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Rev. and Ensign Mosher, son of Stephen Mosher, of Manchester, England, arrived in Boston in 1636, and settled first at Salem, going thence to Rhode Island, with his friend, Roger Williams, the early Apostle of religious freedom, who was pastor of the Salem Church before settling the colony in Rhode Island, at Providence, Hugh Mosher aiding him. He married Lydia Maxon or Masam, they leaving sons: Hugh (2), John, Nicholas, Joseph, Daniel and James. The line of descent is through Rev. Hugh (2) Mosher, born in 1633, died in 1713, who married (first) Rebecca Harndel. Rev. Hugh (2) and Rebecca (Harndel) Mosher were the parents of: Nicholas, John, Joseph, Mary, James, Daniel and Rebecca, the line continuing through the fifth son, Daniel. Daniel Mosher was born in 1678, and died in 1751. He married, in 1704, Elizabeth Edwards, and they were the parents of eleven children; the next in direct line being their son, Benjamin Mosher, born April 19, 1706, who was succeeded by his son, George Mosher, born October 11, 1740, married, about 1765, Meribah Brightman, born May 11, 1746, died June 29, 1823, being killed in a runaway while being driven by her son, Bryce. George and Meribah (Brightman) Mosher were the parents of a large family including a son, Bryce Mosher, born February 28, 1777, died March 9, 1863. He married (first) in December, 1797, Peace Gifford, born March 31, 1780, died November 1, 1840, the mother of twelve children. He married (second) Rozilla Decker, they the parents of five children.

Jonathan Mosher, eldest son and second child of Bryce Mosher and his first wife, Peace (Gifford) Mosher, was born in Westport, Massachusetts, October 4, 1799, died December 19, 1890. He was a man of high intelligence, self-educated and wellread. For many years he was toll-keeper of the old New Bedford and Fairhaven toll bridge before it was made free, and later bought a farm in Fairhaven upon which he lived to a good old age, honored and respected. He was an ardent Abolitionist, aiding in the operation of the "Underground Railroad" by which many slaves escaped to Canada. He married (first) in June, 1824, Catherine Soule, born February 25, 1793, died February 6, 1825, without issue. He married (second) August 7, 1825, Abigail Soule, born September 18, 1804, died April 26, 1874, sister of his first wife, both tracing descent to a "Mayflower" ancestor, George Soule. He married (third) in 1875, Susan Starkey. Jonathan Mosher and his second wife, Abigail (Soule) Mosher, were the parents of six sons and five daughters: 1. James E., born October 12, 1828, died November 30, 1829. 2. James Edwin, born August 25,. 1830, believed to be living in Australia. 3. William Coe, born December 19, 1832, whereabouts unknown. 4. Angeline Caroline, born March 9, 1835, died November 4, 1836. 5. Charles Edward Everett, born May 8, 1836, died November 19, 1915; he married, July 22, 1875, Mary Elizabeth Briggs, born May 28, 1852; they had two children: Charlotte Shirley, born May 15, 1876, married Walter L. Weeden, born November 28, 1875, and had a son, William Nye Weeden, born July 31, 1904; Brycia Gladys, born August 11, 1886, married Thomas W. Williams, born July 26, 1886. 6. Abbie Catherine, born May 8, 1838, died November 7, 1910; married, July 6, 1865, Charles A. Johnson, who died August 31, 1889, without issue. 7. Mary Ellen, born March 22, 1840, died February 28, 1841. 8. Mary Everline, born November 19, 1841, died July 31, 1915. 9. Cyrus Burleigh, born November 25, 1843, died April 26, 1859. 10. Henry Carroll Wright, of further mention. ~ 11. Eliza Caroline, born October 16, 1847, died August 10, 1848.

Henry Carroll Wright Mosher, youngest son and tenth child of Jonathan Mosher and his second wife, Abigail (Soule) Mosher, and the last survivor of that family, was born in New Bedford, Massachusetts, August 12, 1845, and there spent the first seven years of his life. He then was taken by his parents to the farm they had purchased. He was educated in the Fairhaven public schools, finishing with graduation from high school, his brother, Charles Edward Everett, a well known educator of his day, being one of his instructors and lending the weight of his influence in keeping the lad in school. Later he pursued courses of study in Comer's Commercial College, in Boston, beginning his business career as a clerk with Wood, Brightman & Company, tinsmiths, remaining with that firm for six years, 1864-1870, becoming a clerk in the employ of the Merchants' National Bank, of New Bedford, in August, 1870. After three years in clerical position he was advanced to the post of teller, remaining at that desk twelve years, then in 1885 becoming assistant cashier with Peleg C. Howland, who had been cashier for twenty-seven years, 1858-1885. One month later Mr. Howland died, and Mr. Mosher became cashier. He continued the able, efficient cashier for about fourteen years,

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1885-1899, then early in the year 1899, the death of Gilbert Allen, who had been president of the bank for ten years, caused a vacancy in the executive office which was filled by the board of directors electing Mr. Mosher as his successor and the bank's fifth president. At the time of his elevation to the presidency Mr. Mosher had been in the bank's employ for twenty-nine years, 1870-1899. His rise from clerk to president was rapid, and in his course he held every position upon merit, and rose to a higher one through natural selection. That he filled a post for thirty-two years that was honored by that strong and eminent citizen, James B. Congdon, the first cashier of the bank, and another filled by another eminent son of New Bedford, John Avery Parker, the bank's first president, is a guarantee of high efficiency and sterling character in itself, while a perusal of the names of the presidents and cashiers of the bank rivals a list of men who have figured prominently in New Bedford history for the past century and more - men who not less than the institution with which they were connected have been important factors in New Bedford's growth, prosperity and greatness.

In addition to his bank responsibilities, Mr. Mosher is a director of the Kilburn Mill, and the Grinnell Mill, both of New Bedford, the Borden City Mill, of Fall River, Massachusetts; New Bedford and Agawam Finishing Company, of East Wareham, Massachusetts, and has other interests of importance. He is a Republican in politics, active in its interest, but as a citizen never holding nor desiring public office. He is a member of Star of the East Lodge, Free and Accepted Masons; Adoniram Chapter, Royal Arch Masons; New Bedford Council, Royal and Select Masters; Sutton Commandery, Knights Templar. Now the veteran banker of over half a century, and past life's summit, Mr. Mosher takes no advantage of the years he owns, but devotes the business hours of the day to the duties as bank executive, and is the strong, virile, levelheaded man of affairs: His business life has been spent with the Merchants' National, and the name of the institution and the executive are synonymous in New Bedford.

Mr. Mosher married, June 17, 1869, Evelyn E. Gerrish, of Fairhaven, Massachusetts, and they are the parents of two children: 1. Grace Matilda, born April 23, 1870, married, June 2, 1896, James H. Coffin, born March 31, 1865. 2. Harry Gerrish, born February 25, 1873, engaged in the life insurance business in New York City; he married, in October, 1896, Sarah A. Dunham, born September 1, 1878, their only child being Gwendolyn Elizabeth, born March 30, 1898, she of the tenth American generation of the family founded by Rev. and Ensign Hugh Mosher.

WILLIAM STEDMAN GREENE, M. C. - In the year 1875 William S. Greene, of Fall River, Massachusetts, was elected a member of the Common Council of Fall River, and during the near half-century of years that has since intervened his record of public service has been practically continuous, city, State, and Nation having the benefit of his public spirit and devotion to the cause of the public good. His Congressional career began in 1898, and he has been a member of every Congress of the United States from the Fifty-fifth (1898-99) to the Sixty-seventh (1922-23). He is perhaps best known nationally for his connection with the Ship Subsidy Bill, of which he was the "father," and which he ably defended on the floor of the House during the session of the Sixty-seventh Congress, his speech delivered on November 23, 1922, being a masterly presentation of the case of the bill. That it failed of passage was not due to faults of the bill nor to weakness on the part of its friends, but to a political situation in Congress most deplorable. In closing his speech, after withstanding most ably a storm of questions, Mr. Greene said:""Those who are against this measure and have no substitute or alternative of their own are against the dearest interests of all America."

Mr. Greene is of the ninth generation of the family founded in New England by Dr. John Greene, a surgeon, born on his father's estate at Bowbridge Hill, Parish of Gillingham, Dorsetshire, England, son of Richard and Mary (Hooker) Greene, grandson of Richard Greene, and greatgrandson of Robert Greene, all residents of Bowbridge Hill in their day. Surgeon John Greene, born about 1590, married at Salisbury, the Shiretown of Wilts, in St. Thomas' Church, November 4, 1619, Joanne 'Tattershall, and with his wife and six children (all of whom were baptized in the church in which their parents were married) sailed on the ship "James" for New England, arrfving in Boston, June 2, 1635. He settled at Salem, where he was associated with Roger Williams and became the medical practitioner in Providence, Rhode Island, and was one of the eleven men baptized by Roger Williams, these twelve forming the membership of the First Baptist Church on the American Continent. Surgeon Greene bought land, 700 acres, upon which he lived and which remained in the family until sold by his great-great-grandchildren, one hundred and forty years later. He was a prominent man in the colony, took active part in public affairs, and held office until the summer preceeding his death in January, 1659. His children were all by hs first wife, who died soon after the removal to Rhode Island. The line of descent is thus traced to William Stedman Greene, of Fall River, Massachusetts; Surgeon John Greene and his wife, Joanne Tattershall; their son, James Greene (a man of note), and his wife, Deliverance Potter; their son, James (2) Greene, and his wife, Mary Fones; their son, Fones Greene, and his wife, Rebecca Tibbetts; their son, Job Greene, and his wife, Mercy Greene; their son, Job (2) Greene, and his wife, Mercy Dexter; their son, William Fones Greene, and his wife, Abby Sheldon; their son, Chester \ashington Greene, and his wife, Abby Stone Stedman; and their son, William Stedman Greene, of Fall River.

Potowomut was the home of James Greene, of the second generation, there his great-grandson, General Nathanael Greene, of Revolutionary fame, was born, and there descendants resided for two centuries. James Greene was a member of the General Court of Rhode Island,as was his son, James (2) and his grandson, Fones Greene. Rhode Island was the home of the first seven generations, but Chester Washington Greene, of the eight generation, married Abby Stone Stedman, daughter of Judge Bial Stedman, of Belpre, Washington county, Ohio, and for a time was a resident of Tremont, Illinois, returning to Massachusetts in 1844 and locating at Fall River, where he was a properous business man and one time postmaster. He died August 24, 1896, leaving a daughter, Anna Ormsbee Greene, who married Eliphalet S. Brown, and a son, William Stedman Greene, of this review.

William Stedman Greene, only son of Chester Washington and Abby Stone (Stedman) Greene, was born in Tremont, Tazewell county, Illinois, April 28, 1841, but in 1844 Fall River, Massachusetts, became the family home, and there he attended the public schools until fifteen years of age, then began his business career as clerk in a millinery and fancy goods store. In March, 1858, he entered the employ of John P. Slade, insurance, continuing with him until May, 1865. For a year he was unsettled in residence, living in Providence, Buffalo, and New York City, but in all these cities continued in the insurance field of activity. In 1866 he returned to Fall River, and became associated with his father, and, as Greene & Son, they conducted an extensive auction, insurance and real estate business, William S. Greene continuing the business after the death of his father in 1896 until the present, 1923, real estate being his specialty.

A Republican in politics, Mr. Greene, from early life, took an interest and active part in public affairs and always has zealously supported party candidates and principles. In the fall of 1875 he was chosen to represent the Fifth Ward of Fall River in the Common Council, and held that office through successive reélections for four years, being president of council during the last three years of his term. He was also, in 1876, chairman of the Republican City Committee. In 1879 the Republican City Convention nominated Mr. Greene for mayor, by acclamation, his election following in November by less than 500 majority. He conducted the affairs of the city economically yet efficiently, vetoing several appropriation bills, one of- which council passed over his veto. During his term the ordinance was passed creating the office of superintendent of public buildings; inspector of buildings; establishing a fire district regulating building construction throughout the city, and creating the office of city engineer. He was reélected mayor in 1881 by nearly triple the majority of his first election, but he resigned the office in March, 1881, having received from President Garfield appointment as postmaster of Fall River, an office he held for four years, assuming the duties of the office April 15, 1881. In 1880 Mr. Greene was an alternate delegate to the National Republican Convention which nominated James A. Garfield for President. In 1886, upon the expiration of his term as postmaster, he was again elected mayor of Fall River, and became known all over the State as a clean, fearless and efficient executive. In 1887 and 1888 he was defeated for reélection, and in 1888 Governor Ames appointed him State superintendent of prisons, an office he administered most zealously and efficiently for one year, was one year under Governor Brocate, and two and a half years under Governor Russell, a Democrat. Mr. Greene was the unsuccessful candidate for mayor of Fall River in 1894, but in 1895 was elected by a majority of 734, reélected in 1896 by 1514 majority, and in 1897 by 3121, and declined renomination in 1898. He was appointed postmaster of Fall River in 1898 by President McKinley, and on April 1, 1898, entered upon the duties of that office, only to resign them May 31, 1898, having been elected to represent the Thirteenth Massachusetts District in the National House of Representatives, to fill out an unexpired term of John Simpkins, deceased, that district, now the Fifteenth, including in Bristol county the cities of Fall River, Taunton and Attleboro, and the towns of Berkeley, Dighton, Freetown, Mansfield, South Attleboro, Norton, Raynham, Rehoboth, Seekonk, Somerset, Swansea, and Westport; and in Plymouth county, the town of Lakeville, the population of the district in 1920 being 217,307. He took his seat in the Fifty-fifth Congress, was reélected and served in the Fifty-sixth, Fifty-seventh, Fiftyeighth, Fifty-ninth, Sixtieth, Sixty-first, Sixty-second, Sixty-third, Sixty-fourth, Sixty-fifth, Sixty-sixth and Sixty-seventh Congresses, serving in these bodies on important regular and special committees, and in the Sixty-seventh Congress was chairman of Merchant Marine and Fisheries, that committee reporting favorably the Ship Subsidy Bill, which Mr. Greene fathered and pressed for passage.

Possibly influenced by his knowledge of postal affairs gained during his years of service as postmaster, Congressman Greene was the champion of several important bills affecting the post office department. This called forth in June, 1906, the following resolution from a branch of the National Association of Letter Carriers of New Bedford, Massachusetts, the following resolutions, which had been unanimously adopted:

Wuereas: Our Congressman, the Honorable William S, Greene, having done an immeasurable amount of work with the Post Office Department to have the new census accepted and to have the carrier service re-classified, and in having the compensation of our mounted carriers raised to equal that of the same branch of the civil service in other cities; it is therefore i

Resolved, That as he has always shown a deep interest in everything pertaining to the letter carriers, both in and out of Congress, that we, the members of Branch No. 18, National Association of Letter Carriers, do hereby express our gratification and tender to him our heartiest thanks for the interest he has always taken in our welfare; and :

Resolved, That we extend to our honored friend our wishes for his long continuance in the responsible place he has so honorably filled in the service of his country. :

Mr. Greene is a member of St. Paul's Methodist Episcopal Church; member and a past master of Mount Hope Lodge, Free and Accepted Masons; is a companion of the Royal Arch; a cryptic Mason, and a sir knight of the Commandery; also an Odd Fellow, a Knight of Pythias, and a Forester.

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Mr. Greene married, March 8, 1865, Mary E. White, daughter of Pardon A. and Elizabeth W. (Spink) White, of Fall River. Mr. and Mrs. Greene are the parents of three children: Mabel Lawton, Chester White, and Foster Ragnier. These children are of the tenth generation of the family founded in New England by Surgeon John Greene, in 1635.

HERBERT FRANCIS SHERWOOD, A. M. - A man of wide experience and great versatility, Mr. Sherwood has won prominence as a writer and lecturer on immigration and sociology; as a_ special writer to newspapers and magazines; as a war worker and an after the war worker in adjusting post-war problems, and finally in Chamber of Commerce work, in which he has been eminently successful both in organization and management. He came to Fall River in January, 1923, as manager of the Chamber of Commerce of that city.

The Sherwoods of England, a name perpetuated for all time by Sherwood Forest and Robin Hood, trace in the thirteenth century to the de Shirewode family, and from that ancient English line came Thomas Sherwood, one of the early settlers of Fairfield, Connecticut. Through intermarriage of descendants of Governor William Bradford, Elder William Brewster, John Alden and Richard Warren with Sherwoods, a line of "Mayflower" ancestry is traced from Herbert F. Sherwood to those of the Plymouth Colony in 1620.

Herbert Francis Sherwood was born at West Cornwall, Litchfield county, Connecticut, son of John Cotter and Ellen Clarissa (Hart) Sherwood, his father a commission merchant long established in New York .City, and a descendant of Thomas Sherwood of Fairfield, Connecticut. His mother was a daughter of Nathan Hart, of Cornwall, Connecticut, a descendant of Stephen Hart, one of the settlers of Hartford, Connecticut, and of John Whittlesey, one of the founders of Saybrook, Connecticut. Herbert: F. Sherwood spent his boyhood days chiefly in Washington, Connecticut, where he attended the famous Gunnery School. He is yet connected with that school through its ' alumni association, of which he is now (1923) president. His early manhood years found him a resident of Stamford, Connecticut, where John C. Sherwood had established the family home after retiring from his New York business.

Herbert F. Sherwood was early attracted to journalism as a profession, and after serving an apprenticeship on the Stamford "Advocate" entered the employ of the New York "Tribune" as a staff member. That was in 1899 and for sixteen years he was connected with the "Tribune," for a large part of that time as a special writer. During the first two years on the "Tribune" staff he was ship news reporter and during that time became interested in the problems involved in the development of the port of New York. His familiar knowledge of the harbor and its problems caused his selection by the Board of Education of New York City as a lecturer, and he spoke to more than two hundred audiences in every part of the city, his theme "New York Harbor." His experiences led him to take a deep interest in the subject of immigration, and its importance as one of his country's fundamental problems was forced upon him. In 1907, in the pursuit of knowledge on the subject, he made a European tour with the United States Immigration Commission and visited Italy, Austria, Croatia, Hungary, Galicia, Germany and Belgium.

While abroad, Mr. Sherwood wrote a series of circular letters, regarding conditions, to a group of persons which included President Eliot, of Harvard, Archbishop Ireland, Bishop Potter, of New York, Jacob I. Schiff and others. Upon his return he began contributing to the "Outlook," '"Independent," "Review of Reviews,' "Collier's" and other periodicals on social topics, chiefly immigration. One of these articles, published in the 'Outlook" in January, 1908, following the great exodus of immigrants in 1907, is considered to have been the first to show that (prior to the war) the flow of American immigration was regulated by the law of supply and demand, and that the figures of the eastward and westward movement formed an index of the American labor market. In 1908 he made a study of the Italian colonies of the chief cities of Connecticut for use at a Congress held in Rome that year.

Becoming more definitely interested in social questions, and desiring ultimately to devote his time to them in a constructive way, he took postgraduate work at Columbia University, and studied at the Bureau of Municipal Research of New York City. In 1911, following a lecture on Immigration, a subject in which he came to be a recognized authority, he received from Dickinson College the honorary degree of Master of Arts.

Mr. Sherwood left the staff of the "Tribune" in 1915 with the expectation of taking up special community welfare organization work. The same summer, in New York, he was associated with the first movement for the expansion of the American Red Cross from the small organization headed by Clara Barton. Following participation in the first and only Naval Civilian Cruise in August of that year, he joined the staff of the National Board of Review of Motion Pictures as assistant secretary. He remained associated with this organization in this capacity for more than two years, and during the six months prior to the signing of the armistice was also a member of the staff of the United States Committee on Public Information, in charge of the examination of motion pictures intended for export, with the object of preventing improper propaganda from going abroad.

A few days after war was declared in 1917, he joined the "Shippan'" Company of the Connecticut State Guard in Stamford, Connecticut, where he was living, as it was evident that his age would not admit him to the military service of the country in any other capacity. He served for nearly two years, also acted as publicity director in all of the most important war drives in Stamford, and was secretary and a member of the executive committee of the citizen body formed to promote a readjustment of workers in war industries in Stamford.

He wrote for publication in the New York "Tribune" in the spring of 1918 an article which described a movement headed by Dr. Thomas Masaryk, afterward president of Czecho-Slovakia, for the development of a group of small nations extending from the Adriatic to the Baltic to serve as a bulwark between Russia and Germany. This brought out the fact, at the time little recognized, that a very strong feeling existed among the Slavs in the Austro-Hungarian Empire against the House of Hapsburg which could be capitalized in favor of the cause of the Allies. This article, without the knowledge of Mr. Sherwood, was circulated throughout the press of the United States. Later, on the arrival of Dr. Masaryk in this country, he wrote another full page article for the "Tribune" concerning Dr. Masaryk, recognized abroad as one of the great statesmen of the world but little known in this country, although his wife was an American. This led to a personal acquaintance with Dr. Masaryk.

During the latter part of the war and for a year afterward, Mr. Sherwood was the American correspondent of the "New Europe,' a magazine published in London by a group of distinguished statesmen and publicists representing all the Allied countries, for the purpose of promoting a better Europe following the war. In his articles Mr. Sherwood, having learned through his earlier contact with Europe and Europeans, something about their general lack of knowledge of America, sought to clarify their views regarding the psychology and institutions of America as a guide to a better understanding of the problems of readjustment.

Following the close of the war, Mr. Sherwood took up the activities for which he had been fitting himself. Long possessed of the desire to put into _ practice some of the things he had been describing as a writer (and believing in the need of the capitalization of the spirit of codperation and service developed through the war) he entered Chamber of Commerce work. He became attached to the staff of the American City Bureau of New York, an organization developed to help Chambers of Commerce to serve their communities in a larger way and to provide training for executives for such organizations. During the three years he was attached to the staff of the Bureau he assisted in the reorganization of Chambers in the cities of Lowell, Lawrence, Northampton, Holyoke and Pittsfield, Massachusetts; Pawtucket, Rhode Island; New London, Connecticut; Newburgh, New York; the Broadway Association of New York City; Camden and Perth Amboy, New Jersey; Donora, Pennsylvania; Frederick, Maryland; Clarksburg, West Virginia; Americus, Georgia, Knoxville, Tennessee; Topeka, Kansas; Hamilton, Ontario; and Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. He was instructor in Publicity and Community Advertising at the summer schools for commercial organization executives at Eagles Mere,

In July, 1921, desiring to settle down after three years of traveling, he accepted the managership of the Chamber of Commerce at Portsmouth, New Hampshire, a city which appealed to him as a New Englander. He reorganized this Chamber, making it the largest in New Hampshire, and organized a State Chamber of Commerce body. He was chosen general secretary of the Portsmouth Tercentenary celebration. In January, 1923, he became manager of the Fall River Chamber of Commerce, his present connection. In addition to the activities already mentioned, Mr. Sherwood was for several years prior to and during the war president of the Civic Federation of Stamford, Connecticut, in the course of which time he carried through a survey of the city government which resv!ted in the installment of a much needed accounting system. He was the organizer and for six years a member of the board of governors of the New York Public Lecture Corps of the Board of Education of New York. For many years he has been a member of the Sons of the Revolution in the State of New York, and of the Stamford Historical Society, of which he is an officer and of whose building fund he is a trustee. He was chairman of the memorials committee in connection with the celebration of the Two Hundred and Seventy-fifth anniversary of the settlement of Stamford, and is president of the Department of Sociology of the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences, of which he was one of the organizers.

He is the author of booklets on Long Island and Southern New England, and editor of guides to New York City and the Hudson River and to Plymouth, Massachusetts, published by Rand, McNally & Company, and to Portsmouth, New Hampshire, issued by the Portsmouth Chamber of Commerce. Among reprints which have been made of his articles are the following: 'The Ebb and Flow of the Immigration Tide," from the "Review of Reviews;" "The Children of the Land,' from the "Outlook;" "Negotiating by Habit,' from the "Outlook;"' and "Facing Municipal Problems from a New Angle," from the "New York Tribune." He was the author of a series of articles on New York Harbor published in "Freight," and of a series of legends of Southwestern Connecticut published in the "Tribune." At the time of the fiftieth anniversary of the Civil War, he wrote an account of the chief events of that war for the 'Tribune,' which ran through the Sunday issue of that paper for nine months. He has lectured in different parts of the country on immigration problems, and has made a special collection of pictures illustrating his own New England. In his studies he has given special attention to New England conditions and future and to the psychology of cities. For several years he was a member of the Social Service Committee of the General Conference of the Congregational Churches of Connecticut.

Biographical 47 Judge Edward F. Hanify, A. B., Ll. B.

JUDGE EDWARD F. HANIFY, A. B., LL. B., LL. D. - One of the most noteworthy figures in legal circles of Bristol county, Massachusetts, today is Judge Edward F. Hanify, whose position as judge of the Second District Court of Bristol county has given him wide influence, both in public life and among the people of his native city of Fall River, Massachusetts. His service is the more significant to society for his deep interest in the ethics of his profession, as generally applied, as well as from the professional viewpoint, and his work for the juvenile delinquents who come under his jurisdiction has been for years one of the salutary forces in the progress of corrective effort in Massachusetts.

Judge Hanify is a son of Michael Hanify, who was born in Ireland and came to the United States with his parents as a youth, the family settling in Fall River, Massachusetts. He was a seafaring man for some forty or fifty years, and served in various Capacities for the Fall River Line, plying between Fall River and New York City. His death, which occurred in the year 1911, at the age of seventy years, removed from the shipping circles of this city one of the pioneers in steamboat traffic of a day now gone by. The mother, Elizabeth (Brennan) Hanify, was also born in Ireland and came to this country in her youth, her parents becoming residents of Fall River. She died in the year 1886 at the age of forty-two years.

Judge Edward F. Hanify was born in Fall River, February 2, 1881. His education was begun in the local public schools, and he is a graduate of the B. M. C. Durfee High School in the class of 1900. Entering Holy Cross College at Worcester, Massachusetts, for his course in the liberal arts, he was graduated in the class of 1904 with the degree of Bachelor of Arts, then entered Harvard University School of Law, from which he was graduated in the class of 1907 with the degree of Bachelor of Laws. The young man passed his bar examinations in the year 1906, in the second year of his law course, and began his practice shortly after his graduation. He was later, in the year 1919, honored by Holy Cross College, which conferred upon him the degree of Doctor of Laws. Judge Hanify began practice as a partner of Thomas F. Higgins under the firm name of Higgins & Hanify, and this partnership existed until 1911. Mr. Higgins was elected mayor of Fall River in the year 1910, and the following year Judge Hanify was elected to the office of city solicitor, and, on account of his important public services and the time demanded in their performance, the partnership was dissolved. After serving eighteen months, or thereabouts, as city solicitor, Judge Hanify was appointed by Governor Eugene Foss as judge of the Second District Court of Bristol county. This was considered a great honor, as it placed Judge Hanify on the bench as one of the youngest judges ever appointed in the State of Massachusetts. Judge Hanify has made a remarkable record on the bench and one which is commended universally, for in his handling of juvenile delinquents he has done far more than corrective work. On the statutes of the State of

Massachusetts is a law to the effect that boys and girls between the ages of seven and seventeen shall not be treated as criminals, even in cases of serious misdemeanors, and Judge Manify, in upholding and applying this law, has given many young people a new start in life, which under other circumstances might have been denied them. 'This re-instatement of thoughtless youth into the paths of rectitude has given many serious-minded and useful citizens to the State of Massachusetts, who look back to the fatherly advice and guidance of Judge Hanify as the determining influence in their effort toward a worthy life. Judge Hanify has lectured before many audiences on this subject in various parts of the State of Massachusetts, thereby securing the cooperation of parents, educators and the people generally in this beautiful and commendable work of moral salvation and social reinstatement, and his activities along this line are considered the most noteworthy achievement of his entire career thus far on the bench.

Outside a close devotion to his judicial duties, Judge Hanify in his spare moments takes a deep interest in public matters, generally. He is a member of the board of trustees of the Fall River Public Library and likewise of the Citizens' Savings Bank; has the distinction of being the first honorary member of the Fall River Rotary Club; is a member of Fall River Lodge, No. 118, Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks; and of Fall River Council, No. 86, Knights of Columbus. His religious affiliation is with the Roman Catholic Church.

CHARLES JARVIS HOLMES - The history of the Holmes family traces far back into the past, the English ancestor being credited with coming to England with William the Conqueror. Being of ancient family and handsome conduct, he was noticed by William the Conqueror himself, and made a captain in his army, and having performed his part to the satisfaction of the Conqueror, he was rewarded by him with an estate in Yorkshire. The family is traced to the eleventh century and down through nineteen recorded generations in England to William Holmes, the ancestor of the Fall River family, now represented by Charles L. Holmes, now and since 1906 treasurer of the Fall River Five Cents Savings Bank, grandson of Charles Jarvis (1) Holmes, greatgrandson of Abraham and Bethiah (Nye) Holmes, all of whom will have extended mention in this review. The line of descent in brief is thus traced:

(I) William Holmes, of the nineteenth recorded generation of his family, was born in Yorkshire, England, January 3, 1592, and prior to 1636 came to New England, settled in Scituate, and became a freeman of Plymouth Colony in 1658. He died in Marshfield, September 9, 1678, aged eighty-six. His widow, Elizabeth, died in Marshfield, February 17, 1689, in her eighty-sixth year.

until prior to 1698, when he moved to Rochester, where he was tow ntreasurer in 1698, and there he died, April 17, 1722. He married (first) Elizabeth Arnold, daughter of Rev. Samuel Arnold, who was pastor of the church at Marshfield, 1659-1693.

(III) Experience Holmes, son of Abraham and Elizabeth (Arnold) Holmes, was born in Marshfield, Massachusetts, in 1681, and settled just within the line of Dartmouth, in what was afterward Fairhaven, where he died in 1754. He married Patience Nichols.

(IV) Experience (2) Holmes, son of Experience and Patience (Nichols) Holmes, was born in Rochester, Massachusetts, June 9, 1716, and married, on December 13, 1737, Hannah Sampson, daughter of Abraham Sampson. After his mother's second marriage he left home, but after his own marriage, occupied the homestead of his father at Rochester. Later he owned and occupied a farm in the Third Parish of Rochester, where he died March 14, 1794, aged seventy-eight. He is described as a man of small size, never weighing more than 135 pounds, but so agile, quick, and wiry, that few men could best him in a wrestling match. He was also an expert marksman and fond of hunting. He was strong in Bible argument, and quick-witted, with a ready gift for repartee. In 1762 he joined the Baptist church.

(V) Abraham Holmes, son of Experience (2) and Hannah (Sampson) Holmes, was born June 9, 1754, in Rochester, Massachusetts, and there died September 7, 1839, after a remarkable and successful life as a member of the Plymouth and Bristol county bars. He was regarded as a learned and skilled lawyer, and was a most interesting speaker, his addresses abounding in anecdote, wit, and humor. At the age of eighty he addressed the Bristol county bar, in session at New Bedford, on "The Rise and Progress of the Profession in Massachusetts,' and in it gave sketches of the early lawyers. Abraham Holmes was admitted to the bar of Plymouth county in April, 1800, being then forty-six years of age, and not regularly educated for the profession of law. He had previously been president of the Court of Sessions, and when he applied for admission to the bar, the members voted to admit him in consideration of "his respectable official character, learning, and abilities, on condition that he study three months in some attorney's office.' He continued in practice until August, 1835, when, reaching eighty-one years of age, he retired, having met with a considerable degree of success, and gained honorable standing. After his death the members of the bar of Bristol, Plymouth, and Barnstable counties, at a meeting held in Plymouth, October 25, 1839, paid respectful tribute to his talents, learning, and character, and adopted a resolution expressing a high sense of his personal worth as a man, "whose mind was enriched with various learning; whose memory was a repository of the most valuable reminiscenses; whose legal attainments gave him high professional eminence; and whose social qualities were an ornament of the circle of friendship during a long life of integrity and usefulness." He was a member of the

Abraham Holmes married, December 26, 1776, Bethiah Nye, born February 16, 1759, died December 14, 1832, daughter of Ichabod and Bethiah (Blackwell) Nye. Children: Bathsheba, died unmarried; Rosalinda, married Anselm Bassett; George B. N., married Elizabeth Valentine; and Charles Jarvis, of whom further.

(VI) Charles Jarvis Holmes, youngest son of Abraham and Bethiah (Nye) Holmes, was born May 9, 1790, in Rochester, Massachusetts, died at Fall River, Massachusetts, May 13, 1859, aged sixty-nine, and was buried in the same cemetery in Rochester in which had been laid at eternal rest, his father, grandfather, great-grandfather, and _ great-greatgrandfather - five generations. He was-a man of ardent friendships, genial disposition, and a high sense of honor. His intellectual powers were strong and well cultivated, and he read carefully the English classics, was a thorough student of the law, and in writing his own epitaph, he closed with these words: "By profession a lawyer; by practice a peacemaker."

Charles J. Holmes studied law in his father's office in Rochester, and was admitted to the Plymouth bar in 1812. He practiced his profession in Rochester for a quarter of a century, and became both prominent and influential. In 1838 he moved to Taunton, but in 1842, receiving appointment to the office of collector of customs at the port of Fall River, he moved to that city, where he filled at various times other offices of importance - master-ofchancery, commissioner of bankruptcy, etc.

In politics he was a Republican, ardent and sanguine, strong in his convictions and strong in support of his party. He represented Rochester in the Massachusetts House of Representatives in 1816-17- 19-20-24-26-27-31-32; was State Senator from Plymouth county in 1829 and 1830; a member of the Massachusetts executive council in 1835, and presidential elector in 1836. He was appointed by President John Tyler to the office of collector of customs, and all his hfe he held the respect and esteem of his fellowmen.

Charles J. Holmes married (first) October 17, 1814, Cynthia Crocker, who died August 17, 1828, aged forty. He married (second) in 1830, Louisa Haskell, who died October 11, 1846, aged forty-four, daughter of Ebenezer and Bathsheba (Crocker) Haskell. Charles J. Holmes by his second marriage had two children: Emma Louisa and Charles Jarvis (2). Emma Louisa Holmes was born November 4, 1830, and died March 31, 1881. She married, on August 20, 1856, Daniel Stillwell, of Fall River, born February 11, 1825, died December 20, 1878, leaving two daughters: Louisa Holmes Stillwell, who married John H. C. Nevius, and Sarah Richmond Stillwell, who died in February, 1889.

(VII) Charles Jarvis (2) Holmes, only son of Charles Jarvis and Louisa (Haskell) Holmes, was born in Rochester, Massachusetts, March 4, 1834, and died at Fall River, Massachusetts, February 26, 1906, in his seventy-second year. In the passing of Mr. Holmes, Fall River lost one of its prominent citizens; the business community, a strong, progressive force; and the religious world, a bright and shining example. Of ancent Colonial ancestry traced to the Plymouth Colony, Mr. Holmes possessed the strong body, the vigorous intellect, and the high moral and religious spirit of his ancestry, and from youthful manhood was identified with the business, social, and official life of the city to which he came in early boyhood.

Early in his career he became associated with the Fall River Five Cents Savings Bank, and for fifty years he safeguarded the interests of the multitude of people who made that institution the medium through which their savings were conserved. His years were more than three score and ten, and his breadth of mind and strength of character fully met the heavy demands of business and civic life. As banker, treasurer, cashier, alderman, member of city and State governments, and a leader in church work, there was scarcely a life in the city which had not in some measure felt the stimulus of his energy, his devotion, and his faith.

Mr. Holmes was in his fifth year when the family moved to Taunton, and in his ninth year when he moved to Fall River, the city that was his home until the close of his long and honorable life. He was educated in the public schools of Fall River, and was a member of the first class formed in the Fall River High School, whence he was graduated, class of 1853. He was then nineteen years of age, and immediately aiter graduation he entered the employ of the Massasoit Bank of Fall River. That was the beginning of his long career as a financier, a business in which he so rapidly rose in rank that in 1855, at the age of twenty-one, he was elected treasurer of the Fall River Five Cents Savings Bank, incorporated April 10, 1855, an office he held until his passing in 1906, when he was succeeded by his son, Charles I,. Holmes, father and son having been guardians of the bank treasury ever since its founding, sixty-eight years ago. The same year (1855) Mr. Uolmes was appointed cashier of the Wamsutta Bank, which in 1864 was reorganized as the Second National Bank, of Fall River. He was also president of the King Philip Mills, president of the Sagamore Mill, and a director of the Border City Mills, all gveat textile manufactories of Fall River, he being « man of the highest rank as financier and business man.

Hardly less influential was he in the official life of city and State, his terms of service covering a long period of time in many different positions. In 1873 he represented Fall River in the Massachusetts House of Representatives, and both in that body and later (1877-78) in the State Senate, he rendered active, useful service. In the Senate he was chairman of the committee on banking. For two years he was a member of the Fall River Board of Aldermen; for sixteen years he was a member of. the school committee, and during that time exerted a strong influence upon the city's educational affairs. He was a trustee of the Fall River Public Library for thirty years; chairman of the Civil Service Commission for the Fall River district; member of the board of overseers of the poor; and chairman of the Massachusetts State Committee of Associated Sav- . ings Banks, a committee on which he held a leading position for thirty years. He held not only the offices named, but also for a long time served in municipal positions requiring financial sagacity and integrity. In politics he was a Republican.

Mr. Holmes was a member and senior deacon of the Central Congregational Church. His position in the community was that of a progressive business man, a respected citizen, and a .coOperator in all movements started for the improvement of the condition of the people. On financial and municipal affairs, Mr. Holmes was considered one of the best authorities in the city, and his opinion was frequently sought on difficult questions. His long experience in official and business life, and his high standing as man and citizen, qualified him to rank among the representative men of the commonwealth, and no man was more highly esteemed for his fine qualities of mind and heart.

Charles J. (2) Holmes married, on May 4, 1858, at Fall River, Mary A. Remington, daughter of Joshua and Joanna Remington, and they were the parents of three children: Mary L., born May 15, 1859; Anna C., born March 5, 1861; and Charles L., a sketch of whom follows.

CHARLES LINCOLN HOLMES - Knowing but one allegiance throughout his business career, Charles Lincoln Holmes began at the bottom of the ladder and rose until he is today treasurer of the banking concern whose doors he entered at the close of his school years. An only son of Charles Jarvis (2) and Mary A. (Remington) Holmes (see preceding sketch), he was born at Fail River, Massachusetts, May 21, 1866, and there resided, an honored and influential business man and financier, treasurer of the Fall River Five Cents Savings Bank, of which his honored father was the first treasurer. He was educated in the public schools of the city of his birth, finishing with graduation from high school, class of 1885. He began his business career the same year by becoming an employee of the Fall River Five Cents Savings Bank, and during the thirty-eight years which have since elapsed, he has known no other allegiance in the business world. He received several promotions during the twentyone years, 1885-1906, that he was privileged to associate in the banking business with Charles Jarvis Holmes, the first treasurer, and when, in 1906, that strong pillar of support to the bank and an important figure in its development was called hence, Charles L. Holmes was chosen his successor, an office he has now most ably filled for seventeen years. The bank, founded in 1855, has had a_ healthy growth, its total resources at the close of business, November 25, 1922, totalling $12,783,741.73, with George §. Davol, president.

Mr. Holmes is a member of the executive committee of the Associated Savings Bank of Massachusetts; chairman of the Fall River School Committee; a director of the King Philip Mills, and secretary of its board of directors; and a member of the

Charles L. Holmes married, on March 10, 1897, Anna §. Pratt, of Brooklyn, daughter of Judge Calvin E. and Susan E. (Ruggles) Pratt, her father a judge of the Supreme Court of New York, sitting in New York City for many years in the Appellate Division. Mr. and Mrs. Holmes are the parents of three children: Charles Calvin, associated with textile manufacturing; Stanford, deceased; and Lincoln, now (1923) a junior in high school at Fall River.

JUDGE HUGO ADELARD DUBUQUE - The formative forces of the mind bear greater significance to the public advance than the visible activities which carry forward the industrial and commercial progress and prosperity of the people. In this realm which lies back of all progress, Judge Dubuque, who for many years has been one of the foremost legal lights of Fall River, Massachusetts, has contributed largely to civic, State and national advance. <A native of Canada, Judge Dubuque is an American by choice, rather than by the accident of birth, and his progressive spirit and high mental attainments have meant much to the land of his adoption, in which he is still one of the actively significant figures of the day. He is a son of Moses and Esther (Matthews) Dubuque, both natives of the Province of Quebec. The father was one of the pioneers in the development of Oregon when that State was still a territory, and for some years he was engaged in mining operations in that region. He was also active in farming and general mercantile affairs, and his death occurred in St. Louis, Missouri, when he was on his return East, after an extended stay in Oregon, he routing his tour through various interesting sections of the United States. Cut down suddenly at a comparatively early age, a life of broad usefulness was ended.

Hugo Adelard Dubuque was born at Cavignac, Province of Quebec, Canada, November 4, 1859. His education included a course at St. Hyacinthe College at St. Hyacinthe, Quebec, from which he was graduated with the degree of Bachelor of Arts. He came to the United States when still a youth of about eighteen years, and for one year was active in a shoe store at Troy, New York. Then coming on to Fall River, Massachusetts, he secured employment in a drug store, but the plan of his life was by no means so narrow as to keep him permanently in a subordinate position. His evenings and spare moments were devoted to the study of law, and during the years 1876 and 1877 he attended the Boston University School of Law, receiving his degree of Bachelor of Laws from that institution in the class of 1877. He was admitted to the bar in November of the same year, and shortly thereafter entered upon the practice of his chosen profession in. Fall River. Mr. Dubuque's subsequent record as lawyer, judge and legislator revealed the careful and exhaustive attention which he gave to these early years of study and preparation. His practice placed him in a prominent position when he was still a very young man, and he was noted as one of the largely successful and eminently promising men of that period. Early becoming a citizen of his adopted country, he took a deep interest and a constructive part in the affairs of the community and the State, and in the year 1889 was elected to the Massachusetts Legislature. Subsequent reélections returned him to that body, and his record in the legislative halls is still a matter of interest and comment among those who keep in touch with public affairs. Mr. Dubuque drafted the act creating the registry of deeds in Fall River, and he drafted the act also which brought about the building of the Superior Court House on North Main street in this city, in which the Fall River district 'registry of deeds was properly housed. He was the author of a bill which passed Legislature and has since been known as the Dubuque Law, providing for the collection of claims due labor and the necessaries of life. This act has been copied in many States. In 1900 he was elected city solicitor of Fall River, and this office he filled ably and well! for a period of ten years. In 1911 he was apointed by Governor Foss as Associate Justice of the Superior Court of Bristol county, which important positon he has held continuously since. In his record on the bench, Judge Dubuque has displayed in marked degree those qualities of. fairmindedness and breadth of experience which count so far in upholding the dignity of the law and at the same time in making the courts a regenerative, as well as punitive institution. His keen interest in every human creature is clearly evident to all who come under his jurisdiction and he has done much to encourage high aspiraticns and lofty ideals among those who have been brought before him.

Judge Dubuque's brilliant command of the French language has brought him many times into public notice in a manner which has not only done credit to himself, but has cemented international relations and promoted patriotic spirit. While still in the Legislature, he attended the International Postal Congress which met in Boston and was wholly unexpectedly called upon to welcome the assembly to the city of Boston in the French language. His graceful manner and genuine kindliness of spirit he conveyed to the visiting delegates from other nations in such a way as to represent most happily the true cordiality of the American people. When still solicitor of Fall River, he delivered many lectures in both the French and English languages on_historical and literary subjects which did much to encourage local interest in public affairs and loyalty to the early traditions of the city. On the occasion of the unveiling of the statue of Samuel D. Champlain, at Champlain, New York, Judge Dubuque delivered the dedicatory address which was the leading feature of the exercises. His frequent appearances on occasions of this kind, and his apt and fitting addresses, led to his being invited to officiate as interpreter of Marshal Joffre's address when the distinguished French officer visited Boston in 1917, Judge Dubuque repeating his speech in English before the Massachusetts Legislature and their assembled guests.

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Judge Dubuque is a facile writer, as well as an able speaker, and one of his really valuable works is a treatise on the Fall River Indian Reservation, tracing the history of Fall River to early Colonial days. This work includes also a short sketch regarding Indian customs and descriptions of the first deeds given by the Indians to white men, also chapters attesting the legal status of the Indians who survived to live under the government of the old Bay State. Of fully as great technical importance, but perhaps not of equal popular interest, is Judge Dubuque's work on the "Duty of a Judge as a Constitutional Adviser," which appeared in the "American Law Review" in the issue of May, 1890. This great and exhaustive paper was subsequently published in pamphlet form and is cited in all authorative works on constitutional law, also by the United States Supreme Court. When Judge Dubuque was city solicitor the people of Fall River tendered to him a graceful but heartfelt honor in naming one of the fine school buildings which was erected at that time, the Dubuque School. He has kept in close touch with local interests in every branch of advance. For a number of years past he has been trustee of the Fall River Public Library, and he was one of the founders and is still a leading figure in the Franco-American Historical Society of Boston. His more personal interests include membership in the Boston City Club and the Quequechan and Calumet clubs of Fall River. He is a member of the Sacred Heart Roman Catholic Church.

Judge Dubuque married Anna M. Coughlin, of Fall River, who died in 1916, leaving three daughters: Twins, Pauline, now the wife of Joseph M. Rockett, of Fall River, and Helene, now the wife of Dr. Albert E. Perron, of Fall River; and Marie, a graduate of Wellesley College, the wife of Captain Maurice F. Devine, an attorney-at-law at Manchester, New Hampshire.

COLONEL BRADFORD D. DAVOL - The life of Colonel Bradford D. Davol was one of broad activity in the industrial and civic life of Fall River, Massachusetts, and of lasting significance to the city. Gifted with large ability as an executive, and also endowed with a deep appreciation of the problems and struggles of others, he was not only the man of large affairs, but the friend of all, and countiess numbers of people recall a word or handclasp, and in many cases more material assistance through which they have gained courage in times of stress and won through difficulties to success or high achievement.

A son of one of the foremost cotton manufacturers of New England a generation or two ago, and descended through his maternal line from Thomas Duarfec, of early Colonial fame, Colonel Davol was an American, of and for America, and in business, in public life, and as a progressive citizen, the wel- 'fare of the people and the good of the city, the commonwealth and the nation were to him matters of far deeper import and far greater significance than any personal consideration.

F. (Chase) Davol, his father a native of Fall River, his mother of Portsmouth, Rhode Island. Stephen Davol was one of the pioneer mill men of Fall River, his energies and executive ability forming a constructive force in the textile industry in midnineteenth century progress. He died in Fall River in the year 1888 at the advanced age of eighty years.

Bradford D. Davol was born at Portsmouth, Rhode Island, March 30, 1841, but his lifetime was almost wholly spent in the city of Fall River. His education was begun in the public schools of this city, and he was graduated from the Fall River High School at the age of eighteen years. He then became associated with the Pocasset Mills of Fall River, one of the most important concerns in New England in the manufacture of cotton textiles, and for thirty-three years he was identified with this concern. Beginning in a subordinate capacity and familiarizing himself with the industry through experience in the various departments, he rose from the position of clerk to that of bookkeeper, and eventually was made treasurer of the Pocasset Manufacturing Company, in which organization his father had previously filled the same largely responsible office. Upon his election to the office of treasurer of this concern, Colonel Davol was made executive head of the mills, and through his knowledge of the industry and his large executive ability he ably supplemented his father's work in the striking development of this plant, which in its earlier years operated less than 2,000 spindles, but under his fostering care and able management was expanded to a point where 60,000 spindles were in constant operation.

In his later years Colonel Davol became widely affiliated with the world of finance, also becoming a stockholder and leading executive in many of the industrial concerns of this section. At the time of his death he was president of the Barnard Manufacturing Company, president of the Mechanics Mill, also of the Union Belt Company. He was president of the Fall River Savings Bank and the Fall River Codperative Bank, was a director of the Massasoit-Pocasset Bank, a director of the Troy Mills, the Pocasset Mills, and the Flint Mills, also a director of the Fall River Manufacturers' Mutual Insurance Company. In former years further affiliations had commanded his attention for he held directorships in the Fall River Bleachery, the Barnaby Mills and the old Dighton, Somerset, Swansea Street Railway Company, prior to its absorption by the Eastern Massachusetts Street Railway Company. During the period of its existence he was also treasurer of the Fall River Automatic Telephone Company. Several years ago, Colonel Davol resigned from active official connection with the Pocasset Mills, being affiliated only with the manufacturing world through his extensive holdings of stock in the textile industry and among the banking organizations of this city, and devoted his time to the care of his personal interests until his death. From boyhood his civic loyalty and enthusiastic patriotism were among the strongest influences of his life. Prior to the Civil War he was a member of Com- pany K, an unattached company of the Massachusetts State Guard, and upon President Lincoln's call for ninety day volunteers in 1864, this company responded as a unit. The company was sworn into the Federal service, and Colonel Davol retained his commission at that time as second lieutenant. He served with the company until its discharge, and thereafter re-entered the State Guard, in which from time to time he was promoted, rising to first lieutenant and then to captain, then major, then lieutenantcolonel, and eventually to colonel of his regiment, thus winning his rank in a military organization of his own State. In political affairs also Colonel Davol's influence was felt as a beneficent and progressive force. He served for some years as a member of the Common Council of Fall River, and on June 17, 1897, received the appointment from Governor Wolcott as chairman of the Fall River Board of Police. Filling this responsible office for a term of three years, he was re-appointed by Governor W. Murray Crane in 1900 for a further term of three years, and his wise and far-sighted attention to the duties of this office did much for the improvement and increased efficiency of the force. For three years he served as a member of the Board of Aldermen, and in all his public endeavors his self-forgetfulness and earnest effort for civic advance were fruitful of much good. Fraternally Colonel Davol was affiliated with King Philip Lodge, Free and Accepted Masons; Fall River Chapter, Royal Arch Masons; and Godfrey de Bouillon Commandery, Knights Templar. Deeply interested in all that pertained to the preservation of local, State and National landmarks or records, he was for years a member of the Old Colony Historical Society of Taunton, Massachusetts, also of the Fall River Historical Society, and to the furtherance of the work of these organizations he was a frequent contributer. Colonel Davol's death came at a time when the community was shocked by other losses in the leading ranks of financial and industrial executives. A leading daily paper of Fall River commented editorially upon the importance of the group of men whom the hand of death cut down within a few days and further expressed the general appreciation of Colonel Davol's genuine worth in fitting periods, following his death, which occurred on April 22, 1923:

The reaper has been startlingly busy among Fall River's leading men in recent days. Indeed, one must go far back in our files to find the record of the death of three such men in three successive business days as have filled the columns of the press in the last three issues. The deaths of Judge Morton, followed by the sudden death of John S. Brayton, were succeeded by that of Colonel Bradford D. Davol, with but the briefest interval.

Colonel Davol was son and successor to one of. Fall River's leading cotton manufacturers, and his life was largely spent in the conduct and promotion of the same industry. He was a man of integrity, of discernment, and of good business judgment. He grew up in the business of cotton manufacture, learning it from the bottom, until in due time he reached its summit, in which leading place in the Pocasset Mill he continued many years, at the same time co-operating in the management of several newer enterprises in cotton manufacture. In some of them he retained his directorship until the end of his days, giving them the advantage of his business sagacity, as a counselor.

Colonel Davol felt that the municipal government required the attention of leading business men and was worthy of it. This conviction he carried into practice, being himself a member of the Common Council and the president of the board, when we had two houses, and afterwards representing his ward as a member of the Board of Aldermen, thereby setting a good example to other leaders in the business life of the city.

This conviction of his made him willing to take the re sponsibility of the chairmanship of the Board of Police and License, succeeding Colonel Thomas J, Borden, who was a member of the first board after the law, still in force, was established. Colonel Davol held the place for two successive terms of three years, and helped to keep it up to the high ideal with which it was established, so rendering his city an important service in this connection. * * * * His death removes a man held in universal respect.

Colonel Davol married, December 1, 1875, Cornelia W. Lincoln, who was born in Boston, Massachusetts, a daughter of Minor S. and Mary A. (Borden) Lincoln, of that city. Mrs. Davol died in 1921. Colonel and Mrs. Davol shared many benevolences of which the world knew little, and their especial interest was the aiding of young people to secure higher education. Childless themselves, they took the deepest interest in all young people, and many needy students, who would otherwise have been compelled to abandon their higher education, have been able to complete their studies, winning prominence in professional and business careers, owe their success to the assistance of Colonel Davol and his gracious wife. 'The Davol home was a center of culture and wide hospitality. Both Colonel and Mrs. Davol were active workers in the Central Congregational Church and generous supporters of its many benevolences. 'The annals of Fall River record few inore helpful or devoted lives than those of Colonel Bradford D. and Cornelia W. (Lincoln) Davol.

JOSEPH LYMAN SWEET - It would be difficult to find in any New England city a man whose interests and activities are more closely interwoven with the daily life of the people than is seen in the career of Joseph Lyman Sweet of Attleboro, Massachusetts. Coming of one of the oldest and most noteworthy families of Bristol county in direct line, most honored names of New England history, Mr. Sweet has made his own life one of broadest usefulness to the city of which he has now been a resident for more than half a century. Not only as a successful business executive, giving employment to many, and contributing to the prosperity of the civic body, but as a worthy and forward-looking citizen, bearing a part in many unrewarded lines of endeavor, Mr. Sweet has made his name of significance to the community. He is held in the highest esteem in every circle and is welcomed as a coworker and associate in all progressive effort, a -

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Elbridge and Dorothy (Sulloway) Sweet. His father, who was born at Mansfield, was engaged throughout his active lifetime in agricultural pursuits, also operated a grain mill at West Mansfield until his death, which occurred in February, 1876, at a comparatively early age. The mother was born at Enfield, New Hampshire, and survived her husband for nearly a score of years, passing away in the year 1885. Asa young lad Joseph Lyman Sweet attended the Mansfield public schools, then later entered the Stoughtonham Institute at Sharon, Massachusetts, where he received a broadly practical preparation for his career. From his earliest business experience Mr. Sweet held executive responsibility, first engaging in the jobbing of jewelry in an independent way. With this experience, through which he had gained a comprehensive grasp of the jewelry business, both from the point of view of the producer and the retail trade, Mr. Sweet associated himself with the firm of the R. F. Simmons Company, manufacturing jewelers, in the year 1875. He is now in the fortyninth year of continuous activity as an executive of this concern, and from the beginning has been a definite force for the constructive advance and permanent prosperity of the firm. The history of this great industrial organization is more than a record of mere achievement, for in every step of its progress it led along avenues of advance in which others have been glad to follow.

This concern was established in a small shop in the Dennis-Everett building at North Attleboro, Massachusetts, in January, 1873, Robert F. Simmons at that time and place beginning the manufacture of watch chains of rolled gold plate. Joseph Lyman Sweet entered the organization in March, 1875, and from that time onward his energy and business ability held vital significance to the enterprise. In the meantime, in 1874, Edgar L. Hixon had come into the firm, and these three men formed the personnel of the concern until the death of Mr. Simmons, in 1894. Harold E. Sweet, Mr. Sweet's son, first mayor of the city of Attleboro, and always a leader in progressive effort, shortly thereafter came into the organization, and is now an active executive of the concern. No single phase of the history of this enterprise bears such striking significance to the progress of the jewelry industry as the leadership of these men in new methods and customs which have been adopted by the trade to the definite general good. They may well be called pioneers, for they have blazed the way for others along many lines of advance in which time has proved the value of their innovations. The R. F. Simmons Company was the first to stamp the initials of the manufacturer on a product in the jewerly field, the first to apply an efficient yet simple safety fastener to chains and fobs, the first to undertake the production of their own seamless wire, and the first to place upon the market one-quarter and oneeighth gold filled goods. These, however, are only the more important of their improvements in product or method of manufacture, many lesser "firsts" standing to their credit. Of greater significance to the jewelry trade was another innovation introduced

How much these progressive endeavors have meant to the concern itself is clearly apparent to the people of Attleboro, or even to the visitor to this city. The growth and development of the business have been continuous. The first plant was early replaced by a more spacious one in the Daggett building in Attleboro Falls, which with a third, and still larger plant, in turn, was relinquished to other interests as the enterprise outgrew its boundaries. The modern factory structure which formed the nucleus of the present plant was erected in 1892, and is a fitting monument to the energy and faith in the future which inspired its builders. Three stories in height, 255 feet in length, width varying from 40 to 65 feet, this building even became inadequate to the needs of the concern, and a large extension has since been built, which brings the floor space of the plant up to a total of fully 30,000 square feet. They put out nothing "plated" or "washed." The stock used is a solid gold cylinder on a core of alloy, in the form of a seamless gold-filled ingot, and from this, wire is made by reducing or "swedging" machines,

The sincerity which is exemplified in the product of this concern is a part of the fabric of its existence, and in the mutual codperation and respect of employers and employees a fine spirit governs the daily activities of the plant. A profit-sharing basis was early adopted, a beneficiary association provides for the inevitable hour of need, and the links of friendship which unite workers and executives have been happily likened to the golden links, of which countless miles have been welded since the organization of the firm. To the city, the nation and the world, workers and executives alike yield the co-operation in all good effort which so definitely characterizes their organization. They bear a part in every worthy movement, in the World War period subscribing to nearly $75,000 worth of Liberty Bonds, even after many of the finest young men of the organization had taken up arms for the allied cause. The fiftieth anniversary of the founding of this enterprise was fittingly celebrated on April 11, 1923, by a dinner at Pythian Hall, Attleboro. The Hon. George A. Sweeney, mayor of Attleboro, addressed the assemblage, also Dr. John A. Cousens, president gave many delightful reminiscences of the early days of its history. Among the guests were employees who had been with the company up to twenty-five years or more of continuous service. On that occasion the Attleboro "Sun" printed the following:

The chains put out bearing the Simmons trade-mark are not gold '"'plated" or gold ''washed'"' chains, but actually gold filled chains, for a solid gold cylinder is placed about a core of alloy and united into a seamless gold-filled ingot from which the wire is made by reducing or swedging machines. All this work is done by the company itself, which stands as the only chain house in the United States making its own gold-filled seamless wire. Even the base metal cores are made by the company, as are the swivels, spring rings, bars and other necessities constantly required by a manufacturer of jewelry.

The personal touch, however, is the key-ndte of success in the organization, for it is in the individual loyalty and codperation of their employees that the firm has found its most highly valued assets. This phase of the business is also perhaps best expressed by quoting from the same issue of the "Sun," as follows:

Not only the members of the firm but the employes also refuse to confine their interest to themselves. All public improvement work is assured of friendly attention at all times. During the war many of the employees laid down the little gold link to take up the heavier rifle, but enough remained to subscribe to almost $75,000 worth of Liberty Bonds - a liberality widely commented on at the time. The different charity organizations of Attleboro are not forgotten by either employer or employee.

Nor does the employer forget the employee by the way. A well-established beneficiary association among the employees has an ample fund in its treasury which, augmented by the small weekly assessments paid in by its members, insures that the sick and disabled will be taken care of. For over twenty years a profit-sharing plan has been in operation. The number of employees sharing in the profits since this plan was inaugurated is proof positive that it is appreciated.

Fifty years in weaving friendships! Fifty years in welding millions of golden links! If the tiny links made in these fifty years were laid end to end they would reach from - but this distance would sound so impossible that it had better be left unmentioned. Fifty years and still working - because the man of today still likes the chain, the counterparts of which adorned the plain vest of his father and the flowered waistcoat of his grandfather.

In various fields of local and State interest Joseph Lyman Sweet has shared with the people the administrative ability which has won him his personal success. He is a director of the First National Bank of Attleboro,\ the National Exchange Bank of Providence, Rhode Island, and until recently was a director of the Slater Trust Company of Pawtucket, Rhode Island. In political affairs Mr. Sweet supports the Democratic party, and for a number of years has served as a member of the Democratic State Committee. He was also a member of the Massachusetts Constitutional Convention of 1917-18, and faithfully represented his constituency in the deliberations of that body. His local public services include membership on the school committee for several years, during a portion of which period he acted as chairman. He was selectman of Attleboro after the division from North Attleboro in 1887, and at present is chairman of the trustees of the Attleboro Public Library, president of the Attleboro Hospital, operating the Sturdy Memorial Hospital for the city of Attleboro, and is an influential member of the Chamber of Commerce. During the World War Mr. Sweet served on various boards and committees, devoting a large share of his time to the home activities of the period, and received a medal from the governor of the State in recognition of services rendered. Fraternally Mr. Sweet is affiliated with Ezekiel Bates Lodge, Free and Accepted Masons; King Hiram Chapter, Royal Arch Masons; Attleboro Council, Royal and Select Masters; Bristol Commandery, Knights Templar; Massachusetts Consistory, Ancient Accepted Scottish Rite; and Aleppo Temple, Ancient Arabic Order Nobles of the Mystic Shrine. His club affiliations include membership in the Economic and Universalist clubs, of Boston, and the Highland Country Club of Attleboro. He is a leading member of the Universalist church, was formerly president of the Massachusetts Universalist State Convention, and member of the Board of Trustees of the Universalist General Convention.

Joseph Lyman Sweet married, at Attleboro, Massachusetts, on September 20, 1876, Florence M. Hayward of this city, daughter of Charles E. and Charlotte E. (Wheelwright) Hayward. The Hayward name is also one of the oldest and most highly honored names in Bristol county. Mr. and Mrs. Sweet are the parents of one son: Harold E., long associated with his father in the above business, one of the foremost citizens of Attleboro, who presented to the city of Attleboro, in honor of the name of his maternal forbears, the Hayward Athletic Field. An extended review of his life follows.

It is peculiarly fitting that the history of such a life as that of Joseph Lyman Sweet should find permanence in these annals of the city of Attleboro, for from the least to the greatest of his fellowtownspeople he is honored and beloved among them, and there is scarcely any interest of the community in which he has not borne an active part. Indeed the daily progress of the entire city is close to his heart, and every worthy effort commands his sympathy and cooperation.

HON. HAROLD EDWARD SWEET - As the managing executive of one of the foremost manufacturing jewelry concerns of Attleboro, Massachusetts, which recently celebrated the fiftieth anniversary of its existence, Harold Edward Sweet is a prominent figure in the jewelry trade. As the first mayor of the city of Attleboro and a leader in all civic and welfare advance, Mr. Sweet is one of the best known and one of the most popular men of this city. Mr. Sweet is a member of an old and honored family of Massachusetts and a son of Joseph Lyman Sweet, whose sketch precedes this.

Harold Edward Sweet was born at West Mansfield, Massachusetts, June 24, 1877. His education was begun in the public schools of Attleboro and he later entered the English and Classical High School of Providence, Rhode Island. Thereafter entering Tufts College, Mr. Sweet was graduated from that institution in the class of 1898 with the degree of Bachelor of Arts. Following the completion of his education, Mr. Sweet entered the employ of the R. F. Simmons Company, manufacturing jewelers, of which his father was then a leading executive. Beginning as a bench hand Mr. Sweet served through the various positions, familiarizing himself with every department of the plant by the very practical method of experience. Rising to the position of road salesman he was active in that capacity for several years, in the fall of 1899 becoming a member of the firm. The history of this enterprise is mentioned at length in the preceding: sketch.

Harold Edward Sweet has various other affiliations in Attleboro; indeed there is scarcely any local interest which does not command his generous aid and hearty cooperation. He is a director of the

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First National Bank, of Attleboro and of many of the industrial corporations which make this city one of the most prosperous civic bodies in New England. He is a member and past president of the Attleboro Chamber of Commerce and has_ been prominent in Democratic party affairs in the State, having been nominated as presidential elector from the Fifteenth Massachusetts District on the Democratic ticket in 1920. In minor official capacities he served with efficiency and excellent judgment in the public progress in Attleboro, and for nine years was a member of the school committee, serving on various boards and committees of that body. His wide usefulness as a citizen and his definite public services led to his election as the first mayor of the city of Attleboro, taking up the duties of his office when the city charter came into effect, and serving two terms, from 1914-1918 inclusive, being unopposed for reélection in 1916. This period covering, as it did, the trying years of the World War, Mr. Sweet's ability and diplomacy were put to very exacting tests, but in all that involved the public welfare of the spontaneous patriotism of the hour, his leadership proved that of the man of great wisdom, as well as of vital force. Always deeply interested in military affairs, Mr. Sweet served while mayor in Company M, 14th Regiment, 5th Brigade, Massachusetts State Guard, with the rank of second lieutenant. Fraternally he is affliated with many of the leading organizations of this section among which may be enumerated Free and Accepted Masons, Independent Order of Odd Fellows, Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, and United Workmen. In college Mr. Sweet joined the Delta Upsilon fraternity. Mr. Sweet's benevolences are those of the man giving his best to the world and frankly acknowledging his responsibility to society. He presented to the city of Attleboro the Hayward Athletic Field as a memorial to his maternal family name, Hayward, but aside from this universally appreciated public benefaction his charitable and benevolent activities are invariably withheld from the public eye whenever it is possible to do so. He is a member of the Universalist church, of which he has been moderator for several years, and is a trustee of Massachusetts Universalist Convention. Mr. Sweet is also a trustee of Tufts College and of Dean Academy at Franklin. He is a member of the Economic and Universalist clubs of Boston, the Highland Country Club of Attleboro, and the Cape Cod Chamber of Commerce, having a summer home at North Falmouth.

Mr. Sweet married, in the year 1900, Gertrude O. Hunton, of Detroit, Michigan, and they are the parents of two children: Hayward H., born January 18, 1909; and Marian H., born August 1, 1912.

WILLIAM EDDY (2) FULLER - From 1863, when the father was admitted, until 1917, when the son passed away, William Eddy Fuller (1) and (2), were members of the Bristol county bar, the father located in Taunton, the son in Fall River. For a quarter of a century William Eddy (1) Fuller, administered the office of judge of probate and insolvency at Taunton. His twenty-fifth anniversary was made the occasion of a notable gathering of the members of the Bristol bar, and at the request of the meeting, Judge Fuller sat for an oil painting which, when completed, was hung in the court room. He was regarded by other probate judges of the State as their chief justice, and his name is preserved in history as an intelligent and devoted student of probate law. In 1891 he published a work on Massachusetts probate law which became a standard handbook, ever since in use by the lawyers throughout the State. He was known as a model judge and citizen, and to his only son, Willam Eddy (2) Fuller, he transmitted his ability, talent and professional love for the law. Sixteen years before the father's death, the son was admitted to the same bar, and during those years they were contemporaries, the father on the bench, the son at the bar. William Eddy (2) Fuller to his legal ability added a keen business acumen that brought him into prominence among the textile manufacturers of his city, but until the time of his death he continued his legal partnership and_ practice. The father lived to almost acquire octogenarian honors, but the son passed away in the prime of his splendid powers, leaving the Bristol bar without a William Eddy Fuller for the first time in fifty-four years.

Fuller is a name honored in New England since "Mayflower" days, and long before, in England, Fullers had won both fame and high position in the church and in literature. Of Thomas Fuller, chaplain to Charles the Second, it was written: "Fuller was incomparably the most sensible, at least the least prejudicial great man of an age that boasted a galaxy of great men." In the United States a most distinguished member of the family was Melville W. Fuller, who became chief justice of the United States Supreme Court.

The New England founder of the family, Dr. Samuel Fuller, of the "Mayflower," was a son of Robert and Frances Fuller, of Redenhall, Norfolkshire, England, and grandson of John Fuller, several of whose descendants were "Mayflower" passengers. The line as traced to William Eddy (2) Fuller follows:

Dr. Samuel Fuller, of the "Mayflower," and his third wife, Bridget (Lee) Fuller, who came to New England in the ship "Ann" in 1632. Their son, Rev. Samuel Fuller, and his wife, Elizabeth (Brewster) Fuller. Their son, Dr. Isaac Fuller, and his wife, Mary (Eddy) Fuller. Their son, Dr. Jabez Fuller, and his wife, Elizabeth (Hilliard) Fuller. Their son, Dr. Jonathan Fuller, and his wife, Lucy (Eddy) Fuller. Their son, Jabez (2) Fuller, and his wife, Sarah Hudson (Churchill) Fuller. Their son, Judge William Eddy Fuller, and his wife, Anna Miles (Corey) Fuller. Their son, William Eddy (2) Fuller, to whose memory this review is dedicated.

It will be noted that Jabez (2) Fuller of the sixth generation was the only head of these eight generations of Fullers that was not a professional man, the list including four physicians, one minister and two lawyers, one a judge. Collateral lines which are interwoven with Fuller history are many, including the Corey family, founded in New England by Giles Corey, 1649; the Rhodes family which springs from Henry Rhodes, 1640, and the Churchill family, beginning with John Churchill, this line also including descent from that great captain of the Pilgrims, Captain Myles Standish.

William Eddy (2) Fuller, only son of Judge William Eddy (1) and Anna Miles (Corey) Fuller, was born in Taunton, Massachusetts, August 14, 1870, and died at his home in Fall River, Massachusetts, July 18, 1917. After preparation at Bristol Academy he entered Harvard University, whence he was graduated A. B., class of 1892. With strong inherited professional instincts it was but a question which profession he should embrace, his choice falling upon the law. He further prepared at Harvard Law School, and in 1895 received from that institution his LL. B. His father was then judge of the Court of Probate and Insolvency for Bristol county, residing in Taunton, the son choosing Fall River as the seat of his practice. Here he formed a partnership with Arthur S. Phillips, they practicing from 1895 until 1907 as Phillips & Fuller. Then the firm was dissolved, Mr. Fuller becoming associated in practice with William C. Gray, Fuller & Gray continuing until dissolved in 1917 through the death of the senior partner. Mr. Fuller was an able lawyer, standing high among his contemporaries and always commanding a good practice. He was a member of the Bristol County, Massachusetts State and American Bar associations, and was a close observer of the strictest construction of the ethics of his profession.

In 1904 Mr. Fuller first came prominently into business life, then accepted election as secretary and general manager of The Solvents Recovery Company. He was also a member of the board of directors of the Davis Mills, and from the organization of that corporation in 1902 until his passing was counsel to that corporation. At the time of the reorganization of the Kilbourn-Lincoln Machine Company, Mr. Fuller was chosen treasurer of the company, an office he ably filled, as he did all others, until the fall of 1916, when he was compelled by ill health to resign.

In religious preference Mr. Fuller was a Unitarian, member of the Fall River Society of that faith. He was always interested in civic affairs, but as a publicspirited citizen, never as a seeker for office. His political bias was Republican. He served the Chamber of Commerce as a director; was a member of the Quequechan Club; the Harvard Club of Fall River; the Coffee Tavern Association; the old Colony Historical Society and the Fall River Country Club. The last ten years of his life Mr. Fuller was afflicted with most serious eye trouble and "sat in darkness" most of that period. His general health was poor, and the winter of 1916 he spent in Florida, hoping to regain his lost strength and vigor. But his race was nearly run and the following summer he passed away, aged forty-seven years.

and Mary E. (Haskell) Newcomb, of Detroit, her father the founder of and until his death in March, 1915, president of the Newcomb-Endicott Company, Detroit's leading department store. He was succeeded in the presidency of that corporation by his son, C. A. Newcomb (2). To Mr. and Mrs. Fuller three children were born: 1. William Eddy (3), born June 29, 1898; a graduate of Phillips Exeter Academy, (1915); Harvard University, A. B., 1919, LL. B., (1921); and thus, after a lapse of four years, a third William Eddy Fuller appears at the Bristol county bar. He married Ethel Kilder, of Assonet, Massachusetts, and they are the parents of William Eddy (4) and Elizabeth Hatheway, born June 4, 1923, of the tenth American Fuller generation in direct lineal line. During the World War period, 1917, he attended the Junior Training Camp at Plattsburg, New York, and later, Plattsburg Officers' Training Camp, and in September, 1918, was commissioned second lieutenant, then was assigned to duty at Camp Taylor, Louisville, Kentucky. He continued in the service until honorably discharged with his command in December, 1918. 2. Newcomb, born September 22, 1900. He prepared for college, entered Harvard, but after completing his sophomore year did not return, but graduated from Exeter in 1920, and later was a student in The Textile School of Fall River, from which he finished in 1923. 3. Anna C., born April 27, 1907, now a junior in B. M. C. Durfee High School, Fall River.

Mrs. May Q. (Newcomb) Fuller survives her husband and continues her residence in the Fuller home at No. 745 Highland avenue, Fall River. She is a member of the Woman's Club of Fall River; the Fall River Country Club; the Acoaxet Country Club; the Fortnightly Club; and the Unitarian Society of Fall River, being active in church and charitable work as well as of social prominence.

LEONTINE LINCOLN, A. M. - Of those truly great men who have won power and _ influence through their own high achievements, then have given to the world benefactions of permanent significance, Leontine Lincoln, late of Fall River, Massachusetts, is an eminently noteworthy example. A man of distinguished, yet benevolent presence, forceful and gifted with broad abilities, yet possessing the keenest sympathy for the weak or unfortunate, Mr. Lincoln's spirit was one of rare beauty, and his life meant much to all who came within the circle of his acquaintance, Rising from the position of a clerk in the offices of the corporation of which his honored father was a leading executive, he advanced by regular steps until he reached the highest position in textile manufacturing, and in his citizenship he won a place among the devoted and public-spirited men of his city and State. Much as his business activities meant to the textile industry, his comprehensive service to the people in many realms of unrewarded effort means infinitely more, and its significance will endure for generations to ~ come. It would be difficult in the extreme to consider Fall River during the past half-century without constant reference to Leontine Lincoln, for his work is everywhere apparent, and his influence permeates very department of the life of the city. His death, which occurred in the early summer of 1923, was a public calamity, and when the news of his passing became known, the entire city mourned.

The pioneer of the Lincoln family in America was Thomas Lincoln, who has come down in history as "the miller,' and who came from England to this country in 1636, settling at Hingham, Massachusetts. Thomas Lincoln became the owner of a mill in Taunton, on Mill river, and this he operated for thirty-three years, after which he was succeeded by his sons. The line of descent is through his son, Thomas (2) Lincoln, and his wife, Mary Austin; their son, Thomas (3) Lincoln, and his wife, Mary Stacy; their son, William Lincoln, and his wife, Rebecca Walker; their son, William (2) Lincoln, and his wife, Hannah Wade; their son, Caleb Lincoln, "miller and Revolutionary soldier,' and his wife, Mercy Thayer; their son, Jonathan Thayer Lincoln, and his wife, Abby Luscomb; their son, Leontine Lincoln, and his wife, Amelia Sanford Duncan, deceased; and their sons, Jonathan Thayer (2) and Leontine (2) Lincoln, who now carry forward the business interests of their late father.

Down the generations of this family line every period of the history of the Colonies and the young Republic has seen the achievements of men of this name. In the sixth generation, Caleb Lincoln, "the miller," of Westville Village, trained his sons to the business, and through him and his descendants the manufacturing genius of the family has developed, subsequent generations having in turn been identified with the great enterprises of the city of large industries, Fall River. Notable among them was Jonathan Thayer Lincoln, a man of great business ability and mechanical genius, who was largely responsible for the upbuilding of the firm, later the corporation, Kilburn, Lincoln & Company, of which he was for years the executive head. Henry C., Edward, and Leontine Lincoln, all sons of Jonathan Thayer Lincoln, were trained under the direction of their able father.

Jonathan Thayer Lincoln, being of the seventh _ generation in this country, was born at Taunton, Massachusetts, October 17, 1805, and died at Fall River, July 23, 1881, "an ingenius and skillful mechanic, a business man of unquestioned integrity, a worthy and valued citizen." His parents moved to Westville, Massachusetts, where they occupied lands which had been in the family since 1660. Jonathan T. Lincoln learned the machinist's trade, beginning at the age of sixteen, and became a skilled workman. -He worked at Pawtucket and Taunton, settling in Fall River in 1829, as master mechanic, with the Massasoit Mill Company. In 1845-46 he built two-thirds of the looms installed by the Watuppa Manufacturing Company, and in the latter year became a member of the firm of E. C. Kilburn & Company, manufacturers of turbines, shafting, and various kinds of machinery for print works and iron mills. In 1856 the firm was organized as Kilburn, Lincoln & Son, the junior member being Henry C., son of Jonathan T. Lincoln. The firm specialty was the "Fourneyon Turbine," and in 1867 an iron foundry was added to the plant. In 1868 the business was incorporated as Kilburn, Lincoln & Company, Jonathan T. Lincoln, the first president of the company, holding office until his death. A large and finely equipped plant was erected, and the manufacture of looms was made the principal activity, the company becoming the most important in this section in the manufacture of looms for silk and cotton weaving. The concern is now universally known as the Kilburn-Lincoln Machine Company. Henry C. Lincoln succeeded his father in the presidency, which he filled until his death in 1884, a period of twelve years. Edward Lincoln, the second son, was for more than half a century identified with the manufacture of paper.