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also one of the organizers of the College and l'reparatory Schools' Association, which he served as president one year, and of the Asso- ciation of Head Masters.
In 1858 Mr. Collar married Miss Hannah Caroline Averill, of Pomfret, Conn. After thirty-four years of happy wedded life Mrs. Collar died in 1892, having been the mother of six children. Mr. Collar married for his sec- ond wife, in 1893, Mary Evelyn Cornwall, of Rome, N. Y.
ILLIAM LOCKE SWAN, a well- known resident of Chelsea, Suffolk County, Mass., was born in South Paris, Me., December 16, 1866, son of William Russell and Mary A. (Noyes) Swan. He is a descendant in the eighth generation of John Swan, who came from England in 1635, set- tled at Cambridge in the Bay Colony, and married, it is said, Rebecca Palfrey. The line is: John,' Gershom, 2 John, 3 William, + William, 5 William, 6 William Russell, ? Will- iam Locke. 8
Gershom Swan, born in 1654, married Sarah Holden. Their son John was born in 1683. William Swan, first, born in Cambridge, Mass., in 1737, was living in 1769 in Wo- burn. He served as a soldier in the Conti- nental army, belonging to what was known as the First Militia Company of Woburn, his name appearing on the muster and pay roll of the company dated April 30, 1775. Josiah Johnson was Captain of the company. Will- iam Swan, second, born in 1763, removed to Paris, Me., with his father some time previous to 1790, and some years later settled at Wood- stock, Me. He married Bethiah Pratt ; and their son William, third, was born in Paris, Me., in 1792. William Swan, third, who was the grandfather of the subject of this sketch, served his country as a soldier in the War of 1812 with Great Britain. He married Hannah Locke, daughter of Samuel B. and Hannah (Russell) Locke, of Bethel, Me. They were the parents of seven children; namely, Lo- diska, Urania, Lucetta E., William R., Le- ander S., Lucetta M., and Hannah E.
William Russell Swan, father of William
Locke, was born in Woodstock, Me., in 1827. He was Captain of Company D, of Charles- town, Fifth Massachusetts Volunteers, going to the front with his regiment in response to the first call for three months' volunteers at the outbreak of the Civil War. At the expira- tion of his term of service he returned with the regiment, resigned his command, and was discharged December 5, 1861. He recruited Company K of the Thirteenth Maine Volunteer Infantry, and was commissioned Captain De- cember 13, 1861. He was discharged March 7, 1864, on account of disability at the time of the Red River expedition, in the . opening engagements of which he participated. He served on the Chelsea police force from 1873 to 1896, when he retired from active life. He now resides in Chelsea, Mass. His wife, in maidenhood Mary A. Noyes, was born in Po- land, Me., a daughter of Daniel and Rachel (Simmons) Noyes. Her father, Daniel Noyes, was a descendant and representative of the old Noyes family of Newbury, Mass., being a son of John Noyes, fourth, born in Bridgewater in 1754, who was son of Jobn, third, born in Abington, Mass., 1728-9, the latter being a son of John Noyes, second, born in Newbury in 1699, who was son of Nicholas, born in Newbury in 1671, Nicholas being a son of Jobn, first, born in Newbury in 1646, who was a son of Nicholas, the first progenitor of this branch of the family in America. Nicholas Noyes came to this country from England with his brother, the Rev. James Noyes, in 1634. John Noyes, fourth, great- grandfather of the subject of this sketch, mar- ried Zibia Brett, a daughter of Simeon and a grand-daughter of Seth Brett and his wife, Sarah Alden. To pursue this interesting an- cestral line still farther back, Sarah Alden, wife of Seth Brett, was a daughter of Isaac Alden, son of Joseph, who was a son of John Alden and Priscilla Mullins, whose often-told story lights up so pleasantly the grim pages of the Pilgrim annals.
Another "Mayflower " connection may here be noted. John Hayward, of Bridgewater, married Sarah Mitchell, daughter of Experi- ence Mitchell by his first wife, Jane Cook, daughter of Francis Cook, the seventeenth
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signer of the Pilgrims' compact at Cape Cod, in November, 1620; and Sarah Ilayward, daughter of John and Sarah (Mitchell) Hay- ward, was the wife of Nathaniel Brett and mother of Seth Brett, grandfather of Zibia Brett, above named as the wife of John Noyes, fourth.
Rachel Simmons, wife of Daniel Noyes and grandmother of William Locke Swan, was the great-great-grand-daughter of John Sim- mons, whose wife, Mercy Pabodie, was the daughter of William l'abodie and Elizabeth Alden and grand-daughter of John Alden and Priscilla Mullins. Rachel Simmons was also the great-grand-daughter of Rachel Sampson, wife of Moses Simmons, a grand-daughter of Henry Sampson and a great-grand-daughter of Myles Standish, both of whom, as is well known, were "Mayflower" passengers and Plymouth colonists.
Hannah Locke, William Locke Swan's grandmother, was born in Fryeburg, Me., in 1795, and was a grand-daughter of Lieutenant James Locke, Jr., of Groton, Mass., he being a great-grandson of Deacon William Locke, who came from Stepney parish, London, Eng- land, and settled in Woburn, Mass.
William R. and Mary. A. (Noyes) Swan have been the parents of four children - Mary H., Anna M., Etta A., and William Locke.
William Locke Swan was educated in the public schools of Chelsea. After leaving school he secured a position with the firm of Jerome Marble & Co., of Boston, dealers in oils, starches, etc. ; and he has remained in their employ up to the present time. Being a mem- ber of the First Regiment, Heavy Artillery, Massachusetts Volunteer Militia, at the out- break of the late war with Spain he was mus- tered into the United States service with that regiment May 9, 1898, with the rank of First Lieutenant of Battery L. This battery was detailed for service at Fort Warren, Bos- ton Harbor, and at Fort Rodman, New Bed- ford. Mr. Swan was mustered out with his regiment November 4, 1898. He is a mem- ber of the Massachusetts Commandery of the Military and Naval Order of the Spanish- American War. He is also a member of the Society of the Sons of the American Revolu-
tion and of the Society of Colonial Wars, through the record of Gershom Swan, who served in Captain Joseph Syll's company in 1675, also doing garrison duty in Springfield, Mass., in 1676.
Mr. Swan was married in 1892 to Miss Josephine M. Rogers, a daughter of George A. and Georgiana C. (Chapman) Rogers, of Chel- sea, Mass. Mrs. Swan's father was born in Lincolnville, Me. Ile was a son of Atherton Wales Rogers and grandson of Samuel Rogers, whose wife, Patience Little, was a descendant on her paternal side of Richard Warren, the "Mayflower " passenger. The grandmother of Patience Little was Constance Fobes, a grand- daughter of William Pabodie and his wife Elizabeth Alden, who was a daughter of John Alden. Mr. and Mrs. Swan have one child, Hester, born October 13, 1894.
RANKLIN B. GOSS, joint proprietor, manager, and editor of the Barnstable Patriot, was born in Brewster, Mass., July 17, 1831, son of William Whittemore and Hannah (Foster) Goss. His father was born in Weston, Vt., June 11, 1802; and his mother was born in Brewster, Mass., February 19, 1809. The first of the name in this coun- try was probably John Goss, who came from England with Governor Winthrop in 1630, and was one of the first settlers of Watertown, Mass.
Daniel Goss, father of William, was born in Greenfield, N. H., May 20, 1775. He re- sided for some years in Weston, Vt., removed to Ohio in 1836, and died in La Grange, Lorain County, that State, in 1844. He was married in Greenfield to Mary Tuck. Daniel Goss was a son of Peter Goss, a native of Am- herst, N. Il., who enlisted at Andover, April 7, 1758, as a private in a company of foot commanded by Captain Asa Foster, raised by the Province of Massachusetts Bay for His Majesty's service to assist in the reduction of Canada, and which formed a part of Colonel Ebenezer Nichols's regiment. Ile was dis- charged November 12 of the same year. He also served as a Corporal in Captain Crosby's company, Colonel Reed's regiment, at the
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battle of Bunker Hill; and in 1782 he again enlisted to fill Amherst's quota in the Conti- nental army. On December 9, 1762, he was married in Bolton, N. H., to Mary Abbot, of Andover.
On the maternal side the subject of this sketch is a descendant in the tenth generation of Elder William Brewster, in the ninth gen- eration of Governor Prince and Edmund Free- man, and is of the eighth generation in a direct line from Thomas Foster, who came to New England in 1634, and died in Billerica, Mass., April 20, 1682. John Foster, second son of Thomas, born October 7, 1642, married Mary, daughter of Thomas Chillingsworth, and had ten children. He died June 13, 1732. Chillingsworth Foster, seventh child of John, was born in Marshfield, Mass., July 11, 1680, and died December 22, 1764. He married Mercy, born in 1687, daughter of John Freeman, great-grand-daughter of Gov- ernor Thomas Prince, of the Plymouth Colony, and great-great-grand-daughter of Elder Wil- liam Brewster, the "Mayflower " Pilgrim. Isaac Foster, sixth child of Chillingsworth and Mercy, was born in Brewster, June 17, 1718, and died September 10, 1777. Seth Foster, fifth son of Isaac and llannah (Sears) Foster, was born in March, 1747. He mar- ried Sally Cobb; and had ten children. Seth's fourth son, Sears Foster, who was born March 20, 1784, married Betsey Myrick, and was the father of nine children, among whom was Hannah, Mr. Goss's mother. William W. and Hannah (Foster) Goss, who were married in Brewster, November 2, 1826, were the par- ents of fifteen children; and Franklin B., the subject of this sketch, was the fourth-born. William W. Goss died in Barnstable, July 20, 1884. His wife, who is still living, is now in her ninety-second year.
In early boyhood Franklin B. Goss went to reside in a farmer's family at Dennis, Mass., where he attended school a portion of each year until reaching the age of fourteen. He en- tered the office of the Barnstable Patriot as an apprentice in 1846. In company with Benja- min C. Bowman he in 1851 established the Cape Cod Advocate, which was issued in both Barnstable and Sandwich. In 1869 he ac-
quired an interest in the Patriot, of which he has been manager and editor continuously to the present time, and is consequently one of the best known newspaper men in south-east- ern Massachusetts. The Provincetown Advo- cate was established by him in 1869, the Har- wich Independent and the Chatham Monitor in 1883, and he issued the first number of the Cape Cod Bec in 1878. The Cape Cod Item was consolidated by purchase with the Cape Cod Bec, under the title of the Cape Cod Item and Bec, August, 1897. He is also joint pro- prietor of the Hyannis Patriot, Sandwich Ob- server, and the Bourne Pioneer. All of these enterprises are in a most flourishing condition, and owe their prosperity to the business ability, sound judgment, and progressive tendencies of their founder. The firm of F. B. & F. P. Goss (F. P. Goss is the eldest son of F. B. Goss) are also extensive book and job printers, having well-organized plants at both Barn- stable and Hyannis, which are fully equipped with fast steam presses of the most approved pattern.
In politics Mr. Goss was formerly a Demo- crat, but joined the Republican party during the first administration of President Grant, who appointed him in 1876 Collector of Cus- toms for the Barnstable district, in which office he continued until 1887. He was reappointed by the Harrison administration, and his able management of the office elicited the hearty appreciation of the general community irre- spective of party. lle retired February 17, 1894, making his full service as Collector fif- teen years, seven months. For several years he was a member of the Barnstable School Committee, for years he served as secretary and later as vice-president of the Barnstable County Agricultural Society. He was a men- ber of Hyannis Lodge, Sons of Temperance, and Dawn of Truth Lodge of Good Templars during their existence. He was Chief Tem- plar and District Deputy of the latter lodge for several years. In 1854 he was admitted a member of Cape Cod Lodge of Odd Fellows, and filled the Noble Grand chair for several terms. He was also initiated as a Mason in James Otis Lodge soon after it was instituted in 1866. He is an earnest advocate of tem-
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perance and the prohibition of the liquor traffic.
At Barnstable on January 20, 1852, Mr. Goss was united in marriage with Miss Mary Gorham Parker, daughter of Captain Joseph and Luey (Childs) Parker, of that town. His children are: F. Percy, Alton Parker, Wil- liam F. M., Lillie Stanley, and George Rich- ards Goss, the two latter deceased. His son, F. Percy Goss, is associated with him, as stated above, in the printing and publishing business; Alton Parker Goss is editor and pro- prietor of the Harwich Independent ; William F. M. Goss is dean of the School of Engineer- ing of Purdue University, Lafayette, Ind., having supervision of the mechanical, civil, and electrical departments.
AMES AMBROSE HATHAWAY, formerly Representative to the Massa- chusetts Legislature from the Brighton district, and well known both in this country and Europe as an extensive exporter of live stock, is a native of Freetown, Mass .. born May 2, 1837. The family to which he belongs is an old one in Freetown, John Hathaway, Jr., son of John' Hathaway, of Taunton, having settled there about the year 1671. John ' is said to have come over from England about 1640. Mr. Hathaway's pater- nal grandfather was born in Freetown, as were also both his father and mother, the latter in maidenhood Lydia Dean Hathaway. The father, Ambrose Winslow Hathaway, was for a number of years a merchant in Fall River, Mass., but in later years returned to his native town, which he represented in the State Legis- lature. He died in 1890, respected and be- loved by all who knew him.
James Ambrose Hathaway spent his early years in Freetown, and was educated in the academies at Myricks, Mass., and at Middle- boro. The better part of his education, how- ever, has been acquired in the school of ex- perience. Being a natural trader, he early found and improved opportunities in that di- rection, and when in his eighteenth year he began to buy and sell live stock in Freetown and the vicinity. About 1869 he came to
Boston and soon after leased for five years the old Brighton stock-yards for the purpose of feeding cattle received from the West in- tended for transportation abroad. This vent- ure proved a great success, and Mr. Hathaway renewed his lease of the yards for another five years, his proprietorship thus covering a term of ten years. Subsequently the yards were sold for house lots. He then became inter- ested in the Union Stock Yards at Water- town, Mass., renting them from the Fitch- burg Railroad Company and controlling them from that time up to the present. In 1820 he formed a partnership with G. F. Swift. under the firm name of Hathaway & Swift. live stock dealers, and they engaged in the shipment of cattle from Chicago to Boston on the hoof. This connection lasted eight years, at the end of which time Mr. Swift be- came a member of the firm of Swift Bros. & Co., a corporation having its headquarters in Chicago, in which Mr. Hathaway has held some stock. Later Mr. Hathaway became in- terested in the foreign live stock trade, ship- ping cattle to Europe on the hoof: and this business he has conducted up to the present time, a period of eighteen years, with great success. His shipments to Europe average about thirty thousand cattle and twenty-five thousand sheep annually. He also conducts a wholesale business in Faneuil Hall Market, where he has two stalls, disposing weekly ci about one hundred and fifty to two hundred head of cattle and one hundred head of sheep. Mr. Hathaway is a trustee of the Brighton Five Cents Savings Bank, and for a number of years was a director in the National Bank of Brighton.
Politically a Republican. he has taken a prominent part in the local councils of his party, and his reputation as a capable man of affairs led to his election as Representative to the General Court from the Brighton district for the two sessions of 1886 and ISSS; and it may be added that his record while in office fully justified the confidence of his constitu- ents. He was on the State House Committee both terms.
On March IS, 1880, Mr. Hathaway mar- ried Miss Harriet Frances Jackson, daughter
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of Nathaniel and Elizabeth (Griggs) Jackson, of Brighton. They have two children: James Ambrose, Jr., born October 30, 1881 ; and William Jackson, born May 30, 1884.
Mr. and Mrs. Hathaway attend the Congre- gational church, of which they are esteemed and useful members. Their friends and ac- quaintances are found among the select so- ciety of Brighton. Their residence is one of the finest in the Brighton district, elegantly furnished within, and with beautiful surround- ·ings, making what is doubtless one of the most commodious and attractive homes in New England.
ENRY WARREN HUNT, of Dor- chester (Boston), real estate opera- tor, was born in Dorchester, De- cember 23, 1845, son of Charles and Louisa (Wilson) Hunt. "On both his father's and mother's side he comes of long lines of New England ancestors, and the estate upon which he resides has been in the family since 1631.
The Hunt genealogy is traced back to Enoch' Hunt, one of the first settlers of Wey- mouth. His son Ephraim,2 born in England, married for his second wife Ebett Brimsmead, by whom he had Joseph, 3 of Milton. Brims- mead Ilunt, + born in 1708, son of Joseph, 3 married for his second wife Abigail Matthews. Their son Lemuels married Nancy Curtis.
Charles Hunt, 6 son of Lemuel and Nancy (Curtis) Hunt and grandfather of the subject of this sketch, was born in Milton, Mass., in 1785. { He married Anne Snell, daughter of Joseph+ Snell, of Bridgewater. Her father was a son of Joseph3 Snell, of North Bridge- water, a graduate of Harvard College (1735), whose father was Joseph,2 the first progenitor of the Snell family in America being Thomas' Snell, who settled in the west part of Bridge- water about 1665.
Charles Hunt,6 above mentioned, resided in Weymouth. He enlisted as a drummer in the United States army in the War of 1812, and later became one of the rank and file.
Charles Hunt (of the seventh generation), son of Charles and Anne (Snell) Hunt, was
born in North Bridgewater (now Brockton). In early business life he was a soap manufact- urer, but later gave that up and engaged in the real estate business, to which he was well adapted, being a natural trader. He settled in Dorchester and subsequently became a promi- nent man in town affairs, serving at different times as Selectman, Postmaster, engineer of the fire department, and in other local offices. He was one of the organizers and a director for many years of the Dorchester Mutual Insur- ance Company, and was president of the Dor- chester Fire Insurance Company. During the Civil War he was one of the foremost in rais- ing troops to fill the Dorchester quota, going South for that purpose, and securing many colored men.
He married Louisa Wilson, a native of Dor- chester and daughter of Caleb and Martha (Minot) Wilson. Her father was born in Roxbury, his mother being a De Wolf. Her mother, Martha Minot, was a daughter of George and Eunice (Billings) Minot. Her grandfather Billings, who was Captain of the Dorchester company during the Revolutionary War, was presented with a sword by the offi- cers of the French fleet that was anchored in President's Roads. The sword is now in the possession of the subject of this sketch.
George Minot was a son of Thomas Minot, who came to America in 1630 in the "Mary and John," and was one of the first settlers of Dorchester, where he received a large grant of land and afterward became one of the most extensive land-owners in the town.
Charles Hunt died April 10, 1886, having survived his wife a number of years, her death occurring February 24, 1878. They were the parents of five children : Ellen L. ; Charles W., a police captain; Caroline E., who died in 1897; Henry W., whose name begins this sketch; and George F.
"Henry W. Hunt was educated in the Dor- chester schools, graduating about the year 1859. Subsequently, desiring to enter the navy, he studied at the Nautical School in Boston, and graduated in 1862 at the head of his class. When the Civil War broke out, he was too young for a commission, although suc- cessfully passing examination; and accord-
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ingly he volunteered, and served on land and sea. He participated in a number of spirited naval and land operations, and on one occasion received honorary mention from General Fos- ter for daring work in helping to pick up tor- pedoes. He also received a complimentary letter from Admiral Flusser. Meanwhile his father had established stores in various parts of the interior of the .South ; and after the close of the war he went there to manage a number of these enterprises, penetrating into some of the roughest sections of the Southern country, then in an unsettled and turbulent condition. After remaining South about two years, he re- turned to Massachusetts, and became interested in large business enterprises in company with prominent men of affairs, among them General Benjamin F. Butler, in which he was engaged for the next twenty years. In 1875-76, when plans were forming for the Centennial Exhi- bition at Philadelphia, he was selected by the Massachusetts State Commissioners to arrange an exhibit representing the great marine inter- ests of the State, a task for which he was exceptionally qualified, having an intimate ac- quaintance with their various features. As a result of his efforts a most notable and unique collection was brought together, including models of the ocean and river craft used for purposes of commerce, the fisheries, war, and pleasure, from the settlement of the colonies to modern times - models of a single-scull skiff to a ship of the line, of merchant vessels of a century ago and the swift clipper ships of the forties and fifties, of historic warships, the old-style frigates, the 'Constitution,' the 'Ohio,' with an Ericsson monitor and the 'Kearsarge,' of whaling-ships and ancient and modern fishing-vessels, of the first Amer- ican steamer that ever weathered the passage of Cape Horn, of apparatus for life-saving, of a great variety of beautiful yachts - the whole constituting the most complete and extensive marine exhibit ever made at an international exhibition. Captain Hunt had charge of the exhibit at Philadelphia, and he also took a leading part in the arrangement for the inter- national regatta, introducing, among other striking features, a whale-boat race between crews composed of New Bedford whalers.
While in Philadelphia he became especially acquainted with the Russian and Brazilian com- missioners; and at the close of the exhibi- tion, during which he made himself useful to them in various ways, he accompanied the Russians on a tour through the principal cities of the country. Subsequently the Emperor Dom Pedro offered him a position in the Bra- zilian navy, and shortly after he received a similar offer from the Russian government. Accepting the latter, he went to Russia toward the close of 1876, and, in recognition of the civilities he had shown the Russian commis- sioners in America, and services rendered by him, was decorated there by the czar with a gold medal representing the Order of Saint Stanislaus. He remained in Russia several months, travelling extensively in the country. and then returned to the United States in May, 1878, as one of two special agents of the Russian government accredited with powers tu assist in examining and selecting fast-sailing steam-craft to be fitted as cruisers for the Rus- sian service in anticipation of war with Eng- land, at that time believed to be imminent. Their advent and proceedings made a great commotion in American newspaper offices, and were the occasion of many sensational re- ports.''
During the Russian-Turkish War, Captain Hunt was chief-of-staff of the Russian admiral L. P. Semetschine.
Captain Hunt's interest in marine matters has been constant, and this has been notably displayed in behalf of the National Museum a: Washington, toward the upbuilding of which he has been a valued contributor. He has in his possession letters expressing appreciation of his services in that direction, and requesting their continuance, from Professor Spencer Baird, of the Smithsonian Institution at Wash- ington. In 1885, when again abroad, he bore a letter from William E. Chandler, then Sec- retary of the Navy, under date of February 9, as follows : -
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