Genealogy and history of representative citizens of the commonwealth of Massachusetts, Part 49

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

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Charles Thaxter, Zadoc Pratt (died young), Brackley, Jr. (died five years of age), Howard Wilmot, William Sutherland, and Brackley Azel. Eva Albertina is the wife of Archi- bald A. Cassils, and has three children - Mar- cia A., William H., and Angus M. Marcia Lavinia died young. Charles Thaxter mar- ried Elizabeth Shaw, and has four children - Charles Brackley, Elizabeth Marcia, Herbert Thaxter, and Douglas Archibald. Howard Wilmot married, first, Elizabeth Bowman, who died in early womanhood, leaving him one child - Ralph B. He married for his second wife Josephine Bull, and has one child - Irma J. William Sutherland married Edith Pratt, by whom he has three children - Elinor, Bes- sie (died in infancy), and Harold. Brackley A. is a student at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Mr. Shaw married, second, June 18, 1884, Louise Marie Farrington, who died in November, 1889, leaving one child - Mar- gery Louise. Mr. Shaw subsequently married for his third wife Pamelia Battles Farrington. Of this union there are two children - Helen Hastings and Robert Malcolm.

RANK WATSON HASTINGS, of the insurance firm of W. B. Hastings & Co., East Cambridge and Boston, was born in Cambridge, Mass., January 7, 1854, son of Watson Barnard and Mary (Put- nam) Hastings. He is a descendant of John Hastings, a tanner, who for a few years after coming from England resided at Braintree (freeman 1643), removed to Cambridge about 1654, and d. December 2, 1657. The line is : John,' Samuel,2 Stephen, 3 Samuel, 4 Thomas, 5 Watson, 6 Watson Barnard,7 Frank Watson8.

Samuel2 Hastings, who came with his father and mother to America, d. at Cambridge, Feb- ruary 14, 1704-5, aged about seventy years. He was a gunsmith, and inherited a part of his father's estate near Brattle Street. He m. November 12, 1661, Mary Meane, b. April 3, 1644, daughter of John and Anne Meane. Her father was one of the first company of set- tlers at Cambridge, his home in 1635 being at the corner of Holmes Place and North Avenue.

Stephen3 Hastings, b. May 23, 1669, was a

currier. Selling his homestead in 1707, he afterward resided on the north side of Mount Auburn Street. His death occurred Septem- ber 24, 1726. He m. October 28, 1708, Hannah Stacy, who was b. September 2, 1684, daughter of Thomas and Hannah (Hicks) Stacy, of Cambridge. Her father, who was a blacksmith, d. in 1744. Her mother, baptized March 4, 1665-6, was a daughter of Zechariah and Elizabeth (Sill) Hicks and a grand- daughter on the maternal side of John Sill, of Cambridge, and his wife, Joanna.

Samuel+ Hastings, a tanner, b, at Cam- bridge, baptized April 16, 1710, removed to Newton about 1737, and d. in 1776. He m. May 8, 1735, Hepzibah Dana, who was b. October 24, 1714, daughter of Daniel and Naomi (Croswell) Dana. Daniel - Dana, b. March, 1663-4, son of Richard and Ann (Bul- lard) Dana, d. 1749. His wife d. in 1750. Richard Dana, b. in England, d. in 1690. His wife d. in 1711.

Thomas5 Hastings, b. July 12, 1751, resided in Cambridge; was a private in Captain Ste- phen Dana's company, Colonel McIntosh's regi- ment; arrived at camp March 19, 1776; dis- charged April 16, 1776; service twenty-nine days at the lines in Boston. (See "Massachu- setts Soldiers and Sailors in the Revolution," vol. vii., page 476; also, for further record of apparently the same Thomas Hastings, page 477.) Thomas5 Hastings was m. three times. His first wife was Elizabeth Morse, by whom he had seven children. His second wife, given by Paige as Betsy Jackson, is said to have been a Curtis. His third wife, Mehitable Watson, whom he wedded October 3, 1802, was b. September 10, 1767, daughter of Jacob and Mehitable (Skinner) Watson. Jacob Wat- son, b. 1727-8, d. 1801. Mehitable Skinner, b. 1724, m. 1761, d. May 17, 1814. Jacob Watson was son of Jacob, Sr., and his wife, Lydia, grandson of Abraham and Mary (Butter- field) Watson, and great-grandson of John1 and Rebecca (Errington) Watson. John1 Wat- son was a native of England, b. 1619.

Watson6 Hastings, son of Thomass and Mehitable (Watson) Hastings, was b. July 17, 1803, and d. May 5, 1849. He m. June 27, 1827, Mary Ann Hobbs, daughter of John

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Langley and Elizabeth (James) Hobbs. She was b. January 13, 1811, and d. October 28, 1893. Her parents, who were m. December 25, 1803, were natives of England. . Her mother d. December 6, 1848.

Watson Barnard7 Hastings was b. April 27, 1828, in Sandwich, Mass., during a temporary stay there of his parents. He was educated in the public schools of Cambridge, of which city the family were residents. Having the gold fever, he went to California in 1849 by the Cape route, but returned in 1851 or 1852. During the Civil War he was the boarding officer for the port of Boston, a United States custom-house position. In 1865 he resigned this position and formed the insurance firm of Hastings & Kinsley, of East Cambridge, which later became W. B. Hastings & Co. In poli- tics he was an ardent Republican, and, being a good public speaker, he served his party well on the stump. For a number of years, as Alderman or Councilman, he was a member of the city government of Cambridge. He was a member of the Masonic fraternity, affili- ating with Mount Olivet Lodge, F. & A. M., of Cambridge, and also belonged to the Sons of Temperance, the Royal Arcanum, and the I. O. O. F. His death took place January I, 1887. He was m. April 16, 1853, to Mary Putnam, a native of Cambridge. She was b. August 1, 1827, and d. April 30, 1875. They were the parents of one child - Frank Watson, the subject of this sketch.

Mary Putnam, wife of Watson B.7 Hastings, was a descendant of John' Putnam, b. in Eng- land about 1580, who d. in Salem Village, now Danvers, Mass., December 30, 1662. Priscilla, wife of John Putnam, was, "perhaps, Priscilla Gould." The Putnam ancestry has been traced for some generations farther back in England. The line of descent from John1 to the late Mrs. Hastings is shown by the fol- lowing record : John,2 baptized in England, May 27, 1627, d. 1710, m., 1652, Rebecca Prince. Eleazer, 3 b. 1665, d. January, 1732-3, m., first, Hannah Boardman, daughter of Dan- iel and Hannah (Hutchinson) Boardman. She was b. 1670-1, and d. between 1707 and No- vember, 1711. Jeptha, 4 b. 1699, d. at Sut- ton, Mass., in 1772, m. for his second wife, in

1746, Mrs. Ruth Hayward (b. 1727, d. 1779). Their son, Gideon, 5 was, undoubtedly, the Gid- eon Putnam who marched to Lexington in Cap- tain John Putnam's company, Colonel Eben- ezer Larned's regiment, on the alarm of April 19, 1775. (See History of Sutton; also Lex- ington Alarm Rolls, State Archives.) Gid- eon5 Putnam m. November 28, 1775, Abigail Holton, b. 1757, daughter of John and Annie (Rawson) Holton, of Sutton, and removed with his family from Sutton to Calais, Vt. Gideon,6 b. June 7, 1776, m. Dorothy Ed- wards. They were the parents of Lewis,7 father of Mrs. Mary Putnam Hastings.

Frank Watson8 Hastings was educated in the public schools of Cambridge. At the age of seventeen he became a clerk with W. B. Hastings & Co., of which firm he became a member in January, 1878. Upon the death of his father, nine years later, he assumed entire charge of the business, which he conducted alone until January 1, 1900, when he took in two partners, E. P. Fonda and C. F. Pierce. They unite fire, life, and marine insurance, the main branch of the business being that devoted to fire insurance. They are agents for a large number of the prominent insurance companies, both American and foreign. Their East Cambridge office is at the corner of Third and Cambridge Streets, and their Boston office at 107 Water Street. Mr. Hastings is a Re- publican in politics, and in religion a Univer- salist. He is a member of Putnam Lodge, F. & A. M., of Cambridge; the Sons of the American Revolution; the Colonial Club, of Cambridge; and of the Annisquam Yacht Club, of which he was the first Commodore. He is also a member of the Corinthian Yacht Club, of Marblehead. He married May 9, 1901, Car- oline Lord Burnham, of Irvington-on-Hudson, N. Y., daughter of William Addison and M. Abbie (Lord) Burnham.

HARLES HENRY ABORN, of Lynn, Mass., was born in Augusta, Me., February 26, 1832, a son of Freder- ick6 and Joanna` Davis (Thwing) Aborn. His paternal ancestry in America began with Samuel' Aborn, who was an early

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settler at Salem village, whose wife was Catherine Smith. The succeeding genera- tions in direct line were as follows : Moses2 Aborn, b. 1645-6, and baptized in the First Church of Salem, Mass., m. (second wife) Abigail Gilbert, of Ipswich, Mass. Ebenezer3 Aborn was b. in Lynn, January 31, 1694. Dr. John+ Aborn was baptized in Lynnfield, April 4, 1727, and d. November 8, 1768. He m. Rebecca Bancroft November 22, 1758. Sam- uels Aborn, b. in Lynnfield, June 27, 1764, d. in Lynn, May 19, 1844. He m. April 17, 1788, Mary Flint, of Danvers, daughter of Captain Samuel Flint, of South Danvers, a commissioned officer in the Revolutionary War, and his wife, Ede Upton Flint. Mrs. Mary Flint Aborn d. in Lynn, November 28, 1851, aged eighty-one years.

Frederick6 Aborn was b. in Lynnfield, April 6, 1805. In 1826 he removed to Augusta, Me., and engaged in the shoe business as a manufacturer and retail dealer. In 1841 he transferred his residence and business to Lynn, where he remained until 1849, in which year he returned to Augusta. Very soon after he received an appointment as teacher of shoe- making in the Maine State Reform School. This position he accepted, and filled accepta- bly until his death, which took place in Au- gusta, May 9, 1861. On February 12, 1828, he m. Joanna Davis Thwing, daughter of Nathaniel and Mary (Eastman) Thwing, and grand-daughter of Nathaniel and Abigail (Greenough) Thwing. Nine children were b. of their union - Mary T., Frederick Warren, Charles Henry, Samuel Clapp Thwing, James Franklin, Helen Augusta, Abbie Maria, George Edward, and Emma Nourse. Mary, who m., first, George P. Pierce, and second, James Stone, of Gardiner, Me., now resides in Wakefield. Frederick Warren, b. June 24, 1830, m. Eliza Holbrook. Samuel Clapp Thwing, b. February 7, 1834, m. Martha Williams. He enlisted in Company A, Twenty-fifth Massachusetts Infantry, and served for three years in the Civil War. James Franklin, who was b. January 6, 1836, and d. July 18, 1893, m. Mary Elizabeth Curtis. Helen Augusta, b. January 15, 1841, m. Edwin Lincoln Stanwood, of Portland, Me.

Abbie Maria, b. March 28, 1843, m. Henry Haskell, of Wakefield. George Edward and Emma Nourse both d. in childhood. Mrs. Frederick Aborn d. in Augusta, Me., June 15, 1849.

Charles Henry Aborn acquired his education in the public schools of Lynn, to which city he accompanied his parents from Augusta when nine years old. Early becoming familiar with the methods of shoe manufacture, he formed in 1854 a partnership with John Brooks Nichols under the firm name of C. H. Aborn & Co. This connection lasted till 1864, when Mr. Nichols was succeeded by Mr. Aborn's brother, James F. Aborn. The latter retired in November, 1889, and was succeeded by Frank Parker Aborn, son of the subject of this sketch. The business, the manufacture of ladies' shoes, has been continued under the same firm name up to the present time. Mr. Aborn now has the distinction of having been in the shoe business longer than any other manufacturer in the city. He is a trustee of the Lynn Five Cents Savings Bank. In 1864 and 1865 he served in the Lynn Common Council. He is a member of the Oxford Club and of the Universalist society.

On December 6, 1857, Mr. Aborn married, in Lynn, Sarah Jane Wood, of Boston, who was born September 27, 1836, a daughter of Lyman and Rebecca (Fogg) Wood, of Mere- dith, N. H. Mr. and Mrs. Aborn have two children - Annie Lincoln and Frank Parker. Annie Lincoln Aborn, born July 20, 1860, married Frank Herbert Gage, and lives in Swampscott. Frank P., born September 7, 1865, was educated in the Lynn public schools, and is now junior member of the firm of C. H. Aborn & Co., as already mentioned. He mar- ried October 11, 1893, Grace Berry, of Win- chester, a daughter of William F. and Belinda (Tarbox) Berry. He has one child - Mar- jorie, born May 9, 1896.

ALTER ROLLINS MORSE, who is engaged in the dry-goods commis- sion business in Boston, was born in that city March 23, 1859, son of Albert and Ellen Russell (Webster) Morse. He is a di-

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rect descendant in the ninth generation of one of the earliest settlers of New England, Sam- uel' Morse, of Dedham, b. in England in 1585, who came to this country in 1635 in the ship "Increase." This early progenitor belonged, says the Rev. Abner Morse, author of the "Memorial of the Morses," "to that class of Puritans who strove to separate from the cor- ruptions of the English Church, yet continued in her communion until their embarkation for this country." Soon after the elevation of Laud to the primacy of England a commis- sion was illegally instituted, called the Com- missioners of Plantations, who, to embarrass the Puritans, prohibited the promiscuous pass- ing of his majesty's subjects to this country, requiring subsidy men to procure a license and other persons the attestations of two justices before they could embark. Accordingly, our Puritan sire, Samuel Morse, however he might have approbated a different course in his sons, who were of age, took care when about to re- move, to conform to existing laws, as appears from the following extract from a manuscript at the Augmentation office in Rolls Court, Westminster Hall, London, transcribed by Judge Savage: "15 April, 1635. Theis par- ties hereafter expressed are to be transported to New England, imbarqued in the Increase, Robert Lea, Master, having taken the oath of allegiance and supremacy as being conformable to the orders of the Church of England, whereof they brought testimony per certificate from the Justices and Ministers where there abodes have lately been. Samuel Morse, husbandman aged 50, Elizabeth Morse (wife) aged 48, Joseph Morse aged 20." Whether the rest of the family embarked clandestinely after the clear- ance of the ship, as was then the common and only way by which the more distinguished Puri- tans could escape, or took passage in some other vessel, is not ascertained.

"On arriving in this country," to quote again from the "Morse Memorial," "Samuel Morse settled first in Watertown, then the metropolis of the colony. Here he and his family became conformable to the orders and discipline, and doctrines too, of the Puritan church, to enjoy which was doubtless their motive in emigrating, and in view of which they were enabled to put

forth the mighty moral effort requisite to the undertaking. About the time he arrived, the General Court, sitting at Newtowne, granted a tract of land south of Charles River to twelve men, who took Samuel Morse and his sons (with others) into their company, and previous to settling upon it held their first recorded meeting, August 15, 1636, as is supposed at Watertown, and adopted and signed a cove- nant." Among the one hundred and twenty- six signers were Samuel, Daniel, Joseph, and John Morse. Subsequently Samuel' resided in Dedham and Medfield. He made his will October 2, 1654, leaving all his estate, amounting in value to one hundred and twenty- four pounds and seven shillings, to his wife, Elizabeth, it to be divided after his death among his surviving children.

He had seven children - John, Daniel, Jo- seph, Abigail, Samuel, Jeremiah, and Mary. His wife d. June 20, 1654, aged sixty-seven years. The following is a brief survey of the successive generations in the line of descent from Samuel to Walter Rollins9 Morse, whose name begins this sketch : -

Daniel2 Morse, b. 1613, d. June 5, 1688. He resided in Dedham, Medfield, and Sher- born. His wife, Lydia, d. January 29, 1690, aged seventy years. Their children were : Obadiah, Daniel, Jonathan, Lydia, Bethiah, Mary, Bathsheba, Nathaniel, and Samuel.

Samuel3 Morse, who resided in Sherborn, d. March 2, 1704. His wife, Deborah, d. October 5, 1719. They had ten children: Samuel, Eleazer, Deborah, Mehitabel, Martha, Sarah, Bathiah, Miriam, Tabitha, and Benjamin.

Samuel4 Morse, b. June 4, 1687, d. April 5, 1736, resided in Needham. He m. 1712-13 Mary Cook, of Watertown, who d. November 20, 1787, aged ninety-two. Their children were: Deborah, Samuel, Mary, Joseph, Ben- jamin, and Sarah.

Samuel Morse, b. June 7, 1717, inherited the homestead in Needham, d. 1788. He m. in 1748 Eunice Harris, who d. 1809. He resided in Natick. His children were : Amos, Samuel, Eunice, Oliver (d. young), Adam, and Oliver (second).

Samuel6 Morse, b. 1752, resided at Need- ham and Natick, d. 1830 at Natick. He m.

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1772 Sybil Jennings, who d. 1821. Chil- dren: Ephraim (d. young), Vina, Isaac, Ephraim (second), Olive, Samuel, Ruel, Bet- sey, Rufus, George, Fanny, Martin, and Nabby.

George7 Morse, b. February 28, 1789, re- sided in West Roxbury. He m. April 26, 1814, Hannah Derby, a native of Dublin, N. H. They had ten children : James, George and Charles (twins; Charles d. in infancy), Harriet, Charles (second), Emeline, Albert, Sarah, Jane, and Ira.

Albert Morse, father of Walter R., was b. in West Roxbury, Mass., August 16, 1823, and d. in Boston, February 18, 1887. He was a dry-goods merchant, and connected with one of the prominent firms in that line of business, in which he was engaged for forty-five years. His wife, Ellen Russell Webster, was a daughter of Amos and Nancy (Tufts) Web- ster, of Salisbury, N. H., and Boston, Mass. She was b. in Boston, October 19, 1834. Her line of descent has been traced as follows : -

John1 Webster, who, tradition says, was from Ipswich, Suffolk County, England, came to America in 1634, and settled in Ipswich, Essex County, Mass. John2 Webster, b. about 1632, son of John' and Mary Shatswell Webster, m. June 13, 1653, Ann Batt (daugh- ter of Nicholas), and removed from Newbury to Haverhill, where he was the first black- smith. In 1657 he returned to Newbury. His sister Hannah m. Michael Emerson, and was the mother of Hannah Emerson, b. 1657, who m. Thomas Dustin, and was the heroine who rescued herself and others from Indian captiv- ity by the slaughter of her savage foes.

John3 Webster, b. in 1656, was a weaver. He removed from Newbury, Mass., to Salis- bury, N. H., where the rest of his life was spent. He m. Bridget Higgins March 9, 1680-1, and reared six children. John4 Web- ster, b. November 2, 1683, m. Sarah Greeley, daughter of Andrew Greeley, March 13, 1707-8, resided first in Newbury, Mass., and later in Salisbury, N. H. He was a large dealer in land (see deeds of Essex County). John, 5 otherwise known as Captain John' Web- ster, b. April 28, 1709, son of John4 and Sarah (Greeley) Webster, d. in Salisbury,

N. H., April 29, 1788, aged seventy-eight years. [Webster Records, MS. by S. K. Sharples. Library of New England His- torical Genealogical Society. ] He kept a store at Boscawen, N. H., and in 1760 was one of the first Selectmen of that town. He served as a private in the expedition against Crown Point in 1755, and again in 1856, and was at Fort Henry in 1857. His first wife was Ruth Clark, whom he m. in 1730; his second, Susanna Snow.

Humphrey6 Webster, who was b. in Salis- bury, N. H., April 11, 1764, son of Captain John, d. at Plymouth, N. H., September 3, 1838. He settled in Salisbury on the site now occupied by the estate of Sylvanus Web- ster; but subsequently, in March, 1815, re- moved from that town to Bridgewater, N. H. Thence he went to Plymouth, N. H., where he d. He m., first, Rhoda Pettengill, a daughter of Lieutenent Matthew Pettengill. His sec- ond wife was Eliza Pingrey, a widow, whom he m. March 9, 1815.

Amos7 Webster was b. in Salisbury, N. H., May 23, 1793. He removed to Boston, where he for some time carried on a livery stable, and subsequently was proprietor of a large restaurant. He d. in Boston, June II, 1871. His wife, Nancy, was b. in Medford in 1801, a daughter of Joseph and Nancy Tufts, of Med- ford. She d. May 21, 1883. Her daughter, Ellen Russell (Mrs. Albert Morse), whose date of nativity has been already given, is now a resident of Dorchester.

Albert and Ellen R. (Webster) Morse were the parents of six children, namely : Albert Gordon, b. August 29, 1855, a graduate of Harvard College, class of 1877, and of the Harvard Law School, 1879, is now engaged as trustee of estates; Frank Webster, b. June 8, 1857, unmarried; Walter Rollins, whose name begins this sketch; Marion Frances, b. August 22, 1860, who lives in Dorchester, unmarried; William Oscar, b. August 19, 1865, who is unmarried; and Carlos Russell, b. December 25, 1868, who d. July 16, 1869.

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wholesale clothing dealers, Boston, with whom he remained for two years. Since 1887 he has been successfully engaged in business on his own account as a dry-goods commission mer- chant. He married June 15, 1892, Miss Etta May Burbank, a native of Franklin, N. H., and daughter of Alonzo N. and Margaret Ann (Gale) Burbank. His children are: Ruth Gale, born August 6, 1893; Carlton Lorin, born May 30, 1895; Wallace Webster, born August 10, 1898; and Elsa, born March 13, 1900, who died November 13, 1900.

ORACE JAMES, an influential citizen of Brookline, Mass., was born in Jamaica Plain, Mass., February 10, 1827, son of Harvey and Abigail Dana (Norcross) James. He is a descendant of John2 James, probably son of Thomas' James, who came to America from England about 1635, and was of Dedham, Mass., 1640.

John2 James was made freeman at Scituate, Mass., in 1668. He m. in 1675 Lydia, daugh- ter of John Turner, Sr., and his wife Mary, daughter of Jonathan2 Brewster, and grand- daughter of the distinguished Pilgrim father, Elder William' Brewster. John, 3 only son of John2 and Lydia, was b. in 1676. By his first wife, Eunice Stetson, he was the father of John,4 b. in 1709, whose second wife was Prudence Stanton, of Stonington, Conn. Thomas 5 James, b. in 1753, son of John4 and Prudence (Stanton) James, m. in 1780 Sarah Clapp, b. 1763, daughter of Galen+ and Pa- tience (Brooks) Clapp, of Scituate. Her father, Galen, 4 was a son of David3 and Debo- rah (Otis) Clapp, and grandson of Samuel2 and Hannah (Gill) Clapp. Samuel2 Clapp was one of the prominent citizens of Scituate. He was Representative to the General Court of Massachusetts, 1692 to 1696; also in 1699, 1703, and for seven subsequent years, and had previously been a Deputy in the Plymouth Colony Court. He was a son of Thomas' Clapp (cousin of Roger Clapp, of Dorchester), who came to this country, it is thought, in 1633, lived at Dorchester and Weymouth, and then settled at Scituate in 1640, where he was a Deacon of the church. Thomas5 James re-

moved from South Scituate to Pembroke, Mass., and thence, about two years later, to Londonderry, N. H., where he resided for the rest of his life, engaged in farming.

Harvey6 James, b. in South Scituate, Mass. in 1797, attended school in Londonderry, N.H., where his boyhood was passed. . When about twenty years old he came to Roxbury (Jamaica Plain District), and followed the occupation of butcher, dealing in cattle and sheep. Later he removed to Brighton, and carried on busi- ness as a wholesale dealer in beef and mutton. About four years later, or in April, 1833, he removed to Newton where he continued in business, and where he d. March 13, 1842, at the age of forty-five years. . He m. Abigail Dana Norcross, daughter of Nathaniel and Annie (Ward) Norcross, of Newton. Of this union were b. four children: Horace, whose name begins this sketch; Harvey, Jr., who is a resident of Newton ; Nathaniel N., also of New- ton; and Charles H., who d. February I, 1900. Mrs. Harvey James, Sr., long survived her husband, passing away in Brookline in 1871, at the age of seventy-three.

Horace James was educated in Brighton and Newton, Mass. After leaving school he served a five years' apprenticeship to the mason's trade under Andrew Cummings, of Watertown, and subsequently remained two years longer in his employ. He came to Brookline in July, 1849, and after awhile became associated with his brother Harvey in the provision business, first at Brookline and afterward in Cambridge- port. Subsequently he became clerk in a gro- cery store in Brookline, being also Deputy Post- master for two years, at the end of which period he went to work at his trade. On July 1, 1855, he purchased the business of J. M. Russell, a building contractor, which he has since carried on successfully. Among his more important contracts have been the public library, savings bank, several fire department buildings and schoolhouses in Brookline, a block of six large houses on the Fenway, Boston, besides many fine residences and business blocks in Brook- line, Boston, Newton and vicinity, his oper- ations giving employment to a large force of men. Mr. James was one of the incorporators of the Brookline Savings Bank, which he has

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Genealogy and history of representative citizens of the commonwealth of Massachusetts, Part 49

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