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Joseph E. Bailey was educated in the public schools of Newbury, graduating from the Put- nam High School at Newburyport in 1858. He then came to Georgetown, to work as clerk in a grocery store for Nathaniel Lambert & Son. After four years he was taken into the firm, which then became N. Lambert & Co. This partnership had lasted five years when Mr. Bailey and the younger Lambert pur- chased the interest of the senior partner, and the name was changed to Lambert & Bailey. In 1884 Mr. Bailey bought his partner's in- terest, and thereafter carried on the business for ten years in his own name. Then he sold out his stock of goods and rented the store to Sanborn & Noyes. Afterward he spent about three years in settling estates in which he and
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his family were interested. In 1888 he and Mr. Noyes formed the firm of A. B. Noyes & Co. for the manufacture of boots and shoes. The firm, which was incorporated under the laws of the State with a capital of twenty thousand dollars, A. B. Noyes being the pres- ident and J. E. Bailey the treasurer, employs now about fifty skilled workmen. In 1881 Mr. Bailey erected the Bailey Block, to be used for stores below and tenements above. At one time he was the president of the Georgetown Savings Bank, and he now is a trustee and the auditor of that institution. He has served the community in the capacities of Selectman, Treasurer, and Collector, and was Town Clerk for ten years. In 1874 he was elected to the State legislature, where he was a member of the Committee on Mercantile Affairs. In politics he is a Republican and a strong temperance man. He is a member of the First Congregational Society of George- town, and has been the treasurer of the society for seven years. His connection with frater- nal organizations is limited to membership in . Protection Lodge, No. 147, I. O. O. F., of Georgetown.
In 1866 Mr. Bailey was married to Sarah A. Eaton, a daughter of Daniel W. and Sarah Little Smith Eaton, of West Newbury. Her grandfather, James Smith, the fourth bearer of the name in the Smith family, was born on the old farm on Crane Neck Hill, in West Newbury. The second James Smith was the Captain of a company in the Revolutionary War. Mr. and Mrs. Bailey have one son, Elmer Smith Bailey, who was born in 1872. After passing through the public schools and graduating from Phillips Academy in An- dover, Elmer S. Bailey took a special course in architecture at Brown University, and in 1895 graduated from the Rhode Island School of Design at the head of his class, taking a
prize for the best design. He is now a men- ber of the firm of Cooper, Bailey & Kerr, architects, of Boston, Mass.
AMES F. PEASE, of the well-known carriage-makers in Merrimac, Samuel C. Pease & Sons, is a descendant of one of the Pease brothers who came from Eng- land to Salem in 1635, afterward settling one at Martha's Vineyard and one in Enfield. When Thomas Mayhew received a grant of Martha's Vineyard, seven families named Pease were found there. Among them was John Pease, who then had in his possession an Indian grant. The tradition is that they were shipwrecked there, and afterward traded with the Indians. Most of the ancestors of the family followed the sea. Generally men of character, some were eminent divines or dis- tinguished in other walks of life. One of the Pease family at the age of eighteen was se- lected to serve in Lafayette's body-guard be- cause of his magnificent physique. Another of the family was present at the surrender of Burgoyne. The Hon. Calvin Pease was for fourteen years Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Ohio. Captain Levi lease made the first contract for carrying mails in New Eng- land from Portsmouth, N. H., to Savannah, Ga .. Abisha Pease, the great-grandfather of James F., was prominent in church affairs. He left Martha's Vineyard and took up a large tract of land in Norridgewock, which he afterward lost through an imperfect title. Subsequently in Fall River he made a sufficient amount of money to enable him to return to Norridge- wock and repurchase his farm. His son, the grandfather of Mr. James F. Pease, removed to Fall River in middle life.
Samuel C. Pease, after a few years of school- ing, began to learn the trade of carriage-maker
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in Fall River. Afterward he worked at his trade in West Amesbury, now Merrimac, until 1861, when he went into business for him- self in a small way. A few years later he was able to buy the business and residence of John S. Poyen, and after an interval the establishment now owned by his sons, to which he added every year, as his custom steadily increased. His son James F. was made a member of the firm in 1879, and Frank E. was received in 1883. In 1888 Mr. Pease disposed of the remainder of his inter- est to his youngest son, John T., and retired from active business, except to the extent of serving in the capacity of a director of the Merrimac National Bank. Since then he has given the most of his time to extended Eu- ropean travel and trips to California. He is connected with the Congregational church, and together with his three sons, James F., Frank E., and John T., is a member of Riverside Lodge, No. 174, I. O. O. F.
James F. Pease, the eldest son of Samuel C., was educated at the Merrimac High School and a commercial college in Boston. After learning the carriage trade he went into busi- ness with his father. For the past ten years he has had sole charge of the concern. Car- riages of the highest grade are made in his establishment and shipped to all parts of the world. In 1895 a magnificent rockaway, adorned with gold-mounted lamps and other accessories, was sent by them to Turkey, to be used as the sultan's private carriage. Both he and his brother Frank are directors of the Co- operative Bank of Merrimac. In politics he is a Prohibitionist, and he has served as a member of the Executive Committee of the State.
He married Mary A., daughter of John B. Heath, of Merrimac, and has eight children - Harry Alvin, James Chase, Anne Mary, Ruth
Evelyn, Martha, John Samuel, Elizabeth, and Beulah, all living at home. A man of culti- vated literary tastes, he has rendered valuable services to the community as a member of the Board of Trustees of the Public Library, of which he is the present chairman. An es- teemed Odd Fellow, he is a Past Grand of the Riverside Lodge, and is now its chaplain and a trustee. He is a member of the Congrega- tional church, and served for some time on its Prudential Committee.
Frank E. Pease, a draughtsman of unusual ability, is in charge of the blacksmith and wood-working department of the manufactory. He is Past Grand of Riverside Lodge, Past Chief Patriot of Eagle Encampment, and Cap- tain of Canton Eagle, Haverhill. Now serv- ing his fifth year in the School Committee, he is the present chairman of that body. He married Miss Fannie Noyes, a daughter of Stephen Noyes, a contractor of Haverhill, and Sarah (Hoyt) Noyes, and has four children - Carrie Noyes, Charles Francis, Sarah Anne, and Frank Webster, all of whom are at home.
John T. Pease is in charge of the painting, trimming, and finishing department of the business. He married Miss Mattie Perry, of Sherman Mills, Me., a daughter of Joseph and Emma (Eaton) Perry, and has two children - Emma Mattie and Mabelle Ella, both at home. In politics he is a Republican.
ILLIAM BARNES, janitor of the Nevins Library building at Me- thuen, Mass., was born March 15, 1834, in Orford, Grafton County, N.H. His parents were John Busby and Lucy (Freeman) Barnes, both descended from old Connecticut families. His paternal grandfather removed from Fairfield County, Connecticut, to Mon- treal, Canada, where he afterward resided. His
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mother's father, Daniel Freeman, served in the Revolutionary War, and soon after its close removed from Connecticut, the State of his birth, to Orford, N. H., where he was a pioneer settler.
John Busby Barnes was born in December, 1793, in Montreal, Canada, and was there reared and educated. When ready to establish himself in business he removed to New Eng- land, and thereafter lived in New Hampshire or Massachusetts until his decease in July, 1871. He married Lucy Freeman, who was born December 25, 1803, and died in 1875. Six children, all sons, were born to John Busby and Lucy Barnes, William being the fourth. One son, Joel Barnes, died very sud- denly of apoplexy at the age of fifty-four years, leaving two daughters.
On January 8, 1853, before he had reached the nineteenth anniversary of his birth, Will- iam Barnes married Juliet Waldo, a fair young maiden of his own age, who was born in Me- thuen, Mass., a daughter of George A. and Almira (Bodwell) Waldo. He learned the hatter's trade when a young man, and worked as a journeyman at the Methuen bench for many years. During the war of the Rebellion he volunteered his services to his country, en- listing in the Fourteenth Massachusetts Vol- unteer Infantry, which was changed to the First Massachusetts Heavy Artillery. He was mustered in at Fort Warren, Boston Har- bor, July 7, 1861. For two years and nine months he was engaged in garrison duty around Washington, D.C., and was then sent to the field of conflict. On May 15, 1864, he took an active part in the battle of Spottsyl- vania. Within the next six weeks his regi- ment was at the front in eight decisive con- tests; and, although one thousand three hundred and forty out of one thousand seven hundred and forty of his comrades were
killed, wounded, or captured, he was fortunate enough to escape unharmed. His health, however, was undermined by the exposures and privations of life in camp and field, and he now draws a pension from the government. On returning to Methuen at the expiration of his term of enlistment he resumed work at his trade, and continued at it until 1884, when he was appointed to his present position by Mr. Henry C. Nevins. He is an active member of a post of the G. A. R., of which he has been Junior Vice-Commander and chaplain. In politics he formerly affiliated with the Democratic party, but in 1896 he became a sound money Republican.
Mr. and Mrs. Barnes have four children, namely: Lucy Ardelle, wife of Edward W. Austin, of Lawrence, Mass. ; George Will- iam, of Methuen ; Charles Albert, of Chicago, Ill .; and Lewis Edgar, of whom a brief sketch will be found on another page of this volume.
ENRY CONVERSE ATTWILL, a rising young lawyer of Lynn, was born in this city, March 11, 1872. His father, Isaac M. Attwill, a native of Lynn and one of its best known and most respected residents, married Miss Harriet E. Sanger, of Watertown, Mass., and they be- came the parents of seven children; namely, Helen L., Annie L., Joseph W., Mary C., Jesse L. (second), Harriet S., and Henry C.
Henry C. Attwill took the full course of study in the public schools of his native city, entering the primary grade as soon as old enough, and receiving his diploma from the high school in the spring of 1890. A few months later he became a student at the Bos- ton University School of Law, from which he was graduated with the class of 1893. On the 8th of August, the same year, he was
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admitted to the Suffolk bar, and at once asso- ciated himself with William D. Turner, who was then counsel for the Metropolitan Sewer- age Commission, and who has an office in that city and in Lynn. He has since conducted a successful practice, having proved himself an earnest student of his profession, an acute and logical reasoner, and one possessed of more than ordinary oratorical ability.
In 1896 Mr. Attwill was elected to repre- sent his constituents of the then Eighteenth Essex District in the State legislature, where he was distinguished as being the youngest member of the House. During that year he served on the Committees on Probate and In- solvency, and was a member and the clerk of the Committee on Elections. He is now, in 1897, also a member of the House of Repre- sentatives, being clerk of the Committee on the Judiciary.
In politics he is a stanch and steadfast Re- publican and an active worker in the interests of his party. In 1894 and 1895 he was a member of the Lynn Republican City Com- mittee. He now belongs to the Lynn Repub- lican Club, and is likewise a member of the social organization known as the Oxford Club.
UDLEY BRADSTREET, of Tops- field, Mass., son of John and Sally (Rea) Bradstreet, bears the names of two distinguished ancestors - Governor Simon Bradstreet, of whom he is a descendant in the seventh generation, and Governor Thomas Dudley, from whom he is descended through the Governor's daughter Anne, of literary fame, wife of Governor Bradstreet. This is the line from Governor Simon' and Anne (Dudley) Bradstreet : John,2 who married Sarah Per- kins; Simon, 3 who married in 1711 Elizabeth Capen; John, 4 who married Elizabeth Fisk ;
Captain Dudley, 5 who married Mary Porter ; John,6 who married Sally Rea, and was the father of the subject of our sketch.
Captain Dudley Bradstreet, the grandfather, was the only son and the youngest child in his father's family. He was born and reared on the old Bradstreet homestead in Topsfield. He chose an agricultural life; and in 1809, some years after his marriage, he bought a farm in Danvers, Mass., and made that his home until his death, on April 23, 1833. He and his wife, Mary, had eleven children ; namely, Polly, Eliza, Sarah, Lydia, Porter, Joseph, Dudley, John, Albert, Jonathan, and Thomas. Of these, Polly, the eldest, married Samuel Peabody, of Boxford. Eliza became the wife of Silas Cochran, of Essex. Sarah married Ahira Putnam, of Danvers. Lydia married a Mr. White, and had three children, all of whom became teachers in Boston. Por- ter, who married Mehitabel Bradstreet, daugh- ter of John Bradstreet, settled on the adjoin- ing farm, which was a part of the original tract granted to Governor Bradstreet, and lived there until his death at the age of sixty-seven years. He reared but one child, Hannah Prince, who married Humphrey Balch, and died in 1891. Joseph Bradstreet, who was a tailor in Boston, was drowned in the dock. He left a widow and two children. Dudley, Jr., the third son, who never married, was a hotel-keeper in early years, but subsequently bought from Samuel Bradstreet, a near kins- man and the father of Cleveland Bradstreet, late Mayor of Rochester, N. Y., the old home- stead in Topsfield, and lived here until his death in 1832, aged forty-seven years. Al- bert, who lived for a time in the West, mar- ried a Miss Stearns and died in Melrose, Mass. Jonathan went to Iowa when a young man, being the first settler in Burlington, and was shot during a dispute over land, at the
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age of twenty-seven years. The youngest of the family, the Rev. Thomas Bradstreet, of Thompson, Conn., married a daughter of Seth Thomas, and is the father of Thomas Dudley Bradstreet, who is manager of the Seth Thomas clock factory.
Dudley Bradstreet, Jr., dying in 1832, as already noted, left the old Bradstreet estate to his father, Captain Dudley, who died a few months later. His brother John then bought the interest of the remaining heirs in that property and in the Danvers farm, also.
John Bradstreet, son of Captain Dudley Bradstreet and brother of Dudley, Jr., re- mained on the Danvers farm until his death, February 22, 1870, at the age of sixty-seven years and eight months. His wife, who was the daughter of Israel Rea, of Topsfield, sur- vived many years, living in Topsfield, her death at the advanced age of ninety being caused by injuries received from her clothing catching fire.
John and Sally (Rea) Bradstreet had five children, namely : Dudley, the special subject of this sketch; John; Israel; Harrison; and Sarah. John, the second son, was a cattle dealer in Hamilton. Israel went to California for his health, and died there, of consumption, leaving a widow and three children, who still remain in that State. Harrison, who is the keeper of a lodging-house in Boston, for a time owned the Danvers farm. He is married, but has no children. Sarah, who is unınar- ried, lives in Topsfield.
Dudley Bradstreet, the eldest son, was born on the Danvers farm, July 6, 1827. From the time he was old enough to make himself use- ful, he assisted in the management of the place until attaining his majority. He then worked for a time for his uncle Porter on the adjoining farm, once a part of Governor Brad- street's landed property. In 1849 his father
placed him in charge of the old homestead, which he had previously bought ; and here Mr. Bradstreet has since been prosperously engaged in general farming. The estate contains one hundred and twenty-five acres; and the present house, built on the site of the original dwell- ing, was erected in 1770, one hundred and twenty-eight years ago, by a John Bradstreet, Sr., who was descended from the second son of Governor Simon Bradstreet.
Mr. Bradstreet married February 12, 1851, Miss Mchitabel P. Bradstreet, who was born in Hamilton, Mass., daughter of Josiah and Sarah (Patch) Bradstreet. Josiah Bradstreet was a son of John Bradstreet, Jr., and a grand- son of John Bradstreet, Sr., who built the pres- ent house on the home farm, which he had in- herited. John, Jr., was the first child born in this house. The farm descended to Samuel Bradstreet, the son of John Bradstreet, Sr. ; and he sold it, as above mentioned, to the uncle of the present owner. Mr. and Mrs. Bradstreet have ten children, namely : Sarah Josephine, wife of Josiah Loring Gould, of Melrose, Mass. ; Horace D., who married Mabel Warner, of Ipswich; Josiah Porter, of Hamilton, who married Addie Smith; Sam- uel W., unmarried; John H., who married Lucy Kneeland, and in company with his brother Samuel carries on the Essex County Agricultural Society Farm; Percy Leroy, living at home; Albert C., also living on the old farm, who is Master of the Topsfield Grange; Alice Gertrude, who lives at home; Ruth, wife of Frank Bradstreet, of Beverly ; and Mettie, a teacher in the Topsfield High School.
Mr. Bradstreet has always been numbered among the most faithful and public-spirited citizens of Topsfield, doing his full share to secure its advancement. He has held nearly all the town offices, serving as Selectman fif-
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teen years and as a member of the School Committee twenty years. In 1879 and 1880 he was a Representative to the State legislat- ure, in which he was one of the Committee on Counties. For several years he was a Trustee of the Essex Agricultural Society and for many seasons a regular exhibitor at its annual fairs. In politics he is an unswerving Republican. Fraternally, he is a Mason, be- longing to Amity Lodge of Danvers.
RANCIS A. P. KILLAN, senior member of the firm of F. A. P. Killan & Sons, well-known builders and con- tractors of Manchester, Mass., was born in Boxford, Mass., on September 11, 1823, son of Samuel and Lois (Holt) Killan. His father was a native of Boxford, and his mother of North Reading, Mass. The former, who .was a farmer by occupation, died in 1839.
The subject of this sketch was educated in the common schools of Boxford. At the age of eighteen years he began to learn the trade of carpenter and builder with William B. Morgan, then a prominent contractor and builder of Manchester. After serving an apprenticeship of nearly three years he be- came foreman for Mr. Morgan, and had some ten or fifteen workmen under his charge. He was at this time but twenty years old. Previ- ous to the breaking out of the Civil War he was engaged in business for himself, and sub- sequently during the war was a partner in the well-known firm of Phillips & Killan, with which he remained connected for thirty- eight years, or up to the time of Mr. Phillips's death. Since 1895 he has been associated in business with his son. The business methods of the firm have been such as to secure for them a wide reputation and the entire confi- dence of their patrons in this and other towns
and cities. The buildings erected by them give evidence of the most careful and consci- entious work, and each is a standing adver- tisement for them. Mr. Killan has served as town surveyor of lumber and measurer of wood and bark, also as town gauger of oil.
Mr. Killan married Mary E. Martin, of Manchester. He has had eight children, of whom three are living - Augustus M., Martin Lewis, and Cyrus Bartlett.
In politics Mr. Killan is a Republican. He is a member and Deacon of the Congrega- tional Church of Manchester. Fraternally, he is a member and Past Grand of Magnolia Lodge, Independent Order of Odd Fellows, and at present is serving as chaplain of the lodge.
OHN TUFTS, manager of the Cape Ann Isinglass Company, of Rockport, was born in this town, May 10, 1843, son of Eli G. and Hannah (McJannet) Tufts. The family is an old and highly reputable one in this locality. Eli G. Tufts, who was for many years a tailor in Rockport, died in 1852. His wife, Hannah, was a daughter of Samuel McJannet, a Scotchman, who came to this town when twenty-three years old, and resided here for the rest of his life. She became the mother of four children, all of whom are liv- ing, namely: William E. Tufts, of St. Ste- phens, N.B. ; John, the subject of this sketch ; Susan H., wife of Levi P. Thurston, of Rock- port; and Albert C., who resides in Sacra- mento, Cal.
John Tufts completed his education in the Rockport Grammar School. At an early age he began to work for the Rockport Granite Company, shipping stone from this town to Boston, and spent his summers in that occupa- tion for a number of years. At the age of
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eighteen he became employed in the isinglass factory at Ipswich, Mass. Isinglass can only be manufactured during the winter season; and Mr. Tufts was connected with the Ipswich factory for about twelve seasons, during which time he became thoroughly familiar with the business. In 1882 he was appointed manager of the Cape Ann Isinglass Company's factory in Rockport, a position which he has since filled with marked ability; and he is at the present time a stockholder and a member of the firm.
Mr. Tufts married Maria Clark, daughter of Lemuel J. Clark, late of Rockport. He has two children: Clara M., wife of Manley G. Littlefield, of this town; and Hosea C. In politics a Republican, Mr. Tufts takes a lively interest in the business development of the town. He is connected with Ashler Lodge, F. & A. M., and is Past Grand of Granite Lodge, I. O. O. F. He attends the Univer- salist church.
RED P. STANTON, a well-known grocer and formerly Postmaster of Wenham, was born in this town on September 2, 1864, son of Charles H. and Mary E. (Boynton) Stanton. The Stanton family has been long and favorably known here, and its members have occupied posi- tions of trust and responsibility in the affairs of the town. Charles H. Stanton, who was a son of Alvin Stanton, was born in this county. He is now a prominent Democratic politician of Wenham and a member of the Board of Trustees for the public library.
Fred P. Stanton in his boyhood attended the public schools of Wenham and subse- quently the Beverly High School. At six- teen years of age he became clerk in the mer- cantile house of A. D. & W. F. Trowt, of this town, and for the following sixteen years was
one of the most trusted employees of that firm. During five years of this time he served as Collector of Taxes for the town of Wenham and for ten years as Postmaster. Since he started in business for himself, in 1897, he has secured a generous patronage. His wide acquaintance furnished him with many pa- trons, whose confidence he studies to retain. He keeps two delivery wagons, and makes house to house calls. Besides carrying on his store he does considerable newspaper work, being local correspondent for the Beverly Times, the Salem Gasette, and for the Asso- ciated Press.
Mr. Stanton married Mary A. Beard, daughter of Charles E. Beard, superintendent of the Boston Ice Company's works at Newton Junction, N. H., and formerly a resident of Wenham. Three children have been born to him; namely, Melvina A., Winnifred, and Blanche A. Mr. Stanton is a Democrat po- litically, and has served as member of the Wenham Democratic Town Committee. Fra- ternally, he belongs to the Order of United American Mechanics, Golden Star Council, at Beverly, of which he is ex-Councillor, and to the Wenham Mutual Benefit Association.
ILLIAM HOARE, a member of the well-known firm of Roberts & Hoare, leading contractors and builders of Manchester, Mass., is a native of Devonshire, England, born February 2, 1848, son of Stephen and Jane A. Hoare. Both parents were natives of England, and the mother is now deceased. William Hoare re- ceived his education in the public schools of his native country. At the age of fourteen he began to learn the carpenter's and joiner's trade, to which he served a seven years' ap- prenticeship. During this time he attended
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