Westport Town (part 7 of 8)

In the year 1855 Jonathan T. Lincoln became associated with his son, Edward, in a _ paper manufacturing enterprise in North Dighton. He had large interests also in various other Fall River industries, and was a director of the 'Tecumseh. Mills from their organization. One of the oldest Master Masons in the city, for many years treasurer of Mount Hope Lodge, his fraternal activities were only the expression of a broad benevolence, a sunny temperament and an earnest purpose in life. Rigorously upright in his personal attitude towards all responsibility, his judgment of others was charitable, and he gave generously to all worthy objects. He was a free soil Whig until the formation of the Republican party, of which he was thereafter a loyal supporter, but never an office-seeker. He married (first) Mary Cook; (second) Abby Luscomb, of Taunton. The former bore him two sons and a daughter: Henry C., Edward, and Mary; the latter, a son: Leontine, of whom further. Abby (Luscomb) Lincoln was descended from Robert Luscomb and his son, Francis, who came from Ashburton, Devonshire, England, in 1690, settling in Taunton.

Leontine Lincoln, only son of Jonathan Thayer and Abby (Luscomb) Lincoln, was born at Fall River, Massachusetts, December 26, 1846, and died in the city of his birth, June 1, 1923. Not only as manufacturer, but as citizen and philanthropist, as friend and companion of men in every walk in life, Leontine Lincoln became one of the best known and most highly prized men of this city, and the record of his rise to prominence and the useful part he bore in the community is one of vital interest to the people. His education was begun in the public schools of Fall River, and completed in private schools at Providence, Rhode Island. In 1865 he began his career in the offices of the Kilburn, Lincoln & Company's plant, his father then being president of the corporation. In 1872 Mr. Lincoln became treasurer of the company, succeeding E. C. Kilburn, who then retired. From that time on the young man rose rapidly in official rank, both in this enterprise and in other leading industries of Fall River. He filled the office of treasurer of the firm of Kilburn, Lincoln & Company for thirty-one years. Jonathan Thayer Lincoln, the first president of the company, was succeeded at his death by his eldest son, Henry C. Lincoln, who in turn filled that office until his death, in 1884, to be succeeded by his brother-in-law, Andrew Luscomb. 'The latter passed away in 1903, and Leontine Lincoln succeeded to the presidency, which had then become the largest of all corporations manufacturing silk and cotton machinery. He was thereby the fourth president of the concern since its incorporation in 1868. He carried the enterprise to ever higher success, his genius for direction and administration qualifying him for leadership of the highest type. His extensive affiliations in the business would reveal in no uncertain way the world's appraisal of his abilities. At the time of his death he was president of the following corporations: The Lincoln Manufacturing Company; the Davis Mills; the Luther Manufacturing Company; the Arkwright Mills; the Seaconnet Mills; the Parker Mills, as well as Kilburn, Lincoln & Company. He was president of the second National Bank of Fall River for nearly twenty years, or until the expiration of its charter. A director of the Massasoit-Pocasset National Bank, he was also at one time affiliated with the Fall River Five Cents Savings Bank as a trustee.

mother of Fall River's first mayor, James Buffington. He was one of the first to recognize the value to the city of vocational training along the line of Fall River's greatest industry, and was one of the moving spirits in the founding of the Bradford Durfee Textile School, of which he was appointed an original trustee, upon its incorporation in 1903, and before the close of the year he was elected president, which office he ably filled until his death. The graduating class of 1923 was inexpressibly saddened by the death of Mr. Lincoln, which occurred the day before their public exercises. He was a member of the Fall River School Committee for a period of twenty-four years (1880-1904), and during sixteen years of the time served as chairman. He was also a trustee of the B. M. C. Durfee High School from its establishment, serving as secretary. That his endeavors in this field were appreciated is evidenced by the naming of the Lincoln School, which stands at the corner of High and Pine streets, in his honor. As far back as March, 1878, Mr. Lincoln was elected a trustee of the public Library, and in this connection he was active until his death. His taste for good literature was an inherited one, and set a high standard in the library, which for many years he was accustomed to visit for a short time every evening. He wrote much on educational topics, and addressed many public gatherings convened for the furtherance of educational advance. He was also the author of pamphlets on economic and social subjects,and his work, "Leprosy and its Treatment," is esteemed a reference book on the subject by authorities on this disease.

to which he was appointed by Governor Greenhalgh on February 15, 1894, and by reappointment of succeeding governors continued to serve. Upon the division of the board into two, covering the two branches of work, Mr. Lincoln was made chairman of the State Board of Charity. This was in 1898, and he served until the abolishment of this board in 1919 by Governor Cox. One of the most widereaching and important phases of the work accomplished by this board was the founding of the leper colony on Penikese Island, in Buzzard's Bay, the island being purchased during the chairmanship of Mr. Lincoln. His political prominence was the least important of all his public activities. Always a staunch Republican, Mr. Lincoln was a worker for the good of the party, and in 1896 accepted the appointment as delegate to the Republican National Convention in St. Louis, Missouri, at which William McKinley was nominated for the presidency. On that occasion Mr. Lincoln declared for the gold standard, and throughout his lifetime his utterances on public questions were fearless, wise, and keenly relevant to the conditions or progress of the moment. But never did he accept a salaried office in the service of others, declining twice the mayoralty of the city of Fall River, and once the nomination for Congressman.

Deeply interested in local history and all that pertains to the preservation of old records, Mr. Lincoln was for many years a leading member of the Old Colony Historical Society, of Taunton, and was one of the moving spirits in the organization of the Fall River Historical Society in 1921. Exhaustively familiar with the Colonial history of New England, and Bristol county's share in it, his leadership in this project was an important factor in the success of the organization. Only two weeks before his death Mr. Lincoln presided as chairman at the annual meeting of the Historical Society. His many affiliations included membership in the American Libraries Association, the New England Cotton Manufacturers' Association, and the Brown University Club of Fall River. This University conferred upon him the degree of Master of Arts in the year 1889. He was a member of the Boston City Club, the Home Market Club, of Boston, and the Quequechan Club of Fall River: He attended the Baptist Temple of Fall River, and there the last sad rites were held before the interment of the body on Monday afternoon, June 4, 1923.

Leontine Lincoln married, on May 12, 1868, Amelia Sanford Duncan, daughter of Rev. John and Mary A. (McCowan) Duncan, who died in 1917. They were the parents of two sons: 1. Jonathan Thayer (2), a sketch of whom follows. 2. Leontine (2), who was born at Fall River, Massachusetts, August 6, 1872. After completing high school, he entered business life with his father and brother, and has won similar high rank as a cotton broker.

In such a life as that of Leontine (1) Lincoln, whose death has cast a shadow over the entire city of Fall River, and saddened all who knew him here and elsewhere, there is exemplified the rich beneficence which makes the world better and happier, the spirit of brotherly kindness which assumes the burdens of the weak without recompense, and delights in directing the feet of youth to safe and worthy paths of effort. The one consolation, in considering the passing of this man among men, is the fact that for so many years he was spared to the community. His death was sudden, a result of an attack of appendicitis, followed by an operation at the Truesdale Hospital. It is a comfort to those who survive to know that his suffering was brief and the end peaceful and quiet,

He is gone, and the paths which so long he has trod will know his feet no more. Yet the work he did, and the living forces which he set in motion, will continue to do good down through the centuries, and for generations to come his name will be spoken with reverence and his memory cherished.

JONATHAN THAYER (2) LINCOLN, A. B., A. M. - The name of Jonathan Thayer Lincoln is one that has been known and honored in Fall River, Massachusetts, since 1829, when it was brought there by a young machinist, who later became the head of Kilburn, Lincoln & Company, which. was incorporated in 1868. 'That Jonathan Thayer Lincoln left sons: Henry C., Edward and Leontine, the last-named of extended mention in the foregoing sketch. Leontine Lincoln married, Amelia Sanford Duncan, and they were the parents of a_ second Jonathan Thayer, whose career is herein reviewed.

Jonathan Thayer (2) Lincoln was born at Fall River, Massachusetts, November 6, 1869. He completed public school study with graduation from B. M. C. Durfee High School, then entered Harvard University, whence he was graduated with the degree of A. B. in 1892, later receiving the degree of A. M. from Dartmouth College. After college years were over he entered the employ of Kilburn, Lincoln & Company, founded by his grandfather, Jonathan Thayer Lincoln (now the Kilburn, Lincoln Machine Company), and became manager, now being general manager and a director of that corporation; a director of the Lincoln Manufacturing Company and of the Seconnet Mills.

Mr. Lincoln has given a great deal of time to the study of economics, and is a lecturer at Dartmouth College on labor questions. He has also written numerous articles on different phases of those questions, and is the author of "The City of the Dinner Pail," (1909); and "The Factory," (1912). He is a member of the American Economic Association; American Sociological Society; the Asiatic Society of Japan; and other societies; and is a Republican _ in politics. His clubs are: The Quequechan, of Fall River; Twentieth Century, of Boston; and the Army and Navy, of New York.

Mr. Lincoln married, June 24, 1903, Louise Sears Cobb, of West Newton, Massachusetts, and they are the parents of two children: Victoria Endicott, born

October 23, 1904; and Jonathan Thayer, Jr., born December 14, 1910. The family home is at No. 68 Bigelow street. Mr. Lincoln's offices are at No. 37 Canal street, Fall River, Massachusetts.

ANSON CHURCHILL PECKHAM, a resident of Fall River since early childhood, is of New England birth and ancestry, a lineal descendant in the eighth generation of the family founded in Rhode Island by John Peckham, who was at Newburyport as early as 1638. The founder of the English family is believed to have been John Peckham, who was archbishop of Canterbury, 1279- 1292, although in 1127 a Robert Peckham was chaplain to Henry I, who may have been the archbishop's ancestor. Sir Edmund Peckham, a descendant, was master of the mint under Queen Elizabeth, and knighted in 1542. His son, Sir George Peckham, was a merchant adventurer and was one of an exploring party to North America in 1574.

John Peckham, the American founder of the family, is said to have been the younger son of a titled English family and came to New England with the Hutchinsons. He was a zealous Baptist and in 1648 was registered as one of the ten male members of the First Baptist Church of Newport, Rhode Island. The line of descent from John Peckham, the founder, is thus traced in this branch: John Peckham, the founder. His son, Rev. William Peckham, pastor of the First Baptist Church of Newport, believed.to have been the first Baptist minister ordained in New England, was deputy to General Court. His son, William Peckham, deputy to the General Court, and his wife, Mary (Tew) Peckham. 'Their son, William Peckham, and his wife, Phoebe (Barker) Peckham. Their son, Peleg Peckham, and his wife, Elizabeth (Smith) Peckham. Their son, Henry Peckham, a soldier of the War of 1812, town clerk for many years, and his wife, Esther (Gould) Peckham. Their son, Reuben Morton Peckham, and his wife, Elizabeth Pope (Churchill) Peckham. Their son, Dr. Anson Churchill Peckham, of further mention.

Dudley House in Middletown, Rhode Island, September 17, 1823, and died at Fall River, Massachusetts, July 4, 1911. In 1830 Fall River became the family home and there his after life was spent. He was a carpenter and pattern-maker, also a house builder, and for several years prior to his retirement was carpenter at the Narragansett Mills. He was a natural musician, a good singer, and played upon several instruments. In politics he was an independent Republican, a member of the Second Baptist Church of Fall River. He married, in Middleboro, Massachusetts, October 25, 1846, Elizabeth Pope Churchill, daughter of Anson Sprague and Betsey (Collins) Churchill of New Bedford. Mr. and Mrs. Peckham walked life's pathway for almost fifty-six years, Mrs. Peckham passing away at Fall River June 25, 1902, her husband surviving her nine years. They were the parents of seven children, the fourth a son, Anson Churchill, of further mention.

Massachusetts, September 3, 1855, but since 1858 Fall River has been his home. He attended the public schools of Fall River, then continued his studies. under the instruction of Isaac Smith, Jr., A.M., M.D., until matriculating in the medical department of Dartmouth College, whence he -was graduated M.D.; October 30, 1877. The following month he began the practice of medicine at Fall River in association with his preceptor, Dr. Isaac Smith, Jr., an association dissolved by the death of Dr. Smith in 1882. On May 20 of that year Dr. Peckham established offices in the Ridings House, where he remained until August, 1889, when he bought and removed to his present location at the corner of Purchase and Cherry streets.

When the Fall River Hospital (now the Union Hospital) was opened in 1888, Dr. Peckham was appointed a member of the medical staff and served for twenty years. He also served upon the staff of the City Hospital (now Fall River General Hospital) for a period of seven years. In 1897 he was appointed a member of the Fall River pension board as one of its medical examiners, a position he resigned in 1902. For thirty years Dr. Peckham has been a member of the Fall River Medical Society, keeping in close touch with the medical men of the city, in which he has now practiced his profession for over forty-five years. He has seen Fall River grow from a city of 13,000 to one of 126,000, and from operations performed 'in patients' homes often by the light of one or more lanterns to those now performed in splendidly equipped hospitals.

The doctor, in the intervals of a busy and successful professional life, has written a great deal of biography, and has preserved the life history and career of many of the physicians who have practiced in Fall River since 1811, when Dr. Amory Glazier became Fall River's first resident physician. For each of these physicians Dr. Peckham has complete data covering birth, family, education, graduation, with a record of their active practice and noteworthy incidents of their work in hospitals and_ societies. Much of this matter will appear in the historical volume of this work in the chapters devoted to Early Doctors and Medical Societies.

In 1901 Dr. Peckham was admitted to membership in the American Medical Association; in 1909, having served in 1889 as secretary and treasurer and later as vice-president, he was elected president of the Fall River Medical Society. In 1915 he was appointed by Mayor James H. Kay a member of the Fall River Board of Health, was reappointed by Mayor Kay in 1918, and again in 1921. He is now a member of Fall River Medical Society; South Boston Medical Library Association; American Public Health Association; Associated Boards of Health of the Southeastern Massachusetts Health District; Dartmouth. Club of Boston; and Adams and Herrick clubs of Fall River. He is a member of the Masonic order, affiliated with Narragansett Lodge, Fall River Chapter, Fall River Council and Godfrey de Bouillon Commandery. He is a noble of Palestine Temple, Ancient Arabic Order Nobles of the Mystic Shrine; past chancellor of Anawam

Lodge, Knights of Pythias; Fall River Lodge, Independent Order of Odd Fellows, and Metacomet Encampment. In political faith he is a Republican.

FRANKLIN DUNBAR WILLIAMS - The construction world of Bristol county, Massachusetts, is going forward under the leadership of progressive and public-spirited men whose activities are doing much for the general advance. In this group Franklin Dunbar Williams is a leading figure, and as the builder of some of the foremost institutional, industrial and commercial structures, as well as ;many of the most beautiful residences in this section, his name finds honored place in these pages. The Williams family is one of the oldest in this State, Mr. Williams being the seventh generation in direct line from Richard Williams, one of the original purchasers of Taunton, in 1637. He is also descended from distinguished forbears through his maternal line.

Franklin D. Williams is a son of George Bradford and Sarah Carver (Barstow) Williams, both natives of Taunton, who lived and died in this city. The father, who was born November 12, 1824, died March 29, 1900, after a long and useful career in the lumber business. His business brought him in contact with the most significant activities of the day, but he was a man of very modest and retiring | temperament, always averse to publicity of any kind, thus his genuine worth was little appreciated. The mother was born November 1, 1826, and died September 26, 1910.

Franklin Dunbar Williams was born at the family homestead at No. 43 Ingell street, Taunton, November 21, 1861. His education, begun in the public schools of Taunton, was finished in Chauncey Hall School, Boston, his business life beginning soon after his return from Boston. As a young man, Mr. Williams was deeply interested in all lines of construction activities, and he looks back to a certain date of significance to more than his own career, when he adopted an original method of placing himself in line with this branch of human effort. On Monday, May 15, 1882, he hired a competent carpenter and began taking contracts, in the meanwhile learning the trade. This was before he was twenty-one years of age, by several months, and that early beginning gave him a wonderful start. Mr. Williams later established a mercantile enterprise at his original location at No. 50 Weir street for the sale of hardware and builders' supplies, and eventually removed both store and office to his present location at No. 15 Broadway. Although it might not be entirely correct to state that Mr. Williams specializes in residential work, still his great interest in this branch of his business perhaps places it in the lead. Mr. Williams has built many of the modern school houses and manufacturing plants of the city, as well as several institutions for the State. ?

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has been thus active, he has kept in close touch with all local advance, and has become financially interested in many of the leading enterprises of this section. He is president of the Taunton Knitting Company; the Bay State Crucible Company; the Presbrey Stove Lining Company; an ex-president of the Winthrop Cotton Yarn Company; a director of the New England Brass Company, and a member of the board of investment of the Taunton Savings Bank..

A leading figure in fraternal circles, Mr. Williams is a member of Ionic Lodge, Free and Accepted Masons; St. Mark's Chapter, Royal Arch Masons, of which he is a past high priest; New . Bedford Council, Royal and Select Masters; St. John's Commandery, Knights Templar, of Providence, Rhode Island; the Massachusetts Order of the High Priesthood; and Palestine Temple, Ancient Arabic Order Nobles of the Mystic Shrine, also of Providence. He is a member of the Winthrop Club. By political affiliation he is identified with the Republican party, and is interested in public affairs as a progressive and forward-looking citizen.

Mr. Williams married, January 17, 1888, at the Unitarian church, in Taunton, Emeretta Celia Tripp, daughter of Isaiah Kirby and Celia Celestia (Wilbur) Tripp, who had been Mrs. Hodges' prior to her marriage to Mr. Tripp. Mr. Tripp was born at Westport, Massachusetts, September 2, 1844, and died at Woburn, also in this State, January 17, The mother was born at Winslow, Maine, May 3, 1840, and died in Taunton, September 5, 1919. Mrs. Williams was born in Boston, Massachusetts, December 8, 1864, and is a graduate of Taunton High School. Mr. Williams is a lifelong resident of Taunton, and both are members of the First Congregational Church (Unitarian).

A. GILBERT WILLIAMS. - Broadly successful in his chosen field of activity and affiliated with various branches of commercial and financial endeavor in Bristol county, Massachusetts, A. Gilbert Williams is a noteworthy figure in the city of Taunton, and his position in the world of construction is one of marked importance. He stands at the head of one of the older' establishments of this city in the distribution of lumber, sash, doors, and blinds, also operating a planing mill. Mr. Williams is a member of an old family of Taunton, and is a son of George Bradford Williams, an account of whom appears in the preceding sketch.

A. Gilbert Williams was born in Taunton, Massachusetts, and was educated in the local public and high schools. His first business experience was in association with his father in the lumber interest above mentioned, then after a time he entered business for himself, establishing a planing mill. His first location was on High street, and for about fifteen years he was active along this line, then in the year 1887 he formed an association with his brothers under the title of A. G. Williams & Company, for the purpose of dealing in lumber, sash, doors, blinds, and so forth. He continued the operation of the planing mill which he originally started and equipped the plant with modern steam machinery. He also had a saw mill, and the various buildings, which occupy nearly three acres of floor space, comprise one of the most complete and up-to-date plants of this kind in Bristol county. The scope of their operations is practically within a radius of fifteen miles, their interest centering on Ingell street, near Weir Village, with factory in the rear of No. 62 Weir street. They employ about twenty hands, and in his position as treasurer of this company Mr. Williams is considered one of the foremost men in construction circles in this section. In the world of finance Mr. Williams is well known as a director of the Machinists' Bank of Taunton, and he is interested in various branches of community advance, serving as trustee of the Mount Pleasant Cemetery Association, also of this city. Politically he supports the Republican party, and while he has never sought the honors or emoluments of public office he has served as alderman from the fourth ward during the years 1884-86, inclusive, and also in 1889-90. He has few interests outside those which align closely with his business, but is a member of the Old Colony Historical Society, and is a member of the Unitarian church.

CHARLES MARCUS RHODES. - An honored and venerable figure in the city of Taunton, Massachusetts, is Charles Marcus Rhodes, who for many years was actively identified with the firm of M. M. Rhodes & Sons Company, and still retains his interest in the enterprise, although he has in recent years turned over to others the responsibilities which he carried for so long and faithfully discharged. Few men have been more active in all that pertains to the welfare of the people and the progress of the civic body, yet Mr. Rhodes has always chosen to work quietly for the general advance, lending his influence and aid to all worthy endeavor, while his name has never been heralded as a leader of men.

Mr. Rhodes is a son of Marcus M. Rhodes, who was born in 1822, in Foxboro, Massachusetts, and died in Taunton, in 1911, at the great age of ninetyfour years. A man of large ability and enterprising spirit, he founded the interest which his sons later carried forward, and which is now a leading concern in its field, prospering under the management of the third generation. The mother, Rowena A. (Williams) Rhodes, was born in 1826, in Taunton, Massachusetts, and died December 16, 1907, at the age of eighty-one years.

Charles Marcus Rhodes was born in the -city of Taunton, Massachusetts, October 6, 1846. His education was begun in the local public schools, and following the completion of the high school course, he entered Harvard University, from which he was graduated in the class of 1868, with the degree of Bachelor of Science. Following the completion of his education, Mr. Rhodes became associated with his father as a member of M. M. Rhodes & Sons, his brothers, George Holbrook and Albert Clinton Rhodes, also being partners in the business, which is now continued under the management of Marcus Arnold Rhodes, Mr. Rhodes' nephew, and son of George H. Rhodes, a review of the career of the present head appearing elsewhere in this work. This enterprise was founded by Marcus M. Rhodes in the early fifties, and the product was originally lining nails, coffin tacks and upholsterers' buttons. The three sons of the founder, Charles M., George H., and Albert C., eventually entered the business as partners, and with changing conditions and steady growth the enterprise developed into one of more than local importance. They began to make shoe buttons about 1872, and in recent years their product has been largely shoe laces and upholstery buttons, in which latter branch they hold leading rank in Taunton. They also enamel hooks for shoes, doing an extensive business in this line. The plant is located at No. 12 Porter street, and with eight buildings, aggregating a floor space of some 20,000 square feet, they employ about sixty people. Charles Marcus Rhodes has for many years been vice-president of this industrial organization, and although he has retired from active participation in the business of the corporation, still fills the office of vice-president and acts in an advisory capacity. He is frequently sought for services of this nature by other representative business concerns, for his judgment is prized by all who know him, and his far-sighted survey of conditions and the trend of affairs make his counsel valuable to any line of commercial and industrial endeavor. He has few affiiations with organized advance, giving his cordial aid and assistance to all in time of special effort, and is a member of the Broadway Congregational Church of Taunton, and a deacon since May 12, 1873.

Mr. Rhodes married (first) in 1875, Annie B. Haskins, of Taunton, who died in 1898. She was a daughter of Samuel and Sarah A. (Hathaway) Haskins, of this city. He married (second) Jane E. (Dalglish) Robinson, daughter of Robert and Harriett (Gray) Dalglish, and they reside at No. 49 Cedar street, Taunton. Mr. Rhodes has one daughter, Mabel, wife of Everett Wilbur Manter, and they reside in Taunton, and have four children: Mabel Rhodes, Edith Haskins, Charlotte Faunce, and Annie Blake.

Hon. Frederick Stanley Hall, A.B.

HON. FREDERICK STANLEY HALL, A.B., LL. B. - One of the foremost names in the legal profession in Bristol county, Massachusetts, and a name widely known throughout the New England States, is that of the Hon. Frederick Stanley Hall, whose professional career of some thirty-eight years has carried him to a very high position in his chosen field of endeavor, and whose influence is always cast on the side of righteousness and progress.

A man of large mental stature and lofty attainments, Judge Hall inherits the spirit of the pioneer from a long line of worthy ancestors, being the ninth generation from George Hall, the immigrant ancestor of this family, who came from England in early Colonial days and was one of the original settlers of what is now the city of Taunton. This family has given to the world in every generation men of broad significance to the professions and industries, and to the commercial advance of the Colonies and the young Republic. In direct line Bryan Hall served in the Revolutionary War, with the rank of captain, in the Continental Army. Richard Henry Hall, Judge Hall's father, was for many years active as a metallurgist, but was better known generally through his usefulness as a public servant. Always constructively interested in the community advance, he served in many minor

Taunton, his subsequent reélections retaining him in this high office for three terms. He did much for the city, both in advancing her immediate interests and in safeguarding her permanent welfare, and his name is an honored one in the annals of the municipality. Richard Henry Hall married Susan J. Drake, who was born at North Bridgewater, Massachusetts, and was also a member of an old and honored New England family. His death occurred September 2, 1909, while she passed away July 4, 1906.

Frederick Stanley Hall was born at Norton, Massachusetts, February 10, 1861. Gaining his early education in the public schools, he later entered Harvard University for his course in arts and letters, and was graduated in the class of 1882, with the degree of Bachelor of Arts. Thereafter taking up his professional preparations at Boston University Law School, he was graduated from that institution with the degree of Bachelor of Laws. Shortly afterward admitted to the bar of his native State, the young man entered upon the practice of the law in the city of Taunton in June of the same year, and was active as an independent practitioner for about seven years. He then formed a partnership with Edward H. Bennett, and under the firm name of Bennett & Hall went forward until the death of the senior partner, which occurred in 1898. Mr. Hall then formed a partnership with Charles C. Hagerty, and for twenty years the firm of Hall & Hagerty was a leading one in legal circles in Massachusetts. Judge Hagerty withdrew from the partnership in 1918, and the firm was reorganized under the present title of Hall, Hall & Washburn, Judge Hall's present partners being his son, Stanley Perkins Hall and Charles Godfrey Washburn. With offices in the Crocker building in Taunton, where the head of the firm has been located for thirty-five -years, this firm is holding front rank in the profession. Not only as one of the important men in his profession, but also as.a servant of the people, Judge Hall is giving of his abilities and energies to the world, and for many years he has been numbered among the outstanding men of Taunton.

A supporter of the Republican party from the time of attaining his majority, Judge Hall was a worker in the ranks of the party as a young man, and when still only twenty-six years of age was brought forward as a candidate for representative to the State Legislature. He was elected with a gratifying majority, and his work as a legislator marked him as a young man of whom his constituents might well be proud... During the years 1887- 88 he was appointed to some of the most important committees, including the judiciary committee and the rules committee, and also served as chairman of the prison committee. In 1893 he was appointed by Governor William E. Russell, as judge of the District Court of Bristol county, which responsible position he filled for a full term of ten years. Mean- 'while, in 1896, Judge Hall was elected delegate to the National Republican Convention which nominated the martyred President McKinley to the highest office in the land. In 1904-05 Judge Hall was a member of the executive council under Governors Douglass and Bates, and his work in this connection was also broadly constructive and calculated to advance the good of the commonwealth. His further public services have included membership in the Taunton Board of Trade, of which he was for several years president, also membership on the Taunton School Committee, covering a period of six years. Considering first, at all times, the best welfare of the people, Judge Hall has followed the dictates of his party whenever and wherever he believed that it led forward. On those issues in which he believed the party hovered on the verge of retrogression, he has taken able and fearless leadership, and such is his power over men that his contemporaries have chosen to cast in their lot with him in righteous defeat rather than in inglorious victory.

Judge Hall's private interests and public service have gone forward together. He was counsel for many years for the New York, New Haven & Hartford railroad, and is at present (1923) counsel for the Eastern Massachusetts Street Railway Company. He has been counsel for the county of Bristol for the past twenty years. Various affiliations connect his name with the industries and the world of finance. He was a director of the Bay State Crucible Company, the Bristol County Trust Company, the Pierce Hardware Company and the Taunton Pearl Works. During the World War he was chairman of the Legal Advisory Board, for which service he received a certificate of appreciation from the United States Government. Judge Hall's wide-reaching social connections include membership in the Winthrop and Harvard clubs of Taunton, the Segregansett Country Club, the Quequechan Club of Fall River, and the Wamsutta Club of New Bedford. He is a life member of the Old Colony Historical Society, and is a leading member of the Young Men's Christian Association and an active patron of its many endeavors. Identified with religious advance from his youth, he is a member of St. Thomas' Episcopal Church, of which he has been vestryman for several years.

Judge Hall married, on November 2, 1888, Bessie H. Perkins, of Taunton, daughter of John B. and Mattie C. (Bright) Perkins, of that city. Five children were born to this union: Stanley P., whose life is reviewed in the following sketch; Frederick H., a graduate of Harvard University, degree of Bachelor of Arts; Rachel, a graduate of the Winsor School of Boston, and Pine Manor of Wellesley,

STANLEY PERKINS HALL, A.B.,LL.B., is counted among the leading young men of Taunton, Massachusetts, in the profession of the law, and his position as a member of the firm of Hall, Hall & Washburn, is one of wide prominence. Born in the city of Taunton, September 3, 1889, Mr. Hall was reared in his native place and educated in the institutions of his native State. A son of Judge Frederick Stanley Hall (see preceding sketch), of Taunton, the head of the above law firm, Mr. Hall is a direct descendant of George Hall, one of the original settlers of Taunton, and of Captain Benjamin Hall, of Revolutionary fame. His maternal family line has also been long in this country, and his mother, Bessie H. (Perkins) Hall, is a member of a prominent family of Hartford, Connecticut.

As a young lad, Mr. Perkins attended the public schools of Taunton, and was graduated from the Taunton High School in the class of 1906. His course in the liberal arts was covered at Harvard University, from which he received his Bachelor's degree in the arts upon his graduation in the class of 1910. The success of his honored father in the profession of the law undoubtedly influenced Mr. Hall in his choice of a career, and entering Harvard University Law School, he was graduated in the class of 1912, with the degree of Bachelor of Laws. Admitted to the bar of his native State before the close of the year, Stanley P. Hall took up the practice of his profession in the offices of Hall & Hagerty, and from the beginning his success was assured. Not only as the progressive son of a brilliant father, but as a rising young lawyer of lofty ideals and a comprehensive grasp of his position, whatever the issue, Mr. Hall holds high rank in the profession. In the year 1919 he became a member of the firm of Hall, Hall & Washburn, and in this association with his father and Charles Godfrey Washburn, he is going forward to ever larger success. In the public life of his native city Mr. Hall has taken the deepest interest from his boyhood, but until quite recently he has never accepted public responsibilities. On January 3, 1923, he took up the duties of his present office as district attorney, succeeding Joseph T. Kenney. Mr. Hall is a veteran of the World War, having served in the United States Navy from 1917 until 1919. He was assigned to duty at Newport, Rhode Island, and Pelham Bay, New York, and received his honorable discharge from the service with the rank of ensign. He is now a member of the American Legion. His clubs are the Winthrop, the Bristol and the Segregansett Country, and he is an active member of the Young Men's Christian Association. His religious affiliation is with the Episcopal church.

Stanley Perkins Hall married, on January 1, 1918, Julia D. Burke, of Newport, Rhode Island, and they are the parents of three children: Stanley P., Jr., born November 20, 1918; Frederick R., born October 25, 1919; and Nancy, born April 9, 1921.

GEORGE HENRY EDDY, SR. - The death of the late George Henry Eddy, Sr., of Fall River, Massachusetts, in his eighty-fourth year, brought to its close a career which was notably long and which continued to render service to the last. The year before his death Mr. Eddy was made a member of the committee of citizens appointed to take charge of the preparation of a "History of Fall River," published by the Fall River Merchants' Association as a feature of the Cotton Centennial held in 1911, and it was only two years previous to his death that he declined reappointment as a member of the board of assessors. He had been prominent in the business, civic, and official activities of Fall River for fifty-four years, and until a few wecks before the end, his erect, active figure was one of the most familiar in the business section of the city. He was identified with the banking business in Fall River, was president of the Weetamoe Mills, manager and treasurer of the Flint Mills, a city and State government official, editorial writer, cotton broker, and an ardent supporter of all measures planned to benefit his fellow-citizens or advance the interests of his city, State, or country.

George Henry Eddy, Sr., was born in Warren, Rhode Island, January 5, 1829, and died at his home, No. 480 Locust street, Fall River, September 9, 1912. His father, a sea-faring man, was lost at sea when Mr. Eddy was an infant. The mother subsequently married Henry H. Hill, and the family in 1838 moved to Fall River, Massachusetts, where the son, George H., then but nine years of age, secured employment as tier boy at the American Print Works, where he remained for three years, and then worked for awhile in the Globe Print Works at Globe Village. During this time he attended school three months of each year. He left the mills to accept a position as clerk for Caleb B. Snow, a grocer, whose store was located in a stone building on Anawan street, opposite the Metacomet Mill. Later he was made manager of a cooperative store, one of a series scattered over New England, but, after a time of considerable experience in that connection, he purchased the Snow store, which he continued to conduct until 1861, when he-sold his interests and retired from the grocery business. He then formed a_ partnership with Alexander 'T. Milne, with whom he conducted a shoe store. Shortly after the incorporation of the Flint Mills he was elected treasurer of the corporation, and that important official position he filled until 1878, when he engaged in the cotton brokerage business in Fall River. In addition to his varied business activities Mr. Eddy was editorial writer for the "Evening News" and his remarkably strong and vigorous articles were often quoted and received favorable comment from many leading newspapers. Despite his fragmentary school attendance he had been a constant reader and had made himself a remarkably well-informed man with a style that was characterized by force and elegance... In 1889 he was elected an assessor and served through 1894. Ten years later he was reappointed by Mayor

George Grime and continued in office until his retirement in 1911, the year before his death. He had been a member of the Common Council in 1856, 1857, 1859 and 1876, and was president of that body in 1857. He was also a member of the Board of Aldermen in 1861 and again in 1878. He served one year in 1872 as a representative in the General Court and advocated the ten-hour law years before its enactment. In 1895 he was appointed by Mayor Greene a member of the first reservoir commission and did vaiuable service. He was reappointed by Mayor Amos M. Jackson in 1898 and again by Mayor Grime in 1901. For many years he was a member of the board of directors of the Weetamoe Mills, and from 1897 to the time of his death in 1912 he was president of that corporation. He was also a director of the Wampanoag Mills, and was clerk of the Citizens' Savings Bank, of which organization he was one of the oldest members. A great reader himself, and lover of the best literature of the day, he was anxious that others should share in these interests, and was one of the first members of the Atheneum, which later developed into the Fall River Public Library. He was at one time a captain in the volunteer fire department and was instrumental in placing in the fire house a library for use of the company. Being a self-educated man, he appreciated the difficulties in the way of those whose opportunities for schooling were limited and did all in his power to enable them to gain for themselves a liberal education. His unselfishness, his generosity, and his general spirit of helpfulness won for him in a very high degree, the love and esteem of his associates.

On October 24, 1852, George H. Eddy, Sr., married Ann Howarth, and they were the parents of three sons: George Henry (2), of whom further; William H.; and John D. Mrs. Eddy and all her sons survive the father.

GEORGE HENRY EDDY, JR - One of the well known bankers not only of Bristol county but of the State of Massachusetts is George Henry Eddy, Jr., who after forty-seven years of association with banking affairs in Fall River, thirty of which were spent in official connection with the Fall River National Bank, resigned as cashier of the last-named organization in 1921. In his long service in the banking business he made many friends, and the place he holds in the esteem of his fellow-citizens is a tribute to sterling qualities of heart and mind.

George Henry Eddy, Jr., son of George Henry, Sr., and of Ann (Howarth) Eddy (see preceding sketch), was born at Fall River, Massachusetts, December 12, 1854, and received his education in the public schools of Fall River and in the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. In 1873 he entered the employ of E. S. Brown as bookkeeper, continuing in that position for two years. He then, in 1875, began his long connection with the banking business by entering the employ cf the Fall River Savings Bank in the capacity of clerk. His connection with that institution was maintained for sixteen years, at the end of which time, in 1891, he resigned in order to accept the position as general bookkeeper and teller 'in the employ of the Fall River National Bank. This last connection was maintained for a period of thirty years. His already long experience, as well as his ability and his faithfulness, soon won promotion for him, and in 1895 he was elected cashier of the bank. In 1914 the cashier was also made chief executive of the institution, and that official position he continued to hold until 1921, when, on account of failing health, he resigned and retired from active service. ' He still retains his directorship in the bank, but has surrendered executive responsibility.

In addition to his responsibilities in connection with the Fall River National Bank, Mr. Eddy has been and is still officially associated with other enterprises. He is president of the Weetamoe Mills, a cotton cloth manufacturing corporation, of which his father was long president; a member of the board of directors of the Barnard Manufacturing Company; a director of the Massasoit Manufacturing Company; and vice-president of the Troy Cooperative Bank, which he served as secretary-treasurer from 1891 to 1914. He is a member of the Quequechan Club; is secretary of the Fall River Historical Society; and his religious affiliation is with the Ascension Protestant Episcopal Church. Politically he gives his support to the Republican party, and for one term he served as a member of the City Sinking Fund Commission. While keenly alive to all the responsibilities of citizenship and deeply interested in the city which has been his lifetime home, he never has sought political office.

ROBERT M. LEACH is a nationally prominent figure, and with interests centering in the city of Taunton, Massachusetts, his energy and business ability have done much toward spreading the fame of the fine old New England city in which he takes the deepest pride as his place of residence and the site of the industry of which he is a prominent executive. Mr. Leach is a native of New England, and a son of Edward G. and Agnes A. (Robinson) Leach. His father, who was born at Meredith, New Hampshire, was a leading attorney and counsellor-at-law in that State, and the mother, who was born at Mechanic Falls, Maine, is still living.

Robert M. Leach. was born at Franklin, New Hampshire, in 1879. His education was begun in the public schools of his birthplace, and following a preparatory course at Phillips-Andover Academy, he attended Dartmouth College, covering the greater part of the classical course. An eminently practical man of tireless energy and dauntless spirit, Mr. Leach entered the organization of the Weir Stove Company, of Taunton, immediately upon the completion of his education. Thereby identifying himself with a long established organization producing one of the necessities of life, and giving the highest type of excellence to their product, Mr. Leach threw himself heart and soul into the activities of the organization, and beginning in a_ subordinate position in the shipping department, familiarized himself with every detail of the plant. Every one who knows Robert M. Leach is well aware that it was only such an organization that could hold his interest, for no more splendidly whole-souled man has ever borne a part in the industrial progress of Taunton. His first step upward was to traveling salesman, then sales manager, and eventually he became a member of the corporation, which he has since served as treasurer. The Weir Stove Company has become known the world over as the manufacturers of the "Glenwood Ranges," and its history goes back to a small barn where three young men began making stoves, building on a rough lean-to as a shelter for their melting furnace. Severally equipped as to ability and experience, they were a designer, a foundry foreman and a skilled moulder, and for a time these three comprised the entire executive and operative force. From this humble beginning, carrying as_ their slogan, "Make Cooking Easy," they developed a prosperous business, and the enterprise was taken up by other hands when the founders finished their life-work, for they had set in motion an industry so greatly worth while that the world was glad to carry on. In his connection with this enterprise Mr. Leach has put into his work the high enthusiasm which inspired these pioneers, and at the same time has made the minutest detail his constant care, if in any way it involved the quality of the product and the entire satisfaction of the customer. Some idea of the growth of the enterprise may be gained from the fact that during one month of the year 1922 the sales of the company were greater than during any full year prior to 1900. It is a conservative statement to say that more than a million homes share the comfort and satisfaction of possessing "Glenwood Ranges."

The years of experience which have placed Robert M. Leach in one of the highest offices of this concern have made him more widely useful, for he has for some time held office in the National Association of Stove Manufacturers. He was _ formerly vice-president of this organization, but is now its president, and in this position wields a powerful influence for industrial advance in this field throughout the nation. His further business connections include the presidency of the Metropolitan Furniture Company, of Springfield, Massachusetts, and he holds a similar office in the Fowler Furniture Company of Worcester, the Atherton Furniture Company of Lewiston, Maine, and the Atherton Furniture Company of Brockton, Massachusetts, which has branches in Taunton and in Plymouth in this State. He is further a director of the Burpee Furniture Company, of Rockland, Maine, and is identified in the same capacity with the Atherton People's Furniture Company, of MHaverhill, Massachusetts, Atherton Furniture Company, of Lowell, Massachusetts, and Waterville, Maine. His local affiliations include a directorship in the Bristol County Trust Company,

During the World War Mr. Leach enlisted in the United States Army and was commissioned captain in the ordnance department; also gave his aid and influence to every home war-time endeavor. One of the instances of his interest in the city of Taunton and its people is the Walker Memorial Park, recently completed in what is known as Weir Village, on the river front north of the Weir Store Company, where for nearly a century ungainly grain elevators have stood. 'The creation of this beauty spot has taken much of Mr. Leach's time for many months, and it is his gift to the city in memory of his honored father-in-law, William E. Walker. The more personal interests of Mr. Leach include membership in Ionic Lodge, Free and Accepted Masons; St. Mark's Chapter, Royal Arch Masons; both of Taunton; St. John's Commandery, Knights Templar, of Providence, Rhode Island; and Palestine Temple, Ancient Arabic Order Nobles of the Mystic Shrine. He is a member of the Winthrop Club of Taunton, the Segregansett Country Club, the Rhode Island Country Club, and the Congressional Country Club, of Washington, District of Columbia.

Mr. Leach married, on November 28, 1900, Mary E. Walker, of Taunton, daughter of the late William E. Walker, who died in 1918, and Jennie (Carmichael) Walker. Mr. and Mrs. Leach have three children: Walker, born October 9, 1901, now a student at Dartmouth College, class of 1923; Malcolm, born August 8, 1903, also a student at Dartmouth, class of 1927; and Virginia, born August 19, 1915.

doctors by the name of Learned have graced the roster of Fall River physicians. Dr. Ebenezer Turell Learned, 1812-1885; his son, Dr. William

Turell Learned, 1861-1922; and his son, Dr. Elmer Turell Learned, 1890, who is the present representative of this distinguished family, skilled in medicine and eminent in citizenship. The Learneds are of ancient Colonial lineage, William Learned and his wife, Goodith, becoming members of the First Church of Charlestown, Massachusetts, in 1632; and William Learned, born in England about the yeer 1590, died in Charlestown, Massachusetts, March 1, 1646. The line of descent is traced from William Learned through his son, Isaac Learned, who came to New England with his parents about 1630; his son, Deacon Benoni Learned; his son, Thomas Learned; his son, David Learned; his son, Thomas (2) Learned; his son, Samuel Learned; his son, Dr. Ebenezer Turell Learned; his son, Dr. William Turell Learned; his son, Elmer Turell Learned.

Dr. Ebenezer T. Learned, son of Samuel and Lydia (Knapp) Learned, was born in Gardner, Massachusetts, and died at Fall River, Massachusetts, in 1885. He was a graduate of Harvard Medical College, class of 1836, and was in practice at Weymouth, Massachusetts, until 1847, when he removed to Fall River, where he continued in professional work until his death nearly four decades later. He was the trusted physician of many of the old families of Fall River and was highly regarded as both physician and citizen. For two years he was president of the South Massachusetts Medical Society, of which he became a member in 1839; and a man everywhere honored and respected. He married, May 14, 1835, Mary Matilda White, and they were the parents of eight daughters, and an only son, Dr. William Turell Learned, of whom further.

Dr. William Turell Learned, only son of Dr. Ebenezer and Mary Matilda (White) Learned, was born at Fall River, Massachusetts, March 24, 1861, and died in the city of his birth on August 13, 1922. He was a graduate of Brown University, A.B., 1882, and of the medical department of the University of Pennsylvania, M.D., 1885. After a year as interne he began private practice at Fall River, where he was in successful practice for over thirty years, attaining high rank in his profession. He was one of the incorporators of the Fall River Emergency Hospital, was assistant surgeon of the Massachusetts Naval Brigade, located at Fall River, holding the rank of lieutenant. In 1887 he became a member of the Bristol South District Medical Society, nearly half a century later than his father who joined in 1839. He was also a member of the Massachusetts State Medical Society; a member of the Masonic order, affiliated with lodge, chapter and commandery; a Republican in politics; a Congregationalist in religious faith; and a member of the Fall River Country and the Quequechan clubs. Dr. Learned married, in Bridgeton, New Jersey, June 12, 1889, Frances Elmer, born there December 11, 1864, daughter of Benjamin and Mary (Hampton) Elmer. 'Three children were born to Dr. and Mrs. Learned: Frances White, born in June, 1891; Donald Haywood, born May 1, 1898; and EImer Turell, of further mention. The family home and Dr. Learned's offices were at No. 46 Franklin street, Fall River, and here Mrs. Learned continues her residence.

Elmer Turell Learned, of the tenth American generation, oldest of the children of Dr. William Turell and Frances (Elmer) Learned, was born at Fall River, Massachusetts, September 5, 1890. His education, which was begun in the public schools, continued through three years of high school, and was followed by a year at Allen Preparatory and four years at Yale University, whence he was graduated, A.B., class of 1912. Then, influenced or inspired by the example of his father and grandfather, he embraced the medical profession, preparing at Harvard Medical School, receiving his M.D. with the class of 1916. He then spent eighteen months in hospital work in Rhode Island, beginning private practice at Fall River, Massachusetts, where for three years he had the benefit of professional association with his eminent father. He continues the general practice of his profession in the city of his birth, the third Dr. Learned to prac-

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Dr. Learned is a member of the staff of the Truesdale Hospital; served during the War with Germany (1917-18) in the United States Army Medical Corps, ranking as first lieutenant, stationed at Fort Oglethorpe, Georgia; is a member of Fall River Medical Society, Massachusetts State Medical Society, and the American Medical Association; is a member of Alpha Kappa Kappa fraternity; Fall River Country Club; and in politics is a Republican. Dr. Learned is unmarried, and his home and offices are at No. 46 Franklin street, Fall River, the old family home, his father's offices being the same as those of his son. This rather unusual instance of family devotion to a profession has been of benefit to Fall River, and in some of the older families of the city the services of Dr. Learned have been called for in each generation.

CHARLES O. SWEET. - A well known figure in the city of Attleboro, Massachusetts, is Charles O. Sweet, who is a native of this place and has spent his lifetime here, participating in the constant advance which has developed the small town of his boyhood into one of the most prosperous and enterprising cities of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. His personal energy and initiative have carried him to a high position among the leading manufacturing jewelers of Attleboro, and his breadth of interest and benevolence of spirit have made him a largely significant figure in the civic progress.

Descended from John Sweet, a Bristol county pioneer, Mr. Sweet is a son of Joabert Sweet, who was an early resident of Attleboro and achieved considerable fame in mechanical lines, making a number of important improvements on the spinning and shuttle machinery of his day, and thereby contributing in a marked degree to the advance of the textile industry. The mother, Eliza (Nelson) Sweet, was born at Lyme, New Hampshire, and was a direct descendant of Lord Nelson, of Trafalgar.

Charles O. Sweet was born at Attleboro, Massachusetts, November 14, 1848. His early education was received in the common schools of this community, and in the year 1865 he was graduated from Schofield Commercial School, of Providence, Rhode Island. Two years later he attended the Connecticut Literary Institute, at Suffield, Connecticut. With this comprehensive preparation for his career, Mr. Sweet entered the business world as an office assistant with the firm of Bates & Bacon, of Attleboro, and his business ability and interest in his work carried him in their employ to the position of superintendent of the entire business in the twenty years during which he was connected with the firm. In the year 1889, in association with H. T. Regnall and J. A. Bigney, Mr. Sweet formed a partnership under the firm name of Regnall, Bigney & Company. Nine years later the enterprise suffered total loss by fire in the historic conflagration, which destroyed a considerable section of the business part of the town, but their recovery from this blow was remarkable, for their business was reestablished within a week. In the year 1903 Charles O. Sweet resigned from this partnership to form a corporation in company with his son, Ervin Vial Sweet, under the firm name of C. O. Sweet & Son Company. Under this title they began the manufacture of a special and attractive line of popular priced jewelry for ladies, including pins of many kinds, waist sets, cuff buttons, hat pins, bracelets, et cetera. The reputation of this concern, which was founded on the quality and finish of its products, as well as upon the business integrity of its personnel, has grown and widened until now it is a leading concern in this general field. Keeping in touch with the movement of the times, they have frequently brought out novelties, catering to fads of the moment, and their principal lines are always of the choicest design and the finest workmanship. The present personnel of this organization is as follows: Ervin Vial Sweet, president; Charles O. Sweet, secretary and treasurer. The plant of the company covers a ground area of 50 by 140 feet, and its location on Union street, Attleboro, is an advantageous one. They ship their goods to all parts of the United States and do more or less of an export trade. They employ 100 hands and occupy a floor and one-half of the present building. Broadly interested in every phase of public affairs, although never a seeker after the honors of office, Charles O. Sweet has for many years been one of the useful men of this city, devoting much of his time to those avenues of advance which carry little in the way of recompense beyond the satisfaction of civic duty performed. He has long been a member of the Attleboro Chamber of Commerce, but declined the office of president of that body, although he has served as first vice-president and as a member of the board of directors. He was elected to the City Council and served many times as president protem, also has_ represented the Council for a number of years on the board of managers for the Sturdy Memorial Hospital. He was made a delegate to the laying of the corner stone of the new Attleboro post-office, which took place July 4, 1916, representing the City Council on that occasion. During the last year of the existence of this body he served as its president (1919), this making a total of five years during which he had filled this office, and for several years has acted as chairman of the town finance committee, one of the most important committees of this body. Mr. Sweet's public usefulness goes back, however, to earlier years, and in 1875 he participated in the organization of the Attleboro improvement district, which with its later consolidation with the water district formed the fire district, of which he was the first secretary, later serving as treasurer. When Attleboro voted to become a city, in November, 1914, Mr. Sweet was elected counselor-at-large to serve for one year, taking up the duties of office when the city charter went into effect, January 1, 1915. He was twice re-elected for a term of two years each, and also served as chairman of the finance committee of the Council. Meanwhile, at the special meeting held here on December 4, 1914, for the election of city officers, Charles O. Sweet was tendered the mayorality by a group of citizens, but very definitely discouraged this movement and threw his influence in favor of the nomination of Harold E. Smith, who was made the first mayor of the city of Attleboro. Nevertheless Mr. Sweet felt that in considering him for this honor the people of Attleboro had yielded to him the most gratifying distinction. His own remark at the time is worthy of perpetuation:

The fact that I was considered and urged to run for the first mayor of Attleboro, where I have been brought up and lived all my life, is highly pleasing and gratifying to me and a sufficient honor. I have no particular ambition for the office. I have always worked for the best interests of the Town and shall work for what I consider the best interests of the City, regardless of any personal gain.

In moral uplift work and benevolent advance, Mr. Sweet has long been a leader of progress. He took an uncompromising stand for prohibition when still a young man, and about forty years ago was brought forward as prohibition candidate for representative to the State Legislature, and although there was no possibility of his election he ran ahead of his ticket and received a very large vote. During the activities of the early temperance societies, the Good Templars and the Temple of Honor, he was prominent in these organizations and an_ office holder in both. For many years he has been interested in the Woodlawn Cemetery Association, and is one of the charter members of the old Kirk Cemetery, for which cemetery his pioneer ancestor, John Sweet, first gave the land to the little village of Attleboro and in which yard several of his ancestors are buried, Mr. Sweet himself being the eighth generation from the pioneer; he is serving as president of both cemeteries at the present time (1923).

He has for many years been an associate member of William A. Streeter Post, No. 145, Grand Army of the Republic, and a worker for the interests, not only of the organization, but of the rapidly thinning ranks of men who form it. He is a member of the Massachusetts State Society, the Sons of the American Revolution, and of the Old Colony Historical Society, of Taunton, Massachusetts. He has always given much attention to historical matters and to the preservation of the records of Colonial and Revolutionary activities. Fraternally he is a member of Ezekiel Bates Lodge, Free and Accepted Masons; Bristol Commandery, Knights Templar; Orient Lodge, No. 165, Independent Order of Odd Fellows; Attleboro Lodge, No. 1014, Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks; Attleboro Council, No. 366, Royal Arcanum, and he is past presiding officer of the organization last named. From childhood Mr. Sweet has been affiliated with religious advance, and was a regular attendant of the Second Congregational Church and Sunday school until the formation of the Methodist Episcopal church and Sunday school, and from that time he continued with that organization until the founding of the Pilgrim Church Society, when he became a

Charles O. Sweet was married in 1869 to Elizabeth J. (Cooper) Wallace, of Attleboro, daughter of John Cooper, and they have one son: Ervin Vial Sweet, associated with his father in business, a sketch of whom follows.

ERVIN VIAL SWEET. - A prominent figure in the business life of Attleboro, Massachusetts, is Ervin Vial Sweet, who is a native of this city and has spent his lifetime in the industrial activities of this and a nearby State. Mr. Sweet is a son of Charles O. and Elizabeth J. (Wallace) Sweet, both of Attleboro, a review of his life appearing in the preceding sketch.

Ervin Vial Sweet was born at Attleboro, January 25, 1870. His education was begun in the local public schools, and he later attended Mowry & Goff Business School, of Providence, Rhode Island, also Bryant & Stratton Business College, of that city. His first industrial experience was in the employ of the Brown & Sharpe Manufacturing Company, of Providence, Rhode Island, which affiliation he formed for the purpose of gaining a thorough knowledge of mechanics from the practical viewpoint of experience. Thereafter returning to Attleboro, Mr. Sweet learned the trade of pearl cutting with the firm of J. W. Luther & Company, with which house he remained for two years, and he also learned the trade of enameling with E. T. Bright. He then was active for a time with various concerns until he became affiliated with Reganall, Bigney & Company, with which concern he was active as a salesman on the road. With this breadth of experience, Mr. Sweet associated himself with his father in the year 1903 as a member of the firm of C. O. Sweet & Son, and during the twenty years which has since elapsed he has been a definite factor in the progress and success of this industrial organization, an account of which is given in the preceding sketch.

Ervin V. Sweet holds a position of more than usual prominence in the business life of Attleboro, and is a member of the New England Jewelers' and Silversmiths' Association, also of the Attleboro Chamber of Commerce. In political matters he supports the Republican party, but takes only the interest of the citizen in public advance. During the World War he gave his time principally to the activities of the moment in support of the American Expeditionary Forces, and was a leading worker in Liberty Loan drives, also in the efforts for the Red Cross and Salvation army. In recognition of his services in this period of stress the United States Government sent him a certificate. The local benevolences have always held his sympathy and commanded his aid, and for some years he was chairman of the Hayward athletic field. Science, invention and many other interests come within the scope of Mr. Sweet's attention.: He is a member of the Geographical Society, and the Boston Chapter of the Sons of the American Revolution. He is affiliated with Orient Lodge, No. 165, Independent

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Order of Odd Fellows; Gideon M. Hoton Encampment, No. 80, of the same order; Poconoket Tribe, No. 38, Improved Order of Red Men, of which he is past sachem; and Attleboro Lodge, No. 1014, Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, of which he is past exalted ruler (1919-1920) and also member of the Grand Lodge. His clubs are the Highland,

Ervin Vial Sweet married (first) Maude Cunliffe. He married (second) Bertha A. Purdy (September 20, 1893), daughter of John and Mary (Frazer) Purdy, and they have one daughter, Elsie Evelyn, wife of George Osterguy.

ARBA N. LINCOLN. - For fifty years an honored and distinguished member of the Massachusetts bar, and during almost the entire period of his active career a resident of Fall River, and a practicing attorney and counselor-at-law of this city, Arba N. Lincoln was one of the foremost figures in professional circles in Bristol county, Massachusetts. His death, which occurred in the fall of 1922, removed from the city of Fall River one of the most beneficially constructive forces which had ever borne a part in civic, professional and social advance. Mr. Lincoln was the head of the firm of Lincoln & Hood, one of the foremost legal firms in this part of the State of Massachusetts, in which organization his son, Carl Kimball Lincoln, now succeeds him. A _ native of Sherburne, Rutland county, Vermont, Arba N. Lincoln was a son of Charles F. and Eliza (Avery) Lincoln, both members of noted families of the State of Vermont.

Arba N. Lincoln was born at Somerset, Vermont, June 3, 1849. His early education was received in the local schools, and when still scarcely more than a child, he decided to make the profession of the law the field of his life-work. To this purpose he adhered as a young man, covering preparatory courses at Woodstock, Vermont and Haverhill, Massachusetts. Reading law under competent preceptorship, he was admitted to practice in Vermont in 1872, and was professionally active at Woodstock for about one year. Then admitted to the bar 'of Massachusetts, he removed to Haverhill, where he practiced until 1874, when he settled permanently in Fall River. Opening offices in the Granite block, Mr. Lincoln went forward independently with marked success until 1887, at which time he be- Came associated in partnership with Alfred H. Hood. The firm of Lincoln & Hood became one of the most widely known in the State of Massachusetts and was influential in countless ways in the advancement of the city of Fall River and of Bristol county. Mr. Lincoln's practice became more extensive as a counsellor rather than as a trial lawyer, and the firm, in addition to its extensive activities in the law, became well known in the insurance field and in the executing of loans on various securities. As he gained breadth of experience in his chosen field of endeavor, Mr. Lincoln won increasing prominence in affliated and contemporary lines of effort and became a very influential figure in public life, although except in one instance, he never accepted public office, and this instance was his appointment as special justice of the Second District Court of Bristol County, and in this capacity he served for a number of years. Judge Lincoln's service on the bench was marked not only with keen perceptions and exhaustive knowledge of the law, but with the judicial mind, tempered by the great benevolence which was one of the striking characteristics of the man.

Public life was not to Mr. Lincoln an arena of political strife, but a door to opportunities of broader and highter service. He was one of the leading spirits in the formation of the Fall River Chamber of Commerce, and the early years of its activity were carried forward along lines more or less definitely mapped out by him. Always, however, Mr. Lincoln was an influence rather than a voice in public affairs. He gave of his best to civic advance, choosing to give the place of leadership to others rather than to seek to create a following for himself. In every phase of community endeavor he bore a helpful part and was for years identified with the financial world as an organizer and member of the board of directors of the Fall River Codperative Bank, which received its charter in 1888. Long an influential member of the Fall River Bar Association, his fraternal affiliations included membership in Hope Lodge, Free and Accepted Masons; and the Chapter, Royal Arch Masons, of which he was past high priest. Few men of such wide and varied business activities retain in so great a degree as did Mr. Lincoln the modest tastes of the lover of nature and the keen appreciation of all things worthy as did this man among men. Greatly interested in travel, he made extended trips as frequently as his _ professional responsibilities would permit and took the keenest delight in all manifestations of the beauties of nature. Flowers, shrubs and trees were his special delight, and on the grounds of his beautiful home he personally gave a great deal of attention to the growth of rare and lovely varieties. Books were his frequent companions, and he was a discriminating, as well as an extensive reader. His home was his sanctuary and there he spent his leisure hours. There he answered the call which comes once to every man and which closes the active chapters of his life, leaving only the fragrant and treasured memories. Not even Mr. Lincoln himself was aware that his heart was affected in any way, but on October 12, 1922, after having spent an evening at a bank directors' meeting, he rose to the leisure of a holiday and was considering with Mrs. Lincoln various plans for spending the day together. He was suddenly stricken and instantly died. It was true that he passed out of life as he would have chosen to do, merely stepping from the activities of a serious and useful life into the future world, but the shock to the community was great. When the news was spread about that Mr. Lincoln was no more, friends, associates and the general public sustained a shock of consternation. So useful and beneficent had been his life, his name had come to bear a direct significance to every citizen of Fall River, and his loss was deeply felt in every circle where he had been known. The current press of the hour commented upon his demise with the most sincere expressions of esteem and regret. One Fall River paper said, editorially: Fall River is shocked and saddened by the sudden death of one of its prominent and elder men of affairs. With scarcely a moment's forewarning, Arba N. Lincoln has been called from the midst of his family circle and from his professional activities. * * * * For many years Mr. Lincoln had exerted a salutary influence on our public life. His spacious and beautiful home had been a center of benign influence in the community. From it had gone forth many silent benefactions, manifesting sympathy with the suffering and sorrowing, and illustrating the Christian law of life: "Bear ye one another's burdens."

He was ever a friend and promoter of that which seemed good in the community life as well as hostile to that of the contrary character. A great lover of the beautiful in nature, he kept himself surrounded with some of its choice treasures, which gave delight to others than their owner, as well as to him. A benevolent, upright, quiet life has come to a sudden end on earth, leaving a memory redolent of good deeds and a friendly, Christian spirit.

Arba N. Lincoln married, in Haverhill, Massachusetts, in 1876, Mira Kimball, and they were the parents of five children: Ernest A.; Grace; Ralph, deceased; Kenneth B.; and Carl K. The family have always been members of the Congregational church.

JOSHUA E. CRANE. - For twenty-eight years librarian of the Taunton Public Library, Joshua E. Crane is one of the best known figures in this city, and his long devotion to the work of this institution has counted as a broadly constructive and beneficent influence in the conimunity. Widely read and possessing a scholarly mind, Mr. Crane's discriminating taste in literature has always kept the standards of the library at the highest level, and both as an official of marked usefulness and as a private citizen he is sincerely esteemed by all who know him.

The Crane family is a very old and honored one in the State of Massachusetts, and this branch of the family is descended from Henry Crane of Dorchester, Massachusetts. John Crane, his son, was born in 1658; and married Hannah Leonard, daughter of James and Hannah Leonard of 'Taunton. They became settlers in the South Purchase of Taunton, and died in that part of Dighton which is now Berkley, John Crane passing away in 1716. In direct line of descent Barzillai Crane was a prominent citizen of Bridgewater, Massachusetts, and married Lydia Eddy. Joshua Eddy Crane, son of these parents, and father of the subject of this review, was born and died in Bridgewater. He married Lucy A. Reed.

Joshua E. Crane, son of Joshua Eddy and Lucy A. (Reed) Crane, was born in Bridgewater, Massachusetts, October 1, 1850. His early education was acquired in the local public schools, then he pursued a course of four years at the Bridgewater Academy, and in the year 1868 entered Brown University at Providence, Rhode Island, from which he was graduated in the class of 1872. During the next scholastic year Mr. Crane taught a public school in Duxbury, then for two successive years was a preceptor of the Bridgewater Academy. In the year 1876 Mr. Crane went abroad to take up the duties of an exacting and largely responsible position to which he had been chosen, that of principal of the English preparatory department of the Syrian Protestant College of Beirut, Syria. He served faithfully and well for a period of three years, then returned to his native land and accepted a position as an instructor in Latin at the Albany Academy at Albany, New York. He was thus active until 1884, also during this period doing much private tutoring. In the year 1884 Mr. Crane became librarian of the Young Men's Association of Albany, and served for three consecutive years thenceforth, then for two years at a later date (1890-92). The intervening years up to 1895 were occupied in teaching, principally in Portland and in Bristol.

In 1895 Mr. Crane was elected librarian of the Taunton Public Library, in which connection he still ably serves. Alert to the movement of the times, and possessing the ability to take ever fresh and inspiring viewpoints in his survey of life, Mr. Crane undoubtedly has many years of usefulness yet before him, although his venerable and benevolent head is crowned with gray and his retrospect covers many decades. Valuing deeply the lessons of the past and the permanent records of early times in America, Mr. Crane long ago identified himself with the Old Colony Historical Society and the old Bridgewater Historical Society, and in both these organizations ably serves in an official capacity.

Mr. Crane married, on January 1, 1884, Katherine Perkins, daughter of Henry and Amelia (Sherman) Perkins, of Bridgewater, and they are the parents of one daughter, Clara Whitney Crane, a graduate of Radcliffe College, class of 1914.

JOSEPH LEONARD ANTHONY is a native son of the Old Bay State and "still in the harness" after a lifetime of splendid business activity within her borders. The Anthony name has been a conspicuous one in New England for more than two and three-quarters centuries. The first member to arrive was John Antonie, as he wrote it, who came from England in the barge "Hercules," April 16, 1634. He married Susan Potter, and from them sprang a numerous and influential family.

Joseph Leonard Anthony, son of Joseph S. and Sarah A. (Wood) Anthony, was born in Boston, Massachusetts, March 26, 1866. In 1868 Providence, Rhode Island, became the family home, and in 1878 the family returned to Massachusetts, locating in Taunton, Bristol county. There he completed grammar and high school courses of public school study, entering the employ of the Mason Machine Works at the age of sixteen, as apprentice, being employed a greater part of this time in the mechanical engineering department. He continued with this company for four years, then spent three years in White Pine, Gunnison county, Colorado, engaged in silver

Upon his return to Taunton in 1891 Mr. Anthony entered the employ of the Weir Stove Company, beginning as shipping clerk and working his way to the presidency, his career being largely made in the service of that company, although he holds close relation with other important Taunton corporations. He remained in the shipping room until appointed superintendent of the plant in 1894. In 1908 he was elected a member of the board of directors; in 1918 was elected vice-president; and in November, 1919, was elected president of the company. He has now been associated with the company for thirty-two years and has been one of the prime factors in its growth and development, having been connected with the management since 1894.

Mr. Anthony was interested in the purchase of the Magee Furnace Company. 'The company was moved to Taunton, where a new plant was erected for its accommodation, and the company renamed the Magee Furnace Company, Inc. Mr. Anthony served as its president until he sold his interest in 1920. He is also a director of the Bristol County Trust Company, and a trustee of the Bristol County Savings Bank, of Taunton; a director of the Weir Co-operative Bank, East Taunton Co-operative Bank, the Old Colony Co-operative Bank, all of Taunton; the Atherton Furniture Company, of Brockton, Massachusetts; the Atherton Furniture Company, of Lewiston, Maine; the Atherton Furniture Company, of Waterville, Maine; the Metropolitan Furniture Company, of Springfield, Massachusetts; and the Fowler Furniture Company, of Worcester, Massachusetts. Since May, 1910, he has been a member of the Conference Committee of the Stove Founders' National Defense Association, and first vice-president of the same association since 1915; is a member of the General Executive Committee, and chairman of the First District Committee.

In politics Mr. Anthony is an Independent, and served two years under the new city charter as a member of the first single board. He was a member of the Municipal Electric Plant Commission, and aids in a public-spirited manner all movements for city betterment. He is a member of Ionic Lodge, Free and Accepted Masons; St. Mark's Chapter, Royal Arch Masons; St. John's Commandery, Knights Templar, of Providence, Rhode Island; and Aleppo Temple, Ancient Arabic Order Nobles of the Mystic Shrine, of Boston. His clubs are the Rotary and Winthrop, of Taunton. He is a member of St. Thomas' Episcopal Church of Taunton, but also serves as a member of the board of trustees of the First Methodist Episcopal Church of that city.

On February 22, 1886, Mr. Anthony married Fannie R. Carpenter, daughter of William B. and Abby J. (Robinson) Carpenter, of Taunton, Massachusetts. Mr. and Mrs. Anthony are the parents of four children: 1. Luther J., now superintendent of the Weir Stove Company. 2. Bertha C., married William L. White, Jr. 3. William R., now foreman

JOHN TUTTLE SWIFT, LL. B. - The name of John Tuttle Swift is one of large significance to the city of Fall River and to the county of Bristol, and in the broader fields of financial advance he stands among the leading figures as treasurer of the Citizens' Savings Bank, of Fall River, one of the substantial and progressive institutions of the East. A member of one of the most prominent families of Fall River, Mr. Swift has won high rank professionally, as well as in the capacity of a successful business executive, and his public services are a record of eminent usefulness.

John T. Swift is a son of Marcus George Barker and Mary Duncan (Milne) Swift, his father one of the most noteworthy lawyers of this city a generation ago, a man whose comparatively early death, on February 21, 1902, was one of the most regrettable events of the early years of the present century in local circles.

John Tuttle Swift was born at Fall River, Massachusetts, November 15, 1877. His early education was received in the public schools of his birthplace, and he is a graduate of the B. M. C. Durfee High School, class of 1897. He attended Williams College as a member of the class of 1901, then spent several years in the business world before taking up his preparation for the profession of the law. First engaged in newspaper work, he was later employed in the Pocasset National Bank and the Citizens' Savings Bank, then was successively identified with the banking and brokerage office of George N. Durfee, and the cotton and cloth brokerage house of Tuttle, Hurley & Company, of Fall River. In the year 1907 Mr. Swift entered George Washington University, at Washington, District of Columbia, where he took up the study of law, and upon his graduation with the class of 1910 received his degree of Bachelor of Laws. Within the year Mr. Swift began practice in Fall River as a member of the firm of Swift, Grime & Swift, now Swift, Grime, Buffinton & Crossley, of which his brother, the Hon. James M. Swift, formerly attorney general of Massachusetts, was and still is the senior member. Mr. Swift enjoyed a very extensive faw practice, and was particularly active in the trial of civil jury cases as counsel for street railways, insurance companies and corporations throughout Bristol county. During the period of his activity in the law Mr. Swift served as a trustee and counsel for the Citizens' Savings Bank, and upon the death of William F. Winter, former treasurer of this institution, Mr. Swift was requested by the board of trustees to succeed him as treasurer and executive head of the bank. Accepting this position, he withdrew from the active practice of the law in order to devote the necessary time and attention to the duties and responsibilities involved. The prosperity of the institution under his guiding hand, and its constantly greater importance in its field, are facts which definitely appraise Mr. Swift's ability and his grasp of financial affairs. A man of the loftiest ideals, still possessing the broadly practical qualities which count for success in any endeavor, he commands the utmost esteem and confidence not only of his associates but of the people generally. He is otherwise afhliated in the business world with the Massasoit Manufacturing Company, one of Fall River's largest textile corporations, of which he is president. He is also a director of the Massasoit-Pocasset National Bank.

The public services through which Mr. Swift has contributed to the advance of the city, the county and the Commonwealth, have followed along lines parallel with his private endeavors. While attending law school in Washington he served as _ secretary of the committee on merchant marine and fisheries of the House of Representatives by appointment of Congressman William S. Greene, of this district, who was at that time chairman of the committee. In the year 1913, by appointment of the Massachusetts Supreme Court, Mr. Swift served as one of three commissioners to hear evidence and assess damages to property owners, resulting from the building of the Larz Anderson or Stadium bridge, so-called, over the Charles river, from Boston to Cambridge. In June of 1917 Mr. Swift was appointed by Governor Samuel W. McCall as a member of the Fall River Board of Police and License Commissioners, and after serving for a term of three years he was re-appointed in 1920 for a further term of similar length by Governor Calvin Coolidge. In June, 1923, he was re-appointed by Governor 'Channing H. Cox for a further term of three years. Mr. Swift's political convictions align with the principles and policies of the Republican party, but he has never accepted candidacy for an elective office.

In military circles Mr. Swift is well known as a former member of the 12th Company, Coast Artillery Corps, Massachusetts State Militia, in which he held the rank of first lieutenant until his resignation in 1913. During the World War he served as first lieutenant of one of the local companies of the Massachusetts State Guard (infantry). Also, following the intervention of the United States in European affairs, he was counsel for the custodian of alien property for the city of Fall River and vicinity, and was an associate memper of the local legal advisory board. Mr. Swift is affiliated fraternally with King Philip Lodge, Free and Accepted Masons; Fall River Lodge of Perfection; Samuel C. Lawrence Council, Princes of Jerusalem; St. Andrew's Chapter, Rose Croix; and Massachusetts Consistory, Ancient Accepted Scottish Rite, in which he holds the thirty-second degree. We is a, member of the Fall River Chamber of Commerce, the Fall River Bar Association, and the Massachusetts Bar Association. He is a director of the Quequechan Club and the Fall River Rotary Club, and is a member of the Acoaxet Country Club and the Massachusetts Savings Bank Officers' Club, of this last named organization now (1923) being vice-president. He is a member of the First Congregational Church of Fall River.

John T. Swift married, January 28, 1914, Julia Beaumont Gilroy, of Lebanon, Pennsylvania, and they are the parents of one son, John Beaumont, born April 28, 1915. The residence of the family is at No. 294 French street, Fall River, and their summer home is at Puncatest Neck, 'Tiverton, Rhode Island, on the shore of the Seaconnet river. The Fall River home has been in the family since 1883.

CITIZENS' SAVINGS BANK OF FALL RIVER. - Few institutions of the East can boast a finer or more perfectly equipped building than that which stands at the corner of Main and Bedford streets, Fall River, and is known as the home of the Citizens' Savings Bank. Built entirely of granite, this structure is unique in this city in this feature, and its graceful, yet massive, design makes it a building in which the entire community may take pride.

The history of the Citizens' Savings Bank is a record of the high ideals of devoted executives, among whom should be mentioned Joseph Osborn, Weaver Osborn, John C. Milne, presidents, and Edward E. Hathaway and William F. Winter, treasurers, all deceased, who have opened to the people of Fall River opportunities of economic security and independence such as form a vital factor in the life of every civic body. The recent opening of the institution in its new building, which took place on April 7, 1923, inaugurated a new epoch in its history and gave the people of Fall River a closer familiarity with its progress. Seventy-two years ago this institution was founded, in what was then a part of Tiverton, Rhode Island, its first corporate name being "The Savings Bank of Tiverton," the board of governors comprising: Oliver Chace, Jr.; Cook Borden; Thomas Borden; and Clark Manchester; their several associates completing the personnel of the enterprise. The amount of deposits receivable was at first limited to the sum of $400,000. The deposits now exceed $12,000,000.

The bank was definitely organized November 15, 1851, Joseph Osborn being elected president; Charles F. Searle, secretary; William H. Brackett, treasurer. A board of fifteen trustees was created, also a board of investment, the latter comprising Cook Borden; Oliver Chace, Jr.; Weaver Osborn; William C. Chapin; and Samuel Hathaway. Opened for business on December 1, 1851, the first deposit was received on the same day. The first location of this institution was at the corner of South Main and Rodman streets, and they removed to rooms in the same building theretofore occupied by the Pocasset Bank, in 1854. The division of the town of Tiverton ensued two years later, this location being within the portion which became Fall River, and on March 15, 1862, the change of the State boundary. _ line made this a Massachusetts bank. It was at this" time that the present name was adopted. Within the month the bank was removed to the City Hall building, then generally known as the Market building, and there it remained until its removal to the structure recently vacated, The site of this building cost $15,000 at the time of purchase, more than a half century ago, and its present value cannot readily be computed. Additional property was acquired in the year 1920, and by an intensely interesting process of engineering the fine granite outside walls of the second and third floors were retained as a part of the new building, and determined the general style of architecture. The present new, modern building stands as a monument to the economic prosperity and advance of the city of Fall River, and the impetus given to the institution is most gratifying to the official personnel of the bank and to the community.

To the indomitable energy and progressive ideals of John T. Swift, the treasurer and active chief executive of the institution, the accomplishment of this end was largely due. Mr. Swift succeeded Mr. Winter as treasurer in February, 1919. And in its stately beauty it exemplifies the highest type of modern architecture, as applied to the banking system of today. Associated with the treasurer in this momentus undertaking was a building committee composed of President Henry H. Earl and members of the Board of Investment. From the Tavernelle marble from northern Italy, the delicate rose color of which is one of the most attractive features of the great counting room, to the massive, ingeniously devised vault, perfection has been held as the standard. The comfort of the patrons nas been amply provided for as well as the absolute safety of the funds entrusted to the care of the bank. The latter being the most vital consideration, the marvels of the devices which insure it are of the greatest interest to the history of the institution. No generalities, however, could give to the depositors the feeling of security gained from the technicalities on this point published in the Fall River "Evening News" of April 9, 1923, following the opening of the new building to the public, as follows: