History of Bristol County, Massachusetts, with biographical sketches of many of its pioneers and prominent men, Part 39

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


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Of this union there were Eleanor, Azubalı (de- ceased), Levi (deceased), Jonathan C., Thomas R., Elisha, and David C. Mrs. Hawes died August, 1879, aged eighty-eight years, and Mr. Hawes died April, 1880. Simeon Hawes, above referred to, spent his boyhood days upon his father's farm, receiving such advantages for an education as the district schools of that day afforded. At sixteen we find him working on the farm by the month for Capt. William Hathaway, and during the two following years he worked at ship-building for Wilson Barstow, of Matta- poisett. At nineteen he returned home, and con- tinued to reside with his father, working on the farm, until he was twenty-four. April 25, 1841, he married Maria E., daughter of Joseph and Polly Brightman, of Westport, Mass. She was born June 2, 1818, and died May 26, 1880. Their children are John F., An- drew S. (deceased), Charles S. (deceased), Sylvanus T., Harriet E., Levi (deceased), George W., Cynthia A., Mary A., and Joseph B. Mr. Hawes settled on his present farm in his native town soon after his marriage, and has resided here ever since. For more than fourteen years he has been interested in the manufacture of lumber at Smith Mills and in Acush- net ; for twenty-six years he has been engaged in the ice business, and owns a quarter-interest in the New Bedford Ice Company, which has proved remunera- tive, and for many years was the superintendent of " paving streets and roads."


Mr. Hawes has met with some severe losses by fire, first in 1877, when his interest at Smith Mills was destroyed, and second, June 7, 1882, when his house, his ice buildings, etc., were destroyed, causing a loss of more than fifteen thousand dollars. In politics, he is a Republican. He was a member of the Common Council one year, but, as a rule, has not been an aspirant for political honors. Mrs. Hawes was a


Simeon Hawes was born on Tarkiln Hill, New Bedford, Mass., Aug. 14, 1818. His paternal grand- father, Levi Hawes, was a native of Stoughton, Mass., and a farmer by occupation. Levi died at the age of | member of the Baptist Church, and he is a liberal


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supporter and attendant upon the Congregational Church. His sons John F. and Sylvanus T. are en- gaged with their father in the manufacture of lumber at Smith Mills, under the firm-name of Hawes & Sons.


CAPT. JONATHAN CAPEN HAWES.


Capt. Jonathan Capen Hawes, son of Levi by his second wife, Azubah Capen, was born on the home farm, Tarkiln Hill, New Bedford, Mass., May 8, 1826. He remained at home assisting his father on the farm summers and attending the district school winters until he was some fourteen years of age, having in the meantime, however, lived with his unele, Thomas Capen, in Stoughton, Mass., and attended school in that place some six months.


At fourteen he left home to learn the sailmaker's trade of one William T. Cook, and after a short time returned home and went to school.


At sixteen, in 1842, he commenced his whaling life as a common sailor in ship "Roman," Alex. R. Barker, master. They went to the Northwest coast via Good Hope, returning via the Horn, thus com- pleting his first trip around the world in about two years. His second trip was with the same captain and ship as a boat-steerer; time, thirty months. During his third voyage, as third officer, he visited the eastern coast of the Eastern Continent, and was gone some four and one-half years from home. His next trip took him into Behring's Strait,-this time as first mate. They lost their ship at Fort Clarence, and Mr. Hawes returned home ria California and the Isthmus.


At twenty-eight years of age, in 1854, Mr. Hawes became master of the ship " Eliza Adams," Edward C. Jones, agent. They went into the North Pacific Ocean, were very successful, and returned after being absent thirty-one months. His second trip as master was in the ship " Emma C. Jones," visiting the coast of Western Africa and St. Helena. After a voyage of some twenty-four months he returned home and remained some time, when he again took command of a ship, this time the " Milo," and visited the North Pacific and Arctic Oceans. It was during this voyage that he was captured by Capt. Waddell, of the "Shen- andoah." He compromised with Capt. Waddell by giving bonds to the amount of forty-six thou- sand dollars, and he was permitted to proceed to San Francisco with his ship and some two hundred men.


married John Leonard, of New Bedford, and has one son, John H. Frederick B. is a young man, and re- sides at home. Mrs. Hawes died at sea, in the North Pacific, Aug. 8, 1868, and her remains were brought home and interred in the cemetery at Acushnet. Capt. Hawes married for his second wife, Nov. 20, 1869, Mrs. Sylvia R. Leonard, widow of John W. Leonard, and daughter of James and Phoebe Tucker, of Dart- mouth. They had one daughter, Alice T., who died at ten years. Mrs. Hawes died June 13, 1876, and the captain married for his third wife, April 10, 1877, Mary W., widow of Albert Collins, and daughter of Noah and Hannah Davis, of Fall River. Of this union there have been three children, viz., Jonathan C., Jr. (deceased), Mary A., and Grace W.


Capt. Hawes and his brother Simeon are among the wide-awake business men of Acushnet Avenue. They make no pretensions to wealth or fame, but are living in a quiet way, surrounded with the comforts of happy homes, the legitimate result of industry and frugality. They enjoy the confidence of their towusmen, and are worthy representatives of one of the old families of New England.


EDWARD HASKELL.


Anything written of the mercantile history of New Bedford would be decidedly incomplete without some- thing more than a mere mention of Edward Haskell, one for so many years identified with its business in- terests. He was son of Deacon Calvin and Ann (Hersey) Haskell, and was born in Still River, Mass., about 1828, and passed his early life in school, but on account of the business reverses of his father was compelled to go to work early, and finally was in the employ of a Boston firm, for whom he came to New Bedford as a young man to dispose of a stock of goods, intending only to remain a short time; but meeting with success, his employers concluded to keep him in trade here, especially as he liked the place and found warm friends. In 1849 he began business for himself in a small way on the west side of Purchase Street, between William and Union Streets, as a dry-goods merchant. He was successful, full of energy, and very popular, and after a year or so passed there, moved across the street to the middle store of the number lately occupied by him. Here his business rapidly increased, and he showed remarkable business capacity in securing the class of goods most salable, and introduced many departments not strictly classed as dry goods. For more than thirty years Mr. Has- kell continued in trade on the same site, and was compelled to enlarge the capacity of his premises frequently, and finally, at the time of his death, Dec. 11, 1882, the firm of Edward Haskell & Co. (formed in 1876) occupied four stores, consolidated into one large emporium of trade. In spite of competition of the closest kind, Mr. Haskell had a steady advance in his business from his very first day of trade, and


He elosed his career as a whaler in 1869, and has since resided in his native town. Since his return he has been engaged in the lumber business with his brother Simeon in the Acushnet Saw-Mill. In poli- tics he has been a Republican. In 1874 he was mem- ber of the City Council, and in 1876 member of the board of aldermen. He has been three times married. First to Jerusha Blake, of Stoughton, June 19, 1854. They had two children,-Addie R. (deceased), who stood for years as the leading and representative mer-


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chant of New Bedford. He married, first, Sarah Claflin, of Pawtucket, R. I., by whom he- had one child, George Edward, now the junior member of the mercantile house of Abram French & Co., Boston, Mass. He married, second, Louisa B., only daughter of Alexander H. and Louisa (Crandall) Seabury, of New Bedford. They had two children,-Mary Cran- dall and Helen Parker. Mr. Haskell was for many years a prominent and active member of the North Congregational Church of New Bedford, and was one of its deacons, and for eleven years was superintendent of its flourishing Sabbath-school, in which he was greatly interested.


He was a man of very fine taste in art, and was a rare judge of paintings, statuary, and other kindred works. He was very fond of pets, had a great fancy for fine horses, pigeons, fowls, etc., and raised many of them. He was an enthusiastic lover of flowers, and engaged with all the ardor of his nature in hor- ticulture. He was a member of the Massachusetts Horticultural Society, and was awarded a silver medal for his collection of "Nymphæas" in its an- nual exhibition in 1881. Among the lovers and cul- tivators of flowers he took a high rank. He was a man of positive character, carrying nearly everything he undertook to completion. He had a pleasant, winning manner, and treated every one with the most perfect courtesy. He was firm in opposition to any- thing he deemed wrong, but equally as strong in ad- vocating anything for the improvement and elevation of mankind. He was generous and hospitable to a fault, and many acts of his kindness are known only to those who received the benefits of his broad char- ity. In many things Mr. Haskell was sensitive to the utmost degree. His love for the beautiful was manifested in everything, in the adornment of home and grounds, in the decoration of his place, in per- sonal appearance and dress, in artistic display of goods, etc. In the home circle he was a loving hus- band, and a father who gratified, if possible, every wish. He was a strong friend, a very pleasant and social companion, with a large number of personal friends in the leading circles of society. He gave at all times his time and money freely for church and benevolent purposes. A fluent and effective speaker, he was always ready to respond when asked to speak for any good cause, and was one of the most unselfish of men, seeming only to be fully happy when doing something for the happiness or benefit of others. In him the poor lost a true friend, and New Bedford one of her keenest business men and public-spirited citi- zens.


FREDERICK PARKER.


Frederick Parker was the son of the well-known merchant of New Bedford, John Avery Parker. He was born during the residence of his parents at West- port, the 15th of May, 1806. On the completion of


his collegiate course at Brown's University, Provi- dence, R. I., he entered his father's office, and in a short time became a co-partner with him, under the firm-name of John A. Parker & Son.


In business affairs he possessed in a marked degree the power of discerning the abilities of men. This acuteness of judgment enabled him to select for em- ployment those of such character and efficiency as led to a remarkable uniformity of success. He re- mained in business with his father until 1848, when on his change of residence to the city of New York, the co-partnership was dissolved.


The death of John Avery Parker in 1853 recalled him to New Bedford to fulfill the duties incumbent upon him as one of the executors of his father's es- tate, the final settlement of which he did not live to see. From this time until his death he resided there engaged in the commission and whale-fishery busi- ness.


In 1854, on the resignation of the Hon. James Arnold, he was elected a director of the Bedford Com- mercial Bank (now the National Bank of Commerce), which position he held until his death.


Mr. Parker married a member of one of the old families of New Bedford, Abby Coggeshall, daughter of Haydon Coggeshall, on Feb. 11, 1829. They visited Europe in 1832, and again in 1841, remaining over a year each time. He erected in 1859 on Acush- net Avenue, New Bedford, a handsome residence. He had lived in it but a few months when a sudden accident terminated his life.


Mr. Parker had no children, but he adopted at an early age the orphan daughter of his wife's eldest brother, who had been his most intimate friend. To her and her son he bequeathed his fortune.


Mr. Parker was striking in appearance, being six feet in height, of very handsome physique, and fine erect carriage. He was a stanch friend to those dear to him, and was well known for his generous hospi- tality. His place in the estimation of the public was high, as the following, from the New Bedford Daily Mercury of Oct. 22, 1861, shows :


"Frederick Parker, Esq., of this city, died about three o'clock yesterday afternoon. His death, so sudden, produced a shock in our community, where Mr. Parker has so long resided and in which he has been so prominent. It is a public loss which will be keenly felt, not alone by those who formed the circle, and that was large, of Mr. Parker's personal friends, but by the mass of our citizens, who more or less will be affected by it. A man of wealth, money was not his idol; it was not an end with him but a means, and he dispensed it with a liberal hand. Those who knew him most intimately speak in warm terms of his unaffected kindness and of his forgetfulness of self in his unwearied devotion to those dependent upon him."


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Conclusion .- We cannot more fittingly close our history of this grand old municipality than by quot- ing the language of one of her most illustrious and honored citizens, the Hon. William W. Crapo :


" Beautiful, indeed, for situation is this city of New Bedford. Few places are there on this continent, or elsewhere, which so well unite the institutions, benefits, and advantages of the city with the fresh- ness and simplicity and comfort of rural life. Lying between green pastures on the one hand and the still waters of the river on the other, fronting upon this bay, which is as charming as the Bay of Naples, and rising with the elevation of conscious pride from its shores, its physical condition and position are delight- ful beyond exception. We rejoice to observe and re- member that those who have shaped its outward for- tunes have been studious to make it attractive and healthful as the home of a cultured and enlightened people. Its well-made and well-kept avenues and streets, shaded by long lines of trees, which our fathers have planted ; its complete and cleanly drain- age, which the incoming and outgoing tides make perfect and efficient; its abundant and pure water, distributed and available for all the purposes of do- mestic, mechanical, and protecting use; its trained, alert, and electric fire department; its well-diffused system for gas-lighting; its schools, its churches and chapels, and bethel ; its hospital, its home for orphans, its many unions of hearts and hands for good works ; its comfortable and pleasant homes, after the best methods of New England life, combine to make this municipality worthy of our best affections and of our constant effort for its prosperity and peace."


CHAPTER XIII.


ACUSIINET.1


ACUSIINET is alphabetically the first, and chrono- logically the last town in Bristol ; the section of land which bears this name being until recently parts of other towns. It is a pleasant little township in the southerly and easterly part of the county. It is bounded northerly by Freetown, easterly by Roches- ter (in Plymouth County), southerly by Fairhaven, and westerly by New Bedford. It derives its name from the Indian name of this section of old Dart- mouth, which was variously spelled in the records of the seventeenth century,-Cushenagg, Accusshaneck, Acushena, Acquessent, Acusshna, Aquishnet, Aquset, and Acushnet.


From 1664 to 1787 nearly all of Acushnet that now is was a part of old Dartmouth; from 1787 to 1812 it was a part of New Bedford; and from 1812


to 1860 it was included in Fairhaven. The subject of dividing the town of Fairhaven was agitated a long while before the act occurred. The people in the north part of the town felt that as that section was sparsely populated they did not get their share of the appropriation, especially for schools. Then after the old Presbyterian meeting-house was torn down, the question came where to build a new one. The people in the village of Fairhaven wanted it nearer them, and finally succeeded in having it built on an acre-lot just north of Woodside Cemetery, on the Fairhaven road. This building was subsequently burned by an incendiary fire. The meetings were then held down in Fairhaven village; this was the straw that broke the camel's back, and the " north- enders" renewed their purpose for a division. Among the zealous advocates of the division and one of the leaders of the movement was Rev. Israel Washburn, who owned the farm on which he resided, situated next north of the present Laura Keene farm in Acushnet. Mr. Washburn was a man of firmness, of a strong, positive nature, with a good intellect and readiness of speech, and was well calculated to be chosen as leader in such a movement. He was born in this town in 1796, in the last house on the north side of the road leading eastward from White's fac- tory. He was for many years in the Methodist min- istry, before and after his residence in Acushnet at the time of the division, a part of which time he was in the grocery business at Parting Ways, as I. Wash- burn & Son (William H. Washburn). His name heads a petition made to the General Court of the winter of 1858-59, praying for a division of the town. The petition was before the legislative committee, but no other action was taken than to refer the sub- ject to the next General Court. The petitioners at once set about procuring all that was necessary to aid them to success at the following session.


In a warrant issued for a town-meeting in Fair- haven April 4, 1859, article eleven asked action on the petitions of Rev. Israel Washburn and others, " now referred to the next Legislature," with refer- ence to a division of the town, and it was voted that a committee of five be nominated by the chair to de- fine a line of division of the town and report. This committee as appointed and chosen consisted of Isaac Wood, Arthur Cox, Jonathan Cowen, Cyrus E. Clark, Charles H. Adams, and John Ellis. This committee reported at a meeting of June 2, 1859, and this same committee was requested to appear before the next Legislature and present all the facts in the case that could be procured by them. They did so, and not only that, but a petition in favor of the division was also presented, signed by a large number of the resi- dents of the south part of the town. A result of this was that the committee of the Legislature before which the matter was heard reported in favor of the division, and the report was adopted.


The Legislature at once passed the following :


1 By Capt. Franklyn Howland.


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" ACT TO INCORPORATE THE TOWN OF ACUSHNET.


"SECTION 1. All that part of the town of Fairhaven which lies northerly of the following described lines, viz. : Beginning at a stone monument at 'Tripp's Corner,' in the division lines between the towns of Fairhaven and Mattapoisett ; thence from sandstone monument in a south-westerly direction in a straight line to the southeast corner of the ' Royal Hathaway farm,' so called ; thence in the south line of said farm to the south west corner bounds thereof; thence continuing westerly in the same direction to the centre of the channel of Acushnet River, or division line between the town of Fairhaven and the city of New Bed- ford, is hereby incorporated into a separate town by the name of Acush- net, and the said town of Acushnet is hereby vested with all the powers and privileges, rights and immunities, and shall be subject to all the duties and requisitions to which other towns are entitled and subjected by the Constitution and laws of the commonwealth.


"SECTION 2. The inhabitants of said town of Acushnet shall be holden to pay to the collector of taxes of the town of Fairhaven all the arrearages of taxes legally assessed upon them before this act takes effect, and also their proportion of State and county taxes as may be assessed upon them before taking the next State valuation, said propor- tion to be ascertained and determined by the last valuation of the said town of Fairhaven ; and said town of Acushnet to pay four twenty-thirds of the debts dne and owing from the town of Fairhaven at the time of the passage of this act, and be entitled to receive four-twenty-thirds of all the real and personal property and assets owned by or due to the said town of Fairhaven, and shall be liable to refund to said town of Fairhaven four-twenty- thirds of the 'surplus revenue' when the said is called for according to the provisions of law.


"SECTION 3. The said towns of Fairhaven and Acushnet shall be respectively liable for the support of all persons who now do and who may hereafter stand in need of relief as panpers whose settlement was gained by or derived within their respective limits.


" SECTION 4. The towns of Fairhaven and Acushnet shall hold the fol- lowing described property, situated in their respective limits, as valued by their committee, appointed June twenty-fifth, in the year eighteen hundred and fifty-nine, 'for the purpose of presenting information to the Legislature to enable them to make a just and equitable apportion- ment of the public property, debts, and burdens between the towns,' viz .: The town of Fairhaven shall exclusively hold the almshouse, farn, and property appertaining thereto; the High School house, lot, and fix- tures contained therein ; the engine-house and lot in Oxford village, and the engine and fixtures contained therein; the engine-house and lot in the village of Fairhaven, and the engine and fixtures therein; two second-hand engines now in the village, the town-house lot, the watch- house and lot, L. S. Aiken's gravel lot, one safe in the town clerk's office, and so much of other property as will make nineteen-twenty- thirds of the public property as valued by said committee. The town of Acushnet shall exclusively hold the engine-house and lot, together with the engine and fixtures, in Acushnet village; the school-house and lot in school district number eighteen, two town pounds, the 'Freeman Hathaway' lot, the 'Samuel Stacy' lot, and so much of other property as will make four-twenty-thirds of the public property as valued by said committee. All other property which may hereafter be found to belong to the town of Fairhaven, and not specified by the said commit- tee at the time of the passage of this act, shall be divided on the same basis, viz., nineteen-twenty-thirds to the town of Fairhaven and four- twenty-thirds to the town of Acushnet.


" SECTION 5. The town of Acushnet shall remain a part of the same districts, representative, senatorial, councilor, and congressional, as the town of Fairhaven nntil said districts are altered by dne authority of law."?


SECTION 6. This section provides the manner of calling the first town-meeting and preparing the first list of voters.


The act of incorporation was approved Feb. 13, 1860. It was signed by N. P. Banks, Governor, and Oliver Warner, Secretary of State. Fairhaven, at the time of the "set off," was in the Twelfth (Bristol) Repre- sentative District, together with Freetown and Berk- ley. The district was entitled to two representatives.


The first public meeting of the legal voters of the new town was held March 14, 1860, in the "engine- house," which stands in the village on the north side of the road, nearly opposite the parsonage house of the


Methodist Society. Jones Robinson, Esq., who re- sided on the Fairhaven road, a prominent man in public affairs, was chosen moderator. Jabez Wood was elected town clerk, collector, and treasurer. The other important offices were filled as follows: For se- leetmen, assessors, and overseers of the poor, Cyrus E. Clark, Benjamin Wilson, and Benjamin White; for school committee, Jabez Wood for three years. Rev. Philip Crandon for two years, and George P. Morse for one year; and Philip A. Bradford was chosen constable, an office to which he has been re- elected every year since. On the 24th of the follow- ing month Mr. Crandon resigned the office of school committee, and Walter Spooner was chosen his snc- cessor. There have been but few changes in the offi- cers of the town, which speaks well for their fidelity.


The office of town clerk, collector, and treasurer was filled from 1860-65, inclusive, by Jabez Wood ; from 1866-70, inclusive, by Benjamin White; 1871, by George P. Morse ; 1872, by George F. Glasse, who was partially disabled in the late war; from 1873-81, inclusive, George P. Morse ; and in 1882 Caleb Slade was chosen. For selectmen, overseers of the poor, and assessors, Cyrus E. Clark served in 1860-65 ; Ben- jamin Wilson, in 1860-63; Benjamin White, in 1860- 63, 1867-70, 1872-73; Capt. Pardon Taber, Jr., from 1864-82, inclusive; Walter Spooner, from 1864-82, inclusive, excepting the year 1879; John Tuck, in 1871; Joshna Morse, in 1875-78; Joshua Leonard, from 1878-82, inclusive. The following persons have served on the school committee: Jabez Wood, Rev. Philip Crandon, George P. Morse, Walter Spooner, Marcus Ashley, Amos H. Haswell, George T. Russell, Jr., Rev. Josephus W. Horton, Richard Davis, Jr., Frederick Wing, Walter A. Davis, Augustus White, Charles L. Russell, Leonard Keene, Jonathan Taber, George F. Glasse, Burrage Y. Warner, Capt. Edward R. Ashley, Thomas E. Bradley, Caleb Slade, Perez S. Doty. The longest term of service was that of George P. Morse, who was a member of the committee.




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