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Deeply interested in local history and all that per- tains 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 Univer- sity 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 Que- quechan Club of Fall River. He attended the Bap- tist 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,
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the spirit of brotherly kindness which assumes the burdens of the weak without recompense, and de- lights 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,
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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 cen- turies, 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 Lin- coln 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 com- pleted public school study with graduation from B. M. C. Durfee High School, then entered Har- vard 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, Lin- coln & Company, founded by his grandfather, Jona- than Thayer Lincoln (now the Kilburn, Lincoln Machine Company), and became manager, now be- ing general manager and a director of that corpora- tion; a director of the Lincoln Manufacturing Com- pany 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 ques- tions, 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 chap- lain to Henry I, who may have been the arch- bishop's ancestor. Sir Edmund Peckham, a descend- ant, was master of the mint under Queen Elizabeth, and knighted in 1542. His son, Sir George Peck- ham, was a merchant adventurer and was one of an exploring party to North America in 1574.
John Peckham, the American founder of the fam- ily, 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 min- ister ordained in New England, was deputy to Gen- eral Court. His son, William Peckham, deputy to the General Court, and his wife, Mary (Tew) Peck- ham. Their son, William Peckham, and his wife, Phoebe (Barker) Peckham. Their son, Peleg Peck- ham, 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 Mor- ton Peckham, and his wife, Elizabeth Pope (Churchill) Peckham. Their son, Dr. Anson Churchill Peckham, of further mention.
Reuben Morton Peckham was born in the old Dudley House in Middletown, Rhode Island, Sep- tember 17, 1823, and died at Fall River, Massachu- setts, 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 indepen- dent 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.
Anson Churchill Peckham was born at Somerset,
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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 de- partment 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 ap- pointed a member of the Fall River pension board as one of its medical examiners, a position he re- signed 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 success- ful professional life, has written a great deal of biog- raphy, 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 in- cidents 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 member- ship 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; Ameri- can 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, Inde- pendent Order of Odd Fellows, and Metacomet Encampment. In political faith he is a Republican.
Dr. Peckham married, November 7, 1882, Ida L. Waite, of Tiverton, Rhode Island, and they are the parents of a daughter, Sadie Churchill.
FRANKLIN DUNBAR WILLIAMS-The con- struction 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 sec- tion, 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 con- tact 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, Novem- ber 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 cer- tain date of significance to more than his own career, when he adopted an original method of plac- ing 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 mean- while 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 enter- prise 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 Com- mandery, Knights Templar, of Providence, Rhode Island; the Massachusetts Order of the High Priest- hood; 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 (Wil- bur) 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, 1912. The mother was born at Winslow, Maine, May 3, 1840, and died in Taunton, September 5, 1919. Mrs. Williams was born in Boston, Massa- chusetts, 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 en- deavor in Bristol county, Massachusetts, A. Gilbert Williams is a noteworthy figure in the city of Taunton, and his position in the world of construc- tion 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, Massa- chusetts, 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 busi- ness 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 & Com- pany, for the purpose of dealing in lumber, sash, doors, blinds, and so forth. He continued the oper- ation of the planing mill which he originally started
and equipped the plant with modern steam machin- ery. He also had a saw mill, and the various build- ings, 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. Wil- liams is well known as a director of the Machin- ists' Bank of Taunton, and he is interested in vari- ous branches of community advance, serving as trustee of the Mount Pleasant Cemetery Association, also of this city. Politically he supports the Re- publican 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 His- torical Society, and is a member of the Unitarian church.
Mr. Williams married, in 1912, Etta E. Goff, of Rehoboth, Massachusetts, daughter of Zenas and Cynthia (Bliss) Goff.
CHARLES MARCUS RHODES -- An honored and venerable figure in the city of Taunton, Massa- chusetts, 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 ninety- four 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. (Wil- liams) Rhodes, was born in 1826, in Taunton, Mas- sachusetts, 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 edu- cation 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,
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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 com- mercial and industrial endeavor. He has few affilia- tions 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. Has- kins, 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., LL. B .- One of the foremost names in the legal pro- fession 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 attain- ments, 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 offices, and in 1885 was elected mayor of the city of Taunton, his subsequent reëlections 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 muni- cipality. Richard Henry Hall married Susan J. Drake, who was born at North Bridgewater, Mas- sachusetts, 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, Mas- sachusetts, February 10, 1861. Gaining his early education in the public schools, he later entered Harvard University for his course in arts and let- ters, and was graduated in the class of 1882, with the degree of Bachelor of Arts. Thereafter taking up his professional preparations at Boston Univer- sity Law School, he was graduated from that institu- tion 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, Stan- ley 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 ener- gies to the world, and for many years he has been numbered among the outstanding men of Taunton.
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