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To the general affairs of Hyannis Mr. Bradford has ever given active attention. He is a director of the Hyannis Cooperative Bank, and by confreres on the board his judgment in things financial was re- ceived with sincere appreciation. Fraternally, his con- nections are strong. He is a member of the Free and Accepted Masons, Past Master of Fraternal Lodge, Past High Priest of Orient Chapter, Royal and Se- lect Masters, and Past District Deputy; Aleppo Tem- ple, Ancient Arabic Order Nobles of the Mystic Shrine; and Plymouth Lodge, Benevolent and Pro- tective Order of Elks. In matters of charity Mr. Bradford has always dealt with large heart, giving generously and readily to all worthy causes, regard- less of race or creed. During the World War he served on committees and boards in charge of the prosecution of the conflict from within this country, and was most beneficially instrumental in the secur- ing of subscriptions to the several Liberty loans.
In Providence, Rhode Island, Mr. Bradford was united in marriage with Ellen L. Baker, daughter of Solon and Athelia L. Baker, deceased. To this union were born children: 1. Althea, Mrs. Althea (Brad- ford) Wagoner, mother of two children: George F. and Bradford Wagoner. 2. Stuart E., graduate of Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1921. 3. Dor- othy B. The family reside at No. 162 Main Street, West Hyannis.
MILTON L. BAXTER-Native of Barnstable Township, Barnstable County, Milton L. Baxter is clerk of the First District Court of the county and has his offices in the court house, at Barnstable, cap- ital of the county, while he resides a few miles dis- tant, in Hyannis, where he was born. Mr. Baxter is prominent in the civic and fraternal circles of both communities and likewise is this true in their com- mercial affairs, for he is owner and proprietor of an extensive enterprise in real estate and insurance. In Hyannis and Barnstable, as well as throughout Cape Cod, where he is known widely through his public and private connections, Mr. Baxter is considered one of the more progressive young men having close to his heart the welfare of the county as a whole and its people individually, and notably the advancement of the two centers in which he is most concerned.
Mr. Baxter was born September 23, 1892, son of Edwin Baxter Jr., and his wife Cora W. (Linnel1) Baxter. The families of Baxter and Linnell are of old Cape stock, and have been identified with the history of the commonwealth for more than a cen- tury. Edwin Baxter, Jr., was during many years, from boyhood to early middle age in fact, master of a fishing vessel, and was known all along the coast as Captain Baxter, a hardy, kindly man firm in the affections of his numerous friends on sea and land. In later years he retired from the sea, and was a baker in Hyannis, where he died and is interred. Milton L. Baxter here attended the public schools, and began his experience in the world of business in youth. His first employment was with John Bodfish, of Hyannis, as office clerk. This clerkship occupied him for five years, then removing to Boston, he secured employ-
ment with the American Trust Company, where he was engaged for three years in the banking depart- ment, returning to Hyannis in 1919, and then in 1920 became assistant clerk of the District Court.
In September, 1924, he was appointed clerk of the District Court, and during the years succeeding has held that office with all credit to himself and the administration. It was in 1914, that Mr. Baxter graduated from high school, and three years later, soon after the entrance of the United States into the World War, he went into the service of his country. He was assigned to a division of the Twenty-sixth Infantry, and subsequently to the First Division of the American Expeditionary Forces; and with these forces, in the army of occupation, he spent nineteen months overseas, and was mustered out of the ranks in September, 1919, after which he resumed the occu- pations of his career, as herebefore noted.
In general affairs aside from the public and com- mercial Mr. Baxter has constantly been active. He is a member of Fraternal Lodge, Free and Accepted Masons, of Hyannis; Orient Chapter, Royal Arch Masons, of Hyannis; Massachusetts Consistory, Ancient Accepted Scottish Rite; the Improved Order of Red Men, Cape Cod Lodge of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, Plymouth Lodge of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, and the Masonic Club, of Barnstable. Toward charity Mr. Baxter ever deals with sympathy and assistance, spiritual and material, giving generously to worthy causes as they come to his attention. He is a com- municant of the Federated Church, of Hyannis.
JUDGE GEORGE WASHINGTON KELLEY- The span of years given to Judge George Washington Kelley was comprised in seventy-five. Of these he spent fifty in the town of Rockland, Plymouth Coun- ty; and of this half century gave the notable period of forty-three years to administration of justice from the bench of the Second District Court. Beloved of the people about him, owner of a record than which there exist few superior in the annals of bar and bench upon Cape Cod, his passing was received in a sense of profound loss by the friends of a lifetime, those of his youth who survived him, and those of manhood and old age. His was a character that was inspiring, in keeping with a distinguished career; and after the manner in which his life in the living gave inspiration to persons with him associated, so may this simple record strike that spark in others still, who chance upon it.
Judge George Washington Kelley was born Sep- tember 20, 1851, at South Braintree, Massachusetts. He was descended directly as follows: (I) from John Kelley, who came from Exeter, Devonshire, England, and was one of the early settlers in Newbury, Massa- chusetts, where he took residence in 1635. John Kel- ley, progenitor of the family in America, died in 1644; and from him the line was carried down by: (II) John Kelley (2), born in 1642. (III) John Kelley (3), born in 1668. (IV) Daniel Kelley, born in 1715. (V) James Kelley, born in 1734. (VI) Levi Kelley, born in 1770. (VII) George Washington Kelley, born in 1806, father of (VIII) Judge George Washington Kelley. His mother, Sally (Moulton) Kelley, a daughter of Joseph M. Moulton, traced her descent from William Moulton, who came from Ormsby, Norfolk, England, in 1637, and settled at Hampton, New Hampshire. From him the line followed to Benjamin, Ezekiel, Small, through Joseph M. Moulton. Thus, on both the paternal and mater-
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nal sides, Judge Kelley was of houses longest estab- lished in this country.
Judge Kelley attended the schools of South Brain- tree, Norfolk County, had three years in high school, and two at Lawrence Academy, Groton, Massachu- setts. Further attendance there was prevented by his illness. From 1869 to 1873 he was employed in the printing office of Rockwell and Churchill, of Boston, as a pressman, then studied law in the offices of Asa French, who was later a judge, and Horace R. Che- ney, of Boston, and was admitted to the bar in 1875, Suffolk County. He commenced practice in Boston immediately thereafter, and in 1876 came to Rock- land, here continuing in practice until the time of his death. Some years later, in December, 1883, he was appointed Justice of the Second District Court of Plymouth, and as judge he continued until death. Judge Kelley was active in promoting the welfare of the community, as well as all matters of public inter- est. He was a member of the school committee of Braintree in 1875-76, and of that of Rockland for nine years, 1877-86; chairman of the library committee of Rockland in 1878, chairman of the library trustees in 1879-80-81, and in 1879 made the first catalog ever had bv the public library. He was chairman of the water commission which, in 1885, began construction of the local water works, for Rockland and Abington, and served as chairman and as head of the joint board of water commissioners of both centers until 1895; was one of the organizers, and a director of the Elec- tric Light and Power Company of Abington and Rockland, and of the Abington Street Railway Com- pany; an organizer, and director of the Rockland Trust Company, an incorporator, 1911, of the Rock- land Cooperative Bank, of which he was president until death, and trustee of the Abington Savings Bank. Judge Kelley was interested for many years in work for the colored people in the Southern States, and was president of the Voorhees Industrial School at Denmark, South Carolina. A Unitarian in relig- ious adherence, he was a founder of the Unitarian church in Rockland, and its clerk over a long period. Independent in political persuasion, he advocated temperance and prohibition long before prohibition became a national issue, and lived to see the prohibi- tion amendment written into our National Constitu- tion. He was a member of the Free Trade League and a vice-president of the Anti-Imperialist League. Fraternally, he was affiliated with the Free and Accepted Masons. During the World War, he was of valued assistance in the campaigns of the Liberty Loan and Red Cross, helping in all manners possible for the expedition of the close of the conflict. A student of history and especially as it pertains to the Civil War, he wrote short stories of interest, and was author of "Power and Authority of School Officers and Teachers."
Judge Kelley married (first), November 15, 1876, Fannie M. Dorety, of Braintree. Of this union were born three children, of whom two died in infancy, and one, Norma L. Kelley survives, having made her home with her father and his second wife. Judge Kelley married (second), following the death of his first wife (her demise was on September 8, 1883), Sara W. McIlvene, of Rockland, March 1, 1886. Mrs. Kelley's father was Andrew McIlvene; her mother, Annie McIlvene.
Judge Kelley died, in Rockland, in 1926.
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ANTHONY ELMER CROWELL-Starting out in life as a sailor, at the very early age of eleven years, one finds Anthony Elmer Crowell of East Harwich,
Massachusetts, today a remarkable maker of decoy and ornamental birds. He is the son of Anthony Studley and Senora (Nickerson) Crowell. His father was a mariner in early life and in his later years, in association with his son, he was engaged in raising cranberries. He spent all of his life, except when at sea, in his native town of East Harwich.
Anthony Elmer Crowell was born in East Harwich, Massachusetts, December 5, 1851, and as has been stated, at the age of eleven years, went to sea. He followed the sea until he was twenty-one at which time he remained ashore and worked locally at dif- ferent interests for a period of ten years. When his father retired from a mariner's life, the two, father and son, entered into the business of raising cran- berries. During this time, Anthony Elmer Crowell who was a noted hunter ran blinds for many sports- men. It was while in this work that he realized the opportunity to furnish decoys, and began to make them. His work is unusually realistic, and by his own talent and skill, he carves these birds and then paints them. He is especially fond of the shore birds and having always been much of a nature lover and enjoying the solitude of the woods, he has become familiar with the types of birds, and their individual coloring. His is the only establishment of its kind in the United States, and he now gives all of his attention to making and selling these decoys, and ornamental birds, and has built up an extensive trade which reaches to all parts of the world. He gets much actual enjoyment in his work, as well as good returns for his labor. In his early youth, he received some education in the public schools of East Har- wich, but most of his education is the result of actual experiences, and his own discoveries in the haunts of nature where, what he has learned, is his own infor- mation, and has enriched his life with pleasant memo- ries of interesting experiences.
Anthony Elmer Crowell married Laura Linwood Doane, daughter of Edward Everitt and Susan (Nickerson) Doane, of East Harwich, Massachu- setts. They have one son: Cleon Stanley Crowell, who married, at East Harwich, Nellie Mae Moore. They have a daughter, Dorothy May.
JESSE D. ROGERS-Work for his community has taken up a great deal of the time of Jesse D. Rogers, of Provincetown, and he has devoted much of his ability to the betterment of his fellow-citizens, and the advancement of those around him.
Mr. Rogers is a native of Provincetown, having been born in that city, September 15, 1886, the son of Jesse and Mary (Morris) Rogers, the former a native of the Azores, and the latter of Provincetown. The father of Mr. Rogers came to the United States as a cabin boy, when but eight years of age. He fol- lowed the sea as a fisherman in the deep seas, and became a captain at a very early age. He command- ed a large number of vessels before his death, which took place when he was but forty years of age.
Owing to the early death of his father, Mr. Rogers was obliged to take up employment, at the age of thirteen years, in the shipping room of Stott's' Wool- en Mills, at Lowell. He was there for ten years, at the end of which time he removed to South Brain- tree, where he engaged in the grocery business for some time. After that he acted as agent for the Electric Railway Express Company, in Randolph, for two years, and in 1915 returned to Provincetown, where he acted as agent for the Texas Oil Company. In November, 1921, he purchased a building in Prov-
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incetown, where he opened a bowling and billiard room. In 1925, he was elected a member of the Board of Selectmen, and was reëlected in 1927. Mr. Rogers has ever been prominent in all town affairs, and has served on many of the committees, appoint- ed to regulate affairs for the community. He has been selectman, a member of the Board of Assessors, and chairman of the Board of Public Welfare. He received much honor at the hands of his fellow-citi- zens, when he was appointed chairman of the com- mittee on the two hundredth anniversary of Prov- incetown. He is a most active member of the Knights of Columbus, of which he is financial secre- tary, and he is on the executive board of the visiting nurse association. His church affiliations are with St. Peter's Roman Catholic Church, at Provincetown. On October 26, 1910, Mr. Rogers married Anna M. Tracey, a native of North Abington, Plymouth County, formerly a teacher in the Provincetown pub- lic schools, and the daughter of William S. and Anna J. (Brennan) Tracey, the former a native of Rockland, Plymouth County, and the latter of St. Johns, New Brunswick. Mr. and Mrs. Rogers are the parents of two children, as follows: 1. Robert Tracey, born October 2, 1912. 2. Helen Louise, born April 8, 1915.
FRANK EVERETT POTTER-In promoting the progress and welfare of Cape Cod, Frank Everett Potter has been an active factor in his position as owner and manager of the New Central House at Provincetown. It is obviously a fact that most peo- ple form their impressions of a town or vicinity by their reception and treatment at the inn or hotel in which they stay, and certainly the visitors to Mr. Potter's modern and progressive hotel, gain only the most favorable outlook upon this town and its sur- roundings. Mr. Potter has been actively associated with the hotel business for thirty-three years (1928), and his successful operation of his present enterprise since 1913, is an eloquent testimonial of the excel- lence of his qualities as a hotel man. He has always realized that the best advertising is obtained through satisfied guests, and he has left nothing undone to give them the most courteous and expert service in home- like surroundings, assisted by an unexcelled cuisine, for which his organization is justly proud of its repu- tation.
Mr. Potter was born in Fall River, June 17, 1872, son of William H. and Frances L. (Eddy) Potter, both of whom were born in Potterville, Rhode Island. The Potter family was one of the most prominent in that State, and the town was named for them. Wil- liam H. Potter was a leading figure in the hotel busi- ness for many years. During the Civil War, he vol- unteered for service and was a member of the Grand Army of the Republic of Provincetown. He died in 1908.
Frank Everett Potter was educated in the public schools of Boston, and then became associated with his father in the hotel business, continuing this con- nection for thirty-three years. During the early part of his career, he was prominently identified with the Old Shattuck House in Orleans, and later was attached to the Pilgrim House in Provincetown, com- ing to the New Central House in 1900, later purchas- ing this important business and continuing ever since as its proprietor. His careful attention to every detail in facilitating the comfort of his guests, the efficiency and good judgment in which every matter is carried out, all have been a constant attraction to
discriminating people, some of whom have been visi- tors at this inn, year after year. Mr. Potter is popu- lar in all civic activities in which he takes a construct- ive interest, being a director of the Cape Cod Cham- ber of Commerce, and a director in the Provincetown Board of Trade. His fraternal affiliations are with King Hiram Lodge, Free and Accepted Masons, Knights Templar, and Ancient Arabic Order Nobles of the Mystic Shrine. He is prominent in the affairs of the Anchor and Ark Masonic Club, and is actively identified with the New England and the Massachusetts Hotel Men's associations, and the Cape Cod Hotel Association.
Frank Everett Potter married, February 14, 1903, at Provincetown, Katherine J. Turner, who was born in Provincetown, daughter of Moses S. Turner, who was born in Provincetown, and Nora (Costello) Turner, who was born in Ireland, and came to Boston at the age of eight.
I. GRAFTON HOWES-One of the leading fig- ures in the industrial development of Dennis is I. Grafton Howes, the prominent contractor and build- er, manufacturer, and cranberry grower. Mr. Howes has to his credit a number of houses in and around the town, and he is tireless in promoting the advance- ment of the community, and assisting in its welfare.
Mr. Howes was born in Dennis, June 17, 1889, son of Edwin Herbert Howes and Chloe (Hall) Howes. Edwin Herbert Howes was born in Dennis, son of Edwin Howes. At the age of eleven, he went to sea, in which occupation he continued until he was eight- een, when he learned the trade of carpenter and builder, and was later engaged with his father-in- law, Isaiah B. Hall, in the manufacture of cranberry barrels. He was an active member of the school com- mittee for seventeen years. Edwin Howes was a cap- tain of a fishing vessel, and a veteran of the Civil War. On his mother's side, Mr. Howes is descended from Hiram Henry Hall, her great-grandfather, who was the first man to cultivate cranberries on the Cape.
I. Grafton Howes received his education in the public schools of Dennis, and then entered the con- tracting and building trade in which he has been successful. He then embarked in other projects, grow- ing cranberries and manufacturing boxes, and in all his ventures he has had profitable results, due to his thorough business ability and determination to suc- ceed. Mr. Howes has always been popular in all town affairs, and his fellow-citizens realize his interest and desire to be of assistance to his town, as evi- denced by their electing him as selectman for the term, March, 1926 to 1928, inclusive. He is also an Overseer of the Poor. Fraternally, he is connected with the Mount Horeb Chapter of West Harwich, Order of the Eastern Star, and has held various offi- ces in the Grange Association. In his religious affiliations, he is a member of the parish committee of the Dennis Union Church.
I. Grafton Howes married, June 27, 1911, at West Brewster, Ida Lewis Hall, daughter of Charles E. Hall, who spent his early life on the sea, and later was engaged in the cranberry business, and Abbie (Parker) Hall. Their children are: 1. Grafton E., born April 26, 1912. 2. Edith C., born January 10, 1913. 3. Doris King, born February 16, 1915.
NATHAN CROWELL-For the past twenty years, Nathan Crowell, of East Dennis, has special- ized in the raising of cranberries and poultry. He
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owns some twenty-five or thirty acres on Sesuet Neck, in East Dennis, and it was here that the Smal- ley cranberry was developed. Mr. Crowell is also a member of the board of directors of the First National Bank of Yarmouth, and serves on the Investment Board of the Bass River. Savings Bank. He is a trustee and treasurer of the Cape Cod Extension Service, formerly the Farm Bureau.
Joshua Crowell, father of Mr. Crowell, was a descendant of old Cape Cod ancestry, and also of Mayflower ancestry. He had been engaged in farm- ing throughout his active life, and had also been identified with other business interests, and been active in public service. He was a member of the board of directors, and also president of the First National Bank of Yarmouth, and in addition to local service rendered in civic affairs had served as a mem- ber of the State Legislature. He married Sophronia Chapman, also of old Cape Cod stock.
Nathan Crowell, son of Joshua and Sophronia (Chapman) Crowell, was born in Dennis, Massachu- setts, December 11, 1880. He received his early edu- cation in the public schools of Dennis, graduating from the high school with the class of 1898, and then took a course in Burdett's Business College, in Bos- ton. His first position was with the New England Life Insurance Company, of Boston, in which con- nection he was engaged in clerical work in the Home Office for several years. However, he returned to Dennis, where he was associated with his brother, Seth Crowell, in farming. This association was maintained until after the marriage of Mr. Crowell, when he purchased a portion of the old Shiverick farm, located on Sesuet Neck in the town of East Dennis. Part of this tract is devoted to the raising of cranberries and part to farming, giving special attention to the raising of poultry and breeding particularly Rhode Island Reds. From time to time he has increased the extent of his farm by purchase, and at the present time (1928), he owns some twenty- five or thirty acres. It is said that a portion of the land in the possession of Mr. Crowell is the tract upon which the famous Smalley cranberry was devel- oped. Along with his agricultural and poultry rais- ing activities, Mr. Crowell has found time for other business interests and for public activities. He is a member of the board of trustees of the First National Bank of Yarmouth, and has served the town of Den- nis in various capacities, including that of registrar of voters, which service he has rendered for the past fifteen years. He is a member of the board of trus- tees and treasurer of the Cape Cod Extension Serv- ice, and has always been deeply interested in its work. He is a Past Master of Dennis Grange, No. 260, and was treasurer of the Cape Cod Pomona Grange for ten years. He also holds membership in Mount Horeb Lodge, Free and Accepted Masons, of West Harwich. He is a member of the executive committee of the Barnstable County Agricultural Society, and one of its active and interested support- ers.
Nathan Crowell was married (first) to Laura Nye; (second) to Celia D. Kelley. There are two children: Joshua and Nye.
JOSEPH G. TURPIN-Since 1921, Joseph G. Turpin has been the owner and the manager of the Barnstable Inn, at Barnstable, Massachusetts, the oldest on Cape Cod. Prior to 1921, Mr. Turpin was, with the exception of his period of service in the World War, identified with the Miami Paper Com- pany of Dayton, Ohio, from the beginning of his act- Plym.1-22
ive career. As proprietor of this fine old Inn, which by its charm and its associations, as well as by its service, attracts a very large summer patronage, he is operating one of the best hostelries on the coast. Sea bathing, sailing, fishing, motoring, and an ac- cessible golf course adds to the attractions of the place, and guests who spend one season here return again and again.
Joseph G. Turpin was born in Dayton, Ohio, May 22, 1892, son of James Turpin, one of the first settlers of Dayton, Ohio, a manufacturer and promoter of Dayton, who is now retired, and living in Dayton, and of Louise (Gebhart) Turpin. He received his early and preparatory education in the public schools, and then entered the University of Michigan, from which he was graduated with the class of 1914. After graduation he entered the employ of the Miami Paper Company, of Dayton, Ohio, as their Eastern repre- sentative, which position he filled for three years. At the end of that time he made a change, and became associated with the King Paper Company, of Kalamazoo, Michigan, with whom he remained until 1917. Upon the entrance of the United States into the World War he enlisted, in June, 1917, in the Three Hundred and Twenty-second Field Artillery of Ohio, receiving his discharge January 10, 1919, with the rank of second lieutenant. When the war was over, and he was once more a civilian he returned to the Miami Paper Company, as its Eastern represen- tative, and maintained that connection until 1920, when he purchased the Barnstable Inn, at Barn- stable, Massachusetts. Since that time he has con- tinued to successfully operate the Inn, and each year is bringing to him increased success.
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