USA > Massachusetts > Plymouth County > History of Plymouth, Norfolk and Barnstable counties, Massachusetts, Vol. III > Part 93
USA > Massachusetts > Norfolk County > History of Plymouth, Norfolk and Barnstable counties, Massachusetts, Vol. III > Part 93
USA > Massachusetts > Barnstable County > History of Plymouth, Norfolk and Barnstable counties, Massachusetts, Vol. III > Part 93
Note: The text from this book was generated using artificial intelligence so there may be some errors. The full pages can be found on Archive.org (link on the Part 1 page).
Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 | Part 5 | Part 6 | Part 7 | Part 8 | Part 9 | Part 10 | Part 11 | Part 12 | Part 13 | Part 14 | Part 15 | Part 16 | Part 17 | Part 18 | Part 19 | Part 20 | Part 21 | Part 22 | Part 23 | Part 24 | Part 25 | Part 26 | Part 27 | Part 28 | Part 29 | Part 30 | Part 31 | Part 32 | Part 33 | Part 34 | Part 35 | Part 36 | Part 37 | Part 38 | Part 39 | Part 40 | Part 41 | Part 42 | Part 43 | Part 44 | Part 45 | Part 46 | Part 47 | Part 48 | Part 49 | Part 50 | Part 51 | Part 52 | Part 53 | Part 54 | Part 55 | Part 56 | Part 57 | Part 58 | Part 59 | Part 60 | Part 61 | Part 62 | Part 63 | Part 64 | Part 65 | Part 66 | Part 67 | Part 68 | Part 69 | Part 70 | Part 71 | Part 72 | Part 73 | Part 74 | Part 75 | Part 76 | Part 77 | Part 78 | Part 79 | Part 80 | Part 81 | Part 82 | Part 83 | Part 84 | Part 85 | Part 86 | Part 87 | Part 88 | Part 89 | Part 90 | Part 91 | Part 92 | Part 93 | Part 94 | Part 95 | Part 96 | Part 97 | Part 98 | Part 99 | Part 100 | Part 101 | Part 102 | Part 103 | Part 104 | Part 105 | Part 106 | Part 107 | Part 108 | Part 109 | Part 110 | Part 111 | Part 112 | Part 113 | Part 114
it does to nearly every sailor, and he subsequently went into the groceries, grain, and hay business. From dealing in grain and other commodities, he went into the insurance business, and from that time on, found himself elected to various public offices and these, in recent years, have been his main pursuits.
The original progenitor of the Nickerson line was William Nickerson, of Norwich, England, born in 1604. He married Ann Busly about 1630, and settled first at Watertown, Massachusetts, removing shortly after to Boston, finally settling at Chatham, on the Cape. Joshua Atkins Nickerson was born at East Harwich, Massachusetts, May 6, 1857, son of Warren Jenson, a fisherman, and cranberry grower, and Mary (Atkins) Nickerson. He attended the public schools of East Harwich, and at the age of fourteen years began his sea-faring career, becoming master mariner at the age of twenty-two. He continued in this office until he was thirty-four years of age, leaving the sea at that time to settle in Chatham. He purchased a grocery, grain and hay business which he success- fully conducted for seventeen years. In 1907, after selling his business, he became interested in the insur- ance business. In the meantime, he had taken an active part in municipal and county affairs, occupy- ing various public offices. In 1913, he was elected County Commissioner, and has held that office ever since. He has also been justice of the peace for twenty-three years. During the World War, Mr. Nickerson was active on all drives and Liberty Loan campaigns, giving generously of his time and interest. He is a director of the Cape Cod Trust Company, serving in this capacity since the establishment of the company. For twenty-five years, he has been a trustee of the Cape Cod Five Cents Savings Bank at Harwich, and is a member of its Auditing Committee. He is a member of the Board of Trade, has been selectman, assessor and overseer of the poor for a period of ten years and during that period was also chairman of the selectmen and assessors. He is a member and chairman of the finance committee of the town of Chatham, and is now president of the Chatham Railroad Company. He is a 'trustee of the Barnstable County Infirmary of Pocassett, for Tuber- cular Patients, and is a director of the Eddridge Pub- lic Library of Chatham. In conjunction with his responsibiilties in the insurance business, he does probate work, and handles the settling of estates.
Joshua Atkins Nickerson married, at East Har- wich, February 19, 1884, Eliza M. Doane, a native of East Harwich, and a daughter of Henry K. and Eliza (Nickerson) Doane, both of whom were born in East Harwich.
HARRY TAFT HAYWARD-The position of treasurer of a big woolen mill is one full of responsi- bilities, where payrolls must be made up weekly for scores of men, and the closest touch kept with market conditions affecting the prices of raw materials, and finished products. As treasurer of the H. T. Hay- ward Company, manufacturing woolen goods, of Franklin, Harry Taft Hayward has made an excep- tionally fine record, and it is to his contribution as much as to that of any other official that in thirty- five years of steady growth since 1892, when he became connected with the company, the looms have been increased from thirty to more than three hun- dred. His ability as a financier may be imagined from the statement that he has organized several other prosperous concerns in this section, and until recently, when he resigned, he was a director in three banking institutions. He is a popular member of
349
PLYMOUTH, NORFOLK AND BARNSTABLE
several societies and in other ways merits the name of good citizen.
Mr. Hayward was born September 18, 1868, at Uxbridge, Massachusetts, son of William E. and Susan Hortense (Taft) Hayward. His father, a manufacturer, was born in Mendon, Massachusetts, in 1839, and died in 1925, after a life full of usefulness, spent since infancy at Uxbridge, Massachusetts. His mother was a member of an old-established family of Uxbridge, and died in 1877. Mr. Hayward received his education at the public schools, at the conclusion of which he entered the world of business, and has since made his mark. In June, 1892, he took up mill work, on his own account, having previously been employed by his father, with which he has been iden- tified prominently ever since. As a young man he bought the Mckenzie Woolen Mills, and continued the business under his own name until 1927, when it was incorporated and Leroy W. Stott was made pres- ident, Mr. Hayward treasurer, and Wendell Williams clerk. The concern is now engaged in the manufac- ture of low-grade woolens which have attained national distribution, and employs one hundred and ninety people. In the attainment of this gratifying result Mr. Hayward has taken a leading part, as in his other enterprises, but he is not known alone in the field of manufacturing and finance. He is noted for his numerous philanthropic deeds, which have endeared him to a wide circle, and guarantee that the worthy things he has set up in this community will always stand as his monument.
Mr. Hayward married, in 1904, Edith C. Wires, of Milford, daughter of Ephraim L. Wires, who mar- ried a member of the Fitch family. Their union has been blessed with two daughters. 1. Mary Elizabeth Hayward, a graduate of Mt. Vernon Seminary. 2. Harriet Taft Hayward, a graduate of the Westover School.
CONINGSBY DAWSON-Distinguished as an author, experienced as a soldier, qualified highly as a lecturer on the results of the World War and Euro- pean reconstruction, Coningsby Dawson, of Newark, New Jersey, whose summer home is at Walton, Barnstable County, Massachusetts, towers high among the literary lights of America. .
Born in High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, Eng- land, February 26. 1883. he is a son of Dr. William James, and Jane (Powell) Dawson. The father came to America in 1905, and is now pastor of the First Presbyterian Church of Newark, New Jersey. The son was graduated from Merton College, Oxford University, with an honor history scholarship, in 1905, then coming to the United States. Locating at Taunton, Massachusetts, his first work here was special writing for English newspapers on Canadian affairs, which he continued until 1910, when he became literary adviser for the George H. Doran Publishing Company, of New York City. Abandon- ing that task, he engaged in independent literary work until 1916, when he joined the Canadian First Division at the front in France, serving as lieuten- ant of Field Artillery until the end of the World War. In 1917 he was wounded and invalided. In this condition he came to the United States, and for one month lectured throughout the country. With the cooperation of the British Ministry of Information, he made a careful study of American preparedness in France in 1918, and in September of that year was again wounded, having rejoined his Canadian con- tingent at the front. He returned to the United States, and under the auspices of the British Mission,
lectured here for two months on the results of the World War, and reconstruction, covering every State in the Union in that work. At the personal request of Herbert Hoover, he made a visit to the stricken areas of Central and Eastern Europe, making an exhaustive report thereon. He is a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society. His recreations are traveling, horses, and art collecting. He belongs to the Macdowell Club, and to The Players, of New York. His permanent residence is at No. 533 Mount Prospect Avenue, Newark, New Jersey. Among his best-known literary works are the following: "The Worker" and other poems, 1906; "The House of the Weeping Woman," 1908; "Murder Point," 1910; "The Road to Avalon," 1911; "The Garden Without Walls," 1913; "Florence on a Certain Night," (poems, 1914); "The Raft," 1914; "Slaves of Freedom," 1916; "The Seventh Christmas", 1917; "Carry On," 1917; "The Glory of the Trenches," 1918; "Out to Win," 1918; "Living Bayonets," 1919; "The Test of Scar- let," 1919; "The Little House." 1920; "It Might Have Happened to You," 1921; "The Kingdom Round the Corner," 1921; "The Vanishing Point," 1922; "Christmas Outside of Eden," 1922; "The Coast of Folly," 1924; "Old Youth," 1925; "When Is Always," 1927; "Pilgrims of the Impossible," 1928.
Mr. Dawson married Helen (Campbell) Wright- Clark, daughter of Peter Campbell, of Newark, New Jersey, in 1918.
CHARLES R. BASSETT, of Yarmouth, has filled many rôles in the course of his career. He has been a representative in the State House. He is a justice of the peace. He has been selectman, assessor and overseer of the poor. He is a bank director. He has been bookkeeper and clerk and storekeeper. He has managed various businesses. He has been a sales- man, and president of district associations. And he has never wandered far from the neighborhood in which he was born and bred, and when he did wan- der, he kept coming back. Today he is taking an active part in the local affairs of the district in which he was born, and brought up, and with which most of his business activities have been identified.
Charles R. Bassett was born in the town of Barn- stable, Massachusetts, October 2, 1865, son of Charles and Mary Hinckley (Howes) Bassett, of whom the father was from his youth, a sea captain, continuing in that capacity till his fifty-sixth year, when he retired, and became a selectman for Yar- mouth, where he died and was buried. Charles R. Bassett, his son, attended the public school and is a graduate of the high school of Yarmouth, and also took an advanced course in bookkeeping and allied subjects. He began working by entering the store of Isaac H. Thacher, and later was employed by E. Dexter Paine of Yarmouth, where he remained as bookkeeper and clerk for ten years. After that he worked for six years with A. Alden Knowles, store- keeper. He then went to Portland, Maine, where he was manager and head clerk with the establishment of Charles Custis & Company. He was then at New York with Swift & Company for one year as sales- man. He returned to Yarmouth about 1897. He worked again at the Knowles establishment for four years. He was elected selectman, assessor and over- seer of the poor, and in 1900 a member of the Board of Health of Yarmouth and has been reelected for ten consecutive three-year terms. He has been sec- retary and treasurer of the Cape Cod Health Bureau for a number of years and is treasurer of the Village Improvement Society. He is an ex-president of the
350
PLYMOUTH, NORFOLK AND BARNSTABLE
Southeastern Massachusetts Health District Asso- ciation. He has been a director of the Cape Cod Co-operative Bank since its inception over six years ago. He has been chairman of the selectmen for twenty-eight years and he was representative from the second Barnstable district in the State House in 1925 and 1926. He has been a Justice of the Peace since 1900. Mr. Bassett belongs to the Free and Accepted Masons, Howard Lodge of Yarmouth. He belongs to a number of local clubs, and is ex-presi- dent of the Cape Cod Central Club, a director of the Colonial club, and a member of the Bass River Club of Yarmouth. He attends the Swedenborgian Church.
Mr. Bassett married, in 1889, at Yarmouth, Mercie Thomas Nickerson, daughter of Eleazar and Mary (Marshall) Nickerson. There have been three chil- dren to the marriage: 1. Charles S., married (first) Fannie Lovel of Yarmouth, and after her death mar- ried (second) Loraine Smith of Bourne, and has two children, Barbara and Charles S. 2. Harold Howes, who married Amy Veale, an English girl, having three children: Evelyn, Beverly and Harold H., Jr. 3. Marjorie, who is a graduate of Yarmouth High and Hyannis Normal School, and who is a school teacher in Quincy, Massachusetts.
LYSANDER PAINE BEAL-Samuel Lewis Beal, father of Mr. Beal, was born in Indiana, and attended Hillsdale College, in Michigan. He was a minister of the Universalist church and his first charge was at Provincetown on the Cape. Later he removed to Brockton, where he was active in local public affairs, serving as a member of the Brockton Board of Alder- men, and also on the school committee. He died April 30, 1906, and is buried at Brockton. He mar- ried Lizzie P. Sweetser of Provincetown.
Lysander Paine Beal, son of Samuel Lewis and Lizzie P. (Sweetser) Beal, was born in Brockton, Massachusetts, September 3, 1881, and received his education in the public schools of that city. After leaving school he was engaged as a traveling sales- man for various shoe concerns for a period of twenty- five years, first with the George G. Snow Shoe Manu- facturing Company, of Brockton, as their representa- tive on the Pacific coast, and later with Leonard and Barrows of Middleboro, Massachusetts. During the last ten years of his service as a salesman he was employed with the W. L. Douglas Shoe Manufactur- ing 'Company, of Brockton. He moved from Brock- ton to Harwich, in 1920, and in 1925 he bought out the undertaking business of W. Sears Nickerson, at Harwich, which he has since conducted. In addition to the management of his business in Harwich, Mr. Beal is also associated with Mr. Howard C. Doane, of South Yarmouth, in the ownership and operation of an undertaking business with offices and show- rooms in Hyannis and South Yarmouth. He is a member of Pilgrim Lodge, Free and Accepted Masons, of Harwich, and with Satucket Chapter, Royal Arch Masons. He is also a member of Exchange Lodge, Independent Order of Odd Fellows, of Harwich. His religious affiliation is with the Con- gregational church.
Lysander Paine Beal was married, in Brockton, Massachusetts, June 14, 1911, to Eva M. Handren, who was born in Brockton, Massachusetts, daughter of John and Olive M. (Baker) Handren, both of whom were born and reared in Harwich, Massachu- setts. Mr. and Mrs. Beal have no children.
REUBEN L. BURGESS-For a period of some forty years, Reuben L. Burgess has been identified
with the general store in Buzzards Bay, of which he has been owner since 1894. For nine of the forty years during which he has been in Bourne he has served as baggage-master at Buzzards Bay, and he has been a member of the school committee for ten or twelve years. He is a Mason, and a member of the Methodist church.
Reuben L. Burgess was born in Harwich, Massa- chusetts, in 1852, son of Ebenezer B., of South Den- nis, who was a cooper by trade, and is buried in East Harwich, and of Julia A. (Long) Burgess, a native of Harwich. He received his education in the public schools of his birthplace, and then, like many of the lads of his acquaintance, went to sea. For ten or twelve years he continued fishing up and down the coast, and then came to Buzzards Bay, about 1887, where he entered the employ of his brother-in-law, Isaac Small, as clerk in the general and grocery store which he then conducted. For nine years Mr. Bur- gess served as baggage-master at Buzzards Bay, and then, in 1894, he purchased the general store of Isaac Small. Since that time he has conducted a prosperous business here. He is an able and efficient business man, and is one of the public-spirited citizens of the town of Bourne. For the last ten or twelve years he has served as a member of the school committee, and he is always interested in forwarding any movement for the improvement of the town. He is a member of De Witt Clinton Lodge, Free and Accepted Masons, of Sandwich, and his religious affiliation is with the Methodist church.
Reuben L. Burgess was married, January 15, 1874, in Harwich, Massachusetts, to Susan A. Small, daughter of Isaac Small, and they are the parents of two children. 1. Ruth, who married Austin Bourne, and has two children, Earle and Phyllis. 2. Ellen, who married Howard Crosby, and has two children, Susan, and Marie.
BENJAMIN F. BOURNE-For more than two decades Benjamin F. Bourne has been engaged in the real estate and ice business in Bourne, Massachusetts, where he is still (1928) conducting a prosperous business in those two lines of activity. He is active in local public affairs, and has been commissioner of Barnstable County since 1912 and chairman of the board since 1916. He is also a selectman and asses- sor, both of which offices he has held for many years.
Mr. Bourne is a direct descendant of Richard Bourne, who landed in Plymouth in 1630, and who was a missionary among the Indians. Benjamin F. Bourne, father of Mr. Bourne, was born in Sand- wich (now known as the town of Bourne), and lived here during the greater part of his active career though he was somewhat of an adventurer during his younger days, and in 1849 was captured by the Pata- gonian Indians, and held in captivity for ninety-nine days. He was a farmer by occupation and was one of the active and public-spirited citizens of the town for many years, serving as justice of the peace, and holding many other local offices. He died, and was buried in Bourne about fifty years ago. Both he and his wife, Elizabeth W. (Lincoln) Bourne, were very highly respected here and had a host of friends.
Benjajmin F. Bourne, son of Benjamin F., and Elizabeth W. (Lincoln) Bourne, was born in Sand- wich (now the town of Bourne), Massachusetts, October 26, 1862, and received his education in the public schools of his birthplace. From early years he was interested in the real estate business, and for more than twenty years nast he has been successfully engaged in business for himself here as a real estate
351
PLYMOUTH, NORFOLK AND BARNSTABLE
man. He also conducts a retail ice business, and in both lines he has fully established himself in this section. Along with his business responsibilities, Mr. Bourne is one of the most prominent and active pub- lic officials. He has been a member of the Board of Selectmen of the town of Bourne, and overseer of the poor for more than twenty years, and has served continuously as assessor since 1906. He has been commissioner of Barnstable County since 1912, serv- ing since 1916 as chairman of the board of com- missioners. He is a member of Sandwich Lodge, Free and Accepted Masons; also of the Knights of Pythias, and of the Improved Order of Red Men. His religious affiliation is with the Episcopal church.
Benjamin F. Bourne was married, in Boston, Mas- sachusetts, October 25, 1926, to Bertha A. Gardner, of Louisburg, Nova Scotia. Mr. and Mrs. Bourne make their home at Buzzards Bay.
GEORGE H. GREENE, Doctor of Dental Surg- ery, one of the well-known men in Falmouth, Massa- chusetts, and one of the most able men in his profes- sion in this part of the county, was born March 31, 1880, at Racine, Wisconsin. Dr. Greene is a son of William L. and Rose B. (Barrett) Greene, both of whom are now living at Woonsocket, Rhode Island. William L. Greene, the father, is now actively engaged in business in that community, having long been the treasurer of the Woonsocket Napping Machine Company.
His son, George H. Greene, received his early education in the public schools of both Connecticut and Rhode Island, and he later attended the Phila- delphia Dental College, graduating from that well- known institution with the class of 1902, when he received his degree as Doctor of Dental Surgery. Immediately after the completion of these courses of study, Dr. Greene at once journeyed to Fal- mouth, and there established himself in his profession. He now carries on a general practice that may well be termed one of the largest in this part of the coun- try, for Dr. Greene is spoken of as a particularly able man, and a keen student of all the advancements made in the science of dentistry.
Despite the many varied and exacting duties of the work in which he has been engaged, Dr. Greene has nevertheless found time in which to take a keen and active interest in the civic and general affairs of his community. In his political views, he is a staunch supporter of the Democratic party, and as such he has served for some time as chairman of the Board of Registrars. He is, indeed, noted for the fine manner in which he stands behind any move- ment designed for the advancement of Falmouth. During the period of the emergency created by the entry of the United States into the conflict of the World War, Dr. Greene was particularly active, for he served, with the rank of second lieutenant, in the Seventeenth Regiment, Massachusetts State Guard, and he was later advanced to the rank. of captain in this same military organization, which took a part in the Boston police strike. He was very active in the work of the Safety Committee, and he took a prominent part in all the Liberty and Victory Loan drives instituted by the United States Treasury Department. His prime work, however, was in con- nection with his military duties in the Home Defense organizations. He has since been quite active in his club and social life, for he is fraternally affiliated with Marine Lodge, Free and Accepted Masons, of which he is a Past Master, and now the Lodge Treasurer; Wareham Chapter, Royal Arch Masons; New Bed-
ford Council, Royal and Select Masters; Lafayette Lodge of Perfection, of Boston; Giles Fonda Yates Council, Princes of Jerusalem; Mt. Olivet Chapter, Rose Croix; Massachusetts Consistory, Ancient Accepted Scottish Rite, Sutton Commandery, Knights Templar; and Aleppo Temple, Ancient Arabic Order Nobles of the Mystic Shrine. He is also a contributing member of the Order of the Eastern Star, and he is affiliated, as well, with Middleborough Lodge, Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, James B. Barnes Lodge, Independent Order of Odd Fellows, Nobska Lodge, Knights of Pythias; the Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company, of Boston, and the Rotary Club of Falmouth. In connection with his profession as a dentist, he now holds mem- bership in the Massachusetts Dental Society, the New England Dental Society; and he is a member of the Psi Omega Dental College Fraternity.
Dr. George H. Greene married, April 11, 1916, Kathryn V. Swift, a daughter of E. E. C. Swift, Sr. Dr. and Mrs. Greene now maintain their residence in Falmouth, in which community they attend the St. Barnabas Episcopal Church, of which Dr. Greene is a vestryman.
JOHN HOWARD PAINE-A resident of the town in which he was born, John Howard Paine has specialized in corporation work in the profession which he chose for his career. He has gained dis- tinction as a lawyer, and holds many retainers from large and influential organizations of his community. Actively engaged in civic affairs, Mr. Paine has held various offices of political importance, the duties of which he discharged with marked qualities of integ- rity and ability, the result of which has been that he has made many friends among his associates who have the highest regard and respect for him, a reward which can only come from sincere and dili- gent application, and is in the ultimate analysis the greatest a man can win.
Mr. Paine was born in Harwich May 30, 1883, the son of Josiah and Phebe Adelaide (Long) Paine, of that town, where the father was engaged in the car- penter business. The son attended the public schools of Harwich, Massachusetts, and was graduated from the Boston University Law School in 1907, with the degree of Bachelor of Laws, and was admitted to the bar the same year. He returned to Harwich in 1909, and commenced the practice of law. His prac- tice flourished, and he is the counsel for the Cape Cod Trust Company of Harwich, the Sandwich Cooperative Bank of Sandwich, the Wellfleet Savings Bank of Wellfleet and the Cape Cod Five Cents Savings Bank of Harwich. He is of Democratic political faith, and from 1914 until 1923, he served on the School committee of Harwich, as well as being elected moderator of the Town Meeting in 1912, and ten different years, thereafter, including 1928. He is a member of the local Chapter of the Royal Arch Masons, and the Harwich Grange of the Patrons . of Husbandry. He is likewise affiliated with the Boston University Law School Alumni Association, the Cape Cod Chamber of Commerce, and the Barn- stable County Bar Association, of which he is secre- tary and treasurer. He attends the First Congrega- tional Church of Harwich.
Mr. Paine married Mildred B. Williams in Har- wich, July 20, 1920, the daughter of Loring G., and Nellie T. (Cate) Williams, the former of whom is prominent in educational fields, filling the post of Superintendent of Schools of Sturbridge, Massachu- setts. Mrs. Paine is active in community enterprises
352
PLYMOUTH, NORFOLK AND BARNSTABLE
and is affiliated with the Rebekah Lodge of the Inde- pendent Order of Odd Fellows, of which she is a Noble Grand, the Order of the Eastern Star, and the White Shrine of Jerusalem. One son has been born to them: Robert Valmer, on June 4, 1921. Their home is in Harwich.
HERBERT E. ROBBINS, treasurer of the South Scituate Savings Bank of Norwell, Massachusetts, was born July 26, 1871, at South Scituate, now Nor- well, son of George Warren and Cynthia A. (Foss) Robbins, both of whom, descendants of old and well- known New England families, are now deceased. Cvnthia A. (Foss) Robbins, a native of Raymond, New Hampshire, and the daughter of Rev. Tobias Foss, died in 1912, while George Warren Robbins, a native of South Scituate, died in 1921. He was a man of considerable musical talent, of genial disposi- tion and beloved by his friends and associates.
Need help finding more records? Try our genealogical records directory which has more than 1 million sources to help you more easily locate the available records.