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OSEPH B. EVERDEAN, a prominent tobacco merchant of the city of Chel- sea, was born on Salem Street, Boston, September 1, 1839, son of Joseph and Elizabeth ( Rice) Everdean. He is the fourth
JOSEPH I. STEWART.
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Joseph Everdean in direct line of descent. The family name was originally spelled Aver- den, subsequently became Everden, and later assumed its present form of Everdean. The first Joseph Everdean, who was a resident of Gloucester, Mass., in 1748, married Anna Broom, a daughter of James and Mary (Tricker) Broom and a descendant of James Broom, who came from England in 1721 and settled in Gloucester, and who, although he was the father of three sons and six daughters, huis now no male descendants. The old house which James Broom conducted as a tavern is still standing in the city of Gloucester.
Joseph Everdean, second, son of the first Joseph and great-grandfather of the subject of this sketch, died in the city of Gloucester in May, 1837, at the age of eighty-six years. The grandfather was Sargent Everdean. He died in Gloucester, May, 1867, aged eighty- six years. His wife's- name was Lydia Babson.
Joseph Everdean, third, son of Sargent and Lydia, father of Joseph B., was born in Bos- ton, December 5, 1813. He followed the oc- cupation of sail-maker. In 1847, previous to the outbreak of the Civil War he removed with his family to Chelsea, and became quite prominent in local affairs, serving as Acting Mayor of the city during the absence of the Mayor. He died March 29, 1889. His wife, Elizabeth, was a daughter of Charles and Polly Rice, of Windsor, Vt. The Rices went to Windsor from Petersham, Mass. (See Hemenway's Vermont Gazetteer. )
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Joseph and Elizabeth ( Rice) Everdean had five children ; namely, Charles S., Joseph B., Wilbur F., Medad P'., and George W.
Joseph B. Everdean was educated in the public schools of Chelsea. In 1862 he en- listed in the Fortieth Regiment of Massachu- setts Volunteers, which was commanded by Colonel Guy V. Henry, recently an officer in the United States regular army in the Spanish-American War. The regiment was ordered to the South, and Mr. Everdean took part in the battle of Olustee, Fla., acting as orderly to Colonel Henry. Soon after this battle the regiment was sent to Gloucester Point, Va., and in 1864 it formed a part of
the Army of the James. Early in 1865 Mr. Everdean was detailed as private orderly to Major-general Charles Devens. He was one of the very first Federal soldiers to enter Richmond at its fall in 1865. Mr. Everdean entered the United States service September 8, 1862, and was honorably discharged June 15, 1865 Three of his brothers also served in the Union army during the war, and were all wounded in battle. These were: Wilbur F .; Charles S., who was in Company H, First Massachusetts; and George W., who served in Captain Blanchard's company, Thirty-fifth Regiment, Massachusetts Volunteers. After his discharge and on his returning home Mr. Everdean opened a wholesale and retail tobacco store in Chelsea, which he has contin- ued to conduct up to the present time. He is a member of the Union Veterans' Union of Chelsea, he with one comrade having organ- ized the first command of that association in New England. This was in Chelsea in 1886.
Mr. Everdean was married in 1870 to Eliza Nowers, daughter of Thomas W. and Caro- line Nowers, of Dover, England. He has no children. Mrs. Everdean's grandparents were Edward and Susannah Nowers, of Dover, England.
OSEPH IRVING STEWART, of Dor- chester, a prominent real estate dealer and builder, now serving as Representa- tive in the Legislature for the Twen- tieth Suffolk District, was born in Kings County, New Brunswick, April 25, 1847, a son of Joseph and Mary (McVey) Stewart. His ancestors on both his father's and mother's side were Scotch, the former settling first in Nova Scotia.
Mr. Stewart's early years after his school days were spent in active employment on his father's farm and in the saw and grain mills, where he made himself generally useful. In April, 1867, at the age of twenty, he came to Boston and entered L. F. Whiting's iron foun- dry as an apprentice, but thus continued for only one year and nine months, when on ac- count of his health he gave up that business. For two years subsequently he was employed
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at the cabinet-maker's trade in Cambridge. He then worked for a while in the piano fac- tory of Chickering & Sons, after which he was engaged for seven years in the faney wood business. This was followed by an industrial period of six years with the Bell Telephone Company. Then in 1886 he began business as a real estate dealer and builder, in which line of industry be bas achieved an unqualified
success. The assessed value of the property he has built in Dorchester alone amounts to about one million dollars. At Ashmont he erected sixty-one houses and three blocks. In four and a half years the value of this property had increased to five hundred thousand dollars. He purchased sixteen acres of land in Dorches- ter Centre, and built thereon fifty-four houses, putting in three-fourths of a mile of sewers and the same length of streets, all of which he sub- sequently released to the city of Boston. This property also included a large brick block known as the Stewart Building and Bloomfield Hall.
Mr. Stewart was first elected to the House of Representatives in 1897 on the Republican ticket, and in 1898 and 1899 he served on the Committee on Metropolitan Affairs. His rec- ord in the House has been highly creditable to himself and beneficial to his constituents, and he has always shown himself ready to advance the best interests of the citizens. He is a member of Massachusetts Lodge, F. & A. M. ; Tabernacle Chapter, R. A. M., of Malden, Mass. ; Beauscant Commandery, K. T., also of Malden. Ile also belongs to the Order of the Golden Cross, of which he has been Supreme Trustee since 1895; the Knights of Malta; and the I. O. O. F. He is a member of the North Dorchester Republican Club, the Chick- atawbut Club, and several others of a social nature.
He was married April 13, 1876, to Miss Margaret Wiggin, of Tamworth, N.II., a daughter of Henry and Hannah (Emory) Wig- gin, of that place.
Mr. Stewart, while coming from the common people, without educational advantages except of the crudest and briefest sort, without money or influence, has unaided achieved for himself a name and an enviable position in the busi-
ness and social life of the city of his adoption. A valued legislator, a prudent business man, a stanch friend, and an upright citizen, his achievements furnish a striking example of what prudence and untiring energy can accom- plish.
OSEPH FRANCIS HOWLAND, pres- ident of Walter Baker & Co., Ltd., chocolate manufacturers, of Boston, Dorchester district, was born in New Bedford, Mass., January 22, 1845, son of Frederick P. and Sarah Slade (Marvel) How- land, married Helen Delano March 17, 1870. He is of the ninth generation in de- scent from Henry Howland, the founder of this branch of the Howland family in New Eng . land. The line is: Henry,1 Zoeth, 2 Nathan- iel,3 James, + James, 5 Timothy,6 Abner,7 Fred- erick P. , $ Joseph Francis. 9
In the record of the allotment of cattle at Plymouth in 1624, Henry Howland is men- tioned as owner of the black cow. It is sup- posed that he came over with his brother Ar- thur, who settled at Marshfield; and the conclusion that they were brothers of John Howland, the "Mayflower" Pilgrim, is sup- ported by the fact that Humphrey Howland, of London, England, in his will, probated in 1646, names as his brothers Arthur, John, and Henry. Henry Howland was one of the earliest settlers of Duxbury, where he was a large landholder. He served as Constable in 1635, and for some years as Highway Sur- veyor. About the year 1657 he joined the Society of Friends. Imprisonment and fines for holding Quaker meetings and for entertain- ing Quakers followed at various times, and in 1659 for this cause he was disfranchised. Yet be kept the faith, as did his wife, Mary New- land.
Zoeth Howland was killed by the Indians in the time of King Philip's War. Nathaniel, son of Zoeth by his wife, Abigail, was one of the leading citizens of Dartmouth (then in- eluding New Bedford, Westport, Fairhaven, Acushnet) and an approved minister of the Society of Friends. He married Rose Allen, a member of the Apponeganset meeting.
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James, son of Nathaniel, born in 1689, a birthright Friend, lost his membership by marrying out of meeting. His wife was Deb- wrath Cook.
James Howland, Jr., son of James and Deb- mah, married Elizabeth Wing. His son Tim- uthy, the seventh of a family of fifteen chil- dren, married Hannah Dillingham, and was the father of four children. Of these Abner, the eldest, born in 1782, married first Susan shearman, by whom he had one child, and second, in ISog, Elizabeth Bliss, by whom he hand seven.
Frederick P., the third child, was born Oc- tuber 28, 1811, in New Bedford. He was a ship-carpenter. For more than a quarter of a century of his active life he resided in Cali- tornia, having gone there as one of the earliest of the forty-niners. There his business was the buying of ships; and among the noted con- demned vessels he bought to- break up was the "Cadmus," in which Lafayette came to this country. In 1876 he became a resident of Boston, where he died February 19, 1890. His wife, whose maiden name was Sarah Slade Mirvel, died in Boston, October 17, 1887. She was born in 1813, and they were married in 1832. They had four children: Sarah Jane, born in 1833; William Frederick Plum- mer, born in 1835; Charles Henry, born in IS40; and Joseph Francis, the subject of this sketch, known as J. Frank Howland. Sarah Jane died in 1866, survived by her third hus- band, Davis A. Blake, and no children. Charles Henry Howland married first Mary .1. Cook, and, second, Elizabeth M. Ray, by whom he had six children, namely : Frederick William, born in August, 1880; George Al- chorn, born in August, 1876; Jessie E., born in December, 1874 (deceased) ; Joseph Francis deceased) ; Sarah Jane, born in April, 1886; and Francis, born in February, 1889. George Achorn Howland married Delia Maria Morell, t Franklin. They have one child, Florence Emerson, born March IS, 1899.
J. Frank Howland attended the public schools until he was sixteen years of age. He then made a trip to California, where he re- mained for a year. Returning to his native ity in 1862, he was employed in the law office
of Brigadier-general Richard A. Peirce until September, 1863, when he entered the Boston office of Walter Baker & Co. The assiduity with which he discharged his duties and his readiness in learning the details of the busi- ness soon won the confidence and strong per- sonal regard of the Hon. Henry L. Pierce, the owner and manager of the works. Mr. Pierce was often absent from his office for long periods during his frequent visits to Europe and while discharging his duties in the various positions to which he was elected in the city, State, and national governments; and during those absences Mr. Howland was entrusted not only with the direction of the great and constantly growing business of the Walter Baker Company, but with Mr. Pierce's per- sonal financial affairs.
When the company was reorganized as a cor- poration in 1895, Mr. Howland was made pres- ident and general manager. During his un- broken service of thirty-six years the business has steadily increased until the comparatively small concern of 1863 has come to be the larg- est manufacturing establishment of its kind on this continent. It is not too much to say that this remarkable result is due in large measure to the intelligent, conscientious, and unremit- ting labors of Mr. Howland.
He has often been urged to accept nomina- tions or appointments to State and city offices ; but, with the exception of two years' service in the City Council of Boston (1882-83), he has always declined public office. In the way of business he served several years as director in the Laurel Lake Mills, Fall River, director in the Blue Hill National Bank of Milton, and as one of the trustees of Cedar Grove Cemetery.
Mr. Howland is a member of the Algonquin Club of Boston, the Temple Club (the oldest social club, in Boston), Dorchester Yacht Club and Wollaston Golf Club.
DWARD AUGUSTUS HATCH, treas- urer of the Allen Lane Company of Bos- ton, dealers in dry goods and wool- lens, was born in Roxbury, December 8, 1842, a son of Edward and Rhoda (Danforth) Ilatch.
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His paternal grandparents were Edward, Sr., and Sarah (Stewart) Hatch, of Wells, Me., the grandfather being a son of David Hatch and a grandson of Jonathan Ilatch, who during the French and Indian War kept the block- house at Wells. This David Hatch was an American soldier in the War of the Revolu- tion. He was a man of considerable local prominence, and served as Major during the War of 1812.
Among the first representatives of this fam- ily in New England were Elder William Hatch, an early settler at Scituate, and two bearing the name Thomas, one of whom, it is said, died at Scituate about 1646, and the other died at Barnstable in 1661, leaving a widow, Grace, and a son Jonathan, who settled at Falmouth. Benjamin, one of the sons of Jonathan, removed to Connecticut. (Sec Swift's Genealogical Notes of Barnstable.) Savage's Genealogical Dictionary mentions Philip Hatch as a freeman at York (Me.) in 1652, and Bourne's History of Well's names Philip and Samuel Hatch as inhabitants of that town before 1670.
David Hatch, of Wells, Me., above named, great-grandfather of Edward A. Hatch, was a soldier of the Revolution, as shown by various records in the State archives. In ISog he was a Major of the Sixth Regiment, First Bri- gade, Sixth Division, Massachusetts Infantry (counties of York, Cumberland, and Oxford, then a part of Massachusetts). From that time he was known as Major David Hatch. He died at the age of about seventy years. His wife died at the age of seventy-five. They had a family of seven children, two sons and five daughters.
Edward Hatch, Jr., father of Edward A., was brought up on a farm. About 1837 he came to Boston and engaged in business as a carpenter and builder, being thus occupied for the rest of his life, and dying in 1876, at the age of sixty years. In politics he was an old- time Whig and later a Republican. His wife, Rhoda, who was a daughter of Thomas and Rhoda (Shepard) Danforth, of Boston, died in July, 1897, at the age of eighty years. They were the parents of two children, both sons - Edward Augustus and Charles Henry.
The latter, who was a telegrapher, died of 0 ;. sumption in 1873, at the age of twenty-cigh:
Edward A. Ilatch was educated in Bost 2. graduating from the Roxbury High School ::: 1859. On January 17, 1860, he entered the employ of Allen, Lane & Company, with which he has since remained, having beer advanced through the different grades of bus :- ness service till 1894, when, the firm beco :- ing incorporated, he was made treasurer. M: Hatch served in the Massachusetts militi= eight years. He is a member of the Society : Sons of the American Revolution, the New England Historic Gencalogical Society, the Roxbury Military Historical Society, and :: American Canoe Association. He is an af- herent of the Republican party, having cas: his first vote for Abraham Lincoln in 1864.
Mr. Hatch was married July 12, 1872. : Miss Ella Frances Snelling, a daughter : Josiah and Eleanor (Danforth) Snelling a: grand-daughter of Thomas Danforth. Mr. a. Mrs. Hatch had two children : Percival Sne !:- ing, born April 14, 1873; and Lincoln Da :.- forth, born February 16, 1876. Percival :. Hatch, who is engaged in the coal business :: New York City, is a graduate of the Roxbu ... High School. He belongs to the Sons of the American Revolution. Lincoln D. Hatch is an electrical engineer of Boston, and also be- longs to the Sons of the American Revolution. Both brothers served in the recent Spanish- American War - Percival in the Twenty-ses- ond Regiment, N. Y. N. G., and Lincoln :.. the United States Navy as a Coxswain . : the United States steamship "Prairie." Mrs. Ilatch died on January 20, 1892, her 1 -s being deeply deplored by her loving family and friends. She was a useful and consisten: member of the Baptist church.
ATHAN CARRUTH, first president ci the Old Colony Railroad, was boy :. in North Brookfield, Mass., De- cember 25, 18os, and died at his home in Dorchester, May 19, 1888. Ile ws- the fourth son of Francis and Mary (Hals Carruth and a descendant in the fourth ge :-
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eration of John Carruth, who married at Marl- boro, Mass., Jemima Russell, of Sudbury. The line was John,' Nathan,2 Francis, 3 Nathan. +
John Carruth died September 19, 1798, aged eighty-four years. His son Nathan, first, whose birth took place in Northboro, Mass., March 29, 1744, settled in 1775 at North Brookfield, where he died May 22, 1827. He married Elizabeth Whipple, who was born June 29, 1748, daughter of Francis Whipple, of Westboro, Mass. She died at North Brook- field, May 8, 1822.
Francis Carruth, son of Nathan and Eliza- beth Carruth, was born in North Brookfield, February 23, 1780. A prosperous farmer, he took an active interest in local public affairs, and was a magistrate and a man of influence in his own town and county. For a long period he was a member of the Board of Selectmen. He was also for many years a member of the State Senate from Worcester County. He was of amiable disposition, and was greatly beloved by his fellow-townsmen. He married Mary Hale, daughter of the Hon. Thomas and Ruth (Hardy) Hale. She was born January 2, 1782, and died September 11, 1839. Mr. and Mrs. Francis Carruth were the parents of nine children, namely : Isaac; Francis Sum- ner; Iliram; Nathan, second, the subject of this sketch; Thomas Hale; Charles Whipple ; Martha Whipple; Charles; and Mary Fidelia. Of these children none are living except Mar- tha Whipple.
Nathan Carruth, second, son of Francis, was educated in his native town, and resided there until seventeen years old. Coming to Boston in 1825, in the succeeding year he was em- ployed as a clerk by a concern engaged in the West India goods trade, and he then served an apprenticeship in the drug store of Messrs. Fletcher and Carruth. After the dissolution of that firm in 1831, he entered into partner- ship with his brother Francis Sumner, under the firm name of F. S. & N. Carruth. They were associated in business for eight years, at the expiration of which time Nathan Carruth formed a copartnership with his younger brother Charles, under the firm name of N. & C. Carruth. The latter concern had a most
successful career in the drug business in Bos- ton, covering a period of many years.
The revolutionizing of traffic made possible by the advent of steam as a motive power found a most enthusiastic supporter in Mr. Carruth, who devoted much time, energy, and capital to the introduction of railway lines in Massachusetts and other New England States. He not only labored to promote their estab- lishment, but after their completion he took an active interest in their welfare; and, be- sides being the first president and general manager of the Old Colony Railroad, he was for a number of years treasurer of the Northern Railroad of New Hampshire. He was also president of the Dorchester Gaslight Company and a director of the Mattapan Bank. Politi- cally, he was a Republican. In 1847 he moved to Dorchester, laying out at great ex- pense a most attractive estate in what is now known as Ashmont. He resided there for the rest of his life, which terminated, as noted above.
Mr. Carruth was very fond of travel. He visited Europe, and went through Palestine, Syria, and the East several times. He was the soul of honor, and his generosity was extensive. He was deeply interested in the moral and re- ligious welfare of the community in which he exercised a beneficent influence, and was a prominent member of the Second Parish, under the pastorates of Dr. Codman and Dr. Means. He was also a corporate member of the A. B. C. F. M., a life member of the Home Missionary Society, and a generous con- tributor to all good works.
Mr. Carruth was twice married. His first marriage took place December 2, 1830, with Miss Louisa Jones Pratt, who was born August 5, 1809, daughter of Eleazar Pratt, and died February 10, 1844. Of that union there was one child, Henrietta Louisa, who was born in Boston, December 15. 1831, and died Novem- ber 28, 1835. On March 15, 1845, he mar- ried for his second wife Mrs. Sarah Ann Porter, widow of Royal Loomis Porter and mother of the late Edward Griffin Porter, A. M., a biographical sketch of whom appears on another page of this volume. She was born March 6, 1813. Of this second union were
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born three children, namely : Ellen, April IS, 1846; Emma, born April 28, 1849; and Her- bert Schaw, born February 15, 1855. Miss Ellen Carruth is now residing with her mother at Ashmont. Emma died May 30, 1888. Herbert Schaw Carruth was married September 13, 1877, to Miss Annie French Pope, who was born in San Francisco, Cal., August 23, 1854. Their children are: Nathan Carruth (the sixth of that name), who was born June 28, 1880; and Henry Pope, born March 25, 1884. A daughter, Ethelwin, who was born March 12, 1887, died in August, 1887.
ILLIAM COE COLLAR, A.M., son of Charles Collar, head master of the Roxbury Latin School, was born in Ashford, Conn., September 11, 1833. Through his mother he traces his ancestry back to John and Priscilla Alden, of the Plym- outh Colony.
Charles Collar was born in Uxbridge, Mass., in 1808. Losing his father at an early age, he found it necessary to begin the battle of life while yet a child as chore boy on a farm. Subsequently he learned the shoemaker's trade, and followed it in connection with farm- ing in Connecticut, to which State he moved in early manhood, and of which he continued a resident until about 1860. He afterward lived with his son William till his death in 1896. He married Mary Ann Coe, who was born in Woodstock, Conn., July 14, 1806, a daughter of Isaac and Sarah Holmes (Weaver) Coe. Her father, who was born in Little Compton, R. I., December 15, 1772, was a son of William and Sarah (Ellis) Coe, Sarah Ellis being a daughter of the Rev. Jonathan and Patience Ellis. William Coe, also a native of Little Compton, R. I., born February 17, 1748, was a son of John and Rebecca (Taylor) Coc. John Coe was born in Little Compton, February 1, 1699. His wife, Rebecca, who died December 19, 1740, was a daugh- ter of Peter Taylor. John was a son of another John Coe, born in Little Compton, June 30, 1649 (died December 16, 1728), who married in 1681 Sarah Peabody. Sarah Peabody was a daughter of Elizabeth Peabody, who was a
daughter of John and Priscilla (Mullins) Alden, the "Mayflower " Pilgrims. Charles Collar at one time represented Ashford in the Connecticut Legislature. Isaac Coe, grand- father of William Coe Collar, served as mid- shipman in early life in the United States navy. Charles Collar and Mary Ann (Coe) Collar were the parents of six children ; namely, Jane, William Coe, Mary Louisa, Frederick, Henry Alonzo, and Ellen Jane. Jane, the first named, died at the age of twenty-three years. Mary Louisa married William M. Wagner, and has three children. Frederick died in childhood. Henry Alonzo took part in the great Civil War as a member of the Fifteenth Massachusetts Infantry, and was killed at the battle of Antietam. Ellen Jane is the wife of F. B. Stowell, of Chicago, and the mother of two children.
William Coe Collar was educated at Wood- stock Academy (Woodstock, Conn. ), Amherst High School, Wilbraham Academy, and Am- herst College, graduating at the last-named institution in the class of 1859. Before grad- uation he came to Roxbury to accept a position as submaster of the Roxbury Latin School. In 1867 he was elected principal of the school, which responsible position he has since filled in a most capable manner, having gained a wide reputation as one of the leading educators in the country. He has received the honorary degree of Master of Arts from Amherst and from Harvard College. He is the author or editor of many widely-used text-books, among which may be mentioned the "Seventh Book of Virgil's Eneid " and "Second Book of Cæsar's Gallic War," "The Gate to Cæsar," a Latin reader called "Via Latina," "The New Gradatim," a revision of Eysenbach's "German Grammar," "The Beginner's Latin Book," also "The First Latin Book," of which he is joint editor with M. G. Daniell. He was also joint editor with Dr. John Tetlow of "School Classics. " He has written many educational papers and delivered many ad- dresses on educational subjects. Mr. Collar was one of the two masters appointed by Pres- ident Eliot on the Harvard Schools' Examina- tion Board, and for three years was a member of the Boston School Committee. He was
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