollar a week, laboring from daylight until sundown. This continued for a year, and then another move was made, the family going to North Oxford, Mass. P'or two years George worked in a cotton-mill in Wilmington, and then returned with his family to Canada, where his father settled once more on the home farm.

of age, soon left home and started in the world for himself, finding employment in South Natick, Mass., at shoemaking. About 1857 he i shipped on a whaling vessel from New Bedford, which was out from port some four years, and was twice cast away. The first time he was with six men in a boat which was separated from the \'essel about three hundred miles from the island of St. Helena, and they were adrift four days and three nights without food or watei'. The boat was finally guided to St. Helena; and on the island where Napoleon spent so many gloomy hours they spent three months, being then taken off by their own vessel. The second time they were lost for twenty-four hours off the coast of Africa. On his return the young sailor received eightyfive dollars as pay for his entire time.

When his vessel returned to port, New England was mustering to suppress the secession of the South, and on August 23, 1861, Mr. Goddard enlisted in Company A, t'lrst Battalion, Seventeenth United States Regiment. He was in the Fifth Corps, Army of the Potomac, and was engaged in all the battles of the Peninsular Campaign under McClellan. In the battles of Bull Run, South Mountain, Antietam, P'redericksburg, and Chancellorsville he saw his comrades fall around him. At Chancellorsville his regiment led the fight, and at the end of the battle n(jt one of the color guard was left. Mr. Goddard bore the flag, and, with but nine men to sujjport him, succeeded in defending it and returning safely. F'or his bravery in this action he was appointed Color Sergeant, and he was later made Rank Sergeant of the regiment and urged by his superior officers to send his name to Washington for a commission; but he refused to do it, fearing that he was not well enough educated to adorn a higher rank. Fie was appointed Captain of a colored regiment, but refused the honor for the same reason. He received three flesh wounds while in battle. In 1864 he received his discharge, and engaged in recruiting for the service until Lee's surrender, his duties calling him to the front and to Portland Harbor with troops.

When the war was over he went to sea again, this time on a coaster plying between Boston and Philadelphia. He finally retired from the sea and went to work at shoemaking, being employed at different times in Natick, in Bigelow's shoe shop in Worcester, in Boyd & Corey's factory at Marlboro (three or four years), in Moss Brothers' factory, and in a factory at Cochituate. While in Marlboro he learned to operate different machines. From Cochituate he went to Brockton, then to Rockland, where he remained four months, returning then to l^rockton. Here he obtained employment as engineer and repairer in Lucius Leach's shoe shop, and remained seven years. He then took out his first patent on the I^rockton mallet, now well-known to tlie shoe trade, and for a year manufactured his invention in a small way. Not satisfied with his income, how-ever, he went to work for wages again, entering the employ of Stacy, Adams & Co., with whom he remained about si.x years. In 1 886 he resumed the manufacture of mallets, establishing a workroom in Charles Howard's shoe shop; and in the fall of 1888 he purchased the building at 71 Field Street, Montello, his present place of business. In addition to his manufacturing, which is now in a prosperous condition, Mr. Goddard is interested in real estate.

Mr. Goddard was married in 1873 to Alice M., daughter of Edward Hurd, of Nova .Scotia, and has a daughter and a son. The son, who was for some time associated with his father, is now in the printing business.

He is a member of Electric Lodge, No. 204, Independent Order of Odd Fellows; of Damocles Lodge, No. 16, Knights of Pythias; Brockton Division, No. 11, Uniform Rank, and Canton Neniasket ; the Ancient Essenic Order; the Royal Arcanum; the Knights of Honor; the Daughters of Rebekah ; the New England Order of Protection; and the American Benefit Society. As a Grand Army man he is a member of Fletcher Webster Post, No. 13, and has held the rank of officer of the guard ; and he is at present officer of the guard in the Union Veterans' Union, and has been appointed delegate to the ne.xt national convention of the last-named body.

MOS HUNTING, who, since the fall of 1866 has been successfully engaged in _ the grocery, provision, grain, flour, hay, and straw business at East Bridgewater, was born in Shutesbury, Mass., April 12, 1835, a son of Nathan and Melinda (Smith) Hunting.

The Hunting family is said to be of Scotch origin. Amos Hunting, the father of Nathan, was a soldier in the Revolutionary War. In his early days Nathan Hunting engaged in mercantile business in Boston, but subsequently retired to a farm in .Shutesbury, where he lived until his death. Melinda Smith Hunting, his wife, was a native of Stoughton, Mass. The)- had five children - Nathan, Amos, Francis H., Mary A., and Henry M.

Amos Hunting grew to manhood in .Shutesbury, and acquired his education in private schools and the high school of that town. When eighteen years old he entered the employ of the Fall River Railroad at what is now known as Westdale, as assistant station agent, antl before long was promoted to the position of agent at that i)lace, in which ca- liacity he served five and a half years. During a [lortion of that time he carried on a grocery store. In 1866 he came to East Bridgewater and started the business which he still conducts and which has developed so that he now employs four clerks regularly and has a large and lucrative trade.

On December 22, 1859, ^f'- Hunting married Miss Margaret Orr Holbrook, who was born in Weymouth, Mass., and is a daughter of Arvin Holbrook. Of the eight children born to them but four are living, two sons and two daughters, namely : Melinda O. ; Jessie, \v\ie of P'rank Bradford ; Fred A. ; and 1 Iarr\- A.

In politics Mr. Hunting is a Republican. During the Massachusetts legislative session of 1 891 he was a member of the Lower House, and he is now serving as a register of voters of East Bridgewater. He is one of the Board of Trustees of the East Bridgewater Savings Bank. Mr. Hunting's success in his business dealings, and the hearty support he gives to [jlans for the development of the community, together with his many sterling qualities of character, all combine to make him a resiiected and ])iipular citizen.

tUCIUS R. CHURCHILL, of the firm of Churchill & Washburn, ^^^ plumbers and steam-fitters of Brockt<in, was born in East Bridgewater, January 4, i860, a son of Rodney and Hannah G. (Reed) Churcliill. Several generations of his family have lived in Bridgewater.

His grandfather, Charles Churchill, resided in this vicinity and worked at shoemaking for some time, eventually going into business and hiring a number of shoemakers. He married Dorcas Hawes, and the\- reared ten children, six of whom are living, namelv: Charles;

Newton; George; Rodney, father of Lucius R. ; Dorcas; and Elizabeth. Rodney Churchill was born in West Bridgewater in 1837, and is now living in East Bridgewater. He is shoe cuttei by trade. An active member of the Union Congregational Church, he is at present Treasurer of the society. His wife is a daughter of John Reed, of East Bridgewater. Eight children were born to Mr. and Mrs. Rodney Churchill, Lucius R. being the second.

Lucius R. Churchill was educated in West Bridgewater. He went to sea at the age of sixteen and sailed on a merchantman two years, rounding Cape Horn three times, in route to San Francisco, and making one trip to Liverpool, England. For four years after his return he worked as a shoe cutter, and he then obtained a position as book-keeper for R. G. Shepard, who was engaged in steamheating and engineering. After four years at the book-keeper's desk, he worked for Mr. Shepard three years as engineer, anil in 1890 he started in the plumbing and steam-heating business for himself. On April i, 1895, he formed a copartnership with William S. Washburn; and the firm of Churchill & Washburn is now one of the most prosperous and reliable plumbing firms in the city. Mr. Churchill began business at Campello, and moved to his present stand six months after starting. The first year he had ten men in his employ, and he now keeps on an average thirty hands.

Mr. Churchill was married in November, 1882, to Cora J., daughter of Nathan M. Poole, of East Bridgewater. He votes the Republican ticket, but takes no active part in politics, preferring to give his time to his business. Well advanced in Masonry, he is a member of Satucket Lodge, A. F. & A. M., of East Bridgewater, in which he has held the office of Junior Warden; and he belongs to Harmony Chapter, Royal Arch Masons, of Bvidgewater, and Ray State Commandery, Knights Templars, of l^rockton. He is a member of Campello Lodge, Ancient Order of United Workmen, and of the Commercial Club of Brockton. He attends worship at the Porter Congregational Church.

rp)TULDA BARKER LOUD, of Rockr^\ land, Mass., is one of the bright and li® ^ ^ progressive women of the day, strong in mental gifts and executive ability. She was born in East Abington (now Rockland), September 13, 1844, daughter of Reuben and Betsey (Whiting) Loud.

Reuben Loud, Miss Loud's father, was a native of Weymouth, Mass. He owned a farm in Rockland, and after being engaged for several years as a shoe manufacturer he retired from business to farm life. He died at the age of seventy-eight. His wife, now scvent}- seven years old, a native of historic Plymouth, is living on the homestead in Ruckland. She is the mother of seven children, namely: Rienzi, formerly a lawyer in Albion, Mich., now deceased; Marcus M., deceased; Georgianna S., wife of Major E. P. Reed, of North Abington; Hulda B. , the subject of this sketch; Eugene P., a resident of San Francisco, now serving his si.xth year in Congress; Sarah Ann; and Clarice A., wife of James Beverly, of Rockland.

Hulda Barker Loud was educated in East Abington, graduating from the high school at the age of seventeen ; and she began to teach when she was eighteen years old. As a teacher she displayed marked ability, and she had the courage to battle against an injustice which many bear in meek silence. A woman teacher, though performing as much work and work of as high a grade as a man. usually receives a much smaller salary; but ]\Iiss Loud, who for thirteen years held a high position as a teacher in Rockland, received the salary of a male principal. She was awarded this salarx' because she demanded it, and constantly agitated the question of equal rights with the school committee.

In i<S84 the publishers of a new paper asked Miss Loud to take the editorial chair, and she consented, naming the paper the Rockland FndcpLiuhnt. ( )f this publication she is still editor-in-chief. Her energy would not be confined to the editorial chair alone, and in 1889 she purchased the business - job printing and publishing - and is now sole proprietor of the office. The paper bears the impress of strong mentality, and has always been the vehicle of reformatory principles, social and ]x)litical. When, in 1889, Miss Loud became head of the establishment, she announced in the opening number that she had bought the business " to help save the wi.irld ; that it was not a business venture in any sense of the word ; that the business would always be in charge of a foreman ; that she desired a mediimi through which she could convey her best thought to the world, unhampered by worldly interests" (see "A Woman of the Century," published in 1893). In addition to the Independent she publishes the North Abington Nezvs and the North River Pioneer. The Independent was founded by \\. C. Osborne and W. J. Barry, and Mr. Barry is at present local editor and has charge of the Imsiness matters to a great extent.

Miss Loud began to speak in public a number of years ago, advocating woman suffrage in 1872-74, and speaking in behalf of the Knights of Labor at different times. At the Women's International Council, held in Washington in 1888, she represented the Knights of Labor, and her address was received with enthusiasm. She spoi<e also at that time before the Knights of Labor and the Anti-Povert)' Society of Washington. But though very successful as a speaker, she prefers home to public life, and finds newspaper work more congenial than lecturing. She has been Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Rockland- Public Library for the past six years; served three years on the School Board of the town ; and for many years she has been accustomed to address town meetings on important tojjics, no one questioning her right to do so. In the spring of 1891 Miss Loud adopted two boys, her niece's children, whom she governs wholly without force. She is a zealous apostle of the new mental science, though recognizing the claims of tiie body.

She has built a house on her mother's farm, in a retired spot outside the village, and attends to her own domestic affairs, spending a few hours of the afternoon in her office, and passing the rest of the time in her own home. Though Miss Loud works from sixteen to eighteen hours a day, she was never [physically or mentally stronger than now. She boasts that through sheer force of will she has never known a day's sickness, though she inherits many weaknesses. Altogether she is a remarkable woman, exemplifying strongly the power of mind over matter. She attends the Unitarian church.

ILLIAM BROWN, of Abington, is a self-made man, who, without educational or other advantages, has raised himself to a position of prominence and honor in the community. He was born November 6, 1813, in Abington, a son of Walston and Betsey (Wales) Brown. Like man)' of the citizens in this part of Plymouth

County he comes of old New England stock, his ancestors having settled in Newburyport at an early date. Walston Brown was born in West Abington. He died in 1857, aged sixty-nine years. His wife died at the age of seventy-nine years. They were the parents of the following children: Mary Adeline, Julia Caroline, Caroline Goodwin, Anna Howard, and Nellie Davis.

William Brown had but a limited schooling in the days of his youth, a liberal education being harder to obtain then than now ; but he was blessed with natural ability and an enterprising spirit, and early began to work his way toward prosperity. In iS39he started in the confectionery business in Abington, and he managed a successful trade for twelve years ; then for about twenty years he was prosperously engaged in manufacturing shoes. In I.S73 he retired from business, and has since been living quietly upon the fruits of his years of activity. Mr. Brown has been for a number of years a Director of the Abington Savings Bank, and was Vice-President from July, 18S2, serving until July, 1889.

He was married November 17, 1845, ^^ Julia Whiting, of Hingham, and five children blessed their union, two of whom are living: Mary Adeline, wife of George E. Curtis, of Boston; and Anna Howard Brown, who is at home with her parents.

Mr. Brown has four grandchildren, as follows: William Goodwin, George Carroll, Paul Revere, children of Adeline, wife of George E. Curtis; and Jesse Howard, son of the late Nellie Davis and Thomas Ford Giles.

Mr. Brown is. a Mason, belonging to John Cutler Lodge, of Abington, and Pilgrim Lodge, Royal Arch Chapter. In religious belief he is a Universalist. Lie has been doubly blessed. Providence having given him wealth of years as well as wealth of this world's

(^IvSSE HARLOW, who was for many years extensively engaged in the shipping business in Plymouth, Mass., was born in this historic old New England town, October 5, 1821. He was a son of Jesse and Mary L. (Nelson) Harlow, and a lineal descendant of William Harlow, who was in Massachusetts as early as 1637 and later settled in Plymouth. Jesse Harlow, the younger, acquired a part of his education at the Hiram F"uller School in Athens, and at one time, it is said, taught school in Plymouth. His health failing he took passage to Liverpool, England, with the hope of recruiting his wasted energies. The sea voyage produced the desired effect, and after returning to Plymouth he was able to enter upon his business career, succeeding to the charge of his father's shipping interests and attaining marked success. He was engaged in trade with the West India Islands and other countries, and was the owner of many fishing vessels, beside the other crafts that bore his cargoes to and fro.

Eebruary 26, 1S67, was the date of his marriage with Miss -Sarah E. Cobb, a daughter of Heman Cobb, who was a well-known boot and shoemaker of Plymouth. Mr. Cobb died March 22, 1857. He was the father of a family of four children, of whom Mrs. Harlow is the only one now living. Devoting himself exclusively to business, Jesse Harlow was an unusual type of man ; for, though possessing sufficient influence to have easily attained any position or secured any office he desired, he had no ambition in this direction, and took but little interest in politics, belonging to none of the numerous popular fraternal organizations of the day. He was loyal to the religious faith of his fathers, and for a quarter of a century he was Deacon of the Church of the Pilgrimage in his native town; while for the same period of time he taught in the Sunday-school, leaving the impress of his instruction and example upon the mind of many of Plymouth's present citizens.

On the 2 1 St of August, i8<S7, Jesse Harlow passed through the valley of the shadow of death, leaving a vacant place in the list of Plymouth's most respected citizens that will not be easily or speedily filled. He had some time before sold out his shipping interests, which had proved of great pecuniary value under his management. His bereaved widow is still a resident of the town in which her husband's honorable career began and ended, and where his memory is affectionately cherished.

OHN C. BATCHELDER, M.D., of Rockland, Plymouth County, Mass., homteopathic jihysician and surgeon, was born in Middleton, Elssex County, this State, May 9, 1S64, and is a son of John A. and Laura A. (Couch) Batchelder. John A. Batchelder was born in Middleton, Mass. He has been in business as a shoe manufacturer for a number of years in Salem, Mass., his wife's birthplace. His family consists of three sons and two daughters, namely : Henry E. , a practising physician in Danvers, Mass. ; John C, of Rockland; Joseph W., who is in the fire insurance business in Hartford, Conn. ; Clementine L., in Salem; and a child who died in infancy.

John C. Batchelder was one year old when his father removed to Salem, antl in the famous city of witches he received his early education. He had a natural inclination for the profession of medicine; and after gradual- ing from the high school, while employed as a book-keeper, he studied medicine with his brother, Henry F. Batchelder, M.D. In 1883 he entered Boston University, and, graduating from the Medical Department in 1887, he entered upon the duties of his profession in Melrose, Mass. He subsequently practised in Wenham, Mass., for three or four years, and then moved to Rockland, where, as successor to Dr. Southgate, he has since conducted a successful practice. Dr. Batchelder is well pre]3ared for bis life-work, and is endowed with the fine qualities that help to make the successful physician. He is a member of the Essex County Homoeopathic Medical Society and of the Massachusetts Surgical and Gynaecological Society in Boston.

Dr. Batchelder is independent in politics, favoring the election to office of the men best qualified to advance the interests of the people, irrespective of party. He is a member of Amity Lodge, A. F. & A. M., of Danvers, Mass., and in religious belief he is a Unitarian. Although he has been in Rockland but two years, he has made many friends in the town and vicinity, and is especially popular with the young people.

|APTAIN JOHN H. PAUN, of Lakeville, Mass., a retired shipmaster, was born in New Bedford, Bristol County, this State, August 15, 1831. His parents were John and Sarah (Tripp) Paun. They lived for a number of years in New Bedford, but Mr. John Paun eventually purchased the farm in Lakeville on which his son is now living, and spent his last days there. He was the father of ten children, namely: Sarah; William; Benjamin; John H., the subject of this sketch; Gilbert; Deborah; Charles; David; Amos; and Ellen.

John H. Paun, the third son, grew to manhood in the city of New Bedford, receiving there a high school education. When fifteen years of age he began to learn the cooper's trade, and when only seventeen was engaged as cooper on the whaling ship "Eagle," which sailed from New Bedford to the whaling grounds of the South Pacific, and was gone forty-nine months. Having become accustomed to the adventurous life of a whaler, he then shipped on the ship "Pantheon" as cooper and fourth male, and cruised in the Okhotsk Sea, along the coast of California and -South Pacific Ocean. When two and onehalf years out the ship took fire and was completely destroyed ; but the crew fortunately escaped and landed on the island of Nukahiva, where they stayed three months, and were then taken off by an English brig and landed in San Francisco.

Young Paun ne.xt shipped as first mate on the barque "Massachusetts, " which was out from New Bedford forty months, cruising in the Okhotsk and the South Seas ; and he was subsequently master of the barque "Anaconda," which was under his charge some forty-five months, returning safely to New Bedford with a good cargo. His next charge was the barque "Cicero," which was out forty-six months, visiting the whaling grounds of the Arctic Ocean, the Okhotsk Sea, and the South Pacific. After twenty years of constant voyaging, enduring the bitter cold of the Arctic regions, the fierce heat of the tropics, and exposure to the perils of the deep. Captain Paun retired to his present home, the farm in Lakeville purchased by his father.

Captain Paun married Miss Sarah C. Coombs, and has four children - S. Ida, John G., Isabella F., and Grace I. In politics he is a Republican. Intelligent and energetic, his mind broadened by travel and wide e.\])erience in positions of responsibility, he is held in much respect by his townsmen, and for ten years he has served on the Board of Selectmen and Assessors, presiding during eight years of that time as Chairman of the Selectmen.

-f(2)TENRV J. MILLER, manufacturer of rprl tacks and shoe nails, is proprietor J->'^ V ^ and manager of one of the important industrial enterprises of Bridgewater, Mass. He was born in Hanover, Germany, December 3, 1847, a son of David and Mary (Alden) Miller, both natix'es of Hanover.

The lad was twelve years old when his father died, and he was early thrown on his own resources; but he received a good common-school education in his native country, and this, with his natural intelligence and the knowledge gained by travel, combined to make him a remarkably capable man. He left Germany for England, and on June 21, 1868, he embarked from Liverpool in a sailing vessel for India, landing at Calcutta, November 10 of that year; and on January 8, 1S69, he sailed from Calcutta for America, landing in I^oston, May 13, 1869. He soon obtained employment as a farm hand in North Hanson, Mass., and in 1 87 1 he found work of the same kind in Bridgewater, which kept him busy about a year. He then entered a shoe factory in Brockton, Mass., and in 18.72, returning to Bridgewater, was hired as engineer at the State Normal School. This position he held thirteen years.

He started first in the manufacture of nails and shoe tacks in Brockton, and about a year later moved his business to Camijcllo. There he remained about a year, and then removed to Bridgewater, adding steel shanks to his products. Within si.Y or seven months he returned to Campello, and was there engaged in the matuifacture of tacks and nails onlv, until December, 1889, when he returned to Bridgewater. Since that time his Bridgewater plant has been in operation, with such good results that its success is assured. The main building is a two-story structure on Hale Street, one hundred by thirty feet in dimensions. The ]3lant is well-equipped with modern machinery, and the output is considerable. The products are sold mainly in New York City.

Mr. Miller was married in 1872 to Catherine Lynch, a native of Bridgewater, and has four children - Mary L. , Arthur C. , Harry T. , and Chester F. Politically, he favors the Republican side. He is a Mason, belonging to Fellowship Lodge, of Bridgewater. Diligently and sagaciously applying himself to business, Mr. Miller has achieved success by his own efforts alone, and has won the respect of all with whom he has had dealings. He has one of the handsomest residences in Bridgewater, a monument to his energy and worthv ambition.

DONIRAM VAUGHN, a trustee and a member of the Board of Investment of the Abington Savings Bank, belongs to one of the old families of this section of the State which have produced the liest ]jart of the population. He was born in the town of Carver, December 4, 1820, a son of A Ivan and Sarah S. (Ripley) Vaughn. His lineage both on the maternal and the paternal side is easily traced for nearly two hundred years, and includes generations of hale and hearty New Fngland people, who have lived to ath vanced age.

Adoniram \'aughn was reared on a farm in Carver and acquired his education in the district school. At the age of sixteen he removed with his parents to Warren, Me., and tiir ten years devoted his energies to farming and lumbering in the same place. Coming to Abington he was engaged for fifteen years as superintendent of the shoe factory of J. Vaughn & Hersey. A conservati\e citizen nf marked ability and good judgment, he has the full confidence of his townsmen, and his opinion is always received with respect. Though for some time retired from active work, he still retains his connection with the Abington Savings Bank, and he is also a Director of the Mount Vernon Cemetery Association. In politics he is a strong Republican. Appointed Postmaster of Abington some time in President Grant's last administration, he served to its close and during the early part of the term of President Hayes, then voluntarily resigning. Mr. Vaughn was married January i, 1855, to Hethiah ]5re\vster, of Hanson, daughter of Phili]) and Hethiah Brewster, and has one child, A. Brewster Vaughn. In religious belief he is a Congregationalist.

ALTER L. FRENCH, of Brockton, Mass., is an enterprising business man who has achieved success in various branches of industry and trade. He was born in Brockton (at that time North Bridgewater), May 4, 1843, a son of Francis M. and Nancy I.. (Blake) French. His paternal grandfather, William F"rench, was born in North Bridgewater. A shoemaker by trade, he was in a small way a manufacturer of boots. He lived to be eighty-four years of age. William French was one of the first in this part of the .State to embrace the Swedenborgian faith, and he helped to found the New Jerusalem Church here. He married Ann, daughter of John Wales, of North Bridgewater, and had si.x children, three of whom are now living.

Francis M. P'rench, who was the eldest of the family, was born in North Bridgewater, July 20, 181 I. When he was twenty years old he engaged in the manufacture of shoes, his factory standing on the site of the store now owned by his son, Walter L. ; and with the exception of two and a half years, when he was engaged as book-keeper for William F. Brett, he was in the shoe business some forty years. He was afterward associated with his son in various enterprises. In politics he has always been identified with Republican principles, voting originally with the Whigs. He cast his first Presidential ballot for Henry Clay. He was aid to the marshal who headed a deputation escorting the Hon. John Ouincy Adams from Randolph to North Bridgewater, where, on November 6, 1844, the venerable ex-President delivered a lecture. Mr. P"rancis M. French has officiated as Justice of the Peace for forty-two years, holding his commission under si.x governors. He was at one time nominated for the State legislature. A Mason in high standing, he is Past Master of Paul Revere Lodge, of Brockton ; belongs also to Satucket Chapter and Bay State Commandery, and has been offered several chairs, but modestly declined. His first wife, Nancy, daughter of Elias Blake, of Wrentham, died in 1845, leaving two children: Edward Augustus, who died August 9, 1849; and Walter L. His second wife was Mary Ann Maghie.

Walter L. French acquired his education in North Bridgewater, attending Loomis Academy and Hunt's Academy. He went to work in the grocery store of William V. Brett when he was twelve years old, and w-as employed there some two years, returning then to .=chool for a while. He was next employed in the shoe factory of French & Packard (Mr. French, the senior member of the firm being his father), and remained there until the breaking out of the war. In 1861 he enlisted in Company F, Twelfth Massachusetts Regiment, and was waiter for Captain Hichborn until the regiment was mustered into service at Fort Warren. On August 9, 1862, he enlisted in the navy and was assigned to the United States steamship "Hunchback" in the North Atlantic .squadron. He received his discharge August 15, 1863. During his service he took part in a number of important engagements, including the siege at New Berne and the siege of Little Washington, both in North Carolina. After his second discharge he attempted to enlist again, but failed to pass the physical examination.

In 1864 he became a member of the firm of French & Packard, which was then changed to French, Packard & Sons, the factory being the (jld one on the site of the present store. The partnership was dissolved a year later, and Mr. French was employed in Porter & Packard's shoe factory for si.x months; then, his father's partner dying, he took his place, and the firm became V. M. and W. L. French. In 1870 father and son startetl in the grocery business, and for some time were the leading grocers of the place. At the time of the great horse distemper in 1870 they delivered their goods with a team of oxen. They were very successful, and, though they went out of business in 1879, they started again in 1880, and were together until 1890, when the elder gentleman retired. Mr. Walter L. French has since managed the grocery business alone, and is also engaged in brokerage and dealing in leather remnants. In the latter business he is a member of the firm of W. L. I'^rench & Co., organized in 1895, his partners being V. L. Price and N. C. Clark. Mr. P"rench is likewise extensively engaged in farming, owning three hundred acres of land, and sells considerable wood.

daughter of Daniel Ames, of North Bridgewater. Mrs. French, who is an intelligent and capable lady, assumes much of the management of the farm. They have one child - PZllen Lucinda, born September 11, 1868. Mr. French generally votes the Republican ticket. He belongs to Paul Revere Lodge, A. V. & A. M. ; to the Brockton Commercial Club; to Fletcher Webster Post, No. 13, Grand Army of the Republic; and is a charter member of Appomatox Command, No. 22, Union Veterans' Union. He is a member of the Porter Congregational Church.

/^^JeORGE S. HASKINS, one of the V f5 1 prominent citizens of Lakeville, Plymouth County, Mass., was born in this town, January 27, 1856, the .son of Cephas and Betsey M. (Soule) Haskins.

Cephas Haskins was a well-known and influential resident of Lakeville, where he was in trade some forty-five years, and was station agent thirty-nine years. An independent in politics, he held the confidence and esteem of both parties, and was elected to several important offices of trust. He was the first Postmaster of the town, holding the office thirty-six years. He served as Selectman, Assessor, and Overseer of the Poor for a number of years, and was in the State legislature in 1872. In religious belief he was a Congregationalist. He lived to be seventy years of age, passing away January 19, 1896. Mr. Cephas Haskins's first wife died in 1857, leaving three children: Lydia K. ; Mary A., the present Postmistress at Lakeville; and George S. , the subject of this sketch. His second wife, Mary E. Mason, had two children - Arlena and Anna M.

home, Pierce Academy at Middleboro, and Bridgewater Academy. When but a boy he began to assist his father in the store, and he grew up in the business, also aiding in distributing the mail; and after attaining his majority he was appointed Assistant Postmaster, an office he held until his fathers' death, giving universal satisfaction by his courtes)' and promptness in delivery. Mr. Haskins is widely known and is very popular among his townsmen.

He was married June 14, 1882, to Miss Lizzie E. Harlow. In politics he favors the Democratic side; and he, too, has been in office for a number of years. He has served as Selectman and Assessor for ten years, from 1886 to 1896, and for the past three years has officiated as Overseer of the Poor. Mr. Haskins is an Odd PYdlow, belonging to Middleboro Lodge.

OHN H. RYDKR, a well-known farmer and lumberman of Midtlleboro, Mass., son of Wilson C. and Katherine (Millett) Ryder, was born on the jjaternal farm in this town, November 16, 1848. His father also was a native of Middleboro. After obtaining his early education in the common school, Wilson C. Ryder attended Waterville College and fitted himself for the gospel ministry. The duties of this office he fulfilled until 1840, when he settled on the farm in Middleboro now occupied by his son, John H. The Rev. Wilson C. Ryder and Katherine Millett joined hearts and hands at the marriage altar, and, as the years passed by, four children were born to them; namely, Wilson C, Henry K. W., Nathaniel F., and John H., all of whom are residents of Plymouth County. John H. Ryder in his childhood and youth attended the common schools and Pierce Academy, acquiring a good education. When he attained his majority he went to Boston in search of Dame Fortune, remaining two years. He then returned to the farm, where he has resided continuously ever since. He owns in all one hundred acres of land, and carries on general farming and lumbering. In politics Mr. Ryder is a Republican. In his religious faith he is orthodo.v, being a member of the Rock Congregationalist Church.

In 1872 he was united in marriage with Miss Eliza F. Gibbs. P"our children are the result of this union; namely, Howard I*"., Kate W. , Henry L., and Reuben H. Ryder.

ISAAC PACKARD, late an extensive land-owner and farmer of Brockton, Mass., who died on May 30, 1892, in the seventy-second year of his age, was born here at the old homestead on Poorest Avenue, July 3, 1820. His parents were David and Susanna (Perkins) Packard. The father was a highly respected farmer, who owned most of the land in what was then North Bridgewater, now Brockton. He married Susanna Perkins of that town. By religious ]ireference they attended the P'irst Congregational Church.

Isaac Packard, after acquiring a commonschool education, worked on shoes for a number of years. Later he became a stone mason, but he finally settled on a small farm. In politics he affiliated witli ihe Republican party, and, being a man of jniblic spirit, he was actively alive to local interests. Mr. Packard's religious interest deepened as the years rolled on. He attended the South Congregational Church in Campello, where his faith was shown by his works in the gift of land on Warren Street for a chapel.

lioniiey. Her father, who was Captain of a passenger vessel for a number of years, lived in Kingston between voyages until his death, which occurred at the age of forty-two. The maternal ancestors belonged to one of the old families in Kingston, where Mrs. Packard was born. Of the five children born to Mr. and Mrs. Packard, four now survive; namely, Sarah F., George W., William H., and Julia A. Sarah F. Packard married Sylvanus Cook Packard, of Brockton ; George W. works in a shoe factory; William H. works for Moses Packard, and resides in North Fasten ; and Julia A. became the wife of Edward C. I.each, of Boston, and resides in that city.

fHOMAS STOTT, an expert spinner, employed at the Plymouth Woollen Mills, was born in Lancashire, F^ngland. May 28, 183.S. In his early youth he began work in the cotton mills, where he learned the spinner's trade, and in July, 1864, he emigrated to the United States, first settling in Norwich, Conn., where he was for a time employed at the armory. From Norwich he went to Pockatannock, where he pursued his calling as a spinner in Hall Brothers' Woollen Mills for some four years; and, after working in the Bean Hill Mills, Conn., and at Lake Village, N.H., for a time, he was for three years employed at the Belknap Mills in Laconia, N. H. He was subsequently employed in the ' stocking-mills in Ipswich, Mass., and in the woollen-mills in Mystic, Conn., until 1880, when he came to Plymouth under engagement to the concern which started what is now known as the Plymouth Woollen Mills, and he has since remained here. His long and successful experience as a spinner in both England antl the United States places him in the foremost rank among the experts of his line in this locality; and, aside from the confidence with which he is regarded by his employers, he is highly esteemed by the community generally as a woithy and useful citizen.

On December 13, 1869, in Laconia, N.H., Mr. .Stott was married to Mary Madowall, who was born in Banbridge, Ulster County, Ireland, and from her native country removed to lingland. In 1869 she emigrated to the United States, arriving on the 17th of June, and going direct to Laconia, N.H., where the marriage took place si.x mouths later, as above mentioned. Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Stott have had two children. The eldest, a girl, died October 10, 1877; and the youngest, a son, Thomas H., is now employed as a job jjrinter.

ILMAN OSGOOD, M.D., of Rock- VJ5T land, Mass., is among the bestqualified physicians and surgeons in the county. He was born in Abington, Mass., P'ebruary 26, 1863, a son of Oilman and Isabella (Foster) Osgood.

Oilman Osgood, Sr. , was born in Durham, Me. He was engaged in the manufacture of .shoes in Rockland and Abington for a number of years, and is now retired from business, living in Belmont, Mass. Mrs. Osgood, wlio was born on the Cape, is a daughter of Freeman Foster, now one of the oldest citizens of Abington, having passed his ninetieth birthday. Four children were i^orn to Mr. and Mrs. Oilman O.sgood, Sr. ; namely, Isabella, Marion, Oilman, and Charles.

Oilman O.sgood, Jr., was graduated from the Abington High School in 18S0, and in 1886 he was graduated from the BeJlevue Hospital Medical College at New York, one of the foremost schools in the world, and was then appointed to the staff of the King's County (New

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York) Hospital, serving one year. A year fater he was made assistant physician on the Asylum Staff, devoting two years to this specialty; and he was subsequently for two years superintendent of the King's County Hospital. During his connection with this institution he acquired a practical knowledge and experience rarely given to a young ph}'sician. In iSgoDr. Osgood resigned his position and settled in Rockland as successor to Dr. J. C. Gleason (deceased), and from the beginning he has had a large general practice. He is a member of the King's County (N.Y.) Medical Association and of the Massachusetts Medical Society.

On January 14, i8gi. Dr. Osgood was united in marriage \Vith Miss Mabel Russell, who was born in Bethel, Me., and reared by an uncle, George L. Richardson, of Abington, Mass. Dr. and Mrs. Osgood have two children : Louise, born November 6, 1891; and Oilman, born Ajiril 11, 1895. The Doctor is prominent as a member of society, and belongs to the Masonic fraternity and the Independent Order of Odd F"ellows. Mrs. Osgood is a member of the Congregational church.

y-j^AALIS SANFORD, one of the able , . business men of Brockton, is the ' ' eldest son of the Rev. Baal is and Abby (Burt) Sanford, born in East Bridgewater, October 4, 1833. He is of Revolutionary stock. His grandfather, Captain Joseph Sanford, was an officer in the Continental army. Captain Sanford, who was a mason by trade, while stationed at Fort Warren in Boston Harbor, built within the precincts of the fort a chimney that still stands in testimony of the quality of the work he was accustomed to perform. Of the Captain's children four sons became clergymen; and one, Enoch, who preached in Raynham, Mass., many years, lived to be ninety-si.x years of age. The Rev. Baalis Sanford, a native of Berkley, Bristol County, born July, 1801, graduated from Brown University in 1827, and in 1831 took charge of the Congregational parish in l-last Bridgewater, where he labored for more than a quarter of a century. He was much respected and beloved, and he died in 1880, aged seventy-nine years.

Baalis Sanford acquired an excellent education at the common schools of his native town and Bridgewater, and at the East Bridgewater academies. When fourteen years of age he learned the shoemaker's trade, and worked at it when not in school for the ensuing three years. In April, 1851, he entered the drygoods house of Robinson & Barry, of North Bridgewater (now Brockton), as book-keeper and cashier, taking the place of Melville Hayward. This gentleman had left to engage in the study of law, and afterward became distinguished in his profession in New York City. Mr. Sanford was admitted February i, 1858, as a member of the firm of H. W. Robinson & Co., successors to Robinson & Barry, Messrs. Gorham B. Howard and Elbridge W. Morse becoming members of the company at the same time. These relations remained unchanged until 1869, when Messrs. Howard and Morse retired from the firm, and Mr. Joseph \V. Robinson, son of H. W. Robinson, was admitted to partnership. Mr. Sanford is now the senior partner of the firm, and attends to the book-keeping and financial affairs. Since his connection with the business began it has grown to an importance excelled by few houses in Eastern Massachusetts. Mr. Sanford has many other business interests. He was book-keeper for the Brockton Gas Light Company for twenty years, and in 1886-88 was Treasurer of the corporation.

He was elected the first President of the Security Co-operative Bank in 1878, and was reelected in 1879, but declined to serve longer on account of business cares. He was elected President of the Brockton Savings Bank in April, 1892, and still holds that position. He is one of the Vice-Presidents and a Director of the Brockton Agricultural Society; Chairman of the Board of Trustees of Cemetery Funds for the perpetual care of lots in Union Cemetery; Auditor of the Wales Home Corporation; and Treasurer and Director of the Lugonia Fruit Growing and Packing Company of Redlands, Cal. He was one of the charter members of the Commercial Club; served as its Secretary for twelve years, and as Treasurer for five years ; and is at present a member of the Board of Management.

Mr. Sanford was married in North Bridgewater, then I^rockton, August 19, 1856, to Lucy Cotton, daughter of Captain Benjamin and Anne (Whitman) Hapgood. Of the three children born to him, Irene Gertrude is living. Anna Cora and Mable Louise died successively in i860 and 1869. Though not an active politician, Mr. Sanford is an ardent supporter of the Republican party, and has served with credit in public office. He was a member of the Brockton School Committee from 1875 to 1885 inclusive, acting as Secretary of the Board during the entire period. He was elected one of the Town Auditors in 1879, and served three years in that capacity. In 1882, when the town became a city, he was elected City Auditor, and served fourteen years, resigning at the end of that time. He has been Justice of the Peace since 1881 ; and in 1879 he was a member of the lower branch of the State legislature, serving on the Committee on Mercantile Affairs. He has been identified with the Masonic fraternity since

1864, filling with dignity the highest official positions. From 1867 to 1869 he was Worthy Master of Paul Revere Lodge; from 1869 to 1872 he was High Priest of Satucket Royal Arch Chapter; from 1876 to 1878, Eminent Commander of Bay State Commandery, Knights Templars; at present he is Thrice Illustrious Master of Brockton Council of Royal and Select Masters ; and he was Recorder of Bay State Commandery for fifteen years. He is a permanent member of the Grand Lodge, Grand Chapter, Grand Council, and Grand Commandery of Massachusetts, and of the Grand Council of the American Legion of Honor; and he is a life member of the Massachusetts Consistory, thirty-second degree. In religious matters he is affiliated with the Congregationalists, and was Treasurer of the Porter Society for seven years.

as a newspaper man from his former connection with the Plymouth County J on run/, and later as the founder of the C. F. David Advertising Agency, is now the proprietor of the popular medicines for stock and fowls known as "The Big Three." He was born in South Braintree, Mass., April 4, 1856, and is a son of Charles and Elizabeth (Stone) David, of that town. On the paternal side he is of French Huguenot descent, and the composer David was a kinsman of his father and grandfather.

As a lad Charles ¥ . David was a precocious scholar. He had completed the grammarschool course in South Braintree when only nine years old, and he entered the high school at an age when the majority of pupils are just going into the grammar. Leaving school when fourteen years old, he first went to work for Jordan, Marsh & Co., of Boston. He was fifteen years of age at this time, and when he had been in the employ of the great dry-goods firm only two months he was given charge of one of the store-houses. After working for Jordan, Marsh & Co., about a year, he took a course in Comer's Commercial College, and then obtained employment as accountant in Moore's printing office.

Here his ability was soon recognized, and, Mr. Moore being taken sick, Mr. David for a time carried on the business. Two years later he purchased the entire outfit, and removed to South Braintree; and after staying there si.x months, at the earnest solicitation of the Abington people, he came to this town, and took charge of the Plymouth Conniy Jottrnal. The paper was then in a languishing condition, and had only a quarter of a column of advertisements, the lifeblood of the modern periodical. Mr. David went to work with characteristic energy, and within six months the paper displayed over thirty columns of "ads." For about twenty months he worked with such unceasing energy that lie undermined his health, and was advised by his physician to give up the business. Accordingly, he sold X.\\iiJonni<il in Mr. F. W. Rollins.

. His next venture was in the advertising agency business, in which he was interested some ten years, founding a corporation styled the C. I-'. David Advertising Agency. In 1895 he purchased Dole's Horse and Cattle Invigorator, and he has since added David's Hen and Chicken Invigorator anil David's Cure for Hog Cholera and Swine Distemper. The combination is known as "The Big Three"; and these specifics, it is said, actually do more than is claimed for them, being the acknowledged leaders in their line. They are in constant demand among stock breeders.

Like most men who have had a taste of the newspaper business, Mr. David still has leanings toward his old sphere of work, and has many friends among the printers.

He was married May 8, 1876, to Miss Lizzie A. Reynolds, of Abington, daughter of Griffin Clark and Sarah Maria Reynolds. Mr. Reynolds, her father, now deceased, was a prominent shoe manufacturer. Mr. and Mrs. David have no children. Mr. David is a member of Pilgrim Lodge, Independent Order of Odd Fellows, of Abington.

NDREW JACKSON GARDNER, Tax Collector of Hingham, Plymouth County, Mass., was born here on January 11, 1815, son of Jesse and Delight (Lincoln) Gardner. His paternal grandfather, Samuel Gardner, was also a native of Hingham, where he engaged in farming, both he and his wife living to a good old age. He was a hard-working man, who stood well among his townspeople. In politics he affiliated with the Whigs, and in his religious belief he was a Unitarian. He had ten children.

Jesse Gardner, son of Samuel, was born in this town, December 15, 1780. In early manhood he learned the carpenter's trade, and that was his life occupation. In politics he was a Democrat, and served as a member of the School Committee several years. He married Delight Lincoln, daughter of Laban and P]lizabeth Lincoln, of Hingham. She was born September 24, 1793, and died at the age of fifty -three years, August 17, 1846. Jesse Gardner survived his wife several years, and died October 30, 1851, aged seventy-one years. They were both highly respected members of the Unitarian church. Only three of the seven children born to them are now living - Andrew Jackson, Laban, and

Elizabeth Ann. Laban married Catherine Burrell, of Hingham, and they had six children, five of whom are now living - Laban F., Catherine B., Arthur, Walter, and Martin B. lilizabeth Ann was united in marriage with Edwin D. Gardner, of this town, and had five children, three of whom are living - Edwin A., Sarah, and Lizzie.

Andrew J. Gardner, after attaining a publicschool education in his native town, learned the shoemaker's trade, which he followed in this town for twenty-five years. In 1850, when the town offices were put up at auction, he purchased the office of Tax Cgl lector, to which he was elected by the people in 1852. He is the present incumbent, having served for forty four consecutive years. In days gone by he was on the police force, and subsequentl}' served in the offices of Constable and Highway Surveyor. In politics he affiliates with the Republican party.

Mr. Gardner married first Mary Ann, daughter of Stephen and Peggy Remington Stoddard. She was a native of this town, and was born March 3, 1822, and she died April 17, 1 847, at the age of twenty-five years. Mr. Gardner married second, February 13, 1848, Rebecca Ann Ewell, of Marshfield, Mass. .She died March 27, 1892, at the age of sixtynine years and five months. Mr. Gardner's children by his wife, Mary, were: Lucy Stoddard, born December 12, 1842, who married October i, 1SS4, Frazer F. Blauvelt ; Andrew Wallace, born December i, 1844; and Albert -Stoddard, born March 11, 1847. His children by his wife, Rebecca, were: John Hersey, born February ri, 1850, who died April 30, 1891; and Mary Ann, born May 26, 1851, died August 19, 1853. Andrew Wallace Gardner, his eldest son, married May 24, 1868, Mary Jane Price, daughter of James and Rebecca (Souther) Price. She was born in

Albert Stoddard Gardner, the second son, married January 5, 1868, Mary Ellen P'earing, daughter of Henry and Mary (Gushing) Fearing. She was born in Hingham, February 13, 1844, and died February 20, 1871, aged twenty-seven years. Albert S. Gardner died March 29, 1873, aged twenty-six years. He had one child, Henry Fearing, born in Hingham, April 29, 1869. Both wives attended the Universalist church, in which Mr. Gardner has been prominently active. For thirty-six years he has been Collector of the Universalist Society. Personally, he is a man of the highest integrity, who has ably filled most important offices of trust.

TIS COBB, a successful carpenter and contractor of Brockton, was born March 17, 1827, in Carver, this county, son of Otis and Mercy B. (Morse) Cobb. He is descended from immigrants who came with the early settlers of the Plymouth Colony. Benjamin Cobb, his grandfather, born in Carver, February 13, 1750, was a farmer, and served in the militia. He died on March 3, 1812. Sarah, his wife, born April I, 1754, died October 20, 1820. Their son Otis, born November 20, 179S, was a farmer, who also manufactured nails by hand. He was a member of the Congregational church, and sang in the choir. His wife, Mercy, had two children besides Otis. Of these, Benjamin died at the age of two years. The other was a daughter, who is now the wife of Henry B. Whitman, and resides in Braintree, Mass. The father, who was a resident of Carver all his life, died April 4, 1840. The mother lived until December 31, 1841. At the age of sixteen, after acquiring a coinnion-school education, Otis Cobb came to North Bridgevvater, now Brockton, and worked with Vinal Lyon at the carpenter's trade for several years, and then went into business for four years. He subsecjuently worked as a journeyman for himself. In 1864 he enlisted in one of the unattached companies of the old Boston ]<"usileers, which afterward formed a part of the P'ourth Massachusetts Artillery and was stationed at Fort Richardson for eight months. They had [ireviously lantied at Fort Albany, where they stayed a month, taking charge of forts extending all the way to Alexandria. He was put to carpenter's work for a while, after which he became regimental carpenter, having the supervision of fifty men. Returning home in 1865, he soon resumed business, which he managed successfully until 1893. He has built forty-four factories, mostly plants, for the manufacture of shoes, and more than one hundred houses, besides four school-houses for Brockton, and some public buildings for other towns. In politics Mr. Cobb is a Republican, and he has been Surveyor of Lumi^er for twelve years.

On May 7, 1848, Mr. Cobb was united in marriage with Lydia L. Packard, daughter of Lebba^us Packard, of West Bridgcwater. They have three chikh-en - Jane, Sarah, and Norman. Jane married S. S. B. French, and resides in Braintree; Sarah, who married Frank P. Brown, is at home; and Norman, who marrieil I'anny Hayden, is in Haverhill, Mass. Mrs. Cobb's father, Lebbasus, was Selectman in West Bridgcwater for sixteen consecutive years. During the War of 181 2 he served as fifer on the march from West Bridgcwater to Plymouth. He was a member of the Methodist Episcopal church, and he died at the age of si.\ty-four. Mr. Cobb is a member of Paul Revere Lodge, Brockton, A. F. & A. M.; a charter member of St. George Lodge, of

Campello; a member of Satucket Royal .'Xrch Chapter; of Brockton Council, Royal and Select Masters; of Bay State Comniafidcry, Knights Templars; and of Aleppo Temple, being a Mason of the thirty-second degree. He also belongs to the Order of Rose Croi.x, and has been Tyler of St. George's Lodge to Massasoit Lodge, No. 69, Independent Order of Odd Fellows; to Fletcher Webster Post, Grand Army of the Republic, No. 13; to the Legion of Honor, of which he was Commander for two years, having occupied all the other chairs. In religious circles he is also prominent, having been a member of the South Congregational Church at Campello for forty-two years. He has served on various committees, was a member of the Parish Committee for three years, usher for nearly twelve years, and sang in the choir about ten years. He recently severed his connection with the Congregational church, and became a member of the .South Street Methodist Episcopal Church of Brockton.

E COLEMAN BROWN, M.D., city physician of Brockton, was born in East Boston, June 4, 1869, son of Lieutenant Edwin Young and P"rances (Sawyer) Brown, residents of PZast Boston. The Doctor is a descendant of Peter Brown, one of the Colonial settlers of New England. His grandfather's grandfather served on General Washington's staff, and his great grandfather was in the War of 1812. His grandfather, Charles Brown, died in Scituate about twenty years ago, aged about seventy years; and his grandmother was ninety-two when she passed away in 1893. This couple had a family of fourteen children, five of whom are living: one, Charles, who has served in the State legislature, and is a comrade of the Grand Army, resides on the family homestead in

Scituate; James, killed in action; Wilbur and lulwin Young also served in the late war. Moses, another of the sons, owns and lives upon the noted "Bulrush Farm" at North Scituate, the largest farm in Plymouth County.

At the first call to arms, Edwin Young Brown enlisted as a private in Company B, First Massachusetts \'olunteer Regiment, and served throughout the war, winning promotion to the rank of Lieutenant for meritorious conduct on the field. His regiment was attached to General Joseph Hooker's brigade, and shared in several of the engagements of that command. In the second battle of Bull Run he was shot in the head, and, having been left for dead on the field, was taken prisoner and confined in Libby Prison for a year. He and a number of other prisoners were then packed in freight cars, and sent to Andersonville. On the way Mr. Brown, with two companions, cut the lock, and jumped from the moving car into the darkness of the night. After wandering about for three months, enduring many privations, they reached the Union lines. Lieutenant Brown was discharged in 1S65, at the close of the war. He is highly esteemed in East Boston, and has been State Inspector of Factories and Public Buildings for some time. He is the father of three children, who are all living.

After acquiring his preliminary education in the public schools of East Boston, E. Coleman Brown graduated from the Boston Latin School. He received his medical training at the Boston College of Physicians and Surgeon.s, his degree being conferred upon him in 1894. He then became attending physician at the Deer Island Hospital. In September of that year he located in Brockton, where he has remained since. In the short time that has elapsed since he has won the confidence and regard of a large number of citizens. Dr. Brown was elected City Physician in 1S96, succeeding Dr. Roland M. Hammond. In politics he is a Republican. He was married September 25, 1SS9, to a daughter of Captain Joseph F.. Kimball, his father's comrade all through the war. Captain Kimball also rose from the ranks. Of the three children born to Dr. and Mrs. Brown, one is living. The Doctor has held nearly all the chairs in the East Boston Masonic lodges, and is second officer at present in the Chapter and Council. He now belongs to the Masonic bodies of Brockton, and to Aleppo Temple of the Mystic Shrine of Boston. He is a member of Zenith Lodge, Independent Order of Odd Fellows, of East Boston; Medical Examiner for Montello Lodge, Knights of Pythias; a Director of the Union Pythian Relief Association; a member of Bay State Commandery, Knights Templars, of Brockton, and of R. B. Grover Camp, Sons of Veterans. He attends the Universal ist church in this city; and he resides at 32 Lapland Road, in the northern part of the city, called Montello, where he lately purchased a residence.

On. Charles H. Howland

ON. CHARLES H. HOWLAND, of Plymouth, has represented the i® V^^^ old Colonial town in the State .Senate and House of Representatives, and has served it as Land and Harbor Commissioner for a number of years. He was born in Plymouth, September 15, 1826, son of John and Nancy (Lucas) Howland, who were both born in this vicinity. The family comes of old Puritan stock. It began with three brothers, John, Charles, and Henry, who came originally from England. John made the voyage in the "Mayflower," and Charles and Henry in the ship "Ann" which followed. The family has been content to remain in the home established by their forefathers, and generation after generation of it has lived and died in Plymouth. John Howland, the father of Charles H., was a seafaring man. While serving in tlie War of 1812 he was taken prisoner, carried to England, and for some time was confined in Dartmoor Prison, from which he eventually escaped. He died in 1 84 1 at the age of fifty-four. His wife, who was a daughter of Lazarus Lucas, of West Plymouth, died in Plymouth in 1890, at the advanced age of ninety-two. They reared four children, of whom the subject of this sketch was the third child born.

Charles H. Hf)wland was educated in the common schools of Plymouth. His parents being poor, he was obliged, at the age of nine, to take employment of George Bramhall, a grocer, of Plymouth. He was afterward em]3loyed in the Harvard University bookstore in Cambridge, Mass. Here his health became impaired. To restore it, he joined a fishing expedition, under the condition that he would be paid just what he was found to be wortli. He proved so useful on that occasion that, at the end of the trip, he had as much money as the other boys, some of whom were accustomed to the work. I^'or some years after he followed the sea, and in due time became captain of a schooner and part owner of a vessel, l^^inally he gave up seafaring, and at the age of twenty, learned the painter's trade from Calvin Howland, of Stoughton, Mass. He remained with Mr. Howland some three years, and for some time subsequent was employed as a clerk in different places. Then, starting in business for himself, he managed a general store in Chiltonville, Plymouth, for a number of years. This store he left when the Rebellion broke out, in order to enlist. When President Lincoln's first call for seventy-five thousand men reached

Plymouth, he was the second man to write his name on the list of volunteers, and he was subsequently appointed one of the military storekeepers of Massachusetts, under Quartermaster General John H. Reed, in which capacity he served until 1862. Commissioned First Lieutenant in the Thirtyfourth Massachusetts Regiment of Volunteer Infantry, June 9, 1863, he was appointed Quartermaster of the regiment, and served as Regimental and Acting Assistant Brigade Quartermaster until Jul\-, 1865, when he was mustered out of the service at Richmond, Va. Returning to Plymouth, he remained for a while. Subsequently he was in the clothing business in Boston for two or three years. His ne.xt venture was in the oil regions of Canada, where he dug one or two wells; but, being unsuccessful, he returned home.

Mr. Howland cast his first Presidential vote for the Free Soil candidate in 1848, and he has long been prominent as a Republican, and has filled a number of public offices. In 1870 he took the census of Plymouth and Carver, anil in 1880 he, in company with Thomas Loring and another gentleman, took the census of Plymouth. In the State Senate in i860 he was House Chairman of the Committee on F'isheries, and one of the Committee on the Valuation of the Commonwealth, which sat during recess; and in the House of Rejaresentatives in 1879, 18S0, 1883, and 1884, he presided as Chairman of the Committee on Labor, F^isheries, and Prisons, and of a special committee appointed in 1883 to sit during the recess, which was to make certain inquiries relative to the charitable and penal institutions of the State. Again elected to the Senate, he was in 1885 Chairman of the Committee on Taxation and was a member of Committees on Public Charitable Institutions and Woman Suffrage. Mr. Howland was ap-

])ointc(I Land and Harbor Commissioner by Governor Robinson in 1886, to fill out Joseph K. Baker's unexpired term of three years. He was reappointed by Governor Ames in 1887, and received three subsequent reappointments, one by Governor Brackctt in 1890, one by (iovernor William K. Russell in 1893, and one by Roger Wolcott in 1896. Governor Russell having been a Democrat, it is evident that Mr. Howland's efficiency in office is the cause of his many reappointments.

Mr. Howland has been twice married. His present wife, to whom he was united in November, 1869, is the daughtei; of John and Deborah Finney, of Plymouth, and also belongs to an old Puritan family. Mr. and Mrs. Howland have six children - Henry B., a graduate of the Plymouth High School and Bryant & Stratton's Commercial College, who has been for some time in the employ of Joseph Huse & Son, dealers in stoves and furnaces, Boston, Mass.; Lucy W., a graduate of the Plymouth High School; Deborah, a graduate of the Plymouth High School anil of the Ikidge water Normal School, where she took the four years' course, and is now a teacher in the public schools of her native town; George B., a high-school graduate, who is now attending Bryant & Stratton's Commercial College at Boston; and Charles B. and Rose W., who are in the lower schools.

JZEKIEL R. STUDLEY may be called the father of Rockland, for at the time when the town was organized he was the leading spirit in the movement, and, elected Town Clerk and Treasurer and First Chairman of the Selectmen, he did an immense amount of clerical and other work; and after the new town was fairly established he still continued to guide its affairs in the tlirectinn of prosperity. Mr. Studley was born in Hanover, Mass., November 30, 1S31.

His parents, David and Hannah (Torrey) Studley, were of English descent. David Studley, who also was born in Hanover, Mass., was a clockmaker, and followed his trade until 1835, when he turned his attention to the pursuit of agriculture. He attained the great age of ninety years and six months, his wife having died at the age of fifty-eight. This couple were the parents of twelve children, ten of whom lived to be over fifty years of age. The onl)' survivors to-day are Walter B., a jeweller in Rockland; and Ezekiel R., the special subject of this biographical sketch.

Ezekiel R. Studley acquired his education in the common schools of Hanover and the seminary at Easthampton ; and after finishing his studies he taught school for two winters, working at farming in the summer. He began to make shoes in his fifteenth year, and later he was employed as a cutter in a factory some twenty years. In 1857 he located in Abington, where he was engaged in shoe cutting and shoe manufacturing until 1874, when his responsibility in connection with town affairs was so great that he was obliged to devote all his time to their management.

He joined the Republican party when he was qualified to vote, and cast his first Presidential ballot for John C. F"remont; but his character and conduct have been such that, from the very beginning, he has had the fullest confidence of both parties. He was elected to the legislature in 1864, and again in 1877 and 1878, serving in the latter year as Chairman of the Committee on Towns. In 1871 he was elected to the Abington Board of Selectmen, and served until 1874; and he was one year on the School Board. When Rockland was separated from Abington he was invested with authority to manage the work of organizing the new town, and, with the entire confidence of the people, he gave heart and hand to its accomplishment, collecting and wisely expending the funds, and discharging efficiently the duties of his triple office of Clerk, Treasurer, and Chairman of the Selectmen, Assessors, and Overseers of the Poor.

For twenty years he served ably and conscientiously as both Treasurer and Clerk, and no smallest item was neglected. In 1894 he resigned the office of Treasurer, but is still acting as Town Clerk. In 1890 he was a member of the Rockland School Committee. Mr. Studley was made a Justice of the Peace twenty years ago, and is still e.xercising the functions of his office. In addition to his official duties he has had charge of the Rockland Savings Bank for twenty years, having been appointed Treasurer in 1876 to succeed his brother, Walter B. Studley. He is one of the best-known figures in Rockland, and is held in the highest regard by his townsmen. Mr. Studley is an active member of the Rockland Commercial Club.

In 1855 he was united in marriage with R. Augusta Studley, and his married life of thirty-five years was an unusually happy one, a bond of the strongest sympathy existing between himself and his wife. Mrs. Studley died in 1890, leaving three sons: Orville F. ; Hermon L., cashier of the savings bank; and Harold F.

ILLIAM H. BATES is President and Manager of the Rockland Comjiany, a large shoe and leather corporation. Me was born in Rockland (then Plast Abington), May 8, 1S37, a son of George and Lucy W. (Warren) Bates. George Bates passed his life in Abington and the adjoining town of Hanover. He died in 1859, in the fifty-second year of his age; his wife, also a native of l'l)'mouth County, lived to be seventy-eight years old. They were the parents of three children, two of whom, William H. and George W., are living, both citizens of Rockland.

William H. Bates was one year old when his parents removed to Hanover, and he was there reared and educated, qualifying as a book-keeper. In 1862 he enlisted in the Thirty-eighth Regiment, Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry, and was assigned to the noncommissioned staff of General William H. Emory. His proficiency in clerical work made his services of value in that line, and for a year he was thus employed in the Department of the Gulf. After his return to Hanover he was engaged as book-keeper in the shoe manufactory of George B. Clapp some ten or twelve years, obtaining a practical knowledge of the shoe business, which has since been of much iise to him.

He then took an interest in the firm of W. E. Putnam & Co. ; and from this association he formed the Rockland Company - W. E. Putnam and H. S. Jenkins, former members of the house, retiring from active business, but taking stock in the new concern. The new company erected a factory which is a model of completeness and convenience - an attractive building without and within - and moved into their new quarters January i, 1896. Their business, which includes not only the (iut|nit from this factory, Ijut also work duiic in other places, amounts to over half a million a year. The enterprise, as conducted under the name of W. PZ. Putnam & Co., had been established about eleven years when Mr. Bates took charge of it. The present board of management consists of William H. Bates, President and Manager; Henry M. Currier, Vice-President; William P. Taylor, Treasurer; and William E. Putnam and H. S. Jenkins, stockholders.

Mr. Bates was united in marriage with Julia A. Turner, of Hanover, Mass., on May 8, i860, and five children have blessed their union: Nettie W. , wife of George T. .Smith, of Hanover, and mother of two children - Ethel and Julia; Annie E., wife of Fletcher Jenkins, manager of an express business in Rockland, who has two children - Nettie B. and Helen; George A., superintendent of the Rockland Company's factory; Samuel T. ; and Marion F. , now thirteen years old.

Mr. Bates's ancestors for generations were strong Democrats, and his grandfather rejoiced in the election to the Presidency of James Buchanan ; but he has departed from the family traditions, and is firm in his support of the Republican side. He cast his first Presidential vote for Abraham Lincoln. Prominent sociall\- as well as in a business way, he is a Mason, a Knight of Pythias, a Knight of Honor, and a Grand Army man; and he is President of the Rockland Commercial Club. He has a pleasant home in Rockland and a cottage at the beach; and his happiest hours are spent with his family, to whom he is deeply attached.

"ON. JOHN JAY WHIPPLE, the first of Brocktoii's mayors who have 1^ V^ ^ sat in the City Hall, was born in .Worcester, Mass., December 31, 1847, son of Ferdinand and Hannah (Sweet) Whipple. His ancestors on the paternal side settled in Rhode Island, and in that State his father was born, and was engaged in business for a number of years. His mother was a native of New Hampshire. She reared two daughters and three sons, John Jay being the youngest of the family.

John Jay Whipple received his preliminary schooling in the common schools of Hopkinton, Mass., and subsequently graduated from Hopkinton Academy. He commenced his business life in the general store of e.\-Governor William Claflin at Hopkinton, wJiere he was employed as clerk for a year. Afterward he was engaged as clerk in the drug store of Dr. W. D. Burdett. In December, 1866, he purchased a drug store in Brockton, and in partnership witli iiis father, under the firm name of J. J. Whipple & Co., conducted it for a quarter of a century. In 1891 he sold the drug store, to which for some years he had given merely a general supervision. In the spring of 1892 he was elected President of the Wildey Savings Bank at 52 Boylston Street, Boston. He was subsequently President of the Brockton Savings Bank for twelve years, was one of the incorporators of the Brockton National Bank, and has been one of its Directors since its incorporation. He is President of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows Accident Insurance Company of Boston, has been President of the New England Mutual Fire Insurance Company of the same city for the past four years, and was one of the incorporators of the Brockton, Bridgewater & Taunton lilectric Street Railroad. His real estate, which is considerable, is located principally in 13rockton, and includes a quarter interest in the Brockton City Theatre that cost one hundred and sixty thousand dollars.

Mr. Whipple has long been identified witli the Republican party, and has filled almost every office within the gift of the city. He was Selectman and Road Surveyor under the old town government, and was one of the original signers of the petition for a city charter in 1 88 1. He served on the School Board for eleven years. Elected Mayor of the city in 1886 he served through 1887, and re-elected in 1894 he served through 1895. During his administration the grade crossing, with which the city had been afflicted, was abolished. He has been associated with many of the enterprises marlving Brockton's progress, including the introduction of pipe water and sewerage. His political honors have not been limited by local boundaries. I"or three years he served as personal aid on Governor Robinson's staff; and he was two years Secretary of the Republican State Central Committee under H. C. Lodge and A. \V. Beard. In 18S5 he was in the State legislature, where he presided as House Chairman on Water Supply, was clerk of the Committee on Insurance, and reported on fifty-four bills, the largest number ever put through at one session. He was appointed by Governor Ames one of the State Commissioners of Pharmacy for five years, and subsequently declined a reappointment tendered him by Governor Russell.

Mr. Whipple was married in June, 1867, to a daughter of I-"ranklin Otis Howard, of Brockton. Her great-grandfather, Barnarbas Howard, fought in the Revolutionary War. He kept the first hotel in North Bridgewater, as the town was then called, and was well known in the vicinity. Franklin Otis Howard was a boot and shoe manufacturer of some; prominence in Brockton, and at one time owned what was alleged to be the handsomest residence in the city. His other daughter is the wife of Dr. George E. Freeman, of Brockton. Mr. and Mrs. Whipple have three children - Mary Helen, Edith Bell, and Howard Franklin. Mr. Whipple is a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows. He was representative to the Sovereign Grand Lodge at Toronto, Canada, in 1879, the only time the order ever held a session outside of the United States. As a Knight of Pythias he holds the highest office in the State, that of Past Grand Chancellor and Supreme Representative.

Under his charge, in the twenty-fifth year of the lodge's history, the increase of membership was greater, and more lodges were instituted, than in any previous year. Mr. Whipple was one of the founders of the New England Order of Protection, and he was two years at the head of the Grand Lodge of the State, and three years at the head of the Supreme Lodge. During these five years the membership was increased by ten thousand. In the mean time he established a lodge in Brockton, of which three hundred and fifty of the leading citizens are now members. Interested also in religious work, he attends the Unity Church (Unitarian) of Brockton, and was, for a number of years, until obliged to resign by the pressure of business. Chairman of the Standing Committee, and a member of the Building Committee.

ILLIAM RAPP, manufacturer, of Brockton, was born in 1833 in Cheadle, Staffordshire, England. His grandfather, also named William, was a political agitator of either France or Germany. Obliged to flee his country, the grandfather went to luigland, where he was a coal merchant, and owned several vessels, which he kept plying in his business to different ports. He died at the age of ninety years. His wife was an Englishwoman, whose children by him were: Matthew, David, William, and Amelia, all now deceased. Matthew Rapp, who was a shoe manufacturer of Cheadle, England, died while yet a young man. His wife, who was a native of Staffordshire, after surviving him a long time, died in 1894, at the age of eighty-four years.

industrious, capable, and trustworthy, he, in course of time, was put in charge of a room. In 1.862 he commenced manufacturing hub gorings in Leicester, Leicestershire. He was the first man in England to do that work in the power loom. On May 12, 1866, he was presented with a fine gold watch by his employees, some of whom are yet in his employ. He carried on manufacturing in Leicester until 18S1, shortly after which he came to America. Within four days after landing he was offered the foremanship of T. Martins Brothers" Goring Factory at Chelsea, Mass. Accepting this, he remained with them about eighteen months, and then resigned his position, although he was offered a partnership to induce him to stay. His purpose in leaving this employment was to form the partnership for the establishment of a hub goring manufactory at Brockton, afterward known as the firm of Herbert, Rapp & Co. After buying their machinery in England, they planned and built their factory in May, 1883. Of the situation of the factory, experts said that it was the best for its purpose in the State. The company purchased in 1 891 the Martins Brothers' factory at Chelsea, one at Camden, N.J., and one at Rockland, Mass., all of which they have conducted up ti) the present time.

In 1895 Mr. Rapp became interested in the Glentlale Elastic Fabric Company at FLastiiampton, Mass., of wliich he is now a Director. Such was his energy and ability in management that, when he had been superintendent there only nine months, the first dividend in thirty years was declared. He is now President of the Pawtucket (R.I.) Bleach & Dye Company, of the Monarch Rubber Company at Campello, of the City Ice Company at Brockton, and of the New England Shoe & Leather Company, whose office is on Lincoln Street, Boston. In acc<:)rdance with the system that he enforces, each factory furnishes an inventory every Saturday evening. Sitting at his desk, he writes his instructions to the heads of the various departments in his several factories; yet all the detail work is under his immediate supervision. He came here with a thorough knowledge of liis lousiness, and superseded a good many older goring men.

Mr. Rapp married Martha Walker, of Derbyshire, England, and has had six children, . of whom one son, Walter, is now living. Walter resides in Brockton, but is a business man of Boston. The eldest daughter married Robert Cook, the partner of B. E. Jones, and died in 1890, leaving three children. Mr. Rapp is a member of the Porter Congregational Church of Brockton. He is one of the Trustees of the Brockton Hospital and a member of the Committee of the Wales Home for Old Ladies at Brockton. He is a strong advocate of the temperance movement. He has served in both the City Council and the Board of Alderman. He was elected to the latter body by an overwhelming majority. From time to time he has received gratifying tokens of the esteem and good will of his associates and subordinates. When leaving England, his fellow-townsmen united in presenting him with a written testimonial, signed by the mayor and other prominent men of Leicester, of their deep affection and regret at his determination to go, accompanied by a gift of one hundred pounds. Another testimonial, very elegantly executed in old English text, at the same time expressed the sorrow of his employees. On the occasion of his leaving Chelsea, a hearty expression of regret was given him by the employees of the Elastic Gusset Company, accompanied by a handsome French marble clock. On August 31, 1891,

ILLIAM P. NASON, a well-known and successful business man of Rockland, Mass., was born at Wakefield, N.H., September 23, 1S40. son of Nahum and Hannah (Watson) Nason. Both his parents were natives of the town of Wakefield, and his father owned a fine farm in that place. Nahum Nason died at the age of seventy-seven years. His wife also died in Wakefield, aged sixty-six years. They were the parents of six children, of whom three, including the subject of this sketch, are now living.

William P. Nason, who was the youngest child of his parents, was born on his father's farm in Wakefield. He attended the district schools of the town in his boyhood, but is mainly self-educated, having gained his present knowledge of the world and its affairs through experience, and by exercising his faculty of observation rather than from what little schooling he received. In the long vacations, and out of school hours, from the time he was old enough to handle a rake or hoe, or to milk a cow, he made himself useful on tlie farm until fifteen years old, when he left iiome to seek his own fortunes in the world. Going to Boston, Mass., he found employment in a livery stable, remaining there for about a year, and from Boston he went to South Weymouth, where he worked with a livery man named Rogers, with whom he stayed for three years.

At the expiration of this period, having acquired a good knowledge of the business, he left his employer, and came to the town of East Abington, now Rockland, where he set up for himself in a small way. In a comparatively short time he had established his business on a solid footing, and he has since gradually enlarged it up to its present satisfactory proportions. Besides his livery business he carries on a large and successful trade in horses. Mr. Nason's commodious and wellmanaged stables, which are conveniently situated on \'ernon Street, are marvels of cleanliness, being superior in this respect to the best of the large city stables. They are equipped with all the latest improvements, and contain, besides a large vnumber of horses, vehicles of every description, including buggies, phaetons, surreys, coaches, busses, hacks, tra]5S, dog-carts, and a large and handsome Phiglish tally-ho.

Mr. Nason and Miss Mary E. Bicknell, of Abington, were married in September, 1861, and they are the -parents of two children: John, who is at present the foreman in his father's stables; and Fannie, wife of Fred O. Baker, a clothing merchant of Rockland. Mr. Nason belongs to the order of the Knights of Pythias. Since the Civil War he has been' a Republican in his political affiliations.

-^ENJAMIN OWEN STRONG, a [Mominent merchant of Plymouth, was born P'ebruary 25, 1832, in Granville, Hampden County, son of Ely and Betsy (Baldwin) Strong. Ebenezcr Strong, the grandfather, a prominent farmer who owned a large tract of land in Granville, was a member of the Presbyterian church. He had three sons and two daughters, of whom Ely, was the third born.

Ely Strong was a native of Granville, and lived there all his life. His trade was that of a carpenter and builder. About 1835 he removed to Cabot, Mass., where he was engaged for some years in furniture dealing and undertaking. His wife, Betsy, who was a daughter of Benjamin Baldwin, of Syracuse, N.Y., bore him nine children, of whom Benjamin O. Strong was the youngest. She died nine months after the birth of her last child. Some time after, Ely married her sister, then the widow, Sally Frary. She died in 1846. After an interval of two years Ely contracted a third marriage with Caroline O. Sheldon, who bore him three children. His death occurred in 1876, at the age of eighty-two years. He was a member of the Universalist church, which he served in the capacity of Deacon. Benjamin Owen Strong was educated in the common schools of Cabot. He left home at the age of eleven for a farm at Ashleyville, where he remained for four years, attending school during the winter months, and working for his board and clothes in the summer. He next worked for a year on Mr. Day's farm near Holyoke, and then, for the following year in a brickyard. In the fall of 1851 he went to Boston, from which, two months later, he came to Plymouth. Here he was clerk in N. M. Perry's hotel, the Mansion House, until May, 1852, when he entered the general store of Jameson & Co., as general clerk. After Mr. Jameson's death in 1854, Mr. Strong was given entire charge of the store. In 1861 he bought out the dry goods and millinery departments, and has carried them on at the same place under his own name. He has enlarged the premises so as to make room for his constantly increasing trade.

Mr. .Strong was first married to Betsy J. Chute, of Newburyport, Mass., now deceased. On February 17, 1891, he entered a second marriage, contracted with lilizabeth H. Snow, of Orleans, Mass. He has two children - Charles Alexander and Martha Jane. In F'ebruary, 1SS4, he took his son into partnership with him, and the firm name is now B. O. Strong & Son. They carry a full line of silks, dress goods, cloaks, sacques, wraps, carpets, paper hangings, curtains, and small wares. Mr. Strong is a good Republican, but he has always kept out of political circles. He is a faithful member of the Unitarian church of his adopted town of Plymoutli.

-I^TON. CHARLES W. TILTON, a wellr^-I known citizen of Brockton, was born Ji® V April 6, 1836, in China, Kennebec County, Me., son of Zadoc and Tiley (Snell) Tilton. His grandfathers were natives of Massachusetts. Gibbs Tilton, his father's father, who was born in Martha's Vineyard, Mass., moved to Albion, Me., where in early manhood he was a farmer, and subsequently became a carpenter and contractor. He died at the age of ninety-six. His wife, whose maiden name was Huldah Chase, a daughter of the first white settlers in Unity, Me., had eight children. Of these six attained maturity; namely, Stephen, Zadoc, Hezekiah, Bethiah, Jane, and Hannah. Hezekiah is a Methodist minister and a Presiding lilder in the West; Stephen is now ninety-four years old: and Jane and Bethiah lived about eighty anfl ninety years respectively. Both parents were members of the Society of Friends. The mother lived to be ninety-six years old. Her mother had reached the remarkable age of one hundred and six years.

Zadoc Tilton, the father of Charles W., was a native of Albion, Me. lie learned the carpenter's trade with his father, and subsequently became a contractor in Troy, Me. He married Tiley, a daughter of Zebedee and Hannah Snell, of China, Me. By their union there were nine children, eight of whom grew to maturity. These were: John Warren, Lavinia S., Eunice A., Charles VV. , Hubert P., George E. , Bryon P., Horace A., and Abby P. George died in the service of his country during the Civil War; Lavinia died in this city when a young woman; and Hubert has also passed away. The father was a member of the Society of Friends in his early life, but later became a Methodist exhorter. He lived to be sixty-five, while his wife, who died at the old homestead in Troy, was but fifty years old.

Charles W. Tilton removed with his parents to Jackson, Me., when he was but three years old. F"our years after he accompanied them to Troy, where he worked on the farm. At the age of eighteen, having acquired a common-school education, he came to Brockton, to work for J. B. Ames in the express business. A year later he obtained employment in a shoe factory, and was afterward connected with shoemaking for over forty years, serving as foreman in different finishing-rooms for thirty-five years. In 1862, responding to the call for men to aid in suppressing the Rebellion, he enlisted for nine months in Company K, Forty-third Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry, and afterward fought in the battles of Kingston, N. C, Whitehall, and Goldsboro. During a part r>f the time he was in the Fortythird Pioneer Corps, in which department he rendered efficient service. In July, 1863, he was honorably discharged. In politics Mr. Tilton affiliates with the Republican party. In 1882 he was Inspector of Elections, and for the five years following served in the City Council. In 1886 he was a member of the Board of Aldermen from Ward i . The next year he was appointed to the Board of Registration, on which he served for three terms of three years each. In i8g6 he was sent to the legislature, where he was placed on the Committee of Counties, and on Special Committee to redistrict the State.