Genealogy and history of representative citizens of the commonwealth of Massachusetts, Part 101

Author: Hurd, Charles Edwin, 1833-1910
Publication date: 1902
Publisher: Boston, New England historical publishing company
Number of Pages: 850

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Henry Augustus7 Root, born September 3, 1850, was educated in the public schools of his native town, and, with the intention of enter- ing Amherst College, took a preparatory course of study in the Ware High School, from which he was graduated in 1866. But his plans being altered by circumstances, he followed instead the example of his brother William A. by beginning an apprenticeship to the mason's trade under his father. In 1872 he came to Boston and became associated with his brother William and Mr. Coburn, as already stated. On July 8, 1877, he married Caroline Mar- · garet Southwell, daughter of Thomas and Ann Southwell, of Taunton, Mass. They have no children.

George Alanson7 Root was born in Ware, Mass., February 23, 1855. He attended the public schools of his native town and learned the mason's trade of his father. Coming to Boston in 1885, he has been since engaged as a superintendent of his brothers' build- ings. He married, March 25, 1875, Em-

malina Julia Naylor, a daughter of Thomas and Emmalina (Thomas) Naylor. They have four children : Ida Mabelle, born November 12, 1876; Emmalina Cornelia, born December 13, 1880; George William,8 born August 21, 1882; and Chester Augustus, born September 24, 1888.

Both Mr. William A. and Mr. Henry A. Root are charter members of the Master Build- ers Association, life members of the Massa- chusetts Charitable Mechanic Association, and members of the Ancient and Honorable Artil- lery Company. They are prominent Free Masons, belonging to Washington Lodge, F. & A. M. ; Mount Vernon Chapter, R. A. M. ; and Joseph Warren Commandery, K. T. They belong also to Tremont Lodge, No. 15, I. O. O. F., and to the Orpheus Musical Society. Mr. George A. Root is a member of Washington Lodge, F. & A. M., and Mount Vernon Chapter, R. A. M. Ellen Frances and Mary Susan, of the seventh generation, are unmarried, and reside in Ware, Mass.

HARLES RUEL FLETCHER, of Watertown, Mass., a son of Ruel

Hasseltine and Rebecca Caroline (Wyman) Fletcher, born May 4, 1865, in East Cambridge, Mass., is a direct descend- ant in the ninth generation of Robert Fletcher, his immigrant ancestor by the following line : Robert,' Francis,2 Samuel, 3 Timothy, 4 Eph- raim,5 Ephraim,6 Quartus,7 Ruel Hasseltine, 8 and Charles R. 9

Robert' Fletcher, b. in 1592, came to this country in 1630, and settled on a tract of land which was later embraced within the limits of Concord, Mass. It is a family tradition that a brother named William came with him. In 1637 he held the office of Constable, from which he was discharged in 1639, "not being found faulty." Having been a witness of the semi-centenary of the landing of the Pilgrims, and having completed almost a half-century of his own life in America, he d. April 3, 1677.

Francis2 Fletcher, b. in Concord, Mass., in 1636, m. on August 1, 1656, Elizabeth, daughter of George and Catherine Wheeler. She d. June 14, 1704. Samuel3 Fletcher was

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b. in Concord, August 6, 1657, and d. October 23, 1744. He was a Corporal in the Colonial army from 1705 until 1707; and from 1709 until 1713 he served as Selectman in Concord, and was Town Clerk 1705-13. On April 15, 1682, he m. his cousin Elizabeth, daughter of William and Hannah (Buss) Wheeler. She survived him but three days, dying October 26, 1744. Timothy4 Fletcher, the eleventh child of his parents, b. in Concord, August 28, 1704, was a famous hunter, and did valiant service during the French and Indian War. The powder horn which he used in various campaigns was carried by his son Joseph in the Revolutionary War, and is still in possession of the family. His wife's name was Eliza- beth.

Ephraim5 Fletcher was b. in Concord, Feb- ruary 5, 1740, and d. at a ripe old age in New- port, N. H., January 1, 1836. He was very active in military affairs, having been a mem- ber of the training and alarm band, with his name on the enlistment roll of Grafton, under command of Colonel Abraham Williams, for the invasion of Canada. At a later period he was on the alarm roll of minutemen in the company of Captain John Putnam, under the command of Colonel Learned; and in 1778 he served in Captain Caleb Whiting's company during the expedition to Rhode Island. On December 7, 1762, he m. Sarah, daughter of William and Sarah (Richards) Davenport, of South Sutton, Mass. B. October 1, 1739, at Shrewsbury, Mass., she d. November 8, 1806, at North Newport, N. H.

Ephraim6 Fletcher was b. November 23, 1767, in Grafton, Mass., and there grew to manhood. Settling then in North Newport, N. H., he improved a fine farm on which he spent the remainder of his life, dying April 27, 1854, in the house which he had built sixty years before, and which is still standing. On February 20, 1794, he m. Jael Moore, daughter of Lieutenant William and Mary (Elder) Moore, of Chester, Mass. Jael, who was b. March 22, 1774, d. January 3, 1862. Quartus7 Fletcher, the eldest son of Ephraim and Jael Fletcher, was b. on the homestead in North Newport, N. H., April 22, 1799, and d. April 27, 1874, in Cornish, N. H. He m. February 16, 1827,

Ann, daughter of Deacon Israel and Lydia (Farrington) Kelley. She was b. August 5, 1805, and d. January 7, 1842. He subse- quently m. Charlotte Hilliard, of Cornish, N. H., where he settled in life as a farmer when a young man.

Ruel Hasseltine® Fletcher was b. on the par- ental homestead in Cornish, N. H., May 16, 1829. Having worked his way through by teaching during his vacations, he was graduated from the Kimball Union Academy. Since then for a half century or more he has devoted his entire time and attention to the teacher's profession. During the past forty-four years he has been connected with the Thorndike Grammar School of Cambridge, Mass., an hon- orable record of service bespeaking the success he has attained as an educator. On February 26, 1863, in East Cambridge he m. Rebecca Caroline, daughter of William and Ruth (Bradstreet) Wyman. Of the eight children b. of their union, two d. in infancy. The others are : Caroline Rebecca, b. September 23, 1867, who was graduated from Wellesley College with the class of 1889, and is now a teacher at Wellesley College; Frederic William, b. February 19, 1878, now a resident of Cam- bridge, served in the Spanish-American War as a Corporal in the Fifth Massachusetts Vol- unteer Militia; Charles R., the subject of this sketch; Austin Bradstreet, a graduate in 1893 of the Lawrence Scientific School (Harvard College), now living in West Medford, Mass., m. Ethel Hovey, by whom he has two children -- Dorothy, b. May 2, 1895, and Nor- man ; Edward Wyman, of Somerville, Mass., b. October 28, 1874, m. October 28, 1896, Estelle Phipps, and they have one child - Margaretta, b. July 17, 1898; and Frank Kelley, who m. Dorothy Hamann.

Having received his preliminary education in the public schools of Cambridge, Charles R. Fletcher was graduated from Harvard Col- lege with the class of 1886. While now carry- ing on an excellent business as superintendent of the Crystal Springs Manufacturing Com- pany, Watertown, Mass., he takes an active in- terest in public affairs. He has been chair- man and is still a member of the Republican Town Committee, and was also president of

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the Young Men's Assembly, or Board of Trade, for two years. Fraternally, he is a member of the Pequossette Lodge, A. F. & A. M. ; and of Newtonville Chapter, R. A. M. ; and he like- wise belongs to the Bay State Riding and Driv- ing Club. He is collector of St. John's Methodist Episcopal Church of Watertown.

On May 24, 1888, Mr. Fletcher married Bertha Agnes Holway, who was born in Lyn- don, Vt., April 12, 1868, daughter of Wesley O. and Hepsie (Croft) Holway. Mr. Holway, who was graduated from Harvard College in 1860, and received the degree of Doctor of Divinity in 1897, is now a retired chaplain of the United States Navy. Mr. and Mrs. Fletcher have two children, namely: Ruth Bradstreet, born April 7, 1889; and Wesley Holway, born September 23, 1893.

Since the above was written, a disastrous fire having destroyed the Crystal Springs Works, Mr. Fletcher has accepted a position as super- intendent of the Huron Milling Company, of Harbor Beach, Mich., which firm has an office in the Colonial Building, Boston.

LBERT CLARK CRANDALL, of Boston, was born at New London, Conn., May 24, 1852, son of Clark D. and Mary E. (Barber) Crandall. He is a descendant in the seventh generation of John' Crandall, who was with the Massachu- setts Bay Colony as early as 1635, and who was ordered to leave the colony within six weeks because he was in sympathy with Roger Will- iams. In the spring of 1636 John Crandall reached Narragansett Bay. Subsequently he became the first Baptist Elder at Westerly, R. I. He d. at Newport in 1676. He is said to have been of Welsh ancestry, the original form of the name in Wales having been "Craun Dell," meaning "iron dell." The line of descent from the Rev. John' to Albert Clark Crandall is: the Rev. John,' Joseph, 2 John, 3 Abel,4 Abel, 5 Clark D.,6 Albert Clark ?.

Abel+ Crandall, who was a mate of a vessel, was ,drowned in New York Harbor in 1808. Abel,5 b. in Westerly, R.I., December 6, 1801, was a blacksmith. He returned to Stonington, Conn., where he d. February 16,

1876, when nearly seventy-five years of age. He was buried in Westerly. His wife, whom he m. in 1826, was previously Mary Noyes, a native of Stonington. B. November 6, 1799, she d. October 6, 1882.

Clark D. Crandall was b. in Stonington, Conn., September 9, 1827. After spending some years as a sailor, holding the position of mate, he retired from the sea to learn the trade of painter, which he has since continued, hav- ing long been a resident of Westerly. He m. August 27, 1849, Mary E. Barber, who was b. in Westerly, March II, 1831, daughter of Cap- tain Henry Merriott and Mary Barber. She is, it is thought, a descendant of Moses' Bar- ber (b. 1652, d. 1732), who was probably the son of James Barber, of Newport, R.I. In 1693 Moses' Barber bought three hundred and thirty acres of the "Pettesqamsqut Purchase," within the limits of the present town of South Kingston, R. I. The name of his first wife and date of his marriage are not to be found. His second wife, previously Susannah Wait, whom he m. March 24, 1692, was daughter of Samuel and Hannah Wait. By his first wife he had two children - William and Moses. B. of his second wife there were fourteen children, all of whom survived him, namely: Danah ; Lydia; Samuel; Susannah (b. October 23, 1697), who became the second wife of Ben- jamin2 Perry and the great-grandmother of Commodore O. H. Perry, the hero of the battle of Lake Erie ; Thomas; Joseph; Martha; Ruth; Benjamin; Mercy; Ezekiel; Abigail; Daniel; and Ann.

The line of descent from Moses' to Mary E.7 is continued after-the third generation by Ben- jamin, 4 Benjamin Perry5 (b. 1785), and Henry Merriott6. Benjamin4 Barber and Mary Perry (both of Hopkinton) were m. August 20, 1783, by Edward Perry, Justice. (He was perhaps the Benjamin Barber b. at Hopkinton, Novem- ber 20, 1763, son of Nathan and Thankful.) She belonged to the same family, it is said, from which sprang Commodore Perry, of whom she was probably a cousin. Their son, Benja- min P.5 Barber, b. January 29, 1785 (Vital Statistics of Rhode Island), m. Hannah Mer- riott on March 13, 1806, at Hopkinton. From their tombstones in Westerly it has been

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learned that Henry Merriott6 Barber, b. May 7, 1807, d. March 30, 1885; and that his wife Mary d. April 26, 1883, at the age of seventy- two years. Clark D. and Mary E. Crandall are living at this writing.

When Albert Clark Crandall was but an in- fant his parents moved with the family from New London, Conn., to Westerly, R.I. In Westerly he attended the public school till reaching the age of sixteen years. He then went on a cruise to the George's Banks as cook on board a fishing vessel. Before he was twenty-one years of age he had become mate of a coasting vessel, and from that time till 1877 he was engaged in the merchant marine service. He then began to turn his attention to professional yachting, obtaining a position as first mate of the "Halcyon." In 1878 he served as mate of the famous yacht "America." In 1883 he was made captain of the "Marion Wentworth," the pleasure yacht of Thomas Pierce, Esq., of Topsfield. After the death of Mr. Pierce, Mr. Crandall was for six years cap- tain of the "Monhegan," owned by Henry D. Burnham. At the end of this period of ser- vice he engaged in shipbuilding, and subse- quently built for the Gulf and West India trade three three-masted schooners -- the "Richard S. Spofford," the "John H. Butterick," and the "Frank Rudd." In 1894 he was ap- pointed United States Local Inspector of Hulls, steam and sail vessels, which office he still (1901) holds. In the same year he made his home in Winthrop, of which place he has since remained a resident. He is a member of Mount Horeb Lodge, F. & A. M. ; of Sylves- ter Baxter Chapter, R. A .; and of William Parkman Commandery, K. T.

Mr. Crandall was married to Susan Perry, of West Dennis, Mass., a daughter of John Perry. Mrs. Crandall is a descendant of an old Cape Cod family, concerning whom Freeman, in his genealogy (vol. i. p. 153), says: "The Perrys have been numerous on the Cape, and it would require a large volume to furnish even a con- densed outline of the generations. From Ezra Perry are probably descended all the Perrys here, and from his sons Ezra and Edward many branches widely scatter. From Ezra, son of Ezra first, who m. Elizabeth Burg, Feb-

ruary 12, 1651, we trace through three genera- tions the lineage of Elisha, Sr., as also by an- other divergence the line of Deacon Daniel ; by others that of the numerous Johns."

ILLIAM SUMNER& KEMP, cashier of the Brookline National Bank, was born in Colrain, Franklin County, Mass., November 16, 1870, son of Horace7 and Eliza Ann (Bell) Kemp. He is a descendant in the seventh generation of Ze- rubbabel Kemp, of Groton, Mass., and doubt- less is of the eighth generation of the family in New England, the lineage being : Samuel,1 Zerubbabel,2 John, 3 Lawrence, 4-5-6 Horace,7 William Sumner8.

Samuel1 Kemp, who was a kinsman of Ed- ward Kemp, of Chelmsford, received in 1658 a grant of a five-acre lot at Billerica. In 1668 he sold it and removed to Groton, Mass. He m. Sarah, daughter of Sergeant Thomas Foster, of Braintree. The parentage of Zerubbabel, 2 of Groton, Mass., is not given, but he was probably a son of Samuel. Zerubbabel and his wife Mary had three sons.

His third son, John, 3 b. January 18, 1708, m. November 4, 1731, Sarah, daughter of John and Sarah (Davis) Holden; grand-daughter of Stephen Holden ; great-grand-daughter of Rich- ard and Martha (Fosdick) Holden, the latter a daughter of Stephen Fosdick. On the maternal side she was grand-daughter of John Davis (b. 1664) and his wife Mehitable, and great-grand- daughter of Samuel Davis and wife Mary. Lawrence, 4 b. September 24, 1733, son of John3 and Sarah (Holden) Kemp, lived at Gro- ton, Mass. Sheldon's History of Deerfield gives Lawrence+ Kemp as b. about 1729, and states that he was a soldier in the French and Indian War and Captain in the regiment of Colonel David Wells in Burgoyne's campaign in the Revolution. He removed to Shelburne in 1767, and d. October 2, 1805. His wife Dorothy, daughter of John+ and Hannah (Allen) Stebbins, was b. January 6, 1738, in Deerfield, Mass. Her grandfather, John3 Stebbins, of Deerfield (b. January 28, 1647, d. December 19, 1724), served in King Philip's War under Captains Lothrop and

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Mosely, and was only survivor of the Bloody Massacre. He m. Dorothy, daughter of John2 and Beatrice Alexander, of Newton, Mass., her father being the son of John' Alexander, who came from Scotland before 1640. John2 Steb- bins (b. in 1626), father of John, 3 m. Mary, widow of Abraham Meinden and probably daughter of Thomas Munson, of Hartford. John2 Stebbins was son of Roland1 (b. 1594, d. December 14, 1671), who came to America in 1634 with his wife Sarah (b. 1591, d. 1649) and their four children. In 1635 Roland Stebbins went with William Pyncheon from Roxbury to found a colony at Springfield, Mass., and about 1656 removed thence to Northampton. Hannah Allen (b. February 12, 1698-9), wife of John4 Stebbins, was the daughter of Edward Allen (b. May 1, 1663, d. November 24, 1683), who m. Mary Painter February 10, 1740, and grand-daughter of Ed- ward Allen, Sr. (d. November 21, 1696), who m. November 24, 1658, Sarah (b. about 1640, d. June 12, 1696), daughter of Richard Kim- ball.

Lawrence4 and Dorothy (Stebbins) Kemp had six children - Solomon, John, Dorothy, Hannah (d. 1786), Lawrence, and Mehitable. Lawrence, 5 the fifth child (b. March 3, 1776, d. August 3, 1821), m. Mehitable Ellis, of Buckland, October 9, 1799. She was the daughter of Benjamin3 Ellis (b. May 7, 1751) and his wife Lois, daughter of Nathan and Esther Mann. She was a grand-daughter of Thomas3 Mann (Samuel,2 William'). Ben- jamin3 Ellis, father of Mehitable, 4 was son of Reuben2 Ellis (b. November 5, 1728, d. April 21,-), of Sunderland and Ashfield, who m. December 2, 1804, Mehitable Scott (b. May 3, 1722). Her father, Richard Scott (b. Feb- rary 22, 1673) m. January 15, 1702, Elizabeth+ Belding, b. February 2, 1683.

Elizabeth was daughter of Stephen3 Belding (b. December 28, 1658, d. October 6, 1720), who m. Mary Wells (b. September 8, 1664), daughter of Thomas Wells and his wife Mary. The latter d. September 20, 1691. Stephen3 was the son of Samuel2 and Mary Belding, and grandson of Richard' Belding. Reuben2 Ellis was the son of Richard Ellis, the first settler of Ashfield, Mass., and his wife Jane, who

was daughter of Captain John and Elizabeth (Drake) Phillips, grand-daughter of Richard and Elizabeth (Packer) Phillips, and great- grand-daughter of Richard Phillips. Eliza- beth Drake was daughter of Thomas Drake; Richard Scott was the son of William Scott, who m. Hannah, daughter of William and Mary Allis. William Allis was one of the first settlers of Hatfield, and was made a free- man in 1640. The Scotts were among the first settlers of Sunderland and Hatfield.

Lawrence5 Kemp and his wife Mehitable had eight children, namely : two that d. in infancy ; Abner, b. 1804; John Stebbins; Lawrence, 6 b. January 25, 1808; Benjamin, b. 1810; Joseph, b. 1813; and Noah C., b. 1817.

Lawrence6 Kemp, third son named above, resided at Shelburne, Mass. He m. Mary, daughter of Enos and Lucretia (Clark) Stew- art, of Colrain, and had issue: Mariann, b. January 4, 1831 ; Sumner, b. February 6, 1833; Horace, b. August 17, 1835; Lucretia, b. March 24, 1838; Charles S., b. August 4, 1840 (d. at the age of twenty -five, unmarried) ; Ann Jeanette, February 10, 1845; and Elsie Cordelia, b. July 20, 1847.

Horace7 Kemp was b. at Shelburne, Mass., August 17, 1835. He m. Eliza Ann, daugh- ter of Walter and Salome (Shepardson) Bell. Her mother, Salome, was daughter of Lieutenant Joseph and Sophia (Packer) Shep- hardson and grand-daughter, it is supposed, of Zephaniah Shephardson. Walter Bell, father of Mrs. Horace Kemp, was a son of Walter and Sarah (Crouch) Bell and grandson of Thomas Bell and his wife Esther (m. 1743), who re- sided in Colrain. Walter Bell, Sr., was a private in Captain Hugh Mcclellan's company, Colonel David Wells's regiment, entered Sep- tember 22, 1777; discharged October 18; ser- vice, 1 month, 2 days. Thomas Bell d. Sep- tember 1, 1789. Mrs. Esther Bell d. at the age of sixty-five in 1782. They had four chil- dren : Margaret, who m. Mr. Mather; Eliza- beth, who m. in 1762 Henry Howell Williams (b. 1736), of Roxbury; Thomas; and Walter, 3 b. 1757, who m. Sarah Crouch.

Thomas Bell (father of Elizabeth, wife of Henry Howell Williams) "was one of the fam- ily of the same name which came to this coun-

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try from Ireland and settled in Derry, N. H. (in 1718). He afterward lived in Roxbury, Mass., until he (with Samuel Cochran) leased Noddle's Island." This lease was dated No- vember, 1760, to go into effect March 25, 1765. (Sumner's History of East Boston. )

The children of Horace7 and Eliza Ann (Bell) Kemp are: Elsie Bell, Ida Grace, Wal- ter Horace, William Sumner, and Harvey L. The youngest of these, Harvey L., was b. at Colrain, December 3, 1883. Elsie Bell, the eldest, b. at Leyden, Mass., March 18, 1859, m. December 20, 1874, M. Dayton Miner, son of Cyrus and Freelove (Packard) Miner, a car- penter of Leyden, Mass. They have three children -' Arthur Horace, Annie Vesta, and Homer Dayton. Arthur Horace Miner, b. April 21, 1876, at North Adams, Mass., is employed in the office of the Mexican Central Railroad Company. He m. October 7, 1900, Bertha Mayor Packard, daughter of Davis Hay- ward and Frances La Von (Tyler) Packard. They have one child - Kenneth Packard Miner, b. at Fairhaven, Mass., September I, 1901. Annie Vesta Miner, b. at Leyden, Mass., August 4, 1878, m. February 2, 1898, George Deane Bolton, a farmer of Leyden, Mass. She has one child - Charles Bell Bol- ton, b. October 24, 1900. Homer Dayton Miner was b. at Leyden, July 7, 1886. Ida Grace Kemp, b. at Colrain, Mass., May 31, 1861, m. Charles Dewey Miner, a farmer of Colrain, Mass., son of Whitman Miner. They have one child - Mavie Lucretia (b. at Col- rain, August 12, 1884), who m. Thomas White, April 27, 1901. Walter Horace Kemp, b. at Colrain, 1863, eldest son of Horace,7 is a prosperous farmer in his native town. He m. Mae Sophia, daughter of William and Ellen (Shepardson) Martin. They have four chil- dren, namely : Bessie Mae Kemp, b. May 23, 1883; George Walter Kemp, b. July 25, 1884; Howard Martin Kemp, b. January 8, 1887; Nellie Martiel Kemp, b. January 21, 1896.

William Sumner Kemp was born on the "Walter Bell Farm," Colrain. He was brought up in his native town, and there at- tended the public schools until the fall of 1885, when he entered Powers' Institute at Bernardston, Mass., where he was president of

his class, and was graduated in 1889. He oc- cupied himself on his father's farm during the summer of 1889; taught school in the south district of Leyden in the winter of 1889-90, returning to the farm in the spring. In Aug- ust, 1890, he went to Grand Island, Neb., to become messenger with the Grand Island Banking Company of that city. He remained there for three years, during which time he worked his way up to the position of assistant teller. But the picturesque scenery, time- honored customs, and familiar home life of New England were ever alluringly present to his memory, and while on a visit here in the summer of 1893 he eagerly accepted a position in the Brookline National Bank at Brookline, Mass. Entering the bank as a messenger September 1, 1893, he was almost immedi- ately promoted to the position of book-keeper. He was made teller on January 1, 1894, and so remained until November 2, 1898, when he was appointed cashier. He has taken an im- portant part also in the management of the Brookline Co-operative Bank since its organi- zation, being for some time its secretary and treasurer and now its vice-president. He is a member of Beth-horon Lodge, F. & A. M., and is unmarried.

ILLIAM FRANCIS GORDON, a well-known druggist of Stoneham, Mass., is a son of the late Charles P. Gordon, who was b. in Salem, N. H., in 1800. In his earlier life Charles P. Gordon was engaged in the provision business. After- wards he was a silversmith for many years, being located at first in Boston. His death occurred in 1877. A resident of Charlestown, Mass., for some time, he served as Captain of the Charlestown City Guards. He m. Sarah Searles, who was b. in South Danvers, Mass., now Peabody, and d. in Charlestown. Nine children were b. of their union; namely, Henry Gene, Susan (deceased), Charles Au- gustus, Harriet, Curtis Searles, William Fran- cis, Frederick S., Nancy T., and Sarah Jane.

Born in Boston, December 3, 1838, Will- iam Francis Gordon was educated in the Bos- ton public schools. While yet in his six-

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teenth year, he entered the employ of Brewer, Stevens & Cushing, wholesale druggists, whose store occupied the present site of the Boston Globe Building. After becoming familiar with the business, he opened a retail drug store in Brookline, where he remained about two years. Then he sold out to accept a posi- tion in Portland, Me., in the wholesale house of H. H. Hay & Co., a firm that is still in existence. Mr. Gordon continued his work in Portland until after the great fire that nearly destroyed the city, when he returned to Boston, where he was employed the ensuing six years as foreman for Rust Brothers & Bird on Han- over Street. Going then to Stoneham, he there established the retail drug business that he has since carried on most successfully. Mr. Gordon is prominently identified with various local organizations, including the Columbian Lodge and Columbian Encampment, I. O.O. F., of which he was High Priest for two terms; Canton Fells, I. O. O. F. ; the Grand Encamp- ment, I. O. O. F .; Stoneham Lodge, K. of H. ; Fells Lodge, A. O. U. W .; and Bear Hill Assembly, Royal Society of Good Fel- lows, of which he has been financial secretary. In politics he is an Independent.

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Genealogy and history of representative citizens of the commonwealth of Massachusetts, Part 101

Author: Hurd, Charles Edwin, 1833-1910 Publication date: 1902 Publisher: Boston, New England historical publishing company Number of Pages: 850

Author: Hurd, Charles Edwin, 1833-1910
Publication date: 1902
Publisher: Boston, New England historical publishing company
Number of Pages: 850