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He married November 14, 1852, Frances Bourne, of Falmouth, daughter of Solomon and Frances (Lawrence) Bourne, and on the paternal side grand-daughter of John and Susan Bourne and on the maternal side of William and Hannah (Allen) Lawrence.
William H. Heald, the only son of Mr. and Mrs. Heald, is manager of the Union Braiding Works. He was born in Sandwich, March 19, 1857. He married Annie H. Bangs, and has one son, Trevor B. Heald.
Mr. and Mrs. Hiram H. Heald are members of the Congregational church. For the past six years Mr. Heald has served as a Selectman of Sandwich. His political support is given to the Republican party. As a self-made man his business success is the result of his own indi- vidual exertions, and he has every reason to be gratified with the realization of his youthful ambition.
APTAIN GEORGE BAKER, a well- known resident of Wellfleet, Barn- stable County, is a native of France, and was born September 4, 1823. At the age of eight years he sailed from Havre on board of a merchant ship bound for Boston, where he landed, and for two years was em- ployed in a sailors' boarding-house. He then shipped on a fishing-vessel called the "Leoni- das," commanded by Captain David Baker, who brought him to Wellfleet. He there found a home in the family of Isaiah R. Baker, with whom he resided until he attained his majority. When thirteen years old young Baker engaged in the fishing industry, and at twenty-one was master of a vessel. Ile fol-
lowed the sea for about forty years, twenty-five of which he was a master mariner ; and during that time he was captain of the following. named vessels - the "Tiara," the "Meteor," the "Maria Theresa, " the "Sarah E. Lewis, " the "R. R. Higgins," besides the packet that for six years he ran between Wellfleet and Bos- ton. He has weathered many severe storms. including what is known among old seamen as the great gale of October, 1841; and on one occasion during the Civil War, while in Chesa- peake Bay, he narrowly escaped being captured by the Confederates. In 1865 he abandoned the sea, and about the year 1870 he established himself in the coal business. Selling out the latter, he engaged in the lumber business. which he carried on for a number of years. finally disposing of it some time ago to Thomas A. Higgins. Captain Baker is now living in partial retirement, being principally interested in cranberry culture.
On May 21, 1844, Captain Baker married Mercy H. Higgins, daughter of Thomas and Thankful (Holbrook) Higgins, of Wellfleet. Her father, who was for some years engaged in the oyster business in Boston, spent his last days upon a farm in Wellfleet. He was cap- tain of a local militia company and a man of considerable prominence in his day. Thomas and Thankful Higgins were the parents of eight children ; namely, Elijah, Thomas, Bar- ney, Barney (second), Mercy H., Maria, Ade- line, and Rebecca. Elijah, Thomas, Barney, and Barney, second, are no longer living. Maria married for her first husband Jesse Hamlin and for her second Jeremiah Hawes. Adeline is the wife of Captain Frederick Snow. Rebecca is the wife of Edward T. Rich. Mercy H. married Captain George Baker, the subject of this sketch. Captain and Mrs. Baker have had seven children - Maria T., Thankful H., Mercy H., Maggie S., Clara E., Addie A., and George. Maria T. married B. Rich, of Truro, and both are de- ceased. Thankful H. married W. F. Bodfish, of Taunton, Mass., and has one daughter. Addie. Mercy H. married John R. Ifiggins, of Wellfleet, and has one son, Russell. Mag- gie S. married E. Y. Oliver, of Wellfleet, and has twin sons - Bartholomew and Edward.
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Clara E. married Joseph S. Young, of Well- fleet, and has one son, George B. Young. Addie A. is the wife of E. Frank Hopkins, and has one daughter, Edna B., who resides in Philadelphia. George married Nettie New- comb, of Wellfleet ; and he died in 1879.
:: For six years Captain Baker has served with ability as Tax Collector. In politics he acts with the Republican party. He belongs to Adams Lodge, F. & A. M. He is a charter member of Fraternal Lodge, No. 132, I. O.O.F., of Orleans, of which he was Noble Grand for a number of terms, and has several times been chosen representative to the Grand Lodge. He was formerly a trustee of the Methodist Epis- copal church, but left it to become a Congre- gationalist, and now attends the church of that denomination.
APTAIN JOHN- MORISSEY, a resi- dent of Nantucket, attached to the United States revenue cutter ser- vice, was born in Nantucket, April 10, 1840, son of the Hon. John and Mary (Skinner) Morissey.
John Morissey, senior, was a native of Bos- ton. He came to Nantucket to learn the printer's trade in the office of the Enquirer ; and after following that trade on the island for some years he established the Mirror, which he conducted until 1849. In that year he sold out and went to California, making the voyage via Cape Horn on the ship "Fanny," and landing at San Francisco, then a village of tents, after being one hundred and eighty days at sea. For four years he remained in Cali- fornia, engaged in freighting and various other occupations. He then returned to Nantucket, and purchased the Enquirer, which he pub- lished until 1858, when he removed to Plym- outh, Mass., and purchased the Old Colony Memorial. Soon after this he was appointed Sergeant-at-arms of the Massachusetts House of Representatives. In 1863 he secured the services of a substitute in that position, and enlisted as Major of the Third Regiment of Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry. He accom- panied the regiment to North Carolina, where he remained until the expiration of his term of
service in 1864. Returning to Massachusetts, he resumed his duties as Sergeant-at-arms of the House of Representatives, Boston, a posi- tion which he held all together for twenty-five years. At first a Whig in politics, Mr. Mor- issey was a Republican after the formation of that party. He represented Nantucket in both branches of the Legislature, and at the time of his death he was Treasurer of Plymouth County. He was a Free Mason, and also be- longed to the Odd Fellows, the Grand Army of the Republic, and the Loyal Legion. He died at Plymouth on December 27, 1885. His wife, Mary, was born in Nantucket, and was a daughter of Captain Stephen Skinner, of London, England. She died in 1881, having reared four children, namely : John, the direct subject of this sketch; William; Sophronia; and Herbert.
John Morissey, junior, was educated in the public schools of Nantucket. At the age of fourteen he began a sailor's life, and so applied himself to acquire a thorough knowledge of his profession that at the age of twenty-two he had attained to the rank of captain, having passed through the intermediate grades. His first ship was the "Volant," in which he was en- gaged in the South American trade. In 1864 he enlisted in the United States Navy, and was made Ensign, serving first in the "Savan- nah," from which vessel he was transferred to the monitor "Winnebago." He took part in the Red River campaign and in the battle in Mobile Bay. In the latter part of 1865 he received an honorable discharge and returned to Nantucket. Two years later he entered the United States revenue cutter service, and was in active service, cruising in all the United States waters except Alaskan until 1895, when he was placed on permanent waiting orders. With his wife he now occupies a pleasant home on Pearl Street.
He was married on September 27, 1888, to Miss Charlotte Elizabeth Wyer, daughter of Samuel C. and Charlotte (Coffin) Wyer. Mrs. Morissey's paternal grandfather, . Timothy Wyer, married Sarah, daughter of Simeon Coffin, a lineal descendant of Tristram Coffin. Mrs. Morissey's mother was a daughter of Asa and Phebe (Morselander) Coffin, Asa Coffin
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being also a lineal descendant of Tristram. Captain and Mrs. Morissey attend the Congre- gational church, of which Mrs. Morissey is a member. In politics Captain Morissey is a Republican.
ARRY WALTER DUDLEY, one of the Board of Selectmen of the town of Revere, Mass., was born in Beth- lehem, N. H., July 6, 1866, a son of Joshua W. and Lydia C. (Bartlett) Dudley. He comes of distinguished Colonial ancestry, being a direet descendant, in the ninth genera- tion, of Governor Thomas Dudley, the founder of what is doubtless the most numerous as well as the most noted branch of the Dudley family in America. His lineage has thus been traced : Thomas,' the Rev. Samuel,2 Stephen, 3 Trueworthy, + Trueworthy,5 Samuel,6 True- worthy, 7 Joshua W., & Harry Walton. 9
Thomas Dudley was born in Northampton- shire, England, and was a son of Captain Roger Dudley. He sailed from Yarmouth on the "Arbella," April 8, 1630, and arrived at Salem on June 12. A man of strong person- ality, he became a leader in the affairs of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, and on May 14, 1634, was chosen governor, a position to which he was re-elected in 1640, 1645, and 1650. In November, 1637, Thomas Dudley, then Deputy-Governor, was one of the committee of twelve appointed by the General Court to take order for a college at Newtown (now Harvard College, Cambridge). On May 31, 1650, he signed the charter for the College; and it was in that year that the jury system was perma- nently established. He was first Major Gen- eral, and was chosen at the election May 29, 1644. He made his home in Roxbury, where his death occurred July 3, 1653.
The Rev. Samuel 2 Dudley, the next in this line, born in England about 1610, son of Gov- ernor Thomas by his first wife, Dorothy, was settled as minister of the church at Exeter, N. H., in 1650, and died in that town Febru- ary 10, 1683. He was three times married; and his third wife, Elizabeth, was the mother of Stephen 3 Dudley, who married Sarah Gil- man. Captain Trueworthy + Dudley, born in
1700, son of Stephen and Sarah, was a lifelong resident of Exeter, N. H., and one of its most prominent citizens. He was chairman of the Board of Selectmen from 1735 until 1738. In 1745 he joined the expedition against Louisburg, and died that year. His wife was Hannah Gilman. Trueworthy 5 Dudley, born in Exeter, N. H., married Polly Gilman, daughter of John Gilman, Jr. He died of con- sumption, in New York State, about 1778, while in the Revolutionary army. His son Samuel,6 born in Exeter, N. H., in 1758, mar- ried Abigail Randall, and settled in Littleton, N. H., where he resided until his death in 1843. Trueworthy 7 Dudley, born in Gilman- ton, N.H., in 1796, migrated from there in early manhood to the town of Bethlehem, where he took up a traet of unbroken land, and from the wilderness cleared and improved a homestead, upon which he was engaged in farming pursuits until his death, February 9, 1851. The maiden name of his wife was Mersylvia Hadley.
Joshua W.8 Dudley was born in Bethlehem, N. H., March 8, 1827, and died in that town October 8, 1870. He was a skilful agricultu- rist, and a leading member of the Methodist church. On April 22, 1852, he married Lydia C. Bartlett, who was born in Whitefield, N. H., a daughter of Alpha Bartlett. Mr. Bartlett was an old and highly respected citizen of Whitefield, where for sixty-five years prior to his death, in 1898, he occupied the same house. He was several times elected a Select- man of Whitefield, and for more than twenty years was tax collector of that town.
Harry W. Dudley was educated in the pub- lie schools of Brockton, whither his widowed mother removed soon after her husband's death. He learned the trade of a book-binder in Boston, and in 1893 established himself in business in that city, becoming the head of the firm of Dudley & Hodge, book-binders, who have won a wide reputation for thorough, dur- able, and artistic workmanship. Since taking up his residence in Revere, Mr. Dudley has been actively identified with the best interests of the town. He has given material aid toward the many improvements of the place, and as Selectman is rendering efficient service. He is
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a steadfast Republican in politics, and an ardent supporter of all measures calculated to benefit the public. He is connected with vari- ous organizations, belonging to the Em- ployers' Book-binding Guild, to the Faith Rebekah Lodge, being an associate member of a Grand Army Post, a charter member of Nep- tune Lodge, I. O. O. F., of which he was First Noble Grand and is now Past Grand, and belonging to Samaritan Encampment, of Chel-
sea. For his excellent work in the local lodge of Odd Fellows he was highly compli- mented by his superior officers, and on his re- tirement from the chair of the Noble Grand he was presented by the lodge with a Past Grand regalia and jewel.
On April 15, 1891, Mr. Dudley married, in Brattleboro, Vt., Elizabeth Frances Hopkin- son, who was born March IS, 1867, at Sher- brook, P. Q.
ILLIAM HENRY MITCHELL, senior member of the firm of Will- iam H. Mitchell & Son, successors to William Lumb & Co., plumbers, Boston, was born in this city, May 26, 1849, son of Charles and Ann (Stobbart) Mitchell. His father was a native of Scotland, and his mother was born in England. Mr. Mitchell's grand- father, whose name was Alexander, served in the English army in His Majesty's Aberdeen- shire Regiment of Fencible Infantry, known as the Princess of Wales's Regiment. He was honorably discharged therefrom April II, 1803; and he subsequently rejoined the army, and was lost at Waterloo.
Charles Mitchell emigrated to the United States, and, settling in Boston, was for many years engaged in the fruit-packing business. He died at the age of seventy-eight years.
William H. Mitchell attended the public schools of Charlestown, Mass., including the high school. In 1867.he entered upon an ap- prenticeship of five years at the plumber's trade with Messrs. Lockwood & Lumb; and, having acquired a good knowledge of the busi- ness, he entered the employ of that concern as a journeyman. He subsequently became fore- man for William Lumb & Co., and in 1883
was admitted to the firm, which for years has been one of the best-known plumbing concerns in Boston. The advantage of unusually skil- ful training was supplemented by the wide range of practical experience provided by the extensive operations conducted by his former employers. That he is fully entitled to occupy the prominent place he now holds among the leading master-plumbers of Boston is amply at- tested by the superior excellence of the plumb- ing completed under his supervision at the Parker House, Hotel Touraine, and other noted Boston buildings; and the firm of William H. Mitchell & Son is one of the most reliable contractors for high-class work in the New England metropolis.
Mr. Mitchell's place of business is at 1 Province Court, and his home at 14 Sparhawk Street, Brighton, where he is highly esteemed for his public-spirited generosity and progres- sive tendencies. He is a member of several well-known Masonic and other organizations, including Zetland Lodge, F. & A. M .; De- molay Commandery, Knights Templar; and Commonwealth Lodge, I. O. O. F., all of Boston ; and he joined the Ancient and Hon- orable Artillery Company in 1880. In his re- ligious belief he is an Episcopalian, and is Senior Warden of St. Luke's Church. In politics he acts with the Republican party.
On April 8, 1869, Mr. Mitchell married Miss Elizabeth Lawton, a native of England, daughter of William and Elizabeth (Perkins) Lawton. Mr. and Mrs. Mitchell have three children : William Lawton, junior member of the firm of William H. Mitchell & Son; Charles; and Ann, who is now the wife of Harry Learnard, of Brighton.
OSES SWASEY PAGE, a wealthy and esteemed resident of Melrose, who has taken an active part in advancing the material, moral, and religious interests of the town, was born at Haverhill, N. H., July 3, 1838, son of Sam- uel and Eliza (Swasey) Page.
As appears from the printed records of the family, he is of the seventh generation in de- scent from John Page, who, with his wife
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Phebe, came over from Dedham, England, in 1630, and settled at Watertown, Mass., where he was the first constable. The lineage is thus traced : John1 ; John,2 married in Groton, Mass., in 1664, Faith Dunster, a relative of President Dunster of Harvard College; Sam- uel, 3 born in Groton in 1672; Lieutenant Na- thaniel, + married in 1733 Merey Gould, and settled at Rindge, N. H. ; John, 5 born in 1741, married Mrs. Hannah Green, daughter of Sam- uel Rice; and Samuel,6 the father above named. (See Histories of Watertown, Mass., and Rindge, N. H., and Gazetteer of Grafton County, New Hampshire. )
John Page, grandfather of the subject of this sketch, was a native of Lunenburg, Worces- ter County, Mass., and a farmer. His chil- dren, four in number, were as follows: John, Jr., who was Governor of New Hampshire, 1839 to 1842; William and Stephen, who both died in early manhood; and Samuel, who was born at Haverhill, N. H., in 1793, and died in 1876.
Samuel Page was a man of character and in - telligence, and was possessed of a sound and discriminating judgment that brought him prominently into the management of town affairs. He was twice married, first to Louise Merrill, who bore him one daughter, Louise, now Mrs. Benjamin Babcock, residing in San Francisco, Cal. His second wife, Eliza, mother of the subject of this sketch, was a daughter of Moses Swasey, of Newbury, Vt. She died in 1876, and was buried the same day and in the same grave with her husband. She was a descendant, in the fifth generation, and in her latter years the oldest living descendant of Hannah Dustin, the heroine of pioneer days. By this second marriage Samuel Page had thirteen children, seven of whom are liv- ing, namely : William H., now a resident of Haverhill, N. H. ; Elizabeth, now Mrs. Nichols, of Fair Haven, Wash. ; Harriet, now Mrs. Senter, of Thetford, Vt. ; Mary, who resides on the old homestead and is unmarried ; Moses S., the subject of this sketch ; Josephine, now Mrs. Jackson, of Centralia, Kan., whose son, Arthur Page Jackson, was an officer in the Twentieth Kansas Regiment in the Philippine War, serving under General Funston; and
Emily, now the wife of the Rev. Nelson Flanders, of Porterville, Cal.
Moses S. Page was educated in the schools of Haverhill, N. H., St. Johnsbury, Vt., and Newbury, Vt. In 1854, at the age of sixteen years, he entered the employ of Henry Towle, of Haverhill, N. H., to learn the jeweller's trade, and after remaining with him for nearly three years he went to Roxbury, Mass., where for eighteen months he was a clerk for the firm of Goodwin & Brooks, jewellers. From their employ he entered that of Mr. George K. Goodwin, of Boston, who was engaged in the loan business, and with whom he remained for two years. In 1860 Mr. Page formed a part- nership with Mr. Hiram E. Felch, under the style of Felch & Page, in the same business, they purchasing the stock and good will of Mr. George K. Goodwin at I Salem Street, Boston. This partnership continued till 1875, being then dissolved; and Mr. Page has since con- dueted the business in his own name at the same location, he having been there now over forty years. Besides carrying on a general loan business, he makes a specialty of watches and diamonds.
In 1864 Mr. Page enlisted in Company E, Sixth Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry, the company being under command of Captain Frank E. Whitcomb, and the regiment under that of Colonel Follansbee. The regiment was assigned to guard duty at Washington, D. C., and later at Fort Delaware on the Dela- ware River. While on duty at Fort Delaware Mr. Page was detailed as Postmaster and In- spector of Rebel Correspondence. After serv- ing until the expiration of his term of enlist- ment, he returned to Massachusetts and re- entered business life in Boston.
In addition to his loan business, Mr. Page has extensive real estate interests in Malden, Melrose, Medford, Everett, Chelsea, Worces- ter, Wakefield, Mass., and New Haven, Conn. He has been vice-president of the Melrose Savings Bank for several years, and is chair- man of the committee of finance. In politics he is a Republican, and, though he has never sought office, he has served on the school- house and other building committees of Mel- rose, and during the last years of the town
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government was chairman of the Melrose Fi- nance Committee.
lle is identified with the Orthodox Congre- gational church in Melrose, of which he has been Deacon and is now trustee, and has taken a prominent part in local temperance work. Actively interested also in the Young Men's Christian Association of Melrose, he is first vice-president of the Association, and also is now a member of the finance committee. He belongs to Wyoming Lodge, F. & A. M .; Waverley Chapter, R. A. M. ; and Hugh De l'ayen Commandery, K. T. ; and he is also a member of Bethlehem Council, Royal Ar- canum, Melrose.
On May 19, 1869, Mr. Page was married to Harriet Emily, daughter of Judge Asa Hib- bard, of Concord, Vt. He has two children - Edward S. and Harold Richard.
Edward S. Page, born at Melrose, Mass., in 1870, was educated in the schools of that town, at Phillips Academy, Andover, Mass., the School of Technology, and at Harvard Univer- sity, graduating from the latter institution with the class of 1895. Admitted to the bar in 1897, he has since been engaged in the prac- tice of law in Boston.
Harold R. Page, who was born in ISS3, is now a student in the Melrose High School.
ENRY CLARENCE SPARHAWK, chairman of the Marblehead Board of Selectmen, was born in Marblehead, February 19, 1865, son of Samuel Augustus and Ruth Attwill (Symonds) Spar- hawk. His parents are natives of Marblehead, as was also his grandfather, Samuel Sparhawk ; and the family has been identified with the town for more than a century. The shoe man- ufacturing business, established by Samuel Sparhawk in Marblehead as early as 1826, was carried on up to the date of his death, which occurred in 1890. In 1892 Mr. Samuel A. Sparhawk and his son, Henry Clarence, or- ganized anew, and now carry on the business under the firm name of S. A. Sparhawk & Son.
Leaving school at the age of fifteen years, Henry C. Sparhawk took the position of office boy with Messrs. HI. M. Bates & Walley,
brokers, Boston, and subsequently became an accountant for a boot and shoe house in Boston. In 1882 he went to New York City, where he was employed as a book-keeper for nearly a year. Returning to Massachusetts in 1883, he entered the employ of the Boston & Maine Railway as receiving clerk at Salem, and nineteen months later was advanced to the position of chief clerk and freight cashier. He eventually, however, became associated with his father in the shoe manufacturing busi- ness, as above mentioned. S. A. Sparhawk & Son are now conducting an extensive and profitable enterprise, devoting their entire at- tention to women's, misses' and children's footwear.
Mr. Sparhawk represented his district in the Massachusetts Legislature during the sessions of 1891 and 1892, serving in 1891 as clerk of Committee on Drainage and in 1892 on Com- mittee on Expenditure, Finance, and Constitu- tional Amendment; and in the spring of 1890 he was elected Selectman, serving upon the board one term. Again elected to the board in 1896, he has retained his seat continuously to the present time, and is now serving as its chairman. He was a member of the commit- tee appointed to supervise the construction of the electric light plant, and in 1896 was dele- gated by the board to purchase the colors for the United States cruiser "Marblehead, " which he presented in behalf of the town at the Brooklyn navy-yard. In politics he is a Republican. His able public services are heartily appreciated by his fellow-townsmen. who hold him in high estimation.
Mr. Sparhawk is a member of Philanthropic Lodge of Masons; Washington R. A. Chapter of Salem; Winslow Lewis Commandery, K. T. ; and Aleppo Temple of the Mystic Shrine. He belongs to Mantaug Tribe, No. I. Red Men, of Marblehead, and is a member of the 1. O. of O. I., as well as of many social clubs and societies. He is also a member and president of the Marblehead Veteran Fire As- sociation. Mr. Sparhawk was appointed to re- ceive from Brooklyn the Spanish bronze cannon which was captured by the United States cruiser "Marblehead," and loaned to the town by the United States government; and he was the
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one who made the address of welcome to Com- pany C, Eighth Massachusetts Regiment, on its return from Cuba.
HOMAS WELLS TUTTLE, for over fifty years a prominent merchant tailor of Boston, was born in Roxbury, Mass., February 25, 1816, son of Joseph and Eliza- beth (Pierce) Tuttle. His father was born July 23, 1786, in Chelsea, Mass., which was also the birthplace of his grandfather, Joseph Tuttle, Sr., and his great-grandfather, Benja- min Tuttle, who were born August 23, 1755, and March 31, 1721, respectively.
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