Plymouth Town (part 42 of 54)

David Cobb had but little opportunity in his boyhood to acquire an education, as he began work at the age of nine years. When he was seventeen, he was apprenticed to a painter in this town; and he served his time, and thereafter worked at his trade. At the age of twenty-two he began business for himself on the corner near his present store, which he bought later, and which he has managed ever since. During his residence here time has wrought great changes in the business outlook of Hingham, as he remembers when eighty vessels used to cast their anchors in this port.

In politics Mr. Cobb was at first a Whig, but he now affiliates with the Republican party. He has also been actively identified with the temperance movement, being one of thirteen who in 1835 organized the Sons of Temperance, which had a career of usefulness, and then disbanded. He now belongs to the Reform Club, which has temperance for its object.

Mr. Cobb married Mercy B. Fearing, who is now living at the age of seventy-si.x. They have four children - David, Jr., Henry H., Mercy V., and George W. David, Jr., is in company with his father, under the style of David Cobb & Son; Henry H. and George W. also live here; and Mercy F. is a resident of New Bedford, Mass. Personally, Mr. Cobb, who is well known, is an energeticgentleman, hale and hearty, though he has passed his seventy-ninth birthday. He owns a tricycle with the latest improvements, on which he can ride eight miles an hour with ease; and he no doubt derives much benefit from this healthful and agreeable e.xercise.

JEFrANK E. CONSTANS, M.D., of l\g Brockton, Mass., a prominent physician of the homoeopathic school, was born in Blue Earth City, Minn., August 2, 1866. He is a son of Henry P. and Barbara Constans, both natives of the old French province of Alsace, and descendants of Huguenot and noble ancestors. His father's grandmother was Countess von Grunbach, of Desbach, in Alsace. Henry P. Constans, who studied chemistry in his native land, came to America when he was eighteen years of age and located in St. Paul, Minn. Here for two years he was in the commission business, dealing in lime, grain, hay, cement, etc. In 1856, with Lieutenant Governor J. B. Wakefield, he founded Blue Earth City, laying out and organizing the town. Now, at the age of sixty-four, he conducts the new Constans House, the finest hotel in Southern Minnesota. He has been actively prominent in the affairs of Blue Earth City for many years, and has held a number of public offices. Mr. Constans is a Deacon of the Presbyterian church, and a prominent Mason. He reared four sons, of whom Dr. Constans is the youngest.

Frank M Constans graduated from the high school of Blue Earth City in 1882, and from Carleton College, at Northfield, Minn., in 1886. He then took up the study of medicine at Hahnemann Medical College, Philadelphia, Pa., from which he received his diploma in 1889. Then he took the competitive examination for Ward's Island Hospital, the largest homoeopathic hospital in the world, where he had a year's practical experience as House Physician. In August, 1890, he opened an office in Brockton, where, from the beginning, his practice has steadily increased. Dr. Constans'is on the Visiting Staff and Medical Board of the Brockton City Hospital, an institution in whose establishment he was actively interested. He is a member of the Plymouth County Homoeopathic Medical Society, of the State HomcEopathic Society, and of the Metropolitan Hospital Association of New York. He recently received a diploma and degree from the National College of Electro Therapeutics.

In March, 1893, Dr. Constans was united in marriage with Emily P"oster Packard, a daughter of Dr. J. E. Packard, of Brockton. The Packards are one of the old families of this city. Dr. Constans takes no active interest in politics. He is a member of Harmony Lodge, No. 27, Knights of Pythias, being assistant surgeon in the Third Regiment, Uniformed Rank; a member of the ILlks; the Phi Kappa, a college fraternity; surgeon to the Ancient Essenic Order; and a member of the Commercial Club.

-S^OSEPH EBER BEALS is a descendant of John Beal, who settled in Hingham in 1638. He is active as one of the trustees of the Middleboro Public Library, and has been a disinterested worker in behalf of that institution during the past two decades, being one of the foremost men of culture in this town. A son of Eber and Lucy (Vaughn) Beals, both natives of Middleboro, he was born in this town, March 18, 1834. Eber Beals, who was a blacksmith, worked at his trade in Middleboro for sixty-seven years, and died here soon after his eighty-fourth birthday. His wife died in August, 1872.

Joseph E. Beals, the only child of his parents, attended the common schools of his native town and fitted for college at the old Peirce Academy. He learned the jirinter's trade, and after leaving school worked alternately at printing and teaching, taking charge of a school in the winter and working at the case in the summer. In 1862 he engaged with the Bay State Straw Works, with which he was connected some thirty years as clerk, performing the duties of accountant, paymaster, and cashier. Mr. Beals has been Secretary and Treasurer of the Middleboro Co-operative Bank since its organization in 1889.

In political preference he is a Republican. He has long been active in town matters, enjoying the confidence and respect of both parties. He has been elected to the Board of Selectmen, on which he served from 1890 to 1893, and to the Board of Water Commissioners, with which he has been connected since 1885, serving as Clerk of that body and Superintendent, which position he now occupies, taking full charge of all matters connected with the water service. With the Middleboro Public Library, an important and well-managed enterprise, he has been actively interested since its organization in 1S74, twenty-three years ago performing many of the duties of a librarian ; and much of its success is due to his unfailing energy and good judgment. Mr. Beals belongs to a number of associations of different kinds, including the Middleboro Commercial Club, of which he was President in 1894-96; the New England Water Works Association, of which he has served as Vice-President ; the New England Historic-Genealogical Society; the Town Committee on Local History, of which he is Chairman ; the Royal Society of Good Fellows; and the Sons of Temperance. In religious belief he is a Universalist.

Mr. Beals was married on March 18, 1863, to Miss Mary E. Leonard, of Bridgewater, who died on February 20, 1871, leaving one son, Walter Leonard. This son was graduated at Tufts College in 1890, and was employed for four years as a civil engineer. He is now connected with the illustrating department of the Youth's Coinpanion in Boston. He married Miss Ella M. Lucas, daughter of Robert Lucas, of Manchester, Mas.s. , and has one child - Austen Lucas, born September 8, 1895. Mr. Beals was married the second time on April 12, 1876, to Miss Harriet C. Barden, a daughter of Joseph S. Barden, of Middleboro.

SHURTLIFF, a descendill iam Shurtleff, of Plymd Marshfield, who married in 1655 Elizabeth, daughter of Thomas Lettice, and who was killed by lightning at Marshfield in June, 1666, is an influential citizen of his native town. Carver, Plymouth County, Mass., where he is engaged in the cranberry culture. He was born January 30, 1837, son of Albert and Luc\' (Thomas) Shurtliff, the latter a native of Middleboro, Mass. His parents had five children, two of whom died in infancy. The three who lived to maturity were: Lucy A., Eunice T., and Albert T.,- of this writing, who is the only one of his family now surviving.

Until si.xteen years of age, Albert T. Shurtliff spent his life on a farm, but at that period he decided to break the monotony of an existence so uneventful as a farmer's must be, and secured a position on board a fishing schooner. P^ol lowing the sea for four years, he then resolved to become master of some trade that would enable him to earn a support steadil)', and regardless of winds and tides, for he had found seafaring life subject to many conditions. Accordingly, he resigned his place on the ship's crew, and repaired to Providence, R.I., where he intended learning the jeweller's handicraft.

He was working at this when the war broke out, and with patriotic ardor he enlisted April 17, 1 86 1, as a private in Company D, P^irst Regiment of the Rhode Island Detached Militia. He was mustered in at Washington, D.C., and on the 21st of July, 1861, was at the first battle of Bull Run, where he received his first wound, a minie ball striking him on the right arm between the elbow and the shoulder. On the retreat that followed he fell into the hands of the Rebels, and after the expiration of ten days was taken to Libby

Prison, where he was held until October 7, 1861, when with fifty-seven other Union prisoners he was paroled, and delivered to the Union side at Newport News. His arm had been amputated on the third day after he received his wound. On his release he was sent to the hospital at Baltimore, and thence to Washington, where he received his discharge on the 30th of October, 1861. He then returned to Carver, and lived for two years in quiet. In 1863 he received an appointment as a doorkeeper and watchman in the War Department at Washington. In this position he remained until 1866, when he was appointed to a clerkship in the Paymaster General's office, where he stayed twelve years. After these fifteen years of work for the government in Washington, he returned to Carver on account of his health, and two years purchased the farm where he now resides. Here he raises cranberries, which are shipped to all parts of the country. On August 8, 1 87 1, he was married to Maria Young Davis, daughter of James and Sophia (Smith) Davis, of Washington, D.C. Five children, two boys and three girls, were the fruit of this union. The eldest, Mary P^lizabeth, born June 28, 1872, married Alfred Allen Walker, of Washington, D.C; the second, Walter Davis, born May 31, 1875, is now a medical student at Howard University, Washington, D.C; the third, Lucy Thomas, born January 9, 1877, lives at the parental home; the fourth, Anna Kimball, was born January 6, 1882,; and the fifth, Carlton, was born May 8, 1888. The two latter are natives of Carver, the other three of Washington, D.C.

For fourteen years, from 1879 to 1893, Mr. Shurtliff was Town Clerk of Carver, and for eight years he was Selectman, Assessor, and Overseer of the Poor. He has been a Justice of the Peace for the last seventeen years, or since 1879, and at present he is Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Carver Public- Library. He is a member of Conwood Post, No. ']6, Grand Army of the Republic, of Plymouth. In politics Mr. Shurtliff is a Prohibitionist.

ALTER L. CLARK, who is successfully engaged in the dry-goods business at 202 Main Street, Brockton, is a native of Lawrence, Mass. He was born April 21, 1872, son of Enoch and Helen M. (Sears) Clark. The founder of the family came to this country with the Pilgrim Fathers in the "Mayflower." The great-grandfather of Walter L. Clark was the first settler of Fairmont, N.H. Enoch Clark, born in Wentworth, Mass., who is a carpenter, has followed that occupation with success, principally in Wentworth and Lawrence. He now resides in Lawrence, where, although sixty-five years of age, he does most satisfactory work in the capacity of pattern-maker for the Atlantic mills. He is a member of the Universalist church. His wife, Helen, who is a connection of the well-known Sears family of Boston, has borne him two children - Walter L. and Jennie S.

After completing the course of study pursued in the Lawrence public schools, Walter L. Clark went to Boston, and took a business course at Comer's Commercial College. He then entered the dry -goods store of A. W. Stearns at Lawrence as carpet-layer, but also served as a clerk behind the counter. He remained in one department a year, and afterward worked in the other departments. Finally he was placed in charge of the drapery department. Five years later, in January, 1895, he came to Brockton, and opened the dry-goods store he now conducts.

In politics Mr. Clark favors the Republican party. He is a member of Fletcher Webster Post, No. 13, Grand Army of the Republic. He is a member of the Baptist church, and of the Baptist Young People's Union, and was sent as a delegate to the National Convention held in 1894. He was a member of the Lawrence Young Men's Christian Association, where he served as Treasurer for two years; and he is now a member of the Brockton Youno; Men's Christian Association.

lAPTAIN EBENEZER NICKERSON, who is well known as a former follower of the sea, but who has now retired, is a resident of Plymouth, Mass. He was born in the village of Dennis, Barnstable County, Mass., February 18, 1827, a son of Ebenezer and Ruth (Chapman) Nickerson. His father, who was a native of Dennis, was a seafaring man. He married Miss Ruth Chapman, a daughter of John Chapman, of Dennis, and they became the parents of ten children, of whom three only are now living. Mr. Ebenezer Nickerson, Sr., passed away April 2, 1858, his wife having died July 3, 1839.

At the age of nine years their son Ebenezer shipped on board a coasting-vessel as assistant cook. In his twenty-first year he was given the command of a vessel, and he engaged in the coasting carrying trade from Newfoundland to the State of Virginia. He followed the sea for nearly half a century, or until 1884, and he owned an interest in the vessels which he sailed. In 1861 he came to Plymouth, and soon after purchased the farm upon which he now resides. During the last decade, at different times he has engaged somewhat in painting.

Captain Nickerson and Miss Mary A. Langford, who was a native of Plymouth and a daughter of William and Betsey Langford, were united in marriage in January, 1853, and became the parents of one child, a daughter, Mary L. Nickerson, now the wife of E. R. Manter, of Plymouth, a dealer in wood, hay, and grain. Mr. and Mrs. Manter have two children: Grace, born August 7, 1886; and Anna, born March 26, 1889. Captain Nickerson was called upon to mourn the loss of his first wife, who died July 5, 1856; and on February 26, 1861, he wedded Miss Margaret

B. Burgess, who was born in Plymouth, September 5, 1832, a daughter of Captain William and Polly Burgess. Five children are the fruit of this union, namely: Charles A., born October 2, 1863; Lina B. , born June 29, 1865; William ]i., born June 16, 1867, who is now the Postmaster of Chiltonville; John

Captain Nickerson is a Free and Accepted Mason. In political action he is associated with the Republican party. He and his wife attend the Congregational church.

AMUEL M. HALL, who carries on a thriving confectionery business in Plymouth, was born in Cambridgeport, Mass., December 27, 1829, son of Oliver and Jane (Brown) Hall. Mr. Hall's grandfather, Oliver Hall (first), who was a prosperous farmer of Sutton, N. H., resided in that town until his death, and had a family of twenty-two children. Oliver Hall, second, Mr. Hall's father, who was born in Sutton, acquired the stone mason's trade. He removed to Cambridgeport, Mass., where he followed his trade steadily for many years, and died at the age of fifty-six. He was a member of the Universalist church. His wife, Jane, bore him seven children, of whom Samuel M., the subject of this sketch, was the third born. All the sons have been successful in business. One of them is now janitor of Horticultural Hall in Boston. The mother was eightyfour years old when she died in 1894.

After receiving his education in the common schools, Samuel M. Hall learned the confectioner's trade with Robert and Royal Douglass, of Canibridgeport, for whom he worked four years. For the next seven years he was employed by Luther B. Dow in Portland, Me. At the expiration of that time he went to Roxbury, Mass., and worked in a store on Washington Street, kept by William Williams, with whom he remained for two years. Returning then to Portland, he spent three years in the employment of Green Sawyer, after which he returned to Mr. Dow, and continued with him until the latter's death, some years later. He afterward worked with Ferdinand Richards for about two years, and with Benjamin Pearson in the same city for one year. In company with his brother he now started in the confectionery business in Portland. Later, he admitted a brother-in-law named Johnson to the firm, which, under the style of Hall Brothers & Co., had carried on business for two years, when Johnson retired. At the end of the following year Mr. Hall became sole proprietor of the establishment, conducted it for the succeeding year, and then sold out. After this he entered the employ of the Wheeler & Wilson Sewing Machine Company at Bridgeport, Conn., and remained with them for seven years. Resuming the manufacture of confectionery, he worked for a Mr. Mead in Bridgeport for about two years. He was employed by his brother, Jackson E. Hall, in the varnish and sewing machine business for three years. In 1877 he came to Plymouth to assist

H. A. Alden, the confectioner. One year later he purchased a store in Barnes's Block, which he conducted until December 16, 18S9, when he moved to his present well-known stand, which was formerly occupied by Mr. Bowen. Here he has since conducted a flourishing trade. He also speculates in real estate to some extent.

Mr. Hall has been twice married. By his first marriage, contracted in 1850, he was united to Anna Rose, of Portland, Me. She died in 1864, leaving five children, two of whom are deceased. The survivors are: Edwin F., a successful lawyer and prominent citizen of Bridgeport, who was formerly a member of the Connecticut legislature; Jennie M., a tailoress of Plymouth; and George W., the junior member of the firm of Holmes & Hall, carriage painters of this town. Mr. Hall was married the second time in 1872 to Eliza Gibbons, a daughter of Joseph Gibbons, of Pennsylvania. In politics he is a Democrat. He cast his first Presidential vote for Franklin Pierce in 1852, and he well remembers the political excitement attending the campaign, which resulted in the election of Andrew Jackson, having as a boy snuffed the candles used in celebrating that event. Both he and Mrs. Hall attend the Methodist Episcopal church.

(^Yr-LFRED GRIFFIN, a venerable and fmX highly respected citizen of East /«J1b^^ ]5ridgewater, Mass., was born in Manchester, N.H., July i, 1812, son of James and Jerusha (Palmer) Griffin, both of whom were natives of Manchester. James Griffin was a practical farmer, and he was also a boatman on the Merrimac River, being well known in that vicinity as Captain Griffin.

Alfred Griffin

Griffin remained with his parents on the New Hampshire farm, and during that time was an attendant of the common school. The meagre education thus obtained has since been supplemented by the knowledge acquired in the school of business experience, and by reading, he having kept himself well informed on the general topics of the day. The remainder of his youth, after leaving home, was spent in a variety of occupations. For a time he drove a stage from Boston to New Bedford, Mass; and in 1833 he started in the livery business in Bridgewater, whence, six years later, he came to East Bridgewater, where he continued in the same line of enterprise until about 1886, when he retired, after over half a century of diligent and profitable occupation. He is a Republican in his political principles.

For his first wife Mr. Griffin married Harriet N. Howe, of Bridgewater, Mass. She bore him two daughters, namely: Harriet J., wife of A. Harris Latham; and Fannie M., now deceased. Mrs. Harriet Howe Griffin died in 1875; and on April 14, 1881, he married his present wife, whose maiden name was Lucy A. Johnson. She is a native of East Randolph, Mass., but was reared in East Bridgewater, where, with the exception of a few years spent in Plymouth, she has since resided.

(sTVI^r^FRT MANLEY, a well-known milk f^A dealer of Brockton, was born here, '" V_^ July 28, 1857, son of Milo and Mary M. (Packard) Manley. Thomas, the earliest-known ancestor in this country, settled in liaston, Mass., where he married, becoming the father of a son, Daniel. His son, Daniel, Jr., came from Easton to North Bridgewater, now Brockton, when a young man, being a well-to-do farmer. He served his country in the Revolutionary War, and the town as Tax

Collector. His wife, whose maiden name was Phctbe Howard, was a native of Bridgewater. Twin sons, Salmon and Galen, were born to them here on Christmas Day, 1794. These sons became successful lumber dealers, and owned a great deal of land. Galen lived to be eighty years old. Salmon, the grandfather of Albert, the subject of this biography, married Isah A., daughter of Zephaniah Howard, of West Bridgewater, by which alliance there were five children. Salmon Manley was religiously interested in the Methodist Episcopal church, near Marshall's Corner, Brockton. His earthly career was unfortunately closed by an accident, when he was but fifty-eight years old.

Milo Manley, his second child, was educated in the town schools and the Adelphian Academy. He then went to work on the farm, which he has enlarged and improved, being still active in the management thereof. He married Mary M., daughter of Nathan Packard, of Brockton. They have had seven children, all of whom were graduated from the Brockton High School. They are: Ellen and Albert (twins), Susan E. , Bertha, Lowell, Alice P., and Weston. Ellen and Bertha are graduates of the Bridgewater Normal, and have taught school; Lowell, who was graduated from Amherst Agricultural College, now superintends a farm in West Roxbury ; Alice P. is married, and resides in Brockton; and Weston is attending a commercial college.

Albert Manley, after completing his education in the Bryant & Stratton Commercial College in Boston, returned to the farm, and in 1888 started in the milk business. He has an extensive route, and employs two men, his trade requiring one hundred cans daily. Mr, Manley resides on the farm once owned and occupied by his grandfather.

party. Fraternally, he is a member of Paul Revere Lodge, A. F. & A. M. ; is a Past High Priest of Satucket Royal Arch Chapter; and also officiates as Sword Bearer of Bay State Commandery, Knights Templars.

AVID GUSHING, a retired lumber merchant of Hingham, Mass., owning and occupying a pleasant residence on North Street, was born in Freeport, Me., November 30, 1813, son of Pyam and Olive (Lovell) Gushing. He comes of a long line of English and American ancestors, the family, it is said, "being traceable in England for several generations before either Pilgrim or Puritan set sail for America."

Thomas Gushing owned land in Hingham, England, and other places in the fifteenth century. William, the eldest son of Thomas, wrote his will in 1492, beginning as follows: " In the name of god amen, the kx Day of the moneth of Septembr in the yere of o'' Lord God M'cccc Ixxx.xij, I William Gusshyn of Henghm in my hoel mend and good memory beying, make my testament and my last will, Declare in this forme P^olloying " ; etc. William's son John made his will in 1522. Thomas, son of John, died in 1588. Peter, son of Thomas, was buried in Hingham, England, March 2, 1596. He was the father of five sons and three daughters. Three of the sons - Peter, Theophilus, and Matthew - emigrated to New England. Theophilus came in the ship "Griffin " in 1633, and resided several years at Haynes Farm, settling thereafter in Hingham, Mass. He lived to be nearly one liundred years old, being blind for the last twenty -five years of his life. It is not known that he had any children.

children from Hingham, luigland, in the ship "Diligent," commanded by John Martin, and, arriving in Boston on August 10, 1638, settled in Hingham, Mass., in the autumn of that year. Mr. Gushing had several lots granted him prior to his arrival here. He built his first dwelling-house in 1638. The Gushing property, situated below Pear Tree Hill on Bachelor (Main) Street, remained in the family for almost two and a half centuries, from 1638 to 1887. Matthew Gushing became prominent in public affairs, and was a Deacon of the church. He was married in England in 161 3 to Nazareth Pitcher, a daughter of Henry Pitcher. They had five children - Daniel, Jeremiah, Matthew, Deborah, and John, all of whom were natives of England. The mother died in Hingham on January 6, 168 1-2, at the age of ninety-six, and the father died September 30, 1660, at the age of seventy-one years.

Daniel, the eldest son of Matthew and Nazareth Gushing, was born in Hingham, England. The date of his baptism was April 20, 1 6 19. He was first married on January ig, 1645, to Lydia Gilman, daughter of lidward and Mary (Glark) Gilman. She was a native of England, and died in Hingham, Mass., March 12, 1688-9. Her children were: Peter, Daniel, Jr., Deborah, Jeremiah, Theophilus, and Matthew. On March 23, 1690, Daniel Gushing was again married, his second matrimonial partner being Mrs. Elizabeth (Jacobs) Thaxter, widow of Gaptain John Thaxter. She died in Hingham at an advanced age. Daniel Gushing was an influential man in the town, where he accumulated a large property for those times. He resided on the paternal homestead until his death on December 3, 1700, at the age of eighty-one.

was united in marriage witli Mary Tliaxter, daughter of Joiin and Elizabeth (Jacobs) Thaxter. She was born in Hingham, August 19, 1667, and became the mother of eleven children - Nehemiah, Mary, Adam, David, Abel, Rachel, Mary, Theophilus, Seth, Deborah, and Lydia. The father died January 7, 1717.

Theophilus, son of Captain Theophilus and Mary (Thaxter) Gushing, was born in Hingham, June 16, 1703. He married Hannah, daughter of Robert and Sarah (Lewis) Waterman, the date of their wedding being August 27, 1723. He died June 15, 1779. Perez, born July 13, 1746, the youngest of their ten children, was the grandfather of David, the subject of this sketch. He was married August 30, 1770, to Ruth Gushing, who was born in this town, November i, 1752, daughter of Golonel David and Ruth (Lincoln) Gushing. They removed to Franklin, Mass., and were the parents of six children.

Pyam, the fourth child, was born February 21, 1778. He was married to Olive Lovell, of Hull, on December 26, 1805, the ceremony being performed by the Rev. Nicholas Bowes Whitney. He passed the most of his life in Hull, Mass., dying in April, 1841, at the age of sixty-three years. His wife was born December II, 1783, and died January 11, 1843. They had seven children, but three of whom are now living: David, the subject of this biography; Olive Gould, who married Moses Tower, of Auburndale, Mass. ; and Eliza Jones Gushing, born in Hull, January 30, 1821, also now living in Auburndale.

David Gushing was taken by his parents in his infancy to Hull, where the entire population at that time was only one hundred and twenty. While a boy he worked at farming, and whatever else his parents found for him to do; and they kept him busy, all work and no play makes Jack a dull boy not being their theory of child-training. His educational privileges were limited to short winter terms at schools usually taught by college students, who were struggling to get their own education. At the age of seventeen he was apprenticed to a carpenter in Medford, and, being apt with tools, he readily acquired his trade. Three years later in 1836, the times being so hard that he could get nothing to do, he went South, and worked in Mobile, Ala., and in New Orleans, La., for two years. Thereafter for tour years he was engaged in getting ship timber from the Virginia woods, but he was obliged to abandon that enterprise on account of fever and ague.

Observing on a trip through Hingham that the wharves were not occupied, he thought it would be a good place to start the lumber business, and acted upon this judgment in 1845. Although he had no knowledge of the trade, it proved an excellent move for him, enabling him to accumulate considerable property. In 1882 he sold the plant to Wilder & Kimball, who have also done an excellent business. Mr. Gushing has not been actively occupied since he sold out, but he finds enough to do in looking after his property. Included in his landed estate is a tract in Hull, which is now being laid out in lots to sell to the summer residents.

He married Elizabeth Torrey, who died seven years ago, leaving two children: Elizabeth, now Mrs. Henry Stone; and Sarah, who lives at home. Politically, Mr. Gushing was a Democrat until 1856, when he joined the Republican party. He served as Representative to the legislature in 1868. Personally, he is a genial gentleman, hale and hearty at the age of eighty-three, having discovered the secret of growing old gracefully, in not allowing his faculties to stagnate, but keeping up his interest in the general welfare and progress.

JOSEPH W. SHERMAN, a general farmer and cranberry-grower of Carver, was born here, September 5, 1831, son of Joseph R. and Betsy W. (Cobb) Sherman. He represents an old and respected family of this town, his great-grandfather, Rufus Sherman, a prosperous farmer, being a lifelong resident of that place. Micah, a son of Rufus, was also a native of Carver, and there devoted a large portion of his life to farming. His son, Joseph R., likewise born in Carver, after following the sea in the earlier part of his life, worked at the trade of carpenter. On March 14, 1830, he married Miss Betsy W. Cobb, a native of Carver, and by her became the father of three children - Joseph W., Ann J., and Frederick C. Ann J. became the wife of A. D. Merritt, of Middleboro; and Frederick C. died in 1891. The mother's death happened in 1S63. Joseph R. Sherman afterward married Mrs T.ydia Atwood, of Plympton, who bore him a daughter. Myrtle L., now Mrs. Henry L. Pratt, of Plymouth. He passed away at Carver in F"ebruary, i8g6, at the venerable age of ninety years; and his second wife died January 31, 1882, aged thirtynine years six months.

Joseph W. Sherman grew to manhood at the paternal home, receiving his education in the common schools of his native town. At the age of fifteen he began working at the shoemaker's trade, which he afterward followed for thirty-five years. During all but five years of that period he had a shop of his own at Carver. In 1871 he moved to his present farm, comprising fifteen acres, where he carries on general husbandry and the culture of cranberries. Mr. Sherman has been twice married. On the first occasion he wedded Miss Sarah C. Jones, a native of Maine, and a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Appolus Jones. She died December 24, 1858, having borne two children - Alberta and Edward. The latter is now deceased. Mr. Sherman contracted his second marriage on November 27, 1864, with Miss Hannah C. Sherman, daughter of Henry and Christiana Sherman, of Carver. Born of this union were two children, both of whom died in infancy. Mr. Sherman is an earnest promoter of judicious measures looking to the improvement of the town. In national political belief he is found among the ranks of the Republican party.

INSLOW BREWSTER STANDISH, the well-known dealer in antiques in the historic old town of Plymouth, was born here on the 7th of March, 1834. Mr. Standish is a lineal descendant of Miles Standish and John Alden of "Mayflower" fame. His great-great-great-greatgrandfather, Alexander Standish, the eldest son of Captain Miles Standish, married Sarah, daughter of John and Priscilla (Mullens) Alden. Their son, Ebenezer Standish, was the father of Moses Standish, who in turn was the father of Moses, Jr., and grandfather of Joshua, whose son Joshua was the father of Winslow Brewster Standish, of this sketch.

The first Moses Standish fought in the ea: 1\' I<"rcnch and Indian Wars, making a good record for himself. Moses Standish, Jr., was a brave soldier in the Revolutionary W'ar, where he lost his life. Joshua, son of the second Moses, was a blacksmith by trade, and conducted his business in Plympton, and later in Middleboro, until he died at the age of seventy-four years. He married Susanna Cobb, by whom he had six children, of whom Joshua, Jr., was the eldest.

Joshua Standish, Jr., was a man of great intelligence and ingenuity. He invented the comfortable split crutches for cripples, which are now so common. By trade he was a blacksmith like his father, and his place of business was on South Russell Street, Plymouth, near the prison. He also was, like so many of his distinguished ancestors, a military man, and served in the War of 1812, enlisting at Bristol, R.I. He was also the last Captain of the militia at Plymouth, under the old militia law. He was a religious man, and attended the Universalist church. In politics he was an ardent Jackson ian Democrat. He married Mary, the daughter of William Shaw, of Middleboro, the descendant of an old and well-known Plymouth County family. By this union he had eight children, of whom the subject of this sketch is the only one now living.

Mr. Winslovv Brewster .Standish has spent all of his life, with the exception of four years, in his native town of Plymouth. These four years of his early manhood he spent in Boston, in the employ of his brother-in-law, the late P'rederick Gleason, for some years publisher of G/e<jso/i's Pictorial. Returning to Plymouth, Mr. Standish there took up the shoemaker's trade, at which he worked until the war broke out. On the 6th of May, 1861, he enlisted and went to the front, being in Company E, Twenty-ninth Massachusetts Regiment, and with him went his nephew, Myles Standish. Mr. Standish was at Newport News at the time of the engagement between the "Monitor" and the "Merrimac," and was an eye-witness of that remarkable sea-fight. Here he took part in several heavy skirmishes. On the 2ist of June, i86i, he was in the army corps which occupied Hampton, Va. , and after three months was transferred to Fortress Monroe. On the loth of May,

1862, his regiment was ordered to Norfolk, and later to Suffolk. Soon they joined Mc- Clellan's army before Richmond; and Mr. Standish and his nephew were in the seven days' fight which took place there. Mr. Standish was subsequently disabled by illness, and on the 6th of August, 1862, was discharged through the influence of President Lincoln, who with his wife visited him at the hospital.

He returned home, and, as soon as he had sufficiently recovered, he engaged in his old business, which he kept up until the end of the war. As he did not regain his strength, he was ordered by his physician to take outdoor exercise, and he consequently took up the employment of a pedler, that being a trade in which he could constantly keep himself in the open air. He drove a pedler's cart for four years, and at the expiration of that period he bought out the business, and managed it till 1895, gradually working himself into a position where he could undertake the collecting and handling of antiques and curios solely. He has since been strictly a dealer in antiques.

In politics Mr. Standish is a Republican, and in 1856 he voted for John C. Fremont. He was on the Town Republican Committee twenty-five years ago, and has continued there as an honored meniber. He was also a Selectman of the town of Plymouth five years, from 1 88 1 to 1886. As a member of Collingwood Post, No. J6., Grand Army of the Republic, Mr. Standish has held every office from that of Commander down, and is now and has been for fifteen successive years its Chaplain. He has been a member of Mayflower Lodge, No. 54, Independent Order of Odd Fellows, for nearly thirty years, having joined in August. 1865, but has never been willing to accept a chair there. He was also the first governor of

Mr. Standish is liberal in his religious views. He was married May 10, 1861, to Sylvia, the daughter of Mr. Joseph Maybury, of Plymouth, who was for twenty-six years the superintendent of the Russell Iron Works.

ANIEL E. DAMON, a prominent lawyer now residing in Plymouth, was born at Scituate, Mass., August 2, 1829, son of Daniel and Lydia (Witherell) Damon. The first bearer of his name in this country was John Damon, who arrived in Scituate in company with his uncle, William Gilson, about the year 1630, and subsequently held the office of Deputy under the Colonial government. He married Catherine Merritt, daughter of Henry Merritt, of Scituate, and left one son, Lieutenant Zachary Damon. Lieutenant Damon, who earned his title in the early Indian wars, married Martha Woodworth.

Joshua Damon, a descendant of Zachary, and the grandfather of Daniel E. , was a farmer of Scituate, and died there at the age of seventy years. His son Daniel, who also followed farming in Scituate, died there at the age of seventy-eight years. He married Lydia Witherell, who was a descendant of lilder Brewster, one of the passengers of the "Mayflower." Her grandfather, James Barrel!, who served throughout the Revolutionary War with two of his sons, was within a few months of one hundred years old when he died, having performed the work of an ordinary man until he was ninety-five. Daniel Damon had six children. Of these five are living, four being residents of Norwell. Daniel E. Damon was brought up in Scituate, and lived there until he was seventeen years of age. He then left home, and afterward attended the Worcester Academy, where he was prepared for college. In 1852 he entered Brown University, but had soon to relinquish his college studies on account of a persistent illness. After leaving college he taught school for a time in South Scituate and Hingham, also reading law in the office of the Hon. Perez Simmons, an able lawyer of Hanover, Mass. Qualified to enter the legal profession in due time, he was admitted to the bar in 185S, and began practice at Plymouth in January, 1859. After a short time he came to be regarded as a rising lawyer. Early in his professional career he was elected to the office of Register of Probate and Insolvency, which he held for the unprecedented period of twenty-five years. He has also been a Special Justice of the Third District Court for ten years. Formerly a Whig in politics, Mr. Damon has been a Republican since the formation of his party. While a resident of South Scituate, he was a Trial Justice, and also served on the School Committee. From 1882 to 1888 he was a member of the State Board of Agriculture. Although he has been a Mason for forty years, he would not accept any chairs. He first joined the Old Colony Lodge at Hingham, and afterward became a member of Plymouth Lodge. A strong temperance man, he has been connected with several temperance orders. His union with tlie Church of the Pilgrimage covers a period of about thirty years. In the month of June, i860, Mr. Damon married Ruth W. Stetson, a daughter of Martin \V. Stetson, of Hanover, and another descendant of Elder Brewster. Her mother was by maiden name Ruth Bailey Stockbridge, a descendant of Colonel John Bailey, who commanded a regiment all through the Revolutionary War. His daughter Ruth married William Stockbridge, who held a commission

Mr. and Mrs. Daniel E. Damon have two children - Ruth Stockbridge and Edwin Stetson. Ruth, who graduated from Wellesley in 1890, is now a teacher in l^Iairsville College for women in Pennsylvania; Edwin graduated from Amherst in 1886, and is now engaged in manufacturing. In 1883 Mr. Damon compiled a history of Scituate and South Scituate for the "Plymouth County History." He has also contributed miscellaneous articles of much value to the newspapers.

f^ENJAMIN HARDEN, Superintendent of Streets of Bridgewater, Mass., is one of the well-known native citizens of the place. He was born March 23, 1833, son of Captain Jabez and Sarah (Pratt) Harden, both of Plymouth County. His grandfather, Samuel Harden, fought in the Revolutionary War, and Captain Jabez Harden was a soldier in the War of 181 2. The latter, who was a lifelong resident of Bridgewater, was a prominent citizen, active as a Democrat in town politics, and at one time commanded a company of State militia. He died September 1 1, 1879. His children are: George P., who is living in Bridgewater; Alice, wife of Albion K. Washburn, in the same town ; Albert in East Bridgewater; and Frank B. and Benjamin, both in Bridgewater. Benjamin Harden was educated in the common schools of his native town. He was reared on a farm, and when he attained man's estate he chose the pursuit of agriculture, which he has followed up to the present time. For a number of years he was engaged in lumbering in the winter season. He holds a leading place among the farmers of this vicinity, and is a prominent member of Bridgewater

Grange, No. 201, Patrons of Husbandry. When the men of Massachusetts were mustering at the call of President Lincoln to save the Union, Mr. Harden joined the patriot ranks, enlisting in April, 1861, in Company A, Third Massachusetts Regiment; and after a term of service at P"ortress Monroe he was honorably discharged. Mr. Harden, who is a Democrat with independent proclivities, is now serving his third term as Superintendent of Streets of Bridgewater, and devotes to the duties of his office such attention and energy in performance as gives general satisfaction. His home is in Papermill Village, in the part of Bridgewater known as Pratt-town, evidently named for his mother's family.

In 1863 he was united in marriage with .Susan L. Andrews, of Bridgewater, daughter of Perez Andrews, a native of the State of Maine. Two daughters have blessed their union: Alice V., wife of Lyman Pratt, of Bridgewater; and Lizzie, wife of Fred Thomas, of this town. Mr. Harden is a member of the Unitarian church. One of the older active citizens of the town, which he has seen grow from a quiet village to one of the busiest manufacturing centres of the State, he has long been identified with local public affairs, keeping in touch with the progress of the times, and is widely known and respected.

"^YOK PEIRCE, who is successfully engaged in farming in that part of Middleboro, Mass., that is now Lakeville, is a native of this town, having been born here on September 2, 18 12, son of Oliver and Amy Peirce. His paternal grandfather was Enis Peirce, and his great-grandfather, Isaac Peirce. The first of the family to locate in this neighborhood was Abraham Peirce. Oliver and Amy Peirce had seven children, born in the following order: Enis, Job, Stephen, Albert, Ruth, Amy, and George VV. After the death of his first wife, Oliver Peirce married Miss Polly Hathaway, who bore him one son, Lysander.

Job Peirce, the only living representative of this family, spent his early years on a farm, and received his education in the district school and at Peirce Academy in Middleboro. He was married on May 29, 1853, to Miss Eunice R. Ellis, who was born in Rochester. Four children have blessed their union, namely: Polly, who is engaged in teaching; Judith N. ; Lucy M.; and Eunice R.

In 1865 Mr. Peirce, who is a Republican, was a member of the State legislature. He has served his town very acceptably as Overseer of the Poor, also as Assessor and Selectman.

-j^TENRY GURNEY, Chairman of the f^\ Boartl of Selectmen of East Bridge- J->^ V ^ water, and a highly esteemed citizen, was born in this town, March 18, 1828, a son of Captain Seth and Anne (Bates) Gurney. His mother was a daughter of Christopher and Mary Bates, and his father was a son of Seth Gurney, Sr. Perkins Gurney, the father of Seth, Sr. , was a son of Joseph, who was a son of Zachariah Gurney, of Braintree. Two of Henry Gurney's great-grandfathers served in the War of the Revolution.

Captain Seth Gurney and his wife, Anne Bates Gurney, were both natives of Plymouth County. He spent his life in East Bridgewater, where he carried on farming with success ; and for a number of years he was Captain of a company of militia, which he trained at stated times. He had si.x children, of whom Henry is the only survivor. In politics Captain Gurney was a Whig. He died in 1 844.

Henry Gurney, who was si.xteen years old at the time of his father's death, grew to manhood on a farm in the north part of the town. He received his education in the common schools and at the East Bridgewater Academy. On starting out in life for himself, he chose farming, the occupation to which he had been reared, and he has followed it diligently all his life. During the winter seasons he engages in logging and lumbering. He has resided at Elmwood since 1882.

On the 1 2th of April, 1849, Mr. Gurney was united in marriage with Sallie P. Poole, who was born in what is now Whitman, Mass. They have three children living, namely: David W. ; Fannie M., wife of Allan B. Shaw; and Agnes C, wife of Prescott H. Pratt.

For a number of years Mr. Gurney has served as Selectman of East Bridgewater, and he is now, as above mentioned, Chairman of the Board. He has been Town Treasurer one year, and on the School Board several years. In politics he is a Republican. Mr. Gurney is a member of the Congregational church at Whitman.

D. JONE.S, an enterprising citizen of East Bridgewater, where he conducts a saw-mill and a bo.x manufacturing business, was born in Warren, Me., November 14, 1837, a son of Linus and Phoebe (Peabody) Jones. On the paternal side he is a descendant of Miles Standish of Plymouth Colony fame.

The line is thus clearly traced: Captain Miles Standish's first wife died in 1621, and he married a second wife, Barbara. His children were: Alexander, Miles, Josiah, Charles, Lora, and John. Alexander, son of Captain Miles, married Sarah, daughter of the Hon. John Alden, and had: Miles, Ebenezer, Lorah,

Henry Gurney

Lydia, Mercy, Sarah, and Elizabeth. His first wife died, and he married Desire, widow of Israel Holmes. Miles, son of Alexander, married Experience, daut;hter of his mother-inlaw by one of her former husbands, and had : Sarah, Patience, Priscilla, Miles, and Penelope. Miles, son of Miles, second, married Mehitable Robbins, lived in South Bridgewater, and had : Miles, Experience, Penelope, Hannah, and perhaps others.

Penelope Standish, daughter of Miles, third, married, in 1763, Nathaniel Cobb, of Plympton. Penelope Cobb married Ichabod Leach, and had: Jerathmael, Enoch, Ephraim, Backus, and Abigail.

Abigail Leach married Freeman Jones, and had: Linus, John G. , Ichabod, Penelope, Olive, Mehitable, Huldah, Phcebe, and Lydia. Linus Jones married Phcebe Peabody, and had : Mary M. ; Abbie; James W. ; Oliver F. ; Benjamin B. ; William O. ; and Joseph D., the subject of this sketch.

The earl}' boyhood of Joseph D. Jones was spent on his father's farm in Warren, Me. He was an attendant of the common school until eleven years of age, but, having been obliged from that time to support himself, his education has been acquired chiefly in the school of practical business experience, among the many valuable lessons learned being that of self-reliance. In 1858 he went to Stoughton, Mass.. and engaged in the shoemaking business, which he followed until 1880, being for a time employed in George Keith's shoe shop in Campello. He then came to East Bridgewater, and purchased the saw-mill that he now owns, and which has been in operation for sixty years. He put in the first planer used in this part of the State. After conducting it as a saw-mill for five years, he added box making, and now the saw-mill department is run only winters, but the box manufactory

On August 8, 1861, Mr. Jones married Jeannette Pratt, of Turner, Me., by whom he has four children, namely: Clarence E. ; Alice E., wife of L. P. Churchill; Benjamin O. ; and Daniel B. Clarence E., the eldest, is a cigar manufacturer in Milford, Mass. He married Winona Hale. Politically, Mr. Jones is a stanch Republican. Fraternally, he is a member of Colfax Lodge, Independent Order of Odd Fellows, at East Bridgewater.

T. PARKER, an enterprising and prosperous general merchant of Plympton, was born in this town, January 29, 1842, son of Zaccheus Parker, a lifelong resident, and formerly a well-known merchant here. Mr. Parker's grandfather, Jonathan Parker, founded the business which has since been carried on by his descendants, and Zaccheus Parker conducted it for a period of forty-eight years or until 1867, when he was succeeded by his son, a brother of Z. T. Parker, the subject of this sketch.

Z. T. Parker was reared and educated in Plympton, and resided here until he was twenty-one years old. He then went to Boston, where he was employed as a clerk by R. H. White & Co. until 18S3, when he returned to this town, anci, succeeding to his brother's business, has since conducted it with success. He continued to occupy the old building until 1893, when he erected his present commodious store, which is furnished according to modern ideas, and provided with improved heating apparatus, the water for which is supplied by the aid of wind-mills. He carries a large and varied stock, including dry goods, boots, shoes, and groceries,

OHN DARLING CHURCHILL, the pioneer station agent of the Old Colony Railroad in Plymouth, was born here, November 8, 18 17, son of Sylvanus and Lydia (Churchill) Churchill. Mr. Churchill's grandfather, Zenas Churchill, who was a native and a lifelong resident of this town, passed the active period of his life in seafaring.

Sylvanus Churchill, Mr. Churchill's father, was born in Plymouth. At an early age he began to follow the sea as a means of livelihood. In the course of time he became an able seaman, acquiring a reputation for his agility aloft. One of his feats was to coil a rope while making his way to or from the mast-head. A man of strong constitution, he weathered the storms of the Atlantic for many years, and he lived to the age of eighty-two. He married Lydia Churchill, daughter of Thaddeus Churchill, of Plymouth. By her he became the father of seven sons, of whom John D. , the youngest, is the only survivor. The others were: Sylvanus (first), who died in infancy; Sylvanus (second), who lived to be eighty-two years old; Hiram, who died at seventy-nine; Thomas, who died at eighty-six; Benjamin, who lived to the age of eightythree; and Josiah, who died at seventy-two years. They were all strong, able-bodied men and worthy citizens. The parents were members of the Orthodox church.

engaged in seafaring on coasting-vessels. In his young manhood he was for a time employed as a clerk in a general store for the fitting out of fishermen. Later he ran a packet between Plymouth and Boston. Upon the completion -oi the railroad in 1845, he was tendered the position of station agent at Plymouth, to the e.xclusion of fourteen eligible applicants for the post. Though he did not desire to relinquish his packet business, he was finally prevailed upon to accept, and for five years he attended to the company's business here, having entire charge of this end of the line. He then resigned in order to devote his entire attention to the fishing industry. Having entered this business with two small vessels, he gradually increased his equipment to six stanch, seaworthy craft, which necessitated the use of two wharves. He was prosperously occupied in this way until 1875, when he retired from active business pursuits. His vessels were kept constantly in commission, making regular trips to the fishing banks, generally returning with good catches. He was exceptionally fortunate in keeping them above water, his only serious loss having been the seizure of one of them by the British authorities, upon a false charge of fishing within their territory.

In politics he has been a Republican since the formation of the party, and he has voted at every election for the past fifty-seven years. The pressure of business obliged him to decline the nomination to public offices at different times.

Mr. Churchill married for his first wife, Marcia J. Holmes, daughter of Thomas Holmes, of Plymouth. By this union there are three children, namely: John Franklin, who was born January 11, 1841; Frederick Lee, who was born February 8, 1 846 ; and Josiah D., who was born October 24, 1853.

John Franklin Churchill attended the United States Naval School at Annapolis, Md. At the age of eighteen he entered the United States Navy, in which, during the Civil War, he held the rank of Ensign. At the siege of I-^ort Fisher he was highly complimented by Admiral Porter for his gallant conduct. He is now an accountant. Frederick Lee Churchill is the present Postmaster in Plymouth, and Josiah D. Churchill is carrying on a flourishing mercantile business here. The mother died in 1882. The father's second marriage was contracted November 30, 1SS3, with Julia A. Hawley, of Plymouth. He has been a member of Plymouth Lodge, A. F. & A. M., for about thirty years; and of the Pilgrim Society of Plymouth for several years.

lYRUS H. HARDY, dentist. - In these days of specialties, when it is the fashion for a professional man to restrict himself to one narrow path, the fact is sometimes lost sight of, that, to insure success, it is well to have some knowledge of things outside of one's particular work. Dr. Hardy has studied medicine, and can determine whether the state of the teeth is due to the condition of the system, or that of the system to the teeth ; and he understands thoroughly the methods of administering ether or other anaesthetics without danger to the patient. Established for a number of years in Hingham, Mass., he has won the confidence of the public, and occupies a front rank in his profession. He was born in Wilton, Me., September 10, 1833, a son of Dr. Daniel and Lucinda (Teague) Hardy.

The Hardys are an old New England family. Two of the earliest colonists bearing this surname were: John, who settled in Salem in 1634; and Thomas, who was one of the first twelve settlers of Ipswich, Mass., in 1633, and who died in Bradford in 1678, leaving several sons. Dr. Cyrus H. Hardy's grandfather, Daniel Hardy, was one of the early settlers in Wilton, Me. He was a man of means and of strong character, the owner at one time of nearly half the township, and exercised, by his upright living and general example for good, a healthful influence on the community.

Dr. Daniel Hardy, his son, was a successful and popular physician, a native and lifelong resident of the Pine Tree State. In his early life he had an extensive country practice, covering a large territory; and he was subsequently actively engaged in professional duties in the city of Portland, where he was not obliged to take such long and tiresome rides. He lived to be ninety-four years old. His wife died at the age of seventy-three. Four of their children are living: Josephine W., wife of Rufus Teague, of Turner, Me. ; Adeline P., wife of Judge Davidson, of Sierra County, California; Francis A., in Bucksport, Me. ; and Cyrus H., now of Hingham.

Cyrus H. Hardy obtained the fundamental part of his education in the common schools of his native place, which were very good schools. He early took up the study of medicine, for which he had a natural taste, with his father, who was anxious for him to become a regular physician ; but he had a mechanical bent, and dentistry had a peculiar charm for him, notwithstanding the fact that his father was opposed to his being a dentist. He began to practise when he was only sixteen years old, pulling teeth for those who would trust themselves to him. Teeth in those days were extracted by means of the old turn-screw, a clumsy tool with which the boy dentist was much dissatisfied. He applied to the town blacksmith for something better, and that arti- san told him if he would furnish a pattern he would make the tool for him. The lad accordingly fashioned a pair of forceps of wood, and the blacksmith made for him a finely finished pair of steel. These forceps did excellent service, for people came far and near to "the boy with the pincers " to have their troublesome teeth removed.

In the mean time the lad was studying medicine with his father, and he subsequently took a course at a medical school of the eclectic order on Boylston Street, Boston. He was graduated at Beach's Medical School when he was twenty-two years old, and he subsequently studied the formation and use of chemicals and manufactured chemicals and chemical combinations; then, after practising medicine for a while with his father, he took up the study of dentistry, and going to California with his brother, a regular physician, he practised medicine and surgery there for a while, making a specialty of dentistry. About twenty-three years ago he became a resident of Hingham, and at that time he was still making a study of the science of dentistry. After a term under the excellent instruction of Dr. Sargeant, of Tremont Temple, he opened an ofifice in Hingham. This was fourteen years ago, and Dr. Hardy now has a large and lucrative patronage, his work being its own advertisement. His office is in the Water Company's building.

Dr. Hardy married Julia Roby, of Charleston, S.C., who died in 1890, leaving the following children: Ida Blanche, who is still with her father; Herbert O. , foreman of the Journal printing office in this town; Cyrus Daniel, a graduate of the Massachusetts College of Pharmacy, now in charge of a laboratory in Providence, R.I.; and Forrester, who is still at home. In politics the Doctor is a Republican. He is superintendent of the

.Sunday-school connected with the Methodist church, and takes an active interest in the work of the society. His home, which is on Lafayette Avenue, stands on an elevation, and commands a beautiful view of the surrounding country. The Doctor is a genial, pleasantmannered man, and has a large circle of friends.

SRED C. SPARROW, carpenter and builder, is one of the intelligent and successful business men of Middleboro, Mass. He was born in this town, January ig, 1857, a son of James P. and Persis L. (Smith) Sparrow, and is of the third generation of his family in the vicinity, his paternal grandfather, James Sparrow, having been an old resident of Fall Brook. James P. Sparrow, son of the elder James, was born in Middleboro, and was for a number of years in business here as a carpenter and builder. He died July 5, 1885, at the age of sixty years. His wife died P'ebruary 17, 1892, at the age of sixty-seven. They reared six children, namely: Alice L. , wife of W. F. Davis, of Duxbury, Mass. ; Albert S., a resident of Middleboro; Samuel J.; Fred C, of Middleboro; Priscilla li., wife of John C. Starbuck, of Elmwood; and Sarah L., wife of T. A. F. Washburn, an undertaker of Middleboro.

Fred C, the second son, as he grew to manhood attended the schools of his native town, and, making rapid progress, entered the high school before he was thirteen years old. He had a natural aptitude for the use of tools, and when a boy was always busy upon some mechanical contrivance. At the age of eighteen he went to work for his father, and his apprenticeship was a very short one, as he seemed to know by intuition all the mysteries of the joiner's craft. He was associated with his father some ten years, and just before his father's death he assumed charge of the business. It is needless to say that he has been successful, and has finished many important contracts.

Mr. Sparrow was married by the Rev. N. J. Dyer (it being his first marriage ceremony), September 22, 1878, to Miss Sarah F. C. King, a most estimable lady of superior intelligence and ability. They have two children. The elder, Fred S. , who was born August 15, 1882, is an active-minded lad and a great reader - apparently as fond of brain work as his father at the same age was of handicraft. He rises at daybreak in order to give more time to his beloved books. The other child, Sarah K., died June 13, 1S92, having lived but thirteen months.

Mr. Sparrow is Vice-President of the Republican Club of Middleboro, has served at many elections as ballot clerk, and has been in office as Constable for the past nine years. He belongs to the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, the Ancient Order of United Workmen, and the Junior Order of American Mechanics; and he is insured in a number of life, endowment, and accident companies, including the Massachusetts Mutual Benefit Association, the Union Relief Association, and the Citizens' Aid Society. His wife is an active member of the Congregational church.

Mr. and Mrs, Sparrow have a very pleasant home at 21 Plympton Street. The house is the same, remodelled, in which his father was born, and where he died. It also was the birthplace of Mr. Sparrow; and here he hopes to die as soon as his days of usefulness are over. The house was erected as a parsonage by the Rev. Sylvanus Conant, the fourth pastor of the First Congregational Church in Middleboro, in 1752. It was afterward occupied by the Rev. Joseph Barker, the fifth pastor, who sold it to James Sparrow, the grandfather of the subject of this sketch. Although it is one of the historic landmarks of old Middleboro, it .stands to-day as erect and well preserved as any of the modern houses, and bids defiance to the storms of another century.

His father, Samuel Besse, was a lifelons; resident of Wareham, and was engaged in seafaring pursuits during his early manhood. In the War of 181 2, when he was visiting his brother at West Island, he was taken by the English, who made him pilot of their vessel, up as far as Bird Island. Eventually he was given his liberty at Martha's Vineyard. He married Elizabeth Young, a native of Wareham, and they became the parents of six children, as follows: Charles H., who died January II, 1892, aged seventy-si.\ years, eight months, seven days; Samuel B. , who died June 22, 1S60, aged forty-three years, three months, twenty days; Isaac Y., who died March 27, 1849, aged thirty-two years, three months, twenty days; Zeruiah Y., who died March 28, 185 1, aged thirty -two years, one month, six days ; Rodolphus, who died March 5, 1878, aged fifty-four years, ten months, fourteen days; and Alden, the only one now living.

Samuel Besse, the father, died August 16, 1863, aged seventy-seven years, eleven months, seventeen days; and the mother, Elizabeth Besse, died April 5, 1863, aged seventy-seven years, four months.

shipped before the mast on the whaling brig "Inga," which cruised in the North and South Atlantic seven months. He subsequently made a second voyage of the same length on the same vessel, and cruising over the same waters, but held the position of boat-steerer. His third and fourth voyages also were made on the "Inga," but he had been promoted in each case, going out first as second mate and later as first mate. He then sailed from New Bedford on the bark "Charleston Packet," as master, being away from home eighteen months at that time. The following three years he had command of the bark "Hecla," spending the time chiefly on the North Pacific. Captain Besse on his return remained with his family six months, and then returned to New Bedford to take charge of the ship "John Wells," going to the Okhotsk Sea, where he cruised two seasons. After spending a year in Wareham, he next went out on a sperm whaling trip, as master of the ship "Hunter," to the coast of New Zealand, this time being away four years. Two years later he made a cruise in the same vessel on the. Atlantic Ocean for nearly two years, that being his last voyage. He was engaged in whaling from 1839 until 1868, being master of a vessel from 1846, and in his voyages meeting with invariable success. He is a good business man, noted for his honest and upright dealings, and in the course of his career has accumulated considerable property, having been the owner of several vessels engaged in freighting for foreign ports, and he is still interested in these pursuits to some extent.

Captain Besse was married December 26, 1852, to Mrs. Betsey S. (Jenney) Besse, the widow of his brother Isaac. Mrs. Besse had two children by her first marriage, namely: Charles A., who lived but nine months; and Adelaide S., wife of Gideon M. Washburn, of

Brockton, Mass. Captain and Mrs. ]?esse have had two children, of whom Frank A., a book-keeper in the National Bank of Wareham, is the only one living, Isaac H., the youngest child, having died at the age of two years and five months.

In politics Captain Besse is a strong advocate of the principles of the Republican party, and takes an active interest in local affairs, having served in nearly all the offices within the gift of his fellow-townsmen. From 1868 until 1880 he was one of the Selectmen of Wareham, and at the same time was Assessor and Overseer of the Poor. He has also filled an unexpired term as Town Treasurer and Collector. In 1 87 1 and 1872 he represented his district in the State legislature. The Captain has been a member of the Board of Directors of the National Bank of Wareham for fifteen years, and is a Vice-President, Trustee, and one of the Investment Committee of the Wareham Savings Bank.

LBERT CULVER, of Rockland, Mass., senior member of the firm of A. Culver Company, dealers in coal, wood, hay, flour, and grain, and other merchandise, is a self-made man, who has won his way from a hard-working boyhood to a mature manhood, blessed by wealth and position. He was born in the town of Poultney, Rutland County, Vt., January 10, 1838, son of Isaac C. and Maria (Mead) Culver, natives of the Green Mountain State.

Isaac C. Culver, who was a farmer, removed about 1 841 to Niagara County, New York, and there followed the pursuit of agriculture for fifty-six years. He died at the age oL eightysix, his wife living to be fourscore and four. They had a family of eleven children, two of whom died in infancy. A son, John M., also is deceased, and a daughter, Julia, died in North Abington. The survivors are: Francis, residing in Compton, Cal.; Frederick and Ann M., in Niagara County, New York; Mary J., in Detroit, Mich.; Charles and Louisa, in Niagara County, New York; and Albert, the subject of this sketch.

Albert Culver was three years old when his parents removed to New York State, and he was there reared on a farm. He was given scant educational privileges, being obliged, from the time that he was ten years old, to work in the growing season, and to make the most of his opportunities for schooling in the winter; but he was naturally intelligent, and in course of time acquired a store of practical knowledge, his teachers being necessity and experience. He remained on the home farm until eighteen years of age, and then went to work for his brother John, a merchant who dealt in feed and coal in North Abington, Mass. With his brother he remained about fifteen months; and he was subsequently in the employ of Deacon Ford, a North Abington grocer, for fifteen months ; in the Union Store at the same place, two years; and in a grocery store at East Abington, three months.

While employed in these various places he had perfected himself as an accountant, and he was next engaged as book-keeper in a shoe factory, where he remained eleven years. Although almost wholly self-educated, he was an expert at this kind of clerical work; and when the Hanover branch of the railroad was built, Mr. Lane, one of his employers at the factory, being Treasurer of the railroad company, gave Mr. Culver full charge of the railroad accounts. His duties included the issuing of notices and the receipt and expenditure of funds; and he displayed such good judgment and practical ability that, on Mr. Lane's death, he was appointed Treasurer of the corporation. He was in office some ten years, until the road was sold to the Old Colony Company.

In his present business he was at first associated with the Lane Brothers and others. The Lanes retired after a while, and for eleven years the firm was Culver, Phillips & Co. Seven years ago Mr. Culver purchased the entire business, which has since been under his direction solely. There were originally a number of branch stores, one of which was in Hanover, Mass. It has required firmness and determination to carry on this extensive business, for there was opposition to be overcome, not only from men, but also from nature. The large warehouse on Union Street, opposite the railroad station, is built partly on swampy ground, and it required patience and skilful engineering to establish a firm foundation. Mr. Culver was not to be turned aside from his purpose by an obstacle. He went steadily on, and accomplished all that he had intended. He is a Director of the Rockland National Bank, which he was active in organizing; and he is a Trustee of the Savings Bank, and a member of the Investing Committee.

Mr. Culver was married in 1862 to Nancy S. Howland, of East Abington, daughter of Jonathan Howland, and they have two children: Annie M., born September 23, 1867, wife of E. B. Church, of Rockland; and Ethel M., born October 24, 1875, who has not ye"t left her parents.

Politically, Mr. Culver is a stanch Republican. He takes a lively interest in local improvements, and contributes liberally to everything calculated to advance the interests of the town. He was quite active in the organization of the Rockland Commercial Club, an association of business men, of which he is a charter member; and he is a member of

IDWARD A. GAMMONS, Cashier of the National Bank of Warcham, and Treasurer of the Wareham Savings Bank, was born in South Wareham, Mass., January 15, 1842, a son of William and Deborah B. (Gallt) Gammons. Soon after his birth his parents removed to East Weymouth, but two years later settled in Wareham, near Parker Mills. Here their son Edward was educated, attending the common schools of this town.

At the age of eight years he began working in the Parker mills, where he was employed during the winter for several years, while in the summer months he followed the sea. In

1862, in the month of October, Mr. Gammons enlisted as a private in Company B, Third Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry, and was mustered into service at Camp Joe Hooker. Going thence to North Carolina with his regiment, he was stationed at New Berne,

and took an active part in various battles in that locality, being in the midst of the conflict at Kingston, Whitehall, and Goklsboro, and in various minor engagements. In June,

1863, at the expiration of his term of enlistment, he was discharged from service at Camp Joe Hooker. On returning to Wareham, Mr. Gammons entered what is now known as the National Bank at Wareham as a clerk, a position which he liad filled twelve years when he was appointed Assistant Cashier. Ten years later he was made Treasurer and Cashier of the above-named bank, succeeding Thomas R. Miles, who died in March, 1885, and who was connected with the bank as Cashier from the date of incorporation in 1833, e.xcepting five years. Mr. Miles entered banking business at the age of twelve, having his first experience at Newport, R.I., being there about ten years. He then accepted the position of Paying Teller in the Merchants' Bank at Providence, R.I., where he remained until 1833, when he came to Wareham. He was a man highly respected and valued in the community, having good judgment in financial matters, and an extensive acquaintance. His memory is held sacred by the inhabitants of Wareham and vicinity.

On January 15, 1867, Mr. Gammons married Mary B. Billings, a daughter of Warren and Mary F. (Caswell) Billings, of Wareham. Of the union of Mr. and Mrs. Gammons three children have been born, namely: Mary B. , wife of Frank A. Besse; William, a clerk in the employ of the Boston Dry-goods Company; and Henry Elliott, who is employed in the Compressed Steel Shafting Works at South Boston. Politically, Mr. Gammons affiliates with the Democratic party. He is a valued member of Social Harmony Lodge, A. F. & A. M., of which he is now Secretary; and of the General William T. Sherman Post, No. 208, Grand Army of the Republic.

(gYrLEXANDER R. GURNEY, the engit-:X neer in charge of the Middleboro -^ '^ V.^ Pumping Station, is a man of unusual ability. He was born in Marion, Mass., March 23, 1848, son of Rufus H. and Phoebe (Cahoon) Gurney. Rufus H. Gurney was a ship-carpenter by trade. He followed the sea for some time in his youth, and again, after 1869, when he was ship navigator, and visited several of the West India Islands. He had many tales to tell of the strange sights and peoples he had seen. After settling permanently on land, he gave his attention to mechanical work, in which he was naturally skilled. In December, i86i, he enlisted for three years' service in the Civil War, joining Company H, Twenty-ninth Regiment, Massachusetts Volunteers. At the end of this term he joined the ranks again, and served till the close of the war. Shortly before Lee's surrender he was captured, and spent two weeks in the hands of the Confederates. His mechanical skill caused him to be in much demand in the surgeon's department. He died in 18S7, aged sixty-four years, si.x months, nine days. His wife, who was a Plymouth girl, after surviving him about four years, died aged sixty -eight years, nine months, twenty days. Their children were: Mary, Alexander R., Freeman F., and Anna F. Mary is now the wife of Benjamin S. Keyes, of Middleboro; and Anna F. is the wife of G. H. Bourne.

Alexander R. Gurney attended the common schools of Wareham, whither his parents removed when he was five years old. He spent one season on the sea in his nineteenth year, but his boyhood was principally spent in farm work. This occupation not being to his liking, he learned to manage an engine, beginning as a fireman. His carefulness and intelligence in time won for him high recommendations and constant employment. In 18S5, after filling responsible positions in Brockton and Wareham, he was appointed to his present position. He has now a license as a first-class engineer, under the act of 1895. The general appearance of the pumping station plainly indicates that it is in thoroughly competent hands. Mr. Gurney is a voluntary observer for the Agricultural Department of the United States, and keeps a full and systematic meteorological record, noting temperature, precipitation, winds, clouds, frosts, etc.

Alice W. Loring, of Wareham. In politics he favors the Republican side. He belongs to one fraternal association, the Royal Society of Good Fellows. He accompanies Mrs. Gurney to the Congregational Church, of which she is a communicant. He has a pleasant home at 3 Rock Street.

OSIAH W. ATWOOD, a farmer of Carver, was born in Carver Centre, April 2, 1844. His parents were Ebenezer and Waitstill (Lucus) Atwood, who had ten other children; namely, Mary A., Stilmans, Waitstill S., Sarah, Abbie, Louisa, Ebenezer, Charles H., Hannah, and George S. Mr. Atwood grew up on his father's farm, receiving his education in the district schools. He was still beneath the family roof tree when the Civil War broke out. In September, 1862, he enlisted in Company B, Third Massachusetts Infantry; and his company was mustered at Lakeville, this county. The regiment was shortly after sent to North Carolina, where it took part in the actions at Kingston, Whitehall, and Goldsboro. Mr. Atwood was honorably discharged at Lakeville in June, 1866.

On returning to his home, illness, resulting from the hardships to which he was exposed in the army, rendered him unable to resume his former routine of life for some time. As soon as he was sufficiently recuperated he began to work at farming. In 1864, while at home, his term of service having expired, he was joined in matrimony with Miss Lydia Gammons. Their only child is Sadie F. , now a teacher of music. Soon after his marriage Mr. Atwood moved to the farm upon which he now resides, and which he has since cultivated. In political aflfiliation he is a Democrat, and belongs to the Grand Army of the Republic, Colling-

-AMES F. ANDERSON, a well-known tack manufacturer of Rockland, Mass., was born in Sandwich, Cape Cod, October i, 1857, son of William P. and Hannah T. (Vaughn) Anderson. William P. Anderson, who was a Virginian by birth, and by profession an engineer, went to Sandwich, Mass., where he spent the rest of his life. His wife, Hannah, was a native of Plymouth County, Massachusetts. They became the parents of thirteen children, seven boys and si.x girls, of whom seven are now living. Mrs. Hannah Anderson, who is now seventysix years old, resides with her son, James F. Mrs. Anderson takes a pardonable pride in her large family, all of whose members as they grew up subsequently reflected credit upon their parents.

James F". Anderson, who was the seventh son born to his parents, resided at home until he was twenty-one years old, and received a practical education. His first employment was in a glass factory in his native town, where he remained for about one year, having begun work at the age of twenty. A year later he learned the art of manufacturing tacks, and going to Whitman, in this county, he worked at that trade for some time. He afterward came to Rockland, where he found employment in the same line of industry with French, Hall & Company, who established their large business here in 1884. Going into their factory, he worked faithfully until two years ago, when he bought out the plant, and has since conducted it himself. His business is the only one of the kind in the place, and under his effective management it has grown to large proportions. His goods are sold over a

On November 17, 1885, he was married to Helen D. Wentworth, of liast Bridgewater. Mr. Anderson has a comfortable dwellinghouse on Maple Street, not very far from his factory and offices, which are on Grove Street. In his political opinions Mr. Anderson is a stanch Republican, but has taken no very active part in politics. He belongs to the Independent Order of Odd P'ellows, being a charter member of the lodge at Whitman. He is an active and prominent member of the Consrrecrational church.

E WITT CLINTON BATES, Chairman of the Board of Selectmen, Assessors, and Overseers of the Poor of the town of Hingham, Mass., formerly a well-known public-school teacher of Plymouth County, is now residing on a farm a short distance from Hingham Centre, and about a mile from Hingham, and engaged in market gardening. He was born in Cohasset, Norfolk County, Mass., October 28, 1827, a son of Lot and Winifred (Ellms) Bates.

The founder of the Bates family in America came to these shores a few years after the settlement at Plymouth in 1620. Of that remote progenitor, the following is recorded in the "History of Hingham": Clement Bates (Bate, Batte), aged forty, with his wife, Anna, and five children, embarked at London for New England, April 6, 1635, in the ship "Elizabeth." On his arrival he settled in Hingham, at about the time the Rev. Peter Hobart and his followers came here; and on September 18, 1635, he received a grant of land on Town (South) Street. This lot contained five acres, and was bounded on the north-east by land of

George Russell, and on the south-west by land of Thomas Johnson. It was the fifth in number from Bachelor (Main) Street, and has been in 'the possession of some of the posterity of the original grantee for nearly two and a half centuries. In 1883 the estate, including an ancient dwelling-house formerly known as the "Anchor Tavern," was sold to the owners of the land adjoining. A portion of the estate, however, has since been repurchased ; and on the spot where the old house stood, a dwelling of modern style has been erected, and is now occupied by a descendant of the early colonist. The name "Bate" was a common one in England for nearly two centuries before any of the family took their departure for America; and the English ancestors of Clement are traceable for five generations prior to that time.

The father of Clement Bates was James, who died in 1614, at Lydd, Parish of All Hallows, England. Anna, wife of Clement, died in Hingham, Mass., October i, 1669, aged seventy-four. Clement died September 17^ 1 67 1, aged seventy-si.\. Clement and Anna Bates had si.x children, of whom only the youngest was born in Hingham. Joseph, their fourth child, who was born in England about 1630, married in Hingham, Mass., January 9, 1657, Esther, daughter of William Hilliard. Joseph Bates died April 30, 1706, and his wife Esther on June 3, 1709. He was a bricklayer by trade. He served as Constable three years, and as Selectman four years ; and in 1673 he was appointed sexton of the parish, in which capacity he served a number of years. He resided on the paternal homestead on South Street. Joseph and Esther Bates had a family of nine children.

Joshua, their fifth child, was born in Hingham, August 14, 167 I. He was married January 15, 1695, to Rachel Tower, who was born in Hingham March 16, 1674, daughter of

Ibrook and Margaret (Hardin) Tower. Seven children were born of this union. Joshua, Jr., the second of these, was born June 15, 1698. He married December 28, 1721, Abigail Joy, daughter of Joseph and Elizabeth (Andrews) Joy. She was born in Hingham, December 29, 1701, and survived her husband, who died March 16, 1766. He was a brick layer, and at his death left a large estate. In 1735 he served as Constable of the town.

Nathaniel, the fifth of the seven children of Joshua and Abigail Bates, was born October 3, 1733, in Hingham. On December 18, 1760, he married Mary Hamlen. His residence was on Beechwood Street, and his life was spent in Hingham, except the period of his absence as a soldier in the Revolutionary War. Nathaniel and Mary Bates had two sons, namely: Cornelius, who died in 1850, aged eighty-eight years; and Jessaniah, the grandfather of De Witt Clinton, the special subject of this brief biography. His birth occurred in Hingham, June 29, 1768, and, after he established a home of his own, he lived on Beechwood Street, Cohasset, where he followed farming. He married Phoebe Litchfield, of Scituate, who died April 13, 1849, aged seventy-five years. His death occurred nearly five years later, March 6, 1854. Their eight children, all born at Cohasset, were: Phcebe, Rufus, Lot, Lewis, Warren, Silas, Mary, and Ezekiel. Lot Bates, the father of De Witt Clinton, was born in 1802. He married Winifred Ellms, and they had three children, born at Cohasset - De Witt Clinton, Lot W., and one that died. Lot W. Bates resides in Cohasset.

De Witt Clinton Bates attended the common school until fourteen years old, at which time, having made good progress in his studies, he entered the Cohasset High School. He continued to live on the farm with his parents until he was seventeen, and then went to Dorchester to learn the carpenter's trade, remaining there until twenty-one years of age. Returning to his home in Cohasset, he afterward studied under the Rev. Joseph Osgood, and at the Merrimack Normal Institute in New Hampshire; and, beginning in 1851, he taught school, first in Cohasset, then two years in Hingham, two years in North Braintree, and twelve years in the Hingham Centre Grammar School. While teaching the lastnamed school, in 1866 and 1867, he represented Hingham at the General Court. In 1 87 1 he was elected to the offices of Selectman, Assessor, and Overseer of the Poor, which he has held continuously since that time, and he has been Chairman of the Board the past fifteen years. In politics he was formerly a Free Soiler; and since 1856, when he cast his Presidential vote for John C. Fremont, he has affiliated with the Republican party.

Mr. Bates and Sarah A. Burbank were married on May 8, 1853, and their union has been blessed by the birth of si.x children: William Clinton, a graduate of Harvard College, in the class of 1877, and now Superintendent of Schools in P'all River, Mass. ; EUery Webster, who died while attending Harvard College; Mary Winifred, a teacher, living at home with her parents; Herbert Osgood, a farmer, also living at the parental home; Sarah Elizabeth, a teacher in the Hingham Centre Grammar School ; and Grace Lincoln, deceased. William Clinton Bates, the eldest son, married Edith E. Taggert, and has two children - P2dith Dorothea and Clement Taggert.

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farm on which he now resides, July 11, 1827, son of Sampson and Polly (Shurtleff) McFarlin. He is the eldest of a family of ten children, eight sons and two daughters; namely, William S. , Almena L., Horatio, Charles H., Thomas H., Charles D., Polly S., Henry L., Peleg, and Jason B. Henry L. McFarlin, the si.xth son, enlisted. in Company E, of the I"ortieth Massachusetts Regiment, with which he served until the battle of Cold Harbor, early in June, 1864, when he was mortally wounded, and died nine days later. He had risen from the ranks to the position of First Sergeant, and a Lieutenant's commission awaited him at his death. Mrs. Polly McFarlin died at thirty-eight years of age. Her husband survived her many years, dying on the farm now owned by his son, William .S. , at the age of eighty-two.

William S. McFarlin spent his boyhood and his early manhood, up to twenty-three years of age, on his present farm. He then began working at the iron moulder's trade, which he followed until the breaking out of the Civil War. He had previously been a Captain in the State militia, and he was one of the first to go into service, responding to the first call for seventy-five thousand men, and going direct to Fortress Monroe. After being out between three and four months, he returned home and raised one hundred men in Carver and adjoining towns, forming what was afterward known as Company C, Eighteenth Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry. They went to Washington, were there ordered to join the Army of the Potomac, and were in the engagements at Yorktown, Hanover Court-house, and the Seven Days' Fight in front of Richmond. On the Peninsula, June 27, 1862, in the march from Cold Harbor to White House Landing, Captain McFarlin received a sunstroke, from the effects of which he was under the doctor's care for about two months. He then went to Fredericksburg, but was subsequently confined in the Douglas Hospital at Washington for about six weeks. On account of his impaired health, as soon as able to leave the hospital, he resigned his commission in the army, and returned to Carver. At the present time he is engaged in carrying on the old homestead farm, cranberries being one of the principal crops thereon^

On May 9, 1891, Captain McFarlin was married to Miss Elizabeth C. Monroe, widow of Granville Monroe, of Bridgewater, Mass., and daughter of David Wilber. In 1S73 and 1874 Captain McFarlin was a member of the State Board of Police, and was stationed at Wareham. He has also served as Constable and on the School Board. In politics he is a stanch Republican. He is a member of Plymouth Lodge, A. F. & A. M. ; of Winthrop Lodge of Good Templars ; and Post No. 8, Grand Army of the Republic, of Middleboro. Captain McFarlin is a communicant of the Methodist Episcopal church, of which he is a Trustee, and is active in other offices.

shoe," was born in the town of Plymouth, Mass., August 22, 1845. The death of his parents left him at an early age wholly dependent on his own exertions for a livelihood. His schooling was limited; but he had plenty of determination and pluck, and, obtaining employment in a shoe shop, he gave his talents and whole attention to thoroughly and systematically learning the trade. His close application to business and the interest shown in his work soon attracted the notice of his employer, who early recognized the ability of the man, and it was not long before he occupied positions of importance, all of which he filled most satisfactorily. Mr. Douglas became a resident of Brockton, then North Bridgewater, in 1870, and worked in several factories there. In July, 1876, he began business for himself, with small capital but plenty of confidence. At that time was laid the foundation of the enormous business which he controls at the present time.

Besides manufacturing shoes, Mr. Douglas is engaged in other business enterprises. He is President of the People's Savings Bank; Director of the Home National Bank; Vice- President of the Brockton City Hospital Association; and proprietor of the Brockton Daily Tillies, a newspaper occupying already an important place in the journalistic field of Massachusetts, although comparatively young.

In Brockton affairs Mr. Douglas has been particularly conspicuous, and he has done much in promoting the interests of this thriving city. Through his advertising alone he has made the name of Brockton almost as famous as his three-dollar shoe. In politics Mr. Douglas has always been a Democrat. Although his district is largely Republican, he has been twice elected to the State legislature, and once to the State Senate. He served in both places with honor to his constituency and to himself, doing much to benefit factory employees, and originating the famous "Arbitration Bill," creating the State Board of Arbitration. The principle of arbitration has been established in his factory since 1888, and it has proved satisfactory both to himself and his employees. In 1890 Mr. Douglas was elected Mayor of Brockton, and on three different occasions he served in the City Council. While in the service of the city he improved the various departments, by introducing business methods in transacting the affairs of the

As a manufacturer Mr. Douglas has made the welfare of his employees a major consideration. As far as business would permit, he has made their work as agreeable and remunerative as it is possible to do. For their benefit he has established free medical attendance, any person in his employ being entitled to receive the best medical treatment without any expense.

Mr. Douglas is exceedingly domestic in his habits and tastes. Surrounded by his family, he thoroughly enjoys life in his beautiful home on West Elm Street. Few men are better known or more highly regarded in the commercial world to-day.

proprietor of Murdock's Liquid Food, and a summer resident of Hingham, was born in Boston, September 4, 1829, son of Amasa Murdock, Jr., and his wife, Jane (Loriug) Murdock. His grandfather, Amasa Murdock, Sr. , was a wheelwright and carriagemaker in Boston for many years. A genial, sociable man, a Whig in politics, and a Universalist in religious belief, the grandfather had many friends, was highly esteemed, and lived to the age of eighty-five years. His first wife, whose maiden name was Crane, was the mother of four children, none of whom are now living. She died at the early age of thirty-five years. His second wife, formerly a Miss Green, who had no children, lived to the age of seventy years.

Amasa Murdock, Jr., was a native and lifelong resident of Boston. From early manhood until his death, which occurred in April, 1843, at the age of thirty-nine years, he was engaged in business as a plane-maker, in the firm of Gardner & Murdock on Green Street. In politics he was a Democrat. A Univcrsalist in religious faith, he attended Dr. Barrett's church on Chambers Street. His wife survived him, attaining the age of seventyseven years. They had four children, three of whom are now living, namely: Albert L., the subject of this sketch; Alonzo A., now of Boston ; and Mary Jane, the wife of Washington King, of Lynn, Mass., and mother of two children - Cora and Jennie.