Plymouth Town (part 51 of 54)

Henry Howard Northey was reared amid the scenes of farm life, and educated in the public schools of Scituate. He succeeded his father as manager of this farm, and has been engaged in agricultural pursuits practically all his life. The famous well is situated cjuite near his house, and the water is as sweet and satisfying as it was when the poem was written. Mr. Northey is one of the leading farmers of the town, and has been for a number of years a Director in the Marshfield Agricultural and Horticultural Society.

In 1 866 he was united in marriage with Ellen Harrub, a native of Scituate, daughter of Darius and Matilda (Schultz) Harrub (both deceased) ; and three children have blessed their union: Mary Alice; Isabel, wife of Charles Thompson Murray ; and Samuel Woodworth (deceased). Mary Alice is a graduate of the Scituate High -School and the New England Conservatory of Music, Boston. Isabel is a graduate of the Scituate High School and' Wellesley College, Wellesley, Mass. Mr. Northey, who is a Republican, has served on the Scituate Board of Selectmen for a number of years. A Unitarian in religious preference, he is a Trustee of the church at Scituate Centre.

N. CHAMBERLAIN, a successful real estate dealer of Brockton, Mass., was born in Conway, N. H., March 15, 1837, son of James Otis and Betsy

(Hill) Chamberlain. He belongs to an old English family, the original ancestors in America being, it is claimed, three brothers who came hither in the Colonial days, two of them settling in Eastern and Western Maine, respectively, the other brother settling in Virginia. Thus the traditional account. Savage, however, mentions a number of early settlers of this name, among them Henry Chamberlain, of Hingham, who came in 1638; Edmund (or possibly Edward), of Woburn, who removed to Chelmsford in 1655; Thomas, of Woburn, 1644; William, of Boston, 1647; Richard, of Portsmouth, a Counsellor in 1682.

John Chamberlain, father of James Otis, was a faithful tiller of the soil in Conway, where two of the family still reside, one other being in North Carolina. During the War of 181 2, Grandfather Chamberlain voluntarily laid down his hoe for a musket. James Otis Chamberlain was extensively engaged in farming and lumbering, being a drover for twentyfive years. He married Betsy, daughter of Henry Hill, of Bromfield, Me., and they became the parents of seven children, all of whom grew to maturity; namely, Marshall, James N., Clarinda, Julia, Tryphemia, William, and Nancy. Clarinda married Mr. Doloph, of Conway; Julia married Albert Packard, of Brockton; and Tryphemia became Mrs. Samuel Waterman, of this city. Nancy married William Rounds, of Brownfield, Me., and she has since died. The father and mother, who were religiously prominent in the Baptist church, both passed to the life immortal at the age of seventy-three.

James N. Chamberlain, after acquiring a fair knowledge of the common English branches, left home when he was twenty, going to Danvers, Mass., where he worked one year. Alternating a year of work with a year of study, he finished his education, attending

Goshen, Parsonfield, and Sandwich Academies. He also paid the expenses of the schooling of his two sisters for two years. He then returned to Danvers and worked at the shoe business, doing contract work for I. P. Boardman, and subsequently for Ira P. Pope. In October, 1865, he came to Brockton, where he engaged in shoe contract work; and while thus engaged he invested in real estate, buying a piece of land about nineteen rods by four and a half rods, situated on the corner of Belmont and Bret Streets in this city. He bought it for four hundred and twenty-five dollars, and later sold a part of it for eighteen hundred dollars, thereby proving his good judgment in investing. In 1884 Mr. Chamberlain opened a general merchandise store, in which he did a safe business for nine years, selling out the plant in the spring of 1893 to his sons, to whom he gave their time when they were but sixteen years old. Mr. Chamberlain has engaged with success in breeding fancy pigeons, lop-eared rabbits, and other pet stock, receiving for the birds from one to twenty-five dollars a pair. In view of the fact that he was ninety-three dollars in debt when he first commenced speculation, his financial success is all the more marked.

Mr. Chamberlain was united in marriage on October 15, 1866, to Susan, daughter of Benjamin Eaton, of Brockton; they are the parents of six children - Carrie S. , Alice S., Lily May, James F., Franklin N., and Clarence E. Carrie S. Chamberlain married Lucian McLoon, and resides in Tyngsboro, Mass. ; Alice S. was married May 18, 1896, to Frank Wade, son of Hiram Wade of this city, and died December 16, 1896. The sons, as before mentioned, manage the store. Lily May, the youngest child, is still under the paternal roof. In politics Mr. Chamberlain is a Republican.

In 1880 he sold his property on the corner of Brett and Belmont Streets, and bought a lot of land on the corner of Belmont and Brook Streets; and since then he has been adding to this till it now contains nearly fort^'-four thousand square feet, with twenty-four tenements thereon, mostly built by himself. Mr. Chamberlain also owns another lot on the north side of Belmont Street, which contains two tenements. He thinks it is within the reach of any man who is in health to have a good home.

BNER J. CLARK, a shoemaker and carpenter by trade, is now devoting his time to carrying on the old Clark farm in Middleboro, which was settled by Noah Clark, his grandfather, and which has been his own home since he was two years old. He was born at Middleboro, January 9, 1839, son of Zebulon L. and Abigail E. (Barrows) Clark.

Noah Clark, a native of the part of Middleboro which is now Lakeville, was a son of Noah, Sr. , and grandson of Ezra Clark. The father and grandfather of Ezra were Thomas and Thomas, Sr. , the latter of Welsh descent, but a native of England, whence he came to this country at an early date. He married Martha Curtis in 1676, and had eleven children. Zebulon L. and Abigail Clark were the parents of four children; namely, Maria A., Abner J., Alvira F., and Abbie A.

Abner J. Clark, the second child and only son of his parents, enjoyed but scanty opportunities for schooling in his boyhood, and is, for the most part, self-educated, having taken up the active duties of life when but ten years old. He began with shoemaking, and later on engaged in carpentry, which he followed during the summers and worked at shoemaking winters, but Middleboro has always been his home. There are about forty acres of land in the homestead, and he carries on general farming with success. Mr. Clark is a member of Massasoit Lodge, No. 69, of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows. In politics he is a Republican.

ERRIE A. ELDRIDGE, M.D., of Wareham, Mass., was born in the town of Harwich, this State, November 18, 1866. His parents were William Marshall and Hannah A. (Crowell) Eldridge, both of old Barnstable County families. They had five children, three of whom died in infancy: William A. ; and Jerrie A., the special subject of this sketch, are the two now living.

Jerrie A. Eldridge acquired the rudiments of learning in the public schools of Harwich. Before taking up his professional studies he worked in a drug-store for six years, becoming familiar with the nature and use of chemicals and medicines, and expert in putting up prescriptions. In 1887 he entered the College of Physicians and Surgeons at Philadelphia, and after three years of close and earnest study received his diploma from that institution in 1890. He also attended lectures at Tufts Medical College, and was there graduated in June, 1897. In 1890 he settled in Wareham ; and he is now in command of a growing practice.

Dr. Eldridge is a member of the Massachusetts Medical Society. In 1895 he opened a drug-store in Wareham, which is already the centre of a successful trade. Besides being town physician he is a member of the Board of Health.

He was married in 1887 to Miss Eva I. Despeaux, of Medway, Mass., daughter of Charles and Mary (Howard) Despeaux, and has three children: Fanny S., born June 26, 18S9; Stephen M., born March 25, 1891 ; and Lydia, born May 1 1, 1892. The Doctor is very popular in society, and is a prominent member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and of the order of Pilgrim Fathers. He and his wife are members of the Methodist Episcopal church, of which he is one of the trustees.

Walter

FAUNCE, one of the County Commissioners of Plymouth County, and a widely known and respected resident of Kingston, is a scion of old English stock well rooted in New England soil. He was born in one of the oldest houses in this town, November 16, 1832, son of Charles C. and Amelia (Washburn) P"aunce. His parents were natives and residents of Kingston, as were his ancestors on both sides for several generations; and he is descended through various branches from some of the original Plymouth colonists who came to this country on the "Mayflower." The P"aunces are lineal descendants of John Faunce, who landed at Plymouth from the ship "Ann" in August, 1623. They have been active in the public affairs of this town, and many of them have worthily filled positions of trust and responsibility. John Faunce, of the fifth generation, born in 1747, an uncle of Charles C. Faunce, was for many years a Selectman, Treasurer, and Overseer of the Poor, and also a member of the State legislature.

The great-grandfather of the subject of this sketch was John Faunce, of the fourth generation, who married Mrs. Hannah (Bisbee) Cook. Their son, Elijah, the ne.xt in line, married Lydia Waterman, a daughter of Ichabod Waterman, of Kingston. Charles C. Faunce, son of Elijah and father of Walter H. Faunce, was a prominent citizen of this town, and a leading spirit in public affairs. He served as Town Clerk for fifteen years. His wife, Amelia, was a daughter of Seth and Sarah (Adams) Washburn. Her father, formerly a well-known resident of this town, lived to the venerable age of ninety-two years.

Walter H. Faunce acquired his education in the public schools of Kingston and at the academy in East Greenwich, R.I. After finishing his preparatory studies, he engaged in educational work in his native town, where for fifteen years he was actively connected with the public schools, and rendered valuable services to the town as a member of the School Committee for twenty-five years, several years of which he acted as Chairman of the School Board. In politics he is a firm su]-)porter of Republican principles. His connection with the Board of Selectmen and Assessors of Kingston covers a period of twelve years, eight years of which he has presided over that body as Chairman. He is also Chairman of the Board of Overseers of the Poor. In 1880 he was elected to the House of Representatives, where he served upon the Committee on Insurance. He is now serving his tenth year as a County Commissioner, has been a Justice of the Peace for over thirty years, and was a member of the Republican State Central Committee for two years. He is actively interested in all measures calculated to improve the general welfare and development of the industrial and agricultural resources of this section, has acted as Vice- President of the Plymouth County Agricultural Society, and as Trustee of Marshfield Agricultural Society. He is a member of Corner Stone Lodge, A. F. & A. M., of Uu.vbury, Mass. ; and also a member of Adams Lodge, Independent Order of Odd P"ellows, of Kingston.

first wife, Arabella Ryder, a native of Plymouth, became the mother of two children, namely: Lucy D., who is residing at home; and Charles M., a graduate of Harvard College, and formerly an instructor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Boston. His present wife was before marriage Elizabeth Brown. She is a native of Smithfield, R.I.

'Cm)/TlLIAM W. COPELAND, station VpV^ agent at North Hanson, was born in East Bridgewater, Plymouth County, Mass., January lo, 1856, son of Roland and Elizabeth O. (Osborne) Copeland. Hezekiah Copeland, his grandfather, was a native of West Bridgewater, and a carpenter by trade. In 1822 he moved to Acworth, N. II. ; and he died at the age of eighty-one years. He married Lucy Moore, of Acworth, N.H., and they had six children. Their son Roland was also born in West Bridgewater, where he attended public school until he was sixteen years of age. He then turned his attention to agricultiu'al pursuits, in which he was engaged during the rest of his life. He and his wife Elizabeth had six children.

William W. Copeland, the youngest child of his parents, having accpiired a commonschool education, entered the employ of C. L. Howland, dealer in hay, grain, flour, and coal, as clerk. In 1879 he was appointed station agent of the Old Colony Railroad at North Hanson, which position he still holds. Mr. Copeland also carries on the business of Mr. C. L. Howland under his own name. In politics he is a Republican. He has served the town capably as Selectman, Overseer of the Poor, and Assessor. On October 15, 1890, he married Cora F., daughter of Aaron Healy, of Whitman.

ILLIAM J. WRIGHT, who has been a permanent resident of Duxbury, Mass., for nearly thirty years, is a well-known member of the upper stratum of Boston society, belonging to the Somerset and other clubs of that city, and having many social connections through the family of his mother, who resides in Boston. This lady is the elder daughter of the late John S. Wright, one of the merchant kings of Boston, for many years senior partner of the great drygoods and commission house of J. S. & .E. Wright. Mr. J. S. Wright, who was one of thirteen children, was a son of Dr. Ebenezer Wright, an eminent physician. He was descended from military ancestors, as evidenced by the records in the War Department at Washington and in the archives of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, from which sources of information the following extracts are taken : -

"At Scjuakheage ye 2nd of Sept., 1675, 8 men slayn. Samuel Write, Sergt. " Massachusetts Archives, vol. 68, p. 33. The Samuel Write here mentioned is the first of a direct line of ancestors of whom the grandfather of the subject of this sketch was the sixth, the others being: Elizur, second; Benoni or Benony, third; Moses, fourth; and Ebenezer, fifth. Of Iillizur Wright no military record has yet been found, though the fact is known that he served in one of the Colonial wars. Pie was Town Moderator of Northfield and a leading man of that place.

The name of Benoni Wright (or Benony, as it is sometimes spelled) occurs several times in the Massachusetts military archives, once in an account of the garrison soldiers at Northfield (The Third Soldiery), from May 31 to July 24, 1772, vol. 91, p. 30, and again as follows : - esty's service under command of Samuel Bernard, Captain. Benony Wright, Nortliampton, July 24 to November 20, 1772, service 17 weeks, i da}', -for wages due X<S, ii.v. , 5^/." Vol. gr, p. 48.

"An account of the soldiers' names under ye command of Capt. Joseph Kellogg, in his Majesty's service at Northfield - part of his company at Dearfield. Benoni Wright." Vol. 91, p. 100.

The name of Moses Wright, of Northfield, may be found in the military archives of Massachusetts, where it appears (in vol. 92, p. gS) as one of a list of men posted at Fort Pelham under command of Samuel Child in 1747. On p. 116, same volume, it appears on the muster roll of the company under Cai)tain Eleazer Melvin in 1748, his term of service being given as eleven weeks, and pay ^5, 14.?., 4c/. It is also on the muster roll of Captain Phineas Stevens' company, October 21, 174S, to April 13, 1749 (vol. 92, p. 201), and on the roll of the "company in his Majesty's service under the command of John Carl in. Captain," dated Deerfield, November 29, 1749. In a manuscript volume entitled "Minutes of Counsel of Appointment, vol. i," in the custody of the Regents of the State of New York, the appointment is recorded on October 24, 1778, of Moses Wright as Captain in the company from Rockingham, Cumberland County, N. Y. (now in Vermont), belonging to the First Cumberland County Regiment of the New York militia, which regiment was commanded by Colonel Eleazer Patterson ; also that said regiment was employed in active service in the Revolutionary War. The records in the Record and Pension Office at Washington, D. C. , show that Moses Wright served in the Si.xth Company, Third Massachusetts Regiment, commanded by Colonel M. Jackson, Revolutionary War. His name appears on the company muster roll for August and September, 1783, dated October 14, 1783, which bears the remarks: "Term of enlistment, 5, 22; time since last muster or enlistment, July 31."

The records in the above-named office also show that I"]benezer Wright served as a jjrivate in Captain Joseph Esterbrook's company, in Colonel Bedel's New Hampshire Regiment, Revolutionary War. His name appears on a pay-roll dated at Montreal, April 26, 1776, without remark. On the Revolutionary rolls in the archives of the State of New Hampshire the name of Ebenezer Wright appears on the "Pay roll of Capt. Joseph Esterbrook's company in Col. Bedel's regiment raised by order of the Continental Congress in the Colony of New Hampshire in defence of the liberties of America. Joined the Northern Continental Army, 1776."

Thomas Russell, a great-great-grandfather of the subject of this sketch on the maternal side, took an active part against the British in the Revolutionary War, the records in the Adjutant-general's office at Hartford, Conn., showing that he "marched from the town of Wlethersfield as private for the relief of Boston in the Lexington alarm, April 1775; number of days in service, six. " - "Served as pri\'nte in Captain Squire Hill's Company, Samuel McClellan's regiment. Arrived in camp July I, 1775. (This company engaged until March ist, 1776)." The records of the State of New Hampshire at Concord show the name of Thomas Russell as a private in Captain Philip Putnam's Company, Colonel Nahum

1776, and sent into the State of New York. This regiment was in the battle of White Plains, October 28, 1776, and was dismissed early in December, 1776. A roll-call of Colonel Benjamin Ikllows' regiment of militia in the State of New Hampshire, which regiment reinforced the garrison at Ticonderoga when besieged by the British in June,

John S. Wright, son of Ebenezer Weight, M.D. , was born June 30, 1788, in Plainfield, Vt., and started in business in Thetford, that State, when a very young man, his associate being George Peabody, later the famous banker (of London, England). In 1824 Mr. Wright went to Boston, and for a number of years he was engaged in the management of one of the banks of that city. In 1832, as a member of the firm of Parks, Wright & Co., he engaged in the manufacture of cotton goods, and the house established at that time became one of the permanent and reliable commercial concerns of Boston. Although, as the years went on, there were some changes in the firm name, which was at one time Wright & Whitman and subsequently J. S. & E. Wright, the management included from the beginning one or more of the same partners, and Mr. Wright was always at the head. The firm controlled an immense business, representing seventeen large manufacturing companies; and its annual sales amounted to upward of fifteen million dollars. Having passed safely through the commercial crash of 1857, the house had an established reputation for financial solidity, and its mercantile credit was always remarkably high. Mr. Wright was seldom absent from his counting-room in business hours, even during his last years, and was prompt and methodical as he wished his clerks to be. Honest and upright, he was just to all men, and a kind and true friend. He required of no one what he would not have done himself under the same circumstances; and it was by his close and conscientious application to business that he accumulated his immense fortune - over two million dollars. He left his home in Brookline for his place of business Friday morning, June 27, 1874, and during the day was slightly indisposed. The trouble he attributed to indigestion, and expected to be able to resume his duties on Monday; but on Sunday he began to lose strength, and gradually sank into the last long sleep, passing away apparently without pain. He retained his faculties and was able to recognize the different members of his family up to within a few hours of his death. Mis last day on earth - June 29, 1874 - closed his eightysi.xth year, June 30 being his birthday.

Mr. John S. Wright left three sons : John Harvey Wright, United States Navy; Eben Wright, of the firm of which he was the senior member; and George Wellman Wright, of Du.xbury ; and two daughters - Mary Elizabeth and Esther P'idelia. John Harvey Wright was for many years Acting Surgeon in the United States Navy. He subsequently left the service and was on the retired list of the Medical Board until his death. Upon his retirement he became a member of the firm of J. S. and E. Wright & Co.

Mary Elizabeth Wright, the elder daughter, mother of the subject of this sketch, married Mr. Charles H. Todd, who was for years intimately connected with leaders of commerce on the north Atlantic coast, and who had an extensive acquaintance in diplomatic circles in this country and Europe. His father sent out whalers and merchant vessels to all parts of the known world, from Newburyport, Mass.

Equipped with a fortune Charles H. Todd started in business in Boston at the age of twenty-one as head of a dry-goods and silk house; but his inexperience led to failure, and in 1846 he accepted the position of special agent at Washington for the New England merchants in relation to the pending tariff bill.

His business kept him in Washington about a year, and while there he established an intimate persona] friendship with Webster, Clay, Douglas, and other prominent men of the time which lasted actively for years. Returning to Boston after the tariff bill passed, Mr. Todd was engaged for some time in fitting vessels for whaling and the South American trade. In 1 849 he went to California to make arrangements to send his vessels there ; but the undertaking was too expensive for his resources, and in a year or two he returned east and became a member of the New York firm of which Anthony Bleecker was head, making his home in New York City.

In 1S60 he went abroad as agent for a syndicate, and procured a grant for a ship canal through Denmark from the government of that country. In Copenhagen he became intimate with Mr. Buchanan, the representative of the United States government there. Stopping over in London on his way back in the spring, Mr. Todd was joined by Mr. Buchanan. The latter had allowed his salary to run for several nmnths, and was afraid the government might refuse to pay it, as it was known that he was in sympathy with the South. Mr. Todd took him to Baring Brothers, who honored his draft for the salary due ; and Mr. Buchanan was so grateful for this favor that he pressed social attentions on Mr. Todd and introduced him to Yancey, Slidell, Mason, and other Confederate agents who were in London. The meeting with these gentlemen, however, resulted in trouble, for Mr. Todd was a strong Unionist and sharp words passed between him and Yancey. Mr. Buchanan interfered, saying that, as Mr. Todd was his friend and the meeting was supposed to be merely social, he would resent any indignity put upon him; and, if Yancey wanted to fight, Mr. Buchanan was ready, in behalf of his guest, to meet him. No duel took place, however, though the gentlemen parted in anger. On his return to the States Mr. Todd reported the occurrence to Secretary Seward, and by Mr. Seward's request to President Lincoln. The President asked Mr. Todd to remain in Washington, and in a few days Mr. Seward sent for him and offered to send him to England as the secret agent of the government; but he protested that he had no aptitude for detective work and must act openly if at all ; so the matter was dropped. The Rebellion spoiled the plans of the syndicate for the Danish Canal; and Mr. Todd resided in New York until 1869. In that year and the year following he had financial charge of the construction of the water works for the city of Portland, Me. The ensuing seven years he spent in travel with his wife. Their return voyage, in 1877, was his forty-fourth trans-Atlantic trip. Mr. Todd, who had a leaning toward liberalism, was especially fond of theological research, and left many writings to support his views, including a synopsis of the entire Bible, which he compiled. He died in Nyack, N.J., his place of residence for about a year, in Feljruary, 1885, aged seventy-three.

William J. Wright was born in Brooklyn, N. Y., November 11, 1846, and was baptized on the United States sloop " Brandy wine, " on which his parents were passengers, en route for San Francisco. In that city he spent the first seven years of his life. In his fifteenth year he went to France, and, entering the Institut de France at Asnieres, a military school in the suburbs of Paris, took a three years' course of training, and was subsequently graduated. Returning to America, December 25, i860, he was received as a cadet in the Highland Military Academy at Worcester, Mass. Here he took a four years' course, and attained the rank of First Lieutenant; also of Acting Adjutant, drilling the cadets and having entire charge in the absence of Captain Baxter. In the meanwhile, in 1863, while at this institution, he enlisted as a private in Company G, Forty second Regiment, Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry, under General Burrell for a three months' term of service, and was with the army, camjiaigning in the Shenandoah Valley under General Auger, taking part in a number of skirmishes and engagements.

Receiving an honorable discharge he returned to Massachusetts and for a number of years was associated with the ]?oston house of J. S. & E. Wright, being subsequently connected with their New York branch. For some time previous to his going to New York, Mr. Wright had spent much of his leisure time in Du.xbury, and in 1868 he became a permanent resident of this town. He has long been actively identified with the town government and institutions, and his influence and knowledge of the world have had a marked effect on the progress of the place. He is a member of the Duxbury Democratic Committee, of which he was Chairman for a number of years; in 1890 and 1 89 1 he represented in the State legislature what was the twelfth and is now the second district, serving on the Committee on Street Railways. He has always been influential in legislation, affecting State highways, and is Chairman of the board of that name in Duxbury. He is ex-President of Marshfield Fair, having served as President several years. He is a Trustee of Partridge

Academy, of Duxbury; has been a member of the Board of Trustees of the Duxbury Free Library ever since the founding of that institution; and as a Justice of the Peace he has been for a great many years identified with important legal transactions.

Mr. Wright is a member of William Wadsworth Post, No. 165, Grand Army of the Republic, of Duxbury, and of the Duxbury Yacht Club. Among the Boston social organizations with which he is connected are the Somerset Club, headquarters on Beacon Street; the Algonquin Club, headquarters on Commonwealth Avenue; and the Easton Yacht Club. He is also a member of the far-famed Country Club of Brookline; of the Kingston Yacht Club; and of the Old Colony Club, of Plymouth.

> ^ARTIN HATCH, a prosperous boxmanufacturer of Pembroke, was born here on August 29, 1833, son of Deacon Isaac and Lavina (Allen) Hatch. This highly respected family is of English extraction. William, the earliest known ancestor in America, was a native of Sandwich, Kent County, England. He came to this country in 1633, and the records show that the same year he became a freeman of the incorporated town of Plymouth. He went back to England, not very long after, and in March, 1635, returned to Massachusetts with his wife and five children, and settled in Scituate. His son William married Abigail, daughter of John Ilewes, a Welshman, who formerly lived in Plymouth, but who in 1632 settled in Scituate.

Walter Hatch, another son of the first William, and the next in ancestral line now beingtraced, was born in England about 1625. He was a ship-builder in Scituate, having a shipyard located a mile below Union Bridge; and he also had an interest in an iron mine. His wife, whose maiden name was Elizabeth Holbrook, was a daughter of Thomas Hoi brook, a resident of Weymouth, Mass. Their son Samuel, born December 22, 1653, was a shipwright and farmer. He married, and became the father of nine children. His son Isaac, born in Scituatc, December 20, 1687, the great-great-grandfather of the subject of this sketch, was a farmer, who spent his last days in this town. He was married three times. By his first wife, Lydia Clift, he had a son Isaac, second, born in 1717. Isaac, second, was the father of Isaac, third, and grandfather of Isaac, fourth, born in 1764, who was a farmer and a ship builder, owning a shipyard on the North River in Pembroke, where he was a lifelong resident. Isaac Hatch, fourth, married Sarah Hatch, of this town, and they both lived to be octogenarians. They had si.x children.

Isaac Hatch, fourth, born in 1796, son of Isaac, third, and Sarah Hatch, acquired his elementary education in the district school, and later added to his stock of knowledge by attending Bridgewater Academy. When he was seventeen years of age, his father purchased for him a tract of land in Hatchville or East Pembroke. Through this land passed a steadily flowing stream, which they damned and utilized to run a woollen-mill that they had erected. They then engaged in the manufacture of satinet; but the enterprise not proving to be a financial success, it was abandoned a few years thereafter. Having previously built a saw-mill, Deacon Hatch purchased standing lumber, which he manufactured in large quantities. He subsequently became interested in the manufacture of boxes, and continued engaged in the management thereof through the rest of his life, buikling up a lucrative trade.

He married Lavina, a daughter of Hezekiah Allen, and niece of the Rev. Morrill Allen. She was a native of Bowdoinham, Me. By this marriage there were seven children, but four of whom came to maturity: George F. : Isaac, fifth of the name in direct line; Martin; and Lavina. Isaac and Lavina reside in Boston. The father died at the age of fifty-four, but the mother lived to be eighty-three, surviving her husband twenty-nine years.

George F. Hatch was a public-spirited and progressive man, who took much interest in the growth and welfare of the town of Pembroke while he retained his residence here. Eventually he removed to Quincy, Mass., where he died December 29, 1876, aged fortynine years and nine months.

Martin Hatch, after attending the public schools of his native town, took a supplementary course of instruction at a private school in Kingston. He then assisted his father in the work of the mill. When Mr. Isaac Hatch died, Martin and his brother George succeeded to the management of the concern, carrying on the box factory with excellent results for a period of about twenty-five years, or until the ill health of both compelled their retirement from active business. Mr. Hatch has since given his time to the care of his private interests. He owns and occupies the old homestead, which suggests many tender memories. In politics he affiliates with the Republican party. In his religious outlook he is a man of liberal and progressi\'e ideas.

LIZA BETH A. KINGMAN, for many years a prominent and successful teacher in the public schools of Brockton, is the daughter of the late Albert Kingman of this city and his wife Lavina Alden. She was born October 31, 1841, in

North Britlgevvater, now Brockton, and has spent the greater part of her life in her native place, closely identified with its social and intellectual interests. Miss Kingman has a worthy ancestry, being descended on her mother's side from Richard Williams (who has been called the father of Taunton, and who was a cousin of Oliver Cromwell), also from John and Priscilla Alden; and on her father's side from Henry Kingman, who settled in Weymouth in 1630.

Miss Kingman received her early education in the public schools of the town, and later, wishing to prepare herself for teaching, took a training course in the Bridgewater Normal School. She entered that institution while Marshall Conant was at its head, and was graduated in 1861 under Albert G. Boyden, A.M., the present principal. Miss Kingman gained a reputation for herself among both pupils and teachers as a thorough student and a young woman of fine abilities. She was valedictorian of her class, and a successful future in the line of her chosen profession was predicted for her. Accepting an offer of a school in Easton, she taught there for a year, fully justifying the e.xpectations of her friends. Leaving I^aston she went to .Stoughton for a year, and after that time, up to 1893, she taught in Brockton. Many of her former pupils, now men and women, and engaged in various callings, remember with gratitude and appreciation the untiring jiatience and kindly help with which she lured them along the rugged and devious paths of learning.

In 1893 Miss Kingman decided to give up teaching and to devote her time to her favorite study of history and to the development of plans for benevolent work. .She has long been deeply interested in the work of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union, and is an ardent advocate of the principles of that organization.

In 1S94 she was appointed, by the Massachusetts Women's Christian Temperance Union, State Suj^erintendent of Sunday-school work, a position which she still occupies. She has also been leader of the Loyal Temperance Legion, a children's organization in Brockton, since 1884. She has frequently addressed conventions on Sunday-school as well as on temperance work. She is connected with the Porter Congregational Church, and is Superintendent of the primary department of the Sunday-school. Miss Kingman is a pleasing writer, and has often been called upon in family gatherings and festivities to express in verse the sentiment of the occasion, four golden weddings and many anniversaries having thus tested her poetic ability.

LISHA HOWLAND JOSLYN, founder ot the Joslyn Express Company, was born in that part of Pembroke, Plymouth County, Mass., included in the town of Hanson, January 24, 181 1, and was the son of Eleazer and Alice (Howland) Joslyn. He was educated in the public schools of Hanson, and at an early age began to work in a cotton factory in that town, and later in Marshfield. Here he made a careful study of the machinery, and became familiar with all the details of the business, so that at the age of twenty he was called u]ion to take a position as foreman of a mill in Pembroke. Later he removed to Lowell, where he spent about three years. He was then waited ui)on by gentlemen from Newburyport, who solicited him to go to that place to equip and manage a new mill. He accepted the offer, and remained in Newburyport for two years, when ill-health prompted him to resign, and he returned to Hanson.

Sylvanus W. Hall

Colony, Railroad extending from Stoughton to North Easton. Me also put in the public water-works at Plymouth. For some years following this he kept a market in North Bridgewater, now l^rockton. In i860 he was asked by the President of the Old Colony Railroad to open an express route between Boston and North Bridgewater, and was offered the exclusive right of the railroad for that purpose. After carefully deliberating the matter, he concluded to start the business, which later became so successful. For many years Mr. Joslyn gave his direct supervision to the work, or until personal considerations made it desirable for him to retire and devote himself to his private interests, which he did until his death in October, 1892.

Mr. Joslyn was twice married. By his first wife, Hannah, daughter of Daniel Sawin, M.D., of East Bridgewater, he had three children - Cornelia, Elmer, and Alice. In 1857 he married Mrs. Ellen Gurney, daughter of Albert Kingman. One son, Albert Kingman Joslyn, survives him.

Mr. Joslyn was a member of the Porter Congregational Church and a strong advocate of temperance. In politics he was a Republican, and filled various offices. He was a fine specimen of a self-made man, and his life is an example of what may be accomplished by untiring activity and close attention to business. During his life he earned a reinitation for ability and business integrity that any man might envy.

YLVANUS W. HALL, Postmaster at Marion, Plymouth County, Mass., and a worthy representative citizen of this town, was born at Rochester, now Marion, November 6, 1832. His father, Daniel Hall, was a native of Duxbury, this county. For thirty years of his active life he served as Deputy Sheriff of Plymouth County, and a part of that time also for Bristol and Barnstable Counties, being widely and favorably known throughout the south-eastern part of Massachusetts as a man of genuine worth and ability. The maiden name of his wife was Hannah King. They had five children, namely: Charles D. ; Sylvanus W. ; Abner, deceased; Julia A. ; and Jennison C.

Sylvanus W. , the second son, was born and reared on a farm. He stayed at home with his parents luitil fourteen years of age, when he began life on his own account, going to the neighboring town of Mattapoisett, where he was employed as a clerk for a year. The following two years he was similarly engaged at Providence, R.I. The next three years he spent in New Bedford. He was then assistant at the Marion Railway Station a year, and afterward station agent at Fairhaven, Bristol County, three years. Returning to Marion in 1 86 1, Mr. Hall was appointed to the charge of the post-office here, which position he ably filled, discharging its duties with promptitude and efficiency for thirty-five years, or until his resignation, which took effect on April i, 1896. He was succeeded by his son-in-law, Frank M. Tripp, the present Postmaster.

Mr. Hall was married on November 6, 1859, to Miss Annie M., daughter of Dr. W. N. Ellis, who was for many years a popular physician of Marion. Mr. and Mrs. Hall have four children, namely: Lucy M., Assistant Postmaster at Marion; Hannah, wife of Richard A. Cowing; Mattie C, wife of Captain William Kelley; and IClizabeth B. S. , wife of P"rank M. Tripp.

Politically, Mr. Hall is a stanch adherent of the Republican party. He served as Town Treasurer and Collector sixteen consecutive years, and for three years was Collector of the Port of Marion. He belongs to the Masonic order, being an active member of Pythagorean Lodge, A. F. & A. M., of which he was Secretary ten years. Mr. Hall is a member of the Congregational church.

I^TARVEY CROCKER, an energetic and r^\ enterprising business man of Plym- Ji® ^^^ ^ outh County, engaged in harnessmaking and saddlery at Wareham, is a native of this town, born September ii, 1847, being j one of a family of six sons and five daughters born to Walton N. and Elizabeth (Swift) Crocker. His father was from Hyannis, Barnstable County, and his mother a native of Wareham.

Harvey Crocker attended the public schools until sixteen years of age, when, his patriotic ardor being thoroughly aroused, he enlisted in defence of the Union, joining the Fourth Massachusetts Cavalry January 20, 1864, and being mustered into service at Readville. With his comrades in arms he went first to Port Royal, thence shortly after to Virginia to join General Butler's forces, from that time till after the close of the war being detailed for special duty until his discharge, which he received December 14, 1865. On returning home, Mr. Crocker worked in his father's harness shop three years, serving a full apprenticeship to the trade, which he is now following. He next spent three years in seafaring pursuits, cruising on a whaling vessel two years, and one year on a coaster. His father having died in the mean time, Mr. Crocker then retired from nautical pursuits to assume charge of the harness shop; and he has since carried on a prosperous and lucrative business, dealing largely in horses and carriages in addition to his manufacturing.

Mass. ; and one son, Harvey Shaw Crocker, was the fruit of the union. His second marriage, uniting him with Louise Stanwood Barnes, took place October 27, 18S6. Mr. and Mrs. Crocker have three daughters, namely: Lucy Fenderson, born August 5, 1S87; Louise Stanwood, born April 14, 1890; and Elizabeth Swift, born April 9, 1892.

In politics he adheres closely to the principles promulgated by the Republican party, in which he is an active and intelligent worker. Since 1884 he has been a member of the Board of Registrar of voters, and in 1895 he represented the Seventh Plymouth District in the State legislature. He is identified with several local social organizations, being a member of Wareham Post, No. 208, Grand Army of the Republic; of Social Harmony Lodge, A. F. & A. M. ; and of Wankinquoah Lodge, No. 119, Independent Order of Odd Fellows, of Wareham. Mr. Crocker is well known in this section of Plymouth County, and stands remarkably high in the community as an honorable, upright, and trustworthy citizen.

HARLES H. COLE, a trusted foreman in H. M. Kingman's shoe factory of l^rockton, was born October 15, 1835, in Boston, Mass., son of Charles and Abigail Griggs (Harvey) Cole. His father, a native of Paris, Me., was reared on a farm, and attended the common schools in his native town. When Charles Cole attained his majority he removed from Maine to Dedham, Mass., where he worked in a cotton-mill for some time, and first made the acquaintance of his future wife. Later he came to Boston, and followed the trade of carpenter. While there, among other buildings, he erected a block on Pine Street, and a larger one on Shawmut Street, now Shawmut Avenue. He subsequently moved to Campello, where he died at the age of seventy-five years. He married Abigail Griggs Harvey, of Spring Street, West Roxbury, who bore him six children - Susan, Lucinda, Charles, John Harvey, George William, and Hattie. Susan married Horace Baker, and they reside in Brockton. Lucinda married the Hon. H. A. Monk, a heel manufacturer also of this city. The mother lived to be seventy-four years of age.

Charles H. Cole obtained his early education in the old Brimmer School on Common Street, Boston. At the age of ten he removed with his parents to Sharon. Here he assisted in the cultivation of the farm, of which he soon took entire charge. At the age of sixteen, however, he learned the carpenter's trade with his father, and subsequently worked at it until the fall of 1859. In the mean time he had removed to Stoughton, and from there came to Brockton, October 17, icSs3, to engage in rebuilding the old South Congregational Church, which had been destroyed by fire on May 23 of that year. After this he was employed throughout the winter season at the factory of A. & A. B. Keith at Campello, and at his trade in summer until 1859, when he abandoned the latter calling, as already intimated. While in the employ of Messrs. Keith he learned the business of sole-leather cutting, in which industry he was a pioneer, and one of the first to adopt new methods. During the war he made army shoes, and afterward remained in charge of his department until the firm went out of the business seventeen years later. The Keith's establishment was the first and largest steam factory in Brockton, then North Bridgewater, and the firm had the first dies and first pegging and stitching machines. When a strike occurred in the winter of 1859, Mr. Cole stood by his employers. The esteem in which he was held by the company is best shown by the fact that, while he neither sought promotion nor increase of wages, he was advanced with due regard to emoluments.

After Messrs. Keith retired from business, Mr. Cole entered the C W. Copeland shoe factory as foreman of sole-leather department, which position he held until Mr. Copeland's failure in July, 1883. In February, 1884, he took a similar position in the factory of H. M. Kingman. Later, at the urgent request of Mr. Copeland, he returned to assist him for a time in cutting sample stock. While so engaged he had the misfortune to lose a finger, after which he re-entered the H. M. Kingman factory. During the thirteen years "spent here he has been foreman of the sole-leather room, and is now in addition superintendent of the factory. In politics, from his first vote to the present time, he has steadily supported the Republican party. In the first year that the new law went into force he was appointed by Mayor Keith a member of the Board of Registrars for the term of one year. He was afterward reappointed by Mayor Whipple for the term of three years, but he resigned after serving one year. Mr. Cole was one of the promoters of the Campello Co-operative Bank, which was established in October, 1S77, and has been on the Security Committee since its organization, that being the only ofifice he would accept. During the Rebellion he served as Collector of the money demanded for substitutes in District No. 6, paying the amount received into the hands of the Hon. H. W. Robinson. In the year 1864 he furnished a substitute, who entered the marine service for foui^ years.

and has had four children - Mary Abbie, Lizzie Augusta, George French, and Lucia E. Mary Abbie, who married Henry Newton, of Brockton, died November 20, 1885; Lizzie Augusta married Henry Crane, of Bridgewater; George French married Lillie Perkins, of Norwell, Plymouth County; and Lucia took for her life partner Dr. J. F. Allen, of Arlington. He is a dentist of Campello. Fraternally, Mr. Cole is a member of Brockton Lodge, No. 218, Knights of Honor. In religion he is a member of the South Congregational Church.

T^HARLES L. RICE, a prominent cit- I St^ izen of Rockland, Mass., was born V>^ ^ at Brookfield, Vt., December 31, 1841, a son of Alphonso and Mary (Cardell) Rice. The father was a plain, hone-st New England farmer, who spent the greater part of his life in the "Green Mountain State" in tilling the soil, but eventually removed to Brooklyn, la., where he died at the age of seventy-five years. His wife, whose maiden name was Mary Cardell, was a native of the State of New York, born near Lake George. On both sides Mr. Rice comes' from a longlived stock, several of his paternal ancestors having lived to be over ninety years old. Mr. and Mrs. Alphonso Rice were the parents of nine children, namely: John A., a dry-goods merchant of Rockland; Mary, who resides in Brooklyn, la. ; Cynthia Louise (deceased) ; Lovina, a resident of Rockland; Hannah, who resides in Boston; Carrie, now a resident of Minneapolis; Charles L. ; George E., who lives in Maiden, and is a dry-goods merchant; and Eugene M., a resident of Boston, Mass., who conducts an extensive dry-goods business in Chelsea.

parents, was brought up on his father's farm, on which, after he was twelve years old, he worked during the summers, learning the routine duties of farm life. His education was obtained by attendance during the winters at the district school and by a supplementary course of study at Barre Academy. Like his brothers and sisters, he followed for a time the calling of a teacher, being thus engaged for three terms.

He made the farm his home until August, 1862, when, obeying the voice of patriotism, he enlisted as a private soldier in the Tenth Regiment of Vermont Volunteer Infantry. On October 27, 1863, he was commissioned a Captain, being assigned to the command of Company A, Seventh Regiment, United States Colored Troops. After serving in this capacity until March 4, 1864, he was ordered to Hilton Head, S.C., thence to Jacksonville, Fla., which latter place he reached about the end of the month. Here he was prostrated by an attack of rheumatic fever, from which he did not recover until October. In the mean time his regiment had been transferred to Virginia, where he rejoined it after an enforced absence of seven months. After his return he was detailed with his company as provost guard of Major-general VVeitzel's headquarters. A few months later he was appointed Acting Assistant Inspector-general, First Brigade, Second Division, Twenty -fifth Army Corps. On May 24 he was ordered to Tekas, and in the following June was detailed Acting Assistant Inspector-general of the sub-district of Victoria, and in February, 1866, detailed with the same rank to the Central District of Texas. On October 13 the command was moved east to Baltimore, where it was mustered out, Captain Rice being brevetted Major and Lieutenant-Colonel of volunteers for services.

Soon after his return to the North he came to Rockland, where, in 1867, he went into business with his eldest brother, the firm being known as J. A. & C. L. Rice. Dealing first in dry goods and similar wares, they subsequently, in 1870, added a furniture department, and were very successful in both lines. The combined enterprise at length attained such large proportions that in 1872 the brothers decided to separate, John A. Rice taking the original dry-goods business, and Charles L. the furniture trade in its several branches. In 1874 he added the department of undertaking. Eight years later he established a branch house in South Weymouth ; and in 1887 he bought and improved the large stores now occupied by him on Park Street.

On November 7, 1865, Mr. Rice married Hattie E. Perry, a native of Worcester, Vt., and daughter of the Rev. David Perry. Her father was a minister of the gospel, a very able and worthy man, who, after following his sacred calling in Worcester and elsewhere, at the age of seventy-five accepted a charge at Falmouth, Mass., where he died three years later. Mr. and Mrs. Rice have had seven children - Julia P., Clarence E., David Perry, Mary L., Cora H., Hattie Adele, and Charles L. Julia P. married George W. Wakefield, and resides in Minneapolis, Minn. ; Clarence E. , who is an able business man, married Sadie Tolman, and lives in Rockland. He is the superintendent of the Sunday-school of the Congregational ist church, where he and his wife attend worship. They have one child, Louise T., born June 5, 1896. David Perry, who has chosen to devote his life to the ministry, is now pursuing his theological studies. Mary L. became the wife of Frank A. Shelden, is a resident of Rockland, and is an assistant teacher in Volkman"s Fitting School, Boston. Cora H., Hattie Adele, and Charles

Mr. Rice is a stanch Republican in politics, but has hitherto declined to accept office. He has always taken a great interest in the development of the town, and more especially in anything that would tend to increase its importance as a business centre. He was one of the prime movers in the organization of the club, which has accomplished much in this direction. The idea occurred to him ten years before, and he went at that time to the neighboring city of Brockton, where there was an organized Board of Trade. After a careful examination of their system, rules, and bylaws, he returned to his own town with a very satisfactory report, which he laid before his fellow-citizens, but failed to impress upon them the desirability of taking steps to form a similar organization. After ten years, another and more successful attempt was made, resulting in the Rockland Commercial Club, of which Mr. Rice was chosen first President, and remained so for a period of three years.

In religious opinions Mr. Rice is in sympathy with the Congregational church, of which he is an active and useful member. He has been for fifteen years Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the church, and has conducted a Sunday-school class for the exceptionally long period of twenty-five years. When the house of worship was destroyed by fire, he rendered valuable service in securing the erection of another, and was elected to the Chairmanship of the Building Committee. The result of his efforts in this direction may be seen in the new structure, which is an admirable specimen of the modern church edifice, containing, in addition to the auditorium, handsome and convenient parlors, and rooms for Sunday-school and other purposes. The building was erected and furnished at an expense but little short of forty thousand dollars. Mr. Rice fills a wide sphere of usefulness, and is highly respected by his fellow-citizens as an honorable business man, and a whole-souled, Christian gentleman.

ILLIAM T. DAVIS, the accomplished historian of Plymouth, Mass., is a native of this ancient town, of which he is an influential and honored citizen. He comes of long lines of Colonial ancestry, numbering among his kinsfolk, near and remote, many worthy and distinguished names.

His great-great-grandfather on the paternal side, Thomas Davis, of Albany, N.Y., is believed to have been a descendant of Robert Davis, of Falmouth, Mass. He married, about 1720, Catherine Wendell, of Albany, of the famous Knickerbocker family, founded by Evert Jansen Wendell, from whom both Oliver Wendell Holmes and Wendell Phillips claimed descent. Thomas Davis removed from Albany to North Carolina in or about 1730.

Seven years later his son Thomas, who was born in 1722, came to Plymouth to be educated under the care of Elkanah Morton. In 1753 he married Mercy, the daughter of Barnabas Hedge, of Plymouth. He was a member of the expedition against Louisburg. After his return he became interested in navigation, and had a large trade with the West Indies, Spain, France, and along the shores of the Mediterranean Sea, being one of the leading ship-owners and prominent business men of the busy town of Plymouth. In the year 1782 one of his vessels, the schooner "Harmony," commanded by Nathaniel Carver, laden with corn from North Carolina, was overhauled and captured by Horatio Nelson, afterward Lord Nelson, the celebrated English Admiral; and the Captain was held as a prisoner, being compelled to pilot the English ship through comparatively unknown and intricate passages out of the way of the French fleet, which put out from Boston for its capture. Once safe from the French, Nelson put the Captain ashore. This incident is related with further particulars in Mr. William T. Davis's "History of Plymouth." The following is a copy of the certificate now in the possession of Mr. Davis, given by Nelson to Captain Carver: -

This is to certify that I took the schooner " Harmony," Nathaniel Carver, master, belonging to Plymouth, but on account of his good services have given him up his vessel again. Horatio Nelson.

Thomas and Mercy (Hedge) Davis became the parents of six sons, all of whom were eminently successful in their varied lines of lifework. The eldest, William, the grandfather of the subject of this sketch, was born in 1758 in Plymouth, and died in 1826. Like his father, he was a large ship-owner, and engaged in trade with the West Indies, h'rance, Spain, and Holland. He married in 1781, Rebecca, the daughter of Nathaniel Morton, a descendant of George Morton, who came from England in the "Ann" in 1623.

The next son of Thomas was John, a graduate of Harvard College, who was for some time Comptroller of the Currency in Washington, and for forty years a Judge of the United States Court for the District of Massachusetts. He was for a long period President of the Massachusetts Historical Society. Thomas, another son, was the Treasurer of Massachusetts for six years, and was the President of

Samuel, the fourth son, was a noted antiquary, and a member of the Massachusetts Historical Society, as was also the fifth son, Isaac, who was an intimate friend of Daniel Webster. Wendell Davis, the sixth son, was a graduate of Harvard, and a lawyer by profession. He was the father of the late George T. Davis, of Greenfield, a well-known Congressman.

William and Rebecca (Morton) Davis were the parents of four children: William, the father of William T., born at Plymouth in 1783; Nathaniel, a lawyer, and a graduate of Harvard College, who practised for several years in his native town of Plymouth, was elected to the Massachusetts Senate, was a member of the Executive Council, President of the Pilgrim Society, and a member of the Massachusetts Historical Society; Thomas, a bachelor, who, although an invalid, conducted a successful business for several years, living in Boston, where he was a Director of several insurance companies and financial institutions; and Elizabeth, who, after the death of her first husband, Alexander Bliss, a law partner of Daniel Webster, married the eminent historian, George Bancroft.

William Davis, the eldest son of William and Rebecca, was engaged in business with his father for many years. He was married in 1807 to Joanna, the daughter of Captain Gideon White, of Shelburne, N.S. , who, being a stanch royalist, served during the Revolution as an officer in the British army in Jamaica. He was a descendant of Peregrine White, the first child born of English parents in New England. After the war Captain White settled in Shelburne, where he remained for the rest of his life.

five children - Rebecca Morton, who first married Ebenezer Grosvenor Parker, and subsequently George S. Tolman, of Boston ; Hannah White, who married Andrew L. Russell, of Plymouth; Elizabeth, who died in infancy; Charles Gideon Davis, a Judge of the District Court, for further particulars of whom see the sketch of his life; and William T., of whom this is a slight biography.

William T. Davis was born at Plymouth, March 3, 1822. He was fitted for college at the Plymouth High School, and was graduated from Harvard in 1842. Then he studied medicine for a time at the University of Pennsylvania, and subsequently spent a year in Europe. After his return he studied law, first in the office of his brother Charles, who was then in Boston, and finally at the Harvard Law School. He was admitted to the bar in Boston, November 9, 1849. He opened a law office in the same city, and remained there practising until 1853, when he went to Plymouth and engaged in business.

He was a member of the Board of Selectmen for seventeen years, and has been on the same Board at various times since then, having been the Chairman of the Board for many years. He was a member of the School Committee for six years, and President of the Plymouth National Bank for a period of twenty. Moreover, he was President of the Plymouth Gas Company, President and Vice- President of the Pilgrim Society, and is still a Trustee of the same organization. Added to that he was State Senafor^in 1858 and iS^S9- In 1872 he was a Presidential Elector for the Republican party, and in 1876 a delegate to the Republican National Convention at Cincinnati. In 1895 he was appointed Chairman of the Old Colony Commission. He was Chairman of the First Parish Unitarian Committee for fifteen years.

Mr. Davis has been engaged in literary work for a number of years, and has published several volumes, among which are: "The History of Plymouth," "Ancient Landmarks of Plymouth," "A History of Newburyport, Mass.," "Historical sketches of some Massachusetts Towns (twenty-five)," and "History of the Bench and Bar of Massachusetts." Mr. Davis also edited the " Plymouth Town Records " in two volumes, and is now engaged in editing a work entitled "A History of the New England States," which is to be written by a corps of able writers, and is to make its appearance within a year. Mr. Davis has delivered addresses on many different public occasions, and a great number of lectures on historical subjects, being, it is needless to say, extremely well qualified for this sort of intellectual work.

On the 19th of November, 1849, he was married to Miss Abby Burr, daughter of Thomas and Lydia Coffin (Goodwin) Hedge, of Plymouth. Mrs. Davis died August 12, 1894. His children are: Abby Warren, born in 1854, who married Alexander Jackson, of Boston; Howland, born in 1855, now a New York banker, who married in 1885, Anna, daughter of William Shippen, of New York; Katharine Wendell, born in 1859, who resides at home; and Alice Whitworth, born in 1864, who married Dr. Henry R. Hitchcock, of Hyde Park, Mass.

|LIJAH AMES is one of the oldest residents of Marshfield, and his life has been such as to win and hold the respect of all who know him. He was born in this town, July 9, 1816, the son of Elijah and Abigail (F"ord) Ames. His family is an old and honored one, including among its members, the late ex-Governor Ames of Massachusetts.

Elijah Ames, Sr. , was born in North Bridgewater (now Brockton), and settled in Marshfield when a young man. Endowed with marked character and ability, he took a prominent part in public affairs, affiliating with the Republican party in the latter part of his life, and served as Selectman of Marshfield and as Representative to the State legislature. His death occurred in Marshfield in 1S66. His wife, Abigail, was a native of this town. One of their children besides Elijah is living - Samuel A., in Riverside, Gal.

Elijah Ames was educated in public and private schools in his native town. In his seventeenth year he entered on an apprenticeship to a carpenter and joiner in Boston, and served a little over four years. Returning then to Marshfield he was engaged for a series of years in contracting and building, and for a short time in the manufacture of wooden ware. The mill in which this industry was carried on was destroyed by fire, and he did not attempt to resume business. About forty years ago he settled on his present farm at Rexham Terrace, Marshfield, a generous estate of some two hundred acres. In the long term of his residence in Marshfield Mr. Ames has witnessed many radical changes here, especially along the water front; and he still takes a deep interest in the progress of his native place.

Deacon Ames, as he is familiarly called, was married November 26, 1840, to Sarah A. Thomas, who was born on the farm at Rexham Terrace, where she is now living. Her parents. Waterman and Sarah D. (Thomas) Thomas, were natives of Marshfield. Her mother was the daughter of a John Thomas, and was a descendant, it is said, of William Thomas, a gentleman of Welsh extraction who was in Plymouth in 1636, and a few years later settled in Marshfield. His grand-daughter,

Mary Thomas, married Simon Ray, of Block Island. Briggs Thomas, father of Waterman Thomas and paternal grandfather of Mrs. Ames, was a Major in the Continental army. He was a son of Colonel Anthony and Abigail (Alden) Thomas. Colonel Anthony Thomas, born in 1719, was son of John and Lydia (Waterman) Thomas, and grandson of Samuel Thomas, whose father, John Thomas, first, came over in the "Hopewell " in 1635. Abigail Alden, wife of Colonel Anthony Thomas, was a great-grand-daughter of John Alden, the successful rival of Miles Standish. Ten children have been given by Providence to Mr. and Mrs. Ames: Sarah D. T. , wife of Dr. Azel Ames, of Chelsea, Mass. ; Mary A., wife of Edward Ames, of Dorchester; Elijah, in Amesville, Mont. ; William, in the same place; Lucy T. and Ray T., with their parents; and John T. , George W. , Waterman T. , and Elizabeth F., all deceased. Deacon Ames in his younger days took an active interest in local politics, but is now content to leave these matters to men of fewer years. He and his wife are highly esteemed members of the Congregational church, in which he has held the office of Deacon for nearly half a century.

^HILANDER COBB, a well-known merchant of Kingston, was born in ^ this town, January 23, 181 8, son of Charles and Polly (Bradford) Cobb. Mr. Cobb comes of a sturdy race. His grandfather, Seth Cobb, was a descendant of an early settler of Plymouth County; and one of his ancestors, Ebenezer Cobb, is said to have attained the age of one hundred and eight years. Charles Cobb, father of Philander, was a native and lifelong resident of Kingston. He followed the trade of a shoemaker in connection with farming; and he died in 1830.

His wife, Polly Bradford, who was a descendant of Governor Bradford, became the mother of several children, of whom Philander, the subject of this sketch, is the only survivor.

Philander Cobb was educated in his native town of Kingston. At the age of sixteen he began to follow the sea, and later became master of a schooner. He was engaged for ten years in the coasting and foreign trade, and transported the rails used in the construction of the railway from Plymouth to Kingston. In 1845 he began his career as merchant at his present location in Kingston, opening his store upon the day that the first train on the Old Colony Railroad was run through ; and for over fifty years he has continued to conduct business without interruption. He makes a specialty of groceries, but handles dry goods to some extent, and also carries a general assortment of miscellaneous articles likely to be called for in a first-class country store. In politics he is a Democrat, and has taken a prominent part in public affairs. He served eighteen years upon the School Board; and he was a member of the Board of Selectmen, Assessor, and Road Commissioner for several years. In 1878 he was a member of the House of Representatives, in which he served upon the Land and Harbor Committee. He was nominated by his party for the State Senate, but was defeated by his opponent after a very close contest. He was appointed Collector of Customs at the Port of Plymouth by President Cleveland, during the latter's fijst administration, and served in that capacity during a portion of President Harrison's administration ; and the faithful and competent . manner in which he performed his official duties placed him high in public esteem. Mr. Cobb wedded Marcia R. Otis, daughter of Charles T. Otis, of Boston. He is a member of the Masonic Lodge in Plymouth.

|LISHA W. HALL, late a retired merchant of Marshfield Hills, and a representative progressive citizen, departed this life a few weeks since, February 15, 1897, at his winter home, 259 Beacon Street, Boston. Mr. Hall was a son of Harvey and Charlotte (Tilden) Hall, natives of Marshfield, and was born in this town, February 10, 1828. His paternal grandfather, Danforth Hall, was a son of I^uke Hall, who was a Loyalist in Revolutionary times, as were many of the people of Marshfield in those days. He went to Canada, leaving his family here, and returned after the war was over.

Danforth Hall was one of the first merchants of Marshfield Hills (then East Marshfield), and was a very successful business man. Harvey Hall was a ship carpenter. He was a lifelong resident of this town, and died here in December, 1891. His wife, Charlotte Tilden Hall, was a member of an old Colonial family, the Tildens having originally settled on the North River in Marshfield and Scituate. Elder Nathaniel Tilden, from Kent, England, came to Scituate before 1628, as we learn from Deane's History. Elisha Tilden, Mrs. Hall's father, was a house carpenter by trade, and was prominent in East Marshfield as a contractor and builder, erecting a number of churches and public buildings. Of the six children of Mr. and Mrs. Harvey Hall, five arc living: George H., in Plymouth County; Joseph O., in the town of Plymouth; Charlotte A., who married C. J. F. Sherman, of Boston (deceased); Elizabeth C. , who married James O. Hood, of Geneseo, 111. (deceased) ; and Sarah B. , who married James Burbank, of Taunton (deceased).

Elisha W. Hall was well educated, having attended public and private schools in East Marshfield, evening schools in Boston, and in addition taken a special private course of study. His business experience was gained early; for at the age of fifteen he entered the employ of Mr. Elijah Stearns, a merchant in Boston. He was engaged as clerk in Boston seven years, and then returned to Marshfield Hills, or East Marshfield, and entered the store that was formerly his grandfather's, but which the latter had sold a few years previously. He there managed a successful business until 1895, when he retired. Mr. Hall established a reputation as a wise and conservative business man, and was Chairman of the Railroad Sinking Fund Commission from the time of its establishment.

On October 29, 1854, he was united in marriage with Sarah, daughter of George H. Weatherbee. Six children blessed their union, namely: Henrietta; Winthrop T., who has succeeded his father as manager of the mercantile business; Flora A.; Sarah B. ; and two who have passed away.

Mr. Hall was Chairman of the Republican Town Committee of Marshfield for a great many years. Prior to the establishment of the Republican party he voted with the Whigs; and he was Postmaster of East Marshfield for some time under Whig administration. He was one of the prime movers in establishing the East Marshfield Public Library, and at the time of his death was a Trustee of that institution. He was appointed a Trustee of the Ventress Library Fund, and was so largely instrumental in the furnishing of the building and the collection of books that the whole may be said to be a monument to his energetic, prompt, and wise administration.

As a Free Mason, he was afifiliated with Corner .Stone Lodge, A. F. & A. M., of Duxbury. He was a prominent and liberal member of the Unitarian church of Marshfield, and was for years on the Standing Committee. The handsome residence at Marshfield Hills, so long the home of Mr. Hall and his family, commands an enchanting view of sea and shore, and is one of the finest and most attractive places in this beautiful village.

/^TeORGE F. welch, proprietor of V f3 1 the leading department store in Scituate, was born in this town. May 30, 1859. He is a son of E. Parker and Mary L. (Collier) Welch. His paternal grandparents were Michael and Sarah (Brown) Welch, the former a native of Ireland, the latter of Scituate, Mass. E. Parker Welch is a native and lifelong resident of Scituate. He has been for years extensively engaged in general farming, owning one of the largest farms in Scituate. In 1879 he started in the mercantile business with his son George F., under the firm name of E. P. Welch & Son. In 1891 he sold his interest to his son and retired. His wife, who was born in Scituate, died in this town in 1895. The following children were born to them: Charles P., George F". , William Henry, Mary Emerson, Minnie Lincoln, and S. Edith.

George F. Welch was reared on his father's farm and educated in the public schools of Scituate and Hingham. He has been engaged in trade since 1879, when he was the junior partner of the firm, and since 1891 has been sole proprietor of the business. Started on a small scale, the enterprise has been developed year by year until now it is one of the most extensive and prosperous in Plymouth County. The main store building is a three-story structure fifty-five by eighty-five feet in dimension. On the first floor are all kinds of hardware, tin, and wooden ware, agricultural implements, stoves and furnaces, paints, oils, etc. ; on the second floor furniture and fishermen's supplies; and on the third floor furniture and miscellaneous articles. Mr. Welch also deals in coal, lumber, hay, straw, and wood and builders' and masons' supplies of all kinds. Energetic and enterprising, he is still enlarging the scope of his business, recognizing no limit to his operations. He gives employment at present to sixteen persons.

Mr. Welch was married in October, 1882, to Hattie M. Brown, of Scituate, and has two daughters - Marion C. and Edith M. Politically, he favors the Republican party. He is a Mason in good standing, belonging to Satuit Lodge, A. F. & A. M., of Scituate. He is highly respected in his native town, where his enterprise and ability are fully recognized.

ALTER E. DAMON, a civil engineer of Hanson, Plymouth County, Mass., was born in Boston, November 22, i860, son of Elijah and Phoebe (Besse) Damon. His great-grandfather was a native of the town of Pembroke, now Hanson, where he followed farming, and was one of the most prominent men of his locality. He married Deborah Soper, of Pembroke, Mass., and they had four children. Elijah, the eldest son, was born in Pembroke in April, 1797. He attended school until he was sixteen, and then engaged in farming. He subsequently became prominent in town affairs, serving as Selectman, besides representing his district in the legislature. He married Emily Josslyn, daughter of Isaac Josslyn of Pembroke, and by her had five children - Euiily, Elijah, William, Angel ine,, and George.

lilijah Damon, father of Walter E., was born in Hanson, November 3, 1829. He was educated in the public schools, and became a manufacturer, carrying on a successful business in Boston and other large cities until 1875. Then returning home he engaged in farming. He took an active interest in town affairs, and officiated as Selectman for one year. On November 19, 1859, lie was united in marriage with Miss Phoebe Besse, daughter of Captain Ansel Besse, of Wareham, by whom he had five children - Walter E., Emily, Lilla, Annie, and Harry.

Walter E. Damon received his early education in Cleveland, Ohio, going from there to the Adams Academy of Ouincy. On June 27, 1883, he was graduated from Harvard College. In politics he is independent. In 1894 he was elected Selectman, and has served for three years. He was also one of the principal promoters of the Hanson Town Library. The maiden name of his wife, to whom he was married on December 24, 1884, was Ada M. Heal. She is a daughter of George Beal, of Pembroke.

jAPTAIN FREDERICK STANLEY, of Scituate, Keeper of the United States Life-saving Station at Fourth Cliff, is well known on the South Shore, being one of the oldest members, in point of service, of the noble corps of life-savers in the employ of the government. He was born in Boston, Mass., January 27, 1845, and is of Irish extraction. He attended the Boston public schools until twelve years of age, and then went to sea as a cabin boy, in course of time becoming an able seaman. He followed the sea until he was twenty-three years of age, circumnavigating the globe more than once, doubling Cape Horn and the Cape of Good Hope, and visiting the principal maritime countries of the globe. The harbors of London, Liverpool, Havre, Cronstadt, Calcutta, Australia, New Zealand, and the Brazilian ports became almost as familiar to him as old Massachusetts Bay, and before he was twentyfive years old he was an all-round citizen of the world. Retiring finally from the sea, he engaged in fishing and gathering sea moss at Scituate. In January, 1880, he was appointed a surfman at the Fourth Cliff Life-saving Station, and on October i following he was given charge of the station. Captain Stanley is a brave and active man, well fitted for his responsible position. He resides at Third Cliff, where he erected a home in 1873.

On September 16, 1868, he was united in marriage with Miss Julia Flynn, a native of Ireland, and five children have blessed their union - William S. , Mary A., Ellen F., Thomas P., and Margaret. In politics Captain Stanley is independent. He is a public spirited citizen, actively interested in the welfare and progress of Scituate.

NOS M. STODDARD, of the Boston Ice Company, has a fine farm of two hundred acres in Marshfield, and is regarded as one of the permanent and valuable citizens of the town. He was born in Ledyard. Conn., June 26, 1824, a son of Ebenezer and Lydia (Williams) Stoddard. His grandfather, James Stoddard, was a native and lifelong resident of Ledyard, which in his time was known as Groton. Ebenezer Stoddard resided in Ledyard, where he was engaged in general farming and milling. He and his wife Lydia were the parents of seven children, five girls and two boys: Fannie; Ephraim; Julia; Clarissa; Charity; Enos M., the subject of this sketch; and Su.san.

Enos M. Stoddard was reared on a farm in Ledyard, and educated in the common schools. In 1847 he went to Boston, and since 1848 he has been interested in the ice business in that city and vicinity. In 1851 he started a business of his own in Boston, some years later forming a partnership with Phineas

Smith under the firm name of E. M. Stoddard & Co. Their business prospered, and they had so ]arge a trade that they ranked among the prominent financial concerns of the city. The firm was eventually merged into the Boston Ice Company, whose teams now are seen daily in all parts of the "Hub" and in the suburbs. Mr. Stoddard is a self-made man, gifted with the will power and the sagacious judgment necessar}' to success in life. In 1869 he purchased the farm in Marshfield on which he now makes his home; and, though his fortune was made long ago, he finds pleasure and profit in raising farm produce. He was married in 1868 to Carrie Gove, of Haverhill, Mass., and has two sons living - Charles D. and Enos.

Hans C. and Louise Dick. Mr. Dick was reared and educated in his native country, and at the age of nineteen he emigrated to the United States. His first summer in America was spent as a fisherman at Cohasset, Mass. He next found employment as a sailor on board coasting vessels, later entering the service of the United States government. P'or several years he was employed alternately as fireman and seaman in the revenue, marine, and light-house service. He subsequently shipped as fireman on board the steamship "Cleopatra," plying between New York City, Mexico, and the West Indies. The vessel was wrecked in the West Indies; and Mr. Dick, having escaped with his life, returned to the United States, and again entered the revenue service, in which he remained for eleven years. In i8go he settled in North Scituate, and has since been engaged in his present business.

The Lincoln grist-mill privilege on Bound Brook has been in use since 1691 or 1692, and has a propelling force of about ten horsepower. Mr. Dick is now the Owner of the mill, and he is carrying on a profitable business. He deals in all kinds of grain and feed, hay and straw, and employs several delivery teams.

Mr. Dick married Abbie A. T. Morris, daughter of the late Joseph Morris, of Scituate. In politics he is a Republican. In his business transactions he displays ability and integrity, and he has gained the respect and esteem of his fellow-townsmen. He is a Master Mason, and a member of the Masonic Lodge in Cohasset.

locality. A son of Joseph and Pamelia (Keen) Sprague, both natives of Duxbury, Mass., he was born in that quaint old town, January 5, 1853. The Spragues are an old family of Duxbury. Captain Joseph, who was a son of Jonathan Sprague, followed the sea until about thirty-five years of age, and then settled on a farm in Duxbury, where he died in 1891. His wife still survives, being now seventy-four years old. Three of their children are living: Isaac J., residing in Colorado; Sarah K., wife of Elliot Low, of Roxbury, Mass. ; and Charles J.

Charles J. Sprague was educated in pul^lic and private schools in Duxbury. He left home at the age of nineteen, and served an apprenticeship to a carpenter and joiner in South Boston, Mass., working at the trade some seven years in all. His health failing, he moved to Brant Rock in 1878 with the hope of bettering himself, and here worked at the carpenter's trade for some time, eventually establishing a good business as a contracting painter. Mr. Sprague is a thoroughly experienced builder, and his manner of fulfilling a contract is always satisfactory. He has charge of a number of summer cottages, and during the summer he keeps a number of livery teams for the use of visitors besides letting pleasure boats. He has been jirosperous in all his business ventures, his good judgment, probity, and strict attention to business winning the confidence of his patrons.

Mr. Sprague was married April 4, 1S83, to Marion, daughter of George H. Tucker, late of Norwood, Mass., and has one daughter - Marion P., born February 6, 1884. In politics he favors the Republican party. He is a public-spirited citizen, always in favor of any project for the improvement of the town of Marsh field.

(^^AMES DAMON, of Scituate, a descendant of one of the Colonial settlers on Kent Street, John Damon, who came to Scituate when a minor, before 1633, was born in Scituate, August 10, 1819, a son of John and Rebecca (Litchfield) Damon. The first John came to this country with an uncle, William Gillson, who was one of the "men of Kent," and settled permanently in Scituate; and, beginning with his children, several generations of the family have had birth and residence in Scituate, the line connecting him with James Damon, including E.xperience, Ichabod, Josiah, and Josiah, James Damon's grandfather. The last-named gentleman was a fisherman of Scituate, and died in this town. His son John, father of the special subject of this sketch, was engaged in mackerel fishing until he was forty years old. After that he followed the pursuit of agriculture at Farm Neck up to the time of his death. A successful business man and good manager, he was highly respected by his townsmen. In politics he was a Democrat. He died in 1869, in his seventy-fourth year. He had been married three times, and was survived by his third wife, his nephew John's widow, Hannah Damon, who died in 1889, having borne him no children. His first wife, Rebecca Litchfield, mentioned above, bore him five children, two of whom are living: Xoa, wife of Richmond Torrey, of Brockton, Mass.; and James, of Scituate. By his second wife, Almira White, he had three children, of whom one, John M. , is living.

James Damon was reared and educated in Scituate. He began in boyhood to accompany his father on fishing trips, and, after he was twenty-seven years old, was engaged for a number of years in the mackerel fisheries as an employee of others, having command of a fishing schooner for some time. While following the sea, he saw much of the world, visiting, among other places, the Carolinas and the West Indies; and he has many interesting tales to tell of scenes and customs in aiitc-belltini times. When Fort Warren in Boston Harbor was in process of construction, Mr. Damon was employed by the government as mate of the "General Warren," a schooner used to convey the workmen back and forth between Boston and the fort, and to carry supplies and builders' materials. He was occupied in this way some thirty-two months, and was subsequently first mate on a light house and buoy tender plying between Cape Cod and Portsmouth, N.H. About i860 he retired from the sea, and turned his attention to agricultural pursuits. He was two years superintendent of the Ouincy (Mass.) Poor Farm, but with that exception has lived in his present dwelling, which he erected in 1850. During his long and active life Mr. Damon has wit-

Cornelius F. Bradford

On November 28, 1845, he was married to Abigail W. Green, a native of Northboro, Mass., daughter of John and Sallie (Harrington) Green ; and they have one daughter, Sarah R. She graduated from the State Normal School at Bridgewater in January, 1877, and, after devoting some time to primary work in the public schools of Scituate, was elected principal of the grammar school at North Scituate. This position she has held for thirteen years, winning respect and love as a capable and conscientious teacher. Mr. Damon, who is a Republican, served for some time on the School Committee of Scituate. Mrs. and Miss Damon are members of the Baptist church.

lORNELIUS FRANCIS BRADFORD, senior partner of the firm of Bradford, Kyle & Co., manufacturers of insulated electric wire at Plymouth, Mass., was born in this town, March 4, 1845, son of Captain Joseph M. and Anna R. (Raymond) Bradford. Mr. Bradford's father's grandparents were Cornelius, first, and Elizabeth Bradford, who resided in East Falmouth, Mass. ; and their children were: Cornelius, second; Ephraim ; Rebecca; William; Josiah ; Thankful; Betsey;'and Mary. The elder Cornelius Bradford had two brothers, Edward and David Bradford, the latter of whom lived in Kingston, Mass. Cornelius Bradford, second, grandfather of the subject of this sketch, was a resident of East Falmouth. He married Mary leaker, daughter of Barney Baker; and two children were born to them - namely, Joseph M. and Celia Nye. The daughter becairie the wife of Newell Ray-, mond, son of George Raymond. The second Cornelius Bradford died in 1820; and his widow, Mrs. Mary Baker Bradford, married for her second husband F"rancis Nye. She lived to the age of about eighty years.

Joseph M. Bradford, only son of Cornelius and Mary, was for some years a shipmaster of New Bedford ; but he finally relinquished seafaring, and, when his son Cornelius F. was two years old, removed with his family to Zanesville, 111. Captain Joseph M. Bradford married Anna R., daughter of George and Priscilla (Shaw) Raymond; and they were the parents of six children, as follows: Joseph E., Adreanna, George Russell, Cornelius Francis, Seth Russell, and Anna Robinson. The father survived si.\ years after settling in the West ; and the entire family died in Zanesville, with the exception of Cornelius and his brother George.

Mrs. Anna Raymond Bradford was a representative of that branch of the Sampson family of Plymouth County which was founded by Abraham Sampson, who came to this county in 1629, and is said to have been a brother of Henry Sampson, who came over on the "Mayflower " in 1620. William Sampson, son of George and grandson of Abraham, was born July 8, 1695. He married Joanna Vaughn, August 24, 1721; and his daughter Zilpha became the wife of Joseph Bryant, of Plympton. Ruth, daughter of Joseph and Zilpha (Sampson) Bryant, married William Shaw, of Middleboro, in 1780. Their children were : Phebe, who died November 21, 1806, aged seven years; Eleazar, who died November 9, 1806, aged twenty-four; William; Priscilla, who married George Raymond, a native of Boston, and was the mother of Anna (Mrs. Bradford) ; Harvey; Ruth, who died May 29, 181 1, aged twenty-one years; Sarah; Mary; and Cyrus.

Cornelius P'rancis Bradford, after a residence of six years in Zanesville, came to live with his grandparents, George and Priscilla Raymond, in Plymouth; and he acquired his education in the schools of this town. When his studies were completed, he engaged for a time in shoemaking, later working in a tack factory for a few months, after which he entered the employ of his uncle Charles, a furniture dealer, with whom he remained for eleven years. He then carried on a pattern and repair shop on Middle Street for twelve years, at the expiration of which time he became an employee at the Plymouth mills. In i8go he formed a partnershijj with John .Scott for the purpose of engaging in the manufacture of insulated electric wire, inaugurating an enterprise which has since developed into large proportions. A few months later E. L. Edes bought Mr. Scott's interest; and the firm was Bradford and Edes until Mr. Edes retired, when Nathaniel Morton was admitted as a partner, the firm being changed to Bradford & Morton. William S. Kyle became interested in the concern a short time later; and the firm now known as Bradford, Kyle & Co. transact a large and constantly growing business in their special line.

On October 4, 1866, Mr. Bradford was united in marriage with Mary E. Fuller, daughter of George and Mary (Thomas) Fuller, of Plymouth. Mr. and Mrs. Bradford have one daughter living - Anna R., who is the wife of Adoniram J. Smith, an employee at the factory, and has two children: Leslie Bradford, born March 6, 1892; and Ellen Porter, born March 23, 1896.

Mr. ]5radford has a wide circle of acquaintances, with whom he is a general favorite; and he is highly respected as an enterprising citizen, whose efforts in expanding the industrial resources of Plymouth have greatly benefited the general community. He is the inventor of the machinery used in his manufactory to cover the wire for electrical purposes, and he received a patent about eight years ago. He is a charter member of the Plymouth Yacht Club, which was organized six years ago; and he has built and superintended the building of eight yachts. In politics Mr. Bradford supports the Republican party.

^SALTL MOTT, a highly esteemed resident of Scituate, was born in the - adjoining town of Plingham, September 17, 1 81 3, a son of Joseph and Lydia (Churchill) Mott. Joseph Mott was a son of Stephen Mott, an early settler in Scituate, and was born in this town. During his active life he followed the trade of a ship-calker in Scituate and the vicinity. In politics he was a Jacksonian Democrat. He was almost ninetythree years old when death called him from earth. His wife was a native of Hingham.

Paul Mott was a young child when his parents removed from Hingham to Scituate, and in the district school of the latter town he acquired his education. He began to go to sea with the mackerel fishers when only thirteen years old, and every summer for a quarter of a century found him in the fishing fleet. At the age of seventeen he began to learn calking with his father, and served until he attained his majority. After that he worked at the trade winters for twenty-five years or more, rising to the position of master calker. He worked in a number of places along the South Shore, finishing many important contracts in Cohasset especially. In 1885 he retired from active work, and has since enjoyed the leisure to which he is so well entitled. Mr. Mott has been prudent as well as industrious, and is well endowed with this world's goods. The burden of years sits lightly on his shoulders, and his boyhood seems but as yesterday. He has lived in the same house in Scituate fiftyseven years.

Mr. Mott's first wife, who before marriage was Miss Lydia Vinal, bore him eight children, five of whom arc living: Marion L., wife of Thomas F. Bailey, of Scituate; Helen, wife of Wallace Wilcot, of Cohasset ; Leroy, residing in Scituate; Lydia, who resides at home with her father; and Lucy, wife of Walter Damon, formerly of Scituate. The present Mrs. Mott, whose maiden name was Eliza Page, was born on the Cape. Mr. Mott votes the Republican ticket. He takes an active interest in town affairs, and has served on the School Committee of Scituate.

rDWARD H. BONNEY, wholesale and retail fish dealer, occupies a prominent place among the business men of Scituate. He was born in the neighboring town of Marshfield, January 28, 1841, a son of Cephas and Deborah Ann (Soper) Bonney. (A further account of the Bonney family may be found in the sketch of William F. Bonney, of Marshfield.) Cephas Bonney was born in Hanson, Mass. A moulder by trade, he resided in Marshfield for many years, working at his trade most of the time. His wife also was born in Hanson.

Edward H. Bonney was educated in the public schools of Marshfield. He left his native town at the age of nineteen to engage in the fish business at Scituate Harbor, and from a small and modest beginning developed a large and prosperous trade. For a number of years he was engaged in packing fish, principally herring, mackerel, and cod; and he was engaged in the retail coal trade for over a quarter of a century, selling that branch of his business in 1895 to George F. Welch. He now manages an extensive wholesale and retail trade in fresh fish and lobsters, shipping to Boston, Brockton, and other places, besides meeting the demands of his local trade. Mr. Bonney is a self-made man, whose success, has been fairly won. He was married April 8, i860, to Louisa F. Bates, of Scituate, daughter of Caleb Bates (now deceased), and has two children: Ada F., wife of George V. Yenetchi, of this town; and Ernest L. In politics he favors the Republican party. In business in Scituate since i860, he ranks among the substantial citizens of the town, and is widely known and highly esteemed.