History of Bristol County, Massachusetts, with biographical sketches of many of its pioneers and prominent men, Part 100

Author: Hurd, D. Hamilton (Duane Hamilton) ed
Publication date: 1883
Publisher: Philadelphia, J. W. Lewis & Co.
Number of Pages: 1818


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association with men interested in navigation, his thoughts were turned in this direction, and he finally shipped for a whaling voyage on board the ship " South Carolina," about to sail from that port.


Making a successful voyage, he returned home, and engaged in business as a druggist. Subsequently abandoning this enterprise, he entered the dry-goods and millinery trade. About this time also he united in marriage with Miss Sarah Perkins.


During these years lie possessed the full confidence of his fellow-townsmen, who often by their suffrages acknowledged his qualifications, electing him to posi- tions of trust and usefulness. He was a prominent and efficient member of the fire department, and in 1851 was chosen selectman, being re-elected in 1852, and again in 1853.


On the adoption of a city charter in 1854 he was elected mayor by a majority over all of three hundred and thirty-one, in an aggregate of twelve hundred and sixty-one votes.


At the second city election, in 1855, he was re- elected mayor ; but the same autumn, his executive abilities having become more generally known and appreciated, at a convention called to nominate a candidate for representative in Congress, he was chosen by acclamation, and subsequently elected by a ma- jority of several thousand. When the Rebellion was being inaugurated, his attention in the House was, if possible, increased, and no effort was lost to advance the nation's cause and preserve her life and usefulness. On his return home early in the spring of 1861, he immediately set influences at work to raise a company of volunteers in person, joining the "Boys in Blue" in their drill, their marches through the street, and in all their preparations to become defenders of their country's life and integrity.


In 1864 Mr. Buffinton, having declined a re-nomi- nation for Congress, accepted an office in the Internal Revenue Department, tendered him during President Johnson's administration.


The duties of this office-general treasury agent- were satisfactorily performed for a year or two, when he was appointed revenue collector for the First Dis- trict of Massachusetts, which office he held until after the death of Mr. Eliot, his successor in Congress, in June, 1770, when he was again elected by those whom he had so faithfully served in previous years as their representative in the national councils. He served two terms, and was re-elected for a third, when death intervened. Thus was spent the remainder of his useful life, the last few weeks in distress of body, yet to the last with the same alert mind, anxious to do his whole duty, prompt in his attendance upon each session of the House, and finally dying with the har- ness on. He remained in his seat, against the wishes of his friends, until the adjournment of Congress, when he came home to die in less than one hour after being welcomed by his beloved domestic circle, Sab- bath morning, March 6, 1874.


His funeral obsequies were attended by a large con- course of relatives and friends, residents of this and many other towns in the State.


CHARLES H. DEAN.


Charles H. Dean, whose portrait accompanies this sketeli, was born in the town of Freetown, Mass., Nov. 29, 1821, and died at his residence in Fall River, Mass., July 22, 1882. He was seventh in de- scent from Walter Deane, his paternal American ancestor, and ninth in regular descent from Walter Deane, who lived a few miles from Taunton, England.


This first Walter Deane had several children, but only one son, William Deane. Nothing is known of Walter Deane, except that he died in England, in 1591. His son William was born there, and died there. He died in 1634. He had nine children, the three youngest of whom, John, Walter, Mar- garet, we know came to America, and were first at Dorchester in 1636 or 1637, and in Taunton in 1637-38. "Walter Deane married Eleanor Strong, and had six children, but we know the names only Benjamin, Ezra, and Joseph. He was a representa- tive to the General Court as early as 1640, and was a selectman in Taunton for many years, and with his wife was living as late as 1693." (See history of pioneers of Taunton.)


Benjamin Deane,1 son of Walter and Eleanor (Strong) Deane, was married to Sarah Williams, Jan. 6, 1680 or '81. They settled in Taunton, Mass, and had children,-Naomi, Hannah, Israel (born Feb. 2, 1685), Mary, Damaris, Şarah, Elizabeth, Mehitable, Benja- min (born July 31, 1699), Ebenezer (born Feb. 24, 1702), Lydia, and Josiah (born Oct. 23, 1707). His will was made Feb. 2, 1723, and probated April 14, 1725.


Ebenezer Deane, third son of Benjamin Deane, married Rachel Allen, of Rehoboth, Jan. 19, 1709 or '10. He had several children, among whom . were Joshua and Ebenezer. " He marched with his son Joshua in defense of their country against the French and Indians. He was captain of a company, and served with distinction in that war.


Ebenezer Dean, Jr., son of Capt. Ebenezer, Sr., was born about 1730, and died Jan. 5, 1819, in his ninetieth year. He was known as Deacon Dean. He married Prudence, daughter of John King, of Rayn- ham. She died March 10, 1787, in her fifty-fifth year. Their children were ten in number, of whom we know of Ebenezer, Abiather, Enos, Levi, and Apollos.


Mr. Dean resided in Taunton, but purchased a tract of land in Freetown, and gave to his sons Levi and Apollos. Gen. Peirce, of Assonet, says, "There was a small house on the farm of Levi Dean, which was


1 The name was usually written with an e final, but for several gener- i ations past many have dropped the e.


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raised and enlarged," but many new buildings had to be put up and other improvements made.


Levi Dean, son of Deacon Ebenezer and Prudence (King) Dean, was born in Taunton, Dec. 13, 1767, and died Nov. 1, 1840. He settled in Freetown on a farm given to him by his father, and the farm is now (1883) in the family. He married Betsey Dean in 1792. She was born Feb. 27, 1770, and died Aug. 22, 1836. Their children were King, Eliza, Gains, and Prudence, all born in Freetown, Mass.


King Dean, son of Levi, was born in Freetown, Sept. 24, 1795, married Betsey Lawton, Oct. 20, 1817, and had five children,-Anna E., Benjamin D., Charles H. (deceased), George W., and James O. (de- ceased).


Mr. Dean was a farmer during the earlier part of his life in Freetown. About 1830-33, however, he settled with his family in Fall River, where he was engaged in farming at first, then he worked in the packing department of the Robinson Print-Works for many years. Finally in 1849 he went to California, and returned via the Isthmus of Panama, at which place he contracted a fever from the effects of which he died at New Orleans, Dec. 26, 1850. Mrs. King Dean died Jan. 30, 1872, aged seventy-four years. The line of descent from Walter Deane, of England, to Charles H. Dean, the subject of our immediate sketch, has been Walter1, William2, Walter3 (the first of the name of this line in America), Benjamin4, Ebenezer5, Ebenezer6, Levi7, King“, and Charles H.9


" Charles H. Dean came to Fall River very young, and became interested in the dry-goods business, and started for himself in 1847, which he continued until his death. As a merchant he was generally liked. In his business he was strictly honorable to every one, being no respecter of persons ; the rich and poor were used alike. He was always the courteous gentleman that won the respect and admiration of all. He was a thoroughly Christian man, and a working member of the First Baptist Church in this city. His kind words and counsels were often lieard in the way of doing good to his fellows, no matter in what station in life. He was liberal to the worthy poor, and yet he always had enough and to spare. Mr. Dean was largely in- terested in manufactures, being a stockholder and di- rector in several of the cotton-mills of Fall River, among which we may mention the King Philip, Mer- chant, Osborn, and Weetamoe Mills. He took a considerable interest in the municipal affairs of the city, and was a director in the Globe Railroad Com- pany. He was a man of large and broad views on all things that pertained to the welfare of the com- munity, and being a man of more than ordinary intel- lect, he was the better able to deal with the great, important questions of the day in a most intelligent and satisfactory way. Politically he was a Republican, but he did not seek political honors, but preferred to attend to his legitimate business.


" Mr. Dean possessed qualities of head and heart


which endeared him to all, and if in daily life he was unostentatious and quiet, he was always as genial and pleasant, and in this way not only won the respect but secured the friendship of all whose friendship was worth having. He was, too, a man of refined and generous sympathies, and these found expression in kind, cheerful words where cheer and comfort were most needed. He was a gentleman by nature and social intercourse, and a Christian from convictions. Goodness of heart was as natural to him as song to the bird or sweetness to the flower."


He was one of the best of husbands and fathers, and it was in his home life that he appeared to the best advantage. Mr. Dean was a man who will long be remembered for his many nameless acts of kind- ness to those who needed them. He will be remem- bered for his general courteousness of manners and for his many virtues. Truly a good man has gone home to rest.


Oct. 19, 1847, he married Louisa M., daughter of David and Louisa (Chase) Peirce, of Somerset, Mass. She was born in Somerset, Jan. 26, 1824, and died April 9, 1877.


Their only child, Mary L., married, Sept. 3, 1873, George S. Davol, of Fall River, and has three chil- dren,-Stephen B., Louisa D., and Charles D.


CHAPTER XXX.


EASTON.1


THE town of Easton is situated in the northeast corner of Bristol County. It is bounded on the north by Stoughton and Sharon, on the east by Brockton and West Bridgewater, on the south by Raynham, Taunton, and Norton, and on the west by Norton and Mansfield. It derived its name from its location with reference to the town of Norton, of which it originally formed a part ; it was the East Precinct of that town, and became the East Town, or Easton. Its area is twenty-nine square miles, or, more precisely, eighteen thousand five hundred and eighty-four square acres, of which three hundred and seventy acres are water. The underlying geological forma- tion is in the northerly half sienite, and in the southern half a conglomerate sometimes called gray- wacke. There are a number of acres, perhaps two or three hundred, in which bog-iron ore is found, and where it has been dug with profit. The surface of Easton is quite level, the north part of the town having, however, a pleasant variety of elevation. Considerable swamp-land exists, especially in the southern portion, where is located what is known as the Great Cedar Swamp. There are some ponds


1 By Rev. William L. Chaffin.


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artificially made for manufacturing purposes, and oc- cupying altogether about three hundred and seventy acres. The two largest streams are Leach's Stream, once called Mulberry Meadow Brook, in the west part, and Queset River, which is in the northeastern part, and on which stand the Ames Shovel-Works. The soil is not above the average quality for this section. Wise management and hard work are needed to make farming pay even a small profit.


The population of Easton is about four thousand. At the census of 1880 it was precisely three thousand nine hundred and one. Easton Centre is twenty-four miles south of Boston, twelve north of Taunton, and twenty-seven north of Fall River. It is twenty- two miles from the sea-shore in a direct line. It is on the Old Colony Railroad, on the main line from Boston to Fall River and Newport, and has two rail- road stations. It has three villages, each with a post-office. The principal village is North Easton, which contained a population of two thousand one hundred and fifty-six in 1880, considerably over half of the whole population of the town. The other villages are Easton, or the Furnace village, and South Easton. The chief industry of North Easton, the industry in fact which has built up this village, is shovel-making. Another important business here is the manufacture of hinges. There are two boot- and shoe-factories, and the New England Specialty Company, which manufactures screw-drivers and a variety of similar articles. There are also twelve stores, including markets, drug-store, etc. South Easton has the cotton-thread factory of E. J. W. Morse & Co., a grist-mill, machine-shop, two shoe- factories, a wheelwright-shop, and two stores. The Furnace village (post-office address, Easton) has two foundries or furnaces, two saw-mills, and two stores. In the southeast part of the town mathe- matical and scientific instruments are manufactured. These is also a small grist-mill in the west part, and one in the northeast part. All these industries of the town are merely alluded to here; they will be more particularly described farther on.


North Easton village presents many points of special interest and attraction. There are several costly and other handsome dwelling-houses, among which may be mentioned those of F. L. Ames, Oliver Ames, Oakes A. Ames, Mrs. Oliver Ames, E. W. Gil- more, George W. Kennedy, and Unity Church par- sonage. The residences of F. L. Ames and Oliver Ames are within a large and beautiful park, which is open to the public for driving and walking, a privi- lege that is highly appreciated. An immense green- house filled with rare and costly plants, and contain- ing a collection of orchids hardly second to any in the United States, forms a great attraction. At one of the entrances to these grounds has been recently erected a most unique and interesting lodge-house. It is built of large, roundish, moss-covered stones taken from stone walls or from the surface of the ground


and cemented together. Its two sections are con- nected by a massive and splendid archway which forms the entrance to the park. The walls are low, the chimneys large and of stone like the walls, and the roof is covered with red tiles.


Some of the public buildings of this village are costly and handsome. The school-house is a large three-story building, in which are eleven large and convenient school-rooms. Besides the extensive green- houses of F. L. Ames, excellent green-houses are owned by Mrs. Oliver Ames, E. W. Gilmore, and Oakes A. Ames. Unity Church is a beautiful stone edifice, Gothic in style, cruciform in shape, with a solid stone spire surmounted by a stone cross. It has a chapel connected with it, and below the auditorium is a church-parlor. This church was dedicated in August, 1875. It was built by Hon. Oliver Ames two years before his death, and was by him presented as a free gift to the Unitarian Society. John A. Mitchell was the architect.


The public library building is also an attractive edifice, built of the native stone, a pinkish granite called sienite, with brown sandstone trimmings. It is elaborately finished inside with polished butternut and black-walnut woods. Over ten thousand books were provided, and the library opened to the public March 10, 1883. This library was founded by a bequest of Hon. Oliver Ames just mentioned. Near the library building, a little higher up on the hill, is the massive and handsome public hall, built as a memorial to Oakes Ames by his children. It stands on the solid foundation of a natural ledge, from the northeast corner of which rises the tower. It has in front an arcade with heavy pillars and arches, and is approached by wide stone staircases terminating on stone platforms, and so combined with the natural stonework as to present an imposing appearance. In this building on the first floor are two small halls, the large hall on the second floor, and a beautifully-deco- rated and furnished Masonic Hall in the third story. H. H. Richardson was the architect of this hall and of the library. In front of this hall is a triangular piece of ground, upon which the Ames corporation are now building, from designs of Frederick Law Olmstead, an extensive cairn or rockwork two hun- dred and fifty feet long and twenty-five feet high at one end, with an archway passing underneath. This will eventually be covered with vines and shrubbery, and will, with the lawn, flower-beds, and walks which will surround it, add much to the beauty and attrac- tiveness of this locality.


There are three church edifices in this village,- Unity Church, already spoken of, a large Catholic Church, and a Methodist Church. On Washington Street, one mile east of the village, is another Meth- odist Church. In the centre of the town is the Eas- ton Unitarian Church, now closed except for occa- sional services, the lower story of which is used for a town hall. The church of the Evangelical Society


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was destroyed by fire in 1882, and a new building will be erected this year (1883). Between these churches stands the new soldiers' monument, erected in 1882 at a cost of five thousand dollars, upon which are in- scribed the names of forty-seven townsmen who were killed in the war of the Rebellion.


There are in North Easton a national bank and a savings-bank. One is known as the First National Bank of Easton, the other as the North Easton Sa- vings-Bank. Of these Frederic L. Ames is president and P. A. Gifford cashier. The savings-bank has considerable influence in promoting thrifty habits among the working-people, many of whom frequently deposit portions of their wages therein. The town has its proportion of social and other organizations. Besides those connected with the churches may be mentioned the Paul Dean Lodge of Masons, of which George K. Davis is the present Master; the Mizpah Star Lodge of the Daughters of Rebekah, the A. B. Randall Post, No. 52, Grand Army of the Republic, Ellis Holbrook commander ; a division of the Sons of Temperance, an organization of the Knights of Honor, etc., the headquarters of all the above being at North Easton, except that of the army post, which is at South Easton.


The town of Easton is represented in the State gov- ernment for this year by Hon. Oliver Ames, Lieuten- ant-Governor; Hon. L. S. Drake, State senator ; and Mr. George A. Lackey, representative to the State Legislature.


The assessed value of real estate in Easton for May 1, 1882, was $1,158,800; the assessed value of per- sonal property $2,212,537. The corporation tax was $8617.85, national bank tax $3545.20, State tax $3320, county tax $2924.92, town tax $13,717.92. The rate of taxation was $5.50 on $1000 ; the number of dwell- ing-houses taxed was 730; acres of land taxed, 16,- 165 ; horses taxed, 416; cows taxed, 425. The num- ber of polls was 1068. There was appropriated for the poor $5000, for schools $8577.92, for roads $2000, but for school and road purposes there are large special funds available. The number of births reg- istered for 1882 was eighty-nine, the number of mar- riages forty-one, the number of deaths one hundred and eleven. The board of selectmen, assessors, and overseers of the poor, the board of school committee, and that of road commissioners numbers three men each.


The town of Easton is singularly fortunate in re- gard to the means at its disposal for educational and other purposes. The educational privileges will be spoken of farther on. A fund of fifty thousand dol- lars was left by the late Hon. Oliver Ames for the im- provement of roads. The income of this fund, four thousand dollars, in addition to the amount annually appropriated by the town, will soon provide roads that will equal if not surpass those of any town in the commonwealth. For a place of the size of Easton the public library is large, and is exceptionally fine.


Taxes are very low, being for 1882 but five dollars and fifty cents on one thousand dollars, and less than that for 1883. It is less than an hour's ride from Bos- ton, and has increasing attractions and advantages that render it a very desirable place of residence.


History .- The town of Easton was incorporated Dec. 21, 1725. It was previously a part of the town of Norton, which was incorporated in 1711, and of which, in 1718, it was made the East Precinct, being set apart for the maintenance of a minister. Previous to this time it was part of a tract of land called Taun- ton North Purchase. This tract included the whole of what is now Easton, nearly all of Mansfield, and about a third of Norton. When first incorporated Norton included all this tract and considerably more, Easton being the older and Mansfield the younger child of that town. The North Purchase was bought by fifty-three of the citizens of Taunton of the agents of Plymouth Colony.


The first town-meeting of Easton was held March 2, 1726. It will be best to consider this subject, the history of Easton, under several different divisions.


Industrial History .- The limits assigned to this sketch of the history of Easton will not allow any very detailed narrative of the growth and decline of the various business enterprises that existed here pre- vious to the present century. At the time of the in- corporation of the town (December, 1725) there were certainly two, probably three, iron forges in opera- tion. One was established in 1724, at what was then known as Cranberry Meadow Pond, and is now called the Dean farm, owned by F. L. Ames. The other was established by the Leonards, who were celebrated iron-workers, and was in successful operation before 1724, but how long before has not yet been deter- mined. This forge was in what is now North Easton, at the lower end of Stone's Pond. Several saw-mills were running at the same time in different parts of the town. There was at least one grist-mill, and probably more. The forge business at the Dean farm place continued until about 1750. A saw-mill was then built to take its place. About the same time the furnace at Furnace village was established. At the time of the Revolutionary war this furnace was owned by Capt. James Perry, who manufactured among other things cannon and cannon-balls. It afterwards passed into the hands of Gen. Shepard Leach, by whom a flourishing business was carried on. Large quantities of bog-iron ore were dug from the swampy lands in the west part of town, and were used at this furnace.


In the northeast part of the town the forge business continued through the last century. Before its close two forges were in operation there, the second one being on what is known as the Quaker Leonard road. In the year 1775 or 1776 the manufacture of steel was begun in Easton by Eliphalet Leonard, who was grand- son to James, the founder of the first forge in town. Jonathan Leonard, son of the Eliphalet just named,


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is authority for the statement that this was the first attempt to manufacture steel in this country. Such statements must, however, be received with great cau- tion. Eliphalet Leonard was led to that attempt by the great scarcity of steel in this country, then in great demand for the manufacture of firearms, which were needed for the defense of our liberties. Hc con- structed several furnaces, and was able to supply him- self and his neighbors with steel. In 1787, Jonathan Leonard having, by means of extraordinary shrewd- ness, of which curious things are told, "obtained further insight into this business, erected at Easton a furnace capable of making three tons at a batch." In 1808 he erected another furnace here of over three times the capacity of the first. The Leonards manufactured firearms, which are well remembered by our old inhabitants. In 1792, Calvin Brett erected a small factory in the south part of the town for the manufacture of linseed-oil. It was built as a wind- mill, but did not prove a success.


Since the year 1800 a great many business enter- prises have been undertaken, have had their day, and have passed away. To take up and give in de- tail the account of these enterprises would be inter- esting, but will be impossible in this brief historic sketch. Of the earlier ones the mere mention must suffice. At what is now the Morse privilege at South Easton there was at the beginning of the century a saw-mill owned by Josiah Copeland. He afterwards with others ran an oil-mill. About 1805 the same parties started a factory for the manufacture of cot- ton yarn, and afterwards of cotton cloth. It con- tinued until 1834, when E. J. W. Morse, a native of Dedham, Mass., commenced the cotton thread busi- ness. Under the name E. J. W. Morse & Co., South Easton, cotton thread manufacturers, this business became successful, and has continued uninterruptedly down to the present time. This company employs about fifty hands.


At the privilege next below, now the property of T. H. and J. O. Dean, some kind of active enterprise has been going on for nearly two centuries. From a time preceding the incorporation of the town until now the grist-mill business has been carried on there. Not much else seems to have been done there until about 1810, when Elijah Howard & Co. started the forge business, and manufactured bar-iron, nail rods, etc. But a disastrous fire, which burned an amount of charcoal worth more than the whole capital invested in the business, brought this enterprise to a close. The same company then began the manufacture of cut nails, at that time a new invention. This con- tinued until about 1823. In 1825 or 1826, Elijah Howard and Capt. Barzillai Dean began to make cotton cloth. In 1836 or 1837, Capt. Dean bought the entire interest, and manufactured cotton print goods of light texture. Capt. Dean died by accident in 1848, and from that time this factory, since en- larged, has been a machine-shop, and, with the grist- i many other instruments of this kind.




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