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Mr. Witherell is active in the civic, fraternal, and club life of the city, is public-spirited, and lends his services and support to all movements that are for the progressive development of the com- munity. He is a member of the corporation of the Bristol County Savings Bank, and is a director of the Taunton Boat Club. He is also a member of the Taunton Auto Club, the Taunton Yacht Club, the Taunton Winthrop Club, and the Segregansett Country Club. He also belongs to the Chamber of Commerce, and fraternally is affiliated with Ionic Lodge, Free and Accepted Masons, being a past master; St. Mark's Chapter, Royal Arch Masons; Taunton Council, Royal and Select Masters; and St. John's Commandery, Knights Templar, of Provi- dence, Rhode Island. In his religious affiliation he attends the Broadway Congregational Church.
Lewis M. Witherell, Jr., married, June 5, 1915, Carlotta H. Hemenway, of Providence, Rhode Is- land, daughter of Herbert L. and Alice (Spaulding) Hemenway.
ROBERT CARLTON WITHERELL-One of the junior members of the firm of L. M. Witherell
& Sons, Mr. Witherell is active in the fraternal, club and religious life of his community, which he also served in a military capacity during the great World War.
Robert Carlton Witherell was born in Taunton, Massachusetts, on January 2, 1888, son of Lewis Mason and Josephine (Seaman) Witherell, his father (q. v.) being the senior member of the firm of L. M. Witherell & Sons, general contractors and builders. He was educated in the public schools of. Taunton, having attended the Summer Street Primary School; Cohannet Grammar School, and the Taunton High School, from the latter of which he graduated in 1905. He then spent five years at evening school, in Taunton, studying architectural drawing, and devoted two years to evening school study at the Young Men's Christian Association of Boston, taking courses in estimating. His efforts have always been in the building line, having worked, during his vacations while at school, with his father, and so continuing, after his graduation from high school, until 1911, when the firm of L. M. Witherell & Sons was formed, his older brother, Lewis M. Witherell, Jr., (see preceding biography) being admitted with himself into their father's firm. Since the enlargement of the firm, the business offices, shops and storehouses have been augmented to meet the greater volume of business that has been developed, and the advent of the sons into the business has seen a marked advance in its progress and success.
Robert Carlton Witherell is a member of the corporation of the Bristol County Savings Bank. He was captain of Company A, Taunton High School Cadets, in 1904-1905; belonged to the Mas- sachusetts State Guard at the time of the World War, and served as first sergeant of Dighton Company at the time of his honorable discharge, which was the period of disbandment. He is a life-member of Ionic Lodge, Free and Accepted Masons; and of St. Mark's Chapter, Royal Arch Masons, being also past high priest of the latter, having served as high priest during 1919-1921. He is a member of Attleboro Council, Royal and Select Masters; and also of Taunton Council, being present principal conductor of the work of the latter; St. John's Commandery, No. 1, Knights Templar; Rose Croix Chapter, Order of the Eastern Star, being past patron of this latter; and he is also a member of Palestine Temple, Ancient Arabic Order Nobles of the Mystic Shrine. In his club activities he is a member of the Taunton Boat Club; the Win- throp Club; the Taunton Yacht Club, of which he is vice-commodore; the Taunton Automobile Club, the Young Men's Christian Association, and is a life-member of the Old Colony Historical Society. He is a member of the Trinitarian Congregational Church, Inc., being on the standing committee of the same; his wife is a member of the Episcopal church, but Mr. and Mrs. Witherell and their two children attend services at the Trinitarian Congre- gational Church.
Robert Carlton Witherell married, at Taunton, Massachusetts, on June 26, 1912, Rachel Austin
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Walker, daughter of Fernando Arthur and Jane Augusta (Lawton) Walker. Mr. and Mrs. Wither- ell are the parents of two children: Elizabeth Law- ton, born June 30, 1915; and Paul Walker, born September 26, 1918.
GEORGE CLIFFORD KING, M. D .- Although Dr. King is a native son of the old Bay State, he did not locate at Fall River until 1912, and here in the decade which has since elapsed he has won high reputation as a specialist in the treatment of diseases of infants and children. He came to this city after an experience of three years following graduation from medical school, ycars spent in study and research in connection with the diseases of children in Boston hospitals. To that form of practice he has devoted his professional learning and skill with such good results that he holds a leading position with the ablest specialists in the State.
Dr. King is a grandson of George and Julia (Regan) King, the former of English birth, but for many years a resident of Newton, Massachu- setts. Among his children was a son, Jacob W. King, born August 13, 1850, in Newton, Massachu- setts, where his entire life was passed. He, early in his business carecr, became associated with the Gamewell Fire Alarm Telegraph Company, of New- ton Upper Falls, becoming manager of the com- pany, which he has now served for forty years. Jacob WV. King marricd, Junc 17, 1885, Elizabeth Clifford, born June 17, 1864, and they are the parents of ten children, the eldest a son, George Clifford, whose career is herein reviewcd.
George Clifford King, eldest son of Jacob W. and Elizabeth (Clifford) King, was born in Newton Highlands, Massachusetts, April 21, 1886. He com- pleted a course of public school study with gradua- tion from Newton High School in 1905, then in the fall following entered Tufts Medical College, whence he was graduated, M. D., class of 1909. He then served Boston City Hospital as interne for sixteen months, following that service with three months in Boston Contagious Hospital. The summer of 1911 he spent with Boston Floating Hospital, then for three months he was in charge of the Chil- dren's Out-Patient Department of Massachusetts General Hospital, and subsequently was assistant in the Orthopedic Out-Patient Department of Bos- ton Children's Hospital. He has spent these years in preparation for the practice of his profession as a specialist in infants' and children's diseases, and feeling that he was fully equipped for beginning an independent line of practice, he, on January 16, 1912, opened offices at No. 57 Rock street, Fall River, Massachusetts, and then began the private practice of his profession as a specialist. The years have brought him professional reputation and many honors for his ability in his special line of practice, being fully recognized in his city by both the profession and the laymen. On August 1, 1919, he first occupied his new home and offices at No. 150 Purchase street, his present location.
Dr. King is a member and in 1921 was president
of the Fall River Medical Society; member of the Massachusetts Medical Society; New England Pedi- atric Society; and the American Medical Association. Since first locating in Fall River, Dr. King has been a member of the Pediatric Department of the Union Hospital, and chief of the department for seven years. He is a member of the Infant Welfare Commission, appointed by Mayor Talbot, and in his private and official capacity has done a great deal to reduce infant mortality in Fall River. He is Independent in political action, a member of Sacred Heart Roman Catholic Church, the Que- quechan and the Fall River Country clubs.
Dr. King married, at Fall River, Massachusetts, October 10, 1916, Mary Estelle Hudner, daughter of Michael T. and Hclena (Kennedy) Hudner, and they are the parents of four children, all born at Fall River: Helen May, born August 27, 1917; George Clifford, born May 9, 1919; Thomas Hud- ner, born December 3, 1920, and William Richard, born February 2, 1923.
The professional career of Dr. King, thus briefly outlined, has been one of honorable success, devo- tion and hard work. He does not spare himself, but meets every demand of humanity upon his skill possible, and he is ever the student seeking for greater knowledge.
WILLIAM FREDERICK POMROY DELANO, a scion of the American House of Delano, has in his possession the coat-of-arms, in which the uni- corn figures prominently, of one of his earliest an- cestors, Dclano de Lannoy. The name Delano is derived from the town of Lannoy, which is situated a few miles from Lille, France. In A. D. 863 this town was called Alnetum, later L'Annois and Lan- noy. The meaning of the word is unknown; it has bcen variously spelled L'Annois, L'Annoe, L'Aul- mais, L'Aulnoy, but more often Alnetum. At Plymouth the name appeared as de la Noye, but on the tongues and in the writing of the English- speaking people of the colony the three syllables were soon joined and the last two letters dropped, which gave the present form Delano. Various spelling of the name are found in the early rec- ords of New England.
The progenitor of the family was Hugues de Lannoy, the first Lord of Lannoy, and mentioned as a knight of Tournai d'Auclin in 1096. Special pains have been taken in investigating the origin and carly history of the family in France, and sev- eral well authenticated pedigrees have been traced which show that Philip Delano or Delanoy, the Pilgrim forefather of the family in America, was descended through many ancestors of royal blood.
From Arnulphe de Franchmont his ancestry is traced through fourteen generations and includes Hugues de Lannoy (1311); Jean, Chamberlain to the . Emperor Charles V; and Gysbert de Lannoy, of Roman Catholic parents, who became Protestant and was disinherited by his father. For all these centuries the Delanoy family remained pure Nor- man and Flemish blood, never intermarrying with the French race.
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Another line is from Huolf, first Duke of the Normans, a Viking, A. D. 860, and numbers among . the kings of England William the Conqueror, Hen- ry I, Henry II, Henry V. and Henry VI, whose wife Agnes was a descendant of Alfred the Great, and connects with the previous line through Hogues de Lannoy (1311).
He is also a descendant of Charlemagne. The line begins in 611 with St. Arnoul and follows through Charles Martel, Duke of the Franks; Pepin, "the Short," King of France; Emperor Char- lemagne; Pepin and Bernard, Kings of Italy; Hugues Capet and Robert, the Saint, Kings of France; Henry III, Henry IV, Henry V, and Henry VI.
Other pedigrees connect Philip Delano with Priam, King of France, in 382, and with Guelph, Prince of the Scyrri, A. D. 476.
The history of the Delano family in the United States dates back to Philip Delano, who was born in Leyden, Holland, 1602. The family were French Protestants, or Huguenots, and went to Leyden to escape persecution in France, where the Catholic party was in power and the Inquisition active. Philip Delano grew up under the teachings of the Separatists of the Established Church of England, who fled to Holland in 1608, and thus he became associated with the Pilgrims who came over in the "Mayflower." It is believed that he started for America in the "Speedwell," the companion ship of the "Mayflower," but it became unseaworthy and was obliged to put back to Plymouth. When the "Fortune" sailed for America in 1621, Philip Delano, then nineteen years old, came in her. He was granted an acre of land in 1624 at Plymouth, but later gave it up and settled in Duxbury, Massachu- setts, where on October 2, 1637, he was granted a farm of forty acres adjoining the Alden's. Не was admitted a freeman, January 1, 1632-33. He was often employed as surveyor of lands, frequently served on the grand jury, and was a volunteer in the Pequot War, June 7, 1637. He died at Bridge- water, Massachusetts, about 1681. His first wife was Hester (Dewsbery) Delano, of Duxbury, whom he married December 19, 1634, and by whom he had eight children: Mary; Esther; Philip, Jr .; Thomas, married Mary Alden; John; James; Jon- athan; and Rebecca. By this second marriage in 1657 to Mary (Pontus) Glass, he had a son Samuel, who married Elizabeth Standish.
From Philip Delano is descended Joshua Delano, Sr., whose seventh son, Charles Delano, was mar- ried (first) at Fairhaven, Bristol county, Massachu- setts, December 4, 1813, to Sally Blossom, daugh- ter of Benjamin and Rebecca (Toby) Blossom. Of this first marriage there were two children: Isabella Man, born August 14, 1814, and Charles Francis, born August 26, 1816. Charles Delano was married (second) to Desire Wrightington, a daughter of Richard and Deborah Wrightington, at Fairhaven, Massachusetts. Of this second marriage there were eight children, as follows: 1. George Frederick, born March 26, 1821, died August 24, 1821. 2. Fred- erick Pomroy, of whom further. 3. Roland Tyson,
born October 21, 1826. 4. Henry Alden, born July 16, 1828. 5. George, born December 27, 1829. 6. Edward Collins, born May 10, 1832. 7. William Baxter, born January 18, 1835. 8. John, born June 8, 1836, died January 23, 1839.
Frederick Pomroy Delano, son of Charles and Desire (Wrightington) Delano, was born in June, 1823. He became a sea captain. He married Mary Richardson Almy, and they were the parents of William Frederick Pomroy, of whom further.
William Frederick Pomroy Delano, son of Fred- erick P. and Mary Richardson (Almy) Delano, was born at Fairhaven, Bristol county, Massachusetts, January 4, 1865. His education was received in the public schools of his birthplace, following which he engaged in business until February, 1920, when he received the appointment of health officer, a position which he fills with ability and still holds at the present time (1923). During the World War he was appointed the local representative of the Massachusetts Soldiers' and Sailors' Information Bureau, serving as chairman of the Fairhaven com- mittee from 1917 to the end of the war. Mr. Delano is also a member of the Committee of Public Safety. He is a member of the Layman League, and for his excellent work during the late war he was elected an honorary member of Post No. 166, American Legion. Mr. Delano's religious affiliations are with the Unitarian church.
As a sincere citizen, Mr. Delano has always given his financial aid and personal support to any move- ment of a worthy nature that has as its motive the upbuilding of his home town, morally and actu- ally. He has done much in the interests of public welfare, civic betterment, and municipal improve- ment.
JAMES HUTCHINSON GILDARD, SR .- The business career of James Hutchinson Gildard, Sr., is unique in that among its many ramifications he has founded and established four separate and dis- tinct businesses-a record hardly to be paralleled and probably not excelled throughout the New England States. Each business has been developed and brought up to a flourishing and satisfactory status, and, collectively, they form a great asset to the city of Fall River. In achieving these en- viable results, Mr. Gildard has not only earned for himself a well-deserved place among Fall River's most prominent and progressive citizens, but, by the variety and scope of his separate businesses, has contributed to a great extent to the commercial and industrial advance of his adopted city.
James Hutchinson Gildard was born at Lincoln, Rhode Island, on July 28, 1877, a son of Christopher Giles and Mary Ann (Hutchinson) Gildard. The father, Christopher Giles Gildard, was a master mechanic at King Philip Mills, Fall River, Massa- chusetts, for a period of twenty-one years. He was also an inventor of considerable note, one well known invention of his being the Coldwell & Gildard Electric Stop Motion. He also had a number of other patent articles which he had designed, im- proved and invented. His death occurred in 1921.
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James Hutchinson Gildard absorbed the funda- mentals of his education in the Slade Grammar School of Fall River, Massachusetts, supplementing the theoretical with practical education when he left school at the age of twelve and started on his business career. He was first employed as a hill- horse boy with the Fall River Street Railway Company, remaining in this connection for about one year. He then found employment in the Ed- mund Whitehead Market, corner of Spring and South Main streets. Here he worked for one and one-half years as a delivery clerk. At the end of this time he became associated with the firm of Hunter & Allardice, with which concern he served a two years' apprenticeship, learning the carpenter's trade. Following this, he served another apprentice- ship of two years and nine months duration with the firm of Miller & Johnston, where he learned the plumbing trade, and after passing examinations he became a journeyman plumber and in this cap- acity worked for a period of two years. Fully mastering the plumbing trade, and having become familiar with all of its many branches, Mr. Gildard decided to establish his own business, which he did in 1899. The venture was successful from the very start, and under Mr. Gildard's expert supervision and management it grew rapidly and soon became known as one of the finest of its kind in Bristol county. Up until the year 1908 Mr. Gildard had carried on the business under his own name, but during that year he changed the name of the concern to the American Plumbing and Heating Company, under which name, today, it is well and widely known. Mr. Gildard has acted as treasurer of the business since its inception, and at the present time (1924) is still serving in that capacity. Not content with one successful business enterprise to his credit, Mr. Gildard founded and became treasurer of the American Roll Covering Company, located at No. 26 Tripp street; the Ideal Auto Painting Company, on Arch street; and the Ameri- can Motor Car Company, at No. 912 South Main street, all of Fall River, Massachusetts. As founder and treasurer of four successful business enterprises, the name of James Hutchinson Gildard stands high among the prominent business men of Bristol county today.
Politically, Mr. Gildard has always been a staunch Republican, and has been an indefatigable worker in the interests of his chosen party. While never a seeker of political preferment, yet in the year 1908 he was elected an alderman-at-large of Ward Two, Fall River, and as such, filled his office with great credit. During the late World War he was a member of Company I of the National Guard of the State of Massachusetts, and with his command did guard duty in the United States.
Fraternally, Mr. Gildard has been especially prominent in Masonic circles. His career as Mason has been one of great distinction as is evinced by the following list of affiliations: Narra- gansett Blue Lodge, Free and Accepted Masons; Royal Arch Chapter; Fall River Council, Royal and Select Masters; Godfrey de Bouillon Command-
ery, No. 25, Knights Templar; Fall River Lodge of Perfection; St. Andrew Chapter, Rose Croix; Samuel C. Lawrence Council, Princes of Jerusalem; Massachusetts Consistory; Palestine Temple, Anci- ent Arabic Order Nobles of the Mystic Shrine; Azab Grotto; and the Pioneer Blue Lodge, of Somerset, Massachusetts. He is also a member of the Quequechan Club, of Fall River, Massachusetts.
James Hutchinson Gildard, Sr., married, at Fall River, Massachusetts, in 1899, Ella Frances Wat- ters, a daughter of George and Josephine (Turner) Watters. James Hutchinson and Ella Frances (Watters) Gildard are the parents of three children, as follows: James Hutchinson, Jr., born in 1901; Dorothy Frances, born in 1903; and Ruth Elizabeth, born in 1910. Mr. and Mrs. James H. Gildard are members of the Episcopal church, of Fall River, Massachusetts, and are active in the social circles of their community.
WILLIAM HENRY SAART-In two separate and important fields of endeavor, William Henry Saart, of Attleboro, Massachusetts, has attained wide prominence, and in his success is contributing in a marked degree to the general prosperity. As a manufacturer of jewelry in Attleboro, he is a leading figure in the trade, and has one of the really important and wide-reaching business inter- ests of this jewelry center. He is the owner of the Mirimichi Poultry Farm, where seventy-five acres are devoted exclusively to the breeding of fine feathered stock, and Mr. Saart has in a com- paratively short period won international repute.
Mr. Saart is a son of Frank A. and Mary (Han- son) Saart, both natives of Germany. The father, who was a bookkeeper by occupation, died in 1912, and the mother in 1915. They came to America as young people and settled permanently in Attle- boro, Massachusetts, where they spent their lives and where they died.
William Henry Saart, son of these parents, was born in Germany, September 12, 1866. Only five years of age when the family came to this country, Mr. Saart's education was received in the public schools of Attleboro, Massachusetts, where he gained a practical preparation for a career. When he was still scarcely more than a boy, Mr. Saart entered the employ of one of the leading manufacturing concerns of Attleboro, and for a number of years was thus active in that community, and also in North Attleboro, working for various firms, among others, Draper & Franklin, as foreman, and the James E. Blake Company, of Attleboro, as foreman. In 1905 Mr. Saart established his own interest as a manufacturer of jewelry, silverware and silver novel- ties. Beginning on a small scale with his plant on County street, Mr. Saart carried the business for- ward very successfully, indeed his progress was so rapid that only a few years had passed before he was compelled to make extensive arrangements for expan- sion. He bought the structure which he now occupies at No. 20 Forrest street, and in this modern and splendidly-equipped factory, containing about 20,000 square feet of floor space, he occupies the entire two
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floors and employs one hundred and fifty people. The product goes to all parts of the United States. On March 31, 1916, the enterprise became a corporation, Mr. Saart receiving into the organization his two brothers, Hermand and Albert G. From his early start, when he employed only six hands, to his present eminence as a leading manufacturer in his field in the United States, Mr. Saart has developed this interest by his own energy and ability, and in his success the city of Attleboro receives honor, as well as the man himself receiving large credit. Mr. Saart is interested further in the business world of Attleboro as a direc- tor and president of the Chamber of Commerce, and as president of the Attleboro Investors Association, also of the Attleboro Athletic Association and Attle- boro Poultry Association.
For many years Mr. Saart's recreative interests have followed the line of poultry breeding, and in 1911 he established Mirimichi Poultry Farm, located in a beau- tiful rolling country, three and one-half miles from Attleboro and nearly as far from the town of Fox- boro, on the shore of the charming Lake Mirimichi. There Mr. Saart has developed one of the attractive places of New England, from the poultry breeder's point of view, and he produces Single Comb Rhode Island Reds, White Plymouth Rocks and White Wyan- dottes. Employing the most approved modern methods of selection, he has built up a wonderfully efficient flock or "strain," both viewed as utility birds or by the standards of the showroom. He has taken some of the premiums which are enviously regarded by every poultry fancier, including winnings at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition, at San Fran- cisco, California, November 18, 1915. It is interesting to note that to show these specimens from his flock in this exposition, Mr. Saart was compelled to ship them a distance of more than 3,000 miles, and when it is considered that poultry deteriorates in appearance very rapidly when not under the most constant and careful attention, it is indeed remarkable that of the eleven birds shipped nine were placed under the rib- bons. In this connection the Saart poultry won first cock in a class of twenty-nine, first and second pullet in a class of sixty-one, third pen in a class of twenty- three, and seventh hen in a class of twenty-five. They also won a gold medal for the champion pullet of the show, all classes competing. "Red Chief," the winning cock-bird, was pronounced by visiting experts to be the finest specimen ever shown, and the pullet winning the first championship was pronounced by Judge Card to be the finest specimen he ever handled. These awards were given Single Comb Rhode Island Reds by three judges-Card, Shove and Tucker.
In every interest of the community, Mr. Saart is a forward-looking, broad-minded, public-spirited citizen. He is affiliated with many branches of advance, and is a member of the Attleboro Chamber of Commerce, of which he has been director for three years and has also served as president. He is a member of the New England Jewelers' and Silversmiths' Association, the Associated Industries of Massachusetts, and the Jew- elers' Board of Trade, of Providence, Rhode Island. He has for some years been a member at large of the City Council, elected on the Republican ticket, and twice has been a candidate for mayor, but on account
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