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Our friend was a man of great cheerfulness of temperament and fond of hardy en- terprises. Though small in person, he was remarkably elastic and had unusual powers of endurance, inheriting as he did a fine constitution from both his parents. During his prime of life few men presented a more genteel appearance in our streets than he -- always scrupulously neat in person and dress, he would have been readily recognized as a gentleman of refinement. He was marked for the delicacy of his tastes, mani- fested in his admiration of the fragrance of flowers, and whatever was beautiful in nature or art. He was also a skillful horticulturist and his garden always produced the rarest and best varieties of fruits and flowers, while his house was known for its hos-
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pitality and his table for its elegance and abundance. The severe vicissitudes of life through which he had passed in the loss of his beloved wife and only daughter were not without their chastening effect upon his mind and character. A few years since he informed the writer that it had been his custom for many years after retiring for the night, to repeat the following beautiful invocation to the Supreme Being, from Thomp - son's Seasons :
" Father of light and life! Thou good Supreme ! O teach me what is good ! teach me Thyself! Save me from folly, vanity and vice, From every low pursuit ! and feed my soul With knowledge, conscious peace and virtue pure, Sacred, substantial, never-fading bliss! "
To a great extent the calm and blameless life he led was to this petition a clear response. His aim was to be a good and honorable man ; and as he expressed on an- other occasion, that he had no fear of death, when his time for departure came he accepted the summons calmly and gracefully. The funeral services were performed at his residence on Saturday A. M., March 9, at 11 o'clock, and were conducted by Will- iam J. Potter, in a calm and impressive manner, hopeful of immortality and happiness beyond the grave. He was buried in our beautiful Oak Grove Cemetery, by the side of his beloved wife and daughter, and his funeral was attended at the house and the grave by a large number of our most prominent merchants and friends from abroad.
P IERCE, ANDREW GRANVILLE, was born in the city of New Bedford on the 9th of August, 1829. His father was Otis N. Pierce, who passed most of his life in this city, and died here. His mother was Susan Grinnell Cross, also a native of New Bedford.
In securing an education Mr. Pierce had the advantages of the school system of his native place and passed upward through the High School. He scon afterward entered the office of Edward L. Baker, a manufacturer of oil and candles. In 1847 Mr. Baker was chosen treasurer of the Wamsutta Mills, then just being started. For a time the business of the mills was small, of course, and was carried on in Mr. Baker's office, Mr. Pierce continuing with him, and gradually taking up the new business, the oil manu- facture being gradually contracted and finally given up.
No stronger commendation could be given to the business qualifications that Mr. Pierce had developed while still a young man than his election as treasurer of the Wamsutta Mills, to succeed Mr. Baker, in 1855. That office he has held ever since, a period of nearly forty years. That he has performed his duties successfully and to the entire satisfaction of the stockholders need not be asserted, and during the regular and almost phenomenal growth of that great corporation. Mr. Pierce has given it his best energies and a large share of his time. He has been a member of the board of direc- tors for several years.
His general business standing in the community, acquired through his exceptional executive ability, his loyalty to whatever he undertakes, his remarkable activity and
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energy, have led to liis selection for the boards of direction of many important corpora- tions and companies. With Mr. Baker he inaugurated and for many years was the executive officer of the New Bedford, Vineyard and Nantucket Steamboat Co., and is its president. Was the originator of the New Bedford and Fairhaven Street Railway, its first president, and is a director in the Consolidated Union Street Railway Co. Is a trustee in St. Luke's Hospital, also in the Swain Free School. He was chosen one of the directors of the Potomska Mills on the incorporation of the company, was for a time its treasurer, and was afterwards elected president and still holds the office. He is one of the original directors in the Grinnell Mills, and an original director in the Morse Twist Drill Company, and was for a time president and treasurer. He is president of the Pierce Manufacturing Corporation ; a director in the Mechanics National Bank: a trustee in and a member of the board of investment of the New Bedford Institution for Savings; a director in the Boston Manufacturers' Mutual Insurance Company, and in the American Mutual Liability Company, of Boston. In these varions stations Mr. Pierce's associates value bis counsel and are benefited by his prudence, judgment and sagacity.
In politics Mr. Pierce was originally a Democrat; but early in the history of the Re- publican party he joined its ranks and has since supported its principles. Always in- terested in politics, its offices have never had attraction for him; but his fellow citizens have seen fit to call on him to fill several important municipal offices. He was elected a member of the Council, was its president, and subsequently one of the Board of Aldermen ; and in 1868-9 he served as mayor of the city. His administration was one of practical usefulness. Still vigorous and active, he may hope for many years of labor in the interests of the large manufacturing establishments to which he has so long given his energies.
Mr. Pierce was married on the 17th of July, 1854, by Rev. John Weiss, to Miss Caroline L. Hillman, daughter of Zachariah Hillman, of New Bedford. They have had seven children, of whom six are living: Edward T., born May 24, 1855: Mary, born February 3, 1858; Andrew G., jr., born March 28, 1864; Louise Cook, born April 2, 1866; Albert Russell, born January 26, 1869; Harry Lincoln, born March 23, 1872: Elsie Hillman, born May 21, 1874.
EONARD, NEHEMIAH AND SAMUEL .-- These gentlemen were brothers. L. Their father, George Leonard, was born in Middleborough, and always resided there. His forge, for he was a born bloomer, was on the Nemasket River at the Four Corners. His father's forge was at what is called the Tack Factory, on the line of the railroad between Middleborough and Taunton. These Leonards were of the celebrated Taunton stock, and hence their connection with the iron manufactory.
Nehemiah Leonard had been in business in Middleborough and in Rochester. He bought the forge at Handy's Mills in the latter town, and taking his oldest brother, George Leonard, into co-partnership carried on the forge and traded there (as the term then was) some four or five years, when, selling to his brother, George (who continued there the remainder of his hfe), came to New Bedford in 1822, and commenced busi-
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ness on Orange street, and by his industry and integrity soon won the respect and confidence of his contemporaries. In the course of five or six years he had become a director in the Merchant's Bank, and agent of several whale shipa. He drifted into the manufacture of oil, and in 1836 built candle works on Leonard's Wharf, so called, which works he continued to conduct as long as he continued in business, or about thirty years. He deceased on the 25th of October, 1869.
Samuel Leonard came to New Bedford before he was of age. He married the daughter of Benjamin Taber when a young man, in 1814, and soon after, with his father-in-law, contracted to build a mill building at the Head-of-the-River. Some trouble about the payments of the building drew him into the acquaintance of William Rotch, jr. For a short time he was at Yarmouth, erecting salt works and starting the business there. He then came back to New Bedford and began building for Messrs. Rotch, Arnold and Russell the extensive salt works at the Cove, which eventually cov- ered many acres. He built the house now occupied by the Orphans' Home, and con- ducted the salt works as long as the business was profitable. His purchases of lumber for these works drew him into the lumber business, and Mr. Rotch built the wharf, now called Leonard's Wharf, for the business, which grew to a large extent and to which Mr. Leonard added a planing-mill and other works. He also drifted into the manu- facturing of oil and candles, and after the great fire which destroyed his and his broth- er's works, built the candle works now occupied by Messrs, Green & Wood for other purposes. He also extended very largely the old candle works of William Russell, now occupied by George L. Brownell as a carriage manufactory, for the oil and candle busi- ness. Charles H. Leonard, of New York, in the course of years had come to have hia candle works in this city, which his nephews, George Delano's Sons, now occupy. Nehemiah Leonard's eldest son occupied the Messrs. Thomas & Francis Hathaway's works at the corner of Fifth and School streets; so that at one period this family of Leonards manufactured about one-tenth of all the sperm and whale oil imported into the country.
Samuel Leonard and Charles H. Leonard died on the same day, October 25, 1868, and Nehemiah Leonard died just a year after. They were unpretentious men, but noted for their integrity and honor. They maintained the family tradition for these charac- teristics to the full extent, and died respected and esteemed by the whole community.
APPENDIX.
REPLY FROM THE AUTHORITIES OF DARTMOUTH, COUNTY OF DEVON, ENGLAND, TO THE GREETING SENT THEM BY THE OFFI- CIALS OF THE CENTENNIAL CELEBRATION AT NEW BEDFORD IN 1864.'
" Reply to the Mayor, Aldermen and Council of. the city of New Bedford, and to the Selectmen of the towns of Dartmouth, Westport, Fairhaven and Acushnet, State of Massachusetts, and United States of North America :
" GENTLEMEN :- We, the Mayor, Aldermen and Burgesses of the Borough of Clifton, Dartmouth Hardness in the County of Devon, England, by the Council of the Borough and I, Albert William Beetham, Recorder of the Borough, most gratefully accept your affectionate greetings and accompanying testimonials of regard. We shall place them amongst our municipal records and cause them to be preserved with the greatest care, in the hope that our children and our children's children may be induced to cherish and keep alive the feeling of amity which now exists between two great nations, the younger of which clings to the fond memory of a common descent, and, in all her own power and might, exults in the prosperity of the Mother Country. We are particularly struck with the fact that your affectionate greetings have been tendered to us by you under peculiar circumstances. We are deeply gratified in finding that in joy and in sorrow, you have been pleased to connect ns with yourselves in your minds. In the festive proceedings attending the celebration of the 200th anniversary of the incorpora- tion of your town of Dartmouth, we were greatly honored by your remembrances ; and during the lamentable strife which lately existed between two branches of our descend- ants, equally regarded with admiration, respect and affection, you were not unmindful of us, or regardless of our thoughts and opinions. We offer with the greatest respect and cordiality, our hearty congratulations on the prosperity of the communities we now address, and of the great and glorious country once more united, of which you form a part; and we congratulate you most heartily on the termination of the civil strife which has raged amongst you. We most fervently hope and trust that ere this, our response to your affectionate address, shall have reached you, all feelings of animosity may have been buried, and have been succeeded by those generous sentiments which should 'fill the hearts of yeomen worthy of each other's steel'.
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" Friendship once more restored, we hope to see you progress in the paths of civil- ization and freedom. We, the inhabitants of the Old Country in the Old World, glory in the freedom we enjoy under our old institutions, modified or renovated as circum- stances require, and we rejoice that a nation sprung from a common ancestry, is ex . tending freedom and civilization in a New World ; shows by its acts that freedom is that for which she will live and die, and that freedom is the bond of union between us, freedom is the watchword which she shouts to us across the Atlantic. We fervently hope that we may long be united by this common sentiment, and that civilization and science may continue and may find the means of bringing us closer and closer together.
" The electric finid traveling below the mighty waves silently and unseen, communi- cates from mind to mind. We fondly reflect that Newcomen's genius helped to show to man how with safety, ease and speed, to transport himself from the Dartmouth of your forefathers to the municipalities in the New World to whose founders Old Dart- mouth is pleased to be reminded she once showed hospitality and rendered assistance.
" Accept the assurance that we, 'One and All,' entertain for yon and your Country most strong feelings of regard, admiration and respect, and trust that the friendship of the Two Great and Glorious Nations may never be disturbed.
" We beg you in return to cherish those kind and friendly feelings which your late Centennial Celebration appeared to have aroused, and to believe that the good ship Concord will always find Old Dartmouth in England, the same harbor of refuge to which in olden time she directed the Speedwell and the Mayflower.
" Ist of July, 1864."
The old borough of Dartmouth, England, the fishing community at the mouth of the Dart, gave our old Dartmouth its name. Many incidents connected with its name and history made this ancient borough, whose franchise dates back to the reign of Richard Cleur de Lion, closely associated with the commemorative exercises.
An address "To the Mayor, Recorder and Aldermen of the City of Dartmouth, County of Devon, England," had been prepared, and was read to the meeting. Hav- ing been signed by the mayor, aldermen, common councilmen, and clerk of the city of New Bedford, and by the selectmen and town clerks of the towns uniting in the cele- bration, and beautifully engrossed, it was sent to its destination.
The time required by its engrossment, and to obtain the large number of necessary signatures of persons dwelling widely apart, brought the end of the year before it could be forwarded.
It was not until Washington's Birthday, 1866, that the mayor of the city received a response to this greeting from the old Dartmouth of America to the old Dartmouth of Great Britain. But when it was received the delay was not cared for or thought of. The reply was dated on the " Fourth of July," 1865, was signed by the mayor, recor- der, clerk, and burgesses of the borough of Clifton Dartmouth Hardness, in the county of Devon, England. One of the councillors bears the significant name of John Bully. It is a well written document, and its tone is kind and manly. In these respects it fully met the circumstances of the occasion and the wishes and expectations of those to whose greeting it was an answer. But the form in which it appeared was a surprise
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and a delight. Its elegant chirography upon vellum is a picture in itself; and this, with its beautiful illuminations of border and other chaste ornamentation, give the whole a rare, rich, and attractive appearance.
The seal of the city, which occupies a central position upon the parchment, and is one of its chief ornaments, tells most significantly the story that Richard I of England conferred the franchise upon the borough. Richard's fleet made a rendezvous in the harbor of Dartmouth as he was about to embark upon his crusade to the Holy Land. Upon the seal, Richard's ship rests upon the waters, and the king with crown and sceptre is the occupant. Two stars, one on each side of the king, may be emblems of the two mighty men who were about to contend for the possession of the Holy Se- pulchre or of their respective faiths.
Such a missive called for a fitting frame. Our neighbors of Dartmouth provided a log of well seasoned and finely grained whiteoak, and the taste of a New Bedford art- ist and artisan wrought from it a frame in no way unworthy of this beautiful produc- tion of our transatlantic brethren. It hangs in the Free Public Library, and forms its most attractive ornament.
ROSTER OF NEW BEDFORD GUARDS - 1841-1848.
A volunteer Light Infantry Company, under the name of the New Bedford Guards, was organized January 25, 1841, with the following officers :
Captain-Harrison G. O. Colby. First Corporal -- Cyrus W. Chapman.
First Lieutenant-James H. Collins, Second Corporal- Josiah B. King. Third Corporal-Nathaniel R. Childs.
Second Lieutenant -- Samuel Watson. Third Lieutenant -- James H. Crocker. Fourth Corporal-Robert K. Eastman.
Surgeon -- William R. Wells.
First Sergeant-Henry P. Willis. Second Sergt. and Clerk-Jas. B. Congdon. Assistant Surgeon-R. S. S. Andros. Third Sergeant-David Silvester. Treasurer -- James B. Congdon. Fourth Sergeant-John H. Chapman. Armorer -- Nicholas T. Brownell. Assistant Armorer -- William Brownell.
Fifth Sergeant-William Howe.
The following citizens were members of the organization during its career of eight years : William Howe, Henry F. Clark, Jno. H. Allen, T. R. Cushman, John P. Mer- rick, John N. Barrows, Alexander B. Dunbar, T. B. Denham, A. D. Stoddard, jr., John K. Cushing, Daniel Wardsworth, Tilson Wood, William S. Cobb, Albert G. Babbitt, Hiram Webb, Edward T. Taber, Nathan Lewis, Luther Simmons, William G. Parker, John S. Clapp, Israel F. Parsons, Ambrose E. Luce, William S. Dunbar, Francis Nye, jr., Josiah Dexter, Mark S. Palmer, N. C Morton, Thomas Bailey, H. Coleman, Cornelius Holmes, Freeman Dexter, William H. Boone, T. Bailey, jr., Andrew Mackie, jr., Charles H. Lobdell, Peleg Clark, Alden Wordwell, A. T. Lawton, S. G. Hudson, James H. Richmond, I. G. Fearing, William L. Baker, Thomas Bennett, jr., Charles L. Swan, George C. Barlow, Charles H. Underwood, William Reed, William Hall, John F. Vinal, Israel T. Bryant, Henry K. Oliver, James Bates, Charles Proctor, Peleg Pease, H. S.
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Hine, Charles Shannon, George Hinckley, William G. Standish, Samuel H. Cushman, Henry F. Thomas, Richard Bennett, Holder R. Tripp, Albert Sweet, Charles O. Brow- nell, Edward F. Slocum, Silvanus W. Reed, Charles Q. Wilson, Henry Tilden, Joel W. Tobey, Alverni A. Mason, Charles T. Hathaway, J. T. Buttrick, Benjamin T. Hayes, George G. Howe, William Bisbee, Lincoln F. Brigham, Nathaniel Lucas, Barney Blos- som, Ferdinand Vassean, B. J. Hicks, Charles M. Spooner, Charles Green, Benjamin P. Swift, Benjamin H. Chase, Moses Mern, Perry A. Case, John A. Hawes, F. D. Potter, Simeon P. Little, John H. Thompson, W. B. Whiting, Levi Nye, T. Hervey Ellis, A. G. Cory, George A. Bourne, Allen Phillips, Isaiah D. Foster, John Perkins, jr., Chas. D. Cushman, Niles Tilden, Nicholas Crapo, Francis W. Hatch, Bradford H. Coggeshall, Comfort Whiting, Lewis S. Hewitt, H. C. Hugh Brown, James T. Dane, Augustus P. Hamlin, Elisha P. Burgess, Henry W. Watkins, Shubael C. Coffin, Ansel Marsh, Ben- jamin Hammond, Francis Baker, Bethuel Penniman, jr., Henry C. Kelley, Christopher E. Dyer, Edward Crocker, John C. Wilson, William W. Russell, M. J. Shaw, Benjamin Bassett, James L. Barney, Theodore L. Doughty, Nathaniel Brett, David B. Wilcox, Benjamin Hill, Robert Smith, Charles F. Bradford, Stephen A. Tripp, Dexter Jenney, B. Ewer, jr., James Merrihew, jr., Elisha C. Jennings, William E. Hunt, Sanford S. Horton, A. S. Sampson, Natban Adams, Ivory S. Whitney, James Nye, Charles Y. Allen, William J. Rogers, Horatio Bly, Joseph R. Read, Thomas A. Glover, Henry M. C. Dunham, John C. Cook, Albert G. Cory, Nathaniel Head, Lorenzo D. Cleveland, Samuel H. Cokely, Ammi N. Howard, Alonzo Pierce, James L. Browning, Samuel G. Raymond, F. G. Chase, Alexander G. Rider, Stephen Wing, Otis Harlow, William E. Bates, George L. Brownell, Amos Chase, jr., Otis T. Sherman, William F. Brown, J. E. Kennison, James H. Tallman, B. G. West, Seth Russell, Harrison M. Jackson, Ezra F. Crowell, Alvin Crowell, David .S. Gifford, Benjamin F. T. Jenney, Joseph H. Fuller, E. M. Smith, John W. Sullings, Isracl Smith, Thomas L. Clark, Charles G. Davis, Ed- ward F. Wilcox, F. S. Dennis, A. A. Ashley. E. E. Shepardson, Marcus L. Freeman, Ambrose Hardy, Charles H. Lobdell, B. F. Taylor.
The above list is taken from the official records with signatures. There were others elected who probably did not accept membership, at least their autographs do not ap- pear on the rolls.
THE NEW BEDFORD ROLL OF HONOR,
Containing the names of the Volunteers in the Army and Navy who died in the service of the Country during the Great Rebellion.
PREPARED BY ORDER OF THE CITY COUNCIL, MAY, 1869.
SOLDIERS.
Almy, Thomas, killed City Point, May 20, 1862.
Akin. Charles R., Musician, 4th regiment cavalry, Co. B. Died of disease February 10, 1865, at Fortress Monroe.
Akin, James F., 13th battery. Died in Chesapeake Hospital, Hampton, Va., November 12, 1863.
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Albro, James H., 2d regiment heavy artillery, Co. E. Died of fever in Newbern, N. C., October 8, 1864.
Aldrich, Albert J., Corporal, 30th regiment, Co. D. Died in camp opposite Vicksburg, July 19, 1862.
Allen, Frederick S., Corporal, 20th regiment, Co. G. Died October 25, 1862, of wounds received at Antietam. Grave at Linden Grove Cemetery, Westport.
Andrews, Frank, 18th regiment, Co. A. Died at United States General Hospital at Windmill Point, Va., February 10, 1863.
Baker, Charles G., Ist regiment cavalry, Co. K. Died at home September 4, 1862, two months after being discharged. Grave in Rural Cemetery.
Barry, William (of Rochester ?) 18th regiment, Co. C. Killed at Rappahannock Sta- tion, November 7, 1863.
Bartlett, John E., 1st Rhode Island regiment, Co. F. Died at Beaufort, N. C., June 29, 1862.
Bean, John C., 3d regiment cavalry, Co. C. Died at Baton Rouge, La., July 5, 1863. Bearse, Zachariah T., 3d regiment cavalry, Co. I. Died at home, August 9, 1864. Grave in Oak Grove Cemetery.
Bentley, William, 38th regiment, Co. H. Died at New Orleans, La., June 4, 1863. Blain, Samuel J., First Lieutenant, -regiment U. S. colored troops. Died at Florence, S. C., abont November 1, 1864.
Blake, Lnthan, 18th regiment, Co. A. Killed at battle of Fredericksburg, December 13, 1862. Monument in West Cemetery.
Blake, Peleg W., First Lieutenant, 5th battery. Killed near Petersburg, June 18, 1864. Grave in West Cemetery.
Blood, Thompson B. (of Chelsea ?) 18th regiment, Co. A. Died in rebel prison at Ander- sonville, March 24, 1864.
Bly, Joseph H., 38th regiment, Co. H. Died at Saterlee Hospital, Philadelphia, No- vember 10, 1864, of wounds received at Cedar Creek, October 19, 1864. Buried in Oak Grove Cemetery.
Booth, Charles R., 3d regiment cavalry, Co. A. Died at Port Hudson, La., of wounds, December 2, 1863. Grave in Oak Grove Cemetery.
Booth, George F., 18th regiment, Co. A. Died at Hall's Hill, near Washington, Jan- uary 4, 1862.
Booth, John C., 32d regiment, Co. C. Died in prison at Richmond, Va., December 4, 1863.
Borden, Abraham E., U. S. signal corps. Died on board gunboat Sachem, September 8, 1863. Grave in Rural Cemetery.
Borden, Daniel W., 20th regiment, Co. D. Killed December 13, 1862, at Fredericks- burg, Va.
Bosworth, Henry L., jr., 3d regiment cavalry, Co. C. Killed near Winchester, Va., September 19, 1864. Grave in Riverside Cemetery, Fairhaven.
Boyd, Edward, 18thi regiment, Co. A. Died at Andersonville, November 14, 1864.
Briggs, Augustus D., 3d regiment cavalry, Co. A. Died in Camden Street Hospital,
Baltimore, November 14, 1864, of wounds received at Cedar Creek.
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Briggs, Obed N., Corporal, 23d regiment, Co. D. Killed at Cold Harbor, June 3, 1864. Brockdon (Beckdon on official list), John F., 5th regiment cavalry, Co. D. Died on board transport J. K. Barnes, September 22, 1865.
Brown, Charles A., alias Charles Besse (of Truro ?) 20th regiment, Co. A. Died at Danville prison, December 7, 1864.
Brown, George H., 32d regiment, Co. H. Died at Richmond, Va., February 13, 1864. Brown, John C., Captain, 73d regiment U. S. colored infantry, Co. G. Died on battle-
field at Blakely, Ala., of wounds received while assaulting the enemy's works, April 10, 1865.
Bryant, John, 18th regiment, Co. A. Killed at battle of Fredericksburg, December 13, 1862.
Bryant, William F. (of Rochester ?), 38th regiment, Co. H. Died at Baton Rouge, Sep- tember 30, 1863.
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