Genealogy and history of representative citizens of the commonwealth of Massachusetts, Part 73

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

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to Salisbury Prison, thence to Andersonville, where he subsequently made his escape by as- suming a false identity. Antoinette P. Cro- mack, who was b. June 17, 1844, and d. July 3, 1888, was first m. to Frank Adolphus, and secondly to Samuel J. Libby. In March, 1846, James M. Cromack m. secondly Emily Osgood, daughter of Richard Osgood, of Ames- bury. She d. in 1886, leaving one daughter, Mrs. Alice Williams, a widow, now living in Amesbury.

George William Cromack acquired his edu- cation at the public schools of Salisbury and Amesbury and at Barnard Academy in South Hampton, N. H., where he worked on a farm the larger part of the year, being allowed two months in the winter season to attend school. At the age of sixteen he returned to Massachu- setts, and the ensuing two years worked in the enamel department of Clark's Tannery in Salis- bury. Coming to Stoneham in the spring of 1856, he learned the trade of currier with Tidd & Bloomer, remaining with them three years, afterward working as a journeyman until 1861. Going then to New Bedford, Mass., he re- mained there until September. After that he spent a few months at Newark, N. J., removing from there to Woburn, Mass. He was em- ployed at the Stoneham Rubber Works until February, 1862, and from that time until the fall of 1869 he worked in Stoneham for Will- iam Tidd & Co., successors to Tidd & Bloomer. He next engaged in business in Haverhill as a currier with J. B. Wade, being junior member of the firm of Wade & Cro- mack, which dissolved partnership in June, 1870. Returning to Stoneham, Mr. Cromack was in the employ of William Tidd & Co. until 1872, when on account of ill health he was forced to retire for a while from active business. In 1873 Mr. Cromack was elected Assessor of Stoneham, and in 1874 was re- elected to that office. The following three years he was engaged in the grocery business as a member of the firm of Mansur & Cromack. He subsequently became a travelling salesman, selling encyclopædias. In 1885 he was again « lected Assessor of Stoneham. The following five years he was connected with the firm of Dodd, Mead & Co., in Boston, as special agent

for New England. In 1893, 1895, and 1896 he again served as Assessor of Stoneham. In 1896 he entered into journalistic work, being employed as a reporter and as one of the edi- torial staff of the Stoneham paper published by F. L. and W. E. Whitter, publishers and job printers.

Since 1880 Mr. Cromack has been one of the trustees of the public library of Stoneham, serv- ing as chairman of the board the last four terms. In 1898 he was made secretary of the first Board of Water Commissioners, being then elected for two years, and in 1900 was re- elected to the office for three years. Mr. Cro- mack is a Republican in politics, and for many years has been a member of the Republican Town Committee. He is prominent in the Order of Red Men, belonging to Wampscott Tribe, No. 39, in which he has passed all the chairs, and is also one of the Standing Com- mittee of the Great Council of Massachusetts. He is likewise collector and treasurer of the Red Men's Mutual Benefit Association. He is a member of the Unitarian church.

On February 20, 1862, Mr. Cromack mar- ried Alice A., daughter of Benjamin P. and Caroline W. (Keene) Keene, of Appleton, Me. Mr. and Mrs. Cromack have one child - Charles Edwin. He was born May 26, 1864, in Stoneham, and has since resided here, being now well known as a successful farmer and milk dealer. In April, 1891, Charles Edwin Cromack married Laura, daughter of Levi Gould, of Stoneham. They have one child - Abbie Gertrude, who was born May 11, 1896.

ILLIAM FROTHINGHAM BRAD- BURY, A. M., L. H. D., head master of the Cambridge Latin School, is a veteran in the ranks of New England teachers, having taught his first school more than half a century ago, and having held his present posi- tion ever since the date of his second appoint- ment thereto in March, 1881, or for twenty consecutive years. He is widely known as the author of various educational papers and of a popular series of mathematical text-books. Mr. Bradbury was born in Westminster, Worcester County, Mass., May 17, 1829, son

WILLIAM F. BRADBURY.

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of William Sanders and Elizabeth (Emerson) Bradbury. On the paternal side he is a de- scendant in the eighth generation of Thomas Bradbury, one of the original proprietors of Salisbury, Mass., the line being : Thomas, 1 William, 2-3 James, 4 Sanders, 5 James, 6 William Sanders, 7 William Frothingham8.

Thomas' Bradbury, son of Wymond and Elizabeth (Gill, b. Whitgitt) Bradbury, was baptized at Wicken Bonant," Essex County, England, in February, 1610-1I. In 1634 he was at Agamenticus, now York, Me., as agent for Sir Ferdinando Gorges; and some of the earliest deeds recorded in York County were executed by him. He was one of the first settlers of Salisbury, Massachusetts Bay Col- ony, receiving grants of land in 1640 and 1641, and becoming one of the foremost citizens. He served acceptably as schoolmaster, Town Clerk, Representative to General Court seven years, Justice of the Peace, County Recorder, Associate Justice, and Captain of the militia. He m. about the year 1636 Mary, daughter of John and Judith Perkins, who had come from England five years before. John Perkins was a fellow-passenger with Roger Williams in the ship "Lyon," which arrived at Boston, Febru- ary 5, 1631. He was made freeman on May 18, lived in Boston two years, and then settled at Ipswich. He held various town offices, and was Representative in 1636. Mrs. Mary Per- kins Bradbury was tried for witchcraft in 1692 and was convicted, but was not executed. That she was held in high estimation by her friends is shown by the testimony at the trial. She d. in December, 1700, at about eighty years of age, having survived her husband five years and nine months.

Their son William,2 the seventh of a family of eleven children, m. in March, 1672, Re- becca, daughter of the Rev. John and Mary (Hutchinson) Wheelwright and widow of Samuel Maverick, Jr. Her mother was a grand-daughter of John Hutchinson, sometime Mayor of London. William3 Bradbury, elder son of William and Rebecca, m. Sarah, daugh- ter of the Rev. John Cotton, Jr., of Plymouth, and had thirteen children, the fifth, James, 4 who m. in 1726 Elizabeth Sanders. The sixth child b. of this union, Sanders5 Brad-

bury, of Nottingham, N. H., m. in 1763 Sarah Colby, of Sanbornton, N. H. In the Revolu- tionary War he served in the regiment com- manded by General Joseph Cilley, and d. at White Plains, N. Y., November 15, 1779. His widow m. Josiah Brown, and d. in 1828. James6 Bradbury, b. in 1768, son of the pa- triot, m. April 5, 1795, Catherine- Conant, settled at Hollis, N. H., and d. there in 1811. He had eight children, William Sanders,? father of William F.,8 being the third.

William Sanders Bradbury was b. at Hollis, February 14, 1800. His wife, Elizabeth, was b. in the same town July 29, 1800. They were m. October 18, 1824, and settled at Westminster, Mass. He d. on June 9, 1881, in Shrewsbury. She d. at Lawrence, October 4, 1870. They had six children, namely : Elizabeth Emerson, b. August 18, 1826; William F. ; Edward Emerson, b. February 7, 1832; Charles Fletcher, b. April 10, 1836, and d. December 9, 1854; Esther Caroline, b. June 24, 1839; and Charlotte Ann, b. March 24, 1844. Mrs. Elizabeth Emerson Bradbury was the daughter of the Rev. Daniel and Esther (Frothingham) Emerson, and belonged to the Ipswich family of Emerson, whose im- migrant progenitor, Thomas,1 was an inhab- itant of that town as early as 1638.

The following is a brief record of Mr. Will- iam F. Bradbury's maternal line of ancestry : Thomas' d. at Ipswich in 1666. The Rev. Joseph,2 b. in England about 1620, m. in 1665 his second wife, Elizabeth Bulkeley, daughter of the Rev. Edward Bulkeley, of Concord, Mass. He preached in Maine and at Milton and Mendon, Mass., d. at Concord in 1680. Peter3 Emerson, husbandman, b. in 1673, m. Anna Brown, and lived in Reading. The Rev. Daniel, 4 b. in 1716 (Harvard Col- lege, 1739), m. Hannah, daughter of the Rev. Joseph, Jr., and Mary (Moody) Emerson, of Malden, and settled at Hollis, N. H. Daniel, 5 b. at Hollis, m. Anna Fletcher, and resided at Hollis. The Rev. Daniel, Jr.,6 b. in 1771, graduated at Harvard 1794, d. at Dartmouth, Mass., in 1808. His wife was daughter of Major Benjamin Frothingham, of Charlestown, Mass. Not a few Americans of distinction are numbered among the posterity of the Rev.

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Joseph2 Emerson, of Mendon, as he is usually called, Ralph Waldo Emerson being easily the foremost.

The early education of William F. Brad- bury was obtained in the district school near the home of his boyhood and at the West- minster Academy. In the winter of 1848-49 he had his first experience in teaching school at Slab City, a district of Princeton, Mass., his salary being eighteen dollars a month and board. Entering Amherst College in Septem- ber, 1852, he earned his way through, often combining the work of teaching with study, and was graduated in 1856 as valedictorian of his class, his brother, Edward Emerson Brad- bury, being salutatorian. His connection with the Cambridge High School began in September, 1856, when he entered upon the duties of teacher of physics and mathematics. From the death of Osgood Johnson in April, 1857, to the close of the year, he held the position of head master. In 1865 he became Hopkins classical master, and in 1868 he suc- ceeded William J. Rolfe as head master of the high school. Two years later a former head master, Mr. L. R. Williston, who had resigned the position on account of ill health, was re- engaged. Mr. Bradbury had charge of the school again in 1878, during the temporary absence of Mr. Williston, and in March, 1881, when Mr. Williston's health again failed, he was appointed as his successor. It is now twenty years since. Needless to say, the value of Mr. Bradbury's services has in- creased with age and garnered experience. His mathematical works - the Bradbury-Eaton Arithmetic, issued in 1879, the Bradbury Algebra, Elementary Geometry, extensively used in New England and the West, Trig- nometry and Surveying, Academic Algebra, Algebra for Beginners, and others - have had a large sale, and are among the most popular text-books on mathematics now in use. A piece of apparatus invented by him to illustrate the metric system has been widely used in the public schools. Mr. Bradbury is the author of valuable papers on the metric system and on spelling reform. He has been president of the Middlesex County Teachers' Association and of the Massachusetts Teachers' Association,

and for thirty-four years - or ever since its for- mation - secretary and treasurer of the Classi- cal and High School Teachers' Association, and now (1902) is president of the American Institute of Instruction. Music is one of his strong points. He has long been one of the directors of the Handel and Haydn Society, and is now its secretary. As a citizen of Cambridge he is interested in municipal affairs, and was a member of the Common Council in 1883 and 1884 under Mayor Fox.

Mr. Bradbury was married August 27, 1857, to Margaret Jones, daughter of Abijah and Phebe (Cutting) Jones, of Templeton, Mass. Mr. and Mrs. Bradbury have three children : William Howard, born July 28, 1858; Marion, born on December 1, 1863; and Margaret Sey- mour, born September 8, 1877. On Septem- ber 15, 1886, William Howard Bradbury mar- ried Etta Kileski, a well-known soprano solo singer. They have one child - Walworth Kileski, born September 21, 1887. Marion Bradbury was married to William H. Hovey, of Cambridge, December 1, 1891. They have three children : Leon Bradbury, born August 31, 1892; Grace, born November 12, 1893 ; and Edith, born July 2, 1901.

HILIP KEARNEY DUMARESQ, of Boston, was born in Macao, China, in 1842, son of Philip4 and Margaretta Mary (De Blois) Du-

maresq. His father was b. in 1804 on Swan Island, at the mouth of the Kennebec River. He was a son of James3 Dumaresq by his wife Sarah Farwell, who was b. in Dresden, Me. James3 was a son of Philip2 and Rebecca (Gar- diner) Dumaresq, who were m. at King's Chapel, Boston, December 13, 1763. His grandfather, Philip' Dumaresq, Sr., a repre- sentative of the ninth generation of his family in the island of Jersey, was the first of the name to settle in Boston. He m. in 1716 Susan, daughter of Captain Henri Ferry, for- merly of Havre de Grace. (See "Dumaresq Family," by Augustus T. Perkins. )

Philip+ Dumaresq, son of James, 3 was edu- cated in Gardiner, Me. As a lad of fifteen he went to sea with the determination of not re-

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turning home until he had become commander of a vessel. He achieved the object of his ambition when he was twenty years of age, and followed the sea from 1819 to 1858, command- ing vessels sailing between the United States and China. His period of activity was broken only in 1854-55, when he retired for a short time. He had a high reputation in his pro- fession, being known as one of the most skilful shipmasters living, making successful voyages and commanding the finest ships on the water, among them the "Levant," "Greyhound," "Antelope," Surprise," "Romance of the Sea," "Bald Eagle," and "Florence." He was m. in 1836 to Miss Margaretta Mary De Blois, who was b. in 1819 on Bromfield Street, Boston, a daughter of Francis De Blois. They were the parents of eight children, five of whom still survive. Margaretta d. at the age of twelve years. Frances Perkins was drowned when sixteen years old. Philip K. is the sub- ject of this sketch. Florence Saumerez is the wife of George Wheatland, of Boston. Sarah d. in infancy. James Saumerez is a resident of Royal Oak, Md. Herbert m. Julia, daugh- ter of E. D. Jordan, of Boston. Francis re- sides alternately in Porto Rico and Boston. In 1855 Captain Dumaresq lost his wife and his daughter Frances, together with Sarah Richards, a cousin's child, at the same time, they being drowned in the Kennebec River off Swan Island. After their death he again went to sea. He took the "Florence," the first foreign ship (with the exception of Dutch ves- sels), into the port of Nagasaki, Japan, after that country opened her ports to the world. Having continued as a shipmaster till 1858, Captain Dumaresq settled in Boston. While on his way to New York he was lost overboard from the steamer "Empire State," and drowned on the night of June 25, 1861.

Philip Kearney Dumaresq was educated at the Chauncy Hall School, Boston, and the Allen Brothers English and Classical School, West Newton. In 1859 he entered the office of Henry P. Sturgis & Co., State Street, where he remained for about a year. In 1860 he sailed for China on the barque "Curlew," Captain Henry A. Ballard, and, reaching Hong Kong about January 1, 1861, joined the

office force of Russell & Co., merchants and bankers. In the following year he went to Shanghai, where he remained till 1866, when he returned to America. In the summer of that year he accepted temporarily the agency in China and Japan of the Wells Fargo Express Company. Coming to America in 1868, he remained here two years, and then went back to China and to the office of Russell & Co., becoming shortly afterwards their agent at Ningpo. This position he held till 1877, when he started for home, but on reaching Japan was wired from Yokahama to return to Shanghai as special agent for the Pacific Mail Steamship Company, in whose service he re- mained two years. Again starting for home, he was detained in Japan to take charge of the business of E. B. Watson at Kobe (Mr. Wat- son being the confidential financial adviser, agent, and banker for the Japanese govern- ment), for whom he exported large quantities of rice, copper, and other merchandise. In

1881 he returned to America, and became auditor of the Metropolitan Telephone and Tel- egraph Company of New York, being at the same time president of the Ball and Socket Fastener Company, engaged in the manufact- ure of fastenings for gloves and other clothing. In 1887 Mr. Dumaresq came from New York to Boston and engaged in the real estate busi- ness, continuing thus till 1895. He then became connected with the Boston & Montana and other copper mining companies as assistant treasurer .. This position he still holds. While at Ningpo he was Consul for Sweden and Norway, and at Shanghai was a member of the Volunteer Crops. He was treasurer of the North China branch of the Royal Asiatic Society, and was a member of the Shanghai Club. He also belonged to the Rowing Club of Shanghai. In politics he is a Republican.

Mr. Dumaresq was married August 14, 1866, to Miss Sophie Amelia Hurlbert, daugh- ter of Samuel Myers and Sophia Ruth (Streeter) Hurlbert, of Boston .. Mrs. Du- maresq's mother was a daughter of the Rev. Sebastian and Ruth (Richardson) Streeter, and grand-daughter of Wyman and Ruth (Lane) Richardson.

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four children - Philip, Lilian Sophie, Annie Margaretta, and Colette. Philip, who is a graduate of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, holds a responsible position with the firm of O'Brien & Russell, of Boston.

RANK GAIR MACOMBER, a suc- cessful business man of Boston, is well known in marine circles as underwriter and agent for various marine insurance com- panies, foreign and domestic. He was born in Boston, February 20, 1849, a son of Icha- bod, Jr., and Mary Elizabeth (Brewer) Ma- comber, and is a lineal descendant of William Macomber, the immigrant progenitor of this branch of the family in New England. The line of descent has been given as William, ' Thomas, 2-3-4 William, 5 Thomas,6 Ichabod,7 Frank Gair8.

Pope's "Pioneers of Massachusetts," under the heading "Macumber, Maycumber " (varied spellings of the name), mentions William, a cooper, of Dorchester, who had liberty to dwell at Plymouth in 1638, removed to Duxbury about 1643, and later to Marshfield, and ap- pears to have d. before May 27, 1670, the date of the inventory, leaving sons, John Thomas, Matthew, and William, Jr. A Sarah Ma- cumber, of Mansfield, doubtless a daughter of William, m. November 6, 1666, William Briggs, founder of the Briggs family in Amer- ica. Mr. Macomber is said to be a descendant of Peregrine White through the latter's son Daniel2 and grandson Cornelius. Thomas6 Macomber, son of William5 and Ruth (White) Macomber, lived in Bridgewater, Mass., until about 1780, when he removed to Jay, Me., taking with him all of his family excepting his son Ichabod,? the next in the line now being considered.

Ichabod7 Macomber, b. at Bridgewater, No- vember 5, 1777, son of Thomas, d. at Jamaica Plain, October 1, 1848. In company with Cyrus Alger, he started an iron foundry at North Easton, Mass., when a young man, but sold out his interest in it in 1808 and removed to Boston, where he built two houses, one on Eliot Street and one on Summer Street. Sub- sequently removing to Jamaica Plain, he be-

came one of the founders of the First Baptist Church in that place. For many years he was engaged in the wholesale grocery business in Boston as one of the firm of Macomber, Sawin & Hunting, afterward engaging in the same trade alone. On August 28, 1806, he m. Sarah Howard, a daughter of Jonathan How -. ard and a direct descendant in the sixth gen- eration from John Howard, the founder of that branch of the family. John Howard immi- grated to Duxbury, Mass., from England. Tradition says that when young he lived in the family of Captain Miles Standish. He m. Martha, daughter of Thomas Hayward, and settled in Bridgewater, where he was licensed to keep a tavern in 1670. His son Jonathan2 m. Sarah Dean, and was father of Jonathan, 3 b. in 1692, who m. in 1719 Sarah Field. Nathan4 Howard, b. in 1720, son of Jonathan3 and Sarah, m. in 1746 Jane, daughter of Major Edward Howard. Jonathan5 Howard, b. of this union in 1749, m. in 1774 Martha Willis. Their daughter, Sarah6 Howard, became the first wife of Ichabod7 Macomber. . She d. May 25, 1818, leaving four children -- Charles Au- gustus, Ichabod, Jr., Albert, and Sally How- ard. Ichabod Macomber m., second, June 12, 1820, Mrs. Abigail West Brown, who bore him five children - William, James B., Sally H., Henry Malcolm, and Mary J.

Ichabod Macomber, Jr., b. in Easton, Mass., in 1810, d. in Newton Centre, Mass., January 28, 1893. He m. May 22, 1839, Mary Eliza- beth Brewer, daughter of Captain Nathaniel Brewer, who was a captain in the merchant marine service, sailing from Boston for many years.

Frank Gair9 Macomber married October 22, 1877, Clara Elizabeth Robison, daughter of Joseph and Isabella Ogden (Reed) Robison and grand-daughter of Dr. Silas Reed, of St. Louis, Mo., who married Sarah Ogden. Mr. and Mrs. Macomber have two children, namely : Isabella Ogden Reed, born March 16, 1879; and Frank Gair Macomber, Jr., born January 9, 1882, who is attending Harvard College, a member of the class of 1904. Isabella O. R. Macomber married February 10, 1899, Charles Frederick Lyman, of Boston. They have one child, Charles Frederick Lyman, Jr.

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RANK MOSELEY, commission mer- chant and auctioneer, long connected with the firm of Horatio Harris & Co., of Boston, of which he is now the senior mem- ber, was born in Boston, March 30, 1854, son of Thomas Edward and Mary (Crehore) Mose- ley. He is a descendant in the ninth genera- tion of John Maudesley, the immigrant pro- genitor of the Moseley family of New England, the line being: John,' Thomas,2 Ebenezer, 3 Ebenezer, Jr., 4 Thomas, 5 Thomas, Jr., 6 Thomas Mather, 7 Thomas Edward, 8 and Frank9.

John1 Maudesley was an early settler at Dor- chester, Massachusetts Bay Colony. He came over on the "Mary and John," arriving at Nan- tasket, May 30, 1630. He d. in August, 1661. His second wife, Cicely, d. in Decem- ber following. Thomas, 2 son of John,1 spelled his surname Moseley. He m. in 1658 Mary, daughter of Thomas and Eliza (Bates) Law- rence. He d. in 1706, and his widow, Mary, in 1723. Ebenezer, 3 b. 1673, d. 1740. His wife was Elizabeth, daughter of William and Elizabeth (Dyer) Trescott. Ebenezer, 4 Jr., m. in 1718 Elizabeth, daughter of Humphrey and Elizabeth (Withington) Atherton. He d. in 1773; his wife in 1783. Thomas, 5 b. in 1728, d. in 1796. His wife Esther, daughter of Jonathan Davis, Jr., d. in 1811. Thomas, 6 Jr., b. in 1759, m. Sarah, daughter of Captain Ebenezer Withington, Jr., and his wife, Molly Preston. Thomas Mather,7 b. in 1796, d. Oc- tober 19, 1877, m. January 9, 1823, Jane Briggs, daughter of Samuel3 and Mary (Lo- throp) Pierce. She d. September 18, 1862.

Thomas Edward8 Moseley, b. November 5, 1823, d. at his home in Marlborough Street, Boston, May 25, 1890. He was for many years a prosperous shoe merchant, being the head of the firm of Thomas E. Moseley & Co., of Bos- ton. His wife Mary, whom he m. October 9, 1849, was b. October 3, 1827, and d. February 21, 1897. She was a daughter of Edward and Mary (Preston) Crehore, and belonged to an old Dorchester family. She was the mother of four sons : Edward C .; Frank, above named; and Arthur and Harry, who both d. in child- hood.

Elizabeth Atherton, wife of Ebenezer Mose- ley, Jr., was a descendant of Humphrey Ather-

ton, an early resident of Dorchester, Mass., who was prominent in civil and military affairs, being Captain (1650-58) of the artillery com- pany, since known as "the Ancient and Honora- ble," with the rank of Major-General, com- manding the Suffolk regiment; serving many years as Selectman and Town Treasurer, also as Deputy to the General Court and as an assis- tant. Besides General Atherton, the following named distinguished men of Colonial times in New England are numbered among the ances- tors of Mr. Frank Moseley : Elder Henry Withington, Philip Eliot, Nathaniel Wales, John Annable, the Rev. Richard Mather, Dea- con Daniel Preston, Robert Pierce "of ye great lotts," George Proctor, the Rev. William Thompson, John Collins, Edward Shepard, Thomas Bird, Roger Clapp, Richard Leeds, Abraham Howe, the Rev. Thomas Lothrop, Nicholas Wade, Thomas Ensign, William Curtis, John Howard, Thomas Hayward, the Hon. John Tisdale, James Leonard, George Watson, Robert Hicks, Deacon Samuel Edson, the Rev. James Keith, Teague Crehore, Rob- ert Spurr, William Royale, Thomas Tolman, Roger Billings, John Gill, Moses Paine, Sam- uel Bass, William Bowen, Richard Houghton, Robert Vose, John Bent, John Bourne, Robert Fuller, George Babcock, Edward Breck, Thomas Ford, Thomas Swift, William Weekes, Richard Hall. Some of these men came over in one of "the first three ships." Many were original proprietors of land in Dorchester and Milton, and some of this land yet belongs in the Moseley family.

Frank Moseley was educated in the Boston public schools, including the Dwight High School. His first experience in business was acquired in the capacity of clerk for his uncle, Horatio Harris, commission merchant and auc- tioneer. He successively filled the position of book-keeper and auctioneer, and in 1881 became a partner in the concern, associated with Stephen Bowen. Mr. Bowen died in 1888, and Mr. Moseley shortly associated with him as partner his brother Edward C. Mose- ley, who died July 29, 1894. Mr. Frank Moseley and his present partner, F. L. Ripley, still carry on business under the original name, "Horatio Harris & Co.," at 227 State Street.

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Genealogy and history of representative citizens of the commonwealth of Massachusetts, Part 73

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