History of Plymouth, Norfolk and Barnstable counties, Massachusetts, Vol. III, Part 6

Author: Thompson, Elroy Sherman, 1874-
Publication date: 1928
Publisher: New York, Lewis historical Pub. Co.
Number of Pages: 642

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George E. Doane, son of Major George H. and Patia (Sparrow) Doane, was born in Middleboro, Massachusetts, June 10, 1854, and received his early and preparatory education in the local public schools. When his high school course was completed, he be- came a student in the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, from which he was graduated in 1874, with the degree of Civil Engineer. Upon the com- pletion of his technical training he became identified with the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey, which connection he maintained for four years. At the end of that period, in 1878, he came to Middle- boro and engaged in the hardware business with his father, Major George H. Doane, whose health was beginning to fail. Two years later, the death of the father left the business in the hands of the son, who has continued to conduct it to the present time (1928). As has already been stated, the concern is the oldest of its kind in Middleboro, and it has steadily grown until, at the present time it occupies some four thou- sand square feet of floor space, and requires the serv- ices of five sales people. The store is located at Nos. 8-10-12 South Main Street, and its name is a guar- antee for excellent quality and for sound business methods. Mr. Doane is actively interested in all that pertains to the social, civic, and political life of the community, and he also, in addition to the con- duct of his business, is officially connected with both of Middleboro's banking institutions. He served as vice-president of the Middleborough National Bank from 1889 to 1916, at which time the organization was taken over by the Middleborough Trust Company, of which Mr. Doane is now (1928) a member of the board of directors. He has also rendered efficient service as a member of the board of directors of the Middleborough Savings Bank since 1880, and since 1924 has been president of this bank. During the World War Mr. Doane served on the Exemption Board of the Fourth Plymouth District, and was also one of the "four-minute" speakers who aided so materially in carrying the Liberty Loans over the top. Politically, he gives support to the principles and the candidates of the Republican party. He serves ac- tively in local public affairs, giving freely of his ex- perience and his time for the general welfare. For

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three years he served on the Middleboro School Board. He was a trustee of the Middleboro Public Library for a period of two years, served on the town appropriation committee for three years, and in 1909 was elected to represent his district in the State Leg- islature, where he served on the committee of banks and banking and on the committee of taxation. Fra- ternally, he is identified with Mayflower Lodge, Free and Accepted Masons, and with Old Colony Chapter, Royal Arch Masons. He is a past president of the Middleboro Commercial Club, and an interested men- ber of the Old Middleboro Historical Society.

WILLIAM A. BRADFORD, a leader in publish- ing circles of Quincy, Massachusetts, and a well- known man of that community, was born December 27, 1873, at Westerly, Rhode Island. He is a son of Charles Alexander and Phoebe E. (Wilcox) Bradford, and a direct descendant, on the paternal side, of Gov- ernor Bradford of the "Mayflower." Charles Alexander Bradford was born in 1837, at Westerly, and he died January 10, 1903. He was for most of his career a merchant, owner and operator of a large and prosper- ous general store at Westerly. Phoebe E. (Wilcox) Bradford, now deceased, was born at Norwich, Con- necticut.

William A. Bradford received his education in the public schools of the community in which he was born, and is a graduate of the New York Trade School. After the completion of his studies Mr. Brad- ford engaged in the plumbing and heating trade. In 1898, he moved to Quincy and there engaged in that type of enterprise under his own name. This venture proved to be most successful, in it he remained until 1919. At that time he sold out his entire interest in this concern and gave all of his attention to the publishing business, in which he had been taking an increasingly important interest. His principal publica- tion, however, is a plumbing and heating trade service, which not only contains an alert, up-to-the minute grouping of the news of the day in that world, but also carries a constantly revised price list of all the items which come under the general heading of plumbing and heating. Largely because of this list, and the able manner in which Mr. Bradford edits his publication, it has the honor of standing practically alone in its field, and with large and growing circula- tion in the trade. Besides the foregoing interests, Mr. Bradford has assumed many outside responsi- bilities in the way of real estate holdings and devel- opments. He has been deeply interested in this type of investment for the past twenty-five years. He is the owner of the Bradford Building, and the Strand Theater, both in Quincy, and property in Weymouth and Marshfield.

Despite his many exacting business duties Mr. Bradford has ever tound time in which to serve the people of his community in other than a private ca- pacity. In his political views, he is a staunch sup- porter of the Republican party, and it was upon this ticket that he was elected, in 1917, a member of the City Council of Quincy, a position which he filled for four years. He was elected mayor of Quincy in 1921, and served in this office with credit to himself and satisfaction to the people for the usual two-year term. For more than fifteen years previous to this, Mr. Bradford taught at the Massachusetts Charitable Mechanics Association, an institution founded by Benjamin Franklin and Paul Revere. He is now the president of the Quincy Chamber of Commerce, chair-

man of the Mayor's Quincy Traffic Committee and Soldiers' Memorial Building Committee. He is a life-member of the Boston Young Men's Christian Association, a past director of the Quincy Young Men's Christian Association, and he served for more than two years as a member of the council of the Boy Scout organization of Quincy. During the World War he served with ability as a special agent for the Health Department of Quincy, and contri- buted materially to the various Liberty and Victory Loan drives instituted by the United States Treas- ury Department. He has also taken a profound in- terest in the club and social life of his community. He is a member and curator of the Quincy Historical Society, and he is also affiliated, fraternally, with Rural Lodge, Free and Accepted Masons, of which he was Marshal; St. Stephen's Chapter, Royal Arch Masons; Boston Council, Royal and Select Masters; Massachusetts Consistory, Ancient Accepted Scottish Rite; a charter member and one of the organizers of the Quincy Commandery, Knights Templar, and served as its first prelate. He is also a member of Aleppo Temple, Ancient Arabic Order Nobles of the Mystic Shrine; Quincy Lodge, No. 943, Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, and a director of the Elks' Home; member of Merrimount Lodge, Knights of Pythias; the Quincy Lodge, Loyal Order of Moose, of the Improved Order of Red Men. He also holds membership in the Boston Camera Club, the Boston City Club, the Massachusetts Mayors Club, and the Marshfield Country Club. His prin- cipal hobbies are amateur photography and golf.

William A. Bradford, who married Clara B. Estes Lincoln, August 2, 1903, is the father of two daugh- ters: Enid C., and Sally Eunice. Mr. Bradford and his family reside in Quincy, where they attend the Unitarian church.

HON. NATHAN WASHBURN-The Middleboro family of Washburn, of which Judge Nathan Wash- burn is a distinguished member, was originally at the town of Duxbury, and the first American ancestor thereat was descended from the ancient English fam- ily which resided at Evesham, and which family, ac- cording to Burke, came from the families of Difford and Great Washborne. The earliest Evesham Wash- burn of record was of the reign of Henry III, and Edward I, in the years from 1216 to 1307.

John, first American Washburn ancestor was, ac- cording to tradition, first secretary of the Massachu- setts Bay Colony. Several governors of States have borne the name Washburn, and four members of the family have served in Congress. Captain Amos Washburn served in the Revolution; a son, graduate of Harvard, was a noted lawyer at Middleboro; Ed- ward, brother of Captain Amos Washburn, was also a patriot during the Revolution; and his son, General Abiel Washburn, was one of the foremost men of his time in Middleboro, led the Federal party, and for thirty-six years held commissions through the dif- ferent grades of office in the State Militia. Luther, Cyrus and Bradford Sumner Washburn, were, in turn, substantial citizens of the community, and the son of the last-named, Judge Nathan Washburn, eminent lawyer and Chief Justice of the Fourth District Court of Plymouth County, is known far and wide. He is a descendant in the ninth generation from John Wash- burn, his lineage being through John (2), James, Edward, Captain Amos, Luther, Cyrus, and Brad- ford Sumner Washburn.

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(I) John, born in Evesham, Worcester County, England, is of record in 1632 at Duxbury, Massachu- setts, and mentioned in tax assessments of 1633, and bought land in 1634. His wife, Margery, aged forty- nine, and sons, John, aged fourteen, Philip, aged eleven, landed from the "Elizabeth" in 1635. Father and sons were judged "able to bear arms" in 1643; the father was one of the first freemen of Duxbury. John Washburn, first secretary of the Plymouth Council in England, is believed by some to be the above-mentioned elder John Washburn. He and son, John, were of the first fifty-four persons to become proprietors of Bridgewater in 1665; the elder died before 1670.

(II) John Washburn (2) married, in 1645, Eliza- beth, daughter of Experience Mitchell. In 1670 he sold the property at Green Harbor, Duxbury, given him by his father. His will was of 1686. Children: John, married Rebecca Lapham: Thomas, married (first) Abigail Leonard, (second) Deliverance Pack- ard; Joseph, married Hannah Latham; Samuel, mar- ried Deborah Packard; Jonathan, married Mary Vaughn; Benjamin, died unmarried; Mary, married Samuel Kinsley; Elizabeth, married (first) James Howard, and (second) Edward Seeley; Jane, married William Orcutt, Jr .; James, married Mary Bowden; and Sarah, married John Ames.

(III) James Washburn, born in 1672, son of John (2), married, in 1693, Mary Bowden. Children: Mary; Anna; James; Edward; Moses; Gideon; Sarah; Mar- tha; Elizabeth; Mary, probably married Thomas Per- kins; Sarah, married Henry Caswell; Martha, married Robert Richmond; another daughter married William Snow.

(IV) Edward Washburn, born in 1700, married, June 12, 1728, Elizabeth, born September 1, 1708, daughter of Ebenezer Richmond, granddaughter of John Richmond, and great-granddaughter of John Richmond. Possibly Edward Washburn married (sec- ond) Elizabeth, daughter of Amos Snell, and that Amos was the second wife's son. Mr. Washburn re- moved to Middleboro. Children: Abigail, born March 25, 1730; James, born January 13, 1732; Edward, born June 17, 1734; Abiel, died in the French War; and Amos, born April 8, 1742.

(V) Captain Amos Washburn married Prudence Haskins, born August 3, 1743, in Taunton, daughter of Abiel and Elizabeth (Richmond) Haskins. He lived in the section of Middleboro now called Lake- ville. When the Lexington alarm of April 19, 1775, sounded, out of the four local district militia com- panies a company was formed and commanded by Captain Nathaniel Wood; Amos Washburn was lieutenant. He was captain of the Middleboro com- pany sent to oppose the British landing at New Bed- ford and Fairhaven; and captain in the local militia from 1770 to 1781. Children: James; Amos; Luther; Edward; Joshua and perhaps others. James was first postmaster of Middleboro, appointed in 1804 by President Adams; he had graduated from Harvard in 1789, studied law and practiced in Middleboro. He was unmarried. In 1811 he removed to New Bedford, which he represented in the State General Court. He died November 19, 1815.

(VI) Luther Washburn lived on the farm of his late father, Captain Amos, there died, and there lived his son, Cyrus.

(VII) Cyrus Washburn, born July 20, 1784, mar- ried, September 17, 1810, Betsy, born March 21, 1790, daughter of Joseph and Mercy Bump. He died July

10, 1866; she died July 30, 1875. Children: Brad- ford Sumner, born February 22, 1812; Betsy Bump, born February 12, 1815; Alvira Susan, born January 27, 1823.

(VIII) Bradford Sumner Washburn was a partner of William S. Andrews in shoe manufacturing, which business was continued, with increasing success, for more than thirty years. He was a Republican, but not a politician, and member of the Central Baptist Church. He married Elizabeth S. Harlow (Harlow VII), and died February 20, 1878; his wife died June 20, 1905. Children: Mary, married Andrew Case; Sumner Foster; Kendrick Harlow; Nathan; and Elmer L., merchant at Albuquerque, New Mexico.

(IX) Nathan Washburn, son of Bradford Sumner and Elizabeth S. (Harlow) Washburn, was born on April 18, 1862, in Middleboro, and acquired his edu- cation in the local public schools and high school and Dartmouth College, having graduated from the high school in 1881 and from Dartmouth in 1885 with Bachelor of Arts degree. He then attended Boston University Law School, read law in the office of Ho- sea Kingman, Bridgewater, and was admitted to prac- tice before the bar of Plymouth County in 1887, and continues to practice, with offices located in Boston and Middleboro. In 1888, or sooner, he was ap- pointed Special Justice of the Plymouth Fourth Dis- trict Court, by Governor Ames, and in 1901, became Chief Justice under appointment by Governor Crane, and continues thus to date (1928), presiding also over the appellate division, Massachusetts Courts.

Judge Washburn belongs to Alpha Delta Phi Fra- ternity, American Bar Association, Plymouth County Bar Association, District Courts of Massachusetts, Solicitors and Town Attorneys. He is president of the St. Luke's Hospital, counsel for past twenty years for town of Middleboro, served for ten years on the local School Board, fifteen years as trustee of Middleboro Public Library, was a director and member of the executive committee of the Middleboro Trust Company, and was a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows (Lodge and Encampment), Middleboro Men's Club and Middleboro Historical Society. He is Republican in politics. During the World War he served as a member of the local Legal Advisory Board.

On November 27, 1888. Judge Washburn married Etta Florence Mendall, daughter of Sylvanus and Rebecca (Lucas) Mendall. Their son, Kendrick H. Washburn, was a second lieutenant, Aviation Corps, United States Army, during the World War; he was born July 29, 1893, attended the public and high schools of Middleboro, and was graduated from Dart- mouth College, in the class of 1915.

On the maternal side, Judge Washburn belongs to the Harlow family:

(I) William Harlow, born about 1624, probably came to Lynn and was of Sandwich the same year; was proprietor of Sandwich March 5, 1658-59 (?); and freeman June 6, 1654; removed to Plymouth, and from there deputy to the General Court, 1673 and 1675; was selectman from 1669 to 1691. He was by trade a cooper. He married (first), December 20, 1649, Rebecca, daughter of Robert Bartlett, of Plym- outh, and granddaughter of Richard Warren of the "Mayflower," and (second), July 15, 1658, Mary Faunce, who died October 4, 1664. He married (third), January 20. 1665, Mary Shelley, of Plymouth, who survived him and remarried. He died August 26, 1691, and had in all eleven children.

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(II) William Harlow (2), son of William and Re- becca (Bartlett), was born June 2, 1657, married Lydia, daughter of Elder Thomas Cushman, of Plyn- outh; lived in Manomet Ponds (Plymouth). He died January 28, 1711; she died February 11, 1718-19. They had seven children, including:

(III) Deacon Thomas Harlow, born March 17, 1686, married Jedidah, daughter of Eleazer Churchill, of Plymouth, and lived at Manomet Ponds. He died November 12, 1746. He had seven children, including:

(IV) Jonathan Harlow, born March 22, 1718, mar- ried Sarah, daughter of Deacon Elisha Holmes, of Plymouth. He was a farmer, lived at Manomet Ponds, member of the church; father of six children, including :

(V) Jonathan Harlow (2), born in 1746, lived in Plymouth and Middleboro; married Betty, daughter of Deacon John Blackmer, of Plymouth (died Sep- tember 9, 1833); a soldier and officer in the Revolu- tion. He was the father of ten children, including:

(VI) Major Branch Harlow, born September 18, 1792, in Halifax, Massachusetts, married, December 31, 1815, Lurany, born March 23, 1795, daughter of Martin and Hope (Keith) Keith, and granddaughter of Joseph Keith (3). Was High Sheriff of Plymouth County several years; and major in the State militia. They had twelve children, including:

(VII) Elizabeth S. Harlow, born April 3, 1829, who married Bradford Sumner Washburn (Wash- burn VIII).

KENDRICK H. WASHBURN-Middleboro, Plymouth County, is well taken care of in the matter of professional legal service, for it has a splendid corps of attorneys who are widely known throughout this section of the State. Among those who are en- gaged in general practice in Middleboro is Kendrick H. Washburn, who has his office in the Bank Build- ing. He is one of the younger men of his profes- sion and is already known as an able practitioner. He was elected to represent the Seventh Plymouth Dis- trict in the House of Representatives, for 1927-1928.

Born in Middleboro, Massachusetts, July 29, 1893, Kendrick H. Washburn is a son of Judge Nathan Washburn, a prominent member of the judiciary, and of Etta F. (Mendall) Washburn, who was born in Middleboro, Massachusetts. He received his early and preparatory education in the local public schools, graduating from the Middleboro, High School with the class of 1910. He then matriculated in Dartmouth College, from which he was graduated in 1915, at which time he received the degree of Bachelor of Arts. He had already decided to follow his father's footsteps in the matter of choice of a profession, and after his graduation from Dartmouth began pro- fessional study in Harvard Law School. There he continued his studies for two years, at the end of which time he entered Boston University Law School, from which he was graduated with the class of 1920, receiving the degree of Bachelor of Laws. Immedi- ately after the completion of his professional prep- aration he successfully passed the required examina- tions for admission to the Massachusetts bar, and since that time has been successfully engaged in gen- eral practice in Middleboro. His patronage is drawn from Middleboro and from a wide area surrounding that community and includes members of some of the oldest and best known families of this part of the State. Mr. Washburn is a man who recognizes his responsibility in the matter of civic service, and is always ready to take his share of the burden of com-

munity government. He has served for a term as a member of the Middleboro School Board, and in 1926 was chosen Bail Commissioner for the town of Middleboro. He gives his support to the principles and the candidates of the Republican party, and takes an active interest in its affairs. Upon the entrance of the United States into the World War he enlisted, in May, 1917, in the United States Naval Reserve Corps. He was discharged from this branch of the service in November, 1917, with the rank of seaman, and in January, 1918, enlisted in the United States Army Ordnance Corps, attached to the Aviation Service, and in July, 1918, was commissioned a second lieutenant. He served overseas with the American Expeditionary Forces for ten months, as company commander of the Paris Supply Depot, and was dis- charged May 27, 1919, with the rank of second lieu- tenant. Previous to his enlistment in the United States Army he had also served for two months on the Middleboro Draft Board. Fraternally, Mr. Wash- burn is well known. He is a member of Mayflower Lodge, Free and Accepted Masons, of Middleboro; of Old Colony Chapter, Royal Arch Masons; Bay State Commandery, Knights Templar; Omar Grotto; Alep- po Temple, Ancient Arabic Order Nobles of the Mystic Shrine. He is also a member of the Scottish Rite bodies, Lafayette Lodge of Perfection; Giles and Yates Council; Princes of Jerusalem; Mount Olivet Rose Croix; and Massachusetts Consistory. He is also a member of Middleboro Lodge, No. 1278, Be- nevolent and Protective Order of Elks; and of Sigma Nu College Fraternity. He is also a member of Sim- eon L. Nickerson Post, No. 64, American Legion, of Middleboro, of which body he is a Past Financial Officer. His religious interest is with the Episcopal church, of which he is an attendant.

MALCOLM C. DRAKE-After nine years of ex- perience as a teacher of commercial subjects, Mal- colm C. Drake entered the banking business, and in 1921 became treasurer of the Middleborough Trust Company, which official position he still holds (1928). Mr. Drake is a descendant of Abraham Whipple, who is on record as having fired the first gun in the American Revolution, and he is a veteran of the World War, having served as a seaman in the United States Navy.

Malcolm C. Drake was born in Middleboro, Massa- chusetts, August 11, 1892, son of Dr. Henry Scudder Drake, a native of Middleboro, who was engaged in medical practice for several years but is now (1928) retired, and of Mary (Tribou) Drake, who was born in Mystic, Connecticut, and is still living. He re- ceived his education in the grammar school and high school of Middleboro and in Bryant & Stratton's Business College, and then entered the teaching pro- fession, giving instruction in commercial subjects. He continued to teach for a period of nine years in Middleboro, and then, in 1921, was elected treasurer of the Middleborough Trust Company, which con- nection he still maintains. After the entrance of the United States into the World War, Mr. Drake en- listed as a seaman in the United States Navy, Sep- tember 6, 1919, and served to the close of the war, receiving his discharge December 6, 1919. He has taken an active interest in local civic affairs in Mid- dleboro, is a member of the board of directors of the Montgomery Home for Aged People, and has always been ready to assist in forwarding any well planned movement for the advancement of the general wel-

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fare. Fraternally, he is identified with Mayflower Lodge, Free and Accepted Masons; Old Colony Chapter, Royal Arch Masons; and with Hannah Shaw Chapter, Order of the Eastern Star. He is a member of the American Legion, and his religious affiliation is with the Church of Our Saviour.

Malcolm C. Drake was married, June 7, 1919, to Marion Beals, who was born in Watertown, Massa- chusetts. Mr. and Mrs. Drake make their home at No. 35 Bourne Street in Middleboro.

JOHN ALDEN MILLER-A wide and varied ex- perience has been that of John Alden Miller, of Mid- dleboro, who is living retired, a stockholder in sev- eral cotton manufacturing companies of Fall River. He is also a member of the board of trustees of the Middleboro Savings Bank.

Mr. Miller is a descendant of a long line of old New England ancestry, tracing through one of his collateral lines to John and Elizabeth (Tilley) How- land, passengers of the "Mayflower," when she made her historic trip in 1620. On the Miller side the line goes back to John Miller, a native of England, born in 1624, who was a member of the Grand In- quest, at Middleboro, in 1672. He was one of the proprietors of the "Twenty-six Men's Purchase." 1661-62, and was present at their meeting in 1677. Prior to April 29, 1678, he purchased a house lot of Edward Gray, and he was the owner of lot No. 154 in the South Purchase of 1673. He was also one of the owners of the Sixteen Shilling Purchase of 1675. John Miller lived on Thompson Street, not far from the brook in Middleboro, near the house of the late Elijah Shaw. He died May 11, 1720, in his ninety-seventh year, and his monument stands in the cemetery at the "Green," where rest the remains of six or more generations of his descendants. The surname of his wife Mercy is not known, but they were the parents of at least three children: John (2), Mary, and Elizabeth.

John (2) Miller, son of John (1) and Mercy Miller, was born in 1669, and lived in Middleboro, where he died in 1727. He married Lydia Coombs, who was born in 1678, and died in 1734, daughter of Francis and Deborah (Morton) Coombs.

John (3) Miller, son of John (2) and Lydia (Coombs) Miller, was born in 1704, and died in 1794. He married Priscilla Bennett, who was born in 1711, daughter of Peter Bennett, born in 1678, and of Pris- cilla (Howland) Bennett, born in 1681, daughter of Isaac Howland, born in 1649, and his wife, Elizabeth Vaughn, born in 1652. Priscilla Howland was a granddaughter of John Howland and his wife Eliza- beth (Tilley) Howland, of the "Mayflower," 1620. The children of John (3) and Priscilla (Bennett) Miller were: 1. Mary, born 1736, died 1812. 2. John, born 1737, died 1807. 3. Seth, born 1739, died 1823. 4. Joseph, born 1741, died 1838. 5. Jedediah, born 1743, died 1810. 6. Priscilla, born 1745, died 1837. 7. Lucy, born 1747, died 1835. 8. Peter, born 1750, died 1835.

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History of Plymouth, Norfolk and Barnstable counties, Massachusetts, Vol. III, Part 6

Author: Thompson, Elroy Sherman, 1874- Publication date: 1928 Publisher: New York, Lewis historical Pub. Co. Number of Pages: 642

Author: Thompson, Elroy Sherman, 1874-
Publication date: 1928
Publisher: New York, Lewis historical Pub. Co.
Number of Pages: 642